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Document date

Monday, 5 Av 1443 Seleucid (19 July 1132 CE)

Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. […] Shemuel ha-Ḥaver; Peraḥya b. Ḥalfon ha-Ḥaver; Menashshe b. Yaʿaqov; Avraham b. Shelomo; Meshullam b. Menashshe; and Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. (Information from Weiss's edition and Goitein's index cards)

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العلامات

• alimony
• divorce

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment (left side) of a Judaeo-Arabic letter. Subject matter is unclear; mentions bad etiquette (sū' al-adab).

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Likely an 11th-century family and/or mercantileletter.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower left corner). Mentions Faraḥ b. [...]. (Information in part from CUDL)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Small fragment of a legal document or draft in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: a very faded and damaged, barely legible, letter, mentions Damascus and a certain Zekharya b. [...]

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Few words from a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

1374 Seleucid (1062–1063 CE)

Ketubba fragment (left side). Dated: 1374 Seleucid, which is 1062/63 CE. […] The early marriage gift (muqdam) is 5 [dinars], and the grand total (line 11) of the dower is 55 [dinars], though that would leave little for the me'uḥar; jewelry and copper are also mentioned. […] Shelomo; Netanel b. Menashshe; Yiṣḥaq b. Waḥsh(?); ʿUlla/ʿEli ha-Ḥaver b.

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Document date

1434 Seleucid (4 September 1122–21 September 1123 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated indirectly by the year mentioned in the verso, 1434 Seleucid (1122/1123 CE). Concerning the claims of Turfa Sitt al-Kamāl, the widow of Abū Sahl Mukhtār, to an estate. Mentions Abū Mūsā Aharon b. (Yesh)uʿa ha-Kohen and Abū Saʿīd.

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العلامات

• widow

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Document date

9 Sivan 1470 Seleucid (27 May 1159 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal proceedings. Sitt al-Sāda bt. Sayyid al-Ahl b. […] She specifies the household goods left by the latter and is asked about her income from her work. […] Signed by Efrayim b. Meshullam and Hillel b. Ṣadoq. Dated: Wednesday, 9 Sivan 1470 Seleucid, which is 1159 CE.

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العلامات

• dated
• mevorakh b. natan

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

None

العلامات

• 11th c
• account
• communal
• qodesh
• yefet b. david b. shekhanya

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

December 1033–December 1033 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter in which Shelomo b. Ṣemaḥ, Ramla, describes the earthquake, probably to Efrayim b. Shemarya, or to the community of Fustat, December 1033 CE. The letter details the terrible effects of the earthquake and its aftershocks on the inhabitants of Ramla and remarking on how many more would have died had the earthquake happened during the night. […] The reaction of the victims was to fast and cry out to God for mercy and the writer comments how the mercy of God was demonstrated in that there were survivors.

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العلامات

• communal
• earthquake

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Natan b. Nahray to Abū ʿImrān Mūsā b. […] Among other matters, Natan mentions that he has given 1 dinar each to Moshe the Judge and Yeḥezqel the Alexandrian, the two frail old men who wrote T-S 13J28.10 requesting charity from Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy. Natan also mentions a medicinal syrup that he has asked Abū l-Afrāḥ to buy him.

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العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• syrup
• trade

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely 12th or early 13th century. […] Mentions staying in al-Maḥalla Wednesday night; meeting with Makīn b. Mukhtār, who reported his intention to travel and that 80 jars of his wine had turned to vinegar; also mentions al-Shaykh al-Rashīd; and good quality wheat.

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العلامات

• trade
• vinegar
• wine

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Document date

Av 1363 Seleucid (July 1052 CE)

Yosef al-Rumi to the effect that the followers of Yosef have permission to hold their prayers wherever they wish. Other names mentioned in the document: (part of name preserved) b. Mevorakh; and signatories Wahb b. Mevorakh, Ezra b. Menahem; Shemarya ha-Levi b. Aharon. Dated Av 1052.

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العلامات

• petitioning
• place of prayer
• rescript

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: commercial letter in Judaeo-Arabic. "That man... to you, you said to me several times... I don't know what he needs, and if he asks you about the equipment for the sugar (ʿuddat al-sukkar) tell him... the refining (al-ṭabīkh), 30 batches (ḥaml) were refined... if the [...] sets sail...." Mentions Maʿānī several times. Also mentions the technical terms tarnīq (meaning unclear, but does appear in treatises on sugar manufacture) and quṭāra (sugar cane molasses).

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العلامات

• sugar

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Deed of gift, or possibly a power of attorney appointing Abu l-Faḍl to collect the money and/or goods mentioned. Mentions 17 dinars which is the balance of the value of the rubʿ (house or compound), a box (ṣundūq), implements for silk weaving, and six combs (Amshāṭī, 'comb-maker', was a common Jewish family name of well-to-do people). (Information in part from Mediterranean Society, IV, 225; also Goitein index cards.)

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العلامات

• gift

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Document in Arabic, unclear content, left half only, with sewing holes at left, top, and diagonally across the upper left corner. Likely an official document. Mentions "bi-Miṣr al-Maḥrūsa."

العلامات

• arabic script
• holes

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Fragment (left side). Involves Abū Zikrī Yaḥyā; other details are too faded to read.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal deed in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Fragment (lower left corner). Likely a release of a debt for Abū l-Faraj al-[...].

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

He has children far removed from religion and others. The servant fears lest what is sealed upon people (i.e. death) overtake him, or me. […] Examine my state and please liberate me.3 .... All that I want is the liberation of the servant, by any means necessary. […] It is unclear how much, if any, pertains to the main letter on recto. Shelomo ha-Levi b. Moshe is named.

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العلامات

• abusive marriage
• arabic script
• communal
• divorce
• illness
• (+ 6 المزيد)

2 نسخين

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Description from NLI 577.10/1: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably late 12th or early 13th century; this range can probably be narrowed based on the people mentioned, including the Ayyubid-sounding al-Muʿaẓẓam. […] The sender is distressed about something, in addition to his earlier loss of the gold that had been left with Hārūn. At the bottom and in the margin mentions Abū l-Majd, Makārim al-Wakīl the collector for the compound of the מלכיין, Ṣafiyy al-Dawla, Ibn Sibāʿ, and Raḍiyy al-Dawla. […] The next part of the letter includes multiple urgings to take care of the necessary renovations in the house, also mentions a woman who has "no relative, no in-law, no brother, and no friend except for you and like you."

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العلامات

• ib-addenda
• to edit

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Document date

Adar I 1448 Seleucid (1134 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Abu Zikri Kohen, representative of the Merchants in Fustat, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi, in Aden. Dated: Adar I 1448 Seleucid = January/February 1134 CE. […] At the end of the letter, there are greetings to Ḥalfon from his family and the writer and a request to greet the important people of Aden and to help Abu Nasr b.

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العلامات

• ib4
• india book

2 نسخين

Primary language

Arabic

The text in the upper left margin seems to be an oddly placed witness clause (by ʿUmar b. […] ʿAbd al-[...]) but this requires further examination. Other legal documents often have specific notations related to legal procedure in this position on the page. […] Line 8 refers to "the medicine" (al-dawāʾ) that is in a vessel, and it seems that the silver is supposed to be placed in the medicine.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Ṣadoq b. Av ha-Kohen, either in Ramla or Jerusalem, to [...] ha-Reviʿi. […] Mention Ḥannuka and lighting the Shabbat candles; evidently this is when the messenger of the governor came and the trouble started. Also mentions some names, including Ibn al-Maṣmūdī. There is a postscript in Judaeo-Arabic ("do not blame me for this, כי באו מים עד נפש").

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

For example, when a widow (or, less likely, divorcee, l. 10) brings into the marriage, besides a valuable bridal outfit, 'an entire large house in the Fortress of the Candles' (l. 7), another 'large house in the Grand Bazaar opposite the Funduq' (l. 9), and quarter of a house somewhere else (where, not preserved)." Med Soc, III, 326. Verso: Small fragment of a legal document, also in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, written on the back of the ketubba, dealing with money which was not included in an inheritance.

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe
• inheritance
• ketubba
• real estate

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

India Book (IB) II, 11a: Letter from Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138) to Avraham b. […] Dating: Early 12th century. Ornate thank you letter and narrative in which Ḥalfon b. Menashshe expresses gratitude for the wealthy Adeni merchants Avraham b. Bundar and the "Leader of the Congregations (either Ḥasan b. Bundar or his son Bundar II) who saved him from the debts that confronted him when he emerged from his life-threatening illness (r31–v2).

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العلامات

• ib-partial translation-heb
• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib2
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• (+ 5 المزيد)

1 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Document date

1100 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Ṣadoq b. Yoshiyya, in a border town somewhere in the Levant, to the judge Yosef b. […] He is still endeavoring to free his son-in-law (שרנו אדירנו חתננו שר בית ישראל), whom Goitein identifies with Abū Saʿd the son of the Tustarī woman (mentioned as a Crusader captive in T-S 10J5.6 + T-S 20.113). Ṣadoq has also sent a letter to the Nagid (Mevorakh b. Seʿadya) reporting on his efforts for the captives.

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العلامات

• captives
• children
• crusaders

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Notice that most of the numbers are added above the name or in the space after it and in a different ink color, which means either that someone took the list and then rated those individuals, or their contributions were entered when they were made (M.

العلامات

• account
• charity
• communal

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(Information from Mediterranean Society II, p. 497, App. C 76)

العلامات

• charity
• communal
• donors
• poverty

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1025–1051 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shemarya, the leader of the Palestinian congregation in Fustat, are in Hebrew. The writer of the letter is not the gaon himself, but somebody in his retinue. Only the left part of the letter is preserved. Apparently, the writer complains that the revenue from "the compound" (by which the compound in Fustat dedicated for the Jerusalemites is obviously meant) did not arrive; nor did they receive an additional sum which used to be sent from Fustat for "the holiday."

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العلامات

• 11th c
• communal

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). […] Abū Saʿd with arithmetic lessons by which the boy was to master complex accounts. Arithmetic lessons were to be held through the use of the abacus.

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العلامات

• arabic script
• education
• language
• mother
• son
• (+ 1 المزيد)

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

Elul 14xx Seleucid

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document. Dated: 14[..] Seleucid. The day of the month was left blank, so this is presumably a draft. In the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan? Ṣedaqa b. David ha-Kohen makes a declaration concerning a quarrel (wa-jarā baynanā mushājarāt) over various large sums of money including 500 dinars. Other names: Yosef b. [...]q b. al-Dānī al-Fāsī, who is also mentioned as trading between Egypt and the Maghreb in PGPID 4037.

العلامات

• fight

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower right corner of recto). Written on parchment. Likely a Maghribī mercantileletter of the 11th century. Twice refers to "my master the Third (al-shelishi)." […] On verso there is a list of names in a different hand: Saʿīd b. Mevorakh; ʿUlla b. [...]; Avraham b. Fahd; Yefet b. [...]; Maʿālī b.

العلامات

• unedited 11th c

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر