Documents

Document date

Elul 5589 Anno Mundi (30 August 1829–27 September 1829 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Ḥayyim Mosseri and Yosef al-[...] b. [...]. Location: Cairo. Dated: Elul 5589 AM = August/September 1829 CE. The document is mostly in Hebrew but is about al-ḥūjjah (the deed?) for al-vīlah (the house?) […] Interestingly the deed is referred to as "the legal deed that is registered in the jāmiʿ al-ḥākimī." Signed by Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen. Verso: Accounts for 19 Elul 5589.

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العلامات

• 19th c
• mosseri

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso preserves the left half of the address in Arabic script (min Marwān b. Saʿīd al-Muqaddasī, al-Fusṭāṭ, yaṣil dār al-ṣarf in shāʾ allāh amāna amāna) and underneath probably the name of the courier Hibatallāh b.

العلامات

• arabic address

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

537 Hijrī (27 July 1142–15 July 1143 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

There are two registrations marks; 'al-ḥamdu lil-lāh al-muʿīn al-dāʾim', praise be to God who is the steadfast supporter, and 'al-ḥamdu lil-lāh waḥdahu karīm niʿamuhu', praise be to God who is one, generous are his benefactions.

العلامات

• dimme
• jaliya
• jizya
• pinholes
• tax receipt

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Letter from Yosef b. Musa al-Tāhartī, from Alexandria, to an unknown person. […] The letter is written on the other side of a different letter that Nissim b. Yishaq al-Tāhartī wrote around 10 years earlier. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, #376) VMR Join: Moshe Gil

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العلامات

• flax

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان

Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions someone called Faraj b. ʿAlī, who may have been persecuted by merchants (mā jarā ʿalayhi min al-shidda... dhālika min al-tujjār...).

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العلامات

• communal

1 نسخ

Primary language

Arabic

The beginning of the document mentions some issue being presented to "Mawlānā Sulṭān al-Anām." Also mentions something being declared in the majlis al-sharīf in the presence of everyone "bayn sāʾir l-ḥāḍirīn."

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العلامات

• dimme

1 نسخ

Mentions several of his relatives and a few ships. Also mentions a visit of Nahray to Alexandria, the status of selling silk, and the arrival of Ibn Basak (Masliah b.

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العلامات

• al-tahirti
• draft
• nahray b. nissim

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Literary treatise in Judaeo-Arabic on the laws of mourning in various special cases. when the deceased is the father of a bride; if he was executed by the court; if he committed suicide; if he rejected rabbinic authority (al-madhhab al-rabbānīyya, sunanuhum) (in this case there is no mourning, but rather celebration); if he has no one to mourn for him; and how there is no mourning on shabbat (verso). Also on verso are several lines in Judaeo-Arabic giving formulaic opening phrases for a letter.

العلامات

• mourning

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Menashshe b. Moshe (of Zawīlat al-Mahdiyya?) to a judge (in Fustat?). In Judaeo-arabic. Concerning a power of attorney for which 1 dinar was paid, and the belongings of Abū Saʿd b. ʿAllūn the Qaraite kātib. The sender hints that he may be forced to file a complaint with the Nagid. Possibly connected with T-S 20.187. Also mentions Salāma and Abū Baḥr(?) Yona b. Ishāq.

العلامات

• legal query

1 مناقشة

Document date

1335-10-14 Seleucid (24 June 1024 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Aharon Ibn Asqawī ha-Levi. Wife: Muʿtazza bt. ʿAllūn b. ʿAbd al-Bāqī. Written and signed by the cantor David b. Shekhanya. Also witnessed by Muḥsin b. Ḥusayn. No documentation of receipt on verso.

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1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). There is also an incomplete address to their other brother Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya, but this may have been an error that Yefet corrected with the more complete address beneath. […] He confirms that the rubāʿī arrived, 9 and a half [...]. He also mentions the arrival of a bag (kharīṭa) of something.

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe
• yefet b. menashshe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Dense jottings in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic. All of these appear to be a mixture of religiously and erotically inflected panegyric, addressing "the king of the world, the caliph of creation, Righteous son of Perfect," etc., but presumably not the actual caliph, as the references to wine and union would seem out of line. […] Kāmil could be a reference to al-ʿĀdil II (regent 1232–38, reigned 1238–40). There are also some (nonsense?)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

430 Hijrī (3 October 1038–22 September 1039 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Fatimid state document with an ʿalāma (al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ka-mā huwa ahluhu). Many text blocks, many hands. On one side, l. 4 mentions al-Imām al-Mustanṣir Billāh (i.e., the caliph).

العلامات

• 'alama

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Mentions people such as al-Qādī Abū l-Ṭāhir; Umm ʿImād; al-Faqīh (or maybe bayt al-faqīh); ʿAbd al-Raḥmān; and Abū l-Maḥāsin.

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Primary language

Arabic

Legal declaration in Arabic script, with a few Hebrew words (also in Arabic script) mixed in. "I have witnesses to the effect that Abū ʿAlī gave me as a gift (bi-matana) one-third of all that his father, God's mercy be upon him, left him, and the half house where I live and the two shops, and I desire that everyone who knows this and does not say it to the court (fī bayt dīn) be excommunicated...."

العلامات

• inheritance

1 نسخ

Primary language

Arabic

The first two items are the Life of al-Ḥākim and the Epistles of the Brethren of Purity. There is also poetry and a book of medicine. 6 volumes altogether.

العلامات

• book trade
• ismailis

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

On the first page, the writer reports that "not only them, but the Alexandrians (ahl al-thaghr) who remained in Hebron "all fell sick with this fever" It is difficult to make out the subject of the remainder of the letter.

العلامات

• epidemic
• epidemic: fever
• hebron
• illness
• illness: fever
• (+ 1 المزيد)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1036–1094 CE

Primary language

Arabic

Recto, lower right corner: draft of a state document, likely a petition, beginning with prayers for the caliph al-Mustanṣir. There may be part of a request preserved in the final line. Margins of recto and all of verso: chancery scribal exercises, repeating the phrase "li-yakhruj al-ḥāl bi-dhālika in shāʾ allāh" (ليخرج الحال بذلك ان شا الله) ad infinitum.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from an unknown merchant from Alexandria, early 11th century. The writer might be from the Taharti family, maybe Yishaq b. […] He writes about prices and details about 15 ships that are on their way from the Maghreb to Alexandria. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #139) VMR

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a mother, in Fustat, to her son Abū Saʿīd b. Abū l-Ḥasan Ibn al-Abzārī, in al-Mahdiyya. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. […] or simply out of distress?). See also T-S 8J13.22 (PGPID 1893).

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Primary language

Arabic

Recto: Fragment possibly from the bottom of a petition to a royal woman: al-sulṭāna al-malika al-ṭāhira. Cf. ENA 3974.6, ENA 3974.3, and Bodl. […] Mentions "the districts" (al-aʿmāl) in the next line. Verso: Grocery list/account in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals: meat, sesame oil, lemon, firewood, pepper, ىىده, and spinach (isfānakh).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions a promissory note (ḥujja) for the value of half of [...], namely 45 dinars; the next line also mentions the word "debt" (al-dayn). There is then a request of some sort (...yajʿal lahū...) and the word "condition (al-sharṭ/lil-sharṭ).

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1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions relatives and ships. Also mentions a visit of Nahray to Alexandria, the status of selling silk, and the arrival of Ibn Basak (Maṣliaḥ b.

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العلامات

• draft

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shelomo, the ḥaver) and Abū l-Faraj Hiba (b. Ṣemaḥ), in al-Ramla. The sender is identified by both Goitein and Gil on the basis of handwriting; the addressees are identified by Gil. The sender urges the recipients to influence the chief qāḍī in al-Ramla, Abū l-Maʿālī, to give appropriate instructions to the qāḍī of Jerusalem, al-Tīzī, regarding a problem in Jerusalem of unclear nature. Mentions several other names, including Abū l-Munajjā Muslim, Abū Ghālib, the agent (wakīl) Abū ʿAlī Ibn al-Ṣūfī. (Information mainly from Gil and from Goitein's index card.)

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2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Nearly complete letter in Judaeo-Arabic to Abū l-Ḥusayn Ṣedaqa b. Nissim al-Mukallifī (אלמכלפי ?) in Alexandria. The letter is written on a fragment torn from a large chancery document; only the beginnings of two Arabic lines remain‌ (الى بيع مدىىن(؟) . . . […] Apart from urging the addressee to respond and reassure him, the writer also informs him that ״אערצת אלסרר״ (?) but it didn't come to anything (or gain any money?).

العلامات

• chancery
• nar

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

[isti]frāgh min kull budd allāh yajʿal al-ʿāqiba...); 20 dirhams; and something he needs. Concludes with petition-like phrases of deference and asking for help. Join: Alan Elbaum. Verso: Probably the response from Abū Naṣr, stating that the order has arrived, and he was distressed at the news, and probably that he will act on it. Verso also contains several words in Arabic script from an earlier state document, see separate record (PGPID 35377)

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العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: physician

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

List in Hebrew, primarily in the first-person preterite of what someone has given "נתתי" to someone else (perhaps paid). A few of the entries also mention that some of these transfers are outgoing "from Miṣrayīm"– Cairo, Fustat, or Egypt. Other entries mention what has been transfer "by ship" and "בשקדריי" (a location? Shkodër in Albania). For another instance of this cryptic term "שקדריי" see T-S AS 210.78 (PGPID 38144). This list in Hebrew is likely from a broader booklet ENA 2898.7-14 where accounts also mention payments in sherifi (שרפי= produced post-1425 CE).

العلامات

• 15th or 16th c
• numismatic dating

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Refers to the qāḍī Amīn al-Dawla Abū ʿAlī; a request that the addressee put in a good word for the bearer of this letter, Abū ʿAlī Ibn Qaṭāʾīf, who has never purchased goods from government bureaus (dīwān) or public auctions (ḥalqa) (והו מא ישתרי שי מן אלדיואן ולא מן חלקה ולא לה אסם בשרא חואיג מן דיואן) but who is being persecuted by the police (al-rajjāla) on account of his unemployment. […] (Information in part from CUDL.) Join: Alan Elbaum.

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العلامات

• diwan
• police
• yefet b. menashshe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Letter from a certain Bū l-Fatḥ "al-Malikī al-Kāmilī" to a distinguished physician. […] The sender may be identical with the Fatḥ al-Dīn who is known to have served as a supervisor of physicians under al-Malik al-Kāmil; see T-S AS 146.164 (PGPID 29072).

1 نسخ

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

The writer requests that the addressee give the five dirhams nuqra that al-Rayyis Abū l-Ḥasan b. al-Rayyis Abū l-Najm had deposited with him to to the bearer of the letter. Abū l-Ḥasan had already sent to the writer all the dinars owed him and in the accompanying letter mentioned that he had given five dirhams nuqra to the addressee of the present letter. […] There are a few surviving words in Arabic script, probably the address; the first two appear to read 'bayt al-qāḍī.' Information in part from FGP.

العلامات

• pesiqa

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

13 Shaʿbān 534 Hijrī (3 April 1140 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Refers to the issuing of a decree (khurūj al-tawqīʿ al-ʿālī) dated (muʾarrakhan) 13 Shaʿbān 534 AH (= 3 April 1140 CE.) concerning the iqṭāʿ probably of the administrators on behalf of the Armenian foreigners (ʾarman al-ʿajam). On verso: A note addressed to Abū l-Ḥasan al-Kātib asking/ordering him to investigate the situation of the Jawājira (= the people from Jūjar?)

العلامات

• dimme
• fiscal

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from ʿIwāḍ b. Ḥananel, in Alexanria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. […] The writer reports on a terrible Nile journey "as if it were the sea of Sfax"; the water entered the boat because of the many "ניו"; this may be a plural form of نَوء, which means storm or gale. ʿIwāḍ stayed up all night, sitting in the water and guarding the merchandise, crying out for help and receiving none. […] ʿIwād ultimately reached Alexandria safe and sound. He reports on the state of the merchandise and how he is faring trying to sell it.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmūrī, in Alexandria, to Yosef b. Avraham. […] Mentions people such as Mūsā al-Isfāqusī (of Sfax), Abū Isḥāq Barhūn b. Maṣliaḥ (probably al-Tāhartī), and Abū Saʿīd.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter of business in which the writer requests the recipient purchase for him a measure of oil, two ‘futa’ (sari-like cloth), and two dinars of dried fruit (‘zabib’). Abu Imran, Abu al-Rida, and the town of Qus are mentioned, and the writer sends greeting to Abu al-Faraj and Yishaq. EMS (Information from Goitein's index cards) The sender has spoken to Ibn al-ʿIrāqī, who reports that he sent all the letters to their addressees "after the conquest of the land" (futūḥ al-balad); he asks the addressee to try to sell the indigo and buying with its price khazāsh (low-quality silk) or fūṭas (wraps); he asks the addressee to speak to Khallūf to

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العلامات

• oil
• trade

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a letter sent from Alexandria to the Head of the Congregations, perhaps R. […] Shemuel, the Dayyan and Ras al-Jaliya (the Nasi). Regret is expressed about a letter sent by the Nagid Avraham, and about letters by the addressee (Information from Goitein's index cards) Letter to someone addressed as ‘Adon ha-Tora Sar he-Te'uda Rosh ha-Qahal Yehid ha-Dor', concerned with community matters, sent to the perfumer's market to Abu l-Faraj (?). Mentions people and titles including the Nagid Abraham, Sulayman, Shemuʾel and ‘al-Nasi Shams al-Din Rosh ha-Galut'. (information from CUDL)

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العلامات

• alexandria
• exilarch
• nagid

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Sivan 5495 Anno Mundi (22 May 1735–20 June 1735 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

The six partners are (1) Yaʿaqov Bonsenyor (whose signature is preserved at the bottom), (2) Yeshuʿa al-Ḥāmī, (3) Avraham [...], (4) David Mizraḥī known as Nawwār (?), and (5) the youth Avraham Rozanes known as Ghazzāwī, and (6) Avraham's father, Shemuel al-Ghazzāwī. (There are a few missing words so it is not certain that Shemuel al-Ghazzāwī is the 6th partner.) […] Bonsenyor and his activities in Yemen are also mentioned in: T-S 13J4.22 (PGPID 16131). ASE.

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العلامات

• 18th c
• business
• etrogs
• hebron
• late heb
• (+ 2 المزيد)

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In this poignant letter Yosef complains of being neglected by the authorities, and feels that he has limited knowledge and is not competent to deal with any but the most basic and routine cases that come before him. He also has no books. He gives an example of a case involving a male and female proselyte as one too difficult for him to tackle. He has tried to implement excommunications but the community has little respect for his pronouncements. The letter also mentions Abū Saʿd Ibn al-Malījī. Address in Arabic script on verso.

العلامات

• to edit

1 مناقشة

Document date

538 Hijrī (16 July 1143–3 July 1144 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions the bearer of the letter, Karīm b. Zak[kūr? b.] Sayyid al-Ahl. Evidently asking the addressee to do a favor involving the children of Sayyid al-Ahl and their neighbor, and something which is good and cheap. […] The sender reports that he is still suffering the remnants of an illness (baqāyā al-maraḍ). Mentions "moving to Cairo (al-Qāhira al-maḥrūsa)" and "addressing the excellence" about something "at the time of his departure."

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

7 Ṣafar 404 Hijrī (18 August 1013 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Wahb written by Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, the cashier, and registered by the Office of Accounts on behalf of the Office of Supervision: Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb has paid the sum of a third dīnār and a dāniq for his ḍamān on dyeing in Al-Fayyūm, under the supervision of the judge Ṯiqat al-Mulk Makīn al-Dawla wa-Amīnuhā, of the protégé of the commander of the faithful Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b.

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العلامات

• abu l-hasan b. wahb
• daman
• damin
• tax receipt

3 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Recto: Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār) from the Mamluk period in Arabic script written on paper, by al-muʿallim Ibrāhīm b. ʿAfīf b. Sulaymān al-Yahūdī. Involves sums of money and commodities (raṭl on line 6) in al-wazn al-miṣrī. In the top left margin: شرعبا اقرار؟. […] and repeats the name Ibrāhīm b. ʿAfīf b. Sulaymān al-Yahūdī on line 3. There is an additional document in the margin, which is an ishhād of the same muʿallim that he received something.

العلامات

• arabic script

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Part of the Judaeo-Arabic body of the letter is preserved in the margin, including closing greetings and a reminder to send the response quickly with "the response to the (legal?) query" (jawāb al-masʾala). There is also a phrase in Judaeo-Arabic on verso: "the bearer of the response." (ḥāmil al-jawāb). (Information in part from CUDL.) Join: Alan Elbaum

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yūsuf b. [...] b. Yūsuf to Abū l-ʿAlāʾ Ṣāʿid b. al-Munajjā al-Firnās al-Dimashqī (a.k.a. the parnas ʿUlla b. […] Yosef is probably known). The letter consists almost entirely of respectful blessings and greetings; the purpose of the letter seems to be a request that the addressee bring other, enclosed letters to the attention of "ḥaḍrat sayyidnā" (=the Nagid Mevorakh?)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

1535 Seleucid (28 August 1223–15 September 1224 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Meyuppe on verso, who also signs T-S 12.697 (PGPID 20057) in the early 13th century. Husband: Shabbetay b. ממל (Muʾammal?) al-ʿAsqalānī. Wife: Sitt [...] bt. Yefet of Alexandria.

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العلامات

• divorce
• get
• interesting shape

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة