Documents

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

Appears to list at least 12 towns in the upper eastern Nile Delta (some include Bilbays, al-Ghaffariyya, al-Hissa, Tuḥuriyya, Dahamsha, Selmant, al-Shobra) along with sums (revenues?)

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العلامات

• dimme
• fiscal

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Jumādā II 1010 Hijrī (27 November 1601–25 December 1601 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

In the upper part mentions various people al-Ḥājj Muḥammad Ibn Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn al-Manārī and gives their tribal affiliations. Mentions the village of al-Muʿayṣira (المعيصرة) in the vicinity of Homs and قطيا (maybe the town of that name in Sinai).

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العلامات

• homs
• trade

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 (PGPID 38060).

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العلامات

• flax

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer mentions several paper trails and notes arrival of few ships, more importantly the ship which carries wheat for the state "waṣal l-markab al-ladhī fīhi qamḥ al-ṣulṭān". The letter begins with an anxiety of hard times and also concludes on that note.

العلامات

• dimme
• state wheat

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

of the sisters of Abū l-Najm for 50 dinars. Also concerns rights to a house. Other protagonists include Yiṣḥaq Nafūsī, the judge ("who exerted great effort" in this case), Abū l-ʿIzz, and Abū Manṣūr b. [...]. In the margin, the judge is forbidding somebody from slaughtering, and al-Mufaḍḍal al-Kohen, the town slaughterer says something.

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العلامات

• shehita

1 نسخ

Inferred date

1750–1850 CE

The former name was that of a scribe who produced many legal documents across the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Cairo (the paleography also matches this estimate of dating). The contents of the lists are somewhat unclear, because at times they indicate the parshas for specific weeks of the liturgical calendar but then may also be relying on other unrelated terminology.

العلامات

• 18th or 19th c

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter of business from Isma'il b. Ishaq al-Andalusi, in Tyre, to Nahray b. Nissim. The writer alludes to his great losses at sea while simultaneously thanking God, who has replaced what has been lost many times over. Also includes a quotation from II Shemuel 14:20.

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العلامات

• 11th c
• nahray b. nissim
• trade
• tyre

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Letter fragment in which the writer complains that Abū Bishr al-Mushrif (the government supervisor) claims from him a payment which has already been paid. Also mentions Abū l-Riḍā and Abū l-Munā. Dating: likely 12th or 13th century.

العلامات

• account
• coptic numerals

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender, who has been arrested, asks him for help on account of his illness, poverty, and "hot bedbugs (al-baqq). May God never afflict our master with distress, and may he afflict my state on all those who hate you." On verso there is a postscript mentioning Alexandria and family members being left in prison.

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العلامات

• 13th c
• appeal
• bedbugs
• communal
• illness
• (+ 6 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

ʿAyyāsh sends him instructions and advice. Also mentions details about ship movements, including ships from Mahdiyya and Sicily. Also mentions the government's new decrees and an incident in which the state confiscated ships and goods.

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العلامات

• trade

2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Eliyyahu (aka Barakāt b. Abū l-Faraj al-Dayyān) to a physician named Abū l-Maḥāsin (titled al-Shaykh al-Sadīd). […] The last two lines probably contain a request concerning Dāʾūd al-[...]. The letter may have been abandoned unfinished.

العلامات

• bilingual
• dimme
• shelomo b. eliyyahu

1 نسخ

Primary language

Arabic

The sender urges the addressee to purchase 1/2 dinar's worth of Aleppan textiles and 1/4 dinar's worth of purple (arjuwān) textiles. […] Yosef (Aodeh makes this identification and also suggests that the sender is Avraham b. Hillel, cf.

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العلامات

• aodeh

1 نسخ

Document date

473 Hijrī (9 October 1070–28 September 1071 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Ibrāhīm b. [...] b. Ibrāhīm b. ʿAllān, and a woman named Qurrat al-ʿAyn bt. ʿAllūn b. […] There seems to be a mutual release, but needs further examination for further details. Almost complete. On verso there is a Hebrew elegy.

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العلامات

• to edit

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

18 Jumada II 957 Hijrī (4 July 1550 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts with Hebrew numerals, possibly mentioning the head of the weighers guild (shaykh al-qabbāniyya). Dated in the upper left corner of the verso Thursday 18 Jūmada(!) II 957 AH (1550 CE): יום אלכמיס אלמבארך י׳׳ח גומדה אלאכר ס׳ נזץ. The year might also be read as סנ׳ זץ (san[at] 907 AH), which yields an alternate date in late 1501 CE.

العلامات

• account

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1213–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Either a letter or legal jottings, but in any case they all concern a legal case involving Yaḥyā b. Ṭāhir (the same who signed T-S 13J4.10 in 1253 CE?), al-Shaykh Muhadhdhab, and al-Shaykh Musallam. They are consulting or have already consulted the Nagid Avraham.

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1

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Document date

Muḥarram 468 Hijrī (16 August 1075–14 September 1075 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The main text block on the right states that there is an urgent need (al-ḥāja dāʿiya) for the restoration of the cisterns (? tawābīt?) of the fountain (al-sabīl). It tallies the cost of the repair, which comes to 5 3/4 dinars. The name Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī is mentioned at the bottom, along with a date (now too damaged to read).

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العلامات

• to examine

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

or maybe the belongings of someone (tarikāt?). Also mentions the return of officials? to their respective deployment positions (mustaqarr khidmatihim), and imposing a restriction on someone (shadd). Needs more examination. The verso also seems to be a recycled Arabic document, probably a petition, later reused for a text in Hebrew script.

1 نسخ

Primary language

Arabic

Perhaps involving the plunder and occupation of a house (....al-bayt wa-nahabū... ikhrājuhum ʿanhu... fa-mā li-l-mamlūk illā marāḥim al-mawlā...). The form of the ra'y clause that appears here (wa-l-ra'y aʿlā) is typical of Ayyubid-era petitions. Mentioned several times in Geoffrey Khan's work (Khan, Historical Dev, 21; JRAS 52; ALAD, 315 n43, 373, 396).

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العلامات

• petition
• to edit

1 نسخ

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions titles of the judge Abū Isḥaq (al-qāḍī al-rashīd al-muwaffaq al-sadīd), probably an investiture document.

العلامات

• appointment
• dimme
• judge
• titles

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Arabic

A few phrases read as, "wa-yaktub ilā al-dīwān bi-mā yaḥtāju ilā ʿilmihi, ʿalayhial-dīwān fī-mā yuṭlaq li-man yastabāna al-aʿmāl li l-khidma".

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العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals concerning "Dīwān Maṭābikh al-Mulk," which sounds like the government office in charge of royal sugar refineries. […] Every section starts with the sentence ‘and they also had […]’. Mentions a receipt (wuṣūl) in the hand of ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm.

العلامات

• account
• coptic numerals
• sugar

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Muḥarram 410 Hijrī (9 May 1019–7 June 1019 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Legal deed in Arabic script. In which Hiba b. ʿAlī b. […], the carpenter, leases a shop from al-Ḥasan b. Makkī b. Abī al-Ḥadīd, who in turn had been leasing it from his maternal uncle, Ibrahim Ibn al-Fatḥ.

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1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

One entry is a deed of sale for a house which mentions Qaṣr al-Rūm, Kanīsat al-Rūm, Ḥammām al-Faʾr, Masjid al-Ḥājja, and Turmus St.

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

b. Hiba to Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllūn (?) b. [...]. In Arabic script. Mentions various sums in the hundreds of dirhams. […] Among the products mentioned are tropical almonds and sandalwood. There is also a cipher of "addā", meaning paid, at the top left corner, indicating the payment of 167 dirhams, probably a later annotation.

العلامات

• cipher
• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1127–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa b. Menashshe ha-Levi al-Jubaylī Rosh ha-Qahal (the head of the congregation) passed away without leaving anything to his son Abū ʿAlī, who now demands his share. Also mentions the brother of the deceased. AA. ASE.

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Includes a version of the raʾy clause (fa-li-l-ḥaḍra ʿuluww al-raʾy fī dhālika). Mentions something related to the Muslims, the arrival of two ships, and a warehouse (ḥānūt). Greetings (awfā taḥiyya wa-ikrām) to various people, including the faqīh Abū l-Qāsim, and the qāḍī Abū Muḥammad. Also mentions the ṣāḥib al-ṣūr. Needs further examination.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On the smaller piece (T-S AS 146.218), names include Abū l-Bayān, al-Lebdiyya, Abū Zikrī, and the wife of Abū Kathīr. On the smallest piece (T-S AS 151.71), names include the daughter of Surūr, the Alexandrian woman, and Umm Khulla. (Information in part from CUDL.) Joins: Alan Elbaum. There are probably additional joins waiting to be found.

العلامات

• charity
• communal
• poverty
• recipients

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Both clearly were Maghrebis; therefore, their family name must be read as al-Ruqql, derived from a little town in Tunisia named Ruqqa, and not al-Raqqi, from Raqqa, the ancient city on the Euphrates in northern Mesopotamia. The letter was sent from Fustat to Alexandria, for the writer refers to goods brought by him from North Africa ("the West"), but still remaining in the town of the receiver of the letter (sec. […] The writer most probably left Alexandria on a Thursday and passed the Sabbath in Fuwwa, where he embarked on a Nile boat; or he could have made the whole journey on a boat, using the KhalIj canal, which connected Alexandria with the Nile.

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العلامات

• epidemic
• epidemic: bi'a
• ib-addenda
• ib2
• illness
• (+ 1 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1020–1039 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Yehoshuaʿ ha-Shofeṭ probably to the community of Aleppo. Dating: ca. 1020 CE (Gil) or late 1020s—early 1030s (Frenkel). […] The identification of the addressees as the community of Aleppo seems to be based on the statement in l. 58 that this letter was a response to a request made by Yaʿaqov he-Ḥaver, identified by both Gil and Frenkel as Yaʿaqov b. Yosef he-Ḥaver, the leader of the community of Aleppo. (Information mainly from Gil and Frenkel.)

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العلامات

• communal

2 نسخين 3 مناقشات

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy, Alexandria, to his relative Abū l-Ḥasan Shelomo b. Nissim al-Barqī, containing instructions about selling goods such as textiles and lead in Fustat.

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العلامات

• alexandria
• commodities
• lead
• textiles
• trade

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions Ibn al-Qaṣīra; Sitt al-Dār; Umm Tujjār; the orphan girl of Bū Saʿīd; Nisāʾ; al-Parnas; the orphan of Ṭāhir.

العلامات

• list

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

4 Shawwāl 602 Hijrī (14 May 1206 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Fiscal account, probably a tax receipt, beginning with the waṣala ilā bayt al-māl al-maʿmūr, probably a receipt of delivery to the bayt al-māl.

العلامات

• account
• arabic script
• dimme
• fiscal

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Fustat (or Egypt) four lines from the end and Almeria three lines from the end. Also mentions David ha-Rav.

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العلامات

• halfon-addenda
• ib-addenda
• ib4
• to examine

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

5 Dhū l-Qaʿda 1238 Hijrī (14 July 1823 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

State document in Arabic, from the bureau of silk looms (dīwān anwāl al-ḥarīr) in Alexandria, a branch of the state silk monopoly.

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العلامات

• 19th c
• alexandria
• dimme
• late arabic script
• to edit

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Abu l-Bayān [...] died on Wednesday night (laylat al-khamīs) on 3 Rajab 507 AH and was buried on Thursday (wa-dafannāhu yawm al-khamīs). Alan Elbaum and Marina Rustow

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Inferred date

1127–1139 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Memorandum from Yosef b. Avraham to Yiṣḥaq al-Nafūsī. Aden, 1130s. See also Moss. IV,84.2 (PGPID 36651).

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العلامات

• cotton
• ib2
• india book
• informal note
• memorandum
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 نسخ 2 ترجمتين

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer asks the addressee to retrieve all of the writer's books that are currently with the 'Rav.' They include parts of Berakhot, the Mishna, Neziqin, and notebooks (karārīs) containing perush. He also asks for a quffa of raisins.

العلامات

• book trade
• raisins

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

In Arabic script, with the Hebrew names (Shabbetay b. [...] and Barukh) written in Hebrew script. Mentions Shavuʿot (al-ʿAnṣara) and a Christian named Buṭrus and al-Mawlā Ibn al-Sabīʿī (="the son of the Seventh").

العلامات

• bialphabetic

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions various female and male names such as Farajallāh, Bint al-Kātib Abū Shaʿra, Ibrahim Dhabbāḥ (‘the butcher’), Yiṣḥaq al-Faranjī and Yosef al-Faranjī.

العلامات

• account
• coptic numerals

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

At the bottom, mentions "her husband Yishay al-ʿAjamī" (this woman is also mentioned in CUL Or.1080 J285 (PGPID 40223)).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Verso: An ʿalāma, possibly from a larger state document, or practice. "Al-ḥamdu lil-lāhi li-man lahū al-ḥamd." On recto there is unidentified text both in Judaeo-Arabic and and Arabic script.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Ibn Naḥum, the large sum of 662 dinars, Ibn al-Iskandarānī, and something Tripolitan (Iṭrābulsiyya). Also the word Rashīd, potentially referring to the city.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Account, maybe official/fiscal. Mentions the eunuch (al-ṭawāshī) Sanad al-Dawla or Sayyid al-Dawla (cf.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

Small fragment containing random jottings including the name of the city of al-Maḥalla surrounded by letters and radiating lines and the name of the Nagid Shemuʾel b. Ḥananya. Verso also has a few lines in Arabic script.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involves Abū l-Faraj al-Jabīlī (or al-Jubaylī); the estate of his father; and his sister Sitt al-Nasab.

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Among the names we can find al-Maghrebi al-Nafusi, Baqa b. al-Qabila. AA

العلامات

• shelomo b. eliyyahu

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Letter from Ismāʿīl b. al-Ḥasan(?) b. Muḥammad, unknown location, to Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallāh b. ʿAlīal-Ṭūbī(?), in Fustat. In Arabic script. Only the basmala on recto and the address on verso are preserved.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر