Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Refers to a rayyis and Ibn al-Ḥarbash (this family name appears also in T-S 16.271, T-S Misc.28.129, and T-S K15.66 + T-S K15.14).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

May contain the phrase al-[...] alladhī [...]nā ilā al-dīwān. Several numbers are mentioned.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

28 Ramadan 1235 Hijrī (9 July 1820 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Receipt/order of payment issued by a state overseer (nāzir) for the monopoly of silk production during Meḥmed ʿAlī Pasha's administration. Location: Alexandria.

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العلامات

• late arabic

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic, possibly asking the addressee to do something because the writer cannot. Begins "waṣala al-amr al-ʿālī" (the lofty order arrived...).

العلامات

• informal note

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information from CUDL.) Also mentions a pair (zawj) of something, perhaps anklets (kh[alākhil]).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Note in Arabic script resembling an order of payment (yunʿim mawlāy al-shaykh al-ajall Abū [...] li-muwaṣṣilhā...."). All surrounding it there are jottings and pen trials in Hebrew script.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Muharram 1233 Hijrī (11 November 1817–10 December 1817 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Series of accounts, consisting mostly of numerical sums including two notes stating the accounts are for al-mu`alim Ya`qub Shalom al-Yahudi. Dated Muharram 1233 AH which is 1817 CE.

العلامات

• 19th c
• fgp stub
• ottoman era

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

The sender is in Jerusalem ([min al-musta]qarr bi-l-Quds ʿamarahu Allāh). Mentions al-muʿallim Mawhūb.

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1

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). Also signed by Hillel b. Yosef. Concerning a husband allowing a woman to manumit her slave (עתק).

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العلامات

• divorce
• get

1 نسخ

Primary language

Arabic

Might begin with the word "qabaḍa" and might mention an iqṭāʿ. Contains an ʿalāma: al-ḥamdu li-llāh ʿalā niʿamihi. Needs examination.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Some of the entries are in a numbered list with Coptic numerals; there are also two lines of Judaeo-Arabic annotations written at 90 degrees between the columns. Joins: Alan Elbaum.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Verso: Writing exercises in Arabic script including the phrases "ṣalawāt allāh wa-barakātuhū wa-nawāmī zakawātuhū" and "anā uqabbil yad ḥaḍrat mawlāy al-shaykh al-ajall."

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe ha-Levi (active 1100–38 CE). All that is preserved is one or two names: [...] b. Abū al-Murajjā and [...] al-Sāmirī (the Samaritan) his brother-in-law.

العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe
• samaritan

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Elul 14[00]–14[99] Seleucid (1089–1188 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Other names: Yosef b. [...]q b. al-Dānī al-Fāsī, who is also mentioned as trading between Egypt and the Maghreb in PGPID 4037.

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العلامات

• fight

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Natan, in Fustat, to Yeshuʿa b. Ismaʿīl, in Alexandria. Dating: ca. 1050 CE. Yeshuʿa is in Alexandria probably to welcome a relative.

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العلامات

• draft

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

Thursday, 3 Nisan 1540 Seleucid (29 March 1229 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Among various vessels (many burniyyas), mentions jars (qaṭramīzāt) containing sour grapes with mint (ḥiṣrim munaʿnaʿ), plantain syrup (sharābl lisān ḥamal), Syrian rhubarb (ribās), cassia fistula (khiyār shanbar), and pomegranate oxymel (sakanjabīn rummānī). On verso also mentions Yaʿqūb al-Bayyāʿ and provides instructions for dividing all of the goods into two equal shares.

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العلامات

• druggist
• materia medica
• sharab

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

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

Letter from someone in Alexandria (Gil: Ibrahīm b. Farrāḥ al-Iskandrānī) to Nahray b. […] The sender mentions ships arriving from the west, one which took 20 days from Sicily and one which took 45 days from Lamṭah (near al-Mahdiyya). He asks Nahray to get him oysters and pearls and send them urgently.

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العلامات

• nahray b. nissim
• trade

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Hebrew

Faraj, acknowledge receipt of their inheritance, after their oldest brother, Mufarrij, also deceased, had deposited their father’s estate with the ‘three elders’, i.e. […] (Information from CUDL, Gil, Palestine, doc. 329, and Goitein's attached notes.) On verso there is also a letter in Hebrew (see separate record).

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العلامات

• al-tustari

2 نسخين 2 مناقشتان

Document date

Monday, 27 Ṭevet 1665 Seleucid (23 December 1353 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ḥananya assigns to his wife, Wazīra bt. al-Shaykh al-ʿAlam known as Ibn al-ʿŪdī, the contents of his house in payment of the money promised her in their marriage contract and sets aside money with the Nagid Yehoshuaʿ to cover the costs of his burial and the 'shiva' (seven-day mourning period).

العلامات

• deathbed will
• yehoshua maimonides

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Regarding the difficulties to sell indigo, which the writer received probably from Fustat, because the merchants from Alexandria are flooding the market with indigo. Also mentions a check for 60 dinars.

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2

العلامات

• suftaja

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions the Nile port of Būlāq, specifically the loading docks (bi-isqelīt Būlāq)– although this usage may refer to the port itself. The entry also describes the transport of pilgrims (ען חמל מחזום לחגאג): probably Muslims leaving to or returning from Mecca via Būlāq, but much of the document is missing. A certain Ḥajj Aḥmad al-Qafānī is mentioned in line 2. MCD.

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العلامات

• pilgrimage
• pilgrims

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yeshuʿa b. Ismaʿīl al-Makmūrī (Fustat) to ʿAyyāsh b. Ṣedaqa (Alexandria), ca. 1050. Yeshuʿa b. Ismaʿīl al-Makmūrī asks ʿAyyāsh b. Ṣedaqa to secretly find out if his brother-in-law is planning to send him any merchandise.

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العلامات

• family
• trade

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer says he will bring the mat or chessboard (naṭʿ) with him when he comes with his father and al-ʿAfīf. They were only delayed due to the wedding of a woman in the family (al-ṣaghīra, spelled אלצגיגה). They received the marriage payment from Abū l-Badr b. al-Ḥakīm (‘Son of the Doctor’) ʿImrān (alternatively, he could be Abū l-Badr the son of the doctor ʿImrān.

العلامات

• nat'

1 نسخ

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Enigmatic fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic describing what happened to the writer in front of the addressee's house; how people were appealing for help on account of the capitation tax; how the writer has lost 25 dirhams; and how there is 'ḥamas' in the country. Also, Abū l-Ḥasan has asked the writer for clay and/or bricks. Verso contains several crossed-out lines and the address in Arabic: to Fustat, to Manṣūr b. al-Ḥazzān (?) al-[. . .] from his brother Abū Saʿd.

العلامات

• arabic address
• capitation tax
• jizya
• unrest

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

One man purchases a house which is located in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ (Fustat) from a Kohen. The house was owned by two parties, and it seems that one of them was the buyer of the other party's share. A gift/donation to the pious foundations' institution is also mentions (kitāb al-ṣadaqa). No signatures preserved.

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1

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Thursday, 21 Av 1490 Seleucid (22 July 1098 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Describing that at the time of arrival of the ships from the West in Alexandria, Shelomo b. Hillel from Aleppo and ʿAmram b.

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العلامات

• aleppo
• alexandria
• testimony
• tyre

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Alexandria expressing the deep gratitude of the community after the appointment of an inspired teacher and judge. The letter was sent to Fustat to the caravanserai of al-Mahalli (‘funduq al-Mahalli’), a well-known compound, large enough to accommodate a mosque.

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العلامات

• 13th c
• teacher

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The first concerns a lawsuit between al-ʿAmmānī and his allies (mutaʿaṣṣibīn) versus Ibrāhīm al-Zand(?). There is a concern that al-ʿAmmānī and those on his side are trying to cheat the Qodesh (l. 7).

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In another entry, the revenue from rent collected from tenants of the qodesh by the parnas Abu'l-Ma'ali is also received by the same beadle. The record also mentions the person under whose authority these operations take place, namely the Gaon Netaniel b.

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العلامات

• 12th c
• account
• heqdesh
• qodesh
• waqf

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة

Document date

1461-10-22 Seleucid (18 July 1150 CE)

Legal document. Bill of divorce, Alexandria (referred to as No-Amon). Dated: 22 Tammuz 1461 (18 July 1150). […] The verso contains the acceptance of the bill of divorce by the wife, signed also by Yiṣḥaq b. Yūsuf and Surūr b. Avraham. (Information from Goitein's index card)

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto (secondary use): Record of testimony regarding a settlement according to which a debt is to be repaid in six monthly installments, concluded under the authority of Mevorakh b. Saadya, in Alexandria. Dated by Goitein to ca. 1075. This is before Mevorakh's first term as head of the Jews, which began ca. 1078. It further evidences his ties with Alexandria well before his political exile there later on, as ousted head of the Jews and Nagid, ca. 1082 (Mark Cohen) (Information from Goitein's index cards)

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العلامات

• loan

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Letter from a merchant from South Italy, now probably in Alexandria. Ca. mid-11th century. The writer describes a disaster at sea. […] They arrived in Amalfi and Palermo, and continued on a big ship with 400 passengers to Alexandria. The ship was forced to return to land after a storm started, but on the way back they got stuck after hitting a shoal.

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1 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Family letter from Sāʾir b. Yosef al-Kharazī (the dealer in beads) to Khalfūn b. Rabʿūn. Carried by Yaʿqūb al-Andalusī. In Judaeo-Arabic. On parchment. Dating: 11th century. Per Goitein's index card, the sender asks the addressee to "come down" to Fustat after years of absence. But it is also possible that the sender is in Ifrīqiyya and he is just referring to someone who "went down to Egypt."

العلامات

• unedited 11th c

1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Menashse (fl. 1100-1138 CE). The document was also signed by Shemarya b. Natan ha-Kohen and Peraḥya b. […] The qiyyum (validation) was also written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. It is signed by Avraham b.

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العلامات

• dimme

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1213–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Harun to Avraham Maimonides (ha-Nagid) concerning financial issues relating to the children of his late brother Farah b. Harun al-Janawi, who were under his care after the death of their mother. Avraham Maimonides served as Rayyis al-Yahūd between 1205–1237 CE and also with the title Nagid after 1213 CE.

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العلامات

• avraham maimonides

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shelomo, informing him that everything was done for al-Ṣūrī (from Tyre) as ordered by Natan Ibn al-Meshorer, who lost his wife and was unable to find a wife to look after his son and daughter. He also mentions two orphan daughters whom he wants to marry off to his sister's sons.

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to the writer's father, Shelomo (Abu al-Rabi Sulayman), and his father-in-law, Yeshua ha-Kohen, in Qalyub. The writer invites both the addressees and his mother-in-law, Umm Ibrahim, to pass the coming holidays, during which the wedding of Abu al-Khayr will be celebrated, with his family. He also recommends a poor man for charitable assistance.

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1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان

Mevorakh ha-Kohen (known also from T-S 16.33), Shelomo b. Yefet, Yeshuʿa b. […] Avraham, and Wuḥaysh b. ʿEli (known also from Moss. V,379). (Information in part from CUDL.)

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Fragment of an Arabic translation of a Greek ethical treatise of unknown authorship published by A.R. Badawi as “Maqāla fī al-madkhal ilā ʿilm al-akhlāq” in his edition of Isḥāq b. […] This fragment corresponds to pp. 395 and 396 of Badawi’s edition and deals with economics (tadbīr al-manzil) and politics (al-siyāsa).

العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions the state official ʿAlamal-Dawla and a baker Yasīn b. Ibrāhīm. YU. […] Might not be a continuous join. See also T-S AS 149.218 + T-S NS 313.23 (PGPID 25332).

العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Copious jottings in Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic, Hebrew, and other symbols (all Greek/Coptic numerals?). Some phrases from Tadhkirat al-Kaḥḥālīn by ʿĪsā b. ʿAlī. One of the Judaeo-Arabic text blocks resembles the handwriting of Maimonides but is not his (wrong alif-lām ligature).

العلامات

• myriad

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

502 Hijrī (11 August 1108–30 July 1109 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Very similar to but in a nicer hand than T-S AS 184.265, also for the same ʿArūs (b. Yūsuf) al-Urjuwānī (the purple merchant). […] At upper left: "min dār al-shaykh Abī l-Ḥasan....." Needs further examination.

العلامات

• commercial receipt

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Shawwāl 400 Hijrī (18 May 1010–15 June 1010 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Abū l-Ḥasan Mubārak b. Asad al-Zajjāj al-Isrāʾīlī ("the Jewish glassmaker") receives a loan of five dinars from [...] al-Shaṭranjī al-Isrāʾīlī ("the Jewish chess player").

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العلامات

• red dinars

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة