Documents

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

These are written in the spaces around various blocks of text containing Hebrew literary text. Many of the account entries mention pepper. The names listed on the recto mention: Aḥmad Ben-Temīm, Muḥammad al-Najjār, Muḥammad al-Ziyyāt, ʿĀmr al-Minawī, among others.

العلامات

• list
• pepper

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Document date

Tammuz 5562 Anno Mundi (1 July 1802–29 July 1802 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Legal deed. In Hebrew. Dated: End of Tammuz, 5562 AM = July 1802 CE. Yisraʾel leases his cheese shop in Ḥārat al-Ṣaqāliba to Yosef Medina for a period of 15 months for a sum of 18 reals (1 real pegged to 90 medins).

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العلامات

• 19th c
• ben na'im

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Cheese is mentioned in one of the entries on the recto. Requires further examination.

العلامات

• list

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Primary language

Hebrew

Letter fragment, possibly sent to or on behalf of an entire community. In Hebrew. The paleography supports a dating estimate of nineteenth-century.

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The list starts with names of the communal functionaries titled me'ulle, Rav Yishaq, Nezer and then other names. One entry is "for the house/wife of Ibn al-Jazafini/Ghazfini," a name that appears on other charity lists around 1107: see Zinger, "Women, gender and Law", p. 365.

العلامات

• charity

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Primary language

Hebrew

No specific year appears but it may be possible to ascertain its occurrence because many of the calendar entries list the equivalent Hijrī months (and perhaps specific dates).

العلامات

• 18th or 19th c
• calendar

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Document date

10 Heshvan 5552 Anno Mundi (7 November 1791 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Recto: Engagement (shiddukhin) document, dated 7 November 1791 (10 Heshvan 5552), Cairo, for the cantor Khalīfa ʿAfīf b.

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العلامات

• 18th c
• shiddukhin

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He suffered a setback (izʿāj... qāsaytu shidda...) en route on account of something someone's father-in-law did (cf.

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1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated 16 Dhu l-Qaʿda __45 AH, which could be 1145 or 1245 given the mention of Ottoman kurush coinage throughout the accounts (1733 or 1830 CE). Most of the entries include names, such as: ʿAlī al-Bsūsī, ...ʿī al-Fayyūmī, Khalīl Effendi, and many others.

العلامات

• 18th or 19th c
• numismatic dating

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Document date

Tishrei 5481 Anno Mundi (3 October 1720–1 November 1720 CE)

A variety of names are mentioned in the account entries: (recto) Barūkh Maṣliaḥ, Menaḥem Khazānī, Shimʿon Raʾīs, (verso) Eliyahu Shāmī, Yiṣḥaq Sonīna, Shūʿa Kohen, David Sasson, R. al-Ḥadab.

العلامات

• 18th c
• communal

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Inferred date

1707–1850 CE

The latter helps date this fragment as no earlier than 1707 CE when gold zingirli coins first began to appear in wide circulation within the Ottoman empire (Pamuk, A Monetary history of the Ottoman Empire, 174). The entries appear to be marked according to days of the week.

العلامات

• 18th c
• numismatic dating

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Thursday with 5 days remaining in Iyyar, followed by several entries for other dates (verso left page). (Information in part from CUDL.)

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العلامات

• account

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Primary language

Arabic

Verso (original use): Fragment of official/state correspondence, probably. The ends of 3 lines are preserved and parts of 2 more lines.

1 نسخ

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The writer initially left large space between the lines but crammed them together by the end. He is perishing on account of the tax collectors demanding the kharāj (probably capitation tax in this context) and needs help.

العلامات

• appeal
• kharaj
• tax

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

(Compare AIU IV.C.453, T-S NS 243.75a, T-S NS 198.61, BL OR 5566B.3, ENA 2886.1–7, T-S NS 71.64, T-S 8H22.18, T-S NS 308.41, and possibly T-S Misc.24.106).

العلامات

• dimme

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Primary language

Hebrew

He will repay the total before the end of Iyyar. Scribed and signed by Yosef Ashraqī.

العلامات

• perahim

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic. Recto is entirely greetings and good wishes for the holiday.

العلامات

• appeal

1 نسخ

Beautiful fragment of a legal document from Alexandria in the hand of the court clerk Mawhub. A father gives an entire house to his son Yaʿaqov, who was borne to him by his wife Rafi'a.

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Document date

Tammuz 1411 Seleucid (10 June 1100–8 July 1100 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shelomo three dinars for a sold commodity (the term "jins" suggests something involving a slave, but the surrounding text is too faded). He will pay by the end of Tammuz 1411 Seleucid = June/July 1100 CE.

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1

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العلامات

• debt

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a man troubled with private and public disasters, including business concerns and his wife’s illness, leading him to write that "Could I find death without sin, I would not hesitate" (cf. ENA 1822a.7 for the same expression). Mukhtār the Banker is also mentioned.

العلامات

• business
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: du'f
• illness: women's
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

A detailed trousseau list labeled as al-tawqīm (estimate) that acted as a continuation of an engagement contract found at T-S 13J8.24. No names are mentioned, as this would have been included in the contract.

العلامات

• autograph

2 مناقشتان

The writer describes the hardships of the ship’s journey from Alexandria, when for 8 days the passengers had to draw water that entered the ship and damaged the linen that was there.

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2 نسخين 1 ترجمة

Document date

Thursday, 13 Nisan 15[..] Seleucid (1189–1288 CE)

(Goitein's index card says specifically end of the 12th century.) (Information from Goitein's index card.)

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1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ibrāhīm, in Alexandria, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel, in Fustat. Ending only. Dating: Early 1130s CE. The letter includes information on trade in wheat.

العلامات

• abu nasr b. ibrahim
• halfon b. netanel
• trade
• wheat

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Large, with multiple distinct entries. Needs examination. Secondary uses: On the same side as the state document, between the lines and in the margins, there is a pharmacopeia in Arabic script.

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Document date

14 Dhū l-Ḥijja 403 Hijrī (26 June 1013 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Written on a reused petition (see separate entry).

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العلامات

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

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The sender describes how he was in the presence of the addressee, and when the latter's [face?] changed, the sender endured terrible distress. He mentions the law of Moshe b.

العلامات

• fingerprint

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Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

T-S 12.406 (PGPID 19963) and ENA 2558.22 (PGPID 11340) from the same period).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment from the end of a letter. Writer instructs the addressee to write to Abū l-Maʿā[nī].

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions the "peasants/farmers" (fallāḥīn) of Minyat al-Mukhliṣ, a small town in the Nile Delta, in in the heading on the upper right corner of the verso. A variety of entries mention dates with Hijri months, but no years are clearly provided.

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العلامات

• account
• sewn documents

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: probably Ottoman-era given the reference to a certain Mūṣlū Çorbacı in the lower entries on the verso (possibly an Ottoman military officer).

العلامات

• account

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Document date

24 Shevat 1404 Seleucid (24 January 1093 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef, 80 dinars, a monthly payment of 10 zuzim from the writer to the addressee, and the refusal of someone to appoint an agent. Dated at the end, ‘all this happened on Monday 24th Shevat 1404 of the Seleucid Era’ (= 1093 CE).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Wheat is mentioned in at least one of the entries on the recto. Requires further examination.

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