Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mercantile letter from an unknown sender, possibly in Sicily, to Abū Zikrī Elḥanan b. Ismāʿīl (al-Andalusī). In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (vertical piece from the middle). Dating: …

العلامات

• silk

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in which the writer asks the recipient to deliver the bearer of the letter fifty dirhams worth of black silk, since the writer is …

العلامات

• silk

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Summary of a power of attorney. Levi b. Ibrāhīm appointed Abū ʿAlī b. Barukh to obtain for him the implements of a silk weaving workshop …

العلامات

• silk

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

1160 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Bifolio from a court ledger in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan (compare Yevr.-Arab. I 1700). Dated: Tishrei-Ḥeshvan 1472 Seleucid = 1160 CE. Fol. 1v: …

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العلامات

• silk

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts, mentioning names such as Abū l-Faḍl and Sitt Abū l-Surūr and commodities such as silk. (Information from CUDL)

العلامات

• account
• silk

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts, mentioning different quantities of silk and sums of money, and the name […] b. Isaac. (Information from CUDL)

العلامات

• account
• silk

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Abū l-Najm to Eliyyahu the Judge. In Judaeo-Arabic. Asking him to send the crimson red silk in his possession (al-maftūl wa-l-shaqīq) with a …

العلامات

• eliyyahu b. zekharia
• silk

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen, in Qaṭyā, to David Medina, in Fustat/Cairo. In Hebrew. Dating: first half of the 16th century. Concerning trade in silk imported …

العلامات

• silk
• trade

1 نسخ

Primary language

Hebrew

Accounts in Hebrew, mentioning silk and olives among other goods.

العلامات

• account
• silk

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic dated as [Dhu] al-Qa'da 1013AH which is 1605CE. The date appears in the first line of the recto in a somewhat uncommon …

العلامات

• 17th c
• silk

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

10 Shevat 1402 Seleucid (2 January, 1091 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Court archive describing a working woman (an unraveler of silk) from Tyre, Lebanon who possessed a house and was able to pay a bill of …

العلامات

• bankruptcy
• silk

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter concerning business affairs (cloth trade) in which the writer mentions people including al-Dimyāṭī, Thābit, and Abū l-Mufaḍḍal. Mentions a sum of 50 dinars corresponding …

العلامات

• silk
• trade

1 نسخ

Document date

23 Kislev 1564 Seleucid (26 November, 1252 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Deed of compensation in the handwriting of Emanuel b. Yehiel concerning Sulayman ha-Kohen b. Efrayim, who engaged in dyeing silk with turquoise blue. Also mentions …

العلامات

• david maimonides
• silk

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Document date

14 Shawwal 1239 Hijrī (12 June, 1824 CE)

Receipt issued by the silk monopoly administration in Alexandria that was signed and stamped by the overseer ʿUmr Agha. Dated 14 Shawwal 1239 AH which …

العلامات

• 19th c
• alexandria
• silk

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to Abū Manṣūr b. Yefet ha-Kohen Ibn Qasāsa with orders for scammony (maḥmūda) and camphor. Verso mentions Abu l-Ḥusayn and/or Abū l-Ḥasan, the …

العلامات

• business
• silk
• trade

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a letter from Nahray b. Nissim, Alexandria. Mentions silk and business concerning dresses. The addressee is unknown although it seems his father’s name …

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العلامات

• nahray b. nissim
• silk
• trade

2 نسخين

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Business letter from a Maghribī merchant. Addressed to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov and Hilāl (or at least these names appear in the address) In Judaeo-Arabic, with …

العلامات

• arabic script
• silk
• unedited 11th c

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Shawwal 1239 Hijrī (30 May, 1824 – 27 June, 1824 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic detailing income for the "Treasury of Silk Looms" in Alexandria, a branch of the state monopoly administration. Dated Shawwal 1239 AH which …

العلامات

• 19th c
• alexandria
• silk

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Wednesday, 15 Kislev 1500 Seleucid (7 December, 1188 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Will of a silk-weaver named Abū l-Faḍl b. Barakāt Ibn al-Maqdisī, dividing his house, workshop, and other belongings to his four sons. In the hand …

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العلامات

• inheritance
• silk
• will

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة

Document date

28 Dhū l-Ḥijja 1238 Hijrī (5 September, 1823 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Official and/or commercial document issued for the ṣarrāf Mūsā Naʿīm (Moshe ben Naʿim) involving the Dīwān Anwāl al-Ḥarīr in Alexandria and a certain al-Ḥajj Muḥammad. …

العلامات

• 19th c
• alexandria
• silk

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Business letter discussing a problem with a consignment of silk and requesting the purchase of linen (ghazal). There are also two lines of Arabic script …

العلامات

• linen
• silk
• trade

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

1526 Seleucid (6 September, 1214 – 26 August, 1215 CE)

Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Detailed commercial accounts for the year 1526 Seleucid = 611 AH = 1214/15 CE of a silk merchant who served also as Parnas. His business …

العلامات

• account
• silk
• trade

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1790 – 1850 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Commercial letter from Nissim Masos or Meshish (?משיש משוש) to Karo y Frances & Company. Dating: Late 18th or early 19th century. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions …

العلامات

• 18th or 19th c
• cyprus
• silk

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

last day of Dhū l-Qaʿda 544 Hijrī (30 March, 1150 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso (original use): Legal deed in Arabic script. (Abū l-)Faḍāʾil b. Khalaf al-Yahūdī al-Ḥarīrī, the tax farmer of the silk, has to receive 474 dirhams …

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العلامات

• dimme
• silk
• tax farming

1 مناقشة

Document date

Adar I 1445 Seleucid (27 January, 1134 – 25 February, 1134 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Court register. Recto: Partnership agreement, probably for the tax farming of silk dyeing in Upper Egypt (פי צמאן באב אלחריר ב[אלצעיד . . . אל]עליא …

العلامات

• dyeing
• silk
• tax farming

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Beginning of a court record (last will and testament?) for Shela b. Yefet the silk tax-farmer in Sammanud.

العلامات

• sammanud
• silk
• will

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Bill of lading by Nahray b. Nissim specifying goods sent from the Maghreb and Sicily to Egypt, mainly textiles and silk. (Information from Gil)

العلامات

• account
• nahray b. nissim
• ship
• silk

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Account, private, written by Nahray b. Nissim. Dating: ca. 1061 CE. Nissim b. Ishaq, for whom the account was made, is probably ha-Tahirti. Mentions silk …

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العلامات

• commodities
• nahray b. nissim
• silk
• trade

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Document date

12 Tammuz 5559 Anno Mundi (15 July, 1799 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Business letter, perhaps a draft or a copy from a letterbook. Dated: 12 Tammuz 5559 AM, which is 15 July 1799 CE. Dealing mainly with …

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العلامات

• 18th c
• business
• late ja
• silk

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Lower part of a letter, following a complete letter. The writer, in Damira, sends 18 dirhams because the recipient, a relative in Fustat, had sold …

العلامات

• business
• damira
• silk
• trade

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

15 Adar II 5578 Anno Mundi (23 March, 1818 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document, partnership. In Hebrew with business phrases in Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Cairo. Dated: 15 Adar II 5578 AM, which is 23 March 1818 CE. Partnership …

العلامات

• 19th c
• bilbays
• bilbeis
• silk

1 نسخ

Primary language

Arabic

Communal account in Arabic script. "The sum that was collected for the curtain (sitr)" or "curtains (sutur)": 50 dirhams. This may be referring to the …

العلامات

• brocade
• holes
• silk
• textiles

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Aharon ha-Kohen to Moshe b. Maṣliaḥ. In Judaeo-Arabic. He reports that he has arrived safely after a terrible Nile voyage when …

العلامات

• boat
• flax
• silk
• to edit

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

26 Sivan 5632 Anno Mundi (2 July, 1872 CE)

Primary language

Ladino

Accounts in Ladino and Hebrew. Western Arabic numerals are in use with one entry on the recto dated 26 Sivan [5]632 or July 2 1872CE. …

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العلامات

• 19th c
• ladino
• list
• silk

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1788 – 1825 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts related to commerce in silk on a bifolium that is undated yet can be estimated as late-18th to early-19th-century given the presence of Meʾīr …

العلامات

• 18th or 19th c
• fgp stub
• polisa
• silk

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر