Documents

Primary language

Arabic

The extent to which they represent joins and/or related documents merits further examination (ENA 3264.1-2 seem to be the most likely candidates for a direct join). Of the six consecutive shelfmarks, ENA 3264.3 is the only one that does not contain any Arabic text. The clearest evidence of sewing marks from the booklet's binding are visible along the right border of ENA 3264.3r. MCD.

Tags

• arabic reused
• learning

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Primary language

Arabic

The extent to which they represent joins and/or related documents merits further examination (ENA 3264.1-2 seem to be the most likely candidates for a direct join). Of the six consecutive shelfmarks, ENA 3264.3 is the only one that does not contain any Arabic text. The clearest evidence of sewing marks from the booklet's binding are visible along the right border of ENA 3264.3r. MCD.

Tags

• arabic reused
• learning

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Inferred date

1732–1732 CE

Primary language

Ladino

Dates are provided at the bottom of each entry and indicate what is most likely the year [54]92. The months Temuz and Tevet are also listed which helps to date this fragment as January-July 1732CE, which aligns closely with the join ENA NS 39.2. On the recto of ENA NS 27.7, the first entry also mentions one Moshe Ḥason "חסון" (l. 5r), whose name is repeated on the verso (l. 3v).

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Tags

• 18th c
• ladino
• list

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Document date

1361–62 Seleucid (1049–1051 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The upper fragment preserves entries for Tishrei–Iyyar 1361 Seleucid (=1049/50 CE), and the lower fragment preserves entries for Ḥeshvan–Nisan 1362 Seleucid (=1050/51 CE). The fragment with the intervening five months is missing. Cf. ENA 4010.35 + ENA 4196.15 (PGPID 6803), a related calendar for the years 1045–48 CE.

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Tags

• al-tustari
• calendar
• karaite

1 Transcription 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary language

Arabic

A few words from the two fragmentary lines read - "bimā tashraḥ min ḥālihim", "Jamāl al-Dawla". ENA 3695.4, ENA 3695.5, and ENA 3695.8 all look very similar, might be from the same original document.

Tags

• dimme

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May belong together with ENA 2481.21 and/or ENA 2481.22.

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May belong together with ENA 2481.21 and/or ENA 2481.22.

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Document date

18 Tevet 1496 Seleucid (24 December 1184 CE)

An engagement agreement from the 18th of Tevet. The marriage is set a month and four months afterward. The bride is represented by her father, who also receives the engagement from the groom. Here, as elsewhere, there is no mention of a fine if any of the sides would cancel the engagement or the marriage would not be conducted at the agreed upon date.

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• engagement

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The recto includes a reference to the Lekh Lekha parsha reading, perhaps as part of a broader dated entry heading. The name Farajallah al-Qudsī appears on the verso among other less legible entries. This fragment may be related to the neighboring shelfmark ENA 3738.4.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Betrothal register from a court book, 1023 (per Friedman, based on comparison to ENA 4010.28 which he identifies as another leaf from the same register, and bears an exact date in 1023). From the same ledger: ENA 4010.28, ENA NS 8.15, and Bodl. MS heb. c 13/21 (bears an exact date in 1028).

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• betrothal

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abu al-Rida, the perfume seller, to Abu al-Mahasin, a tailor and weaver, dealing with financial business and referring to several textiles. The letter ends with an announcement of a wedding: 'the little one will enter her house by the end of this month.

Tags

• business
• tailor
• wedding

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Arabic

The first concerns the incarceration of the family breadwinner, a certain Ḥabīb. An endorsement fixed to the end of the petition orders his release. […] These seem to be unrelated documents glued together to create a large enough piece of paper for verso (for which see separate record).

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1 Transcription 1 Translation

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Bill of sale for an enslaved woman. Dating: ca. 1100 CE (based on Med Soc II, p. 601 n. 18). The name of the enslaved woman may not be preserved. Parties to the transaction: Ḥalfon b.

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• slaves

1 Discussion

Document date

Tuesday, 1 Nisan 1537 Seleucid (31 March 1226 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Deed of sale for the sale of an enslaved woman. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 1 Nisan 1537 Seleucid, which is 31 March 1226 CE, under the authority of Avraham Maimonides. […] Hillel Ibn Zikr, sells to Hillel b. Barakāt the enslaved woman Ḍiyāʾ, who was born into slavery (muwallad) and was brought (musayyara) to Fustat.

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Tags

• 13th c
• bill of sale
• slave

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

The currency is listed in two places on the recto as "אנגרסי" which is likely a reference to the Hungarian gold engrussī (aka forint). Dating: likely 16th-century based on the paleography and references to Ottoman administrative titles. One of the entries on the recto mentions "ʿĀmr multazim (tax-farmer) of Bilbeis." The neighboring entry mentions "Yosef ... emin(?) (customs official) of דהשורה (Dahshūra?)

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2

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• list

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Document date

Tammuz 5404 Anno Mundi (5 July 1644–2 August 1644 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated in one of the diagonal entries in the middle of the recto: Tammuz 5404 AM (1644 CE), but the exact day is illegible along a paper fold. The accounts are detailed and well-preserved enough that there may be an Islamic-calender year equivalent on the recto or verso (one of the entries gives the month Muḥarram). There are also few blocks of text in paragraph form. One entry on the recto mentions Cairo's Nile port of Būlāq.

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• 16th or 17th c
• early modern
• late synagogues

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer explains that he cannot come because he is very ill (wajiʿ wajaʿin ṣaʿb) and has no energy (nahḍa) to 'enter' (Fustat). He has therefore sent Sulaymān on his behalf to collect his indigo that is with Abū l-Ḥasan. The son is to make sure that this happens, and if he wants to travel back with Sulaymān, all the better. After all, it is the end of the year, and the son has to pay his capitation tax in Alexandria.

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Tags

• capitation tax
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: nahda
• illness: waja'
• (+ 2 more)

1 Transcription

Document date

1025 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

For other documents with this scribal attribution, compare with: ENA 4101.17b (PGPID 796), ENA 2804.8 (PGPID 686), ENA 4020.42 (PGPID 781).

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Tags

• 11th c
• communal

1 Transcription

List of entries in Arabic script that include names, locations, and possibly goods such as "ʿaṭr/عطر" or "perfume" which appears throughout the recto and verso. Many of the figures are expressed in Coptic numerals but on occasion an Arabic "5" appears in certain entries. For an example of the appearance of a name and location, on the recto's left section "Skenderiye/Alexandria" is mentioned, as is the name "Yūsuf" in the same entry (l. 18r).

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• arabic script
• coptic numerals
• list

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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined. Legal text regarding marital engagement.

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Primary language

Aramaic

Deed of manumission of an enslaved person. Only the bottom left corner of the document is preserved (or perhaps the entire left half of a very short document).The owner is named Mevasser b.

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• manumission
• slave

1 Transcription

Primary language

Arabic

Long-form work, fragment of a page mentioning (on verso) enslaved people (jawārī). MR

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• arabic
• slaves

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Primary language

Hebrew

The folio begins with the end of the refutation of the Palestinians’ second argument. […] This letter responds that in the Four Gates, every period of time ends where the next one begins, so that the full week is covered from end to end; moreover, some days of the week are mentioned more than once in the Four Gates (fol.4r:1-5). […] Our author misinterprets the rule as applying equally to Nisan and to Tishri, which enables him to refute it easily (fol.4r:5-14).

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1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Of the two fragments in the ENA 2805.8 enclosure, this is the upper one (Gil refers to it as "ENA 2805.8 A").

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2

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Tags

• nahray b. nissim
• trade

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation

Primary language

Hebrew

For more extensive scribal practice of this verse in ENA series, see also: ENA 3129.4 + ENA 3129.5 (PGPID 40486).

Tags

• 16th or 17th c
• cmp
• scribal practice

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Document date

Kislev 5400 Anno Mundi (27 November 1639–26 December 1639 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated twice on the recto as Kislev 5400 AM: once as Kislev שה׳׳ת in the upper right entry and in the upper left כסליו ש׳ ארבע מאות. A variety of names and titles appear in the entries, such as: (recto) the qāḍī, the çavuş, Yaʿaqov Kohen, and the verso mentions a shop of some kind at least twice. Some of the entries on the recto may reference clipped coinage values (מקאציץ / maqāṣīṣ).

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Primary language

Arabic

Literary text, in Arabic script. Page plus ending bifolio from a book with quire or page marks in upper left corners from the philosophical treatise of Ibn al-Faraj ʿAbd Allah b. al-Ṭayyib al-ʿIrāqī (d. 1043), the philosopher and prolific writer, better known for his commentaries on the bible, known in medieval Latin as Abulpharagius Abdalla Benattibus. The bifolios are from his work entitled "Kitāb al-Samā" which is revealed by the colophon towards the end of folio 2. […] Contains a Fāṭimid-style ḥasbala and ṣalwala towards the end.

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• dimme

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Primary language

Hebrew

The folio begins with the end of the end of the refutation of the Palestinians’ second argument. […] Our letter responds that the Four Gates actually covers the full week because every period of time ends where the next one begins (fol.4r:1-5). The third argument concerns the rule of 641-642 parts. […] After the end of the misplaced text, the text resumes with the third argument (fol.4v:19-21).

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• calendar
• controversy

1 Transcription 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary language

Arabic

"If the yellow bile burns, a strong fright ensues. . . the cure of phrenitis (birsām) is. . .

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• arabic literary
• fright
• medical
• phrenitis

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Primary language

Arabic

Lines 2–3 appear to be a description of the enslaved woman (she is described as black, sawdāʾ) and the price appears at the end of l. 3 (18 dinars?).

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• slave

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Primary language

Judaeo-Persian

, and unlike the alms lists, donor lists, and accounts from the classical period.Similar lists occur in ENA NS 77.54, ENA NS 77.51, and ENA NS 77.388. NB: This description corresponds to a different, unidentified shelfmark.

Tags

• account
• charity
• communal
• coptic alphanumeral
• judaeo-persian

1 Transcription

Document date

13 Sivan 1400 Seleucid (25 May 1089 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Sitt al-ʿAshīr's dowry list is mostly preserved in the join ENA 3652.8 + ENA 2747.1 + ENA 2747.2 (PGPID 6743).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, probably late. Possibly a join: ENA NS 39.21 + ENA NS 42.28.

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• late ja

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, probably late. Possibly a join: ENA NS 39.21 + ENA NS 42.28.

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• late ja

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

There is a blessing for victory over enemies at the bottom. Needs further examination.

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Primary language

Arabic

Petition to a Fatimid caliph, end only, with long lower margin enabling it to be reused as a biofolio transverse to the original text.

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Tags

• dimme
• petition

1 Transcription 2 Discussions