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5201Legal documentT-S J2.78
Primary languages
Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Saʿadya ha-Levi, there are jottings of communal accounts. "In the hand of al-Neʾeman. . . covering. . . the total: 40. . . and for the pay (rawātib) of. . . the total: 158 less [. . .]."
Recto
1. גרץ] הדא אלשמוש אלמבארך
2. אלסעיד אלמופק אלסדיד
3. ריאסה הדרת יקרת צפירת
4. תפארת כבוד גדולת קדושת
5. מרנו ורבנו אדוננו משה הרב
6. הגדול בישראל אור הדור ופלא…
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1989
PGPID
1325
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5202LetterT-S NS J1
Inferred date
1135–1135 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
The verso of this copy has accounts written by Ibn Yijū (PGPID 5537). Copy 2 (first copy by the clerk): II,24 (T-S NS J1), this document.
recto
1. ד דנ ותמן ואיצא פי מרכב אלנאכדא אבו אלחסן
2. קטעה רצאץ אלוזן מאיתין וסתין רטל אלתמן
3. סבעה עשר דינ ותלת וכרג אלפרצה תלת וביד
4. במה באבה שרא מא וחואיג…
1. 4⅛ dinars. And also, in the ship of the nākhudā Abu ’l-Ḥasan,
2. a piece of lead; the weight: two hundred and sixty pounds; the price:
3. 17⅓ dinars; the …
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- ib2
- india book
2 Transcriptions 1 Translation
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2017
PGPID
5479
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5203Legal documentT-S NS J19
Inferred date
1066–1108 CE
Primary languages
Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic
Shela; many valuable commodities (gold, silver, Byzantine brocade); 200 dinars; traveling to Syria (al-Shām) to sell these goods; settling accounts in Alexandria after the travel; Tripoli (likely the one in al-Shām); questioning of Ḥesed about this; and shipping them in the ship of Abū ʿAlī al-Shāmī, which sank.
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- alexandria
- tripoli
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2019
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26358
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5204State documentUPenn RAR MS 85.126.38
Document date
Muḥarram 628 Hijrī (9 November 1230–8 December 1230 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
One of the administrative documents is a receipt or income statement/account related to al-Maḥallā dated Muḥarram 628 (1230).
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- to examine
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5205Legal documentT-S 8.197
Inferred date
1100–1138 CE
Primary languages
Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Probably connected with the dissolution of a partnership, since the words "profit" (fāʾida) and "account" (ḥisāb) are mentioned. There is a unusual clause that reads "whether by oral witness or through a written document" (l.8) ([mā kāna] minhu be-ʿedut al pe wa-mā kāna minhu bi-sheṭar ve-qinyan).
Recto
1. [ ] ובין אלשי[ך ]
2. [ ] מנהא בעד ופאתה מן [ ]
3. [ ] או בסבב פאידה או בסבב חסאב או תצרף [ ]
4. [ א]לאשיא גמיעהא עלי אכתלאף אגנאסהא ואנואעהא מ[ ]
5. [ ] מ…
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5206State documentT-S NS 263.81
Primary language
Arabic
Mentions "the districts" (al-aʿmāl) in the next line. Verso: Grocery list/account in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals: meat, sesame oil, lemon, firewood, pepper, ىىده, and spinach (isfānakh).
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5207Legal documentT-S NS 323.30
Primary language
Hebrew
Mentions the barnāmaj (account book) of ʿUmayr, and pages that have gone missing out of a daftar.
1. כך היה המעשה בפנינו אנו [
2. בעל מלכה בת עומיר וטען וא[
3. הרבה ובכלל תביעתי תובעו בר[
4. שתשלחו אחריו כדי לשאול ול[
5. אז שלחנו אחר מנצור זה [
6. בחנות כי אם ששה …
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25608
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5208State documentCUL Or.1080 J85
Primary languages
Arabic, Hebrew
Fiscal document (account? in table form) with very wide line spacing, in a chancery/fiscal hand.
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- dimme
- fiscal
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2022
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36497
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5209LetterF 1908.44UU
Primary language
Hebrew
Dating: First half of the 16th century, based on Avraham David's assessment. It gives an "account of conditions in the small and turbulent caravan station on the Cairo-Damascus highway.
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29920
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5210LetterMoss. II,101.1
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Late family letter in Judaeo-Arabic sent to Shemuel Ḥalafta in Fusṭāṭ, perhaps from his brother, rebuking him for the lack of letters ("your poor mother's heart is confounded on your account"). Mentions Yaʿaqov al-Gabbay. "Your sister and Munsiyya and Yeḥiel [send their regards]."
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- halafta
- late ja
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5211List or tableENA 1822a.65
Document date
11 Jumādā II 922 Hijrī (12 July 1516 CE)
Accounts in Hebrew, mentioning a khizana, treasury, seemingly a box in which all revenue was deposited and from which all expenditure was made.
1. ל
2. נשאר ללכזאנה ה ר לא דר׳.....
3. מן......... ל דר׳
4. מן סידי אחמיד ר׳ דר׳
5. מן אשמי? ק דר׳
6. מן ס[ידי....]....מן אסוכרי ק׳
7. מן חק אלקורנפול? שכה דר׳
8. מן חק אל…
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4522
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5212Legal documentENA NS 17.31
Document date
Thursday, 26 Nisan 1395 Seleucid (4 April 1084 CE)
Primary languages
Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic
Unusually, the agreement between Sa‘āda and the other two partners required him to take an oath attesting to partnership accounts should the partnership assets lose value.
Recto
1. בחמשה בשבה דהוא עשרין ושיתה יומין בירח
2. ניסן דשנת אלפא ותלת מאה ותשעין וחמש שנין למנינא
3. דרגיליננא ביה בפסטאט מצרים דעל נילוס נהרא מותבה
4. ח…
Recto
1. On Thursday, the twenty-sixth day of the month
2. of Nisan of the year one thousand three hundred and ninety-five years according to the count
3. to …
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- 11th c
- al-mahalla
- divorce
- notarial
- partnership
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2017
PGPID
2432
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5213Legal documentHalper 345
Document date
Adar 1471 Seleucid (10 February 1160–9 March 1160 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Ayyūb), allowing the court to allocate the funds from the partnership to Peraḥya while the partnership accounting was ongoing. The funds then became Peraḥya’s free and clear.
Recto
1. חצר אלינא אנו [[הע]] בית דין אבו אלסרור פרחיה בר תק[וה]
2. ידיע בן אלאמעט ובידה כמסה דנא דכר אנהא מן גמלה
3. אלעקדה אלדי כאנת שרכה בין אבו נצר בן …
They testified before us—we, the court—
that the two of them knew //and they set out to clarify the claims concerning the account of [what he had pa]id with his partner// that this … the [afore]mentioned from
the sum total of the obligation … // … that which is from their reckoning … the sum total of the obligation// was a partnership (shirka) between Abū Naṣr and Abū al-Ḥasan.
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19636
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5214LetterT-S 18J4.20
Document date
Sivan 1508 Seleucid (20 May 1197–18 June 1197 CE)
Primary language
Hebrew
On verso: Sundry jottings in Arabic script and some Judaeo-Arabic, including accounts, phrases from a petition or letter, and possibly a medical text.
recto
1. [ ]אב להם לגדוליהם וקטניהם וספק צורך העת
2. [ ] וכולה המכור בהתר ולא באסור בבטח ולא בפחד
3. [ ] לי[ ] ועצבי ושקטתי מ…
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- business
- merchant
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1763
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5215List or tableT-S Ar.42.179
Primary language
Arabic
Verso: Mostly or entirely in the same hand, various text blocks of private accounts in Arabic. There is also a phrase in Arabo-Hebrew (عروبث سكوث = the eve of Sukkot).
Upper right
1. قبلي //في ا . . حولي . . ال . . لي اول مرة عند\\ الشيخ المعظم الفقيه القاضي زين الدين خاقان(؟) . .
2. ودفع عند عروبث سكوث برسم الذي كان عند…
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- booklist
- illness
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5216List or tableT-S AS 146.345 + T-S AS 210.143
Primary language
Ladino
Account-related transactions listed in Ladino with many names, including Yosef and Ya'aqov; with Hebrew alphanumerical numerals.
Tags
- account
- ladino
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2018
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18246
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5217Legal documentCUL Add.3412
Document date
10th Sivan 1410 Seleucid (2 June 1099 CE)
Primary languages
Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Moshe Ibn Majjān about various business disputes (maybe this is the lawsuit recorded in L-G Misc. 50), but now that he has found the relevant accounts, they can settle. He lists the commodities/values that he thinks he is still owed.
Recto
1. בחמשה בשבה דהוא עשרה יומי בירח
2. טיון דשנת אלפא וארבע מאה ועשר שנין
3. למניינא דרגיליננא ביה בפסטאט מצריט
4. דעל נילוס נהרא מותבה כן הוה חצר אלי בית
5. ד…
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2017
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8832
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5218Legal documentENA 2559.6
Document date
Monday, 6 Elul [15]27 Seleucid (22 August 1216 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
(4) On verso, there are accounts of communal collections (pesiqot). The righthand page is in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
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5219LetterENA 3754.11
Primary language
Arabic
The Hebrew script in the margin likely belongs with the accounts on verso; it does not appear to be a filing note.
Recto
1. يقبل الارض بين يدي الموافق العالية اعلاها الله تعالى
2. وينهي ان ثم رجل يهودي يسمى سعد بن العيصي كان ملتزم بمقاطعة الجوالي سابقاً فانكر عليه
3. …
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- 16th or 17th c
- capitation tax
- capousi
- corruption
- dimme
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12757
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5220Legal documentT-S 16.21
Document date
1140 CE
Abū al-Barakāt also declares that his partner’s testimony would be trusted, even though both partners are supposed to perform an accounting. A copy of the partnership agreement is written for each of the parties' records.
Recto
1. ].............]חאגה ולא יכפי אלשיך [אבו][..............................[
2. ]........... א]סתקר פי הדה אלשרכה אן יכון [.........................…
Recto
1. […] need and the Elder Abū […] did not satisfy […]
2. [… e]stablishing in this partnership (shirka) that there would be […]
3. […] and the two of them …
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- partnership
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3451
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5221Legal documentT-S Ar.18(1).35 + T-S 20.96
Inferred date
1034–1040 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
The concluding part stresses the custom of giving full publicity to the accounts of the qodesh; also, the duty of any dissatisfied person to file his claims before the court, otherwise risking excommunication.
T-S Ar.18(1).35 1 recto
1. יקול מן כתב כ[טה] פי אכר הדא אלכתאב אן אלדי נעלמה ונשהד בה אן גמיע
2. מא לחקנאה מן אלמואצע אלמחבסה עלי כניסה אלשאמיין במצר דאר …
Khayyāṭ
al-Maghribī. And there are in it accounts of each year, in which the revenues and expenditures are stated and summed up. Before
the synagogue was closed the account of these years was fastened from Passover until the "Small Fast", and (a ban) was proclaimed
several times against whoever had any objection to it and did not appear before the court.
Tags
- 11th c
- account
- heqdesh
- qodesh
- waqf
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1986
PGPID
1251
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5222List or tableT-S Ar.43.71
Primary languages
Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic
This fragment contains additional accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, as well as a recipe in Judaeo-Arabic for a kind of wine (nabīdh al-dā[..]).
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2017
PGPID
9219
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5223Legal documentYevr. II A 1303
Document date
Sunday, 5 Av 5404 Anno Mundi (7 August 1644 CE)
Primary language
Hebrew
Legal deed, apparently settling accounts at the end of a lease. Probably from a Rabbanite court.
Recto
1. בע׳׳ה
3. בהיות שהשכירו היקרים כ׳׳ר משה יצ׳׳ו בכ׳׳ר עבד אל כרים ברכה וכ׳׳ר נצראללה אלמדעו יוסף יצ׳׳ו בכ׳׳ר עבד…
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- lease
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27513
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5224Unknown typeDK 36
Document date
1430–1431 CE
Primary languages
Greek, Hebrew, Judaeo-Greek
There is a calendar for the year 1430/31 CE (folio 26), written in an interesting ink that has faded to pale silver; the page now looks blank at a glance, but much of the text is legible. There are accounts (folios 1 and 15) with a Hebrew grammatical structure (X של Y) but in which nearly all of the nouns are in a different language, presumably Greek in Hebrew characters, but needs examination by an expert.
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5225LetterDK 236 (alt: 27, XXXI - XXXIX)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Reused on verso for accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Recto
1. בייי בטחתי
2. הדרת התלמיד המצויין החזן הבקי בכל ענין
3. אשר ברביד החן נרבד החבר הנכבד
4. הוד הנדיב[ים . . . . . . ]. . ל [. . . . . .]
5. ישועה בימי[ו] יצ…
Recto
1. In God I have trusted.
2. The splendrous one, the distinguished scholar, the ḥazzan versed in every matter,
3. adorned with the necklace of grace, t…
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6573
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5226List or tableT-S Ar.30.129
Primary languages
Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic
Accounts and other jottings in a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script.
Recto - left page
1. لے סעד
2. ואלשיך אבו סעד
3. אדאם אללה עזה
4. לה ענדי ען גזיה אול
5. ורק י̇ג̇ ולה ען שרי
6. בצל דרהם ולה ען
7. גזיה ב̇ י̇א̇ אלגמלה כ̇ה̇
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3879
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5227LetterENA NS 48.10
Primary languages
Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
"I have begun a task and I am unable to obtain my wage on his account." He uses the stock phrase, "The knife has reached the bone."
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5228LetterENA 2808.25
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Some time later, he came to me screaming for help, saying, 'Divorce me from this woman lest I kill her and lose my life on her account,' and I said to him, 'What is the meaning of this?'
1. ] . . . [
2. ]ארבע מגאל[ס
3. אל]מגלס אלאכר ואנהם יש[
4. ] מעהם פלמא קיל לי דלך ארסלת [
5. במא קיל לי וובכתה ורדעתה פי דלך פקאל [
6. לה אלואגב אן תנתקל מן הדא אלמכא…
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- conflict
- marital
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11942
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5229LetterENA NS 48.2
Inferred date
1136–1149 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
The identification of the addressee is based on the fact that Avraham Ibn Yiju reused verso for accounts. (Information from S. D. Goitein and Mordechai Akiva Friedman, India Book, 357.)
1. אלספר ביומין [...]
2. גריב עלי ידה וע[לי ...]
3. לצאחב דהלך פיה לשיך [...]
4. בלאל בן גריר עלי אלרגל אל[די באע]
5. אלדרכי אשתראה מנה לנפס[ה]
6. וליס יקדר אחד יטלב …
1. two days [before] the ships sailed [...]
2. foreigner by him and b[y…, some of it]
3. for (or belonging to) the ruler of Dahlak and some of it for Sheikh …
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PGPID
5408
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5230LetterT-S 8J25.10
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
At 180 degrees there are jottings of accounts in Arabic script listing quantities in arṭāl.
1 Translation 1 Discussion
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7704
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5231Literary textT-S NS 102.110
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
In the bottom margins there are jotted accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
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5232LetterT-S NS J408 + ENA 2808.6
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
He asks for either an account (ḥisāb) or a calendar spanning two years. […] On verso, in a different hand, there are jottings of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, along with two lines containing greetings to 'the mother Ghāliya.'
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5233Legal documentCUL Add.3418 + CUL Add.3421
Document date
Monday, 2 Kislev 1409 Seleucid (9 November 1097 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
IB I, 1–2. Court proceedings dealing with the dispute between Yosef ha-Lebdi the India trader and Yequtiʾel b. Moshe, 'the representative of merchants' in Fustat. …
CUL Add.3418: Verso
יכתץ באבו יעקוב אלחכים טע מ יוסף אלטראבלסי
1. בתרין בשבה דהוא תרי יומי בירח כסלו דשנת
2. אלפא וארבע מאה ותשע שנין למניינא דרגיליננא
3. …
Bundār on account of the pepper. He replied:
The aforementioned Ḥasan lent me, on account of 50 bahārs pepper,
five dinars for each bahār, of which there were for ⟦Sheikh⟧ Mr.
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5388
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5234LetterJRL B 4089
Inferred date
1135–1135 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
The verso of this copy has accounts written by Ibn Yijū (PGPID 5537). Copy 2 (first copy by the clerk): II,24 (T-S NS J1).
JRL Series B 4089 verso
1. .....[....................
2. אלתמן גפד וצח וזן אלגוניה אלאכרא
3. בהארין גיר סבעה ארטאל סער ה מ
4. אלתמן ט פ דינ ולה מן תסלים יאקות א…
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- ib-untranslated-eng
- ib2
- india book
- india book unedited
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5235LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/5
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from Yehuda b. Moshe ibn Sighmār, in Alexandria, to ʿEli ha-Kohen b. Yaḥyā (aka Ḥayyim) the parnas, in Fustat. Yehuda explains the problems he …
1. ענדי מן אלשוק אלי מולאי אלפרנס אלנאמן אטאל אללה בקאה
2. ואדאם עזה ונעמאה וכבת אעדאה מא יעלמה אלכאלק עז וגל
3. ואלכאלק סבחאנה יקרב אסבאב אלאגתמאע קריבא ברח…
...Then he said: “I will carry
what is on your own personal account to the Maghreb.” [I] w[rote] to him to turn over what is on my personal account
to the son of my brother.
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- ambergris
- brazilwood
- byzantine merchants
- illness
- illness letter 969-1517
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PGPID
578
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5236Legal documentBodl. MS heb. a 3/26 + JRL Gaster heb. ms 1772/14
Draft of a court record from the court in Fustat. 1042. In the handwriting of Efrayim b. Shemarya (not Yefet b. David Shekhanya). Regarding the …
Recto
1. מעשה שהיה לפנינו אנו בית דין הקבוע במצר[ים]
2. והזקנים החתומים עדותנו מטה ביום חודש שנת
3. אלף שלוש מאות חמשים ושלוש שנים למנין שט'
4. שאנו רגילין למנו…
From Alexandria: A wickerwork basket of sal ammoniac, in which was also a bag with mace; 12 qinṭārs of cotton; half a bale of lac, weighing 4 [qinṭārs] and some pounds, on my own account and the other half on account of my brother Abu Kathīr; three bales of yellow myrobalan, in one of which were flasks of musk; thirteen bales of bandage flax, while Abu Is[mā‘īl] took delivery of another two.
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5237LetterT-S 20.122
Letter from Ḥayyim b. ʿAmmār al-Madinī, from Palermo, probably to Yosef b. Musa al-Tāhartī (according to Gil, but the name of the recipient is lost). …
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1. [ אסל אללה] יגעל עאקבתך חסנה ואן לא יכלאך
2. [ אהתמא]מך בחואיגי ובגמיע מע יכצני
3. [ ] גמיע אלוגוה פלא אכלאני אללה מן
4. [ ] גמיע מן יחתאגך תם ו…
I also left at Mazara, with the elder Abū Isḥaq, for his private account, 75 dīn(ārs)
in gold, quarter-dīnārs and dīnārs issued in the East.
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- bribe
- flax
- indigo
- lead
- leather
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5238LetterHalper 222
Document date
Dhū l-Qaʿda 1119 Hijrī (24 January 1708–22 February 1708 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Verso: Letter in Arabic script to an unknown recipient from ʿAlī Efendi, the commander of Damietta's janissary garrison. Dated: Dhū l-Qaʿda 1119 1119 AH (1708 …
Recto
Upper Left Side, parallel to lines 3–5: ʿAlī Efendi’s seal
توكلي على الله في كل الأمور
Verso
[باسم الله الرحمن الرحيم]
1. بعد وان سالتم عنا فانن…
Muʿallim Mūsā is coming [back] to you, and now, as for you, when [this] letter reaches you,
obtain a letter from his excellency the Ketḫüdā al-Waqt and a letter from the amīr Yūsuf Bey and a letter
from the amīr Süleymān Odabaşı and ‘Abdullāh Odabaşı, addressed to us, stating in them, ‘When the letters arrive,
look into the Christian’s account in your residence and send them [the accounts?] to us’. In addition to the letters to us, [there should be] a letter
from the amīr Yūsuf Bey and a letter from the Ketḫüdā al- Waqt and a letter from Süleyman Odabaşı and Abdullah Odabaşı
addressed to Meḥmed Agha, [the] current tax farmer, telling them to draw up the account in the house of the amīr ʿAlī Efendi [the writer of the present letter].
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5239LetterT-S 8J21.10
Inferred date
1152–1152 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
IB III, 39. Unfinished draft of a letter from Avraham Ibn Yiju, in Aydhab, to a member of Khalaf b. Bundār's family in Aden, probably …
IB III, 39 recto
1. בשֹ רחֹ
2. כי יי יהיה בכסלך ושמר רגלך מלכד ותֹגֹזר אומר וֹיֹקם לֹך וגמֹ
3. כתאבי אלי מולאי וסיידי אלשיך אלאגֹל אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם נעמאה
...I have heard that you had mentioned that I owe you the balance
of an account and that the smaller packages left in the warehouse do not cover the sum. Your account,
my lord, is this: I owe you five dirhems, no more no less!
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5240List or tableT-S 8J7.9
Primary language
Hebrew
This allows reconstruction of some of the lacunae in the transcription below. Both also have accounts in Arabic script on verso. The CUL Or.1080 J148 version contains more abbreviations, while the T-S 8J7.9 version has more words written out in full.
1. משפחת הכהנים הקד]ושים בישראל כגק מרינו
2. ורבינו יוסף הכהן הרב הג]דול בישראל זצל וחמודו כגק
3. מ ור אדונינו יהודה] הרב הגדול המבהק ראש הס[ד]ר
4. [זצל] וכגק מ…
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5241LetterT-S NS 297.6
Inferred date
1594–1689 CE
Primary language
Ottoman Turkish
The writer accuses Ḥusām Reʾīs of delaying the māl-i mīrī by refusing to turn over his accounts to his replacement’s representatives and interfering in local fiscal assignments critical to the assemblage and dispatch of the provisions."
Recto, main text
1. Devletlü ve saʿādetlü sulṭānım bender-i Dimyāṭ mültezimi faḫru’l-emāsil ve züḫrü’l-aḳrān çavuş bey efendim ḥażretleri[nin ḫāk-ı pā…
Ultimately, we awarded Ḥūrīya the tax farm,32 but, my lord, we did the accounts and saw that nine shiploads
of rice, spices, henna, flax, and a variety [?]
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5242LetterT-S NS J352
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Above this, there are accounts listing items such as laundry (ghasīl); silk; something related to Rabbenu; sugar; the closing of a door from inside; two nails; the repair of a nuṣfiyya; oil; cotton.
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5243LetterDK 327 + DK 327 (alt: 13)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from Samḥūn b. Dāwūd ibn al-Siqillī (Qayrawān) to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov b. ʿAwkal (Fustat). The letter deals with a conflict between the sender and …
verso
1. ובעד יאסידי פמא אשך אנך תעמל פי שיי חסב מא ישבה מת'לך ואנא
2. ואתק בגמילך ודיאנתך ולו כאן [ ] באקי מאלך חאצ'רא ענדי מן כ'אצתך
3. לכנת נבעת …
Kindest personal regards to my master, the elder, and to his two sons Hillel and Benjamin, may God protect and keep them.
Margin: I copied for you from my account book the account for the sale of the silk, and the expenses involved from beginning to end, including a description of each item and showing how it was sold without any loss for you.
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5244LetterT-S 10J32.6 + T-S 10J9.24
Inferred date
1135–1138 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
IB III, 3. Letter from Yosef b. Avraham, in Aden, to Avraham Ibn Yiju. Dating: ca. 1135–38 CE. The address is on the second fragment, …
T-S 10J32.6, recto
1. בשמ רחמ
2. וצל כתאב חצרה אלשיך אלאגל מולאי וִכאן אסר כתאב ורד ואבהג
3. [כטאב] ופד וקראתה מסרורא ותאמלתה גדלא מחבורא ופהמתה וסרני
T-S 1…
...The copper ordered for ⟦the sake of apprenticeship of⟧ //my son//
should be in a separate account. Please do not mix his account with mine.
For the balance of my {lit., ‘your servant’s’} account, please buy some betel nuts or, if that is not to be had,
pepper in one or two baskets, in order to save freight and customs duties in Aden.
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5245Legal documentT-S 16.87 + ENA NS 18.22
Document date
Wednesday, 24 [month] [year] Seleucid (March 1097 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Legal document. Record of release. Dating: March 1097. Written in the hand of Hillel b. Eli. This fragment seems to be the continuation a document, …
Recto
1. [........................................................................] כל אלה [..........]
2. [..............................................…
Recto
1. […] all that […]
2. [… from] now on, since no (claim) r[emains for me with him]
3. [nor in his possession nor on his behalf, any claim whatsoever, nor any matter whatsoever, neither a dirham nor a dinar, n]either gold nor silver, [neither]
4. [jewelry nor silk, neither cop]per nor tin nor lead, neither merchandise nor an item of trade, neither a partnership (shirka) nor a commenda (muḍāraba), neither clothing
5. […] nor a deposit which we have deposited for someone else nor a deposit which someone else deposited for us, neither an account nor the remainder of an account
6. [neither capital] nor a remainder, neither profit nor loss, neither a legal document in Jewish law nor a document in gentile law
7. [… no]r any other thing which one could possess or utilize under the Heavens, whether small or great,
8. [magnificent or lowly, from the value of a farthing or more, neither] a debt nor a judgment nor nor a dispute nor an account nor an (oral) statement (of debt), nor debate nor controversy nor acquittal nor complaint nor quarrel nor
9. [a claim nor a challenge nor an oa]th nor a rider oath nor a pronouncement, even ḥerem setam.
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- partnership
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5246Legal documentT-S 18J1.13
Document date
Wednesday, 21 Sivan 4845 Anno Mundi (16 June 1085 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Legal document. Record of release. Dated 1085. Location: Alexandria. This document is a largely-complete release signed and executed by well-known members of the rabbinical court …
Recto
1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן [שהדי דחתמות ידנא לתחתא סוף שטרא]
2. דנן כן הוה חצר אלינא מ יוסף בר שמו[אל...........והו פי צחה[
3. עקלה ובדנה וגואז אמרה א…
Phineas (who) r(ests in) E(den), in order that he would have in his hand proof and a legal claim [from now] on
that I have no claim to anything which he has, nor anything in his possession, nor anything to which he can lay claim, nor a demand of any sort,
nor a legal claim of any sort, neither dinar nor dirham, neither gold nor silver, neither smithed
nor raw, neither anklets nor black clothing, neither clothing nor cloth, neither appliance nor instrument,
neither equipment nor material, neither merchandise nor goods, neither a partnership (shirka) nor a joint investment (khulṭa), neither deposit
nor pledge, neither loan nor commenda, neither rental nor lease, neither wages nor deposit,
neither dispatch nor directive, neither loan nor responsibility, neither account nor remainder of account nor error
in accounting, nor anything under all the Heavens which one could possess and by which one could become wealthy, whether real estate
or movable property.
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5247LetterBodl. MS heb. b 11/22
Inferred date
1145–1148 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
IB II, 55. Letter from Maḥrūz b. Yaʿaqov, Mangalore, to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen, Bharuch, Gujarat, ca. 1145–48. Abū Zikrī was a representative …
II, 55 recto
1. בשמ רח
2. תרום ידך על צריך וכל אויביך יכרתו
3. כתאבי אלי מולאי וסיידי ורייסי אלשיך
4. אלאגל אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם עזה
5. וכאן לה ומעה ולי וחאפט פי ג…
...If, my lord, you need
any gold, please take it on my account from the nākhudā Tinbū,
for he is staying in Tāna, and between him and me there are bonds of inseparable
friendship and brotherhood.
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5248Legal documentBodl. MS heb. c 28/11
Document date
3 Adar II 4845 Anno Mundi (2 March 1085 CE)
Legal document, Sunday 3 Adar II 4845 A.M. (1085), Alexandria. Yehuda b. Moshe b. Sighmar appoints Eli ha-Kohen b. Hayyim (=b. Yahya) as his agent …
Recto
1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתמות ידנא לתתא בכתבא דנן כן הוה חצ'ר אלינא כ'ג'ק'
2. מר' ור' יהודה בחיר הישיבה ביר' משה נ'ע' הנודע בן סגמאר והו פי …
...Then I received another letter of his saying: ‘I am going to carry what is on your own personal account to the Maghrib.’ Afterwards he travelled to the Maghrib twice.
(14–15) I asked him to hand over what was on my own personal account to the son of my brother, but he did not pay him a thing.
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5249LetterMS Meunier
Primary language
Hebrew
The letter is in a fairly stiff, biblicizing Hebrew and is essentially an anxious accounting of what happened to the money entrusted to him, invoking his nephew Abū l-Ṭayyib Ṭov b.
Recto
1. [ ]תי זה
2. [ ]ו הושיעם
3. [ …
...I was afflicted on the way, and half my gold disappeared
on account of sabbaths, and little remained from much. People bestowed benefactions,
since what remained could be given in a suftaja.
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- suftaja
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5250LetterT-S 13J14.9
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Note from Barhun b. Yishaq al-Taharti, probably from al-Mahdiyya, to Nahray b. Nissim, Alexandria. Around 1045 (Gil). Nahray is in his early days in Egypt, …
recto
1. תדכרה לברהון בן אסחק זל [מא] וצל לנהראי בן נסים
2. אסלך יאסידי סלמך <אללה> אדא תפצל אללה עליך באלסלאמה תקבץ מא כאן לך פי
3. אלמראכב למולאי…
...As for the supplement of beads
that is for my private account, the elder should collect it along with the lead, together with the prayer mats, the saffron,
and the anklets that are mine in the bundle of my lord Abū l-Q[ā]sim ʿAbd al-Raḥman.
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