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5251Legal documentT-S 16.11
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Legal document. Record of release. This document describes the termination of a partnership and a release from Efrayim b. Ḥalfon Ibn Zaffān, upon the apparent …
Recto
1. .. ארבעין [........................................................]
2. דידיע באבן זפאן אד כאן [................] ואלאן אשהדו עלי ואקנו [........…
Moses, m(ay his) s(oul find rest), nor in that which proceeded between me and them in
their own possessions from the beginning of time up till now, since nothing remains with me on their part, nor is there on the part of
their heirs any sort of claim, neither a legacy, nor a dinar nor a dirham nor merchandise
nor a guarantee nor a security, nor an account nor an accounting error nor the remainder of an account, nor a legal judgment, nor anything whatsoever from
all matters which people may possess under all the Heavens equivalent to or greater than a farthing.
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5252LetterBodl. MS heb. c 27/82
Letter from Mūsā b. Isḥāq b. Ḥisda, al-Mahdiyya, to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal, Fustat. The letter mentions details about shipments from and to Sicily, …
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1. ישיכי ורייסי וגלילי וכבירי אטאללה(!) בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וכאן לך וליא ונאצרא וחאפצ'א פי גמיע אמורך [מן] אלמהדיה לו' כלון מן אילול
2. ען סלאמה לא זל…
I have purchased 6 qanāṭir of wax and I will buy the remainder of the bale on his account.
Recto, upper margin
1. The remainder I will buy from [ ... ].
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5253LetterT-S 20.130
Document date
526 Hijrī (23 November 1131–11 November 1132 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
IB II, 20. Letter from Madmun b. Ḥasan to Avraham Ibn Yiju. Aden, 1132.
Recto
1. [וצל כתאב מולאי אלשיך אלאגל ... וחרס עליה]
2. צאלח מא או[לאה] ו[…….וכ]בת [ח]ס[דתה ...]
3. וכאן אסר כתאב ואבהג כטאב וקראה עבדה מסרור בקראת[ה]
4. ראגב אל…
As for what you had mentioned ab[out]
[...that you did not r]eceive it from me in Aden for the value of the pepper,
my lord’s account is wrong—you only imagine it. I have the list.
[What is (written) in the a]ccount book {alt. tr.:...imagine it.
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5254LetterT-S 6J4.16
Primary languages
Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from Shelomo ha-Melammed (=Shelomo b. Eliyyahu) to the teacher Abū l-ʿIzz. In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning money owed. Mentions Abū l-Munā and Ibn al-Dihqān. (Information in …
...Please be beneficent with that
which God has given to you or accredit my account with your brother for what I owe him.
May your welfare increase and not diminish.
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- shelomo b. eliyyahu
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5255State documentT-S AS 183.172
Document date
10 Ṣafar 404 Hijrī (21 August 1013 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Recto (secondary use): Tax receipt issued to the khuzzān of the Fayyūm tax districts against revenue delivered by Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Dated: 10 Ṣafar …
Recto
1. يثبت نيابة عن ديوان الاشراف يثبت بديوان العمل
2. ان شا الله ان شا الله
3. اثبتو المبلغ نصف و…
Recto
1. Let it be registered on behalf of the office of supervision, Let it be registered in the office of accounts,
2. if God wills. if God wills.
3. They have registered the amount of two and a half.
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5256Legal documentT-S 20.125
Inferred date
1066–1108 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
One of three draft versions of a document concerning the leadership of the community of al-Maḥalla during the administration of Mevorakh b. Seʿadya (active 1079–1111). …
Recto
1. מעשה שהיה בפנינו אנו בית דין הקבוע בפסטאט
2. מצרים דממנא מבי דינא רבה מן כב גד קז מר[ן]
3. ורבנן אדוננו מבורך אלוף הבינות [ ]ה[ ]
4. טנהדרין רבה שר השר…
We considered this to be
our duty from the point of view of religion and government,
and because a matter affecting so many communities and congregations cannot be left unattended
on account of a few people who say: "We have resolved not
[to assoc]iate with him."
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5257LetterENA 3959.1
Primary language
Ottoman Turkish
Petition in Ottoman Turkish from a merchant named Mūsa to "an unnamed Ottoman official, quite possibly the governor of Egypt." Dating: mid-sixteenth century (per Hathaway). …
Recto, heading
1. Huve
Recto, main text
1. Sulṭānım ḥażretlerinin ḫāk-ı pāy-ı şerīflerine ʿarż-ı bende-i bī-miḳdār ve zerre-i ḫāksār budur ki ben ḥaḳīr…
Maḥmūd Ketḫüdā sent a Jewish ṣarrāf named ʿInāyet as an accountant for the estate of Ibn Baghdād,
[but] two and a half months after he arrived here in Cairo, he died, and I, the lowly one,
became the accountant for the money from Ibn Baghdād’s textiles sold in Khān al-Khalīlī.
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5258State documentT-S Ar.34.90
Document date
21 Dhū l-Qaʿda 403 Hijrī (3 June 1013 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Verso: Receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 21 Dhū l-Qaʿda 403 (Khan reads 26 Dhū …
Verso (recto in Khan's edition)
1. يثبت نيابة عن ديوان الاشراف يثبت بديوان العمل
2. ان شا الله ا…
Registration mark on left
1. Let it be registered in the office of accounts,
2. if God wills.
3. They have registered the amount of two, a half, a third and an eighth.
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- abu l-hasan b. wahb
- daman
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5259State documentT-S AS 181.226
Document date
1 Dhū l-Ḥijja 403 Hijrī (13 June 1013 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: Beginning of Dhū l-Ḥijja 403. Amount: one-quarter, one-sixth, and …
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1. يثـ[ـبت نيابة عن ديوان الا]شراف يثبت بديوان العمل
2. ان شا الله ان شا الله
3. …
Registration mark on left
1. Let it be registered in the office of accounts,
2. if God wills.
3. [They have registered the amount of] two, a quarter and a sixth.
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5260State documentT-S Misc.22.14
Document date
3 Dhū l-Ḥijja 403 Hijrī (15 June 1013 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Receipt issued for the khuzzān of the Fayyūm tax districts against revenue delivered by Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Dated: 3 Dhū l-Ḥijja 403 AH (1013 …
Recto
1. يثبت نيابة عن ديوان الاشراف يثبت بديوان العمل
2. ان شا الله ان شا الله
3. …
Registration mark on left
1. Let it be registered in the office of accounts,
2. if God wills.
3. They have registered the amount of a sixth and an eighth.
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- abu l-hasan b. wahb
- daman
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16742
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5261Legal documentT-S 13J22.7
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from Umm Makīn, the wife of al-Sadīd, in Bilbays, to Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Early 13th century. The writer inquires …
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1. אעלם אלחצרה אלסאמיה
2. אלאגליה אלמתפצ'לה מרנו
3. ורבינו אליה הדיין המשכיל
4. החכם והבון(!) ש'צ' וגיר דלך
5. אן כאדמתך זוגה אלסדיד
6. אנפצלת מן בין י…
For I am in terrible straits
on account of the depression and I have nothing at all. The children
need something of this (money), while we have nothing
except God and you.
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5262State documentT-S Ar.40.13
Document date
20 Rabīʿ II 404 Hijrī (29 October 1013 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Recto: Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 20 Rabīʿ II 404 (17 October 1013). …
Recto
1. يثبت نيابة عن ديوان الاشراف يثبت بديوان العمل
2. ان شا الله ان شا الله
3. اثبتو المبلغ ثلث وثمن …
Registration mark on left
1. Let it be registered in the office of accounts,
2. if God wills.
3. They have registered the amount of a third and an eighth.
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5263State documentT-S AS 183.66
Document date
13 Jumādā II 403 Hijrī (30 December 1012 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 13 Jumādā II 403 AH (December 1012 CE). Written …
Recto
1. يثبت نيابة عن ديوان الاشراف يثبت بديوان العمل
2. ان شا الله ان شا الله
3. اثبتو المبلغ ثلاثة ونصف …
Registration mark on left
1. Let it be registered in the office of accounts,
2. if God wills.
3. They have registered the amount of three, a half and a sixteenth.
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5264State documentT-S Ar.39.205
Document date
21 Dhū l-Ḥijja 403 Hijrī (3 July 1013 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Receipt issued to the khuzzān of the Fayyūm tax districts against revenue delivered by Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Dated: 21 Dhū l-Ḥijja 403. Amount: one-half, …
Recto
1. [يثبت نيابة عن ديوان الاشراف يثبت بديوان العمل]
2. [ان شا الله ان شا الله]
3. اثبتو المبلغ [نصف وثلث …
Registration mark on left
1. [Let it be registered in the office of accounts,]
2. [if God wills.]
3. [They have registered the amount of two, a half, a third and an eighth.]
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5265State documentT-S Ar.40.142.2
Document date
8 Ramaḍān 405 Hijrī (2 March 1015 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Tax receipt issued for the ḍāmin of Dhāt al-Ṣafā against revenue delivered by Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Dated: 8 Ramaḍān 405. Note: Khan's publication reverses …
Recto
1. يثبت نيابة عن ديوان الاشراف يثبت بديوان العمل
2. ان شا الله ان شا الله
3. اثبتو المبلغ نصف واث…
Registration mark on left
1. Let it be registered in the office of accounts,
2. if God wills.
3. They have registered the amount of two and a half.
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5266State documentT-S AS 177.330
Document date
6 Ramaḍān 405 Hijrī (28 February 1015 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Written by the jahbadh Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ. Dated: …
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1. يثبت نيابة عن ديوان الاشراف يثبت بديوان العمل
2. ان شا الله ان شا الله
3. …
Registration mark on left
1. Let it be registered in the office of accounts,
2. if God wills.
3. They have registered the amount of two, a third and an eighth.
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5267Legal documentT-S K6.162
Primary language
Arabic
Recto: deed in which a man and his sons gift a house to an adult woman, ʿAʾisha (known as al-Wuḥsha), the daughter of the owner. …
1. [ ] ينتهى الى [ ]
2. [ هذا الدار ] هذه الدار المحدودة فيه بحدودها كلها وارضها وبنائها وسفلها [وعلوها كل حق هو لها دا…
1. [ ... ] extends to [ ... ]
2. [this house,] defined herein, with all its boundaries, its land, its building, its lower [and upper floor and every right belonging to it, within]
3. and without, it (the endowment) being free, without encumbrance, valid [ ... ]
4. ʿUbaydallāh, bearing the patronymic Abū al-Qāsim, Jaʿfar, bearing the patronymic Abū Manṣūr, Hibatallāh, bearing the patronymic Abū .. [ ... ]
5. this bestower to his daughter ʿĀʾīsha, also called al-Wuḥsha, the adult woman, all [ ... ]
6. equally, by this endowment mentioned herein, as an adult customarily receives, in the chamber ...... [ ... ]
7. defined herein, to those four to whom the endowment was made, in their ownership, (divided) equally between them in quarters [ ... ]
8. and this house defined and described in this document, which this endowment entailed [ ... ]
9. not ... nor in her possession, nor part of her wealth, on account of a price for it, credit for it, substitute for it [ ... ]
10. [ ... ] .... accountants.
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5268LetterCUL Or.1080 J222
Letter from Yehuda al-ʿAmmānī to the judge Eliyyahu. (Information from Goitein's index card)
Recto
1. בש'] רחמ' אלדאעי לה ג'הדה יהודה המלמד עמני
2. כת]אבי אלי אלמולא אלסייד אלאג'ל כ'ג'ק' מרנו ורבנו אליהו הדיין
3. שר ה]דיינים ידמרו אל…
...Now, then; may
you know what is in our hearts on account of ……… and the
…. Virtu]ous, the important and noble lady, the pure and righteous one, may her soul
… ] Eden with the righteous and pious.
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5269LetterT-S Ar.53.37
Inferred date
1088–1089 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
This is apart from the grave danger of the travel itself and his anxiety on account of his old age and his wife—even though she herself would love to travel.
Verso
1. מע צביה [[נ]] צגירה ולהא חט ואיצא אליהוד מא
2. יתחשוני ומא ענדי שי נכרג בה אליכם ואנא פי
3. ג נפוס ואכשא אן נתקל עליכם ואכתר מא
4. בשרתמוני אנכם מא תחת…
Verso
1. … with an attractive young girl. The Jews here do not
2. treat me as a stranger. I have no means for the voyage to you (plural). We are
3. three per…
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- disability: frailty
- disability: hearing
- disability: vision
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5270LetterENA 3792.4
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
This will be counted as a tremendous sin on my account." She reiterates several times that he must come back before she perishes.
recto
1. מן עברתי אלדי אדא אתדכרת פל דכרך ופי א[ ]
2. תסבק כלמתי גמיע דאלך מן קוה חסרתי ומן א[ ]
3. אלשדיד ואשתיאקד אלבעיד פי בלד ל[א לה] [ו]ל[א] קריב ו…
recto
1. .... מדמעתי, אשר אילו היית מעלה אותה בזכרך וב ....
2. דברי יש לו עדיפות על כל אלה, מרוב אסוני ומ ....
3. הקשה והגעגועים אליך, הרחוק בעיר, אין לו ...…
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5271LetterT-S 13J20.15
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from Ṭoviya b. ʿEli ha-Kohen to his cousin the Judge Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen regarding alleged arrears in a compound of the Qodesh, ca. …
recto
1. בשם רחם
2. סבב הדה אלאסטר אערף הדרת
3. רבנו יהי לעד אן וצלני כתאב הדרת
4. הגאונות תכון תאמרני אן אסתדעי
5. אבו אלחסן בן אלחזן ואטאלבה
6. בכרא דאר מן דור אלקו…
So you will set his account right and
(8-11) the speedy time of (giving) the answer will spare them his reproaches.
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5272State documentBL OR 5566B.19
Primary language
Arabic
Petition from al-Ḥasan b. Abū Saʿd probably to a vizier (several of the titles are similar to those of Ṭalāʾiʿ Ibn Ruzzīk). He complains of …
1. المملوك
2. الحسن بن ابو سعد
3. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
4. خلد الله تعالى ايام المجلس السامي السيدي الاجلي الناصري
5. الـعادلي ناصر الائمة كاشف الغ…
He reports his weak state, delicate situation, and abundance of dependents and asks for a gracious
benefaction in employing him in the company of the brokers of pharmaceuticals as a merchant in the dār al-wakkāla in Fusṭāṭ on account of
of his experience and vigor (alt: by means of an injunction and its execution), since the (other) merchants are ruining him out of envy for his business (alt: query him on account of his expertise), and since the brokers
are discouraging him from carrying out (his tasks) by means of imposed rules.
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5273LetterT-S 10J13.13
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter of recommendation for the bearer, a certain Yefet, an inhabitant of Fustat, who is said to be a respectable man who fell on hard …
1. שלום עד אין קץ ואין מספר וברכות רבות כחול וכעפ[ר
2. וברית עולם אשר לא יופר וחן מפואר והוד והדר
3. ועטרת רצון וגיל ועלצון ואריכות ימים ומשוכות
4. הזמן לכבוד ג…
Accept my personal greetings and forgive us on account
of the misfortune that has stricken us by the departure of our brother, (who) r(ests in) E(den), and Sitt
ʿAbd a[l-...], may God perpetuate her life, on account of her setback.
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5274Legal documentT-S Ar.30.30
Primary language
Arabic
Fol. 2v: Legal document in Arabic script. Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan b. Khalaf, a Jew from Tyre, renounces all of his monetary claims against Isḥaq b. …
1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد نبيه واله وسلم تسليما
2. اقر حسن ويدعى ابا على بن خلف اليهودى الصورى واشهد على نفسه طـ[ـائع غير مكره ول…
Ḥasan, called Abū ʿAlī, ibn Khalaf, the Jew from Tyre, calling people to be his witnesses, acting voluntarily, [not forced, nor]
coerced, acknowledged that no debt is owed to him by Isḥāq ibn Sahl ibn Bishr ibn Nāḥūm and Bū Naṣr [ … ]
nor (is there any debt) incumbent upon them, nor in their possession, nor in their custody, nor incumbent upon anyone in connection with them [ … ]
gold, silver, a debt, a loan, a deposit, rent, [ … ]
clothing, ornament, habiliment, fashioned or broken jewellery [ … ]
settling of an account, rescinding of an account, nor what is administered as a deposit [ …]
the value of which has been specified, nor a fine of any type of possession or goods [ …]
nor anything that has not been mentioned herein, small or large, old or new, nor a claim [ …]
nor argument, nor litigation, nor dispute in any way whatsoever.
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5275Legal documentT-S 18J2.14
IB III, 22. Statements by two Yemeni merchants about consignments that Ibn Yiju had sent from India and were mostly lost. The first statement is …
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1. אלדי נשהד //⟦אנ⟧\\ בה //אנא\\ מצמון בן סאלם באן כתב אברהם בן ישו
2. אלכתב מן קבל //מחאסבה\\ אלנאכדה בשיר באים אעדה וסלמנאהא
3. אנא מצמון בן סאלם ואל…
...Yishū wrote
the letters a few days before \\he settled the account// with the nākhudā Bashīr; and we,
namely I, Maḍmūn b. Sālim and Sheikh Abraham b.
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5276State documentT-S Ar.39.464
Primary language
Arabic
Petition from Mubārak b. Ibrahīm Ibn Sabra to Muʿtamid al-Dawla, who seems to be a Fatimid dignitary. The sender asks for (or heavily implies that …
Recto
1. عبدها مبارك بن ابرهيم بن
2. سبرا
3. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
4. عبد حضرة مولاي الشيخ الاجل الكافي معتمد الدولة اطا[ل الله]…
The slave of the presence of my master, the most glorious elder, the sufficient Muʿtamid al-Dawla, may [God] prolong
his life and cause to endure his support, his eminence and his strength, and crush his enemies, is full
of prayers and praise for him in every gathering on account of what God, the exalted, has distinguished him with [ ]
of external grace and pure disposition, esprit de corps, generosity and [ ].
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5277Legal documentCUL Add.3421 + Bodl. MS heb. d 66/64
Document date
4th Iyyar 1409 Seleucid (8 April 1098 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
IB I, 4–5. 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.3421 1 verso (IB I,4)
1. בחמשה בשבה דהוא ארבעה יומי בירח אייר דשנת
2. אלפא וארבע מאה ותשע שנין למניינא דרגיליננא ביה
3. בפסטאט מצרים דעל נילוס נהרא…
...All confirmed as being correct. Crossed out words are not to be taken into account.
Isaac b. R. Samuel—may he rest in Eden! \\Hillel b. R. Eli—may his memory be blessed!
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5278LetterT-S 8J7.23
Inferred date
1134–1137 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
IB III, 2. Memorandum from Yosef b. Avraham, Aden, to Avraham Ibn Yiju, Mangaluru, India, ca. 1134–37. The document contains various orders for copper vessels, …
Recto
1. בשמ רחמ עבדה יוסף בן אברהם נע
2. אנפדת אלי אלשיך אברהם בר פרחיה יגו עלי יד אלשיך מימון אלגוי
3. אלתאגר פי מרכב אלי (!) אלנאכדא מחרוז אלי מנגרור כתב …
...However, I would like you to please
keep his account separate; it should not be entered in my account. Please have made from it for its owner
a basin and a ewer, both small, a small marfaʿ with nice bamboo wickerwork {alt. tr.: filigree, like bamboo wickerwork}.
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5279Legal documentAIU XII.173
Document date
7 Shawwal 1059 Hijrī (14 October 1649 CE)
Primary languages
Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic
Recto: Long, calligraphic legal document in Arabic, referred to as a "ḥujja" in the Judaeo-Arabic filing note. Location: Cairo (مصر المحروسة). Dated October 1649 CE …
Recto, heading
1. هو المنعم
Recto, ʿalāma
1. الامر كما ذكر فيه حرره الفقير اليه سبحانه
2. احمد المولى خلافة محكمة
3. باب الخرق والسعادة
4. عفي عنه
Recto, main …
The balance [due] to the aforementioned Muʿallim Maṣliḥ of the aforementioned amīr Yūsuf’s debt, after accounting for the aforementioned settled-upon amount
of the described fiḍḍa, is 4,515 enumerated niṣf fiḍḍa.
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5280LetterT-S 13J9.2
Inferred date
1025–1026 CE
Primary language
Hebrew
Letter from the Jerusalem gaʾon Shelomo b. Yehuda (r. 1025–51) to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: end of 1025–26 (Gil). Written in a high register of …
1. אל אהובנו וחברנו ונכבדנו ויקרינו כגק מ ורב אפרים החבר במעוז ומחסה
2. מתגבר בצל שדי יתלונן ויתאבר ביראי אל ידבק ויתחבר ברוחו להיות מושל
3. להתגבר לקרב כל מ…
These lines have been written to our companion—may the Rock be his support—out of heartache and a broken spirit on account of
the troubles in which we are sunk and the misfortunes in which we are submerged.
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5281State documentT-S AS 150.3
Inferred date
1442–1442 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Petition, Mamluk period, 1442. Draft of a petition from the Jewish community of Fustat to the Mamluk government concerning the malpractices of ‘Abd al-Latif the …
recto
1. אלממאליך גמאעה אליהוד רע[ייה
2. אלמקאם אלשריף ואלאסלאם אל[כרים
3. יקבלו אלארץ וינהו אנהם [פי] בל[א
4. עטים מן יום תולא [[עליהם]] עבד לטיף
5. אלמתטבב רייס …
–15. In addition, there occurred what occurred on account of what was found inscribed on the minbar—for which, at the very least, he should have been reproved and removed from office.
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- communal
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5282Legal documentT-S 16.203
Document date
1395 Seleucid (16 September 1083–2 September 1084 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Legal draft, in the scribal hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Court record. Dated: 1395 Seleucid (1083/84 CE). Location: Fustat. Abū al-‘Alā ‘Ūlla ha-Levi b. Joseph …
Verso
1. [...........] אנן בית דין הקבוע בפסטאט מצרים והזקנים החתומים למטה ב[...................... ]
2. [...........].... מ עולה וג
3. [........]... [[באנפ…
Joseph ha-Levi (who) r(ests in) E(den), with many claims, claiming (that there were ) many commendas, and consignments, and partnerships (mushārakāt), and accounts //from a number of voyages, among them to [D]amietta and A[lexandria], and lands of the Maghreb, and others//
between the two of them there are debts //also profit between the two of them therein// written and unwritten and many disputes proceeded //therein// […] elders mediating the situation
… here when he mentioned it since (there is) a written account concerning this in the hand of this M(r.)
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5283Legal documentCUL Or.1080 J189
Document date
1100–1138 CE
Legal document. Partnership. Dating: 1100-1138 CE (in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe). Location: Fustat. This undated fragment concerns a partnership in money-changing; the active …
Recto
1. [מ]עשה שהי[ה בפנינ]ו אנו בית דין הקבוע בפסטאט מצרים הממונה מפי הדר[ת] [ ]
2. [מ]בורך אלוף הבינות חכם הישיבה סנהד[רא] רבה [שר] השרים ונגיד הנג[דים…
Recto
1. [An a]ccount of proceedings that took [place before u]s—we, the permanent court in Fusṭāṭ Egypt, appointed by his Excellency […]
2. [M]evorakh, Champion of Wisdom, Sage of the Academy, great Sanhed[rin, Prince] of Princes and Nagid of [Negidim … Lamp of]
3. [the] West, Standard of the Sages, may his resting place be honor beneath the thro[ne of h]onor, and (appointed) by the mouth of his Excellency, Bea[uty of] Honor […]
4. and their glory, Prince of Princes and Nagid of the Negidim, and the strength of the entire house of Israel, “Mordecai” of the time, Standard of the Sage[s…]
5. […] the Elder Abū al-Surūr (our) tea(cher) and m(aster) Peraḥya, the beloved, (may his) Ro(ck) pr(eserve him) b.
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- partnership
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5284LetterCUL Or.1080 J263 + T-S NS J285
Inferred date
1145–1145 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
IB II, 28 + 29. Letter from Madmun b. Ḥasan to Avraham Ibn Yiju: safe conduct and assistance for brother. Aden, ca. 1145. Join: M. …
IB II,28 (CUL Or.1080 J263) verso
עבדה
1. בשמ' רחמ' מצמון בן אלחסן בן …
...The details of the sale of pepper
and what was exchanged for it, I (your servant), include in the copy of your account, which is
attached to my letter. Familiarize yourself with it, your eminence, God willing.
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5285LetterT-S 13J16.4
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from Yisrael b. Natan, Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat.
Recto
1. כתאבי יאכי וסידי אלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם נעמאך
2. וצרף אלאסוא ענך ברחמתה מן אלקדס עמרה אללה יום ערובה סוכות
3. מן בעד וצולי מן בלד אלרום אלה…
I have already written a letter to my master, Abū Isḥāq Barhūn, and asked him to lend me eight dinars, to send them to me and add them to the account between us. I would like you to put some pressure on him in this regard. I likewise ask you to [lend me five] or four dinars and buy a broad garment for me with them [ . . . ], but a heavy one, since Jerusalem is so cold!
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- trade
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5286LetterT-S 12.383
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Janūn to Yaʿaqov b. Yosef Ibn ʿAwkal and his son Yosef. Concerns shipments of wax and honey, as well as textiles. …
Recto
1. בסם אללה אלרחמן אלרחים
2. כתאבי יא סידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך וכבה(!) עדוך וגעלני
3. מן כל סו פדאך ודונך ען סלאמה וע…
...Please, my lord, sell this
wax and honey and the ..., and let me know the accounting and about the clothing. I send best wishes to my lord.
If money comes in, send the account with it, as well as the other things, the large sacks, the locks, and ream (dast) of Damascus paper and the goods, if possible.
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5287Legal documentJCC 2
Document date
878 Hijrī (29 May 1473–17 May 1474 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Judicial record of an inspection of the state of the two Rabbanite synagogues in Fustāt, in the Roman fortress (qaṣr al-shamʿ), and an authorized and …
Recto
1. بالنظر فى الحادثه الاتى شرحها فيه
2. الشريف على قاعدة مذهبه الشريف
3. سيدنا ومولانا قاضى القضاة المنده [باسمه اعلاه]
4. ادام الله تعالى ايامه الزاهره و…
...In the middle
of its elevation it reached two cubits—so that the destruction, taking account of the height of the tower, reached
three cubits and a half and an eighth of a cubit, taking into account the sagging ...
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5288Legal documentT-S 20.21
Document date
Wednesday, 21 Iyyar 1387 Seleucid (27 April 1076 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Legal document. Record of release. Dating: April 1076. Location: Fustat. Ṣedaqa b. Muvḥar and Shemuel b. Aharon ha-Kohen al-Ṣayrafī ("the money-changer") are released from a …
Recto
1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנחנא [שהדי דחתמות ידנא לתחת][א ב]שטר אביזאריה דנן כן הוה [חצר אלינא מר ור צדקה]
2. בר מבחר סט והכדי קאל לנא אשהדו עלי ואקנו מ…
I have forgiven him from now any negligence or error which
proceeded from him from the beginning of time up till now, with c[omplete] forgiveness which can nev[er be reversed], since nothing remains for me with him, and I have no rights
to claim against him whatsoever, neither with respect to me nor with respect to my father; not for a dirham nor for a dinar, no less than these and no more; not regarding a
partnership (shirka) or a deposit or trust nor any suspicion nor betrayal nor usurpation nor overstepping nor a bill of exchange (suftaja) nor a voucher nor an account nor (anything) in remainder
therein, nor an error due to misallocation in a joint enterprise (mu‘āmala) nor an error in accounting.
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5289LetterT-S AS 154.116 + T-S 24.66
Inferred date
1133–1140 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
IB II, 16. Letter from Madmun b. Ḥasan, in Aden, to Avraham Ben Yiju. Dating: 1133–40 CE. This is the scribe's copy of Maḍmūn's original …
T-S 24.66 recto (IB II, 16)
1. ברחמתה ואנתהית אלי מא דכרה
2. פי כתאבה אלעזיז מן אנפאדה פי
3. מרכב אלנאכדא ראמשת מן אלפלפל
4. אתני עשר בהאר באלצגיר וקד וצל
5. דלך ו…
The betel nuts, which
you sent to your servant, also arrived, and this is on {alt. tr.: against} the balance of
my account with your excellency {alt. tr.: which you owed me} from last
year.
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5290Legal documentAIU VII.D.57
Document date
Shevat/Av 5443 Anno Mundi (1683 CE)
Primary language
Hebrew
Folio 1r, left side: (Document #4) List of accounts from the estate of Shemuʾel ha-Levi Shuqayr, now in the hands of his sons (who are surprisingly left unnamed). The nature of the accounts is highly varied, from "the three swords of Ḥusayn Çavuş", "the price of marble sold," two clocks (סאעאת ב), a rosewater/perfume sprinkler, rent collected on properties, and renovation expenses.
Recto
:(Documents 1-3) Right side of bifolio
1. מין תביעה וטענה ולא שום מין צד זכות כלל לא על שניהם יחד ולא על שום אח[ד] מהם לבדו לא
2. מצד השותפות שהיה ב…
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5291Legal documentT-S 28.6
Document date
1390-10-23 Seleucid (26 June 1079 CE)
Legal document. Record of release. Abū Saʿd Avraham b. Daniʾel ha-Kohen releases ʿAbdallāh aka ʿOvadya b. Meshullam al-Ṣūrī from their partnership in weaving. The terms …
Verso
1. מעשה שהיה בפנינו אנו בית דין דחתימין לתחתא חצר אלינא אברהם הכהן ביר דניאל
2. //ועובדיה// ועבד אללה בן משלם אלצורי בעד מגלס אן תקדמ[ו אליה]א [.…
I attest before you that I have settled (my) account with him … which was with us … total […]
and I have received that which is allocated to me from this stock, which is ten dinars.
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5292LetterT-S 18J4.4
Primary language
Hebrew
Letter from Natan Ha-Kohen b. Mevorakh, Ashkelon, to Eli Ha-Kohen b. Hayyim, Fustat.
1. בשמך רחמנא
2. אשרי משכיל אל דל ביום רעה ימלטהו יי אשרי איש חונן ומלוה רב לכל דבריו
3. במשפט מלוה יי חונן דל וגו הלא פרס לרעב לחמך ועניים מרודים תביא בית
4. כ…
...He is a good and deserving man, crowned with humility,
a modest person, from a good family of noteworthy householders whose table was always set and whose houses were always wide open.
However, on account of the many troubles that befell them they fell from their wealth, became poor, and were forced to turn in their need to others.
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5293LetterT-S 18J4.18
Inferred date
1146–1146 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
IB III, 12. Letter from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq in Aden to Avraham Ibn Yiju in India, probably from 1146. Corrected copy of IB III,13-14 (T-S …
Recto
1. בשמ רחמ
2. וצל כתאב חצרה אלשיך אלאגל מולאי אטאל אללה בקאהא
3. ואדאם עזהא ועלאהא ורפעתהא וסנאהא ועלוהא וארתקאהא
4. ולא עטל מן גמיע אלכיראת סאחתהא ופנאהא…
...As to the dinar for the paper, add it to my, your servant’s, account
for the ginger and pepper salvaged in the shaffāra and buy, my lord, what
God facilitates in one of the ships heading (for Aden) {alt. tr.: arriving (here)}.
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5294LetterYevr. III B 904
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from Yosef and Nissim b. Berakhya (Qayrawan) to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Ibn ʿAwkal (Fustat), ca. 1020, on the death of the Nagid, Avraham b. …
Recto
1. אטאל אללה יא שיכנא וכבירנא ואתירנא עמרך פי אלנעים ואלסרור ואמאט ענך כל אלמ'
2. מחדור ואגראך עלי אלתופיק פי כל אלאמור כתאבנא יאכינא לח' כלון מן מר…
The people of Gabes, too, have suffered severe hardship on account of the heavy payment that fell upon them during the time of the famine, leaving them stripped bare.
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5295LetterENA 3901.3
Document date
3 Rajab 1248 Hijrī (26 November 1832 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Now, Bekhor is constantly picking fights with him (وكل ساعة يتخانق معانا), and Maʿtūq keeps trying to bring him before the chief rabbi (ḥِākhām başı) to force him to settle his accounts according to the halakha (bi-l-wajh al-sharʿī).
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5296LetterT-S 8J37.1 + T-S Ar.5.2
Inferred date
1134–1135 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
IB II, 33-34 (ח23). Memorandum from Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan to Ḥalfon ha-Levi b. Netan'el. Location: Aden. Dating: ca. 1135 CE. This is the document to …
IB II, 33 1 (T-S 8J37.1 1) recto ("א")
1. תדכרה מבארכה
2. למצמון בן חסן
IB II,33 1 (T-S 8J37.1 1) verso ("ב")
1. תדכרה מבארכה למצמון בן אלחסן צחבה אלשיך
2. אל…
...And the [explanatio]n of the matter
may be found with you together with the account of the rāwand {alt. tr: And it should be with you together with the proceeds of the rāwand}, and it is of you, my lord,
IB II,34 verso - left side
1. Please be so kind as to act as my (your servant’s) representative against Ḍāfir b.
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5297Legal documentT-S 16.23 + T-S AS 166.95
Inferred date
1066–1108 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
IB VI, 5. Legal document. Record of release; partnership renewal. Written in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). These two fragments are …
T-S 16.23 Recto
1. בין בדיני ישראל בין בנימוסי אומות העולם אד לם יבק לנא ענדה ולא פי גהת[ה ...]
2. פי גמיע מא סלף בינה ובין מר ור שלה מורתנא נע חק מן גמיע…
T-S 16.23 Recto
1. whether in Jewish law or gentile law, since nothing remains for us with him, nor to [his] credit […]
2. in all that which proceeded between him and between (our) tea(cher) and m(aster) Shela, our benefactor, (who) r(ests in) E(den,) from all rights, nor anything of
3. any sort—neither a dinar nor a dirham, neither gold nor silver, neither silk nor copper, neither
4. tin nor lead, neither merchandise nor an item of trade, neither a commenda (qirāḍ) nor a commenda (muḍāraba), neither capital nor remainder,
5. neither profit nor loss, nor anything which one can possess under all the Heavens, neither
6. a judgment nor a debt, neither a dispute nor an account nor an (oral) statement (of debt), neither debate nor controversy, neither acquittal //nor complaint nor quarrel,// neither a claim nor
7. a challenge, neither an oath nor an rider oath nor a pronouncement, even ḥerem setam.
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5298List or tableT-S J1.41 + T-S NS 321.7m
Inferred date
1500–1600 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Two bifolios from a ledger of accounts concerning ships departing from Egypt. In Judaeo-Arabic.
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5299LetterT-S 13J26.9
Document date
10 Elul 444 Hijrī (9 August 1052 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from Yaḥyā b. ʿEli Kohen Fāsī, in Qayrawān, to his brother Abū Yaʿqūb Yosef b. ʿEli Kohen Fāsī, in Alexandria. Dated: 10 Elul = …
Recto
1. כתאבי יאסידי וריסי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך מן אלקירואן לי כלת
2. מן שהר אילול סנה מד ען סלאמה פי אלנ[פס וא]לחמד ללה וחדה בעד תקדמת
3. כת…
...By my father's life,
my spirit has weakened on account of your things and the things of others, for they have become a trap for me. May God the exalted unite (me with) you (pl.) in His benificence.
Related People
2
Related Places
4
Tags
- byzantine pirates
- byzantines
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5300Legal query or responsumT-S Ar.18(2).9
Primary languages
Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Responsum concerning a problematic partnership, with an excursus on valid and invalid partnerships. (Information from CUDL)
Left side (1)
1. אלדי יגב אן נכתכלס פ[י ] הדא אלסואל ה[ ]
2. מעני חקיקה קולהם [ די]נא דמלכותא דינא לאננא
3. ראינא הדא אלסאיל קד געל דלך…
...If he doesn’t agree to this (condition) from the outset, but has waited
until the time of final accounting to subtract the day of Sabbath in the account, it is not permitted
for the[ir] saying: (there were) certain saffron growers (who jointly owned a field in an arrangement according to) which a gentile
took possession on sabbath and the Jew buys on sunday.
Tags
- responsum
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PGPID
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