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5501Legal documentENA 2735.14
Primary languages
Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic
Legal document describing how a person took an oath upon the holy Torah. Abū l-Makārim is mentioned and a fine of 5 dinars to the …
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PGPID
11510
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5502Legal documentENA 4011.40
Document date
Last ten days of Shevaṭ 1418 Seleucid (January 1107 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Testimony dating to 1107 CE regarding a house, which is now a wreck, located near the 'house of the shofet' and (belonging?) to the daughter …
1. חצר אלי בית דין ר מ[. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2. שהאדה וזכות ענד בעץ אצחאבנא ואר[. .
3. אסתמאעהא ואתבאתהא לי פי מחצר פחצ[ר
4. הכהן ביר ישועה נע וקאל אע…
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2664
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5503LetterENA 4020.59
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Upper fragment: Letter from Shela b. Mevasser to Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa b. Yefet. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 1094–1111 CE. About a sum of dinars which Mevorakh …
Recto:
1. בשמ רחמ
2. אלדי אעלם בה מולאי אלכהן אבו אלפרג אדאם אללה עזה אן
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786
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5504LetterENA NS 58.24
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from a brother (probably) to a sister. in Judaeo-Arabic. Meditating on suffering and isolation and distance and "the fear due to this matter is …
1. בעד אלאנסאן ען צאחבה וכאצה ען [
2. מא בודה וקלת חילתה מא יגד למן לתקיה(?)
3. יודי ענה גואב ולא יגיב גואב ענה ולא
4. יעלם אלאנסאן אי וקת ידעא בה אלי
5. דיך אלדני…
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12198
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5505LetterENA NS 71.18
Primary language
Arabic
Letter, in Arabic script, well preserved. Begins with basmala and “wallahi la-qad ṣadaqa ḥaḍrat mawlāya l-shaykh,” "my Master was right". The sender seems to be …
صانع(؟) ضائع(؟)
Recto,top margin
1. ولا عملا حل محرنا وخراج . . . .
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5506List or tableF 1908.44JJ
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Accounts for the transport of a bale of purple cloth belonging to Abū l-Afrāḥ b. Yosef, from Old Cairo to Sfax. Dating: ca. 1100 CE. …
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5507List or tableHalper 462
Primary languages
Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Genealogy. Dating: 11th century. "A genealogical list of Exilarchs from Zakai ben 'Azariah to David and Adam. Zakai ben 'Azariah is the brother of the …
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- exilarchs
- genealogy
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5508Legal documentL-G Ar. I.64
Document date
Iyyar 1541 Seleucid (1230 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Court record in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Location: Fustat. Dated: Iyyar 1541 Seleucid, which is 1230 CE, under the authority of Avraham Maimonides. …
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5509Legal documentT-S 8J5.20 + T-S 8J5.19
Document date
Nisan 4918 Anno Mundi (2 March 1158–31 March 1158 CE)
Primary languages
Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Bill of release. Location: Damīra. The city is referred to as עיר דמירה הקטנה in Hebrew ("the city of little Damīra"). The release is granted …
1158
1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתמות ידנא [
2. דנן כן הוה חצר בין ידינא ר אלעזר ביר תמים הידוע בבן אלרצאציה
3. וקאל לנא אקנו מני ואשהדו עלי אני קד אברי…
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2146
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5510Legal documentT-S 10J5.16 + T-S 18J5.2
Document date
1408 Seleucid (20 September 1096–9 September 1097 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Court record. Dated: 1408 Seleucid, which is 1096/97 CE. Of a dispute between Abū ʿImrān Moshe b. Moshe Ibn Majjān and Abū l-Faḍl Yosef b. …
T-S 10J5.16 recto
1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתמות ידנא לתחתא כן הוה
2. כאן תקדם אלי בית דין אלשיך אבי עמראן מ משה בר מ משה דידיע
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3538
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5511Legal documentT-S 10J5.23
Inferred date
1100–1138 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Verso: Court record in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Concerning a purse of 77 dinars bearing the name of Yaʿaqov b. …
Recto
1. משה הפרנס בר [ ]אס[ ]
2. והאולאי גמיעהם ישהדו ויקטעו אלשהאדה אל אלדי אכד אלצרה הו יעקב בן
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5512LetterT-S 18J4.13
Document date
20 Shevat 1565 Seleucid (10 January 1254 CE)
Yishay, so it cannot be sold, but ha-Kohen Nafīs al-Dawla is interested in buying it for his son. They ask the addressee, who is in Damascus, for instructions about what to do.
Recto
1. בשמ' רחמ' אלממלוך אלמשתאק ישי
2. תקדמת כתבה אלי כרמה אלמג'לס אלסאמי
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5923
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5513LetterT-S Ar.7.3(1)
Primary language
Arabic
Letter from Abū Manṣūr to his 'father' (it seems father-in-law) al-Rayyis Hibatallāh the judge, representative of the Nagid David, in Alexandria: Dating: Based on the …
Recto
1. من عند ابو
2. منصور
3. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
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5514LetterT-S NS 305.53
Primary language
Arabic
Letter in Arabic script, with a few words in Hebrew script. Dating: Probably 12th or 13th century. Mentions al-shaykh Bū Zikrī in l. 2. Seems …
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- bialphabetic
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5515LetterT-S NS J88
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter/petition from an unknown writer to the Head of the Jews. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer complains about ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz and his mistreatment of a woman …
Recto:
1. יא סידנא רייס אליהוד
2. לא תסאל מא נחן פיה
3. מן עבד אלעזיז אלעאדה
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5516LetterBL OR 5566B.17
Primary language
Arabic
Letter in elegant Arabic script and style. The continuation seems to be praising the eloquence of the addressee, and it cites two lines of poetry …
1. مازت(؟) عومل(؟)
2. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
3. وصل كتابه استودعا من جواهر الفاظه وشريف خطاب
4. ما انعم في مسـ[ ]ـى وهاج لاعج اشتياقي
5. ولوعتي وا[]ـصل معه ار…
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5517LetterDK M12
A letter from Israel ha-Kohen b. Shemuel b. Ḥofni to Yaʿaqov b. Moshe. The writer announces his intention to write a Talmud commentary and recommends …
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5518LetterENA NS 28.1
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Recto: Letter fragment (upper right piece). In Judaeo-Arabic. Most of the content is missing; the writer mentions shame/embarrassment, and seems to be apologizing for some …
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5519LetterJRL B 3771
Primary languages
Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Letter written by a man to his nephew. The lines preserved are mostly in Hebrew and mention the addressee's father. Dating: Probably no earlier than …
1. ....]...א אליך אלמראס[ל]
2. .אל]לה עלוא והכל בידי שמים
3. .כם הכל ולא שכחתי אותו
4. והיה ביני ובינך תודיענו מה
5. ...].[..]ואודיעך שדודך מתאוה
6. .........]מאצל אב…
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5520LetterMoss. II,186.2
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower right corner). Mentions three months, a distinguished father, and coming to (New) Cairo. There is not enough left to make …
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5521LetterMoss. IV,68.1
Primary languages
Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Letter of appeal for charity addressed to Rabbenu Ḥananel. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. The writer has been paralyzed (marīḍ bi-l-fālij) for two and a half …
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5522LetterP.CtYBR inv. 1705 qua
Primary language
Arabic
Letter on paper in Arabic script. Appears to be secondary use, on the verso of another letter (PGPID 35236), under the address. Ink is faded. …
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5523Legal documentT-S 8.102
Part of a ketubba, mentioning a certain Yefet. Goitein (1978: 404) dates it to c. 1250 CE and says to see T-S 8.127, for another …
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7083
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5524Legal query or responsumT-S 8J21.21
Inferred date
1213–1237 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Legal query addressed to Avraham Maimonides concerning the permissiveness of Qaraite, Muslim, and Christian wine. Avraham Maimonides is referred to as "Nagid" in l. 2 …
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5525LetterT-S 8J22.17
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter addressed to a mother. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably Mamluk-era. The sender was happy to learn that Farajallāh is well. Mentions Umm Yaʿqūb, Umm Mūsā, …
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5526LetterT-S 13J18.23
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from Aharon ha-Kohen b. Namir to ʿEli ha-Kohen b. Moshe. The writer informs the addressee that the item he expects is now on its …
תבריני מן דרכהא פאבריתה | וקאל כליהא חתי אני אכדהא | וסאפר ומא אכדהא וקאל | לי קד גא מעי כתאב והו | ענד צהרי וקלת לה אנה | בסבבהא תסאל אקואם | מא יפעלו ואסאלהם | אנא איצא מא יפעלו | וקד סאלת מולאי אלחזן | רבי חייה שמ צו
Top margin, diagonal lines written upside down.
ואנפדתהא צחבתה | ובריתה מן אחריותהא | ומא הדא פי אלדין ואנמא | אוגב הדא כתב חצרתה | חצרתה מכצוצה באגל סלאם | ומולאי אלואלד באגל סלאם
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PGPID
3278
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5527LetterT-S 16.6
Document date
Kislev [12]74 Seleucid (31 October 962–29 November 962 CE)
Primary language
Hebrew
Recto with the address on verso: letter from the Babylonian Gaʾon Neḥemya ha-Kohen to Nissin b. Binyamin, in Sfax. Dated: Kislev [12]74 Seleucid = October/November …
Recto
1. נחמיה הכהן ראש הישיבה שלגולה בן כהן צדק ראש הישיבה שלגולה
2. אל אהוב וענוב ויקיר וחשוב מרי ורבנא ניסין ישמרו איום ונורא ויאמצו בקרב ברחמי שמו ייטיבה ויברירה ויע[צים ממ]שלתו בתדירה וישרישו בבני תו[רתו]
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38059
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5528LetterT-S Ar.7.33
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from Mufaḍḍal b. al-Ḥaver to Abū l-Maḥāsin Bunduq(?) al-Maḥallī. In Judaeo-Arabic. The letter is very faded, but much of it may be legible with …
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5529LetterT-S Ar.29.137
Primary language
Arabic
Letter fragment in Arabic script, probably commercial. It is difficult to decipher the content. The term "al-mamlūk" (referring to the sender) appears multiple times. The …
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5530Legal documentT-S AS 145.214
Primary languages
Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Fragment of a legal document, mentioning the elder Abū Isḥāq probably relating to a marriage agreement. The monogamy clause is included. The bride was probably …
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- karaite-rabbanite marriage
- marriage
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5531Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 150.4
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Note addressed to Abu al-Faraj, saying that Abu al-Makarim is to receive payment from the bearer, in the amount of two qirats (of a dirham) …
1. אלשיך אבי אלמכארם דאמת נעמתה יקבץ מן מוצלהא
2. קיראטין נקרה ופלוס נצף דרהם פלא עדמת פצלה
3. ויבסט עדרי לאגל עאקה אלפצה ואלפצל לה פי דלך
Verso. Address.
י…
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5532Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 181.10
Primary language
Arabic
Order of payment. In Arabic, with a Hebrew 'emet' at the top. Abū l-Faraj is asked to pay 5.75 dirhams to the bearer by way …
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5533LetterT-S AS 203.44
Document date
12 Heshvan 5346 Anno Mundi (4 November 1585 CE)
Primary language
Hebrew
Short note send from Egypt. The writer informing that he was taken to the house of the wali and from there to the judge, and …
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- heb
- late
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5534Credit instrument or private receiptT-S K25.240.8
Inferred date
1205–1237 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Verso: Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides, r. 1205–1237 CE. Abū l-Majd is to give 4 dirhams to the bearer (a teacher) for …
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5535LetterT-S NS 322.101
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter probably from Menashshe b. Yehoshuaʿ, in Tyre, to the ḥaver Abū l-Faraj Shemaʿya b. al-Faraj, in Jerusalem. See neighboring fragments. T-S NS 322.101–17 all …
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5536LetterT-S NS 322.113
Primary language
Arabic
Letter probably from Menashshe b. Yehoshuaʿ, in Tyre, to the ḥaver Abū l-Faraj Shemaʿya b. al-Faraj, in Jerusalem. In Arabic script. T-S NS 322.101–17 all …
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5537LetterUnknown (excavation images 1966A_P06_27A-28 and 1966A_P06_28A-29)
Primary language
Arabic
Letter from a certain Jāmiʿ, in Aswān, to his brothers Khalīl, ʿUmar, and ʿUthmān. The sender is in desperate straits "without clothes" and urges his …
Recto
1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
2. كتابى الى الاخ خليل والاخ عثمان
...What I wishto inform you of is that I have arrived
in Aswan and both I and the horse are exhausted.
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- qasr ibrim
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5538Legal documentYevr. II A 463/2
Document date
20 Av 5436 Anno Mundi (30 July 1676 CE)
Primary language
Hebrew
Simḥa sells part of the building to Ḥayyīm b. Yehuda ha-Levi Ṣevi, an upper-story apartment and small sitting area, and they all agree to terms of paying rent to their shared landlords (ll. 24-26). […] The purpose of this document becomes clear in l. 60, where Ḥanūna and her husband Yiṣḥaq Ḥalfon resell the apartment/seating area one day after purchasing them. The buyer is Moshe Shomer, who pays the married couple 1,500 medin (the same price as the previous day, surprisingly).
1. ...ל
2. וילך מש בע׳׳ה
4. בהיות שחזקת הקאעה הקטנה והעליה ש[..] ש[בדר]ב הקטן ש[כנ]גד כותל הפורן הפנימי(?) שבחארת אלקראיי…
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5539LetterT-S 13J13.10
Document date
22 Ṭevet Anno Mundi
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
India Book (IB) IV,54 (ח59). Letter from Yeḥezqel b. Netanʾel, probably in Qalyūb, to Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel, in Alexandria. Dating: after 22 Tevet = December …
שי אלא נצ'רך
אללה יקרב דלך
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1. אנא אכץ מולאי אלאך באפצל
2. אלסלאם וולדי אבי אלפכר
יקרב ה' את זה.
recto,top margin
1. מברך אני את אדוני אחי במיטב
2. ברכות השלום ואת בני אבו אלפכ'ר
3. בברכת שלום.
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5540LetterENA NS 77.159 + T-S 8J14.13
Primary language
Hebrew
There are several additional fragments in the hand of the same scribe (identified by Oded Zinger): JRL Series B 3311 (PGPID 5213), Moss. II,150 (PGPID 26708), and Moss. VII,143.2 (PGPID 27025). The JRL document is addressed to the sister's husband (also confusingly named Shemuel) and refers to some of the same content as the present letter: "I remind you to keep the contract. . . of my partner Shemuel . . . ."
1. וסבר [. . . . . . ] ]קבה . . . . . . . . מ . . . .
2. ובזריזותך . | . . ע כי מהנה אין לי מותר
3. כלל לפי שהזמן | יקר וההוצאות מרובות
4. עלי ואני צריך י|ותר מ…
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5541LetterENA NS 2.6
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
He says "to this day none of the Byzantines and none of the druggists are buying it." The markets are poor. The Byzantines are buying nothing at all.
Recto
1. [. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]ן [. . .]
2. [וצל כתאב] מולאי [אלשיך אטאל אל]לה בקאה
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2677
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5542Legal documentBL OR 5547.1
Document date
467-04 Hijrī (27 August 1074–15 August 1075 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Legal document, deed of acknowledgment, concerning an inheritance dispute between Jamīla bt. Lāḥiq the veterinarian and her brother. Contains three testimonies at the bottom. The …
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- dimme
- fatimid
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5543LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/71
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Unknown writer, unknown addressee. Dating: Likely early 13th century. The writer asks for the copy of Seder Neziqim that has the gemara …
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5544List or tableENA 2230.3
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
List in Judaeo-Arabic with names, locations, and sums of money. Likely early modern, 16th-century or later. Among the names and locations listed there is reference …
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5545LetterENA 2727.45
Document date
Monday, 17 Ḥeshvan [5318] Anno Mundi (11 October 1557 CE)
Primary language
Hebrew
Letter from Avraham Kolon (קולון). Probably addressed to Yosef Ardiʿa (ארדיעה) like his other two letters. Dated: Monday, 17 Ḥeshvan [5318 AM], which is 1557 …
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5546Literary textENA 2935.16 + ENA 2935.17
Dirges in Hebrew for the deaths of women, including at least one that the poet composed for his own daughter. It would be interesting to …
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5547Literary textENA 2935.17 + ENA 2935.16
Dirges in Hebrew for the deaths of women, including at least one that the poet composed for his own daughter. It would be interesting to …
1. When I remember your wisdom, your Torah knowledge,
2. your loving kindness, and the gracefulness of your diction, I say
Would that I could listento you again while I was teaching you the Bible and quested you in its knowledge by heart and I cry out 'let me see your face, let me hear your voice.'
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