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Document date

First decade of Kislev 1462 Seleucid (22 November 1150–1 December 1150 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ḥotam ha-Levi. On verso there are entries of repayments: 5 repayments of 1 dinar each and 11 repayments of 40 dirhams.

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Primary language

Arabic

Letter in Arabic from a father to a son that consists almost entirely of greetings and well-wishes. The family rejoiced to receive his letters from Tripoli al-Gharb (Libya) and from al-Mahdiyya.

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• dimme
• tripoli (libya)

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Document date

Thursday, 30 Kislev 1530 Seleucid (20 December 1218 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Location: Bilbays. Dated: Thursday, end of Kislev 1530 Seleucid = 20 December 1218 CE, under the authority of Avraham Maimonides.

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• bilbays
• inheritance
• testimony

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Document date

Ṭevet 1492 Seleucid (21 December 1180–18 January 1181 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Natan (possibly making this one of his latest documents). Dated: End of Ṭevet 1492 Seleucid = January 1181 CE. There is a long passage (in rhymed Hebrew) about the addressee's mother ailing ever since he departed for Alexandria with the caravan.

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Tags

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517

1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

"Tartar (Ar. ṭartār, derived from the same medieval Greek word as the English) was another mordant, also coming to the capital of Egypt via Alexandria.

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• ib6
• india book
• movement of ships
• tartar

2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #86, where the shelfmark is incorrectly listed as ENA NS 9.15). Letters by the same writer: T-S 12.780 (PGPID 1696) and T-S 24.46 (PGPID 7573).

Tags

• communal

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Rabbenu Menaḥem has already helped him by writing a recommendation for him to the Nagid Avraham. At the end of this letter, Shelomo asks for copies of certain books from the Mishneh Torah.

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Tags

• capitation tax
• jaliya
• recommendation
• shelomo b. eliyyahu
• tax
• (+ 1 more)

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Arabic

followed by another person's name. The first full entry mentions al-amīr al-ajall al-muʿaẓẓam; the next Saʿīd min ṣibyān al-[...] al-ajall al-muʿaẓẓam; and the next "ghilmān Sharaf al-Umarāʾ [...].

Tags

• cmp

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Primary language

Hebrew

This list in Hebrew is likely from a broader booklet ENA 2898.7-14 where other accounts mention payments in sherifi (שרפי= produced post-1425 CE).

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• 15th or 16th c
• fustat
• numismatic dating

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Document date

436 Kharājī

Primary language

Arabic

There are three or four distinct documents present: (I) the end of a petition with blessings for the caliph or a high authority (wa-li-mawlānā ṣallā Allāhu ʿalayhi al-raʾy al-ʿālī) (II) account for the receipt of grain(?)

Tags

• dimme
• matbakh

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Primary language

Arabic

He pleads that he be associated with Nāṣir so that he isn't left without a place or position when the master decides to assign new duties and extend his benevolence today as revealed to him by ẓāhir. Towards the end, he extends greetings to the addressee's father and a Shaykh al-Ajal Abū l-Ḥasan.

Tags

• al-ra`is
• aodeh
• arabic script
• business
• trade

1 Transcription

Document date

Muḥarram 434 Hijrī (21 August 1042–19 September 1042 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Saʿīd and somebody whose name appears at the end of l. 7 (Ibn Muṣliḥ?). It seems that Abū l-Faḍl commits to repaying his debt of 50 dinars with an initial payment of 20 dinars followed by annual payments of 10(?)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There are two lines of Hebrew poetry toward the end of the letter. Excerpts: תע אלממ מתגה . . .

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

When her mother came on Sabbath, he demanded that she pay his capitation tax (jāliya); threatened to beat the mother so that she would be ill. His parents encourage him to beat her. Finally she left the house Saturday night.

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• abusive marriage
• capitation tax
• drunk
• jaliya
• tax
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2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Inferred date

1640–1739 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Verso: Brief line of writing in pencil, in cursive English: "rest in I." It is unclear why these words would have been recorded as part of any conservation process, which would explain the usage of pencil.

1 Transcription

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

However, he can't send the originals because of the danger that they will be lost en route. Therefore the documents are copied here — except that the copy was abandoned after a couple more lines.

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Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Nuṣayr known as Elʿazar. The end of her dowry list is preserved, including a black female slave valued at 30 dinars.

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• ketubba
• slave

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

"Fol. 1r, under the heading פזמון, is Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia's kabbalic poem for Shavuotאשתעשע במש(א)ל קדמון, which ends in praise for Maimonides. See Steinschneider, Koṿets ʹal yad, sidrah 1, kerehh 1 (1885), p. 4, 15.

Tags

• fat
• recipes

2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Document date

5596 Anno Mundi (24 September 1835–11 September 1836 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On the left side of the recto, the purpose of various entries is more clear with the common phrase "וצל" and then a surname– which is likely indicating incoming payments.

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• 19th c
• communal
• late prosopography

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Document date

5596 Anno Mundi (24 September 1835–11 September 1836 CE)

On the left side of the recto, the purpose of various entries is more clear with the common phrase "וצל" and then a surname– which is likely indicating incoming payments.

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• 19th c
• communal

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Inferred date

1700–1900 CE

The bifolium's list includes a wide variety of surnames attested in the 18th/19th-century fragments such as: Ḥayyīm Mosseri, Mordechai Suares, Eliyyahu ʿAkubas Levi, Yehuda Romano, Mordekhay Suares, Reʾuven Rolo, Mikhaʾīl Naʿīm, Ḥayyīm Roṣano, Mūsa Revaḥ. Some entries in the recto's lower right corner reference Cairo's northern port on the Nile (Būlāq).

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• 18th or 19th c
• bulaq
• late prosopography
• list

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Primary language

Hebrew

Daniel is not named in the letter or address, but can be identified by his ʿalāma, ישועה, which occurs at the end of the letter and next to the direction of the letter on verso.

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• daniel b. azarya

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Faraj al-Muqaddasī/al-Maqdisī (cf. ENA 2806.4 and T-S 10J12.28) and his brother Abū l-Surūr, and Abū l-Ḥajjāj b.

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

After a temporary dissolution of the engagement, the prospective groom agrees that all future income from his fiancee, Sitt al-Ahl, would be considered her property.

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Tags

• engagement
• halfon b. menashshe

2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Inferred date

1785–1825 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

In the addendum, Moshe asks Meʾir to open and read the enclosed letter to Eliyyahu Fr[anses]. MCD.

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• 18th c
• ben na'im

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Document date

last third of Kislev 1649 Seleucid (15 November 1337–23 November 1337 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Nuṣayr of which 180 will be paid back after one month and then 30 dirhams every month (at its end). Verso: beginning of a legal document concerning the deathbed will of al-Muwaffaq, in the same handwriting as recto but dated many years later: the first third of Ṭevet 1658 Seleucid = 1346 CE (not 1638 Seleucid = 1326 CE as read below).

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• loan

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Detailing how thieves (אלוצוץ = اللصوص) entered into the sender's shop and vegetable garden (mabqala) at night, stealing from him money and silk.

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• theft

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Document date

Tammuz 1530 Seleucid (16 June 1219–14 July 1219 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Eliyyahu to his paternal aunt Umm Daʾūd, asking for her daughter Sitt al-Yumn in marriage and enquiring about the dowry. Dated Tammuz 1530 of the Seleucid Era (= 1219 CE).

Tags

• 13th c
• inheritance
• marriage
• shelomo b. eliyyahu

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic. Expressing his enthusiasm about the future connection (ittiṣāl) with him and stating to have heard from the Ḥazzan Ṣadaqa Ibn Nufayʿ (the go-between) that the younger daughter Sitt al-Ahl and not the elder daughter was to be the prospective bride.

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• marriage

2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Document date

439–40 Hijrī (28 June 1047–4 June 1049 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The piyyuṭim include the end of a yoṣer, שמעת שאגת by Shemuel ‘the Third’ b.

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• dimme

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On verso there is a love/wine poem in Arabic script, probably unrelated. The refrain ends, "...and let us drink in the season of the henna plant" (...wa-nashrab fī awān al-tamr ḥinnāʾ).

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• family
• letters
• poem
• widow

1 Transcription 1 Translation 2 Discussions

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shemuel to the post of muqaddam (community leader), despite the enactment forbidding the appointment of Jews of French or Byzantine origin for this post, which in fact turned out only to forbid those who were not fluent in Arabic and required interpreters and hence did not apply to R.

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• nar

3 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A blazon of the beloved, mentioning, among many other things, his "gaze of Babylonian enchantment." Left column: Written in larger letters but probably the same hand.

Tags

• heartsickness
• judaeo-arabic poetry
• lovesickness
• to examine

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information from Goitein's note card.) It is not entirely clear from Goitein's notes who owed what to whom, so take this description with a grain of salt.

Tags

• druggist
• materia medica

1 Discussion

Primary language

Arabic

He hopes to set sail at the end of Rajab. A large part of the letter is devoted to greetings to everybody at home and requests for prayers.

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Tags

• ib6
• india book

2 Transcriptions

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Only scattered words and phrases are preserved (translations uncertain): "...apostate... when you read this... you declare an excommunication... or cause for them... for them in any harm... and judg[e]... if there is any opposition from you... that you prevent that action..." Ends with the ʿalāma/motto עזרת מעוז, perhaps identifying this as from the office of the Gaʾon Sar Shalom ha-Levi (cf.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

(a) Draft of a dirge for a noble woman. (b) List of names ending with "the tailor and his travel companion."

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Only the judge, who gives 1 (dinar), the Rasuy (a title), who appears second here, and another two who pledge 1/2, have sums attached to their names. But enough space is left between the lines for inserting numbers.

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• charity
• communal
• donors
• poverty

1 Transcription 1 Discussion