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6351Legal documentT-S Ar.38.116
Document date
1 Rajab 925 Hijrī (29 June 1519 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Deed of sale issued by a sharīʿa court in Bilbays 1519 CE, with two addenda/endorsements (faṣls) on verso. The ḥujja on the recto was recorded by an unknown qadi court (likely in Bilbays) in 1 Rajab 925 AH = 29 June 1519 CE.
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6352Legal documentT-S Ar.38.131 + T-S Ar.42.212
Document date
15 Dhū l-Ḥijja 870 Hijrī (29 July 1466 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Ibrahīm b. al-Abraṣ (son of the leper, or possibly the redhead) from entering the synagogue in Zuwayla, the Jewish neighborhood in Cairo.
T-S Ar.38.131r
1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله وحده جرى ذلك اللهم صلى على سيّدنا محمد وآله وصحبه وسلم تسليماً كثيراً
2. بمجلس الحكم العزيز بين يدي …
1. In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate. Praise be to God alone. God’s prayers and many blessings upon our lord Muḥammad, on his famil…
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8228
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6353Legal documentT-S AS 207.193 + T-S AS 207.191
Primary language
Hebrew
T-S AS 207.193: Opening lines of a legal document, perhaps an entry in a court register or an addendum to a preexisting deed (the lower flourish of a rabbinic signature is visible along the upper border and suggests the existence of an upper section; unless this is a stylized notation in the upper margin of the document, in which case this is the upper part of the document rather than the bottom part).
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- 16th c or later
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6354Legal documentT-S K22.27
Document date
12 Adar II 5453 Anno Mundi (20 March 1693 CE)
Primary language
Hebrew
(Document #13) Abbreviated ketubba entry, with much of the dowry list intact, but lacking the common gold and silver jewelry section (which might continue onto bifolio 1r, as document #8 - PGPID 34880).
Left side of bifolio 1v (Document 13 contd.):
1. עשרה שנים רצופות ולא ולדה ולד של קיימא ח׳׳ו - והירושה אם ח׳׳ו
2. תפטר הכלה הנ׳ ולא תניח אחריה שום זרע שיצ…
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6355List or tableT-S NS 83.7
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
This final name helps date the accounts as pre-1573 given that the entry is "אשת" (wife) rather than "אלמנת" (widow).
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6356LetterT-S NS 264.8 + T-S 13J21.12
Document date
End of Teveṭ (no year) Anno Mundi
Primary languages
Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic
In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic. Dating: end of December 1141 CE. The sender reports that he received the letter his father sent with Barukh and rejoiced at his health.
TS 13 J 21.12
1. הִל עאשִ פיִ[... ]
2. ורבע שבִ. אלגמיעִ [... ]
3. שב פִיהִאִ רבעין [... ]. וִעִ.[... מ]ןִ
4. אלניל פענד וצול אִ[ל... ] תביע במא קסם
5. אללה ואלקנט…
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- al-andalus
- almeria
- hinge
- ib4
- india book
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6357List or tableT-S NS 297.252
Primary languages
Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals
The sums seem low, in the tens of dirhams. There is one entry apparently for "four game boards" (alwāḥ alʿāb).
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6358Legal documentT-S NS 320.55 + CUL Or.2116.10
Document date
Kislev 4917 Anno Mundi (16 November 1156–15 December 1156 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Those documents from Crete described the entire cheese-making process, from the milking stage onward, and proved that there was no blemish disqualifying the cheese.
Recto
1. בשמ רחמ
2. אלדי נעלם בה מואלי אלדיאנין שמ צו | נואב הדרת יקרת צפירת
3. תפארת מרנו ורבנו אדוננו שמ|ואל הנגיד הגדול נגיד עם ייי
4. צבאות שר השרים ונגיד ה…
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- certificate
- cheese
- crete
- ib-untranslated-eng
- ib4
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2580
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6359Legal documentT-S NS 320.57 + ENA 2386.4
Inferred date
1100–1138 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Goitein writes (index card #11899) that Sitt al-Ahl, the wife of Yosef ha-Kohen, is granted 20 dirhams per month for her little daughters since her husband traveled and left her no money. (The join—ENA 2386.4—clarifies that Sitt al-Ahl is actually the daughter of Yosef ha-Kohen.)
1. ] ואל [
2. // בר// ]זן מ יוסף הכהן זוגהא אל[
3. ]בנה צגירה ולם יתר[
4. ] יום ספרה ואלי אלאן מ[
5. ]גיאע ליס להמא מא יר[
6. ]לי נפסהא באלדין //לתקתאתת// האלאפ[
7. ] א…
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- alimony
- halfon b. menashshe
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6360LetterT-S NS 329.999
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
The writer describes a harrowing Nile voyage "due to the illness of the passengers and loathsome odors. Three of them ended up dying. The last one survived for a day and a half until he died.
Verso
1. ]ך פיה[
2. ] פארקה כדמה אלמולי ואללה
3. אלעטים מא יחסן אלממלוך או יצף בעד
4. מא יגדה מן אלשוק ואלוחשה אלי מלאזמה
5. כדמה מולאה פאללה תע יקרב גמע שמל
6. אלממל…
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- akhmim
- illness
- illness letter 969-1517
- illness: death
- illness: marad
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4268
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6361LetterT-S NS J3
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
He suffered terrible illnesses and nearly perished en route to Constantinople. He lived there for two and a half years, where it seems he developed a new illness and also suffered from "the illness you know about."
Recto:
1. ... אטאל אללה בקאכם ואדאם ע[זכם]...
2. ...כם ושוקי אליכם שדיד קרב אללה אלאגתמ[אע]...
3. [עלי] אסר חאל במנה וכרמה אנה קאדר עלי דלך במשיתה ומ...
4. [אעל…
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- capitation tax
- constantinople
- ib-addenda
- illness
- illness letter 969-1517
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8701
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6362LetterT-S NS J24b + T-S NS J24a
Inferred date
1094–1111 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
In the letter, Araḥ reports of serious riots in Alexandria and a drunken brawl that ended only with the intervention of the chief of police (wālī), although he also accuses the other faction of having alerted the wālī, in addition to the drunken brawl having drawn his attention.
Recto, T-S NS J24a - main text
1. [ ] אלי אלאן [ ] אלי ענדה [ ] אנשרחת
2. [ ] ענדה הוא מולאי אלממחה רבי חייה שמ' צור
3. [ ] עאפיה ערפתה דלך וסבב הדה אלאחרף…
Rustow, Lost Archive, pp. 405-406
19) … On Monday 9
20) Kislev, there arrived [here in Alexandria some people] who were reported to have brought with…
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- alexandria
- amir
- brawl
- decree
- drunkenness
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6363LetterUnknown (excavation images 1978_A102_16–16A and 1978_A102_15–15A)
Primary language
Arabic
- r10: مقرونا ("with" or "together with") in place of تقرونا; cf. ENA NS 63.9 (PGPID 11405), l. 20. Since this word is the direct continuation of the phrase beginning بجواب كتابي هذا, the interlinear insertion لاعمل معهم ما يقتضيه الحق should likely be inserted between صداقها and وتكاتبني
Recto
1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
2. تصل هذه الاحرف ياخى العزيز على اطال الله بقاك وادام تاييدك وعزك وسعادتك ونعمتك
3. من يد مريني النوبي وكان قد جا رجل يعرف ب…
Recto
1. In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate.
2. These lines are arriving, my dear brother—may God prolong your life and cause your strengt…
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- qasr ibrim
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6364Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1275
Document date
Sivan 5503 Anno Mundi (24 May 1743–22 June 1743 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
It is not completely clear where the scribe intended for the second draft to end and the third to begin, therefore the break between them does not reflect the structure of the text itself.
:Draft one
1. לו טייב אני ארוח ללחכם ואקל לו-
2. פצבח נהאר אלגמעה אראח ללחכם
3. החכם השלם כמוה׳׳ר אליאו רופא נין המנוח
4. החכם השלם כמוה׳׳ר אלישע רופא נ׳׳ע
5. וקא…
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- 18th c
- aguna
- conditional divorce
- istanbul
- late ja
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6365Legal documentJCC 3
Document date
18 Ṣafar 860 Hijrī (27 January 1456 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
This detailed description parallels the fragmented description of the Qaraite synagogue in al-Mamṣūṣa quarter in Richards' text, which ends in line 95. Most of the rest of the text is completely identical with Richards' text, including the date the initial inspections of the synagogue were confirmed by the court – 17 Ramaḍān 859 AH (31.8.1455 CE). […] The deed includes further confirmations and testimonies of some of the engineers and witnesses who were present in the inspections.
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6366Legal documentT-S 16.148 + Moss. VII,4.2
Document date
27 Iyyar 4846 Anno Mundi (14 May 1086 CE)
Primary languages
Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
The continuation seems to contain some suggestion of embezzlement from the mint: the ending, in Goitein's translation (with a light edit by Marina Rustow): "Finally, there appeared before us Barakāt b. […] Menashshe took the ʿAdliyya dinars, presumably in order to prevent Manṣūr from getting into trouble from using them openly; Menashshe then advised Manṣūr that if he had any more of them, he shouldn't show them in public but dispose of them secretly. So ends Menashshe's statement, at which point the court asks Manṣūr what he did next.
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- adliyya dinars
- coins
- embezzlement
- mint
- qasr al-rum
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6367LetterBL OR 5545.4
Primary languages
Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
The writer also conveys his longing for a R. Moshe and for the entire community of Cairo. When the Nagid's third letter arrived in Aleppo, the "season/period" (epidemic?)
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- aleppo
- capitation tax
- damascus
- jaliya
- jizya
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6368LetterBodl. MS heb. c 28/22
Document date
Adar I 1448 Seleucid (1134 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Had he bought goods in Yemen and returned to Egypt in that year he would have made a good profit, for even the young and inexperienced merchants at that time in Egypt made immense profits from the goods they bought in Yemen. At the end of the letter, there are greetings to Ḥalfon from his family and the writer and a request to greet the important people of Aden and to help Abu Nasr b.
Recto
1. ̇ב
2. כתאבי אלי ח̇צר̈ה מולאי אלשיך אלאגל אטאל אללה פי אלכיר
3. בקאה ואדאם תאיידה וסעאדתה וסלאמתה ונעמתה
4. ורפעתה וסנאה וכבת באלדל חסדתה ואעדאה ומן חסן
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6369Legal documentBodl. MS heb. e 98/63
Document date
1122–1153 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
The relationship may have been an apprenticeship; both parties are entitled to 1.5 dirhams a day, but profits from the sale of some commodities within the shop will accrue only to Sayyid al-Ahl, who seems to be the primary partner.
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- drug store
- formulary
- island
- natan b. shemuel
- partnership
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6502
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6370LetterCUL Add.3335 + Bodl. MS heb. c 28/35
Primary language
Hebrew
My good deeds are known among the Rabbanites and the Qaraites. . . I only entered the service of the king in order to not need charity from people or take anything from Jews, rather to support myself and bring good to Israel from the good that God does for me. . . .
Recto (second page):
1. אמר ייי עשוקים בני ישראל ובני יהודה יחדו וכל וג
2. גואלם חזק ייי צבאות שמו ריב יריב את ריבם למען וג
3. עשה צדקות ייי ומשפטים לכל עשוק…
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- al-malik al-afdal (1094-1121)
- arrest
- byzantium
- constantinople
- greek
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19696
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6371LetterENA 1822a.1
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
By the truth of this letter, I do not take from the Muslim with whom I am staying any more than 2 gold qirats, and if it is enough for weekdays, there remains Shabbat and holidays and clothing.
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6372LetterENA 3958.6
Primary language
Arabic
, and the addressee is urged to come with him. Verso is almost entirely greetings. Abū l-Ḥasan sends regards. Regards to Abū l-Faḍl, to a paternal uncle, and to a woman and her children.
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6373LetterENA NS 68.11
Primary languages
Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic
The remainder is obscure, and the transcription would benefit from further revisions. Verso The tail end of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, also by Moshe b.
recto
1. [] . . . [ ]
2. [] . . . الشيخ ابو السرور وان . . . . . . . []
3. عندك تسيروه الينا وان الشيخ الرئيس شاكر لك
4. وحب الرمان حتى اتفرغ اشتريه وعرفني ما ك…
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- ibn al-taffal
- moshe b. levi
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6374LetterMoss. IXa,2.20
Primary language
Arabic
He reports about people who came to him and their discussions about money and business affairs. Toward the end he writes that "all the little ones miss you" (wa-l-sighār(!)
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6375Legal documentPER H 21 + Moss. VII,39
Inferred date
1120–1138 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
This merchant also made haste to go to the court and declare all the goods belonging to his companion (and therefore his orphans) as soon as he returned to Fustat (l. 10), and even mentioned "several things that were not in the account ledger (daftar al-ḥisāb)." Toward the end there is a list of luxury goods (e.g. ambergris and pearl bracelets), which is part of a legal formula as all of them are negated (cf.
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6376LetterT-S 6J6.19
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Where the text resumes on verso, the letter mentions 'what we suffer,' 'the children,' and a man's paternal aunt who does not enter אלי לאש (is "Lāsh" a place? a dialect word?).
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6377Legal documentT-S 8J6.18
Document date
26 Kislev 1338 Seleucid (8 December 1026 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
C1 and C2 are both written by Yefet b. Daud. At the end of page signs Shemuel ha-Kohen b. Avtalyon and Efrayim b.
1. חצר פי בית דין פי יום אלכמיס לסיתה ועשרין יום בחודש
2. כסלוי (!) שנת אשלח לשטרות במצרים עלי הכהן בר יפת
3. ודכר אנה אקני מן מוהובה בת יוסף הידוע בן בכאר
4. א…
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- court notebook
- yefet b. david
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6378LetterT-S 12.329 + T-S Ar.48.136
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
He sends his regards to Abū l-Faḍl and Menaḥem and Natan and Yehuda. He also encloses a letter from Ṭoviyya to Natan that he had forgotten about until now, and adds his own good wishes for the holidays, as well as his own request that Natan obtain two dirhams' worth of myrtle (?
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6379LetterT-S 12.386
Inferred date
25 August 1068–25 August 1068 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
In the margin of recto, Mevasser offers an apology having to do with his correspondence, because he has an illness (tawajjuʿ), and his son and wife are sick as well, and his entire household, "may God deliver them. What will become of a small baby and his mother—may God exempt you—who do not have anyone to go in for them (from context, perhaps this should be read yadkhul rather than Gil's yattakil) or go out?
recto
1. כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך
2. וכלאיתך ורעאיתך מן תניס יום אלב לז בקין מן אלול ערפה אללה ברכה
3. כאתמתה ואסעדה במא …
recto
1. אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את שלומך ואת אושרך
2. ואת חסותו ואת דאגתו לך, מתניס, ביום ב', כ"ג באלול, יודיעך אלוהים…
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- family
- ibn al-ba'ba'
- illness
- illness letter 969-1517
- illness: household
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6380Legal documentT-S 16.138 + T-S AS 152.28
Document date
Wednesday, 17 Av 4837 Anno Mundi (9 August 1077 CE)
Primary languages
Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Mevasser, are well-known members of the rabbinical court of Alexandria at the end of the eleventh century. (Information from Lieberman, "A Partnership Culture," 131.)
Recto
1. שהדותא דהות באנפ[נא] אנן שהדי דח | תמות ידנא לתחתא בכתבא דנן כן הוה חצרא אלינא
2. מ יוסף ביר יאשיה נ[ע אל]מערוף בן אל | דהבי ומ כלף בן עזרון ו…
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6381List or tableT-S Ar.30.32
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Five leaves of an account book. Mostly daily entries of a money dealer. Goitein writes, "The first two of five leaves written by a fledgling banker are translated here because they convey an idea of the book-keeping for deposit banking, for which no other examples have been found thus far.
1. Debit, Thursday 23 Muḥarram
2. Note to Abu ʾl-Khayr 20 d.
3. Dr., a purse to Abraham 5 ⅙ d. 1 q.
4. Dr., a purse to al-Anṣsarī 3d. exactly
1. Cr. …
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- banking
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8178
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6382LetterT-S Ar.30.160
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
The sender seems worried they do not have enough resources to support the boy. Again repeats that he is safely weaned and that he wants sweets (yurīd al-tanaqqul) "for he is used to being pampered" (wa-huwa muʿawwad bi-dalāl).
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6383LetterT-S Ar.39.425
Document date
1030 Hijrī (26 November 1620–15 November 1621 CE)
Primary language
Ottoman Turkish
Pervīz himself is clearly a high regimental officer, and if he is sending someone to Alexandria en route to Mecca, he himself must be located north or west of Al- exandria, possibly even in the imperial capital.
Recto, main text
1. Benim rūḥum Muʿallim Salmūn,
2. Baʿde’s-selām bi’l-ʿizz ve’l-ikrām, inhāʾ ve iʿlām olunan budur ki:
3. Benim rūḥum, işbu ḥāmil-i var…
Recto, main text
1. My dear Muʿallim Salmūn,
2. Following greetings with nobility and honour, the commu- nication and announcement are as follows:
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6384LetterT-S Ar.53.51
Document date
Sha'ban 429 Hijrī (9 May 1038–6 June 1038 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
According to Gil, Ibn ʿAwkal directed this account to an associate in Alexandria. Each entry begins with the verb אחלתה (aḥaltuhu), meaning "I transferred" or "I assigned" via ḥawāla, a formal legal instrument of debt transfer in Islamic commercial law.
verso
1. וארבע מאיה עלי יז עדלא סקט פקד קבץ מני גמיע מא
2. כאן עלי דלך מן אלחמולה וכדלך אלמכזנין אלדי בידה וזנת
3. לה ענהא אגרה מא תקדם מן אלסכנה אלי נצ…
recto - right side
1. …. הסבה שנתתי לו כנגד מה שיגבה מבעלי האוניות והמקדמה שאצל בעליהן.
2. ומה שהשארתי במחסנים בידי אדוני ורבי אבו סעיד כלוף בן
3. זכריא אלאש…
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6385LetterT-S AS 145.81 + T-S 13J23.18
Inferred date
2 February 1063–2 February 1063 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Khalaf, who had written to tell al-Tāhartī that he had sent a pouch containing 500 rubāʿiyya (quarter-dinars) in Ibn al-Baʿbāʿ's ship (r, II. 10–11); also mentions details of maritime transport to and from the Maghreb, a ship accident, and the security and government situation in Sicily, whereas by contrast al-Mahdiyya under Tamīm b. Muʿizz is safe. Dated end of Shevaṭ; Gil notes that the same events are discussed in T-S 16.163, which is dated 8 Elul and mentions the year 453H, and so dates this letter to February 2, 1063.
Recto, main region, above rip
1. [כת]אבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאד[תך וא]תם נעמ[תך]
2. מן אלמהדיה סלך שבט ען סלאמה פי אלגסם נחמד אלל…
recto, above rip
1. אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את שלומך ואת אושרך וישלים את חסדו לך,
2. ממהדייה, באחרון בשבט. שלומי טוב בג…
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6386LetterT-S NS 264.22
Primary languages
Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Verso may contain the continuation and ending, but it is quite faded and more difficult to understand.
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6387Legal documentT-S NS J272 + T-S 12.91
Document date
1126–1129 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Unfortunately, however, he entrusted financial affairs to a rapacious Coptic bureaucrat, Abū Najāḥ ibn Qannāʾ, known as "the Monk" (al-rāhib), who, from the autumn of 1126 until his execution in 1129, managed to terrorize all segments of the populace, including the Jews, with his promiscuous confiscations and arrogant demeanor" (Cohen, Jewish Self-Government, p. 284).
1. ] גרי מן אלראהב לענה אללה מא גרי עלי אלנאס ממא
2. ]ך אלחרים ואכד אמואלהם ואמלאבהם וכאן ימחה שמו
3. ] מאיה באליהוד ואשהאר חאל כל מנהם פעל פי דלך מא
4. אה]רן ב…
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- mazalim
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6388Legal documentYevr. II A 463/1
Document date
Final third of Tevet 5458 Anno Mundi (3 January 1698–12 January 1698 CE)
Primary language
Hebrew
Tevet can be inferred given that no other AM month ends in ת, the only visible letter in the scan. One of the witness signatures is the Rabbanite scribe Gavriel Conforte.
1. בע׳׳ה תלאת חאלף אלכל
3. בהיות שחזקת הקאעה הגדולה שבחארת אלקראין בצד דרב בטיכה/בטיבה שהיה דר בה מקודם לכן המנוח כה׳׳ר ישועה קברה
4. נ׳׳…
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6389Legal documentJCC Richards IX
Document date
9 Safar 860 Hijrī (18 January 1456 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
The deputy Qāḍī, Afḍal al-Dīn, went once again with several inspectors and engineers, and they gave permission for renovations in the Qaraite synagogue “in Ḥārat Zuwayla, within the Qaraite neighborhood (bi-dākhil ḥārat al-qarāʿiyīn) in the aforementioned neighborhood” (line 242). […] Then follows a list of minor corrections, and the signatures of the witnesses and engineers who participated in the inspections.
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6390LetterT-S 12.337
Inferred date
1152–1153 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Goitein often quoted this line to argue for a preference for endogamy and cousin-marriage, but Krakowski persuasively argues (Coming of Age, 218–21) that this situation is too specific to be generalizable: Ibn Yijū seems to want, instead, to use cousin marriage "not to affirm and reify existing social loyalties, but to create an essentially new connection between socially distant relatives" (221). […] On the dating of the letter: Goitein dates the document to September 1153 because this letter was written from Egypt, and Goitein believes Ibn Yijū to have traveled from Aden to Cairo in spring or summer 1153, while the reference to the Salībiyya winds indicates that this letter was written in September — hence September 1153; Friedman, however, believes that Ibn Yijū arrived in Egypt in 1152, and indeed, at r22, Ibn Yijū explains that his daughter had been engaged to the son of Khalaf b. Bundār in Aden for three years, while we know from IB III, 29 that they had arrived in Aden in fall 1149.
Recto
1. בש רח
2. כתאבי אלי אכי וסיידי אל עזיז עלי אל את[יר …]
3. אטאל אללה בקאה וצאנה ווקאה קרב אללה אלאגתמאע
4. בה עלי אפצל אחואל ואסר אמאל במנה ופצלה לאנה
5. על…
Recto
1. In Your name, O Merciful.
2. This is my letter to you, my dear, nob[le] brother and lord [. . .],
3. may God prolong your life and preserve you and …
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6391LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/21
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Bundār, who is in trouble in Aden due to a conflict between him and Yaḥyā al-Tikrītī, involving a scandal with a singer who came to entertain at a gathering of prominent Jews, including Avraham, and Maḍmūn b.
1. בעד
2. מן אלואלדה אלעזיזה תכץ חצרה אלולד אלעזיז אלמופק ופקה אלל : תע
3. ואנא בטול בקאה וסהל סרעה לקאה עלי אסר חאל ואנעם
4. באל במנה וכרמה ותנהי וצול כטך אלכר…
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6392List or tableCUL Or.1080 15.45
Document date
Elul 5353 Anno Mundi (29 August 1593–26 September 1593 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
The list may be useful for cross-referencing people and locations from other 16th-century documents. The first account entry on the recto is related to the communal leader R.
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- late prosopography
- late synagogues
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6393LetterCUL Or.1080 J75
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Damascus... this week... the rosewater... the caravan from Damascus...[skipping to the end]... may your peace increase... if you see fit to write and for the agent to pay for the [...] and charge you(?)
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- pepper
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6394Legal documentENA 2559.6
Document date
Monday, 6 Elul [15]27 Seleucid (22 August 1216 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Bifolio of a court notebook with legal and communal entries. (1) In which the goldsmith Bū l-Faraj b.
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6395Legal documentENA 2562.3
Document date
14 Elul 5321 Anno Mundi (26 August 1561 CE)
Primary language
Hebrew
This document was edited by Avraham David, but his identification and transcription were mistakenly attached to ENA 2562.1 in FGP. Verso: Another legal document.
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1. בפנינו עדים חתומי מטה מכרה קמר אשת הזקן המעולה כר יוסף ידיע אלאחדיב
2. זה לדוניא אסתר אלמנת היקר ומעולה כר אברהם טורטוש זל חזקת הקאעה
3. הקטנה אלמעל…
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6396LetterENA NS I.56
"The first document is a letter (lacking, however, a few lines at the end) that was sent by an anonymous merchant to R.
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6397Legal documentJCC 1
Document date
9 Shaʿbān 429 Hijrī (17 May 1038 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Full transcription and translation to English are found in Gottheil's article from 1907.
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6398LetterJRL B 2601 + T-S AS 151.117
Primary languages
Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
In the margin, he gives a bleak account of economic conditions in "al-balad" (probably Alexandria): it is not possible to purchase a certain garment or type of flax ("ḥattā l-maqāṭiʿ al-quṭn. . . inqaṭaʿat min al-balad"); "no one enters from the Rīf with anything [to sell]"; conditions here "are as you have heard, they do not require commentary, may God improve them"; "few people have flour"; "may God nullify the evil decree in His mercy for the sake of His name."
Recto:
1. נבחר שם מעוש[ר רב מכסף
2. ומזהב חן [טוב
3. ממלוכהא אלדאעי ל[הא
4. ינהי תקדמה כתבה לח[צרה אלשיך
5. אלאגל אבי אלפרג כגק . [
6. החכם והנבון הירא שמים [
7. וגמע אל…
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6399LetterJRL B 3005
Primary language
Hebrew
By my life, do not withhold the 'small powers of attorney' (?): enclose them with the letter and send them. Furthermore, for you to understand the account: I have acquired 600 Qurans (!?).
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6400LetterMoss. Ia,22.2
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
and purchased more goods. "When we entered the city, the representative of the Amir was deposed (?)
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- jaliya
- late illness
- late ja
- lor
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