Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

One of two letters (see also PGPID 4248) in which he urgently requests cash due to the challenges of the flax harvest and processing operations. […] He claims the workers are demanding premium wages and advance payment. He is also having difficulty finding a boat to ship his flax and madder bales via Busir.

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Tags

• flax
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• madder
• yosef b. awkal

3 Transcriptions 2 Translations 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Netanʾel, probably in Qalyūb, to his brother Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel in Alexandria, ten days after his previous letter (PGPID 9105). […] Abū Naṣr (Shemuʾel, the son of Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi, the late brother of Yeḥezqel and Ḥalfon, returned from a visit to Ḥalfon in Alexandria but did not bring letters and corals from his uncle that he should have delivered to Abū Yiṣḥaq or letters intended for Yeḥezqel.

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2

Tags

• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• india book

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Avraham b. Sasson of Alexandria to his relative Ṣedaqa b. Ṣemaḥ of Fustat, a maker of Sūsiyāt textiles. […] Then my cousin (ibn ʿammatī) arrived and informed me that you had become ill, and that you had begun to recover, and I and those with me rejoiced and thanked God for that." Saadya also Ṣedaqa if he wants to secure passage on the Byzantine ship that had just arrived.

Tags

• byzantine merchants
• byzantines
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: letter norms
• (+ 4 more)

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

The writer found a certain item with him (second word of line 7) that evidently had to be sent to the addressee, but it was the eve of Passover, and Abū l-Barakāt b. al-Ṣabbāgh had traveled, so the writer had to send it with the bearer of the present letter, Abū l-Faraj al-Kohen known as Ibn Qasāsa. There are also a few lines of Arabic script at the bottom, oriented 180 degrees to the main text.

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Tags

• arabic script
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: recovered

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Document date

Nisan 1460 Seleucid (12 March 1149–10 April 1149 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Natan ha-Kohen known as Ibn al-Wāsiṭī, Shemuel b. Yehuda known as Ibn Asad, ʿAmram b. […] Menashshe, Peraḥya b. Avraham al-Iskandarānī, Shela b. Simḥa, and Yosef. Dating: mentions Nisan 1460 of the Seleucid Era (= March/April 1149 CE). […] Avraham and Mevorah b. Natan ha-Kohen, who also signs, together with Peraḥya ha-Kohen b. [...]. 2565 barrels of wine (called "ṭamāwiya laṭaf") and various sums in cash are involved as well as the term 'qaṭṭāra.'

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2

Tags

• partnership
• wine

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from an Alexandrian judge. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1180. […] The writer's opponent, the president of the congregation, threatened to discontinue the payment of his salary and instead have twenty persons deliver to him their weekly contributions to the quppa. The writer also reports on a legal case (upper margin of verso) involving a man who forced his wife to live in the same house with him and his mother, while he was sick.

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1

Tags

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: marad
• illness: marital
• marital dispute

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Document date

Tuesday, 25 Adar I 4807 Anno Mundi (24 February 1047 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Manṣūr, to go to Ṣōʿan, Egypt (i.e., Fusṭāṭ), to obtain her share of the inheritance that her late uncle Yosef b. Asad al-Tabaranī had deposited with Ḥesed b. Yashar (aka Abū Naṣr b. Sahl al-Tustarī). Witnessed by Yaʿaqov b. Yiṣḥaq, Yeshuʿa b. […] Avraham Beḥir ha-Yeshiva), also signed by Avraham b. Iyov, Moshe b. Yefet, and Shelomo b.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Take roasted onion, tamarind fruit (ṣubbāra), seed of the Roman nettle (ḥabb al-qurrayṣ), possibly dirt (? wasakh al-ḥajar), yeast (khamīra), cucumber (khiyār), and boiled chard. All this should be ground up and boiled in chard water and coriander water until it comes together (ḥattā yanʿamil). It should then be applied to a kerchief (khirqa) and applied to the spot (yulṣaq ʿalā l-mawḍiʿ). The next two lines are undeciphered (the words لطخ/stain and بقر/cow appear).

Tags

• prescription
• recipe

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Document date

5 Jumādā I 556 Hijrī (2 May 1161 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions Aḥmad the agent (al-wakīl); possibly the name al-Ḥusayn; the wages (ujra) of a group of people including shepherds (ruʿā), possibly guards (ḥārisīn), and possibly two terms for milkers of livestock (ḥālibīn and ʿajjālīn, which might be equivalent to the term muʿajjil appearing in dictionaries). There is also a phrase that repeats in both l. 3 and l. 5 that may mention bellows (?

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

He reports someone's testimony that she was 5 days old when al-Muʿaẓẓam died (likely al-Muʿaẓẓam ʿĪsā, who died in 1227 CE); her paternal uncle swears to this. They summoned the mother of Bayān the landlord, who says something about 13 years and al-Malik al-Nāṣir. The addressee is asked to make up his mind and inform the Nagid.

Tags

• responsum

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Document date

last decade of Tishrei 1475 Seleucid (20 September 1163–29 September 1163 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: last decade of Tishrei 1475 Seleucid = September 1163 CE, under the authority of the Gaʾon Netanʾel ha-Levi (the first two letters of his name are preserved נת[נאל], along with three lines of his titles). Abū l-Ṭāhir and the clothier (al-bazzāz) Abū l-Ṭayyib b. […] Mentions a loan; a woman named Baqāʾ, the daughter of Abū l-Ḥasan al-Kohen [...] b. Natan he-Ḥaver; a teacher Shemuel b. […] The name of one witness is preserved: Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen b. Yo[...]. Joins: Alan Elbaum.

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Primary language

Arabic

The first row consists of nearly all the same items as the second row, except that there are quantities in the first row, and the first row also includes ṭaḥīna. […] The ingredients are as follows: -sumac (summāq) -lemon juice (mā laymū) -a head (raʾs; this is slightly puzzling because in the first row, "head" is listed as a measurement for garlic, but here "head" and "garlic" are separated by "walnut") -walnut (jawz) -garlic (thawm) -salt-cured fish (ṣaḥna) -preserved lemon (called laymūna mamlūḥa in this row and laymūna māliḥa in the row above) On verso there is a notation in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals of an amount owed (al-bāqī), and then in Judaeo-Arabic, "Abū l-Bahāʾ from (New) Cairo."

Tags

• food
• recipe

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Document date

16 Jumādā I 527 Hijrī (25 March 1133 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

After the initial "ṣaḥḥa bism X," it continues "min jumla mā yajib ʿalayhi min kharāj. . . ." It is "for the months of the year 526." T-S AS 183.155 goes on to refer to documents or signatures (khaṭṭ) of Fatḥ(?) al-Simsār and Abū l-Ḥasan. The latter may be followed by the phrase "bi-ghayr ʿalāma," "without a registration mark." Notably this document itself lacks ʿalāʾim in the upper margin. A reference to the khaṭṭ of Abū l-Ḥasan appears again at lower right.

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Primary language

Arabic

Then discusses somebody's employing as kātib al-jaysh / military secretary (واخرج من الديوان حال . . . […] -hundred and eighty dinars. Mentions Dīwān al-Shām and possibly the Dīwāns of Miṣr and the zakāt(?), and also mentions "Filasṭīn": على استقبال ما وافق سنة . . .

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1

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Important but much damaged list of the type of B 2b: distribution of sums of 5 dirhems and its multiples (many of 15 or 20 some even of 30), also several of 7 1/2 dirhems. Many names identical with the contemporary lists B 1, 2, 52 (e.g., the rare Maʿshūq, "Beloved," here, ll. 1 and 7 = B 1, l. 35), also some new persons.

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Document date

614 Hijrī (10 April 1217–29 March 1218 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Majd is to expedite the payment of 81 dirhams to the Muslim Judge Shams al-Din. This is the remaining balance due for the capitation tax of the poor for the Muslim year 614 (ended March 29, 1218) for Shams al-Din. T-S K25.240 consists of small written orders, partly in Hebrew and partly in Arabic script, for monthly payments, made out of the rent-revenue from the pious foundation (waqf) 'Compound of the Poor' or from the pious foundation made by the physician al-Muhadhdhab. All dated orders are from spring and summer, 1218.

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1

Tags

• account
• capitation tax
• heqdesh
• jaliya
• jizya
• (+ 3 more)

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Majd is to send to al-Shaykh al-Thiqa quickly ('and by any stratagem') the payment of 35 dirhams, the remaining balance due for the capitation tax of the poor(?) […] T-S K25.240 consists of small written orders, partly in Hebrew and partly in Arabic script, for monthly payments, made out of the rent-revenue from the pious foundation (waqf) 'Compound of the Poor' or from the pious foundation made by the physician al-Muhadhdhab. All dated orders are from spring and summer, 1218.

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1

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1

Tags

• account
• capitation tax
• heqdesh
• jaliya
• jizya
• (+ 3 more)

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Majd is to give 3 dirhams to 'the foreigner from Toledo' (al-gharīb al-Ṭulayṭulī). T-S K25.240 consists of small written orders, partly in Hebrew and partly in Arabic script, for monthly payments, made out of the rent-revenue from the pious foundation (waqf) 'Compound of the Poor' or from the pious foundation made by the physician al-Muhadhdhab. All dated orders are from spring and summer, 1218.

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1

Tags

• account
• heqdesh
• qodesh
• waqf

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Majd is to give the bearer (also named Abū l-Majd?) two dirhams for baking matza (khabīz faṭīr) for Passover. […] T-S K25.240 consists of small written orders, partly in Hebrew and partly in Arabic script, for monthly payments, made out of the rent-revenue from the pious foundation (waqf) 'Compound of the Poor' or from the pious foundation made by the physician al-Muhadhdhab. All dated orders are from spring and summer, 1218.

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1

Tags

• account
• heqdesh
• qodesh
• tax
• waqf

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shaʾul, perhaps in Sicily, to Salmān b. Shabīb al-Kohen, perhaps in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: mid-11th century. […] The woman has been consoled by the presence of the addressee's son Abū l-Saʿḍ, who has behaved admirably. Sulaymān also reports on the state of Salmān's elderly female niece (al-ʿajūz bint akhūk), which hinges on a matter of inheritance.

Tags

• unedited 11th c

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Primary language

Arabic

Reporting on two matters: (1) that a group of dhimmīs has established a rotation in which they take stones daily and fill in the lake (buḥayra) or canal (baḥr) of "the chain" (al-silsila) in order to prevent "the ships of the enemy, may god forsake them" (marākib al-ʿaduww khadalahū allāh) from approaching. This expression is usually used in reference to Frankish crusading attacks. (2) That on Saturday the 7th of Ṣafar a group of Byzantine traders approached the Majlis al-Ḥarb requesting some kind of commercial privilege (may mention shūḥ = pine trees).

Tags

• dimme
• fustat
• handbook
• lost archive
• majlis al-harb
• (+ 1 more)

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shelomo ha-Kohen] (d. 1053) and his late brother Eliyyahu Av Bet Din (who served as Gaʾon 1062–83). Also mentions people such as Ibn Barukh, "the judges," Rabbenu Yeshuʿa, Rosh ha-Qehillot, Salāma al-Maqāniʿī, [Rosh] ha-Gola, Ibn Maʿālī, and Ibn Maṭar(?). Join: Alan Elbaum. Same hand as (but probably not a join with) Moss.

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1

Tags

• to edit

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Probably from Yehuda Ibn al-ʿAmmānī, in Alexandria, to Abū l-Majd Meir b. […] On the other side, reports that the addressee's brothers Saʿīd and Hil[āl] are in good health. If Yehuda manages to find his copy of Ḥullin, he will send it.

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Accounts of weekly expenditure of a type similar to App. B 41-43, 49, and also in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. A clean copy for three weeks, always opening with the amounts collected by two persons: first week, two laymen; second,the beadles Tahir and Mahasin; third, Tahir and the cantor Abu al-Majd.

Tags

• account
• charity
• communal
• shelomo b. eliyyahu

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Document date

Tammuz 1549–Tammuz 1550 Seleucid (1238–1239 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A house was inherited in equal shares by [ʿAbd al-]Bāqī Sheʾerit ha-Ḥazzan, Abū l-Karam, Abū [...] Khalaf, Ibrāhīm, and Sālim, some or all of whom are brothers. Signed: ʿUziʾel b. Ṭahor ha-Nazir. […] Sābiq all the rights relating to a claim of Hibatallāh b.

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Document date

1 Av 1448 Seleucid (21 July 1137 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Our letter, however, reports a rumor that the city had already fallen forty days earlier. The writer, a physician, even expresses the expectation that the Emperor might take Aleppo and Damascus as well and already placed an order for medical books which would be looted there from the homes of his colleagues." […] Goitein suggests that he traveled initially with the Fatimid navy, as he lists letters he sent in previous years from the army camp at Jaffa, from Rhodes, and from the island of Chios, which were occupied by the Venetian navy in 1224. The physician also stayed in Constantinople before settling in Seleucia and marring a woman with a Greek name (Korasi). […] Regardless, he is hoping to obtain some medical books from the loot of Aleppo and Damascus. [Verso 4-22:] He conveys news of family and friends.

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9

Tags

• byzantium
• crusades
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: death
• (+ 11 more)

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The second-person imperative form -gil also exists in some early Ottoman Turkish texts (Korkut Buğday, Literary Ottoman, 17). […] This construction seems to draw on the Uzbek and/or Chagatay dative case -ga, yielding the partial translation "I am on a trip," though the equivalent negation (as ולא) is missing along the paper tear. The dative suffix -ga is also repeated in l. 10 of the recto (חקינכא). […] (The Jews in Ottoman Egypt Until the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century/al-Yahūd fī Miṣr al-ʻUthmānīyah ḥattá awāʾil al-qarn al-tāsiʻ ʻashar, vol.

1 Transcription 1 Translation

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Bottom part only. Someone releases Sitt al-Ḥusn from all claims. Signed: Mordekhay b. Moshe ha-Kohen.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Eliyyahu to a scribe, also named Shelomo, in an urgent tone, to finish the copying of certain books including the targum of Kings and the targum of the haftarot.

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Tags

• book trade
• note
• shelomo b. eliyyahu

3 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List of contributors. Yemeni. Mentions Mūsā al-Ḍāhirī and Yaḥyā al-Qāfiḥ among many other names.

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1

Tags

• charity
• communal
• donors
• poverty

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Booklist including entries such as Kitāb al-Khalīqa, Kitāb Juʿrāfiyya (געראפיה = Geograph), Divrei ha-Yamim, Kunnāsh Bū Yaʿaqov, Kitāb al-Rasā'il.

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Tags

• book trade

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ṣāliḥ to Abū l-Ṭayyib Sa'id reporting on transactions and asking for news of the addressee. Also asking for shipment of some flax.

Tags

• flax
• trade

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

"We ask you, O master of existence (mālik al-wajūd), send us the guide of the Jews (murshid al-yahūd). . . ."

Tags

• judaeo-arabic poetry

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Primary language

Arabic

The sender is introduced as "the basest slave" (aqall al-mamālīk) and then "al-burhāniyya"(?). Reused for Hebrew literary text.

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Document date

27 Jumādā I 404 Hijrī (4 December 1013 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

One registration mark: al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ʿalā niʿamih.

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1

Tags

• abu l-hasan b. wahb
• dimme
• fatimid
• tax receipt

1 Transcription 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to Abū ʿAlīal-[..]n b. Sahl. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment.

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1

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions wool and Yūsuf al-Ṣūrī and Passover. Possibly ʿAbd al-Salām.

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1

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Primary language

Arabic

Reused on recto for Hebrew piyyuṭ. On verso there are also piyyuṭ drafts and some jottings in Judaeo-Arabic.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions what happened upon leaving the synagogue; al-Shaykh al-Thiqa; and Maḍmūn.

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1

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Greetings to Abū l-Faraj b. al-Daqqāq (or possibly al-Raqqāq). Very squiggly descenders.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Draft of a bill of sale for an enslaved woman. Abū al-[Man]ṣūr al-Kohen purchases a female slave named Ṭ[...] for the price of 25 dinars.

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Tags

• bill of sale
• jariya
• slaves

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions a farāsila of cumin and a qirsh (so Ottoman-era?). Mentions Sayyidī al-Nasab al-ʿAqīq Yosef.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Sent either to or from Alexandria. The sender is [...] b. Meshullam (ZL).

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