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Judaeo-Arabic

Enigmatic fragment. Possibly some sort of curse or prognostication. […] The remaining content entirely consists of sentences addressed to a woman.

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• curse

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Possibly concerning the manumission and conversion of an enslaved woman. Mentions [...]l b. Elʿazar. (Information in part from CUDL)

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• jariya

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Document date

2nd Kislev 1431 Seleucid (7 November 1119 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Engagement deed. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. […] This is in fact the earliest known example of such a deed, since formalising a couple’s engagement with a legal document appears to have been an innovation of the 12th century. Jewish marriage is a three-stage process: engagement (shiddukhin), betrothal (erusin/qiddushin), and marriage.

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• shiddukhin

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

End of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic; mostly formulaic. […] The hand may be known. Ends with the relatively unusual formula שלום תשא ותקשיב followed by נצח סלה, the calendar date (14 Sivan), and the motto "yeshuʿa."

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Judaeo-Arabic

Late, detailed, narrative account entries in Judaeo-Arabic. The paleography and coinage in use (Ottoman jadīd) support a dating estimate of 16th- or 17th-century. Each entry mentions an Anno Mundi month, there may be an alphanumerical year listed somewhere.

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15 Tammuz 5520 Anno Mundi (29 June 1760 CE)

Engagement deed dated June 1760 CE (15 Tammuz 5520 AM). […] Avraham ha-Levi Caraso is engaged to Mlīḥa bt. Yosef Najjār. 100 arayōt (groom's payments).

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• 18th c
• engagement

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Possibly mentioning an enslaved person in one of the accounts on the verso (ghūlam), but the term is not spelled correctly (גולם).

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• castro
• early modern enslaved people
• ottoman shipping

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Beginning and end of an important business letter written after the arrival of the sender from Mahdiyya to Alexandria, containing a list of prices. Dated to the end of the 11th or the beginning of the 12th century.

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• prices
• trade

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Document date

1548 Seleucid (2 September 1236–20 September 1237 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In which the writer expresses his longings and writes about enemies. The address is written in a different hand than the rest of the letter.

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Document date

1441 Seleucid (1129–1130 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The case involves a gift, Sitt al-Karam, Abū l-Munajjā, and an enslaved woman named Rasm.

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• slaves

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Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter consisting entirely of blessings for a distinguished addressee. The beginning and the ending are in elegant Arabic script. In between, there are blessings in Hebrew (including Isaiah 43:2) and blessings in Judaeo-Arabic.

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• arabic & hebrew

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Jumada II 1238 Hijrī (13 February 1823–13 March 1823 CE)

With the exception of a single invocation in Judaeo-Arabic on the recto the entirety of the document is in Arabic and the numerals are eastern Arabic. Many of the headings are organized by days of the week which encompass additional isolated entries that are designated by individuals' names.

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• 18th or 19th c
• arabic script
• ledger

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Mevorakh. Recto consists entirely of a panegyric and flattering rhymed prose in Hebrew. […] Greetings are sent to the addressee’s father and mother, and he is encouraged to continue in his own poetic endeavors, said to be superior to those of the writer.

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• panegyric
• poets

1 Transcription 1 Translation 2 Discussions

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Legal document, probably a deed of sale for an enslaved person. This can be deduced because a seller certifies that something is free of defects (ʿuyūb), and a note at the end of the document indicates that the word "in slavery" (באלעבודיה) has been inserted in between the lines somewhere in the missing upper portion (see T-S 18J1.16 for the likely context of this word).

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26 Sivan 5632 Anno Mundi (2 July 1872 CE)

Primary language

Ladino

Accounts in Ladino and Hebrew that can be dated through a join's (ENA 2715.19) entry dated 26 Sivan [5]632 or July 2 1872CE.

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• ladino
• list

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Document date

Iyyar 1338 Seleucid (10 April 1027–8 May 1027 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

End of a letter in Hebrew. Apparently from Yisraʾel ha-Kohen and carried by Faraḥ, though it's not clear where this is written. […] Dated: Iyyar 1338 of the Seleucid Era (= April/May 1027 CE). Ends with the motto ברית שלום. (Information in part from CUDL.)

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Inferred date

1700–1850 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In the first section, lines 9-10r echo the structure of the drafts in the join ENA 2716.10r and also the third section of the same page (l.26-31r) in ENA 2716.11. The latter section is repeated five times on the join ENA 2716.10r. Section two of ENA 2716.11 l.21r lists a quantity of "ריאל פראנסא" which Kenneth Cuno observes was a way of referencing the notional unit of account 1 riyal:90 medin/para in this time period (The Pasha's Peasants, 211).

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• 18th or 19th c
• numismatic dating

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Goitein writes, "[T]he shubbān yisraʾel, the youth, were enticed by a guest preacher, who expounded the Holy Scriptures in the way of mystical allegory, 'which should not be listened to, let alone be believed.'" He is accused of engaging in "inquiries concerning permanence (baqāʾ)" (al-mabāḥith al-baqāʾiyya), which seems to be an allusion to Jewish Sufism (sometimes called pietism). […] Shemuel, who was both an in-law of David I Maimonides and a judge in his court—see T-S 13J9.12, ENA NS 18.36, ENA 2559.12, and T-S 8K13.11—in which case we can date this document to ca. the second half of the 13th century.

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• pietism

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Primary language

Ladino

Many names are listed throughout: (3v) Moshe Magoro, (5v) Reuʾben Gedalia, ___ Esmeralda (but this entry may be a reference to the gemstone rather than a surname), Shelomo Qarabila, Yaʿaqov Ibn Shanjī. The latter man may be identical to the Yaʿaqov Ibn Shanjī mentioned in: ENA NS 52.13 (PGPID 12344), ENA NS 43.13 (PGPID 11787). […] , probably a surname based on how it appears at the opening of each entry (perhaps Ashkenazi?). Folio 4v mentions payment to Yiṣḥaq Marnon(?).

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• 15th c or later
• ladino
• ledger
• sewn documents
• shanji

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A date in the month of Nisan is given but the year is missing in the lower entry. The upper entry may also retain a partial date.

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• cmp

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The document on recto concerns the manumission of an enslaved woman, her marriage, and her 'checking' (in terms of proper behaviors for a Jewish woman).

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1 Transcription 1 Translation

Primary language

Ladino

Accounts in Ladino with Western Arabic numerals that label transactions with relevant names such as Suleymān "סלימן", Raḥman "רחמן", and Moshe. In one of the entries toward the upper edge of the fragment the adjective or surname "Mughrabi" also appears. On occasions the word "corto / "קורטו is also in use in labeling specific entries. MCD.

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• ladino

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Minyat Zifta; blessings that God rescue someone from their enemies; the sender spending Shabbat in Malīj; and the news that the government (dīwān) in the addressee's location opposed or got in the way of 'some of our friends' (baʿḍ aṣḥābnā).

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• malij
• minyat zifta

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Primary language

Arabic

Legal document, probably a summary of case proceedings. The document is entitled, maḥḍaratayn. The case involves at least one government official, a mutawallī of a bureau, and muhandis al-dīwān (lit. engineer of the dīwān), who also happens to be a qāḍī in Fusṭāṭ.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Below the line partition the entry is dated Sunday (יום א) and below that a name may be present: עבד אל?. […] This fragment may be related to the neighboring shelfmark ENA 3738.2.

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Primary language

Arabic

Verso (original use): account (table form) in a fiscal hand, transverse to Arabic text. The first entry refers to a white Dimyāṭī garment that is bleached (muḥawwara) and hemmed (muḥashshā). The next entry refers to four white Dimyāṭī shawls (ṭayālisa, pl. of ṭaylasān) which are bleached (muḥawwara) and embroidered (muṭarraza).

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• fiscal
• tiraz

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Primary language

Ladino

The dating is likely 16th-century based on the paleography and mention of Ottoman sulṭānī currency. The second entry mentions a transaction involving Yaʿaqov Ḥason. There may be another full name mentioned in the fourth entry, but the second part is quite damaged: Avraham Ari..[...]

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Primary language

Hebrew

Either a poetic introduction to a letter from the Yeshiva of Jerusalem to the community of Aleppo, or a letter that is in its entirety a poem. Recto contains the poem, in which not only is there an acrostic (אנשי צב. . . probably "the people of Aleppo"), but also each verse is composed entirely of words starting with the same letter.

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• aleppo
• jerusalem

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