Documents

Primary language

Arabic

Includes "ليس المقام بدار الذل من شيمي ولا معاشرة الأنذال من هممي," which can also be found in T-S Ar.30.134 and BL OR 5565G.40 + T-S NS 224.170.

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Primary language

Arabic

The first line reads as "shirkatuhum wa-akhadha minhum". Mentions "al-amīr al-ajall." Needs further examination. Reused on recto for a Judaeo-Arabic text about neṭilat yadayim.

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• dimme

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Primary language

Hebrew

Business letter fragment, sent from Alexandria to Fustat, based on FGP, but more lively Cairo given the dating.

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• fgp stub
• late alexandria

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Primary language

Hebrew

He cites something said by Rabbi Nissim and there is also mention of Eliyyahu (ZL).

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• philosophy
• theology

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Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). Also signed by Avraham b. Mevasser and perhaps [Yaʿīsh ha-Kohen] ha-Parnas b.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Fragmentary: this is a long vertical strip from the right side. Mentions Hārūn al-Kohen; Yaʿaqov Ibn al-Madhbūḥ. (Information in part from CUDL)

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Refers to moving from a man's house to somewhere else. Also to 'the rent of the middle.' (Information in part from CUDL)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Saʿīd probably in Alexandria, to his brother the cantor Abū l-Majd (Meʾir b.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: list of names, including Ibn Ḥusayn al-Sharābī, Abū l-Khayr, Abū Naṣr, Abū Saʿīd, Abū l-Kathīr and Ibn al-Kohen; Hebrew numerals.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

E.g., Menaḥem, [Yo]sef, Eliyya, ʿaskarī (a soldier?), al-Fakhr, Khalaf, Kāfūr (means camphor, but can be a name), al-Muhadhdhab Sulay[mān].

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: likely ca. 15th or 16th century. Involves Alexandria, a certain Yeshuʿa, a sum of money, and trickery (תחבולה).

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Primary language

Arabic

Unclear how much of the substance/request is preserved. Mentions "al-amr al-muwwaffaq"

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• dimme
• petition
• to edit

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Primary language

Arabic

Order of payment from Muḥammad b. [...] b. [...] to Mufaḍḍal [b. al-Dayyān?], instructing him to pay the bearer, the qāḍī Naṣr al-Dīn, 1000 Kāmilī dirhams.

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Document date

1101–1130 CE

Primary language

Arabic

On verso there are drafts of documents including the name of the caliph al-Āmir bi-Aḥkām Allāh written several times (r. 1101–30).

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Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Mentions the weight of something (al-wazn) and the name Aḥmad al-Fākihānī (he appears on both T-S AS 184.120 and T-S AS 184.105).

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• myriad

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Primary language

Ladino

Commodities include garments, textiles, and items of gold. Also contains instructions for an agent ("if you do not find X, then...").

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Primary language

Arabic

Dating: 16th-century or later based on the paleography. There are also a few lines of Arabic and abbreviated Hebrew/Judaeo-Arabic.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Some of the names include: Yiṣḥaq Solal (= Sholal?), Yiṣḥaq Mūsā, ʿAlīal-Qammāḥ, Yaḥya Ibn Zaytūn.

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• sholal

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

In the Arabic script section, there is a basmala and then perhaps the name al-shaykh Abū Zikrī (adāma Allāh ʿizzahū). The blank spaces have been filled with piyyutim (yoṣerot).

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

In the upper margin there are also a few crudely written words which might be in Arabic script or in Hebrew script.

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Primary language

Arabic

Fragment from the bottom of a petition in Arabic script, containing a portion of a raʾy clause and blessings for the addressee (ṣalawāt allāhʿalā mawlānā....). Response to the petition towards the end.

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• dimme
• endorsement
• petition

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Primary language

Arabic

account in Arabic script. There are also several later lines of poetry or aphorisms (ان يركب البغلات قوم وهم في النسب الصادق اجدادها . . .

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Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a letter from a mother from Alexandria, to her son in Fustat. Second half of 11th century.

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1 Transcription 1 Translation

Letter from Barukh b. Zikrī al-Makhmuri, in Ifrīqiyya, to his relative Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmuri, in Fustat. The writer asks for help as his place was "sieged by the Byzantines."

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Document date

Tuesday, 4 Shevaṭ 1496 Seleucid (8 January 1185 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Khayr claims to have given to the female broker Sitt al-Dalāl bt. Abū ʿUmar two books belonging to his father, one of the Torah and one of Ketuvim, in order to offer them for sale. […] Six years later, he learned the Torah alone was worth 20 dinars. Abū l-Maḥāsin is questioned about this. The story continues at length on verso (mentioning at one point the two witnesses Abū l-Bayān Ibn al-Ahuv and Saʿīd al-Mawṣilī). This portion still needs examination.

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Primary language

Arabic

Ignoring the order of the verses, most of them resemble the verses of Duʿā al-Jawshan (for Saturday) attributed to ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib or other verses of supplication attributed to him and quoted in the book Biḥār al-Anwār by Majlesi (d. 1698). The variant in Biḥār al-Anwār is as follows: يا من لا يشغله سمع عن سمع يا من لا يمنعه فعل عن فعل يا من لا يلهيه قول عن قول يا من لا يغلطه سؤال عن سؤال يا من لا يحجبه شئ عن شئ يا من لا يبرمه إلحاح الملحين يا من هو غاية مراد المريدين يا من هو منتهى همم العارفين، يا من هو منتهى طلب الطالبين، يا من لا يخفى عليه ذرة في العالمين.

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• arabic literary
• muslim prayer
• red ink
• shi'i

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Goitein suggests that this document was written before 1134, the year that Ṣedaqa al-Ramli, the grandfather of the bride, passed away (Med. […] (Translated to English in Goitein, 3:154. Med. Soc.). Alternate description: betrothal deed between R. Efrayim ha-Talmid b. Meshullam and Yeshuʿa b. Ṣedaqa ha-Levi al-Ramlī for his daughter Sitt al-Fakhr. The advanced gift is 15 dinars, the delayed gift 50 dinars (though 60 is written above the line).

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• betrothal
• contract
• prenuptial

2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Written on the surviving upper part of a leaf, this is a draft of a deed leasing a parcel of land belonging to the qodesh to Avraham ha-Levi (B. Yahya) al-Najib (al-Watiq). The parcel (saha) is in Dammuh, near the synagogue. […] The lessee is granted the right to build on the land and also to cultivate it and operate the saqiya on it.

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• 12th c
• dammuh
• draft
• lease
• qodesh

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Inferred date

1128–1164 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Out of the 11 dinars, 1.33 dinar will be paid in eleven monthly installments, whereas 9.67 dinars will be paid in the month of Tishri (when the harvest is over). The tenant will also have to carry 1000 palm branches to the Nile (apparently also in the month of Tishri, intended for the feast of Sukkot).

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• 12th c
• account
• heqdesh
• lease
• qodesh
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2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Letter from Ṣāliḥ b. Bahlūl, apparently in al-Mahdiyya, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat, August 1062. Includes the news of the death of Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī, and of the destruction of the Maghrib, presumably by the Banī Hilāl (who had sacked Qayrawān three years earlier). […] Soc. 1:410 n. 2 as T-S 16.276. (Gil) Also contains mention of Ṭalḥī paper, named after Talḥa b.

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• paper

2 Transcriptions 2 Translations 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The shelfmark T-S Ar.18(1).123 unites three fragments, which all have Hebrew liturgical poems on one side and remainders of letters in Judaeo-Arabic on the other. All three letters appear to be in the same handwriting, and all the liturgical fragments are likewise in the handwriting of the same scribe (different than the scribe of the letters). […] The addressee's letter arrived, along with the 5 shipments it mentioned, 4 for "Sayyidnā Av (Bet Din)" and 1 for the sender.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

After this year the couple intended to move to Bilbays and there the wife will also determine the location of the domicile. More on this matter see Ashur’s dissertation Chapter Four pp. 130-131. (Information in part from Goitein's index card and from Mediterranean Society, III, p. 403. Also from Amir Ashur's dissertation.)

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• 13th c
• contract
• premarital

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 2 Discussions

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

She reports that the addressee's letter arrived with Abū l-Faraḥ. Also mentions Ḥayyim and Abū Sulaymān. Refers to selling books. […] ships with the cryptic phrase קדאקד or קראקר רום. Also ships of Ibn Bādī(?) with oil and a ship from the west, as well as the ship that had been 'in the mountain.'

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• cheese
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: women's
• oil
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Inferred date

1310–1355 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Now that Fakhr has returned to Cairo, he has heard that family members already returned the silver, but Fakhr refused to return the siddur. […] He then recounts the story of how Sulaymān and Fakhr stayed in the khān in Bilbays with six other pilgrims (al-Shaykh Muwaffaq the cantor, Saʿīd b. al-Kātib, Nāṣir b. Ṭayyib, Yehoshua b. al-Ghāriq, Mūsā b. Mardūk, and Ibn Abū Saʿd al-Khādim), and how they were stranded there over Shabbat when the caravan left.

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• 14th c
• bilbays
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: du'f
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2 Transcriptions 2 Translations 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

ʿAfīf reports that Shemuel's letter arrived and was read aloud to the congregation of Gaza, which prayed for him (r19–22). […] ʿAfīf wishes to return to Cairo, but does not have money for hiring a donkey. ʿAfīf b. Ezra (also known as Yosef the Egyptian), along with his traveling companion R. Pereẓ, also appears in F 1908.44XX, lines 70–94. Information from Goitein (note card and Med Soc V).

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• 16th c
• afif b. ezra
• disability
• disability: hearing
• disability: speaking
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1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Arabic

One of the parties is Abū l-Faraj b. Ḥayyūn al-Yahūdī al-Tājir.

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Inferred date

1240–1240 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A double leaf, torn into two parts, this document contains a main record of current revenues from rent, but some expenditures and other pecuniary operations are also listed. (Information from Gil, Documents, pp. 460 #138)

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• 13th c
• account
• coptic numerals
• heqdesh
• qodesh
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2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Document date

441 Hijrī (5 June 1049–25 May 1050 CE)

Perhaps written by a Tāhartī. See also ENA 3770.6. (Information from Goitein’s index card)

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Document date

441 Hijrī (5 June 1049–25 May 1050 CE)

Perhaps written by a Tāhartī. See also ENA 3770.5. (Information from Goitein’s index card)

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Document date

25 Ṣafar 919 Hijrī (2 May 1513 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Lessee: Manṣūr b. Najīb (b.) Manṣur. Also mentions another merchant Hibatallāh b. Mufaḍḍal.

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• 16th c
• contract
• dimme
• pinholes
• rent

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