Documents

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The phrase "mā yujtabā" is also preserved, but unclear what this means.

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Letter from Ayash b. Ṣedaqa, Alexandria, to an unknown addressee. Dating: January 1051.

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Tags

• commodities
• credit
• prices
• shipping
• trade

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Sukkarī (or Zikrī?) in Alexandria reporting that the Rūmī cheese had arrived and that the writer had sent the desired ceramics (fukhkhār).

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Tags

• alexandria
• arabic address
• cheese
• personal

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Document date

Tuesday, 23 Iyyar 1436 Seleucid (1125 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Written and signed by Avraham b. [...]; also signed by Levi b. Avraham. There is confirmation of receipt on verso.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Currencies: gold cedid (f.1r), קרונה, several more. There are also some narrative notes ('memorandum against forgetting. . .').

Tags

• late arabic script
• ledger
• list

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The term "וזן" appears repeatedly under the archival tape that was applied along the right border of the recto. Mentions people such as Ibn ʿAṭiyya, al-Sharīf, and Ibn Ghazāl.

Tags

• cmp

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Note in Judaeo-Arabic saying "our lord" - probably the recipient - has already told R. Eliyahu (the 13th century judge) on Friday to give the rest of the alimony which is 4 dirhems to R. yedutun and he responded "Yes" - not the note is asking that this be done.

Tags

• yedutun ha-levi

1 Discussion

Primary language

Arabic

Medieval era. There is also an extensive chain of numerals below the right column.

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Primary language

Arabic

Letter from Abū l-ʿAlā b. Hiba Abū l-Ḥasan(?) to Abū Saʿīd b. Abū Naṣr al-Mafjār (?)

Tags

• dimme

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Document date

1122–1150 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Someone makes an acknowledgment in favor of Sayyid al-Kull. In the missing upper part of the document there was an interlinear insertion reading "all of it without installments."

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Order instructing al-Shaykh al-Asʿad to pay a certain sum to the bearer Abū l-Karam.

Tags

• cmp

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Saʿadya Jabbān(?) (גבאן). There is also a variety of text in Arabic script that requires further examination, possibly from a previously stage of paper usage.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: The introduction to a Judaeo-Arabic treatise, either identical with or merely citing Yaḥyā b. Dāwud's Kitāb al-Ibāna ʿan Ḥurūf [...] al-ʿIbrānīya. This was underlined in red, presumably in modern times.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

כתא) including one "to Alexand[r]ia," one called תדרכי נפשי עז, and one to [...] b.

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Inferred date

1700–1900 CE

Lists in Judaeo-Arabic of itemized food ingredients, quantities, and associated dates. One of the lists also includes surnames. Based on the paleography the dating is likely 18th/19th-century.

Tags

• 18th or 19th c
• lemon
• sarma
• sesame
• tahina

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and alphanumerical figures. On the verso there are clearly labeled entries that are common for the 16th-18th centuries yet on the recto lie the remnants of extensive lists that repeatedly interject the word "zero / צפר" between alphanumerical figures.

Tags

• list

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Mentions: Barakāt, Abū l-Ḥasan b. Makārim; Abū l-ʿAlāʾ; Mufaḍḍal his neighbor; Fuḍayl; al-ʿAṭṭār; meat; chard; leek; lemon; pigeon or bath;

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Letter to Abū l-Faraj, reporting that the writer has met with R. David; it also mentions Abū l-Riḍā, Yosef and 157 dirhams.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer is in some perplexity about 'what I should do regarding Rashīd, since I rarely come to Fustat.' He also asks whether the addressee has obtained something from Barakāt.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The house is located in the al-Mamṣūṣa neighborhood of Fustat. Mentions the alley of אלמזני.

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Fragment of a letter from Yehuda b. Sahl, Alexandria(?), to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Dating: ca. 1050.

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2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document concerning inheritance issues of the late Jamīla al-Musulmāniyya, mother of Avraham and Eliyyahu Levi, who had converted to Islam and married Ḥasan al-Sharqāwī after the death of her husband Khidr Palomba.

Tags

• apostasy
• conversion

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

About the definition of "moredet" ("rebellious (wife)"); this authority says that it refers only to a woman who refuses to sleep with her husband, not other kinds of 'rebelliousness.' Also mentions the consequences for the return of the dowry.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to a physician, with blessings for his sons Saʿadya and Abū Mansur Elʿazar, and mentioning the sender's longing for a third person. Also with greetings to Abū l-Surūr and the kohanim the sons of Ibn Ḥaffāẓ.

Tags

• physician

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Document date

17 Sivan 5646 Anno Mundi (20 June 1886 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: 17 Sivan [5]646 AM = 20 June 1886 CE. Either to or from Alexandria (סקנדרייה יעא). Has mdoern Maghribī dialect features including -דייאל for 'belonging to.'

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Document date

Kislev 1321 Seleucid (1009 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information from CUDL; see also Goitein's index card.)

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Different merchants recorded their shipments, probably from Mahdiyya to Alexandria. Mentions fabrics, cloths from Qayrawan, silk, tin, and oil.

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Document date

Thursday, 25 Ḥeshvan 1628 Seleucid (11 November 1316 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: Thursday, 25 Ḥeshvan 1628 Seleucid = 11 November 1316 CE, under the authority (reshut) of Avraham II Maimonides. Minyat Zifta is also named in the last remaining line. ASE/MCD

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• avraham ii maimonides

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Signed by: Shelomo b. ʿEli (signed also ENA 2556.12 (PGPID 15839) ca. late 10th century); David b.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Trousseau list of Sitt al-Suʿadā, written and signed by Moshe b. Peraḥya (active ca. 1220–34) and Yiṣḥaq b. […] "by way of Yemen" (ṭarīq al-yaman, v11). (Information in part from CUDL and Goitein's index card.)

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to Abu al-Ḥasan 'Allun the parnas (Eli b. Yahya, dated documents 1057-1107) about a case of inheritance, with a recommendation for a bashful young Jewish man as a flax worker.

Tags

• communal
• flax
• inheritance

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Acknowledgment of debt. Lender: Abū l-ʿAlāal-Ṣabbāgh (the dyer) b. Abū Saʿd. Borrower: Abu ʿImrān ʿAmram ha-Levi ha-Talmid.

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Tags

• bara'a
• debt
• quittance
• release

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions the receipt of expressions of condolence (on the death of his father). Mentions Alexandria. This Tunisian merchant commuted between Egypt and his homeland.

1 Transcription 1 Discussion