Documents

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Verso (probably the secondary use): Records of a slaughterer (presumably Shelomo or his father Eliyyahu, since ritual slaughter for the local community is also mentioned in the letter on recto). Table in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals listing day of the week, name of the customer, and how many animals (raʾs) were slaughtered.

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• slaughter

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Primary language

Hebrew

Regards are sent to the recipient’s sons, Mevorakh and Yehuda, and also to his mother, on behalf of the writer’s son.

Tags

• communal

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Copy or formulary of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, damaged, almost entirely consisting of honorifics and praises. Might name somebody titled Zayn al-Dīn (unless that is just another term of respect for the recipient).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A version of the second of them is still circulating in online forums, attribution unclearتغيرت الايام وانقلب الدهرو ~ وصار خيار الناس ليس لهو قدرووصار اخم الناس يعلو خيارهم ~ فما اصبح الايام وما اعجب الدهرو. In the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī.

Tags

• arabic poetry
• nasir

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Document date

495/524 Hijrī (1101–1130 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Report to the Fatimid caliph al-Āmir bi-Aḥkām Allāh regarding the arrival of five Christian (Rūm) merchants carrying timber: Sergius son of Constantine, [name partly illegible], Grasso son of Leo the Amalfitan, [name partly illegible] and Bon Senyon the Genoese.

Tags

• byzantines
• timber

1 Transcription 1 Translation

Primary language

Arabic

Verso: Letter of appeal for charity addressed to al-Rayyis Yūsuf. In Arabic script, calligraphic with large letters. Asking him to bestow two garments (thawbayn) on the sender, since his family is almost dying from the cold. The letter is probably addressed to a Jewish communal leader but uses a state petition formula.

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• charity
• dimme
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: colic
• (+ 2 more)

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Hebrew

On verso there is part of an address preserved in Judaeo-Arabic (yaṣil li-yad al-muʿ[allim?]).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentioning dirhams, the capitation tax, and names such as Binyamin, Yaʿaqov and Yaḥyā. Also mentions 'Rabbenu'; Gaza; and paying 'in any place in Syria.'

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• capitation tax
• jaliya
• jizya
• tax

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions "the house of the Jerusalemites" (Dār al-Maqādisa), Abū Khalaf, "your wife," and greetings from the sender's wife or mother (wa-sittī tusallim ʿalayk).

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• bialphabetic

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Names include the son of the Syracusan (בן הסריקוסי;) the kohen Naṣrallāh al-Ghazzāwī; the son of Abū Saʿīd; the ḥakīm Elʿazar Mesinas(?); Saʿīd al-Ḥakīm; Abū l-Faraj; and several more. Verso appears similar but is too damaged to read.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Distribution of wheat to Europeans/Byzantines (al-Rūm), altogether 49 households including households consisting of only one person.

Tags

• charity
• communal
• poverty
• recipients
• wheat

1 Transcription 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary languages

Arabic, Persian

Literary text, mainly in Persian. Also with some Arabic, including two lines of poetry on verso before it reverts to Persian.

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Document date

19 Rabiʿ II 566 Hijrī (30 December 1170 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

"The birth of my son Abū l-Fakhr was Wednesday, the fourth hour of the night. . . the fifth hour. . . the 19th of Rabīʿ II 566 [=30 December 1170 CE]." The date is also given according to the Coptic calendar (the month of Ṭūba).

Tags

• birth record

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions "the period of his dwelling in the qāʿa where Umm al-Futūḥ lives." The letter is very deferential and the writer is asking the addressee (al-majlis) for some kind of help or guidance.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Including the 'eighth house belonging to Mikhaʾel, the commander of the army who is an amputee' (ṣāḥib al-jaysh al-aʿraj/lil-aʿraj). Seems to be written by Natan b.

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• natan b. avraham

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

('as one of the poets said....'; also correctly truncates verbs that follow 'lam,' which is unusual in documentary sources).

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• poetry

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Letter from Natan b. Nahray, from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1080.

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• 11th c

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yūsuf known as בן כדורה attests that he owes 71 dinars to Barakāt b. Yosef Ibn al-Lebdī (who died prior to 1146 CE, giving an approximate date for this document). It seems that Yaʿqūb is now paying 20 dinars toward the total. Mentions "al-muʿāmilīn."

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• lebdi

1 Discussion

Ismaʿīl, probably in Fustat, to his father Ismaʿīl b. Faraḥ in Alexandria. Ca. 1057. Faraḥ b. Ismaʿīl writes that he is sending a pouch of dinars with the bearer of the letter and asks his father to exchange them for a different currency.

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• alexandria
• dinar

1 Transcription 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Document date

Sivan 1496 Seleucid (3 May 1185–1 June 1185 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Bride: Nasab bt. Abū l-Khayr al-Zayyāt. Groom: Munajjā Abū Saʿd al-Labbān. 10 + 25.

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• 12th c
• register
• trousseau

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in the same hand and possibly from the same book are also found in T-S J1.54, BL OR 5554A.53-54r, Moss.

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Tags

• account
• al-tahirti
• flax
• trade

2 Transcriptions 3 Translations 2 Discussions

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: "I, Sh[...] ha-Melammed witness against Shelomo Ibn al-ʿArīshī for 5 gold coins." Underneath, a writing exercise. On verso: "Shelomo may God preserve him," then an Arabic basmala, then further writing exercises involving a verse of poetry in Judaeo-Arabic and the alphabet in Hebrew.

Tags

• cmp

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

ʿAzaryahu ha-Kohen. There are also two notes in Arabic script, both of which mention "the two women."

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Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The practitioner is to light a wick with pure violet oil inside of a human skull. A black raven is also involved, and three pegs are to be driven into the skull-lamp.

Tags

• arabic & hebrew
• arabic script
• magic

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Primary language

Arabic

A few words from the two fragmentary lines read - "bimā tashraḥ min ḥālihim", "Jamāl al-Dawla". ENA 3695.4, ENA 3695.5, and ENA 3695.8 all look very similar, might be from the same original document.

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• dimme

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There is discussion of payment of wages; sums named are a rubāʿī and 1.5 dinars. Also mentions Divre ha-Yamim and Psalms and Iyov and Daniʾel.

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There is a line or two in Arabic script on verso in a fiscal hand, probably part of a tax receipt (cf. also ENA 3971.13–24, 31, 33, 34).

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Tags

• arabic script
• ib5
• india book
• tax
• tax receipt

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Some contain the mystery mark (backwards ط). All are dated after the formula kutiba. ENA 3971 13–24, 31 and 34. For Sayf al-Dawla. Sum: 42 + 1/2 + 1/8.

Tags

• dimme
• tax
• tax receipt

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Some contain the mystery mark (backwards ط). All are dated after the formula kutiba. ENA 3971 13–24, 31 and 34. For Sayf al-Dawla. Sum: 29 1/4 (dirhams).

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• dimme
• tax
• tax receipt

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Primary language

Arabic

4 pages from the medical text of the infamous medieval Persian polymath Muḥammad b. Zakarīyyā al-Rāzī (d. 925 or 935 CE) entitled al-Ḥāwī fī-l-Ṭibb.

Tags

• al-razi
• dimme
• medical

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Primary language

Unidentified (Hebrew script)

The scribal hand is akin, but not identical to the commercial accounts of ENA NS 1066.1-10 (PGPID 9938), which contain a linguistic mixture of Hebrew, Italian, and Yiddish. See also: https://dpul.princeton.edu/coins_geniza/feature/7-florin-15th-16th-centuries-ce.

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Document date

Heshvan 4800 Anno Mundi (22 October 1039–20 November 1039 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Power of attorney written and signed by Avraham b. Shelomo Gaʾon. Also signed by Ḥalfon b. ʿAmram. Location: Ramla.

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• power of attorney

2 Transcriptions

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer is in some distress and perplexity and repeatedly mentions someone "who is a youth and his wife is a small girl." He also mentions arrangements for the orphans in general, and sums of money in Ashrafīs.

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• late ja

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yaʿīsh b al-Kadīḥī(?) to Sālim b Yūsuf al-Jiyār(?). In Judaeo-Arabic with some Hebrew.

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• late ja

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Part of the phrase שער הישיבה יכון לעד is also preserved, typically used in reference to the court of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon.

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Document date

1028–1054 CE

Dating: ca. 1028–54 CE, based on the years of the scribe (the ḥaver Shemuel b. Moshe—see also ENA 2747.6 and ENA NS 75.20). Groom: Daniel.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Very fragmentary. Refers to "going up" (al-ṭulūʿ); a gentile who must write to someone about something (wa-yaḥtāj al-goy yaktub ilayhi bi-dhālik fa-innī nantafiʿ bi-dhālik).

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Inferred date

1750–1850 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

There are a wide variety of late 18th- and early 19th-century documents connected to Yosef Yuʿbaṣ and his family members in Cairo (the surname is also transliterated as Yaʿabeṣ in the PGP). AA. MCD.

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• fgp stub

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

The customers named are al-Rayyis Abū l-Bahā, Abū l-Manṣūr al-ʿAṭṭār, and Abū l-ʿIzz.

Tags

• arabic script
• book trade

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Document date

1207-08 Hijrī (19 August 1792–28 July 1794 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List in Judaeo-Arabic of payments dated in the years 1207-1208 AH which is 1792–1794CE. Although the document itself is dated with the Hijri calendar the payments listed within it are designated according to months within the Jewish calendar. The transaction is between two individuals listed in the heading and note along the bottom, as Shelomo Siman[?] and Yaʿaqov Zabriel[?].

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• 19th c
• payment

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Primary language

Arabic

Some of the preserved text reads as "al-duʿā al-khāliṣ". Needs examination. Unidentified text on verso, of later reuse.

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• dimme

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