Documents

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe, in Alexandria, to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE).

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2

Tags

• halfon b. menashshe
• yefet b. menashshe

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Goitein and Cohen see this as the same Efrayim from T-S 12.3 (PGPID 3153) (Information from CUDL) See also Goitein's index card.

Tags

• communal
• petition

1 Transcription 1 Translation 2 Discussions

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter regarding business from Yaḥyā b. Mūsā al-Majjānī, probably in Mahdiyya, to Nahray b. Nissim (c. 1045 CE). […] Menashshe and expressing the hope that [...] b. Abū Ibrahim al-Iskandarānī, who travelled from Barqa, is fine.

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Tags

• 11th c
• nahray b. nissim
• trade

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

End of a letter conveying greetings to all family members ('father, mother, sister, uncle, aunt, and anyone else under your care') of the addressee. Conveying the heartsickness (fasting, weeping) of everyone at home and telling the addressee that attaining the world (al-dunyā) will not be worth this if a certain woman in the house (his mother?)

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Document date

22 April 1140 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Netanel, in Qalyūb, to his brother Ḥalfon b. Netanel, in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Monday, 3 Iyyar [4900 AM], which is 22 April 1140 CE.

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2

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• ib-partial translation-heb
• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• india book

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Zikri b. Abu al-Rida, the perfume seller, to Abu al-Mahasin, a tailor and weaver, dealing with financial business and referring to several textiles.

Tags

• business
• tailor
• wedding

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Document date

428 Hijrī (25 October 1036–13 October 1037 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A very damaged record, mentioning the supply of different materials, such as oakum, straw, reeds, bricks, lime, twigs, clay, nails, water. Also, payments to sawyers, masons, carpenters, plasterers, and helpers.

Tags

• 11th c
• account
• communal
• heqdesh
• qodesh
• (+ 1 more)

1 Transcription 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Signed by Palṭiel b. Efrayim (appears also in T-S AS 145.52 in the 990s CE, and T-S 24.11 in 1002 CE).

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Document date

25 Shawwāl 446 Hijrī (27 January 1055 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

A reference to another year in the same decade is mentioned a line above. There is also a reference to a person whose name (missing) is followed by اطال الله بقاه وادام تاييده وعلاه وكبت اعداه.

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• dimme

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Concerning a dispute between Abū Isḥāq Avraham b. Shelomo Ibn al-Tawwazī and his father-in-law Abū Manṣūr Aharon b. Mevasser al-Zayyāt. Describing the resolution to the dispute after the invention of the 'righteous elders' except for an outstanding sum of 23 dinars which Aharon will repay in installments to Avraham.

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1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Here he writes about expecting a shipment of empty quires, and he also requests ink.

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2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

His son, Sasson, was a judge in Cairo; Sasson had a son called Yiṣḥaq who was also a judge in Cairo, see Med. Soc. 2:514, #24, #25.

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information from Goitein's index cards.) See also T-S 12.329 + T-S Ar.48.136, by the same writer, possibly to the same recipient.

Tags

• trade

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Details of an oath to be taken by Abu al-Ḥasan Qasim as demanded by the haver Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham with regard to a consignment of cinnabar (zanjafūr) that had to be delivered by his servant to Ḥasan b. Ḥasan in al-Mahdiyya. This document was written in Denia, Spain, in 1083, according to another written deed on the same issue (PGPID 7271).

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2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Primary language

Hebrew

The sender reports on family affairs and his happiness on the birth of his grandson. He also reports on business matters and various commodities intended to be sold overseas (ll. 14–21).

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2

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Salama b. Nissim b. Ishaq al-Barqi of Busir to Abu Ishaq (Barhun) b. Ismail al-Tāhartī, dealing with the production of flax and linen.

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2

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1

Tags

• flax

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The father conveys a strong message to his son to return to God and stop acting in a manner pleasing only to 'fools and people of little religiosity.' He also urges him to travel only with a caravan or on a merchant's itinerary.

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2

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1

Tags

• mansur b. salim

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 2 Discussions

Inferred date

1150–1181 CE

Natan he-Ḥaver (fl. 1150–1181 CE), also signed by Levi b. Avraham ha-Levi (= the cantor Abū Sahl Levi?)

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Letter from Isma’il b. Ya’aqov al-andalusi, probably from Mahdiyya, to Yoshe’a b. Natan al-andalusi, Fustat. Around 1050. Regarding goods that are being sent to the Maghreb, especially linen.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions various textile goods, also wax/candles; the most common item looks like نون or نور.

Tags

• maks

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Primary language

Arabic

Probably a report mentioning the royal kitchen "maṭbakh" and lamb meat "laḥm al-kharīf." The term maṭbakh often means sugar refinery in state documents, though the reference to meat suggests it is a kitchen here. Lamb is technically kharūf, so it may read laḥm al-khirāf (pl.).

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• dimme

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Document date

Av 1451 Seleucid (17 July 1140–15 August 1140 CE)

Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyār, instructing him to pay al-Rayyis Abū Saʿd 6 dinars. This may be Moshe b. Netanʾel al-Shishi; see T-S 13J13.12 (PGPID 7990). Dated Av 1451 (= 1140 CE).

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3

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1

Tags

• abu zikri kohen
• cheque
• order of payment

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Inferred date

1700–1900 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The paleography and format of these writing exercises also match this timespan. MCD.

Tags

• 18th or 19th c
• bialobos
• learning

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Primary language

Arabic

Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār) for Maḥāsin b. Saʿīd b. Hilāl al-Yahūdī al-ʿAṭṭār, first five lines only. In which he acknowledges a debt owed to Bū l-Riḍā b.

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1

Tags

• iqrar

1 Discussion

Primary language

Arabic

The sender mentions requesting the 'marsūm' and something which came out to 700 dirhams; 21 'fingers' of something; the qāḍī Fakhr al-Dīn; how the 'ḥāmila' is delayed; and "if the government..." (law kān al-sulṭān...). On verso there are jottings and pen trials in Hebrew, Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic.

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Primary language

Arabic

Verso contains a few heart-shaped designs with words in minute script written inside them. These are also found on top and in margin of recto. (Information in part from FGP)

Tags

• cartouche
• dimme

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Bifolio of accounting for the purchase of wax (sharḥ shary al-shamʿ). Mentions Nuʿmān; pepper; the word אכדת is spelled אכת; selling a turban to Salāma; the term tashmīʿ (presumably somethign to do with wax); the customs at Dār Mānak and other payments. The right page of recto is headed "explanation of the indigo which I left [in] Almeria with Abū ʿUmar b. BQNṢ(?)

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1

Tags

• fgp stub

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Primary language

Aramaic

Probably 11th century, so it can be 1032 (if the year is 4793 era of creation) or 1082 if the year is 1393 era of documents. An earlier period is also possible- 932 or 983. AA

Tags

• get

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Asking the addressee to ask al-Qāḍī al-Murtaḍā for 1,294 1/4 dirhams. On verso, rhyming jottings in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script (note that the word that looks like אלעזר is actually אלעדר).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mathāb(?) to Abū l-Faraj Ibn al-Rayyis al-Iskandarānī (=Eliyyahu the Judge).

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The sender seems disgruntled that someone didn't accept his help setting up a shop; he also owes two months of rent. Greetings to various people including the addressee’s father.

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Document date

1770 Seleucid (9 September 1458–29 August 1459 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Lines 4–11 are an elaborate reshut clause, but it is not clear if the name of the Nagid is preserved. ʿAbd al-Karīm b. Maḥāsin b. ʿIwaḍ al-Kohen makes a declaration of some kind.

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Primary language

Hebrew

Asking for help or guidance in some legal case; mentions an amir multiple times and also a physician. Join: Amir Ashur. Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ on verso.

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• late heb

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Primary language

Arabic

Addressed to Sulaymān Maymūn al-Qazzāz(?). Asking him to purchase the headdress (kūfiyya) they had previously spoken about when the addressee was going to Cairo. Goes on to mention various other business matters and people such as Ibn al-Janānī. Reused for accounts in Hebrew script and Hebrew numerals.

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1

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Primary language

Arabic

Receipts sharing the same administrative note/hand at upper left (beginning with something from the root ثبت and then "dīwān al-jawālī in shāʾ allāh"): T-S AS 176.220, T-S AS 177.105, T-S AS 178.200, and T-S AS 178.126.

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Primary language

Arabic

The sender mentions Isḥāq al-Nafūsī and al-Shaykh Maḍmūn (twice). He was intending to travel to Egypt (from Yemen?)

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2

Tags

• ib-addenda
• india book unedited

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Primary language

Arabic

Verso (the earlier text): Fragment of a state-related document referring to "the victorious army" (al-ʿaskar al-manṣūr). The ends of three more lines are preserved.

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Primary language

Arabic

Recto might be headed "tawqīʿ" and may grant someone the right to engage in business with the price of shipping something (يتصرف في ثمن حمل . . . ) for the bustān of al-Malik al-Saʿīd in Bilbays. Verso has two discrete entries, each mentioning a date and probably a sum of money.

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Primary language

Arabic

Recto: Fragment of a letter or letter draft in Arabic script. Might also be literary: اما بعد كان الذي . . . وما اعلمه ان . . .

Tags

• physician

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating is 16th-century based on the paleography and post-1574 CE given that there is silver coinage listed as "dirham Murādīyya" (Sultan Murad III r. 1574-1595). Alexandria is referenced on the right side of the recto (נא אמון).

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1

Tags

• 16th or 17th c
• alexandria
• numismatic dating

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

For the surname Mar Ḥayyīm, see also: T-S Ar.30.141 (PGPID 20277); ENA NS 53.21 (PGPID 11382).

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• 16th c
• ottoman

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Document date

5582 Anno Mundi (27 September 1821–15 September 1822 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Moshe spelled his name מושה, perhaps an error, but this could also reflect a spelling of what he was called in Arabic (Mūsa).

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1

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Inferred date

1127–1138 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

There are mirror imprints of another legal document in Aramaic on both verso and recto, also in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe; much of the text is legible, but few or no specifics of the case.

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2

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• halfon b. menashshe

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Greetings to people such as Shuqra, Milāḥ, Pinḥas, and all of Milāḥ's in-laws. Greetings from David and Khiḍr and 'ahl al-bayt.'

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1

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Primary language

Arabic

Has at least two taqbīl clauses, mentions a "khidma", and a revenue or tax "al-mustakhraj". On verso, there is piyyuṭ in the same hand as verso of T-S NS 325.232 + T-S 16.114 + T-S 24.57. Dating: ca. 1100 CE. Joins: Alan Elbaum. Needs examination.

Tags

• al-malik al-afdal (1094-1121)
• dimme

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Document date

Rabīʿ II 509 Hijrī

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

The original text may be the remannts of the lines in Arabic script on the right-hand page of image 1, which appears to be a legal document involving Abū l-Ḥasan, Alexandria, and boats. The other pages were reused for drafts of Hebrew elegiac poetry, and copious jottings in Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic, naming various people.

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Primary language

Arabic

Portions of ~5 lines are preserved from near the beginning, mainly consisting of praises and blessings for the addressee ('mawlāy al-shaykh al-ajall'). Folded into a bifolio and reused for a Judaeo-Arabic commentary on Genesis, including the beginning of the text in which the author states his aims.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions the arrival of another document (...waṣalat ruqʿa...), a caravan twice (al-qāfila), and travelers (al-raḥḥāla).

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Document date

Wednesday night, 28 Sivan 1581 Seleucid (19 June 1270 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fiancé: Ṭāhir b. ʿIwaḍ al-Jazzār. Fiancée: Mudallala bt. Ḥalfon b. Elʿazar. […] The name Abū ʿImrān b. al-Tifʾeret appears in the margin. On verso there is a Judaeo-Arabic literary text.

Tags

• engagement

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Inferred date

1140–1140 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

On the opposite side of the bifolio, there is a seliḥa also written by Ibn Yijū.

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Tags

• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib3
• india book
• poem

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