Documents

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from David al-Qalʿī, perhaps in Minyat Zifta or nearby, to Yosef al-Faranji (it seems his uncle), perhaps in Fustat/Cairo.

Tags

• 16th c
• late heb
• minyat zifta

1 Transcription

Letter from Ibrāhīm b. Abī l-Ḥayy, from Alexandria, to his brother Mūsā. Around 1075. The writer is worried about their sister, Jarba, who is about to get married but still does not have a bed and bedsheets.

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3

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Tags

• dowry
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: treatment

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Document date

20 Iyyar 5482 Anno Mundi (7 May 1722 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Raḥel is mentioned throughout as an elder/elderly (זקנתו/זקנה) and the document also discusses inheritance arrangements in the event of her death.

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1

Tags

• 18th c
• female inheritance
• inheritance
• salonica

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Inferred date

1425–1700 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The unit "quarter qantār/אל רבע קנטאר" is also in use. MCD.

Tags

• 15th or 16th c
• list
• numismatic dating

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ṭuviyyahu, presumably in Bilbays, to a certain Sheʾerit, who may also be called Ṣāliḥ, and who is probably a cantor, presumably in Fustat.

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1

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Yaʾir (titled "ha-Nadiv Peʾer ha-Qahal" also known from T-S 28.6). For the second record see PGPID 40205.

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2

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Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). Sitt al-Dār bt. Ḥusayn, the wife of Khalaf b. Isḥāq, claims from her husband 10 dinars given to him as a loan. […] Efrayim represents Sitt al-Dār in this lawsuit. (Information from E. Bareket, Yehudei misrayim, p. 185)

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1

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Tags

• efrayim b. shemarya
• register

2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

אפצל אלסלם ואכתי ואולאדהא אפצל אלסלם). It is also possible that this a third person feminine verb ('let her not neglect washing his clothes...').

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Document date

485 Hijrī (12 February 1092–31 January 1093 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated in multiple places [.]85 AH, possibly with the century listed in l. 18 along the right column/recto 485 AH. A price in dirhams immediately follows 400, so it's unclear if it belongs with the year mentioned in the previous line. The heading on the right side of the recto mentions "dār al-Maṣāṣa," referencing the street by that name in Fustat.

Tags

• list

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Akhlābū Kohen b. Aharon, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1045.

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2

Tags

• nahray b. nissim
• trade

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

from the day the qaẓin arrived, and also that R. Levi "stays at the dīwān night and day."

Tags

• late ja

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A small remnant of the date is visible in line two "[ה]עשרים ושש", which could be the latter two digits of the year [53]26, [54]26, or [55]26 AM. Location: Alexandria. The only clear portion of the husband and wife's nomenclature is the latter's first name: Reyna (ריינא).

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1

Tags

• alexandria
• divorce
• early modern

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Abū l-Surūr and Ibn al-Sulamī; a period of a year and a half; a quarter of the business proceeds; "except for the verdigris" (illā l-zinjār); and the term muʿāraḍa (objection?). Ends with greetings (ajall al-salām) and a request to write back quickly (וכתבך לא תוכרהא [עני).

Tags

• business
• letter

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Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The groom is Sālim b. Saʿīd al-Akhlūfī. The bride is Saʿīda bt. Saʿīd al-Ḥatrūshī.

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1

Tags

• ketubba
• yemen

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Draft of a letter from someone to his brother, Abū l-Ḥasan, who stayed home alone during the recent holiday while his children were visiting the writer. The writer alludes numerous times to Abū l-Ḥasan’s distress and says that he ought to come for the upcoming holiday, as Abū l-Ḥasan’s house is empty and burdens are more bearable in the midst of family.

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

"I do not blame you for this mess (mā alūmak fī l-talāf)... the behavior of brokers (sīrat al-samāsira), but I am not pleased (wa-lakinnī mā arḍā)."

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Document date

Friday, 1 Adar 4811 Anno Mundi (15 February 1051 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Written and signed by Zekharya b. Moshe ha-Levi. Also signed by Mevasser b. Shelomo; Yiṣḥaq b. Shelomo ha-Levi; and Yiṣḥaq [b.]

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1

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Document date

Tammuz 1366 Seleucid (29 June 1055–27 July 1055 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

(Information from Bareket, Shafrir Misrayim, p. 44, n. 70; see also the Fustat on the Nile, p. 46)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Either a short note or the beginning of a letter from the Cordoban (al-Qurṭubī) Mūsā al-Kohen to Binyamin. In Judaeo-Arabic, in a dreadful hand.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic in which the writer reports how he left al-Maḥalla, either taking or intending to take 'the little ones' with him, but setbacks ensued. The phrase "farāgh al-khalīj" appears; maybe a branch of the Nile ran dry?

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Deed about paying a debt in installments, probably by a husband (Meshullam, known as Abu al-Makarim) to his wife (Sitt al-Baha bt. Yehuda).

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

AA) Previous description on PGP, which refers to an unknown shelfmark: Document to collect the ketubba (marriage contract or payment after divorce) belonging to Sitt al-Bayt, bt. Aharon al-Tājir; 1565 CE. (Shimon Shtuber, Sefer Divrei Yosef, 404.)

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: early 13th century. Almost entirely formulaic. The main substance appears to be a wish for peace between the addressee and his "family" (ahl), immediately followed by blessings for male offspring, so perhaps Abū Zikrī had some kind of marital conflict (the same conflict may be alluded to in T-S 13J7.26 (PGPID 7979)).

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2

Tags

• personal

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

They express their thanks for the good treatment afforded to them by the judge Yosef and by the elder al-Nafīs b. Abū l-ʿAlā. They complain about the wicked tanner Khalaf who has excused himself from participating in the financial obligations of the local community.

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1

Tags

• converts
• malij
• petition
• thanks

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions the Nasi; his brother-in-law Abū ʿAlī; the gloating of enemies; then, "by God and by the bones of your father! […] The Rayyis cried out and said everything, but it didn't help at all. You promised me that you would be on my side."

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Document date

Elul 4932 Anno Mundi (23 August 1172–20 September 1172 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Zekharya b. Ḥayyim, in Palermo ("al-Madīna"), to Abū l-Fakhr Saʿadya b. Avraham (Ibn al-Amshāṭī), in Fustat.

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2

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2

Tags

• 12th c
• business
• ib-addenda
• trade

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Inferred date

1128–1164 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yoshiyya the descendant of Shemaʿyahu Gaʾon and Natan b. Shemuel, who also wrote the document (he was active ca. 1128–1164 CE).

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5

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Document date

14 Nisan 5576 Anno Mundi (12 April 1816 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

The scribe Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen has signed on behalf of one of the partners and also notes in the final lines that two copies were issued.

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1

Tags

• 19th c
• romano

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Business letter in which the writer informs his brother about business matter but also inserts family news, notably about the health of his wife, who apparently had previously lost her little girl but had just given birth to a baby-boy.

Tags

• childbirth
• pregnancy
• trade

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Sa'dan b. Thabit al-Baghdadi from Tripoli to a colleague in Cairo asking him to take care of his son, whom he had sent abroad at the son's request, and to instruct him in commercial matters. Address on the verso gives the names: Abu al-Afrah 'Ar[us] b. Yosef and Yaʿaqov b. Nissim.

Tags

• 12th c

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Primary language

Hebrew

Letter fragment from a group of Byzantine Jewish captives being held for ransom in Egypt (probably Alexandria), to the Nagid Yehuda b. Seʿadya. In Hebrew.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Simḥa ha-Kohen, in Alexandria, to Abu ʿImrān Moshe "The Pride of the Priests" (Tifʾeret ha-Kohanim).

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3

Tags

• suftaja

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Document date

1277 Seleucid (31 August 965–17 September 966 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Saʿīd ha-Kohen (probably also the scribe), Yosef b. Ḥasan and Simḥa b. Yefet.

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1

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Document date

Adar 1471 Seleucid (February 1160 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document written under the authority of Nathaniel ha-Levi concernning payment of fees for an orphan preparing himself for the profession of his late father, Manṣūr b. Khalaf (known as Ibn al-Muṭrī). His mother Mulūk, widow of Khalaf the cantor, wants Manṣūr to be taught Torah by Abū Saʿd Saʿadya the cantor (known as Ibn al-Muʿallima, ‘the son of the female teacher’) b.

Tags

• cantor
• education
• orphans

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Inferred date

1051–1051 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yiṣḥaq ha-Kohen Ibn Furāt, probably in al-Ramla. Dating: ca. 1051 CE at the beginning of Daniel's gaonate (according to Gil). This letter sheds lights on the connections of Daniʾel and Avraham to Muslim state officials, e.g., the Qāʾid Abū Shujāʿ and Ḥusām al-Dawla. The content of the letter is difficult to understand, because much is stated only in vague terms.

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Primary language

Hebrew

Shelomo Gaon, writing from Jerusalem or Ramla, informing the Jewish chief justice of Aleppo that it had taken seven months to find the husband whose wife in the Syrian city had demanded a divorce.

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5

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Tags

• communal
• divorce

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Document date

1342 Seleucid (1030–1031 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

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

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Hebrew

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

1 Discussion

(Information mainly from CUDL. See also Goitein's index card.)

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2

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Document date

27 Tammuz 1440 Seleucid (16 July 1129 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document recording that Sitt al-Husn, daughter of Saadya, sought a gold tiara ('isaba) that she had pawned to the recently-deceased physician Abu al-Murajja b.

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2

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Tags

• halfon b. menashshe
• masliah gaon

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentioning people who are trying to sow conflict in the synagogue between a group of people and a certain cantor. Also mentions someone's son Manṣūr b. Bishāra. There is a long list of signatures from men including Yefet b.

Tags

• conflict

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Inferred date

1168–1204 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter sent from Alexandria, in which the writer, Avraham b. Elazar the doctor, reports about the arrival of a ship from Marseilles, containing queries from a distant country to Maimonides (l. 28r), and complains about a new imposition by the Sultan and the general poverty of the local community.

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1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

(Information in part from Goitein's index card.) On verso there is also a poem of Shelomo ha-Qaṭan (=Shelomo Ibn Gabirol), in the same hand.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

List of names and numbers, some associated with honors in the synagogue service (e.g., 9 — haftara — Shelomo Ashkenazi). Other names are al-Shaykh; Yosef b. Yoqer; Eliyyahu Condiote; Shemuel(?) […] On verso there are more accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, mainly listing foods: almonds, hazelnuts, chard, fava beans.

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