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9851LetterT-S NS 304.18
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter addressed to Abū Ibrāhīm Isḥāq b. al-[...]. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. […] Mostly containing regards to family members such as Abū Isḥāq, Sitt al-ʿUlamā, and the addressee's son Avraham. The sender has heard no news of the addressee except in one letter in the hand of Yaʿqūb b.
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9852State documentT-S NS 306.102
Document date
Ramaḍān 557 Hijrī (14 August 1162–12 September 1162 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
L7 contains a cipher, which seems like an ʿalāma, could be the ʿalāma juyūshiyya but this is a wide guess.
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1. . . . مما كتب فيها ثبت باعلاه العلامة الجيوشية
2. منها(؟) لهذا(؟) الحمد لله وبه ثقتي
3. لينقل خلفهما(؟) من اقطاعه الى اقطاع للاخر بما شهد به ا…
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9853Legal documentT-S NS 313.4
Document date
4854 Anno Mundi (24 September 1093–13 September 1094 CE)
Sedaqa the cantor, a man known to have served also as judge and scribe in Minyat Zifta. He may have been the scribe, using his own name and his wife's name merely for the sake of example in drawing up this form.
TS NS Boxn 313, f. 4, ed. Friedman, Jewish Marriage, vol. 2, pp. 109-111 (Doc. #9), N.T. 02-24-89 (p) Minyat Zifta, Egypt, 1093/4 }
1. [ בשמך ר]חמנא נס…
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1. [By Your Name, O Me]rciful One. The text of a marriage contract.
2. [On such day] of the week, such and such of month
3. [X,] four thousand, eight
4. […
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9854Legal documentT-S NS 320.53
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Muvḥar, since the name Berakhot appears throughout the document) and Yefet Tifʾeret ha-Qahal b. Avraham (who also appears in T-S 20.31 in 1092 CE, T-S Misc.24.137.1 in 1108 CE, and T-S NS J259 in 1099 CE).
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9855List or tableT-S NS J98
The large number of households receiving 3 loaves was clearly attributable to some monetary shortage, when the normal ration of 2 loaves per person could not be maintained. The additional allocations (verso: ziyada fi al-'aniyyim) were certainly answers to protests.
1. ר׳ידותון ה٠
2. בואלפרג^ומר
3. ד
r 3
ם
1. בית צדקה
2. ג
3. בנאת נסים
4. ג
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1. בןאלמליגינח]
ם
1. בן אלבלביסיה
2. ו [[ה]] 11.ff
1. וננה» 11.ff
1. טאהר כאנדם
2. יד׳ ם
3. מחאסןאלכאד…
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9856List or tableT-S NS J403
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
He was believed to be very influential with the viceroy al-Malik al-Afḍal. He signed documents in 1098 and died in or shortly before 1121.
1. מולאי אלשיך אבו אלמפצל חט רח
2. אלשיך אבו סחק בן טיבאן
3. וולדה
4. אלשיך אבו אלחסין אלכאתב
5. אלשיך אבו אלחסין אלצירפי
6. צהרה אלכהן אבו עמראן
7. צהרה אבו אלפרג אלבזא…
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9857Legal documentYevr. II A 1273
Document date
Thursday 15 Shevat 5450 Anno Mundi (25 January 1690 CE)
Primary language
Hebrew
The groom commits not to marry another wife for 20 years, but if his wife will become childless he can take another wife after 10 years. He also can not travel to Damascus or Constantinople for 20 years but is permitted to go to Jerusalem.
1. בסימן טוב ובהצלחה
2. ביום חמישי בשבוע והוא חמשה עשר יום מחדש שבט שנת חמשת אלפים וארבע מאות וחמשים שנים לבריאת העולם
3. ואלפים ואחת …
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9858Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328
Document date
28 Heshvan 5325 Anno Mundi (3 November 1564 CE)
Primary language
Hebrew
Incomplete betrothal agreement of Sitt al-Ahl bt. Yiṣḥaq Fayrūz and Yeshūʿa b. Eliyyahu ha-Kohen. Sitt al-Ahl is previously unmarried and the marital payments listed are: 50 kesif + 25 peraḥīm.
Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 29v
1. למא כאן בתא׳ לילה אן יספר צבאחהא נהאר אלכמיס ו׳ פי שהר מרחשון
2. סנה ה׳ש׳כ׳ה׳ ליצירה אשהד עליה אלאך ע׳אלרחים א׳אלמר׳ אלמו…
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9859Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1385
Document date
11 Ṣafar 699 Hijrī (7 November 1299 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Abū l-Bahā b. Mukram (Makārim?) Ibn al-Ṣūrī agrees not to involve his daughter Sitt al-Yumn in his ongoing court case with her husband.
1. בר
2. יקול מן יצע כטה אכרה אנא חצרנא וחצר
3. בחצורנא אלשיך אבו אלבהא ולד אלשיך
4. מכרם רח אל אלמערוף באבן אלצורי
5. ואשהד אללה עלי נפסה באנה לא יעבר
6. לבנתה סת אל…
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9860Legal documentAIU VII.D.53
Inferred date
1682–1682 CE
Primary language
Hebrew
In this document, Mazal Tov, the wife of Hiyya Pinto, certifies that she has received payment in full for the profit from her investments, namely her investments with Yom Tov Sahalon from 5430–41 (1670–81) and with Moshe Vital from 5441–42 (1681–82). She also received 1500 medins from Natan b. Efrayim from the capital that she had invested with Yom Tov Sahalon, and now the remainder of her capital is with Moshe Vital. […] There is some writing artfully woven amongst the signatures; all are difficult to read. ASE.
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9861Legal documentBL OR 5543.11
Document date
14 Tishrei 5566 Anno Mundi (7 October 1805 CE)
Primary languages
Aramaic, Hebrew
Some of the items include: Algerian tarbūsh hats (טראביש גזאיירלי), an Istanbulī towel (מנשפא איסטנבולי), silk gown (קומצאן חריר), embroidered velvet overcoat (גובב קטיפא בפונתס קצב), cotton mattress (טוראחא קוטן), among many other items. […] For another example of this technique on a nineteenth-century ketubba from Cairo, see: AIU VII.D.24 (PGPID 30523). See also BL OR 5543.5 for the engagement agreement of Yiṣḥaq's sister ~8 years earlier.
1. בסט׳׳ו והצלחה מצא אשה מצא טוב ויפק רצון מה׳ אכי׳׳ר
2. בשני
3. בשבת בארבעה עשר יום לחדש תשרי
4. שנת חמשת אלפים וחמש…
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9862List or tableBL OR 5549.6
The latter have their rents listed, in order to compare the actual with the budgeted revenue. There is also a third class, of people who live in their apartments without paying rent. […] Among the people exempt from payment are "a poor woman" and some scholars, one of them styled al-khaver. The total sum counted on as revenue was 336.5 dirhams, whereas the actual income was only 171, i.e., a little more than half.
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1. דאר בן פינחס
2. אבנה אלחמישי ג
3. שרכה אלפאצי
4. אם חוית א אם בו אלעז א>
5. שרצה בו מנצור ב>
6. שרכה בן עלם אלדולה א
7. דאר עבלה ב>
8. דאר אלזגאג
9. סלימאן ה בו מחמד …
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1. Inhabited without rent:
2. R. Anaṭōlī, may God preserve him, 5.
3. R. Yiftaḥ, 6. The son of R. Samuel, 7.
4. The poor woman, 5. AI-Ḥāvēr, 6.
5. Sālim b.…
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9863Legal documentBL OR 6356.1–16
Document date
First third of Adar 5443 Anno Mundi (27 February 1683–7 March 1683 CE)
Primary language
Hebrew
(Document #57) Two-part purchase involving Moshe De Suriyya and al-Emir Ezbek Beğ (אל אמיר איזבך ביך), an Ottoman elite based on his honorifics. […] Two of the people involve in the latter part of the transaction are the non-Jew Guirguis/Georgios and Yiṣḥaq Magoro. The entry also lists other expenses associated with the transaction, such as the cost of drawing up a tezkere and paying the wages of a "guard/watchman" (קוואץ/قواص).
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:(Documents 56-57) Folio 15r
1. בעח׳׳מ קבל החכם השלם כמה׳׳ר חייא שלום נר׳׳ו מהנבון נעלה כה׳׳ר חגי די לא מאר (Delamar/De La Mar) יצ׳׳ו המורשה של ה…
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9864Legal documentBL OR 8661.1
Document date
Adar II 1461 Seleucid (1 March 1150–29 March 1150 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Ṣedaqa says that his mother-in-law loaned 7 dinars to Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm al-Najīb b. Yaḥyā Ibn al-ʿAnānī. Now, Avraham acknowledges that he has been repaid by Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm and the latter's sister. […] He now releases Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm and the latter's sister from any claims, whether on his own part or on the part of his wife Sitt al-Jamīʿ or his mother-in-law the wife of Karīm who is the paternal uncle of Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm.
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9865Literary textBL Or. 5557K.33
Primary language
Arabic
Nine verses of poetry from the poem of Abū al-ʿAlāʾal-Maʿarrī (d.1057), who despite his controversial religious views is deemed one of the best classical Arabic poets.
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9866LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/38
Primary languages
Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Letter addressed to Abū ʿAlī Aharon ha-Kohen b. Avraham. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, and quite eloquent. […] He justifies his rebuke with an (unattributed) quote from Kitāb al-Zahra, the treatise on love by the 10th-century Muslim jurist Muḥammad b. Dāwūd al-Ẓāhirī: "Without rebuking lapses, one can't preserve a friendship."
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1. בש רח
2. וענוים ירשו ארץ והתענגו
3. שלום רב לאוהבי תורתיך
4. כי שפתי כהן ישמרו דעת
5. לנטע השכל ונצר היושר וגזע הבין וסעיף הכושר
6. שתיל הדעת והמזמה נחל נובע…
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9867LetterBodl. MS heb. f 102/48
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
He very happily reports on the birth of a son to him—"may God keep him alive and preserve him and send him a speedy recovery(!)"[…] He prays that God will keep his son alive so that he can 'toil over him like my father toiled over me.' […] The writer says he is always praying for the addressee during Birkat Kohanim.
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1. [ ]אן אקר[ ]
2. . . אמהם אדא . טעה ויפהמה ואב . . .
3. ממדינת פאס והו פי תמניה אנפס גיר
4. אלצביה אלדי מעי וליס לה אלא רחמי שמים
5. אללה עז וגל יוסע עלי…
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9868LetterENA 1822a.49
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
to him by the authorities (the letter mentions arbāb al-dawla, al-sulṭān, al-ṣāḥib, the qādī of Qalyūb, and the wālī) on condition that the young man remain in Qalyūb instead of traveling to the Levant as he had intended.
1. אלי חצרה אלולד אלעזיז אלשיך מוסי ופקה אללה תע
2. ועווצה כיר ורדה לאפצל מא עוודה מן עואידה
3. אלגמילה וינהי כתרה שוקה אליה ואלי גמיע מן ענדה
4. גמע אללה אלשמל…
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9869LetterENA 2805.22
Inferred date
1094–1097 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Nissim requesting to forward a letter to Hassan b. Bundar. Location: Alexandria. Dating: 1094–97 CE. ʿAmram congratulates Nissim (Nahray's son) on his recovery (r4–8). […] Bundār, which he asks Nahray to forward to Aden in the hands of any Jews who might be passing through, or alternatively in the hands of a trustworthy Muslim.
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1. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלחבר אלאגל [גדול הישיבה]
2. ואדאם סלאמתה וסעאדתה ותאיידה ונע[מתה ען שוק]
3. שדיד לטאלעתה אלסעידה אחיאהא אללה ק[ד עלם אלכא…
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1. (1–2) אני כותב לך, אדוני החבר הנכבד גדול הישיבה, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את שלומך ואת אושרך ואת עזרתו ואת חסדו לך .... מתוך געגועים
2. …
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9870LetterENA 3792.4
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from Umm al-Khayr, the widow of Eliyya al-Dimunshī, in Ragusa, Sicily, to her son Yehuda b. […] In fact, the family had heard a rumor that he died three years prior, so they held a large funeral and mourned him as if he had been present, believing that he died alone in a foreign land with no one to mourn him.
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1. מן עברתי אלדי אדא אתדכרת פל דכרך ופי א[ ]
2. תסבק כלמתי גמיע דאלך מן קוה חסרתי ומן א[ ]
3. אלשדיד ואשתיאקד אלבעיד פי בלד ל[א לה] [ו]ל[א] קריב ו…
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1. .... מדמעתי, אשר אילו היית מעלה אותה בזכרך וב ....
2. דברי יש לו עדיפות על כל אלה, מרוב אסוני ומ ....
3. הקשה והגעגועים אליך, הרחוק בעיר, אין לו ...…
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9871State documentENA 3979.1
Document date
Rabīʿ II 952 Hijrī (12 June 1545–10 July 1545 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
At the top of recto, there is a circular red stamp that seems to read "al-sulṭān al-Malik al-Muẓaffar"; this is puzzling, as it would suggest a Mamluk-era date.
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9872LetterENA 4020.5
Primary languages
Arabic, Hebrew
How much more (difficult are these times) on she who is hidden in the belly of the earth and is dependent on all (היא חבויה בבטן האדמה וצריכה לכל)." She also mentions that she has instructed a certain Menahem to speak on her behalf and collect money for her.
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9873LetterENA NS I.1
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
The sender complains further about the lack of letters and says that even if Eliyyahu has taken a vow not to correspond with him, he should send a letter to 'the judge' concerning the disputed household objects. The sender has also sent with Sayyidhum a letter detailing the lawsuits; Eliyyahu should present this account to Sayyidnā al-Rayyis (=Avraham Maimonides?).
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1. הנה אל ישועתי אבטח ולו אפחד כי עזי וזמרת יה ׳׳ ויהי ל[י לישועה]
2. אלי אלמגלס אלסמי אלאגלי אלמולוי אלפצל אלמתפצל עלי ממא[ליכה . . . . .]
3. כתרת תשו…
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9874Legal documentPER H 82
Document date
Thursday, 20 Iyar 4758 or 4768 Anno Mundi (19 May 998–29 April 1008 CE)
Primary language
Hebrew
Seʿadel, Shubayyib b. Shekhanya, al-Giddem ("the amputee"), and Ṭayyib b. Avishay. The witness Yosef b. Seʿadel also signs T-S 12.496, T-S 12.198, and Bodl MS heb. b 12/7; the latter two were validated by Shemarya b.
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1. [מע]שה שהיה לפנינו אנו העידים החתומים למטה ב[חמ]ישי ב[שב]ת
2. בעשרים יום לחודש אייר היא שנת ארבעת אלפים וש[… מאות ו…]שים
3. [ו]שמונה שנים לבריי…
Translated by Amir Ashur and Benjamin M. Outhwaite.
What happened before us, we, the witnesses who have signed below, on Thursday the 20th of the mon…
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9875LetterT-S 8.69
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Sar Shalom, likely Abū Zikrī b. al-Shāmī b. Sar Shalom, an India trader and nākhudā who eventually died in a shipwreck between Aden and India. Makhlūf also mentions an ivory trader residing in one of his houses who possesses mother-of-pearl that Makhlūf intends to use for wooden clogs (either as inlay or to sell and spend the proceeds).
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9876Legal documentT-S 8J32.8
Verso: document from Fusṭāṭ concerning financial matters between Isaac b. Elijah, known as al-Qaš[...] and Samḥūn. Dated Nisan 1340 of the Seleucid Era (= 1029 CE), and signed by Abraham he-Ḥaver b. […] (Information from CUDL.) See also Goitein's index card.
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9877LetterT-S 8J39.12
The second (r8–15) contains two garments, sent via Muḥsin b. Ukht al-Bantīt: a dabqāwī garment and a lower-quality muʿallam garment Intended for Abū ʿImrān b. […] The third (r margin 6–13) includes two turbans for Abū Yiṣḥaq. There is also a discussion of white scarves that are being prepared (r margin 10–13, v1) and of plans for a twenty-day business trip to the countryside (v2–3).
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1. כתאבי יאסידי ומו[לאי אטאל אללה בקאך ו]אדאם עזך ותאידך ונעמתך מן תניס לגי
2. בקין מן אב ען סלאמה ונעמה ואלחמד ללה חק חמדה אעלמך יאסידי אן וצל כ…
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1. אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את גדולתך ואת עזרתו לך ואת חסדו לך, מתניס, בי"ח
2. באב, שלומי טוב ואני מאושר, תודה לאל…
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9878State documentT-S 12.359 + T-S Ar.30.308 + T-S AS 148.96
Primary language
Arabic
Uses the phrase khidmat mālik al-riqq (see Khan, ALAD, 345, 368, 434 for meaning and other examples); and see T-S Ar. 42.162. […] One of them mentions the amir Fāris al-Dawla. ASE.
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9879Legal documentT-S 13J8.9
Document date
1142–1159 CE
Primary languages
Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic
Yehosef) to Abū Isḥāq Avraham b. Yaʿaqov known as Ibn al-A[...]ān and vice versa, for all partnerships and transactions and other liabilities between them, except for a debt of 45 + 1/3 + 1/4 dinars owed by Avraham to Abū Zikrī, which was documented in another legal document drawn up on the same date. […] Saʿīd, and another involving (Abū) Saʿīd Ibn al-Dhahabī. A filing note on verso states that Abū Zikrī Kohen received the entirety of what he was owed by Avraham, namely 45 + 1/3 + 1/4 dinars Signed by Natan b.
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9880Legal documentT-S 13J22.2
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Together with four other people he was called to attend the deathbed declaration of Sitt al-Husn, the wife of Judge Natan b. Shemuʾel ha-Ḥaver, "the Diadem of the Scholars." […] An eighth of another compound partly owned by her is to be sold to cover the expenses ofher burial. She also states which of her belongings should be given to her husband.
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1. דכלת יום אלסבת אלכאמס עשר פי
2. סיון מע אלנזר ר נתן בר שמואל החבר
3. נע ומעי רבי יהודה הכהן נזר
4. הכהנים ומעוזם חדות הנשיאות
5. בר כב גד קד מרינו ורבינו …
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1. On Saturday, the 15th
2. Siwan, together with "the Diadem" (of the Scholars) R. Nathan b. R. Samuel, the ḥāvēr,
3. of blessed memory, while the…
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9881LetterT-S 13J22.4
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Natan, location unknown, to Khalaf b. Barakāt b. al-Dayyān, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer has had no news of the addressee's family ever since he traveled, so he asks them to write to him with their news (r5–12). He sends his gratitude to Umm Khalaf and to the wife of the ḥaver, Umm Bū ʿAlī, probably for their hospitality (r12–18). He is very worried on account of the children's sickness (ḍuʿf al-ṣibyān, r10 and probably r21 and v8).
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1. בשמ רחמ
2. כתאבי אליך יאכי וסידי וקרה עיני
3. וענדי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם
4. עזך גמע אללה ביננא קריב אן שאללה
5. וממא אעלמך אן מן יום כרגת מן
6. ענדכם מא סמע…
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9882Legal documentT-S 20.21
Document date
Wednesday, 21 Iyyar 1387 Seleucid (27 April 1076 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Muvḥar and Shemuel b. Aharon ha-Kohen al-Ṣayrafī ("the money-changer") are released from a partnership between Ṣedaqa’s father and Aaron, apparently at the death of Ṣedaqa’s father. Unlike trading partnerships, which often include allusions to consignments in general or traded commodities in specific in their release clauses, this release includes mention of both bills of exchange (suftaja) and vouchers (khaṭṭ). […] Elʿazar and Ghālib b. Ḥalfōn al-Zayyāt (the olive-oil dealer), both known from other contemporary documents, and Yaḥyā b.
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1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנחנא [שהדי דחתמות ידנא לתחת][א ב]שטר אביזאריה דנן כן הוה [חצר אלינא מר ור צדקה]
2. בר מבחר סט והכדי קאל לנא אשהדו עלי ואקנו מ…
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1. Testimony which was before us—[we, the witnesses who have signed belo]w on this release document. Thus: [(our) tea(cher) and m(aster) Ṣedaqa]
2. b.…
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9883Legal documentT-S 24.24
Recto: part of a deed of release (אביזר), granted by ʿEli b. Ḥusayn b. Moshe al-Maghribī, to his brother Azhar b. Ḥusayn b. Moshe al-Maghribī,. […] Ḥarbish, Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham al-Ḥazām, Avraham b. Hillel b. Avraham, ʿEzra b.
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9884Literary textT-S Ar.6.1
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
These pages narrate how ʿUmar Ibn al-Khaṭṭāb oversaw the sweeping and cleaning of Jerusalem in search of the Foundation Stone (אלצכרה אלדי הי אבן שתיה). […] The patriarch suggest 50 households, the Jews ask for at least 200, and they compromise at 70 households. The Christians are alluded to as the "rivals/opponents" (khuṣūm) of the Jews. The Jewish neighborhood in Jerusalem is specified as the southern district known as Sūq al-Yahūd as well as the area around the waters of Silwān for ritual immersion.
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1. ואלרקאצין אלא ויחצר פחצר כול מוסלם
2. אן פי אלבלד ופי אלרסתאק וחצרו
3. [מ]עהם גמאעה מן אליהוד תם אנה
4. אמרהם בכנס אלקודס ותנטיפה
5. ועומר ישרף עליהם פי כ…
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9885LetterT-S AS 177.86
Primary language
Arabic
Note addressed to Abū Naṣr, in which the sender asks for a loan of a wine jug for three days (yā shaykh Abū Naṣr anʿim ʿalayya bi-ʿayrat baʿḍ al-adnān masāfat thalathat ayyām wa-uʿīduh). The last two lines of this document are difficult to read, maybe about finding someone to send the jug with or "if you are not able to loan it...." The phrase "baʿḍ al-adnān" could indicate several wine jugs, however "I will return it" suggests that a singular is meant.
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9886LetterT-S Misc.25.74
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
We did not expect you to fail to arrive with Rabbenu David and ʿAbd al-Ghaniyy. What is this behavior?! You know that your mother has her eye on the road... and your sisters, too." […] bread goes for 2 dirhams... and there is nothing cheap in the city. " Further down, mentions travel to Fustat and that (al-shaykh) al-Saniyy R. Shemuel traveled to Beirut, and from Beirut to Cyprus.
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9887LetterT-S Misc.25.130
Regarding the debt and goods belonging to the late Abū l-Faraj Yaʿaqov b. Avraham b. ʿAllān. The money and goods belong to Mevasser, the writer’s brother. Also mentions clothes that the writer probably deals with their manufacture.
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1. כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי ורייסי אטאל אללה בקאך וא[דאם] עזך
2. ותאיידך וסלאמתך וסעאדתך ונעמתך מן תניס ל[ ] כלון [מן]
3. אדר ערפך אללה ברכתה וימנה וער…
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1. אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי וראשי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את גדולתך
2. ואת עזרתו לך ואת שלומך ואת אושרך ואת חסדו לך, מתניס, ב....
3. באדר, יו…
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- illness letter 969-1517
- illness: chronic
- illness: marad
- illness: physician
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9888Legal documentT-S NS 327.132
Document date
1127–1139 CE
Primary language
Arabic
Sulaymān the head of the Jews (Raʾīs al-Yahūd), who appears in the antepenultimate and penultimate lines, is probably the Gaʾon Maṣliaḥ b. […] the Jew who is named Sitt al-ʿAfāf Umm ʿAbdallāh; and a Bū l-Faraj mentioned in the last line. […] In the next line, someone is said to "deserve all of the موىد(?) without [...]." Mentions a power of attorney (the wikāla at the beginning of l. 5).
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9889Paraliterary textYevr.-Arab. I 1700.22
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
The title is difficult to read; Goitein suggests "marham kulā" (kidney ointment, with the dot over the letter preceding kulā indicating that it should be deleted). Also possible is "marham nakhlī" (date-palm ointment). Contemporary documents and literary sources indicate that a "date-palm ointment" was used for the treatment of wounds; cf. T-S 8J20.26. Although no component of this ointment derives from a date-palm, it is to be stirred while it cooks with a green palm leaf (yuḥarrak bi-jarīd akhḍar), and plausibly the same leaf is somehow incorporated or used to apply the completed ointment on to the desired site.
[[יוכד שחם אלכלי]]
1. מרהם גבלי [מרהם כלי? מרהם נכלי?]
2. מרתק מסחוק נאעם ושחם כלי //עגל//
3. מסלי וזית טייב עתיק מן כל
4. ואחד גזו באלקטאר מח/רו/ק
5. וזן רבע אלמר…
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9890LetterAIU XII.84
Document date
17 Jumada I 1236 Hijrī (20 February 1821 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
In the introduction to her edition, Jane Hathaway notes: "AIU XII.84 is an affectionate, even familial, letter, dated 17 Jumādā al-Awwal 1236 AH/19 February 1821 CE, the top line or two of which has, unfortunately, been torn off. […] The name(s) of his correspondent(s) have not survived, but we can probably surmise that he, or they, are Christians since most of the people whom the letter mentions in connection with them are Christian. Ibrāhīm himself may also be Christian. Ibrāhīm has apparently received a packet of letters from the addressee and has passed two of them along to Abū Rafāʾīl (Raphael) and Abū Andraūs (Andrew), whom he describes as ‘our uncle’ and ‘our brother’, respectively....
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1. بعد اود [؟] الشوق [ ]
2. لا يخفا صرف محبتكم الداعي لتحريره اول الشوال عن الخاطر العاطر تانيا حضر لنا حروف محبتكم الصحة [ ]
3. الباري سبحانه الذي حضر…
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1. After [expressing our] most affectionate [?] longing [ ].
2. The abundance of your love is well-known [lit., ‘not hidden’], which was the reas…
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9891LetterDK 230.2 (alt: II)
As usual, the manufacturer also trades with finished products. He offers good sūsiyāt and local arḍīs (pl. arāḍī) of utmost thinness (margin l.2) but not of the pattern alluded to. […] Ackerman-Lieberman, "Partnership Culture," #56) where we find Ṣedaqa b. Ṣemaḥ b. Dāwud al-Raqqī and, perhaps, T-S 13J17.8, which is addressed to Abū l-Khayr Ṣedaqa b.
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9892List or tableJRL C 181
Document date
1159 Hijrī (24 January 1746–12 January 1747 CE)
Primary language
Ladino
The Hijrī years '54, '55, and '56 are also mentioned in the second heading of the third column on the recto. […] At least three different officials bearing the title "קשפ" appear in the accounts, which is probably an erratic spelling of the title كاشف (sub-provincial governor): (recto) Ḥasan Ağa קשפ Gharbiyya, ʿAlī קשפ Beḥayra, (verso) Ibrahīm קשפ Sharqiyya. Additional Ottoman officials and title-holders include, for example: Aḥmad Ağa Çerkasī, Muḥ[ammad]/Maḥ[mūd] Qaʾīmaqam, Ḥalīl Beğ, Aḥmad Çorbacı, Aḥmad Efendī t[ābiʿ] Ib[rahīm] Beğ, ʿUmr Efendi Baş, Katkhuda al-Bāb, Muḥammad Ağa. At least two tailors are mentioned (sastre, שאשטרי), one of whom is listed as "the tailor of the aforementioned Beğ," whose household is referenced at the top of the third column on the verso: "Account of the house of Yosef Beğ ישיר(?)
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9893LetterMIAC 23973.95
Primary language
Arabic
The main subject of the letter are an enslaved woman (jāriya) and her son, Rāhim, who were delivered by a man named Bazilī, who is also the bearer of this letter. The sender complains that the enslaved woman was sick (marīḍa), so the writers wanted to return her, even though she had apparently been examined three times before purchase. […] They say that they would have appeared before the eparch themselves if not for the news from the north and the "strife of the land" (ikhtilāf al-bilād). Instead, they have sent Bazilī on their behalf. […] "has left on feet of cotton"; kharaja ʿala aqdām quṭn); perhaps this is the same messenger who accompanied the sick woman and her son.
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1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
2. سبب اصدار هذه المناجاة اطال الله بقاه حضرة مولاي
3. الاكشيل صاحب الخيل وزير الملك وادام تاييده وعلاه ورفعته
4. [و]سناه وسمو…
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1. In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate.
2. The reason for sending this message, may God prolong his life, my honourable lord,
3. the Iks…
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9894LetterT-S 13J20.18
Primary language
Hebrew
Shelomo the physician, known as Ibn al-Ṭaffāl (“son of the fuller”), who arrived in Qalyub bearing a letter from Sar Shalom supposedly appointing him as the exclusive mohel for “all the villages.” […] Moshe now gets to the point of the letter: he has heard that Ibn al-Ṭaffāl slandered him to Sar Shalom, claiming that he said things against the Gaon that he never said. […] He would have presented himself in person, but it was all he could do to even write a letter. He wrote it lying down, prostrated by illness of his intestines and eyes.
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1. בש רח וח
2. שלום רב לאוהבי וג׳ שלום שלום לרחוק וג׳ וללוי אמר וג׳ יורו משפטיך וג׳
3. ישימו קטורה באפיך וג׳ ברך ייי וג׳ מחץ מתנים קמיו וג׳ כי ייי יהי…
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- ibn al-taffal
- illness
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- illness: excuse
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9895LetterT-S 13J28.6
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Mentions Sahlān b. Avraham. Also mentions shipments of money and goods: honey, crocus, linen, linen fabrics, and “lāsīn” silk. […] When I go to the bazaar, I am forced to sit on the road five times and more. I have ceased all my work. May God have mercy on me." The translations of Goitein and Gil diverge significantly. […] Both read "mayyit" (incurable, fatal) instead of ʿayītu, but as the next word is almost illegible, the only way to decide between the two readings is via comparing it with Nissim's other מs and עs.
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1. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מ[ולאי אלשיך] ואדאם עזה ותאיד[ה]
2. וסלאמתה ונעמתה מן[ ] נ[צ]ף כ[ס]ליו כתמה אללה עלי[נא]
3. ועליך ועלא כל ישף באחסן כאתמה א…
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1. אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את גדולתך ואת עזרתו לך
2. ואת שלומך ואת חסדו לך מ.... בט"ו בכסלו, יחתום אותו אלוהים ע…
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9896Legal documentT-S Ar.18(1).136
Document date
1469/1471 Seleucid (1158–1160 CE)
Primary languages
Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Ḥalfon ha-Kohen and Sitt al-Milāḥ b. Abū Saʿīd, at the top the name Khalaf Abū Saʿīd al-Kohen from Cairo (the bride’s father) is mentioned. (2) A second statement refers to Khalaf Abū Saʿīd who will trade with a sum of money paid to him for the orphan Abū Ḥasan (b. […] for a 50% share of the profits, dated Elul 1470 of the Seleucid Era (= 1159 CE). (3) The copy of a power of attorney dated to the first decade of Tammuz 1469 of the Seleucid Era (= 1158 CE) in Damīra under authority of the Nagid Shemuʾel is given by Sitt al-Niʿam bt. Yeshuʿa b. ʿAmram to Yosef b. ʿOvadya ha-Levi concerning dealings with her father’s estate, as well as mentioning names such as Hillel known as al-Abzārī and Damietta. (4) Another witness statement concerning a partnership in a shop and dated Marḥeshvan 1471 of the Seleucid Era (= 1160 CE) is signed by Shemarya b.
1. [ב]תרי בשבה דהוא עשרין ותשעה יומי לירח
2. תשרי דשנת אלפא וארבע מאה ושבעין וחד שנין
3. לשטרות בפסטאט מצרים כן הוה שידך מ יפת
4. הבחור בן מ יצחק הזקן החזן נע <…
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9897Legal documentT-S G1.52
Primary languages
Hebrew, Ladino
Legal declaration, probably the concluding page of a deposition, signed by Shem Ṭov al-Ḥāmī. In Hebrew and Ladino. Dating: Late. Shem Ṭov declares that he vowed to undertake the nezirut of Samson (i.e., abstain from wine and let his hair go wild) when his son had an eye disease. […] At this point they wanted the mother-in-law to leave them alone, but she refused to leave without her daughter. […] He signs Shem Tov ("Good Name") al-Ḥāmī, watchman of a quarter. "The purpose of the declaration was, of course, that the impulsive watchman thirsted for wine and wished to be absolved from his overhasty vow."
1. [...]קבלתי עלי הנזירות שבני היה חולה בעיניו והלכתי לחמותי
2. [ואמרתי לה בואי ל]ראות בן בתך שהוא חולה ואמרה לי שאינה יכולה לבוא
3. [שקרתי אמרתי הכי]תי את ב…
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9898LetterT-S K15.18
Document date
1647 Seleucid (October 1335 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
(perhaps read 1647, which is 1335/36 C.E., which is much more likely than 647 A.M = 881/82 C.E., but note that the preceding letter looks more like a dalet [= 4000] than an alef). In any event, this notation seems to have been there before the list was written, as proved by the last name on line 10, Sulayman, which had to be squeezed in to avoid the letters in the margin, and by the fact that the note is seemingly in a different hand. […] (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 496, App. C 69 and Cohen.) Also discussed in Goitein, "The Twilight of the House of Maimonides," Tarbiz 54 (1984), 99f.
1. שבת לך לך אסמו ללפ[קרא]
2. הד' מר ור שמואל הדיין הכה[ן
3. 20
4. אלשיך אלמופק אכיה יצחק
5. 5 5
6. אלכ' יוסף אלשיך צדקה אלשיך
7. 5 10 5
8. אברהם אבן נגיב נאצר בן יעקב
9. 1 1
10. …
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9899Literary textT-S NS 298.6 + ENA 4012.1 + BL OR 5552.4–4a
Document date
1352 Seleucid (11 September 1040–30 August 1041 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
The case comes before the caliph ʿUmar Ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, who is impressed that Bustanay does not flinch when a mosquito bites him. […] The point of the polemic: all the descendants of Bustanay are compromised, and the true house of King David will be revealed only in messianic times. […] Avraham, cast aspersions on Danʾiel b. ʿAzarya presumably also against Shelomo b. Yehuda. (Rustow, Heresy, 314) For a parallel text, see PGPID 35180.
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- bustanay
- conversion
- exilarch
- literary with documentary value
- nasis
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9900Legal documentYevr. III B 634 + T-S 8J32.1 + Bodl. MS heb. f 108/61 + Bodl. MS heb. b 13/48
Document date
Tuesday, 5 Adar II 1437 Seleucid (1126 CE)
Primary languages
Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
(Information in part from Friedman, "A Case of Polygyny with David, Abigail, and Ḥasana," Dine Israel X–XI (1981–83). Also discussed in Friedman, "Polygyny in Jewish Tradition and Practice," Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research 49 (1982), 33–68.) […] Yosef ha-Parnas (whose name appears also on verso of T-S 16.252 (PGPID 3470)).
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