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Judaeo-Arabic

There is a group of enemies and at their head are the children of al-Najīb. There is a "writ (waraqa) in the amount of 8,000..." […] Everyone is in a state of fright. The sender cites the ʿal ha-nissim prayer to wish destruction on the ringleaders of this scheme: יפר עצתו ויקלקל מחשבתו וישיב] גמולו בראש.

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Arabic

There are two additional columns of text, which are at least somewhat related to the main petition (both refer to an ijāza/exemption; the first is signed by Mattā and dated 19 Hātūr 1509; the second is signed by [...] al-Nā'ib al-Rasūlī and dated 1510). The petition itself appears to be dated 1509, which might correspond to 1792/93 CE.

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Document date

4754 Anno Mundi (19 September 993–7 September 994 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Two cantors, Naḥum b. Yosef al-Baradānī and Palṭiel b. Efrayim, divide up liturgical and communal responsibilities (and wages) between them. […] The former, Naḥum b. Yosef al-Baradānī, is otherwise known from the writings of R.

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• cantor
• scribes

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Primary language

Arabic

A man belonging to the entourage of the amīr [...] al-Dīn Ṭāsh Takīn then appeared. . . . The continuation is missing. There is a Mujīr al-Dīn Ṭāshtakīn known from historical chronicles (amīr of the Iraqi ḥājj pilgrims in the late 12th / early 13th century), but the word before Dīn here doesn't seem to be Mujīr.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Formula to be used in Jerusalem [?]. There is also an Islamic text in Judaeo-Arabic, concerning the beginnings of Islam and the Prophet Muḥammad and containing part of a very interesting genealogy: بن هاشم بن عب[...]

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• islamic text in ja
• qaraite

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Inferred date

950–1300 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Composed by Josiah b. Mevorakh al-ʿĀqūlī. Dating: Josiah b. Mevorakh al-ʿĀqūlī lived in the second half of the 10th century; CUDL dates this copy to the late 13th century (specifically, 1296/7 CE) based on the arrangement of calendrical values.

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• calendar

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Document date

29 Tammuz 5458 Anno Mundi (8 July 1698 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

(Document #31) Brief testimony by a certain Aharon Lobregón that he is leaving his daughter and "his maidservant" (שפחתו, an enslaved woman) in the home of Yosef Abzaradel while he travels to Alexandria. The entry does not state for how long Aharon planned to travel.

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• early modern enslaved people

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Primary language

Hebrew

The poem is jubilant, and praises, of course, also Abraham's illustrious late father, other ancestors, his two sons (who must have been mere boys at that time), and the happy community, for which he had been spared" Med Soc V, 111.

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• avraham maimonides
• illness: recovery

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C 1, 2, containing about sixty names of male persons, recipients of alms. The first four are styled 'elder'; among the others: 4 dealers in olive oil, zayyat, 2 dyers, 2 packers, a cook, a gravedigger, a ghulam, servant or employee, of the (senior) Tustari brothers, all people of low professions.

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• capitation tax
• charity
• communal
• jaliya
• jizya
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Written and signed by Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya. Also signed by [...] b. Avraham. (Information from Goitein's index card #11876.)

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• account
• heqdesh
• qodesh
• waqf
• yefet b. david b. shekhanya

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto (reuse): Letter from the fledgling cantor [...] b. Shelomo(?) al-Ḥalabī, in Malīj, to his mother, in Fustat (care of Hillel al-Fuqqāʿī in the druggists' market).

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Small fragment, almost no text preserved.

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Wednesday, 23 Rajab 1244 Hijrī (29 January 1829 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

After 1835, this title referred to the Chief Rabbi of Istanbul, who, at least in theory, represented all Jewish subjects of the Ottoman sultan. The title appears sporadically before that date, but its connotations are neither clear nor consistent.... […] This name is close enough to that of the leading rabbi of Istanbul’s Jewish community at the time, Ḥayyim Yaʿḳov Benyakār, to make it plausible that the figure named in the loan agreement is, in fact, Benyakār, whose name could also be rendered Bāryakār, using the Aramaic bār instead of the Hebrew ben for ‘son of’. […] The potential relationship of the surnames Cara and Caro/Karo in early modern Cairo also await further research. MCD.

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• frances
• hakham bashi

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Primary language

Hebrew

Out of the related documents, CUL Or.1080 J148 and T-S 8J7.9 must have been copied at the same time, as both contain the same interlinear insertion ("and his two sons Meshullam and Avraham") at the same place in the document. This allows reconstruction of some of the lacunae in the transcription below. Both also have accounts in Arabic script on verso. The CUL Or.1080 J148 version contains more abbreviations, while the T-S 8J7.9 version has more words written out in full. T-S NS J39 is also a very close copy. (Information in part from Goitein's index card and Med Soc 2:162, 554.)

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Document date

28 Elul 5324 Anno Mundi (5 September 1564 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Ladino

Abraham is in Egypt/Cairo and wants her to come to meet him with the first ship to Alexandria. (Information from CUDL.) He begins by informing her that he is in Misrayim, i. e. […] On the journey she is to take a companion if she so wishes: "no receles de tomar algun hombre nekhbad o mujer . . . lo ke avreis menester tomares y abasares en Alexandria ke luego abasara vuestra hermana."

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• 16th c
• ladino

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The query concerns complicated cases in the laws of levirate marriage: a woman who heard by rumor that her husband had been killed, who had refused to enter into levirate marriage, and who then died, and the uncertainties surrounding the inheritance of her ketubba money, part of which she had already collected (fifty dinars), with the yavam demanding that her heirs return it to him. Also discussed is the neʾemanut ("trustworthiness") clause in her ketubba, which exempts her from an oath when collecting the ketubba, and its relation to talmudic sources, including the force of the waiver formulas מחול לך and אתן לך. […] Friedman and Ashur (India Book IVa, 91–94) consider various possibilities for the identity of the addressee and conclude by suggesting the following course of events: - a dispute arose between the scholars in Aden or Yemen regarding issues of levirate marriage - Ḥalfon's lengthy stay in ʿAydhāb allowed him to send a legal query to Fustat to receive a response - the authority addressed in the query may be "the Rav" Rabbi Elʿazar Ibn al-Qaṣabī - Ḥalfon then returned the responsum to Khalaf in Aden and received a letter of gratitude This document was not part of Goitein's original list, but was identified as a Ḥalfon document by M.

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• ib4
• india book

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yedutun complains about how everyone repays him with ingratitude, and he seems to refer to his activities as a physician (although Goitein read יטבהם in line 9 as יכצהם). Yedutun had to swear to Abū Zikrī that he must have been mistaken about seeing Moshe in Cairo and that Moshe doesn't know Ben Shaʿya either. […] , so Moshe should watch out. Moshe should also pass on Yedutun's prescription to Yaḥyā al-Khuḍarī, because Yedutun owes him a favor.

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• apricots
• gratitude
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: physician
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Alphabetized list of contributors and their payments toward the communal kosher meat tax (gabela) in the month of Elul (Raḥamīm). […] It may be possible to ascertain a clearer dating estimate through comparison of the names of those referenced (several appear also in JRL L 29 (PGPID 40135) dated 1822 CE). […] , Nissīm Ṭawīl, Nissīm Zābī, Naḥmu al-Shaykh, Siman Tov Ḥakīm and his wife, Saʿad Semana, Saʿad Abūalʿafīya, Saʿad Angel, Saʿad ʿAfleq[?]

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• 19th c
• gabela
• kashrut
• late prosopography

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Document date

Ṭevet 1435 Seleucid (21 December 1123–18 January 1124 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe ha-Levi Rosh ha-Qahal known as al-Jubaylī; Natan/Hiba ha-Levi; and Abū l-Riḍā. […] dinars which are owed to him by Natan; the debt contract is dated the first decade of Dhū l-Qiʿda 517 AH, corresponding to Ṭevet 1435 Seleucid; its witnesses are Ibn al-Fāʾiqī and Ibn al-Amadī. Abū l-Faraj relinquishes his right to sue Natan for the total unless the government appropriates (yaʿtariḍ) from Abū l-Faraj anything pertaining to the estate of Sar Shalom, specifically the money that he (Abū l-Faraj?) […] The witness signatures are not preserved on these fragments, though the top of one signature might be barely visible on T-S 8.153. Joins: Alan Elbaum. The lower fragment under the shelfmark AIU VII.A.22 (PGPID 38245) is from the same legal case; may be a copy of the same document.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer reports that Abū Isḥāq the cantor recently arrived and told him that the addressee is seriously ill (fī ḥālin ṣaʿb min al-wajaʿ). In place of expressing sympathy, the writer begins a tirade about how the addressee has mistreated him (and/or his family members?) […] I swear to God that I will not write you again, wish you peace, or ask after you, neither you nor those in your family, neither with language nor tongue (i.e., not at all). And [I will remain?] in this world without uncle, without father, and without brother." He concludes with two somewhat self-righteous biblical quotations: 'Abraham was one among the nations [and he inherited the land]' (Ezekiel 33:24, slightly misquoted), and 'may God repay every man according to his deeds, according to the fruit of his doings' (Jeremiah 17:10, slightly misquoted). The writer might also quote 1 Samuel 24:15 ('The Lord therefore be judge') earlier in the letter (r11–12), but a lacuna makes it difficult to be certain.

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• breakup
• ghuzz
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: letter norms
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Document date

1241 Seleucid (7 September 929–27 August 930 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The text is part of a longer calendrical work; the passage preserved on this fragment sets out to correct the Christian calendar dates of Lent and Easter for 1241–44 Sel. (929–933 CE). The 19-year Alexandrian Easter cycle, instituted in the 4th century, synchronizes the lunar months with the Coptic solar years; but the discrepancies from astronomical reality became progressively more pronounced over the centuries (hence the Gregorian reform in the 16th c). […] Such Jewish texts are attested in the Latin West from the twelfth century onward, and somewhat more common from the 14th-15th c on, but this is early even for the Islamicate Jewish material. It may also be the earliest known attestation of the Seleucid era that can be firmly traced to Egypt.

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• calendar
• coptic calendar
• copts

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Primary language

Judaeo-Persian

This poem is a masnavi that has been attributed to ʿUbayd Allāhal-Zākānī (d. 1370). It tells of a stonecutter on Mount Sinai who loves God so much that he weeps from lovesickness and invites Him down to earth and promises him a beautiful stone cottage and all sorts of mountain delights (e.g., the choicest sheep-tail).

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• judaeo-persian literary

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Bahāʾ received the money that was owed to him by Khalaf the cantor: 485.75 dirhams. Someone is in Sūq al-Ghazal (the Yarn Market) in a silk shop. "And these are the dirhams... in his ledger (daftar) in my handwriting." Somone also received 7.5 dirhams' worth of silk. Signed: Yaʿaqov b.

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