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Document date

1172 Hijrī (4 September 1758–24 August 1759 CE)

Primary language

Ottoman Turkish

‘Āşık ʿÖmer is a known figure in Ottoman poetry, although numerous details of his biography are open to debate (Duymaz 2014). […] ʿĀşık ʿÖmer was unquestionably a mystic, although whether he belonged to a Sufi order is less clear. […] The object of af- fection is one Meḥmed Shah, who may be a Sufi master but could also be the Ottoman sultan Meḥmed IV (r. 1058–99 AH/1648–87 CE), the first emperor under whom ʿĀşık ʿÖmer saw military service....

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• 18th c
• ottoman turkish
• poetry

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Regarding the claim by Yaʿaqov b. Avraham b. ʿAllān against Yaḥya b. Moshe al-Majjānī. Two years after Yaḥya described his disagreement with Yaʿaqov, his opponent’s claims come before the court.

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• draft

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Document date

Elul 1351 Seleucid (13 August 1040–10 September 1040 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Some other synagogue expenditures, such as oil, are also listed. Further details refer to a number of compounds belonging to the qodesh.

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• 11th c
• account
• communal
• qodesh
• synagogue
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Document date

Thursday, 21 Ṭevet 1357 Seleucid (2 January 1046 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mukhtar and his son Abū Naṣr al-Ḥallāl(?) sue Shelomo b. Netanʾel al-Ṣayrafī, accusing him of taking the money that the deceased wife of Manṣūr (Dhukhr bt.

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• register

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He then recommends the bearer Ismāʿīl ibn al-Melammed Ibn al-Sadlū(?) (the same family name appears in T-S NS 220.32 (PGPID 23967)) for help with the capitation tax.

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• bilbays
• capitation
• tax

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Muwaffaq primarily to his son Yehuda, but also to a certain Abū Sulaymān, telling him to come visit his sister.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List of 20 notables, solicited for a special drive, eight already having made their pledges, ranging from five dinars, contributed by a jahbadh (money-changer, tax cashier, or possibly a banker), to one dinar each from two glassmakers and a convert to Judaism named Abū l-Khayr (Goitein: "Mr. […] Nahum, the father-in-law of Yequtiel b. Moshe, known as al-Hakim. Ca. 1090. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 504, App.

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• 11th c
• communal

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recommending the bearer, Dā'ūd of Banhā, who is chronically in arrears for the capitation tax (ʿalayhi jawālī muzmina). Rabbenu Menaḥem has already helped him by writing a recommendation for him to the Nagid Avraham.

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• capitation tax
• jaliya
• recommendation
• shelomo b. eliyyahu
• tax
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1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Arabic

ilā l-mawt wa-lākin lak ṭāl(!) al-ʿumr lā budd fa-infaraja(?) Allāh taʿāla...)

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• dimme
• distant husband
• paper trail
• pinholes

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A sum of 20 dinars is also named; possibly the addressee had previously given him 15 dinars, and the 5 dinars will round out the total to 20 dinars.

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• appeal

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

She reports that her husband took her belongings, demanded from her more; hit her with something unmentionable (his shoe); she had already once sent to the Nagid when he threatened to kill her in the evening. […] Finally she left the house Saturday night. He had already taken from her 4 dinars and bought wine. Information from Goitein's note card.

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• abusive marriage
• capitation tax
• drunk
• jaliya
• tax
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Inferred date

1640–1739 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Location: possibly Cairo, based on the reference to Ḥārat al-Saqāliba in line 4. Sara bt. Yiṣḥaq Malkhī, the widow of Shemuel ha-Levi Kaʿk(?), in the presence of her late husband's son Menaḥem, leases the ʿaliya above the qāʿa where they live to Avraham ha-Kohen b.

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Document date

1 Shevat 5287 Anno Mundi (3 January 1527 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

The wife disagrees to let her brother claim her estate from Shemuʾel Brodo, whom in his home she were living at the time she was writing the will (l. 3-4). She also declared that she has no other possessions whatsoever.

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• deathbed will
• legal

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Her "temperament is scattered" (mushattā al-mizāj) due to a hidden illness (maraḍ bāṭin), which has made it impossible for her to ride. […] At the end of the letter, the excuse is repeated. "Sharaf al-Nasab (a man, perhaps the bearer) will inform the master her excuse, that she was unable to ride and that otherwise she would have come to serve him."

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: hidden
• illness: marad
• illness: women's
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1 Transcription

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Involves someone named Avraham Bū l-ʿĀʾish. Also invokes the authority of the Nagid (this would be Natan Sholal if the estimated dating is correct) and refers to the 'the judge of the Maʿaravim.'

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Jerusalem : Mosad ha-Rav Ḳuḳ, 1977, p. 932). Also mentioned is an agent collecting for Safed named Ḥayim Ravuaḥ (l. 13).

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• late heb
• late ja

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Scribed and signed by Avraham b. Shemaʿya ha-Ḥaver. Also signed by Shelomo b. Shemuel. On verso there are pen trials (or accounts?)

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Document date

Ḥeshvan 5525 Anno Mundi (27 October 1764–24 November 1764 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Ḥayyīm b. __ad(?) al-Gāzī (Algazi) to an unknown recipient. The letter is dated in late 1764 CE (Cheshvan 5525 AM) (or perhaps 5555 AM and 1794 CE?)

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• 18th c
• late ja

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Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

(Information from CUDL.) See also T-S 18J4.21.

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Primary language

Arabic

Letter from al-Sharīf Ḥasan to the qāḍī Ṣanīʿat al-Mulk. In Arabic script, with diacritics and vowels, calligraphic.

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• arabic script
• charity
• daya
• inqita'
• poverty
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1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

When the writer previously met with Abū l-Bahā' regarding this matter, Abū l-Bahā' said that he was ill but would bear it and finish the work (annahu yataḥammal al-maḍaḍ). (The other instances of maḍaḍ in the PGP database generally refer to a figurative distress, but the context here suggests an actual illness.) If Abū l-Bahā' has not fulfilled his promise, then Yūsuf from al-Maḥalla is willing to make the blanket "in two pieces."

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: madad

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Document date

25 Nisan 1443 Seleucid (12 April 1132 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yakhin ha-Levi and the orphan girl Sitt al-Kull bt. Avraham. In which the future husband promises inter alia not to do her any harm or to beat her or to leave Fustat (where the orphan's paternal uncle lived).

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• divorce
• engagement

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abu Sahl sends his regards to al-Shaykh al-Yesod. Something (a coat?) has arrived and is in the store, and Moshe is asked to come retrieve it on Sunday.

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• abu sahl levi

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Document date

Monday, 9 Sivan 4839 Anno Mundi (13 May 1079 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

The name Yeter ha-Levi b. Shela also appears in the qiyyum, probably referring to a signature of the original document which is now missing.

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Document date

9 Sivan 1470 Seleucid (27 May 1159 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal proceedings. Sitt al-Sāda bt. Sayyid al-Ahl b. Naḥman appears before the court and claims her property and her ketubba of 30 dinars following the death of her husband Abū l-Ḥasan.

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• dated
• mevorakh b. natan

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Document date

Iyyar 1456 Seleucid (26 April 1145–24 May 1145 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: Iyyar 1456 of the Seleucid Era (= May 1145 CE). Abū ʿAlī Yefet b. Shemarya ('the head of the parnasim and the trustee of the court') receives a loan of 11 dinars from Abū Isḥāq Avraham b. Abū l-Ḥasan Shabbetay Ibn al-Shofeṭ. To be paid back in 11 monthly installments, beginning with the month in which the loan was given.

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Document date

Tuesday, 19 Elul 1400 Seleucid (28 August 1089 CE)

Ṣedaqa b. Aharon known as al-ʿAmmānī to the carpenter (najjār) David b. Yaʿaqov. […] Verso: jottings, including a calligraphically written alphabet. (Information in part from CUDL, Weiss, and Goitein's index card.)

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Document date

Monday, 3 Nisan 4841 Anno Mundi (15 March 1081 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Marriage contract (ketubba), in the Palestinian style, from Ṣā, Egypt (Sa al Hajar, a village on the east bank of the Rosetta branch of the Nile, in the delta, next to the ancient Egyptian city of Sai's/Sai). Dated: Monday, 3 Nisan 4841 AM = 15 March 1081 CE. Groom: ʿAllūn b. Daniʾel. Bride: ʿAzzūz bt. Yosef. Witnesses: Moshe b.

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• ketubba
• marriage

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Document date

Tishrei 1537 Seleucid (4 September 1225–3 October 1225 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Unfortunately for Shemuel, cut up dirhams would be taken out of circulation one month after the loan was due to be repaid. The deed also states that Shemuel had previously sold Abu l-Faraj sugar and sugar molasses.

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• simsar

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender explains that his rival in a nearby place was stirring up much publicity for himself and asking the recipient intervene for him with the head of the Jewish community as he requests that Minyat Zifta be restored to him in full and that he likes to retain also Malij , for which he has held letters of appointment for years.

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• communal

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yoshiyya, in Damascus, to her younger cousin (father's brother's daughter) and daughter-in-law Sitt al-Nās bt. Moshe b. Yoshiyya, probably in Fustat. […] The refrain ends, "...and let us drink in the season of the henna plant" (...wa-nashrab fī awān al-tamr ḥinnāʾ).

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• family
• letters
• poem
• widow

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The new governor promises to protect the community and carries a recommendation letter from Mevorakh. The tax burden also seems to have been somewhat lifted. This is a monumental letter, meant to be hung in the synagogue for public view.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He cried for help to the Muslims around him, and Muḥammad al-Najjār al-Ishbīlī set him free.

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• boat
• materia medica
• violence

1 Transcription

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

At 90 degrees there is another note in Judaeo-Arabic, in a different hand, possibly the response, but it is difficult to read. There are also a few undeciphered words in Arabic script and an Aramaic pen trial (נסיונא קולמוסא).

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Primary language

Hebrew

In l. 10 may refer to an order of a pasha (מאמר הבשה). Also goes on to mention the שניוריאה, likely a reference to the ruling council (signoria) of Venice during this period.

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• 16th or 17th c
• dubrovnik
• ragusa
• war

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Document date

Sunday, 13 Sivan 1335 Seleucid (1024 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fols. 1r and 2r: a discussion of the rules pertaining to בגדכפת and אויה, probably from a version of Hidāyat al-Qārī. The preserved text is on the rule אתי מרחיק and the vocalisation of the word בן. […] (Information from CUDL and Allony.)

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• booklist

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Primary language

Hebrew

Yehuda—m[ay he rest in] E[den], the Spaniard, from the town of Jayyān [today Jaén] called al-Ṣarrāf [the Banker]. May God, for the sake of his name, let me arrive in Jerusalem, the Holy City—may it be rebuilt and established during the lifetime of all Israel—and let me become one of its inhabitants.

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Document date

1693 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

(Document #15) Partnership case related to the previous entry, clarifying the name of one partner as Moshe ha-Kohen (with Pineḥas also mentioned as well as Moshe Zarḥiya and Yosef Ḥazan).

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Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

T-S K25.240 consists of small written orders, partly in Hebrew and partly in Arabic script, for monthly payments, made out of the rent-revenue from the pious foundation (waqf) 'Compound of the Poor' or from the pious foundation made by the physician al-Muhadhdhab. All dated orders are from spring and summer, 1218.

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• account
• heqdesh
• qodesh
• waqf

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

T-S K25.240 consists of small written orders, partly in Hebrew and partly in Arabic script, for monthly payments, made out of the rent-revenue from the pious foundation (waqf) 'Compound of the Poor' or from the pious foundation made by the physician al-Muhadhdhab. All dated orders are from spring and summer, 1218.

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• account
• heqdesh
• medical charity
• qodesh
• tax
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He gives news of family members such as the addressee's maternal uncle Moshe (doing well), news of the addressee's father ('sayyidak,' the next phrase is unclear), and news of business in his location (doing poorly: al-bilād fasadat) (r4–8). In the remainder of the letter he gives his own news (traveling to the 'west') (r9). […] He gives the addressee advice in case he enters Egypt/Fustat (r17), involving al-Ḥajj Qasim b. Tammām. Merits further examination ASE.

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• late ja
• to edit

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Multiple entries, it seems all dealing with the estate of the late Menashshe. […] Manṣūr (סלמה בן מנצור); Yiṣḥaq; al-Shaṭranjī (=the chess player); a white silver ṣīniyya; a shop; 50 dinars; and "the house where his wife lives."

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Avraham and a party whose name is not preserved agree to a yearlong partnership, with accounts sent to Yefet every four months. There also may have been a distribution of partnership profits after six months.

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Primary language

Arabic

The first verse appears also in the chronicle/memoir of Usāma Ibn Munqidh, there attributed to the amir Abū Shujāʿ (بان الشباب وجاء الشيب يصحبه يا ليتها صحبة تبقى بلا بين).

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