Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Minute fragment, very faded and only few words are hardly visible.

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef? Faded and damaged.

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Arabic

Unidentified document(s) in Arabic script. Small fragment, very faded.

No Scholarship Records

Small and faded fragment of a letter by Yefet b. Menashshe Halevi.

Tags

• yefet b. menashshe

No Scholarship Records

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The witnesses are Menaḥem ha-Talmid ha-Yaqar b. [...] and the cantor Abū l-Faḍl b. [...] ha-Levi ha-Melammed. Description from PGPID 32174: Legal fragment (upper left corner). […] Either a will or concerning arrangements after someone has already died

Related People

1

Related Documents

4

Tags

• halfon b. menashshe

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions something to do with "drugs and almond oil in Cairo" (في العطر وفي دهن اللوز في القاهرة المحروسة), an entire compound (الدار الكاملة), something to do with the government ([...] sulṭānīyan) dated the 27th of Shaʿbān, 3/4 of something (probably the compound), and then probably a description of the property. […] On verso there is a very faded addendum. Needs further examination.

Related Places

1

1 Transcription

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

ואלא פאחצרה נביעה ואנת תאכד אגרתך פאסרע באנגאז דלך שלומך יגדל סלה Verso: Order of payment in Arabic script, for Abū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Shaʿyā to pay 6 dinars 'from the total of the document' (يدفع الشيخ ابو العلا بن شعيا ستة دنانير من جملة الوثيقة). The remaining text is very faded.

No Scholarship Records

Document date

Jumādā I 521 Hijrī (15 May 1127–13 June 1127 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The land is a sugarcane plantation (al-qand), mentions dīwān al-qand, or rather dīwān al-saʿīd, and the names of at least three officials. […] The transaction took place under the supervision of the amīr al-Mukhlis Sadīd al-Mulk and involved several additional officials and witnesses, including Abū Manṣūr […], the shaykh Abū al-Barakāt, Yaḥyā b. […] Salāma (serving as administrator on behalf of Yaḥyā b. Faḍl), and Shadd Ḥusām al-Dawla Najm al-Dīn. Also mentions grain depots/warehouses (shūn) in Fusṭāṭ, the requirement of a legal receipt (ḥujja) to be obtained from the previously mentioned local headman, and the reference to a quantity of approximately three hundred loads, presumably of grain or another taxable commodity.

Related Places

1

Tags

• iqta'
• to edit

1 Transcription 1 Translation

Document date

Wednesday, 15 [Kislev] 1500 Seleucid (December 1188 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Testator: Abū l-[...] b. Barakāt Ibn al-Maqdisī. He makes arrangements for his house and for his other property (including a significant quantity of yarn). Beneficiaries include his sons Barakāt and Bayān, his siblings, and his wife Sitt al-Riḍā. The document continues onto verso. Signed by Shelomo b. […] MS heb. a 2/9 (so we can identify the testator as the silkweaver (al-qazzāz) Abū l-Faḍl b. Barakāt Ibn al-Maqdisī), written by the same scribe but more carefully, probably a little bit later.

Related Places

1

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The whole folio is preserved, but the text is too faded to read.

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Arabic

Faded text, lists some sums or commodities in halves "niṣf".

Related Documents

2

Tags

• dimme

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Hebrew

Faded text in Hebrew, some sort of first-person narrative, likely literary.

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Hebrew

Likely a legal document. Faded. Needs examination.

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Hebrew

Bottom part of what was probably a huge document. Very faded.

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Arabic

Letter in Arabic script. Faded and damaged. Mentions Sayyidnā. Needs examination for content.

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Aramaic

, with widened line spacing, largely in Aramaic. Faded. Needs examination.

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Arabic

Unidentified Arabic document. Two lines preserved, faded and very difficult to read.

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Minute fragment of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, very faded. Requires further examination.

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Arabic

Letter fragment in Arabic script. Very faded. The sender reports that he is sick.

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Minute fragment of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in the hand of ʿArūs. Very faded/fragmentary.

Related People

1

No Scholarship Records

Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Rudimentary hand and quite faded.

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: probably 11th century. Faded. Needs further examination.

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Arabic

List in Arabic, perhaps accounts. Very damaged and faded. Requires further examination.

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Arabic

Legal document, faded, very few words preserved. Mentions shares "ḥiṣṣa".

No Scholarship Records

Very damaged and faded fragment of a legal deed signed by Aharon b, Nethan'el

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Arabic

Possibly a fiscal document. Faded and damaged. Reused for Hebrew literary text on recto.

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Refers to a benefaction from Abū Kathīr Ibn al-Tadmurī for a group of people in the (Muslim?) court (majlis al-ḥukm); mentions that Abū l-Faraj ʿImrān and a group of elders occupy an equal position (? […] Someone closed his majlis al-ḥukm and then opened it and nobody came, and this thing is "diminishing/declining" (wa-l-amr fī inḥiṭāṭ).

1 Transcription

Document date

Monday, 29 Iyyar 4967 Anno Mundi (28 May 1207 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In the hand of Yehuda b. Aharon Ibn al-ʿAmmānī (active ca. 1201–43). Location: Alexandria. Dated: Monday, 29 Iyyar 4800 + 167 = 4967 AM = 28 May 1207 CE. (I) Sitt al-Maʿānī bt. Yeshuʿa b. Hillel, the wife of Avraham b. […] Also mentions Sitt al-Maʿānī's son Shelomo. The second witness (along with Yehuda Ibn al-ʿAmmānī) is Ḥefeṣ b.

Related Places

1

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He gives 1/6 of a house in Fustat to his older sister, Sitt al-Ḥasab, the widow of the rayyis Abū l-ʿAlāʾ, and 1/12 to his brother's son. […] He also manumits his two female slaves, Gharaḍ and Kashf (still a minor, so she will remain with Sitt al-Riyāsa until she comes of age, at which time she can decide to stay or to leave). […] Goitein's index card indicates that Abū l-Ḥasan was the son of Abū l-Faḍl Shela ha-Levi Sar ha-Leviim; another document relating to the same family is Sitt al-Riyāsa's trousseau list, found in Yevr.

Related People

3

Related Documents

3

Tags

• draft
• mevorakh b. natan
• will

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Recto: Astronomical table in Arabic script, listing zodiacal terms (thawr, jawzā, saraṭān, asad. . . . jadī, ḥūt) which are accompanied by strings of Greek/Coptic numerals. Faded and difficult to read. Shows signs of having been used in a book binding. […] Titles include: - Kitāb al-Rahbana [The Book of Monasticism], in Coptic with some Arabic - Kitāb [Taf]sīr al-Injīl [Commentary on the Gospel] by Ibn al-Ṭayyib (a well-known scholar, d. 1043), in Arabic - Kitāb al-Maʿmūdiyya [The Book of Baptism], in Coptic - Kitāb Mazāmīr [Psalms], in Coptic - Kitāb Taqdīs al-Māʾ wa-Taklīl(?)

Tags

• booklist
• christian

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

One side contains a Judaeo-Arabic poem in the name of Abū Naṣr b. Faḍlūn.

Tags

• judaeo-arabic poetry

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Hebrew

Fol. 5: Small scrap that is either blank or has very faded Hebrew text.

Related Documents

3

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment containing extremely faded Hebrew script. Probably Judaeo-Arabic, probably late.

Tags

• list

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Hebrew

Gives several names. But it is quite faded.

Related Documents

1

Tags

• circumcision

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Headed "with (or: owed by) the elder Abū Saʿd." Quite faded.

Tags

• list

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Sums given in dirhams. Very faded. Mentions pepper.

Tags

• list

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Hebrew

Small fragment of a Hebrew letter, probably. Faded. Narrow vertical strip from the middle.

No Scholarship Records

Legal document in Hebrew. Very faded. Contains release formulae (e.g. מחילה גמורה).

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso: Faded document in Judaeo-Arabic, probably a letter.

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Aramaic

A very damaged bill of divorce. On verso very faded document, hardly legible. AA

Tags

• fgp stub
• get

No Scholarship Records

Very faded text in Hebrew script. Unidentified. A few words in Arabic script on verso.

No Scholarship Records

Fragment with extremely faded Hebrew script. Remarkable mainly for a drawing of a four-legged creature.

Tags

• drawing

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Arabic

Strokes on verso suggest that it could be accounts. Faded Hebrew script on recto.

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Arabic

In Arabic script. Very faded/damaged. Needs examination.

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef (compare T-S 8J23.2 ). Very faded.

Tags

• perahya b. yosef

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Prayer in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso: Extremely faded text, probably in Judaeo-Arabic.

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Arabic

Verso: Unidentified document in Arabic script. Extremely faded; will be illegible without multispectral imaging.

No Scholarship Records

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document mentioning a bridal gift and Abū l-Faḍl. (Information from CUDL)

No Scholarship Records

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Bottom of a letter. Too faded and damaged to understand any of the content.

No Scholarship Records