Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter sent from the Maghreb by the Judayla family to Ismail b. Barhun al-Tahati, asking him to obtain flax from Sha'ya in return for the five dinars he had been given.

Tags

• flax

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter sent from al-Mahdiyya by Yosef b. Musa Tāhartī to his brother Barhun in Fustat, dealing with trade in the Maghreb and fiscal matters.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter sent to Cairo to the house of a ḥaver from the Ibn Qaṭāʾif family, dated Friday, middle of Shevat, describing the writer’s anger over the lack of letters from the addressees. Mentions Khalaf b. al-Nagid and Barqa. (Information from CUDL)

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Tags

• to edit

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Includes a symbol that may be a variant of the myriad sign (albeit with three or four legs instead of the standard two, cf.

Tags

• account
• myriad

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Document date

Av 1451 Seleucid (1140 CE)

Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay on account of the household of Amīn al-Dawlā 100 dinars. Dated Av 1451 (= 1140 CE).

Tags

• abu zikri kohen
• cheque
• order of payment

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Each page is headed with someone's name, e.g., Barakāt, al-Shaykh Dāʾūd, and Abū Saʿd. Underneath various transactions in dirhams are documented

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Document date

25 Shaʿbān 487 Hijrī (9 September 1094 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Khalīfa b. [ ] acknowledges the payment of the debt of 4 and 1/2 dirhams to Bū Saʿīd al-Isrāʾīlī.

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• dimme
• iqrar

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The format is notable: written in a narrow column, with the width of the margin almost equal to the width of the text. The writer mentions that he has heard that the addressee will be coming into Fustat 'for the treatment of a patient.'

Tags

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

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic in Arabic script about the sale of silk, flax, olive oil and other commodities. Alludes to "the calamities" which are in "these letters" (bi-hādhihi l-kutub āfāt).

Tags

• aodeh
• flax
• silk

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender says he has been a burden on somebody (al-Raḍiyy?) and asks the addressee for help obtaining a new something.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions various weights and prices and a congregation (al-jamāʿa, recto, right margin). Probably in the hand of Ṭoviyya b.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: possibly part of Arabic accounts, mentioning quantities and names such as Saʿīd Ibn al-Ḥusayn. (Information from CUDL.)

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Document date

1 Shevat 5295 Anno Mundi (6 January 1535 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Signed by the scribe Nathan b. Abraham and Yiṣḥaq al-____(?). Requires further examination. AA/MCD

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Document date

before Sukkot 1684 Seleucid (September 1372 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

(Information in part from CUDL.) Probable join: Alan Elbaum.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Urges the (male) addressee to do something with all his effort, and conveys a message from a woman in the family (wa-qālat lak sittī)

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document mentioning ‘our lord, the great Nasi’ and Sitt al-Hanāʾ (cf. T-S NS 226.12 (PGPID 4242) and ENA 3778.7 (PGPID 11352)).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif to one of his brothers. In Judaeo-Arabic.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: betrothal document relating to marriage. The bride is Sitt al-Ḥusn bt. Moshe. Different quantities of dinars of bridal gifts (for example 70, 40 and 50 dinars) etc are mentioned.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Abū Sulaymān Daʾūd; Abū l-Ḥasan Ibn al-Shofeṭ and Abū Isḥāq. (Information in part from CUDL)

1 Transcription

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentioning Abū l-[...], [...] b. the cantor Ayyūb, Mevasser ha-Levi and al-Mahdiyya. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe?

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

The names include a chicken seller (dajājī), a couple of druggists (ʿaṭṭār), a clothier (bazzāz), a sugar maker (sukkarī), and a certain Sayyid al-Ahl.

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Document date

Dhū l-Qaʿda 579 / Muḥarram 580 Hijrī (15 February 1184–13 May 1184 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Dating: one entry mentions "beginning with 1 Dhū l-Qaʿda 579" and another entry mentions "until the end of al-Muḥarram 580." Mentions rose water. Merits further examination.

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Primary language

Arabic

Recto mentions "hādhihi al-ruqʿa." Verso mentions a dīwān. Recto ends with prayers for 'mawlānā' and verso ends with the typical ṣalwala for Muḥammad.

Tags

• dimme
• double petition

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Primary language

Arabic

Account in Arabic script, evidently itemizing amounts/items owed between Abū l-[...] and Yūsuf al-Bayyāʿ. May mention calves (ʿujūl, ʿijl). The term طرف appears several times followed by a quantity in raṭls.

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Primary language

Arabic

Hard to piece together the story but contains various interesting references such as to the judges (al-quḍāt) and to عبد يشوع ("the slave of Jesus").

Tags

• dimme
• to edit

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Primary language

Arabic

Mentions Abū l-Maʿānī and his son. On verso greetings to al-Sadīd.

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Primary language

Arabic

Addressed to 'my brother' ʿAbd al-Salām (r3). The sender reports that he or she obtained a maymūn (a kind of amulet, per Goitein) for the addressee (r10).

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Primary language

Arabic

Legal document, perhaps Mamluk or early Ottoman-era, with a large and elaborate ʿalāma at the top. Some phrases are preserved including the blessings for the judge (ايد الله تعالى احكامه) and phrases regarding a debt owed (في ذمته بحق صحيح شرعي)

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Document date

17 Ṣafar 404 Hijrī (28 August 1013 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Bottom part of a tax receipt in the hand of the jahbadh Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ. Dated: 17 Ṣafar 404. Measurements: 4.3 x 8.2 cm.

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Tags

• abu l-hasan b. wahb
• daman
• tax receipt

1 Transcription 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Rudimentary hand. Some or all of the list is for items for the synagogue at Dammūh, including: "hot oil" (lamp oil, likely linseed), "good oil" (olive), pullets (farārīj), a watermelon (biṭṭīkha), soap (ṣābūn), and sulfur (kibrīt).

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Tags

• dammuh

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Document date

1094–1101 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

One line (in a large, rudimentary hand) reads "The lofty order was issued from the presence of the commander of the faithful the Imām al-Mustaʿlī bi-l-lāh, God's prayers u[pon him]. . ."

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions [...] Ibn al-Urjuwānī. Otherwise very damaged and difficult to read.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Deathbed declaration of Abū l-ʿAlāʾ ʿEli b. Yefet. Mentioning merchandise and silk, and his cousin (ibn ʿamm).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

This is a letter of recommendation for the bearer, a Persian man (ʿajamī), who is suffering for various reasons (ḥamas/oppression and cold weather are mentioned) and who needs a riding animal to travel to Syria (al-Shām).

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• persians
• recommendation

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Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The money should come from the waqf of al-Muhadhdhab.

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Private account by Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmūrī. Dating: ca. 1058. Contains details about dinars exchange and a list of amounts of money of debts and payments for an unknown person.

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Refers to a partnership, 'the religion of the rabbis (or Rabbanites?),' and Abū ʿAlī. T-S Misc.28.79.2 and T-S Misc.28.79.15 are two copies of the same document.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Draft of the opening of a court record from al-Maḥalla dated Tuesday 11 Nisan 14__(?) Seleucid.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions people such as Masʿūd, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz; the children of Barhūn; Mordekhay.

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Three much damaged columns, containing about 60 names of male persons, all of low professions. The list contains no numbers and was obviously drawn up in connection with the payment of the capitation tax.

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• capitation tax
• jaliya
• jizya
• tax

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions another property known by the name of al-Jawharī, currently in possession of Aḥmar b.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to Simḥa the physician (al-ḥakīm). In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Shelomo b.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Messy handwriting. Fol. 1r begins "alladhī qabaḍa Mūsā..." Mentions soap; a chicken; wheat; something in the mill; silver; honey.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Concerns [...] b. Muslim b. Shuʿayb al-Dimashqī and a woman. Later, refers to "the witnesses of the ketubba" and somebody's mother.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The document concerns Abū l-ʿIzz al-Qazzāz and Hibatallāh and a convoluted case involving two mandīls and payments and a power of attorney.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

Original document (both sides): Several names in Arabic script, e.g. al-Shaykh Abū Manṣūr . . . Hilāl). Verso (around the original text): Greetings or address of a letter to Yakhin ha-Sar Pe'er ha-Yeshiva Mordekhai ha-Zeman.

Tags

• arabic script

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Netanʾel ha-Levi to Abu l-ʿAlā. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138).

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Tags

• halfon b. menashshe
• ib-addenda
• ib4

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Throughout the account, one feels the pressure of the active partner to explain himself to the investor and above all the necessity of keeping capital in motion: a couple of items are described as "stuck" (wāqif) because they won't sell, whereas the pearls brought half their investment in profit. […] Goitein in his unpublished notes describes this as "the large account on indigo etc. from al-Mahdiyya," whereas Gil assumes that it's from Qayrawān.

Tags

• commodities
• ibn awkal
• indigo
• trade

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