Documents

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Maṣliaḥ; Muʿizzī dinars; [...] b. Yosef al-Zākī. On verso there are three words in Arabic script (مراسلات مالي فيها).

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Document date

[14]41 Seleucid (16 September 1129–5 September 1130 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: [14]41 Seleucid = 1129/30 CE, under the authority of Maṣliaḥ ha-Kohen (served as head of the Jews in Egypt 1127–39). No or almost no details of the case are preserved.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter written and sent from al-Mahdiyya by Musa Tāhartī to his brother Barhun in Fustat, containing details about trade in the Maghreb and advising his brother about buying flax.

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Tags

• flax
• trade

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Hilāl to a maker of scales (al-Mawāzīnī) to whom the writer had given a scale on which to affix a hanger, asking the man to return it right away to the letter-bearer Abū Naṣr.

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document between Maḵlūf b. Jacob and Sitt al-Riḍā bat Mufarraj b. Ḵalaf. Record of testimony concerning the sale of a female slave for the price of 17 dinars.

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Tags

• sale
• slave
• testimony

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in which a Kohen, who is in financial difficulties and is the father of girls, asks the Nagid Mevorakh to allow him to beg throughout the Rif (countryside).

Tags

• communal

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Money of the goods are items of clothing. The name ʿAllūsh appears at lower left. Verso has a different layout.

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Document date

October 1594 CE

Primary language

Arabic

Verso: Note mentioning Abū l-Surūr, written on 18th of Tishrīn al-Awwal (October) 1594 CE (سنة اربع وتسعون وخمسمائة والف).

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Document date

517 Hijrī (1 March 1123–18 February 1124 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Recto (reuse): Official receipt for [...] b. ʿAlī, mentioning the kharāj and a waterwheel (sāqiya).

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Primary language

Arabic

Petition from Abū Bakr b. ʿAlī to a dignitary whose name is torn off. Mentions Abū l-Ḥasan, who may be a kātib.

Tags

• dimme

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Document date

413 Hijrī (6 April 1022–25 March 1023 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Reused on the other side for liturgical text in Hebrew. Join: Alan Elbaum.

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Primary language

Arabic

The second line contains the standard blessings for the caliph (amīr al-muʾminīn) and his ancestors and descendants.

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Document date

Monday, 20 Iyyar 2143 Seleucid (20 May 1832 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Referring to slaughtering cows, maybe state property (? baqar al-dawla). Needs examination.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Refers to Farajallāh going to the Rayyis with a Qaraite and then going separate ways (at the conclusion of a partnership?). Mentions al-Neʾeman. Verso: unidentified Arabic text; probably a document.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

On verso mentions "the people of knowledge' (ahl al-ʿilm) and mentions a certain Yaʿaqov. (Information in part from CUDL)

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Document date

11 Rabiʿ II 967 Hijrī (10 January 1560 CE)

Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentioning names such as ʿAbd al-Raḥmān and quantities of money; with Coptic numerals.

Tags

• account
• coptic numerals

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Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Avraham Maimonides served as Rayyis al-Yahūd between r. 1205–1237 CE. Likely a join with T-S AS 165.167 (PGPID 4204) [AA].

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: No earlier than 1425 CE, as the ashrafī is used (a coinage type first minted under Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay in this year).

Tags

• account
• numismatic dating

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Includes the greeting "nawāfij al-misk bi-l-khitām" based on Quran 83:26 (cf. Yevr.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions the amir Sayf al-Mulk and the synagogue of Damīra. Introduced by a quotation similar to Micah 5:8.

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Tags

• amir
• damira

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Fragment of a shipment record by Yosef b. Musa al-Tāhartī. Around 1045. Mentions the goods that Yosef wrote about in his letter to Ya’aqov b.

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Tags

• ship

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Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: list of houses and names, for example the Nagid Shemuʾel he-Ḥaver and son, Ḥananya and two sons, Abraham, Elʿazar, David the poet, Nathan, Joseph, Shabbetay, Maṣliaḥ, Ṣedaqa, etc, all with sons or brothers. Verso: unidentified Arabic.

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Primary language

Arabic

Involves Abū Naṣr b. Maḥfūẓ al-Isrāʾīlī, potentially identical with Abū Naṣr b.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Official letter from the office of one of the later Maimonidean Nagids, with a motto (ʿalāma) at the top. The cantor Faraj is instructed to look after the bearer, Yom Ṭov, who is blind and poor, by arranging a collection for him and his family in the synagogue.

Tags

• 'alama
• nagid

1 Transcription 1 Translation

Primary language

Arabic

Order of payment in Arabic script. The judge (al-dayyān) is asked to pay 4 dinars to the bearer Bū l-ʿIzz.

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Document date

Shaʿbān 494 Hijrī (1 June 1101–29 June 1101 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Receipt for the rent of a shop for Yūsuf al-Ṣayrafī for the month of Shaʿbān 494 AH = June 1101 CE.

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Primary languages

Eastern Arabic Numerals, Hebrew numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Only one name is visible (verso upper left): Ḥayyīm al-Mlī__[?]. MCD.

Tags

• 16th or 17th c
• early modern
• numismatic dating

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

"; goes on to mention Nahray; Ibn al-Tinnīsī; pepper; something red; thread.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso and a few lines on recto are in Arabic script. A dīwān (al-jaysh?) is mentioned in the Arabic-script section on the recto and, perhaps, a ṣarrāf in the first line of the verso.

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Primary language

Arabic

Yusuf, asking the recipient to fulfill the request of "mawlay al-qāʾid" and to send a messenger. Contains the components of a Fatimid petition.

Tags

• dimme

1 Transcription 2 Discussions

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: accounts of some sort in Arabic script, unclear if private or official. Mentions Abū l-Faraj al-Qasam(?). (Information in part from CUDL)

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Primary language

Arabic

The remainder of the fragment contains piyyuṭim, including one poem by al-Ḥarizi. (Information in part from CUDL.)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Some of the names of those mentioned include Ottoman elite titles: "Qapetan (Captain) Sinān Bey" and "Farḥat al-Wazīr." Requires further examination. MCD.

Tags

• 16th or 17th c
• ottoman

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic. Very deferential. Almost the entirety of the letter consists of greetings and good wishes, and the writer says that he is constantly asking Abū Zikrī about the health of the addressee.

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Tags

• iftiqad

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Primary language

Arabic

The first line may begin with the words "umūr al-thaghr." Mentions a paper trail and reference to previous communications "yaṣdur ʿan ḥaḍratihi l-jalīla".Reused for piyyuṭ on verso.

Tags

• dimme
• to edit

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Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions savin (abhul), sandarac (sandarūs), alum (shabb), rock salt (milḥ darānī), cassia (dār ṣīnī), spikenard (nārdīn), and various other items

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Document date

10 June 1124 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Betrothal contract between Sitt al-Ahl bt. Yosef Lebdī and Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya ha-Levi b.

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Tags

• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib1
• india book

2 Transcriptions 2 Discussions

Primary language

Arabic

Small fragment of a state document, likely a decree: ـد من فتى مولانا وسيدنا الا[مر(؟) Reused for a Judaeo-Arabic text discussing principles of Jewish conduct such as helping the poor (recto) and regimen of food and drink, dealing in particular with alcoholic drinks (verso).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Greetings to Abū l-[...] al-Neʾeman.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender, extremely unusually, calls himself the "master" (mālik al-riqq) rather than the "slave" (mamlūk) of the addressee.

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Document date

12 Rabīʿ II 658 Hijrī (27 March 1260 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Probably related to military spending, mentions produce (al-ghallāt). In Arabic script. On verso, there are two validation notes (ṣaḥḥa dhālika...).

Tags

• makhzuma

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic. T-S NS 322.101–17 all belong to the same dossier as Gil, Palestine, #521–23.

Tags

• unedited 11th c

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Primary language

Hebrew

Letter fragment from Daniel, the Nasi of all Israel, Rosh Yeshivat Ge'on Yaʿaqov addressed to Mevorakh b.

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Primary language

Hebrew

E.g. resembles T-S 18J3.10 (PGPID 8118) in terms of layout and formulae, although the hand is different.

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Primary language

Arabic

In the right margin of recto, there are additional notes at 90 degrees; one mentions Qaṣr al-Shamʿ and gives the year (42[.] AH?). Needs examination.

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Seems like mentions debts for goods that were already paid back. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #290) VMR

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Tags

• account
• nahray b. nissim

2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Part of the dowry list is preserved and a mention of Dār al-Wazīr, likely as a landmark for a property description.

Tags

• ketubba
• marriage

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Document date

Ḥeshvan 1453 Seleucid (4 October 1141–1 November 1141 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

ʿOvadya ha-Kohen, in Damascus. Almost entirely in rhymed Hebrew with one sentence in Judaeo-Arabic in the margin of verso. […] Natan complains that his junior school friend has not written to him for a long time. He also conveys his greetings to Petahya's family. Natan's sons Mevorakh, Seʿadya, and Yehosef send their greetings.

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