Documents

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The building is located on "Milk Street" (Zuqāq al-Laban) running between the Palestinian and Iraqi synagogues in Fustat.

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1 Transcription 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yefet has purchased a quarter-mann of muql (this refers either to the gum resin called bdellium OR to the edible fruit of the doum palm — see Bos et al, Marwān Ibn Janāḥ, entries 294, 521, and 1044).

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• yefet b. menashshe

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Primary language

Arabic

At the top of document someone added in Judaeo-Arabic דכרת (the same word that begins the Arabic-script letter), and at the bottom is the Hebrew formula שלומו יגדל "may his peace increase," One of the people in the letter is named Hilāl b. Aharon Ibn al-Shammāʿ. (Information from Naïm Vanthieghem and Oded Zinger)

Tags

• bialphabetic
• letters of complaint
• money
• pawn
• women's letters

1 Discussion

The last of the families, the house of "the Meʿutad", is a famous family - the last one mentioned in the list, Ovadiah, is called "Negid Ereṣ Yisrael vi-Yehuda", and was appointed to this position by Ṣalāḥ al-Din - PGPID 9436.

Tags

• list

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Menaḥem the agent of Sittūna bt. [...] Ibn al-Luʿayyiba (בן אללעייבה), who sues Mevorakh b. [...] concerning accounts and riqāʿ (pl. of ruqʿa) which Menashshe (her deceased father or relative?)

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Primary language

Hebrew

The shelfmarks ENA 3077.8–13 all appear to be related, including pen trials, accounts, and poetry in Ladino.

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Inferred date

1500–1900 CE

On the recto, the student practiced the phrase: "The towns/countries came and gathered all in the square - Sunday" (אלבלדאן יגו ויתגמעו אלכל פי אלמידאן - יום א).

Tags

• 16th c or later
• early modern

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Primary language

Arabic

The shelfmarks ENA 3264.1-6 are recycled pages of Arabic accounts that were cut into small sections for a student's notebook of alphabetical practice. The extent to which they represent joins and/or related documents merits further examination (ENA 3264.1-2 seem to be the most likely candidates for a direct join).

Tags

• arabic reused

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Primary language

Arabic

The shelfmarks ENA 3264.1-6 are recycled pages of Arabic accounts that were cut into small sections for a student's notebook of alphabetical practice. The extent to which they represent joins and/or related documents merits further examination (ENA 3264.1-2 seem to be the most likely candidates for a direct join).

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Tags

• arabic reused

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to Yūsuf al-Surrī. The name Saʿīd Maḍmūn the Blind appears at the bottom of verso; unclear if this is the name of the writer.

Tags

• appeal
• late ja

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Document date

Monday, 5 Tammuz 4889 Anno Mundi (24 June 1129 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Benaya and his son who owe 300 dinars and a deed of release to Shelomo Ibn Sunaynāt ha-Kohen acknowledge their two debts before the latter's agent, and they will hand over the deed of release after they receive their own deed of release concerning the merchandise that they brought on Ibn Sunaynāt's behalf for Abū Saʿd al-Damīrī. (Information from Goitein's attached edition.)

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(perhaps listing a man's daughters); someone 'now alive'; Wednesday the 29th of a month. AA. ASE.

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Primary language

Hebrew

So maybe this person was being charged for the capitation tax again even though he has already paid in Fustat. The sender asks for "good news" from the addressee regarding this person.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Munajjā has received from Hiba al-Zaki 108 qinṭārs of "red glass" (zujāj aḥmar) and 105 qinṭārs of "local glass" (zujāj baladī).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

"Same hand as the previous document." For Dār al-Maqādisa and Dār b. Pineḥas. Expenses include: refuse removal; transport of materials; construction; supervision; nails; plaster; baskets; and more.

Tags

• construction

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Primary language

Hebrew

Sarah was represented by her unnamed grandmother in arranging the terms of her engagement. Although it is unclear if Sarah eventually married Shelomo, for her c. 1831 ketubba and marriage with Yiṣḥaq b.

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• betrothal

1 Transcription

The difficult witness signature that's visible is that of R. Yosef b. Moshe al-Gazi (הצעיר יוסף משה אלגאזי). For additional confirmation of the nomenclature in this rabbinic signature, see the same name in the document: AIU VII.D.100 (PGPID 30594).

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• 19th c
• marriage

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

One of them has to do with orphans and widows; then mentions the heqdesh; then the "elders of the Jews" (shuyūkh al-yahūd); then a claim that he does something with the governors (wulāt) and jurisprudents (fuqahāʾ) and professional witnesses (shuhūd), which the writer contradicts, stating that this person in fact serves these Muslim state and judicial officials "for the interests of the Jews out of his nobility."

1 Transcription

Inferred date

1700–1850 CE

A variety of widows are listed here, but the letter נ has been systematically dropped from the common Hebrew word אלמנה: i.e. the widow of Ḥazaq (אלמת חזק), the widow of Molkho (אלמת מולכו), the widow of Av[raham] אלמגכר, the widow of Sheḥata al-Kohen, and others. MCD.

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• 18th or 19th c

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Document date

22 Heshvan 5496 Anno Mundi (7 November 1735 CE)

Then on the right side of the recto, the next entry passes into the subsequent month Kislev, which is in a difficult cursive hand but legible as a date with 5496 alongside it. One heading in the on the recto's left bifolium includes the Latin-script initials "IA".

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• 18th c
• ladino

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Document date

1255 Hijrī (17 March 1839–4 March 1840 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic of a wide array of purchases in the year [12]55AH which can be inferred by the usage of the Hijri months Sha'ban on the recto and [Dhu] al-Qa'da on the verso (which is 1839CE). The names of many involved in the purchases are listed such as: Ḥajj Aḥmed Silāmi, Ḥasan Aḥmed Minshāwi, Ḥasan Kerker[?]

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• 19th c
• ruznamaj

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Inferred date

1703–1850 CE

Accounts in Arabic with a complex array of monetary calculations with the symbol "ق" on occasion indicating silver kuruş (which may have been minted as early as 1690 but did not reach wider circulation until 1703). The coinage label along with the paleography help estimate the dating of the fragment as 18th/19th-century.

Tags

• 18th or 19th c
• arabic script
• numismatic dating

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Document date

1264 Hijrī (9 December 1847–26 November 1848 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

, and then in words. The signature of al-Ḥājj Ibrāhīm Khalīl appears at the end, next to a stamp.

Tags

• printed
• seal

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Primary language

Arabic

The writer mentions exchanges of goods (ll.2–3); he has sent a dinar for someone's children to pay three months of rent (l. 3); the sad news of the boy's illness (ḍuʿf al-ṣaghīr, ll.4–5); and that he paid a visit (aftaqid) to the addressee's family in Būṣīr and they are in good health.

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Tags

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517

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Document date

Final third of Kislev 1438 Seleucid (7 December 1126–16 December 1126 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Saadya receives in December 1126 from Abu Ishaq Avraham b. Sason al-Mahalli, the perfumer, a loan of 32 dinars to be paid back by Passover 1127, which constitutes a term of 3.5 months.

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• halfon b. menashshe

1 Transcription

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information in part from Goitein's index cards.) Join: Alan Elbaum.

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Tags

• halfon b. menashshe

1 Transcription

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter of appeal for help, mentioning a recent death, apparently of a husband, leaving the writer (the widow) without livelihood and unable to live with the 'dowager (al-kabira)' (her mother-in-law probably), who is demanding she move out.

Tags

• appeal
• death
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: pregnancy
• (+ 1 more)

2 Transcriptions

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On verso there are Hebrew writing exercises (haqeṣ ʿaṣel) and maybe two names in Arabic script, one of which is Ibn al-Qābila ('son of the midwife'). (Information in part from CUDL)

Tags

• appeal
• capitation tax

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yehuda (his name is somehow connected to the name Moshe al-ʿAjamī) claims 1.25 dinars from Daniel b. Yefet but admits that he has no evidence.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

has experienced at the hands of the authorities (al-sulṭān) because he is delinquent in paying the capitation tax (here called kharāj) for the last two years ('years 8 and 9').

Tags

• arabic script
• capitation tax
• kharaj
• tax

1 Transcription

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Abū l-Surūr and Moshe ha-Kohen, his son Bayān, his sister Sitt al-[...] and Umm Abū l-Bayān. (Information from CUDL and Goitein, Mediterranean Society, IV, p. 74.)

Tags

• 12th c
• personal

2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Recto: copy of a Hebrew letter of holiday wishes addressed to (the community of) al-Maḥalla for the month of Tishrei. In the hand of Ḥalfon b.

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Document date

1443-04-29 Seleucid (19 January 1132 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Husband: Yeshuʿa b. ʿEli. Wife: Sitt al-Fakhr bt. Ṣedaqa. The witnesses are Natan b.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information from "Feeding the Poor and Clothing the Naked" by Mark Cohen) ALG

Tags

• orphan
• to edit

1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Persian

The writer mentions several people including Abū ʿAlī Samuel, and items such as kerchiefs (mandīl; information taken partially from CUDL).

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1 Transcription 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary language

Hebrew

Mention is made of Ṣemaḥ ‘our scribe’ (ספרא דילנא). It closes with his ʿalāma, ישועה, and Daniel signs (in a different ink): Daniel ha-Nasi Rosh Yeshivat Geʾon Yaʿaqov.

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Document date

Monday, 26 Nisan 4765 Anno Mundi (9 April 1005 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Shiblūn as their agent to sue Nissim b. Yiṣḥaq Ibn al-ʿĀbid for everything that he owes them. (Information from Goitein's index card.)

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A woman named ʿIrāq (=Sitt al-ʿIrāq) sells 5 qirats (meaning 24ths, in this case of a house) for 1535 nuqra dirhams to 'tifʾeret ha-ḥashuvim' Moshe b.

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Document date

Last decade of Ṭevet 1424 Seleucid (9 January 1113–19 January 1113 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Avraham, after having made a will 2 days before his death, leaves detailed instructions to the cantor Abū Saʿīd Ḥalfon b. Ghālib for all arrangements for his burial. For this purpose he leaves 10 dinars with his wife to be spent by Ḥalfon b.

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Document date

1410 Seleucid (1098–1099 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Settlement between Sitt al-Bayt bt. Yosef and her husband Ṣedaqa b. Hillel who had been separated from her for 18 years (mutasaḥḥib ʿanhā).

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Document date

1448 Seleucid (29 August 1136–17 September 1137 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

MS heb. c 13/1), his wife Sitt al-Nasab bt. MN[...], and a guardian or agent (אפטרופא) named Moshe (or possibly [...] b.

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Replacement of the original contract of marriage between Abū Manṣūr Elazar and his wife Sitt al-Sāda daughter of Abū Karām Nadīv, by a new one, according to which she receive only 25 dinars as “sacred [sic] statement, and her husband will not provide her with clothing, whether she has work or not (ll. 16-20), while her earnings will be hers.

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• ketubba

1 Discussion

Letter from Salāma b. Nissim b. Isḥāq al-Barqi, from Busir, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat, around 1053.

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• flax

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Document date

Ḥeshvan 1413 Seleucid (1101 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Settlement between Abū l-Munā ʿUlla b. Sibaʿ (known as Ibn al-Dihqān), and Abū l-Ḥusayn Yaḥyā b. Shemuel ha-Kohen.

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Document date

Kislev 1286 Seleucid (18 November 974–17 December 974 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

ʿEzra of a debt of 85 dinars and all other obligations toward him. No signatures.

Tags

• merchant
• quittance

1 Transcription 1 Discussion