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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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Tags

• 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."

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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.

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• 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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Document date

Monday, 7 Jumādā I 1243 Hijrī (26 November 1827 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Involves payment rendered by Mūsā al-Ṣarrāf (probably Mūsā Naʿim) in the "commercial warehouse for official rice fodder of Būlāq" for a shipment of rice received from Rosetta.

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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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• 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

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

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

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• halfon b. menashshe

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Receipt of payment in new monies in copper paid to Sayf al-Dīn Ṭūghān by his wife Fāṭimah, dated 29 Ramaḍān 815 [1413].

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• arabic

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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.

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• 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').

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• 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.)

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• 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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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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1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In the last lines, the writer urgently asks to know with whom the commentary on the Prophets had been pawned, because the son of al-Rayyis Sulaymān seems to be requesting it.

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• 13th c
• mosul nasis

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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.

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• merchant
• quittance

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Document date

14[6]8–14[8]8 Seleucid (17 September 1156–26 August 1177 CE)

Part of a ketubba. Bride: Sitt al-Khafar bt. Ṣedaqa ha-Kohen (סת אלכפר). Groom: [...] b.

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Inferred date

1128–1164 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Another nearby house is known by the name of Ḥashīsh(?) the miller (al-ṭahḥan). There are no signatures here; it may have continued onto another sheet.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Reused for Hebrew piyyut by a prolific scribe (see Joins Suggestions on FGP for T-S Ar.52.237). Joins: Alan Elbaum. (Information in part from CUDL.)

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• to edit

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Ya’aqov b. Isma’il al-Andalusi, from Sicily, to Yoshiyyahu b. Natan, Fustat.

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• responsa
• trade

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Document date

1329 Seleucid (24 September 1017–12 September 1018 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Yiṣḥaq ha-Kohen, and Shelomo b. ʿAllūn. (Information from CUDL)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

T-S AS 184.159), Adoniyya, and Abū l-Faraj al-Mubārak b. Saʿīd. (Information in part from CUDL)

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Inferred date

1132–1149 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The record itself is almost completely effaced. It notes that a trader presented a court record/ruling (maʿase) which had been drawn up in Bharuch (Broach), the well-known port city in northwest India.

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• cloth
• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib3
• india book
• register

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation

Document date

3 Tishrei 1526 Seleucid (8 September 1214 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Involves Abū Saʿīd b. Abū Manṣūr al-Nushādirī trying to claim a debt of 20 dinars from Manṣūr b.

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• 13th c

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Document date

26 Shevat 5567 Anno Mundi (4 February 1807 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The letter discusses payments and shipments of coffee as well as a consul, several business contacts, boat captains, and letter carriers such as: Khamṣa al-Fījānī(?), Muḥammad Sharāba, Khawaja Mosqī/Musqī, Se[nyor] Parente (probably Yehuda Pariente), and Abū Zaghlūl.

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• 19th c
• karo y frances
• late ja

1 Transcription

Primary language

Hebrew

Peraḥya. He was only allowed to transcribe this poem after taking an oath on the holy Torah "to the one who bestowed it on me" (presumably the poet) that he would never write it for anyone else and that he would never recite it to anyone.

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Document date

middle third of Tammuz 1555 Seleucid (19 June 1244–28 June 1244 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Ḥasan signs over to his employee Barakāt b. Yeshuʿa Ibn al-Mūrid the running of his drug store, fixing daily wages for him, and protecting him from future claims even by the declarant's own heirs.

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• deathbed will

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Document date

144[.] Seleucid (1128–1138 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Husband: Yosef [b. ʿEli]. Wife: [Sitt] al-Jamīʿ bt. Shelomo. (They may actually only be betrothed and not married; T-S 8J17.9 fol. 2v, from 1132 CE, is their betrothal contract.)

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• divorce
• get

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

T-S AS 149.74 + T-S NS 225.17a and T-S NS 225.17b (PGPID 38482) are distinct but similar documents with parallel formulae including the section beginning אן יפרץ להא (line 10 of T-S NS 225.17b and line 3 of T-S NS 225.17a). Join: Alan Elbaum.

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• halfon b. menashshe

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The Muslim rescuers sold all the retrieved wares in the presence of the merchants who survived.

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• byzantine pirates
• byzantines

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE), assuring the wife that she would have an apartment to herself, not to be shared with an enslaved woman (jāriya), and that he will not take a second wife (aw tazawwaja ʿalayhā. . .). No names preserved. Amir Ashur suggests this may be the same couple or document as T-S 16.35 (PGPID 7364), as the bride's uncle acts as her representative in both documents and both are in the hand of Ḥalfon b.

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• betrothal
• polygyny

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Entries on verso include (a) a marriage agreement between Namer al-Khayyāṭ and Ḥasana bt. Ḥalfon ha-Kohen and (b) a sale of a floor in a house between Mevorakh b.

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