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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions people such as Abū Naṣr, ʿImrān, Sulaymān al-Kohen ("your neighbor"), Eliyyahu's sister's son, the son of Bū l-Ḥasan, Eliyyahu's sons ("greetings to Rabbi Zekharya and Rabbi Berakhot"), and the ḥaverim from Bilbays.

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• sugar

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Document date

Tuesday, 1 Nisan 1537 Seleucid (31 March 1226 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

This is a copy of T-S 13J4.2. Yiṣḥaq b. Yehuda Ibn al-Mashshāṭ, agent (wakīl) of Yeshuʿa b. Hillel Ibn Zikr, sells to Hillel b.

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• 13th c
• bill of sale
• slave

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Document date

Wednesday night, 29 Tishrei 1541 Seleucid (18 September 1229 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

remarried his divorced wife Maʿānī bt. Karīm al-Aqraʿ ha-Levi. Dated: Wednesday night, 29 Tishrei 1541 Seleucid, which is 18 September 1229 CE.

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• ketubba
• marriage
• remarriage

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Eli (fl. 1066–1108 CE), regarding a property in Qasr al-Sham'. One of the parties is a convert to Islam (PGPID 41564).

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• 12th c
• account
• estate of the jerusalemites

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

The document was chartered when the beneficiary was in sound health and had fully consented to the cause; 'fī ṣiḥatin.... ṭawʿan lahu ʿalayhi', and is referred to as 'this document/letter'; hadhā l-kitāb.

Tags

• dimme

1 Discussion

Primary language

Arabic

An amount of 1000 qiṭʿa (unclear what this means) and the name Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad Ibn al-Kūfī is mentioned. Scrawled ḥasbala in the margin.

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Primary language

Arabic

chicken until he becomes stronger, God willing, praise be to God alone." Excerpts of the surviving text: "[he must not be excessive?]

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• bath
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: physician
• illness: treatment
• (+ 3 more)

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Document date

Tammuz 1538 Seleucid (17 June 1227–15 July 1227 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

If the mother should claim anything, all losses caused to the other parties would be borne by her son.

Tags

• register

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Further examination is required to identify the first letter in the alphanumerical year. MCD.

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• 16th c

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He reports that there is demand in Jerusalem for black, sky-colored, and all colors of silk (shēsh) except for crimson. Crimson silk might sell in Ramla or ʿAsqalān.

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• trade

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Document date

5 Tammuz 5587 Anno Mundi (30 June 1827 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Scribed by Yaʿaqov Ḥayna (? חיינה) al-Ḥazzān. Dated: Wednesday, 5 Tammuz 5587 AM, which is 1827 CE.

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• 19th c
• qaraites

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions a partnership (sharika) throughout, along with numerous names and sums of money. Mentions: Nuṣayr; Ṣadaqa b.

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Primary language

Hebrew

A commercial building in northeast Cairo for ṣarrāf shops, Wakālat al-Maqāṣīṣ, bore the same name during the eighteenth century (André Raymond, Artisans et Commerçants, Vols.

Tags

• coins
• sarraf
• sarraflik

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Avot 1:13) and then tells the addressee that he has "destroyed all of us from the rajfa" (illness or emotional distress?)

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• damascus
• rajfa

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Inferred date

1703–1850 CE

Each of the Ottoman forms of coinage are helpful for dating the fragment to the eighteenth or early nineteenth century (for example the kuruş was minted perhaps as early as 1690 but did not begin to appear in wide circulation until 1703CE: Pamuk, A Monetary history of the Ottoman Empire, 167). After all of the calculations have been completed there is reference to what remains, specifically "אל באקי / the remainder", which is a common term through early modern Judaeo-Arabic bookkeeping.

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• 18th or 19th c
• numismatic dating

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Primary language

Hebrew

Gzar-dina de-Yeshu (Toledot Yeshu, Heb4 in Bohak's edition, Hebrew translation, "Pilate" recension); two partially preserved folios: (1) Mosseri I 81b + 81c, containing passages 4.2–5.7 (omitting 4.4–5.3); (2) Mosseri I 81a, containing passages 6.14–7.7; Mosseri I 81d preserves only a few letters and cannot be placed; all four from the same manuscript as T-S AS 121.237, T-S NS 329.820 + T-S AS 74.141, and T-S AS 120.189 + T-S AS 120.190.

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• yeshu

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Primary language

Hebrew

Gzar-dina de-Yeshu (Toledot Yeshu, Heb4 in Bohak's edition, Hebrew translation, "Pilate" recension); two partially preserved folios: (1) Mosseri I 81b + 81c, containing passages 4.2–5.7 (omitting 4.4–5.3); (2) Mosseri I 81a, containing passages 6.14–7.7; Mosseri I 81d preserves only a few letters and cannot be placed; all four from the same manuscript as T-S AS 121.237, T-S NS 329.820 + T-S AS 74.141, and T-S AS 120.189 + T-S AS 120.190.

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• yeshu

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Primary language

Hebrew

Gzar-dina de-Yeshu (Toledot Yeshu, Heb4 in Bohak's edition, Hebrew translation, "Pilate" recension); two partially preserved folios: (1) Mosseri I 81b + 81c, containing passages 4.2–5.7 (omitting 4.4–5.3); (2) Mosseri I 81a, containing passages 6.14–7.7; Mosseri I 81d preserves only a few letters and cannot be placed; all four from the same manuscript as T-S AS 121.237, T-S NS 329.820 + T-S AS 74.141, and T-S AS 120.189 + T-S AS 120.190.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He perishes from sitting at home all day on account of the capitation tax owed. ASE.

Tags

• appeal
• blindness
• capitation tax
• jaliya
• tax

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

and 10 fulūs. Regards to Abū ʿAlī.

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• appeal
• capitation tax
• jaliya
• synagogue
• tax

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The addressee must have sent the note back or anticipated that Avraham would see it again, because he crossed out all of Avraham's phrases of abasement (ʿabd, mamlūk) and wrote above them "rather, his lord" (bal mawlāhu).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

At the top of the page some works of Hayya Gaʾon are mentioned, which have been loaned to Sayyidnā al-Nasi. (Information from CUDL and Goitein's attached notes.)

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• bilbays

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Document date

1 Shevat 5579 Anno Mundi (27 January 1819 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

This document T-S 8J20.33 does not state explicitly that Nissim will be learning the ṣarrāflık trade but it does mention an "אגאזה" (ijāza) certificate. This detail along with the fact that Nissim's father arranged his employment points to the likelihood that he was an apprentice/student and probably a minor.

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• 19th c
• apprenticeship

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

First part discusses the plight of a 'humble' cantor and teacher of small children (in a kuttāb) who has spent all his money and needs assistance, which the writer requests on his behalf from the addressee.

Tags

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• recommendation

1 Transcription 1 Translation 2 Discussions

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ayyūb, who owned property on Zuqāq al-Lawwāzīn, requested the transfer of his property, including future purchases and sales, to his sister before his death.

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Document date

1537-07-10 Seleucid (10 March 1226 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

The verso, where the wife's acceptance of the bill would be written along with witnesses, is empty. (Information from Goitein's index card)

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• 13th c
• divorce
• get

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ʿAnan, which had been deposited by the Beit Din with ʿEli b. Efrayim b. ʿEli al-Tinnīsī. Mentions Yehuda b. Meshullam b. Zekharya the scribe b.

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• inheritance
• palimpsest
• scribes

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Document date

First third of Adar II, 1446 Seleucid (February 1135 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The concurrent nature of the loan and the partnership to which the loan agreement alludes suggests the application of this principle, as does the fact that Yefet is responsible for the debt.

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• 12th c
• acknowledgment
• iqrar
• loan
• partnership

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: probably 12th century. Mentions travel to Almeria. Goitein's index card summarizes, "A man who has no income except from copying books turns to a friend for help.

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• almeria
• spain
• to edit
• valencia

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Document date

Adar 1368 Seleucid (8 February 1057–8 March 1057 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The factory belongs to ʿEli/ʿAllūn b. Shelomo ha-Kohen and Ṭoviyya/Ṭībān b. Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen.

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Document date

2 Sivan 1519 Seleucid (19 May 1208 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On verso there is a grocery list in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals as well as what may be a filing note for the document on recto ("masṭūr al-kanīs").

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• communal strife
• resolution
• state

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Document date

Nisan 5577 Anno Mundi (18 March 1817–16 April 1817 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Yosef Ḥanan and the bride Kaḥla bat David Jannāḥ (along with many items from the bridal trousseau).

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• 19th c
• betrothal

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer returned to the camp site the next day, but Abū l-Afrāḥ had already departed. The writer traveled as far as Būsīs but did not catch up with him.

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: mutakassil
• illness: syrup
• illness: treatment

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Saadya, later Nagid, or head of the Jews in the Fatimid empire, but was finally settled by "elders," who took the trouble to go through all the accounts and came up with a complicated settlement.

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• mevorakh b. saadya

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Document date

26 Elul 1348 Seleucid (9 September 1037 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The dowry includes a half share in the house of the al-Ghallāq family. Witnessed by Yefet b. Ṭoviyya ha-Levi, the ‘Ḥaver in the great Sanhedrin’ Yaʿaqov b.

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Document date

Shevaṭ 1442 Seleucid (1131 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Avraham; the latter has appointed Ṭāhir al-Ḍāmin b. Mufaḍḍal as his agent. Since the witnesses are in Malīj, the addressee is requested to settle the matter so that Seʿadya does not return again and complain to Maṣliaḥ (חתי לא יעוד מסתגית לשער הישיבה).

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

He refused to accept a gift of money by Abū l-Faraj al-Ṣayrafī, but after having had losses in a transaction of mercury and being without work since his arrival in Fustat a year and three months prior, he needs help, especially as the holidays are drawing near.

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Primary language

Arabic

On verso there is the address in both Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic, with relatively elaborate instructions for delivery; evidently the letter was sent to the shop of Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllān to be kept there or to be forwarded to the true addressee.

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• mixed
• scripts

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The Treatise on Abrogation of the Law (Kitāb naskh al-shar‘) is concerned with one of the most pressing questions of interreligious debate among Jews, Christians, and Muslims: the mutability of divine law.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Jotted accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, including for a mill (al-ṭāḥūn) and mentioning quantities (waybāt) of grain.

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Document date

10 Ṣafar 404 Hijrī (21 August 1013 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Written by the jahbadh Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ. Measurements: 11.5 × 9.7 cm. The recto, which was written before the verso, contains part of a petition addressed to an official (see separate entry).

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

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Document date

Thursday, 25 Tammuz 1377 Seleucid (21 July 1066 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Yiṣḥaq b. Yiftaḥ ha-Kohen along with a curse for a thief.

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Mann, and T-S NS J41 and T-S Misc.8.9, headed by the representative of the merchants Yekutiel b. Moshe, 'al-Hakim'. Second donor, 'The Pride,' = Yefet b.

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• charity
• communal
• donors
• poverty

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

, and somebody who drowned in the Indian Ocean (baḥr al-hind). Med Soc III, IX, C, 4, n. 48. Acre was taken by the Crusaders in 1104.

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• acre
• halfon b. menashshe
• ib7
• india book

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Document date

1410 Seleucid (30 August 1098–18 September 1099 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On the left page of recto a court record between Ma'ali and b. al-Sukari (the sugar maker). Signed by Ishaq b.

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• avraham b. natan
• mevorakh b. saadya

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Eliyyahu) to his pupil Abū l-ʿAlāʾ. He offers the addressee options of if he wants to revise old material in his own home, or come to Shelomo's house and study new material (אלשיך אלאגל אבו אלעלא אן אראד יתדכר פי קדימה ממא קד קראה פ . . . . . .

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• shelomo b. eliyyahu
• teaching

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Inferred date

1128–1164 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Informal note to al-Nezer (Natan b. Shemuel), active 1128–1164 CE, in which the writer bemoans his state (e.g. mā baqiya lī khāṭir), and writes, "Tomorrow they will ask me to speak.

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