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18651Legal documentENA 3979.2
Inferred date
1101–1121 CE
Primary language
Arabic
Legal document(s) in Arabic involving a ḍamān (tax guarantee) and ḍumanāʾ (tax guarantors). Dating: 1101–21 CE, based on the invocation of the caliph al-Āmir (r. …
Recto
1. حضرت الكشف المذكور والامر على ما ذكر ووصف فيه
2. وشهدت على اقرار الضمنا المذكورين [فيه بما يضمنه] هذا
3. العمل بالموجود المذكور وكتب يحيى بن اس…
Recto
1. I was present at the aforementioned inquest, and the matter is as mentioned and described herein.
2. I testify that the guarantors mentioned [in it] have acknowledged [that they guarantee] this
3. assessment in the aforementioned presence.
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18652LetterT-S 10J14.16
Inferred date
29 June 1155–29 June 1155 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
India Book III, 47: Letter from Moshe b. Yosef Yiju, in Alexandria, to his brother Perahya in Fustat. Sent to the shop of Abū l-Fakhr …
III, 47 recto:
1. אלי אכי אל עזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאה וצאנה ווקאה ומן
2. חסן אל תופיק לא אכלאה וכאן לה ולי ונאצר וחאפט
3. פי גמיע אמורה וכפאה במא יהמה וצד ענה…
Why, my brother, do you cause my heart pain and distress me more, by saying
to me, “You care little about me”? The moment I heard these words
I almost expired.
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18653LetterENA NS 31.21
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter draft from the wife of a drunkard to "sayyidnā." In Judaeo-Arabic, beautifully written. She reports that her husband took her belongings, demanded from her …
He was not content with them,
and no sooner did he sell them, than he came demanding from mesomething else. When I refused
to give, he beat me with something that should not be mentioned.
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- abusive marriage
- capitation tax
- drunk
- jaliya
- tax
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18654Paraliterary textT-S K1.167
Primary language
Hebrew
This document is an amulet for Sitthum bt. Sitt al-Ahl to carry with her, perhaps in her pocket or as a necklace. Its purpose seems …
His name is Aṣ, [his name is Baṣ],
his name is Gaṣ, his name is Daṣ (and so on, through the alphabet).
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18655Legal documentBL OR 4684.3
Document date
Shaʿbān 454 Hijrī (10 August 1062–7 September 1062 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Document of sale dated 454 AH. Since the top part of the document is damaged neither the parties to the sale nor the object of …
1. [......] المذكور في هذا الكتاب قد قبض البايعون المسمون
2. تاما وافيا وأبروا جميعا براه قبض واستيفا وسلموا اليه
3. وملكه وحازه وصار مالا من ماله وملكه من ا…
...(This sale has been performed) according to the condition of the sale of Islam and its contract. Witnesses testified to the acknowledgement by the
mentioned seller of the sale [ and receipt of the price and the acknowledgement by] the buyer of the acquirement (of the property).
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18656LetterT-S 8J41.7
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter by a Karaite from al-Andalus noting that he was very well-received by the people of Alexandria, but of all his money only two dinars …
1. יא סידי ויא שיכי וכבירי אלמדכור פיה ומן אדאם אללה סלאמתה ואבדל כראמתה
2. ואקר בכל [ ] ובלגרה גאיה אלמלה [ ]ה וסו עלה מא [ ] על
3. [ ]יא סידי [ ] אללה בקאך…
Then, the Alexandrians wrote about me to some of our rabbi co-religionist
so that they would not ignore me and would treat me with favour and grace, my Lord, I do not like that, if the Karaites are not informed
with whom I share customs and beliefs, as it is written I am a companion of all that fear thee (Psalm 119:63) and as it continues.
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18657LetterT-S 8.255
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from Farah b. Isma’il from Busir, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Dating: around 1053 (Gil). The writer returned from Dandir where he bought flax. …
Recto
1. [כתאבי יאסידי ומ]ולאי א[טאל אל]לה בקאך [ואד]אם תאירך וס[לאמתך וסעאדת]ך ונעמנתך מן אבוציר טאעה
2. [וצולי מ]ן דנדיל ליא [ב]קין מן כסליו ואלחאל …
...My lord mentioned that he had graced me with collecting the price of the wax through my lord my paternal uncle. He mentioned his arrangement
with him: he continues to be gracious.
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- flax
- suftaja
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18658Legal query or responsumT-S Ar.18(2).9
Primary languages
Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Responsum concerning a problematic partnership, with an excursus on valid and invalid partnerships. (Information from CUDL)
Left side (1)
1. אלדי יגב אן נכתכלס פ[י ] הדא אלסואל ה[ ]
2. מעני חקיקה קולהם [ די]נא דמלכותא דינא לאננא
3. ראינא הדא אלסאיל קד געל דלך…
...(D) If
they were both prohibited by the judge from using their money according to their free will, or if one of them was
their partnership is not permitted except for the transactions that are registered for him. The same rule applies to women
who are married according to the statement there is no qinyan for a woman without her husband.
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- responsum
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18659Legal documentT-S Ar.38.81
Document date
Dhū l-Qa‛da 449 Hijrī (30 December 1057–28 January 1058 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Legal document. Deed of acknowledgment dated 449/1058. Ṣadaqa b. Ṭayyib al-Mayāziri al-Ramlī receives from Ḥasan b. Ishaq al-Isrāʾīlī al-Mayāziri al-Ramlī a loan of 150 dirhams. …
1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والحمد لله وحده
2. اقر صدقة بن طيب الميازرى الرملى وهو شاب معتدل القامة اسمر تعلوه حمرة بادي الجبهة
3. مقرون خفى اشهل اقنى كزم وقلت…
There is no admission of the payment of this debt in instalments, nor is there any postponement of it, nor release
from it or from any part of it.
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18660Legal documentT-S NS 157.58
Document date
26 Dhū l-Qaʿda 558 Hijrī (26 October 1163 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Marriage contract for two enslaved people, both born into slavery (muwallad(at) al-jins), Muwaffaq and Dhahab. In Arabic script. Excerpt: ...انه زوج مملوكه موفق المولد الجنس …
#62, pp. 188-9
1. [بـ]ـسم اللـه الرحمن الـ[ـرحيم]
2. [شـ]ـهد الشهود المسمون اخر [هذا الكتاب ان القاضي ]
3. [ ]ع ويكنى ابا البركات وعبد السلم الـ[ بن ابي] الف…
Son maître susmentionné l’a donnée en mariage à son esclave nommé ci-dessus, en contrepartie de la dot [ susmentionnée].
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18661Legal documentBL OR 4684.14
Document date
Muḥarram 454 Hijrī (15 January 1062–13 February 1062 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Document of sale dated 454 AH. The buyers are Rabābīl’s two sons, Marqūrah and his brother, Buṭrus. The seller is Usṭūrhīwa the daughter of Qūrīl. …
1. اعترف عندي بذلك وكتبه
2. الحسن بن ابراهيم بن رزق بخطه
3. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
4. هذا ما اشترا مرقوره و اخوه بطرس ولدی ربيل بن مينا من اسطورهيوه ابنت قوريل …
Saʿīd ibn ʿAlyān testified to the acknowledgement by the seller and the buyer of all that is contained in this document. He wrote in his (own) handwriting.
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18662Legal documentT-S 13J3.5
Document date
Marḥeshvan 1455 Seleucid (11 October 1143–9 November 1143 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Legal document. Partnership settlement. Dated: October 1143. Location: Fustat. Written in the hand of Nathan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. The recto records the settlement of a …
Recto
1. יוסף בן חסאן מהדוי אלדין דינא דין פבקא אבו אלחסן כסליו וטבת וליס עליה ימין
2. מעשה שהיה לפנינו אנן חתומי מטה כן הוה בחדש מרחשון דשנת…
He will not give a single dirham from these […] without
recording it on the back of th[is do]cument. If he (Joseph) claims having paid some of this, and it is not fixed on the back of this
document, then his claim therein will be ignored, and the words of this Khalaf his counterparty shall be considered tr[ustworthy] in that which he says concerning
what remains for him from (the total debt mentioned) in this document, and if he demands all of it, he does not have to take any oath whatsoever therein,
even ḥerem setam, or a rider oath.
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- autograph
- business dispute
- debt
- dye
- partnership
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18663LetterBodl. MS heb. b 11/15
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
India Book III, 48: Letter from Shemu’el b. Yosef Yiju, in Mazara, to his brothers, Perahya and Moshe, in Alexandria or Fustat. Around 1156.
recto
1. שלום רב לאוהבי תורתיך ואין למו מכשול
2. אלי אכותי אל עזיזין עלי אדאם אללה בקאהם וצאנהם
3. ווקאהם וכאן להם עוזר וסומך משען ומבטח
4. אננא כתירין אל שוק…
In Marḥeshwān 915, we received a slip
of paper //from Ḥajjāj—may he be remembered [[for his deeds]]—// saying “Your sons have sent you
something {alt. tr.: somemerchandise} with me; as soon as I unpack {it}, I shall send it to you.”
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18664Legal documentENA 3963.4
Document date
middle decade of Rabīʿ II 483 Hijrī (12 June 1090–21 June 1090 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Legal document: testimony that Ya[ḥ]yā b. [ ] (?) is a Jew from Khaybar, and thus exempt from the capitation tax. Dated: middle decade of …
Recto
1. بسم الله الرحمن ارحيم صلى الله على سيدنا محمد نبيه واله وسلم تسليما
2. شهد الشهود المسمون اخر هذا الكتاب شهدوا جميعا انهم يعرفون يـ[ـحـ]يى بن ...…
The witnesses whose names appear at the end of this document have testified together that they know Tāqī b. ... [ in his person],
his name and his genealogy.
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18665Literary textMoss. Xa, 3.43 + Moss. IXa,2.24
Primary language
Arabic
A folio from a fiqh manual entitled "kitāb al-iqtiṣār" by the 10th-century Fatimid chief jurist, al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān. The folio is from the book of sales …
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1. الَىْ اَهْلِهَا مُكَذّباً بِفَرْضِها اَوْ مُدَافِعاً لِهاْ وَجَبَ قتالهُ وَقتلَه
2. اذا قَدِر عَليهِ الّاَ اَن يَتُوبَ وَكُل من حَالَ دُوْن حَدٍّ…
Whoever among them embraces Islam is
free; and if they do not embrace Islam, the men are to be killed and the women imprisoned. If only the men apostatize
and the women refrain, the men are to be killed, and the children retain the Muslim status of their mothers,
if they embrace Islam.
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18666Legal documentT-S H10.173
Document date
10-20 Shaʿbān 448 Hijrī (October 1056–November 1056 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Legal document: deed of sale in Arabic for the purchase of part of a house. Abū l-Faraj Ṣemaḥ b. Ṣedaqa b. Ṣemaḥ the money-changer buys …
Recto, right side
1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله وسلام على عباده الذين اصطفی
2. هذا ما اشترى صيمح ويكنى أبا الفرج بن صدقة بن صيمح الاسرائيلي الـ[ـ…
Recto, right side
1. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be to God and peace be upon his servants, whom he has chosen.
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- bill of sale
- house
- indigo
- money-changer
- qadi court
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18667Legal documentT-S Ar.53.59
Primary language
Arabic
Deed of sale. In Arabic script. Abū l-Ḥusayn Yaḥyā b. ʿAlī b. Aslama b. ʿAbi Zayd (a dealer in dates) buys part of a shop …
Recto
1. [بـ]ـسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
2. [هذا ما ا]شترى يحـ[ـيى و]يكنى أبا الحسين بن على بن اسلم بن أبي [زيد التمار من احمد بن ابرهيم بن محمد]
3. المزني …
Its second boundary, which is the northern, [ … ]
mentioned in this document, with which the door of this shop, mentioned in this document, communicates and [ … ]
known by (the name of) Yaḥyā ibn ʿAlī ibn Aslama ibn Abī Zayd, the dealer in dates.
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18668Legal documentUnknown (excavation images 1978_A102_17–17A and 1978_A102_18–18A)
Primary language
Arabic
Khan, Qaṣr Ibrīm, doc. 51
verso
1. In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate.
2. This is what Mariane ibn Īsū the Nubian called me to witness for his wife Maryam ibnat Yuḥannis.
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- qasr ibrim
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18669LetterT-S 8J21.6
Inferred date
1007–1055 CE
Primary language
Hebrew
Letter to Efrayim b. Shemariah from his friend Yiṣḥaq, who asks for money to pay the tax-collector and so prevent his being imprisoned. Dating from …
(recto)
1. שלום לך ושלום לעזרך וג'
2. אלי אח וריע וגדל דיע אהוב וחביב וקשור נפש בנפש
3. וחקוק בלב הוא אדירי וכבירי ועין ימיני וזרוע עזי
4. כבוד גדו קדו מרי ורבי…
...Earn merit for what you do for me. As you know, Moses our teacher, of b(lessed) m(emory), achieved merit
and bestowed merit on others, and the merit of others depends upon h[im], as it is s(aid): "He executed the Lord's judgments
Recto, margin
1. and His de(cisions) for Is(rael)" (Deuteronomy 33:21).
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18670Literary textT-S 8Ka7.4 + T-S NS 298.55 + BL Or. 6197.7–8
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Gzar-dina de-Yeshu (Toledot Yeshu, JA1 in Bohak's edition, Judaeo–Arabic translation, "Pilate" recension), middle portion of the text containing passages 6.1–; read consecutively with T-S NS …
Folio 1r (fifth section in join)
1. קד ק֯תלתם אלתלאמיד אלהם פרוע אקתלו יוחנן
2. וישו אלדי הם אצול. פקאל יהשוע נסתאדן פיהם
3. אלמלך טברינוס קיסר. פל<א>מא אסתא…
The king brought his daughter and cut open her belly, and behold, there was a stone in her abdomen.
She died immediately, and the king said to them: “Bring her back to life as you have claimed.”
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18671Literary textMIAC 23973.47
Primary language
Arabic
Khan, Qaṣr Ibrīm, doc. 41.
His magnanimity led him to treat me as a brother; distance from home made us kin.
He invited me to travel to a land of safety and comfort.
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18672Legal documentT-S Ar.52.177
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Legal document. A woman named Sitt al-Kull b. Eliyya appears before the court, informing them that her husband Yakhin b. Shabbat left few years ago …
If he chooses [ ] to me [ ] in all that is due to me from my aforementioned ketubba,
delayed marriage gift and dowry [....] and will give it to him
[... ] and bear witness for me [
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18673LetterT-S Ar.40.56
Inferred date
1167–1167 CE
Primary language
Arabic
India Book (IB) II, 64. Letter from Bū ʿAlī b. Bū ʿUmar, in Upper Egypt, to his family (his son or possibly nephew Abū l-Maḥāsin …
II, 64
1. شاكر اياديه
2. بو على بن بو عمر
3. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
4. كتابي اطال الله بقا حضرة مولاى الشيخ الاجل السيد وادام
5. تاييدها وعلاها ورفعتها وسناها ومن …
But Ibn Maḍmūn heard of my dire situation and sent me letters, in which he said, “I have been afflicted by the same thing that you are enduring.
Set out and come up to me.”
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- india book
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18674Legal documentT-S 12.172
Primary language
Arabic
Deed of sale for a house. In Arabic script. Dating: 11th–12th century CE. Ḥusayn b. Ḥāzim al-Bayyāʿ (the food vendor) purchased a house from Ḥasan …
Recto
1. بسم الله الرح[من الرحيم]
2. هذا ما اشترى حسين بن حازم البياع من حسن بن علي البقال اشتر[ى منه...]
3. يده وهي الدار ذات البابين والقصر السفل المعروف…
1. In the name of God, the merciful [and compassionate].
2. This is what Ḥusayn ibn Ḥāzim, the (food-)vendor, bought from Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī, the grocer.
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18675LetterT-S 13J24.2
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
India Book III, 37: Letter of request, addressed apparently to Madmun b. Yefet, by a person in inland Yemen, for help against Ibn Yiju, involving …
recto
1. מעה [...]
2. אלסדיד אט[א]ל [אללה בקאה ... ]
3. אנעם אלנאכדה אלאגל במא קד
4. דכלת פיה אנת ואלתנא ואלשכר
5. מא הו אלא לך פקד יא מולאי
6. אעתנית בשי פאתמה לאן
He says to me all the time:“Come back.” Then he makes himself scarce
and disappears, in a short day a hundred
times.
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18676Legal documentMIAC 23973.1
Primary language
Arabic
Khan, Qaṣr Ibrīm, doc. 46 (Document of Sale).
...It was written on his behalf in his presence.
Angeshoura ibn Merki witnessed the acknowledgement by the seller and the buye
named with him of all that is attributed to them in it.
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18677Legal documentBL OR 5532.1
Primary language
Hebrew
Formulary for a Karaite ketubba. See Mann, Texts and Studies, 174–76. Information from Goitein's note card.
Recto
1. ויבנה מקדשו ואולמו וישיב כבודו להדומו ויראה בעוני
2. עמו יחיש [ב]שורותם וישנם לחירותם וישיבם על אדמת
3. ם ויטעם ב[נח]לתם בחיי כבוד גדו…
...As for the fifty [silver coins] I will give them
to her on that day, at the time of her wedding. And there will remain incumbent upon me and upon my estate
after me that many good, weighed, full dinars
of the delayed payment as a true debt.
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- ketubba
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18678LetterT-S 8J10.16
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Recto: Letter in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, presumably from Qalyub to his father in Fustat. He had just been in Fustat, advocating …
verso
1. אלדי אעלמכם בה אני וצלת מן
2. פצל אללה תעאלי סאלם ואעלמת
3. אלגמאעה במא גרא ופרחו
4. כתיר ואלאן אן קדרתו תטלעו
5. לענד אבו עלי ותוצוה פי מציה
6. אלי ענד בו ז…
Let him write me (letter of) appointment according to what I mentioned in the public letter. Whatever happened, let me know.
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18679LetterMIAC 23973.94
Primary language
Arabic
Khan, Qaṣr Ibrīm, doc. 34.
recto
1. In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate.
2. In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate.
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18680LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/57
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from the judge Eliyyahu, in the Sinai desert, to his son the physician Abū Zikri, in Jerusalem. Eliyyahu admonishes him to live in peace …
Recto:
1. ???
2. אעלם אלולד אלעזיז אלחכים אבו זכרי ופקה אללה תע
3. אנני וצלת אלי אלמטילב יום אלגמעה אכר אלנהאר בעד
4. אן תרכנא אלקאפלה וסרת מע אתנין אעראב ראפקת…
But the Creator was kind to me and treated me in accordance with his generous and merciful ways, may I and you never fail to enjoy them, Amen.
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18681LetterT-S 13K2 + Bodl. MS Heb. d 74/29
Primary language
Hebrew
Letter 2 of 4 of Letters Miscellany, a collection of letters representing both sides of the calendar controversy. Letter 2, of which only one folio …
T-S 13K2 3r + Bodl. MS Heb. d 74/29r
1. שפסק משם הוא מתחיל ומאי זה מקום פסק מחצי יום שלישי יפקחו
2. עיניהם החברים ויראו התבונות העצומות האלה ואל יאמר כי …
And you have already men-
tioned Monday—
we have explained this in the first argument—so it is plain that it has
mentioned all the [week]days.
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18682Literary textT-S NS 298.55 + T-S 8Ka7.4 + BL Or. 6197.7–8
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Gzar-dina de-Yeshu (Toledot Yeshu, JA1 in Bohak's edition, Judaeo–Arabic translation, "Pilate" recension), opening of the text (from passage 1.1); read consecutively with T-S 8 Ka …
Folio 1v, left side (first section)
1. הדא? כת]אב יש֯[ו] אלמ֯[ארק אלדי נכת ב]ט֯א֯ע֯ת֯ ר֯ב֯
2. [אל]ס֯מא ואסל אלנאס וראה והו מן֯ [מדינ]ה יקאל להא נאצרה.
3. וכת…
Then Matai was [brought forw]ard [to be executed]
he said: “How can you execute me when it is said about me ‘Matai will I come and be s[een]
before God?’”
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18683LetterT-S 12.235
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
India Book III,9: Letter from Yosef b. Avraham in Aden to Avraham b. Yiju. Goitein thought that the letter was sent to Zabīd, a coastal …
Recto
1. בשמ רחמ
2. וצל כתאב חצרה [אלשיך אלאגל] מִולאי וקראתה ופהמתה
3. וסרני עלם סלאמת[ה] וצלאח חאלתה וחמדת [אללה עלי דלך]
4. כתירא וסאלתה אלמזיד לה מן כל כיר …
The maqṭaʿ and the paper are wrapped in a piece of cloth, on which is your name. Likewise on
every item is your name [. . .] [Would] you, my lord, [send me]
recto, right margin
1. this year some
2. profitable purchase, as you have
3. kindly accustomedme to?
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18684Legal documentT-S Ar.38.43
Document date
Dhū l-Ḥijja 407 Hijrī (1 May 1017–29 May 1017 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Legal document. In Arabic script. Almost complete (missing a small piece from the right side). Dated: Dhū l-Ḥijja 407 AH, which is May 1017 CE. …
1. [بسم الله الرحمن الرحـ]ـيم وصلى الله على محمد النبي واله وسلم تسليما
2. [اقرا الحسن بن الحسين بن جعفر الهاشمـ]ـى الخازني واخته لابيه ولده مباركة ابنت ا…
1. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. God bless Muḥammad, the prophet, and his family and save them.
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18685Legal documentT-S NS 96.66
Primary language
Arabic
Right column: Petition by Muslim b. ʿAbd al-Jabbār to a Fatimid judge regarding an endowment consisting of some shops that Muslim granted to his wife …
Recto, right column
1. عبدها مسلم بن عبد الجبار
2. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ثبت
3. قد اجاب حضرة مولاى القاضى الاجل اطال الله ب…
An ʿalāma was attached to their document, according to the familiar
practice in such matters. The contents included mention of the reply given to him by the
jurisconsults authorized to make legal decisions concerning the endowment that I granted
to my deceased wife Khulla, daughter of Fahd, namely the portion of the said shops mentioned in the document headed by
my name, and her acceptance of that from me.
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18686Legal documentCUL Or.1080 J288 + T-S 8J5.15
Document date
First third of Shevaṭ 1463 Seleucid (January 1152 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Legal document. Partnership dissolution. Dated: 1152. Location: Fustat. Under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Hiba al-Abzārī b. Abū Isḥaq al-Tawwazī and Abū …
CUL Or.1080 J288 (104A) + T-S 8J5.15 (104B) Recto
1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי |דחתמות ידנא לתתא סוף שטרא דנן כן הוה פי אלעשר
2. אלאול אלאול מחדש שבט ד…
Then we performed a qinyan
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18687LetterUnknown (excavation images 1974_P04_08A-09 and 1974_P04_09A-10)
Primary language
Arabic
Letter from Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān(?) to ʿUbayd Allāh ʿAlī, probably the secretary (kātib) of the eparch Uruwī in Qaṣr Ibrīm. The sender asks the …
Recto
1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
2. العبد يسل حضرة مولاى الشيخ الاجل الكاتب ادام الله عزه
3. قبول يدى مولاى الاجل صاحب الخيل روى بن مولاى الاجل [يسو]
4. عبده وعب…
In the days of his father, my master, the Master of the Horses, nobody opposed
me in anything. I am well respected and (request) that he goes to ask my honourable master (the eparch)
to treat me in the same way that his father treated me.
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18688Legal documentMIAC 23973.1
Primary language
Arabic
Khan, Qaṣr Ibrīm, doc. 46 (Document of Testimony).
...Whenever one of them claims [ ]
and claims that for him and on his behalf in his lifetime, or through his disposal, after [ ]
or in some visible part thereof, and in all his power in this world and the [next ]
document, the acknowledgement and partnership that are attributed to him and [ ]
[ ] those entering into partnership [named in this document]
recto, margin
1. ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Maʿbad witnessed the acknowledgement by the seller and the buyer of everything that has been attributed to them in it.
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18689LetterT-S 16.345
Inferred date
1137–1147 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
India Book II, 56. One of two copies of a letter from Mahruz to Sulayman b. Abu Zikri Kohen before sailing back to India. Aden, …
Recto, main text
בשמ' רחמ'
1. וצל כתאב חצרה אלשיך אלאגל מולאי אטאל אללה
2. בקאה ואדאם עזה ונעמאה וחראסתה וזלפאה
3. וגבטתה וארתקאה ורפעתה וסנאה ועונה …
Recto, main text
In Your Name, O Merciful.
1. The letter of your excellency arrived, my lord, the illustrious sheikh.
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Khan, Qaṣr Ibrīm, doc. 33
...I am making my preparations. Write to me. I am intending (to come), if my great lord wishes,
at the end of this month of Mesra (Mesori).
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18691Legal documentUnknown (excavation images 1978_B09_12A-13 and 1978_B09_11A-12)
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Arabic
Khan, Qaṣr Ibrīm, doc. 49
[In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate.]
[The witnesses named at the end of this] document [have borne testimony,], some of them wrote with their own handwriting and some of them had it written for them by their command,
[ the year] four hundred and twenty-nine that they know Qērqe ibn
[Yuḥannis and Maryam ibnat Yuḥann]is and that an argument and dispute had taken place between them and … not
[ ] divorce.
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18692Legal documentCUL Add.3420.2 + CUL Add.3419
Document date
15 Iyyar 1409 Seleucid (19 April 1098 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
CUL Add.3420.2 1v – CUL Add.3419 1v: Legal record. Dated 15 Iyyar 1409 (= 19 April 1098 CE) in Fusṭāṭ. David b. Yaʾir testifies that …
Said she—and I heard it—: 'What do I owe to Mr. ʿUlla that he should make such a claim against me? All that is due to him from me is five qīrāṭs. For five qīrāṭs he makes such a fuss.' At the sametime, also Ma'ālī ha-Kohen, the brother of the sexton, was present, and made the same deposition as the aforementioned David.
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18693LetterT-S 12.237
Primary language
Hebrew
Letter of appeal for charity from a Byzantine man named Mosqos (=Μόσχος). Dating: ca. 1090 CE. The scribe, also a Byzantine, has been identified by …
recto
1. אשרי שומרי משפט עושה צדקה בכל עת
2. פיזר נתן לאביונים צדקתו עומדת לעד קרנו תרום בכבוד
3. לכבוד גדולת קדושת ישישת יקרת הדרת פארת (?) ועטרת כותרת
4. ל…
...For the sake of the Lord and your own sakes, do not send me away from you empty-handed,
for I trust in the Lord and in you. I have come before you like a bird in a trap; do not leave me
humiliated and [embittered (?).]
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18694LetterUnknown (excavation images 1966A_P06_27A-28 and 1966A_P06_28A-29)
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Arabic
Letter from a certain Jāmiʿ, in Aswān, to his brothers Khalīl, ʿUmar, and ʿUthmān. The sender is in desperate straits "without clothes" and urges his …
Recto
1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
2. كتابى الى الاخ خليل والاخ عثمان
3. وعمر اطال الله بقاهم وادام سلامتهم
4. ونعمتهم والذى اعلم به اننى وصلت
5. الى اسوان وتعب معى ا…
...By God,
please could one of you come downriver quickly
to me. Do not (hesitate to) consider how one would come downriver.
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18695Legal documentUnknown (excavation image 1978_A102_19–19A)
Primary language
Arabic
Khan, Qaṣr Ibrīm, doc. 52
recto, witness clauses
1. Muḥammad ibn Jamāʿa witnessed the acknowledgement by the two acknowledgers of all that is named
2. and described in this document, and it was written on his behalf, by his instruction and in his presence.
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18696LetterMIAC 23973.64
Primary language
Arabic
Khan, Qaṣr Ibrīm, doc. 36
Recto
1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
2. كان كتاب الخليفة مشل انكرة سلمها لله وصلنى على
3. يد عبيده وقضيت حوائجهم وتوجهوا ولم اكتب
4. لهم كتاب من كثرة اشغالى قسط عذرى
...Ḥajjāj,
the son of Misrad, has informedme that you want to come
and enter Aswan. If you want to enter,
you would be given a warm welcome.
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18697LetterT-S 8J36.3
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
India Book III, 45: Letter of Perahya b. Yosef Yiju to his father in Mazara Sicily, probably June 1154.
recto
1. עלקת אליך הדה אלסטרין ען חאל סלאמה ועאפיה [...] לילה אלאתנין מן
2. גמעה ויקח קרח בתנא פי אלמרכב ונזלת יום אלב[...] פי חואיג פאלתקא
3. ביי אנסאן גא…
verso, address
1. This letter is sent to my esteemed parent,
2. his honor my father and master Joseph Melammed (Teacher) b. Peraḥyā
3. —may he rest in Eden!
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18698Legal documentT-S 13J16.5
Letter from Judge Eliyyahu to his colleague David ha-Kohen in Bilbays addressing a query; asks whether one Bushr, daughter of Asad, had formally dissolved a …
Recto
1. חבר אני לכל אשר יראוך
2. אל הדרת כבוד גדולות קדושת מרנא ורבנא דוד הכהן החבר המעולה
3. הח' והנ' שמצו מן אוהבו כנפשו אליהו ברבי זכריה ת'נ'צ…
Now if these things are
remembered by you, then you can dispense with making the above mentioned Jacob appear before you
and with getting testimony about it again after their having made a settlement
in your presence.
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18699LetterT-S 10K8.14
Inferred date
1150–1204 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter to Moshe b. Maimon (Maimonides) from an unnamed friend. Includes poetic verses by Yehudah haLevi. (Identification and information from Joel Kraemer, "Six Unpublished Maimonides …
1. בשמ רחמ שלום רב לאוהבי [תור]תיך
2. ואין למו מכשול
3. גיר כאף ען הדרת יקרת צפירת תפארת מרנו
4. ורבינו אור עינינו נשף חשקינו צניף ראשנו
5. ותפארתנו יחיד דורנו אדו…
1. In your name, O merciful one. Those who love your teaching enjoy well-being;
2. they encounter no adversity.
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18700Legal documentBL OR 4684.15
Document date
Ṣafar 430 Hijrī (2 November 1038–30 November 1038 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Document of sale dated 430 AH. The sale is between Bandalūs the son of Buṭrus and Baqām the son Kayl the son of Qūrīl. In …
1. صح ذلك عندي وكتب
2. الحسن بن ابراهيم وكتب بخطه
3. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
4. هذا ما اشتری بندلوس بن بطرس الخياط من بقام بن كيل بن قوريل و هما جميعا من سكان ال…
1. The validity of this document is confirmed before me. It was written by
2. Ḥasan ibn ʾIbrāhīm ibn Rizq in his (own) handwriting.
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