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18851State documentENA 3951.3
Primary language
Arabic
Petition. In Arabic script. From Yaḥyā al-Tājir. The nature of the request is not clear, nor is it clear how much is missing from the …
1. المملوك
2. يحيى التاجر
3. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
4. يقبل الارض ويسل الانعام عليه
5. والاحسان اليه بالفسح عنه بالخط الكريم زاده
6. الله شرفا ونفاذا بالخدمة (…
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1. The slave
2. Yaḥya, the merchant
3. In the name of God the merciful and compassionate
4. Kisses the ground and asks that benefactions be extended to him
5. and kindness be shown to him, by granting him permission in the noble handwriting may God increase
6. its glory and efficacy by noble servitude (?)
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18852State documentT-S K6.98
Primary language
Arabic
Beginning of a report to a Fatimid caliph. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Involving a woman. (Or perhaps this is a petition from a woman …
1. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
2. The benedictions of God and his blessings, his increasing benefactions and [most excellent peace and greetings be upon our master and lord, the imām ..........., commander of the faithfuI,]
3. and upon his pure ancestors, the rightly-guided imāms, [and] upon his most noble sons ]
4. The woman slave reported to [ ]
5. something, and when the slave returned to her house,
6. [ ]. [ ]
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18853State documentT-S NS 146.58
Primary language
Arabic
Remnants from an Arabic official document. Official letter(s) or petition(s) to the caliph al-Mustanṣir. There is a version both on recto and verso. None of …
Recto
1. عبد سيدنا ومولانا الامام المستنصر بالله امير المؤمنين
2. صلوات الله عليه وعلى ابائه الطاهرين وابنائه الاكرمين
Verso
1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
2. صلوا…
Recto
1. The slave of our master and leader, the imām al-Mustanṣir Billah, commander of the faithful
2. Blessings of God be upon him and upon his pure ancestors and noble descendants
Verso
1. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate
2. Blessings of God and his greetings and benedictions be upon our master and leader
3. The imām al-Mustanṣir Billah, commander of the faithful, and upon his
4. pure ancestors [and awaited noble descendants to the day of judgment]
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18854Legal documentT-S NS J469
Document date
Thursday, 23 Rabīʿ II 655 Hijrī (10 May 1257 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Report of the death of a Jewish woman. In Arabic script. The deceased was an adult (kāmil) woman Ḥusn bt. Mūsā, and she was survived …
1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
2. المماليك ينهو وفاة حسن اليهودية الامراة الكامل ابنه موسى
3. اليهودي وخليت من الورثة المستحقين لميراثها ثلاث اولاد ذكور
4. وهم فتوح …
1. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
2. The slaves report the death of Ḥusn, the Jewess, an adult woman, the daughter of Mūsā,
3. the Jew.
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18855Legal documentT-S 6J12.6
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Legal document with the testimony of Natanʾel b. Tamīm concerning a signature he witnessed for Saʿīd b. Yūsuf, who releases Mufaḍḍal b. Salāma b. Saʿīd …
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1. יקול נתנאל בר תמים אנני תכפלת
2. לסעיד בן יוסף אחצאר אלכט אלדי
3. עליה למפצל בן סלאמה בן סעיד
4. בסבב אלכט אלדי כאן תסלמה מנה
5. באסם {ב}אבן נגיב אלדולה…
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1. I, Netanʾel bar Tamīm, testify that I have guaranteed
2. for Saʿīd b. Yūsuf the delivery of his signed document, which
3. he owes to Mufaḍḍal b. Salāma b. Saʿīd
4. on account of the signed document that he was supposed to accept from him
5. in the name of Ibn Najīb al-Dawla.
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- state
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18856Legal documentT-S Ar.35.73
Document date
3 Rabīʿ I 607 Hijrī (25 August 1210 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Recto: Acknowledgement of the payment of rent. Dated: 3 Rabīʿ I 607 AH, which is 25 August 1210 CE. Aḥmad b. al-Shaykh ʿAlī Ibn al-Akhḍar …
1. بسم الله الرحـ[ـمن الر[حيم ]
2. اقر احـ[ـمد ] بن الشيخ على بن الاخضـ[ـر]
3. اقرارا شرعيا انه قبض من المزبد
4. ابي الخير المتطبب جميع ما كان عليه من الاج…
1. [In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.]
2. Aḥmad [ … ] ibn al-Shaykh ʿAlī ibn al-Akhḍar acknowledged
3. with a legal acknowledgement that he has received from al-Muzbid
4. Abū al-Khayr, the physician, all the rent that he owed
5. and that was recorded as owed by him in the lease that is in the possession of this Aḥmad.
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18857Legal documentCUL Or.1081 2.25
Document date
Tuesday, 8 Rajab 657 Hijrī (1 July 1259 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Report of the death of a Jewish woman. In Arabic script. The deceased is Saʿdiyya bt. Yūsuf al-Yahūdi. Her father, Yūsuf, is the heir. Dated: …
Recto
1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
2. المماليك اليهود ينهوا وفاة سعدية بنت يوسف اليهودي
3. وتركت من الورثة المستحقين لميراثها ابوها المذكور وكان
4. ذلك يوم الثلثا…
Recto
1. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
2. The slaves report the death of Sa'diyya, the daughter of Yūsuf, the Jew.
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18858Legal documentT-S Ar.34.94
Primary language
Arabic
Recto: Court record in Arabic script. Regarding a surgical operation by a physician. Nāṣir b. Jibrīl asks the Jewish physician Makārim b. Isḥāq to perform …
Recto
1. حضر الى مكارم بن اسحق بن مكارم اليهودى المتطبب
2. ناصر بن جبريل وصحبته ابنته لصلبه المسماة ستيت
3. وفى عينها اليسرى كمنة وسأل الطبيب
4. المذكور …
If the outcome is the opposite, he will evaluate the fee accordingly and the physician
will be free from liability for that.
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- illness: cost
- illness: eye
- illness: physician
- illness: women's
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18859Legal documentT-S 8.152
Primary language
Hebrew
Original use: Fragment of a Qaraite ketubba or at least a marriage-related document: "... and they will act in accordance with the traditions of the …
Recto
1. … [מה]ר הנקוב ונקהו וזכהו מן המ[הר] …
2. ונפש חפצה וינהגו במנהג בני מקרא …
3. ישראל ושלא יצאו אל משפטי הגוים …
4. מה שכתוב ומפורש למעלה בכת[ב] …
5. אלאהל …
...And he cleared and released him from the mohar
… and willingly, that they will behave according to the custom of the Karaites …
Israel, and that they shall not appeal to the courts of the Gentiles …
what is written and explained above in this document …
this [Sitt]-al-Ahl daughter of Joseph, may he rest in peace, to be in her possession …
but like the power of all strong [and solid] documents
may they rejoice and be merry, be happy, glad and joyful
O, Lord, please, save us …
In the Lord shall be justified (Is. 45: 25) …
Israel …
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18860LetterT-S 8J21.20
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Begging letter from a certain Yosef to Yeshuʿa ha-Sar, asking him to help him buy clothes. Complains of the cold. On verso there are accounts …
1. In (your) na(me, O Merciful)
2. Your slave Joseph
3. kisses the ground before (your) ex(ellency), hono(r), gr(eatness), ho(liness), pre(cious),
4. el(evated), pe(arl), wr(eath), cr(own), gl(ory), (our) ma(ster) and te(acher),
5. Yeshuʿa the great Dignitary among the Jews, may God his Rock protect him
6. and be his succor, and informs you
7. that your slave is being killed by the cold
8. and by hunger.
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18861State documentT-S Misc.22.286
Document date
531/533 Hijrī (1137–1139 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Petition opening to a vizier of al-Ḥāfiẓ. Dating: 531–33/1137–39. Al-Ḥāfiẓ had three viziers: the general Yānis (for nine months in 526/1132), Bahrām (529–31/1135–37 and Riḍwān …
Recto
1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
2. [صلوات] الله وبركاته ونوامى زكواته وافضل سلامه [و]تحياته
3. على مولانا وسيدنا وامام الحافظ لدين الله اميرالمومنين
4. …
1. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
2. The blessings and benedictions of God, his increasing benefactions and most excellent salutation and greetings be
3. upon our lord and master, the imām al-Ḥāfiẓ li-Dīn Allāh, commander of the faithful,
4. and upon his pure ancestors and his most noble sons, with a blessing enduring until the day of judgement.
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18862Legal documentT-S K16.61
Primary languages
Arabic, Hebrew
State document, Ayyubid period. Petition to an Ayyubid ruler regarding the appointment of military personnel: ʿUmar b. Masʿūd, leader of the archers in Alexandria of …
Verso
1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
2. المملوك عمر بن مسعود مقدم الرماة
3. القوسية ثغر الاسكندرية المحروسـ[ـة]
4. يقبل الارض وين…
1. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
2. The slave ʿUmar ibn Masʿūd, the leader of the archers
3. in the frontier city of Alexandria, the guarded,
4. kisses the ground and reports that he has been the leader of a unit of archers continuously since the days
5. of al-Kāmil until the present.
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- archer
- ghulam
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18863LetterT-S 13J20.7
Primary languages
Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
India Book III, 46: Letter from Moshe b. Yosef Ibn Yijū to his brother Peraḥya b. Yosef Ibn Yijū, in the Perfumers' Quarter in Fustat. …
Recto
1. בשמ רחמ
2. שוש אשיש בי' תגל נפשי באי כי הלבישני בגדי ישע מעיל צדקה וג'
3. אים מושיב יחידים ביתה מוציא אסירים בכושרות ⟦ו ⟧
4. אים לנו מחסה ועוז עזרה בצר…
...Furthermore, I sent with Abraham
of al-Mahdiyya your letter and letters from me, and told him how I was rescued. Thank God
I am well and healthy—may I never miss God’s favor
under your auspices {alt. tr.: thanks to your auspiciousness}!
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- ib-partial translation-eng
- ib3
- illness
- illness letter 969-1517
- illness: recovered
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18864State documentT-S Ar.29.186
Primary language
Arabic
Petition to a Fatimid vizier regarding the repayment of a debt. The petitioner asks for help in dealing with the head of the arsenal, Abū …
Verso
1. يعرف با[ـبـ]ـي [ا]لاعسر ريس الصناعة و[ ]
2. بين المملوك وبينه معاملة ولا عليه حسـ[ـا]ـب ولا جبة ضمان ولا كفالة
3. وأن الريس المذكور ضيق على …
Verso
1. ... known as 'Abū al-'A'sār, the head of the arsenal and [ there have been no] dealings
2. between him and the slave, he is not in debt, nor does he owe a deposit or a surety,
3. but the aforementioned head oppressed the slave and demanded from him something that was owed by his brother but that he himself had no obligation to pay.
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- arsenal
- petition
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18865State documentT-S Ar.42.177
Primary language
Arabic
State document. Petition to a Fatimid ruler in which the writer asks to be exempted from the payment of his capitation tax (of 1 + …
Recto
1. ويقوم بالجزية الواجبة عليه ومبلغها فى السنة دينار واحد وثلث وربع ودرهم
2. وفي اكثر اوقاته يتعذر عليه تغليقها الى ان يتصدق له من اليهود اهل طائ…
He and his family are dying of hunger,
but the collectors of the poll tax in Fusṭāṭ are pressing him for payment. This has caused suffering to the slave and led to
his imprisonment and the wasting away of himself and of his family through hunger and isolation, through fear of being demanded to pay what he cannot
afford.
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- capitation tax
- disability
- disability: vision
- illness
- illness letter 969-1517
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18866Legal documentT-S AS 147.3
Document date
4974 Anno Mundi (17 September 1213–5 September 1214 CE)
Primary language
Hebrew
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Location: Fustat. Dating: 1213/14 CE. This commenda records court proceedings regarding a partnership; only one of the partners' names, Saadiah b. …
Recto
1. זכרון עדות שהיתה בפנינו [אנחנו בית] [דין
2. שנת דתתקעד ל[בריאת עלמא
3. בו פה פסטאט [מצרי]ם רשות אדוננו [הנגיד אברהם הרב המובהק הפטיש החזק נר המער…
(his) honor, g(reatness, and) h(oliness, ou)r master Nathan … […]
language of claims, write and sign and give to [him …]
my understanding, in accordance with the desire of my soul, without duress and without […]
from him, 80 Fusṭāṭ dinars, golden dinars, 49 … […]
silk, to transact with it, to buy and to … […]
“(If you come with us,) we will extend to you to the same bounty that the Lord [grants us” …]
and he has 12 dirhems … in all … […]
… […]
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18867List or tableT-S K3.11
Document date
1494 Seleucid (1183 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Account for Tammuz and Av 1494 sel. ca. 1183. Only the revenue part of this account is presevred. It contains the sums from 22 apartments …
verso, right column
1. טאהר בן מחפוט
2. מכארם
3. זית טייב רטלין
4. סאס וורק ¼
5. בקיה זית חאר
6. ביד אלמבין ג ½
7. חראסה רביע
8. אלאול לקצר אלשמע
9. וגרירה ט ¼
10. אלגמלה קס
11. ⟦ואלי…
The balance for oil for burning
paid to al-Mēvīn, 3½.
Nightwatch for Rabīʿ
al-awwal in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ
and elsewhere, 9¼.
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- 12th c
- account
- communal
- qodesh
- shemuel b. saadya
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18868LetterAIU VII.E.35
Inferred date
1100–1100 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
India Book (IB) II, 12: Letter from Bundar II b. Ḥasan to ʿAllān b. Ḥassān. Aden, circa 1100. (Information from Goitein and Friedman)
recto
1. בשמ רח
2. וצל כתאב חצרה מולאי אלשיך אלאגל אטאל אללה
3. בקאה ואדאם תאיידה ועלאה ורפעתה
4. וסנאה ותמכינה וכבת אעדאה פכאן אסר
5. וארד ואבהג ואפד וקראתה ופהמת…
There was no
need to alert me to expedite
making this payment. {Alt. tr.: Inform me of any need you have, so that I can take care of it expeditiously.}
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18869LetterT-S 10J14.2
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
India Book III, 33: Letter from Yeshua ha-Kohen b. Yaʿaqov, in Dhu Jibla, Yemen, to Avraham Ibn Yiju regarding the renting of a house. Around …
III, 33
1. שלומות להגדילה / וברכות להכפילה /
2. וחן וחסד וחמלה / ורוח והצלה /
3. ופדות וגאולה / ושמחה וגילה /
4. מלפני שוכן מעלה / יהיו כלם
5. זר ונזר ועטרה / וצפי…
recto, right margin
Kindly do not cease writing to me, the servant of your excellency. May I never be deprived of you!
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18870State documentT-S Ar.41.131
Inferred date
1149–1153 CE
Primary language
Arabic
Petition likely addressed to the vizier of al-Ẓāfir, al-ʿĀdil Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī Ibn al-Salār (r. 1149–53), regarding an iqṭāʿ worth 5500 dinars and a market …
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1. صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامى وافضل تحياته و[سلامه]
2. ما اخذ لهم من طين اقطاعهم وهو ماية فدان احتوى عليها النايب
3. وقد خرجت الاوامر العالية باعا…
The exalted orders were issued for the restoration of a market to their fief in place of their (present) market,
but the local judge in Minyat Ghamr did not allow them this and he did not return the land to them. The assessment of the wealth
of their fief is five-thousand, five-hundred dinars and the assessment of the land of the village is one thousand faddāns.
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18871Legal documentT-S Ar.53.19
Primary language
Arabic
Deed of sale. In Arabic script. Abū l-Ḥasan b. Ḥasan, the Jewish druggist, bought four shares of a house in Minyat Ghamr, consisting of a …
Verso, top left
1. اشهدني بذلك
2. وكتب ...
Verso
1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
2. اشترى بو الحسن بن حسن اليهودي العطار الساكن بمنية زفتى جواد بماله لنفسه صفقة واح…
Verso, top left
1. I was called upon to witness
2. and ... wrote
Verso
1. In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate.
2. Bū l-Ḥasan ibn Ḥasan, the Jewish pharmacist residing in Minyat Ziftā Jawād, purchased with his own money, for himself, in a single transaction (and) a single
3. contract, from Naẓr ibnat Abū l-Ḥusayn, the Jewish woman, a competent adult present in Minyat Ziftā Jawād, a portion of the ... ,
4. which is four shares out of a total of twenty-four shares, undivided common property of the house that this Naẓr ibnat [Abū l-Ḥusayn],
5. the aforementioned seller, states is hers, her property, located in Minyat Ghamr, situated on the northern side of ...
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18872Legal documentDK 237.4
Inferred date
1185–1185 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Legal document. Dating: probably ca. 1185 CE. This is the only known document that refers to the majlis of Maimonides. It is a draft of …
1. בש רח
2. נקול נחן אלגמאעה אלמתבתין כטוטנא באכר הדה אלסט[ור]
3. אננא ראציין באן יטלק מן גבאיה אלרבע אלמוקף ברסם
4. אלעניים ברסם גזיה אלשיך אלנגיב מר ור אברהם …
1. In Thy Name, oh Merciful!
2. We, the company undersigned at the end of these lines, declare
3. (3-5) that we agree that 1⅔ dinars shall be deducted from the collection from the Estate that is dedicated for the sake of the poor, in order to pay the poll tax of al-Shaykh al-Najīb, our Master and Leader Abraham b.
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- capitation
- funduq
- maimonides
- qodesh
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18873State documentSt. Catherine, Atiya no. 8, Stern doc. 5
Document date
3 Rajab 529 Hijrī (19 April 1135 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Decree of Bahrām (1135–37), the vizier of al-Ḥāfiẓ (r. 1130–49), safeguarding the monastery of St. Catherine at Sinai, its bishops, its monks, and their agricultural …
1. وكذلك الحبوب والشعير و [
2. والثمرة بالدير الاعلا المختص بالاسقف والرهبان
3. خرج امر فتى مولانا وسيدنا
4. الامام الحافظ لدين الله امير المؤمنين
5. صلوات الله عل…
...Those who dare
to do so after the present expression of our displeasure will meet with punishment
which will teach them better and which will be an example for others.
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18874LetterT-S 8J22.13 + T-S 10J6.17
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Recto: Letter from Natan, a foreigner from Jerba (the island off the coast of Ifrīqiyya), who claims that he has been unjustly placed under house …
1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ]ת
2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .…
...And may your welfare increase and not d[iminish].
Amen sela.
1. The slave, Natan the Ḥazzan
[pious quotations and blessings]
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18875List or tableT-S J1.32
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Account of expenditures ca. 1200. Various expenditures, mostly on repairs, are recorded by a parnas, R. Yeshu'a. Written on both sides of a leaf, of …
recto
1. אלמצרוף מן יד ר' ישועה מן אגרה שעבאן ורמצאן
2. חכר וחראסה ען אגרה הד ורמי תראב
3. שעבאן ורמצאן י''ד
4. צ'
5. אפתכאך א<ל>טבאק כסוה לאמרא…
(3-4, canceled) A meal, 1½. Removal of garbage, and clay, 3½.
(5-6) Allowance for Purim, 3.
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18876List or tableT-S K15.13
Document date
Heshvan-Kislev 1495 Seleucid (19 October 1183–17 December 1183 CE)
Account for Marheshvan and Kislev 1495 Sel. ca. 1183. This is a double leaf of the notebook of Shemuel b. Saadya. The first part is …
recto, right column
1. תצקיע גבאיה אלפ[רנס אבו אלביאן מרחשון]
2. וכסליו אתצה דאר אלזגאג [אלקאעה לא]
3. מנצור ג' מכארם י' עבד אלע[זיז ז]
4. אם יוץ ד' עיסא י''ב א…
The divorced wife of al-Shōmēr, 5. Total, 67 1/4.
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18877State documentT-S 13J8.27
Primary language
Arabic
Report to a vizier of al-Ḥāfiẓ from a military official. The sender refers to previous petitions, and also makes a new request for a rescript. …
Verso
1. [ ] ولما وصل الارتفاع المتوج بالعلامة ا[لشريفة ]
2. [ ] على ظهر كتاب متولى الترت…
1. [ ] When the gross receipts headed with the [noble] motto arrived [ ]
2. [ ] on the verso of the document of the director of stipends, the footsoldierssupplicated [ ]
3. [ ] pious prayers for the continuation of these [glorious] days [ ]
4. [ ] among them its recipient.
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18878List or tableJRL Gaster heb. ms 1636/14 + T-S K21.98
Document date
426–30 Hijrī (16 November 1034–22 September 1039 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Account of the Qodesh: building expenditures and revenues from rent, ca. 1037 (specifies expenditures for the years 426–30 AH = 1034–39 CE). The expenditures listed …
Recto
1. [ ]ק[ ]א[
2. מן [ ] דאר אל[
3. בנאיין אלאגרה [
4. ואתני עשר רקאץ לאבת[ ]ה תלתה
5. ותלתין דר' מא סבעה דר'
6. תמן טין אסוד מע אלקופתין תמניה
7. דר' ורבע' תמן שוחת…
Dār al-Azraq, and the apartments and shops:
Paid to Muḥsin, 8 dir. a month, for 7 months,
56 dir.
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18879Legal documentT-S 16.80
Part of a Qaraite ketubba for a bride Rayyisa and an unnamed groom, preserving the bride’s trousseau list. Olszowy-Schlanger (1998:349-51) dates it to the 11th …
Recto
1. … [ז]וג ד[… ד]רכ[מונים] …
2. … וגירה וכאתמין פ[צ'ה ו… מ]כנקאת זוג ופרדה ה'י' דרכ זוג אתראך ג'
3. … [מ]רפע ודרג אלף דרהם [מ]ק[ד]מה ע' דרכ' בגדי מלבוש…
...He also took upon himself the responsibility
… [and if, God forbid] this Rayyisa leaves this world without a child from him, [all that she brought] will return
… [to her heirs from her paternal family, and this groom will owe] nothing from the delayed [mohar payment]. They also wished and both united themselves in agreement
… [according to the fi]nding of the aviv in the Land of [Israel] …
… we wrote, signed and gave
… [let they re]joice, be merry and …
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18880State documentT-S Ar.51.106
Primary languages
Arabic, Hebrew
State document. Petition to a Fatimid official titled ʿAmīd al-Dawla requesting that the state seize the petitioner's properties in Palestine because they are not producing …
Recto
1. والاجحاف به وبهم والظلم له ولهم وعدل الدولة النبوية خلد الله ملكها وحرس عزها
2. ومولاي الاجل عميد الدولة ادام الله نعماه وكبت حاسديه واعداه يم…
This would constitute a favour for the mighty fiscus and kind consideration for his slave, since at the moment they are administered neither by his slave
nor by the fiscus. They are being plundered and do not yield any income by any means.
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18881LetterT-S 8.58
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
The sender writes at great length and in vague terms (no names or specifics are mentioned) about justifying his actions (it seems the addressee became upset that the sender was gossiping about him) and repairing the rift in their relationship.
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18882Legal query or responsumT-S AS 181.91
Inferred date
1168–1204 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Responsum in the hand of Maimonides. Dating: ca. 1168–1204 CE, based on the years when he was active in Egypt. See Ben Outhwaite, "Two New …
recto
1. לא אסמיה [...]
2. [ ]ון בני אדם ולא יגוז לה אלדכול [להונ]א
3. אלגׁואב
4. ל[א י]גׁוז לה אלדכול ללבית אלמדכור
5. …
1. I won’t name him […]
2. [ ] people and he is not allowed to enter [there]
3. The answer:
4. He is not allowed to enter the aforementioned house.
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18883LetterT-S Ar.12.17
Primary languages
Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic
Recto: Letter fragment from Khalaf b. Mubārak al-Ḥazzān or al-Jazzār. In Arabic script. Only the basmala, tarjama, and part of the first line are preserved. …
Verso
1. عبده خلف بن مبارك
2. الجزار[
3. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
4. عبد مولاي] الشيخ الاجل اطال الله بقاه وادام تمكـ[ـينه
...Mubārak
the butcher [
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate
The slave of our master] the elder, the illustrious, may God elongate his sup[port
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18884State documentENA NS 2.33
Primary language
Arabic
Verso: Draft (probably) of a petition. In Arabic script. "The slave... wishes to maintain the traditions... we wish to maintain our traditions and the traditions …
1. بسـ[ـم الله الرحمن الرحيم]
2. العبد المملـ[ـوك
3. ونشتهي ان نبقى عل رسمنا[
4. ونشتهي ان نبقى على رسمنا وعلى رسم ابونا
5. قبلنا وهـ[ ] ونحن في مكان وهو كنيستنا
1. In the name [of God the merciful and compassionate]
2. The slave [
3. and wishes to maintain the traditions
4. and wishes to maintain our traditions and the traditions of our forefathers
5. Before us [ ], we are in a place, which is our synagogue
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18885State documentENA NS 12.15
Primary language
Arabic
Beginning of a petition addressed to the Fatimid caliph al-Ẓāhir. Beginning lines only. On verso, there is literary text in Hebrew. For the formula "al-ḥaḍra …
Recto
1. بسـ[ـم الله الرحمن الرحيم]
2. صلوات الله[وبركاته ونوامي زكواته وسلامه على سيدنا ومولانا الامام]
3. الظاهر لاعزاز دين الـ[ـله امير المؤمنين وعلى ابائ…
Recto
1. In the name [of God the merciful and compassionate]
2. Blessings of God [and his benedictions and increased benefactions and greetings be upon our master and leader, the imām]
3. al-Ẓāhir li-ʾIʿzāz dīn Allah [commander of the faithful, and on his pure ancestors and noble and awaited descendants.
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18886State documentT-S AS 185.111
Primary language
Arabic
Fragment of official correspondence concerning the administration of Upper Egypt. The first four lines are mostly preserved. "It is necessary to write a noble letter …
1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
2. يحتاج الى كتب كتاب كريم الى متولي الخر[اج] من مدينة قوص
3. يُشعر فيه ان الناحية المعروفة بابنود الجارية في اقطاع
4. منـ]ـصبين الاجل…
1. In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate.
2. There is a need for a noble decree to be written to the official in charge of the kha[rāj] in Qūṣ,
3. informing him that the district known as Ibnūd, currently held as an iqṭāʿ,
4. belongs to the two [most em]inent and exalted appointees—the noble, the felicitous, the chosen of the caliphal court
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18887Legal documentT-S AS 149.5
Primary language
Hebrew
Beginning of a very old (10th-century?) court document in Hebrew, describing a woman with an unusual name— פליטי bt. [...] known as קפנו—who appears before …
1. אנו בית דין החתומים למטה כך היה המעשה בתוך וועד כנסת סהר עגולת בית דיננו באת
2. לפנינו פליטי בת המכונה קפנו צועקת זועקת מרה צורחת צווחת ובוכה ומייללת
3. ו…
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1. We, the undersigned court: thus were the proceedings in the congregation of the crescent assembly, the circle of our court:
2. PLYṬY b. (left blank) called QPNU came before us screaming, yelling, beating, shouting, shrieking, crying, whining,
3. complaining and saying thus: “listen to me, my lords and masters, hear my words and the Place (i.e.
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18888State documentT-S Ar.42.51
Primary language
Arabic
State document: On verso, titulature in calligraphic script, including al-khilāfa al-fāṭimiyya, which is rare (maybe hapax) in documentary texts.
Verso
1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
2. السيد الاجل الاوحد المكين
3. الثقة الامين فخر الوزرا وعظيم المملكة
4. شرف الدولة العلوية مختص الخلافة
5. الفاطمية تاج الاصفيا عز…
Verso
1. In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate.
2. The most lofty and singular lord, the firm,
3. the confidence, the trustworthy, pride of the viziers and greatness of the kingdom,
4. nobility of the lofty dynasty, chosen one of the Fatimid
5. caliphate, crown of the true companions, venerable one of the dynasty
6. and its loftiness, bearer of the two splendors, companion of the commander
7. of the believers
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18889Paraliterary textT-S AS 221.307
Document date
2 Tammuz, 1504 Seleucid (1193 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Colophon in the hand of Masliaḥ b. Nissim, in Cairo. Dating: 2 Tammuz, 1505 Seleucid (Friedman and Ashur). Attached to an unknown manuscript copied by …
verso
1. שמיא
2. וכתבתי אני מצליח ביר נסים
3. בידי והגהתי אותה מנוסא בדיקא
4. ביום הרבעי (!) שהוא שני ימים לירח
5. תמוז המקבה יהפוך אותו לססון (!)
6. ולשמחה בשנת אלפא…
...Nissim, wrote this
in my own hand and proofread and compared it with an accurate copy
on Wednesday, 2nd of the month
of Tammuz—may the Omnipresent blessed be He change it into a time of joy
and happiness—in the year one thousand, four five
hundred and four, Era of the Documents, which we use customarily
for dating, in the city of Cairo, located
on the Nile.
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18890State documentT-S NS 305.23
Document date
1101–1130 CE
Primary language
Arabic
Petition, or maybe its draft, to the Fatimid Caliph al-ʾĀmir bi Aḥkām Allah. Verso is also some form of state document in a chancery hand, …
Verso
1. بسـ]ـم الله الرحمن [الرحيم]
2. صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامي زكواته [وافضل تحياته على سيدنا ومولانا
3. [الامام] الامر باحكام الله امير المؤمنين وعلـ[…
1. In the name] of God the merciful [and compassionate]
2. The blessings of God, his benedictions and increased benefactions [and best greetings be upon our master and leader
3. [the imām] al-ʾĀmir bi-Aḥkām Allah, commander of the faithful, and [on his pure ancestors and
4. [nob]le and awaited descendants the slave [kisses the ground in the presence of his majesty]
5. may God be at his help, and support him.
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18891State documentUU 940
Primary language
Arabic
Beginning of a petition to the Fatimid caliph al-Ḥākim.
1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
2. سلام الله وبركاته وافضل تحياته ونوامي زكواته على الامام
3. الحاكم بامر الله امير المومنين على ابايه الطاهرين وسلم تسليما
4. عبد امي…
1. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate
2. The blessings of God, and his benedictions and best greetings and increased benefactions be upon the imām
3. al-Ḥākim bi-Amr Allah, commander of the faithful and on his pure ancestors and peace.
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18892Legal documentBodl. MS heb. f 56/44
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Record of payment of rent, ca. 1186. A payment of 100 wariq dirhams (for a period of one year's rent) is received from Abu Ishaq …
verso
1. קבץ מן אבו סחק אלעדני מאיה דרהמא
2. ורק נקד מצר ען אגרה סכנה פי אלטבקה אלעלו
3. מן אלדאר אלמקאבלה לכניסה אלעראקיין
4. אלמערופה באלשיך אבו נצר בן אלשיך …
waraq, of Egyptian tender, for the rent of his apartment in the ṭabaqa of the upper part of
the compound which is opposite the Synagogue of the Babylonians,
known as (the compound) of al-Shaykh Abū Naṣr b. al-Shaykh Abūʾl-Mūna,
of blessed memory, for one lunar year of 12 months,
beginning on the first of the month of Adar II 1497,
corresponding to Dhūʾl-ḥijja of the year 581.
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18893State documentL-G Ar. I.105
Primary language
Arabic
Petition, or at least a formal letter in Arabic script. Portions of 11 lines are preserved. Many polite formulae are preserved, but unclear how much …
1. ا]لسعيد مما كان مصادرته في كل [
2. ] له دينار لا يوصل منه في هـ[ـذه
3. ] كل(؟) نجم بالغرض ان تجري هذه الـنو[احـ]ـي(؟) [
4. ] فلولا خوفي من سخطه لكنت …
...His correspondences in each [
] a dinar doesn’t generate from this in these [
]…every (?) installment, for the reason that these districts(?)
] were it not for my fear of his disapproval, instead of my letter
]......it cannot be conveyed through correspondence
] or in letters, and for his being…. after this time
] what he narrated, and he knew of its certainty, because God, the exalted
] knows the zeal of his slave in performing His service.
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18894List or tableT-S 12.458
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
India Book III, 40a. List of customs paid in Aydhab by Avraham Ibn Yiju, around 1152. IB III, 40a is the top of the page. …
III, 40a
1. בשמ רחמ
2. מכס אלקאטר ג' וסדס ונצף קיראט עליה נצפה אלכולנגאן א' ותלת ורבע
3. אל לובאן ה' ונצף אל צבר ז' ותלתין וקיראט ונצף עליה תלתה יבקא
4. עלינא ה…
verso
1. In Your Name, O Merciful
2. Customs for qāṭir, three and a sixth and a half of a qirāṭ, half for it; galangal, one and a third and a quarter;
3. frankincense, five and a half; aloe vera, seven and two thirds and a qirāṭ, half for it, its third we
4. still owe; five (pieces of) China, a dinar.
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18895State documentMoss. IV,249
Primary language
Arabic
Petition in Arabic script. The sender bemoans his poverty (ṣaʿlaka) and expresses his trouble with paying a tax, probably his capitation tax. He is a …
Recto
1. ]في يومه(؟) رضوان مع نزول[
2. ]المملوك يهتدي مسالك الطرق وقد علت حياته
3. وضعفت قدرته وبقي المملوك من ارباب الصدقة وعنده
4. عائلة واطفال وليس …
...happiness in residing [
]The slave finds guidance in the paths of life but his life has become difficult.
His abilities have weakened, and he remains among the recipients of charity.
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18896Legal documentT-S Ar.53.66
Primary language
Arabic
Deed of sale. In Arabic script. Abū l-Bayān b. Barakāt buys for his wife (name not preserved) one-half out of twenty-four shares of a house, …
1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد [لله وحده ]
2. هذا ما اشترى ابو البيان بن بركات اليهود[ي بمالها]
1. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be [to God alone.]
2. This is what Abū al-Bayān ibn Barakāt the Jew [ … ] bought [ … with her money]
3. and her authority, from her full brother (the son of) her parents, Abū al-Faraj ibn Yūsuf [ … ]
4. wrinkles, with joined eyebrows, dark-brown eyes and a hooked nose [ … ]
5. the portion [amounting to] one half share out of twenty-four [shares ]
6. concerning which this seller stated that this portion of it belonged to him [ … ]
7. from his ownership to the ownership of this [ … ] his sister, the buyer [ ]
8. in al-Rāya, in the district known as Maḥbas Banāna, ....
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18897Legal documentT-S 8J4.9
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Legal document. Court record (draft). This document concerns the settlement of an account between Abū al-Mufaḍḍal Netanel b. Yefet and Abū al-Ḥasan Ṭoviyya b. Avraham …
Recto
1. אחצר אלי בית דין אלשיך אבו אלמפצל מר ור
2. נתנאל בר מר יפת שטר
3. עלי אלשיך אבי אלחסן מר טוביה הלוי בר מר
4. ור אברהם הלוי סט מבלג מאלה כמסה וסתין
5. דינ …
Tobias,
and he (Tobias) said, “This document is correct, and I paid him for
the silk and ‘Abīr in an amount worth //thirty din(ars).// They took from the …
a long-necked bottle of butter //two mann and a half.// I sent it all with our knowledge, with M(r.)
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18898LetterT-S 12.710
Document date
Thursday, 24 Tammuz 1298 Seleucid (June 987 CE)
Primary language
Hebrew
Recto: Letter from a certain Yiṣḥaq to Shemarya (the father of Elḥanan b. Shemarya). In Hebrew. Contains blessings for Elḥanan to take the place of …
Recto
1. בסימנא טבה
2. זכרון //עדות// שהיה לפנינו אנו העדים
3. החתומים במטה ביום חמישי
4. ב בעשרים וארבעה ימים
5. בחדש תמוז שנת אלף ומאתים
6. ותשעים ושמונה שנים למנין
Qīmoī said to us: “Be
witnesses on our behalf, perform a qinyan with us
effective immediately, write and sign
on our behalf, using all the language of claims,
that we have collaborated (in a partnership), placing
in a (single) purse four silver coins,
from which each of us (contributed)
two silver coins.
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18899Legal documentT-S Ar.39.16
Primary language
Arabic
Power of attorney. In Arabic script. Dating: 11th or 12th century. A woman appoints the Jewish dyer Abū Saʿd b. Nājī b. Bū Naṣr as …
Recto
1. ابو سعد اليهودي بن ناجي بن بو نصر اليهودي الصباغ و حليته
2. دون الاعتدال رقيق السمــــ[ــــــر]ة واضح الجبــــ[ــــهـــــ]ــــة بها اسارير خفي…
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1. 'Abū Saʿd, the Jew, son of Nājī ibn Bū Naṣr, the Jewish dyer, who has the following physical features:
2. less than average stature, pure brown in complexion, with a smooth forehead, in which there are some inconspicuous lines and a mole on the place
3. (that touches the ground) when prostrating in prayer, with linked eyebrows, with eyes pure dark-brown in colour, hook-nosed and with a round beard.
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18900Legal documentT-S AS 146.34
Primary language
Hebrew
Fragment from a Karaite ketubba for Sitt al-Faḍl and Judah. Ca. 11th century. Olszowy-Schlanger (1998:375) notes that the additional marriage payment of 13 dinars is …
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1. וחפציה הראויים לה עלי כדי כוחי והשגת ידי ואהיה עמה באמת ובצדק באהבה וחיסה וישרת [לב] …
2. ועונתה כבני ישראל הזנים והמפרנסים והמלבישים והמכסים את …
...And the [mohar] …
this, at the time of her marriage. I also added for her thirteen good, full, weighed dinars, in the weight of ten [seven] …
delayed payment as a true, strong and binding debt.
Tags
- ketubba
- marriage
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