Documents

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE), who is mentioned in the address. […] Yefet refers to his departure from Fustat (or Egypt), a period of 20 days, and his worry at the lack of letters. He greets Abū ʿImrān b. Shuwayʿ. He refers to having given something to the 'purifier' (al-muṣaffī).

Related People

2

1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

End of a letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi, probably to one of his brothers. Comprising greetings to various acquaintances. Mentioned are Sitt Naʿīm, Abū l-Ḥasan son of the judge (ben [ha] shofet), the European Sheʾaltiʾel (ben?) […] Franklin and S. D. Goitein, Mediterranean Society, 2:22, 315-6, 198, 213)

Related People

2

1 Transcription

Primary language

Ladino

Letter fragment in Ladino in a very cursive hand. The author mentions their "nephew / sobrino" and also "my cousin Avraham ha-Levi" (3 and 4 lines from the bottom). On the final line, the surname Meyuhas is referenced. There is discussion of sending barrels in ll. 5, 10, with one reference mentioning "אונ באריל די קונה די זאנטי" (l. 5, 10).

Related Places

1

Tags

• ladino
• meyuhas
• zante

No Scholarship Records

Document date

Monday, 29 Ṭevet 1438 Seleucid (14 January 1127 CE)

Legal document written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. […] The wife, "out of her free will," gives the husband Yeshuʿa the right to lock her in whenever he likes and accepts upon herself not to leave the house without his permission. There is mention (details missing) of 20 dinars owed by him to her. […] Ghālib the cantor; Ḥalfon b. Menashshe.

Related People

2

Related Places

1

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 2 Discussions

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter noting that the Rayyis, or ‘head’, is referred to by his nickname “The Tail” in letters going to “all countries East and West.” A note on the right margin mentions Wuhsha’s will and its provision that 25 dinars should be paid to the cave, meaning the Jerusalem synagogue. (S. D. Goitein, Mediterranean Society, 2:64, 536; and Moshe Gil, “The Jewish Quarters of Jerusalem (A.

Related Places

1

Tags

• wuhsha

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a Sicilian who had come to Egypt in order to study with Moses Maimonides and with Yiṣḥaq b. […] He expresses his wish to return to his hometown, Messina, where his learned father lived. (Information from Mediterranean Society, V, p. 101) Full English translation by J.

Related People

2

Related Places

3

Tags

• wakham

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Document date

middle third of Elul 1448 Seleucid (29 August 1137–7 September 1137 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. […] Large document with many legal details. Dated: middle third of Elul 1448 Seleucid (1137 CE). Signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe and Menashshe b. Yiṣḥaq the cantor. (Information from Goitein's index card.)

Related People

4

Related Places

1

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to the Nagid (or at least to a dignitary titled [...] ha-Yeshiva, probably the same Yaḥyā ha-Sar named in line 7). […] He describes her circumstances and meager resources and then refers to Rabbenu Moshe and a public collection (jibāya). […] In the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan (identified by Oded Zinger). (Information in part from CUDL.)

Related People

1

No Scholarship Records

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document mentioning 20 dinars and people including Ibn Bundār (likely one of the prominent merchants of Aden known from the India Book documents), Abū Saʿīd (the speaker), Abū l-Ḥusyan Ibn al-Sharā[bī], Aḥmad al-Wazzān who lives (al-muqīm) in a place whose name is missing, and a partnership in a bale of a commodity. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). (Information in part from CUDL)

Related People

2

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Outline or summary of a legal document. On parchment. Involves Kurma bt. […] The middle section describes the content of the legal document (mentions a house and a sum of dinars, but the details are difficult to decipher). At the bottom a list of the witnesses: al-Meʿulle Abū l-Ḥasan Ibn al-Shofeṭ; [...] Menaḥem Ibn Qaṭāʾīf.

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Abū ʿAlī b. Bū Sahl (Menashshe) Ibn (al-)Qaṭāʾif to his brother Abū Saʿīd Ḥalfon b. Menashshe Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Fragment (upper left corner of recto). The sender has sent a package containing 3/4 (ounce?)

Related People

1

No Scholarship Records

Document date

3 Jumādā [no year] Hijrī

Primary language

Arabic

Business letter in Arabic script from Faraḥ b. Ismāʿīl in Alexandria to Menashshe b. […] Faraḥ is worried because of the absence in letters from his father. He writes to his father’s neighbor and business partner, Menashshe. Faraḥ mentions details about sending dinars to Fustat for exchange, as well as information about the movement of ships and shipments of goods.

Related Places

2

Tags

• aodeh
• movement of ships

3 Transcriptions 1 Translation

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Small fragment containing various legal notes with multiple distinct entries. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). One mentions a tax farm and dyeing. The largest entry describes the boundaries of a property in the Mamṣūṣa neighborhood of Fustat, mentioning the alley named Zuqāq al-Wazīr, the dwelling of Siman Ṭav (סימן טב), the dwelling of Yosef Ibn al-Pāpā (or al-Fāfā; the Coptic Pope?)

Related People

1

Tags

• copts
• halfon b. menashshe

No Scholarship Records

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions Tinnīs. Mentions: the speaker wishing to will his or her money away; an amount owed to the speaker by Abū l-Munā b.

Related People

1

Related Places

1

Tags

• halfon b. menashshe

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment from a business letter probably written by Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Halfon (the address is not visible). Abu al-Fadl is mentioned and ruba'i of 'anzrut (= Sarcocolla, mentioned in medical books in recipes for the treatment of eye complaints such as redness, itching , and eye diseases).

Related People

2

Tags

• halfon b. menashshe
• illness: eye
• yefet b. menashshe

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Quite faded. Discusses how a certain person has always acted with beneficence; mentions "fear" at least twice; mentions sayyidnā; payments; asks the addressee for assistance with a version of a raʾy clause (ראיהא אלעאלי פי צלאח חאל אצחאבנא).

No Scholarship Records

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document. Fragment (upper left corner). The date is mostly broken off. Mentions [...] b. Shelomo ha-Mashmiaʿ (probably the equivalent of Arabic munādī, "crier") and [...] b. Yehuda al-Ḥarīrī. Also mentions the term tafwīḍ, "delegating." (Information in part from CUDL)

No Scholarship Records

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from from Sibāʿ b. Ḥasan al-Ḥalabī, probably in Fustat, to Hibatallāh b. Menaḥem al-Jubaylī, in Alexandria. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). Only the very beginning and the address are preserved.

Related People

3

Tags

• halfon b. menashshe

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif. Fragment (piece from the left side of recto). Mentions a deposit (wadīʿa); goods for a judge; an oath; a young man; his annoyance about something; someone insulting him.

Related People

1

No Scholarship Records

Document date

Kislev 1436 Seleucid (9 November 1124–8 December 1124 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Digest of a legal document. Probably in the cursive hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. For a partnership in a shop in Cairo. One partner is Hiba b. Mevorakh. The partnership will last for 2 years beginning from Kislev 1436 Seleucid (November/December 1124 CE).

Related People

1

Related Places

1

Tags

• halfon b. menashshe
• partnership

No Scholarship Records

India Book III, 42: List of Ibn Yiju's deposits and expenditures after arriving in Fustat. Mentions large quantities of jewelry, money, and goods that Ibn Yijū had deposited with Abū l-Fakhr (Ibn al-Amshāṭī) and others in Fustat, and daily expenditures, especially for bread, oil, and household goods. Mentions Bama (his Indian factotum) three times. Also mentions a sum of 197 3/4 dinars from the sale of a load of pepper to Abū Naṣr b.

Related People

2

Related Documents

1

Tags

• account
• dimme
• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib3
• ibn yiju
• (+ 1 more)

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 2 Discussions

Document date

6 Shawwal 401 Hijrī (13 May 1011 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Mūsā b. al-Majjānī to Yosef Raʾs al-kull b.

Related People

2

Tags

• 11th c
• yosef b. awkal

3 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Document date

Monday, 18 Adar 1430 Seleucid (3 March 1119 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Dated: Monday, 18 Adar 1430 Seleucid, which is 1119 CE. Husband: Ḥalfon b. Mevorakh. Wife: Sitt al-Ahl bt. Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi. On verso, confirmation that Sitt al-Ahl received the geṭ, signed by Meshullam b. Menashshe he-Ḥaver and Ḥalfon b. Menashshe.

Related People

1

Related Places

1

Tags

• get

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a former official and representative of the Nagid (na’ib) of the Alexandrian community to the Nagid, requesting that he intervene on the writer’s behalf so that he may obtain the pesiqa money and fees that the community leaders still owe him. (Miriam Frankel, “Charity in Jewish Society of the MedievalMediterranean World,” in Charity and Giving in Monotheistic Religions, ed. M. Frankel and Y. Lev, 2009, 349-50) EMS

Tags

• alexandria

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). […] Fragment (long vertical strip from the left side of the document). Mentions the Nagid and Abū l-Munā al-ʿAṭṭār.

Related People

1

Tags

• partnership

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Shela b. Mevasser b. Naḥum, a judge of Alexandria, to Abū al-Ḥasan Surūr b. Ḥayyim in Fustat, dealing with family and public matters. The letter contains clues about the dispute between Shela and Mevorakh b. Saadya and reflects Shela’s conception of his role as a community leader. (Information from Frenkel, The Compassionate and Benevolent, p. 514; S.

Related Places

1

Tags

• alexandria
• dispute

2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Ketubba. Groom: Meʾir b. Yakhin (a well-known cantor and communal official). Bride: Muʿazzaza bt. Mevorakh, a divorcee. Location: Fustat. Dating: the 4th of a month, year missing, and written under the jurisdiction of Sar Shalom ha-Levi (1171–1195 CE). Witnessed by Levi b. Avraham ha-Levi (also a known cantor in this period, the father of Moshe and Yedutun).

Related Places

1

Tags

• abu sahl levi
• ketubba
• marriage

No Scholarship Records

Inferred date

1140–1159 CE

Legal document in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Two brothers confirm in a Cairene court under the authority of Shemuel ha-Nagid (1140-1159) having received from a maternal uncle, the physician Elazar ha-Levi,12.5 dinars, representing the price of a maidservant called Sumr (for Sitt al-Sumr), left to them by another maternal uncle. (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, 289, 491)

Related People

3

Related Places

1

Tags

• 12th c

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe. Fragment (piece from the left side of recto). Mentions Ibn al-Dujājī(?). Orders אבר (needles? lead?)

Related People

1

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dealing with business matters. Mentions materia medica such as asarabacca (asārūn), quince (safarjal), and musk. Mentions people such as al-Ḥazzān al-Gharbī and Abū Saʿīd.

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. After a long protocol, the writer reports that he met with "Rabbana Ḥesed Mesos ha-Yeshiva" (Ḥesed al-Tustari?)

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a lettermentioning proudly the writer's two sons and reporting the affairs of two men (perhaps brothers or traveling companions). Mentions al-Rayyis al-Gadol and Abū l-Munajjā.

1 Transcription

Document date

Shevaṭ 5564 Anno Mundi (14 January 1804–12 February 1804 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Date: the end of Shevaṭ 5564 (February 1804 CE), this designation is only available on the lower section of the join. Partners: Moshe ha-Levi ʿAjamī, Merkado Ḥuba(?) (מרקאדו חובה), David ha-Levi ʿAjamī, and Ḥayyim Ẓanuaʿ. […] Description from PGPID 16113: Lower section of a legal document concerning a commercial partnership in clothing/cloth between four members: Moshe ha-Levi, David ha-Levi aka ʿAjamī, Ḥayyim Ṣanuaʿ, and one individual whose name is only available as initials in lines 18, 20, and 33 (הרב מ׳׳ח). […] In line 24 the scribe notes that three copies of this document were issued at the time of recording. Signed twice by Meʾir Ben-Naʿim, in one instance as a scribe/witness and, secondly, on behalf of one of the four members.

Related Places

1

Tags

• 19th c
• cloth
• clothes
• clothing
• satin
• (+ 1 more)

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic concerning the India trade. Apparently the second or the third folio of a very long letter. Mentions numerous people and family members and business matters and Sicily and Bijaya.

Tags

• hinge
• ib-addenda
• india book unedited
• to edit

No Scholarship Records

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Business letter from a Maghribī merchant. Addressed to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov and Hilāl (or at least these names appear in the address) In Judaeo-Arabic, with one line of Arabic script in the address. Dating: Likely 11th century. Mentions silk and Abū l-Khayr Mūsā b. Barhūn. Unpublished.

Tags

• arabic script
• silk
• unedited 11th c

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th–13th century. The sender says that even if his letters have lapsed, he has never stopped loving and praying for the addressee. The name Abū l-Surur is mentioned, likely that of the addressee. The late Maʿālī is mentioned in the marginal text.

Tags

• appeal

No Scholarship Records

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment (lower right of recto, lower left of verso) in lovely handwriting. Mentions the capitation tax, hunger, and charity. On verso a woman seems to be addressed (wa-taquli lahu). Other phrases: "he ordered me many times that" and "an expression that befits his like."

Tags

• capitation tax
• jaliya
• tax

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Upper margin and address from a letter by Abū Naṣr b. Avraham, addressed to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen. Mentions a box containing coral and a leather bottle. Also mentions a man with a pockmarked face. Information from Goitein notes linked below.

Related People

2

Tags

• ib5
• india book

2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a letter addressed to al-Kohen [...] Abū l-Bayān. Dating: probably late 12th or early 13th century. Refers to legal queries and/or responsa (fatāwa) and possibly medical collyria (ashyāf). Also mentions 'al-mawlā al-rashīd.' (Information in part from CUDL)

No Scholarship Records