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Aramaic, Hebrew

Letter from Yeḥiel b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Ṣarfati, in Jerusalem, to a certain Menaḥem (probably the judge Menaḥem b. […] Yehiel and his group were forced to leave the synagogue. The two groups did not hesitate to involve the Muslim ruler in the conflict, which led to the arrest of some members of the community. […] Previous description: Four-page letter in Hebrew perhaps from Alexandria, concerning a dispute between prominent members of the Jewish community and the consequent expulsion of one of them from the synagogue.

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• communal
• conflict
• excommunication
• french rabbis
• heqdesh
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Document date

22 Shevat 1525 Seleucid (February 1214 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yehuda b. Aharon Ibn al-ʿAmmānī, in Alexandria, to Abū l-Majd Meir b. […] It was the first day of the holiday, and he was buried on the same day; he left a fine boy of sixteen, who studies with me.” However, Hilāl's fatal illness was different than the one mentioned in this letter, as Hilāl was still alive in December 1214 when he wrote T-S 13J21.27, having recently traveled from Alexandria to Fustat and back.)

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• alexandria
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: despair
• illness: etiology
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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentioning people who are trying to sow conflict in the synagogue between a group of people and a certain cantor. Also mentions someone's son Manṣūr b. Bishāra. There is a long list of signatures from men including Yefet b. Yosef ha-Kohen, Mevorakh b. Meshullam and Yefet b. Yehuda. (Information in part from CUDL)

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• conflict

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Document date

Ḥeshvan 5562 Anno Mundi (8 October 1801–5 November 1801 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Legal deed. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: End of Heshvan, 5562 AM = October/November 1801 CE. Meʾir Ben-Naʿim invests 100 reales (1 real = 90 medins) with Raḥamim Tājirī and his wife Mazal. Based on the layout/letter forms, the document was likely recorded by Meʾir Ben-Naʿim.

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• 19th c
• ben na'im

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Two fragments of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Recounting various stages of a dispute involving a borrowed book or ledger (daftar). Mentions what transpired one night at the synagogue. […] Then Rabbi Moshe came and told me that his excellence is in Cairo. Then his excellence came to the synagogue...."

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Commercial letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. A relatively large piece is preserved. […] The addressee is to send things to the shop of Hilāl b. Bunyām (also mentioned in T-S 13J27.9, which is dated ca. 1080 CE). Also mentions Barakāt b. Khulayf, a name familiar from other mercantile documents of the period.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Meʾir b. Hillel b. Ṣadoq to Netanel b. […] Dating: second half of the 12th century (this can probably be narrowed). In which Meʾir narrates how 'Sayyidnā' (identified by Frenkel as the Gaon Netanel ha-Levi) attempted to force him to accept the post of judge in Alexandria in return for annual payment. The addressee is asked to mediate between the writer and the Gaon. It seems that the addressee was the Gaon's representative (nāʾib) in Alexandria.

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Goitein: Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Asking for oil to be purchased for the synagogue in Dammūh. Yefet also mentions the arrival of ships from Al-Andalus (Spain) and al-Mahdiyya.

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• dammuh
• movement of ships
• yefet b. menashshe

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto (with address on verso): Letter in rhymed Hebrew prose and calligraphic script (which deteriorates over the course of the letter) to Mevorakh b. David ha-Bavli ("the leader of the Babylonian congregation," line 15) from Yehuda Sofer b. […] He adds a postscript in Judaeo-Arabic, asking Mevorakh to forward a letter to Abū ʿImrān b. Yaḥyā al-Raqqī, who it seems will then give Mevorakh a gift from the writer's son Abū l-Ḥasan.

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Document date

middle decade of Ṭevet 1437 Seleucid (9 December 1125–18 December 1125 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. […] Description from PGPID 16178: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (active 1100–38 CE). […] Also mentions […] b. Shelomo ha-Kohen known as Abū l-Khayr Salāma (this may be the rest of Saʿadya's name).

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• halfon b. menashshe

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Two fragments comprising the left side of recto. […] Yefet says he can't do something "for numerous reasons, not least of which is the shop. I can't (leave it) for a full week, and he knows it."

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• bonesetter
• halfon b. menashshe
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• yefet b. menashshe

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Inferred date

24 September 1188–26 December 1193 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Two fragments of a legal document in the hand of Yosef b. Shemuʾel b. […] The upper piece mentions the name Tamīm and a sum of 75 (dirhams? dinars?). There is a clause about "the profit that remains after subtracting fees and rents." The lower fragment mentions Abū Saʿīd and Riḍā (or Abū l-Riḍā). On verso there are the remnants of a halakhic treatise or responsum in the same hand, in addition to jottings in a much larger hand and the mention of "our teacher and rabbi Sar Shalom ha-Levi [...] al-Jālūt" written in a third hand.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mercantileletter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions people such as Abū ʿAlī; [...] al-Bukhtaj; Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Pinḥas; [...] al-Sharābī; Abū l-Faraj; a parnas; and Aharon. Mentions goods such as a 30-cubit Maghribī sūsiyya. Also mentions the government and the capitation tax. (Information in part from Goitein’s index card.)

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Document date

Iyyar 1411 Seleucid (12 April 1100–10 May 1100 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Legal document draft in which Mevorakh b. Shelomo, known as Ibn al-Natira, declares to owe Meshullam b. Mevasser b. Pinhas al-Damiri 120 and one-half dinars.

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• debt

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Ketubba fragment (lower left corner). Groom: Yosef b. Yefet. Bride: Sitt al-Ahl. Mentions an apartment (ṭabaqa) that is over the cross-street bridge (sābāṭ). Signed by Ḥalfon b. Avraham, Merayot b. Meshullam, Ḥalfon b. Araḥ, and Elʿazar b. [...].

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mercantileletter. In Judaeo-Arabic.The lower half of recto and the upper half of verso are preserved. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. Mentions goods such as coral, lac, brazilwood, and pepper. Mentions a sum of 200 dinars. Mentions people such as Barakāt b.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Might be phrases from a letter of appeal for help: אלתואב מן גהתה בללה .... […] (4) A small fragment near the upper left of the final two images. Letter addressed to a notable? Recto has the words ען גלאלתהא ... בהדא אל... Verso mentions נאחיתה .... ועמל...

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Alexandria, the writer is a person from Ramla (who lived for twenty years in Baghdad). He writes to Mevorakh b. Se’adya ha-Nagid or one of his closest people. […] The writer refers to himself as Mevorakh’s servant. He asks Mevorakh to help his daughter who is in Fustat while he is in Alexandria.

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• communal

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Document date

7 Tishrei 4750 Anno Mundi (9 September 989 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Action concerning an estate in Nisibis [Naṣībīn], Mesopotamia, brought before the elders of Tinnis (here called Ḥanes). […] Toviyya ha-Kohen of Nisibis is mentioned as appointed as a guardian in another Hebrew legal deed from Tinnis from the same year (PGPID 7428). […] To this deed from Tinnis is attached another Hebrew legal deed from an Egyptian town on the Mediterranean, perhaps also from Tinnis (PGPID 38748).

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from an unknown man, unknown location (not Fustat or Alexandria), to his mother Umm Mufaḍḍal, in Alexandria. […] He sent the bill of divorce with the bearer of the present letter, a man from Iraq. He asks his mother to receive the messenger richly. If the wife is still in Fustat, the messenger should continue on his way to complete the mission.

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• arabic address
• divorce
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: women's

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Document date

8 Tammuz (4900) Anno Mundi (25 June 1140 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Aharon al-Sijilmāsī, in Dahlak, to Ḥalfon b. […] He is writing 6 weeks after his previous letter, which he sent from ʿAydhāb. This is the second letter he has sent Ḥalfon from Dahlak. He describes his travel by sea south from ʿAydhāb, first to Sawākin, and then to Dahlak. The merchantsleft ʿAydhāb in two ships belonging to al-Sharīf, one large and one small.

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• ib4
• india book

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Document date

1 Ḥeshvan [no year] Anno Mundi

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Avraham b. Farāḥ, Alexandria to Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl, Fustat. The letter deals with the shipping of goods and money transfers. […] Dated: Friday 1 Heshvan, which could be 1056 or 1061 CE. The lettermentions the arrival of a big ship from Trapani, the ship of Nāṣir al-Dawla from Mazara named Shawwāl and a ship of the empress docked in Mazara (dār markab al-Sayyida).

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• ibn al-ba'ba'
• movement of ships
• nasir al-dawla

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

There is a [...] ha-Levi ha-Ḥaver and a [...] b. Ḥalfon ha-Levi in the address. The sender apologizes for something and excuses himself by saying he was worried the boat was going to depart. He mentions "... and his son 'The Fourth' Shelomo ha-Kohen the son of our master... […] (the adjacent text is covered by the sheet of paper). He sends a message to Abū Saʿd al-ʿAkkawī al-ʿAṭṭār who lives in Cairo, namely that he has sent a certain judge two copies of something, one with Abū l-Mufaḍḍal the in-law of Ibn Ḥajar.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Letter from a father, unknown location, to his son Baqāʾ, in Fustat. The letter was sent to the shop of Meshullam/Musallam to be held for the addressee. […] He alludes to various sorts of grief and illness affecting both the family members and himself. (Information in part from CUDL and Goitein's index card.)

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• capitation tax
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• jaliya
• tax

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Fol. 1 (1–2) + Fol. 4 (7–8): Letter in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning [...] al-Amshāṭī. Also mentions, "I have asked the bearer..."; and "until the arrival of Abū [...]." […] Mentions India twice, a Kohen, and partial names such as [May]mūn or [Maḍ]mūn b. [...].

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• ib-addenda

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Four letter fragments in Judaeo-Arabic. At least two of them (fols. 1 and 4) are probably from the same letter, but the other two fragments are in different hands. They were all cut into the same shape so presumably were stacked or folded on top of each other. Fols. 1 and 4: Mentions that all that somebody acquired in Fustat/Egypt was stolen; also mentions Alexandria and a Megilla.

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Primary language

Arabic

Letter, probably from a son to father inferred from the expression "وما اعلمك به يا والدي". […] The beginning of the letter and some other parts are torn off, but a few words of the beginning formula can be read - "جمع الله بيننا". […] The letter overall seems to report on usual commercial transactions and prices of goods but merits further examination.

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• dimme

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Primary language

Hebrew

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a certain Abū l-Ḥasan b. […] The writer recounts the legal proceedings following somebody's death and various people bearing false testimony. […] "In the course of this, a severe illness came over me (wa-ḥadatha li-ʿabdihā fī ghuḍūn hādha maraḍ ṣaʿb), so I was forced to leave the [elders] and return to my family (wife), fearing that it would get worse (khawf an yashtadd [bihi?]

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: fear
• illness: marad

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Document date

Tishrei-Ḥeshvan 1472 Seleucid (September 1160–October 1160 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Bifolio from a court ledger in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan (compare Yevr.[…] Dated: Tishrei-Ḥeshvan 1472 Seleucid = 1160 CE. Fol. 2r: Legal document concerning financial settlements within a partnership, and mentioning Makārim b. […] Also mentions Abū Saʿd’s uncle and father Ibrahim b. ʿImrān and Yosef b.

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• ib7

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Mūsā b. Yaʿqūb, in an unknown location, to Abū l-Surūr Isḥāq b. […] There is a mention of wheat in the context of food that belongs to the government. The writer is preoccupied on behalf of Abū Ibrāhīm who encountered difficulties while traveling to Rashīd. Ismāʿīl is mentioned several times. The writer has enclosed another important letter, to a certain family (al-Faṭṭūma?)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information from Mediterranean Society, IV, pp. 97, 374; V, pp. 110, 536.) […] Dating: Probably early 13th century, based on the mention of Abū l-Futūḥ al-Shamshūrī in a letter by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu: Moss. VII,170.1. This letter also mentions the faqīh Jamāl al-Dīn, presumably the same as in Bodl.

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• fasting
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: fasting
• illness: marad
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi b. al-Qaṭā'if to his brother Peraḥya discussing business matters, the illness and recovery of Abu al-Muna, a forwarded letter, and conveying greetings. (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, pp. 239, 477, and Goitein's index cards.) […] It ruptured (infajara), and there emerged from it what cannot be mentioned. Great pits (ajwār) developed in his thighs (or hips, awrāk).

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• 12th c
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: boil
• illness: nursing
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand is reminiscent of some of the 12th-century India traders, but it awaits proper identification. This is a large section from the middle of the letter, missing both top and bottom. Mentions the letter (or epistle) of Rabbenu ha-Dayyan, sent with R. […] דארי(?) דמוה(?)) (later mentions that it should be spent on renovations); and 2 mithqāls each to the four elders (al-mashāʾikh) Ibn al-ʿAkkāwī, [...], Ibn Alqāsh, and the judge Menashshe.

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• ib-addenda
• musk
• to examine

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Abū l-Faḍl b. al-Dhahabī to ʿArūs b. Yosef. […] "In a letter to ʿArūs b. Joseph (dated documents 1088–1116), a traveling mer­chant with his seat in Alexandria orders one irdabb of sieved wheat every month; he clearly did not wish to receive the entire quantity of the yearly provision at once, because, as he mentions, the price was high (only four waybas for 1 dinar)." (Information from Goitein's note card and Med Soc IV, p. 236, n. 74.)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda (the famous one?), the paleography may make it possible to rule out this connection. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Shavuʿot and previous letters sent from Alexandria. Mentions several people: Efrayim al-Ḥaver; a Rayyis; Yosef; Avraham al-Ḥaver; ʿEli ha-Kohen.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal deed mentioning sums of money and the names Abū Isḥāq and Abū l-Riḍā. […] There are also two notes in Arabic script, both of which mention "the two women." They seem to be related to the Judaeo-Arabic legal document, but it is not clear exactly how.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to a certain Seʿadya or the son of Seʿadya. […] Dating: No earlier than 1425 CE, based on the mention of the ashrafī coin– which was first minted under Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay in this year. Conveys interesting details about misfortunes and financial transactions, faded but mostly legible. Mentions Dāwūd [b.] Nissim twice.

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• numismatic dating

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic to a certain Nissim and a certain Shalom Pinḥas. […] He also mentions arrangements for the orphans in general, and sums of money in Ashrafīs. Possibly connected to the legal document recto, possibly not. Needs further examination.

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• late ja

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document(s). Probably a draft. Small and damaged fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Includes part of a partnership contract between Abū Saʿīd and another person for doing business in a shop. A sum of 200 dinars is mentioned. On verso there is additional text, likely the continuation.

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• halfon b. menashshe
• partnership

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