Documents

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Probably mentions daftar towards the end of recto. Needs examination.

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Document date

Last decade of Kislev 1438 Seleucid (December 1126 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information in part from Goitein's index card.) Join: Alan Elbaum. ENA 2558.1 + ENA 4011.46 (PGPID 6621) and Moss.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The dating is likely 1530s-1540s CE based on a variety of related fragments in the same scribal hand tagged in the PGP as "Ottoman shipping" (see especially ENA 2898.3+4 PGPID 12533). The entries here include a remarkable range of Turkish, Arabic, Italian, Spanish, and, possibly, also Greek and/or Coptic names.

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• 16th c
• cmp
• ottoman shipping

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Document date

5544 Anno Mundi (27 September 1783–15 September 1784 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

See the witness section in ENA 3306.6 (PGPID 12856) for more instances of these signatures. Connected with ENA 3306.2 (PGPID 12853) which is the ‘bill of conditions’ – שטר תנאים of the same couple, by the same hand and layout, probably written at the same time of the ketubah itself.

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• ketubba
• marriage

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Inferred date

1097–1108 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Moshe ha-Rofe (Yequtiʾel is titled Paqid ha-Soḥarim) after the death of Yefet's brother Yaʾir the judge. ENA NS 48.7 and ENA 4010.17 concern the same case (possible join?).

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• register

2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Inferred date

1578–1578 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Dating: Ca. 1578 CE, as this belongs together with ENA NS 5.30. There is a long list of people (including Yaʿaqov Leon; Daniel Baraza; Yeḥiel Kohen; Avraham de Narbona; Yaʿaqov de la Fe(?)[…] Also mentioned: Yehuda Serrano (also appears in ENA NS 5.30, dated 5338 AM = 1578 CE). Information from Avraham David via FGP.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Another fragment from ENA NS 18.17a, not a direct join Description from PGPID 15840: Quittance from Ulla b. […] Ṭahor "the absent"; four pieces of something being given as collateral to Saʿadya; a period of three months ending Ḥeshvan; Ṭahor b. ʿUlla; 1.5 "shares" in something; Saʿadya's wife Sitt al-Ḥusn; [..] b.

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Inferred date

1500–1850 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Below the heading the unit of volume "ardab" or "irdab" appears and the first entry is entitled "אלמביע" indicating a sale of the accompanying items (whose quantity, weight, or prices are indicated in alphanumerical figures).

Tags

• late ja
• list

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Saadya urges his addressees to uphold the dates of the Babylonians, and ensure that Jews do not eat leaven on Passover and desecrate the Day of Atonement.

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• calendar controversy

3 Transcriptions 1 Translation 2 Discussions

Primary language

Ottoman Turkish

The Ottoman Empire (Devlet-i ʿAliye), "England," and "France" are all mentioned as state entities in the second line.

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• england

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Document date

19 Dhū l-Ḥijja 1253 Hijrī (16 March 1838 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

In the left column, there is an entry mentioning Ibrāhīm Shaʿban and ʿAlī al-Jazzār and a pair of golden bracelets as collateral. Below, an entry involving Ṣāliḥ Ḥanāba(?). Verso: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and eastern Arabic numerals.

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• 19th c
• jewelry

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Document date

Ṭevet 1444 Seleucid (11 December 1132–8 January 1133 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe ha-Levi. Probably an engagement contract. Specifies payments of sums of money by certain dates of the year. Less likely relating to financial settlement after a divorce -- the clauses about divorce (should he violate specific conditions) are common to engagement contracts as well. The names of the parties are not preserved.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Had it not been for his illness, I would have killed him with beating, although as a poorly clothed newcomer, he is entitled to some consideration." The teacher wants the pupil's family to discipline him in the same manner at home. […] The writer thanks the teacher for his efforts and emphasizes that they spare no pains in trying to educate the boy. He encourages the teacher to keep writing, as perhaps the notes will scare the boy into behaving well.

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Tags

• complaints
• education
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: children's
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1 Transcription 2 Translations 1 Discussion

Document date

Thursday, 4 Nisan 1341 Seleucid (March 1029 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Isḥaq is to pay six dinars at the end of roughly seven months, at the end of the month of Tishri of the next year, and Samḥūn thereby absolved Isḥaq of any further obligation.

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• 11th c
• autograph
• avraham b. sahlan
• partnership

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The second part (ll. 14-end) requires the use of quicksilver, horse manure, sal ammoniac, the Khurasani (?) and young boys’ urine. The end of the recipe is lost. Verso: part of a widely-spaced letter sent to a nagid in Fusṭāṭ.

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The bride is obliged to wash herself in the ritual bath for menstrual purity (following Maimonides' enactment on this issue). The bride is entitled to keep her earnings for herself.

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• 14th c
• marriage

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Document date

Kislev 5480 Anno Mundi (13 November 1719–12 December 1719 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of three legal document entries, probably from a court register. Dated Kislev 5480 AM (Nov.-Dec. 1719 CE). (1) engagement deed and dowry list between Yiṣḥaq b. ʿOvadiya ha-Levi and Simḥa bt.

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• 18th c
• canal
• engagement

1 Transcription

Inferred date

1164–1197 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

ʿEli (active ca. 1164–97; identification based on handwriting of the responsum on verso) concerning a man whose son becomes engaged to a woman but calls off the wedding. Can they recoup the early marriage payment that was already paid? […] It seems that precisely because of this eventuality, many engagement contracts stipulate that the bride would receive the muqaddam in full or in part if the groom should renege on the promise to marry (and he would get it back if she reneges).

Tags

• babylonian geonim
• marriage payment
• responsum
• shemuel b. eli

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Abraham as her representative to sue her husband. This short entry is followed by another entry recording an unrelated appointment of a representative. The next entry in the court notebook, however, records that on the very same day, a cantor who was one of the witnesses of the first appointment came to the court with two parnasim from the community. The three men declared to the court that they had made the symbolic purchase from Malīḥa confirming that she relinquished the entirety of her meʿuḥar and was willing to take an oath over her claims regarding the dowry.

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• abusive marriage
• arabic script
• communal
• divorce
• illness
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2 Transcriptions

Primary language

Hebrew

There is a cataloguing note: From the binding of Opp[enheim] fol. 683.

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Addressed to the congregation of Fustat (Ẓoʿan). See ENA 223.1-4 (PGPID 6596).

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Short list of names with amounts. Most of the entries mention women's names. Dating: 15th or 16th century based on the paleography.

Tags

• list

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Primary language

Arabic

The usual pinholes, but this time they've been made in conservation tape. Same goes for ENA 3927.3.

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Document date

547 Hijrī (8 April 1152–28 March 1153 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Trigger: addā. Year: 547 (?). See ENA 3925.6 (PGPID 10284).

Tags

• capitation tax
• dimme
• fatimid
• tax receipt

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic. Some of the entries in Judaeo-Arabic mention colors of cloth: black, crimson, etc.

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Rhymed blessings as appear in the beginning of many letters - the top two lines look like the text of an endng of a letter.

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Primary language

Hebrew

What remains of the letter is the introduction consisting entirely of biblical verses.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions the name Abū l-Faraj at the end.

Tags

• popular poetry

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Possibly mentions "Azharī" in the first row of entries on the recto. Requires further examination.

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Primary language

Arabic

Ḥamdala and Ṣalwala towards the end of the preserved text.

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• dimme

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