Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

David, the leader of the Palestinian congregation, and Avraham b. Sahlān (mentioned here as the 'Aluf he-Ḥaver) and his son Neḥemya from the Babylonian congregation are mentioned. […] Heb. c 13, fol. 22v(?). From the same ledger: ENA 4010.28 (PGPID 760), ENA NS 8.15 (PGPID 835), and Bodl.

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• betrothal
• engagement

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in which a Naib of Alexandria in the days of Saladin reports to the Nagid of Alexandria of two cases he took care of. […] After deliberating whether to bring the case to the qadi or the wali, the writer sent a secret message to the muhtasib (to whom he was not personally known) asking that the offender be lightly punished. […] The letter reflects the organization of authority and management in the city.

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• communal
• wali

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Document date

Ṭevet 1438 Seleucid (17 December 1126–14 January 1127 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Court record written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: Ṭevet 1438 Seleucid, which is 1126/27 CE. A woman (Ḥasana bt. Menashshe ha-Kohen the wife of Elʿazar b. Mevorakh ha-Kohen) had sued her brother (the banker Abū l-Ḥasan Shelomo b. Menashshe ha-Kohen) in the Muslim courts after she learned that the female slave (Iftikhār) she had purchased from him (for 17 dinars) had "defects" (ʿuyūb) which made her want to return her.

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Tags

• ayb
• halfon b. menashshe
• jariya
• muslim courts
• slave

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic informing the addressee of matters concerning Sitt Maqṣūra (NB: this is not a name but the word maqṣūdhā meaning 'her intention'), also mentioning her sister Sitt Māṭruṣa (מאטרצ֗ה) (this is also not a name but means "she is not content with X" (ما ترضى). […] (Information in part from CUDL.) Mentions orphans several times. Needs further examination.

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• to edit

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Large fragment of a letter with accounts, especially of goods brought from Syria. “You have received from Muhammad al-Shami 1-1/6 for the price (‘an qimat) of the 40 dirhams that he borrowed from me.” Also mentions a clay vessel (barniyya) with melted butter; Egypt, twelfth century. (S. D. Goitein, Mediterranean Society, 1:381; 4:144, 397) EMS

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• trade

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter of appeal from an elderly, blind woman, mother of several sons and grandsons, to the Gaon Maṣliaḥ. […] For a long time, I have been sitting in a corner with no access to this world, but as long as my daughter lived, she was always around me and cared for me. Now she has died, and her brothers and their sons have taken what she possessed. […] Shout at him and tell him that he should give me what is indispensable. May the Holy One never let fail your strength and may he guard you from the blows of Fate, such as blindness and indigence, and shield you under the shelter of his wings'" (Goitein, Mediterranean Society, V, p. 124).

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• appeal
• communal
• disability
• disability: vision
• disability: women's
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1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

India Book VI, 28. Business letter in the hand of Yosef b. Avraham b. Bundār, in Aden, to ʿAydhāb, mentioning Yīṣḥaq al-Nafūsī and Hiba Ibn al-Dabbāgh (‘the tanner’), referring to ships and dinars (Information from CUDL.) […] In addition, Yiṣḥaq al-Nafūsī lost a shipment of sorghum (durra), iron and textiles sent from Bharuch because the ship was somehow destroyed even as it was being loaded with cargo. This letter contains the only known mention in the Geniza of flax shipped to the Indian Ocean world and of sorghum being shipped west from India. Al-Tīz, the main medieval port of Makrān, is also mentioned in IB I, 14 (PGPID 5358).

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• al-tiz
• ib6
• india book

2 Transcriptions

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat, to ʿAyyāsh b. […] This letter says it was written on the day after Yom Kippur. Mentions the taking of a ship by al-Rūm (the Byzantines) and trouble with a (tax?)

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• 11th c
• nahray b. nissim
• trade

3 Transcriptions 1 Translation 2 Discussions

Inferred date

1790–1850 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Commercial letter from Nissim Masos or Meshish (?משיש משוש) to Karo y Frances & Company. Dating: Late 18th or early 19th century. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Cypriote silk in line 15 (אל חריר אלקברוסי) amidst a broader discussion of transactions related to the silk.Needs examination for content.

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• 18th or 19th c
• cyprus
• silk

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Court record in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-138 CE). Certifying that Abū l-Faraj al-Jubaylī (Yeshuʿa b. Menashshe ha-Levi) delivered goods from Yemen belonging to a deceased merchant.

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• ib-addenda
• ib7

2 Transcriptions

Letter from Natan b. Nahray, from Alexandria, to Musa b. […] The writer supports Musa’s family. Mentions trading with Byzantine merchants and merchants from other places in Europe.

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• byzantine merchants
• byzantines

1 Transcription 1 Translation

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Shemuel, in Damietta, to Abū l-Mufaḍḍal Hibatallāh b. […] At this point the writer switches to beseeching the addressee to do his utmost to protect the interests of his own family and of the writer: "Go to the amir Sayf al-Dīn, and to the owner of the house, and meet with Sayyidnā al-Rayyis. Let him go and meet with all of the amirs and bring up these matters that interest you and me." […] A jug containing a thousand gold pieces was discovered there and, of course, confiscated by the government." Med Soc IV, 79. Goitein mentions this letter one other time: "As with government offices in general, there was no clear-cut and fixed division of duties among the various branches of the judiciary and the security force.

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• amirs
• damietta
• dar al-imara
• hujra
• inheritance
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1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Arabic

Letter addressed to a qāḍī. In Arabic script. The top ~10 lines are preserved. […] The sender goes on to describe the difficult times in the 'village/estate' (ḍayʿa) and the 'country' (balad). Mentions an amīr and Abū l-Faraj. Reused for Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic literary text (between the lines and on the other side). The letter was written in Rajab, but the year is not mentioned.

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a merchant in the Maghreb to his business partner in Fustat (might be a person from the Taharti family). […] Details about selling large quantity of flax and shipments of hundreds of dinars from the Maghrib to Egypt. Also mentions buying lead and other goods and details about the prices of different goods such as indigo.

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• 11th c
• flax
• trade

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Legal document. Oath by Mevorakh b. Naḥum (or possibly Ibn Naḥḥās) concerning payment for a house, of which Abū ʿAlī retains the right to enter. (Information from Goitein’s index card) Description from PGPID 9223: A different legal document or note, in a different hand, concerning an oath sworn by Mevorakh b.

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Primary language

Arabic

Recto: Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Very neat handwriting. Only the beginnings of the lines are preserved. Mentions a broker in the market (al-simsār bi-sūq al-[...]) and Muhadhdhab al-Yahūdī. Verso: Later legal document in Arabic script. Mentions a banker (al-Ṣārifī) and several other names.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment from the beginning a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, in lovely and distinctive handwriting. […] At one point he visited the house of al-Kohen al-Ṣiqillī, presumably a physician, to take a medicine. Most of the rest of the letter is lost. He mentions Umm Muslim and in the margin reiterates that he has been living in the funduq.

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• funduq
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: funduq
• illness: physician
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1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a ḍamān, a ruqʿa, a letter sent with the son of the Qāḍī of Qalyūb (probably), excuses bad manners by appealing to the constraints of time, reports that al-Rayyis Abū l-Bayān is in excellent health, reports that someone has had a child that would make someone want children even if they had never wanted children before, and mentions ṣāḥib al-khammār (perhaps the friend of the vintner).

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• evil eye
• to edit

2 Transcriptions

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto and verso (secondary use): Letter recounting a dispute. In the hand of Yeḥezqel b. Netanʾel ha-Levi (compare T-S 13J19.13 (PGPID 9120)). The sender is scared of running afoul of the ustādh (a government official); mentions the town of Qarqashanda. Mentions Elʿazar the judge, Abū l-Ḥasan, Abū l-Ṭāhir, Fusṭāṭ and Cairo.

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• halfon-addenda
• ib-addenda
• ib4
• to edit

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Apparently granting property rights, mentioning a deceased father; Abū l-Mufaḍḍal Netanʾel; [...] b.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

End of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The letter was written on the sender's behalf by the scribe Yūsuf. Mentions al-Quḍāʿī ('the healer of stomach trouble') and Sayyidhum. […] The 'old man' asks after the addressee and says something about sending two mats and four of something else. On verso mentions 'notebooks' (dafātir). (Information in part from CUDL)

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions places such as al-Mahdiyya and Alexandria; people such as Abū Sulaymān Daʾūd Lebdī (cf. CUL Or.1080 J92 (PGPID 5390)); Ibn Qayyūma; and goods such as red pomegranate seed and nutmeg. Mentions concern about the arrival of something "for the east winds are many and promiscuous" (פאן אלשראקי כתירה זאניה).

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1

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• to edit

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto (secondary use): Legal notes in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions Sitt al-Nasab bt. Yefet/Ḥas[an] al-Qaysarānī, the wife of Abū l-ʿAlāʾ b.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a mercantileletter, probably. On parchment. Dating: probably 11th century. Some of the text on verso has the layout of an account, but the rest reads like a letter. Mentions the winds" (al-aryāḥ), the stores of the workers (dakākin al-ʿammālīn), a register, shipping sums of money (fa-ḥamalū hādhihi l-amwāl), and the sea or the Nile (kull shayʾ fī l-baḥr).

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Opening lines of legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE) regarding the testimony of [...] b. Avraham ha-Levi the elder. Left incomplete and torn.

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• halfon b. menashshe

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Primary language

Hebrew

One piece of paper stuck on to another piece of paper, containing a message in Hebrew referring to 'this Jew who brings my letter all (sic) the holy congregations....'

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment from the beginning of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning that the addressee recovered (naqahtu) from an illness. Also mentions Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm [al-Q?]ābisī.

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to Abu […], the teacher (melammed), from Yaʿaqov b. [...] Nafusi. Mentions Yaʿaqov al-Andalusi, the recipient's brother Avraham, and Abu Mansur and his father.

1 Transcription

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to a Rosh Kalla, mentioning a certain Yehuda. Mentions the arrival in Damsīs of the representative (nā[ʾib]) of the amīr Muẓaffar(?)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brothers. Fragment (upper right corner of recto). Mentions business matters and a boat. (Information in part from CUDL)

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• yefet b. menashshe

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Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from a Greek-speaking Jewish man to a woman in Fustat. "The beginning of the letter is missing, and it is impossible to reconstruct the circumstances of the writer. […] A number of features indicate that the writer is a Greek-speaker, of which the most concrete is the epithet "the enameller" (l. 18), which is given in Greek. That this is not merely a nickname or a calqued expression is clear from the fact that it is given with the Greek definite article, and in the accusative case to suit the context.

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• family

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary language

Arabic

On verso is a liturgical text and a letter draft in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (see PGPID 6698).

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• fiscal
• lost archive
• tax

1 Transcription 2 Translations

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yosef b. David b. Yeshaʿyahu mentioning a suftaja that he had received from Nahray b.

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• arabic address
• nahray b. nissim
• suftaja
• trade

1 Transcription 1 Translation

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document. On parchment. Location: Fustat. In the hand of Avraham b. […] Preceded by a note to the Nagid, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38), asking him to approve approximately the same conditions.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Genre: The glossary could be a learners' text/primer based on the practical nature of its phrases. […] He specifically says "give me my salary" and "do not neglect my rights" (אעטיני גאמכיתי . . . […] For example in line 3 on the verso: (men nicesen) איש כנת אנא : מן ניגיסן -- is an unclear interrogative phrase, possibly translating idiomatically as "what/how much did you have for me?"

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