Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: ca. 1100 CE (based on Med Soc II, p. 601 n. 18). The name of the enslaved woman may not be preserved. […] Witnesses for the main part of the document: Moshe b. David ha-Levi; Menaḥem b. Shemuel. Witnesses for the validation: Aharon b. Ḥalfon ha-Kohen he-Ḥaver; Mevorakh b. Natan ha-Neʾeman. (Information mainly from Goitein's note card.)

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• slaves

1 Discussion

Primary language

Hebrew

Legal document. Testimony in court, between brothers Moshe Sofer, Yisḥaq Sofer aka Maqaṣīs, and some of their family members. The paleography supports a dating estimate of 17th- or 18th-century. The legal proceedings relate to the pair's involvement in the "ṣarflık trade" (מלאכת הצרפליך) mentioned in line 2. The brother's business relations help explain Yiṣḥaq's sobriquet Maqaṣīs, meaning "clipped coins" (which was one of the services that ṣarrāfs provided).

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• coins
• sarraf
• sarraflik

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic from a broader ledger attested within the nearby joins: JRL SERIES C 81 + JRL SERIES C 92. On the recto there may be a reference to dying or merely the purchase of clothing with the account entry "סוליימאן בקיית קרמזי בגדו". […] When transliterated the meaning of this phrase becomes more clear: "bi-kayıt kırmızı begedu / in registering his red clothing".

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• 17th or 18th c
• clothing
• ottoman turkish

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Inferred date

1094–1097 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

India Book (IB) II, 7: Letter from Amram b. Yosef, probably from Alexandria, to Nahray b. […] Regarding a shipment of palm leaves that arrived from outside of Egypt. In addition, mentions purchase of wheat and a disagreement about packaging cloth that belongs to the writer but another person named Muslim (probably his Jewish name is Meshulam) denies that is his.

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• 11th c
• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib2
• india book
• nahray b. nissim

3 Transcriptions 2 Translations 1 Discussion

Primary language

Arabic

Letter fragment in Arabic script. Opening blessings (. . . […] Mentions rose water and possibly bread made from white flour. Different hand from the letter on verso; might be its answer. (Information in part from CUDL.)

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• alchemy

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Document date

29 December 1139 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

India Book (IB) IV,56 (ח63). Letter from Yeḥezqel b. Netanel, in Qalyūb, to his brother Ḥalfon b. Netanel, in Alexandria. The left side of the letter and the top and bottom are cut off. […] The letter also mentions some tasks that Yeḥezqel is carrying out on behalf of Abū Iṣḥaq.

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• ib-partial translation-heb
• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• india book

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Letter from Ṣāliḥ b. Bahlūl, apparently in al-Mahdiyya, to Nahray b. […] Mistakenly cited in Goitein, Med. Soc. 1:410 n. 2 as T-S 16.276. (Gil) Also contains mention of Ṭalḥī paper, named after Talḥa b. […] Ṣāliḥ asks for some of this paper in order to use it to write "to Baghdad and Ereṣ Yisraʾel," by which presumably he means the yeshivot or the communal leaders. This letter is, however, written on parchment.

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2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Manṣūr b. Sālim, in Alexandria, to his son Abū Najm, who has gone on an adventurous journey or had run away to the army. The father mentions that he has sent to his son twenty letters and then twenty more, but the son never replied. […] (Information from CUDL and Mediterranean Society, II, p. 379; V, p. 189.)

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• distant son
• family
• father
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• (+ 7 more)

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 2 Discussions

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Bottom of a letter from Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi to one of his brothers.

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• cmp

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Minute fragment of a legal document or letter. Mentions Abū l-Faraj Ibn al-[...].

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mercantileletter from Sālim to his relative Yosef b. […] Dating: No earlier than 15th century based on currencies mentioned (muʾayyadī, qurūsh). Deals with trade in Adeni silk and probably other commodities. The measure farāsila is used. There are accounts on verso in a different hand.

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• yemen

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Likely a join with ENA 3740.2–3. Mentions people such as Yaʿqub b. Naḥūm. Mentions goods such as pearls and coral and carnelian. Also mentions "the large ledger" (al-daftar al-kabīr) in Arabic script.

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• arabic

1 Discussion

Inferred date

1237–1300 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment addressed to the Nasi Shelomo. In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Also mentions various other distinguished people: the judge of judges (qāḍī al-quḍāh) and the Nagid David (I Maimonides, 1222–1300, held the office after 1237). Also mentions a certain Menaḥem, a Persian (al-ʿajamī), and Alexandria.

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• mosul nasis

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Mentions Sitt al-Kull and her mother Sirwa, one of whom acknowledges receipt of something. Also mentions Abū [...] Elʿāzar ha-Kohen. (Information in part from CUDL.)

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document mentioning a certain Nadīv and Menashshe b. […] Signed by [Eliyyahu] b. ʿEli ha-Meʿulle, whose name is surrounded by little characters spelling יגדל בתורה (compare T-S 10J5.20 (PGPID 3028)).

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). […] Likely the will of a certain Shemuel. Mentions his cousins (banū ʿamm), his sister, and many other names including [...] b. Yehuda, Shemarya b. Y[...], Meʾir, Yaʿqūb, and Yisr[aʾel?].

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• halfon b. menashshe

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Primary language

Aramaic

Gzar-dina de-Yeshu (Toledot Yeshu, Ar3 in Bohak's edition, "Pilate" recension), containing passages 4.1–5.1; join with New York, JTS 2529.2 (Adler 2102.2) (PGPID 41695), written by …

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1 Transcription 1 Translation

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from David b. Binyamin to Pineḥas ha-Kohen he-Ḥasid. […] Asking him to conduct the fundraising drive (pesiqa) and give him the funds without delay, so that he can travel. Also mentions the judge Rabbenu Ḥananel (b. Shemuel?).

1 Transcription 1 Translation

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. […] Natan 'the seventh'), and he is probably the addressee of the present letter (compare T-S Ar.39.126 for Musāfir b. Wahb's Arabic-script signature and T-S 13J22.23 for a Judaeo-Arabic letter of his; neither hand resembles the hand of this letter). As for the content: the writer mentions the addressee's maternal uncle Abū l-Faḍl and a letter from a court to a court (or from a judge to a judge) and someone obtaining what is due him.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Natan b. Mevorakh ha-Kohen, in Ashqelon, to the parnas ʿAllūn b. […] NB: A previous description indicated that this letter is written in the top margin of an earlier letter in Arabic script, all of which is now lost except for the basmala and part of the address in the top right corner, referring to al-firnās al-jalīl. However, it is more likely that everything here belongs to a single letter, and the part that was understood to be the 'address' is actually the end of the first line of the letter.

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• bialphabetic

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Calligraphic letter requesting help for a man who is out of work and has a large family which would be satisfied with getting a mere piece of bread.

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• petition
• private

1 Transcription 1 Translation 2 Discussions

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 + …

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• capitation tax
• disability
• disability: vision
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• (+ 4 more)

1 Transcription 1 Translation

Document date

1469/1471 Seleucid (1158–1160 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

F. 1: various (drafts of) legal documents in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan, including a trousseau list, power of attorney and witness statements. (1) The trousseau list is of a marriage between Ḥalfon b. […] ʿAmram to Yosef b. ʿOvadya ha-Levi concerning dealings with her father’s estate, as well as mentioning names such as Hillel known as al-Abzārī and Damietta. (4) Another witness statement concerning a partnership in a shop and dated Marḥeshvan 1471 of the Seleucid Era (= 1160 CE) is signed by Shemarya b. Avraham, Yefet ha-Levi b. Yaʿaqov and Mevorakh b. Natan he-Ḥaver. F. 2r: legal document dated 29th Tishri 1471 of the Seleucid Era (= 1160 CE) in Fusṭāṭ concerning the betrothal of Yefet b.

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Primary language

Hebrew

Notebook containing miscellaneous drafts of panegyric letters. In the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi. See specific records for specific documents within the notebook. In addition to the letters, there is a medical prescription in Arabic script.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

India Book III, 32: Letter from Yosef ha-Kohen b. Meshullam, in Aden, to Avraham Ibn Yiju, in inland Yemen, written around 1150-51.

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• ib-partial translation-eng
• ib3
• india book

2 Transcriptions 2 Translations

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Business letter from Barakāt b. Khulayf dealing with shipments of textiles within Egypt. The name Abū l-Ḥasan is mentioned, as well as merchandise sent with "the Andalusian Jew."

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• material culture
• textiles
• trade

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter of recommendation on behalf of a proselyte. The conversion took place by the time of R. Menahem (b. Sasson?) and the proslyte was imersed. Also mentioned Yehuda ha-sar ha-gadol

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• recommendation

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions al-Lebdī and the ship of the amir (markab al-amīr). Mentions cloves.

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• list

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Primary language

Hebrew

Legal document or documents. In Hebrew. Mentions the city of Fez (verso, line 2). Involves a woman and her husband Yiṣḥaq. Mentions the dowry (nedunya) and 80 gold coins.

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• morocco

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Primary language

Hebrew

Legal document, fragment. In Hebrew. Mentions a payment of 3 muayyadis/medins per month.

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• late heb

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Small fragment from the beginning of a legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Mentioning Shelomo ha-Kohen. (Information from CUDL)

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Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

Recto: part of a rhymed letter in Hebrew. Verso: accounts in Arabic script with Greek/Coptic numerals, mentioning items such as pepper, mercury, and nutmeg.

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• account

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Mentions the government and likely two partners and their previous contract.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning the merchants who traverse the provinces (al-tujjār al-mujtāzīn bi-l-rīf).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning business matters, mentioning sums of dinars. Also mentions "the calamity of the old woman (nūbat al-ʿajūz).

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Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document mentioning Abū l-Ḥasan b. Ḥalf[on], [...] b. […] (Information from CUDL.) Hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe?

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū Saʿd and an agreement upon a monthly payment of one dinar, possibly for a communal office. Mentions the Nagid. (Information from CUDL)

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Bottom of a letter in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions Netanʾel b. Shelomo al-Zajjāj. Very faded.

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Fragment (lower right corner). Mentions Abū Saʿīd Khalaf and a sum of 10 dinars.

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• halfon b. menashshe

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List of syrups and diet recommended for (or purchased by) 12 different people, some of whom are each other's family members. See Efraim Lev, Medical Prescriptions, p. 68.

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Arabic

Minute fragment from the top part of a letter by Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Halfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE), who is named in the address.

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• halfon b. menashshe
• yefet b. menashshe

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