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4151Legal documentBodl. MS heb. d 66/7
Document date
Monday, 5 Av 1443 Seleucid (19 July 1132 CE)
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. […] Shemuel ha-Ḥaver; Peraḥya b. Ḥalfon ha-Ḥaver; Menashshe b. Yaʿaqov; Avraham b. Shelomo; Meshullam b. Menashshe; and Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. (Information from Weiss's edition and Goitein's index cards)
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1. למא ורד אמר הדרת אדוננו מצליח הכהן ראש ישיבת גאון יעקב תכון
2. משרתו לנצח בגמע אלזקנים ותקריר אלפרץ לזוגה מ צדקה המשורר
3. בר צמח הזקן נע ולולדה אלמר…
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4152Legal documentENA 2559.1
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Legal deed in Judaeo-Arabic of appointing a legal agent. Mentions Seʿadya and an exilarch, a sum of 10 dinars, and the number 15.
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4153Legal documentFriedberg MSS 9-004/21
Inferred date
1100–1138 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). "He left it under my hand..."
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4154LetterMoss. Ia,10.1
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Fragment (left side) of a Judaeo-Arabic letter. Subject matter is unclear; mentions bad etiquette (sū' al-adab).
1. ]פי אלדניא
2. ] אעלא מנהם
3. ] סיידנא ירום
4. ] קצייה ולו פי שי יסיר
5. ]כה קרו אול . בת
6. ]הא כמא הם פאכתל(?)
7. ] אלחק מעי ודא יקול
8. ] תבכי ויטלבו מן
9. ] . שכץ פאצל י…
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4155Legal documentMoss. II,100.2
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Small fragment from a letter or legal document, mentioning Yefet b. Daniel(?)
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4156LetterMoss. IXa,2.50
Primary language
Arabic
Recto: Letter fragment mentioning Faḍāʾil and Yūsuf. Reused for a Hebrew-script legal document on verso (see separate entry).
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4157LetterT-S Ar.49.16
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. This is the end of the letter. The writer invokes the 'covenant of salt' (brit melaḥ) between him and addressee.
Recto
1. אלדי א . . . [
2. ואלא פתוצלהא לולד כרימתי יאכד לי בהא
3. חאגה מן כל בד ולא תוכרהא פאנה יריד יאכד
4. בהא חאגה וירסלהא לי מע מוצל כתאבי האדא
5. ומא תחתאג מ…
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4158LetterT-S AS 149.240 + T-S AS 149.239
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Likely an 11th-century family and/or mercantileletter.
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4159LetterT-S AS 157.394
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower left corner). Mentions Faraḥ b. [...]. (Information in part from CUDL)
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4160Legal documentT-S AS 169.19
Inferred date
1100–1138 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Small fragment of a legal document or draft in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE).
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4161LetterT-S AS 172.174
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions rejoicing upon receipt of the addressee's letter (פרחו בכתאבך גאיה אלפרח)
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4162LetterT-S NS 329.858
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Recto: a very faded and damaged, barely legible, letter, mentions Damascus and a certain Zekharya b. [...]
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4163Legal documentT-S NS 342.30
Inferred date
1100–1138 CE
Primary language
Hebrew
Few words from a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138).
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4164Legal documentBodl. MS heb. b 11/34
Document date
1374 Seleucid (1062–1063 CE)
Ketubba fragment (left side). Dated: 1374 Seleucid, which is 1062/63 CE. […] The early marriage gift (muqdam) is 5 [dinars], and the grand total (line 11) of the dower is 55 [dinars], though that would leave little for the me'uḥar; jewelry and copper are also mentioned. […] Shelomo; Netanel b. Menashshe; Yiṣḥaq b. Waḥsh(?); ʿUlla/ʿEli ha-Ḥaver b.
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4165Legal documentT-S 10J28.11
Document date
1434 Seleucid (4 September 1122–21 September 1123 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Recto: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated indirectly by the year mentioned in the verso, 1434 Seleucid (1122/1123 CE). Concerning the claims of Turfa Sitt al-Kamāl, the widow of Abū Sahl Mukhtār, to an estate. Mentions Abū Mūsā Aharon b. (Yesh)uʿa ha-Kohen and Abū Saʿīd.
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1. ]הן הזקן [
2. ]ן הנכבד [
3. ] יצח להא מן כ[....... ה]נאך [
4. ] אללאזמה להא עלי אבנתהא זוגתה טו[ל .......]
5. ]תה חסב מא תש[. ... .....] אלשני מעשיות אלתי …
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4166Legal documentT-S 13J3.10
Document date
9 Sivan 1470 Seleucid (27 May 1159 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Legal proceedings. Sitt al-Sāda bt. Sayyid al-Ahl b. […] She specifies the household goods left by the latter and is asked about her income from her work. […] Signed by Efrayim b. Meshullam and Hillel b. Ṣadoq. Dated: Wednesday, 9 Sivan 1470 Seleucid, which is 1159 CE.
1. למא אן כאן פי יום אלארבעא אלתאסע מן סיון אתע לשטרות חצרת
2. אלינא נחן בית דין סת אלסאדה בת סיד אלאהל בן נחמן ואלתמסת
3. אסתיפא מא להא פי כתובתה עלי בעלהא …
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4167Legal documentT-S K22.27
Document date
1693 CE
Primary language
Hebrew
Legal record (#15) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 2r of T-S K22.27). […] The merchants are involved in Red Sea ״coffee bean shipping" (חמול בון/حمول بُنّ) between Mokha, Jedda, Suez, and Cairo. As part of the legal case, the merchants have entered accounts from their commercial operation into the court register, balancing a variety of annotated revenue sources and expenses.
זvתפג (=7,483)
:Left side of bifolio 2r (Document 15 contd.)
1. אלה הם פרטי הסך של העסקא שקבל הר׳ משה הכהן עלון תרי
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4168List or tableT-S Ar.6.3
Account of the Qodesh: building expenditures, ca. 1040. Written by Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya, listing a series of items connected with the reconstruction work …
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1. מנקל אתוראב(!) אול דפעה עשרה דר מנקל אלתוראב תאני דפעה תסעה דר'
2. וביד יוסף אלרקאץ ען עמלה כמסה איאם סיתה' עשר` דר' ורבע מנהא
3. דרהמין ונצף' ען אכ…
Paid to my Lord al-Hāvēr, may God support him, 4 1/2, dir. He also holds 2 1⁄2 dir. for candles.
From the rent of the apartment of Daʾūd for Shawwāl 4 dir. were spent as fees for deeds of lease 2
to Barakāt al-Bannāʾ and 3 dir. paid for litters to be used in the qōdesh
to shake
and remove the earth, three times, 9 dir.
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4169LetterT-S 18J3.9
Inferred date
December 1033–December 1033 CE
Primary language
Hebrew
Letter in which Shelomo b. Ṣemaḥ, Ramla, describes the earthquake, probably to Efrayim b. Shemarya, or to the community of Fustat, December 1033 CE. The letter details the terrible effects of the earthquake and its aftershocks on the inhabitants of Ramla and remarking on how many more would have died had the earthquake happened during the night. […] The reaction of the victims was to fast and cry out to God for mercy and the writer comments how the mercy of God was demonstrated in that there were survivors.
1. ....
2. יצאו מן הבתים לרחובות כי ראו הבתים הכתלים מטים ועומדים והקורות יוצאות
3. נפרדות מן הקירות ושבות חוזרות והבינינ[ו]ת המחוזקות נופלות והדירות החדשות
4. …
He may still turn and relent etc’ (Jonah 3:9).
(30) And the great miracle (והנס הגדול) was that all the days that the people were cast out into the open and in the streets, no rain fell.
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4170LetterENA 2805.5
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from Natan b. Nahray to Abū ʿImrān Mūsā b. […] Among other matters, Natan mentions that he has given 1 dinar each to Moshe the Judge and Yeḥezqel the Alexandrian, the two frail old men who wrote T-S 13J28.10 requesting charity from Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy. Natan also mentions a medicinal syrup that he has asked Abū l-Afrāḥ to buy him.
אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם תאידה
address, left column:
1. מחבה ושאכרה נתן בן נהראי נע׳
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1. אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את עזרתו לך ואת שלומך ואת חסדיו לך ויכה את
2. אויביך, מהבית, בכ"ד באדר ראשון, יחתום או…
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4171LetterMoss. IV,40.1
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Recto: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mercantile. Mentions something coming from Gaza and possibly the commodity tartar (or Mongols? […] The term טרקיתהא appears, the meaning of which is unclear. The woman is elderly and sick. Nobody is traveling to al-Shām this year. Mentions "two months in the synagogue" then "without body" (probably an expression for her distress).
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4172LetterT-S 8J37.12
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely 12th or early 13th century. […] Mentions staying in al-Maḥalla Wednesday night; meeting with Makīn b. Mukhtār, who reported his intention to travel and that 80 jars of his wine had turned to vinegar; also mentions al-Shaykh al-Rashīd; and good quality wheat.
Recto
1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ] .י . . תנאהם לנא. . . .תילו
2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3. . . . . . . . …
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4173Legal documentT-S 10J28.2
Document date
Av 1363 Seleucid (July 1052 CE)
Yosef al-Rumi to the effect that the followers of Yosef have permission to hold their prayers wherever they wish. Other names mentioned in the document: (part of name preserved) b. Mevorakh; and signatories Wahb b. Mevorakh, Ezra b. Menahem; Shemarya ha-Levi b. Aharon. Dated Av 1052.
1. יקול מן אתבת שהאדתה פי הדא אלכתאב אנא כנא מגתמעין פי סוק
2. [אלצ]פין חתי ראינא יהודה אלרומי בן יוסף גאלס פי דכאן נחום בן ישועה
3. אלמערוף באבן אלשאמיה ואן…
Then he showed the rescript to some of the people present, and they read it while he was [still] holding it and handing it over to no one.
After that, Yehuda al-Rūmī took [the rescript] from [Naḥum’s] hand and read it, and contemplated it in its entirety, and laughed.
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4174LetterT-S AS 160.130
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Recto: commercial letter in Judaeo-Arabic. "That man... to you, you said to me several times... I don't know what he needs, and if he asks you about the equipment for the sugar (ʿuddat al-sukkar) tell him... the refining (al-ṭabīkh), 30 batches (ḥaml) were refined... if the [...] sets sail...." Mentions Maʿānī several times. Also mentions the technical terms tarnīq (meaning unclear, but does appear in treatises on sugar manufacture) and quṭāra (sugar cane molasses).
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4175Legal documentT-S NS 184.49
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Deed of gift, or possibly a power of attorney appointing Abu l-Faḍl to collect the money and/or goods mentioned. Mentions 17 dinars which is the balance of the value of the rubʿ (house or compound), a box (ṣundūq), implements for silk weaving, and six combs (Amshāṭī, 'comb-maker', was a common Jewish family name of well-to-do people). (Information in part from Mediterranean Society, IV, 225; also Goitein index cards.)
1. ] בנא מן מרץ ולא גיר דלך מן גמיע
2. ] קד והבה מעכשו ארבע אמות קרקע
3. ] במתנה גמורה גלויה ומפורסמת ואצפנא אלי דלך
4. ] עלי קבץ אלסבעה עשר דינארא בקיה תמן אלר…
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4176LetterT-S NS 312.143
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Probably a letter asking for assistance. The writer arrived from a land far away (גית מן בלאד אן בעיד) and he is lonely (אשב בדד). Mentionsmeeting yesterday with al-Shaykh al-Muhadhdhab, who reported that he had met with al-Zakiyy, who refused to speak; this has been reported to Sayyidnā; mentions Abū Naṣr; al-Shaykh al-Raṣuy.
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4177State documentENA 3907.12
Primary language
Arabic
Document in Arabic, unclear content, left half only, with sewing holes at left, top, and diagonally across the upper left corner. Likely an official document. Mentions "bi-Miṣr al-Maḥrūsa."
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4178Legal documentT-S AS 170.106
Inferred date
1100–1138 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Fragment (left side). Involves Abū Zikrī Yaḥyā; other details are too faded to read.
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4179Legal documentT-S AS 220.72
Inferred date
1100–1138 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Legal deed in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Fragment (lower left corner). Likely a release of a debt for Abū l-Faraj al-[...].
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4180LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/16
Primary languages
Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
He has children far removed from religion and others. The servant fears lest what is sealed upon people (i.e. death) overtake him, or me. […] Examine my state and please liberate me.3 .... All that I want is the liberation of the servant, by any means necessary. […] It is unclear how much, if any, pertains to the main letter on recto. Shelomo ha-Levi b. Moshe is named.
Verso, amidst copious other jottings. It is not clear how much, if any, pertains to recto:
1. אתהלל בשיר אשר טיפחת עדה עדי צניף וגם מטפחת
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4181LetterT-S 8.22 + NLI 577.10/1
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Description from NLI 577.10/1: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably late 12th or early 13th century; this range can probably be narrowed based on the people mentioned, including the Ayyubid-sounding al-Muʿaẓẓam. […] The sender is distressed about something, in addition to his earlier loss of the gold that had been left with Hārūn. At the bottom and in the margin mentions Abū l-Majd, Makārim al-Wakīl the collector for the compound of the מלכיין, Ṣafiyy al-Dawla, Ibn Sibāʿ, and Raḍiyy al-Dawla. […] The next part of the letter includes multiple urgings to take care of the necessary renovations in the house, also mentions a woman who has "no relative, no in-law, no brother, and no friend except for you and like you."
Recto:
1. לאנה כאן פי אלאתנין ובאע(?) נקץ(?) פטן(?) אל[שי]ך אבו אלכיר א . . . פי אלא . . ואלאשראף(?)
2. פיתפק ראיך וראי רבינו פי ביעהם אמא גמלה ואנא מפרק…
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4182LetterBodl. MS heb. c 28/22
Document date
Adar I 1448 Seleucid (1134 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from Abu Zikri Kohen, representative of the Merchants in Fustat, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi, in Aden. Dated: Adar I 1448 Seleucid = January/February 1134 CE. […] At the end of the letter, there are greetings to Ḥalfon from his family and the writer and a request to greet the important people of Aden and to help Abu Nasr b.
Recto
1. ̇ב
2. כתאבי אלי ח̇צר̈ה מולאי אלשיך אלאגל אטאל אללה פי אלכיר
3. בקאה ואדאם תאיידה וסעאדתה וסלאמתה ונעמתה
4. ורפעתה וסנאה וכבת באלדל חסדתה ואעדאה ומן חסן
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4183Legal documentPUL Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series no. 584e.32 (Michaelides 32)
Primary language
Arabic
The text in the upper left margin seems to be an oddly placed witness clause (by ʿUmar b. […] ʿAbd al-[...]) but this requires further examination. Other legal documents often have specific notations related to legal procedure in this position on the page. […] Line 8 refers to "the medicine" (al-dawāʾ) that is in a vessel, and it seems that the silver is supposed to be placed in the medicine.
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4184LetterT-S Ar.30.160
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Concerning family and business matters. Mentions: 'my lord the qāḍī'; various instructions about transactions and letters; and "the boy ʿAṭiyya is weaned, and he wants to eat sugar every hour" (אלולד עטיה יל מפטום ויריד אלתנקל אלסוכר סאעה סאעה). Also mentions Ibn Abū Jābir "who is from אלקתם" and how he should send a letter to his son Abū l-Yusr "to אלקתם" concerning the daughter of Manṣūr al-Sofer in the presence of Sulaymān b. […] After the date on verso, there is a postscript. Mentions Ibn Abū Jābir again; soap; again obtaining a letter from him to his son Abū l-Yusr concerning the daughter of Manṣūr al-Sofer; again mentions the boy ʿAṭiyya.
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4185LetterENA 4010.15
Primary language
Hebrew
Letter from Ṣadoq b. Av ha-Kohen, either in Ramla or Jerusalem, to [...] ha-Reviʿi. […] Mention Ḥannuka and lighting the Shabbat candles; evidently this is when the messenger of the governor came and the trouble started. Also mentions some names, including Ibn al-Maṣmūdī. There is a postscript in Judaeo-Arabic ("do not blame me for this, כי באו מים עד נפש").
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4186Legal documentENA NS 2.45
Inferred date
1100–1138 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
For example, when a widow (or, less likely, divorcee, l. 10) brings into the marriage, besides a valuable bridal outfit, 'an entire large house in the Fortress of the Candles' (l. 7), another 'large house in the Grand Bazaar opposite the Funduq' (l. 9), and quarter of a house somewhere else (where, not preserved)." Med Soc, III, 326. Verso: Small fragment of a legal document, also in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, written on the back of the ketubba, dealing with money which was not included in an inheritance.
1. אל. . .ה ען אלתלתה מואצע אל[
2. קניא א.כתארדונה באלביע וקבץ אל[
3. ירושה בעולם ואן ליס לה אלתעלק ב.[
4. הכשר לקנות בו מעכשו בביטול כל מוד[עין
5. וגעלתה ברסם כבז…
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4187LetterT-S 13J25.6
Inferred date
1100–1138 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
India Book (IB) II, 11a: Letter from Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138) to Avraham b. […] Dating: Early 12th century. Ornate thank you letter and narrative in which Ḥalfon b. Menashshe expresses gratitude for the wealthy Adeni merchants Avraham b. Bundar and the "Leader of the Congregations (either Ḥasan b. Bundar or his son Bundar II) who saved him from the debts that confronted him when he emerged from his life-threatening illness (r31–v2).
recto
1. בשמ רח
2. לאלוף השרים. ונזר אדירים. וכתר אבירים. ודגל גבורים.
3. ולגדול המשרה. וצניף ועטרה. ומקל תפארה. שאו שלום הרים.
4. וענדוהו ענוד. ביקר גם כבוד. ו…
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18. גמילות חסרי הדרתך הקדושה –
19. יתמיד ה' את מעלתך ויעשה את תפארתך קבועה – הקיפה את העשיר ואת העני וטובתו מוענקת למבקש את חסותו ולמ…
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4188LetterT-S 24.65
Document date
1100 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from Ṣadoq b. Yoshiyya, in a border town somewhere in the Levant, to the judge Yosef b. […] He is still endeavoring to free his son-in-law (שרנו אדירנו חתננו שר בית ישראל), whom Goitein identifies with Abū Saʿd the son of the Tustarī woman (mentioned as a Crusader captive in T-S 10J5.6 + T-S 20.113). Ṣadoq has also sent a letter to the Nagid (Mevorakh b. Seʿadya) reporting on his efforts for the captives.
1. בשמ רחמ
2. לי מדה טוילה מא קראת ליקירנו השופט
3. היקר אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם תאיידה
4. וחראסתה ונעמאה כתאבא ולא ערפת
5. לה כברא מן גהתה בל ממן יצל פאסתעלם
6. חאלה פי…
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4189LetterT-S NS 320.129a
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th century or early 12th century. Mentions Abū Kathīr; the sender was distressed to learn that the addressee received the money (al-danānīr) but not the belts (al-zanānir); he swears by all that he believes in that he has sworn in front of Jews and Muslims that Abū l-ʿIzz is the most trustworthy man who lives: "If I had 1,000 Maʿaddī dinars with him, it would be as if they were in my own chest and under my lock, may God avenge [...] if you say the opposite of what I believe." […] At the bottom of recto, the lettermentions a ḥaver and someone named Muḥammad al-Būnī.
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4190LetterT-S NS J194
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Business letter, from Khiyār b. Salmān Raqqāq (the parchment-maker) to an unknown addressee. […] Saʿadya, r. ca. ca. 1065 to 1077 or 1079) in order to achieve a reconciliation (āsiyan). Then, he is asked to meet with his maternal uncle Avraham b. Menashshe b. M[...], "perhaps on a day that his majlis is crowded," in order to convey the contents of this letter (in as public a way as possible). The letter continues, "If he is too grand for (receiving) gratitude from me. . . ."
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1. כתאבי יאסידי וגלילי חרס אללה מהגתך ורפע דרגתך ועלא[
2. טלעתך אלמבארכה אושך אללה אלקרב עאגלא עלי אפצל [
3. חרס אללה אדאבך מא זלת ואנת מלגא לכל מן קצד…
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4191LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1467
Primary languages
Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Recto: Letter from Shemuel(?) to Hārūn. The writer may be the husband of the addressee's paternal aunt. […] Locations unknown; the writer mentions someone who arrived from Cairo with news. Dating: 15th century or later, based on the mention of the currency ashrafī. Much of the letter consists of expressions of condolence.
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4192List or tableT-S AS 145.9
Notice that most of the numbers are added above the name or in the space after it and in a different ink color, which means either that someone took the list and then rated those individuals, or their contributions were entered when they were made (M.
אלרבע ת[.] ללקראין מס` קופטי
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1. ברסם אלדי טלב אלפוטה
2. בן אלשופט אבו [אל]פצל נץף
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4193List or tableT-S K15.86
(Information from Mediterranean Society II, p. 497, App. C 76)
ר' [ש]בתי קלעי 2 .
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1. הר. יוסף ישראל ואולדה 74 13
2. ר' סעדיי כהן 25
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4194LetterIOM D 55.13
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Nissim) regarding the inheritance of their father's estate. The letter hails the zeal and progress made in Jewish learning by a son of R. […] The reference is to their taking of Messina by assault, and the losses suffered by Jews and, in particular, by Muslims. […] He would be set at rest, however, only by a personal letter from Nahray confirming this happy turn of events" (Goitein, Med Soc V, p. 111).
אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם חראסתה ונעמאה
Verso, left side:
1. לבראט בן משה ננ בן סגמאר
2. (באותיות ערביות) מולאי אבי יחיי נהראי בן נסים אדאם אללה עזה מסתקרה אן׳ (כל׳ אן שא אללה)
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אדוני ורבי האדון הנכבד אבו יחיא, מ''ר נהוראי בי"ר נסים נ"ע, ייתן לו אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את שמירתו עליו ואת חסדיו לו; לבראט בן משה נ"נ בן …
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4195LetterT-S NS J119
Inferred date
1025–1051 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Shemarya, the leader of the Palestinian congregation in Fustat, are in Hebrew. The writer of the letter is not the gaon himself, but somebody in his retinue. Only the left part of the letter is preserved. Apparently, the writer complains that the revenue from "the compound" (by which the compound in Fustat dedicated for the Jerusalemites is obviously meant) did not arrive; nor did they receive an additional sum which used to be sent from Fustat for "the holiday."
1. ]דמה אלחבר אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם
2. ] מגוצה למקדראת קאירה ען וצף
3. ]ל להם אלי אכתר מן אלמסלה(!) ללה
4. א]גאבה דעאיהם לה חרסה אללה
5. ]לתהם באלגמיל וקד כאן כתאבה
And we look forward to receiving the answer to our letter
. . . . (by) the kindness of God, may He be exalted, do not withhold it from us
.... and may the welfare of all who love you be increased forever.
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4196Legal documentT-S NS J401l
Inferred date
1100–1138 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). […] Abū Saʿd with arithmetic lessons by which the boy was to master complex accounts. Arithmetic lessons were to be held through the use of the abacus.
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1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי ד[חתמות ]
2. אלשיך אבו אלפצל כגק מרור צדקה הז[קן ]
3. כגק מרור שמריה הזקן הנכבד נבע [ ]
4. מרור שלמה הלוי הזקן הנכבד ישצו […
[The condition was that the result of the study] which he undertook to teach him for 2 dinars [as mentioned above, should be that the afore-mentioned Hiba] should be able to write a letter with his own hand without blemish in spelling and [script and without] mistakes in the rendering of the content, but that he should write anything dictated to him in [correct] spelling [and pleasant script and without misunderstanding.]
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4197LetterAIU VII.E.24
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic, complete. Dated in the month of Tammuz in the final lines of the verso, but without a year. The letter was sent by a certain Ḥayyīm Ben-Hānī (ן׳ האני) to "the merchant" (אלתאגיר) Yiṣḥaq b. […] appears after the sender's name, perhaps an erratic reference to the city Isfahan (this rendering varies greatly from the standard Arabic-script spelling اصفهان). Merits further examination. (MCD with information from FGP)
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4198Legal documentBL OR 6356.1–16
Document date
1 Adar 5443 Anno Mundi (27 February 1683 CE)
Primary language
Hebrew
Legal record (#10) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 3v of BL OR 6356). […] Natan Benawī and groom Moshe Menashe b. Nissim ha-Levi. The entry comprises an abbreviated version of the full ketubba, mentioning key marital payments and conditions for the marriage.
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:(Documents 9-11) Folio 3v
1. בהיות שרצתה היקרה מ׳ חביבה ת׳׳מ בת הר׳ אלעזר נקיב אלמנת הר׳ משה גוואני נ׳׳ע לישבע שבועת
2. אלמנה המוטלת עליה ולגבות סכ…
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4199Legal documentBodl. MS heb. d 65/31
Document date
Elul 14xx Seleucid
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Legal document. Dated: 14[..] Seleucid. The day of the month was left blank, so this is presumably a draft. In the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan? Ṣedaqa b. David ha-Kohen makes a declaration concerning a quarrel (wa-jarā baynanā mushājarāt) over various large sums of money including 500 dinars. Other names: Yosef b. [...]q b. al-Dānī al-Fāsī, who is also mentioned as trading between Egypt and the Maghreb in PGPID 4037.
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4200LetterENA 1157.12
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower right corner of recto). Written on parchment. Likely a Maghribī mercantileletter of the 11th century. Twice refers to "my master the Third (al-shelishi)." […] On verso there is a list of names in a different hand: Saʿīd b. Mevorakh; ʿUlla b. [...]; Avraham b. Fahd; Yefet b. [...]; Maʿālī b.
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