Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The first concerns a lawsuit between al-ʿAmmānī and his allies (mutaʿaṣṣibīn) versus Ibrāhīm al-Zand(?). There is a concern that al-ʿAmmānī and those on his side are trying to cheat the Qodesh (l. 7).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In another entry, the revenue from rent collected from tenants of the qodesh by the parnas Abu'l-Ma'ali is also received by the same beadle. The record also mentions the person under whose authority these operations take place, namely the Gaon Netaniel b.

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• 12th c
• account
• heqdesh
• qodesh
• waqf

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Document date

1461-10-22 Seleucid (18 July 1150 CE)

Legal document. Bill of divorce, Alexandria (referred to as No-Amon). Dated: 22 Tammuz 1461 (18 July 1150). […] The verso contains the acceptance of the bill of divorce by the wife, signed also by Yiṣḥaq b. Yūsuf and Surūr b. Avraham. (Information from Goitein's index card)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto (secondary use): Record of testimony regarding a settlement according to which a debt is to be repaid in six monthly installments, concluded under the authority of Mevorakh b. Saadya, in Alexandria. Dated by Goitein to ca. 1075. This is before Mevorakh's first term as head of the Jews, which began ca. 1078. It further evidences his ties with Alexandria well before his political exile there later on, as ousted head of the Jews and Nagid, ca. 1082 (Mark Cohen) (Information from Goitein's index cards)

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• loan

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Letter from a merchant from South Italy, now probably in Alexandria. Ca. mid-11th century. The writer describes a disaster at sea. […] They arrived in Amalfi and Palermo, and continued on a big ship with 400 passengers to Alexandria. The ship was forced to return to land after a storm started, but on the way back they got stuck after hitting a shoal.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Family letter from Sāʾir b. Yosef al-Kharazī (the dealer in beads) to Khalfūn b. Rabʿūn. Carried by Yaʿqūb al-Andalusī. In Judaeo-Arabic. On parchment. Dating: 11th century. Per Goitein's index card, the sender asks the addressee to "come down" to Fustat after years of absence. But it is also possible that the sender is in Ifrīqiyya and he is just referring to someone who "went down to Egypt."

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• unedited 11th c

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Menashse (fl. 1100-1138 CE). The document was also signed by Shemarya b. Natan ha-Kohen and Peraḥya b. […] The qiyyum (validation) was also written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. It is signed by Avraham b.

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• dimme

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Inferred date

1213–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Harun to Avraham Maimonides (ha-Nagid) concerning financial issues relating to the children of his late brother Farah b. Harun al-Janawi, who were under his care after the death of their mother. Avraham Maimonides served as Rayyis al-Yahūd between 1205–1237 CE and also with the title Nagid after 1213 CE.

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• avraham maimonides

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Judaeo-Arabic

Shelomo, informing him that everything was done for al-Ṣūrī (from Tyre) as ordered by Natan Ibn al-Meshorer, who lost his wife and was unable to find a wife to look after his son and daughter. He also mentions two orphan daughters whom he wants to marry off to his sister's sons.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to the writer's father, Shelomo (Abu al-Rabi Sulayman), and his father-in-law, Yeshua ha-Kohen, in Qalyub. The writer invites both the addressees and his mother-in-law, Umm Ibrahim, to pass the coming holidays, during which the wedding of Abu al-Khayr will be celebrated, with his family. He also recommends a poor man for charitable assistance.

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Mevorakh ha-Kohen (known also from T-S 16.33), Shelomo b. Yefet, Yeshuʿa b. […] Avraham, and Wuḥaysh b. ʿEli (known also from Moss. V,379). (Information in part from CUDL.)

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Primary language

Arabic

Fragment of an Arabic translation of a Greek ethical treatise of unknown authorship published by A.R. Badawi as “Maqāla fī al-madkhal ilā ʿilm al-akhlāq” in his edition of Isḥāq b. […] This fragment corresponds to pp. 395 and 396 of Badawi’s edition and deals with economics (tadbīr al-manzil) and politics (al-siyāsa).

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• dimme

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Primary language

Arabic

Mentions the state official ʿAlamal-Dawla and a baker Yasīn b. Ibrāhīm. YU. […] Might not be a continuous join. See also T-S AS 149.218 + T-S NS 313.23 (PGPID 25332).

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• dimme

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Document date

Shawwāl 400 Hijrī (18 May 1010–15 June 1010 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Abū l-Ḥasan Mubārak b. Asad al-Zajjāj al-Isrāʾīlī ("the Jewish glassmaker") receives a loan of five dinars from [...] al-Shaṭranjī al-Isrāʾīlī ("the Jewish chess player").

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• red dinars

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Inferred date

1127–1138 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The case involves three brothers including Abū l-Faraj and Dāʾūd the sons of Yosef and a sum of 71 dinars. Mentions [...] al-Dīn the supervisor of pious endowments (alladhī kāna al-nāẓir fī aḥb[ās...], i.e., nāẓir al-aḥbās).

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Judaeo-Arabic

Faraj; Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAmmār; merchants; someone insulting the congregation; Bū Naṣr Furqān (the same as in T-S 13J25.7 + T-S 28.18 (PGPID 1074)?); Salāma b. Bishr al-Shofeṭ; al-Amir al-Sayyid; the synagogue; the sons of ʿAllān; and Ḥesed.

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Document date

518 Hijrī (19 February 1124–6 February 1125 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

The testimony concerns the deceased Khalaf al-Yahūdī al-Dimyāṭī al-Ḥarīrī. It mentions the year 518 AH = 1124/25 CE. Mentions the names Abū ʿAlī and Bu Shuʿayb(?). Needs further examination.

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• calendar

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Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Shemuel), Mevasser/Mubashshir, and an unsuccessful attempt to prove with four testimonies that something was coerced. Also how Naḥum was upset about the Jewish court's ruling so he threatened apostasy and went to the shaliṭ/wālī of Alexandria and gave him a bribe and maybe had his opponent arrested and/or fined.

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Document date

18 Kislev 1470 Seleucid (10 November 1158 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document. Location: al-Maḥalla. Dated: 18 Kislev 1[4]70 Seleucid = 10 November 1158 CE. […] Shemarya; Abū l-Karam b. ʿOvadya; and Abū l-ʿAlāʾ. The case involves someone named Muslim/Musallam. […] (Information in part from CUDL.) See also T-S 18J1.26 (PGPID 3515).

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Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions names including Abū l-Faraj, Ibn Ḥamīd, Abu ʿUthmān and Yosef, and government officials (al-amīr, al-sulṭān, al-dāʿī). Commodities include garments from Bharuch (thawb barūjī) and Kish (thawb qayṣī). Mentions customs payments in Sawākin and Bāḍiʿ and the ship of Ibn al-Dībjī (known from several other documents ca. 1141).

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• account
• ib-addenda

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

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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• sugar

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Document date

14 Adar 5365 Anno Mundi (4 March 1605 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Three columns of text, probably literary, in Hebrew and Aramaic and possibly some Judaeo-Arabic; the three columns seem to be versions of each other. There is also, scribbled out, a note in Arabic: "what was received from al-Muʿallim Ibrāhīm ʿAlī. . . ."

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• 17th c
• damascus
• partnership

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions setting sail from Alexandria. Involves the shipment of 100 jars of oil from Alexandria, the associated expenses, and the writer's diligence and setbacks.

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• ib-addenda
• ib4

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In a few instances, the quantities required are also expressed, indicating that the fragment is possibly a shopping list for a pharmacist. Also mentions various vessels of different sizes, as well as coal, salt, and potash.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions the capitation tax several times. Mentions al-Maḥalla, but this is crossed out, with Sumbāṭ (=Sunbāṭ) written above. […] Another word is crossed out with "al-Jazīra" written above it. Refers to an expectation that an amīr would protect [...]. Mentions [...] b. al-Mesos al-Parnas

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• island

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Document date

Monday, 13 Ḥeshvan 1686 Seleucid (19 October 1374 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Legal document. Location: al-Mahalla al-Kubra. Dated: Monday, 13 Ḥeshvan 1686 = 19 October 1374 CE, under the authority of David II Maimonides (r. ca. 1355–1410). An agreement between Isḥāq b. Mūsā al-Ṭandutāwī (i.e., from Ṭanduta, an old name for Ṭanṭā) and his divorcee Sadīda bt. Ṣāliḥ Ibn al-Parnas. Concerning the delayed marriage payment and mentions a sum of 400 nuqra dirhams.

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• al-mahalla
• marital reconciliation
• marriage

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Wednesday, 11 Jumādā II 697 Hijrī (26 March 1298 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Maʿālī and by Mufaḍḍal b. al-Dayyān al-Maskīl (or perhaps al-Rabbān al-Maskīl as Khan has it).

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• death
• inheritance
• report of death

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The upper section is in a neater hand and the bottom section is written more hastily in larger letters, but it all seems to be him. Oddly, most or all of the names are Christian. Mentions: ZʿDH the daughter of [...]; [...]ūd al-Naṣrānī al-Kātib; the year 84 "and 3"; [...] b.

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Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The 18 remaining lines are the content of the letter in Judaeo-Arabic, which is also laden with honorific terms. The writers express their longing for Avraham yet decline his invitation to visit him in Syria (אלשאם), as they will be staying in al-Maḥalla (in the central Nile delta), with friends from Aleppo for another two months. The addressee also received the letters T-S NS J131 (from the Nagid Mevorakh ben Saadya 1094–1111); Bodl.

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Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef from a partnership he had with Shela. Amat al-Qādir seems to be acting as trustee for her son, but also seems to have a financial interest in the partnership; since she would not have ordinarily inherited from her husband, her equity in the partnership may represent payment of her ketubba. […] This document was mistakenly identified as a join with T-S 16.23 (PGPID 7850) in Goitein, Med Soc III (viii,C,3, n. 24), and it was also treated as such in Lieberman, "A Partnership Culture," 122. In fact, these are two copies of the same document. Joins: Alan Elbaum.

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• hillel b. eli
• ib6
• india book

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Document date

1453 Seleucid (4 September 1141–21 September 1142 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The testator, Abū l-Ḥasan b. Ḥasan al-Sukkarī, died the following day. He was located in the home of Natan b. […] Abū l-Ḥasan acknowledges having received six dinars' worth of sugar from Abū Naṣr in order to sell it, but he never had a chance to do so. Sawād al-Sukkarī is also owed 3 dinars which should be paid from the shop, in addition to a capitation tax (jāliya) payment. […] In the margin there is an added note stating that his wife is owed 30 dinars by way of muʾakhkhar. He is also owed 700 dirhams by Abū Naṣr al-Ṣayrafī. There is a translation by Norman Stillman in Goitein's attached notes.

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• deathbed will
• illness

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Abū ʿAlī b. Barakāt to his son Abū Naṣr ʿAlī b. Abū ʿAli b. al-Quṣayr, in the alley of the candles, presumably in Fustat. […] He gives advice about the running of the shop in his absence, and says multiple times that his son should tell all his customers and associates that he is coming back as soon as possible, and he has not run away or gone bankrupt or died. […] His son should not speak to Hiba the collector of the capitation tax, because Abū ʿAlī owes him money and needs to sort out the matter in person.

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• arabic address
• distant husband
• fasting

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

People mentioned: Ibn ʿUbayd, Bū l-Fakhr, and Abū Isḥāq Ibn al-Maṣmūdī. See also the description for the whole notebook Bodl.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Subsequent use: Letter from Ḥassūn b. Nissim ha-Levi al-Barqī, in al-Maḥalla al-Kubrā, to Abū Kathīr Efrayim b. [...].

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Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a letter from Nahray b. Nissim, Alexandria. Mentions silk and business concerning dresses. The addressee is unknown although it seems his father’s name is Yahya. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #266) VMR

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• nahray b. nissim
• silk
• trade

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions numerous business transactions, Maḥrūz, and Abū ʿUmar Ibn al-Baghdādī (who also appears in T-S 10J24.4).

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• ib-addenda

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Mentions goods such as saffron, galangal, pepper, mahlab, and lapis lazuli. Also mentions the name Abū Bakr al-Fāsī.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning Ibrāhīm who has not yet completed the aqāwīl, also mentioning boats arriving from all over the place and a high demand for ginger.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions nutmeg (jawza), aromatic wood (ʿūd), musk, and salīkha (an aromatic bark resembling but not identical with cassia). Also mentions someone called "the interpreter" (al-turjumān).

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• list
• salikha
• turjuman

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