Documents

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The verso has detailed heading explaining that the entries represent income from the Egyptian city of Manfalut on the Nile. The entries again list various individuals and collective groups (בני). One cryptic entry might be based on the word for crocodile in Arabic תמסחייא" (تمساح)" but its exact meaning is unclear.

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Tags

• 16th c or later
• manfalut

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Primary language

Arabic

On verso there is a Purim-related text in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya. ENA 3695.4, ENA 3695.5, and ENA 3695.8 all look very similar, might be from the same original document.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

These seem continuous with ENA 1324.14 and ENA 1324.22–29. Also potentially the same scribe/poet: ENA 2829.1–4; ENA 3020.10–11; and Stras. 4077.

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Tags

• cmp
• wheat

1 Transcription

Primary language

Hebrew

Dating: First half of the 16th century, since David Molina appears also in T-S NS 292.37 (PGPID 24719). ENA 2958.33r contains a text about a vision of a man of gold. ENA 2958.32r contains some of the same text as at the bottom of ENA 2958.33v. ENA 2958.32v is catalogued as Judaeo-Persian on FGP, but may be Judaeo-Arabic; needs examination.

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Document date

1463 Seleucid (13 September 1151–31 August 1152 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Deed of sale for an enslaved person. Fragment (upper left corner). Probably in the hand of Mevorakh b. […] Buyer: Abū Isḥāq Avraham b. ʿAmram. Enslaved person: a woman named Rahj. This name could be translated as "dust" or "discord" (Lane, Lexicon, 1109).

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Primary language

Arabic

Fragment of a fiscal report with one line of Arabic text following the join along the margin on ENA 2857.45v + ENA 2857.46v. The margin of ENA 2857.45r retains one line of text on the verso.

Tags

• cmp

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Ladino

The recto contains two entries and in the second the writer switches from Hebrew completely into Ladino. The first entry mentions the use of "fire/אש" (l.2r, 4r) in the recipe includes the direction to "make a cake/עשה עוגה" (l.3r). […] On the verso all recipe entries are in Ladino and the penultimate one refers to an "infant/קירייאטורה" (l.) in the same unique spelling as the join ENA 2713.17.

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Tags

• ladino literary
• medical

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Do not tell anyone where I am. . . because I am scared and my enemies are close behind." Abū Zikrī is mentioned in the middle of the enemies sentence (ואסתכתם אבו זכרי) but it is not immediately clear how he is related.

Tags

• dreams
• enemies
• tashawwush

1 Transcription

Document date

26 Adar II 1600 — 26 Elul 1601 Seleucid (20 March 1289–3 September 1290 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

T-S NS 163.62: The entries on verso are too damaged to read. At the bottom mentions the name Ibn al-Mushanqiṣ. The entry on recto is dated 26 Adar II 1600 Seleucid = 20 March 1289 CE. […] אלנצבתי). 7. 20 Shevaṭ: Re-engagement (qiddushin) of Sadīda bt. ʿIwaḍ to her ex-husband Bū l-Faraj b.

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Primary language

Arabic

Faded and damaged. Mentions Damietta (ENA 3598.1, third line from the bottom); a qalʿa (ENA 3598.2, line 7 and again in the margin); Alexandria (al-Thaghr) (ENA 3598.2, second line from the bottom); and asks for the addressee's news.

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Primary language

Hebrew

Ḥayyīm and Yiṣḥaq al-Sh__[?]. In the first entry the payment may be related to a quantity of leather (גלדי). […] Ḥayyīm mentioned in the nearby shelfmark ENA 2898.9 (l. 21) and ENA 2898.13 (l. 5). The shelfmarks ENA 2898.7-14 may all be from the same booklet.

Tags

• 15th or 16th c
• leather
• numismatic dating

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Primary language

Arabic

Letter in Arabic script containing an order for materia medica, mentinioning simples such as endive, Armenian bole, and red arsenic (realgar) and yellow arsenic. Many of the entries are crossed out, some with red ink. Verso contains an address (‘this letter should be sent to …’). Probably belongs with ENA NS I.77 (PGPID 12018). Cf. T-S NS 324.129 + T-S Ar.43.317 (PGPID 25649) for a similar list, in Judaeo-Arabic, with the same use of red ink for crossing out entries.

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Document date

1469 Seleucid (7 September 1157–25 August 1158 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Bill of sale for an enslaved woman. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1469 Seleucid, which is 1157/58 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. […] Buyer: Abū l-Bayān Moshe ha-Levi the merchant in the Dār al-Ṣarf. Price: 13 dinars. Enslaved person: A Persian woman named Qaḍīb. Signed by: Mevorakh b.

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• slaves

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Document date

Adar I–Adar II 5453 Anno Mundi (7 February 1693–6 April 1693 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Dating: the entries on T-S K25.140.2 are from Adar I and Adar II 5453, which is 1693 CE. […] Right side of recto: (Document #1) Incomplete entry with the final lines of a partnership or an agreement involving three parties; (#2) Deathbed declaration of Yehuda DiRolo (דירולו) aka Danon involving a variety of debts and arrangements for his burial. (#3) Engagement of Reyna bt. […] The signatures of the three presiding dayyanīm were copied into the court register at the end of the psaq dīn entry: Yisrael Romano, David Ḥayyim Beit-Hal[..]s, and Moshe Viṭal. (#5) Copy of a kettuba that has been abbreviated in certain places to streamline the court register entry.

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Document date

Kislev/Tevet 5460 Anno Mundi (23 November 1699–20 January 1700 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

(2) A general partnership in the coral trade for the duration of one year: במלאכת אלמרגאן לזמן י׳ב חדשים (l.18). The other court entries on the recto recount engagements that include pledges of marital gifts from grooms to brides and bridal dowries: (3) Engagement of Moshe b. […] Yosef ha-Levi Bar-Bīkha(?); (5) Engagement of Moshe b. Yaʿaqov ha-Levi and Reyna bt. […] The verso includes the following document entries: (7) An incomplete entry stating that a certain Yiṣḥaq Ashenazi receives a sum of money from Leah bt. ____(?)

Tags

• cmp
• coral
• court notebook
• late court records
• legal

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: perhaps sixteenth century based on the paleography and Ottoman terminology. A name ending in bashī appears in the first entry. This may be some kind of Ottoman rank and/or title: başı / head-[...] in Turkish. The second entry mentions Mūrād Beğ (). Requires further examination.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragmentary court record(s). The main entry involves an Abū Saʿīd Ḥalfon and Netanʾel and family relationships (someone refers to "my sister"). The text at 90 degrees may be the end of a distinct entry, involving rose preserves, and signed by Yiṣḥaq b.

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• cmp

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Primary language

Hebrew

A strange treatise entitled Mar'e Ha-Ofanim, referring both to the angels of Ezekiel's vision and to the circles described in the treatise. […] In this section, each entry is prefaced with the name of a category (e.g. […] Each entry concludes with a list of significant numbers.

Tags

• bizarre
• magic

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Primary language

Arabic

The extent to which they represent joins and/or related documents merits further examination (ENA 3264.1-2 seem to be the most likely candidates for a direct join). Of the six consecutive shelfmarks, ENA 3264.3 is the only one that does not contain any Arabic text. The clearest evidence of sewing marks from the booklet's binding are visible along the right border of ENA 3264.3r. MCD.

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Tags

• arabic reused
• learning

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Notes for the drawing up of a deed of sale for an enslaved person. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? […] T-S 13J36.11, which describes the significant losses incurred by an enslaver after he was denounced to the government.

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• slaves
• tax
• tax evasion

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Inferred date

1127–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Referenced in the document are clothes, household goods, and an enslaved woman named Naʿīm. The same Shabbetay b. Yosef sells an enslaved woman in T-S NS 320.50c (1143 CE).

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Document date

first decade of Ḥeshvan 1445 Seleucid (2 October 1133–11 October 1133 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe ha-Kohen gifts a new enslaved woman, Rahaj, to his wife Sitt al-Nasab bt. Abū l-Munā Yiṣḥaq after selling the enslaved woman, ʿAlam, who was part of the wife's ketubba.

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Document date

29 Tammuz 5458 Anno Mundi (8 July 1698 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Location: Cairo. Dated at the end of (29) Tammuz 5458 CE, which is 1698 CE. (Document #31) Brief testimony by a certain Aharon Lobregón that he is leaving his daughter and "his maidservant" (שפחתו, an enslaved woman) in the home of Yosef Abzaradel while he travels to Alexandria. The entry does not state for how long Aharon planned to travel.

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• early modern enslaved people

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Chastising the addressee for something (it is not entirely clear what). "That which you did, an enemy wouldn't even do it to himself.

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Primary languages

Ladino, Spanish

The first few lines were transcribed by Eleazar Gutwirth, “Judeo-Spanish Fragments from Cairo,” Anuario de filología, vol. 9 (1983): 219–23, as follows: 1. memoria a vos mi señor Don Eliakim y(shmerehu)s(ur) ve(goʾalo) 2. en buena hora sedieis en Evora me kobreis de casa de Shemuel Shaltiel un envoltiro ke tiene mio i la di 3. el señor don Joseph Abravanel i ke le pido por mereced me lo empakete primero a buen desbero 4. mas en la rua siega la primera casa le-sad semʾol mora un zaqen kon su mujer especiero el kual me 5. talega(e)staba kon ciertas menudenzas y un otro envolt(or)io ke esta una talega atada kon medio(o)?menudencias i una almofada de cañamazo kon lana i un par-- de-- udas usado i todo envueltoen alfamar ansi mismo de don Joseph A(barbanel?)---es- de en su poder i el otro me en---- mas como han-----sen-----rmos

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• bialphabetic
• ladino
• spanish

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Document date

147[5] Seleucid (31 August 1163–18 September 1164 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

An amount of 56.5 dinars was entrusted to Shemuel and his son, who stood security with their own possessions (in Minyat Zifta Jawād(?))[…] The document itself is dated 147[5] Seleucid, which is 1164 CE, under the authority of the Head of the Jews the Gaon Netanel ha-Levi. Following the end of the document (after Mevorakh's elaborate signature in ENA 4011.23), there are multiple addenda in which the orphan confirms sums received. […] (Information in part from Mediterranean Society, III, 296, 492.) NB: Goitein refers to ENA 4011.23 as ENA 4011.22. To add to the confusion, the current ENA 4011.22 is an unrelated legal document also in the hand of Mevorakh b.

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