Documents

Inferred date

1150–1181 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Nathan (active ca. 1150–81). Faded and damaged. Bride: Sitt al-Fakhr bt. [...].

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Tags

• dowry list
• ketubba
• mevorakh b. natan

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions names such as Bū ʿImrān and his father; Bū l-ʿAlāʾ; al-Thiqa; al-faqī[h]; Ibn al-Shāmiyya; Sayyidnā; R. Ḥananʾel; loans for Ibn ʿIwāḍ and Bū ʿAlī Ibn al-Munajjā; Bū Manṣūr b. Baqāʾ; Ibn al-ʿAfīf; Bū l-Faḍl; and al-Makīn. On recto also mentions R. Yeḥiʾel.

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Primary language

Arabic

Letter from Fāṭima to her 'sister' al-Ḥājja Umm al-Barakāt. In Arabic script. Opens with greetings to Abū l-Faḍl and Nāṣir al-Dīn and his children, then Umm al-Barakāt and [Sitt al-]Jamīʿ and her children and another woman and everybody in the house. The body of the message mentions the arrival of Muḥammad al-Asyūṭī. Someone appears to have been killed by Bedouins (ʿurbān).

Tags

• arabic script
• women's letters

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Document date

626 Hijrī (30 November 1228–19 November 1229 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Legal document (iqrār) in Arabic script. Declaration by al-Masīḥī al-ʿAmīd Abū l-Faḍl b. Abī l-Majd b. Bishāra al-Naṣrānī acknowledges a debt that he owes to Abū l-Fatḥ (or Abū l-Faraj) al-Isrā'īlī al-Ṣā'igh al-Mawṣilī.

Tags

• arabic script

1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Concerning various family matters. (1) No answer to letters. (2) Abū l-Faḍl came and informed the sender about the death of the little boy. (3) "My brother, I do not need to urge you concerning my sister... for I know that her character is difficult (akhlāqhā ṣaʿba)." She had not received her farḍ (a part in an inheritance, or perhaps alimony). (4) Mardūk brought the מסדיה but the אמשאט were impossible. (5) Greetings to Abū ʿImrān, the wife of the sender's maternal uncle, Abū Naṣr, Faḍā'il, Shibl, and Bū Saʿd.

Tags

• akhlaq

1 Transcription 2 Translations 1 Discussion

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions a large number of individuals, such as Joseph, Abū l-Faḍl, Makārim, Majd, Abū Naṣr, Abū l-Ḥasan, Ibrahim, Abū l-ʿAlā, and Mūsā. Also contains epistolary formulae and other jottings.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Very faded right side of a document, with 5 lines at the top of the page, a wide space, then 12 lines at the bottom of the page in the same handwriting. Legible words: "ḥerem stam. . . min al-wujūh. . . lahum shay' yaṭlubuhum. . . fa-innahu bāqī lī 'indahu. . . Sitt al-[. . .]. . . beli ones kelal bevituy. . . al-Shaykh Abū l-Waḥsh."

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Primary language

Arabic

State document, in Arabic script. Five faded lines on a small paper fragment. Mentions the state official Fakhr al-Mulk. A Fatimid state official by the title of Fakhr al-Mulk was active in al-Āmir's time around 517 H.

Tags

• dimme

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic. "Tell Faḍā'il that if he wants to live with his cousins (awlād khālatihi) he should move with them." There have been raqqāṣīn (errand boys) milling about the house all day. Verso: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning Abū l-Ḥasan al-Malījī.

1 Transcription

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The text on verso discusses the time of death. Also on verso (upside down) is a badly rubbed and faded text, which is some kind of commentary or treatise.

1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Late letter in a cursive script, very faded with extensive liquid damage. The address lists the recipient as the sender's father: wālidī Ḥ... .... […] The name Yosef Shoshān also appears in the body of the letter, perhaps at the opening of a section, but the text is quite damaged.

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• late ja

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Dating; 13th century. Involves Faḍā'il the cantor, R. Ye[ḥi]el, Bū Naṣr b. al-[...], and Makhlūf.

Tags

• shehita
• to edit

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Primary language

Arabic

Possibly addressed to Dimnū (there is a village by this name near Sohag). Mentions the amīr ʿAlī and includes greetings to family members such as Abū l-Faḍl and 'the old woman.'

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Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from someone in ʿAsqalān/Ashqelon to Abū l-Faḍl [...] al-ʿAsqalānī, in Cairo. In Hebrew and/or Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script.

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Primary language

Hebrew

In Hebrew and vocalized. Quite faded; the continuation on verso is almost too faded to read anything. The sender seems to allude to his distress and to his friendship with the addressee.

Tags

• ib-candidate

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Written in an elevated register. Damaged and faded. Mentions Damsīs; sending something before Rosh Hashana; Abū Saʿīd; Sammanūd and Jūjar; Namir; 10 dinars; greetings to a brother and to 'the father Netanʾel Sar ha-Bina'. There are also a few words of Arabic script at the bottom of verso.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto and verso: Poetry in Judaeo-Arabic in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. Apparently on the subject of the eye diseases induced by love, but it is quite faded, so this awaits confirmation.

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• heartsickness
• judaeo-arabic poetry
• kohl
• lovesickness
• nasir
• (+ 1 more)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Asher Sefardi to the head Parnas Abū l-Faḍl Mevorakh b. Avraham, instructing him to make payments to needy people, ranging from one eighth of a dinar to half a dinar. The sender appears also in T-S AS 200.124 (PGPID 22587). (Information in part from CUDL)

Tags

• 12th c

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Document date

20[14] Seleucid (1109 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Nathan Av, at the year 1420 Era of documents (= 1109) regarding a quarrel over a house between Ghariba d. Fadail the widow, who is the haluza (free from levirate marriage) of Yeshu'a Hakohen b. Avraham. Also signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemu'el the Spaniard. AA

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Tags

• avraham b. natan
• isaac b. samuel ha-sefaradi

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The occasion of the letter is to inform the addressee that al-Shaykh al-Rashīd Abū Manṣūr has arrived. In the margins there are very faded jottings in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Abū l-Ḥasan; Jaʿfar; Abū Saʿīd; Aḥmad; the Maghribī brothers; Ṣadaqa al-Ramlī; Abū l-Faḍlal-Dhahabī; cassia (dār ṣīnī); al-ʿAfṣī; Ibn Nuṣayr; Abū l-Khayr b. Yaḥyā; al-Muqrī; Yehuda; ʿAmīd; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz; Abū Yiṣḥaq Ibrāhīm b.

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Tags

• account

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Involves a supervisor of construction (al-mutawallī lil-ʿimāra); something valued at 5 dinars; Abū ʿAlī Ibn al-Sukkarī; "the return of al-Rayyis (Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon?) to Egypt in these days"; bringing 23.25 dinars as a donation; a certain Abū ʿAlī; and the heirs of Abū l-Faḍl b. Raḥ[mūn?]. AA/ASE.

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2

Tags

• halfon b. menashshe

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Judaeo-Arabic letter, mentioning Abū Sahl and books, including Kitāb al-Madkhal (of Shemuel b. Hofni) and Halakhot Gedolot. Very faded. Information from FGP. Needs further examination. Verso: Arabic-script letter, related to recto, also containing accounting relating to bookselling, also mentioning Kitāb al-Madkhal, as well as other books such as a volume of Berakhot from the Babylonian Talmud (تلمود براخوث عراقي).

Tags

• book trade

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Primary language

Arabic

Five lines are preserved, but they are very faded. Appears to mention "the pillars of the bathhouse" (arkān al-ḥammām).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Damaged and faded. Dating: likely ca. 13th century or later (based on handwriting, names, and linguistic features). Greetings to ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz and his brother Naṣrallāh. The addressee is urged to come quickly.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment (lower part of recto). Very faded, reddish ink, distinctive (late?) hand with long sweeping strokes at the ends of words. Mentions dinars and someone spreading rumors against the recipient (yataqawwal 'alayk). ASE.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Handwriting of Yehuda Ibn al-ʿAmmānī? He reports that someone is sick. He requests various piyyuṭim, including one that his uncle composed. Quite faded. (Information in part from CUDL)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. No address. Quite faded. Mentions 'the matter of the house'; [Abū] l-Riḍā; Abū Naṣr. Regards to Abū l-Faraj Natan ha-Kohen b. Efrayim ha-Kohen al-Ṣārifī.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Mufaḍḍal Ibn al-Ḥaver to Abū l-Maḥāsin. In Judaeo-Arabic. The whole letter is preserved, but the text is extremely faded.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Probably addressed to the Nagid (al-ḥaḍra al-rayyisiyya, raʾs al-mathība). It may concern a man who was insulting people and challenging the writers' authority. But it is very faded and only the bottom part is preserved. May be related to ENA NS 2.20 (PGPID 2671).

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Accounts in Arabic script with Greek/Coptic numerals (possibly secondary use). Medieval-era. Along the right margin at 270 degrees, a more faded layer of text is visible in a distinct scribal hand, perhaps fiscal. […] concerning my brother). Also mentions the price of lead, a lock, and scissors., and the shop.

Tags

• cmp

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Primary language

Arabic

The opening line reads: daftar mubārak yataḍammanu fīhi al-ʿimāra(?) alladhī bi-ṭaraf al-muʿallim. . . There follow lists of names (e.g. […] The document may have originally been recorded over a grid that is now quite faded.

Tags

• late arabic script

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Primary language

Arabic

In Arabic script. Abū l-Faḍlal-Muḥassin b. Saʿīd b. ʿUthmān, the merchant, buys part of a ruined house (which he already owns the rest of) from Jumān b. ʿAbdallāh b. Ṣāliḥ al-Anṭākī, the miller. Dating: ca. 11th-12th century.

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• ruin

1 Transcription 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The three clearly visible lines on verso, written at 90 degrees to the text on recto, might be related, but they are difficult to understand. There are also ~3 extremely faded lines at the other end of verso. Join: Alan Elbaum.

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Primary language

Arabic

. / وبنو عمك المشدين . . . /. There is also a line of upside down text mentioning Fāṭima. The other side: Very faded text in Arabic script mentioning al-Ḥājj Ibrāhīm.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Very faded bill of release from Bū Isḥāq b. Bū l-Karam Ibn al-Dayyān, for Bū l-Maʿānī (or Bū l-Maʿālī) and Bū Naṣr the sons of al-shaykh al-amīn(?)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from an unidentified man, in Fustat, to his brother al-Musāfir al-Kattānī ('the traveling flax-merchant'), in Aṭfīḥ. […] He reports that the ṣāḥib al-ʿasl (owner of the honey) arrived but the writer managed to get rid of him by making a vow and saying something about his brother. Regards from Ṣadaq b. al-Ṭāqī, Abū Naṣr, Faḍā'il, and Ḥasūn.

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• honey

2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Line 8 probably reads, "[My heart is wi]th [my brother] al-Shaykh Abu l-Ḥasan in his illness [פי תעבה]." Also mentions flour; Ibn al-Dakli (?); Fada'il; Abu Nasr; Najm the Faqih.

Tags

• trade

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter of condolence from from al-Mubārak, Hiba, Faḍl, and Isḥāq, the sons of Yeshuʿa b. Samḥūn, to the ḥaver Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllun b. Meʾir upon the death of Abū Yūsuf. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script on verso. Also wishing blessings upon the community of the Jerusalemites.

1 Discussion

Primary language

Arabic

The lower ~10 lines are preserved. Faded in places. Some phrases: "...if he is still alive..." (l. 4); "going up to Jerusalem" (ll. 4–5); "the two congregations" (al-jamāʿatān) (l. 7). Ends with a ḥamdala and ṣalwala (prayers for the prophet Muḥammad).

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Primary language

Hebrew

Fragment of a 16th-century business letter. Faded and damaged, so the contents are difficult to determine. […] Mentions Fusṭāṭ and Alexandria (line 7) and Sariel the Judge who owes the writer 84 peraḥim (line 8).

Tags

• 16th c
• late heb

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yakhin, appoints his brother Hilāl/Hillel as his attorney for all his claims and in particular those resulting from the estate of his deceased wife Sitt al-Dār bt. Bū l-Faḍl. Information from Goitein’s index card.

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• meir b. yakhin

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Document date

545 Hijrī (30 April 1150–19 April 1151 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Receipt for the capitation tax (jizya) for the Jewish man Bū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Bū l-Faḍlal-Qazzāz (the silk trader) in Fustat.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letters in Judaeo-Arabic. Quite faded. Dating: Probably Ayyubid or Mamluk-era, based on the hands and the layout. […] It mentions that the messenger sent by the addressee only arrived after al-Shaykh al-Ṣafiyy went to Cairo.

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Document date

52[.] Hijrī (27 January 1126–10 October 1135 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Receipt for the capitation tax (jizya) for the Jewish man Bū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Bū l-Faḍlal-Qazzāz (the silk trader) in Fustat.

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Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Names include: Sayyidnā Shelomo; Sayyidnā Shemuʾel; Sayyidnā Avraham; al-Ṣafiyy Abū l-ʿAlāʾ; Abū l-Naṣr al-Saʿīd; Yūsuf; al-Muwaffaq; al-Rashīd; al-Muhadhdhab; al-Shaykh al-Nafīs; al-Thiqa; al-Kohen Sulaymān; Barakāt; Yeshuʿa; Eliyya; Mūsā; Yosef; ʿAfīf; Makīn; Abū l-Majd; Muwaffaq; Yosef; Fāḍil; Abū l-Riḍā

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