Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The address is almost entirely gone, but one of them is named Bū Saʿd. Everyone who comes from Fustat has been telling the writer that the shop is closed. […] By the Law, my only travel is to al-Maḥalla and to Fustat, and it crossed my mind that I should come up to Fustat, and only this is holding me back." The letter ends surʿa surʿa surʿa (=hurry hurry hurry!!!). ASE

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• d-t switch
• garments

1 Transcription

Primary language

Arabic

Fiscal document. Multiple entries. Mentions: the receipt (wurūd) and expenditures (mā dufiʿa) of large sums of money; slaves (khadam); people such as Abū Bakr, ʿĪsā Ṣāhib al-Dawābb (superintendent of animals or master of the stables), Hilāl b. […] Reused on both sides for the Mishna of Avot accompanied by Arabic commentary or partial translation written in Arabic script (this was common among Qaraites but unusual among Rabbanites). ENA 3691.6 includes Avot 2:4-8 (verso) and
5:7-9 (recto).

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• baghdad
• dimme
• slaves

1 Transcription

Document date

Friday, 13 Kislev 1460 Seleucid (26 November 1148 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

I sent for Maʿānī, and as God knows, I was present but absent, estranged, alone, and lonely due to the remnants of an illness and [due to being] surrounded by enemies who await my public downfall..."

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• gossip
• illness
• illness: enemies
• illness: isolation
• mourning
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1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

אסאל מן תפצל מולאי אן ינפד כתאבה אלי צור . . . ENA NS 7.46 (PGPID 34153) and ENA NS 16.26 (PGPID 11713) may be in the same handwriting.

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• arabic address
• unedited 11th c

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The western Arabic numerals on verso would support a later date. Nearly the entire letter is a moving description of the death of the sender's newborn boy, who did not even live long enough to be circumcised, and the sender's grief for "the noble creature" (khalīqa sharīfa).

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• death
• grief
• illness
• numismatic dating

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Document date

8 Iyyar 1409 Seleucid (12 April 1098 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In which Moshe reports that he traveled with the aforementioned goods entrusted to him by Sason b. Natan to Upper Egypt (al-Ṣāʿīd). […] Moshe then responds to the court explaining that the goods were entrusted to him by way of commenda (muḍāraba) and that he was not instructed to make purchases(?).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Levi ha-Levi, probably from Qalyub to his father in Fustat, consisting almost in its entirely of good wishes for Tabernacles. He mentions that the turban (raddah) arrived. […] He then admits that he has no money even to buy bread, but all will end well. (Information from Mediterranean Society, V, pp. 87, 351.)

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• abu sahl levi
• moshe b. levi
• personal

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Levi ha-Levi, probably from Qalyub to his father in Fustat, consisting almost in its entirely of good wishes for Tabernacles. He mentions that the turban (raddah) arrived. […] He then admits that he has no money even to buy bread, but all will end well. (Information from Mediterranean Society, V, pp. 87, 351.)

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• abu sahl levi
• moshe b. levi

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

receipt: "I'm writing to you about this so that if an argument ensues, he won't avoid answering and his communication go silent.

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• 11th c
• nahray b. nissim
• trade

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Document date

12 November 1141 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

However, he has not received a thing, for I have nobody who could carry them to him; my brother Abū ʿUmar is ill since his arrival from Cairo and I have nobody able to act for me, for Abū l-Najm (the writer's factotum or partner often mentioned) and his son are ill also. I ask God to turn the end to the good." At the end of the letter: "As soon as I gain a little strength, I will not stay in this city for one hour."

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• epidemic
• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
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Document date

Tuesday, 15 Kislev 1526 Seleucid (19 November 1214 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Ḥasan al-Dalātī Ibn al-Naḥḥāl (the beekeeper) releases his nephew Moshe ha-Kohen from all obligations resulting from "all of the joint enterprises (muʿāmalāt) which were between us from the beginning of time until now", as well as any concomitant oaths. […] That the present document is dated between the dates of two of these documents suggests that despite this document ending a partnership, their mutual financial dealings continued.

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• partnership
• release

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Document date

Adar 1528 Seleucid (February 1217–March 1217 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yehuda continues (v.19-31) with an encomium to Avraham; the Alexandrians have been praying and fasting for God to lift the epidemic that has attacked the population of Fustat and to protect Avraham specifically. […] He explains (verso margin) that Avraham's colleague Abū Naṣr the physician encouraged him to write this letter, even though some of his peers mocked him for this.

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• alexandria
• communal
• epidemic
• epidemic: dever
• fasting
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Document date

Kislev 4880 Anno Mundi (6 November 1119–4 December 1119 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The calendar continues with month by month entries for the rest of 4879, for all of 4880, and 4881 through Nisan. Each entry lists the corresponding Muslim month. The left page of recto is a travel record: "We arrived [...]

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• ib-addenda

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Primary language

Arabic

Whereas T-S Ar.40.56 seems to have been written when the sender was in or near ʿAydhāb, this letter was written after his safe arrival in Aden. Near the end of this letter, the sender reports that “as for the news of Makārim your son, I heard that he entered al-Jāwa, may God reunite you...."

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• conversion
• divorce
• ib-addenda
• ib2
• india book unedited
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Document date

10 Rajab 511 Hijrī (7 November 1117 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The debt is to be repaid in 4 monthly installments of 100 dinars each, starting from the year 511 AH (1117 CE) and finishing at the end of the month of Shaʿbān of the same year. The acknowledgment is witnessed by […] b. […] Jirjis on recto (this is not entirely clear because of the lacunae — possibly to the elder Abū Mufaḍḍal Hibatallāh b.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

There are some remaining difficulties, as the first word cannot be Goitein's גרץ (looks most like כסר, but דכר would be more typical), and there may be another word in the lacuna at the end of l. 2. In any case, this item somehow connects "this court ledger" (hādha l-shimmush) to the headship (riyāsa) of Maimonides (Moshe ha-Rav ha-Gadol. . . b. […] On verso, there are two draft entries for legal cases: (III) Something relating to a lawsuit between [...] bt.

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• communal
• draft
• maimonides

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Document date

last third of Tishrei – first third of Elul 1452 Seleucid (4 October 1140–15 August 1141 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Document #2: Part of an engagement deed. Apparently, the only section that was copied to the court’s notebook was a section containing an unusual condition: the groom, Yefet b. […] It is also possible that this condition was related to the engagement agreement on the other side of the page, as the first name of the groom is the same in both.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Detailed but incomplete letter to an army doctor, possibly from his son-in-law, end of the 11th century. Contains many details about accounts, selling of books, the health of the family, misfortunes of acquaintances, and public affairs.

Tags

• agriculture
• book trade
• family
• physician

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Document date

Adar 1430 Seleucid (14 February 1119–14 March 1119 CE)

Fragment from the top of an enormous ketubba. Looks like the hand of Ḥalfon b.

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• ketubba

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Document date

7 Ḥeshvan 1643 Seleucid (9 October 1331 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Court notebook. Two entries, each dated 7 Ḥeshvan 1643 Seleucid = 9 October 1331 CE.

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• engagement

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Document date

8 Sivan 15[00]-8 Sivan 15[11] Seleucid (26 May 1189–23 May 1200 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The dowry list was likely recorded toward the latter end of this range (information from Amir Ashur).

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• dowry

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Primary language

Arabic

From the upper left corner; the ends of 9 lines are preserved. In Arabic script, in a chancery hand.

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Legal document. The body is almost entirely missing. The phrase "wa-hādhā rasm al-sheṭar/al-qiyyum" appears above the two sections at the bottom respectively.

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Document date

Middle ten days of Elul 1440 Seleucid (28 August 1129–7 September 1129 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

End of a legal document. Dated: middle decade of Elul 1440 Seleucid = August/September 1129 CE, under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaon.

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Document date

11 Rajab 989 Hijrī (11 August 1581 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Qaṣīda, ending, by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAlī b. Ṣāliḥ al-Makkūdī (d. 1405 CE), with a colophon giving the date: 11 Rajab 989 AH = 11 August 1581 CE.

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• classical arabic poetry
• colophon

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Contains, listed in two columns, several current entries of revenue and expenditures. Both Hebrew letters and Coptic numerals are used.

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• 13th c
• account
• qodesh
• waqf

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

This shelfmark is directly related and perhaps a join to the neighboring fragment ENA 2230.4. MCD.

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• 16th c or later
• bulaq
• early modern
• waterwheel

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List in monumental cursive, contemporary with ENA 2591.1, several names being identical. Six contributing two (dinars it seems); five contributing one; twelve contributing one-half; Total, indicated in the list: 23 dinars.

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• charity
• communal
• donors
• poverty

2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Naḥum (or possibly Ibn Naḥḥās) concerning payment for a house, of which Abū ʿAlī retains the right to enter. (Information from Goitein’s index card) Description from PGPID 9223: A different legal document or note, in a different hand, concerning an oath sworn by Mevorakh b.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

She seems to be submitting this letter in order to postpone the lawsuit until after the end of the period of the man's "ḍamān" (tax farming tenure?).

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• masliah gaon
• petition
• women's letters

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Document date

550 Hijrī (7 March 1155–24 February 1156 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

A join for this fragment appears in the neighboring shelfmark ENA 3285.18v (Matthew Dudley). Both of these state fragments were reused for a literary text in Hebrew (perhaps piyyut according to FGP).

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• 12th c
• fatimid
• iqta'
• petition

1 Transcription

Primary language

Ladino

On the recto there are ingredients and/or components such as a "wick / קאנדיל" (l. 5r) and below that there is mention of "pearl" and "coral" (l. 8r). On the verso, one entry is dedicated "para kurar la kabesa / for curing the head" and "sesame oil / טאחינה" may be in use.

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• coral
• ladino literary
• medical
• pearls

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ENA 4050: Fragments of a letter from Shemuel Gaon b.

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• communal

1 Transcription

List of alphanumerical quantities, the heading opens with "מביעה" (sold). Some of the entries may include the unit qirat, but the word קירט in question does not adhere to the normal spelling קיראט/قيراط.

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Document date

Av 5333 Anno Mundi (1 July 1573–30 July 1573 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: Rabīʿ al-Awwal 981 AH = Av 5333 AM, which is 1573 CE. Some entries mention shipments to specific locations: Būlāq, Dimyāṭ.

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• late ja

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in a late hand from the 16th-19th centuries with entries designated according to the "masruf / expenses" of individual people such as Mu'allam Muḥammad (l. 1v).

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• late ja
• list
• muhtasib

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Verso has Avraham al-Iskandrani and others. ENA NS 77.47 seems to be part of the same list.

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• charity
• communal
• list
• poverty
• recipients

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Document date

7 Muharram 1256 Hijrī (11 March 1840 CE)

List of monetary figures in Arabic from one Ibrāhīm Malikī in which one of the entries on the verso mentions the year 1256 AH and the date 7 Muharram, which is 1840 CE.

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• 19th c
• arabic script

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

On verso the names Yehuda and Abū l-Ṭāhir ("ṣāḥib . . .") also appear. Compare ENA NS 83.338 (PGPID 35567).

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• bialphabetic
• ib-addenda
• ib5

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Primary language

Arabic

On the verso, at ninety degrees to the original text, a later hand wrote a table of names in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, with one entry in Hebrew script possibly reading Natan b.

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Document date

Wednesday, 12 Shevat 5321 Anno Mundi (29 January 1561 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Yaʿaqov Toledano acknowledges that he owes his mother, Doña Masʿūda (the same as in ENA NS 49.20?), 40 large gold ducats, and he will repay them within 30 days whenever she asks.

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• perahim

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Document date

end of Tammuz 1421 Seleucid (21 June 1110–19 July 1110 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Bū l-Faḍl Ibn al-Hawārī concerning a debt of 15 dinars for which one of them had stood surety for Ḥusayn al-Ḥammāmī in a document drawn up in the Muslim court (wathīqa bi-l-muslimīn). Dated: end of Tammuz 1421 Seleucid = July 1110 CE. MRC/ASE

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Primary language

Hebrew

Fragment of an engagement contract concerning an esteemed family; five generations headed by a “grand mufti,” the highest juridical authority.

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• engagement

2 Transcriptions 2 Discussions

Primary language

Hebrew

Nahum al-Baradānī the cantor, enlist the Sicilian judge Maṣlīaḥ b. Elijah, in a claim against Hillel b.

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• 11th c

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