Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In the same hand, on verso, there is a story about 10 (people?) who encountered a Bedouin in the streets who had a cow worth 100 dirhams and who may have tried to sell it for 8 dinars.

תגים

• glyph

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Jumādā I 434 Hijrī (17 December 1042–15 January 1043 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Strip of parchment from the end of a deed of sale, preserving the date: Jumādā I 434 AH = December 1042 / January 1043 CE.

תגים

• dimme

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Arabic

The addressee is asked to 'enter' (Damietta? Fustat?) for a time, until somebody else can be found to monitor the writer's affairs.

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תגים

• arabic script

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

11 Shaʿbān 885 Hijrī (16 October 1480 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

There is a Judaeo-Arabic filing note in the upper right corner. Two of the entries on verso are dated: Shaʿbān 885 H. Needs further examination

תגים

• filing note
• tasaduq
• to examine

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

In Hebrew. It is not entirely clear how this relates to the letter on verso.

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תגים

• early modern

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Literary tale in Arabic script, containing a racy story involving an old woman as go-between who proposes that "I'll take the man to a dark house, and you'll enter and have your way with him...." (احضر هذا الشخص ونجعله في بيت مظلم وتدخلي اليه تقضي منه ما تحتاجيه).

תגים

• sex

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Muḥarram 468 Hijrī (16 August 1075–14 September 1075 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The left side contains two subsequent entries. Needs further examination.

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1

תגים

• to examine

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1500–1547 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Only the first line of the letter is preserved as well as the end of four marginal lines. For another letter addressed to Avraham Shānjī, see: CUL Or.1080 J193 (PGPID 8910).

תגים

• 16th c

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Perhaps containing detailed orders of payment--consists almost entirely of sums of money and begins with the word "yaṣil."

תגים

• arabic script
• informal note
• ruq'a

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Snakeskin is good both against hemorrhoids and for enhancing your vision.

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). One entry is a deed of sale for a house which mentions Qaṣr al-Rūm, Kanīsat al-Rūm, Ḥammām al-Faʾr, Masjid al-Ḥājja, and Turmus St.

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1

תגים

• halfon b. menashshe

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Greetings to the sender's mother-in-law. At the end, "my longing for you is a fire that scorches... the heart from the intensity of the pain."

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The fiancee's name may be Turfa, but not enough is preserved to be certain. See T-S 13J3.13 (PGPID 7967) for a list of related documents.

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1

תגים

• hikr

דיון אחד

Document date

5 Tishrei 5329 Anno Mundi (27 September 1568 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The year can be inferred as such because the entry immediately following it on the same page is dated: 8 Tishrei 5329 AM.

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תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He brings up a man named Isma'il from al-Mahallah, known as Ibn al-Mu'allim; at the end he encourages the recipient to treat this Isma'il well, because he is poor and a stranger and from a good family.

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1

תגים

• moshe b. levi

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Arabic

He mentions that he has personally sent two boats with his own goods, and requests protection for them: "I would like the Ikshīl to ensure that nobody obstructs them and that nobody diminishes what is rightly theirs."

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2

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1

תגים

• qasr ibrim

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Document date

29 Ramaḍān 684 Hijrī (28 November 1285 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

On recto it is described how the amīr Shams al-Dīn Tuquz bought the entire house from Muḥāsin b. Hibba b. Thābit the Jew, his brother Abū al-Izz, and their three sisters. […] These notes and the fact that the document was preserved by the Karaite community suggest that the house was later endowed to the Qaraite community.

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1

דיון אחד

Primary language

Aramaic

Makhlūf Ibn ʿAyn Sārra is known from numerous documents from the India trade spanning the period 1103 (T-S 12.392) to 1141 (ENA 4020.8)—see Goitein, Med Soc V, p. 246f. This document is from the earlier end of that range, as it was validated by Ṣadoq b.

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1

תגים

• ib-addenda
• ib6

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Partially vocalized; long and short lines alternate; short lines have same rhyme syllable. Verso: Mostly or entirely in the same hand, various text blocks of private accounts in Arabic. […] ; a payment for the capitation tax (jizya); a payment for guests (aḍyāf); a receipt of rental paymnet "for the new house"); something to do with the emptying (ikhlā) of the "original house"; purchases of various clothing items; various "papers" (kāghad) in some cases containing other items; two entries for payments made "while ill" (fī ḥāl al-maraḍ) and possibly a mention of young chickens (farrūj, the traditional fare of a convalescent).

תגים

• booklist
• illness

תעתוק אחד

Primary languages

Judaeo-Arabic, Judaeo-Armenian

On recto, there are two lines of what was originally an enormous decree; only ~3 words from the ends of the lines are currently preserved (يستكمل... ؟؟؟ لاموال).

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender reports that he spoke on the addressee's behalf to Mubārak Ibn Diqlāṣ prior to the latter's travel to Yemen and there ensued a fight between them. It seems that the sender was unable to collect a debt due to lacking a power of attorney (ומא כאן בידי [וכאלה או?]

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1

תגים

• halfon b. menashshe
• ib-addenda
• india book unedited
• to edit

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

11 Av 5484 Anno Mundi (31 July 1724 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

They were charged 23 אלטס en route in Ramle, and they said, "Our peqid in Jerusalem will pay for us." […] If someone objects that the Qaraites of Damascus should cover this expense, (the answer is not entirely clear; something is very bad in Damascus, and one cannot even walk in the roads).

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3

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

27 Elul 5324 Anno Mundi (4 September 1564 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There are additional notes below this court record related to the same case, comprising an unfinished draft of the next entry in the register record #68, where another debt, of 100 [ashrafī] jadīd, is listed with a two-month repayment period that ends in Ḥeshvan (right before the one described here in record #67 is set to begin at 3 ashrafī per month).

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106

תגים

• sarraf

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic, ending with a ḥasbala in Arabic script (left upper margin).

תגים

• sicily

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1775–1825 CE

Dating: c. 1785–1825 CE, based on the active dates and mention of the scribe/judge Meʾīr Ben-Naʿīm– but likely earlier in this range given that his father Shalom is still alive/referenced. With entries naming dozens of people, arranged in a curiously alphabetical way, with sections devoted to orphans and wives and daughters and divorcees.

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1

תגים

• 18th c
• gabela
• late prosopography

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions: al-Shaykh al-ʿAfīf; Tripoli (presumably the Syrian one); that the addressee must not delay; al-Shaykh al-ʿAfīf again; Ṣamṣām al-Dawla; Rashīd; and that the addressee should honor the sender with his errands. Ends with a ḥasbala. Reused on verso for Hebrew literary text in the hand of ʿEli b.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

There is then a word with a horizontal bar spanning an entire line (wa-kutiba?), and the next line is tricky to make out.

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1

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

(Compare AIU IV.C.453, T-S NS 243.75a, T-S NS 198.61, ENA 2886.1–7, T-S NS 71.64, T-S NS 198.61, T-S 8H22.18, Moss.

תגים

• fiscal register

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

1 Adar 5443 Anno Mundi (27 February 1683 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

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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1

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תעתוק אחד