Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information from Gideon Bohak, The Sentencing of Jesus (Gzar-dina de-Yeshu), 25–29.) For the PGP entry on Gzar-dina de-Yeshu (recto), see: PGPID 41701.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Final third of Tammuz 5458 Anno Mundi (29 June 1698–8 July 1698 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Avraham Roditi may also have been Levi's father based on document entry #17 (PGPID 40956) under the same shelfmark.

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תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Soc., 2:330), but Gil reads it as communal matters: "He provokes quarrels within the congregation, demands special prerogatives in the prayer rote and engages in plots between the 'Palestinians' and the 'Babylonians'" (Gil, Palestine, sec. 805).

תגים

• communal
• daniel b. azarya
• eli b. amram

תעתוק אחד

Document date

Thursday, 22 Tammuz 5355 Anno Mundi (29 June 1595 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Signed by Moshe Ajiman (appears also in ENA NS 54.18 (PGPID 11384) and appears as a witness in T-S AS 146.129 (PGPID 21479)) and Hayyim al-Ashqar.

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תגים

• alexandria
• late synagogues

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Arabic

The main content of the petition seems to be about an ʿimāra (wa-yaḥtāṭ al-ʿimāra), the sender then seems to mention something about the cost/accounts (wa-yākhudh al-mawla bi-dafʿ al-ḥisābāt). The document ends with the raʾy claus: "al-ʾārā al-ʿāliyya zādahā allahu sharafan wa-yanfaʿu bihi".

תעתוק אחד

Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

The right column gives the commodity, the middle column gives the weight, and the left column gives the price in Greek/Coptic numerals. One of the entries is ‘daqq abyaḍ,’ a type of fine, white flour frequently used for preparing sweetmeats.

תגים

• list

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

10th Sivan 1410 Seleucid (2 June 1099 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Court record in the hand of Avraham b. Shemaʿya. Dated: End of Nisan, probably 1410 Seleucid, which is 1099 CE. […] (Information in part from Goitein’s index card.) Both entries are signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemu'el.

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Tevet 1493 Seleucid (December 1181 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

ENA 4011.29: Record of payments of the qodesh in Cairo, ca. […] Information from Goitein, Med. Soc., 2:455. ENA NS 28.15: List, an account of expenditures, by Abū al-Munajjā al-Zariz, including clothing the poor (140 dirhams), money for the children of the nasi, for payment to the acquaintance of the dayyan. | List or account in which the Kohen Abū al-Munajjā, surnamed al-Zariz, collector for the charitable foundations in New Cairo, turns in 100 dirhams that were used for the distribution of clothing, and an additional 50 that were spent on another approved charity.

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תגים

• account
• communal
• heqdesh
• qodesh
• waqf

3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ibn Abū l-ʿAysh said, "I would like to live to see the day that this would become defective," and there ensued a quarrel (jarat khuṭūb). They then checked "a thousand" cauldrons, large and small, and could not find any better than it.

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תגים

• business
• oil
• perfume

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

1140 CE

Should the partnership be terminated by either party before the end of the fixed period (which is not evident in the document, possibly due to deterioration), the terminating partner would be required to pay the other 50 dinars as an outright gift. If Abū al-Barakāt were to terminate the partnership prematurely, he would lose the entire amount putatively loaned to Abū al-Faraj, which was likely half his capital.

תגים

• partnership

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Arabic

List of indigent people equally divided between natives of the capital and residents originating from Alexandria, the Sharqiyya and Gharbiyya provinces, the villages around the capital (all entirely destitute), and towns such as Ashmum, Damietta, and Qūṣ. […] In the middle of the Ayyubid period, the high and intermediate rates were rounded down to 4 dīnārs and 2 dīnārs. Toward the end of the Ayyubid period, a flat rate of 2 dīnārs was introduced.

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תגים

• capitation tax
• list
• poverty

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Document date

First third of Shevat 1429 Seleucid (27 December 1117–7 January 1118 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe ha-Levi al-Jubaylī – once the partnership has ended. The partnership lasted three years, from January 1115 to January 1118, and its purpose was to export valuable items from Upper Egypt for resale in Yemen. The principal who retained Shelomo is eligible to collect from the entire partnership, which includes funds which Shelomo himself had placed with the partnership, acting as both principal and agent.

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תגים

• halfon b. menashshe
• ib7
• india book
• palestinian geonim
• partnership
• (+ 1 עוד)

6 תעתוקים תרגום אחד 2 דיונים

Inferred date

1446–1465 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

ʿalā faḍlikum) and mourns that the people of Alexandria have lost the science of intercalation, and requests that the addressee send him a calendar, starting with the upcoming Tishrei and extending to the end of mahzor 275. He sends regards to the addressee's wife, to his son Yehuda, and to Elazar Sofer.

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תגים

• 15th c

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

In the final three lines he gets to the point: "Please liberate my quarter-dinar and give me dirhams for it, and let half of them be small pieces, may I never be deprived of your life." This is the end. Somewhere in Mediterranean Society, Goitein discusses the scarcity of small change.

תגים

• change
• efrayim b. 'azaryahu

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Glued at top to a Judaeo-Arabic letter (see separate entry).

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תגים

• decree
• dimme
• handbook
• internal memorandum
• kharaj
• (+ 3 עוד)

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Document date

10 Kislev 5319 Anno Mundi (20 November 1558 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Dated: Thursday, 10 Kislev 5319 AM (חושה), which is 1558/59 CE.The partners Yehuda Castro and Namir Viryuti (? וריוטי) enter into a partnership for selling (ostrich) feathers (נוצה) in Venice.

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תגים

• muayyadi
• ostrich feather
• venice

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The letter contains instructions about money to be received and/or paid; mentions the army (al-ʿaskar); mentions Abū l-Maḥāsin and Abū Isḥāq. Toward the end of verso, the writer explains that he (or she?)

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תגים

• marriage
• trade

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Fatimid official report mentioning two messengers sent from the caliph (al-ḥaḍra al-ṭāhira) to Damascus and also mentioning the Banū Hilāl. Probable join with ENA 3907.6 identified by Alan Elbaum. The verso was reused for a distinctive Hebrew monumental inscription with a red/black border decoration.

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תגים

• banu hilal
• fatimid
• officials
• red and black border
• report
• (+ 1 עוד)

תעתוק אחד

Inferred date

1550–1650 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Gavizon was born to Sephardi refugees in Safed, he spent much of his career in Cairo. May be a join with ENA 3669.4. MCD.

תגים

• 16th or 17th c
• early modern

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Verso: Hebrew text; Pizmonist ( Similar hand as ENA 3714.5, T-S Ar.38.119, T-S NS 145.22, T-S Ar.42.186).

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תגים

• dimme
• fiscal

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

7 Elul 4839 Anno Mundi (8 August 1079 CE)

(NB: Friedman's book refers to the fragment as ENA 4101.36)

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תגים

• ketubba
• marriage

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Inferred date

1030–1030 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Furat; according to Rustow, in the same hand as ENA NS 13.15 (PGPID 36027) and T-S K25.244 (PGPID 1344).

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תגים

• copy
• dimme
• investiture
• lost archive
• petition
• (+ 1 עוד)

4 תעתוקים תרגום אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

At the bottom of verso there is a jotting with documentary value: "I borrowed from our rabbi ʿEli the w[ise] and the en[lightened] Kitāb al-Faṣīḥ [presumably the work by Thaʿlab] and a commentary on [...] by our rabbi [...]."

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Possibly the same handwriting as ENA NS 35.4. ASE.

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תגים

• late ja

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

In line 7, instead of Aodeh's "وقد يخصك السلام," read, "وقد دخل الحمام," yielding, "Your son is in good health; he has entered the bathhouse (i.e., he has recovered from his illness)."

תגים

• aodeh
• dimme
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: hammam
• (+ 2 עוד)

2 תעתוקים

Primary language

Arabic

Report or petition fragment, addressed to a higher state official regarding the matters in southern Upper Egypt, contains the taqbīl clause towards the end. The writer thanks the addressee for his benefactions and reports on a specific group of people who were consumed by greed and hence lost their decency.

תגים

• dimme
• taqbil

תעתוק אחד

Document date

Ḥeshvan 5562 Anno Mundi (8 October 1801–5 November 1801 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Location: Cairo. Dated: End of Heshvan, 5562 AM = October/November 1801 CE.

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תגים

• 19th c
• ben na'im

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

For a fragment that is potentially related in a similar scribal hand, see: ENA NS 53.15. MCD.

תגים

• 16th c or later
• ledger
• ottoman state

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yehuda who signed T-S 16.151 in 1130 as a teacher ('ha-Melammed') and in 1141 signed ENA 2558.3 as cantor; for teachers serving as both scribes and cantors see Goitein, Med.

אין רשומות קשורות

There are two columns in eastern Arabic numerals alongside detailed entries each beginning with a day of the week. Like many of the other list fragments in JRL SERIES C the left may possibly represent the coinage kuruş and the right "פצה" could indicate the smaller silver medin (the kuruş was minted as early as 1690 but did not reach wider circulation until 1703 CE).

תגים

• 18th or 19th c
• late ja
• list
• numismatic dating

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1700–1850 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Along the far left side of the recto Jerusalem is mentioned (l. 6r) and the coinage "metaqil / מתאקיל" which may indicate gold for prices connected to the items listed (given the mention of "וזן / weight" in the same entry: l. 16-17r). The same recordkeeping format continues onto the verso.

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תגים

• 18th or 19th c
• list
• mastic

אין רשומות קשורות