Documents

Primary language

Arabic

Involves lavender and licorice and a few other ingredients. The diet should be cooked pullet (farrūj maṣlūq/maslūq).

תגים

• prescription

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Short note instructing the addressee to investigate the inheritance left by Abu Nasr b. Banin, who died in Minya. In the hand of Avraham Maimonides.

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תגים

• avraham maimonides autograph
• informal note

תעתוק אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The lower entry on ENA 2862.1v provides instructions for dealing with a "būnduqī", possibly a Venetian gold coin, but the scribe could have also intended "hazlenut."

תגים

• cmp

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: Probably 19th century, and ca. 1808–39 CE if the maḥmūdī mentioned is the gold coin minted under Maḥmūd II (1808–39). Several other currencies and commercial goods are mentioned.

תגים

• numismatic dating

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated 16 Dhu l-Qaʿda __45 AH, which could be 1145 or 1245 given the mention of Ottoman kurush coinage throughout the accounts (1733 or 1830 CE).

תגים

• 18th or 19th c
• numismatic dating

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Given the mention of Ottoman qurush, with the recurring ق symbol, the year is likely 1141 or 1241 (the coin was not minted until 1690 CE). At least two names are mentioned in ll. 1-2: Isḥaq Kr..l and al-Ḥajj Sulaymān al-Makkawī.

תגים

• dimme
• numismatic dating

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Responsum of Hai Gaʾon; discussion of the dietary laws in Aramaic and Judaeo-Arabic; poem יודעי יגוני by Judah ha-Levi.

תגים

• responsum

אין רשומות קשורות

Prayer for the community at the time of a plague, and memorial list of persons who had died in it, including an unmarried girl. (Information from Goitein's index card.)

תגים

• epidemic
• memorial
• prayer

דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In addition he was robbed of everything by robbers near the village. He died a few weeks later, in Av. One of his two wives and the daughter of the other died also.

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• 11th c
• communal
• eli b. yahya
• fayyum
• illness
• (+ 7 עוד)

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Commercial letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1100 CE (Goitein's and Frenkel's estimate). No address. Sent to a "brother." Probably sent from Fustat to Alexandria (though …

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2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yedutun’s father, Levi he-Ḥaver, died on the 24th of Tishrei in 1211. His brother, Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, died on the 20th of Adar in 1212. (This is consistent with the information from T-S NS 264.98, a letter written by Moshe, indicating that both Moshe and Levi were alive in 1206.) We also learn that Abu l-Mufaddal the judge died in 1212, only a month or so following the death of Moshe.

תגים

• abu sahl levi
• funeral
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: chronic
• (+ 5 עוד)

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Small fragment from a letter, reporting that the sister (or other female relative) of the writer has died, as well as someone named Ḥabība. (Information in part from CUDL)

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Part of a rabbinic text concerning clean animals and dietary prohibitions. Recto also contains part of an Arabic document, possibly the beginning of a letter.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Shemuel has received a letter informing him that his brother Abū l-Faḍl died in one of the villages of the Egyptian Rīf. Shemuel has no further information—which village, how he died, whether naturally or killed by Bedouins ('bādiya'), where he is buried, and in whose possession are the goods/money (apparently substantial) that Abū l-Faḍl had with him at the time of his death. […] There is the customary urging of a rapid response so that an old woman can be consoled before she dies of grief. ASE

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תגים

• aleppo
• grief
• jerusalem
• lost corpse
• threatening to die

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

21 Shevat 5492 Anno Mundi (17 February 1732 CE)

On the recto, a variety of Ottoman coinage types are mentioned such as funduqli, medin, and cinzirli.

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תגים

• 18th c
• alpalas
• ladino
• list
• to examine

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Its amount in weighed coin [...] dinars, half of that being 25 dinars.

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תגים

• arabic address
• nahray b. nissim
• suftaja
• trade

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On the recto quantities of coinage in Ottoman cedid are listed as well as goods such as wax and eggs.

תגים

• late ja
• list
• muhtasib

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1808–1900 CE

Accounts related to various coinage types such as gold mahmudiye and kuruş thaqīl (heavy kuruş).

תגים

• 19th c
• numismatic dating

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

Reporting on a terrible tragedy in which a thousand people died. Ed. Ben Sasson in his article in Gil's Festschrift.

תגים

• disaster

דיון אחד

Primary language

Arabic

"wa-yuṣaffā ʿalā ūqīyyatayn sharāb"). The diet recommended at the end is something boiled and seasoned with sweet almond oil.

תגים

• dimme

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe, acting as power of attorney for his wife Banat, daughter of Abu al-Rida. Abu al-Rida died in a shipwreck on his way from Mahdiyya to Spain, and has left two daughters. […] Shemuel, but Musfir insists the two were not in partnership when Abu el-Rida died. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, vol. 4, pp. 667-669, #824, and CUDL).

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תגים

• 11th c
• draft
• partnership
• testimony

3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

He reports someone's testimony that she was 5 days old when al-Muʿaẓẓam died (likely al-Muʿaẓẓam ʿĪsā, who died in 1227 CE); her paternal uncle swears to this.

תגים

• responsum

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Goitein there are comments added to the list (‘died,' 'absent’). Before a comprehensive distribution of wheat, communal officials scrutinized the list from the preceding distribution and made a note. of changes in circumstance, such as deaths, changes in economic situation, and departures. […] B 25, 29, 31, 32, 33, since 3 people mentioned there are listed here as having died. (Information from Mediterranean Society II, pp. 457-458, App.

תגים

• charity
• communal
• poverty
• recipients
• wheat

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

But then the devil led the father astray to take a second wife, who gave birth to a son named Evyatar and two daughters "of different religions" (?!). One of the girls died; Shelomo accuses his half-brother, Evyatar, of trying to sleep with the remaining sister; both Evyatar and the remaining sister died; and now Shelomo is writing this hymn of gratitude to God for liberating him from his wicked half-siblings.

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תגים

• autobiography
• ib7
• incest
• india book
• polygyny
• (+ 3 עוד)

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Ladino

Letter in Ladino signed by David Levi Mondolfo, who may be identical with the relatively well-documented man of the same name who was born in Trieste in 1797 and died outside Treviso in 1864.

תגים

• 19th c
• ladino
• mondolfo

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

Avraham and to a physician informing them that some people had died. In Hebrew (very late). 15th-16th century. (Information from Goitein's index cards)

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תגים

• 15th or 16th c
• physician

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

12th Kislev 1411 Seleucid (28 November 1099 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Memorandum of testimony concerning the legacy of a certain Isma'il al-'Azazi al-Halabi, who died in Acre, written in Fustat, Kislev 1411/November 1099.

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תגים

• inheritance
• testimony

תעתוק אחד

Inferred date

28 November 1062–28 November 1062 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He visited Jerusalem, and had the time to manage trading, as he bought textile products, oil, nuts, and silk, and arranged shipments of coins. The writer also mentions the bad times in Egypt and the pressure that the community in Tripoli, Libya, is having because of the taxes.

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תגים

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: chills
• illness: du'f
• illness: fever
• (+ 10 עוד)

2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים דיון אחד

Inferred date

1400–1600 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The currency of the monetary values may be implied by "fiḍḍa" (perhaps the late-Mamlūk and early Ottoman medin) but this usage could also refer more broadly to an unnamed type of silver coinage that was in use for these payments. MCD.

תגים

• 15th or 16th c
• qadi

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Judaeo-Arabic, Ladino

Accounts and calculations in Ladino, sixteenth-century (based on the paleography and post-1497 coinage in neighboring shelfmark). A variety of individuals are referenced along the right border of the page: Amato (אמאטו), Meyuḥas (מיוחס), and "the Judge" (אלחכים) in Judaeo-Arabic.

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תגים

• 16th c
• numismatic dating

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Thursday 26 Iyyar 5306 Anno Mundi (28 April 1546 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Currency: Peraḥim (Venetian ducats or another gold coin of similar value/weight). Shelomo b. Yeshuʿa aka גלטא sells the shop where he sells wood to a certain Moshe(?).

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תגים

• 16th c
• late heb
• wood

תעתוק אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The date might be identifiable based on the years in which Kislev coincided with al-Muḥarram. (Information in part from CUDL)

אין רשומות קשורות

Just below the heading there are three columns that are each labeled with terms for coinage types, listed here in order of clarity: "ʿatīq", "jadīd", and "būndūqī" (l.4r). While the first two labels may indicate a variety of possible monetary types– for example "jadīd" may be a copper or gold coin of Ottoman Egypt also attested in T-S AS 204.214 – "būndūqī" is most likely a reference to Venetian gold ducats or their imitations that were minted under the Mamluk and Ottoman sultanates.

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1

תגים

• list

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1425–1600 CE

Given that gold sharifi coinage is in use, the fragment was drawn up post-1425 CE. […] All of these terms "weight / וזן", "value / קאים", and "price / סער" appear throughout the verso and on occasion verbal constructions with the root "צרפ / صرف" (l. 8r, 16r) appear that imply value calculations perhaps into "silver / פצה[?]" coinage (l. 13r). All of these figures are expressed alphanumerically.

תגים

• list
• numismatic dating

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Some phrases: 'manzūʿ al-ʿajam' (l-4), 'muṣaffā ʿalā'' (l-5), and fī niṣf mithqāl' (l-6). Diet: chicken. Recto is blank.

תגים

• prescription

אין רשומות קשורות