Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender seems to be complaining that the addressee did not inform him about the price of saffron; he heard that it is going for "10 per mann." There is none in "al-thaghr" (probably Alexandria). Excerpts: באן לם תערפני איש . . .

תגים

• saffron

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document settling a dispute between Abū l-Faraj and Abū l-ʿAlāʾ ʿUlla b. Yosef ha-Levi, the well known parnas in Fustat (dated documents 1084–1117), regarding shops of the former. […] ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE); also signed by Shelomo b. Yosef Av. Fols. 1v–2: account of expenditures

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2

תעתוק אחד

Document date

25 Sivan 1444 Seleucid (31 May 1133 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Groom: Ghālib b. Ḥalfon. Bride: Sitt al-Ḥusn bt. Berakhot. Marriage payments: 20 + 40 = 60 dinars. Followed by jottings of Greek/Coptic numerals, possibly the sum of the value of the dowry. Also followed by a medical recipe/prescription in Arabic script.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Business letter from Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi b. Simḥa al-Nīsābūrī to the parnas ʿŪlla ha-Levi recommending a young Jewish man and describing him as being very good at kattan work, including the scutching and hatcheling of flax. Also mentions the silk market and prices. (S. D.

תגים

• flax
• kattan
• nisaburi
• silk
• trade

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Document date

[13]19 Seleucid (1107–1108 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Part of a decorated ketubba. Location: Aleppo. Bride: [...] bt. Menaḥem. Groom: unnamed. […] Verso contains letters of the Hebrew alphabet. (Information in part from CUDL and Goitein's index card.)

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דיון אחד

David (Hebrew name Shemarya) to a man referred to by his titles (al-Muwaffaq, Amīn (al-Dawla), al-Saʿīd). Aden, 1202.

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תגים

• calendar

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions items such as mastic, costus, wax, the goods of Ibn Ṭībān, pure tartar, kohl, storax, flax. Also mentions al-ʿAfṣī. At the end mentions further business transactions including the rent of a boat and dealings in pepper and copper.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

A few words from the same poems are also written out in Arabic on the page on the right, along with other jottings and crossed-out lines in Arabic.

תגים

• arabic poetry

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

It may even be signed אלממלוך ר אברהם but is very messy, so it is hard to say. A request from Fakhr al-Dawla Abū (Ibn?) al-Fakhr to help Abū Naṣr al-Kātib with the price of Nāṣiriyya silver and of gold.

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1

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

, including the line "we do not consent to your being a messenger, from your first actions the end was already clear." Also quotes Proverbs 26:11 ("As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his folly").

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from an unidentified sender (Shelomo b. Eliyyahu?) to al-Shaykh al-Ṣafiyy. The addressee is asked to "give this paper" (another letter that was originally enclosed?) to Sayyidnā al-Nagid (likely Avraham Maimonides). The sender is in unspecified distress of some kind.

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1

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Addressed to (or mentioning) someone associated with the Yeshiva (al-ḥaḍra al-ajalliyya al-mathībiyya). The sender mentions his difficulty with handwriting (אנני קציר אלכט).

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

"From that: the property of Sitt al-Munā... Nāshiya... [the dīwān of?] mosques (al-jawāmiʿ wa-l-masājid)...." There follows a detailed description of a property and its location. The only other Sitt al-Munā in PGP or Goitein's index cards is the widow of Nahray b.

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1

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Hard to tell if it is a state document, a mercantile document, or both. Refers to "al-ḥujaj al-sāmiya," a quantity in Egyptian qinṭārs, and a shipment by Shams al-Dawla(?).

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

, Ḥamad b. Ḥaydar(?), ʿAlī b. Mūsā, ʿUmar b. [...], ʿAlīal-[...]

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Many names listed, including: Ismāʿīl; Abū l-Ḥasan al-ʿAsqalānī; Sayf b. ʿAlī; Ẓāfir; Sumʿān; Avraham; Abū Bakr b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān; Qāsim b. Khiḍr; Abū l-[...] b. Yosef.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List of 57 names, in some cases indicating their profession (many are physicians, also common are pharmacists, silk merchants, and silk weavers and dyers), beginning with ‘Abū Naṣr ibn Dāwūd and his father’. Among the names listed (line 7) there is Dāʾūd ibn al-Rayyīs, possibly the son of the Nagid Abraham Maimonides and grandson of Maimonides.

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דיון אחד

Watchmen are engaged during the building operations; also an army officer, amir, is mentioned, and negotiations which were going on, al-Askar, the location of the government offices near Fustat.

תגים

• 13th c
• account
• coptic numerals
• heqdesh
• qodesh
• (+ 1 עוד)

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Bifolio of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic with western Arabic numerals and Hebrew alphanumerals. 16th- or 17th-century based on the paleography and layout. A variety of individuals and groups are listed, such as: Muṣtafa Çavuş, ʿAlī Hersek Çavuş, Muḥammad Çavuş, and "al-ṣayarīf" (the ṣarrāfs).

תגים

• 16th or 17th c
• ottoman

אין רשומות קשורות

Letter from Barhūn b. Ṣāliḥ al-Tāhartī, in Barqa to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. […] It seems that after his stay in Alexandria, Barhūn traveled to Barqa. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, #329) VMR

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2

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3

תגים

• trade

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions names such as Abū Zikrī al-Ṭabīb; Abū Zikrī Ibn Sughmār; Makhlūf; Yiṣḥāq; Ḥassūn b. Yaḥyā Hiba; Wahb al-Mawṣilī; Abū ʿImrān Mūsā b. Nissim; Ibn al-Sukkarī.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

The ends of three lines are preserved. "... bi-l-istiʿmālāt al-mubāraka... wa-ʿarrafanā ijtihādaka... al-maḥmūl ʿaynan wa-l-aṣnāf...." […] In between the lines there is additional Arabic text in much smaller letters possibly mentioning the districts around Aswān (fī l-nawāḥi al-aswāniyya). On verso there is piyyut.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Yosef Ibn al-Ashqar to 'the officials of the treasury.' In Hebrew. […] Concerning a wikāla containing multiple apartments and an effort to stop somebody from buying out more than half of it. On the sender, see also ENA NS I.17 (PGPID 12278) and ENA 2607.25 (PGPID 12400).

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender blames a third party, Yosef al-Sabuni, for slandering him. He also sends an account and complains that he does not have enough money for processing (beating flax) and packaging his goods.

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1

תגים

• flax
• ibn awkal
• trade

3 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He/she asks for news and mentions a young woman (al-ṣabiyya) and something to do with "going out." Regards to the whole family and to the neighbors, and to Abū l-Faraj and his wife. There is also something to do with Eliyya and a dirham.

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Shevat 1437 Seleucid (28 December 1125–26 January 1126 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Appears to be the settlement of a marital dispute between Yūsuf and Sitt al-Ahl. Dating: Mentions the date Shevat 1437 Seleucid, which is 1125/26 CE. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. See also the description for T-S NS 320.57 + ENA 2386.4, which is related.

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1

תגים

• halfon b. menashshe
• marital dispute

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

One of the recipients is called only "majnūna" ("a madwoman"); there is also Bint Qulqās; Bint Salmūna; and [...] al-Andalusiyya.

תגים

• charity
• illness: mental

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A letter of recommendation poor man who has debts and must pay the capitation tax. Menaḥem also promises to send the quires (karārīs) as soon as he has finished writing them. "As for the capitation tax, it is said that it will not be demanded from the poor, who may obtain for it a rescript from the government (khaṭṭ al-sulṭān)." ASE.

תגים

• capitation tax
• jaliya
• lor
• tax

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Natan b. Nahray from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat.

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2

תגים

• nahray b. nissim
• trade

3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Natan b. Nahray from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat.

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2

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1

תגים

• nahray b. nissim
• trade

3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Diagrams, text, and calculations of an astrological/astronomical nature, perhaps also magical. Arabic, late.

תגים

• astrology
• astronomy
• late arabic script
• magic

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Verso: Draft of the opening lines of ʿAlī b. ʿĪsā's Tadhkirat al-Kaḥḥālīn. ASE

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תעתוק אחד

Accounts or sums in Greek/Coptic numerals (no words). There is also some literary text in Hebrew.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

In Arabic script. There are also a couple lines of sums in Greek/Coptic numerals.

תגים

• arabic poetry

אין רשומות קשורות

Fragment of a letter from Alexandria to Fustat. The recipient was ill when the writer departed Fustat.

תגים

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Possibly one line of a state document. ""al-[...] bi-waliyy wulāt al-[...] ... istiḥqāq...""

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Legal document in Arabic script. Mentions a perfumer (al-ʿaṭṭār) and a jeweler (al-jawharī)

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, headed al-muʿallim Ibrāhīm al-[...].

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Literary text, probably medical. Mentions "al-zībaq al-aḥmar" red mercury.

תגים

• dimme

אין רשומות קשורות