Documents

Primary language

Arabic

Verso, and possibly also the Arabic script on recto: Elaborate medical prescription(s) in Arabic script.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Legal document: bill of sale for a slave. See also Perry's annotated edition of T-S18J1.17.

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תגים

• dimme
• lost archive

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recipes in Judaeo-Arabic attributed to Sayyidnā Dā'ūd al-Faqīh, possibly alchemical. Needs examination.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentioning an 'Istanbuli' good. There are also several geomancy castings.

תגים

• geomancy
• late arabic script

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

Psalms 34:14-23 with a חזק at the end. In the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī.

תגים

• nasir

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Efrayim b. Sulaymān to [Abū] ʿAlīal-Kohen. (Information from CUDL)

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Small fragment of a state document mentioning the amīr Abū ʿAlīal-Ḥusayn b. ʿUmar.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to [...] al-Kohen al-Ḥaver. Only conventional content is preserved.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Small fragment with a few lines in Judaeo-Arabic (al-kubarā'... tilmīdhuhu... al-khayr kulluhu).

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Lots of minute fragments from different manuscripts, almostall are from legal documents or letters.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information from CUDL.) Might also be a literary discussion, maybe calendrical.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Small fragment containing Judaeo-Arabic poetry in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī.

תגים

• nasir

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Mentions many names, including Sitt al-Bayt and 'the house of al-Fāris.'

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Accounts, Mamluk-era? Mentions al-ṭ[...]khāna and "al-isṭabla" (the stable). Needs examination.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Fiscal account, probably. One header reads "al-aʿmāl al-Fayyūmiyya." Needs examination.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, Arabic, and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions al-Naṣrānī and al-Dalāṣī.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Small fragment from a late family letter, sending regards to some people and mentioning Alexandria.

תגים

• alexandria
• late ja

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Accounts in Arabic script, arranged in columns. Also some Hebrew pen trials. Needs examination.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment from Abū Manṣūr, in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Only the closing greetings are preserved.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(At another point in the letter he mentions a place called Wādī al-ʿUlayqāt and a traveling companion named Ṣāliḥ al-ʿUlayqī.) The same group had come in the night and killed the kāshif, and 15 Turks had fled, "and they plundered all of the documents." The next part of the letter deals with 3 gold coins that the addressees are supposed to collect in Fustat/Cairo, and also various commodities, some of which the sender sent with Muḥammad al-Babarī. […] He mentions someone named al-rayyis/al-amir Samāʿīn. He wants Suʿūd and ʿAbd al-Karīm to come see visit him in Zarnīkh, quickly.

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תגים

• turks
• violence
• war

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Fragment of a petition or report probably to the vizier (ḥaḍrat al-wizāra... al-wazīr al-ajall... ). From the upper left corner; the ends of 9 lines are preserved.

תעתוק אחד

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.

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Thursday, 4 Ṭevet 1453 Seleucid (4 December 1141 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The items include safflower (ʿuṣfur) and indigo (nīl). Also mentions ʿAmīd al-Dawla. (Information in part from Goitein's index card.)

תגים

• inheritance
• testimony

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Account book of Yeshuaʿ b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmūrī containing payment orders. Dating: ca. 1048 (Gil). (Information from Gil) NB: in l. 11 below, it is probably better to read "ilā l-Qāḍī al-Qulzum" (the qāḍī of the Red Sea) instead of al-Qalūs (information from Oded Zinger).

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תגים

• account

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Mūsā b. Abī al-Ḥayy, from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat.

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תגים

• nahray b. nissim
• trade

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to Eliyyahu concerning the thirty-dirham balance of the capitation tax (jizya) owed by Abu al-Makarim, who is in great need of it because he is under house arrest, guarded by the hashir (rallier). The addressee is asked to arrange to collect money at the congratulation reception (wedding) of either Ibn al-Muzaghlil ('The Dazzler') or that of Bu al-Barakat.

תגים

• capitation tax
• communal
• jaliya
• jizya
• petition
• (+ 1 עוד)

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Dhu l-Qaʿda 1013 Hijrī (21 March 1605–19 April 1605 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic dated as [Dhu] al-Qa'da 1013 AH which is 1605 CE: "אל קעדה ס[נת] יג ואלפ", further down the recto the year [5]364 AM is also mentioned (1603/1604 CE).

תגים

• 17th c
• silk

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Receipt mainly in Arabic script issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen (وكتب يهودا بن يوسف). The name ʿAlī b. Khālid appears in Hebrew characters in the upper left corner, and the name Yehuda in Hebrew characters appears in the middle of the Arabic text of the document. […] On verso the names Yehuda and Abū l-Ṭāhir ("ṣāḥib . . .") also appear. Compare ENA NS 83.338 (PGPID 35567).

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תגים

• bialphabetic
• ib-addenda
• ib5

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Confirms the receipt of various good: al-shuqqa al-maqṣūr for a woman, which arrived with ʿImrān [...] al-Tilimsānī; something for Abū l-Munā, perhaps the biqyār and the dinar mentioned in the next line; something which was lost, but there is nothing that can be done about that.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Small fragment, probably from a legal document, mentioning Sanīy al-Dawla. Someone of the same title is mentioned in several other mid-12-century documents. […] The present document may also be in the hand of Abū Naṣr.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Decrees that the rituals be carried out according to the tradition 'wa-an yakūn al-ʿamal bi l-rusūm' and mentions 'al-dawla al-sharīfa'.

תגים

• dimme

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Middle decade of Sivan 1552 Seleucid (22 May 1241–31 May 1241 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Deed of sale in which Sitt al-Ikhwa bt. Futūḥ known as Ibn Zabqala sells to her brother 1/8 of a house belonging to her in Alexandria for nine dinars.

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תגים

• alexandria
• bill of sale
• real estate

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

“You have received from Muhammad al-Shami 1-1/6 for the price (‘an qimat) of the 40 dirhams that he borrowed from me.” Also mentions a clay vessel (barniyya) with melted butter; Egypt, twelfth century.

תגים

• trade

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1213–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Instruction by Avraham Maimonides (ha-Nagid, l. 4v) to a scribe to make out a declaration that the court of Fustat had acceded to a ban pronounced against Evyatar al-Kohen al-Amidi in another country. Avraham Maimonides' years of service with the title "Nagid" support an inferred date range estimate of 1213–1237 CE (he bore the title Rayyis al-Yahūd from 1205–1237 CE).

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תגים

• avraham maimonides

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

Blessings and greetings are also bestowed on El'azar and Shelomo. It is dated תשרי [...]ז and closes with the 'alama ישע רב.

תעתוק אחד

Document date

Monday, 14 Adar I 1464 Seleucid (10 February 1153 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mikhaʾel sells a little house in Fustat, one half of which belonged to him and the other to his daughter, the wife of Hiba al-Shammash (the beadle) to the water carrier (al-saqqāʾ) Ibrāhīm b. […] On verso there are Arabic alphabet writing exercises.

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תגים

• bill of sale
• real estate

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abu Nasr had been travelling, alongside others on a ship belonging to Abū Zikrī. The writer calls himself ʿabd, which probably denotes an actual slave. The letter also conveys business requests and greetings. (Information from Goitein's index cards and CUDL)

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תגים

• business
• sea voyage

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ṭoviyyahu), a recently appointed judge in al-Mahalla and Sammanūd, to Shemuel the cantor, praising the community for their regular attendance at the synagogue service and for coming to him rather than going to the Muslim court to solve their legal problems. (See also Mediterranean Society, II, 193, 203, 401, 563, 401, and V, 603, and Goitein's index cards)

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תגים

• communal
• islamic court

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to Abū ʿImrān in which the writer, a perfumer and judge in Minyat Zifta, describes repairs to the local synagogue along with news of other matters. The writer also notes payment of capitation tax at the rate of 2 dinars.

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תגים

• aodeh
• capitation tax
• jaliya
• tax

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mevasser b. Naḥum, a judge of Alexandria, to Abū al-Ḥasan Surūr b. Ḥayyim in Fustat, dealing with family and public matters.

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תגים

• alexandria
• dispute

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List of the names of the masters of wind, rain, and fire who have dominion in the four seasons of the year, presumably useful for magic or astrology. It says you must also know how to invoke the master of the sky, of hidden things, of treasures, and of seeds, and of Mars, and of the other stars. […] In the margin in a different hand is written 'Abd 'Alī b. Gharb Sittī wa-ahl bint Sitt [. ASE.

תגים

• astrology
• magic

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Some of the items listed include: ḥallūmī cheese, almonds, sulfur, Alexandrian wax, carob, dining plates, soap, silk, pepper, cinnamon, olive oil, among many others.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Twice mentions the Berbers (البربر) who are in the area of Abshīsh (ابشيش) in the Delta, the Berber town Marmājanna in Ifrīqiya, and possibly Nuqayṭa (mentioned in the document is Minyat Abī Nuqayṭa. Also mentions "the villages/estates of the tax officials" (ḍiyāʿ al-ʿāmilīn).

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תעתוק אחד