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Document date

Rabīʿ II 873 Hijrī (19 October 1468–16 November 1468 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The document involves Umm ʿAbd al-Karīm who came to the house of ʿAbd al-Laṭīf and asked him to 'come and open this chest.' She then says something about Shemuel the nephew (sister's son) of ʿAbd al-Laṭīf, and something about if her son is "suitable for reading" (in ṣalaḥa ibnī lil-qirāʾa). ʿAbd al-Laṭīf then says something about an oath he had made, including "by this house" and "by the Torah."

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Document date

10-20 Shaʿbān 448 Hijrī (October 1056–November 1056 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Ṣemaḥ the money-changer buys part of a house in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ in Fustat from his uncle Dāwūd b. Ṣemaḥ the indigo dealer. The house abuts the former church of St Michael, the oven of al-Jalāl, and the house of Maymūn b. Dāwūd. Dated 10–20 Shaʿbān 448 (October-November 1056 CE). […] It is unusual that the document is written on a bifolio; it may be a court copy, which would also explain what seems to be an archival annotation on verso summarizing the document (which Khan deciphers in part but doesn't discuss).

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תגים

• bill of sale
• house
• indigo
• money-changer
• qadi court
• (+ 2 עוד)

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

"O my lord, Abū l-Makārim b. Sitt Ziyāda b. al-Shaykh al-Talmid Abū l-Riḍā sued me (akhṣamanī) regarding my maternal aunt." […] Sitt Ziyāda is known from at least one other document, where he is also identified by the name of his mother rather than father.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Abū al-Riḍa, in Qūṣ, to Abū Zikrī, in Fustat, c/o the sugar factory (maṭbakh) of Abū al-Maʿānī. […] The issue involves the wife (bayt) of Ibn Qasāsa and Abū Saʿd al-ʿAṭṭār, who calls himself Shaykh al-Yahūd. The sender complains several times about his illness and poverty (and therefore his inability to resolve the issue). He tells the addressee not to send letters to the shop of Abū Saʿd, because Abū Saʿd always reads them before passing them on to the addressee.

תגים

• family drama
• forum shopping
• ghulam
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• (+ 3 עוד)

דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Statement in Judaeo-Arabic that a list of two, apparently newly acquired books should be "recorded on a memorandum (tunqal ilā tadhkira)" and brought to Fustat. (1) From someone known as the tile layer (al-Muballiṭ): Kitāb al-Istikmāl fī l-Handasa (by Ibn Hūd al-Muʾtaman, king of Saragossa between 1081 and 1085; see Ahmed Djebbar's EI3 article on him and on this treatise); (2) from Abū Saʿd: a book on 'mufradāt' and their properties (on medical simples? […] The text underneath and in the margin appears to be unrelated, except insofar as the marginal text is about geometry—would be worth comparing to Kitāb al-Istikmāl to see if it matches. Dating: probably 12th or 13th century. Written on the back of the opening page of a literary work on the special properties of stones attributed to Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb b. ʿImrān al-Mutaṭabbib. There is an odd aphorism or verse of poetry in the upper margin of recto: . . . .

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• book trade
• mathematics
• tadhkira

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions an agreement with Abū Isḥāq; liberating some money or goods from "that which they have taken this time," especially two volumes from the owner (or author?) of Dār al-Gharb(?). But the sender has been unsuccessful. Mentions a book called Taṭrīz al-Khiṭāb wa-Sharḥ al-Ṭalab, and refers to a copy in the sender's own hand that occupies five volumes (wa-dhālika awwalan al-nusakh al-mansūkha khams ajzāʾ); the material is parchment, and the value is 15 dinars.

תגים

• al-tustari
• book trade
• katib
• oath
• qaraite

תעתוק אחד

Document date

14 May 1140 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He stayed in ʿAydhāb for a time before traveling further south (he wrote this letter after boarding the ship in ʿAydhāb). In the interim he already sent one letter to Ḥalfon and received one letter in response. The present letter asks Ḥalfon to help the bearer, a fellow man of Sijilmāsa, with some mercantile matters. Yiṣḥaq also reports on (and curses) two Jews who reported him to the government in ʿAydhāb, claiming that he cheated on customs dues for some coral. One of the accusers later drowned. On verso there are also several lines of piyyuṭ. (Information from India Book 4)

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• coral
• customs
• ib4
• ib6
• india book
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2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

(It is not immediately clear if all this is for the same marriage vs. distinct marriages.) […] Yefet ha-Levi and the bride Sitt al-[...]. A note at 90 degrees reads, "The wedding of the son of the Rayyis, Monday 10 Nisan 145[6?]." […] Verso of fol. 2 contains the beginning of a draft of a ketubba drawn up under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel. b. Ḥananya. There are also some large, ornate red letters and a few words in Arabic script.

תגים

• trousseau
• wedding

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

Levi ha-Levi to a distinguished physician also named Moshe (but probably not Maimonides because Moshe b. […] Levi became embarrassed by all the trouble Dr. Moshe went to on his behalf, so he ran away. He also complains that he could not find any water with which to wash his hands.

תגים

• book trade
• maimonides
• moshe b. levi

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Adar II–Nisan 1339 Seleucid (1028 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Record #3 (fol. 2r): Maḥfūẓ b. Yiṣḥaq al-ʿAzāzī (i.e., from ʿAzāz, north of Aleppo) sues Yosef b. […] "Long story short: they compromised at 1/2 dinar." 1/4 is to be paid now and 1/4 at the time of 'travel' (i.e., when they are next together). #5 (also on fol. 2v): Mubāraka bt. Ḥātim ha-Kohen sues Abū Yaʿaqov Yosef b.

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דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Qirqas who left her to travel three and a half years ago. That was prior to al-Afḍal's siege of Alexandria in 1094. The daughter was then ill two years while the mother used her dowry (רחלהא) for nursing her in her illness and for the burial when she died. It has recently become known that Yosef was killed in Nastaro (an island between Damietta and Alexandria), and his cousin claimed his estate—which was non-existent.

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תגים

• 11th c
• al-malik al-afdal (1094-1121)
• communal
• funeral
• illness
• (+ 8 עוד)

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Shevaṭ 1450 Seleucid (4 January 1139–2 February 1139 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Contains an interesting use of the syntagm al-sūq al-kabīr and sūq al-kabīr, the second time without the definite article on the noun, a construction on which there is a large linguistic literature; see most recently Naʿama Pat-El, "Digging up archaic features: Neo-Arabic and comparative Semitics inthe quest for Proto Arabic," in A. Al-Jallad (ed.), Arabic in Semitic: Celebrating 400 Years of Arabic at Leiden University," 441–75 (444–49), and Phillip Stokes, "gahwat al-murra: the N + DEF-ADJ syntagm and the *at > ah shift in Arabic 1," BSOAS 83 (2020): 75–93.

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תגים

• bill of sale
• real estate

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Last third of Sivan 1461 Seleucid (18 June 1150–26 June 1150 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentioning various names, some multiple times, including: Ṣedaqa; Hiba al-Maḥallī; Abū l-Riḍā Ibn al-Tinnīsī; Ṣāfī; al-Ashmūnī, al-ʿAsqalānī, and Sulaym Ibn al-Raḥbī.

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תגים

• power of attorney

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shelomo's arm (dhirāʿ) has started to heal from an injury. Eliyyahu should also bring with him Shelomo's tax receipts (al-wuṣūlāt alladhī lī) because the tax officials arrested him but let him go when he said he was registered as a Shāmī (Levantine). […] Greetings from Abū l-Thanāʾ and from "al-ṣaghīra" (possibly Shelomo's wife) and from the community.

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תגים

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• personal

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Letter from Abū Manṣūr al-Fakhr al-Mutaṭabbib (the physician). In Arabic script. Addressed to Abū al-Faraj, with elaborate honorifics. The sender reports on the execution of the addressee's instructions and refers to the dispatch of correspondence through his servant, including letters to Alexandria and to the official in charge (mutawallī) of Fusṭāṭ.

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תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

She was happy to hear of the successful childbirth (khalāṣ) of Umm Abū l-Ḥasan (likely the addressee's wife) and sends blessings. She alludes to suffering at the hands of Ibn Ḥātim. There follow more allusions to arguments and rumors of arguments. She refers to the talk of a wife (zawja) or wedding (zīja) and blames the servant (ghulām) of the elder Yaʿaqov, who writes to him (probably Ibn Ḥātim) claiming that the addressee insults him and calls him 'al-fāʿil al-ṣāniʿ' (cf. ENA 4010.7 + ENA NS 19.14 (PGPID 6784) and T-S AS 169.292 + T-S AS 169.291 + T-S AS 169.294 + T-S NS 220.29 (PGPID 36211)). […] Join: Alan Elbaum.

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• arabic address
• childbirth
• crying
• diwan al-kharaj
• earthquake
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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Memorial lists for al-ʿAṣṣār and the judge (al-Dayyān) Shelomo. (Information from Goitein’s index card)

דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The neighboring shelfmark ENA 3807.8 may also be legal.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to Abu al-Ḥasan Ali b. Ishaq, dealing with business affairs.

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• trade

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Hebrew or Judaeo-Arabic. Late. There is also the beginning of a legal deed (zikhron ʿedut) concerning a rental.

תגים

• list

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions arriving in Alexandria and meeting with somebody, and possibly a boat.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. "AllāhAllāh. . . [My heart] was in the fire until [your letter] arrived. . . ."

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

In Arabic script. Bilāl al-[...] instructs Abū ʿAlī to pay the bearer 113(?)

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions Alexandria.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Maybe from ʿAbdallāh b. al-Ḥasan to Abū l-ʿAlāʾ.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter mentioning Alexandria, ca. 15th-16th century. Mentions. R. Khalīfa.

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• 15th or 16th c

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Draft of the beginning of alegal document. Involves a woman named [...]ini bt. [...].

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Probably a legal document. Mentions Abū l-ʿAlā Ibn al-Sh[...]. (Information from CUDL)

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Verso (original use): remnant of an official Arabic document. Mentions "to al-Dār al-Saʿīda in Fustat."

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תגים

• account

אין רשומות קשורות