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Primary language

Arabic

Petition from the wife of Ṭayyib b. Musallam al-ʿIblānī, a Khaybarī Jew, to the caliph al-Mustanṣir (r. 1036–94), seeking the restitution of money taken from her or from her husband, who is missing (?) […] T-S K6.98, T-S Ar. 42.129, T-S NS 306.70, T-S AS 124.135, T-S AS 182.251, T-S AS 202.396”); Khan, “Historical Development,” 20, 24–25 (reading of raʾy clause); Khan, ALAD, 311n27, 314n39. Ed. Marina Rustow, with suggestions from Alan Elbaum and Luke Yarbrough.

תעתוק אחד

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

Most of the text on these fragments is scribal practice of biblical verses in a beautiful square hand. There are also two earlier uses: (1) on recto, several lines and text blocks of Arabic text on recto. […] Sahl" (i.e., Avraham b. Yashar al-Tustarī, who died in 1047). (2) several lines of Hebrew poetry with wide line spacing containing praises and blessings for a dignitary who is "the son of a Rosh Kalla, and Nasi." Join: Alan Elbaum. There are good prospects for further joins.

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• arabic reused

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions the letter (or epistle) of Rabbenu ha-Dayyan, sent with R. Shemuel al-Qazwīnī; something which the sender previously sent last year; the arrival of Abū Saʿd; and a shipment of 100 mithqāls of musk. […] (later mentions that it should be spent on renovations); and 2 mithqāls each to the four elders (al-mashāʾikh) Ibn al-ʿAkkāwī, [...], Ibn Alqāsh, and the judge Menashshe.

תגים

• ib-addenda
• musk
• to examine

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

is to give 5 dirhams to the relative of the rabbi from Toledo (al-Rav al-Ṭulayṭulī). Cf. T-S K25.240.19. T-S K25.240 consists of small written orders, partly in Hebrew and partly in Arabic script, for monthly payments, made out of the rent-revenue from the pious foundation (waqf) 'Compound of the Poor' or from the pious foundation made by the physician al-Muhadhdhab. All dated orders are from spring and summer, 1218.

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תגים

• account
• heqdesh
• qodesh
• waqf

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Majd is to give the bearer, Seʿadya al-Nazir, who is sick, 5 dirhams from the waqf of al-Muhadhdhab. T-S K25.240 consists of small written orders, partly in Hebrew and partly in Arabic script, for monthly payments, made out of the rent-revenue from the pious foundation (waqf) 'Compound of the Poor' or from the pious foundation made by the physician al-Muhadhdhab. All dated orders are from spring and summer, 1218.

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תגים

• account
• heqdesh
• medical charity
• qodesh
• tax
• (+ 1 עוד)

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Majd is to give 2 dirhams to Seʿadya al-Nazir from the waqf of al-Muhadhdhab. T-S K25.240 consists of small written orders, partly in Hebrew and partly in Arabic script, for monthly payments, made out of the rent-revenue from the pious foundation (waqf) 'Compound of the Poor' or from the pious foundation made by the physician al-Muhadhdhab. All dated orders are from spring and summer, 1218.

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תגים

• account
• heqdesh
• qodesh
• tax
• waqf

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Abu l-Majd is to give the bearer, al-Shaykh al-Rashīd, some sum. T-S K25.240 consists of small written orders, partly in Hebrew and partly in Arabic script, for monthly payments, made out of the rent-revenue from the pious foundation (waqf) 'Compound of the Poor' or from the pious foundation made by the physician al-Muhadhdhab. All dated orders are from spring and summer, 1218.

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תגים

• account
• heqdesh
• qodesh
• tax
• waqf

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1164–1197 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Can they recoup the early marriage payment that was already paid? On verso is the full responsum in the hand of Shemuel b. ʿEli, answering that whatever was already paid is like a deposit and does not belong to the bride until the wedding, so she must return it. […] Information from Ashur dissertation and FGP description. See also Goitein's note card.

תגים

• babylonian geonim
• marriage payment
• responsum
• shemuel b. eli

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

At the bottom is another note mentioning a payment to dīwān al-majlis al-[...]. Needs further examination. There is also one line of Hebrew, added later.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Addressed to Fuḍayla (פוצילא), in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: late, probably ca. 15th–17th century. Includes greetings at the beginning from Umm Ḥaṣriyya (אום חצרייא) and Ḥaṣriyya; also the addressee's brother-in-law, Yūsuf, and Umm Yūsuf, and Ḥanna, and Yehuda.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Abū l-Khayr b. ʿAwāḍ, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. […] Furthermore, “the tax-gatherers (ḥushshār, “ralliers”) and the director of the jaliya (ṣāḥib al-jawālī) are not to be blamed; all this is entirely the work of the Jews.”

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תגים

• capitation tax
• jaliya
• jizya
• nahray b. nissim
• tax
• (+ 1 עוד)

2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים

Primary language

Hebrew

The handwriting of T-S NS 108.78 was identified by Amir Ashur and the joins were identified by Alan Elbaum. T-S NS 108.78: The first poem at the top of verso is a panegyric for Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan. All of the poems on this page contain the acrostic אברהמ or אברהמ חזק, indicating that that Avraham Ibn Yijū was the poet and not only the scribe. […] T-S H11.37: On both recto and verso the first letters of the verses spell out the same acrostic with the name אברהמ. See also T-S H11.4 (PGPID 41718).

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תגים

• ib-addenda
• ib3

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38) to 'my master the diadem' (al-nezer). There were a few people bearing this title, including Natan b. […] Ḥalfon is asking the addressee to provide him the name (ism) of Abū ʿAlīAl-Baʿalbakī the cousin of [...]. Mentions 'his father the paternal uncle of Salmān.' Ḥalfon is apparently trying to draw up a legal document but is lacking the name of this Abū ʿAlī "with which he absolved him" (אלדי פטרה פיה).

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תגים

• halfon b. menashshe

תעתוק אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Marḥab, in Aden, to Abū l-ʿAlā b. Abū Naṣr ha-Kohen, probably in Fustat. In Hebrew (for the introduction) and Judaeo-Arabic (for the body). Dating: mid-12th century. Abū l-ʿAlā’s father is dead, indicated not only by the usual post-mortem blessing after his name (זכ׳׳ל) but also the Hebrew חיי before his name.

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תגים

• ib6
• india book

2 תעתוקים

Primary language

Hebrew

Ḥananya (l. 1) "when he was in a ship [awaiting a favorable wind in Alexan]dria" (חין כאן פי מרכב, l. 1). The portion preserved here consists of poetic blessings and praises in Hebrew. He reports that upon the arrival of Shemuʾel's letter, "it quieted the storm and soothed the waves of the sea," which is metaphorical but also fits with the idea that he wrote this letter while in a ship (about to set sail?).

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דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yehuda," but this appears to be erroneous. Recto also contains a letter draft in the hand of Avraham b. […] Mentions several names: Tiqva; Shibl; [...] b. Abū Naṣr [...]; Ibn al-Abzāriyya; Ibn al-Qābila; Sālim; [...] ha-Kohen b.

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תגים

• 12th c
• account
• hikr
• qodesh

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender adds that he examined "the documents" (al-masāṭīr) and found them "nice and effective" (milāḥ nāfiʿa). […] The sender plans to take al-Muhadhdhab Abu Saʿīd with him, which he hopes will appease the Rayyis. The sender mentions the addressee's letter to the Rayyis and also assures him that the Rayyis thinks well of him.

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Note in Arabic script from Bū Saʿd Ibn al-Dayyān(?) to a woman. The words כשני עדים כשרים נאמנת are written in Hebrew. […] Sitt Ṣalaf, "Lady Inaccessible," appears also in Med. Soc, II, 432, sec. 162 = T-S Misc.25.129 (thirteenth century), but our note seems to belong to the eleventh century. There is also a Sitt Ṣalaf greeted in T-S NS 264.99.

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תגים

• bialphabetic

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Thursday, 23 Shevat 1406 Seleucid (1 February 1095 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shelomo b. David (known as al-Dustarī) claimed 70 dinars from Benayya b. Moshe, of which he had received back only a part, the rest being paid in installments by Yaʿaqov/Yaʿqūb the dyer and Yaʿaqov/Yaʿqūb al-Ḥarīrī. […] This document was drawn up following the termination and settlement of a commenda. Shelomo b. David al-Dustarī was allocated ten dinars and change, five dinars and one qirāṭ to be paid immediately by Benayya. The balance was to be collected by Shelomo b. David al-Dustarī, acting as an agent to collect on debts owed to Benayya by both of the Yaʿaqov/Yaʿqūbs.

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תגים

• commenda
• mudaraba
• partnership
• power of attorney

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

All clothing and provisions of wheat and wine hoarded in the house of the writer's maternal uncle were plundered; even the rope of the well was taken way. […] The meaning of ʿṬY is not clear; khazm is also not clear, but comes from a root referring to piercing, sometimes nose piercing. The term hinbāzīn/הנבאזין/هنبازين (appears also in T-S 8J22.30 (PGPID 3671)) is apparently known from Coptic martyrologies (according to some sources deriving from Greek ἑρμητάριον < Latin armentarium < Armentarius, the nickname of the emperor Galerius Maximianus); see https://st-takla.org/Coptic-Faith-Creed-Dogma/Coptic-Rite-n-Ritual-Taks-Al-Kanisa/Dictionary-of-Coptic-Ritual-Terms/9-Coptic-Terminology_Heh-Waw-Yeh/henbazeen.html and Phillips Barry, "Martyrs' Milk" (1914) (https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Open_Court/VuoXAQAAIAAJ?

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תגים

• state
• torture

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

10 Shaʿbān [no year] Hijrī

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

From this partnership there have survived orders of payments to Khiyār ranging from 1¼ to 100 dinars between 1138 and 1141. In four columns, all crossed out with a vertical stroke probably indicating that the accounts were settled or transferred to al-daftar al-kabīr, the ledger referred to in other accounts that are similarly crossed out. […] The account shows among other things how many payments — even in dirhams — were made by book transfer. It also shows that Abū Zikrī, despite his position in the community of merchants, refrained from making overdrafts. He also avoidedd letting his money sit and deposited payments immediately.

תגים

• ib5
• india book

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Document date

16 Sivan 1394 Seleucid (5 June 1083 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

David b. [...] makes a declaration concerning the parnas Mevorakh called Segulat ha-Parnasim (appears also in T-S NS 225.99 (PGPID 24239)) and Avraham b. Yaʿaqov and the goods which he shipped to al-Mahdiyya the previous year. Probably a join with T-S AS 148.206 (PGPID 16400).

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אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Thursday, 6 Adar 4996 Anno Mundi (14 February 1236 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Location: Probably Alexandria, since Goitein identifies the handwriting as belonging to the teacher Yehuda b. Aharon Ibn al-ʿAmmānī. One of the entries is dated: Thursday, 6 Adar [4800 +] 196 = 4996 AM = 14 February 1236 CE.

תגים

• register

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Quittance or bill of release (barāʾa) from Almeria, in al-Andalus, confirmed in Egypt. Individuals mentioned include […] b. al-Naḡara, Ḥalfon ha-Levi, Yiṣḥaq b.

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תגים

• almeria
• halfon-addenda
• ib-addenda
• ib4
• release
• (+ 1 עוד)

תעתוק אחד 2 תרגומים 2 דיונים

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions people such as al-Kohen al-Nā'ib; Yehoṣadaq ha-Kohen; an elder who is blind (sagi nahor); Ibn Yaḥyā; a fine owed to the governor (wālī al-ḥarb); a certain Ṣedaqa; and a Nasi.

תגים

• synagogue conflict
• to edit
• yedutun ha-levi

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

On verso: "The reason for this haste in this correspondence is that I have hired (passage) and am coming down tomorrow God willing." Also on verso, at 90 degrees, in a different hand: names in Judaeo-Arabic along with mention of various animals and agricultural goods.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Alms distribution list. In Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. […] Characteristic names: ʿAbd al-Karīm, ʿAbd al-Dāʾim, Nāṣir, Naṣrallāh. Beneath the names on verso: "The women - 3.

דיון אחד

Inferred date

1500–1800 CE

List of alphanumerical "expenses / מצרופ" where the Ottoman silver "guruş / גרוש" may be in use but is also possible that "גרוש" is a shorthand for European silver coins.

תגים

• list
• numismatic dating

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

على سبيل الشركة الشرعية ....) between Yūnus b. al-Ḥājj b. ʿAbd al-Qādir and Yūsuf b. al-Ḥājj. Mentions the district of Sindiyūn (near Qalyūb).

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Refers to the difficult situation of a woman (or a female entity) this year, and mentions administrative terms such as nawāḥī, dīwān, ḥukm al-majlis. The script seems to be quasi-chancery, and the phenomenon of the stacking of baselines, and the official terminologies suggests that it may be an official correspondence written in a letter format. Also contains the standard report and petition formulaic "yunhī".

תגים

• dimme

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Narrow space between the lines on one side (this part mentions a fortress/qalʿa), wide space between the lines on the other (this part addresses somebody as "al-jināb al-ʿāl" and mentions his iḥsān and ṣadaqāt).

תגים

• to edit

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Agreement made by Abu al-Faraj Yaʿaqov b. Avraham b. Allan with his business partner Efrayim b. Ismail al-Jawhari, who takes care of his commercial interests in the Maghreb, containing details about the partner's wage and the goods.

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תגים

• efrayim b. shemarya
• partnership

3 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Document date

1 Shevat 5578 Anno Mundi (8 January 1818 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Avraham ha-Kohen טרייקלי is "rebellious" (moredet) against her husband Yosef Castile, and she therefore forfeits her right to her ketubba or any alimony. The deed was scribed by Meʾīr b. Shalōm Ben-Naʿīm who also served as witness.

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תגים

• 19th c
• marital dispute

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter sent from the mother of Abū l-ʿIzz (Alexandria) to her son Abū l-ʿIzz b. Bishr in the shop of Abū l-Riḍā ibn al-Lebdi (Fustat).

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2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The partnership is to last one year and the parties include a woman named Sirwa -- who is to receive a third of all profits -- and a man named Tamīm al-Kohen al-Zayyāt(?).

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Thursday, 10 Iyyar 1446 Seleucid (25 April 1135 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shelomo ha-Kohen, documenting that Abū Naṣr al-ʿAṭṭār received from the court 19 triple-weave (muthallath) garments, as set forth in the conditions, on Thursday, 10 Iyyar 1446 Seleucid = 25 April 1135 CE, in Fusṭāṭ, in the presence of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Ṣāliḥ the brother of Ṣedaqa the deceased. Signed also by Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen (=Abū Zikrī?).

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תגים

• druggist
• recipients

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

The addressee is asked to intercede with Rabbenu Aharon he-Ḥaver, possibly to allow the sender to go up to the 'dukhan' in the synagogue and lift his hands (i.e., for the priestly blessing) (לעלות לדוכן ולשאת את כפיו). […] going down before the ark and the sender being ashamed (וירד לפני התיבה ובשתי). Also mentions the evening prayer (ʿaravit).

אין רשומות קשורות