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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto with the address on verso: Letter from a man whose name is too faded to read, near al-Mahdiyya, to his 'brother' ʿArūs b. […] I am worn down: even the prosperous are worn down in al-Mahdiyya, how much the more an old man without property or someone to take pity on me (? […] The qinṭār of flax has arrived with Ibn al-Futūrī, may God reward all of you and preserve your son for you."

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דיון אחד

Document date

1094–1111 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Seʿadya after he became known as] Sar ha-Sarim. Involves Yehuda b. Faḍlān; [...] b. Moshe known as Ibn ʿUṣfūra; and several members of the Ibn al-Shuwaykiyya family, including Meshullam [b. […] Needs further examination. See also T-S 13J37.9 + T-S AS 146.157 + T-S 10J5.13 (PGPID 3022) and T-S 20.30 (PGPID 16149). All need further examination. Join: Oded Zinger.

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דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abu'l-Bayan, one of the prominent parnasim of this period, leases an apartment, which is in a tabaqa, i.e. an upper floor, to a certain Abu'l-Fadl. The apartment is in Dar al-Zajjaj, one of the compounds owned by the qodesh. […] In fact, this must be understood as Makarim and Ibn Sahlan, since they are listed separately in accounts of rent, where they pay five dirhams a month each, the same sum of rent that Abu'l-Fadl, the new tenant, will have to pay. Abu'l-Bayan, the representative of the qodesh, cannot be one of the parties in the concluding formula which says "from each of the two," since he represents the court.

תגים

• account
• heqdesh
• qodesh
• waqf

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Document date

410 Kharājī (9 May 1019–26 April 1020 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Begins with blessings upon the reigning caliph (al-Ẓāhir). May relate to an inheritance; discusses agricultural matters. Mentions units of land expressed in faddān as well as sugarcane fields (qaṣab). The document has been reused for a piyyūt related to the Tefīllat Geshem, the "Prayer for Rain" recited on Shemini ʿAṣeret.

תגים

• dimme
• fatimid
• to edit

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Faded. Chastising the addressee for something (it is not entirely clear what). "That which you did, an enemy wouldn't even do it to himself. Yā subḥān Allāh... family... they come and eat... people... you feared for yourself that you couldn't appear..."

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

ʿEli releases any debt owed to her by Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Abū l-Bishr Shelomo al-Bazzāz or by his brother Abū l-Faḍl. The case involves an inheritance somehow.

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דיון אחד

Document date

Middle decade of Elul 1432 Seleucid (27 August 1121–7 September 1121 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: Middle decade of Elul 1432 Seleucid, which is 1121 CE. Abū l-Faḍl Shela ha-Levi Ibn al-Baṣrī was engaged in a partnership with Abū l-Mufaḍḍal Netanel ha-Sar, and after Netanel's death the partnership was dissolved, and Netanel' daughters (Sitt al-Khāṣṣa, Sitt al-Kamāl, and Sitt al-Karam) issued a release to Shela. Also signed by Yaḥyā b. Shemuel. (Information from CUDL.)

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

While he was doing business in silk in Alexandria, his partners had sold a donkey and a mule and swindled him, however, he chose not to bring the case to court. […] Mentions Abu l-Ḥasan, Abu l-Fadl, Zikri, Zikri’s nephew, and Ḥasan the messenger.

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תגים

• halfon-addenda
• ib-addenda
• ib4
• nar

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer conveys longing for the addressee (reports about people who are so overcome by weeping that they cannot be recognized) and reports that his wife and Ismāʿīl and Bū Surūr and Mufaḍḍal are all well. Regards from his father and brother and 'the students' (al-talāmidha). Regards to a certain ḥakīm (this seems more likely than ḥarīm/harem) and to Abū l-Faḍl and his wife. (Information in part from CUDL.)

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Begging letter to a cantor together with the refusal in reply, mentioning Abū l-Faḍāʾil. (Information from CUDL.) (This is not quite clear; it appears that everything here was written by the same scribe, albeit with different pens.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: note in Hebrew from a certain Evyatar, who says he followed the order to come to a certain place, and he came this morning but he could not wait around all day. Verso: End of a Judaeo-Arabic note or letter, mentioning the elder Abū l-Faḍāʾil.

תעתוק אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

On verso mentions the hope that something will sell; the dīwān; a funduq; Abū Zikrī; and travel to al-Shām (written in the margin, very faded).

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Tishrei 7th 1421 Seleucid (3 September 1109 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Husband: Ḥasan b. Hiba. Wife: Fāḍila bt. Ḥusayn. Also signed by Berakhot b. Shela ha-Kohen (this might be a different person than the Berakhot b. […] On verso there is confirmation of receipt. On verso there are also accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals listing items such as lemon syrup (murammal laymūn sāʾil) and mastic.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1168–1204 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Petition from Hibatallāh b. Bū l-Faḍl Ibn al-Shofeṭ to Moshe Maimonides. Dating: ca. 1180 CE or generally 1168–1204, based on the years Maimonides was active in Egypt. The sender complains concerning a part of the revenue of the house of Ibn Pinḥas in Fustat, which had been allocated to him some time before. The petition is written in a very flowery and flattering style, in which besides biblical phrases there are also some more original figures of speech.

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תגים

• 12th c
• legal query
• maimonides
• responsum

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Document date

1 Ḥeshvan 1450 Seleucid (8 October 1138 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document(s). Very faded/damaged. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. […] A court record for a release given by Sitt al-Nasab bt. Yūsuf. Probably involving her husband and support he provided while away. There is another document on the other side of the fragment, also involving Sitt al-Nasab and mentioning her husband ʿAmram b.

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דיון אחד

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Addressed to Abū Ṭāhir Barakāt b. ʿAlīal-Baghdādī. The layout is somewhat unusual. It opens with blessings and longing and mentions the passing of time (not a person named Mar al-Zamān). Mentions a woman who has died (raḍiya Allāh ʿanhā). Mentions Abū l-Faḍl R. Maṣliaḥ. The last words in the upper margin are 'they have taken the money/property.'

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto describes a house, its features, and its location: al-qāʿa al-muʿallaqa... khazānatayn... al-ṣaṭḥ al-ʿālī... mā bayna salālim hādhihi l-qāʿa... al-khashab al-kharṭ al-dāʾir... al-ḥāra al-maʿrūfa.... […] A house (perhaps one of the boundaries) was previously known by the name of Abū l-Surūr, subsequently by the name of Abū l-Faḍl Sahl, and probably ultimately by the name of [...] Ismāʿīl al-Isrā'īlī.

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תגים

• halfon b. menashshe

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The letter may describe the violent disciplining of a girl, and the writer says it is all the addressee's fault. There is some sort of dispute involving the house that is located in darb silsilat al-ṣulṭāniyya, its original door, Ibn al-Raṣṣāṣ, and 600 dirhams. The continuation on verso is rather faded but includes the line, "I am oppressed." In a diffferent hand and ink, there is a note mentioning baskets containing materia medica (or materials for a drug shop, ḥawā'ij ʿiṭr).

תגים

• violence

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Mubārak b. Hiba al-Waṣīṭī to Abū Saʿd and Abū l-Faḍl b. Abū l-Baqāʾ al-ʿAjamī. […] The sender may be identical with Mevorakh b. Natan ha-Kohen al-Waṣiṭī from T-S 13J30.2 (dated 1146 CE). The portion of the letter preserved here mostly contains polite epistolary formulae.

דיון אחד

Document date

21 July 1042–19 August 1042 CE

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Perhaps the date is Seleucid (1+2+50+300= [1]353 Sel.?). In Judaeo-Arabic. Al-Shaykh al-Fakhr Mūsā b. Hārūn al-Shāmī takes an oath that he will not leave(?) […] Witnesses: מכטרה (?) ʿAbd al-Wāḥid Ibn Fayrūz, Farajallāh b. Yosef b. Fāḍil. There is also a potentially third witness signature in Arabic script.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

It describes the houses and apartments in a particular street darb al-Sadu[...], mentioning the house of the company of Abū l-Faḍāʾil, Ibn al-Qallād, Ḥus[ayn] b. Nathan, Umm Shām, the apartment of ʿAlīal-Labbān, apartments of Christians, the apartment of the silk trader (al-qazzāz), upper storey and lower storey of Bahrām and Sulaymān, the ‘big market’ and several shops (dukkān). On both sides of the leaf there is also unidentified Arabic script. F. 1v: in a different hand, list of ‘the business of our master’; with receipts from the Christian tax collector, expenditures and prices.

תגים

• tax

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

19 Muḥarram 808 Hijrī (17 July 1405 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The document on the right begins with a petition-like formula "asʾal marāḥim al-ḥaḍra", probably a letter of appeal. Has a date towards the end which mentions the year [.]88, but part of it is faded out.

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תגים

• dimme

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

742 Hijrī (17 June 1341–5 June 1342 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: 742 AH ("לישמעאל"), which is 1341/42 CE. Very faded and barely legible. Mentions numerous people including Yosef b. [...], a woman, Nāṣir b. [...]. The Arabic script on verso may be pen trials (the word al-shaykh appears several times).

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment addressed "to the esteemed members of the holy community who live in [...]." The paper is almost entirely preserved, but the text is nearly too faded to read.

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דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List and accounts mentioning the names of Muslim months, personal names such as Abū l-Surūr al-Levi, Abū l-Munā and Abū l-Faḍl Sar ha-Leviyim, various sums of money, commodities and Hebrew numerals.

תגים

• account
• list

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Tuesday, 8 Rajab 657 Hijrī (1 July 1259 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The deceased is Saʿdiyya bt. Yūsuf al-Yahūdi. Her father, Yūsuf, is the heir. Dated: Tuesday, 8 Rajab 657 AH, which is 1 July 1259 CE. Witnesses: Hibatallāh b. Faḍāʾil; Bū Saʿd b. Yūsuf b. Sālim. (Information from CUDL and Khan.)

תגים

• death
• inheritance
• report of death

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: No earlier than 1425 CE, based on the mention of the ashrafī coin– which was first minted under Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay in this year. Conveys interesting details about misfortunes and financial transactions, faded but mostly legible.

תגים

• numismatic dating

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer asks for tidings of the Nagid Abū l-Ḥ[asan?]. Abū l-Faḍl told the writer that he had sent some dinars and some wax to the writer with a certain judge. The wax is to be given to Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm Ibn al-Iskandarānī.

תעתוק אחד

Document date

4977 Anno Mundi (15 September 1216–3 September 1217 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Very damaged and faded. Recto: Possibly a legal document or a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. […] It refers to "the breaking of the seal of the chest/storehouse of books" (bi-fakk khatm khizānat al-kutub). The context is missing.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Peraḥya to an unidentified addressee or addressees (the address is too faded to read). Possibly addressed to a group of pietists. […] Only the upper part of recto is preserved, and all the content here is formulaic. (Information from Goitein's index cards and CUDL.)

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions: papers (awrāq), riqāʿ, the judge Menaḥem and the son of the judge (Ibn al-Dayyan); dodder (aftīmūn); Ibn Abū l-Zakkār; business transactions; R. Elʿazar; something related to gallnuts (מנאב אלעפץ); pine resin (ʿilk ṣanawbar); and Bū l-Faḍl b. Miṣbāḥ.

תגים

• shelomo b. eliyyahu

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Legal document (unfinished draft) concerning a financial agreement between Ibrahim b. Abū l-Faḍl and Abū l-Ḥasan b. Abū l-ʿAlā. (Information in part from CUDL.)

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תגים

• 13th c

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts with Hebrew numerals (with the < symbol standing for 1/2). Names include Abū l-Faḍl, Maḥāsin; Mufaḍḍal, Makārim al-Khāmī and his partner; Bū Saʿd b.

תגים

• account

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The sender's name is probably too faded to read. Opens with many eloquent expressions of praise and longing. […] On verso there is an alphabetical exercise. (Information in part from CUDL)

אין רשומות קשורות