Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to the judge R. Yeshuʿa in Fustat. […] May God deal with her as she has acted. She separated me from my son. […] do not listen to her, for [or: claiming that] she will come to Syria (Bilād al-Shām). For she has broken me and exhausted me, behaving like an idiot (taballadat) in the land (fī l-balad).

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תגים

• damascus

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

147[5] Seleucid (31 August 1163–18 September 1164 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The document itself is dated 147[5] Seleucid, which is 1164 CE, under the authority of the Head of the Jews the Gaon Netanel ha-Levi. Following the end of the document (after Mevorakh's elaborate signature in ENA 4011.23), there are multiple addenda in which the orphan confirms sums received. The note in the margin states that he received one payment of 8 dinars in Shevaṭ 1478 Seleucid, which is December 1166 / January 1167 CE. (Information in part from Mediterranean Society, III, 296, 492.) […] To add to the confusion, the current ENA 4011.22 is an unrelated legal document also in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan.

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts of the bookseller. People mentioned: Ibn al-Daqqāq, (al-)Sadīd, and Bayān Ibn al-Ḥalabī. See also the description for the whole notebook Bodl. MS heb. f 22/19–52 (PGPID 33686).

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דיון אחד

Document date

Middle Shevat 1489 Seleucid (January 1178 CE)

Beginning of a deposition about the payment of debts in a transaction involving a pledge of four books. […] (Information from Goitein's index cards and Mediterranean Society, I, pp. 259, 465)

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Elaborate Arabic calligraphy and designs in red and black ink (block print?), along with additional text (all poetry?) in Arabic script, Judaeo-Arabic, and Hebrew (on verso). The medallion in the middle contains a fish. Join: Athina Pfeiffer.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List of payments to different people. Mentions the death of somebody (all these payments may be related to the aftermath of the death); Masʿūd; the cantors and teacher; and "my passage to Damascus."

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1

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

last third of Ḥeshvan 1441 Seleucid (5 November 1129–14 November 1129 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: transfer of the debtdetailed on recto. Dated: last third of Ḥeshvan 1441 Seleucid = November 1129 CE, under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon. […] Shemuel he-Ḥaver, and Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Both recto and verso are in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. (Information from CUDL.)

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

30 Tishrei 1351 Seleucid (21 October 1039 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document. Location: Cairo. Dated: end of Tishrei 1351 Seleucid (October 1039 CE). […] Isḥāq b. Meʾir in New Cairo, when the latter declared that the cantor Khalaf b. […] Shemarya, Avraham b. Mevasser and Yefet b. David. Goitein suggests that the Khalaf b.

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1

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1

תגים

• efrayim b. shemarya
• partnership
• yefet b. david

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Document date

5570 Anno Mundi (11 September 1809–28 September 1810 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Engagement deed, badly damaged. Dated in the lower right corner as (5)570AM ה)תק׳׳ע). Lavishly decorated with yellow and green floral designs in the margin. […] Dating: 16th–19th century. Currencies: medin; real. The groom and his father are listed as residents of Cairo (תושבי מצרים), which may provide a clue that this document may have been drawn up elsewhere (otherwise we would expect תושבי פה מצרים).

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דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

India Book III, 52: Letter from Peraḥya b. Yosef Yijū, in al-Maḥalla, to Abū l-Fakhr Saadya b. […] Peraḥya conveys his happiness to have learned that the family members of Abū l-Fakhr who had been sick are now recovered (and for this reason opens the letter with Deut. 7:15, "The Lord will ward off from you all sickness"). […] He writes that he would like to travel to Sicily or Damascus {al-Shām}, but since 'the little one' (his cousin and wife, Sitt al-Dār) was grown up and "had no one in the world except God" (that is, her father was dead), he could not do this. Peraḥya thanks Abū l-Fakhr for his generosity with his brother Shemuel, and he urges him to help convince Shemuel to come to Peraḥya's town, where the congregation will accept him as a schoolteacher with a salary of 20 dirhams a week plus gratuities (nawāfil), a generous salary for a teacher.

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תגים

• education
• ib3
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: du'f
• (+ 2 עוד)

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In a Yemeni hand (Worman's handlist desribes it as "Modern Yemenite.") concerning a debt of 2.5 qirsh between Ṣaliḥ b. […] Several witnesses: Sālim Ḥadī (חדי), Ḥasan al-Dhīb (אלדיב, wolf), Yaḥyā Hārūn (ṣāḥib al-qumʿa(?)), Mūsā Nissīm, and Menaḥem (?). (Information in part from CUDL)

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Letter fragment in Hebrew. Verso: Smaller letter fragment, at 90 degrees, with biblical quotations in Hebrew, and then the body (what little is preserved) in Judaeo-Arabic. Previous description: rabbinic text with citations from Talmud and Bible (e.g. Deuteronomy 4:39) (CUDL).

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts of the bookseller. People mentioned: Ibn ʿUbayd, Bū l-Fakhr, and Abū Isḥāq Ibn al-Maṣmūdī. See also the description for the whole notebook Bodl. MS heb. f 22/19–52 (PGPID 33686).

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דיון אחד

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl, in Fustat, to Khallūf b. […] There are also some brief accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in a different hand than the letter. (Information in part from Gil.)

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תגים

• arabic script
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517

3 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter of recommendation from Yehuda to Avraham ha-Zaqen about a righteous silk weaver named Tahor al-Talmid from the pupils of Avraham Maimonides (min jumlat aṣḥāb sayyidinā), who has "left the world from his heart" and sought the service of the Creator. The letter discusses Tahor's altruistic intention to marry an orphan girl.

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תגים

• al-mahalla
• capitation tax
• jizya
• lor
• orphan girl
• (+ 3 עוד)

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary language

Aramaic

Copies of six announcements made by a legal court dealing with cases of lost property, libel, slander of a fellow Jew before non-Jewish authorities, recommending a respectable person to coreligionists and condemning the action of certain Jews who desecrated Shabbat.

תעתוק אחד

Letter addressed to Abū Sahl ha-Levi (the cantor of the Palestinian synagogue in Fustat, who died in 1211), with greetings also to his brothers Moshe and Abū ʿImrān. […] Stern identified this as an autograph of Maimonides, but it is not a perfect match The remainder of the writer's name might appear at the upper left of recto: possibly B[ū Zi]kr[ī]? The ductus and the overall appearance is similar to several letters of the physician Abū Zikrī b. […] The writer excuses his failure to write on account of an illness, and a little later, "As for your failure to write to me: I had an excuse, but you have no excuse!" There is not a great deal of content to this letter beyond the good wishes and urging a response.

תגים

• abu sahl levi
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. […] The formers charged in their suit that the latter took possession unlawfully (since a woman is not considered an heir) of a house in al-Qālūs which belonged to their father, the fact which probably was indicated in the original deed (kitāb aṣl) which was in their possession. Thus, they claimed to be the legitimate heirs of this house (ll. 3–5). However, the denials argued against the charges by the latter were that there had already passed 20 years from the death of her husband, during which she was in possession of that property (which was probably conveyed to her as her late portion of her marriage contract, l. 8).

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תעתוק אחד 2 דיונים

Document date

1041–1042 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Draft of deed of attorney written in Tyre, which includes an accounting between partners after the death of one of them, Menashshe b. […] Dating: Ca. 1041 or slightly later, since the Feast of Pentecost of the year [13]52 Sel. is mentioned. According to Bareket, this is in the hand of Efrayim b.

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תגים

• 11th c
• draft
• muslim court
• power of attorney
• tyre

2 תעתוקים 2 דיונים

Document date

9 Sivan 5355 Anno Mundi (17 May 1595 CE)

This document bears the witness signatures of many community members– far more than is normally the case for early modern Rabbanite legal documents –because it certified the appointment of two communal rabbis in the wake of R. ʿOvadya Kāhna's death c. 1595 (for an earlier document on this communal figure, see: CUL Or.1080 15.45, PGPID 19723). […] Other signatures belong to: Yiṣḥaq ʿAmā..m, David b. Saʿadīya ʿAdanī, Menaḥem b. Avraham ha-Levi, Aharon b. Yosef Kohen aka ʿEzra, Avraham Ḥazan ha-Levi, Yosef Skandarī, Elīʿazar Shāṭr.

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תגים

• 16th c

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Letter from al-Mufarrij b. al-Ḥusayn to his father Ismāʿīl(?). In part concerning a deposit (wadāʿa, line 8). Mentions travel to Damascus (ll. 10–11) and the danger of the roads (l. 13). The vast majority of this long letter consists of greetings. Many of the names are prefaced with the honorific "al-ḥājib," which, together with the hand and typical idioms, dates the letter to the Mamluk period.

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תגים

• damascus
• danger

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from the teacher Yehuda b. Aharon ha-Rofeʾ Ibn al-ʿAmmānī to Yeḥiʾel ha-Rav (b. […] The letter seems to end here with the date, but then it resumes on verso after a gap, still talking about people under arrest due to the tax. Mentions the two synagogues; R. Namir again, and his wife; fundraising; R.

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תגים

• tax

דיון אחד

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document(s) with testimony concerning property and huge sums of money. Recto: "I said that she owes me a great deal of money and there are קבאלאת I have written in her name and an account for 23,000 dirhams, and a testimony (? […] Ibrāhīm... he should collect it from me and return it to her..." Verso: "..written that which was paid by Yosef b.

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

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

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal and communal documents. (a) Power of attorney granted by Saʿadya b. Yeshuʿa to Yosef b. Elʿazar ha-Melammed for the purpose of suing Yaʿaqov b. Natan Ibn Miṣbāḥ for a sum of 21.5 dinars. […] (b) Written in a different hand. Note of a legal acknowledgment made by Bū l-Mufaḍḍal concerning receipt of funds from the wine that his father left behind, including the figure 1,937 (jars) as well as 48 dinars from the estate and 19 dinars as the price of the female slave (jāriya).

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תגים

• power of attorney

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

Recto: letter of introduction for [...] b. Aharon, addressing a community and urging them to show charity to the poor. […] Aharon is added in a different hand; possibly the letter was for someone else originally. He is described as [מבני ט[ובים, a common designation for someone deserving of charity or favour.

דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a letter addressed to Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi. In Judaeo-Arabic. […] Sunday the day of my departure from Granada (אגרנאטה) . . . Friday, there arrived . . . reaching you with this [letter]. There preceded from me to you a letter from Wādī Āsh (ואדיאש, present-day Guadix) [and] another letter from Granada.

תגים

• halfon-addenda
• ib-addenda
• ib4

אין רשומות קשורות

Beautifully illuminated carpet page consisting of a menora and six-pointed stars, followed by alphabetical exercises from a children's Hebrew textbook. The consonants alef to he are presented with different Tiberian vowels, interspersed with star designs. (Information from CUDL.)

דיון אחד

Document date

First third of Shevaṭ 1463 Seleucid (January 1152 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document. Partnership dissolution. Dated: 1152. […] The separation of the partners also leaves the two partners returning what seems to be a debt to their investor Abū l-Ḥasan Ibn al-ʿUrs; Hiba will pay 60-70 dinars and Abū l-Faḍāʾil will pay 13 dinars. Interestingly, each of the partners is left with a separate debt to Abū l-Ḥasan, distinct from the assets of his partner; thus, following the separation, the parties are no longer jointly liable even for debts which were accrued during the life of the partnership.

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תגים

• 12th c
• debt
• partnership
• shemuel b. hananya

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד 2 דיונים

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Business letter addressed to the judge Eliyyahu b. Zekharya. […] The sender is dispirited about the market for sugar and wishes to get out of the business. Mentions people including Ibrāhīm b. Hārūn and Ibn Hāmūn Ibrāhīm.

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תגים

• business
• sugar

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Small fragment of a document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). There is a first-person declaration, mentioning "this sum" and "unemployment."

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a woman to her husband (ṣāḥib al-bayt). […] Don't ask what I suffered with the wife of your father, and Abū l-Surūr who was exceedingly generous, and everyone treated me well (are these euphemisms?). May God repay each servant according to his deeds. He (it seems one of her own family members) said to me, 'Divorce him, and I will take care of all that is necessary.'

תגים

• divorce
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: marad
• illness: travel
• (+ 3 עוד)

תעתוק אחד 2 תרגומים דיון אחד

Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In his previous will, drawn up by the Andalusian judge Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel (see Mediterranean Society, II, p. 512 section 13) Eli had mentioned that one of his partners, Abu al-Muna Tiqwa b. […] The next day the witnesses reported that the partner had testified that Eli had withdrawn about six dinars, whereupon Eli asked them to include a declaration that he had been under the impression that the sum withdrawn had been profit made leaving the forty-eight dinars Eli had invested in the partnership intact. (Information from Mediterranean Society, V, pp. 134, 212-214, 542)

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תגים

• draft
• hillel b. eli

תעתוק אחד