Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Potentially the same handwriting as T-S 12.417, JRL SERIES B 2601, and/or ENA NS 2.40. (Information in part from Goitein’s index card.)

תגים

• hamas
• rent
• slave

דיון אחד

Document date

Tuesday, 2 Av 1438 Seleucid (12 July 1127 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe ha-Levi. Fol. 1v: Two entries. Location: Fustat. Both dated Tuesday, 2 Av 1438 Seleucid = 12 July 1127 CE

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Document date

Sivan 1470 Seleucid (19 May 1159–17 June 1159 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Testimony around the engagement of Tamīm b. Abū al-Faraj and Fakhr bt. Yosef, imposing a penalty if Tamīm is found to have an impediment to the marriage.

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2

תגים

• engagement
• partnership

3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד

Document date

419 Hijrī (31 January 1028–19 January 1029 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Should be compared with T-S 12.821 + ENA 3682.5 for a further possible join. (Information from Marina Rustow)

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תגים

• petition

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

It was agreed that 25 dinars would be paid at the end of three months, and for the remaining 10 dinars a written acknowledgement will be issued (1. 15).

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

to go anywhere without taking Avraham's mother with him. At the end of the letter, Moshe reports that he has obtained the ophthalmic medications (ashyāf) from the physician Abū l-Faraj as requested, and has forwarded them along with a letter from the same Abū l-Faraj.

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תגים

• ashyaf
• bilbays
• distant son
• mail-order medicine
• minyat ghamr
• (+ 1 עוד)

2 תעתוקים

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Same writer: T-S 24.46 (PGPID 7573) and ENA 2594.12 (PGPID 5721).

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1

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תגים

• 11th c
• disability
• disability: vision
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• (+ 5 עוד)

3 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Document date

middle third of Tammuz 1529 Seleucid (6 July 1218–15 July 1218 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There are a number of provisions concerning the assets of the concern: first, Munajjā is entitled to one dinar from Abū al-Khayr for fourteen months, a debt recorded in a separate document; second, the balance of all the shop’s merchandise is to be retained by Munajjā; third, the first 800 dirhams of the shop’s debts will be repaid by Munajjā (any excess will be repaid by the two partners jointly); fourth, both partners will share in collecting accounts receivable, with the funds divided equally between them; and, fifth, six copper basins will go to Munajjā (which previously belonged to Abū l-Khayr, as he is held responsible for anything missing from them).

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תגים

• druggist
• partnership
• pharmacy

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Document date

5 Nisan 1453 Seleucid (2 April 1142 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There is news of the arrival of another merchant, Yiṣḥaq al-Sijilmāsī; ʿAmram repeats his request to Ḥalfon to send him the commentary on Isaiah; he asks for help with the paperwork necessary for the estate of a family member of Ḥalfon. At the end of the letter, he asks about Yiṣḥaq b. ʿEzra.

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תגים

• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: chronic
• (+ 3 עוד)

4 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים דיון אחד

Document date

441 Hijrī (5 June 1049–25 May 1050 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

NB: This is a continuous join: T-S Ar.18(2).193 + T-S Ar.30.306 + T-S Ar.30.314. Whether T-S 24.21 and ENA NS 10.31 also join is less clear: they were reused by the same scribe for the same text, but may not have been part of the same state document.

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תגים

• communal
• dimme
• endorsement
• fiscal
• lost archive
• (+ 4 עוד)

3 תעתוקים 3 תרגומים 3 דיונים

Inferred date

1136–1139 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yiju, reconstructed from four fragments (the last, discovered after the publication of the English edition, confirms the spelling of the shipowner as Nbyrwy).

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3

תגים

• ib-addenda
• ib3
• ibn yiju
• india book
• trade

5 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים 2 דיונים

Document date

30 Jumādā I 403 Hijrī (17 December 1012 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm and for the appointed treasurers. Dated: end of Jumādā I 402 (29 December 1011 CE) according to Bondioli, Luescher, Rustow, and Vanthieghem (Khan reads 403).

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3

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2

תגים

• abu l-hasan b. wahb
• daman
• damin
• majlis al-harb
• tax

2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים דיון אחד

Inferred date

1200–1250 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

With the exception of two scholarly persons, a banker, entitled haver, who gives nine, and a goldsmith, styled rabbi)--the only one in the list besides the collector--who contributes five together with his partner, all the others content themselves with gifts of one-half, one, or at most one and one-half.

תגים

• charity
• communal
• donors
• poverty

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

What may be understood from the end of the document preserved is that a settlement was reached according to which the defendant was freed from the oath due to him.

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2

תגים

• freedwoman
• halfon b. menashshe

תעתוק אחד 2 דיונים

Document date

middle third of Ṭevet 1435 Seleucid (31 December 1123–9 January 1124 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Gerrit Bos et al, p. 1030 (entry 898). The document is unsigned, maybe because there are a couple uncorrected errors in it (e.g., חכמה חכמה instead of חכמה חכמי).

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תגים

• halfon b. menashshe
• illness: treatment
• physicians
• power of attorney
• rabbanite

2 תעתוקים 2 דיונים

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

al-wakāla); (3) "the bureau" (al-dīwān); (4) "the farms" (? al-mazāriʿ). The entry "Abū l-Faḍl Ibn Qūrī: 5 1/3" has been inserted above the column headers.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The first group consisted of a qunbār and a barge of the amir, or governor, of Alexandria; three other barges, one belonging to a vizier, two khīṭīs, one entitled "al-Ra'isa," "the Chief," owned by a lady [Gil reads this differently above, and Rustow concurs with him], and a craft called markab, the general word for ship. […] Only five ships belonging to the first group succeeded in passing out into the high seas, for in addition to the storm just mentioned, there was another calamity. The enemy, certainly the Byzantine navy, 'which had complete mastery over the sea,' captured one boat and only because of its being busy with it did the rest of the convoy escape.

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תגים

• 11th c
• ibn al-ba'ba'
• khiti
• nahray b. nissim
• qarib
• (+ 4 עוד)

3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד

Dā’ūd, who was equally quick to reject responsibility: “If you are willing to accept the bale in its entirety, fine. If you don’t want to, I’m not going to open it for you to take what you like and leave the rest with me.” […] "As everyone had suspected this bale caused no end of trouble for Ḥayyim. After it was opened he got a letter from Abū Isḥāq telling him of a change of intent: he was to deliver the sections labeled to Isma‘īl b. […] The case, and the payments involved, were apparently not settled to Ḥayyim's satisfaction, for he detailed the entire episode in a letter to an associate in Fustat (whence the bale had originated), asking that he take the letter and read it to his (the associate’s) brother-in-law.

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תגים

• bribe
• flax
• indigo
• lead
• leather
• (+ 4 עוד)

תעתוק אחד 2 תרגומים דיון אחד

Document date

last third of Ḥeshvan 1437 Seleucid (20 October 1125–29 October 1125 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shemuel ha-Sefaradi and the scribe, Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. See also ENA 4101.16c (PGPID 11217). (Information from Gershon Weiss's edition and Goitein’s index card.)

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Friday, 14 Nisan 5532 Anno Mundi (17 April 1772 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

This numbering system requires further examination in connection with any prior CUL shelfmarks because it may represent a numbering system used by a manuscript dealer or collector before entering Cambridge University Library collections.

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תגים

• 18th c
• illumination
• ketubba
• vellum
• watercolor

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Persian

The story is a variation of Rumi's earlier tale of Moses and the shepherd (موسی و شبان); in fact, some of Rumi's verses are transplanted into the ending of this Judaeo-Persian version. On the verso of fol. 128, there is a different text in a more informal script in Judaeo-Persian.

תגים

• judaeo-persian literary

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

They previously had a partnership in a perfume/drug shop and then ended the partnership. This document specifies the amounts of money still owed by one to the other (over 800 dirhams).

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

The books are Christian, and after each entry the language is specified: Arabic (ʿArabī), (Bohairic?)

תגים

• booklist
• christian

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

909-03-14 Hijrī (26 June 1503–13 June 1504 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

ENA 3960.6–10 are five distinct but related Mamlūk-era legal documents in Arabic script, all dated 909 H (1503/04 CE), and involving the same people (e.g., Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad b. al-Khwājā Yūsuf b. al-Ḥājj ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Tājir al-Saffār(?)

תגים

• dimme
• iqrar

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

20 Rabīʿ I 909 Hijrī (12 September 1503 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

ENA 3960.6–10 are five distinct but related Mamlūk-era legal documents in Arabic script, all dated 909 H (1503/04 CE), and involving the same people (e.g., Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad b. al-Khwājā Yūsuf b. al-Ḥājj ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Tājir al-Saffār(?)

תגים

• dimme
• iqrar
• pinholes

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Iyyar 1390 Seleucid (1079 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On the other side, there is the end of what is probably a second record (#2), two more complete records (#3 and #4), and the beginning of a fifth (#5).

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אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Tishrei 5489 Anno Mundi (4 September 1728–3 October 1728 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

The two partners had been working as business brokers/middlemen (בעסק הסרסרות), see Jastrow dict. entry on p.1029. Shemuel racked up extensive unpaid debts to Eliʿezer in Ottoman gold cinzirli before he died.

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תגים

• 18th c
• ben na'im
• broker
• brokerage
• livorno

תעתוק אחד

Inferred date

1168–1201 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Cairo, and sometimes with Abū l-Riḍā, and I stay with him two nights a week and learn from him... your excellence, for 30 dinars' brokerage... entered to Qarāqūsh (likely Bahāʾ al-Dīn Qarāqūsh, active in Egypt 1169–1201) and told him the situation, and he fired him.

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תגים

• education
• medicine
• physicians

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He expresses regret at having undertaken the voyage at all, and advises his sons not to be on the road constantly as he is; he advises them that a family partnership would enable them to share the effort of travel. Goitein identified ʿAllān as the author of the letter, however, the handwriting is actually that of ʿAllān's maternal uncle ʿArūs b.

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תגים

• aydhab
• ib6
• india book
• karim
• red sea

3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד 2 דיונים

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Begins in Hebrew, including a Hebrew taqbīl (העבד מנשק . . . . ידיו ורגליו), and ends in Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee may be the judge Abū l-Bayān Moshe (the sender swears by his name on verso, בחיאה מולאי אלדיין אבו אלביאן ר משה), whom Goitein tentatively identifies as Moshe b.

תגים

• appeal
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: injury
• to edit

דיון אחד