Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender has purchased two "qaṣabiyyas" of gold and will send them. He has also purchased a mould of Sicilian cheese for the addressees.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. On verso there are also phrases from an earlier document in Arabic script: ما تسافر الى . . .

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Document date

1493 Seleucid (12 September 1181–30 August 1182 CE)

Practically nothing is preserved except the date: 1493 Seleucid = 1181/82 CE. (It might also be 1496 Seleucid = 1184/85 CE.)

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Primary language

Arabic

There is an elaborate signature or endorsement at the top. Also.a seal imprint. Only the first line of the document itself is preserved.

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1

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Note in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, related to the financial instrument of ḥawāla (begins with the verb aḥāla, subject Sayyidunā, object ʿalāal-Shaykh [...]). Needs examination.

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Document date

5[..] Hijrī (2 September 1106–9 September 1203 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Begins, "[...] fī bayt al-māl...." Dated: 5[..] AH. Mentions Shams al-Mulk at the end of the second large line.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Note/receipt/account of some kind: "Abū Manṣūr collected 16 dirhams and I collected 20 dirhams," apparently the price of wheat (al-qamḥ al-mabīʿ?).

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Primary language

Hebrew

Writing exercises of the Hebrew alphabet by a student with the surname Mosseri (מוצרי in heading). 18th- or 19th-century based on the paleography. The instructor provided the alphabet in model handwriting for the student to repeat.

תגים

• 18th or 19th c
• learning

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The fragment almost at upper right (three boxes above the yellow label) looks like part of a letter "min ʿind al-Muwaffaq," ca. 12th or 13th century.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso contains mirror image text from another (or the same) fragment, also from a Judaeo-Arabic letter.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef. Mentions Yosef; ʿAllūn; al-Naṣrānī; plaster; wood; days of the week; linseed oil; sesame oil; the sabbath.

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1

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fol. 3v: Brief jotted accounts in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning Nāṣirī silver. There is also an ownership note for Moshe b. Hillel the descendant of [...].

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Primary language

Arabic

Mentions revenue from sugarcane (qand), the capital (raʾsmāl) of Abū l-Surūr, and al-shaykh al-Muhadhdhab.

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Primary language

Arabic

Petition or report addressed to a vizier (...al-Afḍalī al-Juyūshī...). Fragment from the top (the beginnings of 7 lines are preserved).

תגים

• dimme

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Consists almost entirely of legalese. Involves a parnas and his wife Sitt al-Milāḥ.

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1

תגים

• halfon b. menashshe

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Lower right corner. Involves [...] al-Dīn, someone's wife Sitt al-Nās, the conditions in her ketubba, a quarter (of a house?)

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A very rough translation is as follows: "Your letter arrived with Ibn al-Jalajuli. Najm al-Din read it with me in Giza and wrote a response in his own hand. […] I can't even buy or sell things until your matter is settled and the speaking (?) of Najm al-din. As for what you said about going to to al-Shams b. al-Muzawwiq - he did not leave me in Giza after he read your letter except that he was good (of health?). […] Further people mentioned include Hajj Muhammad, Najm al-Din, the old woman, the Hakim, Hikam (?), and al-Shaykh Hilal.

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1

תגים

• 13th c
• apostate
• giza
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• (+ 4 עוד)

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

The writer is located in Fustat/Cairo (פה מצרים) and also mentions places including Bulaq and Alexandria. […] The writer describes "almost going mad" and his "great fear" over this. […] Months later, Shemuʾel al-ʿAjam arrived in Alexandria requesting his opium.

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1

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3

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: probably 11th century. Consisting almost entirely of instructions for commodities the sender wants the addressee to buy for him, with a list of those commodities. […] Ghulayb (known from other documents); Barhūn again; Fustat/Egypt; al-Nūtī(?). At the bottom and again in the margin mentions Abū Brāhīm or Ibrāhīm ʿAyyāsh (perhaps ʿAyyāsh b. […] At 180 degrees on verso there is also what may be a brief Arabic address with the name Yaḥyā b.

תגים

• list

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Dating: Early 13th century, likely 1219–29 CE (Shweka's assessment). See also T-S 8J33.4, a previous letter on the same matter. […] Relations between the various communities were very tense, as testified by Yehuda Alharizi, who visited Jerusalem in 1214. From letters of R. […] Previous description: Four-page letter in Hebrew perhaps from Alexandria, concerning a dispute between prominent members of the Jewish community and the consequent expulsion of one of them from the synagogue.

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תגים

• communal
• conflict
• excommunication
• french rabbis
• heqdesh
• (+ 3 עוד)

3 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Document date

24 Ḥeshvan (4)864 Anno Mundi (28 October 1103 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On Happy Eyes, Goitein writes that this man had settled in Alexandria, Egypt, where he possessed a valuable house. He also possessed a house in Barqa, eastern Libya. Cf. […] It is probably the equivalent of the Arabic phrase امانة موداة, which commonly appears in the same contexts. Cf. also אמאנה מוצלה in T-S 13J17.1 (PGPID 979).

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1

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8

תגים

• aydhab
• badi'
• dahlak
• ib6
• india book
• (+ 2 עוד)

2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים

Document date

Ṭevet 1488 Seleucid (5 December 1176–2 January 1177 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

One beadle of Dammūh is listed at the beginning of the list (p a, l. 5), another at the end (c, l. 6). Almostall the males receive a muqaddar, all but one of the females (p. b, l. 2) a jūkhāniyya. […] After the first item, "the judges," is left a blank space. Al-Najīb (the parnas) follows with the number 20 after it and l. 12, Abū ʿAlī the parnas, with 12. […] (Information from Goitein, Med Soc II, Appendix B, #71 (p.459).) The recipients also include one female slave and three women who are freed slaves (per Goitein's index card).

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3

Related Places

1

תגים

• clothing
• freedwoman
• slaves

דיון אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Bifolium from an Arabic work, mostly consisting of prayers and verses from the Quran and names of God, but also including a line of probably-magical symbols, headed with a six-pointed star.

תגים

• arabic literary
• magic
• quran

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender is writing from Alexandria on the 5th of Sivan. Mentions a battle or fight (qitāl) and the death of some people.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Two orders of payment in Arabic script, and perhaps a remnant of a third. The first one: yadfaʿ al-shaykh al-ajall li-muwaṣṣilihā dīnārayn wa-nuṣr wa-thumn.

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1

תגים

• arabic
• script

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions names such as Bayān, Thābit, and Abū Saʿd (though the first two of these could also be common nouns). Interesting linguistic detail: five is spelt כמשה.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Daniel the great prince and 'great distress.' See also ENA 2735.14

תגים

• trade

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1051–1051 CE

In the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya. See also: ENA 2804.1 (PGPID 676).

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2

תגים

• dirge
• piyyut
• seliha

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Da'ud b. Ammar (Alexandria) to Nahray b. Nissim (Fustat), ca. 1065.

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4

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6

תגים

• nahray b. nissim
• trade

3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

Addressed to שמואל רודסי (of Rhodes) and יהודה דמדינק and דוד מונטלוה (Montaloa?) "and all the notables of [....]." The name of the location - along with the entirety of the letter - is lost.

תגים

• list

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

A few Hebrew characters also appear in the otherwise Arabic script commercial account.

תגים

• dimme
• list

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

One side begins, "That which is with (or owed by) Sayf al-Dawla b. Tāj al-ʿArab..." There follow various sums of money.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions the faqīh Abū l-Ḥasan al-Maghribī al-Anṣārī; mentions a funduq. Seems to be discussing a legal issue.

תגים

• dimme

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Aramaic

Fragment of a ketubba of the groom Yefet b. Avraham from Alexandria signed by Avraham b. Yaʿaqov. Dated ca. 1100.

תגים

• dowry
• ketubba
• marriage

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Fragment, wide margin on the left, two sides of commercial accounts. (Might also be official/fiscal, mentioning kharāj). Several entries headed by an elongated "min jiha."

תגים

• dimme
• list

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Addressed to Raḥamīm Qaznī (קזני), also mentions ʿAzīza, Avraham, and Binyamin.

תגים

• late ja

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Reused for a separate document in Arabic script (also on recto) and a literary text in Hebrew (verso).

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2

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2

תגים

• decree

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Listing several names and goods: Abū l-[...] b. Abū ʿAbd Allāhal-Maqārīṣī(?); quantities of wheat in irdabbs; Abū l-Karam.

תגים

• list

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions somebody "prostrated on the bed (firāsh)," meaning someone who is very sick. Also mentions the Jews, justice, and Muʿizziyya (Cairo).

תגים

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: mulqa
• illness: prostrated

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions Bū l-ʿAlāʾ and Ibn al-Ḥāshir ("son of the tax collector").

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Wine and/or love poem in Judaeo_Arabic. In the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. This is one of the fragments that he signs (וגא נאצר כתבת אביאת פי דרגי ופי אלחאני).

תגים

• nasir

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. There are also two lines in Arabic script. Mentions a ruqʿa for Ṭāhir; Ḥabs Bunān; Abū l-Samḥ; Manṣūr.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Conveys greetings from Abū ʿAlī. Refers to "al-naqāḍāt" (אלנקאצ̇את), meaning uncertain (naqḍ or manqūḍ can refer to clipped/inferior coins).

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

One of the only readily legible phrases is a reference to "al-amīr al-juyūsh" (אלאמיר אלגיוש).

תגים

• amir al-juyush

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On verso reused for accounts. Also reused for various pen trials.

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Primary language

Arabic

Medical prescription in Arabic script (e.g. "wa-yuṣaffā ʿalā ūqīyyatayn sharāb"). The diet recommended at the end is something boiled and seasoned with sweet almond oil.

תגים

• dimme

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

The addressee is called [...] al-Muwaffaqī [...] al-Malikī(?). Verso: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic.

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