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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

People involved: a kohl seller (al-kaḥḥāl) (who has been allowing the young men to gather at his place); Ibn Rummān and his mother (they are the ones with Muslim tenants); and the father of the kaḥḥāl, who is Barakāt al-Ṣīrī.

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• avraham maimonides
• communal

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Business letter from the North African merchant Benāya b. Mūsā (Alexandria) to Shelomo b. Mevorakh (Fustat), containing inter alia information about the movement of ships and referring to several India traders.

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• business
• dispute
• ib-addenda
• movement of ships
• nagid
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2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Barakāt Ibn al-Lebdī; Hārūn b. Rajā; Efrayim b. Ismāʿīl. (Goitein's attached notes may refer to several other documents other than this one; Goitein quotes a sender who says “I cannot undertake for the third year a voyage [to Aden]," and he makes some date calculations mentioning the years 1131, 1134, and 1135.) Goitein's attached notes also contain a full transcription.

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תגים

• ib5
• india book

2 תעתוקים

Document date

Shevat 1341 Seleucid (7 January 1030–5 February 1030 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef gave to Barhūn b. Thābit al-Ṣā'igh the power-of-attorney to make out a bill of divorce for his wife Surūra. This was attested in "al-Ṣaʿīd al-Fawqānī" by Ghālib b. Faraj and Abū Saʿīd Maymūn b.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The letter contains instructions about money to be received and/or paid; mentions the army (al-ʿaskar); mentions Abū l-Maḥāsin and Abū Isḥāq. […] will travel with another man and the little girl (al-ṣughayyira), while the addressee(s) should remain in Egypt. Then: "If you wish to marry your daughter to al-Raḍiyy and stay in Egypt--then stay! And if you do not wish, do not marry her to anyone."

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• marriage
• trade

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

[5]32 Hijrī (19 September 1137–7 September 1138 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Dated: probably [5]32 AH = 1137/38 CE. Also possible is 432 AH = 1040/41 CE. Only isolated phrases are preserved. Mentions a group (ṭāʾifa) of people; something that happened last year; a group (jamāʿa) that fled; the typical petition requests of asking the addressee to address and remove harm (. . . al-ḍarar wa-yazūl . . .), possibly palaces (quṣūr), and obedience to the (addressee's) orders.

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Arabic

It is filled with bureaucratic jargon referring to several different bureaus (e.g., Dīwān al-ʿUmūm and Dīwān ʿUmūm al-[...]," which is opposed to Nuẓẓār al-Furūʿ) and to "protecting interests" (عدم تعطيل المصلحة) and "necessary expenses" (المصاريف الضرورية).

תגים

• arabic script
• diwan

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Document date

16 Dhū l-Qaʿda 537 Hijrī (2 June 1143 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

It seems that they owe a debt of 80 dinars ("al-naqd al-Ḥāfiẓī al-Miṣrī...") to another Jewish man, Abū l-Ḥasan b.

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תגים

• to edit

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Very rudimentary hand and spellings (e.g., ושׁעא for والساعة and אלה for both الله and الى and נדרכם for نظركم; also שׁ for س and שׂ for ش). The sender mentions fear on account of the addressee and plans to travel to Ibrāhīm and "visit the country" (nazūr al-bilād) "if we live till next year."

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

ḥijja ʾumot), and the matter is up to God the exalted... the animal driver (mukārī) and the sale of the lead (bayʿ al-raṣāṣ)... soon with an explanation of all this... to the knowledge of Rabbenu Yosef... al-Daryānī(?)

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

The sender refers to witnesses in the village or estate (fī l-ḍayʿa al-shuhūd); and he seems to refer to his sword dating from the days of his father (wa-huwa sayf al-mamlūk. . . wa-hādhā l-sayf min ʿahd wālid al-mamlūk); and perhaps that he will deliver the sword to Ismāʿīl who will deliver it to the addressee.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions a book in the handwriting of al-Shaykh Abū l-ʿIzz, whom Frenkel identifies as possibly identical with Abū l-ʿIzz the brother of Sitt Ghazāl, the wife of Shelomo b. […] (Information from CUDL and Allony et al.)

תגים

• bible
• book trade
• codices
• register

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, possibly in a neater version of the same handwriting. On this side, the alephs at least look like those of Yosef b. Shemuel b. […] Might be communal accounts for revenue from rentals (e.g., al-ṭabaqa) for Sivan and Tammuz. Mentions names such as Umm Baqāʾ and Murajjā.

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• account

אין רשומות קשורות

Underneath this there is a halakhic discussion. The fragment also contains writing practice for the Arabic alphabet and western Arabic numerals.

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

1339 Seleucid (1027–1028 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Sahl brings Menashshe b. Yaʿaqov b. al-Nihmi to court. The latter promises to pay him one and one-fourth dinars until Iyyar 1028 CE; he owed him three and one-eighth dinars. (Information from Goitein's index cards) EMS. Alternate description: 2r: Release from debt by Samuel b. […] Sahl for Menashshe b. Jacob Ibn al-Nihmī, 1339 of the Seleucid Era (= 1028 CE) in Fusṭāṭ.

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Document date

21st Tammuz 1437 Seleucid (14 July 1126 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

The divorce is between Sasson b. Mevorakh and Sitt al-Ahl bt. Yaḥyā. The witnesses are Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel ha-Sefaradi and Ḥalfon b. […] The verso contains the acceptance of the bill of divorce by the wife, signed also by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel ha-Sefaradi and Ḥalfon b.

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דיון אחד

Document date

Adar I 1437 Seleucid (27 January 1126–25 February 1126 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: Adar I 1437 Seleucid, which is 1126 CE. Abū l-Munā al-ʿAṭṭār Yaʿaqov b. David ha-Parnas declares that he has received from Abū l-Munā Shelomo b. […] (Information from CUDL and Goitein's index card.) See also JRL Gaster heb. ms 1760/5 (PGPID 32315).

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Document date

17 Shevaṭ 5500 Anno Mundi (15 February 1740 CE)

Primary language

Ladino

Letter from Yosef כיטו(?), in Alexandria, to Yaʿaqov אלחנאצי (=al-Ḥanesī = "of Ḥanes (Damietta)"), in Fustat/Cairo.

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תגים

• condolence
• grief
• ladino

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer tells her to pack her belongings and to come immediately with the bearer of the letter to the house of Mūsā. She should also bring the book (muṣḥaf) from the house of Sitt al-Jamāl and a specified bunch of papers.

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תגים

• 13th c

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1168–1177 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Miryam asks her brother to enquire after the whereabouts of her son and to induce him to contact her, last quarter of the 12th century. She also asks Moshe to send along greetings to their brother David, who died in 1177.

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תגים

• 12th c
• maimonides
• miryam maimonides
• personal
• women's letters

תעתוק אחד 2 תרגומים דיון אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Very tantalizing subject matter, possibly written on the occasion of a change of government (tabdīl al-dawla). Mentions communal matters and the sulṭān; sounds like a communal letter or sermon addressed to a group, but then the text in the margin conveys greetings to a single person, mentioning names such as Yosef, Shemuʾel, and Elʿazar. Also mentions a man who lost his two sons in the same year.

תעתוק אחד

Letter from Yusuf b. Musa al-Tāhartī, probably from Mahdiyya, to Nahray b. […] The writer describes difficulties in selling and mentions various goods, including carthamus, camphor, sugar, resin, crocus, indigo, wheat, wool, wood, ruby, beads, pearls, oil and more. Yusuf also discusses trading with Spain and the Maghreb, even though the roads are dangerous, and notes the passing of his brother, Barhun b.

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• hinge

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in a Spanish hand to R. Yiṣḥaq al-ḥaver al-jalīl. The sender was in great anxiety until Abū Zekharya b. Yūnus and Abū l-[...] al-Khaybarī reported about the addressee's health and safety.

תגים

• to edit

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Letter portion to someone close to the Nagid (mentioned four lines from the bottom), regarding the plight of an unfortunate person, possibly Abu Mansur. "Afterward al-Shaykh Abu [Mansur?] arrived... the Jews that arrived after al-Shaykh Abu Mansur . . . he has not paid anything yet." This year, "these Jews... oppressed him" (ajḥafū 'alayhi).... And he has been living here for one year....

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Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Yeshu'a ha-Kohen ha-Ḥaver, an official in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim. Yeshu'a writes to raise money to free three Jews held by Italian merchants. […] The pirates had beaten and almost killed their captives. Jewish communities in Egyptian port towns bore the brunt of these expenses.

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• byzantines
• byzantium
• captives
• italy
• merchants
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3 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים דיון אחד

Document date

First decade of Iyyar 1526 Seleucid (April 1215 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Berakhot (aka Mūsā b. Abū l-Barakāt) Ibn al-Maqdisi grants his attorney Sulaymān b. Maḥāsin a long list of rights to act as his substitute in his claim over the estate of Dalāl bt. Abū ʿImrān, the daughter of a paternal cousin who died in Alexandria. Witnesses: Ḥalfon b. Elʿazar ha-Kohen; Meir b.

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• power of attorney

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Bill of sale for a female slave. Sitt al-Ḥusn bt. Avraham, the wife of Yakhin, sells the female slave ʿUshshāq to Sitt al-Fakhr bt. […] The enslaved woman was pregnant and had been for some time in the buyers house, who accepts all her 'defects.' The sale is confirmed by the two husbands, and the husband of the seller stands security for 15 dinars in case any claims were made on ʿUshshāq by others.

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• register
• slave

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Natan b. Nahray, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Dating: Ca. 1062 CE (Gil). […] Ḥananel; and the dire situation in al-Mahdiyya. Nahray was very worried about ʿIwāḍ, but he ended up improving (lines 6–7).

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תגים

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: fright
• nahray b. nissim
• paper
• (+ 1 עוד)

3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Letter from Mūsā b. Iṣḥaq b. Nissim al-ʿĀbid (al-Mahdiya) to Avraham b. Daʾūd al-Raḥbī (Fustat), ca. 1030.

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תגים

• laque
• oil
• pearls
• pepper
• precious stones
• (+ 3 עוד)

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

Yitrō, a learned merchant from Damascus who had lost all his riches. The letter includes a length Hebrew introduction, in which the name of the addressee, Mevorkh b. […] (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, pp. 474-475, App. C 8.) See also T-S AS 148.42 + T-S 10J20.20 (PGPID 2949) -another letter of request from the same author, addressed to another dignitary.

תגים

• communal
• damascus

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Jalāl al-Dawla, in Fustat, to Shelomo ha-Nasi b. Yishay, in Bilbays. […] As part of a litany of complaints, he mentions that he has been sick many times and nearly died (v25–26). His sicknesses also feature in T-S 12.654 and T-S NS 321.93. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, II, pp. 264f.)

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תגים

• 13th c
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• mosul nasis

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The sender read the letter which the addressee sent to Abū l-Munajjā and seems to have been very offended by it (fa-wajadahu al-khādim li-ghāya mā yumkin min al-naqīṣa fī ḥaqq al-mamlūk).

דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The 12 names in the upper list are repeated in the lower (which has one more), often in abbreviated form (Abu al-Majd: Majd; Najib al-Ma'tuq: Najib). The contributions, ranging from 1/2 to 1 1/2 (dirhams), are almost identical in the two lists, perhaps a collection for two musicians at a minor family affair.

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• 13th c
• charity
• communal
• donors
• poverty

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Headed by the glyph followed by 'al-mamālīk al-ʿazīza.' Subsections are headed by 'al-wāṣil' and 'waṣala.'

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תגים

• clothing
• shoes
• soap

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Tammuz 1481 Seleucid (16 June 1170–14 July 1170 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Refers to a house; "the Rabbanite Jerusalemites"; various sums of money in the hundreds of dirhams; and perhaps conditions regarding construction (עמארה) on the house. The parties include al-Rayyis Abū Zikrī and Karīm. The document is also signed by Aharon b.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Apparently private rather than fiscal based on the use of numerals and the format with columns of credits (lahū) and debits (ʿalayhi). However it is notable that the first page (verso, left side) is headed with the name of al-Qāḍī Abū l-Ḥusayn b. […] "a receipt of the diwān" (recto, left page, right column) and "Dīwān Fakhr al-Dīn" (recto, left page, left column). Merits further examination.

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Document date

15 Shawwāl 545 Hijrī (4 February 1151 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Jawshan and mentioning the eastern neighborhood (al-ḥāra al-sharqiyya) in the district (nāḥiya) of Sinnūris. […] Written on verso of a tax receipt in the hand of the jahbadh Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ dated 2 or 8 Dhū l-Qaʿda 405 (April 1015) (see separate entry), suggesting that tax receipts may have been archived and retained for more than a century.

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Document date

Shaʿbān 573 Hijrī (23 January 1178–20 February 1178 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

On verso there are two records of payments toward the debt, written in different hands, the first for a single dinar and mentioning ʿAlī b. Abū Saʿīd, and the second for 5 dinars, dated Ṣafar 576 AH = June/July 1180 CE. There is also an unrelated document in Judaeo-Arabic (see separate record).

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