Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Abū l-Khayr; bales of a commodity that arrived with Abū l-Ḥasan, of which the first sold for 59, but the other seems to have encountered a snag at customs; Alexandria; ʿĪsā the ghulām of al-M[...] who has not yet arrived; and the government and a ship.

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תגים

• india book unedited

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

1004 Hijrī (6 September 1595–24 August 1596 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In the verso note mentioning the year of recording, the scribe has also noted that the "defter'" offers accounts regarding "קומאש" (fabric). On the recto, the list heading on the right of the bifolium is in the name of Shemuʾel Tortos and the entries below it mention goods such as "almonds/לוז", "olive oil/זית", "cheese/גבן", and other Judaeo-Arabic terms.

תגים

• 16th c
• almonds
• cheese

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Thursday, 13 Kislev 1342 Seleucid (11 November 1030 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Mevorakh the attorney (פקיד) of Binyamin b. Yaʿaqov al-Baṣrī releases Isḥāq b. Ṭayyib al-Ṣayrafī from all obligations except 21 + 1/2 + 1 qiat, to be repaid in installments of 1 dinar per month.

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דיון אחד

(Information from Goitein's note cards) Two bifolia of similar size, but P1 contains a child's early attempts at writing the alphabet, along with childish drawings (including a menora (?)[…] P2-P3 contain more presumably a different child’s more accomplished alphabetical exercises, with Tiberian vocalisation, poetry, and an attempt at a decorative חזק.

תגים

• education

דיון אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The sender comments on either these or other poems (there are several letters in which Moshe writes that he is enclosing poems and wants feedback on them). There is also something about "mukhāṭabat al-faqīh" here.

תגים

• moshe b. levi
• yedutun ha-levi

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Sunday night, 20 Ṭevet 1578 Seleucid (20 December 1266 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There are three different text blocks, all belonging to the same document, oriented at 90 degrees to each other. […] The document seems to be setting the conditions for the marriage of Abū Saʿd b. al-Rayyis and Thiqa bt. Abū l-Riḍā b. al-Tifʾeret.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic to a notable (yeḥid ha-dor, sayyidnā), possibly named al-Shaykh Yaʿīsh. Reporting on developments in the community after the addressee (or another 'sayyidnā') departed. […] And he won't let anyone say a word to him. He is also going between the two factions in the community and making up stories about the other faction.

תגים

• communal strife

תעתוק אחד

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Poem(s) in Judaeo-Arabic containing advice for the lovesick, written as a faux medical prescription. In the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. The recto contains a marriage contract dated 1298 CE. […] (Information in part from Cecilia Palombo and Goitein's attached notes.) Joins: Alan Elbaum. ASE

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תגים

• advice
• judaeo-arabic poetry
• love
• marriage
• nasir
• (+ 3 עוד)

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender asks Nahray to order a commodity (ḥajar al-māʾ?) from another trader, because there is none in Palestine, and they are importing it from Sāl[...], and that seems to be an inadequate substitute for coral. (This reading is tentative.) He also orders a mantle (īzār) for himself. This document is uncited in the literature.

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תגים

• coral

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Letter from Khidr to a dignitary, probably, titled Shams al-Riʾāsa. The sender, identified in the tarjama as al-mamlūk Khiḍr, reports that since leaving Cairo he has been diligently engaged in the service of Mawlānā. He mentions making a purchase for his master in accordance with instructions and refers to obtaining a letter from the qāḍī, although the surrounding details are unclear. He appeals to Mawlānā’s customary benevolence toward him and closes with a prayer and ḥasbala.

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תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He tells the addressee not to give his response to Ṭāhir, lest it fall into the hands of someone other than the writer. (This sentence could also be read, "do not give it to anyone except Abū Ṭāhir," but in that case the word לשיך should have been spelled ללשיך.) The writer alludes to a distresing matter involving his elder son Yūsuf.

תגים

• secrecy

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The entirety of the rest of the story has to do with the misdeeds of al-Raqqī and Ibn Kātib al-ʿArab, called "dogs" by the writer (they call him the same). […] His uncle (ʿamm) Abū l-Faraj is egging on al-Raqqī, standing in the market and "on the slaughterhouse" (?) […] In a postscript: "I heard that Muhadhdhab b. al-ʿŪdī is in critical condition and that wheat is expensive.

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תגים

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• liver
• markets
• music
• (+ 3 עוד)

תעתוק אחד

Document date

1476 Seleucid (1164–1165 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He must do it again, and alsoalso supervise Yiṣḥaq in this task. Yosef gives further instructions about the Torah portions that they must copy. There follow numerous greetings, including for: Abū l-Faraj al-Baghdādī, Moshe Rosh ha-Qahal, Yosef's mother, ʿEzra the judge, and Binyamin ha-Ḥaver. […] As for the instructions Yosef received to purchase a niqāb and large miqnaʿa (scarf or veil) for his mother in Erbil (ארבל)—it is too late, he has already left Erbil. ASE

תגים

• curses
• education
• irbil
• mother
• scribe
• (+ 1 עוד)

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Ten days later, Abū Bakr al-Qasṭallānī produced a ḥujja that the deceased had owed him 700 dirhams from a qirāḍ partnership, and Abū Muḥammad b. […] (There are two asides at this point: During the time when Khalīl was sick and homebound, the clothier came to the sender, who paid him 20 dirhams. Also, the owner of the shawl (miṭrafa) which had been pawned with the addressee for 3 dirhams came and redeemed it.) […] The same story repeated itself when Abū Bakr al-Qasṭallānī came and sued Khalīl. The letter concludes on a note of all's well that end's well: "If you come back, God willing, you can have a shop for 50 (dirhams) and you will do well and recoup (your losses)."

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תגים

• aodeh
• hujja
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: emotion
• (+ 1 עוד)

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Shaʿbān 481 Hijrī (20 October 1088–17 November 1088 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

A rental agreement regarding a property in Fusṭāṭ between Bū l-Faraj al-Ḥanīzī (?) and Bū Naṣr b. Khalaf al-Isrāʾīlī.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions the people of Gaza (al-Ghaziyyīn) and the people of Rafaḥ (al-Rafaḥiyyīn) and the location in or near Gaza known as Maymās, and various sums of money.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1141–1145 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Netanʾel on the death of his niece. Alexandria, ca. 1141–45.

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תגים

• condolence
• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• india book

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions a tax-farmer in Alexandria. (Information from Goitein's index cards)

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תגים

• personal
• toviya b. eli

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: 11th or 12th century. There are also several lines in Arabic script, which are in a different ink and were probably an earlier use of this paper.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

People mentioned: Bū l-Khayr, Bū l-Fakhr. See also the description for the whole notebook Bodl.

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דיון אחד

MS heb. f 56/4–5. There is also the text of Exodus xx. 12-26 in shorthand writing.

תגים

• calendar

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Partially in Judaeo-Arabic (אלחאל חסאב פרוצהם), but maybe also with some Judaeo-Persian. The names would have unusual spellings if this were from Egypt (בראהים; צוליימון).

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Bifolio. Mentions Ismāʿīl; al-qāḍī; jujube; quince oxymel (sakanjabīl al-ṣafarjall); rose syrup; Jirja(?)

תגים

• list

אין רשומות קשורות

Lists of names according to different households/families: The household/family of al-masmu', Umm Nasar b. al-Silsali? Baqa, Rsabi and so forth.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Medical prescription in Arabic script. Some phrases: 'manzūʿ al-ʿajam' (l-4), 'muṣaffā ʿalā'' (l-5), and fī niṣf mithqāl' (l-6).

תגים

• prescription

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

NB: This fragment is marked Image 9 in the IIIF link but also ENA 3503.A.5 on the spine of its protective sheath.

תגים

• cmp

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Detailed accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, with at least one word in Judaeo-Arabic (al-Kohen). Mentions 'al-maṭbakh' several times - the sugar factory?

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto contains few words in large Arabic script. Also the name of the teacher Yiṣḥaq b. Ḥayyim.

תגים

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• to examine

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Needs examination. On verso there is also a Judaeo-Arabic text praising the attributes of God.

תגים

• dimme

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Business letter mentioning the copying of quires (karārīs) for Sayyidunā al-Nasi. Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān has told the writer that the addressee had sent 4.5 dirhams, but the money never arrived.

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• book trade
• copying

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentioning various ruqʿas. Names include Ṣedaqa; al-Segulat; al-ḥakīm. May join with JRL B 2284 (PGPID 28422).

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אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1150–1181 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Natan he-Ḥaver (1150–81). Also signed by Shela b. Shemuel ha-Levi. Unclear if any of the details are preserved.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment addressed to ʿAbd al-[Karī?]m (or al-Raḥīm?). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: No earlier than 15th century; uses the currencies medin and ashrafī.

תגים

• ashrafi
• medin

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Shaʿbān 1246 Hijrī (15 January 1831–12 February 1831 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Receipt of rent, late, Ottoman era, in Arabic script. Maʿtūq al-Yahūdī paid two months of rent from Shaʿbān to the end of Shawwāl for the shop he rented in Ḥārat al-Yahūd.

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תגים

• dimme
• late arabic
• seal

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions a collector of funds of some kind (jābī l-muwāzana), and a judge al-Qāḍī al-Ḥusaynī.

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תגים

• dimme

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions Fāṭima (and underneath ḥurra—are the others slaves?); Sitt al-Bashr; and Sitt al-Karam. On verso the word ṭabbākha (cook) appears.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Scribed and signed by Shelomo b. Meir. Also signed by Avraham b. David. Needs examination.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The beginning of the second page what is probably a petition, written by a boy who was abandoned by his father before he was born. Mentioning also precious gold and silver items from the mother's dowry.

תגים

• communal
• petition

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

One of the parties is Elʿazar; also mentions "the brothers." (Information in part from CUDL)

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Page from a court notebook concerning the verdict of the court in Fustat, written by Avraham, son of the Gaon, December 1026. See also T-S 8J6.18 A and B and T-S 8J6.18 C.

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תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Reused for accounts in Arabic script (also on recto) and a letter in Judaeo-Arabic (on verso).

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תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There are a few lines in Arabic script on the facing page, which also seem literary.

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תעתוק אחד