Documents

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Concerns half of something (a house? a shop?) located in al-Sūq al-Kabir.

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תגים

• halfon b. menashshe

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

(Information from CUDL.) See also Goitein's note card.

תגים

• 11th c
• ketubba
• marriage

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Possibly Ayyubid or Mamluk-era. May refer to ʿAlamal-Dīn b. Bū l-Majd in the first long line, and a specific dīwān in the second long line.

אין רשומות קשורות

List of daily collections in which almostall the benefactors give one or two dirhams.

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• arabic script
• charity
• communal
• gift of money
• poverty
• (+ 1 עוד)

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions payments to various agents (wukalāʾ) including Būlāq and Jiblīl (? גיבליל) and "al-Gharbī" and Bashṭa (בשטה or בשכוה?). Verso is headed "al-Gharbī" and one entry refers to "the dry" and the next to אלאלין (some category of grain?).

דיון אחד

Document date

30 Tishrei 1351 Seleucid (21 October 1039 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ṭoviyya b. Yefet ha-Levi and ʿAllūn b. Faraj testify that on the eve of Passover 1350 Seleucid (April 1039 CE), they were present in the house of Sulaymān b. […] Lieberman understands this document very differently, interpreting the term mufāwaḍa as meaning "partnership" rather than "argument" and speculating that Sulaymān may have been the senior partner in an unspecified business partnership with Ṭoviyya, ʿAllūn, and Khalaf. He suggests that Ṭoviyya and ʿAllūn demanded a payout from the partnership, to be distributed by Sulaymān, who refused, claiming that Ṭoviyya and ‘Allūn have received their final settlements, and that Khalaf is free from his obligations to them. […] In yet another handwriting, the document validates the signatures of Tuviyya and ‘Allūn in the permanent court in Fusṭāṭ some months after their initial testimony was recorded in the home of Sulaymān in Cairo.

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תגים

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

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Document date

5416 Anno Mundi (2 October 1655–18 September 1656 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

The term המרבע is used throughout to describe the property, perhaps denoting a "square" family residential compound. The property also had an upper-story apartment. At the original time of writing in 1643 CE, Mordekhay רקאק was renting one property, and Shemuʾel Ibn Yaḥyā rented another from the Castro family's real estate holdings (for which the street itself was possibly named, l. 3). […] Yiṣḥaq stipulates that the properties cannot be pledged as marital wealth in any ketubba or as collateral for debts. The document also mentions Yiṣḥaq's sister Esther, widow of Yosef Saʿadya, noting that Yosef (Castro) was also the maternal nephew (בן בתו) of Yosef Saʿadya– which means that Yiṣḥaq and Yosef Saʿadya married each other's sister. […] This potential surname פטסו may be an alternate spelling of the one attested (פתסו) in AIU VII.D.55 (PGPID 30551).

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• 17th c
• castro

תעתוק אחד

Document date

29th Sivan 1456 Seleucid (22 June 1145 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Deals with the sale of a house in the al-Mamṣūṣa quarter in Fustat for 123 dinars. Dated: 29 Sivan 1456 Seleucid = 22 June 1145 CE. […] Verso: ʿAzīza bt. Abū Naṣr al-Marsā[nī] receives from ("al-Peʾer") Abū Saʿīd b.

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תגים

• ledger
• register

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Possibly addressed to 'the dear brother al-Kohen Hadar ha-Soḥerim." Dating: Early 13th century. […] He advises the addressee to look after the boy and not to beat him (lā tasṭū ʿalayhi bi-ʿunf) and to tell him to look after his sister and mother (at least if "your mother" refers to the boy rather than the addressee). He complains about al-Raḍiyy. Regards to Samḥūn and his siblings and father; to Eliyyahu and his son; to Abū l-Faraj and Bū Mubārak and their wives.

תגים

• education
• secret

תעתוק אחד

Document date

Thursday, 17 Nisan 1483 Seleucid (13 April 1172 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Inventory of the estate of the physician Abū l-Riḍā al-Levi, which was designated for the benefit of the orphan daughter of ʿImrān by order of "the great Rav Moshe," that is, Maimonides, who had recently been appointed head of the Jews. Also mentions the dead man's female slave named Musk.

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תגים

• estate
• head of the jews
• maimonides
• orphans
• slaves

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to Menaḥem the physician, in the horseshoers' market (fī al-musammirīn) in Fustat or Cairo. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic, with the first five lines written in Arabic script. […] He asks for small quantities of silk. Umm ʿAjam also asks for news and tells the addressee to return as soon as he has finished his work.

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תגים

• bialphabetic
• personal

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yosef b. Shemarya ha-Dayyan al-Barqī (Alexandria) to Nahray b. Nissim (Fustat).

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תגים

• nahray b. nissim
• trade

3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד

Document date

21 Av 1394 Seleucid (8 August 1083 CE)

Wadʿa and Abū Zikrī, and also with a man who was married and divorced before consummation in Tyre and remarried in al-Mahalla.

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תגים

• adoption
• court notebook
• oaths
• register
• remarriage

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Av – Elul 1527 Seleucid (18 July 1216–14 September 1216 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso, doc. 1: Abū l-Khayr Ibn al-Iskāf acknowledges a debt of 6.5 dinars to Maḥāsin b. […] Verso, doc. 2: The three children of Maʿānī al-Ḥarīrī and an in-law of theirs sells something belonging to them in the town of Sammanūd to Abū l-Thanāʾ b. […] Verso, doc. 3: Involves Abū l-Faraj al-Ṣāʾigh and a sum of 10 qirats and Abū l-Surūr Ibn Maṭrūḥ.

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תגים

• glyph

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Addressed to 'our son Sulaymān' in 'al-Maḥrūsa' (Cairo), Ḥārat al-Yahud. Dating: Late, probably 18th or 19th century. The last line of the first section seems to be a verse of poetry, probably referring to separation rather than to an actual dispute: "And when God's decree persists between me and you (pl.), I will die a stranger, wa-l-salāmu ʿalaykumū." The next section begins by addressing itself to 'our beloved daughter Sarah' and continues with wishes for her good health and informing her of the writers' good health and their yearning to see her.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1146–1159 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

It is crucial to note that 22 Tammuz also fell on a Thursday in variety of other years during Shemuel b. […] Therefore, this document's association with the exact year 14[60] requires further explication/research. Hiba the weaver (al-Ḥāyik) known as Ibn Nuʿmān accepts the obligation to appear in court on Monday 26 Tamuz together with the agent of the qodesh Sālim/Shelomo b.

תעתוק אחד

Inferred date

1100–1100 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Mukhtar b. Yaʿaqov to Abu l-ʿAlā Ṣāʿid b. Naja describing Ḥasan b. Bundār's assistance. Abu l-ʿAlā Ṣāʿid, the "Trustee", was a close confidant of Mevōrākh b. Saadya, the court physician and Rayyis al-Yahūd of the Fatimid Empire at the time. The letter primarily concerns goods — cloves and aromatic wood — traded between the sender and the addressee.

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תגים

• arabic to examine
• ib2
• india book

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a brother admonishing Sitt Ikhtiṣār and Sitt al-Wasṭāniyya to take good care of their mother and younger sister (by pawning something to send them money to buy grain). […] The sender has sent two sleeping carpets (waṭāwayn), one for the girl (al-ṣabiyya) and the other for Misk ("Musk"), the girl's female slave (jāriya). The handwriting of this letter looks very similar or identical with that of T-S NS J3, and some of the same names appear in each letter, including Abū l-Surūr, Abū ʿAlī, and Sitt Ikhtiṣār. (Information in part from Goitein's index cards.)

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תגים

• family
• personal

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1128–1128 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

ʿOvadya and asked the addressee to hand over the money which Avraham al-Qalʿī (apparently also of Seville) owed to Ḥalfon.

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תגים

• 12th c
• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• india book

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ishaq of Ceuta, Morocco, who had fled Almohad persecution in his native country about 35 years earlier. […] He asks the addressee, also of Maghribi origins, for charity. Ca. 1181.

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תגים

• appeal
• disability
• disability: vision
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• (+ 1 עוד)

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Shemuel the son of the merchant and the writer's wife have also arrived. He asks his mother to assure Shemuel's wife that Shemuel is doing well, and Shemuel's wife's sister (Marḥaba or Muraḥḥaba) that her husband Faraj Allāh is doing well.

תגים

• personal

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

585 Hijrī (19 February 1189–7 February 1190 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in which a merchant returning, it seems from overseas, and embarking on another prolonged journey, lists 27 assets totaling 460 dinars regarding which action had to be taken. He also mentions debts due him from both Jews and Muslims, among them Maḥāsin b. Sulaymān, the tax-farmer of Saniya (v38) and Ṣadaqa b. al-Raḥbī, the tax-farmer of Sandafā (who owes 24 dinars, v44–45).

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תגים

• merchant

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Dating: Probably late Mamluk or early Ottoman-era (based on handwriting, format, linguistic features). Mentions al-muʿallim Ibrāhīm Ibn al-Ṣawwāf and Ismāʿīl; the addressee's mother sends her greetings and says "by the [breast?] […] and the ghulām of the qāḍī Shams al-Dīn, "nothing of what you said is true." The letter concludes with greetings to various people, including the addressee's wife (zawjatak) and family (ahl baytak).

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Recto (original use): Bottom of a formal petition, or most likely a report due to state related affairs discussed, in Arabic script, mentioning "al-thaghr" (=Alexandria?) and merchandise and the money of the diwan.

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תגים

• petition
• report
• to edit

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Daniel), recommending collections to be arranged on behalf of the petitioner in al-Maḥalla and Alexandria. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 508.)

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תגים

• appeal
• communal
• nahray b. nissim

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Legal query to the jurisconsult Shihāb al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī Muḥammad b. Maḥmūd Abū l-Fatḥ (active in Egypt after 1183/84 CE) regarding liability for damaged property. […] The question is followed by the legal opinion by al-Ṭūsī (possibly an autograph). Dating: ca. 12th century.

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תגים

• autograph
• fatwa
• legal query

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: unusual note that does not seem to be a classic address; it is written vertically and 90 degrees to the direction of the text on the other side, which suggests it was written after the fragment was already torn. It reads, "Letters from [my? your?] brother from Yemen, to be sent to Sicily/Palermo along with my letter, God willing." Maybe the letter on recto was torn to create scrap paper, and this note was then enclosed along with a bundle of letters to be forwarded from Yemen to Sicily via Egypt.

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תגים

• hinge
• ib-addenda
• india book unedited
• sicily
• yemen

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(II) The other entry (verso continuing onto the bottom and margin of recto) involves a woman and her husband; 56 dinars; rent; an oath taken by Ghālib; a house in the alley of the synagogue; garments and items of jewelry; the dispute between Ghālib and his sister Bārra over the sale of a partial house and who is obligated to pay the ḥikr. (It's possible that these are two or three distinct records rather than one long one.) See also T-S 18J2.5 (PGPID 3528), involving the same Ghālib and Bārra.

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תגים

• hikr

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Jumādā II 517 Hijrī (27 July 1123–24 August 1123 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

After the initial "ṣaḥḥa bism X," it continues "min jumla mā yajib ʿalayhi min kharāj. . . ." It is "for the months of the year 526." […] It seems to be for a total of a single dīnār. There is an ʿalāma at upper right and additional confirmation of the sum in the middle of the upper margin. The scribe's signature does not give a specific date but only "fī l-taʾrīkh al-madkhūr."

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Aramaic

The focus on Persia in this text and its mention of a king seem to suggest a pre-Islamic date, perhaps originally a non-Jewish context, and the mention of Jews may be a later insertion. There are also many parallels to Akkadian astrology. Empty brackets indicate lacunae in the manuscript. (Information from Posen Library) Alt. Description: Description of disasters, famines and frightful events due to happen in each of the Jewish months, mentioning the Jews and their slavery, the Arabs and their need for food, and the River Nile and its drought.

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תגים

• astrology
• brontologia
• disaster
• prognostication

2 תרגומים

Document date

Tevet 1451 Seleucid (December 1139 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

One of the entries according to Goitein's index card: Sitt al-Iraq bt. Yaʾir the wife of Abū l-Maʿālī Netanel gives her son Abū Saʿd one quarter of a house in the Darb al-Zanājiliyyīn ('the street of the canister makers') and the other quarter to her daughter Sitt al-Banīn.

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דיון אחד

Document date

Thursday, 24 Ṭevet 1477 Seleucid (30 December 1165 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

(The mirror image large letters overlying the text are ink transfer from T-S Misc.20.103, which also contains additional several lines of imprinted text originally from T-S Misc.20.100 which have since been torn away.) […] Yeshuʿa ha-Zaqen and Sitt al-Nasab, dated Thursday, 24 Tevet 1477 Seleucid = 30 December 1165 CE, under the authority of the Gaʾon Netanʾel ha-Levi (recto), with part of the trousseau list preserved (verso).

תגים

• ketubba
• reshut

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Khalīl ha-Levi, [...] bt. Bū ʿAlī b. Ṭoviyya/Ṭībān b. Khalīl ha-Levi, and Sayyida bt. […] On the other side there are more details about the dispute—it concerned shares in a house known as "the house of Ibn Khalīl" in the alley known as Zuqāq al-Bawādīl(?).

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אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

13 Elul 5569 Anno Mundi (25 August 1809 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Hamān and Ḥefez write with news of shipments and/or payment transfers, listed by "nu[mero] 15" "nu[mero] 10" etc. some of which were carried by the boat captain Barkar(?) al-kabīr. They also send updates about a money-purse (bolṣa) of 10,283 medin that Maḥmūd Ḥasan received from Avraham Yaʿabeṣ (or perhaps vice-versa) and the prices of coffee, which are improving due to news from Istanbul.

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תגים

• 19th c
• avraham haman
• gavriel hefez
• haman & hefez
• karo y frances
• (+ 1 עוד)

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: late 14th century. Likely sent from al-Maḥalla to Fustat, to al-Ḥakīm Abū [...] near the Palestinian synagogue. The sender has heard upsetting news involving a Christian and the physician (al-ḥakīm) Abū l-Ḥasan and the financial problems of the addressee.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

These three blessings, all preserved in the Cairo Geniza, were likely recited in Rabbanite synagogues in Fustāt (Old Cairo) or its surroundings. […] The second blessing was to be said for readings from the Writings (Ketuvim) on the Sabbath, and the third for Psalms. [these prayers are also preserved in T-S Or.1080 3.52 and T-S NS 155.1] (Information from Posen Library)

2 תרגומים

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In which Eliyya b. [...] acknowledges that he has received 18.25 dinars from Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya; then mentions "all the coral given to me by way of [...]"; then [...] ha-Levi ha-Sar ha-Nikhbad (=Eliyya?). This document is related to ENA 2712.10 + T-S NS 320.111 (PGPID 11444); might be a join. The same two parties also appear in T-S 8J11.12 (PGPID 16210), which is dated 1123/24 CE.

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תעתוק אחד

He mentions an incident on Friday when he attempted to use the toilet after three days without a bowel movement, which is when the guard beat him. "They were alsoallowed to send letters out of prison, some of which we still have, and since in one such letter a complaint is made against a particularly wicked jailer who cursed and beat the writer without reason, we may assume that in some places at least the authorities in charge did not tolerate excesive cruelty."

תגים

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: gastrointestinal
• prison
• toilet

דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: 16th century, as the largest portion concerns the expenses of Moshe לחמית traveling to Jerusalem (taraqqi al-quds); the same man appears in Moss. IV,93, which dates to ~1557 CE. […] The purchases in Gaza include firewood, shīrīn (=sweets?), fodder (ʿalīq), laundry straw, chickens, rice, eggs, coffee. The purchases in Ramla include all the same and more. The tables on verso are clearly written but inscrutable—perhaps this is an accounting shorthand.

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תגים

• coffee

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

They have been in Bilbays only a brief time, since 17 Iyyar, seeking a living there because of difficult economic conditions in Alexandria. But this project has not worked out, and so they are planning to return to Alexandria. […] He mentions his weak vision earlier in the letter, too, when explaining the "delay of my raḥl (merchandise? travel?)." Also of interest in the letter is what Abū l-Faraj conveys about his hospitality for Eliyyahu's son, the physician Abū Zikrī, who returned from Jerusalem the previous year. […] When the writer and his son, along with Asad and Abū l-Munā, started preparing to travel (to Fustat?)

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תגים

• 13th c
• abu zikri al-rayyis
• disability
• disability: vision
• illness
• (+ 4 עוד)

3 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions the wool market (Sūq al-Ṣūf). Mentions various garments including sūsiyyas and fūṭas. Mentions people such as Yosef, Mūsā, Mukhtār al-Iskandarānī, and Khalaf.

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תגים

• unedited 11th c

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to the shop of Abū Ṭāhir b. Abū Naṣr al-Kohen Kelil ha-Yofi, in Sūq al-ʿAṭṭārīn, in Fustat.

דיון אחד