Documents

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The phrase "mā yujtabā" is also preserved, but unclear what this means.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Letter from Ayash b. Ṣedaqa, Alexandria, to an unknown addressee. Dating: January 1051.

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תגים

• commodities
• credit
• prices
• shipping
• trade

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Sukkarī (or Zikrī?) in Alexandria reporting that the Rūmī cheese had arrived and that the writer had sent the desired ceramics (fukhkhār).

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תגים

• alexandria
• arabic address
• cheese
• personal

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Tuesday, 23 Iyyar 1436 Seleucid (1125 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Written and signed by Avraham b. [...]; also signed by Levi b. Avraham. There is confirmation of receipt on verso.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Currencies: gold cedid (f.1r), קרונה, several more. There are also some narrative notes ('memorandum against forgetting. . .').

תגים

• late arabic script
• ledger
• list

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The term "וזן" appears repeatedly under the archival tape that was applied along the right border of the recto. Mentions people such as Ibn ʿAṭiyya, al-Sharīf, and Ibn Ghazāl.

תגים

• cmp

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Note in Judaeo-Arabic saying "our lord" - probably the recipient - has already told R. Eliyahu (the 13th century judge) on Friday to give the rest of the alimony which is 4 dirhems to R. yedutun and he responded "Yes" - not the note is asking that this be done.

תגים

• yedutun ha-levi

דיון אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Medieval era. There is also an extensive chain of numerals below the right column.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Letter from Abū l-ʿAlā b. Hiba Abū l-Ḥasan(?) to Abū Saʿīd b. Abū Naṣr al-Mafjār (?)

תגים

• dimme

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

1122–1150 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Someone makes an acknowledgment in favor of Sayyid al-Kull. In the missing upper part of the document there was an interlinear insertion reading "all of it without installments."

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Order instructing al-Shaykh al-Asʿad to pay a certain sum to the bearer Abū l-Karam.

תגים

• cmp

אין רשומות קשורות

Saʿadya Jabbān(?) (גבאן). There is also a variety of text in Arabic script that requires further examination, possibly from a previously stage of paper usage.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: The introduction to a Judaeo-Arabic treatise, either identical with or merely citing Yaḥyā b. Dāwud's Kitāb al-Ibāna ʿan Ḥurūf [...] al-ʿIbrānīya. This was underlined in red, presumably in modern times.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

כתא) including one "to Alexand[r]ia," one called תדרכי נפשי עז, and one to [...] b.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1700–1900 CE

Lists in Judaeo-Arabic of itemized food ingredients, quantities, and associated dates. One of the lists also includes surnames. Based on the paleography the dating is likely 18th/19th-century.

תגים

• 18th or 19th c
• lemon
• sarma
• sesame
• tahina

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and alphanumerical figures. On the verso there are clearly labeled entries that are common for the 16th-18th centuries yet on the recto lie the remnants of extensive lists that repeatedly interject the word "zero / צפר" between alphanumerical figures.

תגים

• list

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Mentions: Barakāt, Abū l-Ḥasan b. Makārim; Abū l-ʿAlāʾ; Mufaḍḍal his neighbor; Fuḍayl; al-ʿAṭṭār; meat; chard; leek; lemon; pigeon or bath;

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Letter to Abū l-Faraj, reporting that the writer has met with R. David; it also mentions Abū l-Riḍā, Yosef and 157 dirhams.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer is in some perplexity about 'what I should do regarding Rashīd, since I rarely come to Fustat.' He also asks whether the addressee has obtained something from Barakāt.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The house is located in the al-Mamṣūṣa neighborhood of Fustat. Mentions the alley of אלמזני.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Fragment of a letter from Yehuda b. Sahl, Alexandria(?), to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Dating: ca. 1050.

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2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document concerning inheritance issues of the late Jamīla al-Musulmāniyya, mother of Avraham and Eliyyahu Levi, who had converted to Islam and married Ḥasan al-Sharqāwī after the death of her husband Khidr Palomba.

תגים

• apostasy
• conversion

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

About the definition of "moredet" ("rebellious (wife)"); this authority says that it refers only to a woman who refuses to sleep with her husband, not other kinds of 'rebelliousness.' Also mentions the consequences for the return of the dowry.

דיון אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to a physician, with blessings for his sons Saʿadya and Abū Mansur Elʿazar, and mentioning the sender's longing for a third person. Also with greetings to Abū l-Surūr and the kohanim the sons of Ibn Ḥaffāẓ.

תגים

• physician

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

17 Sivan 5646 Anno Mundi (20 June 1886 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: 17 Sivan [5]646 AM = 20 June 1886 CE. Either to or from Alexandria (סקנדרייה יעא). Has mdoern Maghribī dialect features including -דייאל for 'belonging to.'

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אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Kislev 1321 Seleucid (1009 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information from CUDL; see also Goitein's index card.)

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Different merchants recorded their shipments, probably from Mahdiyya to Alexandria. Mentions fabrics, cloths from Qayrawan, silk, tin, and oil.

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Thursday, 25 Ḥeshvan 1628 Seleucid (11 November 1316 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: Thursday, 25 Ḥeshvan 1628 Seleucid = 11 November 1316 CE, under the authority (reshut) of Avraham II Maimonides. Minyat Zifta is also named in the last remaining line. ASE/MCD

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תגים

• avraham ii maimonides

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Signed by: Shelomo b. ʿEli (signed also ENA 2556.12 (PGPID 15839) ca. late 10th century); David b.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Trousseau list of Sitt al-Suʿadā, written and signed by Moshe b. Peraḥya (active ca. 1220–34) and Yiṣḥaq b. […] "by way of Yemen" (ṭarīq al-yaman, v11). (Information in part from CUDL and Goitein's index card.)

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to Abu al-Ḥasan 'Allun the parnas (Eli b. Yahya, dated documents 1057-1107) about a case of inheritance, with a recommendation for a bashful young Jewish man as a flax worker.

תגים

• communal
• flax
• inheritance

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Acknowledgment of debt. Lender: Abū l-ʿAlāal-Ṣabbāgh (the dyer) b. Abū Saʿd. Borrower: Abu ʿImrān ʿAmram ha-Levi ha-Talmid.

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תגים

• bara'a
• debt
• quittance
• release

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions the receipt of expressions of condolence (on the death of his father). Mentions Alexandria. This Tunisian merchant commuted between Egypt and his homeland.

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד