Documents

Inferred date

1051–1051 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Ismāʿīl b. Salāma al-Ghazāl, al-Bahnasa, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat.

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תגים

• grain
• officials
• state
• suftaja
• trade

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions commodities such as bamboo chalk and aloe. Mentions people such as Ibn al-Farrāsh and the faqīh Abū ʿAbdallāh b.

תגים

• trade

תעתוק אחד

Document date

Thursday, 7 Ṭevet 1338 Seleucid (19 December 1026 CE)

Lawsuit concerning a consignment of oil, which upon its arrival in Alexandria was left in the ship instead of being forwarded immediately to Fustat because the merchant in charge of it went directly to Palestine.

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Iyyar 1411 Seleucid (12 April 1100–10 May 1100 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Legal document draft in which Mevorakh b. Shelomo, known as Ibn al-Natira, declares to owe Meshullam b. Mevasser b. Pinhas al-Damiri 120 and one-half dinars. Dated Iyyar 1411 Seleucid = April/May 1100 CE.

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תגים

• debt

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer requests the excellent jug of wine (al-nabīdh al-mamzūj) that Ḥiyya had promised him on Saturday, as he received bloodletting today, and the doctor prescribed that he drink wine afterward.

תגים

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: bloodletting
• illness: treatment
• illness: wine
• (+ 1 עוד)

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to a dignitary ("the head of the Yeshiva of the Torah") in Judaeo-Arabic, reporting that Yosef Ibn al-Salamantī(?) came to al-muʿallim Farajallāh complaining to him about the behavior of his wife ("she is on the wrong path and has sinned...").

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1127–1139 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from the wife of Shemuel, a poor woman from al-Maḥalla, addressed to the Gaon Maṣliaḥ. She asks for assistance for herself and for her blind son, particularly for paying the capitation tax. She had already been in Fustat one month without relying on anyone for charity.

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תגים

• appeal
• capitation tax
• charity
• communal
• disability
• (+ 6 עוד)

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד 2 דיונים

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Left lower fragment of a settlement concerning books, including al-Ḥāwī fī l-Ṭibb and books of poetry. Involves parties including Abū Saʿīd; Abū Naṣr b. Yosef Ibn al-Qalʿī. Signed by Elʿazar b. [...]; Yosef b. Yiṣḥaq Yerushalmi; Avraham b.

תגים

• paper

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Early Elul 1476 Seleucid (August 1165 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Release granted by Hiba al-Labbān b. Abū Naṣr, the brother and heir of the late Abū l-Ḥasan al-Mustaʿmal, to his sister-in-law Bushr bt.

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תגים

• dated
• release

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Eliyahu Ashtor, “The Number of Jews in Medieval Egypt,” JJS, vol. 19 (1968), 22) EMS (See also Mediterranean Society, II, pp. 47, 532)

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תגים

• cheese
• communal

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Verso (probably the secondary use): Records of a slaughterer (presumably Shelomo or his father Eliyyahu, since ritual slaughter for the local community is also mentioned in the letter on recto). Table in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals listing day of the week, name of the customer, and how many animals (raʾs) were slaughtered.

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תגים

• slaughter

דיון אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

Regards are sent to the recipient’s sons, Mevorakh and Yehuda, and also to his mother, on behalf of the writer’s son.

תגים

• communal

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Copy or formulary of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, damaged, almost entirely consisting of honorifics and praises. Might name somebody titled Zayn al-Dīn (unless that is just another term of respect for the recipient).

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A version of the second of them is still circulating in online forums, attribution unclearتغيرت الايام وانقلب الدهرو ~ وصار خيار الناس ليس لهو قدرووصار اخم الناس يعلو خيارهم ~ فما اصبح الايام وما اعجب الدهرو. In the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī.

תגים

• arabic poetry
• nasir

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

495/524 Hijrī (1101–1130 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Report to the Fatimid caliph al-Āmir bi-Aḥkām Allāh regarding the arrival of five Christian (Rūm) merchants carrying timber: Sergius son of Constantine, [name partly illegible], Grasso son of Leo the Amalfitan, [name partly illegible] and Bon Senyon the Genoese.

תגים

• byzantines
• timber

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Verso: Letter of appeal for charity addressed to al-Rayyis Yūsuf. In Arabic script, calligraphic with large letters. Asking him to bestow two garments (thawbayn) on the sender, since his family is almost dying from the cold. The letter is probably addressed to a Jewish communal leader but uses a state petition formula.

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תגים

• charity
• dimme
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: colic
• (+ 2 עוד)

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

On verso there is part of an address preserved in Judaeo-Arabic (yaṣil li-yad al-muʿ[allim?]).

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentioning dirhams, the capitation tax, and names such as Binyamin, Yaʿaqov and Yaḥyā. Also mentions 'Rabbenu'; Gaza; and paying 'in any place in Syria.'

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תגים

• capitation tax
• jaliya
• jizya
• tax

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions "the house of the Jerusalemites" (Dār al-Maqādisa), Abū Khalaf, "your wife," and greetings from the sender's wife or mother (wa-sittī tusallim ʿalayk).

תגים

• bialphabetic

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Names include the son of the Syracusan (בן הסריקוסי;) the kohen Naṣrallāh al-Ghazzāwī; the son of Abū Saʿīd; the ḥakīm Elʿazar Mesinas(?); Saʿīd al-Ḥakīm; Abū l-Faraj; and several more. Verso appears similar but is too damaged to read.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Distribution of wheat to Europeans/Byzantines (al-Rūm), altogether 49 households including households consisting of only one person.

תגים

• charity
• communal
• poverty
• recipients
• wheat

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary languages

Arabic, Persian

Literary text, mainly in Persian. Also with some Arabic, including two lines of poetry on verso before it reverts to Persian.

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

19 Rabiʿ II 566 Hijrī (30 December 1170 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

"The birth of my son Abū l-Fakhr was Wednesday, the fourth hour of the night. . . the fifth hour. . . the 19th of Rabīʿ II 566 [=30 December 1170 CE]." The date is also given according to the Coptic calendar (the month of Ṭūba).

תגים

• birth record

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions "the period of his dwelling in the qāʿa where Umm al-Futūḥ lives." The letter is very deferential and the writer is asking the addressee (al-majlis) for some kind of help or guidance.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Including the 'eighth house belonging to Mikhaʾel, the commander of the army who is an amputee' (ṣāḥib al-jaysh al-aʿraj/lil-aʿraj). Seems to be written by Natan b.

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• natan b. avraham

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

('as one of the poets said....'; also correctly truncates verbs that follow 'lam,' which is unusual in documentary sources).

תגים

• poetry

אין רשומות קשורות

Letter from Natan b. Nahray, from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1080.

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תגים

• 11th c

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yūsuf known as בן כדורה attests that he owes 71 dinars to Barakāt b. Yosef Ibn al-Lebdī (who died prior to 1146 CE, giving an approximate date for this document). It seems that Yaʿqūb is now paying 20 dinars toward the total. Mentions "al-muʿāmilīn."

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תגים

• lebdi

דיון אחד

Document date

29 Nisan 1543 Seleucid (20 April 1232 CE)

Dated: 29 Nisan 1543 Seleucid, which is April 1232 CE. The widow (Sitt al-)Tujjār bt. Manṣūr claims that 10 shares in a house in Bilbays belong to her children as heirs of her husband. Tujjār's sister-in-law's husband, Abū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Yosef ha-Kohen, produces Arabic deeds, not confirmed by a Jewish court, showing that the children's grandmother had sold him those shares. […] At the advice of experts, Abū l-ʿAlāʾ agrees to pay his nephews 300 dirhams. (Information from Goitein, Med Soc, vol. 4, p. 276, and Goitein notes and index card linked below.)

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תגים

• draft
• family
• inheritance
• property

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yiṣḥaq to Shelomo b. Yehuda ha-Kohen (also called ha-Talmid ha-Navon Segan ha-Kohanim). […] He has received news from travelers about trouble with the judge (qāḍī) of Tyre and the Quṭūrī amir (Quṭūr is in the Nile Delta, near al-Maḥalla). The Nagid intervened to help resolve the situation.

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תעתוק אחד

Document date

1138–1139 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yaʿaqov the physician, possibly in Granada, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel, in Almeria. Dating: 1138–39 CE. Same sender as T-S 13J17.22. […] Apparently the three men—Ḥalfon, Yaʿaqov, and Abū Ayyūb—had all been traveling companions until they parted ways in Almeria.

תגים

• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• india book

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer adds that if the Muslim divine Jamāl al-Din travels to Fustat, he (Shelomo?) should accompany him. […] Previous description for CUL Or.1080 J125 (old PGPID 8895): A loss of 54 1/4 dirhems on house repairs reported to Shelomo by Abū l-Faraj of Alexandria-- see Goitein Nachlass material. Joins: Oded Zinger.

תגים

• personal

3 תעתוקים 2 דיונים

Document date

Tammuz 1456 Seleucid (24 June 1145–22 July 1145 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ḥananya. The goldsmith (al-ṣāʾigh) Yosef b. Yehuda al-Shomer acknowledges a debt of 30 wariq dirhams owed to the parnas Abū ʿAlī Yefet b.

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דיון אחד

Inferred date

1060–1080 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Ḥayyim ha-Kohen (a.k.a. Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllūn b. Yaʿīsh), in Fustat. In Hebrew, with the address in Arabic. Gil describes this as a draft but does not explain why he thinks so. He also notes that this is not the handwriting of the well-known Natan b.

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2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Document date

Sunday, 29 Tammuz 4898 Anno Mundi (10 July 1138 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yiṣḥaq Ibn Barukh, in Almeria, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi. Dated: Sunday, 29 Tammuz 4898 AM = 10 July 1138 CE. […] (Information from Goitein, 'Rabbi Yehuda ha-Levi in Spain in the light of the Geniza papers', Tarbiz, 24 (1955), pp. 136-137). VMR. See also India Book IVB.

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תגים

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

3 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Apart from the address, some further lines in Arabic script, and a Judaeo-Arabic pen trial, there is the four-line response from Ḥalfon mentioning ḍarībat al-jumʿa ('the tax of the week'?). Ḥalfon has also gone back and fixed the titles from Meir's letter.

תגים

• arabic address
• letter norms

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The father has sent 20 dirhams with Abū l-ʿAlāʾ, of which 11 dirhams are for the capitation tax and the remainder for his wife ("bayt"). He exhorts his son to behave well (ḥusn al-ʿishra) with the latter's mother, wife, and siblings. He alludes to various sorts of grief and illness affecting both the family members and himself.

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תגים

• capitation tax
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• jaliya
• tax

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

23 Nisan [4810] Anno Mundi (18 April 1050 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ṣadaqa (verso) to Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī. Written on Isru Ḥag (the day after the holiday), probably of Passover, as ENA 2805.14 (PGPID 695), written in Nisan, concerns the same issue of retrieving Nahray's capitation tax receipt for the year 441 AH (= 1049/50 CE). […] Gil's dating of the document to April 1051 CE is less likely but also possible. Apart from the tax receipt issue, deals with various other business matters.

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תגים

• capitation tax

3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Syriac (Serto)

Recto: portion of the beginning of a Syriac hymn ‘My bones shall cry out’. This hymn is also found in the Book of Beth Gazo. It belongs to the Qolo ‘The father has written a letter,’ melody no. 2. […] The hymn then goes on to state that ‘if I have any doubt’ about this, may I be thrown into Gehenna with Nestorius’. Verso: alphabetical writing exercise in Syriac, repeating ‘in the name of the Father, the Son and the Living Holy Spirit’.

תגים

• syriac

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Concerning a muqaddam who demanded that his name be included in the kaddish as had been done for his predecessors (man taqaddamahu min al-muqaddamīn). "Some of the congregation opposed him, for their own reasons" (M. […] Friedman has suggested that these were also opponents of Avraham Maimonides, see "A Bitter Protest about Elimination of Piyyutim from the Service — A Request to Appeal to the Sultan [Hebrew]," Peʿamim 1999).

תגים

• legal query
• muqaddam

דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He inquires about business matters: if the money has been sent, if all of it was spent on flax, whether flax is cheap or expensive, whether the addressee has any requests from the neighborhood. Mentions ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Zayyāt, who says no one brought him anything.

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תגים

• illness
• late ja

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Exhorting him to "do his work" (iqḍi shughlak) and also refers to "this man" (the same unfortunate man from recto?). Urges haste in responding to his letter (jawāb al-kitāb surʿa surʿa). Needs further examination.

תגים

• tarsim

אין רשומות קשורות