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Document date

5365 Anno Mundi (25 September 1604–12 September 1605 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Bottom of a legal document in Hebrew. Location: Alexandria. Concerning a debt. Dated: probably 5365 AM = 1604/05 CE (שנת שללה תקבץ לפק).

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תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

The bride's name is Sitt al-Hus[n]. Although the verb use is אירש, as commonly found in Karaite marriage deeds, this deed is probably Rabbinate, see Ashur, Engagement and Bethrotal, p. 45, n. 157.

תגים

• fgp stub

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Moshe ha-Kohen, ha-Talmid, Abū ʿImrān Ibn al-[...], and al-Raqqī. Seems like a deposition: אנה יעלם אלצחיח אן . . .

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Includes a long list with names, such as [...] b. ʿAllūn known as Ibn al-[..]ān, and Isaac. Signed by Ḥayyim, Joseph, ʿEli b. [...], and ʿEli ha-Kohen.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Elʿazar known as [...], possibly his wife, suing Avraham b. Shemuel al-Ḥemdat, [...] known as Ibn Najā, and Abū l-ʿAlā.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Order of payment in Arabic script. The "judge" (al-dayyān) is asked to pay 4 dinars to the bearer. On verso, in Judaeo-Arabic, the name "Abū l-Ṭāhir al-Miṣrī." Dating: Probably 12th or 13th century.

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• order of payment

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions a sum of Malikī dinars (the gold coins of Yemen in this period, worth "somewhat more than one third of the Fatimid dinar" according to Goitein). Also "my brother" or "the brother of" Abū Naṣr. (Information in part from CUDL)

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• ib-addenda

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Announcement of a threat of excommunication (ḥerem stam) against anyone in Fustat or Cairo or their environs who knows the whereabouts of Abū l-ʿAlā b. Yosef al-Ṭabīb (the physician) and does not inform the Jewish court.

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• avraham maimonides autograph

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Aramaic

Minute fragment, probably from the middle part of a ketubah, based on the mention of דמיפטרא ביה (what that will make her divorce) which is commonly found in marriage stipulations. Also few letters from the immersion clause, that started to appear after 1176.

תגים

• ketubba

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Perhaps having to do with the synagogue’s exemption from tax status, because the ʿummāl have been harassing them. Reused by Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī (d. after 1298).

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תגים

• dammuh
• petition

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

E.g., "Third: Epistle elucidating the beliefs of the Brethren of Purity and the sects of the holy divines (madhāhib al-rabbāniyyīn al-ilāhiyyīn; this probably does not refer to Rabbanites).

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

The addressee is asked to greet/'serve' people on the sender's behalf (ukhdum ʿannī majlis al-shaykh al-ajall...). On verso there are accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

He is a "blind, paralyzed" (aʿmā maflūj) man with dependents, who has been "cut off from all occupations" (munfariṭ ʿan sāʾir al-taṣarrufāt) for 10 years.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The witnesses are Abū Isḥāq al-Tawwazī (אלתווזי); Yosef the cantor; Abū Isḥāq Yosef b. Yaʿaqov the lead worker (al-raṣṣāṣ); "and me" (wa-anā). Looks like the hand of Natan b.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

2 Tammuz, 1504 Seleucid (1193 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Attached to an unknown manuscript copied by Masliaḥ. The document also contains mirrored text, imprinted from a Maimonidean responsum on T-S AS 221.306 (PGPID 40127) over the course of centuries of adjacent storage.

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תגים

• autograph
• cairo
• colophon

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Shemuʾel b. Saʿadya?). There are also various other jottings. (Information in part from CUDL)

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תגים

• autograph
• maimonides
• maimonides autograph

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Petition from an impoverished army veteran who had served in ʿAsqalān, possibly to the vizier Ibn al-Salār (r. 1149–53). 1153 is a terminus ante quem as that is when Ascalon fell to the Franks. However, the petition is not dated and does not refer to Ibn al-Salār by name or by any unique titulature. (Information in part from Khan.)

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תגים

• army
• petition

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Primary language

Arabic

The sender asks for a favor from the graces of the addressee ('al-makārim al-mawlawiyya) in eloquent language.

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תגים

• dimme

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Unusually, the later scribe also wrote over the text of the original ketubba.

תגים

• fotm
• ketubba
• magic
• palimpsest

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Aharon ha-Ḥazzan, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat (?). Dating: ca. 1070.

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תגים

• condolence

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information from Mediterranean Society, III, p. 327; see also Goitein's index card.)

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תגים

• will

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

1445 Seleucid (1134 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

A declaration is made in favor of a certain Abū l-Ḥasan. A parnas is also mentioned.

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תגים

• halfon b. menashshe
• masliah gaon

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

518 Hijrī (19 February 1124–6 February 1125 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Probably related to T-S NS 226.58 (PGPID 24384). Also resembles T-S NS 226.82 (PGPID 24408).

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תגים

• halfon b. menashshe

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter of appeal for charity. From Abū l-Majd to al-Shaykh al-Rashīd. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Perhaps 13th or 14th century.

תגים

• appeal
• capitation tax
• charity
• jaliya

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

May be a deed of sale for a property: mentions a vault (al-qabw) in l. 4 and floor tiles (balāṭ) and stairs (salālaim) in l. 7. Mentions the name [...] b. Saʿīd al-Yahūdī in l. 6.

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

The letters' addressees include: Shelomo the head of Yeshivat Geʾon Yaʿaqov (i.e., the father of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon). There is also reference to the Nagid, probably Moshe b. Mevorakh.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Unrelated to the entry on recto Written and signed by Avraham b. Natan Av. Also signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuʾel, Nissim b. Nahray ha-Rav, and Avraham b.

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• ib-candidate

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Monday, 18 Adar 1430 Seleucid (3 March 1119 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Husband: Ḥalfon b. Mevorakh. Wife: Sitt al-Ahl bt. Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi. On verso, confirmation that Sitt al-Ahl received the geṭ, signed by Meshullam b.

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תגים

• get

תעתוק אחד

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Amulet to make Yosef b. Amira (also known as Yosef b. Efrayim) return quickly to Fustat.

תגים

• fasting
• heartsickness
• magic

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

Part of the heading for a highly decorated ketubba (in Hebrew, although the ketubba text would likely have been in Aramaic). All of the main text has been lost but the heading refers to Sar Shalom ha-Levi, leader of the Jewish community in 1170 and 1177-1195 CE (brother of Gaʾon Nathaniel ha-Levi).

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תגים

• ketubba
• marriage
• sar shalom ha-levi

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

Piyyuṭ for Shabbat Balaq with a colophon. "By Ibn al-Shaṭnāsh (אלשטנאש/الشطناش), may God have mercy on him. Written by the cantor Abū l-Ḥasan the son of the cantor Muʿammar, may God have mercy on him, Ibn al-Jāzfīnī." T-S H15.10 has a piyyuṭ by the same poet (Yosef Ibn Abiṭur).

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

The petitioners ask for the issuance of an authoritative order ensuring that they are charged only the recognised amount per head of cattle, without additional exaction or injustice. The surviving text also mentions ḍamān and khafāra, but their precise role is unclear.

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Begins with a basmala and ends with a hamdala; there may be a date in line 4 (below basamala): sana iḥda...? Also a possible mention of ar-rawq (to please/excel, L6).

תגים

• arabic script
• dimme

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Tuesday, 8 Tammuz 1451 Seleucid (25 June 1140 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Wife: Ḥasana bt. Salāma. Also signed by Mevorakh b. Natan ha-Melammed. On verso confirmation of receipt of the geṭ.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

VII,39 (PGPID 7024) for similar formulae). Also mentions "our father."

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תעתוק אחד

The revenue from several apartments and shops is listed, as collected monthly, during Rabi' al-awwal, Rabi' al-akhir, and Jumada'l-awwal. (Information from Gil, Documents, pp. 182 #15)

תגים

• 11th c
• account
• communal
• qodesh
• waqf
• (+ 1 עוד)

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The handwriting seems consistent with Mūsā b. Yiṣḥaq b. Ḥisda, who also uses the phrase וחסבי אללה והו תקתי; cf. T-S 12.227 (PGPID 1633) and AIU VII.E.130 (PGPID 5559).

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אין רשומות קשורות

Fragment of a letter from Ḥayyim b. 'Ammār al-Madīnī, probably from Palermo, to Barhun b. Ishaq al-Tāhartī, Qayrawan.

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תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer probably claimed (that part of the document is torn off) that the man had also promised something to his married daughter, his wife.

תגים

• communal

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

24 Nisan 4780 Anno Mundi (21 April 1020 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Very important legal document consisting of two depositions held in the synagogue of Syracuse, dealing with a lawsuit against Eliyyahu b. al-Harrar, who was accused of taking a share of the estate of Nahum b. Ismail al-Harrar. Dated April 1020. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, p. 654, and from Yehudei Sitziliya, p. 104)

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4 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The first six leaves of a copy of the Ghurar al-Balāgha of Hilāl al-Ṣābi' — a book of formularies for letter-writing — copied in the hand of Ḥalfon b.

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תגים

• formulary
• halfon b. menashshe
• literary with documentary value

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

1440 Seleucid (28 August 1128–15 September 1129 CE)

This gift was given in addition to the payment of the ketubba and the 'added to the ketubba',and the women could do with it as she pleases. Edited also at Weiss, Ḥalfon, Doc. #9. In the Bodl. catalogue and in Weiss' dissertation it is marked as fol. 46.

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תגים

• halfon b. menashshe

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