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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter sent from an unidentified man, in Alexandria, to his brother, possibly in Shayzar (Syria).

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• ib7
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תעתוק אחד

Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Containing elaborate expressions of sympathy or condolence for something bad that happened. Mentions Abū l-Ḥasan; al-Shaykh Abū l-[...]l; and the intriguing phrase 'in the hearts of the Muslims from him.' Join: Alan Elbaum.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

21 Ṭevet 1327 Seleucid (5 January 1016 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Shemarya (who might be called al-Ghazzī here). Relates the events of a rainy and muddy day in the marketplace of Qaṣr al-Shamʿ, when a merchant named ʿImrān b. Eliyya from Palermo, Sicily, complained to the police ("in the בי דואר that is called שרטה in the language of the Ishmaelites") that he had already waited a full month for a Jewish court to deal with his case, whereupon the head of the police apprehended the Jewish judge for a night.

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• prison

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Avraham b. Abū l-Ḥayy, in Alexandria, to his brother Musa, probably in Fustat. […] Avraham complains to Mūsā that ʿAllūn, who was in charge of the money of the family, refused to disburse any money without word from Mūsā, and then covered only a small part of the expenditure after Abū l-Najm Hilāl had intervened in the writer's favor.

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: cost
• illness: death

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Monday, 8 Shevaṭ 4866 Anno Mundi (15 January 1106 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Refers to his rights granted by 'the lofty rescript' (al-tawqīʿ al-ʿālī). Witnesses: Avraham Danafta (?)

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• damin
• lease
• silk
• tax

2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים דיון אחד

During a period of persecution and confiscation that occurred in the year 1127, a sum of money was kept by an official of the qodesh; in order to prevent its confiscation, the money was registered as having already been spent on the purchase of the half of that compound. The purpose of the memorandum is to justify that fictitious record, and probably also to make clear what part of Dar Naqa actually belonged to the qodesh.

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• 12th c
• account
• heqdesh
• qodesh
• waqf

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

"The following description of the writer's well-being is altogether exceptional: 'I am completely comfortable in my body and all my affairs. My clothes do not hold me for all my happiness and success.' The story was indeed complicated.

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• byzantines
• conversions
• jerusalem
• marital dispute
• nar
• (+ 1 עוד)

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Document date

1527 Seleucid (1215–1216 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The partners ʿImrān Moshe al-Iskandarī b. Bū Manṣūr ha-Zaqen and Abū al-Ma‘ālī b. […] The division of profits and losses is not retained in the preserved portion of the document, but allusions to it in line 15 indicate it was outlined clearly.

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• aden
• avraham maimonides
• ib6
• india book
• partnership

3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The first year, he fell ill in al-Maḥalla, and never even believed he would make it back to Alexandria.

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• abu l-afrah
• banayah b. musa
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: excuse
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אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1021–1024 CE

Primary languages

Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew

Petition to the Fatimid ruler Sitt al-Mulk. Dating (Rustow): 411–14/1021–24. In which the otherwise unknown Yaḥyā b. al-Ḥasan complains that a local amīr has confiscated his grain. […] The scribe who copied the biblical passages has glued this petition to another petition to Sitt al-Mulk, Bodl. MS Heb. 18/23 (PGPID 39034), to form a single rotulus.

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• dimme
• mazalim
• mosque
• petition
• sitt al-mulk

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1130–1139 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: 1130s CE. Join: Alan Elbaum. There is another copy of the letter preserved: PGPID 5438 (India Book II, 13 and II, 14). There is a reference in this letter to a place called אלדייב (al-Diyyab), for which Maḍmūn wants a ship to set out from Mangalore to pick up coir, aloeswood, mango (?)

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• ib2
• india book
• maldives

3 תעתוקים 3 תרגומים דיון אחד

Inferred date

1094–1097 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The letter concerns a consignment of mercury (zaybaq), which he was unable to sell in Alexandria, since the price was not yet fixed, while in the bourse of Qāḍī Rajā (in Fustat) it went for 14 dinars per qintar. […] In the postscript, mentions traders returning from India and alludes to the concern about the disappearance of Abū l-Faraj Nissim.

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• ib-partial translation-eng
• ib2
• india book

תעתוק אחד 2 תרגומים 2 דיונים

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer continues, "As soon as you see this letter, go to Abū l-Faraj b. al-Rayyis al-Iskandarānī (aka Eliyyahu the Judge), and go with him to the Rayyis, and take possession of the dowry of your sister's daughter." There follows a difficult sentence, then the writer lists all the items in the dowry. The relationships and the legal standing of the various parties are confusing.

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תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There are several Geniza letters from Yūsuf b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī, but the handwriting doesn't match, so the sender of this letter is probably a different person. […] The next section is about various business matters: mentions Yiṣḥaq Ibn Qayyūma, the cousin Labrāṭ, Almeria, yarn, and Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān. Regards to Abū Yaʿqūb Ibn Bazzāz, whose son is well and with his maternal uncle.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He instructs him to settle accounts with Ibn al-Dajājī. This sections mentions two distinct varieties of cinnamon (salīkha and qirfa) and agrimony juice (ʿaṣārat ghāfit). Also mentions the price of the linseed oil that someone had advanced to Mūsā.

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תגים

• business
• oil
• perfume

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender met with Abū l-Makārim, who defended himself by saying that he owes 100 dirhams in Fustat for the price of wheat and will be arrested if he enters ('as his wife knows'). Abū l-Makārim also owes some money (durayhimāt) to people in the army camp (al-ʿaskar).

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• wheat

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

middle decade of Tevet 1417 Seleucid (December 1105 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe ha-Levi testifies that Mudallala (aka Sitt Baghdād, as we know from T-S 13J2.14) received her bill of divorce together with her ketubba payment of 10 dinars in cash, and also her belongings valued at 10 dinars. She deposited the dinars with Abū l-Ṭāhir al-Ṣayrafī.

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• divorce

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

27 Nisan 1509 Seleucid (5 April 1198 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Bayān, promises to pay after two months the remaining 5 mithqāls (out of the original price of 12 mithqāls) which she still owes to the seller Abū l-Barakāt Berakhot (or Yefet?) b. Moshe. She also pays the market fee and the broker. (Incidentally, the buyer's name means “the mistress of the scepter of lords,” or, if an abbreviation for Sitt Qaḍīb (Sitt al-)Sāda, "the mistress of the scepter, (the mistress of) lords.")

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תגים

• bill of sale
• slave

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The document states that there is also a debt contract from the Muslim courts (בנימוסי הגוים). The debtor is a scion of the known family Ibn al-Shofeṭ, son of the judge Yaʾir and descendant of Abū l-Bishr Azhar aka Yaʾir b.

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• beadle

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

"After describing his pain—also physical—over the loss of his father and his state of disconsolation (quoting Lamentations 2:13), he continues: 'You, the illustrious elder, have already learned how God the exalted has afflicted the people of Israel and, in particular, myself with the eclipse of the honored position (jāh) possessed by me through the vanishing of the crown, the glory, the power, the splendor . . . the nasi. . . and Head of the yeshiva....'"

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• circular
• grief
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: emotion
• (+ 3 עוד)

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1035–1051 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

The restoration of the synagogue is described, including the removal of rubble, and the use of 62 beams and 600 planks. Also mentions details concerning captives, as well as Yosef b. Yaʿqūb, a prominent member of the Fusṭāṭ Jewish community, who is loyal to the Babylonian academy of Pumbeditha and has the title Alūf. Greetings are sent to the addressee's son-in-law, Yosef.

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• efrayim b. shemarya
• shelomo b. yehuda

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In addition to their mu‘āmalāt or joint enterprises, Efrayim and Moses also seem to have had an interest in a partnership with a Muslim, described as a khulṭa. […] Unlike in T-S 12.606 (PGPID 3187), another partnership release in this documentary corpus, the partnership cannot survive its partners, as is well-known in Jewish and Islamic law alike. (Information from Lieberman, "A Partnership Culture," 116)

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1040–1047 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Dating: ca. 1040–47 (based on the people mentioned). Bride: Amat al-ʿAzīz bt. Ḥizqiyyahu the Qaraite nasi; groom: Yefet (Ḥasan) b. Ibrāhīm al- Tustarī of Fustat, son of Abū Saʿd Ibrāhīm al-Tustarī.

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תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד 2 דיונים

Document date

[13]75 Seleucid (1063–1064 CE)

Groom: Marzūq b. Yefet. Bride: (Sitt al-)Furs bt. Simḥa. Location: Fustat. Dated: [13]75 Seleucid, which is 1063/64 CE. […] Elnatan (Abū l-Tāhir Ibn al-Qatmānī) is the bride's representative. The couple undertake to accept the calendar fixed every year according to the state of the crops in Palestine. […] Yosef b. ʿAnan ha-Levi, ʿAllān b. Nahum, Elʿazar b. Shemuel b. Sahl the Slave, [...] b.

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תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Kislev 1428 Seleucid (18 November 1116–29 November 1116 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe ha-Levi, who also wrote the document. The agreement accompanied a ketubba written in the hand of Halfon b. […] There is an added condition that even if the brides allows the husband to transport the objects, he shouldn't do it.

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2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The father objects to the son's order to purchase gallnuts (ʿafṣ), perhaps because Muslim has some already that are neglected (? muhmal). The letter is addressed to the dyer (אצבג = אלצבאג) in נוא (= No Amon = Alexandria?

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אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Thursday, 9 Elul 1428 Seleucid (9 August 1117 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

The bill of divorce of the couple is found in T-S 8J35.12 (PGPID 18633), also written by Ḥalfon. So the marriage didn't end well. […] Published by Ashur, Engagement and Betrothal, p. 311–13. (AA) Alternate description: Notes for the preparation of a marriage contract (right column) and the renewal of (a different) marriage after a divorce (left column and verso).

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• prenuptial

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד 2 דיונים

Document date

1 Adar 5522 Anno Mundi (24 February 1762 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Below the initial signatures section there is an Aramaic validation clause which was probably followed by three additional signatures, all of which are also missing except for a small portion of the ornamental border from the middle signature.

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• 18th c
• bathhouse
• real estate
• validation

תעתוק אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter of Abū l-Maḥāsin b. ʿAlī the trader, introduced by citations from Proverbs 3:4, Psalms 37:11 and 119:165. Mentions consingments of medical commodities such as betel palm (fawfal), amomum (qāqulla), quince (safarjal), and lichen (dādī), a doctor’s visit and names such as Naḥūm the perfumer and Abū Manṣūr Ibn al-Ṣāʾiḡ (goldsmith), cousin of the writer. (Information from CUDL.) The writer excuses the poor appearance of his letter ('my mind is not present') on account of his great preoccupation for his two friends who are sick, Naḥum al-ʿAṭṭār and his cousin (b. ʿammatī) Abū Manṣūr the son of the tax farmer of ברמא.

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• damin
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: letter norms
• illness: physician
• (+ 4 עוד)

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The scribe is identical with the scribe of PER H 86, which means this is the second autograph of the famous Spanish poet Yehuda al-Ḥarizi to be discovered. Dating: ca. 1215–25 CE. The sender urges the addressee to help him in a certain matter involving al-Akram Abu l-Rabīʿ, who must not leave Fustat/Egypt before a certain business and/or legal matter is concluded to his satisfaction. […] The addressee of this letter is not identified; possibly Eliyyahu the Judge, the addressee of al-Ḥarizi's other known letter.. ASE

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תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Besides the accounting of an anonymous tenant of which only the end is preserved here, there are three larger paragraphs, of which the first deals with a room of a man from Aleppo (al-Halabi), the other with the apartment of another anonymous tenant, and the third with the apartment of Sitt Qawdaf.

תגים

• 11th c
• account
• communal
• qodesh
• waqf

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Arabic

It has the glyph, it's in Arabic script, and it mentions someone al-Yahūdī. T-S K25.240 consists of small written orders, partly in Hebrew and partly in Arabic script, for monthly payments, made out of the rent-revenue from the pious foundation (waqf) 'Compound of the Poor' or from the pious foundation made by the physician al-Muhadhdhab. All dated orders are from spring and summer, 1218.

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

for work on the lane of the Jerusalemites (darb al-Maqādisa). T-S K25.240 consists of small written orders, partly in Hebrew and partly in Arabic script, for monthly payments, made out of the rent-revenue from the pious foundation (waqf) 'Compound of the Poor' or from the pious foundation made by the physician al-Muhadhdhab. All dated orders are from spring and summer, 1218.

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• account
• avraham maimonides
• avraham maimonides autograph
• heqdesh
• qodesh
• (+ 2 עוד)

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Subsequently, Hiba's sons Yaʿaqov and Ṣedaqa along with their mother arrived in Fustat and filed a complaint against their brother ʿAllūn. […] If they cannot settle the dispute, ʿAllūn must travel to Fustat with his brother(s), unless he has a good reason not to, in which case the addressees should send a legal document with their signatures explaining the situation.

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תגים

• sahrajt

תעתוק אחד

Document date

Tammuz 1430 Seleucid (12 June 1119–10 July 1119 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The court forced him to go along with it. There is a complicated discussion and settlement involving the dowry (qumāsh), compensation to her for the wear and tear on the dowry, the delayed marriage payment (muʾakhkhar), and the court compelling Abū l-Khayr to move. All this is tentative, pending the identification of the remaining joins. Join: Alan Elbaum.

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תגים

• dowry
• halfon b. menashshe

תעתוק אחד

Document date

1 Sivan 1423 Seleucid (28 May 1112 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ṭoviya tells his father to be assiduous in praying for him over Torah scrolls, perhaps because Avraham has not completely recovered from the illness. He also tells him to pray for Moshe Nagid b. Mevorakh. Ṭoviya writes, "Buy me an Aleppo izār (a large wrap or coat) in which I can pray all the time," probably referring to an inexpensive piece of Syrian cotton (Med Soc I, 196).

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• epidemic
• epidemic: waba'
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: dying
• (+ 4 עוד)

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Document date

Iyyar 1457 Seleucid (15 April 1146–13 May 1146 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Netanel repaid the debt of his late brother Abū ʿAlī Yeḥezqel. Location: Alexandria. Dated: Iyyar 1457 Seleucid, which is April/May 1146 CE. […] Yakhin) to Ḥalfon, in which he asked Ḥalfon not to travel to Damascus without repaying the debt of his (still-living) brother Abū ʿAlī Yeḥezqel, a sum of 45 3/4 dinars. Ḥalfon had previously given a collateral of silk to Saʿdān. […] Between the writing of the previous document and this one, Abū ʿAlī Yeḥezqel died. Ḥalfon's nephew Abū Naṣr Shemuel b.

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תגים

• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• india book

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד