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Document date

Monday, 6 Adar 1539 Seleucid (1228 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew

Witnesses: Netanel b. Shemarya; Menaḥem b. Yefet; Mevorakh b. Shelomo ha-Kohen known as al-Dilāthī (this transliteration is clarified by comparison with the Arabic script). There is an addendum in Arabic script, which is a message from Hibatallāh b. [...] to Rabbenu Pinḥas (b. Meshullam?). This is essentially a validation (qiyyum) in which he identifies the witnesses to the above document and confirms that their signatures are genuine.

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3 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan he-Ḥaver (dated documents 1150–81). Names mentioned: Barakāt b. Abū l-Banīn and Abū l-Khayr al-Ṣayrafī. Signed by Menahem b. Berakhot, Yaʿaqov b. Yosef ha-Kohen, and Mevorakh b.

תגים

• mevorakh b. natan

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Medical. Materia medica. List of medical substances and quantities (see Isaacs, Catalogue) Judeo-Arabic.

תגים

• fgp stub
• medical

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Legal fragment in what looks like the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Mentions [...] b. Bishāra, Abū l-Ḥusayn, and [...] b. […] Recto: Legal fragment in what looks like the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Mentions [...] ha-Qehilot b. Seʿadʾel Rosh [...] and Mevorakh b. […] Some of the same people are mentioned in T-S Misc.28.1 (PGPID 23387). Cf. T-S AS 145.333 (PGPID 16305) for fragments containing the hand of both Hillel and Ḥalfon.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

There are several interlinear corrections. Mentions a widow; a kohen; Ḥalfon; a parnas; and Ibrāhīm. It is unclear how all these names relate to each other. Also mentions the Dūr al-Wukalāʾ in Fustat (likely the plural of Dār al-Wakāla, merchants' warehouse). Mentions someone in possession of three powers of attorney (תלתה כתב וכאלאת).

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Entries on verso include (a) a marriage agreement between Namer al-Khayyāṭ and Ḥasana bt. Ḥalfon ha-Kohen and (b) a sale of a floor in a house between Mevorakh b. Mes[ullam] and ʿAzīza bt. Abū [...] known as Ibn Miksār (? […] Recto is difficult to make sense of. Mentions [...] b. Shelomo; "the congregation"; and conditions that someone will not work in [...]

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Medical recipes for dental hygiene. Medical text regarding the importation and trade of miswāk sticks to be used as toothbrushes, of honey, ginger, pepper, zatar (wild oregano) and other spices that are related to the treatment of mouth and tooth. The text preserves some indication for the preparation of the aforementioned ingredients, including their baking; other instructions deal with the dipping of the miswāk in a medical preparation. Mention is made of glass from Syria and of Salt Andarānī, which is believed to be the same as the salt of Sodom mentioned in the Talmud and to derive from the Syrian town of Andara.

תגים

• dentistry
• recipe

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Sunday, 16 Shevaṭ 5567 Anno Mundi (25 January 1807 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

They contribute 600,000 medins. (2) Merkado Karo, Avraham b. Menaḥem ha-Levi Jarbūʿa, and Ḥayyim Nuṣayrī. They contribute 900,000 medins. (3) Shimʿon Frances, Khalīfa Pinto, Yaʿaqov Bibas, and Meir ben Naʿim. They contribute 900,000 medins. The total capital is 2.4 million medins. The duration of the partnership is 12 months.

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תגים

• bibas
• cesana
• frances
• karo
• partnership
• (+ 1 עוד)

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions names such as Abū Naṣr; Ibn Qayyūma; Ibn al-Fakhkhār. Mentions commodities such as flax, brazilwood, cinnamon, and pepper. Also mentions חאמס = ḥamas = usually government oppression.

תגים

• unedited 11th c

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

List of mercantile goods (foods, spices, materia medica, metals) and their quantities, mostly given in pounds/arṭāl.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions people such as Abū ʿAlī; [...] al-Bukhtaj; Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Pinḥas; [...] al-Sharābī; Abū l-Faraj; a parnas; and Aharon. Mentions goods such as a 30-cubit Maghribī sūsiyya. Also mentions the government and the capitation tax. (Information in part from Goitein’s index card.)

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.

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תגים

• debt

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Bride: Sitt al-Ahl. Mentions an apartment (ṭabaqa) that is over the cross-street bridge (sābāṭ). Signed by Ḥalfon b. Avraham, Merayot b. Meshullam, Ḥalfon b. Araḥ, and Elʿazar b. [...].

דיון אחד

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Mentioning Abū l-Makārim, his brother Abū l-Faḍāʾil, two legal documents, the Bet Din, the estate of someone's son, Ḥiyya, and the sending of a messenger.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Perhaps a marriage contract, as there is a note in between the document and the qiyyum making a statement about the value of the delayed dower measured according to 'the weight of the Bedouins' (? […] Moshe ha-Ḥazzan; Suhayl b. Mevasser. The qiyyum mentions [..]l b. Aharon; Meshullam b. [...]; Shemarya b.

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1700–1850 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Lists in Judaeo-Arabic that mention a wide array of potable and other items such as meat, bread, beans, soap, mastic[?] […] Along the far left side of the recto Jerusalem is mentioned (l. 6r) and the coinage "metaqil / מתאקיל" which may indicate gold for prices connected to the items listed (given the mention of "וזן / weight" in the same entry: l. 16-17r).

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תגים

• 18th or 19th c
• list
• mastic

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender also writes that he has paid a messenger four dirhams per day to travel from Alexandria to Cairo and back, which took him seven days in total. The 28 dirhams which the messenger received equaled at this time one gold piece, as is stated in the letter. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, pp. 167, 290, 440, 472, and Goitein's index cards)

תגים

• dar al-kattan
• exchange rate
• state
• state expropriation
• textiles
• (+ 1 עוד)

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: probably a medical recipe, involving raisins. Verso: mercantile letter, mentioning Būṣīr and raisins.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: short message or formula from a letter, mentioning the name Shelomo.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment from Yoshiyya Ibn al-Dhahabī to Abū Saʿīd Ibn al-ʿAfṣī (=gallnut merchant). In Judaeo-Arabic.The writer congratulates the recipient on his recent marriage and mentions a business deal of exchanging flax for medicine. The writer and the recipient are cooperating with Spanish merchants. (Information from M. Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 4, p. 368)

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תגים

• flax

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1040–1050 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Conveys some information about the movements of ships carrying merchandise for Nahray and his circle. Mentions a serious accident on one of the ships. Barukh b. al-Shama adds a message at the end of the letter. Information from Gil.

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2

תגים

• nahray b. nissim
• trade

3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Indian spikenard is mentioned in line 1 (سادج/ساذج; this can also mean "simple") and in line 2 a "raw" (خام) good of some sort is mentioned but is mostly lost to damage. […] MCD/ASE On verso there are some lines from Megillat Esther.

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• cmp

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal deed concerning an enslaved woman, who is probably sold (mentions the figure 1[.].5 dinars). Mentions people including a woman named Sitt al-Nās, Mevasser b. [...] known as Ibn al-ʿAni, and Shemarya ha-Kohen. Written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Join: Alan Elbaum.

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תגים

• halfon b. menashshe
• jariya
• slaves

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a legal document, mentioning blessings for the Nagid as well as a certain [...] b. […] In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE), probably during the earlier decades of this range based on the titular reference to a Nagid (either Mevorakh b. Saʿadya or Moshe b. Mevorakh). (Information in part from CUDL)

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אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

1042–1046 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

ʿEli complains about the lack of response to his previous letters and repeats his request for news of the cantor from Mosul, Abū l-Faraj, and for any developments with Daniel b.

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תגים

• daniel b. azarya
• efrayim b. shemarya
• eli b. avraham
• jerusalem
• ramla

2 תעתוקים 2 דיונים

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He slept in Dijwa and then went to Kharāb Fazāra and complained to the local nāʾib that he had been robbed on the land of the town. He made the error of showing the goods that he still had with him as evidence of his claim that the rest had been stolen.

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דיון אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

The date and location are not preserved but the town is next to a ‘salty sea’ (possibly the Mediterranean or the Dead Sea). Dating: ca. early 11th century. Groom: Mevorakh b. Shemuel. Bride: Sitt al-Ahl. Part of the dowry list is preserved. […] Ḥusayn; Shilo/Shela b. Mevasser ha-Kohen; Mevorakh b. Yefet; Mevasser b. Avraham; and Shelomo b.

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Shevat 5562 Anno Mundi (4 January 1802–2 February 1802 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Legal deed in Hebrew detailing a sarraflık partnership involving members in Cairo and Rashīd. Dated: Shevat 5562 AM, which is 1802 CE. The shared purse of the partnership totals to 50,000 medin. The two core members of the partnership are Merkado _____[?]

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תגים

• 19th c
• late heb
• rashid
• sarraflik

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

With a request to send a reply with the same mail courier (fayj) and mentioning purchases of commodities including kundus (baby's breath) and אשתיואן (polypody?) and several more materia medica on verso. Mentions Manṣūr. (Information in part from Mediterranean Society, I, p. 284 and from Goitein's index cards)

תגים

• trade

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Fragment (upper left corner of recto). Mentions Abū l-Surur (their brother Peraḥya?); a request to convey information from Ḥassūn b. […] Yefet has sent something for Yehuda b. [...] with this letter. He mentions a good "made in Fustat, cheap."

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תגים

• halfon b. menashshe
• yefet b. menashshe

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). The name Menashshe b. [...] is mentioned.

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אין רשומות קשורות