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Mevoraḵ. Written in inverted letters are 5 lines of a poem that was the original text on the page. […] One poem has an acrostic Mevasser (מבסר) ben Mevoraḵ Saʿadya. Information from CUDL. […] In l. 4, the muleteer Faraj is also mentioned as charged with fetching parts of a Bible manuscript.

תגים

• 11th c
• mounts
• mules
• recommendation

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

4th Elul 1420-29 Seleucid (1109–1118 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: Monday, 4 Elul 142[.] Seleucid, corresponding to 1109–1118 CE; viable options are 1109, 1110, 1113, and 1116. […] The documents specifies that her entire family was present and "signed" for her. Signed by Meshullam b. Menashshe he-Ḥaver, Moshe b. Moshe ha-Levi, the cantor Menashshe b. Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen, and Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. The following validation is signed by Avraham b.

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto is particularly messy. Mentions the rent of a ship and rent of a camel.

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תגים

• list

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to Abū [...]a b. Faḍl. Fragment (upper right corner of recto). None of the content of the message is preserved. (Information from CUDL.)

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Possibly an order of payment or accounting, mentioning Mūsā Messina (?), Egypt and ‘only three’, with eastern Arabic numerals.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer complains about the heavy rain this winter; he mentions the customs tax (maks); the great "ḥamas"; there is a section on the "shaḥn(?) […] —it seems some sort of work requiring measurements to be taken; mentions the shrine at Dammūh; and finally mentions copies of manuscripts and drugs that either have been sent or are to be sent.

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תגים

• dammuh
• hamas
• maks
• tax

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: 11th century. Mentionsmerchants such as אבן אלטבני, Mūsā Ibn al-M[ajjānī?], and ʿAmmār b. Mevasser. The commodities mentioned include two bowls (qaṣʿa) and pearls.

תגים

• trade

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

[13]99 Seleucid (2 September 1087–18 September 1088 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: [13]99 Seleucid = 1087/88 CE. Groom: Yefet b. Menashshe. Bride: Mawlāt bt. Mevasser, a divorcee. […] Signed by ʿEli ha-Parnas and Meshullam b. [...] (Information in part from CUDL.)

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• dowry list
• hillel b. eli
• ketubba

דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Levi ha-Levi, Qalyub, to a family member in Fustat. The entirety has to do with financial transactions and orders for materia medica. […] Mahfuz is to get 10 dirhams and Moshe's maternal grandfather is to get 1 dirham ("and may he pray for me"). Then the addressee should pay off the price of the 2 3/4 ratls of rose water. With the remainder, he is to buy 10 sujrahs (? סגרה); mercury (זיבק); and green gallnuts (עפץ אכצר). He concludes by urging his family members to pray for him.

תגים

• moshe b. levi

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Two tiny legal fragments in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38). The upper fragment mentions someone's wife, Sitt al-[...]. The lower fragment mentions ʿAsqalān.

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תגים

• halfon b. menashshe

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Business letter in Hebrew and Arabic script to Abū l-Ḥasan Binyamin requesting the dispatch of merchandise to Qalyub, including medical supplies, via a ghulām, and mentioning the broker Banin.

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תגים

• aodeh
• arabic script
• druggist
• ghulam
• materia medica
• (+ 2 עוד)

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment from a notebook with drafts (of a letter) and accounts. Mentions Ḥayyā [Yaḥyā] ha-Kohen ha-Melammed and Abū l-Ḥasan and measures such as qirrāṭ.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Part of letter (possibly a draft) mentioningmedical material(?). Possibly a request for medical supplies by a druggist of pharmacist (Information from CUDL.)

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic informing the addressee of matters concerning Sitt Maqṣūra (NB: this is not a name but the word maqṣūdhā meaning 'her intention'), also mentioning her sister Sitt Māṭruṣa (מאטרצ֗ה) (this is also not a name but means "she is not content with X" (ما ترضى). […] (Information in part from CUDL.) Mentions orphans several times. Needs further examination.

תגים

• to edit

אין רשומות קשורות

Nissim, Fustat. Probably 1063. Mentions several types of goods as almonds and gems. Mentions “ha-Nasi” (the leader) and his letter. Also mentions the disagreement with Abu Zikri b. Menashshe as well as the illness of Nissim, the son of Nahray b.

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תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On parchment. Recto: Mentions Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf; [...] al-ʿŪdī b. Mevorakh; and a debt of 50 dinars. Verso: Mentions Mūsā b. Bishr; Abū Saʿd; and a debt of 320 wariq dirhams. Handwriting of Mevorakh b. Natan? Mūsā b. Bishr is known from other documents from the mid-12th century.

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Very damaged. Mentions somebody "prostrated on the bed (firāsh)," meaning someone who is very sick. Also mentions the Jews, justice, and Muʿizziyya (Cairo).

תגים

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: mulqa
• illness: prostrated

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Fragment of a letter, probably. Mentioning the ingredients (ḥawāʾij) for a medicinal powder (dharūr) and then proceeding to give a recipe/prescription (wa-hādhihī ṣifatuh) for it. Mentions Abū l-Surūr (verso, margin).

תגים

• prescription

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The opening of a letter, from a Gaʾon, to Meshullam and Yiṣḥaq, sons of Yehoshuaʿ. There is Arabic text on verso, probably the address, mentioning Abū l-Munajjā and Jerusalem.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

465 Hijrī (17 September 1072–5 September 1073 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mercantile accounts in Judaeo-Arabic; dated 465 AH (= 1072/73 CE). Mentions Khalfūn and Yeshuʿa. Mentions goods such as dār ṣīnī and pepper.

תגים

• account

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment. Mentions 33.5 of something; "I opened my bundle"; the measure qinṭār; and Ibn al-Iskandaranī.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The case involves a geṭ, but this document is not itself the geṭ. Names mentioned: Faḍlallāh; [...] bt. ʿAmram; Abū ʿAlī b. […] Peloni ("so-and-so"); Shelomo. Mentions the year 1[.]54 Seleucid, probably 1554 Seleucid = 1242/43 CE. Mentions a fatwā. Mentions two groups of witnesses: עדי מסירה, who testify that the bill of divorce was given to the woman, and עדי חתימה, who testify regarding the signatures of the other witnesses.

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). […] Reused by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe for a jotting of another document (see separate record). (Information in part from Mediterranean Society, IV, p. 407 and from Goitein's index cards)

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תגים

• trade

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Others send their congratulations, including Umm Abū l-Faḍl, Abū l-Majd, Abū Manṣūr, Abū l-Fakhr, and Umm Hiba. Mentions a messenger Abū l-Faraj b. אלוש(?). Mentions having paid the price of the blanket (l. 27). Might be related to L-G Misc. 68 (PGPID 35021), which mentions a blanket for Sitt Suʿūd (an uncommon name).

תגים

• nar

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

P6: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Refers to [Sitt al-Sāda bt.] Evyatar ha-Kohen the Palestinian Gaʾon, who is the wife of Abū l-Makārim. Also mentions the agent Abū l-Riḍā Shelomo [b. Mevorakh]; Abū l-Faḍl Shela; and [...] b. al-Baṣrī. […] Mevorakh.

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תגים

• halfon b. menashshe

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dealing with business matters. Mentions materia medica such as asarabacca (asārūn), quince (safarjal), and musk. Mentions people such as al-Ḥazzān al-Gharbī and Abū Saʿīd.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

After a long protocol, the writer reports that he met with "Rabbana Ḥesed Mesos ha-Yeshiva" (Ḥesed al-Tustari?)

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

List of prices (in dirhams) and measures (raṭl), in Arabic script. Mentions a certain ʿAbd al-Masīḥ. Mentions a half raṭl of tamarind. Some entries are crossed out.

תגים

• dimme

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a letter mentioning proudly the writer's two sons and reporting the affairs of two men (perhaps brothers or traveling companions). Mentions al-Rayyis al-Gadol and Abū l-Munajjā.

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts, mentioning various sums of money; with Hebrew numerals. On parchment. Mentions sums of 2,000 and 621 rubāʿīs. Mentions the fees of the market (rasm al-sūq).

תגים

• account

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mercantile accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. Mentioning silk, mercury, and names such as Nahray (b.

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• account
• mercury

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Astrological table, mentioning the sun and the planets, such as Mercury and Jupiter. On verso, another leaf is stuck to the page; on it a letter which mentions the name Abū Saʿīd b. Ṣaḡīr. (Information from CUDL)

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Elegant hand. Mentions the town of Ṭanān in the delta and deals with the construction of a dike (jisr) and an irrigation canal (turʿa); the addressee is to go and obtain for this purpose the cattle (abqār) and dredging tools (jarārīf: see Rapoport, "Irrigation in the Medieval Islamic Fayyum," p. 24, and Borsch, Stuart (2014) "Plague Depopulation and Irrigation Decay in Medieval Egypt," The Medieval Globe: Vol. 1 : No. 1, p. 139).

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תגים

• canal
• construction
• dike
• irrigation
• jarrafa
• (+ 1 עוד)

תעתוק אחד

Document date

Shawwāl 1246 Hijrī (15 March 1831–12 April 1831 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The address lists Muḥammad Effendi as the recipient and the opening line of the document mentions Aḥmad Effendi. Mentions "al-majlis al-ʿālī", 300 Kurus and has a seal at the bottom. […] Verso contains a document in a similar hand but the ink has faded. Mentions "dīwān al-mabīʿāt" and is dated Shawwāl 1246. Also mentions several sums of money in Kurus. Seal at the bottom.

תגים

• dimme

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Dealing with alimony/maintenance (mezonot) for a wife and son.. People mentioned: Ibn al-[...] (first line); Abū ʿAlī Yefet ha-Kohen and Moshe b. […] The wording of the document is nearly identical to T-S NS 320.57 + ENA 2386.4, another document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, describing a similar case. ASE

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תעתוק אחד