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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Barhun Levi b. Ishaq concerning a deceased man, a debt, and power of attorney. […] ‘Azun, and the city of Damsis are mentioned. Dated 450 of the Muslim Era (= 1058 CE).

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תגים

• power of attorney
• wakila

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Iyyar 1420 Seleucid (3 April 1109–1 May 1109 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Right side of a legal document. a A barter of 2.5 pieces (thawb) of Indian red silk (ליניס/lēnīs = lānas) against two pots (burniyyatayn) of rose preserve (ward murabbā). Also mentions 10 manns of myrobalan. The parties include Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya ha-Kohen, Elʿazar ha-Kohen, Tamīm, Ḥalfon, and [...] b.

דיון אחד

Dated: [..]45 (probably 1345 Seleucid = 1034 CE). Groom: Avraham ha-Levi. Bride: Durra bt. Shelomo, a virgin and a rich woman. […] Witnessed by [...] b. Mevorakh (מברך), Khalaf b. Seʿadya, Nissim b. Maymūn, Yefet b. Ṭoviyya ha-Levi, Ezra b. Hillel ha-Kohen. (Information from CUDL and Goitein's index card.)

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דיון אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Fol. 2v: Legal document in Arabic script. Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan b. […] Fol. 1r: Arabic document of lease (needs further examination). On fols. 1v–2r and margins, there is a medical text dealing with parts of the human body.

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תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Letters in Arabic script. Recto and verso are in two different letters in two different hands. […] Somebody told the writer that their custom is to keep dogs and falcons which they find, which has distressed the writer from yesterday till today. Mentions 'al-mawlā al-kabīr' and different breeds of dogs including Salūqiyya.

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תגים

• animals
• bedouin
• dog
• hunting
• to edit

תעתוק אחד

Document date

[4]84[.] Anno Mundi (1079–1089 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Signed by the ḥaver Yosef b. Ḥalfon ha-Levi (cf. Bodl. MS heb. c 28/19 (PGPID 6424)) and Yosef b. Naḥmān. Verso: another legal document, possibly a draft, mainly in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning a house in ʿAkkā, the agent Ṣadoq ha-Kohen, and [...] bt.

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תגים

• get

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document in the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE).

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תגים

• halfon b. menashshe

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly in the hand of the court clerk Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya. The letter opens with condolences for the addressee's loss. […] (Information from Mediterranean Society, V, p. 122.) On verso there are accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.

תגים

• bad son
• complaint
• condolence
• family
• personal

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The same scribe probably wrote ENA NS 69.20 and T-S AS 156.42, based on the presence of the relatively uncommon blessing "min dār al-fanā' wa-l-shaqā' ilā dār al-naʿīm wa-l-baqā' (from the abode of perdition and woe to the abode of blessing and immortality)." In this letter he describes the diet of a group of people "during this calamity," mentioning specifically salted turnip (lift māliḥ) and lupine (turmus).

תגים

• diet
• food
• regimen

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

In the 29th week space was assigned to salaries, superscribed al-rusūm, but the space was left blank. The letter samekh evidently stands for Arabic sittun (60). (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 451, App. B 42)

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תגים

• account
• payment

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Tishrei 4849 Anno Mundi (19 September 1088–18 October 1088 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Letter from an unidentified distinguished man to a judge or communal leader. […] At the end, he briefly mentions other business matter, including an unpaid suftaja. […] Outside of the box, there appears the date already mentioned: first decade of Tishrei 4349 AM, which is 1088 CE.

תגים

• construction
• dispute
• mice
• real estate
• suftaja

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

1165–1166 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: ca. 1165–66 CE, as the reshut clause invokes the Gaʾon Netanʾel ha-Levi (1160–66) and the document is written in the hand of the court scribe Shemuel b. Seʿadya ha-Levi (active 1165–1203). Manṣūr b. Makārim of Bilbays, already the husband of a woman named ʿAmāʾim, came before the court (probably in Fustat or Cairo) together with Abū Naṣr b. Abū Saʿīd, the half-brother (shared mother) of a woman named Maʿālī. Together the two men agree on the conditions for Manṣūr's marriage to Maʿālī. (1) Maʿālī will have her own apartment, not shared with ʿAmāʾim. (2) Manṣūr will not take a third wife. (3) Maʿālī will live with Manṣūr's daughter Milāḥ, likely the daughter of ʿAmāʾim (Goitein speculated that ʿAmāʾim must have suffered from a physical or mental illness preventing her from taking care of her own daughter). (4) Marriage payments: 2 + 15 = 17 dinars.

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תגים

• engagement
• polygyny

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Natan b. Nahray, from Alexandria, to Nahray b. […] Dating: ca. 1063. Natan wrote the letter 10 days before Passover. The writer is upset because a deal (probably for spices and beads) did not go as expected. He blames Abū Zikrī b. Menashshe. Also mentions a matter of inheritance in the Tāhartī family.

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תגים

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: prescription
• illness: smallpox
• illness: treatment
• (+ 4 עוד)

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Letter in Arabic script, in a beautiful hand. Dating: 11th century, based on the reference to the Tustaris. […] The addressee might not be Jewish, as a Jew would not have to be told that Yom Kippur is the 10th of Tishrei. The letter contains a detailed update on a court case or some conflict revolving around book copying and book dealing. Mentions an agreement with Abū Isḥāq; liberating some money or goods from "that which they have taken this time," especially two volumes from the owner (or author?)

תגים

• al-tustari
• book trade
• katib
• oath
• qaraite

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely ca. 12th century. The sender was pained by the news from the addressee's letter. "I did not cast it from my hand until I went up to her — may God make her rule eternal — and bitterly complained to her, until she ordered that someone write to the sulṭān. . . ." The context is unclear. Goes on to mention the elder ʿImrān; how this powerful woman "did not make room for me"; the sender's grief when the boy or young man Yeshaʿya died the day after his arrival; Abū Naṣr; ʿImrān again; further orders from the powerful woman; having to wait until someone's brother comes and a warehouse is "released from being sealed" (cf.

תעתוק אחד

Document date

Wednesday, 21 Iyyar 1387 Seleucid (27 April 1076 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document. Record of release. Dating: April 1076. […] Unlike trading partnerships, which often include allusions to consignments in general or traded commodities in specific in their release clauses, this release includes mention of both bills of exchange (suftaja) and vouchers (khaṭṭ). […] Ḥalfōn al-Zayyāt (the olive-oil dealer), both known from other contemporary documents, and Yaḥyā b. Avraham ha-Levi he-Ḥaver. (Information from Lieberman, "A Partnership Culture," 149)

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תגים

• partnership
• release
• suftaja

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from the physician Abū Zikrī, in Alexandria, to his father Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat. […] In a section that is almost completely effaced (v16–17), he mentions "appetite for food," perhaps in the context of one of his own chronic illnesses. (Information in part from Frenkel and from Goitein, Med. Soc. Vol. 1, p. 64 and Vol. 2, pp. 353, 380, 596.)

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תגים

• 13th c
• abu zikri al-rayyis
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: letter norms

3 תעתוקים דיון אחד

There may have been at least one intervening page between columns. This would account for the discrepancy between the stated number of pounds (loaves) and the computed total. The names indicate this list comes from around the same time as T-S Misc.8.9 and others catalogued in Goitein, Mediterranean Society, II, Appendixes B 19-23, translated in Cohen, The Voice of the Poor in the Middle Ages, nos. 59-64, dated ca. 1107. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, 442, App. B 17 and from Cohen)

תגים

• bread
• charity
• communal
• poverty
• recipients

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Document date

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

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from both Nahray b. Nissim (recto) and ʿAyyāsh b. […] Given that the capitation tax was most often paid in the first half of the year (as opposed to the final month of the year as Gil believed), this letter most likely dates to 1050 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. ʿAyyāsh mentions that he plans to travel to Raqqa. ASE

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תגים

• capitation tax

3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from an unknown man to his niece (bint al-akh). […] The writer urges the addressee to send the suitor a letter (? תדפעי לה מן ענדך) and go along with this plan. […] than you and I did not sit (i.e. as a widower)."). Cairo is also mentioned. The letter ends very abruptly with none of the formulaic regards, so this was probably a draft.

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תגים

• marriage
• remarriage
• suitor
• widow

תעתוק אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Partially preserved 11th century copy of second of three letters written by Saadya in the course of the 921-922 calendar controversy between Palestinians and Babylonians. There is an address in Arabic script. The letters are addressed to Saadya’s disciples Shelomo, Ezra and ʿEli in Fustat and recount the events of the Palestinian calendar declaration by Ben Meir and the Babylonian’s reaction to it. Saadya urges his addressees to uphold the dates of the Babylonians, and ensure that Jews do not eat leaven on Passover and desecrate the Day of Atonement.

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תגים

• calendar controversy

3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד 2 דיונים

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Khalaf b. Mūsā (=Ḥalfon b. Moshe) al-Ḥaver al-Kohen on behalf of the whole congregation of "Ḥaṣer Adar" (חצר אדר). […] The address is written partially at the bottom of recto in Judaeo-Arabic and also on verso in Arabic script. The lettermentions the city of ʿAsqalān and various names such as Abū ʿImrān, Wuhayb b. […] It is large, but it is faded nearly beyond legibility (in some places it is legible only because the ink has completely faded and bleached the paper where it used to be).

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Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Recto: Letter from the two congregations of Alexandria (No-Amon), led by the judge Yosef b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, to the Jerusalemite congregation in Fustāt, led by Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: ca. 1031 CE and, in broad strokes, 1007–1055 CE based on the years when Efrayim b. […] Requesting urgent financial assistance for the ransoming of Byzantine Jews taken captive by pirates. The lettermentions the visit of the Gaʾon's son, Avraham b.

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תגים

• captives
• pirates
• ransom

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Arabic, Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto (original use): Legal document written on parchment, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (active 1100–38). The beginnings of 10 lines are preserved. […] The epithet al-ʿĀdilī is less clear; the vizier Ibn al-Sallār was known as al-ʿĀdil, however he died in 1154.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Moshe b. Yefet/Ḥasan to the ḥaver ʿEli b. […] Ḥasan (the scribe of this letter); and Shelomo b. Ḥasan. On verso (apart from the completion of the letter and the address), there are two additional validations, confirming that the sender of the letter, Moshe b. […] ʿAmram and the second by Yaḥyā(?) b. ʿAmram ha-Levi. (Information in part from Goitein’s index card.)

תעתוק אחד

Document date

1159–1160 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to the Nagid Moshe b. […] Netanʾel ha-Levi (otherwise known to have held the title Gaʾon) and that this letter must have been written after the death of the Nagid Shemuel b. […] “one of the pegs on which a person must hang himself (an yataʿallaqa bi-hā),” a translation of the maxim from the Talmud Yerushalmi “Fortunate is he whose ancestors earned merit for him, for he has a peg (yated) on which to hang himself (lehitalot).”

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to the Gaon Sar Shalom ha-Levi, head of the Palestinian yeshiva (in office ca. 1170–71 and 1173–95), in which the muqaddam of Qalyub (the handwriting is that of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi) excuses himself from appearing in person on account of his illness. […] Goitein reconstructs thata the Gaon ordered an inquiry because the family had moved from one place to another. From the letter we learn that the family moved to Qalyub, the mother died there, the girl's sister was married to a freedman, and her brother had moved from Qalyub to the Manufiyya district, where he embraced Islam.

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תגים

• 12th c
• communal
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: excuse
• (+ 1 עוד)

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

I (recto, right column and bottom of verso): see separate record. II (recto, left column and most of verso): Dowry evaluation (taqwīm) for [...] b.

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד