Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter of request in which the widow of Abu Sa'id b. […] (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, p. 304)

תגים

• communal
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: 40 days
• illness: eye
• (+ 5 עוד)

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1237–1300 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to the Nasi Shelomo b. Yishay from the town of Bilbays containing local news and sending greetings to the Nagid David b. […] Moshe Maimonides and members of his family. David I Maimonides served intermittently as Nagid between 1237–1300 CE.

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תגים

• david i maimonides
• mosul nasis
• personal

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Fragment of an official letter, report, or petition from the medieval period.

תגים

• arabic reused

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Possibly accounts, with Arabic entries in right column with Coptic numerals in the left column. Medieval era. There is also an extensive chain of numerals below the right column.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Fragment of a formal letter in Arabic script. Narrow page. Approximately 4 lines from a middle section are preserved. Might be state, might be mercantile. Refers to goods and defers to the raʾy of the addressee whether he wishes to do something with 500 dinars.

תגים

• hefty sum
• pinholes

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to the Nagid Mevorakh b. Saʿaadya. Small fragment containing the opening and part of the address.

אין רשומות קשורות

Signature practice in at least two different scribal hands. Names mentioned in the signatures include: Yeshuʿa b.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a woman to Sitt [Qa]ḍīb. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions items like the robes (shuqāq?) and the blankets (al-mulayḥifāt).

תגים

• women

תעתוק אחד

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: A few lines of an Arabic document, probably a letter or order addressed to a 'wakīl.' Verso: The introduction to a Judaeo-Arabic treatise, either identical with or merely citing Yaḥyā b.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Unusual handwriting: blocky, calligraphic. The writer bemoans that he has lost all his money and merchandise. "The reason for the debt is that my work is with ... the Shaykh Abū Saʿd known as Abū [...]."

תגים

• appeal

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1700–1900 CE

The food items include sesame seeds, sesame oil, meat, eggs, lemon, ṣarma, and cucumber. MCD.

תגים

• 18th or 19th c
• lemon
• sarma
• sesame
• tahina

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, probably of a Maghribī trader of the 11th century. […] The sender opens with sympathy for a distressing event. On verso, mentions the departure of a boat (iqlāʿ hādhihi l-qārib) and names such as Abū Zikrī and Abū l-Faraj.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Document in Judaeo-Arabic. Not a legal document proper but an extract of the description of a property, likely copied from an Arabic deed of sale. […] The house is located in the al-Mamṣūṣa neighborhood of Fustat. Mentions the alley of אלמזני. (Information in part from CUDL)

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אין רשומות קשורות

Fragment of a letter from Yehuda b. Sahl, Alexandria(?), to Nahray b. […] Regarding goods, several of which are for shipment to Sicily. Mentions interesting information about delivery of books.

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2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter of recommendation from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides (d. 1355 CE) to be read in "the two synagogues," to help an old man named Yeshuʿa to travel to Jerusalem where his children lived. Bibliography: Mentioned in Goitein, "The Twilight of the House of Maimonides," Tarbiz 54 (1984), 67–104.

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תגים

• 14th c
• jewish community
• yehoshua maimonides

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to Abu al-Faraj, son of Daniel the teacher, in the “habs Bunan” neighborhood. The writer describes that the wife of his son is asking for a divorce, framed as the result of her husband’s mistreatment; also mentions Abu ‘Ali. (Oded Zinger, Women, Gender, and Law, 140) EMS

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1

תגים

• divorce

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a member of the Ibn Nufayʿ family, in Malīj, to Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa b.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Long letter from Yosef b. Moshe to Peraḥya. The sender has traveled to Minyat Zifta. He gives instructions to his wife concerning her attire and other issues. Mentions Yosef, Umm Najīb and Sitt Ḍiyāʾ. (Information from CUDL and Goitein's index card.)

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1

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to a physician, with blessings for his sons Saʿadya and Abū Mansur Elʿazar, and mentioning the sender's longing for a third person.

תגים

• physician

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Daniel b. ʿAzarya probably to ʿEli b. ʿAmram, mentioning a realease valid in both Muslim and Jewish courts.

תגים

• 11th c

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Efrayim b. Isma'il al-Jawhari, probably in Alexandria, to Yosef b. 'Awkal, in Fustat, ca. 1030. Mentions Palermo and Mahdiyya; ships of Ibn Daysūr (?)

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3

תגים

• 11th c
• yosef b. awkal

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal fragment. On parchment. Probably in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Mentions collaterals; a period of 10.5 months beginning in Tishrei; granting somebody permission to sell certain items; 30 dinars + 1 qirat; and giving a deed (of release?)

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1

תגים

• hillel b. 'eli

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to Abu al-Ḥasan 'Allun the parnas (Eli b. Yahya, dated documents 1057-1107) about a case of inheritance, with a recommendation for a bashful young Jewish man as a flax worker. (Information from Mediterranean Society, V, p. 199, and from Goitein's index cards)

תגים

• communal
• flax
• inheritance

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment from Dāʾūd b. Azhar. Containing directions. The sender may be the same Dāʾūd b. Azhar mentioned in T-S Misc.29.23 + T-S Ar.38.31 (PGPID 8393) in 1104 CE.

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1

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Abu Zikri b. Eliyyahu's brother, Shelomo, to Abu Zikri (ca. 1200) informing him that their father was well but upset about the hardships Abu Zikri had encountered. (Information from Mediterranean Society, V, p. 257, and from Goitein's index cards)

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yūsuf b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī, in Alexandria, probably to Barhūn b. Isḥāq, in al-Mahdiyya. The writer mentions details concerning goods from the Maghreb and expresses concern about the unfolding state of affairs there.

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2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter, probably from Damascus, in which fifteen elders admonish a community in another country to bring to court a merchant against whom a widow held no fewer then twenty documents of indebtedness.

תגים

• 10th c
• communal
• debt
• orphans

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment or draft in Judaeo-Arabic. The portion on recto has an agitated tone, mentions a sum of money, Munajjā, swearing by God (וחק אהיה אשר אהיה. . . .

תגים

• to examine

אין רשומות קשורות

Avraham and the divorcee Mudallala bat Yehuda ha-Levi involving a dowry of 102 dinars plus a house. […] (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, pp. 387 and 403)

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1

תגים

• 12th c
• marriage

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document recounting long passages of oral speech, mentioning a faqīh, a qāḍī, someone getting beaten, the mutwallī al-maʿūna in New Cairo, the mutawallī al-dīwān, a certain Maḥfūẓ, the amīr Ẓahīr al-[Dīn?]

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1

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Business letter to Zikrī, mentioning Ibrahim Ibn al-Fawsalī (אלפוסלי) (?).

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Document in Arabic script. Verso: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Only the upper right corner is preserved, containing a few words from the opening and a sizeable text block from the right margin. Mentions 2 months... al-rayyis... a house. (Information in part from CUDL)

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: (draft of a?) letter with jottings. The sender mentions "his headache" and the sender's intention to travel east (אלממלוך קד עזם קולא ואחדא עלי אלתוגה נחו אלשרק).

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Legal document. In Arabic script. Fragment: only the ends of 6 lines are preserved. It concerns a settlement between two people and lists all the categories of goods that are apparently no longer a matter of dispute (e.g. anything of iron or copper). Also mentions siqlāṭūn (a heavy fabric of damask silk).

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document written on Saturday 20th Ṭevet 14[..] […] Yefet ‘the generous’ gives his testimony and makes claims against Saʿīd b. Abraham. Also mentioned is [...] b. Ḥalfon the Ḥaver. (Information from CUDL)

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Beginning of a letter. With a formal introduction and blessings in Hebrew, which apparently took up the entirety of recto except for the upper margin. In the upper margin, the sender asks to be informed, urgently, if it is true that the addressee is going out to the Rīf. He also mentions a shop. (Information in part from CUDL)

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).

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

The appointment is likely for a position in the army, mentioning an ‘affair of the Turks’ that the appointed person had dealt with successfully. On verso there is Hebrew poetry including Judah ha-Levi’s יה למתי צפנת. (Information from Khan and CUDL.)

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

P14: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE).

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1

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תגים

• halfon b. menashshe

תעתוק אחד

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE).

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1

תגים

• conflict
• murder

תעתוק אחד