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Document date

Ramaḍān 557 Hijrī (14 August 1162–12 September 1162 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

L7 contains a cipher, which seems like an ʿalāma, could be the ʿalāma juyūshiyya but this is a wide guess.

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• iqta'

תעתוק אחד

Document date

4854 Anno Mundi (24 September 1093–13 September 1094 CE)

Sedaqa the cantor, a man known to have served also as judge and scribe in Minyat Zifta. He may have been the scribe, using his own name and his wife's name merely for the sake of example in drawing up this form.

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• ketubba
• marriage

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Muvḥar, since the name Berakhot appears throughout the document) and Yefet Tifʾeret ha-Qahal b. Avraham (who also appears in T-S 20.31 in 1092 CE, T-S Misc.24.137.1 in 1108 CE, and T-S NS J259 in 1099 CE).

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אין רשומות קשורות

The large number of households receiving 3 loaves was clearly attributable to some monetary shortage, when the normal ration of 2 loaves per person could not be maintained. The additional allocations (verso: ziyada fi al-'aniyyim) were certainly answers to protests.

תגים

• bread
• charity
• communal
• poverty
• recipients

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He was believed to be very influential with the viceroy al-Malik al-Afḍal. He signed documents in 1098 and died in or shortly before 1121.

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• charity
• communal
• donors
• poverty

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to Abū ʿAlī Aharon ha-Kohen b. Avraham. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, and quite eloquent. […] He justifies his rebuke with an (unattributed) quote from Kitāb al-Zahra, the treatise on love by the 10th-century Muslim jurist Muḥammad b. Dāwūd al-Ẓāhirī: "Without rebuking lapses, one can't preserve a friendship."

תגים

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• letter norms
• sayings

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He very happily reports on the birth of a son to him—"may God keep him alive and preserve him and send him a speedy recovery(!)"[…] He prays that God will keep his son alive so that he can 'toil over him like my father toiled over me.' […] The writer says he is always praying for the addressee during Birkat Kohanim.

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• children
• education
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: children

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

to him by the authorities (the letter mentions arbāb al-dawla, al-sulṭān, al-ṣāḥib, the qādī of Qalyūb, and the wālī) on condition that the young man remain in Qalyūb instead of traveling to the Levant as he had intended.

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• capitation tax
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: marad
• jaliya
• (+ 6 עוד)

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1094–1097 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Nissim requesting to forward a letter to Hassan b. Bundar. Location: Alexandria. Dating: 1094–97 CE. ʿAmram congratulates Nissim (Nahray's son) on his recovery (r4–8). […] Bundār, which he asks Nahray to forward to Aden in the hands of any Jews who might be passing through, or alternatively in the hands of a trustworthy Muslim.

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• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib2
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: recovered
• (+ 2 עוד)

3 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Umm al-Khayr, the widow of Eliyya al-Dimunshī, in Ragusa, Sicily, to her son Yehuda b. […] In fact, the family had heard a rumor that he died three years prior, so they held a large funeral and mourned him as if he had been present, believing that he died alone in a foreign land with no one to mourn him.

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• threatening to die

תעתוק אחד 2 תרגומים

Document date

Rabīʿ II 952 Hijrī (12 June 1545–10 July 1545 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

At the top of recto, there is a circular red stamp that seems to read "al-sulṭān al-Malik al-Muẓaffar"; this is puzzling, as it would suggest a Mamluk-era date.

תגים

• 'ayb
• early modern enslaved people
• seal
• slave

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

How much more (difficult are these times) on she who is hidden in the belly of the earth and is dependent on all (היא חבויה בבטן האדמה וצריכה לכל)." She also mentions that she has instructed a certain Menahem to speak on her behalf and collect money for her.

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תגים

• petition

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender complains further about the lack of letters and says that even if Eliyyahu has taken a vow not to correspond with him, he should send a letter to 'the judge' concerning the disputed household objects. The sender has also sent with Sayyidhum a letter detailing the lawsuits; Eliyyahu should present this account to Sayyidnā al-Rayyis (=Avraham Maimonides?).

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תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Sar Shalom, likely Abū Zikrī b. al-Shāmī b. Sar Shalom, an India trader and nākhudā who eventually died in a shipwreck between Aden and India. Makhlūf also mentions an ivory trader residing in one of his houses who possesses mother-of-pearl that Makhlūf intends to use for wooden clogs (either as inlay or to sell and spend the proceeds).

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• ib6
• india book

2 תעתוקים

Verso: document from Fusṭāṭ concerning financial matters between Isaac b. Elijah, known as al-Qaš[...] and Samḥūn. Dated Nisan 1340 of the Seleucid Era (= 1029 CE), and signed by Abraham he-Ḥaver b. […] (Information from CUDL.) See also Goitein's index card.

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דיון אחד

The second (r8–15) contains two garments, sent via Muḥsin b. Ukht al-Bantīt: a dabqāwī garment and a lower-quality muʿallam garment Intended for Abū ʿImrān b. […] The third (r margin 6–13) includes two turbans for Abū Yiṣḥaq. There is also a discussion of white scarves that are being prepared (r margin 10–13, v1) and of plans for a twenty-day business trip to the countryside (v2–3).

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• tiraz

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Uses the phrase khidmat mālik al-riqq (see Khan, ALAD, 345, 368, 434 for meaning and other examples); and see T-S Ar. 42.162. […] One of them mentions the amir Fāris al-Dawla. ASE.

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תגים

• dimme

Document date

1142–1159 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Yehosef) to Abū Isḥāq Avraham b. Yaʿaqov known as Ibn al-A[...]ān and vice versa, for all partnerships and transactions and other liabilities between them, except for a debt of 45 + 1/3 + 1/4 dinars owed by Avraham to Abū Zikrī, which was documented in another legal document drawn up on the same date. […] Saʿīd, and another involving (Abū) Saʿīd Ibn al-Dhahabī. A filing note on verso states that Abū Zikrī Kohen received the entirety of what he was owed by Avraham, namely 45 + 1/3 + 1/4 dinars Signed by Natan b.

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• ib5
• india book

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Together with four other people he was called to attend the deathbed declaration of Sitt al-Husn, the wife of Judge Natan b. Shemuʾel ha-Ḥaver, "the Diadem of the Scholars." […] An eighth of another compound partly owned by her is to be sold to cover the expenses ofher burial. She also states which of her belongings should be given to her husband.

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• 12th c
• natan b. shemuel
• slave
• will

3 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Natan, location unknown, to Khalaf b. Barakāt b. al-Dayyān, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer has had no news of the addressee's family ever since he traveled, so he asks them to write to him with their news (r5–12). He sends his gratitude to Umm Khalaf and to the wife of the ḥaver, Umm Bū ʿAlī, probably for their hospitality (r12–18). He is very worried on account of the children's sickness (ḍuʿf al-ṣibyān, r10 and probably r21 and v8).

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• hospitality
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: children's
• illness: du'f

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

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

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Muvḥar and Shemuel b. Aharon ha-Kohen al-Ṣayrafī ("the money-changer") are released from a partnership between Ṣedaqa’s father and Aaron, apparently at the death of Ṣedaqa’s father. 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). […] Elʿazar and Ghālib b. Ḥalfōn al-Zayyāt (the olive-oil dealer), both known from other contemporary documents, and Yaḥyā b.

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• partnership
• release
• suftaja

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Recto: part of a deed of release (אביזר), granted by ʿEli b. Ḥusayn b. Moshe al-Maghribī, to his brother Azhar b. Ḥusayn b. Moshe al-Maghribī,. […] Ḥarbish, Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham al-Ḥazām, Avraham b. Hillel b. Avraham, ʿEzra b.

דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

These pages narrate how ʿUmar Ibn al-Khaṭṭāb oversaw the sweeping and cleaning of Jerusalem in search of the Foundation Stone (אלצכרה אלדי הי אבן שתיה). […] The patriarch suggest 50 households, the Jews ask for at least 200, and they compromise at 70 households. The Christians are alluded to as the "rivals/opponents" (khuṣūm) of the Jews. The Jewish neighborhood in Jerusalem is specified as the southern district known as Sūq al-Yahūd as well as the area around the waters of Silwān for ritual immersion.

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תעתוק אחד

Regarding the debt and goods belonging to the late Abū l-Faraj Yaʿaqov b. Avraham b. ʿAllān. The money and goods belong to Mevasser, the writer’s brother. Also mentions clothes that the writer probably deals with their manufacture.

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תגים

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: chronic
• illness: marad
• illness: physician
• (+ 1 עוד)

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד

Document date

1159 Hijrī (24 January 1746–12 January 1747 CE)

Primary language

Ladino

The Hijrī years '54, '55, and '56 are also mentioned in the second heading of the third column on the recto. […] At least three different officials bearing the title "קשפ" appear in the accounts, which is probably an erratic spelling of the title كاشف (sub-provincial governor): (recto) Ḥasan Ağa קשפ Gharbiyya, ʿAlī קשפ Beḥayra, (verso) Ibrahīm קשפ Sharqiyya. Additional Ottoman officials and title-holders include, for example: Aḥmad Ağa Çerkasī, Muḥ[ammad]/Maḥ[mūd] Qaʾīmaqam, Ḥalīl Beğ, Aḥmad Çorbacı, Aḥmad Efendī t[ābiʿ] Ib[rahīm] Beğ, ʿUmr Efendi Baş, Katkhuda al-Bāb, Muḥammad Ağa. At least two tailors are mentioned (sastre, שאשטרי), one of whom is listed as "the tailor of the aforementioned Beğ," whose household is referenced at the top of the third column on the verso: "Account of the house of Yosef Beğ ישיר(?)

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

Shelomo the physician, known as Ibn al-Ṭaffāl (“son of the fuller”), who arrived in Qalyub bearing a letter from Sar Shalom supposedly appointing him as the exclusive mohel for “all the villages.” […] Moshe now gets to the point of the letter: he has heard that Ibn al-Ṭaffāl slandered him to Sar Shalom, claiming that he said things against the Gaon that he never said. […] He would have presented himself in person, but it was all he could do to even write a letter. He wrote it lying down, prostrated by illness of his intestines and eyes.

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• circumcision
• ibn al-taffal
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: excuse
• (+ 6 עוד)

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Sahlān b. Avraham. Also mentions shipments of money and goods: honey, crocus, linen, linen fabrics, and “lāsīn” silk. […] When I go to the bazaar, I am forced to sit on the road five times and more. I have ceased all my work. May God have mercy on me." The translations of Goitein and Gil diverge significantly. […] Both read "mayyit" (incurable, fatal) instead of ʿayītu, but as the next word is almost illegible, the only way to decide between the two readings is via comparing it with Nissim's other מs and עs.

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: limb
• illness: physician
• illness: treatment

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Document date

1469/1471 Seleucid (1158–1160 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Ḥalfon ha-Kohen and Sitt al-Milāḥ b. Abū Saʿīd, at the top the name Khalaf Abū Saʿīd al-Kohen from Cairo (the bride’s father) is mentioned. (2) A second statement refers to Khalaf Abū Saʿīd who will trade with a sum of money paid to him for the orphan Abū Ḥasan (b. […] for a 50% share of the profits, dated Elul 1470 of the Seleucid Era (= 1159 CE). (3) The copy of a power of attorney dated to the first decade of Tammuz 1469 of the Seleucid Era (= 1158 CE) in Damīra under authority of the Nagid Shemuʾel is given by Sitt al-Niʿam bt. Yeshuʿa b. ʿAmram to Yosef b. ʿOvadya ha-Levi concerning dealings with her father’s estate, as well as mentioning names such as Hillel known as al-Abzārī and Damietta. (4) Another witness statement concerning a partnership in a shop and dated Marḥeshvan 1471 of the Seleucid Era (= 1160 CE) is signed by Shemarya b.

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תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Ladino

Legal declaration, probably the concluding page of a deposition, signed by Shem Ṭov al-Ḥāmī. In Hebrew and Ladino. Dating: Late. Shem Ṭov declares that he vowed to undertake the nezirut of Samson (i.e., abstain from wine and let his hair go wild) when his son had an eye disease. […] At this point they wanted the mother-in-law to leave them alone, but she refused to leave without her daughter. […] He signs Shem Tov ("Good Name") al-Ḥāmī, watchman of a quarter. "The purpose of the declaration was, of course, that the impulsive watchman thirsted for wine and wished to be absolved from his overhasty vow."

תגים

• illness
• illness: eye
• ladino
• late heb
• marital dispute

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

1647 Seleucid (October 1335 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(perhaps read 1647, which is 1335/36 C.E., which is much more likely than 647 A.M = 881/82 C.E., but note that the preceding letter looks more like a dalet [= 4000] than an alef). In any event, this notation seems to have been there before the list was written, as proved by the last name on line 10, Sulayman, which had to be squeezed in to avoid the letters in the margin, and by the fact that the note is seemingly in a different hand. […] (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 496, App. C 69 and Cohen.) Also discussed in Goitein, "The Twilight of the House of Maimonides," Tarbiz 54 (1984), 99f.

תגים

• 14th c
• communal

תעתוק אחד

Document date

1352 Seleucid (11 September 1040–30 August 1041 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The case comes before the caliph ʿUmar Ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, who is impressed that Bustanay does not flinch when a mosquito bites him. […] The point of the polemic: all the descendants of Bustanay are compromised, and the true house of King David will be revealed only in messianic times. […] Avraham, cast aspersions on Danʾiel b. ʿAzarya presumably also against Shelomo b. Yehuda. (Rustow, Heresy, 314) For a parallel text, see PGPID 35180.

תגים

• bustanay
• conversion
• exilarch
• literary with documentary value
• nasis
• (+ 1 עוד)

תעתוק אחד 2 דיונים

Document date

Tuesday, 5 Adar II 1437 Seleucid (1126 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

(Information in part from Friedman, "A Case of Polygyny with David, Abigail, and Ḥasana," Dine Israel X–XI (1981–83). Also discussed in Friedman, "Polygyny in Jewish Tradition and Practice," Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research 49 (1982), 33–68.) […] Yosef ha-Parnas (whose name appears also on verso of T-S 16.252 (PGPID 3470)).

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תגים

• halfon b. menashshe
• ketubba
• polygyny

תעתוק אחד 2 דיונים