Documents

Document date

Last decade of Sivan 1442 Seleucid (18 June 1131–27 June 1131 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The property is described, with reference to the Masjid al-Ḥajar(?) and the alley known as Ibn Dulayma(?).

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אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

first decade of Ḥeshvan 1445 Seleucid (2 October 1133–11 October 1133 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe ha-Kohen gifts a new enslaved woman, Rahaj, to his wife Sitt al-Nasab bt. Abū l-Munā Yiṣḥaq after selling the enslaved woman, ʿAlam, who was part of the wife's ketubba.

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תעתוק אחד 2 דיונים

Document date

1051–1062 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Mann originally published this letter and interpreted dukkān as "shop"; Goitein pointed out that it can also mean the office of a communal leader.

2 דיונים

Document date

Tishrei 4759 Anno Mundi (24 September 998–23 October 998 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

An early legal document, in Hebrew rather than Judaeo-Arabic. Location: al-Banā, near Fāqūs in the Nile Delta. Dated: Tishrei 4759 AM = 1309 Seleucid = September/October 998 CE. […] The latter lived in the house and had already received another twelfth as the dowry of his wife (Ghaniyya bt.

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תגים

• bill of sale
• real estate

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1190–1204 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Having read part of Maimonides’ Guide - and finding that he has not entirely understood it - the writer asks if he can either meet with Maimonides or with someone else that Maimonides recommends. He also asks for dietary recommendations that will help him in his pursuit of knowledge.

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תגים

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517

דיון אחד

Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

One of three draft versions of a document concerning the leadership of the community of al-Maḥalla during the administration of Mevorakh b. […] The spiritual leader of al-Maḥalla had left them two years ago. On Sabbaths and holidays, people sat under the sycamores in the streets instead of attending synagogues and lectures.

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2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Part of a ketubba. Bride: Sitt al-Maʿālī bt. Ḥesed, a divorcee. Groom: Daniel b. […] Witnessed by Yiṣḥaq b. Simḥa ha-Levi al-ʿAsāb, Yeḥezqel b. ʿEli ha-Kohen (Ezekiel ha-Kohen 'the Ḥaver in the Great Sanhedrin' b.

דיון אחד

Document date

Shaʿbān 941 Hijrī (5 February 1535–5 March 1535 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

to the hand of Yahuda Naḥmias for the merchant of Alexandria" (מה ארסל ה׳׳ר יעקב מרחיים יצ//ו מן פולווקמח ליד ר׳ יהודה נחמיש יצ׳׳ו לתאגר אסכנדריה).

תגים

• 16th c or later
• late alexandria
• ottoman shipping

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Judaeo-Arabic, Unidentified (Hebrew script)

This entire interpretation is tentative, because the handwriting is dreadful and the orthography even worse. The letter ד is alternately rendered as ד ,ת ,and ט. The letter צ is alternately rendered as צ and ז.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There is a group of enemies and at their head are the children of al-Najīb. There is a "writ (waraqa) in the amount of 8,000..." […] Everyone is in a state of fright. The sender cites the ʿal ha-nissim prayer to wish destruction on the ringleaders of this scheme: יפר עצתו ויקלקל מחשבתו וישיב] גמולו בראש.

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תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Arabic

The sender reports that Abū ʿAlī b. Dāʾūd has demanded money from Hiba al-Ḍāfir.

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Arabic

The first hemstitch of the verse "كتب المحب الى المحب رسالة" resembles the first hemstitch from the poetry of the Abbasid poet al-ʿAbbās b. al-Aḥnaf.

תגים

• arabic poetry
• dimme

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

He was appointed as Gaʾon already around 1140, when Yehuda ha-Levi arrived in Egypt., and was titled Nagid for a short period after the death of Shemuel b. […] AA Join of T-S AS 90.354 + T-S NS 308.58 identified by Alan Elbaum.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

There are two additional columns of text, which are at least somewhat related to the main petition (both refer to an ijāza/exemption; the first is signed by Mattā and dated 19 Hātūr 1509; the second is signed by [...] al-Nā'ib al-Rasūlī and dated 1510). The petition itself appears to be dated 1509, which might correspond to 1792/93 CE.

תעתוק אחד

Document date

4754 Anno Mundi (19 September 993–7 September 994 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Two cantors, Naḥum b. Yosef al-Baradānī and Palṭiel b. Efrayim, divide up liturgical and communal responsibilities (and wages) between them. […] The former, Naḥum b. Yosef al-Baradānī, is otherwise known from the writings of R.

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תגים

• cantor
• scribes

דיון אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

The community previously sent messengers to Patras, but the community there was also impoverished and unable to help. There are seven signatures, including Gershon b.

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תגים

• corfu
• salonica

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions "9 qirats for each of them." (2) Involves two people's daughter and mother; and an obligation to pay for their sustenance (awadihimā); and their death. (3) Has to do with property, describing its boundaries. Mentions [...] al-Ḥakīm al-Qazzāz Natan, and a new house [known by the name of?]

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Petition/letter of appeal for assistance likely addressed to 'the overseer' (al-mushārif, l. 1). The sender refers to this document as "this khidma." […] On verso there are a few words in Arabic, maybe related, ending with an "in shāʾ allāh."Some of the legible phrases: المشارف بان . . .

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

It appears the the bride return the marriage gift she received to the groom, named Yosef, but it is also possible to say she kept it and the groom approved it.

תגים

• late heb
• shiddukhin

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

A man belonging to the entourage of the amīr [...] al-Dīn Ṭāsh Takīn then appeared. . . . The continuation is missing. There is a Mujīr al-Dīn Ṭāshtakīn known from historical chronicles (amīr of the Iraqi ḥājj pilgrims in the late 12th / early 13th century), but the word before Dīn here doesn't seem to be Mujīr.

תעתוק אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Formula to be used in Jerusalem [?]. There is also an Islamic text in Judaeo-Arabic, concerning the beginnings of Islam and the Prophet Muḥammad and containing part of a very interesting genealogy: بن هاشم بن عب[...]

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תגים

• islamic text in ja
• qaraite

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Inferred date

950–1300 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Composed by Josiah b. Mevorakh al-ʿĀqūlī. Dating: Josiah b. Mevorakh al-ʿĀqūlī lived in the second half of the 10th century; CUDL dates this copy to the late 13th century (specifically, 1296/7 CE) based on the arrangement of calendrical values.

תגים

• calendar

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Document date

29 Tammuz 5458 Anno Mundi (8 July 1698 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

(Document #31) Brief testimony by a certain Aharon Lobregón that he is leaving his daughter and "his maidservant" (שפחתו, an enslaved woman) in the home of Yosef Abzaradel while he travels to Alexandria. The entry does not state for how long Aharon planned to travel.

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תגים

• early modern enslaved people

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

The poem is jubilant, and praises, of course, also Abraham's illustrious late father, other ancestors, his two sons (who must have been mere boys at that time), and the happy community, for which he had been spared" Med Soc V, 111.

תגים

• avraham maimonides
• illness: recovery

אין רשומות קשורות

C 1, 2, containing about sixty names of male persons, recipients of alms. The first four are styled 'elder'; among the others: 4 dealers in olive oil, zayyat, 2 dyers, 2 packers, a cook, a gravedigger, a ghulam, servant or employee, of the (senior) Tustari brothers, all people of low professions.

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תגים

• capitation tax
• charity
• communal
• jaliya
• jizya
• (+ 3 עוד)

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

One of the parties is Ṣedaqa (called 'al-muḍmin,' the guarantor) and the other is Abū l-[...]. They divide Egypt into areas of activity: one may sell goods in Upper Egypt (al-Ṣaʿīdayn, meaning "the two Ṣaʿīds"—it is unclear what the second Saʿīd is), and if he tries to sell in New Cairo, he will owe a fine of 50 dinars.

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תגים

• damin
• halfon b. menashshe

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

Yosef ha-Kohen on behalf of the community of Alexandria to the community of Fustat concerning the redemption of captives.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment (right part only). Sitt al-Kull (named 2 lines from the bottom) makes a declaration that involves the will of the widow of Pinḥas ha-Zaqen (perhaps her sister–see 12 lines from the bottom). Mentions "my sister's son Abū ʿAlī"; sums of 58 dinars, 14 dinars, and 29 dinars; and two female slaves that she left behind (or just daughters?

דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Written and signed by Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya. Also signed by [...] b. Avraham. (Information from Goitein's index card #11876.)

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תגים

• account
• heqdesh
• qodesh
• waqf
• yefet b. david b. shekhanya

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד 2 דיונים

Document date

1409 Seleucid (1098 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

ʿAmram is representing his sister Sitt al-Kull bt. ʿAmram in her engagement (she is titled al-mukhatiba = the engaged (?))

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תגים

• prenuptial

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto (reuse): Letter from the fledgling cantor [...] b. Shelomo(?) al-Ḥalabī, in Malīj, to his mother, in Fustat (care of Hillel al-Fuqqāʿī in the druggists' market).

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דיון אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Small receipt. For Ḥusām Ibn al-[...].

אין רשומות קשורות

Small fragment, almost no text preserved.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Alchemical technical instructions in Judaeo-Arabic.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Aphorisms attributed to al-Shāfiʿī and others.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Small receipt for al-Ḥājj Karīm.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Fiscal account. Headed "al-mustakhraj. . ."

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Technical instructions in Judaeo-Arabic. Alchemy?

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Recipes in Arabic script, maybe alchemical.

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Wednesday, 23 Rajab 1244 Hijrī (29 January 1829 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

After 1835, this title referred to the Chief Rabbi of Istanbul, who, at least in theory, represented all Jewish subjects of the Ottoman sultan. The title appears sporadically before that date, but its connotations are neither clear nor consistent.... […] This name is close enough to that of the leading rabbi of Istanbul’s Jewish community at the time, Ḥayyim Yaʿḳov Benyakār, to make it plausible that the figure named in the loan agreement is, in fact, Benyakār, whose name could also be rendered Bāryakār, using the Aramaic bār instead of the Hebrew ben for ‘son of’. […] The potential relationship of the surnames Cara and Caro/Karo in early modern Cairo also await further research. MCD.

תגים

• frances
• hakham bashi

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

Out of the related documents, CUL Or.1080 J148 and T-S 8J7.9 must have been copied at the same time, as both contain the same interlinear insertion ("and his two sons Meshullam and Avraham") at the same place in the document. This allows reconstruction of some of the lacunae in the transcription below. Both also have accounts in Arabic script on verso. The CUL Or.1080 J148 version contains more abbreviations, while the T-S 8J7.9 version has more words written out in full. T-S NS J39 is also a very close copy. (Information in part from Goitein's index card and Med Soc 2:162, 554.)

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד