Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: likely ca. 13th century. Mentions Mūsā al-Ṣay[rafī?], Sayyidnā, "not sleeping at night," and Cairo.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Deals with communal issues and mentions Ṭāhir b. al-Tinnīsiyya. On verso there are the remnants of a few words in Arabic script.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Commercial letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning al-Maḥalla; the workers of the Ḥusayniyya (? עמאל אלחסיניה); purchasing things and bringing them to Fustat; and dinars and qirrāṭ.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions 33.5 of something; "I opened my bundle"; the measure qinṭār; and Ibn al-Iskandaranī. (Information in part from CUDL)

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentioning the synagogue, ‘the house of my sister’, ‘at my brother’s,' al-Maḥalla, and a garment and shoes. (Information in part from CUDL.)

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1

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts, mentioning Maḥāsin, Isḥāq al-Baṣrī, Ḥayyun the carpenter, Bint Mujalliḥ the Maghrebian woman, Ṭāhir the servant, the house of the judge Menashshe, Yeshuʿa and Babylonians.

תגים

• account

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Refers to someone known as al-Ḥasid, the name Yehuda, and various expressions about difficult circumstances and praying for the addressee.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

The ends of 4 lines are preserved. Mentions 'al-wilāya.' Reused on recto for a book list in Judaeo-Arabic and on verso for Hebrew piyyuṭ.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Beginning with a taqbīl and referring to the addressee, probably a judge (al-dayyān), as 'my master' (mālik riqqī). Unclear how much of the substance is preserved.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

See T-S AS 177.85 (PGPID 37036) for all the related documents.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

See T-S AS 177.85 (PGPID 37036) for all the related documents.

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1

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Approximately 6 lines from near the beginning are preserved, along with a few phrases in the margin. Not a lot of the substance is preserved, but there might be some in the bottom line.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

See T-S AS 177.85 (PGPID 37036) for all the related documents.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Begins with "yunhī", mentions "sulṭān" and something being in the possession of infidels "fī aydī l-mushrikīn" probably alluding to the Europeans.

תגים

• dimme

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions people such as Abū l-Barakāt al-Kohen (الكوهان). Mentions commodities such as buckthorn (khawlān) and pepper.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

See T-S AS 177.85 (PGPID 37036) for all the related documents.

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1

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Letter/petition addressed to Fakhr al-Dawla. Fragment (upper right corner). Begins يخدم مجلس الحضرة السامية الاجلية العالية . . .

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Many names mentioned, including someone titled al-mufattish ('the inspector').

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Accounts in Arabic on recto with Greek/Coptic alphanumerals. Medieval-era. The text on the verso appears to be one large sequence of Greek/Coptic numerals (perhaps calculations).

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

Fragment of a communal letter, maybe a circular sent by the Gaʾon ("Rosh ha-Yeshiva" is all that is legible on the front side). Part of the address is preserved, to 'our brothers' and specifically ʿEli and Ḥas[an?].

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Yaʿaqov, however Shemuel's other documents are all in Hebrew only.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Accounts in Arabic on recto and verso, perhaps private records given the usage of Greek/Coptic alphanumerals. Medieval-era. Both sides of the document are well-preserved.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

On verso at 90 degrees there are accounts in Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions Bū l-ʿAlāʾ, Yūsuf, Abū l-Ḥasan, and someone's brother.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

ʿAmmār.... on the defects (al-ʿuyūb)... from the aforementioned price." The nature of the sale is not clear.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

This document is an amulet for Sitthum bt. Sitt al-Ahl to carry with her, perhaps in her pocket or as a necklace.

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תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso refers to Sayyidnā al-Nagid and a line about the laws of Sheḥiṭa by the late Rabbenu Moshe (Maimonides).

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

This part concerns the sale of aloeswood (ʿūd), 44 dinars and 10 qirats. Cf. T-S K15.29.

דיון אחד

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions two judges and Abū l-ʿAlāʾ ʿUlla.

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תגים

• halfon b. menashshe

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Not much of the Arabic is legible apart from the name Ṣadaqa b. al-Shaykh [...] wa-l-salām.

תגים

• arabic script

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

List of names (e.g., al-shaykh Abū ʿAbdallāh) and sums of money in Arabic script.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

The beginnings of 3 lines are preserved: bi-yad mawlāy al-shaykh... wa-aḥdara... lā zāla... Reused for piyyuṭ on recto.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Official letter(s) or petition(s) to the caliph al-Mustanṣir. There is a version both on recto and verso.

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Medical recipes, including one for ophthalmia (ramad al-ʿaynayn), which uses verdigris (zinjār) and arsenic (zirnīkh).

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

May refer to a qinṭār of glass and the phrase "maʿa al-mawjūd fī l-ḥamām(?)." Needs examination. On recto there is piyyuṭ.

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Arabic

The one on verso appears to be a note about money owed by ʿAlī. The one on recto is harder to understand.

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

4 Muḥarram 541 Hijrī (16 June 1146 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Capitation tax receipt for Bū l-Ḥasan Ḥusayn b. Hibatallāh al-Ṣayrafī in Fustat. Dated: 4 Muḥarram 541 AH, which is 16 June 1146 CE.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Trousseau of a female orphan, nineteen items. All clothing except for a six pillows, a trunk (ṣundūq) and a lamp.

תגים

• dowry
• marriage

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Yehoshuaʿ, in Tyre, to the ḥaver Abū l-Faraj Shemaʿya b. al-Faraj, in Jerusalem (see nearby fragments).

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

See T-S AS 177.85 (PGPID 37036) for all the related documents.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic. The entries include: al-Uṣūl; the Maqāmāt, both in Arabic and "Hebrew" (this could mean either Hebrew or Judaeo-Arabic); a book of midrash; a book of aqāwīl.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Among the goods is a female slave named Balgh al-Munā ('fulfillment of wishes'). (Information in part from Goitein's index card)

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תגים

• dowry
• jariya
• slaves

דיון אחד

"The first document is a letter (lacking, however, a few lines at the end) that was sent by an anonymous merchant to R. David Ibn Zamiro (alias Zimra).It seems that the writer was the fattore (commercial agent) of the addressee R. […] הראיתי הנוצה לסוחרים על מאמר מתיו, ולא רצו לעשות שום דבר. 'Concerning the feathers, although I already informed you know through R. Samuel Kichlado that I opened [the parcel] in his presence, I showed them [i.e. the feathers] to some merchants.

תגים

• 16th c
• radvaz

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

July 1156–November 1156 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter by Yosef Yiju, in Mazara, to his sons Perahya and Moshe, in Fustat or Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Dating: Fall or Summer, 1156 CE. […] Complaint that the longing for the addressees was 'killing' their parents, who, in addition, suffered from all kinds or privations and illnesses (lines 1-9).

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תגים

• ib-partial translation-eng
• ib3
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• india book
• (+ 1 עוד)

3 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים דיון אחד

Primary language

Arabic

List of indigent people equally divided between natives of the capital and residents originating from Alexandria, the Sharqiyya and Gharbiyya provinces, the villages around the capital (all entirely destitute), and towns such as Ashmum, Damietta, and Qūṣ.

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תגים

• capitation tax
• list
• poverty

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Recto, with address on verso: Petition/letter from Muslim b. ʿAlī b. Muslim to Abū l-Faraj Mawhūb b. Yūḥannā. […] He asks the addressee to intercede on his behalf or write a ruqʿa'for him to a higher official (al-majlis al-sāmī). Concludes with a raʾy clause, ḥamdala, and ḥasbala.

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1

תגים

• damin
• petition
• sugar

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

The writer may be named Abū l-Faraj (upper right of recto, although this is an unusual place to sign one's name), and the addressee is his paternal uncle (or at least addressed ʿammī), probably a merchant. […] Starting in the margin of recto and continuing for the remainder of verso, the writer exhorts his uncle to send him money, for which he will reap a great reward from God for supporting a Torah scholar. The margin also contains these curious sentences in a mixture of Arabic and Hebrew, "O my uncle, see that the Goyim, how will they know (yadrūna?)

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תגים

• bialphabetic
• to edit

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: probably ca. 1124 plus or minus a few years; in any case after ca. 1117 when Yosef Lebdī is thought to have died. Although the address is made out to 'my son Zayn' the letter itself actually addresses a woman, 'my sister.' […] and obtain for us a rescript (tawqīʿ) for our release from 'al-maʾmūn' (maybe a term for house arrest?), and redeem us from captivity... I see them dying... and inform me about the situation... All the children send greetings. Greetings to Dāʾūd and his wife and everyone with them.

תגים

• house arrest
• ib-addenda

תעתוק אחד

Document date

1131 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information from Goitein, The Yemenites, pp. 67–68 and Goitein and Friedman, India Book IV) VMR. See also T-S AS 170.7 (PGPID 40452).

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תגים

• 12th c
• communal
• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• india book
• (+ 1 עוד)

3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד