Documents

Primary language

Hebrew

There is no need for a miqve, as Yeḥiel has already made one in his own house. The rains have already ended, and the Gentiles do not permit bathing in the Shiloaḥ spring, so there is nowhere else to build one.

תגים

• menstrual purity
• miqve

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Wednesday, 13 Ṭevet 1377 Seleucid (14 December 1065 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Sason. acknowledged receipt from Moshe b. Yehuda Ibn al-Majjānī the 6 dinars due to her from her father for having maintained her orphan child Moshe during past 6 months. The sum as paid by her father on order of the court and transmitted through al-Majjānī (via ḥawwāla). Signed by Yaʿaqov b. Moshe and Menashshe b.

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from an army doctor, in Ashmūm Ṭannāḥ (present-day Ashmūn al-Rummān), to his son, in an unknown location. […] His son's letter informing him of his wife's labor, and her anger at his absence, reached him on Wednesday with al-Kohen (the same day he is writing the present letter).

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תגים

• army
• childbirth
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: physician
• (+ 3 עוד)

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Abūn b. Ṣadaqa al-Maghribī, in Jerusalem, to Abū Zakariyyā Ḥayyim b. […] Abūn first consoles Ḥayyim on the death of a son, and he then vehemently refutes allegations against his integrity (charges of debts to the government and the office of the inheritance up to 1000 dinars).

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2

תגים

• abun b. sedaqa
• akhlaq

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Document date

Thursday, 17 Sivan 4806 Anno Mundi (25 May 1046 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Maḥfūẓ (groom-to-be) and Amat al-Qādir bt. Efrayim b. Manṣūr b. Furāt (bride-to-be). […] Yiṣḥaq b. Moshe ha-Levi, ʿAllān b. Nahum, Yosef b. [...] b. Efrayim, David b. [...], and [...] b.

תגים

• betrothal
• engagement
• karaite

3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד 4 דיונים

Document date

1100 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He is still endeavoring to free his son-in-law (שרנו אדירנו חתננו שר בית ישראל), whom Goitein identifies with Abū Saʿd the son of the Tustarī woman (mentioned as a Crusader captive in T-S 10J5.6 + T-S 20.113). Ṣadoq has also sent a letter to the Nagid (Mevorakh b. Seʿadya) reporting on his efforts for the captives.

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2

תגים

• captives
• children
• crusaders

3 תעתוקים 3 תרגומים 2 דיונים

Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

T-S K25.240 consists of small written orders, partly in Hebrew and partly in Arabic script, for monthly payments, made out of the rent-revenue from the pious foundation (waqf) 'Compound of the Poor' or from the pious foundation made by the physician al-Muhadhdhab. All dated orders are from spring and summer, 1218.

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תגים

• avraham maimonides
• avraham maimonides autograph

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

After much effort the sender eventually found another messenger to travel to Jūjar -- it is difficult because Jūjar is on a different branch of the Nile than al-Maḥalla, "for between al-Maḥalla and it are two rivers (baḥrayn) and a lake (buḥayra)."

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תגים

• runaway

תעתוק אחד

Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal query to Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE) about a trader who travelled to India (Bilād al-Hind), remained there for fifteen years, and reportedly drowned in Fanṣūr, a Sumatran port famous for exporting camphor (Heyd, Commerce du Levant, ii, 592). The question facing Avraham Maimonides was whether or not this woman was allowed to remarry based on the testimony of the Jewish trader who reported the merchant’s death upon his return from Aden.

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תגים

• aceh
• aguna
• ib7
• india book
• indonesia
• (+ 1 עוד)

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He reports that he has already requested a favor from 'my master al-ḥemdat' Avraham b.

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1

תגים

• tax

דיון אחד

Document date

Sivan 1488 Seleucid (1 May 1177–30 May 1177 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Greetings from his father, his mother, his brothers Zakkay and Yehuda, his older and younger sisters. Greetings to Raḍiyy al-Dawla, Abū l-Maʿālī, two cousins, their mother, and the sister of Raḍiyy al-Dawla.

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3

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1

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

Announcing that Meʾir ha-Sar and Yiṣḥaq ha-Dayyan will appoint all ritual slaughterers (טבחים) and guards in the community addressed and look after their religious needs. […] This is our inheritance and that of our forefather King Jehosaphat, as it is written in Scripture: 'And he set judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities of Judah' (II Chronicles 19:5)."

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1

תגים

• babylonian geonim
• butchers
• communal
• shemuel b. eli

תעתוק אחד 4 דיונים

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

List of many important people (e.g. a lineage of the heads of Yeshivat Gaon Yaʿaqov) with family trees. "This is the ʿitra of al-Rayyis Abū l-Najm and his siblings and his cousins (awlād ʿamm)."

אין רשומות קשורות

Legal queries from al-Maḥalla. The first one asks how to calculate the value of a marriage contract (ketubba) where there is no fixed rule concerning the additional marriage payment (ziyāda).

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions al-Shām; 20 nuqra dirhams; dār sayyidinā in Fustat, and various people's names.

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2

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Asks the addressee to confirm receipt of some books (al-juzūʾ). On verso there is an imprint of CUL Or.1080 J47b (PGPID 19823).

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer informs him inter alia that the only commodity which sold well in the "West" was lac.

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2

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1

דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A variety of names with Ottoman titles are mentioned, such as: Yosef Jalabī (Çelebi), dīwān (of the) Efendī, ʿAbd al-Raḥman Aga, Maḥ[mūd]/Muḥ[ammad] Efendī. Requires further examination.

תגים

• ottoman
• ottoman state

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Syriac (Serto)

Syriac Memro for Palm Sunday. 14 lines, with a catchword at the bottom and the Garshuni heading yuqraʿ turjām ʿīd al-saʿānīn. This was edited by Siam Bhayro. Information from Kiraz, "Learning Syriac and Garshuni in Early Modern Egypt."

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Memorial list for the family of "al-Rayyis Abū l-Ḥasan, the family of our holy rabbi (Rabbenu ha-Qadosh.

אין רשומות קשורות

(a) List of names and sums. Probably an alms distribution list. Entries include "the dyer"; "and her daughter"; Ṣedaqa; Umm Labwa; Ibrāhīm.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Abū l-Ḥassan b. Ṣāliḥ Muḥammad al-Q[...]?), then several figures in Greek/Coptic numerals, with a grand total written at the bottom.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

ENA 3695.4, ENA 3695.5, and ENA 3695.8 all look very similar, might be from the same original document.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Receipt or legal document in Arabic script. Mīkhāʾil al-Dabbāgh (the tanner) sold cow hide(s) to Jaʿfar b.

תגים

• leather
• tanner

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

The entries mostly begain "ḥāṣil yawm al-X. . . " Names include Gedalya; Dāʾūd; R. Natan;

תגים

• arabic

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

402 Hijrī (4 August 1011–22 July 1012 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Reused for a tax receipt issued for 402H written by Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ the jahbadh, so written earlier than that.

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1

תגים

• dimme
• fiscal

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Informal note addressed to Abū l-Faraj concerning a settling of accounts in the Dār al-Wikāla, involving 10 dirhams and the months of Ramaḍān and Shawwāl.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Including epithets of God (Ḥayy, Qayyūm, Dā'im, Dayyūm, Huwa Huwa) and Quranic verses (idhā qaḍā amran innamā yaqūlu lahu kūn(!) fa-yakūn) alongside nonsense words.

תגים

• arabic script
• magic

אין רשומות קשורות

Power of attorney by Shemuel Ibn al-Lebdi from late tenth-early eleventh century Fustat.

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תגים

• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib1
• india book
• power of attorney

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter of appeal for charity addressed to Abū ʿImrān al-Kohen. Written in Hebrew (the opening poem and formulae) and Judaeo-Arabic (the body).

תגים

• appeal
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: appeal
• illness: cost

דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter sent from Fustat by Barhun b. Salih al-Tāhartī to his cousin Barhun b. Musa. The letter deals with business dealing with Muslims and the collection of debts.

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2

תגים

• al-tahirti
• muslims
• trade

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

Names mentioned include: ʿAbd al-Karīm; Muhadhdhab; Yisraʾel; Yaʿāqov ha-Le[vi?]

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Abū l-Bishr and his son; ʿAbd al-Wāḥid; Menaḥem b. Majd; Abū Isḥāq b. Ṭayyib; [...]

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

E.g., Abu l-[...] known as Ibn al-ʿAmm (cf. ENA 2744.1 for this family name) and ʿOvadya.

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1

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

One section seems to be for countering the evil eye ("kadhālika tatafaqqaʿ al-ʿayn wa-l-naẓra").

אין רשומות קשורות