Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mostly consists of especially deferential phrases: ...wa-fa-qad ʿalima l-khāliq anna ʿinda samāʿī... wa-tanwīh ismih wa-ḥusn thanāh min kull ṣādir... wa-anā uqabbil yadayhi wa-akhdumuh...

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Abū ʿAbdallāh to Abū l-Ṭayyib Mevasser al-Ṣayrafī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely ~12th century.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Reused on recto for alphabetic blessings for a bride and groom (each line beginning חתן וכלה).

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif to one of his brothers. Fragment (upper right corner of recto).

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תגים

• yefet b. menashshe

תעתוק אחד

Document date

20-29 Elul 5500 Anno Mundi (12 September 1740–21 September 1740 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

See Redhouse's dictionary (p. 262) for these terms. Verso is also filled with text, in at least different hands, apparently a halakhic discussion.

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תגים

• 18th c
• cloth

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter sent to Sitt al-Ghazal, wife of the judge Eliyyahu b. Zechariah (?)[…] Mentioned in Rustow, "Formal and Informal Patronage," Al-Qantara (2008), p. 363. [Goitein's identifications here are not completely certain.

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תגים

• personal

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The next section is headed "the effective" (al-nāfiʿa) and may be a recipe involving different kinds of meat, pomegranate seed, sumac, sour grape, and barberry, bread, and lemon. The next section is headed "syrups" (al-ashriba) and lists raw quince and one or two other items.

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תגים

• food

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1789–1850 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

This dating is feasible as well because on the verso there is a letter cluster that may be alphanumerical indicating the year [5]558AM or roughly 1797-1798CE (l.14v). […] Some names may be authors of printed books and/or bound manuscripts, among them: Moshe Altaras (l.6-7v) and Reʾuven b. David Bavli (l.21v).

תגים

• 18th or 19th c
• book trade
• numismatic dating

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Of the 50 dirhams which were collected, the following sums were earmarked, 'in the hand of the Rav and in the presence of the judges': 10 dirhams for Tamīm, 3.5 dirhams for laundering the [...] of the brocade curtain (al-sitr al-dībāj), 3.5 dirhams for laundering the two white covers (?

תגים

• brocade
• holes
• silk
• textiles

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Thursday, 25 Tishri 1339 Seleucid (28 September 1027 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Barhūn promises to feed Yosef for the entire period, subtracting the cost of maintenance from his wages. He also promises that Yosef will learn the craft. Yosef must have been quite young since it is his father rather than he who makes the contract, but the parties clearly thought that Yosef’s acceptance and understanding of the terms of the contract to have been important, because the contract's conditions were read to him and he agreed with them.

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תגים

• apprenticeship
• children
• contract
• partnership
• weaving
• (+ 1 עוד)

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The two folios under this shelfmark also contain half a page of a Hebrew poem and a full page of a macaronic Hebrew/Arabic poem consisting of verses rhyming on "حو/חו."

תגים

• ib-addenda
• macaronic

תעתוק אחד

He sends greetings to Avraham’s son Yefet (Abu 'Alial-Ḥasan), who is to be married soon. The date is unknown but must be earlier than Avraham's death in 1047 CE.

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תגים

• al-tustari
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: prayer
• illness: public figure
• (+ 1 עוד)

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fifteen days were pIenty of time for a letter going to Cairo and coming back with Abū Naṣr's instructions to the qadi. The writer mentions also that he did not feel well that day (wa-anā wajiʿ).

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תגים

• al-tustari
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: waja'
• ramla
• (+ 1 עוד)

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Tuesday, 4 Av 1473 Seleucid (17 July 1162 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shelomo and (Abū) Manṣūr El’azar b. Yishaq al-Dimashqī. Shemu’el b. Shelomo attests to the existence of a partnership agreement, which stipulated that profits were to be split 1/3 to 2/3, the bulk going to El’azar. […] The funds are invested with local workers in various towns in the Nile Delta (Sammanūd and al-Maḥalla) as well as in longer-distance investments (such as in Tyre).

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תגים

• court record
• partnership

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

"The anonymous poet, who laments that he could not offer a real “gift” (teshura), calls his composition a type of sacrifice pleasing unto God: 'May the Lord of praises prepare healing balm and all types of remedies . . . and strengthen the respected, beneficent leader, the choice of His people, a turban upon all of the communities.

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תגים

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• panegyric

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד 2 דיונים

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

the language and script also support a late date). The economy is depressed.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The position of a year in the jubilee cycle, Sabbatical cycle and the 19-year cycle are also noted. For each year, the calendar specifies whether it is plain or intercalated and the length of the variable months Ḥeshvan and Kislev, and gives the day of the week of beginnings of months, festivals and fasts and the day and time of the tequfot.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Is it possible that she will marry after all this time, and no news were heard from him, since he is in India (fī bilād alHind)?"

תגים

• aguna
• conditional divorce
• conversion
• fatwa
• ib7
• (+ 2 עוד)

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1200–1250 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

With the exception of two scholarly persons, a banker, entitled haver, who gives nine, and a goldsmith, styled rabbi)--the only one in the list besides the collector--who contributes five together with his partner, all the others content themselves with gifts of one-half, one, or at most one and one-half. […] This is an example of one of several lists of contributors that do not show a wide scale of social or economic differentiation, with craftsmen by no means always in the lower categories. The letter resh stands for rubaʿ (1/4) and the letter tav for thumn (1/8) (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, pp. 490-491, App.

תגים

• charity
• communal
• donors
• poverty

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

T-S K15.66 forms the upper part and T-S K15.14 the lower part, of one list of about a hundred persons, contributing or being asked to contribute from 1/6 to 3/4 dinar, as partial payment of the capitation tax, the community making up the balance. These are all male, foreigners, laborers, craftsmen mostly of lower standing, community officials, persons called ghulām or ṣabiyy, that is, slave, freedman, or employee, and five others designated as ḍamīn, persons for whom security was given. Alternatively, the sums following the names may indicate the amounts to be paid by the community.

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תגים

• charity
• jewish community

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

18 Ḥeshvan 5565 Anno Mundi (23 October 1804 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from the brothers Shelomo Cesana, Ḥayyim Cesana, and Avraham Cesana to Merkado Hayyim Avraham ha-Levi (although this looks like a single name, it may actually be 2 or 3 people). […] Neither arrangement seems to have gone well with the Cesanas reporting that they "did not benefit" from either partnership: with Yosef al-Qōrīṣṭī or with the brothers Naṣrallah and Jubrān מסקי (Msqī).

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תגים

• avraham ha-levi
• cesana

תעתוק אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The scribe has a distinctive shorthand for Allāh (antepenultimate word of last line of recto & penultimate word of second line of verso). […] He reports on the prices of goods in his location and tells the addressee not to come, alluding to the danger of the road. He has enclosed another pair of letters to be forwarded to Abū l-Rabīʿ Sulaymān b.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Only three lines are preserved of the body of the letter. The writer alludes to a woman (or to the ḥaḍra=addressee?) who was staying with him in S[...].

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תגים

• 13th c

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

1493 Seleucid (12 September 1181–30 August 1182 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Faraj b. Abū Saʿd al-Miṣrī takes over the service of the Iraqi synagogue, receives from Maḥfūẓ what was listed before and many additional items.

תגים

• book trade
• synagogue

דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, mostly alphanumerical calculations. One of the entries on the recto mentions Avraham ʿAṭiyya.

תגים

• account

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Petition from Abū l-Manṣūr b. Abū l-Faraj al-Qubaybiyya to Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon. He reports that he has opened a shop in Suwayqat [...] near the shop of Ibn [...].

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

At the top there is an endorsement with instructions for the reported payment to be registered in the Dīwān al-Nafaqāt (يثبت في ديوان النفقات بعد موافقته ان شا الله).

תגים

• cmp

אין רשומות קשורות

Some of the entries on the verso begin with names: Masʿūd B...un, Yiṣḥaq al-Ashqar, and Shemuʾel .....iel(?). Requires further examination for content.

תגים

• cmp

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Dating: No earlier than 1425 CE, based on the use of the currency ashrafī which was first minted under Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay in this year. Pinholes in the margin (like the other folios in ENA 3922), and traces of glue and/or leather.

תגים

• numismatic dating

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

E.g., sesame oil, linseed oil, olive oil, soap, lemon, onion, chickpea, leek, mastic, sugar, sulfur, [...], cumin. On verso alphabetic writing practice in both Hebrew and Arabic script.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Some contain the mystery mark (backwards ط). All are dated after the formula kutiba. ENA 3971 13–24, 31 and 34.

תגים

• dimme
• tax
• tax receipt

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Some contain the mystery mark (backwards ط). All are dated after the formula kutiba. ENA 3971 13–24, 31 and 34.

תגים

• dimme
• tax
• tax receipt

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He asks that the addressee send him 'the note' (al-ruqʿa) in return.

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תגים

• coin
• emotion
• informal note
• longing

תעתוק אחד

Document date

1 Tammuz 5499 Anno Mundi (7 July 1739 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

This shelfmark was previously listed with the date 1 Tammuz 5439, but the third alphanumeral is clearly צ rather than ל in התצט. Mentions several people, including Yaʿaqov b.

תגים

• 18th c

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Two entries on the verso provide the dates 11 Sivan and 16 Sivan, followed by the alphanumerals ת׳׳ג possibly denoting [5]403 AM (1643 CE).

תגים

• arabic script
• list
• prescription

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The accounting style is terse and structured mostly by alphanumerical figures. Based on the paleography, the dating is likely 15th- or 16th-century.

תגים

• cmp

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Simwāl, one under "lahu" 'he is owed' and second under "ʿalaihi" 'he owes'. 'ʾAjr' in the upper right hints that it could be related to rent.

תגים

• dimme

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1800–1850 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, along with a couple practice signatures of David Ben-Naʿīm, whose dated documents are from the first half of the nineteenth century.

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Monday, 16 Tammuz 1438 Seleucid (27 June 1127 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal notes, possibly for a dowry list. Name: Sayyid al-Ahl b. Abū l-Munā. Dated: Monday, 16 Tammuz 1438 Seleucid, which is 1127 CE.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

Fragment of a late legal document in Hebrew signed by Moshe Abū Shaʿra, alternate reading: Moshe Bekhar (בכר). Below the main document and signatures someone signed in the first-person as a guarantor to the above legal arrangements: איך אני עאבן קבלן פרעי...

תגים

• abu sha'ra

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Late account of sorts, using western Arabic numerals: "What was collected from the mother: first, ashrafiyya coins: 3; second. . . . " The mention of ashrafi coinage makes it possible to estimate the dating of this fragment as 1425 CE or later– the year in which it was first minted by Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay.

תגים

• numismatic dating

אין רשומות קשורות