Documents

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions some neighborhoods of Fustat, including Qālūs and Sūq al-Kabira, and descriptions of a property. Probably a deed of sale.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

The preface mentions a lover striving to appease his beloved by becoming her guide (dalīl) so that she has a change of heart (yaʿṭifu qalbuhu ʿalayya). The rhyme (rawī) of the qaṣida on recto is 'dāl' and 'ʿain' on verso, preceded by a short preface.

תגים

• dimme
• ghazal
• love poetry

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Some of the entries use the unit qirāṭ. All of the numbers are written out with words rather than numerals.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Some contain the mystery glyph (backwards ط). All are dated after the formula kutiba. ENA 3971.13–24, 31 and 34.

תגים

• arabic script
• dimme
• glyph
• tax
• tax receipt

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

26 Muḥarram 1260 Hijrī (16 February 1844 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Muḥammad Ḥusain acknowledges (aqarra wa ashada) in his sound mind that he owes 900 Kuruş in debt (شهد بذلك يكون ملزوم 900 ق) to Ḥusain al-Baṣrī(Naṣrī?). The document is dated 26 Muḥarram 1260/16 Feb 1844.

תגים

• dimme
• late arabic script
• ottoman
• seal

תעתוק אחד

Inferred date

1500–1800 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Account in Judaeo-Arabic with alphanumerical figures and itemized labels such as "milk/ ḥalīb" that may date from the 16th-18th centuries (based on the paleography).

תגים

• late ja
• milk

אין רשומות קשורות

Letter from Mūsā b. Yaʿaqov al-Miṣrī, in Malīj, to Yosef b. David b. Shaʿyā, in Fustat.

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תגים

• trade

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Asking him to summon Ibn al-Bahja, the half brother of Ibn Samʿān (same mother), and pay him the dirhams that were sent with this note.

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2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a letter from a certain Abū ʿAlī. In Judaeo-Arabic, headed by Hebrew verses.

אין רשומות קשורות

A wide array of names are listed along with corresponding monetary figures, such as: Barukh Meṣlīḥ, Yehuda Qudsī, Nissim Mosseri, Yosef Zeytūn, and many others.

תגים

• 18th or 19th c
• communal

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Among the items listed, from the recto there are: almonds, sugar, hummus[?] ("חומוץ"), beans, silk, lemon, and many other items on both sides of the fragment.

תגים

• 18th or 19th c

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

to the brokers (hiba lil-dallālīn) and al-shaykh Bū Zikrī.

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

505 Hijrī (10 July 1111–27 June 1112 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions people such as Ibn al-ʿIrāqī and "I sent with my cousin (ibn ʿamm) Abū l-Surūr."

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תגים

• account
• arus b. yosef
• holes

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Begging letter, probably, in elegant script informing the addressee that his brother Abū l-Baqā al-Tājir used to give charity to the writer and help his family with the capitation tax, but he has now died without a will.

תגים

• appeal

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

Two of the signatures are preceded by text alluding to pilgrimage to Jerusalem (חצר באלמקאם אלעזיז ....

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1

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions several luxury textile goods and a trader [probably Yiṣḥaq] b. Makh[lū]f al-Nafūsī. Dating: ca. 1130s CE. The items listed here are identical with those listed in L-G Misc. 9 (PGPID 5465), v9–v14.

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1

תגים

• ib-addenda
• ib2

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

her the 1,000 mithqāls. All he had left was [...]... he rode after [her]... said to him 'By God...'."

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תגים

• prostitute

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A release granted by Sitt al-Maʿālī to Abū l-Ḥusayn. Involving sums of 2 dinars somehow related to Abū l-Ḥusayn's father and a total of 4 dinars.

תגים

• yosef b. shemuel

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

Legal document in Hebrew. 16th-century. Yaʿaqov b. Faraj Allāh the Qaraite, known as Fayrūz, attests that he owes Moshe Ḥazzān b.

תגים

• 16th c
• fayruz

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment from a letter of appeal in which the writer alludes to news 'that made my chest constrict and the world collapse on me.'

תגים

• appeal
• language of distress

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender refers to a woman in the household and that he has no funds to buy anything at all for her, so he requests 10 dirhams. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ.

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1

תעתוק אחד

Document date

6 Nisan 4973 Anno Mundi (29 March 1213 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Netanel ha-Zaqen. Wife: Sitt al-Nasab bt. Elʿazar known as Ibn Shalom. Signed: Yeshuʿa b.

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תגים

• 13th c
• divorce
• get

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document concerning a house, apparently in the quarter of Qaṣr al-Rūm, which includes a lengthy description of the location and conditions of the house.

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1

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Tammuz 1531 Seleucid (May 1220–June 1220 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

. (= 1220 CE), concerning Abū l-ʿIzz b. Abū ʿImrān, known as al-Sharābī. Probably acknowledging that he owes money to Abu l-B[...].

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תגים

• 13th c

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Signed by Ṣedaqa b. Muvḥar, Moshe b. Ibn al-M[...] (?), […] b. Shelomo Gaʾon, and Pinḥas b.

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1

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Tiban, who has received 34 out of the past-due 68 dinars owed to him by Abu al-Faraj b. Ma’mar. 1108-9 CE. (Information from Goitein's index cards) EMS

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תגים

• register

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Jumada II 534 Hijrī (23 January 1140–20 February 1140 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Acknowledgement of receipt of money by Abu al-Faraj b. Shanuda the Christian seaman, leader of the sailors of "the weavers," from Abu Sa’d Daniyal b.

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תגים

• acknowledgment
• iqrar

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד 2 דיונים

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Prescription for pills against coughing; ingredients include red gum tragacanth, almond resin, licorice robe, and “bottled gourd seeds and quince mucilage, of each one mithqal.”

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תגים

• prescription

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information from Mediterranean Society, IV, p. 96.) Same hand and ʿalāma (בייי בטחתי) as DK 236 (PGPID 6573).

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

21st Elul 1418 Seleucid (10 September 1107 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Husband: Moshe b. Siman Ṭov. Wife: Sitt al-Dār bt. Ṣedaqa. Witnesses: Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel; Shelomo b.

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דיון אחד

Letter from Zekharya b. Ya’aqov b. al-Shama, from Tripoli (Libya), to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat.

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3

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד

Primary language

Arabic

What prevented him was his illness and the fact that Cairo is "qalīlat al-khāṭir (or ḥāẓir?)"—a somewhat cryptic statement.

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תגים

• arabic script
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He thanks Nahray for burning his last letter. He asks for news of 'al-kabīra' Sitt Muruwwa, who had been sick.

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5

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5

תגים

• 11th c
• abun b. sedaqa
• clandestine
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• (+ 4 עוד)

2 תעתוקים

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

From the cantor Yefet b. ʿAmram Ibn al-Jāzfīnī to Shelomo b. Shela ha-Sar" On recto, the only part of the body of the letter that remains is the end of the right margin and the entirety of the upper margin, in which Yefet excuses himself for not having accompanied Shelomo somwhere.

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תגים

• fragment (head)
• to edit

אין רשומות קשורות

Natan (dated documents ca. 1150-1181) mentioning a brocade sadr with two 'sidepieces,' and preserving the groom's name, Yahya ha-Levi, and the bride was probably Sitt al-Baha. (Information from Mediterranean Society, IV, pp. 120, 382, and from Goitein's index cards)

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תגים

• ketubba
• marriage

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

4738 Anno Mundi (17 September 977–4 September 978 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Kabīr asks for approval about a shipment of indigo to Qayrawan for the person who previously had the indigo in Fustat, Qimoy b. al-Ḥasan. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #106) VMR

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תגים

• 10th c
• qayrawan
• testimony

2 תעתוקים

Letter from Isma’il b. Barhun al-Tāhartī to a relative (probably his sister’s son, his nephew).

תעתוק אחד

Document date

1466 Seleucid (9 September 1154–29 August 1155 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Yehuda owes to Abū Zikrī Yaḥyā the doctor al-Levi. Hand of Mevorakh b. Natan? Jottings in Arabic and Hebrew script in the margin.

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1

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

9 Av 13[.]8 Seleucid (17 July 997–13 July 1087 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Abraham renounces any claim against Saʿīd b. Yisraʾel al-Ṭustarī (Saʿadya b. Yisraʾel b. Yaʿaqov Tustarī), a scion of the famous Qaraite family.

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1

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter sent from al-Mahdiyya by Yosef b. Musa Tāhartī to his brother Barhun in Susa.

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2

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2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Document date

25 Sivan 1395 Seleucid (1 June 1084 CE)

Ya'ish and his wife from all obligations regarding an inheritance. Dated Sivan 1395/1084 (date in document) or 1375.1064 (date given in Mediterranean Society II, p. 570 n. 34).

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

The statements were written in India, almost certainly in 1145.

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7

תגים

• ib3
• india book
• testimony
• trade

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

The writer thanks Faraḥ for his letter, praising him at length and sends greetings to Ibn al-Barakāt. (Information from CUDL.)

דיון אחד

Inferred date

1127–1138 CE

Beginning of a ketubba.Location: Fusṭāṭ. Bride: Sitt al-Milāḥ bt. Moshe, a widow. Groom: Sason. In the hand of Ḥalfon b.

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דיון אחד

Will of a notable, dividing his landed property, his flocks of sheep and all the orchards possessed or leased by him between his brother and his children.

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תגים

• copy
• will

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer accuses her of having ruined the honor of her family and his family, although he does not believe the more serious rumors about her.

תגים

• honor
• to edit

דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Perhaps intended as a aid for those who were already knowledgable about calendar calculations.

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תגים

• calendar controversy
• manual

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Av 1451 Seleucid (1140 CE)

Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay the household of al-Riyānī, in cash, 2 and a half dinars (and following that another) half dinar.

תגים

• abu zikri kohen
• cheque
• order of payment

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Literary text in Judaeo-Arabic containing a chapter entitled "In praise of knowledge and in condemnation of ignorance and anger," which opens with a discussion of Quran 41:34 (وَلَا تَسْتَوِي الْحَسَنَةُ وَلَا السَّيِّئَةُ ۚ ادْفَعْ بِالَّتِي هِيَ أَحْسَنُ فَإِذَا الَّذِي بَيْنَكَ وَبَيْنَهُ عَدَاوَةٌ كَأَنَّهُ وَلِيٌّ حَمِيمٌ) citing ʿUmar Ibn al-Khaṭṭāb.

תגים

• islamic
• quran

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

29 Dhū l-Qaʿda 404 Hijrī (31 May 1014 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: End of Dhū l-Qaʿda 404. Both the recto and the right margin of verso (the tax receipt side) contain a fiscal account (see PGPID 39214), suggesting that the paper for the tax receipt was cut from the account.

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תגים

• abu l-hasan b. wahb
• daman
• tax receipt

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד