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Document date

6 Heshvan 1440 Seleucid (2 October 1128 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef Ibn Qashqūsh declares to have no claims whatsoever against Abū l-Baqāʾ Elʿazar b. Evyatar al-Ahwāzī after the settlement of the inheritance of his wife.

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• alemdar
• amir
• damascus
• halfon b. menashshe
• nagid david
• (+ 1 עוד)

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

It starts by describing a stroll on the Sabbath following Pentecost to 'the observatory' (al-raṣad) to get some fresh air (natanashshaq).

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In which ʿEli urges Efrayim to stop ignoring his letters and to give him an update about his earlier request concerning Abū l-Faraj al-Mawṣilī.

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• 11th c

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Tuesday, 29 Nisan 1458 Seleucid (1 April 1147 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Yehuda ha-Zaqen. Bride: al-Sitt bt. Ḥalfon ha-Zaqen; she is the divorcee of the groom.

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• ketubba

דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Draft of a letter apparently written in Edessa (al-Ruhā). In Judaeo-Arabic. In a different hand from the letter on recto (one of the Mosul Nasis?).

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2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The remedies preserved here are topicals, e.g., for skin lesions and ulcers, cosmetics for the face, and compresses including one for heavy menstrual bleeding and vaginal bleeding during pregnancy: (take) peeled lentils, pomegranate peel, saffron, gallnut, seed of al-Amīr Bārīs (= barbārīs = barberry); these should be ground up and made into a paste with vinegar and applied to the belly/uterus (baṭn) and to the pubic region (ʿāna).

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

About a consignment of silk that was about to reach Fustat, owned in partnership by the sender and Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī. Nahray is requested to sell the silk as quickly as possible and to keep the sale secret.

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תגים

• al-tahirti
• nahray b. nissim
• secret
• silk
• trade

3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The family may have paid their taxes (wa-niḥnā kāmilīn min al-maqṣ). ASE

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Two of the accounts mention "Brahīmī" coinage alongside bunduqī (gold ducats) and fiḍḍa (possibly medin).

תגים

• cmp
• numismatic dating

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1168–1204 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

But Levi doesn't have the needle any more and claims that Shimʿon already redeemed it and forgot about it. (Information from Amir Ashur via FGP.)

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תגים

• responsa

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Recto: Letter from Barakāt b. Abū l-Faraj al-Dayyān (=Shelomo b. Eliyyahu) to Abū l-Ḥasan.

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• appeal
• capitation tax
• jaliya
• pinholes

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Arabic

One distinctive feature of these horoscopes/prognostications is the phrase "wallāhu aʿlam" (God knows better) after each prediction.

תגים

• arabic literary
• prognostication

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

May he be as a tree planted along water, sending forth its shoots by a stream; it does not sense the coming of heat, its leaves are ever fresh; it has no care in a year of drought, it does not cease to yield fruit” (Jer 17:8).

תגים

• panegyric

תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew alphanumerals with intermittent usage of Western Arabic numerals.

תגים

• list

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

David ha-Kohen and that he is only owed 5 more dinars, which will be paid over a period of 4 months (Nisan through Tammuz, the year is lost), 1.25 dinars each month. Join: Alan Elbaum.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The purpose of this letter is to ask for help obtaining a ṭallit or its price, and sending it back with Abū l-Ḥasan Barakāt. The sender has already written to the Nagid regarding the same matter.

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On the writer, see India Book II, 6 (DK 230.3 (alt: XIX) (PGPID 5422)), India Book II, 9 (Moss.

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• ib-addenda
• ib2
• india book unedited
• unedited 11th c

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic with Hebrew alphanumerals. Possibly dated in the first line of the recto, left side: ס׳ סגץ (s[anat] 963 AH), but the preceding word is too damaged to know for sure if this is a Hijrī year or perhaps a non-calendrical part of the entry.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Abū Saʿd b. Yisra'el ha-Zaqen (al-Tustari?), copied by his student. Bottom of the fragment seems like an answer to a question or addressed to a student or disciple discussing the philosophy of knowledge, some are bestowed with it whilst some are bereft of it.

תגים

• dimme

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1750–1850 CE

The names of those listed include: Ḥananīya Ṭawīl, Avraham Levi, Nissīm Raṣon, Eliyahu Palombo, Yaʿaqov Azulay, Saʿd Pinto, Nissīm Meyuḥas, Mordekhay Qapinton, Eliyahu Ṣahal, Yaʿaqov Shalom, Raḥamīm Zardil/Zaradel, Avraham al-Ḥajj, Moshe Mūjnājī, Gedaliya Mūjnājī, Moshe Ṣevi.

תגים

• 18th or 19th c
• fgp stub
• late prosopography

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On the verso, JRL SeriesA 668-1, the addressee conveys greetings to a number of acquaintances, including an Abu Sulayman Dawwud and an Abu Ishaq b. al-Tuzi; the latter may be the same person who appears in a legal document dated in the middle of the 12th century, see T-S8J5, f. 15

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תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Sanhedra Rabba, bless his saintly memory, his son assumed the judgeship... and opened for himself an academy (midrash) for teaching the Law (ʿulūm al-sharīʿa) in place of his father, and the judges who rose in the lifetime of the gr[eat?]

תעתוק אחד

Inferred date

1078–1108 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

One of three draft versions of a document concerning an official (muqaddam) in the community of al-Mahalla during the administration of Mevorakh b.

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• hillel b. eli
• muqaddam

דיון אחד

Document date

Thursday, 21 Elul 4798 Anno Mundi (24 August 1038 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Efrayim releases Yefet b. Mevasser Ibn al-Mufalfil from any claims regarding 80 dinars deposited with him for the sake of her wedding (using the term 'qiddushin' to refer to the wedding itself).

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דיון אחד

Legal record of the same case on the recto, which offers us an alternative vantage point against which we may evaluate the narrative imposed on this woman’s actions in the communal leader’s letter.

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• marital dispute

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Instructing the beadle Sulaymān to urgently summon to court a woman who had refused to accompany her husband Ṣadaqa Ibn al-Rofeʾ the previous week when he came to the court to complain about her.

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Tammuz 1387 Seleucid (5 June 1076–3 July 1076 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Elʿazar ha-Levi and Abū l-ʿAlāʾ ʿUlla b. Yosef ha-Levi. (Information in part from Goitein's index cards; Mediterranean Society, II, pp. 262, 582; EMS.)

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תגים

• hillel b. eli
• opium
• partnership
• register

2 תעתוקים 2 דיונים

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shelomo ha-Kohen summarizes the case as an agreement between two cantors, Yosef, and Yiṣḥaq, regarding the "deliverance" of an inheritance (istikhlāṣ al-mawrūth) from two women. On verso there are jottings with names such as Elʿazar b.

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

IB IV, 49a-49b (ח40). Letter from Yusuf b. al-Lukhtūsh, probably from Granada, to Ḥalfon, after leaving Granada.

תגים

• 12th c
• business
• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• india book

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Apart from the address, only two other pieces are preserved: the first line of the letter ("The letter of your noble excellence arrived, and it was the happiest letter that arrived...."), and the last two words of the margin of recto: "in Ghulayfiqa," i.e., the seaport in the Tihāma region of Yemen just south of al-Ḥudayda. ASE. AA.

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תגים

• ib5
• india book

תעתוק אחד

Document date

Sunday, 20 Tammuz 1356 Seleucid (7 July 1045 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yiṣḥaq to her husband Farāj(?) b. Ḥabīb al-Barqī and an empowerment by the notary Avraham b.

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Last decade of Tishrei 1526 Seleucid (26 September 1214–5 October 1214 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Deed of acknowledgment of a debt of 76.25 black dirhams to be repaid in weekly installments by Bū l-Fakhr b. Bū l-Futūḥ al-Levi, who works in the perfumers' market, to the perfumer Barakāt b.

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תגים

• register

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

ʿUlla is deputized to collect all debts owed to the orphan so that the court can keep his money until he reaches maturity.

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The first concerns Nissim al-Iskandarani who has entered into a business partnership with an unnamed woman.

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תגים

• business
• legal
• partnership

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1213–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: Ca. 1220 CE, based on the mention of Eliyyahu the Judge and Avraham Maimonides (sayyidnā al-Nagid, a title he held ca. 1213–1237 CE). The letter was dictated, as it was nighttime and the sender could not see.

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Tammuz 1466 Seleucid (3 June 1155–1 July 1155 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

(His kunya is written at 90 degrees, and his father's name along with the title Rosh ha-Nedivim may be found in several memorial lists from this period.)

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• condolence

אין רשומות קשורות

Letter from David b. ʿAmmar al-Madinī. Around 1040. The addressee and place are missing.

תגים

• hajj
• trade

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Elazar ha-Kohen, known as Sa'd al-Mulk, and to his wife, informing them that their boy pleased his grandfather with his knowledge and thereby implying that the writer, as the boy's teacher, expected a bonus in addition to his normal fee.

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Thursday, 5 Nisan 146[9] Seleucid (6 March 1158 CE)

Shabbetay ha-Mumḥe [...] Shofeṭ. Bride: Sitt al-Sāda bt. Natan, a virgin. Marriage payments: 5 + 20 = 25.

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דיון אחד

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

He says that he and the addressee's late father (wālidak) fled first from al-Ramla and then from ʿAkkā, apparently from the Ghuzz Turks who pillaged their possessions (ll. 20–21).

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• bialphabetic

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Adar 1450 Seleucid (1139 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

This Shelomo was evidently from Damascus and briefly served the head of the Jews after the death of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon (last seen alive in T-S 12.694, January 1139 CE). (Information from M.

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תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer expresses that his son did not wish at all to conclude the marriage. (S. D. Goitein, Mediterranean Society, 3:73, 442) EMS

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1150–1181 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Natan (fl. 1150-1181 CE), apologizing for his younger brother Abu al-Fakhr Yehosef, who had made fun of the son of the Jewish government official (katib), Yehuda ha-Kohen b.

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תגים

• personal

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer, a scribe in al-Maḥalla, describes his work of copying a commentary on the Torah onto vellum in big letters.

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• book trade
• damin

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yosef b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī, from Mahdiyya, written on New Year's eve to Nahray b.

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• flax
• istikhara
• orphans
• sfax

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד