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Document date

First third of Kislev 1436 Seleucid (9 November 1124–18 November 1124 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Peraḥya ha-Levi known Ibn al-Amʿaṭ sells to Abū l-Mufaḍḍal Netanel b. Peraḥya one-half of four gunny sacks (shakā'ir) of flax for 18 dinars and a mat with a scrap of flax (ḥuṣayra mushāqa) for 4 dinars.

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תגים

• dimme
• flax

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He has sent many letters already with the same purpose. Apart from a hidden illness that he cannot divulge in a letter lest it fall into the hands of his enemies, he suffers from a weak liver, an enlarged spleen, indigestion, lack of appetite, and fatigue with the smallest exertion.

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תגים

• abu zikri al-rayyis
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: enemies
• illness: hidden
• (+ 1 עוד)

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer raises charges against the muqaddam of Damira ("he does not deserve to be the rear (mu'akhkhar), let alone the head (muqaddam)," r18) and refuses to take on additional duties in order to avoid conflicts with the local community leader.

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3

תגים

• communal
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: eye

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to Naḥum b. Sulaymān al-Iskandarānī, in Fustat. The writer is unidentified.

תגים

• ambergris
• pearls
• textiles

תעתוק אחד

Document date

Sivan 1553 Seleucid (2 May 1242–31 May 1242 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: List of collections for the Jerusalemites (tafriqat al-maqādisa). Dated: Sivan 1553 Seleucid = May 1242 CE.

דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Letter from Moshe b. Barhūn al-Tāhartī, in Qayrawān, to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Ibn ʿAwkal, in Fustat.

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• babylonian academies
• hinge
• ibn awkal
• lac
• qayrawan

4 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

The figures for entries are alphanumerical and on the recto a unit of volume for grain is mentioned "irdab/ארדב" (l.6v).

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תגים

• list

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm Ibn קדורה came and told Shela that he had mistakenly given the money to Abū Sahl (probably Menashshe) Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif. The addressee is asked to wait for Abū Sahl and obtain the money.

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2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Inferred date

1520–1600 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He offers his excuses in this letter: that he was in a great rush when he wrote his earlier letter, and that the addressee will receive all his money. He names amounts in Venetian gold coins (dhahab banādiqa) and Ibrāhīmīs.

תגים

• ibrahimis
• numismatic dating

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Ibrāhīm to his maternal uncle Khalaf b. Ismāʿīl al-Ṣabbāgh (the dyer), in Ḥabs Bunān (Fustat). In Judaeo-Arabic.

תגים

• capitation
• tax

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Abū Manṣūr, unknown location, to Abū Zikrī al-Rayyis b. Eliyyahu, in Fustat or in Qalyūb ('wherever he may be').

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תגים

• abu zikri al-rayyis
• arabic address
• dimme

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Document date

5556 Anno Mundi (14 September 1795–2 October 1796 CE)

In the remnant of the recto's heading the communal "chest / ארגז" is mentioned.The bifolium is very damaged along the edges but the paper's extensive length is still apparent and suggests that this was possibly a part of a broader communal charity register.

תגים

• 18th c
• late prosopography

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Thursday, 17 Iyyar 5316 Anno Mundi (27 April 1556 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

May be a copy or a version of a document originally produced in a Muslim court: mentions "the Mālikī court of al-Ṣāliḥiyya" in line 2– which was one of the ~15 qadi courts that operated in Cairo during the early modern period.

תגים

• late heb
• maliki
• qadi courts

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

28 Elul 1822 Seleucid (21 September 1511 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

The prozbol is a legal mechanism that technically changed the status of individual private loans into the public administration, allowing the poor to receive interest-free loans before the Sabbatical year while protecting the investments of the lenders.

תגים

• late
• late heb

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Aramaic

(Friedman, Jewish Marriage, vol. 2, 339.) Alternate description: A fragment of a ketubba stitched to another vellum fragment (thread still remains) and reused as a rotulus for liturgy on dew.

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תגים

• ketubba
• liturgy
• marriage

תעתוק אחד 2 דיונים

Document date

Ḥeshvan 1484 Seleucid (21 October 1172–18 November 1172 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Reporting that on a shabbat of this month, a quarrel took place between Abū Zikrī b. Mevorakh and Avraham al-Najīb, a community official. Avraham accused Abū Zikrī of an unspecified sin (פעל עבירה).

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

(II) Addendum (faṣl) probably to an unrelated legal record concerning a deceased father who stipulated that his daughter and all she possesses resides with the father's brother who has been appointed her trustee.

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2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Document date

[14]36 Seleucid (11 September 1124–30 August 1125 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information in part from Goitein's index card and CUDL.) Join: Alan Elbaum. Additionally, T-S 10J7.11 + T-S NS J81 (PGPID 7858) and T-S NS 292.10 (PGPID 8651) are related and potentially an indirect join.

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תגים

• halfon b. menashshe
• ib-addenda
• ib7

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

She then married a man with sons from a previous marriage to whom he allegedly owed money. He passed away before his wife, resulting in a long and complicated legal process.

תגים

• register

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

last decade of Iyyar 1528 Seleucid (30 April 1217–8 May 1217 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The document is about the origins (and implicitly, eligibility for marriage) of Akramiyya, who grew up in the house of the physician al-Asʿad. Goitein understood that she was purchased as a slave when she was still an infant and that she was later freed, however these facts are not stated explicitly.

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תגים

• jariya
• marriage
• slave

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He warns him that he cannot preserve his reputation (jāh) as one of the 'elders of the nation' (shuyūkh al-milla) when his grandchildren marry like paupers.

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

sells nine parts out of eighteen of a house in the Qaṣr Edom (Qaṣr al-Rūm), which he had inherited from his wife Salma bt.

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He expresses his yearning and describes his depressed state in great detail, seeking to refute her assumption that he is remaining away because life is good for him. He alludes to his "many illnesses and sundry pains" but doesn't go into them to spare her.

תגים

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: alam
• illness: furqa
• illness: heartsickness
• (+ 4 עוד)

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Document date

middle third of Iyyar 1467 Seleucid (3 May 1156–12 May 1156 CE)

On a Saturday, a dying man, Salim al-Halabi, a dyer was visited by friends, among them a creditor, who reminded him of a sum of 16 dinars and 4 qirats still owed to him.

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

The letter mentions Elijah’s compatriot, Abū ʿAlī, who had visited Fusṭāṭ and brought back letters from Elijah's brother, and letters for a community leader, Elijah b.

תגים

• 11th c

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document. A woman named Sitt al-Kull b. Eliyya appears before the court, informing them that her husband Yakhin b.

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

Ṣadoq (aka Efrayim b. Ṣedaqa al-Muʿallim), in Fustat. Dating: ca. 980, according to Gil.

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תגים

• babylonian geonim
• communal

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Document date

Elul 1460 Seleucid (7 August 1149–4 September 1149 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Involves Yefet and the late Abū l-Faraj al-Ṣabbāgh. There will be a payment in installments due during over the following year (1461 Seleucid).

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אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

1361–62 Seleucid (1049–1051 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Qaraite calendar listing the dates of the new moon by observation, along with correspondences between the Qaraite, Rabbanite, and Islamic calendars.

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תגים

• al-tustari
• calendar
• karaite

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Document date

18 Marheshvan 1539 Seleucid (5 November 1107 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Part of a booklet of alms lists (fols. 15.5, 15, 39, 50). Fol. 15.5 has a title page; “List of the Poor of Fustat.”

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תגים

• 12th c
• communal

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Yosef Ibn Ghyyāth, in al-Andalus, to Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi. Dating: ca. 1138/39 CE.

תגים

• ib4
• india book

תעתוק אחד