Documents

Primary language

Hebrew

The poem was once attributed to Eleazar be-Rabbi Qillir, although this credit is not generally accepted by scholars today.

תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Arabic

ʿAṭiyya the Jew, formerly a broker dealing with drugs in Fustat (see Med Soc I, 161) renounces all claims against a Jewish woman (see line 5).

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תגים

• release

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Arabic

The sender originally thought that this man was genuinely seeking the hereafter (al-ākhira), but he now knows that he is looking out only for his own, worldly benefit.

תגים

• to edit

תעתוק אחד

Document date

453 Hijrī (26 January 1061–14 January 1062 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions something "...............al-sulṭāniyya" Reused for a text in Judaeo-Arabic with some Hebrew mixed in, listing some of the wonders of creation (e.g., how fruit comes from trees and babies from wombs; how fire takes hold of wood; how there is hearing, vision, thinking, sleep; Noah's ark; the existence of colors and dyes, etc.)

תגים

• dimme

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Wednesday, 24 Iyyar 1437 Seleucid (19 May 1126 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The testator appoints someone as his agent in all his affairs, but if he should recover (ואן חב אללה תעאלי ונקהת מן מרצי ותצרפת וכרגת אלטריק ודכלת אלחמאם), this provision is void.

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תגים

• halfon b. menashshe
• illness
• will

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1150–1181 CE

Concerning (1) a muqaddam who has been causing trouble and making light of notables; (2) a question submitted to the physicians in the capital by Shabbetay's son Abu Saʿd: all the physicians reply that they must see the patient, hear his words, and see his (urine) flask before prescribing an effectve remedy; (3) a recommendation for the bearer, a brother of the late Judge Menaḥem.

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תגים

• communal
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: consultation
• illness: physicians
• (+ 4 עוד)

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Refers to someone called "al-ʿozer" (cf. T-S 12.215 (PGPID 3104)); someone's son; notebooks (dafātir); Yaʿqūb; Abū l-Faraj; someone who sent 200 pounds of something (wheat?)

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

He is to be sent with Abū ʿAli b. Barukh, the bearer of this letter. "He must not tarry.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

The four partners are Yaʿaqov al-Fallāḥ (this seems better than איו שלח), Masʿūd b.

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תגים

• heb
• late

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Greetings to Eliyyahu's wife (called Umm al-Rayyis Abū Zikrī), her daughter, her son, and her siblings.

תגים

• eliyyahu b. zekharia
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1425–1600 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The nisba "Ḥabashī" (Ethiopian) appears in one account heading along the right border of the recto, but its intended meaning is unclear.

תגים

• 15th or 16th c
• ethiopia
• guardianship
• numismatic dating
• orphan

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information from Goitein's note cards) 1r-2v: Children's writing exercises, alphabetical, and jottings between the lines and in the margins.

תגים

• education

דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(This is less whimsical than it sounds, e.g., if he has endowed a charitable waqf, does he continue to acquire merit from all the people it helps in the future?) The answer is no, he is rewarded on the basis of the intention that he had when he did the good deed in his lifetime, not on the basis of events that occur after his death.

תגים

• responsum

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

1508 Seleucid (26 August 1196–14 September 1197 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Moshe describes how he is a cantor like his father and grandfather and great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather and his paternal uncle, and how the recipient has always bestowed favor on his father and grandfather.

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תגים

• moshe b. levi
• moshe b. levi (signed)

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

1 Ṭevet 1500 Seleucid (23 December 1188 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mevorakh ("Sar ha-Bina Modaʿ ha-Tevuna") and Sitt al-Khāṣṣa bt. Abū l-Maʿālī b. Mevorakh b. Yaḥyā ("ha-Sar ha-Nikhbad Peʾer ha-Yeshiva").

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תגים

• sar shalom

תעתוק אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Mevorakh (1112–26 CE). What remains is almost entirely in Hebrew, though the body of the letter was in Judaeo-Arabic.

תגים

• appeal
• moshe b. mevorakh

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Tishrei 1424 Seleucid (23 September 1112–22 October 1112 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Both fragments refer to the renewal of a trading partnership worth 3,750 dinars for which profits are divided equally, and the partners are granted an allowance for their maintenance. The parties are Berakhot b.

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תגים

• halfon b. menashshe
• ib-addenda
• partnership

3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Joins: Oded Zinger and Alan Elbaum.

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תגים

• appeal
• government

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

ʿaṣāhu min Banī Wāʾil fī l-darb al-sulṭānī" (the Sultan's Highway). The word قتلوا ("they killed / were killed") appears at the end of the bottom line.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

1 Elul 1645 Seleucid (3 August 1334 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: 1 Elul 1645 Seleucid = 3 August 1334 CE. Shemuʾel b. ʿAbdallāh al-Kohen takes upon himself to provide his unnamed wife with clothing, 5.5 nuqra dirhams, and 0.5 nuqra dirhams daily until they move in together.

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תגים

• marital reconciliation
• marriage

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The letter is quite difficult and written in an elevated register with learned quotations and allusions. Goitein comments, "We never know whether he is speaking in jest or in earnest." Some clues about the context of the letter are found toward the bottom: the sender praises God for returning "our master to the seat of his fathers," apparently referring to the current Head of the Jews (ll. 20–21); he rebukes the addressees for neglecting to convey his request to "our master," because otherwise the fatwā would not have been delayed so long ("unless there was some eclipse in the world... preventing me from seeing the dawn") (ll. 28–32); and he refers to "mawlāy al-meʿuelle" (l. 35). The first part of the fragment preserved here is a long, cryptic passage about a night filled with anxiety and insomnia, with each event of the night attached to a biblical verse.

תעתוק אחד

Document date

Nisan 5562 Anno Mundi (3 April 1802–2 May 1802 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The contemporary chronicler and poet Niqūla al-Turk (1763-1828) offers further context for understanding how the massacre unfolded. He states that the cavalry in question were led by a certain Ibn ʿAqīl (ابن عقيل) from Damascus to Safed, where they 'pillaged the Jewish quarter' and cornered a French-allied defensive force in the Citadel. This latter detachment consisted of fifty soldiers under the command of a certain Muṣtafa Beshīr, who defended the Safed Citadel until French cavalry reinforcements arrived."

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תגים

• 19th c
• ben na'im
• molcho

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

3 Sivan 5562 Anno Mundi (3 June 1802 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

The mention of "the wars that do not go away" (המלחמות שאין יוצא) in line 11 is probably a chronological clue that the civil war for control over Egypt was still underway following the departure of the French expeditionary forces in 1801. Muḥammad ʿAlī Pasha did not consolidate control over Cairo until the summer of 1805 and it took several more years until all of Egypt fell under his administration by 1811.

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תגים

• war

תעתוק אחד

Document date

Sunday, 16 Shevaṭ 5567 Anno Mundi (25 January 1807 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

The first group is based in Alexandria, and the other two groups are based in Fustat/Cairo. (1) Shelomo Cesana, Ḥayyim Cesana, and Ḥayyim's son Avraham.

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תגים

• bibas
• cesana
• frances
• karo
• partnership
• (+ 1 עוד)

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

If you wish to do this, you must be clean and pure. Sleep alone. There must not be anything red underneath you or on you, and no clothes containing red, for this prevents all visions; know this. . . . " The second part of Suwayd's name is variously spelled HDYN, BHADYN, and BHDYN.

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תגים

• jinn
• magic

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

922 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

This date is based on the fact that the author refers to the celebration of Passover 922 as a past event (fol.7r:2) and warns his addressee not to repeat the error of Passover, but also warns his addressee to observe the New Year on the correct date (fol.8r:9-10).

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תגים

• calendar
• controversy

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Nevertheless, he continued to do as he saw fit and even organized a faction of supporters, and it seems that they also took for themselves the revenue from the ritual slaughtering that was intended for Jerusalem.

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תגים

• excommunication
• herem
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: mention
• (+ 3 עוד)

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Note specifically: a European (ifranji) who lives in the synagogue--2...a poor young man who arrived in the evening and whose overcoat, kisa, was taken from him as a collateral for 5 dirhams; his name is Abu al-Muna, he is sick; Mu'ammala ('the one hoped for'), a widow of good family, who never in her life had taken anything from anyone--5. […] Even then about one-third received their allocations in orders of payments--and we do not know how much the ruqai charged for converting them into cash.

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• charity
• communal
• gift of money
• illness
• illness: synagogue
• (+ 2 עוד)

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

The fact that he borrowed money for two capitation tax payments also suggests a poor man dependent on the community.

תגים

• bialphabetic
• communal
• debt
• jizya
• teacher

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

23 Adar I 5453 Anno Mundi (1 March 1693 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Riqa divides the payout from her ketubba equally in three parts with 4,000 medin going to her sons Moshe, Mordekhay, and Aharon ha-Kohen, who commit to provide her a weekly stipend of 45 medin for room and board. The document also includes provisions for Riqa to live with two of her sons, Mordekhay and Aharon, who commit to care for their mother should she elect for this arrangement.

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תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

The mining town in question may have been much further east in the Chalkidiki peninsula, where the Ottoman "Siderokapısı" or "Sidrekapsi" mint was also located (possibly Stratoniki, Stratoni, or Sidiriolakkos).

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אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Thursday, 12 Adar I 1350 Seleucid (9 February 1039 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

T-S Ar.18(1).133 mentions several of the same people as the upper fragments, including Abū Saʿīd, Ibn al-ʿAmm (the ‘paternal cousin’), a letter from the Gaʾon, Ibrahim b. […] (Information in part from CUDL and Goitein's index cards.) Joins: Alan Elbaum. (T-S NS 321.63 + T-S 10J18.14 + T-S AS 156.83 + T-S 10J21.9 are direct joins, and T-S Ar.18(1).133 is an indirect/probable join).

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תגים

• testimony

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Rent from Fustat to Alexandria. . . the time of the departure of the ships, may God guide them. . . ."

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תגים

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: eye
• mummy
• travel
• (+ 1 עוד)

דיון אחד

Document date

Dhū l-Qaʿda 563 Hijrī (7 August 1168–5 September 1168 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Seems to be a commercial contract involving a shop and specifying the goods to be sold. Mentions "bayʿ al-ḥiṣṣa" "sale of the share". Needs further examination.

תגים

• dimme

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Deathbed 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, and making stipulations for his widow.

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תגים

• family
• hillel b. eli
• will

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

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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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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תגים

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

4 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer is under duress from difficult times (awqāt al-shadā'id). There is a sick person in his household who has had a nosebleed (ruʿāf) for the entire week (the word "sick person" could plausibly be emended to "maraḍ" from "marīḍ," meaning that the writer himself has a nosebleed, but the next line, "I was away," suggests that it was rather someone in his family).

תגים

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

אין רשומות קשורות