Documents

Document date

1448 Seleucid (29 August 1136–17 September 1137 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: 1448 Seleucid, which is 1136/37 CE. Very faded. Concerning the divorce arrangements of Elʿazar b.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

Beginning lines only, mostly honorifics, very faded. Wide line-spacing, grand layout of the type that became more common starting in the 1060s.

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Inferred date

1150–1181 CE

Husband: Name not preserved. Wife: Fakhr bt. Faḍāʾil the Maghrebī. Date not preserved. Witnessed by Menashshe b.

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דיון אחד

Document date

Iyyar 1338 Seleucid (10 April 1027–8 May 1027 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Apparently from Yisraʾel ha-Kohen and carried by Faraḥ, though it's not clear where this is written. Very faded. Dated: Iyyar 1338 of the Seleucid Era (= April/May 1027 CE).

דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions brazilwood and 10 dinars; Ibn Bʿ[...]; and Abū l-Faḍl. (Information in part from CUDL)

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A letter in stylishly rhyming Judaeo-Arabic addressed to Abu Sahl and his three sons, Abu l-Mansur, Barakat, and the boy Abu l-Fadl. The writer is likely named Abu Zikri (see line 12 of verso), which, along with the handwriting and elevated register, suggests that this is the well-known son of Eliyyahu the Judge. […] Everyone in the house is also helping his wife, who is in the state that God knows (often a figure of speech for illness). His daughter is starting to recognize everyone in the house, including visitors, and also serves her mother. Recto 22 – Verso 30: Following these pleasant updates, the remainder of the letter is a blistering tirade against Barakat who affects intelligence but whose brain produces only "mucus, delirium, and madness [al-mukhāṭ wa-l-hadhayān wa-l-khubāṭ].”

תגים

• abu zikri al-rayyis

תעתוק אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Another letter, in Judaeo-Arabic and in a different hand and extremely faded.

תגים

• appeal

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

On verso is another note in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning ha-Zaqen ha-Yaqar, but too faded to read much else.

תגים

• appeal
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: falij
• illness: paralysis

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Document date

4775 Anno Mundi (28 August 1014–16 September 1015 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Dated: 4775 AM, which is 1014/15 CE. Faded and fragmentary (upper left corner only). Might be a bill of release.

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Document date

29 Dhū l-Ḥijja 1002 Hijrī (15 September 1594 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

It may have been drawn up in North Africa and later transported to Cairo, or it may have been acquired in North Africa.... The couple are ʿAlī ibn Ḥadwā (‘the north wind’, or Boreas) and al-Zahrāʾ (‘the most radiant’) bint Aḥmad. They are certainly Muslim, though ʿAlī and Zahrāʾ are also attested as Jewish names in the ‘classical’ Genizah. ʿAlī is a cognate of the Hebrew Eli, the most common male name in the medieval Genizah.

תגים

• 16th c or later
• muslim marriage contract
• slavery

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Regarding a certain Abū l-Bayān al-L[evi?] (=Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi?). Apparently Abū l-Bayān recently arrived in the sender's town (al-baladiyya). […] But he seems to have acted in a bad way, spurning the sender's favor and causing pain to everyone (...faḍlīʿalayhi li-anna ḥasala lana minhu alam...). (This sentence might also mean the opposite, if it actually reads "uns" instead of "alam.")

תגים

• recommendation

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

(3) the fact that the document mentions twice (l. 2 and 3) that the ruin stands at bāb ʿAbdallāh, بجوار باب القلالين (and not بجوار باب الفلالين as read by Khan), that is "by the neighborhood of the gate of the potters" (Kazimirski has "cruche en terre" for qillāl). In the Kitāb al-Masālik wa-l-mamālik (2: 676), al-Bakrī mentions a bāb al-qallālīn in Qayrawān as well as the bāb ʿAbdallāh, which is one of the earliest Eastern gates of Qayrawān not far from the Great Mosque, near the bāb al-qallālīn. All in all, this document is for now the earliest extant Arabic legal document from Qayrawān (as of Dec 2024). […] In addition to the address, there is also a faded note in Arabic script on the verso ((؟)...الحق (؟) لذلك في دار بو) (Information from Goitein's index cards and from Khan; emendations: AP)

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תגים

• nahray b. nissim

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: ca. 12th century based on the paleography. Very faded and damaged. Document of release after someone sued someone else (אדעא עליה בהא פי בית דין).

תגים

• cmp

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Adar II 1404 Seleucid (2 March 1093–30 March 1093 CE)

On verso there are references to various payments and sums of money, but it is faded and the context is missing.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Few details are preserved; mentions various small transactions and asks for news. Very faded. (Information in part from CUDL.)

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Document date

1492 Seleucid (22 September 1180–11 September 1181 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment (upper right piece). Faded. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1492 Seleucid = 1180/81 CE.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter of instruction to ʿEli ha-Kohen ha-Parnas to cash from Abū l-Faḍl Netanel Ibn ha-Shofeṭ 18 dinars due to one Seʿadya and to prepare 'the necessary papers.'

דיון אחד

Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: Avraham Maimonides is called Nagid, so 1213–37 CE. Quite faded. Quittance between Abū l-Fakhr b. Abū Saʿīd and Munajjā b.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

Some deletions and correction in the text. Faded and very cursive. AA. ASE.

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Inferred date

1310–1355 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yehoshuaʿ informs Avraham that Sayf al-Dīn Bahādur appeared (before the court) and sued ʿIwāḍ the Alexandria for silver that he was owed. […] The hand is distinctly sefaradi and would probably have been dated to a couple centuries later if it weren't for the context. The text is very faded, but some information can be extracted: Avraham found either ʿIwāḍ or his wife or at least people who knew him and threatened to place a ban on him the next day under the authority of the Nagid, unless he paid up the 120 silver pieces that he owed—but ʿIwāḍ refused. […] (A previous cataloguer also saw the word "convert" somewhere in here.) OZ, AA, ASE.

תגים

• motto

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from the teacher Yehuda b. Aharon ha-Rofeʾ Ibn al-ʿAmmānī to Yeḥiʾel ha-Rav (b. Elyaqim?). In Hebrew. […] tax for half a month. The continuation is faded and damaged; mentions R. Ṣadoq; Yosef ha-Kohen; someone standing guarantee; a funduq; and how Yehuda acted to prevent this man from being imprisoned, which he did due to his love for the addressee.

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תגים

• tax

דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Abū l-Faḍl b. Sahl to his relative Ibrāhīm b. Ṣalḥūn, in which he describes a difficult journey that cost three times as much money as he had budgeted for it. […] Yūsuf insults Nahray and Ṣedaqa and all the kohanim "up to Aaron." "No one approves of this.

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תגים

• letter etiquette

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Names of addressee and sender are visible (but faded) on verso.

תגים

• personal

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentioning Abū l-Makārim, his brother Abū l-Faḍāʾil, two legal documents, the Bet Din, the estate of someone's son, Ḥiyya, and the sending of a messenger.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Deed of sale for real estate (يحد هذه الدار وحدودها وارضها) in Arabic script. Quite faded. The price is 12 dinars (العين الجيد المصري المحقق اثنا عشر دينارا نصفها ستة دنانير).

אין רשומות קשורות