Documents

Primary language

Arabic

The last line on verso "وجنود ابليس اجمعين" is a Quranic verse (26:95) with variation in the last word. However, the entire text doesn't seem Quranic, atleast in a chronological order.

תגים

• dimme

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

Karaite ketubbah, in which only the introductory biblical verses are preserved: 2 Chronicles 26:5; Proverbs 18:22; Psalms 37:23; Jeremiah 7:34.

תגים

• fgp stub
• karaite ketubba

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Document date

Ṭevet 1392 Seleucid (15 December 1080–12 January 1081 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document(s). Location: Fustat. Dated: Ṭevet 1392 Seleucid = December 1080/January 1081 CE. […] Shela; one of them makes a statement mentioning "before I traveled to Tripoli." Related to T-S NS J19 (PGPID 26358). […] Yiṣhaq, Yehuda b. Menashshe, and Ṣedaqa b. Menaḥem. (Information in part from Goitein’s index card.)

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• libya

דיון אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Yosef Ibn al-Ashqar to 'the officials of the treasury.' […] On the sender, see also ENA NS I.17 (PGPID 12278) and ENA 2607.25 (PGPID 12400). Information from Avraham David's edition.

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Ḥofni’s Judaeo-Arabic commentary on Deuteronomy 11:26f. Verso: Arabic jottings, possibly a maxim or poetry; the lower text block is a copy of the upper text block.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Concerning the elite military corps known as al-ghilmān al-ḥujariyya ("the slaves of the barracks"), a training academy for Turkish cavalry soldiers founded by al-Afḍal, whose members upon graduation joined the ṣibyān al-khāṣṣ (cf ENA NS 71.8 (PGPID 10067)). […] Underneath it lists numbers (of dinars?), possibly 2517 and 2650. Underneath the term ṭārī (newcomer?) appears.

תגים

• army

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

545 Hijrī (1150–1151 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information from Khan and from Goitein, Mediterranean Society, I, pp. 269, 437; II, pp. 353, 513, 604.) In fact the handwriting seems to be that of the representative of the merchants Abū Zikrī Kohen. The dead merchant Abū l-Fadāʾil b. Baqāʾ appears also in T-S AS 219.129 = T-S AS 219.131, a letter of Makhlūf b. Mūsā, so Abū l-Faḍāʾil may have been an India trader himself, or at least he did business with them.

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• communal
• draft
• ib-addenda
• ib5
• petition
• (+ 1 עוד)

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Different responses to the client's query are tagged to different numbers. The scribe has a very distinctive hand and downsloping lines.

תגים

• prognostication

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

1524-09-05 Seleucid (26 May 1213 CE)

Legal document. Bill of divorce in the hand of Shelomo b. […] The divorce was to be between Mufaḍḍal b. Mesullam and Nasab bt. Manṣūr, whose father is referred to in this document by his Arabic name, and in the completed bill by his Hebrew name Elʿazar. […] (Information from Goitein's index card and Mediterranean Society)

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• autograph

2 דיונים

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso and margins of recto: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Appear to be in the same hand as the blessings on recto. Asks the addressee to purchase something; mentions Abū l-Barakāt and [Abū] l-Maʿālī; mentions, obscurely, 'what you mentioned about' the Priestly Blessing at the time of the taking out of the Torah scrolls on Shabbat and holidays; then mentions the taking out of 40 Torah scrolls, and reports that on one day 40 Torah scrolls were taken out in honor of the Nagid Mevorakh b. […] Information from Goitein's note cards and Cohen, Jewish Self-Government, pp. 128, 146, 149, and 268.

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary language

Ottoman Turkish

Petition in Ottoman Turkish from a merchant named Mūsa to "an unnamed Ottoman official, quite possibly the governor of Egypt." […] He is apparently a client of Maḥmūd Ketḫüdā, almost certainly an officer in Egypt’s Janissary regiment. Maḥmūd in turn has links to another Jewish merchant who had come to Cairo to dispose of the estate of a member of the Banī Baghdād, the powerful Bedouin tribe, mentioned in the previous document, who dominated Gharbiyya and Minūfiyya sub-provinces during the sixteenth century.

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Document date

Ṭevet 1525 Seleucid (December 1213 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Deed of lease. Dating: The year-long lease begins on [Ṭevet] 1525 Seleucid = [Shaʿbān] 610 and ends on Kislev 15[26] Seleucid = Rajab 611 AH. So the document was drawn up in December 1213 CE or shortly before then, under the authority of Avraham Maimonides. Lessor: A woman, unclear if her name is preserved. Lessee: Abū l-Baqāʾ b. Yefet al-Kohen. The terms of the rent are laid down.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a certain Abū l-Faḍl to his maternal cousin in Egypt. […] He urges her to make a pilgrimage to the Land of Israel and visit its holy sites. Abū l-Faḍl hopes not only that she will perform the pilgrimage and visit him, but, apparently, also that she will marry him and that together they will spend the rest of their lives in the land of Israel.

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• pilgrims

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Out of these 54, ten are mentioned as unoccupied. The relatively large number of vacant apartments may indicate the beginning of the terrible famine period of A.H. 597 when whole neighborhoods and villages were deserted. […] Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi (ca. 1181–1209 CE).

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• 13th c
• account
• heqdesh
• qodesh
• waqf

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Thursday, 28 Tammuz 1571 Seleucid (8 July 1260 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Slave: An Abyssinian woman, unnamed, with leukoma of the left eye. Price: 266.5 nuqra dirhams.

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• bill of sale
• slave

2 תעתוקים

Document date

1457-06-12 Seleucid (26 February 1146 CE)

Legal document. Bill of divorce, Maḥalla. Dated: 12 Adar 1457 (26 February 1146). […] Sasson and Natanel ha-Levi b. Naḥman. (Information from Goitein's index card)

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דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mercantileletter. Dating: Probably 11th century. The sender's hand may be known. […] He also mentions, "Ever since I met you in Bijaya, your love was bound up in my heart, and our souls mingled, and our limbs joined." But now, "the situation is such that I pray to God that I not encounter you, and if I see you coming, I take a different path to avoid you." Merits further examination. ASE

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• business
• trade

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

20 July 1885 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Shelomo Mizraḥi or a female family member, in Alexandria, to Ibrāhīm/Brahim Aghion, in Cairo (Miṣr). […] The letter is signed by Shelomo Mizraḥi, but the narrator of the letter seems to be a woman, as she uses feminine adjectives—perhaps she is Shelomo's sister. […] The sender's mother (ummī) has swollen legs (rijlayhā wārimīn). The sender has a stomach ailment (ʿayyāna bi-miʿdatī).

תגים

• aghion
• illness

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

17th Tevet 1370 Seleucid (5 January 1059 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal query addressed to the Gaon and Nasi Daniel b. […] The query includes a full copy of the original deed between the two merchants. The Query is dated to January 5, 1059 CE. […] See also T-S NS J161 + T-S 12.5 (PGPID 1676) which is another copy of the partnership deed between the merchants, and Bodl. MS heb. a 3/9 (PGPID 508) which is another query to the Gaon on the same subject, published by Asaf, Responsa Geonica, 1942, 125–26).

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• 11th c
• legal query
• merchant
• responsum

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Document date

Thursday, 30 Kislev 1530 Seleucid (20 December 1218 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In which Salmān b. Shelomo ha-Levi states that his brother Barakāt made his will at the beginning of Shevat and died on the 26th of Tevet, and that his widow Niʿam/Noʿam bt. […] (Information mainly from Mediterranean Society, III, p. 390, and from Goitein's index cards.)

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• bilbays
• inheritance
• testimony

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

(Information from Friedman, Jewish Marriage in Palestine, Vol. 1, pp. 165, 269, and 288.) On verso there are piyyutim.

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• ketubba

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Calendrical information for the 19-year cycle 259 (beginning in 1142 CE) and 261 (beginning in 1180 CE). Jottings in Hebrew and Arabic script.

תגים

• calendar

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter referring to Saladin’s grand-nephew al-Malik al-Nasir Da’ud (‘the victorious King David’) in which he is assured of the writer’s longstanding and unfailing loyalty. Nasir is called “the sultan, may God make his victories glorious.” (S. D. Goitein, Mediterranean Society, 2:354, 604) EMS

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• saladin

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Letter from Moshe b. Yosef Hamon of Istanbul to Yehuda al-Ashqar in Egypt. […] Gross, 'La famille Juive des Hamon', REJ, 56 (1908), pp. 8-26, 57 (1909), pp. 55-78; U. Heid, 'Moses Hamon, chief Jewish physician to Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent', Oriens, 16 (1963), pp. 152-170.

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• hamon

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Arabic

This is so because the produce (ghalla) of the areas under the sender's administration has been distributed and transported to granaries (makhāzin). He also mentions something related to selling the produce and sending their proceeds but the line is not very legible. […] Seems to be the same serial recycler as: - T-S 20.72 (PGPID 20107) - T-S 12.609 (PGPID 38766) - BL OR 5553.1 + BL OR 5553.2 + T-S Ar.51.49 + BL OR 5553A.1 + BL OR 5553A.2 (PGPID 30817) - ENA 2697.8 + ENA 2697.9 + T-S Ar.31.58 + T-S Ar.30.245 (PGPID 30818) - ENA 2917.1 (PGPID 30819) - ENA 3728.10 + ENA 3728.9 (PGPID 30834) - T-S AS 172.190 (PGPID 39336), which might be a join with T-S NS 137.29 (PGPID 23634) - T-S Misc.6.130 (PGPID 37932) The following literary fragments may also be in the same hand: - T-S Ar.46.46 - T-S Ar.51.50 - T-S K25.247 - T-S AS 144.95 - T-S NS 91.61 - T-S Misc.24.83 - T-S Misc.29.13a

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• dimme

תעתוק אחד

Responsum regarding polygyny. Only the relevant passages in this responsum are brought in this work.

תגים

• polygyny
• responsum

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List of books in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu mentioning many halakhic works, including chapters 4 to 6 of the Ṭumaʾ ve-Tohara by Saʿadya Gaʾon, Ḥovot ha-Din by Shemuʾel b. Ḥofni, three halakhic treatises, Sefer ben Sira (אבן סירא), and Geʾonic commentaries on Ṭohorot. The fragment also mentions some biblical books and their commentaries. […] NB: Allony et al. edited this manuscript under the name "T-S K23.25–26," which was either a mistake or the shelfmarks have changed.

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Document date

1341-03-18 Seleucid (26 November 1029 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Legal document. Bill of divorce. Dated: 18 Kislev 1341 (26 November 1029).

דיון אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Letter sent from Damascus. In Judaeo-Arabic. Goitein describes it as a lovely family letter praising the town for its opportunities to make a living (r24–26) and describing the well-being of a boy who was left by his father with relatives while he traveled to Egypt (r8–13). […] If he had not been sick, he would have come together with the letter. (Information in part from Med Soc III, p. 234, and from Goitein's index cards.) Verso: Letter of appeal for charity. Opening with a long Hebrew poem.

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in what Goitein identifies as the handwriting and style of well-known India trader Abu Nasr Avraham informing recipient about events, apparently taking place in the Red Sea. […] Abū Naṣr al-Ḥalabī appears as al-tājir, the merchant, in the extant document of his wife's deathbed declaration preserved and dated to 26th of Iyyar 1454/April 13 1143. […] Goitein, 'India Book' VI.40/IB.94; Mediterranean Society 5:151-155)

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• ib6
• india book
• red sea

3 תעתוקים

Document date

1535 Seleucid (28 August 1223–15 September 1224 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

The century is confirmed by the partial signature of [...] b. Meyuppe on verso, who also signs T-S 12.697 (PGPID 20057) in the early 13th century. […] (Information in part from Mediterranean Society, III, pp. 262, 485.)

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• divorce
• get
• interesting shape

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

Large swaths of the same manuscript are also available (perhaps from other copies by Corcos): JTS 2631 (alt. MS R1351) and Yevr. II A 311, ff.7-19.

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• responsa

אין רשומות קשורות