Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Accounts of the bookseller. People mentioned: Ibn al-ʿAni; Ṭāhir. Verso: Accounts of the bookseller. People mentioned: Bū ʿAlī, Hillel the blind (al-ḍarīr), Menaḥem, and al-ʿAsqalānī. See also the description for the whole notebook Bodl.

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דיון אחד

Document date

Shaʿbān 535 Hijrī (12 March 1141–9 April 1141 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Receipt of some sort for Sitt al-Ahl bt. […] al-Yahūdiyya for something (ḥikr payment?) for the 1/4 dār al-muntaqal ilayhā min (another?) Sitt al-Ahl bt. […] in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ in Zuqāq al-Ḥarrānī, Shaʿbān 535 AH = March/April 1141 CE.

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תגים

• hikr

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions names such as Abū l-Majd al-Parnas, the brother-in-law of Mūsā al-Ṭawwāf, al-Zaftāwī, Mufaḍḍal b. Sumaysima, Ibn Bū ʿImrān al-Sharābī, Bū ʿImrān b. al-Dajjānī (?), and Moshe al-Baghdādī.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Several names appear in the list: Taqiyy al-Dīn. . . [...] al-Naṣrānī mustawqid al-ḥammām ('the kindler of the bath'). . . Ṣāfī. . . al-rayyis Najā. . . Aḥmad al-Qashshāsh b. ʿAbd al-Malik.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: small fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Mentions Salmān al-ʿAsalī and "in Alexandria." Greetings to various people including 'the father' (mawlāy al-shaykh al-ajall al-wā[lid]).

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Late family letter in Judaeo-Arabic sent to Shemuel Ḥalafta in Fusṭāṭ, perhaps from his brother, rebuking him for the lack of letters ("your poor mother's heart is confounded on your account"). Mentions Yaʿaqov al-Gabbay. "Your sister and Munsiyya and Yeḥiel [send their regards]." Regards are sent to [...] al-Ḥāmī, al-Sitt al-Muṣaffa (?), al-talmidim Muhadhdhab and Yehuda, al-Zaqen Abū Pinḥas, al-Shaykh Pinḥas, and Avraham.

תגים

• halafta
• late ja

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a woman, in al-Mahdiyya, to her mother (Av)Dukia al-Rumiyya and to her sister Rini, in Alexandria. Scribed by Kalev al-Sofer. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer had a married daughter as well as a son who had been away for eight years. "I am working as a maid in every house, and my strength has weakened." She also mentions her sons Ibrāhīm and Moshe. VMR. Information in part from CUDL

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תגים

• byzantines
• women's letter

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Late Tevet 4903 Anno Mundi (January 1143 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Court record regulating the inheritance of the estate left behind by a Jewish merchant who drowned at sea near Alexandria. His estate was transferred to the Jewish court of Alexandria by the Sahib al-Mawarith (the Muslim judge in charge of estates). […] Nethanel, who was from Alexandria. (Information from Frenkel; Goitein sets the date as Tevet 4903/January 1143).

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תגים

• drowning
• register

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Document date

Tammuz 1461 Seleucid (27 June 1150–25 July 1150 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Three testimonies about a quarrel between Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Yaḥyā al-Najīb, a communal official, and Sayyid al-Kull b. Abū Yaʿqūb al-Ḥazzan. The deponents are Abū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Ayyūb (aka ʿUlla b. Iyov ha-Levi); Abū l-Khayr al-Khayyāṭ and Abū Saʿd al-Khabbāz; and Abū l-Ḥusayn al-Khabbāz.

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תגים

• testimony

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Recto: Mentions "the evil ones from among the Jews" (al-ashrār min al-Yahūd) (unless this is al-asrār/"the secrets") and mentions the petitioners (al-mamālīk) and Fustat. Verso: Similarly mentions the Jews, and a congregation praying, and the phrase "[al-Malik?] al-Kāmil qaddasa Allāh rūhah"; if this refers to the Ayyubid sultan, then this document dates to no earlier than 1238 CE.

תגים

• double petition

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Regards to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Maḍmūn al-Levi. Also mentions al-Shaykh al-Iftikhār and al-Shaykh al-Muhadhdhab.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from the Alexandrian community to Shemuel ha-Levi, "the prince of Levites, the glory of doctors" b. […] Furthermore, Alexandria was known for its characteristic prayer customs, to which the Alexandrian Jewish community adhered with zeal; see for example the responsa sent by Saadya b. […] On the active followers of Avraham Maimonides in Alexandria see Goitein, 'Our Rabbi Avraham,' Trabitz 33 (1964): 181-197.

תגים

• communal
• petition

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary language

Arabic

The title of a literary work in Arabic script: The Epistle of ʿĪsā b. ʿAlīal-Mutaṭabbib in Response to the Epistle of ʿĪsā b. al-Ḥasan al-Mutaṭabbib (رسالة عيسى ابن علي المتطبب جوابا على رسالة عيسى ابن الحسن المتطبب). There is also Hebrew piyyuṭ. (Information in part from CUDL.)

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

19 Ramaḍān 504/29 Ramaḍān 504 Hijrī (1 April 1111–11 April 1111 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Abī l-Layth, the head of the Diwān al-Taḥqīq (aka Dīwān al-Majlis), 501–27 AH: "Al-Afḍal established an office known as dīwān al-taḥqīq in the year 501 AH and appointed as its head the Christian Abu al-Barakāt Yuḥannā b. […] Yuḥannā remained in this appointment until he was removed in 527 AH and was killed in 528 AH (Ibn Muyassar, Akhbār Miṣr, 77, 108, al-Nuwayri, Nihāyat al-'arab XXVI, 81; al-Maqrīzī, ltti'āẓ al-ḥunafāʾ III, 39, 43, 75, 126, 148, Khiṭaṭ I 441, 488 [= Ibn al-Maʾmūn, Akhbār Miṣr, 21, 11]). […] Some sources, in fact, refer to the office as dīwān al-taḥqīq wa-l-majlis, e.g. aI-Shayyāl, Majmūʿat al-wathāʾiq al-Fāṭimiyya, 325:14.

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תגים

• al-malik al-afdal (1094-1121)
• diwan al-majlis

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Arabic

One side: A muwashshaḥ by al-Aʿmā al-Tuṭīlī (d. 1126). The other side: More difficult to read, but also contains poetic phrases (ḥumrat al-ward...).

תגים

• arabic poetry
• muwashshah

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Nothing is preserved except for the identification of the petitioners: al-ʿabīd al-mamālīk jamāʿat al-yahūd, i.e., a group or community of Jews. Could also be a drafft.

תעתוק אחד

Document date

10 Ḥeshvan 1531 Seleucid (21 October 1219 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Alexandria from the 21st of October 1219, a short time before the crusaders' assault on Damietta. A man who had to flee Cairo to Alexandria due to debts writes to his sister, who still resided in Cairo, to ask for her help. […] See also T-S 8J20.26.

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• alexandria
• crusade
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: skin
• (+ 2 עוד)

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Headed [...] b. Yahūdā al-[...] raḥimahū allāh fī [...]. The text in the left margin at 90 degrees may be the continuation. […] Mentions various payments and purchases, apparently made by somebody in the service of the writer. Mentions al-Shaykh al-Muʿaẓẓam al-Faqīh al-Qāḍī Zayn al-Dīn Khāqān(?)[…] Several books seem to be mentioned - possibly a work of remedies (ʿilājāt al-akhlāṭ(?) by Qusṭā; Kitāb al-Mughnī by Ibn [...]; a book on astrology (fī aḥkām al-nujūm); and an introduction (madkhal).

תגים

• booklist
• illness

תעתוק אחד

Document date

17 Tammuz 1513 Seleucid (12 July 1202 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

David (Hebrew name Shemarya) to a man referred to by his titles (al-Muwaffaq, Amīn (al-Dawla), al-Saʿīd). Aden, 1202. Maḍmun reports on the murder of al-Malik al-Muʿizz, who had claimed to be caliph, and the ascension of al-Malik al-Nāṣir Ayyūb as the new caliph. […] The recipient is addressed by the titles al-Muwaffaq ('the Successful'), al-Amīn (al-Dawla) ('Trustee (of the Government)'), and al-Saʿīd ('the Auspicious').

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תגים

• ib-partial translation-eng
• ib2
• india book
• yemen

2 תעתוקים 3 תרגומים דיון אחד

Document date

Kislev 4917 Anno Mundi (16 November 1156–15 December 1156 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A legal authority in Alexandria [...] b. Meshullam writes to the judges of Fustat and Cairo, the representatives of the Nagid Shemuel b. […] The buyer was an Alexandrian Jew, and Abū l-Munā bought the 8 moulds from that buyer. […] When the authorities in Alexandria saw this, they allowed the cheese to be sold.

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תגים

• certificate
• cheese
• crete
• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• (+ 2 עוד)

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Isḥāq, a poor man from Alexandria, to the amir Qarāqūsh Bahāʾ ai-Dīn b. ʿAbdallāh al-Asadī (his nisba derives from his having been a mamlūk of the late Fatimid vizier Asad ai-Din Shirkūh). The petitioner, Ṭāhir, had rented a shop in Alexandria from a Christian and paid all the installments of rent; he would like to be released from further payment. Dating: ca. 1199–1200, when Qarāqūsh served as regent for the grandson of Saladin, al-Malik al-Manṣūr, and before 1201 CE, when Qarāqūsh fled because al-Malik al-Manṣūr's uncle, aI-Malik al-Afḍal, took over the regency; Qaraqūsh died in 597/1201.

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תגים

• isfahsalar
• petition

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Inferred date

1237–1300 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The amir Jamāl al-Dīn now requires the community to send him 10 of their elders. The sender asks for at least nine men by name: al-Raṣuy, al-Rashīd, Fakhr al-Dawla, ʿAfīf, Abū ʿImrān al-ʿAṭṭār al-Levi, Abū l-Majd al-Kohen, Hiba b. David, al-Kohen al-Bazzāz, the teacher R. Nissim. Same scribe as T-S AS 165.135 (a mystical or pietistic treatise) and likely T-S 8J6.16 (Efrayim b.

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תגים

• david i maimonides
• nagid

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Probably sent from Fustat to Alexandria (though it's not entirely clear how Goitein and Frenkel determined that the addressee is in Alexandria). […] People mentioned: Binyām; "all the merchants"; Muslim; a young man with a squint (ṣabiyy aḥwal); al-Maghribī; and Ibn Shekhanya. Also mentions an auction at Dār Ibn Nājiya. (Information in part from Frenkel and Goitein's attached notes; the document is also cited in Med Soc.

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2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Document date

26 Rabīʿ II 504 Hijrī (11 November 1110 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Drawn up in the majlis al-khidma of an amir with grand titles (...majd al-khilāfa ʿizz al-dīn jamāl al-umarāʾ fakhr al-mulk sayf al-dawla wa-[...]hā b. al-M[...]m ṣanīʿat amīr al-muʾminīn...). […] Ḥammūd, a Muslim funduqānī (proprietor of a caravanserai), undertakes to transport to the Ṣināʿa ("the Arsenal"), the river port of Old Cairo, all falat (goods that had evaded the payment of dues) and all those for which customs had to be paid, whether they had been brought to his own place or to other caravanserais, or had otherwise come to his knowledge.

תגים

• customs
• dimme
• funduq
• tax
• tax evasion

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Document date

8 Rabīʿ I 405 Hijrī (6 September 1014 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Written by Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ the jahbadh and registered by the Dīwān al-ʿAmal and the Dīwān al-Ishrāf. Payment made under the supervision of three officials: (1) under the supervision of the auspicious, rightly guided qāḍī Thiqat al-Mulk Makīn al-Dawla wa-Amīnuhā, protégé of the Commander of the Faithful, Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Nahār; (2) on behalf of the fiduciary qāḍī Abū ʿAlī l-Ḥasan b. Yaḥyā b. Nahār; and (3) under the tax accounting of the elder Sadīd al-Dawla Abū l-Faraj ʿAbd al-Masīḥ b.

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• abu l-hasan b. wahb
• arabic script
• daman
• dimme
• fiscal
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3 תעתוקים 3 תרגומים דיון אחד

Document date

13 Shaʿbān 546 Hijrī (25 November 1151 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Acknowledgment (iqrār). Made by al-Amīr al-Muʾayyad ʿIzz al-Mulk Iftikhār al-Dawla Fityān b. Sayf(?) al-[...] Bū l-Qasam(?) "from the ṭāʾifa of [...]," the muqṭaʿ [...] in the district of [...]. In which he acknowledges owing al-Qāḍī Abū l-Maʿālī b. al-Qāḍī al-Mukhliṣ Thiqat al-Mulk 11 irdabbs of wheat and 7 irdabbs of barley, and possibly other things.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

and that we know that Salāma's father and mother are residents of al-Wāḥ al-Juwwānī (אלואח אלגואני = "the inner oasis") and that they [moved?] from there to Upper Egypt (al-Ṣaʿīd) and that they are not from Fustat (מצר)." […] It may be the equivalent of al-Wāḥ al-Dākhila. Medieval Arabic geographical works refer to inner (dākhila) and outer (khārija) districts of the oasis region of western Egypt; the inner district included not only present-day al-Dākhila but alsoal-Farāfra and al-Baḥriyya (see De Troia, "The Oases of Egypt's Western Desert from Byzantine to Islamic Rule," Journal of Late Antiquity 15.1 (277–303)).

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Alms distribution list. Headed 'by the order of our master' (ʿan amr sayyidnā), presumably the head of the Jews. […] Verso is in a tabular format and is headed by a new בש רח. Mentions: al-Shaykh al-Muqaddasī; the brother of the son of ʿAlī; Ibn Yaḥyā; the female custodian (khādima) of the Shāmī synagogue; Maʿālī the porter (al-ḥammāl); a sick person (al-mubtalā); Umm Ghāliya; Ibn al-מבוש(?); Umm Mīkhāʾīl; the Tyrian glassmakers (al-Ṣūriyyīn al-Zajjājīn); al-Lādhiqī; Yona and his brother; and Umm Shalom.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef is mentioned. There are also references to the Sicilian cities of Māzar and al-Madīna (Palermo). Also mentions the departure of the qāʾid Ibn al-Thumna (d. 1062) from Palermo (וקד רחל בן אלתמנה ען אלמדינה).

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תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Verso (original use): Lower part of a family letter in Arabic script, with greetings to several qāḍīs (ʿImād al-Dīn, Zayn al-Dīn, and Tāj al-Dīn), al-Ḥājj Saʿīd, Manṣūr, and Shams. The sender also reminds the addressee to send two commodities, one worth 45 dirhams and the other 25.

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תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions an amīr Nāhiḍ al-Dawla Abū ʿAlī (this is a rare laqab, likely identical with the Nāhiḍ al-Dawla ʿAlī from the time of al-Āmir mentioned by al-Maqrīzī).

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תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Verso: Note in Arabic script to someone addressed as al-Shaykh al-Muwaffaq. Mentions the bearer ʿImrān, two houses (ʿan al-dārayn al-mukhtaṣṣa bi-[...]), Masjid al-Qubba (a mosque in Qasr al-Shamʿ) and Bahādur(?)

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אין רשומות קשורות

Fragment of a letter from Musa b. Abi al-Hayy, from Alexandria. Around 1060. Describes the situation in Alexandria that is not safe, and the influence on the ships movement, including the news about several ships that the “enemy” caught, the ship al-Tarajima is one of them.

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תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Several folios from a Judaeo-Arabic copy of "Man Ghāba ʿAnhū l-Muṭrib" (The Book on the One Whom the Entertainer Abandons) by al-Thaʿālibī. One page includes chapter headings, e.g., "liqāʾ al-khalīl shif[āʾ al-ʿalīl]"; "mawadda araqq min [...]"; "al-ʿubūdiyya"; "al-ṣabb." ASE

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

; the next line refers to al-taʾrīkh al-madhkūr; there are several headers on both the right and left page. The left page is headed al-ḥaml (shipping/transport) followed by "to the well-established treasury" (ilā al-khizāna al-maʿmūra al-mawlawiyya. . . . ). The reference to al-khizāna al-maʿmūra suggests a Fatimid fiscal context, though it is unusual for a fiscal document to use Coptic numerals.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Barakāt has sent the volume which he found of al-Faraj baʿd al-Shidda. He found another copy with his brother's son in al-Maḥalla and plans to go get it and send it to Moshe. He will also send the two 'little qawls' (piyyuṭim?) which he'd mentioned, on the subject of love. On verso, he asks Moshe to send him two pots with dates, for those he received were spoiled, and he discarded them in Minya Zifta. He also sends his greetings to Abū l-ʿAlāʾ and Abū l-Maʿālī.

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תגים

• minyat zifta
• moshe b. levi

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from the Alexandrian judge Shela b. Mevasser (dated documents: 1074–1101) to Abū l-Bishr Ibn al-Bustānī (? الابستاني) al-Makḥūl(?) Hiba b. al-[...] Sayyid al-Ahl(?). […] Daniel, ca. 1082–94) and other notables. Also mentions Shemuʾel Ibn al-Dayyān and Abū Yaʿaqov Yiṣḥaq, and that "these converts adhere to religion better than the Jews."

תגים

• converts

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Informal note to Abū l-Riḍā ha-Talmid ha-Vatiq (appears also in T-S 10J4.14 (PGPID 3017) as al-Wathīq). Dating: ca. early 13th century. […] If the addressee wishes to loan his own copy to Abū l-Faraj, and then the sender will give him his own copy or Raḍiyy al-Dawla's copy, then he should do so. al-Talmid al- involving someone named Raḍiyy al-Dawla, a copy to be made, and Abū l-Faraj. […] The only phrase preserved is "S[anad?] al-Dawla."

תגים

• informal note

תעתוק אחד

Document date

14[.]8 Seleucid

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Moshe ha-Kohen ha-Sar ha-Nikhbad b. [...]." Also in attendance were Sitt al-Maʿānī or Sitt al-Maʿālī (the last two letters are effaced) bt. Abū l-ʿAlāʾ [...] Yefet. She is the wife of Abū l-Rabīʿ Sulaymān b. […] Also involved is Abū ʿImrān al-Kohen. What remains of the document consists of legal formulae and references to a sum of money.

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• ib-addenda
• ib5

אין רשומות קשורות