Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Perahḥya b. Yosef (Yiju) to 'the glory of the merchants' Abū l-Fakhr Saʿadya b. […] Fragment (upper part). The letter opens with rhymed blessings in Hebrew, then switches to Judaeo-Arabic and mentions Passover and Shavuʿot. Also mentions sending a book (al-taʾlīf).

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Left fragment: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment. Mentions Alexandria twice, but the context is unclear. "I went to the R[īf?]." Mentions 'maqāṭiʿ.'

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment. The hand is distinctive (descenders that sweep to the left) and may be known. Mentions the sister of al-Māwardī ('the rosewater merchant').

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Ladino

Business letter in Ladino to Avraham דאלותה (?) from "your little brother." Mentions people such as Menaḥem and Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi.

תגים

• ladino

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Involves sustenance payments (mezonot).

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1

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Draft of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions the name Maḥfūẓa and possibly the terms of a will.

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2

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Peraḥya b. Menashshe. Fragment (upper left corner). Only the opening greetings are preserved.

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2

תגים

• yefet b. menashshe

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment. Mentions having sent a legal query (masʾala) with Dāʾud al-Rūmī. Mentions Cairo. The handwriting resembles that of Makhlūf b.

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תעתוק אחד

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document mentioning Sitt al-Dār bt. Saʿadya written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). AA

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תגים

• halfon b. menashshe

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document with release formulae. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Mentions "the two gates" (?

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yeshayahu b. Ishaq to Abu Avraham Ismail b. […] The sender also writes that he has paid a messenger four dirhams per day to travel from Alexandria to Cairo and back, which took him seven days in total. The 28 dirhams which the messenger received equaled at this time one gold piece, as is stated in the letter.

תגים

• dar al-kattan
• exchange rate
• state
• state expropriation
• textiles
• (+ 1 עוד)

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Substantial, late acccount in Judaeo-Arabic, at least one part of which is headed "list of debts." People named include: Avraham Yerushalmi; Yehuda Leon; Yeshūʿa al-Ḥāmī; Moshe Sūsī ("the stranger"); Avraham Abulafia; Meir and Yehuda Gabizon (גאביזון). On the other side: a Castro, Yehuda Leon again; Meir Gabizon; Avraham Yerushalmi again.

תגים

• abulafia
• castro
• late ja
• late prosopography
• leon

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to the Nagid, either Mevorakh b. Saʿadya or Moshe b. Mevorakh (?). In Judaeo-Arabic. In the scribal hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Dating: 1100-1138 CE, based on the years when Ḥalfon was active but this estimate can be narrowed through further review of which Nagid was the letter recipient.

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תגים

• recommendation

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Either a letter or a legal testimony. The name Meshullam b. […] The document describes a situation which apparently led to a merchant being unable to pay his debts.

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1

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document in the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Fragment (upper left corner). Dating: Probably 1100–27 CE (based on the absence of titles for Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon?). […] Abū l-Faḍl (Yosef) known as Zayn al-Tujjār (ZL), Menahem, Yaʿaqov b. Yosef.

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2

תגים

• halfon b. menashshe

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

25 Ṣafar 919 Hijrī (2 May 1513 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Deed of lease for an apartment (ṭabaqa). In Arabic script. Dated: 25 Ṣafar 919 AH = 2 May 1513 CE. Lessee: Manṣūr b. Najīb (b.) Manṣur. Also mentions another merchant Hibatallāh b.

תגים

• 16th c
• contract
• dimme
• pinholes
• rent

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document in the handwriting of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). Small vertical strip from the left side. On parchment. Possibly concerning the manumission and conversion of an enslaved woman. Mentions [...]l b. Elʿazar. (Information in part from CUDL)

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תגים

• jariya

תעתוק אחד

Legal document concerning money owed by Avraham ha-Levi to Meshullam (EMS).

תגים

• loan

תעתוק אחד

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Small fragment of a legal deed mentioning a kind of silk called כזאג. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE).

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תגים

• halfon b. menashshe

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Bifolio with copies of letters addressed to dignitaries. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Damaged. The letters' addressees include: Shelomo the head of Yeshivat Geʾon Yaʿaqov (i.e., the father of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon). There is also reference to the Nagid, probably Moshe b. Mevorakh. On verso there is a copy of a letter to the Nasi.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1127–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Bottom part of a list in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). On parchment. Mentioning part of the formulaic blessings for Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon (1127–39 CE), תכון משרתו לנצח. At least part of it concerns an expenditure given to Abū l-Ḥasan to be delivered to the widow of Abū l-Munā mentioning dirhams and dinars. […] Many other names are mentioned. (Information in part from Goitein's index card.)

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תגים

• account

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions two legal queries for Rabbenu Elʿazar, one concerning [...] and the other concerning the children of Tamīm. The rayyis delivered something to the dayyān. Someone was sick. Mentions Ibn al-Layth (cf. Bodl. MS heb. b 12/4 (PGPID 6354)). Mentions someone traveling by land.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Lettermentioning Reuben the apostate. In a late hand. Alternate description: Letter, mentioning Reuben ‘the proselyte’ and greetings to many family members, including the writer’s paternal uncle Zigdon and his maternal aunt Ḡarība.

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Minute fragment from a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Mentions [...] b. ʿUlla. Probably a will, because it alludes to death which comes for all mortals. Mentions a city adjacent to Fustat (New Cairo?). Refers to a dilapidated house (al-dār al-dāthira).

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תגים

• halfon b. menashshe

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (bottom half of recto). […] The next portion has been translated by Mark Cohen as follows, who understands this letter as evidence that Moshe b. Mevorakh (in office 1112–ca. 1126) gained the title Nagid even in the lifetime of his father Mevorakh b. […] See if you can corroborate this by speaking to him. If it is true, letme know at once when he is planning to set out, so that I, myself, do not go on a journey before he departs."

תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Document date

922 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

This is part of what Sacha Stern (2020) calls the Letters Miscellany: Letter 4 of 4. Bornstein (1904) called this letter ‘Ben Meir’s Second Letter’. This letter was likely written by the highest authority in Palestine, ben Meir, the Head of the Yeshiva, and likely addressed to the Iraqi/Babylonian leadership. […] As in ben Meir’s First Letter, the author still lays most of the blame on Saadya (fol.7r:6-8, 8r:14-16, 8v:17-18), as if to give the Iraqis a way out of their entrenched position.

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תגים

• calendar
• controversy

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Small fragment (upper left corner of recto).

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אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Refers to merchandise which was sent. (Information in part from CUDL)

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Minute fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Mentions a certain Shem[uel] and an agent (wakīl).

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1

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal deed with release formulae. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Small fragment. Mentions "our late father."

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

Recto: family letter, ca. 11th century, from Abraham to his son-in-law Elijah and his daughter אתוכלי, Itwakkilī (Arabic, but unattested as a name). […] He wants the couple to send a letter at the next opportunity. Also mentioned is a debt and ‘the time that the river rises’, probably a reference to the flooding of the Nile. A number of different names are mentioned: Elijah’s sister is Sitt al-Rūmī (שטירומי); also mentioned are Irini (אריני), Leon (לאון) and his wife Sitt al-Bayt (שטילבית), another son-in-law Kalev, a wife Mershini (מרשיני, vocalised) and a son Shemarya.

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Shela b. Mevasser, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. […] Nissim and the appearance of the title Sar ha-Sarim (used by Mevorakh b. Saʿadya from 1094 onward). (Gil previously estimated 1065 CE for the portion of the letter which does not contain the title Sar ha-Sarim.) […] At the end of the letter, Shela passes on the greetings and prayers of his sons Nissim, Mevasser, and Yiṣḥaq.

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תגים

• communal
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• nahray b. nissim
• suftaja
• (+ 1 עוד)

3 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The writer and addressee are unknown, but the handwriting seems very familiar. […] "When I heard that your condition had worsened (takhallufhā), I became very distressed and forgot my own illnesses and condition, until God had mercy and the news of your health arrived, and I thanked God for that, yodu l-adonay ḥasdo, and may God avert all evil from you and your brothers and all in your care and protect me from all bad news. By my life, I am pained/sick of heart from the fact that you do not mentionme in a letter or an inquiry, despite the fact that I have not cut off (our correspondence), and the fact that you are to me like my children, nay, like my brothers-in-law, and you ought to be inquiring after me (iftiqādī) if only with a letter or an inquiry.

תגים

• heartsickness
• iftiqad
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: letter norms
• (+ 3 עוד)

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Ibrāhīm to his maternal uncle Khalaf b. […] "I am not content with your greetings to me in letters to other people. My heart will be at ease when you send meletters." […] "May God never deprive me of your fragrance (rīḥatkum)." ASE

תגים

• capitation
• tax

אין רשומות קשורות