Documents

Document date

1406 Seleucid (14 September 1094–2 September 1095 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

NB: Three distinct fragments have been joined and are all photographed under the shelfmark ENA NS 19.14 (this is why there are no photographs under the shelfmarks ENA 4010.7 or ENA Misc. 17).

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תגים

• marital conflict
• oaths

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Document date

[12]91 Seleucid (979–980 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

They went to the court intending to divorce, but they ended up settling. The main outcome has to do with Sittāna's burial expenses should she die before her husband. […] In the present document, Shelomo commits to this obligation and, moreover, to bury her in the same quality of clothing that she has been accustomed to wear ("with which I clothed her") in her lifetime. To this end, the document lists the kinds of clothes she wears. […] Mevasser (who also signed T-S 12.161, ENA 4010.10, and apparently also T-S 16.49). (Information from Friedman, Polygyny.)

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תגים

• marital reconciliation
• marriage

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

16 Tammuz 5324 Anno Mundi (26 June 1564 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

There are three different enforcement mechanisms: Sulaymān accepts a ban of excommunication upon himself if he fails to pay on time; he undertakes a vow; and he agrees that if he does not pay, the treasurers have the right to evict him through the Muslim court sytem, and he will have to pay the associated fees (by including this provision here, the heqdesh officers forestall the possibility that they will be accused of violating the halakha by resorting to the Muslim courts). […] חניך) ha-Levi (who also appears in ENA NS I.57 and ENA NS 29.11). On verso there is an archiving note: "the rental contract of Sulaymān Ṣafiyy, debt of 123 muayyadis to the congregation."

תגים

• 16th c
• musta'rib

2 תעתוקים

Document date

Marḥeshvan 1455 Seleucid (11 October 1143–9 November 1143 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ḥassān al-Mahdawī, traveled to Upper Egypt to produce purple dye and dye purple textiles. Conflict ensued, perhaps when the partners divided up profits or losses from the sale of the dye (since the division isn't specified in the document). […] Despite the aforementioned penalty clause, Yosef apparently took longer than expected to repay the two dinars, since the final release which appears on the verso is dated six months after the end of the loan repayment period, in 1144. (Information from Lieberman, "A Partnership Culture," 219)

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תגים

• autograph
• business dispute
• debt
• dye
• partnership
• (+ 1 עוד)

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Thābit al-Ḥazzān mentioned at the end is identical with the brother of Meir b. Yakhin (aka Bū l-Majd b. […] The letter describes the troubles the writer encountered from a capitation tax official on his travels in a Nile boat and saying he had arrived safely in Alexandria. […] - DK 315 (PGPID 30290): Najm in Fustat to his brother Musāfir in Alexandria - ENA 2808.19 (PGPID 6709): Sibāʿ and Musāfir in Alexandria to their brother Najm and mother in Fustat

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תגים

• boat
• capitation tax
• jaliya
• tax

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Sunday, 12 Adar II 4826 Anno Mundi (12 March 1066 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Goitein describes it as the end of an enormous deed containing a settlement between Abū l-Faḍl Shela b. […] Yefet Ibn al-Sukkarī is known from several other documents, including ENA 4020.16 (PGPID 2404) and BL OR 5554A.49 (PGPID 19213).

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דיון אחד

Inferred date

975–1025 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Cohen and Somekh argue that the treatise was originally written in Arabic script for a Muslim audience, and this copy is a transcription into Hebrew characters for Jewish readers, datable on paleographic grounds to the tenth or early eleventh century. Order: ENA 3734.12; ENA 2643.12; ENA 2643.11; ENA 3734.13. […] Cohen and Sasson Somekh, “Interreligious Majalis in Early Fatimid Egypt,” in Hava Lazarus-Yafeh, et al., eds., The Majlis: Interreligious Encounters in Medieval Islam (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 1999), 128–36.

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2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים 2 דיונים

Primary language

Hebrew

Accounts in Hebrew. There are entries for wood, flour, oil, and also R. Moshe.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Persian

Literary text in Judaeo Persian. The end of מונאגאת נאמה Munajja'at Name.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

List of some sort, with entries in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.

אין רשומות קשורות

List of expenses regarding building according to date? ENA 4047.4 is related.

תגים

• list

אין רשומות קשורות

List of expenses regarding building according to date? ENA 4047.3 is related.

תגים

• list

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

This portion preserves the formulaic ending only.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Ladino

Small fragment with the ends of a few lines in Ladino. Likely literary or a letter.

אין רשומות קשורות

List of donors of wheat to charity. See also ENA NS 77.107.

תגים

• charity
• communal
• donors
• poverty

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter, beginning on verso, probably the end on recto. (Information from CUDL)

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

End of a legal query mentioning a ketubba. (Information in part from CUDL)

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

941 Hijrī (13 July 1534–1 July 1535 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated (leftmost text block of ENA 3730.2v): 941 AH = 1535/36 CE. In the same hand as ENA 2898.3 + ENA 2898.4 (PGPID 12533), a ledger of accounts concerning ships arriving in Egypt dating to five years later. […] Recto, right page: The heading also appears to be maritime in nature: "תשלום מרקב אליאו" ("payment for the ship of Eliyyahu"). The entries underneath mention shipments most likely of sugar (סו׳) and pepper (פלפ׳); people such as khwājā Ḥabīb, two janissaries (yeniçeri / יניגארי), Ḥājj Naṣif(?)

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תגים

• istanbul
• list
• ottoman shipping
• shipping

אין רשומות קשורות

End of a legal document written and signed by Elḥanan b.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Italian

Ledger with many distinct entries in Italian, perhaps copies of letters. Needs examination.

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תגים

• italian

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Persian

Literary text in Judaeo Persian - ENA 2627.106, 110-111 appear related.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Persian

Literary text in Judaeo Persian - ENA 2627.106, 110-111 appear related.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Persian

Literary text in Judaeo Persian - ENA 2627.106, 110-111 appear related.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Persian

Poetic work in Judaeo Persian. ENA 2627.113-114 is part of the same work.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Persian

Poetic work in Judaeo Persian. ENA 2627.113-114 is part of the same work.

אין רשומות קשורות

Small fragment from the end of a legal document signed by Avraham b. Shemaʿya.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Aramaic

Minute fragment from the end of a legal deed. There is a grid drawing on the back.

תגים

• fgp stub

אין רשומות קשורות

(This folder is mostly or entirely 18th-century and 19th-century accounts.)

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Probably late. Multiple entries on the verso mention "the blacksmith."

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

End of a letter. About the sending of money to somebody.

אין רשומות קשורות