Documents

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Gotein likely succeeded in reading an obscure passage of the letter, but on its face it seems more like a straightforward appeal for financial aid invoking the afflictions of fate: "al-mamlūk mustaḥiyy min fiʿl hādha l-zamān alladhī ṣayyaranā [[anā]] lā naqdir al-qiyām bi-mā ʿalaynā min al-maḥqūq al-wājiba idh ḥukimat ʿalaynāal-iqrār. . . . wa-baʿd inna l-kull zamān wa-kull waqt aḥwāl yudabbirhā hādha l-falak bi-mā amar wa-bi-mā rakkab fīhi fa-l-mamlūk mustaḥiyy. . . ."

תגים

• appeal
• arabic script
• chess
• fate

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions names such as Abū l-Karam Ibn al-Ḥunaykh, Ibn al-Kirmānī, Mūsā, Abū l-Makārim the son of the late Rabbenu Nissim, Abū Saʿd b. Naḥman, Ibn Kūshak al-ʿAmīd, Muslim Ibn al-Naʿja, Abū Sulaymān the Qaraite, Abū l-Ḥusayn Ibn Sunaynāt, Abū l-Mufaḍḍal al-Wazzān, Abū l-Manṣūr al-Ṭabīb the Qaraite, al-Ṣaʿīdī, and Dammūh (the place). […] Goitein's comment: "Such debts were not always a sign of poverty. The last leaf of an inventory of an estate notes a debt of 125 dinars on tax-farming, but registers purses with gold and silver coins, vessels made of the same metals, promissory notes, and many other assets far exceeding a thousand dinars" (Med Soc II, p. 362 at note 47).

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תגים

• damin

דיון אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

debt of the city of Fayyūm before Yom Kippur, but is not optimistic, because the official order on the decree (al-amr ʿalā l-marsūm al-karīm) is unchanged. (The scenario may be similar to that of T-S K2.96 (PGPID 18940), a tax farmer's petition for an exemption from government service which was denied, from the same period.) The blessing for the sultan "may his glory be strengthened" (ʿazza naṣruhū) is metonymically applied to either his decree (al-marsūm) or his order/rescript (al-amr). The sender also reports that he has sent a copy of the introduction to the commentary on Avot (probably of Maimonides), and asks the addressees to 'complete it' through the eighth chapter and send it back to him along with the copy of Sefer ha-Madaʿ (the first section of the Mishneh Torah) that they had promised.

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תגים

• book trade
• fayyum

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Beginning and end of an important business letter written probably after the arrival of the sender from al-Mahdiyya to Alexandria, containing a list of prices in al-Mahdiyya. […] There are greetings from "I, Abū l-Surūr" at the end, which could mean either that the sender is Abū l-Surūr or that Abū l-Surūr served as scribe for the sender. The journey from al-Mahdiyya to Alexandria took an unusually long time (35 days). […] The sender is concerned about ʿAllān and Abū Yaʿqūb and requests to hear their news and the news of the children.

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תגים

• prices
• trade

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Order from al-Shaykh al-Makīn of endive seed (bizr hindibāʾ), purslane seed (bizr rijla), unripe dates (busr), and sugar. […] This page discusses the management of black bilious tumor (al-waram al-sawdāwī), citing al-Rāzī and stating that the treatment is similar to that of "hardening" (cirrhosis?) of the liver (ṣalābat al-kabid). "As for what the physicians [...] in treating this disease..."

תגים

• order

דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Abū Sahl (Menashshe) Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif, the father of Halfon b. Menashshe. Dating: second half of the 11th century. On verso refers to Abū Ḥanīfa either sending a legal query or giving a responsum to (yuftī) a certain ʿEli. Almost certainly the same sender (but probably not the same letter) as T-S 12.215, which is also the second leaf of a long letter and also mentions Abū Sahl Menashshe.

דיון אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

Ṭarfon; Efrayim b. ʿEli (signed also T-S 16.49 (PGPID 16800) in 987 CE); Shelomo b. ʿEli (signed also T-S 12.590 (PGPID 20024)); Avraham b. Shelomo ha-Kohen; Menaḥem b. Tamīm ha-Levi; Ṣadoq b. Yiṣḥaq (signed also T-S 16.189 (PGPID 1715)). On the back there is a prayer.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

However the sender of the letter is a woman ("all I desire is that you see me happy (f.)" / מא אשתהי אלא אן תרוני פרחאנה); she could have had Ḥananʾel write on her behalf. The letter is full of expressions of dependence on God's will. She explains also that she determined (by some kind of divination?) that a certain 'movement' (ḥaraka, ḥarakiyya) was favorable, and therefore she acted. She also mentions that 'al-Kohen' made her something beautiful (כרג כטך(?))

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Legal document, 12 lines, in Arabic script, dated 4th Muḥarram al-Ḥarām of an undecipherable year [8..?]. Concerning [...] b. al-Muʿallim Ṣadaqa the Samaritan Jew, a receipt of something (waṣala...), and a period of time. The occurrence of few sums of money indicates a fiscal account or commercial transaction - 'min al-fiḍḍat al-anṣāf al-judūd', which points to the Mamlūkī silver 'half' coin of al-Muʾayyad Shaykh and suggests that this letter is dated no earlier than 1415 CE, as this was the year when the ruler imposed the 'half' as the basic silver coin.

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תגים

• dimme
• mamluk
• numismatic dating
• samaritan

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Dating: Probably Mamluk-era. Mentions al-Muẓaffarī in the tarjama and begins with a taqbīl clause and yunhī formula. […] Mentions a big house and the hope of well-being for someone (or rather the sender is reporting that various people are well and in good health). Also mentions "al-umarāʾ al-ajillāʾ al-akābir" towards the end of the preserved portion.

תגים

• dimme

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Refers to something shameful (al-ʿār), "what people say" (kalām al-nās), idleness/unemployment (al-baṭāla) which leads to evil and madness (alladhī tūjib al-shirr wa-l-junūn). […] Refers to the money of a young man (durayhimāt al-ṣabiyy). Needs further examination and hopefully a join.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Thursday, 18 Av 1500 Seleucid (3 August 1189 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Aleppo. Dated: Thursday, 18 Av 1500 Seleucid = 3 August 1189 CE. […] Shelomo ha-Kohen, called Abū Naṣr al-Ṣārifī from Egypt. Wife: Sitt al-Gharb bt. Yehuda from Egypt. […] (Information from CUDL.) See also Goitein notes linked below. And description for MS 8254, fol. 15 (PGPID 32292) for the whole story.

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תגים

• get

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Abu ‘Ali Ḥasan b. Imran in Alexandria to his nephew Abu Musa Harun b. al-Mu‘allim Yaqub, admonishing him for having vowed to maintain his elderly mother but failing to keep that promise; the mother had already passed away by the time of the letter’s composition. […] You do not have the faith of the Jews, nor even that of the Majus,” Abu Ali proclaims, referring to the Aramaic-Arabic name for Zoroastrians.

תגים

• alexandria
• personal

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a business letter from Barhun b. Salih al-Tāhartī in Busir, probably to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat, mentioning bales of flax being prepared for shipment to Alexandria and places further on, and the writer's intention to travel to Mahdiyya. […] (Information from Gil) Description from PGPID 5823: Letter from Barhun b. Salih al-Tāhartī, from Busir, probably to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. […] The writer sold goods in the Delta area and arranged flax shipments from Alexandria. He is planning to travel to Mahdiyya. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, #330) VMR

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תגים

• al-tahirti
• flax
• nahray b. nissim
• trade

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He describes how he saved an estate of an Alexandrian woman (who died in Bilbays) from confiscation by the government. He also mentions the arrival of Ibn al-Maqdisī from Gaza together with a convert, and he hopes to study Qiddushin with Ibn al-Maqdisī.

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תגים

• report of death

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Abū l-Ḥasan b. Ibrāhīm al-Zayyāt to the notable Yehuda b. Elʿazar ha-Kohen. […] Abū l-ʿIzz Aharon b. Elʿazar. Also mentions 'the rayyis' Abū l-Walīd. Dating: Late 12th century. Topics: (1) formal openings; (2) something about accompanying a person to the synagogue in a big crowd; (3) physicians; (4) eye illnesses. See also T-S 13J33.8 and DK 245. (Information in part from CUDL and Goitein's index card.)

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

14 Elul 1405 Seleucid (29 August 1094 CE)

Groom: Yakhin the cantor. Bride: Sitt al-Kull, a virgin. Marriage payments: 50 + 105 = 155 dinars. The fragment also contains drafts of various legal documents (one involving the rent of a house in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ and 125 dinars; another involving Abū l-Surūr's claim that he came to Fustat with 25 dinars and spent it all) and letters (one to a judge called al-Rayyis), and many jottings.

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תגים

• ketubba
• marriage

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1200–1218 CE

Primary language

Arabic

A divorce document involving a high-level Ayyubid official described as one of the mamlūks of al-Malik al-ʿĀdil (aḥad al-mamālīk al-ʿādiliyya). A pregnant woman is also involved (l. 2). The type of divorce is a khulʿ, probably as a result of adultery (khiyāna).

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תגים

• adultery
• pregnancy

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ḥofni, three halakhic treatises, Sefer ben Sira (אבן סירא), and Geʾonic commentaries on Ṭohorot. The fragment also mentions some biblical books and their commentaries. (Information from CUDL.) 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. Note also that T-S K23.25 either doesn't exist any more or has not been digitized.

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Business letter from a father, probably in Alexandria, to a son, probably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. […] The son is to make sure that this happens, and if he wants to travel back with Sulaymān, all the better. After all, it is the end of the year, and the son has to pay his capitation tax in Alexandria.

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תגים

• capitation tax
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: nahda
• illness: waja'
• (+ 2 עוד)

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Perhaps the first page of Tadhkirat al-Kaḥḥālīn. The author's name is given as ʿĪsā b. ʿAlīal-Mutaṭabbib instead of the correct ʿAlī b.

תגים

• arabic literary
• medical
• tadhkirat al-kahhalin

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions a caliph by name, "wa sayyiduna al-Imām", but the part of the fragment containing the name is torn. Part of the tarjama is also preserved mentioning a certain Zakariyya al-Marūzī.

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תעתוק אחד

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Official receipt for Abū [...] al-ʿAṭṭār for a payment of 5 dirhams (unclear what for). The sum is written in three different places and there is an ʿalāma (al-ḥamdu lillāhi ʿalā niʿmatihī). Whatever was written at the bottom (date?

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recipients include: Ibrāhīm al-Ṭawwāf; Abū l-Ṭāhir al-Khādim; Abū Naṣr al-Khādim; al-Dayyan R.

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תגים

• alms
• bread
• charity

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Might have reused a state document, probably a fiscal receipt, because an ʿalama "al-ḥamdu li-llah ʿalāʾālāʾih" can be read on verso and it seems that the writer has left space around it.

תגים

• dimme

אין רשומות קשורות

Fragment of a letter from al-Kabira, probably from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim. Around 1055. Al-Kabira informs Nahray that she sent him silk by the judge’s wife.

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2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to a woman (possibly from her son in law, as it mentions her daughter), and the instruction to come quickly if she wants to come. Also refers to Syria, Fusṭāṭ and Alexandria, and complains about poverty and difficult economic circumstances.

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תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to Abū l-Makārim Ibn al-Amshāṭī, in Fustat, in Qaysāriyyat al-ʿAṭṭārīn. […] The sender purchased עוד רטב from the addressee and took it to Alexandria and was unable to [...]. (The continuation is missing.)

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Nissim in Fustat to Abu al-Faraj Daniel b. Allan ha-Kohen in Alexandria, discussing the problem of the ransom of captives and noting that owing to the lack of funds prisoners have to be redeemed one by one, ca. 1045-1096.

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תגים

• 11th c
• captives
• nahray b. nissim
• prisoners
• ransom
• (+ 1 עוד)

3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter sent from Alexandria to Fustat, by Avraham b. Farah to Nahray b. Nissim, reporting on the arrival of ships in Alexandria and dealing with commercial affairs. Dated July 1053 by Gil and 1050-1055 by Ben Sasson.

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תגים

• movement of ships
• nahray b. nissim
• trade

3 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים דיון אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Recto: beginning of an abridged version of al-Rāzī, Kitāb al-ʾasrār (‘Book of secrets’). Verso: a list in a cruder hand mentioning other works by al-Rāzī, including Kitāb sirr al-ʾasrār (‘Book of secret of secrets’).

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Shemuʾel b. Avraham Ibn al-Majjānī, probably in Aden, to (Abū Zikrī) Yehuda ha-Kohen b. […] He reports on the the aṣḥāb (Nahray and Ibn Nufayʿ and Ibn al-Yatīm and al-Fāsī and a Jew whom the writer did not know) who were traveling with ʿAlīal-Dībājī and speculates that perhaps they were detained in Dahlak, because they haven't caught up with the writer's party. […] There is a postscript about smuggling Ibn al-Yatīm's coral through customs. ASE

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תגים

• ib5
• india book

2 תעתוקים

Document date

October 1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shemuel ha-Levi known as Ibn al-Lukhtūsh, probably in Granada, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi, probably staying somewhere in Spain not far from Granada. […] In Judaeo-Arabic. See also IV, 3 (PGPID 9054) and IV, 40 (PGPID 9096), other letters with the same sender and addressee. […] A greeting is sent to Abū l-Barakāt b. Harith al-Levi, who arrived in Almeria from Alexandria in August 1138 CE.

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• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• india book

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד