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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yosef b. Yehuda b. Simḥa (Alexandria) to Abū Zikrī Yaḥyā b. Nissim (Fustat), ca. 1050. […] He is worried about owing money to a number of people including Yaḥyā b. Nissim and, although they do not demand payment, is anxious to settle the issue. He also mentions having heard about diseases (amrāḍ) that have spread in Fustat.

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תגים

• arabic address
• beads
• debt
• epidemic
• epidemic: amrad
• (+ 4 עוד)

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Concerns farming and safeguarding of land (fī zirāʿatih wa-ḥifẓihā wa-ṣawnihā) for an interval of time for which the parties had asked (al-mudda alladhī iltamasūhā). Includes petition or report formulae, including a the raʾy clause "wa-raʾyuhā al-muwaffaq." Urges haste, followed by petition-like language: wuṣūluh surʿa surʿa fa-anā muḥtāj ilayhi ... wa-raʾyuhā al-muwaffaq in shāʾ allāh.

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תגים

• agriculture
• dimme
• pinholes

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment from the bottom of a legal document. Location: Alexandria or another coastal city. Dating: 11th century; it was written on a Monday, 18 Sivan; the number "807" appears on the line below, so perhaps Monday, 18 Sivan 4807 AM = 15 June 1047 CE. […] Yosef; an orphan girl; Avraham b. Farrāḥ al-Iskandarānī; and ʿAzīza. The substance of the case is unclear. See also ENA NS 85.273 (PGPID 14925).

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in the hand of Makhlūf b. Mūsā, possibly in Alexandria, addressed to Fustat, al-ʿAṭṭārīn, the shop of Muslim/Musallam al-Kaʿkī. […] The writer mentions Abū l-Surūr traveling to al-Mahdiyya, Tripoli (Libya), and Byzantium. He complains about the capitation tax and his poor fortune in business.

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תגים

• arabic address
• ib-addenda
• ib6
• to edit

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Nissim, probably from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Dating: ca. 1050. […] Yashar ha-Tustari) but did not succeed. Musa b. Abi al-Hayy gave the writer books to keep them from the mice while he is traveling. The writer mentions a disagreement that he has with “the Alexandroni”, probably Avraham b. Farah. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 4, #712) VMR

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תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

A learned man named Yehuda חובל is also mentioned. Verso: Alongside the address of the original letter, there is a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, perhaps the response to recto. There is also a name: Binyamin b. אנתה(?). Needs examination.

תגים

• late heb

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Opens with two lines of grand titles for the presumably Muslim addressee (Zakhīrat al-Dīn Jamāl al-Ruʾasāʾ, Ṣabī Amīr al-Muʾminīn). […] There is a single word in Hebrew in the upper margin. On verso, there may also be remnants of an endorsement (in Arabic script).

תגים

• petition

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Natan ('the son of the Nezer') to Abū l-Maḥāsin al-Tājir, in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer includes a request for medicinal substances. He also urges the addressee to return quickly to his mother, because she has been afflicted lately with 'what cannot be described,' and she would have perished were it not for the solicitude of friends.

תגים

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: women's

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

1026 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Page from a court notebook dated Thursday, 12 Kislev, 1026, in the hand of Yefet ha-Hazan b. Daud, who signs alone. Sulayman b. Yusuf made ‘amlāk’ (denoting the transferring of ownership of properties) for Sitt al-Dar bt. Yusuf and gave 15 dinars to ‘Umar, the brother of Sitt al-Dar. These were ‘rahīna’ (security, i.e. collateral). See also T-S 8J6.18 C and T-S 8J6.18 D. (Information from Goitein's index card).

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• yefet b. david

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yeshaʿya b. Isḥāq, in Alexandria, to his business associate Abū Ibrāhīm ʿAyyāsh b. […] Advising him to dispose of goods costing a large amount of money and, “This letter of mine is your proof in court.” The writer also notes he received a loan of 80 dinars from a compatriot and asks that all consignments to himself should be turned over to his creditor.

תגים

• 11th c
• merchant
• trade

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1125–1140 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal testimony declaring that Hassun of Ascalon was the father of Abū Saʿd, the illegitimate son of Wuhsha the Broker. Mentions Abū ʿAlīal-Parnas Yefet b. Maṣliaḥ, Ibn al-Sukkarī, Ḥalfon ha-Kohen b. Yosef and Abū Naṣr al-Kohen Ibn al-Kamūkhī. Bifolio 2v of a court register in the hand of Ḥalfon b.

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תגים

• debt
• halfon b. menashshe
• intermarriage
• legitimacy
• muslim husband
• (+ 4 עוד)

תעתוק אחד 2 תרגומים דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The handwriting is similar to that of ʿImanuel b. Yeḥiel (also compare T-S 16.682 from the same period). Fragment (lower middle part) containing part of the trousseau list and referring to half of a ḥujra (lit. "room," but probably an independent building consisting of one room) in Alexandria given to the bride near the al-Qashmīrī mosque.

תגים

• ketubba

דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Inventory of the items from a dead man's estate that are in Alexandria, mainly books (two pages) and various household items (last page). […] Ḥofni's treatise on partnerships (al-Sharikāt); Saadya's translation (sharḥ) of the Torah; many more sacred books; and what may be a composition on love (Alfāẓʿalā l-Ulfa).

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תגים

• booklist
• estate
• inventory

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Yaʿaqov, the Jew, known as al-ʿIjla (or al-ʿĀjala?) buys from three Christian women one-fourth of a house in the Rāya district for 70 dinars. The other three-fourths were already in his possession (total value 280 dinars). Verso (in entirely different handwriting): He gives this house to the son of his daughter and makes other gifts. This document is also incomplete. (Information from Goitein’s index card)

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תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions a widow; a kohen; Ḥalfon; a parnas; and Ibrāhīm. It is unclear how all these names relate to each other. Also mentions the Dūr al-Wukalāʾ in Fustat (likely the plural of Dār al-Wakāla, merchants' warehouse).

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Sunday, 11 Tammuz 4912 Anno Mundi (15 June 1152 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal testimony. Location: Alexandria. Dated: Sunday, 11 Tammuz 4912 AM = 15 June 1152 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. […] Ṭahor ha-Kohen; Yiṣḥaq b. Yosef Yerushalmi (also signs T-S 13J3.4 (PGPID 1113)). The two litigants (mutashājirīn) are Shemuel b. Yehuda Ibn Asad and ʿUlla b. Yeshuʿa Ibn al-ʿIrāqī. They appear before the court together with a messenger of the Muslim qāḍī, and all agree that they will annul a previous agreement made before a Jewish court and make a similar agreement in Muslim court.

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• muslim courts

דיון אחד

Document date

Ṭevet 1492 Seleucid (21 December 1180–18 January 1181 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

There is a long passage (in rhymed Hebrew) about the addressee's mother ailing ever since he departed for Alexandria with the caravan. The scribe wrote the letter while very sick (marīḍ lāzim lā aʿaql ʿalā nafsī min al-ḥamāʾil(?) ṣudāʿ(?) al-bārī yulaṭṭif bi-raḥmatihi fa-tabsuṭ al-ʿadhr...).

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תגים

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517

דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Abū ʿAlī to his father Abū l-ʿIzz al-Sharābī, in Fustat, in Sūq al-Kabīr. […] If that sum were not sufficient, he would deliver the balance to the carrier. He alludes to his illness in passing by way of explaining why he has not done something (line 21). See also T-S 12.817 (PGPID 7350). (Information in part from Mediterranean Society, IV, p. 446.)

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תגים

• arabic address
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: mention

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

7 Tammuz 1524 Seleucid (27 June 1213 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

This account is written on the verso and also on the remaining space of the recto of a document concerning the sale of an enslaved woman to a certain Elazar ha-Kohen. […] There are items of charity, for the local poor and for foreigners, and repairs to buildings of the qodesh, and also to the synagogues of Fustat and Dammuh. Several sums that were emoluments for scholars are included as well. Some revenue from rent is listed, as it is also income from collections for charity, among them one "light" dinar paid by Rayyis, i.e. the Nagid, Avraham Maimuni, the son of Maimonides.

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תגים

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

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Sivan 1435 Seleucid (16 May 1124–14 June 1124 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fol. 1: Several legal documents, all in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. In one, Ṣadaqa b. Avraham known as Ibn al-Warda and his wife Sitt al-[...] give to their daughter Sitt al-Khawāt bt. […] Naḥman 1/2 of a new house. There are also entries about dowry evaluations (taqwīm). Dated Sivan 1435 Seleucid, which is 1124 CE.

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תגים

• halfon b. menashshe

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment from a letter/petition from Abū Saʿīd Ibn al-Muʿallima to Maḍmūn b. [Ḥasan] the Nagid of Yemen. […] The sender is a teacher in the Iraqi synagogue (מע]לם בכניסה אל[ער]אקיין) and also mentions a certain Shelomo [...] al-ḥaver. The continuation and almostall of the substance are missing.

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תגים

• ib-addenda
• ib2
• india book unedited

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Jumād[a] II 965 Hijrī (21 March 1558–18 April 1558 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew alphanumerals. A variety of the entries list quantities of unnamed male and female enslaved people (עבד עביד גארייה). Dated in the upper left corner of the verso: Jumād[a] II 965 AH (1558 CE). The account entries also mention a variety of names in connection with the enslaved people, some bearing Ottoman titles/ranks: ʿOṭmān [sic] al-Maḥlāwī, Manṣūr al-Shāmī, Sinān Raʾīs, Maḥ[mūd]/Muḥ[ammad] Odabā[şa], Bā..(?) Jalabī (Çelebi), Mūsa Jalabī, Maḥ[mūd]/Meḥ[med] Bāsha. Although the accounts on the verso date to 1558 CE, it is worth noting that the Ottoman governor of Egypt between 1553–1556 CE was Dukakinzade Meḥ[med] Pasha.

תגים

• early modern enslaved people

אין רשומות קשורות

Fragment of a letter of a cantor describing the visit of the Nagid in a town, probably Alexandria, during the holidays. The Nagid visited the synagogue of the Babylonians. 300 persons were present. Also lists prices of wheat and bread and reports that the oppressive measures had been slightly relaxed.

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תגים

• communal
• nagid
• prices

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Garshuni (Serto)

Sermon in Garshuni. Mentions the flood (al-ṭūfān), the destruction of Sodom and Gomorra (...wa-amṭara ʿalayhimal-rabb... wa-kibrīt wa-l-jamr al-hamīm...), and Moses and the sons of Israel.

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Monday 24 Jumādā I 517 Hijrī (20 July 1123 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Horoscope in Arabic script dated Monday 24 Jumādā I of the year '17 AH (probably [5]17 but [4]17 also seems possible), upon the birth of the son of Abū l-Ḥasan al-Fakkāh Ibn al-Barawī(?).

תגים

• astronomical
• fatimid
• horoscope

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions goods such as pearls and coral and carnelian. Also mentions "the large ledger" (al-daftar al-kabīr) in Arabic script.

תגים

• arabic

דיון אחד

Document date

Shaʿbān 460 Hijrī (5 June 1068–3 July 1068 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

A receipt of rent for a warehouse or shop (ḥānūt) paid by Badr al-Dīn al-Jābī to Faraj Allāhal-Yahūdī in the month of Rajab.

תגים

• dimme

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef (Yiju) to 'the glory of the merchants' Abū l-Fakhr Saʿadya b. Ibrāhīm Ibn al-Amshāṭī. 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

Document date

3 Jumada I 1236 Hijrī (6 February 1821 CE)

Account written in Alexandria on 3 Jumada I 1236 AH/February 1821CE. The basis of the transaction in silver kuruş is explained in the heading and the note below the long list of itemized entries. The official who signed the bottom of the document bore the title of "ağa/اغا" and was also serving as a commercial "overseer / ناظر". MCD.

תגים

• 19th c
• alexandria
• arabic script

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

1454 Seleucid (22 September 1142–10 September 1143 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ḥananya) and referring to Abū l-Barakāt al-Ṭabīb (‘the physician’), also known as Ibn al-Sharābī (‘the potion maker/seller’).

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to Nathan, asking him visit and to stay with the writer over the Sabbath should he arrive by then. The letter also mentions the jāliya; a letter that had been sent to Alexandria; Barukh; the writer’s cousin Shelomo; and the carrier of the note, Mūsā (?).

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תגים

• 13th c

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Manṣūr Kohen to Eliyyahu the Judge (Abū l-Faraj b. al-Rayyis). In Judaeo-Arabic. There are several letters by this writer: see tag. This letter mentions al-Ra'īs al-Ḥakīm Abū Zikrī and al-Rashīd Abū l-Ḥasan.

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תגים

• 13th c
• abu zikri al-rayyis
• mansur kohen

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Abū Naṣr b. Avraham, in Alexandria, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi. Dating: February 1141 CE. […] This was written after Ḥalfon departed from Alexandria together with Yehuda ha-Levi. (Information from India Book 4.)

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תגים

• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• india book

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד

Document date

20 Jumādā I 412 Hijrī (1 September 1021 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Wife: ʿAzīza the freedwoman (mawlāt) of ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. ʿAllān. Husband: Ismāʿīl b. [...] al-Iskandarānī. […] There are at least two witness signatures; the first is of [...] b. ʿAlī b. Sahlūn.

תגים

• divorce
• freedwoman

אין רשומות קשורות