Documents

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

The last page of a Judaeo-Arabic transcription of Ṣāliḥ b. Naṣrullāh Ibn Sallūm al-Ḥalabī's Arabic translation of Paracelsian works ("The New Chemical Medicine Invented by Paracelsus" + Crollius' Basilica Chymica). This passage is where the theory behind the efficacy of the "weapon salve" is described (it works via the world soul / anima mundi / rūḥ al-ʿālam in the same way that a magnet works on iron, and it is not merely due to the power of suggestion / placebo). […] The tapering format of the lines is extremely similar to the copy of the Arabic text in the Library of Congress: https://www.wdl.org/en/item/3125/. On verso there is also a medical recipe in Arabic script using galingale, emblic, elephant fig, Ceylon cinnamon, gum Arabic, and honey (it is not immediately clear if this is part of the same work, al-Kīmiyā' al-Malikiyya).

תגים

• magnet
• medicine
• paracelsus

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment in the hand of Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi Nisaburi about his cost in an affair concerning Abu Sa‘id Makhlūf al-Nafusi. (Information from Goitein's index cards; and Mediterranean Society, 4:413.) EMS. The writer also wants more bibles sent and warns him of any more business with Makhlūf. […] (Information from CUDL.) He also describes a prolonged illness (60 days) this winter and asks Abū l-Munā to try to obtain a drug called Abū Zīdān for him; the physicians tell him there is no alternative.

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תגים

• 12th c
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: housebound
• illness: marad
• (+ 5 עוד)

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1168–1204 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Autograph letter from Moshe Maimonides to al-Shaykh al-Wathīq, i.e. Avraham b. Yaḥyā al-Najib, the tenant of a parcel of land near Dammūh belonging to the qodesh. […] The letter is written in a familiar style which indicates a close relationship between the two. Apparently, al-Wathīq, being on the spot, had to take care of the synagogue (removal of garbage and repairs are mentioned here), and of some other piece of land, apparently also adjacent to the synagogue. […] In his role of physician, Maimonides had apparently advised al-Wathīq to drink milk regularly, for which the latter rented a cow; he now advises him to give the cow up, since two cups a day are enough.

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תגים

• 12th c
• business
• dammuh
• maimonides (autograph)
• personal
• (+ 2 עוד)

2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים דיון אחד

Document date

Ramaḍān 620 Hijrī (28 September 1223–27 October 1223 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yakhin), in Fustat, to Barakāt b. Hārūn Ibn al-Kūzī, in Alexandria, sent via the shop of Maḥāsin al-Ḥarīrī. […] Part of his haste to sell her is that he was denounced to the government (ghamazū ʿalayyā l-dīwān) and lost 52 dirhams, evidently taxes related to the slave. […] If it weren't for the bitter cold, Meir himself would come with her to Alexandria. (Information in part from CUDL.) ASE

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תגים

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: slave
• jariya
• meir b. yakhin
• (+ 1 עוד)

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Petition from an Alexandrian coppersmith. Dating: Fatimid-era based on structure and paleography but could be Ayyubid. The titles of the addressee match that of an Ayyubid judge - al-Shaykh ʿIzz al-Dīn b. ʿAbd al-Salām. Goitein's reading is that the petitioner had bought some merchandise from the dīwān, but had to return it, and now asks to be given those goods back and promises to pay an additional three dīnārs. (Information from Goitein's index card.) Alternatively, he may be describing how he wished to act piously (tazakkā) for the sake of the army (ilā al-ʿaskar) and bought some items from the dīwān, labored on restoring them, then returned them, but he was only recompensed their original value and has not yet received any recompense for his labor (takalluf, taʿab)—hence the petition.

תגים

• dimme
• petition

דיון אחד

Document date

1430 Seleucid (19 September 1118–7 September 1119 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Barakāt b. Natan al-Jaʿfarī had received a power of attorney to claim a debt from ‘al-rayyis al-jalīl al-ʿajamī’ [Yiṣḥaq] b. Simḥa ha-Levi (al-Nīsābūrī). When the men left the city they deposited the deed of attorney with a man (Abū l-Makārim), and now his widow, Sitt al-Sāda bt. […] Menashshe) brings the document to the court and asks for assurances that she will not be liable for any claims made. On Abū l-Barakāt al-Jaʿfarī, see T-S 10J10.8 (PGPID 2784) and shelfmarks listed there.

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Arabic

The two doctors of our master the sultan, al-Rashīd al-Dimashqī and al-Rashīd Abū Ḥulayqa, attest to the excellence of the slave's knowledge in this profession. […] The resolution (of the sultan) is exalted. Praise be to God alone and his blessings [be upon our lord] Muḥammad and his family and save them." […] See tag for additional documents involving Makārim b. Isḥāq. (See also Goitein's Nachlass, IE.1.4: included on a list of Med Ppl documents.)

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תגים

• arabic script
• bimaristan
• khan
• makarim b. ishaq
• mediterranean people
• (+ 2 עוד)

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Petition from a group of people to a chief vizier (Sayyid al-Wuzarāʾ) titled "al-Kāmilī." In Arabic script. […] The petitioners complain that there is a Jewish man named Sulaymān in Fustat, the son of an Indian female slave (ibn jāriya hindiyya) who spends all his days demanding bribes (قطع المصانعات) frightening people in the drug/perfume market (sūq al-ʿaṭṭārīn), just like Ibn al-ʿUṣfūr used to do. (Goitein wonders if there might be a connection to T-S K25.64 and BL OR 5566B.30, which feature a troublemaker nicknamed ʿUṣfūr al-Jinn.) This man Sulaymān apparently raves about nonsense or impossible things (qawl al-muḥāl).

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תגים

• fright
• petition
• slaves
• troublemaker
• women

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

son Abū l-Karam along with blessings for him; the arrival of Sālim b. Nissim al-ʿIblānī al-Mukārī (also mentioned in Bodl. MS heb. d 75/14 (PGPID 6491)); something (ʿūd/aromatic wood?) […] (Information in part from CUDL.) Join: Alan Elbaum.

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תגים

• ib-addenda
• ib7
• to edit

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

24 December 1139 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Netanel ha-Levi, in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Sunday, 2 Shevaṭ (1451 Seleucid) = 24 December 1139 CE. […] He reports that he arrived safely, probably to Qalyub, and that he took care of the things mentioned in certificate IV,59 and also in the subsequent documents, such as his sale of khazz silk and a payment to Abū Yiṣḥaq. At the end of the letter he greets his son Abū l-Fakhr, who was staying with Ḥalfon in Alexandria. (Information from Goitein and Friedman, India Book IV.)

תגים

• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• india book

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד

Document date

Tishrei 4961 Anno Mundi (11 September 1200–10 October 1200 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Ṣadoq, a prominent public figure in Alexandria, to ݂the prominent merchant Moshe ha-Kohen Ibn Ghulayb, in Fustat. […] This indicates that Alexandria suffered from severe food shortage before the great famine that struck Egypt in 1201/02. […] (Information from Frenkel and Goitein's attached notes; see also partial translation in Goitein, Med. Soc. 4:238-239, 5:550.)

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תגים

• alexandria
• famine
• trade

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Italian

The first page is entirely in Hebrew. Mentions Alexandria, a certain Pinkerli, and includes the line, "If you wish to 'plant the tents of your palace' [Daniel 11:45] in Trieste, inform me... I'll find you a wife." Also mentions a school and dealings in books. The second page is in Italian, with Hebrew phrases mixed in. […] Another of the Hebrew phrases is the line about settling down in Trieste from the first page (prefaced 'con tale parole...'). The Italian portion also mentions an affectionate reprimand (amoroso rimprovero) (information kindly provided by Laura Ingallinella).The Italian page may be the draft of a response to the Hebrew page; there are many lines crossed out.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The bearers of the shipments include ʿAbd al-Raḥmān; Sulaymān; ʿAbd al-Wahhāb; al-Hāshimī; ʿAlīal-[...]; Yaḥyā; Shuhayb; Yūsuf al-Manānī.

תגים

• beans
• list
• shanji

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

In Arabic script. ". . . if he has it done by the jahbadh of the arsenal (al-ṣināʿa), that would be better for him, but your opinion is the most excellent. […] And you will not find any knowledge of this with him(?), also, they will be submitted(?) without signatures (khuṭūṭ). As for the market of the [...], when it was brought to his attention, there is no doubt that he supplied it to the Dīwān al-Hilālī, the documents (awrāq) of the treasury (bayt al-māl). . . ."

תגים

• pinholes

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Arabic

A tentative interpretation is as follows: The sender expresses his privilege of existing in the Caliph's(?) reign (saʿda Allahu bi-ṣuḥbatihi wa l-kaun fī jumlatihi), reports glad tidings (wa l-aḥwāl bi barakat Maulana wa-Sayyīdina ṣalawāt Allahʿalayhi), and expresses his gratitude (la-mashkūr jamīl al-ṣunʿ fīhi). He also reports traveling to a place (wa kharaja ʿabd Maulānā).

תגים

• dimme

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

This fragment makes predictions in the case of a year born in Gemini (al-Jawzāʾ). It forecasts abundant rain and fruit, a full Nile flood, and successful barley and fruit harvests, but also predicts cattle disease, an outbreak of skin disease (al-ḥikka, "the itch"), Byzantine naval expeditions ending in shipwreck, the death of the noblest kings, civil strife (fitna), economic turmoil, famine, high prices, and mass displacement. […] The fragment concludes with the conventional formula allāhuaʿlam bi-l-ghayb ("God best knows the unseen").

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תגים

• astrology
• byzantines
• kasad
• prognostication

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

At least two of them (fols. 1 and 4) are probably from the same letter, but the other two fragments are in different hands. They were all cut into the same shape so presumably were stacked or folded on top of each other. Fols. 1 and 4: Mentions that all that somebody acquired in Fustat/Egypt was stolen; also mentions Alexandria and a Megilla.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

15 Sivan 5584 Anno Mundi (11 June 1824 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, from David Ben-Na'im in Cairo to his brother Moshe Ben-Na'im in Alexandria. Dated 15 Sivan [5]584 AM which is 1824 CE. David has heard news about a trying situation in Alexandria, which is not fully explained, that leads him to express his concern for the consolation of his brother Moshe and members of the Jewish community. This letter is important for the quantity/specificity of Jewish households and residents in 1820s Alexandria that David names in his salutations (which comprise most of the letter): Daniʾel [Levi Mandolfo?]

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תגים

• 19th c
• alexandria
• ben na'im
• late ja

תעתוק אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment from the Jewish community of Tiberias (جماعة اليهود بطبرية العامد(؟) المحروسة) to Abū Isḥāq [b. Ibrāhīm b.] Isḥāq al-Mutaṭabbib, probably identical with Avraham b. […] The senders describe "our distinction over all other lands" (תמיוזנא מן סאיר אלבלאד) and refer to "al-muṣādarāt al-ḥāḍira" -- something to do with taxation or revenue? The senders presumably go on to ask for financial assistance, like most of the other letters from Tiberias in this period. See also T-S 13J33.2 (PGPID 1125), which appears to be in the same handwriting.

תגים

• arabic address

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer is probably Yosef פלקון (line 3), but someone named Yiṣḥaq Sūsī also 'speaks' in the first person starting 4 lines from the bottom. In any case, the letter was sent from Alexandria to Shemuel b. Avraham מחיץ, in Tinnīs. The content of the letter is not as interesting as its context and form; it mainly consists of inquiring about family news and small transactions. The writer sends regards to the addressee's mother Doña Dolsa—addressed as al-Ḥurra al-Jalīla—and to Simḥa and Seʿadya and Esther and Ḥanna and the little ones and big ones and Bū Najwā (?).

תגים

• 15th c or later
• ladino words
• tinnis

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yūsuf b. Faraḥ al-Qābisī, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. […] The reason Yūsuf has not yet traveled is that he has been staying in Alexandria with his brother, Ismāʿīl b. Faraḥ, who is sick with fever and chills (v7–8: wajiʿ bi-bard wa-ḥummā, which seems preferable to Gil's reading of wajaʿ kabīr wa-ḥummā). "This has increased my preoccupation on top of what I already had." (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, #511.)

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תגים

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: chills
• illness: fever
• illness: waja'
• (+ 1 עוד)

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד

Inferred date

1127–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138). Also signed by Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen and Nathan b. […] Mentions a reclamation document (ורקה אלדעאוי), al-Kohen Abū l-Faraj, al-Melammed Sayyid al-Kull the cantor and Ṣadaqa. […] Husband refuses to pay alimony (mezonot) to the amount of 1 dirham. (Information from CUDL and from Goitein's note card.)

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תגים

• illness
• illness: treatment
• legal query

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yūsuf b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī, in al-Mahdiyya, to Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmūrī, in Fustat. […] The letter contains details about shipments of goods and about the route of ships from and to al-Mahdiyya, as well as a price list. It also mentions a lawsuit filed against Yeshuʿa by one of his Sicilian partners.

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תגים

• 11th c
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: letter norms

3 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים דיון אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Yeshua ha-Kohen b. Yosef in Alexandria to the community of Fustat. The handwriting is Yeshua's and the letter is written in rhymed prose. […] The page in volume 5 is 368 and not 68. She also does not mention Bareket's edition). While Bareket claims that the letter was sent from Jerusalem, Goitein claims that it was sent from Alexandria.

תגים

• alexandria
• communal

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Abū l-Faraj, in Alexandria, to his son-in-law Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. In Judaeo-Arabic. […] Abū l-Faraj admonishes Shelomo to treat his wife Sitt Ghazāl well, and informs him that Shelomo's aunt (who is also his mother-in-law) is not coming to check that her daughter is well but rather coming to arrange a marriage between her son and Shelomo's niece, because she is the owner of 9/24ths of a house belonging to the family. He opens the letter with his preoccupation for Shelomo's illness and his happiness upon learning of Shelomo's recovery (r6–10). He also wishes a speedy recovery to Shelomo's mother (Sitt Rayḥān).

תגים

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: formalities
• illness: marad
• marriage
• (+ 1 עוד)

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

"When the letter arrived which you sent with the wife of my maternal uncle to Ibn Ṣaghīr al-Ḥakīm (the physician), I came to him, and he read it after kissing it... in the night, when I was sick from the severe headache, and I had convulsions (or 'went mad'? […] Refers repeatedly to someone called al-Saʿīd and discusses the waste disposal (ramy al-turāb) of a certain apartment (al-qāʿa). On verso mentions the house of Sayf al-Dīn al-Rūmī.

תגים

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: head

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

What remains of recto is almost entirely formulaic but contains interesting phrases such as "may your star shine opposite you (wa-yuḍī' kawkabuhu ḥidhāhu)." […] , a grammar, a commentary on Job, a composition on love and companionship and passion, a nice siddur. . . ." The writer also discusses 8 maṣāḥif, and says that the dīwān was not among the books he found. Also mentions a dictionary, a Mishna, and a prayer book.

תגים

• book trade
• love

תעתוק אחד

Document date

5 Ramaḍān 403 Hijrī (20 March 1013 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 5 Ramaḍān 403 (20 March 1013). […] Written by Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ the jahbadh and registered by Dīwān al-Ishrāf: Amount: one dīnār and one-quarter, one-sixth, and one-eighth. […] Under the supervision of the judge Thiqat al-Mulk Makīn al-Dawla wa-Amīnuhā, protégé of the commander of the faithful, Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b.

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תגים

• abu l-hasan b. wahb
• daman
• damin
• tax

2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer reports on receiving authorization (al-ʿalāma) to collect the kharāj tax from the official in charge of estates (ʿāmil al-mawārīth). The number 15 (dinars) is mentioned, as are Abū l-Mufaḍḍal and the tax farmer (al-Ḍāmin) Ibn Ḥabīb. Information from Ora Vaza via FGP.

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תגים

• damin
• kharaj
• tax

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Inferred date

1040–1050 CE

Letter from Marduk b. Musa from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1046 (Gil). Information about a shipment that is still is Rashīd and hadn't arrived in Alexandria as expected. Nahray has evidently accused Mardūk of neglecting Nahray's affairs in favor of the business concerns of others, an accusation that amazes and offends Mardūk.

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2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים

Document date

16 Av 1446 Seleucid (28 July 1135 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, and also signed by Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. Dated: Av 1446 of the Seleucid Era (= 1135 CE). (Information from CUDL; see also Goitein's attached notes.)

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תגים

• marital dispute
• marital reconciliation

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Three lines from a letter to a high official with titles such as "sharaf al-umma" and "Kawkab a-Dawla." A state official by the title Kawkab al-Dawla was active around 465 H during al-Mustanṣir's time (See al-Maqrīzī', Ittiʿāẓ III, 310).

תגים

• dimme

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Arabic

The sender writes to the addressee "al-Amīr al-Raʾīs" that he will remain steadfast in his service and affinity even though he doesn't get a personal audience with him. The top of the document contains verses of Arabic poetry, pen trials, also in the same chancery hand.

תגים

• dimme

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment. "... the coming, at all, because she arrived in our absence ... and the people of Fustat (al-Misriin) treated her well, may God reward them... even the Rayyis and his wife and al-Shaykh al-Muhadhdhab...I was surprised that I did not receive a letter from you informing me of..."

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Asking the addressee to meet with al-shaykh al-saʿīd and remind him of his promise to help the sender. Also mentions Abū Saʿd. Crossed out lines in a different hand contain names such as Abū l-Ḥasan.

אין רשומות קשורות