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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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• ib-addenda
• ib2
• india book unedited

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment (lower half of recto). Mentions the qāḍī Ibn al-[...] and someone called al-ḥāfiẓ. The sender asks the addressee to send a letter on his behalf thanking Manṣūr b. […] He reports that many ships have arrived from Sicily. The sender knows that al-Shaykh al-Muwaffaq is saying about him "what I heard from/about him in Alexandria."

תגים

• alexandria
• business
• maghrib
• sicily

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.

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• early modern enslaved people

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mevasser on behalf of the community of Alexandria addressed to the Nagid Mevorakh b. Saʿadya, in Fustat. […] About persecutions in Alexandria; a payment of 500 dinars; assaults on women; and a debt of 60 dinars, because of which persons were in prison. […] The shops were closed and there was no work for the Jews. Goitein's note card also says "because of the reference to Nagid ZL = Yehuda" and has a note that Golb studied this fragment.

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Judaeo-Arabic composition in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. Narrates a scuffle, with the refrain "but they didn't leave me" (wa-lam yakhrujū min ʿindī). Then, as the conflict escalates, “If they carry on like this, I’ll go to the chief (al-Rayyis) and tell him all my woes, ‘Hey Rabbi Avraham, by God, look at my state!’”[…] Moshe Maimonides, the Head of the Jews in Egypt ca. 1300–13 CE. Also mentions people dying in the "scarcity" (ghalāʾ).

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• nasir

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic. There is also a fragment of a text mentioning Kitāb al-Īmān by Rabbenu Hayya.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Letter fragment in Arabic script: ...al-ṣāliḥ dhakarū anna...; on verso there is also some Hebrew text.

תגים

• arabic script

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Literary text, entitled "tadhkirat al-kaḥḥālīn" or the handbook of ophthalmology by ʿIsā b. ʿAlīal-Mutaṭabbib.

תגים

• dimme

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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• 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

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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• 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

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions the town Raʾs al-khalīj on the lower Nile delta, and a string of state official(s): Muwaffaq al-Dawla Khuṭlukh, Shujāʿ al-Dawla (on verso), and Muntakhab/Muntajab al-Dawla.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Fatimid-era. There is also a remnant of an Arabic text on recto mentioning "Isrāʾīl ʿalayhial-salām," probably unrelated.

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• arabic reused

תעתוק אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The addressee is referred to as al-sirāj al-qādī (= al-qāḍī?) naṣarahū allāh biʿizzahū. . .

תגים

• appeal
• charity

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions 'the noble elder' (al-shaykh al-jalīl) Abū ʿAlī Ibn al-Sukkarī. Price: 20 dinars; the seller acknowledges receipt of the sum.

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• slave

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

when he went to the governor (al-wālī), possibly of al-Banha, and said "this man [presumably the letter writer] is my guarantor (ḍamīnī), and I make my payment in Malīj." […] The text in the margin is fragmentary but mentions the capitation tax collector in Malīj (ḍāmin al-jawālī bi-Malīj) and, later, "let him pay it in al-Banha." […] When the story resumes on verso, someone—perhaps the governor of al-Banha—is saying, "I will not let you off without a capitation tax payment for year 8, as the authorities (al-sulṭān) have ordered."

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• capitation tax
• jaliya
• malij
• sultan
• tax
• (+ 1 עוד)

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from the physician Yosef, in Alexandria, to the physician Abū l-Faraj b. Abū l-Barakāt (c/o Abū l-Faraj al-Sharābī), in al-Sūq al-Kabir, Fustat. […] And so the boy cried out [in the name of] Islam, and the Muslims gathered in his support (wa-ʾinna al-muslimīn taʿaṣṣabū maʿahu), and they took him [the father] and brought him before the governor. […] The qāḍī Ibn Ghāriḍ deliberated [the matter] and ratified his conversion to Islam (rajaʿa jaddada ʿalayhial-islām). And there were many debates concerning this, [which] will be too long to elaborate"; (4) lancets (ruwayshāt) for bloodletting that the addressee promised to send; (5) a report that friends and family speak well of the addressee (he had asked to be told what people were saying behind his back); (6) a bakers' strike translated by Goitein as follows: "On the second day of the Sukkot feast there were great disturbances in Alexandria because of the bread, which could not be found all over the city, until God brought relief by the end of the day; the governor (al-amīr) and the superintendent of the markets (al-muḥtasib) rode out and threatened to burn down [the houses of] the bakers because of the bread, after they had inquired with the people at one oven in the east and one in the west.

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תגים

• bloodletting
• book trade
• bread
• conversion
• muhtasib
• (+ 3 עוד)

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד 2 דיונים

Document date

15 Sivan 4968 Anno Mundi (1 June 1208 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter dated 15 Sivan 1208 from Yehuda b. Aharon b. al-'Ammani (Alexandria) to Abu l-Majd Meir b. Yakhin (Fustat). […] Khalifa who arrived in Alexandria at least a year and a half prior and who was blinded by an eye disease and a failed operation. […] Alqash; Bu 'Umar al-Levi b. al-Baghdadi; Yehuda himself; Bu 'Imran b.

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• 4800
• dating tricks
• disability
• disability: vision
• illness
• (+ 6 עוד)

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions many people: Abū l-Raḍiyy; Abū l-ʿAlā' Ṣāʿīd b. Najā al-Ne'eman (namely Ulla ha-Levi ha-Parnas b. Yosef); and Abū l-Surūr Faraḥ. The word "maẓālim" also appears.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Deals with business matters. Almostall the names are anonymized ("fulān"). Mentions counterfeit promissory notes (wa-l-ḥujaj allatī taẓharu kulluhā zūr). Mentions certain villages and a man named ʿAlī b. Shādān. Mentions a judge. Needs examination.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Yūsuf (someone with this name also appears in T-S 10J30.15). One registration mark: al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ḥamd al-shākirīn.

תגים

• arabic script
• dimme
• fiscal
• pinholes
• tax receipt

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Rabīʿ II 425 Kharājī

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions some sums of dinars and khuddām al-madhalla (chamberlains). Needs further examination for content. Also mentions a makhzūma in the left margin. There is a drawing of a boat. On verso, there is a Hebrew alphabet and atbash.

תגים

• doodles

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Futūḥ; Hilāl; a violent conflict; al-Shaykh al-[Raḍiyy?] Ibn al-Labbān; and Bū Naṣr b. al-Sadīd (unless these last two are the same person); and the escalation of the conflict.

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• violence

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1500–1560 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Avraham Castro, in Alexandria, to an unknown addressee, in Fustat/Cairo. […] The writer had a position overseeing trade or taxation in Alexandria. This letter is quite damaged, but it seems to deal with ships and 'the tower' and 'the men of the tower' and bribery.

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• 16th c
• castro
• late heb

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Document date

Jumādā I 524 Hijrī (12 April 1130–11 May 1130 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Looks very interesting, possibly mentioning taxation, Ibrāhīm al-Armanī, "the sect of the easterners" (ṭāʾifat al-mashāriqa) and a dignitary titled Muʾayyad al-Mamlaka wa-Majduhā ʿImād al-Dawla wa-Naṣruhā.....

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• dimme
• to edit

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 1821 CE. 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.

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• 19th c
• alexandria
• arabic script

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Possibly an account synthesizing multiple streams of revenue: capitation tax (māl al-jawālī), a tax on palm produce (māl al-nakhl or maybe the profits of merchants 'māl al-tujjār'), and a tax on the market (māl al-sūq).

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• dimme

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Lists household items or kitchenware such as ibrīq, kīzān, sikkīn, zabādī (pl. of zubdiyya). Also lists foods such as fennel (shamār), anise (yānsūn), cumin (kammūn), sumac (summāq), chickpea (ḥummuṣ), and pepper. Also cotton (quṭn). (Information in part from CUDL)

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Barhun b. Yishaq al-Tāhartī, from Mahdiyya, to Nahray b. Nissim, Alexandria. […] Information about shipments of goods and about the account of the partners. Abū l-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Raḥmān is mentioned favorably. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, #385) VMR

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תגים

• trade

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Ibn Ṭībān; Ibn Nuṣayr; Abū Saʿīd; Ibn al-Kutubī(?); al-ʿAfṣī; [...] Ibn Sabra; pepper; [...] al-Dhahabī; Ibn KHuḍayr; Ibn al-Raghbī(?).

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תגים

• account
• arus b. yosef

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yehuda ha-Bavli, in Alexandria, to a notable, in Fustat. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. […] Concerning the withholding of money and books belonging to him. See also T-S 16.301 (PGPID 1733). Reused on verso for Hebrew jottings in a rudimentary hand related to the parshiyot.

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions the closure of roads "ṣadd al-ṭuruqāt" and the zeal of the sender in servitude and gratitude. Mentions al-dayyān/al-rabbān Yūsuf b. Ṣadaqa al-Kalbī. Needs examination for content.

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• dimme
• to edit

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

497 Hijrī (5 October 1103–22 September 1104 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

Deed of sale for the sale of half a house in Fusṭāṭ, in the ‘Fortress of the Greeks’ (qaṣr al-Rūm known as the qaṣr al-shamʿ). The house abuts the house of ʿUbayd b. Yasir. The deed also mentions Abū l-Ḥusayn the drinks-seller. Dated 497 AH (= 1103-1104 CE).

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• dimme

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Binyamin the elder, and the elder Abū Yaʿqūb. Also mentions 3 qinṭārs of something, maybe 'al-sharābī,' and formulae from a power of attorney. All crossed out. Probably in the hand of Ḥalfon b.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Refers to the caliph ([amīr] al-muʾminīn) and to Khumārtakīn al-Afḍalī al-Juyūshī (خمارتكين الافضلي الجيوشي). (This Turkic name is more commonly spelled in the sources without an alif: Khumartakīn/خمرتكين.) The document was subsequently torn and the blank space filled with jottings.

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

24 Rabīʿ I 601 Hijrī (19 November 1204 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Yūsuf the Jew, leader of the Jews of al-Maḥalla, who paid his capitation tax in Alexandria. […] Dated: ca. 24 Rabīʿ I 601/19 November 1204. There is an ʿalāma at the top. (Information from Khan.)

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תגים

• 'alama
• corpse

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד