Documents

Primary language

Arabic

Letter probably from a cantor named Sayyid al-Ahl, in Alexandria, to his son Faḍāʾil and other family members, in Fustat. […] It seems he intends to travel onward to al-Maḥalla, Damīra, and/or Sunbāṭ. He may also be preparing for the wedding of a certain Faḍāʾil, the tax farmer (? […] He complains that he has no money and his clothes have all worn out, and he asks for assistance. He asks for news of everybody and also Mufaḍḍal.

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תגים

• cantor
• capitation tax
• illness letter 969-1517

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

and he will do do what he must do"); Yeshuʿa b. Maḍmūn; Abū Manṣūr al-Ṣāʾigh; al-Shaykh al-Makīn b. Mardūkh; the son of al-Shaykh Bū l-Faḍl the son of his brother; Abu l-Fakhr b. […] Abū l-Barakāt; Muwaffaq; Mukrim(?) b. Abū l-Khayr; Fāḍil; Mūsā b. [...]; the sons of al-Ṣafiyy Bū l-ʿAlāʾ; Menaḥem b. Ibrāhīm; the son of al-ʿAfīf(?) Menaḥem; al-Kaʿkī; Kohen; Fāḍil; the sons of Hiba b.

תגים

• list

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Acknowledgment made by [...] b. Munajjā al-ʿAṭṭār and his young daughter releasing their in-law Abū l-Faḍl Menashshe al-Raffāʾ ("the darner") from claims.

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1

תגים

• halfon b. menashshe

תעתוק אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The right side is very faded. Concerning business matters. Mentions that 'the broker came to me,' something to do with Jewish law, and 'I will not sell to a gentile except....' May also refer to a current or hypothetical partnership.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif to one of his brothers. Fragment (upper right corner of recto). Very faded. Mentions sending something with 'al-zaqen.'

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Booklet of alphabetical tables for prognostications in Arabic script. […] The last page may have a colophon, but it is quite faded.

תגים

• prognostication

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, quite faded, in which Ibrāhīm tells his son Abū l-ʿAlā' how much he misses him and how difficult conditions are.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

List of payments; contributors listed include Yaʿaqov, Shemuʾel (?), Faḍl, Mūsā, Ḥusayn, ʿAbd al-Raḥīm, Yosef, ראיס and אדוננו; Coptic numerals.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

State document, in Arabic script. Damaged/faded. About 8 lines are preserved. The document is probably a Fatimid petition requesting a rescript, "khurūj al-tawqīʿ" and mentions all fortified towns "kāffa al-thugūr".

תגים

• dimme
• fatimid
• petition

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Pinḥas b. Elḥanan (appears also in T-S 8J4.6 (PGPID 2125)) and al-Rayyis Abū Isḥāq. […] Shiftal(? שפתאל) and Abū l-Faḍl b. Shemuel.

תגים

• to examine

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1022–1022 CE

Primary language

Arabic

Petition to addressed to a noble woman, probably the Fatimid empress Sitt al-Mulk given the honorifics. In Arabic script. […] The petitioner mentions bringing something to the treasury or a government warehouse (al-khizāna al-maʿmūra bi-dāʾim al-ʿizz) and asks for charity or at least a charitable act (al-ṣadaqa). On verso there is a very faded text in Hebrew (a prayer?).

תגים

• dimme
• petition

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Primary language

Arabic

The bottom 9 lines are preserved. Mentions Raḍiyy al-Dawla; sending things; possibly someone named ʿAbd al-Masīḥ; the intriguing line "Woe to the people of Aswān from [...]" (l. 4); and various greetings, including to "mawlāy al-raʾīs Abū l-Faḍl." Needs further examination.

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1

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

And the explanation of the difficult words in Zerʿim and Shabbat and. . . " Underneath, in very faded letters: "min. . . al-shaykh . . . "

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Document, in a very faded Arabic script. Mentions a few commercial accounts, probably a receipt or just pen trails. Mentions "jumlat al-waraq" in the first line. Needs examination.

תגים

• dimme
• pinholes

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

The first line is the glyph, then Abū Sahl, then Abū l-Faḍlal-Raʾīs. Needs further examination.

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1

תגים

• glyph

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Tuesday, 7 Adar 1505 Seleucid (30 January 1194 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The deed concerns the dissolution of a partnership in a house and in a store between Khalaf and Abū l-Faḍl, the sons of Hilāl. It seems that Khalaf retained the store, while Abū l-Faḍl bought out Khalaf's half of the house for 16.5 dinars. (See also Eliyyahu Ashtor, “The Number of Jews in Medieval Egypt,” JJS (1968), 13; Jacob Mann, Jews in Egypt and Palestine under the Fatimid Caliphs, 2:294.

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2

תגים

• moshe b. levi
• partnership
• qalyub

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The earlier text is extremely faded; it is in Judaeo-Arabic and at least partially deals with recipes or prescriptions. The later text is also Judaeo-Arabic, in a late hand. It is an elaborate recipe/prescription followed by a magical invocation ("I bind you, O Maymūn. . .

תגים

• late ja
• magic
• palimpsest
• recipe

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender reports that he met with Abū l-Mufaḍḍal al-Ṭībī. There are two people who are afraid on account of something. Mentions "the absent one" and "the name of the absent one (al-ghāʾib)." On verso there are faded jottings.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Very faded document in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably a letter or petition (כבוד גדולת קדושת . . . […] יכדם בין ידי אלמולא . . . אן ראי . . .). Also contains terms more typical of a legal document (e.g. "al-madhkūr" multiple times). Mentions someone [...] b.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Someone's notes to self: "I will find out from Abū Isḥāq אלגוולי if Ibn Ṭalāʾiʿ traveled to Mecca... and from Faḍāʾilal-Ḥazzan... and I'll go to al-Shaykh al-ʿAfīf and demand the thing from him: 40—20—1—40—200—40.

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1

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yehuda b. Yosef Ibn al-Haniyy al-Andalusī, in an unknown location, to Abū l-Faḍl Ḥesed b. Sahl al-Tustarī, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script.

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1

תגים

• al-tustari

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

1160–1171 CE

Primary language

Arabic

The only phrases preserved are a reference to the caliph ("al-imām al-ʿĀḍid li-Dīn Allāh Amīr al-Muʾminīn," r. 1160–71) and "ʿalā abāʾihī" as part of a blessing. Reused on recto for Hebrew piyyuṭ and on verso for a very faded text in Arabic script, perhaps from a lexical work (e.g., "wa-aṭrada iṭrādan," two lines from the bottom).

תגים

• dimme

תעתוק אחד

Document date

Monday 20 Tevet 1520 Seleucid (29 December 1208 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

This document is a partnership agreement in a perfume- and dye-manufacturing shop. The partners, Faḍā’il b. Abū al-Ḥasan and Manṣūr b. Abū Sa‘īd, contribute a total of 700 dirhams (200 and 500 dirhams respectively). […] Manṣūr seems to be the senior partner; he brings more assets to the partnership, and the facility itself may belong to him, as he is allocated 4 dirhams of rent for the shop each month. However, income from the sale of scent sachets was allocated to Faḍā’il, who may have produced these alone without Manṣūr's assistance.

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תגים

• 13th c
• bilbays
• dye
• partnership
• perfume

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Faraḥ b. Yosef b. Faraḥ, Alexandria, to Abū Saʿd Khalaf b. Sahl in Fustat. Dating: mid-eleventh century. […] Mentions the recipient's brother Abū l-Faḍl. Goitein identified this document as the last page of a letter written by Abū Naṣr b. […] Netanʾel, and identified the recipient's brother as Abū l-Faḍl b. Abū al-Faraj al-Dimyāṭī; Gil and Fleischer and then Miriam Frankel followed this attribution.

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1

תגים

• ib-partial translation-heb
• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• india book

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso (right page): There is a verbatim transcript of an earlier (probably Arabic/Muslim) court record (פאחצר לנא כט והדא נסכתה חרף בחרף) certifying that Faḍl b. Sahl b. Faraḥ owes Abū l-Surūr Faraḥ b. ʿAṭiyya 101 dinars, and he will repay it in Alexandria. […] Saʿadya (later became the Head of the Jews 1094–1111), along with another very faded signature. These pages discuss a business partnership. […] Shela; many valuable commodities (gold, silver, Byzantine brocade); 200 dinars; traveling to Syria (al-Shām) to sell these goods; settling accounts in Alexandria after the travel; Tripoli (likely the one in al-Shām); questioning of Ḥesed about this; and shipping them in the ship of Abū ʿAlīal-Shāmī, which sank.

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1

תגים

• alexandria
• tripoli

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

The writer seems to be Abū l-Ḥasan and the addressee may be named Abū l-Faḍlal-[. . .].

תגים

• arabic address

אין רשומות קשורות