Documents

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Daniel b. Azarya to Eli b. Amram, Fustat. Daniel instructs Eli how to summon to the court. On the other side the letter …

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תגים

• communal
• daniel b. azarya
• eli b. amram

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a letter from Yefet b. Menashshe. Mentions transactions in flour; someone called Sammān; a trip to Sicily; kamala (qinbīl); and belts (zanānīr). There …

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תגים

• sicily

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Verso: lists and accounts in Arabic script; with Coptic numerals. One of the lists is materia medica, e.g., chebulic myrobalan (kābulī), sarcocolla (ʿanzarut), barberry (barbārīs), …

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דיון אחד

Fragment of a letter from Yehuda b. Sahl, Alexandria(?), to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Dating: ca. 1050. Regarding goods, several of which are for shipment …

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2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Avraham, son of the Gaon, to David b. Aharon, Fustat, probably fall 1025. Avraham gives brief details of a recent visit to Damascus, …

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תגים

• 11th c

תעתוק אחד

None

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

1502 Seleucid (3 September 1190–20 September 1191 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Small fragment from the bottom of a l legal deed. Location: Cairo. Dated: 1502 Seleucid = 1190/91 CE, under the authority of the Gaʾon Sar …

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Primary language

Arabic

Very neat accounts in Arabic script. Probably Ottoman-era. Mentions al-Qāḍī Muṣṭafā.

אין רשומות קשורות

None

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

State document, probably fiscal. The beginnings of ~6 lines are preserved, mainly sums of money. Reused for Hebrew literary text. There has been a lot …

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Small fragment in Arabic. A few words in a chancery hand.

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

4 Ḥeshvan 1341 Seleucid (14 October 1029 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Marriage contract in the hand of Yefet b. David. Location: Fustat (a previous PGP description said Jerusalem). Dated: 4 Ḥeshvan 1341 Seleucid = 14 October …

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תגים

• ketubba
• marriage

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Receipt, in Arabic script. "Ṣaḥḥa li-Abū l-Faraj b. al-Rūmī(?). . . ." Needs further examination.

תגים

• dimme

אין רשומות קשורות

None

תגים

• 17th or 18th c
• list

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

The end of one line from a state document in Arabic script (decree vs. petition vs. report). Quite faded. Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Small receipt. In lieu of a name, reads وصوله يدفع. At upper right: برسمهم(?). The sum: 198 + 1/2 + something.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Likely a charity distribution list. In Judaeo-Arabic. Many women and children. The numbers after each entry range from 1 to 7. There is a …

תגים

• charity
• illness: mental

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Barakāt b. Abū l-Ḥasan, in Alexandria, to his relative the judge Eliyyahu b. Zekharya, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 1228 CE, according to …

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תגים

• nar

3 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment. Mentions having sent a legal query (masʾala) with Dāʾud al-Rūmī. Mentions Cairo. The handwriting resembles that of Makhlūf b. Mūsā.

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תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Letter in Arabic script. Only the beginnings of the first four lines are preserved. Reused on recto for Hebrew poetry or liturgical text.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document. Dating: ca. early 13th century. Not much survives from the larger context but since it involves the release of several sisters of a …

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic on recto and verso, some are crossed out. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Monday, 5 Adar 4920 Anno Mundi (14 February 1160 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Court record in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Location: Minyat al-Sharīf. Dated: Monday, 5 Adar 4920 AM, which is 1160 CE, under the authority …

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דיון אחד

Placeholder [ASE]

אין רשומות קשורות

Minute fragment of a text in Hebrew script, mentions "silver and gold" on the recto and possibly Egypt/Fustat on the verso. Requires further examination.

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Primary language

Arabic

Report probably on military matters. In Arabic script. 6 lines preserved. Mentions a wall (al-ṣūr), the dispatching of a warship (ʿushārī), someone named Ibn al-Qaṣʿ(?), …

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תגים

• arabic military report
• dimme

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Difficult to discern anything of substance. Mentions Abū l-Ḥasan the descendant of [...]; Mūsā b. [...]; children; someone (Simḥa?) who concerns …

תגים

• arabic script

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Detailed mercantile account with names and sums of money. Most names appear in connection to certain markets (including Sūq Barbar, Sūq Wardān, and al-Sūq al-Kabīr), …

תגים

• list
• to edit

דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Letter in the hand of Ṭoviyya b. ʿEli referring to how the qāḍī ʿĪsā [..]l al-Mulk Ṣāḥib al-Tartīb known as Ibn Hārūn kisses the …

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Sums over 4000 (dinars?!). Merits further examination.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Small fragment from the end of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Referring to necessity/need (אן אוגבת אלצרורה) and ending ישע רב.

אין רשומות קשורות

None

תגים

• calendar
• list

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

Fragment of an engagement contract concerning an esteemed family; five generations headed by a “grand mufti,” the highest juridical authority. (S. D. Goitein, Mediterranean Society, …

תגים

• engagement

2 תעתוקים 2 דיונים

Document date

Thursday, 8 Rajab 627 Hijrī (23 May 1230 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Report of the death of a Jewish woman named Sitt al-Dār bt. Yaʿqūb on Thursday, 8 Rajab 627 AH = 23 May 1230 CE. The …

תגים

• report of death

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

None

תגים

• arabic script

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Barely any content preserved. (Information from CUDL)

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

None

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Iyyar 5243 Anno Mundi (8 April 1483–6 May 1483 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Legal document in Hebrew. Location: Jerusalem. Dated: Iyyar 5243 AM = April/May 1483 CE. Scribe: Yom Ṭov b. Yosef ʿImmanuel. In which Shalom and Yiṣḥaq …

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תגים

• late heb
• late jerusalem

תעתוק אחד

None

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from someone in ʿAsqalān/Ashqelon to Abū l-Faḍl [...] al-ʿAsqalānī, in Cairo. In Hebrew and/or Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. Only a few …

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Primary language

Hebrew

Document of release concerning Avraham b. Shemuel and Saʿdān b. Saʿīd, witnessed by Yosef ha-Kohen. (Information from Goitein's index cards.) See also BL OR 5550.1 …

תגים

• release

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic listing a variety of individuals with honorific Ottoman titles. Among the names listed are: (recto) Sulayman Efendī Mustaḥfizan/מסתחפצן (the latter term was …

תגים

• 16th c or later
• ledger
• ottoman state

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

547 Hijrī (8 April 1152–28 March 1153 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Tax receipt. Contains registrations (ʿalāʾim) from the Dīwān al-Ishrāf at the top. There are also several endorsements underneath. The date looks like 547 AH = …

אין רשומות קשורות