Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

End of a legal document concerning the sale of flax, signed by Natan b.

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תגים

• flax

אין רשומות קשורות

Natan Av are signatories, which dates this to end of 11th, beginning of 12th century.

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably end of August 1138 CE.

תגים

• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• india book

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A letter to a notable, consisting almost entirely of blessings, some quite eloquent and in rhymed prose.

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Trousseau list. Entries include a copper vessel, a bath tub, and a female slave named Warda born into slavery (muwalladat al-jins).

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תגים

• slaves
• trousseau

דיון אחד

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

The portion on verso mentions entering Alexandria.

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

950–1013 CE

Primary language

Arabic

On verso there is a tax receipt (see separate entry).

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Verso: Letter or official document in Arabic script. The ends of 4 lines are preserved. Reused on recto for Deuteronomy 16:9-12; 16:16-17.

אין רשומות קשורות

List of contributors (end), almost all names known early 11th century.

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תגים

• 11th c
• charity
• communal
• donors
• poverty

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Two columns of numerals with Hebrew letters for 1-90 on the right and 100-1000 on the left side, respectively at the end of each line, preceded by complex numerals.

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

9 Dhū l-Qaʿda 963 Hijrī (14 September 1556 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Part of a document, probably an entry from a larger set of accounts. Dated: 9 [Dhū] l-Qaʿda 963 AH, which is 1556 CE.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Possibly mentions the loading docks of a port (אסקאלה) in multiple entries.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Needs further examination. Related to ENA 3966.3 (PGPID 10635).

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תגים

• receipt

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Wednesday, 15 Kislev 1500 Seleucid (7 December 1188 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There is a full translation and commentary in Goitein's attached notes. ENA NS 76.435.6 + ENA NS 76.435.7 is an earlier, messier version of the same document (same scribe, same date, signed by the same witnesses).

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תגים

• inheritance
• silk
• will

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד

Inferred date

1041–1041 CE

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Eight rough drafts of a petition to the Fatimid Caliph al-Mustanṣir from the followers of Shelomo b. Yehuda, probably the end of 1041 (according to Gil's estimate) and 1036, at the earliest, based on al-Mustanṣir's reign. […] The situation worsened to an extent that one schism of the community barred the other from entering their synagogue until the other faction forced themselves inside leading to violence between the two.

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תגים

• al-mustansir
• communal
• dimme
• petition
• shelomo b. yehuda
• (+ 1 עוד)

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד 3 דיונים

Document date

Elul 1308 Seleucid (8 August 997–5 September 997 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

NB: This shelfmark has been cited numerous different ways; prior shelfmarks include but are not limited to ENA 2556.2b and ENA 2557.1. AA On verso there is a letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Qayrawān to Yosef Ibn ʿAwkal, published by Gil, Kingdom of Ishmael, 2:581–586 (see separate record).

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אין רשומות קשורות

Moshe congratulates his brother Bū Isḥāq on the fertility of his livestock but wants him to prepare the honey and flour and prepare a cake named ʿaṣīda that Moshe will enjoy when he comes on Sunday. Al-Shaykh al-Yesod also congratulates Bū Isḥāq and adds, cryptically, "May the end turn out well, and God willing we will see from it what was seen from the female donkey of our master al-Ḥāfiẓ."

תגים

• moshe b. levi

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Document date

Shawwal 1000 Hijrī (11 July 1592–8 August 1592 CE)

State-issued receipt for al-Muʿallam Salmūn Iskenderānī who is listed with the administrative title "عامل" (financial intendant or collector of revenues). Dated: "in the end of the month Shawwāl[?] one-thousand" = 1000 AH (1592 CE). […] May once have been bound together with ENA 3924.6 by a manuscript collector (based on the different dates it does not seem possible that these receipts relate to the same Salmūn).

תגים

• 16th c
• early modern
• ottoman
• pinholes

אין רשומות קשורות

The two items preserved are the unidentified גאן (see Bodl. MS heb. d 65/26 + ENA NS 3.24 + Bodl. MS heb. b 3/28 + T-S 12.128 (PGPID 560) and Friedman, Jewish Marriage in Palestine, 2:21 n. 15) and a garment (thawb). […] This shelfmark may be related to the neighboring one, ENA NS 77.632 (PGPID 13666), which might comprise the upper ornamental section of a ketubba.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

Engagement (shiddukhin) contract. Draft. Late. There appears to be an Ottoman-era seal. […] The paper has a number of pen trials for this very same document, as well as a beginning of an entry for other documents: (1) Doña Reyna the widow of Yiṣḥaq Re'uven received 60 peraḥim from her ketubba. (2) And another marriage-related document, groom: Moshe b.

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תגים

• ottomanseal

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Adar 5495 Anno Mundi (23 February 1735–23 March 1735 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On the verso the first name Efrayim is mentioned at the end of each list in the phrase "ואצל דאלך מן ס׳ אפראים/ this is being paid by S[eñor] Efrayim".

תגים

• 18th or 19th c
• communal

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1650–1850 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The recto is very faded yet on the verso the entry structure of the bifolium is more clear in that each set of calculations is designated by individuals, such as: Ḥayyim Tawīl, Yosef Mod[aʿ]?, and Maʿallam Saʿad. Some of the entries where prices are mentioned also reference types of coinage.

תגים

• early modern
• list
• prices

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

"As for what you said about Ben Yiju, there is no need to postpone the letter, because it is a heartrending situation, and it won't do you any good: every penny that belonged to him drowned with the ship of Maḍmūn, for the ship foundered when it was entering (India) and nobody survived. Likewise, three other ships for Bharuch foundered when they were entering, and not a soul survived."

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תגים

• fatwa
• ib5
• india book
• ivory
• musk
• (+ 3 עוד)

2 תעתוקים

Primary language

Hebrew

Saʿd had believed his son-in-law to be dead, killed by 'the enemy' (the Byzantines), but was happy to receive a letter from him.

תגים

• byzantium
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• seleucia

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד

Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The total capital of 80 dinars is ensured as a "deposit of the court," for which the highest possible form of security had to be given.

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תגים

• dowry
• partnership

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Document date

3 Tevet 4975 Anno Mundi (7 December 1214 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He excuses himself for being momentarily unable to send the present promised to the little girl personally, but encloses six combs and six spindles, two of each for Abu l-Majd's elder daughter, and the others presumably for Rivkah and Sitt Mas'ud who are mentioned in the last line. (Information from Goitein's note card and from Mediterranean Society, I, pp. 297, 298; V, pp. 37, 515.) See also ENA NS 22.9, a letter dated 8 Tevet (albeit possibly a different year) in which Abu l-Majd regrets not being able to find Hilal at the dock and rebukes him for leaving in such great haste.

תגים

• 13th c

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary languages

Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

He complains that there is not enough meat in his town; perhaps he mentions this because he thinks his son needs meat to get better. […] The writer also discusses something that he needs to return, perhaps money or books. The letter ends with a legal query on rabbinic usury (avaq ribbit).

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תגים

• arabic address
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: children's
• illness: cost
• (+ 5 עוד)

3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד