Documents

Primary language

Arabic

Possibly part of a letter. (Information from CUDL)

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Possibly part of a letter. (Information from CUDL)

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Probably part of a letter. (Information from CUDL)

אין רשומות קשורות

Letters of thanks, drafts, mostly in rhymed prose, to Khalaf b. […] Avraham, Aden, for their gifts and loyalty to the Palestinian Academy (Yeshiva), then located in Cairo, Egypt. The letters are issued in the name of the Gaon. VMR

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תגים

• draft
• gratitude
• ib-addenda
• ib6

תרגום אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Title page in red ink of an Arabic literary text. Pinholes at the margin ~4–5mm apart, secondary use since they're on the left of recto. That, the imprint of another text and traces of glue and leather suggest use in a book binding.

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תגים

• book trade
• pinholes

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Legal fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Debt contract, specifying a payment by installments. […] The word "mablagh" (=amount) is clearly legible; the rest seem like pen trials.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment from a legal document or letter. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. […] Hillel Rosh ha-Qahal. (Information in part from CUDL.)

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Verso (original use): Legal document in Arabic script. Approximately 4 lines are preserved. Seems to be from the beginning of an iqrār, preserving the physical description of one of the parties and the formulae about his legal competence.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter sent from Jerusalem concerning the communal property of the Palestinian community in Egypt. The letter is written in the handwriting of Eli ha-Kohen.

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Probably a prenuptial agreement or agreement between spouses, since there is a condition about potential divorce and a 'faithfulness' clause. (Information in part from CUDL.)

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תגים

• halfon b. menashshe

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment from the top of a letter to Eliyyahu the Judge. The reports his happiness when he learned of the health of various people (al-mawālī al-sādā al-ruʾasāʾ). Little else is preserved. (Information in part from CUDL)

תגים

• judge eliyyahu

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document. On parchment. Fragment (narrow vertical strip from the left side).

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Complaining about the lack of response or decision concerning something, asking for the addressee's opinion and the opinion of "my noble paternal aunt" (עמתי אלגלילה), because the sender is sick of sending letters without responses.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from the office of one of the later Maimonidean Nagids. There is an 'emet' header and the letter addresses itself to "the community" (al-jamāʿa). […] This is a small fragment from the upper right corner. (Information in part from CUDL)

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a teacher to the father of a pupil. In Judaeo-Arabic, fully vocalized. On parchment. The boy has finished studying the Prophets. […] Needs further examination. (Information in part from Goitein’s index card)

דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Letter addressed to the parnas ʿEli b. Yaḥyā ha-Kohen ha-Shofeṭ. […] The sender may be asking for help of some kind. (Information in part from Goitein’s index card.)

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דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment. Probably addressed to Abū Ṭāhir Shemuel al-Ṣayrafī, in Fustat (sent to "al-murabbaʿa"). […] Only the upper right corner of recto and part of the address are preserved. (Information in part from CUDL)

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document. Witness statement of the wife of Abū l-Ḥasan, concerning dowry payments. […] Saʿadya (ca. 1181–1209). (Information in part from CUDL)

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Beginning of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. […] Khalaf al-Barqī. Mentioning Palermo or Sicily (סקיליה) and Khallūf al-Barqī. (Information in part from CUDL)

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Right half of the end of a letter by Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, Qalyub, to a family member in Fustat. Mentions: the coats (al-shuqaq); his paternal uncles Ta[hir] and 'Imran; a man named Ibn al-Musinn ("son of the stinkard," see Goitein's note card on T-S NS J32); Ibn Nu'man Fada'il; Mahasin b. Hibat [Allah]; and that he sent a copy of the Neviim with the bearer of this letter. ASE.

תגים

• moshe b. levi

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Ottoman Turkish

Fragment of a text in Ottoman Turkish, probably a legal document or petition/letter with legal content. The opening lines mention the Ottoman legal system and the lodging of a formal complaint/claim (daʿva üzerine qānūnan). An official (vazifedâr) is mentioned in l. 4 and an urban district in l. 7 (mahallede), missing the exact location along the paper tear. The verso contains a curious geometric border design with alternating pink squares.

תגים

• cmp
• ottoman turkish

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

Top of a rhymed letter. The heading is decorated with small fleurs de lis over each letter. In the poetic opening of the letter, a line of several dots arranged vertically above letters at the beginning of the line spells out an acrostic, "Avraham b. […] Sahl al-Tustarī). (Information in part from CUDL.) In the margin there is a possibly unrelated text in Aramaic.

דיון אחד

Document date

Sunday, 7 Tishrei 1532 Seleucid (6 September 1220 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal note in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Shelomo b. […] Abū Sahl the cantor (=the brother of Yedutun ha-Levi and Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi) says that he cannot repay his debt because he is sick. (Information in part from CUDL.) ASE

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment (lower part) from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, Qalyub, to a family member in Fustat, regarding small-scale business dealings.

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תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Original use: Petition for charity from a woman, with reference to her poverty and hunger, her brother, the Levant (al-diyār al-Shām[iyya]), and 11 dinars. Also refers to something al-Ḥāfiẓī and 'the sects of the Jews' (ṭawāʾif al-yahūd). Reused for a letter or letters in Judaeo-Arabic (see separate record). (Information in part from CUDL.) ASE

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תגים

• petition
• women's letter

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Letter, mentioning Yehosef the Nagid of the Diaspora, and Spain. […] ENA 3765.8–9 and T-S 6J3.25 for other letters addressed to him. The letter starts in Hebrew, but the marginal text is in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso: accounts, with sums in dirhams. (Information in part from CUDL.) ASE

תגים

• account
• spain

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from the court, in Togarma (Istanbul?), to Moshe Abudarham, in Alexandria. […] Dating: Second half of the 16th century, based on Avraham David's identification of the addressee. The letter informs Moshe that a woman named Simḥa, the wife of Yosef Lanyado, has testified that he owes her the 43 peraḥim that she had invested with him, "and she is crying 'violence!' […] The court orders Moshe, if what she testifies is true, to pay her back on pain of excommunication. Information from FGP.

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תגים

• moshe b. abudarham
• perahim

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE), Yosef Lebdi provided merchandise worth 460 dinars with which the active partner Khallūf would trade. Lebdi will receive three-quarters of the profits and Khallūf one quarter. The contract is described as muḍārabat al-tujjār, a merchants' commenda, which normally provides for a division of two-thirds and one third of the profit. Here the active partner did not make an investment on his side and so his share in the profits was lower.

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תגים

• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib1
• india book
• partnership

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Natan b. Avraham to Ḥalfon. Dating: ca. 1037 CE. […] His excuse is that he had an intense pain, like colic, and he could hardly sit down, let alone stand or ride. The illness persisted for most of the day, and when it relented and Natan asked after Ḥalfon, he was told that he had already departed. Information in part from Goitein's note card.

תגים

• 11th c
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: colic
• illness: gastrointestinal

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

984–984 CE

Marriage contract containing a list of jewelry apparently of Syro-Palestinian manufacture, to be sold by Shemuel b. Ḥasan two months after the signing of this document by Yiṣḥaq b. Moshe, Shimi ha-Levi, and Avraham ha-Levi. Drafted in Damascus, ca. 984 CE. […] (Information mainly from Mediterranean Society, IV, p. 215, 426, 473, Goitein's index cards, and Friedman, Jewish Marriage in Palestine, 279 and multiple other locations.)

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תגים

• ketubba
• marriage

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

Legal document in Hebrew. Location: Fustat. Dating: before 1032 CE. Fragment (lower leftpart). In which Aharon b. Yiṣḥaq (=Aharon b. […] the glazier undertakes to pay to his divorcee Malka bt. Avraham 27 dirhams per month as alimony for his daughter from her, Ḥassāna.

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דיון אחד

Document date

Middle third of Shevaṭ 1441 Seleucid (23 January 1130–1 February 1130 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document. Written and signed by Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. […] Settlement between Ibrāhīm Ibn al-Bārūtī of Qalyūb and the daughter of his late brother Abū l-Faḍl who was also his business partner. Ibrāhīm retains his apartment and his store but leaves to his niece and her mother the large house above the store. The assets will be divided according to the deed of partnership. (Information from Goitein's index card.)

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דיון אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Moses גליפאפה, in Venice, to his teacher Shemuʾel ben Sīd, in "Alexandria or Cairo." […] Dating: Late 17th century (per CUDL) or early 17th century (per Avraham David, based on a potential reference to the same events in a pinqas entry from the community of Mantua dated 31 January 1616 CE). The letter concerns the ransoming of ten Jewish captives, some of whom were taken in Rome, who are being held in Palermo. Mentions Seʿadya Dārūqīs of Venice, Avraham of Egypt, and Refaʾel of Rome. (Information in part from CUDL.)

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תגים

• 17th c

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Bū Manṣūr b. Abū Saʿd Shemuel to Avraham al-Maḥallī al-Talmid (the student/scholar). Addressed to Fustat, the synagogue of the Palestinians, situated in Zuqāq Khabīṣa. The letter consists entirely of well wishes and greetings for the holiday. […] Abū ʿImrān and his mother and brother-in-law and wife, and Rabbenu Yeḥezqel ha-Dayyan ha-Gadol. (Information in part from CUDL and Goitein's index cards.) VMR. ASE.

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תגים

• personal

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Upper part of a letter. The handwriting looks like that of Berakhot b. […] There are copious introductory blessings in Hebrew followed by the beginning of the body in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender read the letter which the addressee sent to Abū l-Munajjā and seems to have been very offended by it (fa-wajadahu al-khādim li-ghāya mā yumkin min al-naqīṣa fī ḥaqq al-mamlūk). […] Yaʿaqov. (Information in part from CUDL and Goitein's index card.)

דיון אחד