Documents

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal fragment mentioning people such as Abū l-Barakāt, Peraḥya b. Binyamin the elder, and the elder Abū Yaʿqūb. Also mentions 3 qinṭārs of something, maybe 'al-sharābī,' and formulae from a power of attorney. […] Probably in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. (Information in part from CUDL)

Related People

1

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1150–1181 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal declaration, missing its beginning, involving several Bibles (maṣāḥif), someone's brother Abū Saʿīd, Abū l-Barakāt al-Ḥazzan, Abū l-Makārim al-Tājir al-Levi, and a certain Nadiv. Mentions 5 1/8 dinars by way of security. It seems that someone is selling the Bibles on behalf of someone else. […] The validation is signed by Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi, Elʿazar b. Mikhaʾel, and Mevorakh b. Natan he-Ḥaver (active 1150–81).

Related People

5

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Av [148]5 Seleucid (1 July 1174–30 July 1174 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Dated: Probably Av 1[48]5 Seleucid, which is 1174 CE, based on the presence of signatures of both Shemuel b. Seʿadya ha-Levi (active 1165–1203) and Mevorakh. b. Natan (active 1150–81) Husband: Abū l-Ḥasan b. […] Signed: Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen b. Yosef; Shemuel ha-Levi b. Seʿadya. The attestation on verso that the wife received the get is signed by Shemuel ha-Levi b. Seʿadya and Mevorakh b. Natan.

Related People

5

Related Places

1

תגים

• get

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Shelomo b. Eliyyahu’s hand? Mentions an old woman, then somebody's (probably the writer's) intention to bring a matter before the state authorities ([anā] ʿāzim ʿalā l-dukhūl ilā l-sulṭān. . . fī qaḍiyyatī wa-injāz qiṣṣatī. . . al-salāṭīn ʿazza naṣruhum. . .), then perhaps returns to the old woman and the desire for her to enjoy peace of mind and tranquil years. If [...] agrees, the writer will send another letter, and if a certain woman also wishes something. . . otherwise, let her sit until God has mercy . . .

תגים

• dimme
• state
• sultan

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Nisan 1424 Seleucid (20 March 1113–18 April 1113 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. […] The acknowledgment has to do with a portion of a house in Fustat that is located on the alley of Michael (זקאק מכיל); maybe a lease or a temporary sale. Signed: ʿEli b. Yeḥezqel ha-Kohen. On the back two names are listed: Yefet b. Ḥalfon ha-Levi and Ḥasana bt. [Manṣūr?]. It looks like this was a meant to be a summary of marriage arrangement.

Related People

1

Related Places

1

תגים

• halfon b. menashshe

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

Recto: Letter fragment to a distinguished person named Abū l-Barakāt b. [...], titled Sar Menuḥa and Sar Shalom. Contains profuse well-wishes for the addressee's recovery from his illness (r5–12), and concerns a question about a bill of divorce (between lines 13 and 14). The lettermentions the town of Ṣahrajt (at the top) and Yosef b. Azhar (at the bottom). Verso: Letter fragment. In Hebrew, with two lines in Arabic script at the bottom.

Related Places

1

תגים

• divorce
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: flattery
• sahrajt
• (+ 1 עוד)

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter of appeal written by Menashshe, the Alexandrian school teacher, to Abu al-Barakat Yehudah ha-Kohen b. Elazar, Thiqat al-Mulk (Goitein translates 'Trusted Servant of the State'), a high ranking official in the Fatimid court. The letter was written in the seventies of the twelfth century, at the end of Fatimid rule in Egypt. […] See also Goitein, Med. Soc. 3:440).

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi and Hiba al-Kohen and a wife.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter referring to finances. (Information from CUDL.) Hand of Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi.

Related People

1

תגים

• ib-addenda
• ib7

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a letter of appeal for assistance. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38).

Related People

1

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document mentioning [...] ha-Levi the elder.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document mentioning Yaḥyā ha-Levi and the elder Abū l-[...].

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Probably a legal document, mentioning 25 dirhams, Shelomo and [...] ha-Levi.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Beginning of a letter, mentioning the arrival of the addressee’s letter.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Narrow vertical strip from a legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi?

Related People

1

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Fragment of a document in Arabic script. Maybe a letter or legal. Mentions a quantity in artāl (last line).

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Appears to be the handwriting of Yiṣḥaq b. […] Alas, "the ḥiṣrim here is not like the Levantine ḥiṣrim" (cf. T-S 13J23.17, also featuring ḥiṣrim shāmī). […] Eight lines from the bottom, requests to be informed regarding Yemen and al-Shām (probably if any letters or merchandise have arrived from there).

Related Places

4

תגים

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: relapse
• materia medica
• nisaburi
• (+ 1 עוד)

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

3 Tevet 4975 Anno Mundi (7 December 1214 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter dated 3 Tevet 4975 AM (which is 1214 CE) from Abu l-Najm Hilal, in Alexandria, to his brother Abu l-Majd (Meir b. […] 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 language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Safed, Palestine, written by a man from Cairo to his cousin (ibn ʿamm). […] (Information from Mediterranean Society, V, p. 245.) He mentions his lack of health among the host of reasons, including poverty and distance from loved ones, for why he would kill himself, were it not for his certain belief in the Truth and for the additional sin that he would incur by becoming a topic of gossip of all the family members. "I send every letter and read every letter with tears in my eyes."

Related Places

2

תגים

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: qillat al-'afiya
• safed
• suicide

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Hilāl b. Avraham, in Alexandria(?), to his brother Abū Naṣr b. […] The sender is worried about Abū l-Karam whose only desire is to 'sue for the 100 dinars' (or conceivably 'sue the dead man for a dinar,' but this seems less likely). Hilāl hardly finds the energy to keep on opening his shop any more. […] Goitein, Mediterranean Society, V, p. 194). Information in part from Mediterranean Society, I, p. 135, V, p. 194.

Related People

2

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

An epistle from the community of Alexandria to that of Mastuara (in Byzantium). The letter deals with the ransoming of Byzantine Jews taken captive, and was probably a letter of introduction to be carried by one of them, called Leo. Leo’s brother Eliyyahu is also mentioned.

Related Places

1

תגים

• byzantines
• captives
• jewish community

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Second note from a teacher who, in the letter on recto, had complained about an unruly pupil (see PGPID 2086). A family member has replied on verso, encouraging the teacher to continue writing, as perhaps the notes will scare the boy into behaving well; the teacher has complied with the request and written a second note.

Related Documents

1

תגים

• informal note

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment: bottom right corner only. Mentions health, items to be sent, and regards to various people including Najīb al-Dīn (?). There is a note in the margin mentioning "your ghulām."

תגים

• ghulam

תעתוק אחד

Memorial list? the names of "the family of Israel's princes" mentioing Yishaq ha-sar ha-levi, Simha, Yishaq and (another?)

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions someone's (probably bad) character (akhlāq). Narrates a series of events ('on Sunday... and then...'). Mentions Abū Saʿīd. Ending with a raʾy clause. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ.

תגים

• akhlaq

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. In at least two different hands. Mentions purchasing coal and cleaning something and digging a hole. Also mentions names such as Ibn Isḥāq and Sāliḥ b. Yāqūt.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to a woman in which the writer mentions his mother and aunt, and gives news about a marriage that has taken place. The addressee may be named Sutayta. Also mentions Isḥāq

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Lettermentioningmerchandise sent to Palermo and Mazara, ships, and business dealings with Yosef b.

Related Places

2

תגים

• trade

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Sulaymān b. al-Mubārak (Shelomo b. Mevorakh) he-ḥazzan to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. […] Signed by the writer. Mentions Ibn Shaʿyā.

Related People

1

תגים

• arus b. yosef
• ibn sha'ya
• suftaja

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document. Fragment from the beginning. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Mentioning the authority of the Nagid. Declaration made by a certain Ibn al-Marjānī (‘the coral merchant’).

Related Places

1

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Brief letter in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to [...] Saʿīd. Mentions "what you said to me regarding the drugs (?

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment from a letter, mentioning a certain Yosef and Fusṭāṭ. Also mentions "finding khalwa," which could refer either to a mystical retreat or a beehive.

אין רשומות קשורות