Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions numerous amirs (including Shams al-Dīn, Saʿd al-Dīn, Fakhr al-Dīn, and Jalāl al-Dīn), qāḍīs, a wālī, a nāẓir, and a faqīh. […] Goitein, Mediterranean Society 1:118, 426.) EMS. Joins: Alan Elbaum.

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תגים

• fayyum

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(I) The upper letter mentions: Alexandria; something in which nothing remained "except for its sacks (khuyūsh)"; the ships from al-Mahdiyya; updates about the sailing of the ships; something reported by Ibn Mahdī when he came; various other updates about specific ships (including a shakhtūr and a qārib); updates on pricees of specific goods, including oil; a report that "the city/land is tranquil, and the 'waṣāyā' are [...] ... and no one is dearer to the governmen than the traders... the island (al-Jazīra)[…] "; more updates about specific ships; and a mention of "the fleet" (al-uṣṭūl). (Information in part from CUDL.)

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Document date

5 Shawwāl 427 Hijrī (1 August 1036 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The witnesses attest that Ṣadaqa b. ʿAllūn Ibn al-Dabbāb has died in Maʿarrat al-Nuʿmān after the death of his son Bū Faraj in the town of al-Lādhiqiyya (Latakia) and that his sole heir is his daughter Yamānī, the wife of Mawhūb b. […] Witnesses: Salāma b. Isḥāq; ʿAlī b. Ḥusayn; Yūsuf b. Menashshe; Barakāt b. Menaḥem b.

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• death
• female inheritance
• inheritance
• jewish witnesses
• state

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Letter from Yeshua b. Isma’il al-Makhmuri from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat.

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• nahray b. nissim
• trade

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד

Primary language

Arabic

List of food items and materia medica in Arabic script with quantities expressed as words and also in Greek/Coptic alphanumerals. Medieval-era.

תגים

• cmp

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Refers to a rayyis and Ibn al-Ḥarbash (this family name appears also in T-S 16.271, T-S Misc.28.129, and T-S K15.66 + T-S K15.14).

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

May contain the phrase al-[...] alladhī [...]nā ilā al-dīwān. Several numbers are mentioned.

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

28 Ramadan 1235 Hijrī (9 July 1820 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Receipt/order of payment issued by a state overseer (nāzir) for the monopoly of silk production during Meḥmed ʿAlī Pasha's administration. Location: Alexandria.

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• late arabic

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic, possibly asking the addressee to do something because the writer cannot. Begins "waṣala al-amr al-ʿālī" (the lofty order arrived...).

תגים

• informal note

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information from CUDL.) Also mentions a pair (zawj) of something, perhaps anklets (kh[alākhil]).

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). Also signed by Hillel b. Yosef. Concerning a husband allowing a woman to manumit her slave (עתק).

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• divorce
• get

תעתוק אחד

Inferred date

1140–1140 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Moreover, two tax officials — a fellow tax-farmer in the dār al-ṣināʿa, the main customs point entering Fustat (see Med. […] Mentions the death of Abū Naṣr b. al-Minqār, who was Ibn Yijū’s cousin, the son of his maternal aunt. Mentions the India trader Abū ʿAlī b. al-Kirnīb, who also appears in Maimonides' responsa.

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• ib4
• india book
• nar

תעתוק אחד 2 תרגומים

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Commercial letter, probably sent from Alexandria to Fustat. The addressee is Abū ʿImrān Mūsā, possibly Moshe b. […] There is a dispute between the Maghribīs and the prominent Alexandrian Ben Naḥum family. There is an enigmatic sentence "they have a single head, while we have 100 heads." […] (Information in part from Frenkel. See also Goitein, Med. Soc. 3:159 [this may be an incorrect citation].)

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yefet the head Parnas leaves to his wife Sitt al-Fakhr bt. Ṭoviyya, their two daughters, and their female slave 25 dinars and 5 irdabbs of wheat for the duration of his absence in Yemen, in addition to the rent of a new house in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ in Fustat (which he has already sold to her, as certified in a separate document in her possession). […] Yefet all that was due to her from her ketubba (dated Av 1468 Seleucid = 1157 CE), including all but 5 dinars from the delayed marriage payment (muʾakhkhar) of 60 dinars and her dowry worth 400 dinars (except for the female slave who "was lost"—ran away?[…] Yefet traveled). Moshe b. Yefet is also known from other documents; he signed PER H 161 in Yemen in 1156 CE.

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• ib7
• india book
• maintenance
• slave
• yemen

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Document date

Shevaṭ 1455 Seleucid (8 January 1144–6 February 1144 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: before 18 Shevaṭ 1455 Seleucid = January 1144 CE. Location: Al-Maḥalla (probably). Parties: Netqanʾel b. Naḥman ha-Levi and Yeshuʿa b. […] The judge is Zakkay b. Moshe, who also wrote and signed Bodl. MS heb. d 65/41 (ed. […] Both of the other documents are also from al-Maḥalla. Therefore, there is little doubt that our document (which is written less carefully than the two others and does not contain the name of the place of issue) also originated in al-Maḥalla like the documents preceding and following it in time.

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

IB VII, 70. Letter from ʿAllān b. Ḥassūn, Aden, after his return from a difficult voyage to the southern coast of India, to ʿArūs b. […] The plan was to go back via Aden, but some kind of social unrest meant that everyone in the town where they were fled, and 'Alī Nāwak wanted to flee as well, presumably without taking them along. But the writer prevented this from happening by telling someone in a position to prevent it (details obscured by a lacuna) and they secretly loaded the ship in the middle of the night (this assumes that ʿAlī Nāwak was sleeping on the ship) and all fled together to Fāknūr.

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• ib7
• india book

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד

Document date

Elul 14[00]–14[99] Seleucid (1089–1188 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Other names: Yosef b. [...]q b. al-Dānī al-Fāsī, who is also mentioned as trading between Egypt and the Maghreb in PGPID 4037.

תגים

• fight

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

Natan, in Fustat, to Yeshuʿa b. Ismaʿīl, in Alexandria. Dating: ca. 1050 CE. Yeshuʿa is in Alexandria probably to welcome a relative.

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תגים

• draft

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Among other matters, Natan mentions that he has given 1 dinar each to Moshe the Judge and Yeḥezqel the Alexandrian, the two frail old men who wrote T-S 13J28.10 requesting charity from Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy. Natan also mentions a medicinal syrup that he has asked Abū l-Afrāḥ to buy him.

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תגים

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• syrup
• trade

3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from someone in Alexandria (Gil: Ibrahīm b. Farrāḥ al-Iskandrānī) to Nahray b. […] The sender mentions ships arriving from the west, one which took 20 days from Sicily and one which took 45 days from Lamṭah (near al-Mahdiyya). He asks Nahray to get him oysters and pearls and send them urgently.

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תגים

• nahray b. nissim
• trade

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

Faraj, acknowledge receipt of their inheritance, after their oldest brother, Mufarrij, also deceased, had deposited their father’s estate with the ‘three elders’, i.e. […] (Information from CUDL, Gil, Palestine, doc. 329, and Goitein's attached notes.) On verso there is also a letter in Hebrew (see separate record).

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• al-tustari

2 תעתוקים 2 דיונים

Document date

Monday, 27 Ṭevet 1665 Seleucid (23 December 1353 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ḥananya assigns to his wife, Wazīra bt. al-Shaykh al-ʿAlam known as Ibn al-ʿŪdī, the contents of his house in payment of the money promised her in their marriage contract and sets aside money with the Nagid Yehoshuaʿ to cover the costs of his burial and the 'shiva' (seven-day mourning period).

תגים

• deathbed will
• yehoshua maimonides

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Regarding the difficulties to sell indigo, which the writer received probably from Fustat, because the merchants from Alexandria are flooding the market with indigo. Also mentions a check for 60 dinars.

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תגים

• suftaja

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions the Nile port of Būlāq, specifically the loading docks (bi-isqelīt Būlāq)– although this usage may refer to the port itself. The entry also describes the transport of pilgrims (ען חמל מחזום לחגאג): probably Muslims leaving to or returning from Mecca via Būlāq, but much of the document is missing. A certain Ḥajj Aḥmad al-Qafānī is mentioned in line 2. MCD.

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• pilgrimage
• pilgrims

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yeshuʿa b. Ismaʿīl al-Makmūrī (Fustat) to ʿAyyāsh b. Ṣedaqa (Alexandria), ca. 1050. Yeshuʿa b. Ismaʿīl al-Makmūrī asks ʿAyyāsh b. Ṣedaqa to secretly find out if his brother-in-law is planning to send him any merchandise.

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• family
• trade

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer says he will bring the mat or chessboard (naṭʿ) with him when he comes with his father and al-ʿAfīf. They were only delayed due to the wedding of a woman in the family (al-ṣaghīra, spelled אלצגיגה). They received the marriage payment from Abū l-Badr b. al-Ḥakīm (‘Son of the Doctor’) ʿImrān (alternatively, he could be Abū l-Badr the son of the doctor ʿImrān.

תגים

• nat'

תעתוק אחד

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Enigmatic fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic describing what happened to the writer in front of the addressee's house; how people were appealing for help on account of the capitation tax; how the writer has lost 25 dirhams; and how there is 'ḥamas' in the country. Also, Abū l-Ḥasan has asked the writer for clay and/or bricks. Verso contains several crossed-out lines and the address in Arabic: to Fustat, to Manṣūr b. al-Ḥazzān (?) al-[. . .] from his brother Abū Saʿd.

תגים

• arabic address
• capitation tax
• jizya
• unrest

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

One man purchases a house which is located in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ (Fustat) from a Kohen. The house was owned by two parties, and it seems that one of them was the buyer of the other party's share. A gift/donation to the pious foundations' institution is also mentions (kitāb al-ṣadaqa). No signatures preserved.

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Thursday, 21 Av 1490 Seleucid (22 July 1098 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Describing that at the time of arrival of the ships from the West in Alexandria, Shelomo b. Hillel from Aleppo and ʿAmram b.

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• aleppo
• alexandria
• testimony
• tyre

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Alexandria expressing the deep gratitude of the community after the appointment of an inspired teacher and judge. The letter was sent to Fustat to the caravanserai of al-Mahalli (‘funduq al-Mahalli’), a well-known compound, large enough to accommodate a mosque.

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• 13th c
• teacher

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד