Documents

Primary language

Arabic

Dating: late Mamluk or Ottoman-era. Begins, "baʿd al-taḥiyya wa-l-taslīm wa-l-ʿizz wa-l-takrīm bi-l-jināb al-karīm...." […] The sender appears to be the amīr Muẓaffar, the nāẓir of al-Kawm in Manūfiyya. May involve dues owed by peasants, perhaps at Kawm al-Naṣab in Manūfiyya, or just in their praise.

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Inferred date

1127–1138 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The case involves three brothers including Abū l-Faraj and Dāʾūd the sons of Yosef and a sum of 71 dinars. Mentions [...] al-Dīn the supervisor of pious endowments (alladhī kāna al-nāẓir fī aḥb[ās...], i.e., nāẓir al-aḥbās).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Faraj; Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAmmār; merchants; someone insulting the congregation; Bū Naṣr Furqān (the same as in T-S 13J25.7 + T-S 28.18 (PGPID 1074)?); Salāma b. Bishr al-Shofeṭ; al-Amir al-Sayyid; the synagogue; the sons of ʿAllān; and Ḥesed.

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

518 Hijrī (19 February 1124–6 February 1125 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

The testimony concerns the deceased Khalaf al-Yahūdī al-Dimyāṭī al-Ḥarīrī. It mentions the year 518 AH = 1124/25 CE. Mentions the names Abū ʿAlī and Bu Shuʿayb(?). Needs further examination.

תגים

• calendar

תעתוק אחד

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Shemuel), Mevasser/Mubashshir, and an unsuccessful attempt to prove with four testimonies that something was coerced. Also how Naḥum was upset about the Jewish court's ruling so he threatened apostasy and went to the shaliṭ/wālī of Alexandria and gave him a bribe and maybe had his opponent arrested and/or fined.

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

18 Kislev 1470 Seleucid (10 November 1158 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document. Location: al-Maḥalla. Dated: 18 Kislev 1[4]70 Seleucid = 10 November 1158 CE. […] Shemarya; Abū l-Karam b. ʿOvadya; and Abū l-ʿAlāʾ. The case involves someone named Muslim/Musallam. […] (Information in part from CUDL.) See also T-S 18J1.26 (PGPID 3515).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions names including Abū l-Faraj, Ibn Ḥamīd, Abu ʿUthmān and Yosef, and government officials (al-amīr, al-sulṭān, al-dāʿī). Commodities include garments from Bharuch (thawb barūjī) and Kish (thawb qayṣī). Mentions customs payments in Sawākin and Bāḍiʿ and the ship of Ibn al-Dībjī (known from several other documents ca. 1141).

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תגים

• account
• ib-addenda

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

I don't know what he needs, and if he asks you about the equipment for the sugar (ʿuddat al-sukkar) tell him... the refining (al-ṭabīkh), 30 batches (ḥaml) were refined... if the [...] sets sail...." Mentions Maʿānī several times. Also mentions the technical terms tarnīq (meaning unclear, but does appear in treatises on sugar manufacture) and quṭāra (sugar cane molasses).

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תגים

• sugar

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A man with this name is familiar from Avraham Maimonides' time, from Alexandria. Verso: draft of opening lines of same document. […] Shemuel who was active in Alexandria during the last decades of the 12th century until 1213.

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

14 Adar 5365 Anno Mundi (4 March 1605 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Three columns of text, probably literary, in Hebrew and Aramaic and possibly some Judaeo-Arabic; the three columns seem to be versions of each other. There is also, scribbled out, a note in Arabic: "what was received from al-Muʿallim Ibrāhīm ʿAlī. . . ."

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• 17th c
• damascus
• partnership

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions setting sail from Alexandria. Involves the shipment of 100 jars of oil from Alexandria, the associated expenses, and the writer's diligence and setbacks.

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תגים

• ib-addenda
• ib4

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In a few instances, the quantities required are also expressed, indicating that the fragment is possibly a shopping list for a pharmacist. Also mentions various vessels of different sizes, as well as coal, salt, and potash.

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Primary language

Arabic

Concerning the elite military corps known as al-ghilmān al-ḥujariyya ("the slaves of the barracks"), a training academy for Turkish cavalry soldiers founded by al-Afḍal, whose members upon graduation joined the ṣibyān al-khāṣṣ (cf ENA NS 71.8 (PGPID 10067)).

תגים

• army

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions the capitation tax several times. Mentions al-Maḥalla, but this is crossed out, with Sumbāṭ (=Sunbāṭ) written above. […] Another word is crossed out with "al-Jazīra" written above it. Refers to an expectation that an amīr would protect [...]. Mentions [...] b. al-Mesos al-Parnas

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תגים

• island

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Monday, 13 Ḥeshvan 1686 Seleucid (19 October 1374 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Legal document. Location: al-Mahalla al-Kubra. Dated: Monday, 13 Ḥeshvan 1686 = 19 October 1374 CE, under the authority of David II Maimonides (r. ca. 1355–1410). An agreement between Isḥāq b. Mūsā al-Ṭandutāwī (i.e., from Ṭanduta, an old name for Ṭanṭā) and his divorcee Sadīda bt. Ṣāliḥ Ibn al-Parnas. Concerning the delayed marriage payment and mentions a sum of 400 nuqra dirhams.

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• al-mahalla
• marital reconciliation
• marriage

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Only a single phrase is preserved: ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib. A piece of another letter from the line above is also preserved. […] E.g., one phrase read at random: والتقى الجمعان في معترك نزال(؟), which is an allusion to Quran 3:155, 166. This fragment may be related to T-S Ar.41.139.

תגים

• decree

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Aramaic

An amulet destined to silence the woman's opponents, particularly Abu al-Surur. The two people in question may perhaps be identified with a married couple mentioned in T-S 12.559, a release document given by Sa'adya b. Joshua, the father of a woman named Sitt al-Husn to her husband Perahya Abu al-Surur b. Yosef, after Sitt al-Husn's death.

תגים

• magic

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The largest entry describes the boundaries of a property in the Mamṣūṣa neighborhood of Fustat, mentioning the alley named Zuqāq al-Wazīr, the dwelling of Siman Ṭav (סימן טב), the dwelling of Yosef Ibn al-Pāpā (or al-Fāfā; the Coptic Pope?)

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תגים

• copts
• halfon b. menashshe

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The upper section is in a neater hand and the bottom section is written more hastily in larger letters, but it all seems to be him. Oddly, most or all of the names are Christian. Mentions: ZʿDH the daughter of [...]; [...]ūd al-Naṣrānī al-Kātib; the year 84 "and 3"; [...] b.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

; and the title malik al-umarāʾ, common in the Mamluk period but rare or unused before. Same hand and ʿalāma (בייי בטחתי) as T-S 8J23.10 (PGPID 3680). The sender is requesting an intervention on behalf of Sālim, the tax farmer (ḍāmin) of al-Maṭariyya. […] (Information from Marina Rustow and Alan Elbaum. Also mentioned in passing in Goitein, Med Soc II, 606.)

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תגים

• amir
• damin
• diwan
• muslim courts
• tax

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

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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תגים

• 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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תגים

• ib7
• india book

2 תעתוקים תרגום 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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תגים

• ib4
• india book
• nar

תעתוק אחד 2 תרגומים

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

People mentioned: Ibn ʿUbayd, Bū l-Fakhr, and Abū Isḥāq Ibn al-Maṣmūdī. See also the description for the whole notebook Bodl.

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דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Subsequent use: Letter from Ḥassūn b. Nissim ha-Levi al-Barqī, in al-Maḥalla al-Kubrā, to Abū Kathīr Efrayim b. [...].

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a letter from Nahray b. Nissim, Alexandria. Mentions silk and business concerning dresses. The addressee is unknown although it seems his father’s name is Yahya. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #266) VMR

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• nahray b. nissim
• silk
• trade

2 תעתוקים

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions numerous business transactions, Maḥrūz, and Abū ʿUmar Ibn al-Baghdādī (who also appears in T-S 10J24.4).

תגים

• ib-addenda

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Mentions goods such as saffron, galangal, pepper, mahlab, and lapis lazuli. Also mentions the name Abū Bakr al-Fāsī.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning Ibrāhīm who has not yet completed the aqāwīl, also mentioning boats arriving from all over the place and a high demand for ginger.

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions nutmeg (jawza), aromatic wood (ʿūd), musk, and salīkha (an aromatic bark resembling but not identical with cassia). Also mentions someone called "the interpreter" (al-turjumān).

תגים

• list
• salikha
• turjuman

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions the physician (al-ḥakīm) Abū l-Barakāt and two books containing 'accursed' magic (al-siḥr al-mayshūm).

תגים

• magic

תעתוק אחד

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Account of some sort in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning valuable textile goods including a brocade (dībāj), Sitt al-Ahl, and the house of al-Qāḍī al-Muwaffaq. In the hand of Ḥalfon b.

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תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Congratulating him on a happy union (wedding? al-wuṣla al-saʿīda ilā l-jiha al-karīma...)

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Levi ha-Levi, including the phrases, "I took a vow" and "if [al-Shaykh] al-Yesod were not with me. . ." and "let al-Yesod spend the holiday in the house of [my?]

תגים

• moshe b. levi

אין רשומות קשורות

Official document mentioning the name of al-Sayyid Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Mawṣūl. [Described on the paper wrapper as : "prières (?)

תגים

• arabic

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Petaḥya b. (abū al-?)Maḥāsin, a refugee from Palestine, to Avraham b. Shelomo, his relative in Fustat, shortly after the Crusader conquests at the beginning of the twelfth century. Ed. Goitein, also G. Weiss.

תגים

• 12th c
• refugees

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in the hand of Avraham Maimonides in which he instructs Fakhr al-Dawla regarding a sum of money, nine dinars, still owed, and what to tell Abu al-'Ala about it.

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• avraham maimonides
• avraham maimonides autograph

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

E.g., Aḥmad; Abū Bakr; al-Ḥājj ʿUmar b. [...]; Abū ʿAbd Allāh; Malīk; Yūsuf; Khayr(?) Allāh; Yūsuf; Abū l-Ḥasan; Makhlūf; Muḥammad b. ʿAbbās(?).

תגים

• account

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: letter in a different hand, mentioning Avraham b. Hārūn and al-Ṣanīʿa (‘the protege’) the son of Abū l-Karam Ibn Ḥunaykh. (Information in part from CUDL.) See also T-S AS 150.15 (PGPID 17604).

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The reports his happiness when he learned of the health of various people (al-mawālī al-sādā al-ruʾasāʾ). Little else is preserved.

תגים

• judge eliyyahu

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions a package of letters including one from "the judge to Sayyidnā" and another from al-Shaykh al-ʿAlam to his mother. (Information in part from CUDL)

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Long list of names in several columns, containing over 75 names followed by the letters alef, beth and daleth, including Yehuda and Yaʿaqov Ashkenazi, Avraham Ḥalabī, Moshe al-Kohen and Yona Maḡrebī.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Letter in Arabic script. Almost nothing of the letter itself is preserved, but most of the address is preserved: to be delivered to (New) Cairo, to Bāb al-Zuhūma, to the amīr Shujāʿ al-Dīn, to the Bābā (the Coptic Patriarch), to the house of the amīr [...], to Abū Bakr.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Reads in part: "as the elders of the Bedouins are aware..." (ka-mā ʿarafa shuyūkh al-ʿarab...). There is also Arabic script in the margin but that is probably from later reuse.

תגים

• dimme

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Possibly making excuses for not having come to the addressee. On verso: "Fakhr al-Dawla," perhaps the addressee. In which case the sender may call himself al-mamlūk al-fakhrī (upper margin of recto).

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Legible words include muṣṭanaʿ, mustakhdam, in shāʾ allāh. Approximately 2 lines are preserved. On verso there is adidtional text, also in a chancery hand, possibly fiscal accounting.

אין רשומות קשורות