Documents

Primary language

Hebrew

Currency: Mentions 1700 grossos (silver coins).

תגים

• late heb
• responsum

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Refers to "al-naqāḍāt" (אלנקאצ̇את), meaning uncertain (naqḍ or manqūḍ can refer to clipped/inferior coins).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

, broker (simsār); his foster son (rabīb); Muhadhdhab; his servant (khadīm); Ibrāhīm Ibn al-Taʿtūʿ, banker (ṣayrafī); Abū ʿAlī, vendor (al-mutasawwiq); Abū Naṣr, seller of copper coins (yabīʿ al-fulūs); the children of Karam Ibn al-ʿUjayl; Abū Thanāʾ b. […] Nuʿmān Levi, money assayer who sells copper coins (naqqād yabīʿ al-fulūs); Mufaḍḍal and Abū l-Faḍl the children of Nabīqa(??)

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דיון אחד

Inferred date

1497–1600 CE

Accounts and calculations in Ladino, sixteenth-century (based on the paleography and post-1497 coinage). The coinage types listed are the Spanish corona (קורונה) and the copper jadīd (גידיד).

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תגים

• 16th c
• ladino

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: "I, Sh[...] ha-Melammed witness against Shelomo Ibn al-ʿArīshī for 5 gold coins." Underneath, a writing exercise. On verso: "Shelomo may God preserve him," then an Arabic basmala, then further writing exercises involving a verse of poetry in Judaeo-Arabic and the alphabet in Hebrew.

תגים

• cmp

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Document date

28 Kislev 5567 Anno Mundi (9 December 1806 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic with a wide variety of coinage types and quantities. Dated 28 Kislev 5567 AM (9 December 1806 CE). There is an explanation of monetary transfers below the list of coinage types and quantities. The accounts mention the names Yahuda Pinto and Shimʿon Frances in the final lines but it is unclear if either of them were the scribe.

תגים

• 19th c
• frances
• numismatics

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A vast sum of 2,033 dinars is cashed in Qayrawān for consignments of indigo, sugar, and silver (vessels or disused coins). Also mentions al-Mahdiyya. (Information from Goitein's index card and Med Soc I, 216n31.)

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תגים

• indigo
• parchment
• silver
• sugar

דיון אחד

Document date

26 Sivan 5632 Anno Mundi (2 July 1872 CE)

Primary language

Ladino

This dated entry also mentions S[eñor] Yiṣḥaq Menashshe and lists a variety of coinage types such as "old one ducats / דוקאדו ישן אונו" and "new ducats / דוקאדוס מואיבוס". Given the dating of the fragment, the latter coinage designation is likely not a reference to Venetian gold ducats, however, the "old one ducats" may refer to pre-1797 currency from Venice. Another coinage label takes form in "Mahmudi / מאחמודי" which is reference to money minted under the Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II.

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תגים

• 19th c
• ladino
• list
• silk

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Of the various types of coinage listed, the reference to "ibrahimis" helps date this fragment as post-1520 CE, because this term likely denotes coinage minted according to standards of Avraham Castro's tenure as the overseer of the Ottoman mint in Cairo (post-1520-1524 CE).

תגים

• numismatic dating

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Continues with further calculations of whole vs. cut coins, and the final balance: 181⅔+⅛ dinars. Verso, right side, contains an account for a shipment in partnership including textiles for Daniʾel b.

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תגים

• flax
• nahray b. nissim
• silk
• sumac
• tiraz
• (+ 1 עוד)

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The letter is a tearful plea for her son to return home before she dies. In fact, the family had heard a rumor that he died three years prior, so they held a large funeral and mourned him as if he had been present, believing that he died alone in a foreign land with no one to mourn him. […] She tells him that his father died in his lifetime, so he should return to his conscience and awaken his soul, and say to himself, "My father died in my lifetime, and now my mother will too.

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תגים

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• threatening to die

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Document date

1524-09-05 Seleucid (26 May 1213 CE)

The fragment is rather irregularly shaped, and the lack of signatures indicates that the divorce was not finalized; it was later completed two months later in NLI 577.4/27. The divorce was to be between Mufaḍḍal b.

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תגים

• autograph

2 דיונים

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and eastern Arabic numerals on verso with occasional notes indicating that specific quantities are in different types of coinage. For example, the silver kuruş ("גרש") is attached to certain figures and others bear the designation of "תקיל/ثقيل" indicating coinage of a weight higher than current standards– which helps date this fragment to no earlier than 1690 CE when the earliest variants of the Ottoman kuruş may have been produced (Pamuk, A Monetary History of the Ottoman Empire, 160).

תגים

• numismatic dating

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There is some ambiguity as the ḥarf aḥmar or ḥarf dhahab aḥmar was a gold coin, presumed to be a name for the ashrafī and sometimes the sequin, whereas plain "ḥarf" was a name for a copper coin of low value.

תגים

• harf

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Primary language

Arabic

The occurrence of few sums of money indicates a fiscal account or commercial transaction - 'min al-fiḍḍat al-anṣāf al-judūd', which points to the Mamlūkī silver 'half' coin of al-Muʾayyad Shaykh and suggests that this letter is dated no earlier than 1415 CE, as this was the year when the ruler imposed the 'half' as the basic silver coin.

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תגים

• dimme
• mamluk
• numismatic dating
• samaritan

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Inferred date

1703–1850 CE

Accounts in Judeo-Arabic that mention a variety of coinage types such as gold maḥbūb (specifically Egyptian mintage "מצרי"), bundūqī (Venetian ducat), fındıklı, and on the far left column the "ق" symbol for silver kuruş appears. Each of the Ottoman forms of coinage are helpful for dating the fragment to the eighteenth or early nineteenth century (for example the kuruş was minted perhaps as early as 1690 but did not begin to appear in wide circulation until 1703CE: Pamuk, A Monetary history of the Ottoman Empire, 167).

תגים

• 18th or 19th c
• numismatic dating

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Document date

27 Iyyar 4846 Anno Mundi (14 May 1086 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Manṣur handed him (Menashshe) some dinars to weigh, and Menashshe found among them 15 or 17 ʿAdliyya dinars, which frightened him, as such coins weren't available to the public. He weighed them and handed them to the Muslims in payment for the flax, and later asked one of the Muslims to exchange three or four of the dinars with him, despite his earlier fear. […] Manṣūr replied: "I told him that I didn't have any more of these coins, but had borrowed them from my brother," Maʿālī.

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תגים

• adliyya dinars
• coins
• embezzlement
• mint
• qasr al-rum
• (+ 2 עוד)

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

No one was harsher than the secretary of the head of police (wālī) in Damietta, who supervises the inheritances. I sent him 10 gold coins with Abū l-ʿAlā' Muslim." The next line is tricky and involves something called "kutub al-sulṭān." […] There follows another obscure passage: perhaps the writer obtained a loan of 30 gold coins from the amir that he needed for a bribe (shaḥadtu bihā, the same verb used during the beating).

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תגים

• amirs
• damietta
• dar al-imara
• hujra
• inheritance
• (+ 6 עוד)

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

, that new territory is conquered by him every day, that coins have been minted for him, ואלדעוה פי מכות (this phrase is difficult to understand—does it refer to the Fatimid Daʿwa being "in residence"?)

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תגים

• coins
• drowning
• geography
• mint
• nile
• (+ 1 עוד)

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List of quantities of gold dinar and perhaps other coinage types. The word/placename(?) "ʿAqaba" (עקבה) appears on the recto.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Late, detailed, narrative account entries in Judaeo-Arabic. The paleography and coinage in use (Ottoman jadīd) support a dating estimate of 16th- or 17th-century.

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Inferred date

1140–1140 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

מכתב מאת יחזקאל אל אחיו חלפון על משפטים וסכסוכים כנראה קַלְיוּבּ, אייר, שהוא מאי 1140 יחזקאל כתב מכתב זה לאחיו חלפון השוהה באלכסנדריה. המכתב שלם, …

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תגים

• ib4
• india book
• nar

תעתוק אחד 2 תרגומים

Primary language

Ladino

Avraham further reports that the [...] of the city died yesterday after two days of suffering from the plague. […] In the second postscript, he asks his father to send good, big, "Qaitbey" [...]s (coins minted under Qaitbey? r. 1468-1496 CE) with either Ibn Ḥabīb or with Bunyal, whoever comes, and that he is to leave them for Avraham in the גֿירמאס. […] Ḥabīb, who may be identical with the famous author of the ʿAyn Yaʿaqov who died in 1516 CE, and (2) a reference to a plague victim, and (3) a known recurrence of the bubonic plague in Egypt in 1513/14.

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תגים

• 16th c
• ben hini
• epidemic
• epidemic: magefa
• ladino
• (+ 2 עוד)

2 תעתוקים

Accounts that mention the "Karo y Frances Kon[panya]" in the heading and a wide variety of coinage types and quantities. This folder is mostly or entirely 18th-century and 19th-century accounts.

תגים

• 18th or 19th c
• karo y frances

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Currencies used are gurush and zolota (a silver coin minted by the Ottomans to replace the Polish-Lithuanian zloty starting in 1690 CE).

תגים

• numismatic dating
• yemen

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer seems to be beseeching the addressee for a loan of a certain sum of ashrafīs (a gold coin first minted by the Mamluks in 1425 CE)

תגים

• ashrafi
• numismatic dating

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