Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In the opening lines a Muslim qadi (אלקאצי) is mentioned but his name is lost to textual damage. At least two of the entries mention copper "jadīd" as the relevant coinage type, a form of payment that was in use during the late-Mamluk and Ottoman administrations.

תגים

• list
• ottoman shipping

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Medieval-era. Some of the entries use the unit qirāṭ. All of the numbers are written out with words rather than numerals.

אין רשומות קשורות

There is a line or two in Arabic script on verso in a fiscal hand, probably part of a tax receipt (cf. also ENA 3971.13–24, 31, 33, 34).

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תגים

• arabic script
• ib5
• india book
• tax
• tax receipt

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

5300 Anno Mundi (13 September 1539–1 September 1540 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

From the content it is a letter with legal sermonizing and instructions, though it ends with phrases typical of legal documents and two signatures partially preserved: Moshe b. [...] and [...] b.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

Tables of Hebrew letters with a first-person phrase along the lower border of ENA NS 10.4, "...]אני הצעיר יצחק הר", perhaps a scribal attribution (Join: Matthew Dudley).

תגים

• cmp
• early modern

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Bifolium. One of the entries is headed, "The copy of the purchase of Abū l-A[frāḥ] of all of the Dār al-Dhahabī.

תגים

• formulary

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

(l. 4); "going up to Jerusalem" (ll. 4–5); "the two congregations" (al-jamāʿatān) (l. 7). Ends with a ḥamdala and ṣalwala (prayers for the prophet Muḥammad).

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אין רשומות קשורות

The heads of the coomunity agreed that no Jew will enter the synagogue during prayer time while being drunk and that no Jew will beat another Jew in the synagogue during prayer.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Only the beginning of the letter is preserved on verso (the front) and only the end of the letter is preserved on recto (the back).

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

Verso is blank. No date. Related to ENA NS 77.159 + T-S 8J14.13 (PGPID 1907), and see there for other related shelfmarks.

תעתוק אחד

Document date

4977 Anno Mundi (15 September 1216–3 September 1217 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Possibly a legal document or a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Refers to the end of the 17th year of maḥzor 262 = 4977 AM = 1216/17 CE.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

on verso: "for honey: 1, for wine: 2, for entering...."

תגים

• dimme

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

505 Hijrī (10 July 1111–27 June 1112 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: refers to "the end of year '4"; "1 Ramaḍān of the year '4" and "year '5," likely 504 and 505 AH = 1111/12 CE.

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תגים

• account
• arus b. yosef
• holes

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The remainder of the letter is missing the ends of the lines; it involves the late Abū l-Baqā's daughters and niece.

תגים

• appeal

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

1564 Seleucid (1252–1253 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

This document was not completed. See also ENA 2559.15 (PGPID 11080) for another unsigned geṭ between the same couple from the preceding year.

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תגים

• divorce
• get

2 תעתוקים

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yaḥyā ha-Kohen (late 11th to early 12th century. The lower entry here looks like the hand of Netanʾel b. Yefet (cf.

תגים

• account

תעתוק אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentioning business matters and the name Abraham Ashkenazi. End of 18th century. (Information from CUDL)

תגים

• 18th or 19th c
• ben na'im
• business

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Saadya (Nagid 1094–1111) from an official (muqaddam) and cantor in a community near Alexandria, who asks the Nagid to send a replacement for him, so that his community will allow him to leave and join his family, who are enduring financial hardship. The death of a certain Ṣadoq is mentioned.

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תגים

• to edit

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

Amram, concerning ‘what was collected [from the] market’ (i.e., the proceeds of slaughter) from the beginning of Elul to the end of Kislev. Verso: Probably the draft of a sermon, quoting Isaiah 21:12, different hand and ink.

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תגים

• daniel b. azarya
• eli b. amram

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

(Hebrew description below; full English to come)

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תגים

• ib4
• india book

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: between summer 1138 CE and March 1139 CE. India Book 4 (full English to come.) Formerly understood to be a letter from Yehuda ha-Levi to Ḥalfon b.

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1

תגים

• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• india book

3 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He is still owed 1 1/4 dinar from the year that ended and is afraid the coming year will be the same.

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

Recto: a rhyming letter (in ‫-‬יה), each verse ending marked with sof pasuq. It opens מגמת הכתב הזה אדוני.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Literary text in Judaeo-Arabic containing a chapter entitled "In praise of knowledge and in condemnation of ignorance and anger," which opens with a discussion of Quran 41:34 (وَلَا تَسْتَوِي الْحَسَنَةُ وَلَا السَّيِّئَةُ ۚ ادْفَعْ بِالَّتِي هِيَ أَحْسَنُ فَإِذَا الَّذِي بَيْنَكَ وَبَيْنَهُ عَدَاوَةٌ كَأَنَّهُ وَلِيٌّ حَمِيمٌ) citing ʿUmar Ibn al-Khaṭṭāb.

תגים

• islamic
• quran

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

29 Dhū l-Qaʿda 404 Hijrī (31 May 1014 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: End of Dhū l-Qaʿda 404. Both the recto and the right margin of verso (the tax receipt side) contain a fiscal account (see PGPID 39214), suggesting that the paper for the tax receipt was cut from the account.

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תגים

• abu l-hasan b. wahb
• daman
• tax receipt

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

The name Abū l-Faraj appears in an item at the end ("gift for Abū l-Faraj"?). (Information in part from Goitein's note card.)

תגים

• funeral

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Opens with Job 12:10 (translated into Arabic) and ends with a rare ṣalwala (ṣalawāt allāh ʿalā....) for the prophet Moses.

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso (secondary use): Letter which consists entirely of a versified Grace after Meals for Shabbat in Hebrew (this identification is from FGP) and the closing lines, in the same hand, in Judaeo-Arabic ("I greet you and all the friends, and may R.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

May be a petition involving legal matters: ends with what looks like a raʾy clause (אלרייס עלו אלר<א>י) followed by ונסל מול[אנא . . .]

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

4890 Anno Mundi (16 September 1129–5 September 1130 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Dated 4890 from the creation and 1441 of the Seleucid Era (= 1130 CE); at the end of the letter important Jewish biblical figures are listed, such as Adam, Seth, Methusela, David, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, etc., and up to the Messiah (both Mashiaḥ b.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Interestingly, the "ve-shalom" at the end is in a cruder hand than the skilled hand of the letter itself (maybe a clue that it was written by a scribe).

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Announcement of a threat of excommunication (ḥerem stam) against anyone in Fustat or Cairo or their environs who knows the whereabouts of Abū l-ʿAlā b.

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תגים

• avraham maimonides autograph

תעתוק אחד

Nine entries, names of recipients of alms, on vellum in huge calligraphic letters, such as 'two freed women, two persons from Hijaz, two from Sahrajt [Egypt], the daughter of Mishael,' accompanied by numbers ranging from one to six.

תגים

• charity
• communal
• poverty
• recipients

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד