Documents

Primary language

Arabic

Letter in Arabic to a certain Amīr [...] al-Dawla wa-[...]hā, perhaps reporting on business setbacks and the imposition of a new tax. […] He then conveys a prevailing issue on the coast of the upper Nile delta (al-ṣaʿīd al-aʿlā) which has greatly affected the poor and weak. […] The name of the Amīr could be Rashīd al-Dawla wa-Muṣīhā but this admittedly is just a guess.

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תגים

• broker
• dimme
• merchant
• petition
• wool

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He is now well (fī ʿāfiya) & left his house (kharaj al-ṭarīq) & returned to work (taṣarraf). The writer also inquires four times after al-ṣaghīra, 'the little one,' referring to the recipient's wife. […] Hananel will forward an answer together with his letter to Abu al-Tahir. (Information from Mediterranean Society, V, p. 113.) Note that this dating is tentative; Goitein writes that this document is dated Kislev 1528 = November/December 1216 (Med Soc V, p. 538, n. 375). But he almost certainly meant to cite T-S 6J6.20. By contrast, T-S Ar.54.91 is not dated and does not refer to a 'great plague' but rather to 'the wakham.'

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תגים

• epidemic
• epidemic: wakham
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: recovered
• (+ 2 עוד)

תעתוק אחד 2 דיונים

Inferred date

1127–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

It seems that three witnesses came to 'cry out' against what happened with the parnas Abū ʿAlī who had been assaulted and insulted. The situation also involves a certain Abū l-Ḥasan. […] ENA 4010.7 + ENA NS 19.14]... to the police station (al-shurṭa) this elder... ugly (f.) of eye, and witnesses came... the Muslims from the... the Jews to the qāḍī...." Joins: Alan Elbaum and Oded Zinger.

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תגים

• brawl
• halfon b. menashshe

תעתוק אחד

Document date

middle third of Ṭevet 1435 Seleucid (31 December 1123–9 January 1124 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Netanʾel known as Hibatallāh al-Mawṣilī, to the agent Abū l-Bishr Yosef b. Shelomo known as Ibn al-Tawwazī (or al-Tayūzī? […] Gerrit Bos et al, p. 1030 (entry 898). The document is unsigned, maybe because there are a couple uncorrected errors in it (e.g., חכמה חכמה instead of חכמה חכמי). […] Joins: Oded Zinger and Alan Elbaum.

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תגים

• halfon b. menashshe
• illness: treatment
• physicians
• power of attorney
• rabbanite

2 תעתוקים 2 דיונים

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter dated ca. 1050, sent by Sedaqa b. Zakariyya from Alexandria to his partner Barhun b. Salih al-Tāhartī in Fustat.

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תגים

• trade

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter. A Hebrew address is all that survives from a letter written by Shelomo b. […] (Information from Frenkel. See also Goitein, Med. Soc. 5:418, 624, no. 16)

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2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Addressed to somebody known as Ibn al-Ḥ[...], probably in Fustat (מצרים אלמנצורה). The addressee's son may be named Fayyāḍ. Also mentions Abū Faraj b. Avraham.

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תגים

• condolence

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

19 Muharram 1058 Hijrī (14 February 1648 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The names of those listed include: Mu[ḥammad] Basha, Mu[ḥammad] al-Ashra from Aleppo (מחלב), Ḥuseyn Shawīsh (Çavuş), Mordekhay Mizraḥī, and others.

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תגים

• 17th c
• aleppo
• list

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Business letter addressed to Abū l-Khayr b. Mufaḍḍal al-Yahūdī al-Bilbaysī(?), in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. […] Dating: Likely ca. 13th century. Consists almost entirely of detailed business instructions, mentioning many commodities and their prices.

תגים

• arabic address

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Bill of divorce (get). All names and dates are missing. Verso: A note in Judaeo-Arabic concerning a debt of 13[...] somethings. The handwriting and format of geṭ is extremely similar to T-S 13J6.28 (14th century); the handwriting of the scribe who reused each document for accounts is also extremely similar.

תגים

• get

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Business letter in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen informing its recipient of the purchase of a certain commentary ('al-perush') for fifty dirhams. The writer reports that he will pay forty dirhams and the recipient will pay ten. Verso contains a payment order, also in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen. Undated.

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תגים

• trade

תעתוק אחד

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

Verso contains the address, inverted, along with a great many jottings in large Arabic script. There are also Hebrew pen-trials on both sides. Information from CUDL.

תגים

• mosul nasis

אין רשומות קשורות

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

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תגים

• flax

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Natan to Abū Ibrāhīm Ismāʿīl b. Ibrāhīm al-Tūnī in Alexandria, ordering him to send two ḥuramdāns with paper, a kerchief, two glass containers, three marble מותקלאת, and a bottle with rosewater.

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תגים

• trade

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions Abū ʿAlī; someone al-Ḥarīrī; Nissim (who has "the yarn and the cotton"); Muḥammad b. […] At the bottom of verso at 90 degrees there are travel expenditures (al-ṭarīq) mentioning Qūs and Akhmīm.

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Jumādā II 463 Hijrī (6 March 1071–3 April 1071 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Acknowledgment of a debt of 300 dinars contracted by the husband of Amat al-Qādir with his wife in Jumādā II of the year 463 AH (= March-April 1071 CE). The name of the acknowledger and also the amount of money mentioned in line 4 have been erased (Information from CUDL and Khan)

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תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Opens with a report on "difficulties... and the fear that entered our hearts." Also refers to "our colleagues from Syria" (aṣḥābunā min al-Shām).

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תגים

• nissim b. halfon
• nissim b. nahray

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Somebody (perhaps the sender) went to the synagogue on Saturday yearning to hear any message (tashrīf) the addressee had sent, and Sayyidnā al-Shaykh al-Ajall [...] read the letter aloud.

תעתוק אחד

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Rhymed blessings (... al-ʿaẓīm... dār al-naʿīm...). Verso: Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Refers to someone who has few children (? li-annahu qalīl al-ṣighār) and unemployment/idleness (baṭāla). (Information in part from CUDL)

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Refers to sending something to the addressee with a trustworthy messenger and awaiting instructions from the addressee. Also mentions "the congregation" (al-jamāʿa). On verso there is unidentified Arabic text (possibly medical or poetry).

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentioning wheat; instructions him not to stay in Fustat or Egypt; Alexandria; a certain Nissim; and the ship of al-Ṭansāwī (cf.

אין רשומות קשורות

Statement originally accompanying a will belonging to Abu al-Baqa. The will has not been found, but from this document it is clear that it comprised 11 assets with a total value of 204 3/4 dinars and 140 dirhams. (Information from Mediterranean Society, I, p. 264; also Goitein index cards)

תגים

• will

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a schoolteacher from Algeria (al-muʿallim al-qalʿī) who taught in small town in Egypt and travelled every year to Fustat to obtain a pesiqa there (i.e., a post), instead of teaching privately, but was not successful.

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תגים

• algeria
• education
• teacher

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Arabic

The case involves at least one government official, a mutawallī of a bureau, and muhandis al-dīwān (lit. engineer of the dīwān), who also happens to be a qāḍī in Fusṭāṭ.

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תעתוק אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to the Nagid Mevorakh b. Seʿadya, in Cairo (al-Qāhira al-maḥrūsa bi-l-ʿizz al-dā'im). In Hebrew.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

On the first page there are jottings of pious phrases: al-ḥamdu lil-lāhi waḥdahū lā sha{r}īk lahū. See also the description for the whole notebook Bodl.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(b) Trousseau list. Bride: Sitt al-Furs bt. Abū l-Bayān al-Jābī (cf. Bodl. MS heb. f 56/43). Groom: Al-Munajjā b. Yosef. 10 + 25. Total value: 95 dinars.

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תגים

• register
• trousseau

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Historical treatise (many pages), it seems mainly discussing the rulers and wars of Ifrīqiyya (Al-Jazā'ir, Tūnis, Qayrawān, etc.) in the mid-13th-century. Also discusses events in the 17th century (1068 AH) on 9v, mentions the fortress of Bastīyun (in Taza, Northern Morocco) on 8r.

תגים

• arabic literary
• history

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Probably regarding the rent of a house or its sale. The beneficiary is ʿAlī b. ʿAbd Allāhal-Ṣayrafī, and some of his physical attributes are preserved.

תגים

• pinholes

תעתוק אחד

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals, Hebrew

Verso (original use): Small fragment of a letter or official document in Arabic: "min sāʾir al-amākin... yakhruj min ṭawāḥī[n?]...." Recto (secondary use): Order for something in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, also with a Hebrew "emet" superscript.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A piece of the opening page of the abridgement of the Karaite linguist Abu l-Faraj Harun's "Hidayat al-Qari" (aka Kitab al-Shurut). See the edition by Ilan Eldar (based on Genizah documents), "Mukhtasar Hidayat al-Qari," Leshonenu, 51 (1986–87), pp. 3–41.

תגים

• abu l-faraj harun
• hidayat al-qari

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

20 Tammuz 5596 Anno Mundi (5 July 1836 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

The address is bilingual in both Hebrew and Arabic (al-Muʿallim Mūsā Bunān. . .). Verso also contains numerous lines and dots, which are possible signs of geomancy readings.

תגים

• 19th c
• bunan
• geomancy
• late arabic script
• late ja

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document. Location: Al-Maḥalla. Involves [...] b. Yefet ha-Zaqen and [...] b. […] Needs examination. See also Goitein's notes.

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תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Short memorandum by Mūsā b. Yaḥyā al-Majjānī, probably from Alexandria, to Nahray b.

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תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter concerning business affairs in which the writer describes ships that are about to leave port and references ‘al-ṭārma,’ a small cabin on Nile boats, along with garments that the addressee mentioned previously. He reports his intention to leave and asks the addressee for official letters. EMS. Join: Alan Elbaum.

תגים

• business
• trade

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד