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Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Four drafts of legal documents ca. 1085 CE, in one of which Hiba b. Hillel al-Ṭarabulsī and Yaʿaqov b. Yiṣḥaq al-Lādiqī witness that they know Maḥfūẓa bt. Avraham al-Lādiqī and that she was married to אבן אלמנחמה, who divorced her and died.

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العلامات

• divorce

1 نسخ 2 مناقشتان

Document date

23 Sivan 1436 Seleucid (27 May 1125 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Also signed by Menashshe b. Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen. Location: Fustat. Dated: 23 Sivan 1436 Seleucid = 27 May 1125 CE Husband: Yaʿaqov b. ʿAmram. Wife: Sitt al-Kull bt. Efrayim. Joins: Oded Zinger.

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العلامات

• divorce
• halfon b. menashshe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Gives an itemized list of expenses that mentions Alexandria and Dār al-Kattān. One of the expenses appears to have been a bribe (shoḥad).

العلامات

• bribe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

The infamous hadīth transmitter Qāḍ.ī Abū al-Faraj is also mentioned.

العلامات

• ablution
• dimme
• fiqh

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Abū Naṣr b. Barakāt b. Ziz al-Tujjār and Abū l-Faraj b. Moshe ha-Kohen addressed to R. […] Regards to a woman in the addressee's family (al-sitt al-ʿazīza).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

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). […] The purpose of the table is unclear due to extensive damage. There are also scribal exercises throughout the recto and verso.

العلامات

• cmp
• early modern

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

One of the entries is headed, "The copy of the purchase of Abū l-A[frāḥ] of all of the Dār al-Dhahabī. The copy underneath repeats the name Abū l-Afrāḥ in one place but leaves other specifics (names, date) blank. […] Yosef, who had a known associate al-Dhahabī.

العلامات

• formulary

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Petition to a Fatimid vizier, opening lines only, addressed to "my lord the most lofty vizier, companion and loyal adherent of the commander of the believers (mawlāy al-wazīr al-ajall ṣafiyy amīr al-muʾminīn wa-khāliṣatuh).

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العلامات

• dimme
• ray clause

1 نسخ

Document date

408 Hijrī (30 May 1017–19 May 1018 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Bū l-Fakhr owes some sums to Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān. Contains an ʿalāma, alpha-numerals and glyphs.

العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In which a mother informs her son "al-Shaykh Sadīd" that everyone is well, but they have no flour, so please send us flour immediately. She also orders other items such as two ounces of silk (?).

العلامات

• matba
• women's letters

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

State document, decree, in Arabic script. Mentions "al-tawẓīf al-dimashqī" (as in T-S H2.83 (PGPID 40839)), "suʾālī wa-khiṭābī" and "al-awqāf," possibly referring to a financial matter.

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العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Farrāḥ (Gil, on the basis of handwriting) from Alexandria to an unknown recipient, ca. 1055. Mentions various wares – raisins, clothes, pearls. The recipient is asked to help a certain Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAmmār b. Khallūf to purchase wares in Fustat.

العلامات

• nahray b. nissim
• trade

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Qayoma from Mahdiyya, probably to Yehuda b. Ismail al-Andalusi. Around 1055. Concerning a shipment of boswellia and clothes. The clothes got wet during the sailing. Also mentions pearls. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, vol. 4, pp. 274-276, #687).

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العلامات

• trade

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Request to Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE) to write a recommendation to the head of the Palestinian Yeshiva (which at that time had its seat in Damascus) for Barakāt b. Ismāʾīl al-Bazzāz (the clothier), from Alexandria, who is a relative of the writer.

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العلامات

• avraham maimonides
• damascus
• lor
• yeshiva

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef Yerushalmi to Abu al-Mansur Elazar the scribe from whom the writer asks a favor. The letter opens with six lines of Hebrew poetry and also has four lines of poetry in the body of the text (lines 13-16) which is mainly in Judaeo-Arabic.

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العلامات

• poem

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

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.

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العلامات

• to edit

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1015–1015 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Ḥasan b. Yiṣḥaq al-Khawlānī(?), probably from Alexandria, to Yosef b.

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Ṭevet 1416 Seleucid (20 December 1104–17 January 1105 CE)

Bill of release, issued by Abū Kathīr Efrayim b. Maṣliaḥ al-Ghazzī to Abū Isḥāq Avraham ha-Levi. Signed by Yefet b. […] Menashshe ha-Levi, who also wrote the document. Dated: Ṭevet 1416 Seleucid, which is 1105 CE.

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The calligraphic practice on the verso includes the signatures of multiple members of the same family: Yiṣḥaq al-Gavālī (=Jabālī?), Saʿdiya al-Gavālī, and ___[?] al-Gavālī. The first letter in the identified signature may be ר כ ד or perhaps מ.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to ʿArūs b. Yūsuf al-Urjuwānī. Goitein infers that he is the recipient because it refers to 'Allān, his sister's son, and to his partner Sibāʿ. The writer is about to embark on an Andalusi ship to go to al-Andalus. Mentions wool, the price of which is six dinars per qinṭār.

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العلامات

• trade

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Report to Al-Afḍal ibn Badr al-Jamālī for the attention of the amir Ḥusām al-Dawla regarding a quantity of produce that had been left unattended.

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العلامات

• government produce

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary languages

Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The latter mentions Fuḍayl al-Naṣrānī, Ibn al-Jamal, sums of dinars, and ṣāḥib al-dār.

العلامات

• arabic script
• christian

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

29 Kislev 1426 Seleucid (29 November 1114 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

. (= 1114 CE), mentioning Abū l-Ḥasan al-Ḥusayn, Ibrahīm al-Wajʿ, and the wife of Abū Saʿīd al-Ḍarīr.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Letter from Barhun b. Musa al-Tāhartī, probably to Nahray b. Nissim. Probably in February 9, 1053. Mentions collecting debts from Kamel and b. Hajaj, which also Barhun b. Salah wrote about it to Barhun b.

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1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Document date

17 Adar I, no year Anno Mundi

Nissim to Barhun b. Musa al-Tāhartī, Busir. Dating: February 8, 1053 (Gil). Nahray asks Barhun, who is in Busir and deals with buying flax, to buy also for one of Nahray’s partners, Ya’aqov b. Nahum.

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العلامات

• flax
• nahray b. nissim
• trade

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

of silk sold for [...] dinars for 10, because it is scarce; also mentions prices for other commodities; a Byzantine (al-Rūmī); lac; something which is hidden away (?

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1213–1237 CE

Avraham Maimonides served as Rayyis al-Yahūd between 1205–1237 CE and also with the title Nagid after 1213 CE.

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العلامات

• avraham maimonides
• legal query
• polygyny
• responsum

1 نسخ

Primary language

Hebrew

Asking the addressee to increase the allotment of two loaves of bread, which was not sufficient, and also toa ddress the community on Shabbat that they should do something for the foreigner.

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The account contains details about the purchase expenses, for about 1,200 kg of flax, and the expenses for their shipment, probably to Alexandria. The writer might be Abu Ali ha-Kohen (Nahray’s relative).

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العلامات

• draft
• flax
• nahray b. nissim
• trade

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

A list of Judaeo-Arabic adjectives (mainly descriptors of people, mostly negative character traits and also professions) which are parsed into odd Hebrew acronyms on the right. […] --> "rise and chase after foxes" ʿālim --> "your eye is courageous before kings"

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

T-S 13J8.2, part of CUL Or.1080 J7, and T-S NS J149 all include versions of the same document, or at least concerning the same case of Surūra bt. Shelomo and her husband Surūr b. Yaʿaqov Ibn al-Jāsūs. See alternate records for description, and see Goitein's index card.

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Document date

11 Ḥeshvan 1587 Seleucid (2 November 1275 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: 11 Ḥeshvan 1587 Seleucid, which is 1275 CE. Abū Saʿd b. Abū l-ʿAlāʾal-Ṣabbāgh is owed a sum of money by Abū l-Faraj b. Abū l-Riḍā al-Ṣabbāgh. A payment schedule is specified. The document is incomplete, and there are no witness signatures.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Literary text in Arabic script. Narrative of Alexander the Great.

العلامات

• alexander
• arabic literary

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Literary text in Arabic script. The adventures of Alexander the Great.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Alexandria and silk.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر