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Primary language

Arabic

Verso (original use): remnant of an official Arabic document. Mentions "to al-Dār al-Saʿīda in Fustat."

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العلامات

• account

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Receipt or order of payment for ʿAbd al-Ghaniyy al-[...]. The total is 30 dirhams (possibly followed by a fraction).

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Primary language

Arabic

Mentioning Abū l-Faraj and maqṭaʿ cloths several times; also flax.

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Primary language

Arabic

Upper left corner of a document, referring to someone titled Majd al-Khilāfa ʿIzz al-Mulk....

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Jottings in Judaeo-Arabic, maybe for legal purposes. Mentions Sitt al-Ahl and Sitt al-Milāḥ.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

This text seems mainly calendrical but also mentions the name Abū l-Faraj Yaʿaqov. Merits examination.

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Legal formularies, including for a wedding contract for people with prior divorces. There is also a section about repentance and forgiveness.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and in Arabic script. Customers include al-Qāḍī Yaḥyā and ʿAbd al-Masīḥ

العلامات

• arabic script

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Persian

Published by Nehemya Allony, along with two joins.

العلامات

• judaeo-persian

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List of books "which I found after the death of my father." Ed. Allony et al.

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Possibly legal, possibly a letter. Mentions ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Iskandarānī.

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Document date

Monday, 8 Adar I 5293 Anno Mundi (3 February 1533 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Shemuel Haqqan and R. Moshe al-Ashqar countered this responsum, and Yaʿaqov Beirav countered their counter-responsum. […] Binyamin ha-Levi of Istanbul also wrote a responsum on the same issue (in support of Yaquta and her second marriage) and sent it to Moshe al-Ashqar. […] It is signed by none other than Moshe Ibn al-Ashqar and Shemuel (Haqqan/Hakim?) ha-Levi. See also T-S NS 180.17, published by Shmuel Glick, Seride Teshuvot of the Ottoman Empire Sages, vol. 3, doc. #8.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He nevertheless consoles himself as one who has no choice and hopes that God will compensate the loss. The letter also reveals deliberate strategies for managing customs liability. […] He was offered 24 dinars for the lac but was holding out for 25. He also reports prices for copper and scammony, advises his father to compare prices in Almeria, and notes that indigo was in particularly strong demand in Fez. […] The writer states that hostility toward Jews in the country was so intense that, by comparison, Almeria seemed a place of salvation. YU.

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• almeria
• customs
• fez
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• (+ 5 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

2 Shaʿbān 626 Hijrī (26 June 1229 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Lease document for a house in Fusṭāṭ, owned by Abī Saʿīd b. Makārim b. Abī Saʿīd al-Yahūdī, the overseer of the endowment of Rabbanite Jews in Fusṭāṭ. The leasee is Makārim b. Abī al-Faraj b. Ṭāhir al-Yahūdī the perfumer. The term of the lease is one calendar year, and the rent to be paid is 6 dirhams per month.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a woman in Fustat to her brother Yūsuf al-Kharrāṭ (?) in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script.

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العلامات

• arabic address

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from the Qaraite Moshe b. Yiṣḥaq al-Maghribī, in Jerusalem, to Abu l-Faraj Nissim b. ʿAmram al-Ṣayrafī, in Fustat. Dating: Mid-11th century. The letter is addressed to the market of the producers of copper tools (sūq al-naḥḥāsīn) in Fustat. This fragment is only the beginning of the letter; the entirety of what remains consists of blessings and prayers and good wishes for the holidays.

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• arabic address

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"Belonging to Yiṣḥaq b. Saʿadya al-Manbijī (אלמנבגי)." This man appears also in Bodl.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The uncle of Bū Saʿīd Ibn al-Muqaddasī renounces his right in the "Estate of the Jerusalemites" in favour of his nephew. […] (Information from Gil, Documents, pp. 295 #64.) See also Goitein, Med Soc II, Appendix A, #165.

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العلامات

• 12th c
• estate of the jerusalemites

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

Sivan 1496 Seleucid (3 May 1185–1 June 1185 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Groom: Abū l-Barakāt b. Musallam al-Ṭabīb. Bride: Sitt al-ʿAlam bt. Netanel the Fifth.

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Document date

Wednesday, 22 Adar II 1472 Seleucid (1161 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Husband: Yaʿaqov b. Binyamin. Wife: Sitt al-ʿIrāq bt. Moshe. Written by Peraḥya b. Yosef. Also signed by Nadiv b. Yeshuʿa. The agent to give her the geṭ (documented on verso) was Yaʿaqov b.

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1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer sends greetings to the addressee's son Abū ʿAlī and his in-law Abū l-Ḥasan; also sends regards to Ḥasan and his maternal aunt.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentioning Abū l-Ḥasan Aʿraj (the lame) and ʿAllān the son of the sister of ʿA[rūs]. This is probably the India trader ʿAllān b. Ḥassūn; the reconstruction of ʿArūs in the lacuna is relatively certain because ʿAllān is among the very few people whose chief identifier is the name of his maternal uncle.

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Document date

Tuesday, 8 Nisan 1435 Seleucid (25 March 1124 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Shelomo ha-Kohen. Wife: Sitt al-Banāt bt. Nuʿmān ha-Kohen. Signed by the teacher Yiṣḥaq b. […] ʿAmram is the witness for the delivery of the bill of divorce to the wife (on verso). See also T-S NS 226.21.

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe

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Document date

8 Elul (4)811 Anno Mundi (18 August 1051 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Barhun b. Yiṣḥaq (Tripoli al-Gharb) to Nahray b. Nissim (Fustat), August 1051. Written a short time after the sinking of the ship of Waḥlān (also mentioned in T-S 10J19.9, a letter from Barhun's brother Nissim, Gil #393).

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العلامات

• nahray b. nissim
• trade

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Arabic

Fiscal register (possibly equivalent to what al-Makhzūmī and Ibn Mammātī call a rūznāmaj). Contains multiple entries, each with a date and a sum. Each entry has a pair of ʿalāʾim on top, suggesting a process of registration and certification akin to that on the fiscal receipts themselves. The procedure implied here is remarkably congruous with al-Makhzūmī’s claim that the mushārif and ʿāmil signed off not only on the receipts, but on the makhzūma of the jahbadh.

العلامات

• dimme
• fiscal register
• pinholes
• tax

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

The entries mostly begin "ḥāṣil yawm al-X. . . " Names include Gedalya; Dāʾūd; R. Natan. Large figures in the thousands. There are also adaptations of the thousand marking (diagonal slash) that require study (a variant of the myriad symbol with a sideways arrow underneath the thousand mark?).

العلامات

• myriad

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Commercial receipt for Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs (b. Yūsuf) al-Urjuwānī. Mentions a bale of lac. (ENA 3957.5, T-S Ar.35.128, T-S Ar.35.269, and T-S AS 184.265 are all similar and all for ʿArūs; ENA 3957.11 is from the same genre and for Nahray b.

العلامات

• account
• arus b. yosef
• commercial receipt

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Letter from Ḥayyim b. ʿAmmār b. Madīnī (Alexandria) to Yosef b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī, ca. 1062. The sender explains why a load of a medicinal herb greater celandine has not been sold: the price for it is currently low but might go up when a ḥajj caravan or ships from Spain arrive.

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• medicine
• prices
• trade

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Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Yeshuʿa b. al-Ṭabīb ('son of the physician') Ibn al-ʿAmmānī. Dating: late 11th or early 12th century, if this is the father of the well-known poet Aharon b. Yeshuʿa ha-Rofe Ibn al-ʿAmmānī (1109–43). The letter concerns 10 dinars, the sending of other letters, and a legal deed (sheṭar).

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Dealing with alimony/maintenance (mezonot) for a wife and son.. People mentioned: Ibn al-[...] (first line); Abū ʿAlī Yefet ha-Kohen and Moshe b.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: letter from Meʾir to Ḥananʾel al-Talmid. In Judaeo-Arabic. Confirming that action in a previously raised matter will be taken, possibly on the coming Sunday. […] Refers to various people (al-shaykh al-ajall X), including Natan. Might mention a sum of dinars at the bottom.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ḥananel to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yosef al-Arajawānī. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address partially in Arabic script. […] Refers to a ship that is apparently not traveling—not to al-Mahdiyya and not to al-Andalus. A qāḍī is sick, and the traders cannot trade.

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العلامات

• al-andalus
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• trade

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Describing the transactions related to a house originally belonging to the amīr Iftikhār al-Dawla Mubārak al-Afḍalī al-Juyūshī. The final transaction recorded in this document may have been made around 1130.

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Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Ismaʿīl b. Barhūn al-Tahartī (CUDL), Yosef b. Berekhya or Moshe b. Barhun al-Taharti, Qayrawān (PGP), to (Efrayim b.) Shemarya, Fustat. […] Shemarya was active, but this date range might be narrowed further based on the years when the potential senders were active/alive.

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العلامات

• geonim
• musa al-taherti
• qayrawan
• responsum

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة

Document date

Av 1413 Seleucid (18 July 1102–16 August 1102 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The estate is divided in equal shares between Abū l-Ḥasan and Sitt al-Kull in equal shares. Also mentions their brother Yefet b.

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Court record, drawn up in Fustat, recording a gift. Given by: Sitt al-Bayt bt. Hillel ha-Zaqen, the widow of R. Ḥiyya ha-Mumḥe b. […] This is the second entry on the page; the first seems to be an eschatological text. There is also a letter fragment on verso (PGPID 3117).

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العلامات

• court notebook

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Document date

5 Rabīʿ I 420 Hijrī (24 March 1029 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Fustat to Alexandria in which Mūsā b. Yaḥyā al-Majjānī writes to his business partner Abū l-Faraj Yehoshuaʿ b.

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• trade

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

The document may derive from the Jewish community in Sicily as it refers to Sicilian tari coins (טריים). Mentions Moses al-Ghadāmasī (אלגדאמסי, i.e. from Ghadāmis in Libya), Yehuda b. […] טבת), Yiṣ[ḥaq] he-Ḥaver, Shemuel b. Shelomo, and the Aleppan agent Yehoshuaʿ (אלחלבי האפיטרופוס). (Information from CUDL.)

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Document date

452 Hijrī (6 February 1060–25 January 1061 CE)

Mentions the news about the death of Isma’il b. Barhun al-Tāhartī. Also mentions that the trading with Sicily is still happens despite the events in the island.

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العلامات

• account
• al-tahirti
• nahray b. nissim

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

One of the Judaeo-Arabic lines refers to a bloodletting tray (qarūrat al-ḥijāma) studded with emerald and pearl. One of the Arabic lines is قد ضج زحر وشكا بثه مذ سخطت غصن على لافظ, a writing exercise that uses every letter of the alphabet once (if ى is counted as ي) and repeats only the alif.

العلامات

• bloodletting

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Commercial receipt from the dār of the qāḍī Abū Muḥammad al-Saṭāmī (?) for ʿArūs (b. Yosef) mentioning a bale of lac. See also: ENA 3957.5 T-S Ar.34.5 T-S Ar.35.128 T-S Ar.35.269 T-S Ar.39.187 T-S AS 179.142 T-S AS 184.265 T-S NS 297.65 ENA 3957.11 (for Nahray b.

العلامات

• commercial receipt

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

383 Hijrī (26 February 993–14 February 994 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Detailing the arrival of various consignments of Oriental goods like lacquer, frankincense, and pepper, it all seems to be by caravan. Dated: Jan–March 994 CE (Dhū l-Qaʿda 383 - Ṣafar 384 H). […] Shows signs of having been used in a book binding. There is also mirror image text on verso, reflected from another document.

العلامات

• dimme

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Draft of a letter/petition in Arabic script appealing for help from "mawlāy al-rayyis" on behalf of a "cut-off woman" (mara munqaṭiʿa) whose husband left her with three daughters "around her neck" whom she is unable to support. The sender appeals to the value of "protecting women from dishonor" (ṣiyānat al-ḥaram/ḥarīm min al-hatīka). Reused for Hebrew liturgy.

العلامات

• inqita'

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Underneath: "belonging to Hārūn b. Lāwī al-Yahūdī . . .," then a mention of the city of Alexandria, and then a number (a date?).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Mentions being in Tyre for 17 years; a book purchased in Egypt or Fustat years ago (the book may be by al-Ḥarīrī); the government; the stealing of the book; a lack of clothing and wine; the severe cold; having sent multiple letters; a bill of divorce; the son of a Gaʾon in Egypt or Fustat; Malīj; the cold again; and the ḥaver [Aha]ron b. Yoshiyyahu Av [...]; and Alexandria. AA/ASE

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العلامات

• alexandria
• tyre

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر