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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter by Yosef b. Musa Tāhartī from Alexandria containing details about shipments of flax including.

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العلامات

• flax
• trade

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information from CUDL; see also Goitein's index card.)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Business letter from David to Shemuel in Alexandria discussing among other matters the delay in delivery of a deposit sent forth by the addressee.

العلامات

• trade

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Complete business letter from Nissim b. Yiṣḥaq al-Tāhartī, probably in Mahdiyya, to Musa b. Abi al-Hayy Khalila in Fustat.

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• trade

2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Natan b. Nahray in Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat, from 1080s.

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• 11th c
• dar'i
• nahray b. nissim
• natan b. nissim
• trade

4 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Prefaced with biblical verses and ornate praises. On the side that also has Arabic script, it mentions Khallūf and Yeshaʿya and someone's "going out to the villages."

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter sent from Alexandria by a father (Manṣūr b. Sālim) to his son, who had run away to the army, trying to bring him back.

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العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: women's
• mansur b. salim

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Business letter to Abu Yusuf containing information and instructions concerning various items. The letter also mentions a shipment of goods and may refer to trade with Europe.

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العلامات

• trade

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information from CUDL.) See also Goitein notes attached to this record.

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العلامات

• ib6
• india book

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter, detailed, sent from Tripolitania, Libya, by a man to his brother who had settled many years before in Alexandria. Dated August 1089. (Information from Goitein's index cards)

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العلامات

• personal

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Document date

1551 Seleucid (1 September 1239–17 September 1240 CE)

(Information from CUDL.) See also Goitein's index card.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Letter fragment from Khalaf b. Mubārak al-Ḥazzān or al-Jazzār. In Arabic script. Only the basmala, tarjama, and part of the first line are preserved.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated in the upper right corner, 2 Shawwal [year damaged]. The year is also damaged in the sub-heading on the lower left corner of the recto.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Repeatedly refers to ʿUmayr (or ʿAmid?) and Dāʾūd. Also mentions a qāḍī. Dating: 11th or 12th century. 3 bifolios.

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العلامات

• to examine next

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Note in Arabic script. The addressee al-Muʿallim Shams(?) is to give to the bearer a specified sum of silver. Dated, but the year is difficult to read. The name Isḥāq al-M[...] appears at the bottom. Needs examination.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

The price includes the transfer tax and the broker's commission (fīhā al-naql wa-l-jaʿāla, l. 3). (Information from Khan, ALAD, p. 23.)

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Only a few words and partial signatures preserved: Yaʿaqov, Nusayr, Yefet. Also possibly Jawhara (a woman's name). AA/ASE

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer seems to be a woman: "When I remained a widow (tarammaltu). . ." Also mentions "the ruin of the daughter (or house?).

العلامات

• women's letters

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

List of piyyuṭim? On verso there are also formulae typical of a petition. Dating: probably ca. 13th century.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions: "...the brothers... in a great rage on account of... because the judge (shofeṭ)... all of the capitation taxes... prayers from the old woman... [greetings] to all under your care."

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Headed by the basmala and perhaps continuing “sijillāt rafaʿahā X b. Y al-Wakīl… bi-l-nāḥiya al-… min aʿmāl…." Needs examination.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Mentions the names [...] al-Ṣiqillī and Isḥāq al-Maghribī. Verso: List of names with numbers, headed "Tuesday."

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Mercantile letter sent from Alexandria to ʿArūs b. Yūsuf. In Arabic script. The lines of Judaeo-Arabic on verso may be jotted accounts in the hand of ʿArūs.

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العلامات

• account
• arus b. yosef

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Ramaḍān 639 Hijrī (5 March 1242–3 April 1242 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

The columns are headed "al-mustakhraj" and "al-maṣrūf." Same format as JRL Genizah Ar. 322 (PGPID 33017).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Elul 1459 Seleucid (18 August 1148–15 September 1148 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Dated Elul 1459 Seleucid. Mentions al-Ḥazan al-Maghribī, Bu-Saʿīd, and many others.

العلامات

• 12th c

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

to treat his wife well. Also refers to "the other orphan girl under your care."

العلامات

• marital advice

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Minute fragment, contains only the the names of Sitt al-Thanāʾ and Berakhot b. Sayyid [...] ha-Kohen, probably to be married. (There is a Barakāt b. Sayyid al-Ahl in T-S NS 339.61.)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Some names partially preserved: [...] known as Ibn al-Shofeṭ, and [...] al-Ṣiqillī. In the hand of Halfon b.

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A list of names and expenses (cloths, food). On the verso also list of income. Mentions Efrayim; Abū Saʿd; Abū Naṣr; Abū l-Surūr; the landlady; Abū Naṣr; Yosef b.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender is calling in a loan of 8.5 dirhams and also tells the addressee to pay the messenger. There are pen trials in the upper margin and accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals on verso.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

"I read your [letter] and understood all you mentioned. . . As for what you mentioned about the Qaraite (? al-qara) with you. . . " Nothing more remains.

العلامات

• qaraite

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Ṣafar 1057 Hijrī (6 February 1647–6 April 1647 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Rent receipt? Mentions someone al-Ḥanafī and someone al-Yahūdī, and rent for a house for Muḥarram and Ṣafar 1057 AH = February/March and March/April 1647 CE.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Detailed, mentioning many specific names and commodities (manly textile goods: maqṭaʿ, miʿjar, maʿraqa; also mentions candles and cotton). Needs further examination.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

came to the court complaining about a matter of 100 silver pieces. Also mentions a woman named Muʾnisa.

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Primary language

Arabic

Commercial receipt (min dār al-[...]). See tag. Dated: 484 AH? Appears to be for al-Saʿd or Abū Saʿd.

العلامات

• commercial receipt

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In several different hands. There is also the draft of the beginning of a legal document, in Fustat, dated 24 Nisan '54 Seleucid.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

last third of Adar 1514 Seleucid (6 March 1203–14 March 1203 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The head of the bureau of estates (ṣāḥib dīwān al-mawārīth) sequestered the estate, so the Jewish elders had to approach the qāḍī overseeing the bureau (mutawallī dīwān al-mawārīth; this may be the same person as the sāḥib al-dīwān) and pay 30 dinars out of its value to "lift the hand of the dīwān from it." Other transactions from the proceeds of the sale: - 30 dinars less 1/6 to Ibn Amīn al-Dawla the ṣāḥib of the dār al-wakāla for a debt owed to him by the deceased - 23 dinars to Munā the freedwoman the wife of Abū l-Faraj Ibn al-Tinnīsī al-Parnas - 5 dinars less 1 qirat for wheat for the widow and daughter of the deceased - 4 dinars for his cousin (ibn ʿamm) and for burial expenses - the remaining 83 dinars were deposited with the prominent merchant Abū ʿImrān Moshe b.

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• 13th c
• diwan al-mawarith
• estate

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Inferred date

1136–1149 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

AIU XII.116 (PGPID 31027) is another version of the same letter, identified by Alan Elbaum. The AIU copy is written in Arabic script and may be the original of which this is a copy, or alternatively ENA NS 48.2 could be a draft for the more complete AIU XII.116. The AIU copy clarifies the context and several of the lacunae, e.g., Ibn al-Sudā[nī] should be emended to Ibn al-Saddār. […] It is possible that Maḍmūn wrote the Arabic letter to a Muslim merchant, his clerk copied part of it here in Judaeo-Arabic, and this fragment somehow found its way into Ben Yiju's possession who subsequently reused it. It is also possible that Maḍmūn is the addressee of this letter rather than its sender, and perhaps his clerk copied it into Hebrew characters for greater legibility.

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• dahlak
• ib2
• india book

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He reports that he is revered, because he has successfully humiliated all the competing cantors, and now nobody dares to chant in his presence. […] He asks for some aqwāl, which should be sent to the house of the Nezer along with instructions to forward them to Aleppo should the son have traveled already. He concludes by warning his father to seal all of his future letters—"and not with a heavy seal."

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العلامات

• aleppo
• cantor
• cheese
• conflict
• damascus
• (+ 6 المزيد)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Marduk b. Musa in Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat. Contains details concerning a number of complex, but interesting, accounts between Nahray and his associates: (1) a breakdown of the expenditure of 14½ dinars plus ½ qirat, part of a larger account from the previous year; (2) 310 dinars, including a balance from the previous year; and (3) 249 dinars and 2½ qirat for expenses, pepper, flour, and indigo. […] This points to the importance of letters as documents that could serve as a source of obligations and as a repository of information, commitments, instructions, etc. This fact also helps us understand why merchants collected and preserved their business letters. […] Also contains a moving passage in which Mardūk b.

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العلامات

• 11th c
• jariya
• marduk b. musa
• nahray b. nissim
• slave
• (+ 1 المزيد)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

They accordingly contemplate postponing their own journey until the following year (top margin, ll. 1–3). The letter also documents an active commercial and communications network connecting Tlemcen, Fez, Almeria, and Bijāya. […] They wrote to Ibn Barukh on the same day as this letter regarding Sulaymān and other matters entrusted to them by Ḥalfon, and also sent a copy of the present letter to Almeria because recent arrivals had brought them no news of Ḥalfon (verso, ll. 2–8). The commercial section gives current prices in Tlemcen for several eastern commodities, apparently including lac, pepper, tartar, ammonium chloride (nushādir), and cloves (verso, ll. 10–12). The writers also pursue a claim involving five dinars with Ibn Ḥārith.

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• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• india book

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Addendum of a letter from a judge in Fustat to his wife in Alexandria, encouraging her to buy a robe and advising her about the travel back and other matters.

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العلامات

• to edit

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Letter from Musa b Ya'qub, Tyre, to Abu al-'Ala Yusuf b. Daud b. Sha'ya, Fustat. NB shelfmark was incorrect in old PGP (Or. 1082 J42 instead of Or. 1080 J42)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Two accounts of Ibn Yiju written in Aden c. 1140–44/45 about transactions with the nakhūdā Abū ʿAbd Allāh Ibn al-Katāʾib,. This is the verso of III, 19.

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العلامات

• ib3
• ibn yiju
• india book
• paper
• trade

2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: 11th century. Mentions Ibn ʿAlī b. Raḥmūn al-Bazzāz, Abū Yiṣḥaq b. Sughmār, the brokers (dallālīn), and many other matters.

العلامات

• sughmar
• unedited 11th c

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