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Ya’aqov b. Awkal’s agent in Alexandria. The writer informs b. Awkal about a ship that suits b.

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

"mā rāḥ ḥaẓẓuk fī l-ʿūlyā bi-muntaqiṣ", a variant of the poem by al-Buḥturī. Contains a name "Ḥassūn b. Muḥamad b. ʿAbd al-Ṣamad". Needs examination.

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العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

(Information in part from Goitein's index card.) See also Med Soc III, p. 414 no. 319a.

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العلامات

• ketubba

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Document date

Tuesday, 13 Nisan 1326 Seleucid (5 April 1015 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Bride: Muʾammala, described as בעולתא (= not a virgin but also not a widow/ארמלתא or divorcee/גרושתא). In the hand of Yefet b.

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العلامات

• ketubba

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Needs examination. (There are also two lines in Arabic script on recto, which say "to my noble master" followed by blessings.)

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

21 Ramaḍān 544 Hijrī (22 January 1150 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Wuhayb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm Dated: 21 Ramaḍān 544 (22 January 1150). With endorsements/registrations at the top ("athbaṭū al-mablagh..."). It is unclear if/how the text on verso is related.

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Document date

15 January 1882 CE

Primary language

Arabic

Refers to the railroad (ṭarīq al-sikkat al-ḥadīd). Signed by Shamʿūn b. Yaʿqūb (Shimʿon b.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions the maṭbakh (sugar refinery) known by the name of "the sons of al-Lebdī" (awlād al-Lebdī); a deed (sheṭar) in the writer's possession, and an Arabic-script document.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Both instances of the name Sahlan are spelled without the usual alef.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Verso: Petition, probably ("al-mamlūk..."). In Arabic script. Small fragment from the upper right corner. Mentions the word Ṣalāḥ, which may be part of the name Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn (Saladin). Reused on recto for piyyuṭ. (Information in part from CUDL)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter mentioning a number of names (although most are broken off after Abū) such as al-Najīb, Abū l-Makārim, Abū Isḥāq, Maʿānī b.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Aramaic

Contains some rare formulae, some of which are also found in T-S 12.118. See M. A. Friedman's edition for further information.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts for brazilwood for Barhūn, mentioning several sums of dinars and people such as the Kohen at the Dār al-Baraka, Ibn al-Majjānī, and Mūsā. Hebrew numerals.

العلامات

• account

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Probably the top of a legal or communal declaration (naqūl....), introduced by a Hebrew composition with citations from Numbers 18:7 and allusions to Ezekiel 44:8. Location: Cairo (al-Muʿizziyya).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentioning Hilāl b. Binyām (appears also in T-S AS 148.166 and T-S 13J27.9) and, later, (Abū) l-Faraj Binyām.

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Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On verso (original use) there is a piece of a document in Arabic script greeting al-Ḥakīm Jamāl al-Dīn. (Information from CUDL and Amir Ashur.)

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العلامات

• avraham maimonides autograph
• cheque
• order of payment

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions al-Talmid al-Jalīl αnd something to do with the synagogue (עלי אלהיכל קבל ראש השנה), and conveys greetings "from the congregation."

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Seems to be complaining about the difficulties faced this year: "...we have no mind and no [...] from all the storms (? al-anwāʾ) which have happened to us..."

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer is sending regards to some family members including Efraim, and also to his sister Rivka and to Mas’uda, Amran, Zaharun and Moshe.

العلامات

• ja
• late

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender has purchased flour. Also mentions sugar and sending things back and forth.

العلامات

• tarjama on right

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions values of some items and then Yefet b. ʿAmram al-Dayyān and ʿAbd al-Munʿim.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions names such as Abū ʿAbdallāh and Hibtallāh b. al-Ḥasan b. Khalaf al-Qaysarānī. Merits further examination.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Letter from Abū ʿAlī b. Barakāt al-Isrāʾīlī to Abū Saʿīd b. Abū Sahl, in the perfumers' market in Fustat.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The recto mentions a date in Jumada al-Awwal but the meaning of the alphanumerical year is unclear: מץ[?]

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Account in Arabic script, probably fiscal based on the hand and the extravagant line spacing. The top line mentions al-jarīda al-madkhūra. L. 6 refers to a waẓīfa.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

After the beginning of a citation of a legal document, it refers to the death of Abū Manṣūr, who is "the son of my sister"; it is not clear if this is an actual person or a fictional example. Also mentions "the illnesses of his heart."

العلامات

• illness

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List of recipients of charity (bread) along with the khuddām al-kanīs (the list begins with three parnasim).

العلامات

• charity
• communal
• glyph
• moshe b. levi
• poverty
• (+ 1 المزيد)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

Verso: A few words in giant, calligraphic Arabic script: mawlāy al-shaykh al-jalīl. . . . Recto: Rhymed Hebrew maxims about the months of the years, including Tammuz, Sivan, and Av (the last, roughly translated, "in like a lion, out like a lamb").

العلامات

• arabic script

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Original use: Bottom part of a state document in Arabic script, containing only the ḥamdala, taṣliya, and ḥasbala. There is also one more word written in the margin at an angle.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

The sender expresses his gratitude to the addressee, who may be referred to as al-mawlā al-shihāb(ī). Mentions an account (ḥisāb) and a dīwān.

العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Ibn Elishaʿ, Alexandria, and the number 70 (in the margin).

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العلامات

• alexandria
• ib-addenda
• ib5
• india book unedited

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138) informing on various business transactions including one to Dammuh. Cairo is also mentioned in the fourth line from the bottom of the recto.

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe
• yefet b. menashshe

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Inferred date

1871–1888 CE

Primary language

Arabic

Typewritten or printed letter addressed to Moshe Pardo, the head rabbi of Alexandria (served 1871–88). In Arabic script, with Hebrew insertions.

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العلامات

• christians
• messianism
• printed

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Primary language

Hebrew

Verso: List of names including Salāmah Ra's al-Kull, Abū l-Faraj b. al-Qaṭā'if, Yūsuf Ṣayrafī, Isḥāq Sharābī, [...] b.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions the names ʿOvadya and David, and reports that the son ('the noble branch' / al-farʿ al-najīb) R. Ḥayyim is in good health.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a will in which a gift is given to Abū l-Faraj, the brother, and to Abū Saʿd, of a part of a house and a warehouse including some books, probably written by Hillel b. ʿEli. Also mentions a copy of the book Midrash Hashkem (מדרש השכם).

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العلامات

• will

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions 11 dinars, something related to the government (al-[...] al-maḥrūsa), the year 610 (=1213/14 CE) or 620 AH (= 1223/24 CE), and other quantities in pounds.

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Document date

522 Hijrī (6 January 1128–24 December 1128 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Written on a reused page that already had a few words in Arabic script written on it (referring to the months of the year 522 AH = 1128/29 CE). On verso there is a Hebrew alphabet writing exercise.

العلامات

• arabic script

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Nisan 1411 Seleucid (13 March 1100–11 April 1100 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: before the middle of Nisan 1411 Seleucid = March 1100 CE. Yosef b. Yosef al-Labbān (the milkman), receives from 'the money of the poor' one dinar as a loan to be paid back in weekly installments of two dirhams. […] Shemuel (the Spaniard). This record is also signed by Moshe b. Ṣalḥūn and Ṣedaqa b. Shelomo ha-Levi.

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Primary language

Arabic

Verso: Document in Arabic script, some sort of an agricultural account or survey. Mentions al-maydān al-baḥrī, potholes for sowing, pomegranate and, olives. "fī l-maydān al-baḥrī... (first line); sitta ʿashara ḥafra fī kull ḥafra...gharth (or maybe yughras)..

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العلامات

• agriculture
• dimme
• register

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Nissim, in Būṣīr, to Abū Isḥāq Barhūn b. Ṣāliḥ al-Tāhartī and his cousin Barhun b. Mūsā, in Fustat. […] The letter contains instructions about the business in Fustat while Nahray is absent. Also mentions business with several Muslims. In addition, mentions silk that awaits in Sicily.

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العلامات

• flax
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: recovered

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Only the last three lines are preserved, then two lines in Hebrew, 'may I be the ransom of the brother (al-akh al-shaqīq) from all evil.' Verso: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic with rudimentary handwriting and spellings.

العلامات

• arabic script
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: du'f
• illness: emotion
• (+ 2 المزيد)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

F1: List of names: [...] b. ʿAmram ha-Kohen; Tāj al-Dawla; Elʿazar ha-Kohen. Written in both Hebrew and Arabic script. F2: Letter fragment in Arabic script: "... wa-anā usayyir lakum kitāb al-majlis..." F3: Letter fragment in Arabic script, wide space between the lines: "...adāma Allāh ʿizzahum wa-mundhu sārū..."

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter sent by a physician from Qalyub, who had opened an office in Fustat, inviting his wife (who is his paternal cousin) to join him there and mentioning that the response of the public had been excellent, although he suffers from professional competition. […] Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 256; III, p. 30. The writer also conveys his sadness upon hearing that the addressee had an eye illness; he wishes he could be there to treat in in person, but suffices with sending a prescription together with this letter.

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العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: eye
• illness: treatment
• illness: women's
• (+ 2 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In the greetings in the end of the letter Abu Ishaq, Sitt al-Dallal , Sitt al-Sada, Abu al-Ma'ali and Abu Sahl the cantor are mentioned.

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة