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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The currency used is the riyal (ריאליס). There is also a lovely illustration of three birds. ASE.

العلامات

• 18th c
• illumination
• ladino words

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Includes details about shipment from Fustat to the ship in Alexandria. Similar to T-S Arabic 30.123, this time the shipment is of varnish.

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العلامات

• nahray b. nissim
• trade

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Likely medical or culinary (wa-yustaʿmal al-... bi-ṭabīkh al-ḥummuṣ(?)... wa-l-ʿaṣāfir...).

العلامات

• prescription
• recipe

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Primary language

Arabic

Concerning the sale of a shop (dukkān). Verso also contains some jottings, several signatures and dates as well as a sum of dirhams, evidently related to recto.

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Primary language

Arabic

Possibly accounts, but could also be calendrical reckoning or something else.

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Document date

Dhū l-Qaʿda 543 Hijrī (13 March 1149–11 April 1149 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The renter is Badr. b. ʿAlīal-Tinnisī(?) and the rentee is probably Dihya b.

العلامات

• dimme
• rental agreement

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Mentioning a sum owed to Ibn al-ʿAsqalānī; an amount he owes for cotton; his cousin (ibn ʿamm) Hiba; Muḥammad; and al-Ḥājj Nāṣir.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Saʿadya) ha-Levi (ca. 1181–1209 CE). Also signed by Elʿazar b. ʿUlla ha-Levi. (Information in part from Goitein's index cards)

العلامات

• inventory

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

"Notice of what I copied for al-Mahdiyya with [...] with Maʿālī as agent for Abū Saʿīd Ibn al-Gharbī. . . and success is in God, God willing."

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions "that which remains from the two heads of sheep/livestock" (... baqiya min al-raʾsayn al-ghanam...").

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Primary language

Arabic

Layout is that of the usual jizya (capitation tax) receipts, however this is for the ground rent (ḥikr) payment of a group of people (al-mujab ʿalayhim) in Fustat. The payment seems to be only 1/2 dinar for an entire year (572 AH?).

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العلامات

• hikr

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Primary language

Arabic

Difficult to read except for the phrase "in shāʾa allāh ʿazza wa-jalla" at the end of l. 1. Needs further examination. Join: Alan Elbaum.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions people such as Ibn al-Jazzār and ʿAllān. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating is perhaps 16th-century or later based on the paleography. There is also a brief line of Arabic further down the recto that mentions Yaʿacob.

العلامات

• 16th c or later

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Inferred date

1025–1051 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yehuda served as Gaon. See also PGPID 31556.

العلامات

• responsum
• shelomo b. yehuda

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe and Abū Saʿīd al-Rubbān. Accounts are in dirhams and fractions of dirhams. Commodities referred to include wood, oil, almonds, and grapes. Rudimentary hand resembling that of T-S K5.76.

العلامات

• account
• oil

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto and verso: Letter recounting how a storeroom in Alexandria belonging to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat, was opened and it was discovered that the grain was spoiled (talaf); the writer asks for instructions on what to do with it.

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العلامات

• alexandria
• grain
• nahray b. nissim
• trade

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Concerning a man who became sick and had some mental confusion (ikhtibāl al-ʿaql wa-shughl al-dhihn) and something happened with a geṭ.

العلامات

• illness
• illness: mental effects
• legal query

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from the daughter of Manṣūr al-Zayyāt [...] al-Sofer. Only the introduction and a few partial lines in the left margin are preserved.

العلامات

• women's letters

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Primary language

Arabic

Fragments of two lines are preserved: ... fa-asqaṭahu min al-shahāda... min shuhūd al-bilād man yustaṣlaḥ lahā...

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On parchment. involving Abū ʿAlī [Ye]fet b. Avraham and allotments of various quantities (e.g., "9 qirats").

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe

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Primary language

Arabic

The petitioner seems to be a female slave (and not just a figurative slave/mamlūka): "wa-tunhī al-mamlūka annahā jāriya kānat...." In the margin, it may say that "she is in the room of ʿAlī Ibn Zaf[fān or Zaffāt]."

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العلامات

• hujra

1 نسخ

Primary language

Arabic

Recto is more difficult to read, but is also a sale document. Mentions "شرا صحيحا". Needs further examination.

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Primary language

Arabic

Learned philosophical discussion of the movements of the heavenly spheres (ḥarakāt al-ajrām al-samāʾiyya) and the human intellect and possibly the existence or lack of existence of astrological influences.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a business letter, probably the upper margin. Mentions a cantor (al-ḥazzān); Mubārak Ibn al-[...]; 4 dinars; Abū ʿUmar; an agent (wakīl); Fustat/Egypt; and "I fear that my brother-in-law...."

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Eliyyahu ha-Kohen “Beit Din” b. Avraham from al-Raqqah to Ya’aqov he-Ḥaver b. Yosef, Aleppo, ca. 1030. The writer thanks the addressee for taking care of his son, Amram, while he visited Aleppo. Eliyyahu mentions his satisfaction from his status as a judge in three communities in his town (probably the Iraqis, Shamis, and Qaraites), from his acceptance by several heads of Yeshivas in Iraq and the Exilarch (Rosh ha-Gola), and from his good relationships with the Qaraite community and the town governor. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #73) VMR Summarized by Frenkel as follows: The letter is effusive in self-praise and relates the writer’s actions and feats as the leader of the al-Raqqa community. He recounts how he “revived the Torah of Moses” and how he “returned many who went astray to the straight path,” and described how he sought to educate both Rabbanites and Karaites, “who, under our authority, have joined the Rabbanites.”

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العلامات

• communal
• state

1 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a man to his 'brother' Abū l-Khayr and to his brother Manṣūr al-Dhabbāḥ, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. […] But all turned out well." The writer goes on to explain why he himself left his family: because no one in Fustat could properly treat his illness. He went to Ibn al-Dihqān (when still in Fustat?), who did not know whether his back was ʿāṭib or not.

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العلامات

• arabic address
• bonesetter
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: back
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Khalaf doesn’t request payment for his services, because the stationary merchant, unlike the traveling merchant, traded for partners outside his home port not in exchange for compensation, but on the basis of reciprocity. Almostall the proceeds were invested immediately in new transactions that had to be done in India. […] He gives prices in the coin of Aden, the Malikī dinar, corresponding to 24 qīrāṭs, while textiles are traded in units of kawragha (pl. kawārigh), which is a bundle of twenty thawb (pl. athwāb; the word means not only cloak, but the unit of fabric of the size needed to make one). Also relates to the transactions discussed in a letter from Halfon to Maḍmūn b. […] This cluster of documents also makes it possible to estimate how long Ḥalfon b.

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العلامات

• ib4
• india book

2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Astrological almanac with prognostications regarding the month of Abīb in the Coptic calendar, when the Nile begins to rise. […] Agricultural fortunes will be mixed: there will be abundant fish, figs, grapes, and flax, but scarce olives, blighted legumes, and death of animals in Alexandria and the Maghrib. But "God knows best what is hidden." […] The continuation is missing. Marina Rustow & Alan Elbaum

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العلامات

• medical
• prognostication

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Account of Abu al-Maʿālī(?), specifying weight and prices of goods. […] Someone with the title "al-Segulat" (אלסגלאת) appears in the header. There is one line in Arabic script at the bottom, probably part of the same reckoning.

العلامات

• account
• trade

1 نسخ

Primary language

Arabic

Abū [...] is named, as are Qaṣr al-Rūm and Qaṣr al-Shamʿ.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Crude orthography (e.g. רשאלמל = raʾs al-māl, לא = lahū, אלרזולי = al-Ghuzūlī).

العلامات

• cmp

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Document date

Dhū l-Qaʿda 606 Hijrī (27 April 1210–26 May 1210 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions the date Dhū l-Qaʿda 606 AH = April/May 1210 CE. Also mentions a period of two years and very large sums of money (over 800 dinars).

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Primary language

Arabic

The verso is probably a petition, mentioning a state official by the name Ḥusām al-Dīn Asad al-Dawla wa-...... The recto seems like an annotation, and the main line reads: "imtathal l-marsūm wa-quriʾat hādihi l-[.....]"

العلامات

• arabic

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Greetings to Ibrāhīm b. Ḥassūn al-Mahdawī along with apologies for not writing him his own letter.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The writer explains that the family has no money for the coming holiday and no wood or oil; they have never been among the takers but always among the givers; there is someone in the house who is seriously ill (wajaʿ/wajiʿ ʿalā khuṭṭa).

العلامات

• appeal
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: khutta

1 نسخ

Document date

Rabīʿ I 435 Hijrī (8 October 1043–6 November 1043 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Legal document (iqrār) in Arabic script. Ḥammād b. Hiba al-A[...] makes a declaration concerning the jahbadh of the diwan and a sum of 70 dinars. Dated: Rabīʿ al-Awwal 435 AH, which is 1043 CE. Reused for Judaeo-Arabic midrashic text on the 10 commandments.

العلامات

• diwan
• jahbadh

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Listing numbers of "asbāb" and "abdān" and giving an explanation of some sort. The verso mentions "al-ḥālat al-wusṭā", and some fractions in Arabic numerals.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

"Their summoning to the court. . . " It seems she has also been deprived of access to her athāth (=qumāsh=dowry?)

العلامات

• aguna
• athath
• marital dispute

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Reports a dialogue and mentions "what he did with the daftar" and "other than that which al-ḥaver al-meʿulle told me." (Information in part from CUDL.)

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in a crude hand (previously misidentified as that of ʿArūs) mentioning money and quantities of various commodities received from a druggist, such as tamarind, saffron, rosewater, rose preserve, and myrobalan (halīlaj). Also names such as Abū Isḥāq and Ibn Nuṣayr. (Information from Goitein's index card and CUDL.)

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