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Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Legal document, mentions ziqnei ha-yishmaelim. Deed of authorization of son to represent mother before her two brothers concerning the collection of debt at Efrayim b.

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العلامات

• muslims
• ulama

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Document date

Tishrei 1445 Seleucid (2 September 1133–1 October 1133 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Reused on recto for Hebrew piyyuṭ, the prayer for rain attributed to the teacher Abū Sulaymān, written by Yeshuʿa b. Mevorakh ha-Levi in Tishrei 445 (either 1053 CE if AH or 1133 CE if Seleucid).

العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragmentary, so difficult to figure out the details. Sets out provisions for the care of a minor boy until he comes of age. Mentions a female slave (al-jāriya al-kabīra) twice, once in the context of someone being granted ownership (תצרפת פי גאריתהא תצרף אלמלאך).

العلامات

• jariya
• slave

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to Abū ʿAlī Yeḥezqel, the brother of Ḥalfon b. […] (Information from Mediterranean Society, V, p. 590, and from Goitein's index cards.)

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Inferred date

8 September 1060–8 September 1060 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yisrael b. Natan from Jerusalem to Nahray b. […] Several financial issues between Israel and Nahray. Also mentions copying books and the writer asks for a shipment of cinnamon.

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العلامات

• 11th c

2 نسخين

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter (with Fatimid petition/report formulary) sent by the shammash (beadle) of Sunbāṭ in the center of the delta to Shemuel ha-Nagid (1140–59) describing a brawl and accusing the opponents of having arranged with the wali beforehand to look the other way. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, pp. 368, 369, and from Goitein's index cards)

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العلامات

• 12th c
• nagid
• sunbat

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Document date

742 Hijrī (17 June 1341–5 June 1342 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Very faded and barely legible. Mentions numerous people including Yosef b. [...], a woman, Nāṣir b. [...].

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Frontispiece of a book of Hebrew poetry and piyyutim, in the hand of Yedutun ha-Levi, with his signature inside of a medallion on the cover.

العلامات

• yedutun ha-levi

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter of petition to Saʿadya the great prince, probably the father of Mevorakh b.

العلامات

• petition

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Document date

968 Hijrī (22 September 1560–10 September 1561 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The commodity "wine" (נביד) is mentioned at least twice on the verso. MCD.

العلامات

• cmp

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic with some Hebrew. Written in an elevated register. Damaged and faded. Mentions Damsīs; sending something before Rosh Hashana; Abū Saʿīd; Sammanūd and Jūjar; Namir; 10 dinars; greetings to a brother and to 'the father Netanʾel Sar ha-Bina'.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Legal record (one large piece and 5 smaller pieces) mentioning a wālī and a girl.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal record of an adoption in which a man 'sells' his newborn daughter, 16 days old, whose mother had just died after childbirth, to a prominent lady for five dinars and promises that he will not interfere with the girl's upbringing. (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, pp. 248, 249) Verso, right column.

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Document date

41[.] Hijrī (1019–1029 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Verso (original use): Legal document in Arabic script. Small fragment from near the bottom. […] AH, corresponding to the range 1019–29 CE. Mentions a power of attorney (wakāla) and that this document was drawn up in triplicate.

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العلامات

• efrayim b. shemarya

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Probably the same handwriting as ENA NS 48.13 (per the note photographed with the image), which Frenkel has been identified as the hand of Abū Naṣr b. Avraham. Mentions Abū l-Surūr; a Christian; 200 dinars; pepper; lac ʿAmīd al-Dawla; Abū Musā Hārūn.

العلامات

• trade

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Document date

Tammuz 5353 Anno Mundi (1 July 1593–29 July 1593 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal deed In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Tammuz 5353 AM = Shawāl 1001 AH = July 1593 CE. […] Two other names are mentioned including Moshe Ajiman. There are accounts underneath, with western Arabic numerals.

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العلامات

• 16th c
• cedid

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer reports on receiving authorization (al-ʿalāma) to collect the kharāj tax from the official in charge of estates (ʿāmil al-mawārīth). The number 15 (dinars) is mentioned, as are Abū l-Mufaḍḍal and the tax farmer (al-Ḍāmin) Ibn Ḥabīb.

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العلامات

• damin
• kharaj
• tax

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A wide array of items are referenced such as lemon, carrot, fish, pepper, ginger, soap, olive oil, and bread (or possibly meat because "לחם" is ambiguous between JA and Hebrew).

العلامات

• inventory
• lemon
• olive oil
• pepper
• soap

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Dhū l-Ḥijja 1239 Hijrī (28 July 1824–25 August 1824 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

A list of names with Arabic numerals- probably an account of debts from a broader ledger. Dated 28, 29 D[hū] l-Ḥijja [11]39 or [12]39 AH (the accounts mention kurush, so they must be 18th- or 19th-century).

العلامات

• fgp stub

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Letter in Arabic script. Only a few lines from near the beginning are preserved. Mentions "the son of my paternal uncle Jibrīl," who may have defamed the sender or harmed him in some other way (lit.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Letter in Arabic script. The bottom 9 lines are preserved. Mentions Raḍiyy al-Dawla; sending things; possibly someone named ʿAbd al-Masīḥ; the intriguing line "Woe to the people of Aswān from [...]"

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1051–1051 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Ismāʿīl b. Salāma al-Ghazāl, al-Bahnasa, to Nahray b. […] Details about payments and business with local government officials in Upper Egypt. Mentions a stock of about 30 tons of grain. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 4, #709.)

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العلامات

• grain
• officials
• state
• suftaja
• trade

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Document date

Ramaḍān 452 Hijrī (29 September 1060–28 October 1060 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Verso (original use): Fragment of legal document(s) in Arabic script, though the hand resembles state documents. In the upper text block, mentions the end of Ramaḍān 452 AH = October 1060 CE.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Thursday, 7 Ṭevet 1338 Seleucid (19 December 1026 CE)

Lawsuit concerning a consignment of oil, which upon its arrival in Alexandria was left in the ship instead of being forwarded immediately to Fustat because the merchant in charge of it went directly to Palestine.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Legalmemorandum submitted by Avraham b. Shemaʿya to Avraham (b.

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العلامات

• communal

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Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Mevorakh b. Natan ha-haver containing congratulations to Passover for Shelomo ha-Rofe and "the sons of the generous Yeshua" (Hebrew: "Benei Yeshua Ha-Nadiv").

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العلامات

• 12th c

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yefet b. Shemuel to Moshe ha-Sar b. Peraḥya. […] Regarding the affairs of scholars and inquiring about the needs of a little girl who has been sick (ll. 16–18). Mentions Rabbenu Yeḥiel and Abū l-Bayān b. Ṭoviya ha-Ḥaver ha-Kohen.

العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: women's
• nar

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal fragment (right side). Concerning a husband and his wife Rayyisa bt. […] Yiṣḥaq ha-Talmid, under the authority of Mevorakh b. Saʿadya (d. 1111). Later its signatories were confirmed in Fustat.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment addressed "to the esteemed members of the holy community who live in [...]."

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Asher Sefardi to the head Parnas Abū l-Faḍl Mevorakh b.

العلامات

• 12th c

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from the judge Natan ha-Kohen b. Shelomo (in office ca. 1125-1150) to Abu al-Husayn Efrayim ha-Kohen b. Yosef the silk-merchant of Damietta. The writer wishes the sender a happy Jewish New Year and orders cloth from him.

العلامات

• 12th c

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document. Concerning a betrothal (qiddushin). Mentions the witnesses Bū ʿAlī b. al-Faḍlī (or al-Faṣlī?)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso, continuing onto recto: Letter from ʿAdiyya b. Peraḥya, in Sammanūd, to a judge, in Fustat. […] The addressee is called Nezer ha-Maskilim; he might be Zakkay, and the Nagid mentioned may be Shemuel b. Ḥananya. (Information from Goitein's index card.)

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to Sar Shalom, written by a man whose wife and son had been in captivity by Edom (Christians) and who had lost all his property and had no profession, asking for bread and clothing. […] (Information from Mediterranean Society, V, p. 595, and from Goitein's index cards}

العلامات

• communal
• petition

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Letter from Barhun b. Musa al-Tāhartī, probably from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim and ʿAyyāsh b. Ṣadaqa, Fustat. Mentions details about shipments of flax, several ships, and several of Nahray’s business partners as Ibn Sumgar family.

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العلامات

• flax
• trade

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Fragment of a letter from Alexandria, probably from Avraham b. Yosef al-Sabag, to Yosef b. […] Contains information about merchandises that have been sent from Egypt to the Maghreb, including silver, pepper, and linen.

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العلامات

• trade

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yaakov appoints one Abun as his attorney to claim whatever his late father might have left him in Egypt. (S. D. Goitein, Mediterranean Society, 1:407, no. 45) VMR The deed was confirmed in Al-Mahdiyya, Tunisia, and again in Alexandria.

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العلامات

• register
• spain

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Document date

Tammuz 1399 Seleucid (23 June 1088–21 July 1088 CE)

Recto: Fifty-two closely written lines of a legal verbiage written by Hillel b. Eli, dealing with the settlement of the debt of half a dinar owed after the purchase of one and one/half hundredweights of flax (worth about 14 dinars). […] (Information from Mediterranean Society, I, pp. 252, 463)

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العلامات

• flax

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Document date

495/524 Hijrī (1101–1130 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Report to the Fatimid caliph al-Āmir bi-Aḥkām Allāh regarding the arrival of five Christian (Rūm) merchants carrying timber: Sergius son of Constantine, [name partly illegible], Grasso son of Leo the Amalfitan, [name partly illegible] and Bon Senyon the Genoese.

العلامات

• byzantines
• timber

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The writer describes how he became so sick he despaired of life, but God sent health. Also mentions Abū l-Ḥasan b. Khulayf (first half of the 12th century) and Alexandria.

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العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: despair

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