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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Mufaḍḍal and Abū l-ʿIzz (all called 'al-rayyis,' probably meaning physician here).

العلامات

• debt
• wine

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Primary language

Arabic

The sender is saying, to paraphrase, "I am your most devoted servant, so don't force me to file a complaint with a higher authority over such a little matter" (...fa-yakūn al-mamlūk mamlūk mawlānā ʿumrī kulluh yuḥrijunī an ashtakī li-l-sulṭān ʿalā hadhā l-miqdār wa-mawlānā...).

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العلامات

• petition

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Primary languages

Judaeo-Arabic, Ladino

Several other entries on the recto also name individuals with the Ottoman title çavuş, such as: Muḥammad Çavuş and Ferḥat Çavuş.

العلامات

• 16th or 17th c
• cmp

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

"I thought you were a religious, praying man. . . ." She also mentions that her mother died. Needs further examination.

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العلامات

• aguna
• damascus
• distant husband
• women's letters

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Contains some Arabic words inserted into Hebrew script; 'law taʿllaq ʿalā', muʿallaq ʿalaihā, muʿallaq. The bottom half of the recto contains 6 lines in what looks like code or a cipher with some symbols that look like Arabic letters.

العلامات

• arabic script
• drawing
• magic
• occult
• pregnancy

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Sums are large: 300 dinars, 150 dinars, 25 dinars. Also mentions Abū Yaʿqūb and various quantities of maqṭaʿ cloths.

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العلامات

• list

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Document date

1474 Seleucid (11 September 1162–30 August 1163 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The parties: Abū l-Khayr al-Ṣabbāgh b. Abū l-[...]; Ṣedaqa b. Shelomo b. Yosef ha-Dayyan; Abū l-Waḥsh Sibāʿ al-Tājir and his brother Abū l-[...]. (Information from Goitein’s index card.)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Upper right fragment, recto: Bottom left corner of a letter in Hebrew sent from the community of Aleppo (צובה) to another community. In Hebrew. Mentions Efrayim, a dignitary (sar) named Abū Manṣūr ha-Gizbar ("the treasurer"), [...] ha-Kohen b.

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العلامات

• aleppo

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The entries list various items of furniture and household goods, their values, and people associated with them. The last four entries all have the word "nafadha" above them ("it was carried out"). The names include al-Dayyan; Ṭāhir; and Mufaḍḍal (Ṣayrafī?). The items include tables (מאידה), chairs (כרסי), steps (?

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Document date

549 Hijrī (18 March 1154–6 March 1155 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Seems to be regarding the administration of the dhimmīs who live (al-mustamirrīn al-qiyām) in a certain district (nāḥiya).

العلامات

• dimme
• fatimid decree

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Some persons are mentioned: Abū l-Faraj ibn al-Tawwazī, Sulaymān, and the nephew (brothers' son) of Khalfūn. Dating: ca. 1200 CE (Abū ʿImrān Moshe Tifʾeret ha-Kohanim and Abū l-Faraj Ibn al-Tawwazī are both known from other documents from this period).

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العلامات

• communal

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Refers to the remainder of the price of a female donkey; a request for a fatwā from 'adonenu'; somebody who took an oath not to pray 'behind me' (i.e., when Moshe is leading services); this was followed by great regret; continues to discuss oaths and cantors and a place where the is no other cantor; mentions Shemini ʿAṣeret; somebody planning to enter Cairo (אלקהרה); a request for a maqṭaʿ cloth from the clothier (al-bazzāz); greetings to Abū ʿAlī.

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العلامات

• moshe b. levi
• to examine

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Friday, 26 Kislev 1401 Seleucid (2 December 1089 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mevorakh Ibn [...], now remarrying another woman, undertakes to provide for his divorcee Sitt al-Bayt bt. Yosef (the mother of his son Abū l-ʿAlāʾ) 1/3 dinar per month (= 4 dinars per year) for a period of 4 years.

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العلامات

• divorce
• remarriage

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Document date

8 Tevet 5492 Anno Mundi (6 January 1732 CE)

appears in the third line up from the bottom of the scan. The latter surname also appears in l. 2r as part of another entry where funduqli coinage is in use.

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العلامات

• 18th c
• ladino
• list
• to examine

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

"New Cairo, Thursday, early: an appointment with al-Sadīd. Toward nighttime: an appointment with Waliyy al-Dawla.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

13 Heshvan 5311 Anno Mundi (23 October 1550 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Husband: Shammas b. ʿAbd al-Karīm known as Muṣallī. Wife: Sitt al-Bayt bt.

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العلامات

• 16th c
• divorce
• rashid

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The second mentions Alexandria and gives the year 1481 Seleucid = 566 AH, which is 1170 CE.

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العلامات

• calendar
• colophon
• literary with documentary value

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He now asks for malāff(?) ẓāhiriyya(?) from Dār al-Bayḍ ("Casablanca"), perhaps a type of garment. Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbdallāh al-Baghdādī should send it to him with the muleteer (ḥammār).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

And there are verses by al-Mutanabbī on the east wind, copied by someone who was not a fan (lā raḍiya Allāh ʿanhu): الجزوا (الجزء) الاول من ديوان ابي الطيب المتنبي البصري(؟) لا رضي الله عنه من قوله في الصبا: أَبلى الهَوى أَسَفاً يَومَ النَوى بَدَني وَفَرَّقَ الهَجرُ بَينَ الجَفنِ وَالوَسَنِ.

العلامات

• al-mutanabi
• arabic script
• classical arabic poetry

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He reports that he sent all the money that Sālim b. Khaṣīb(?) owed to Abū ʿAlī Ḥusayn, namely 21 dinars + 1/3 + 1/4 + 1/8.

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Inferred date

1700–1900 CE

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic of expenses and purchases for various liturgical calendar weeks (i.e. the week of Kedoshim parsha) and the food items for a Passover seder are also listed. The itemized accounts are extremely well-detailed: i.e. soap, lemon, rice, wax, beans, taḥīna, among many other entries.

العلامات

• 18th or 19th c
• lemon
• passover
• rice
• soap
• (+ 2 المزيد)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

14 Jumāda II 1237 Hijrī (8 March 1822 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

State-issued order of payment from the Treasury of Silk Looms in Alexandria. Date: 14 Jumāda II 1237 AH (1820 CE). A total of 150 kuruş are to be paid five ways by Mūsā Ben-Naʿīm, a ṣarrāf in the state administration.

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العلامات

• 19th c
• alexandria
• dimme
• silk

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Document date

12 Sivan 1814 Seleucid (6 June 1503 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Given the context, שראבי may also indicate some type of gemstone possibly through the root س-ر-ب (mirage).

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العلامات

• sholal

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions a benefactor of 'the Alexandrians,' but the context is unclear. Greetings to the addressee's siblings and to Khallūf.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He concludes, "The amir intends to come in [to Fusṭāṭ], and you must go to him and welcome him and thank him. Likewise Muwaffaq al-Dawla al-Ustādh. By God, I have the utmost gratitude for him."

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العلامات

• amir
• to edit
• ustadh

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Letter from Mardūk b. Mūsā (Alexandria) to Yosef b. ʿEli Kohen Fāsī (Fustat), ca. 1065.

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العلامات

• nahray b. nissim
• trade

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Document date

416 Hijrī (4 March 1025–21 February 1026 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Another 4 months are stipulated. There is also a sum of 70 dinars involved somehow. (Information from Goitein's index card.)

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العلامات

• dimme
• marriage
• to edit

2 نسخين

Document date

1445 Seleucid (2 September 1133–19 September 1134 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The testimony is about a woman who "cries out and writhes in pain (tastaghīth wa-tataḍawwar) from her husband's beating of her with his foot." A group of Alexandrians then enters the story. The rest of the document is missing.

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العلامات

• abuse
• marital dispute

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to Yaʿaqov b. Raḥamim al-Miṣrātī, the servant (? ṣabiyy) of Yaʿaqov b. […] Greetings are sent to Sulaymān, Yiṣḥaq, David, and a woman ('al-muʿallima') named Saʿādāt. She is asked to look after Yaʿaqov.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He arranges to have his two sons Abū Saʿd and Maḥāsin be the heirs of the balance of his property, and he orders that his wife Sitt al-[...] bt. Abū l-Maḥāsin function as executor for all his children.

العلامات

• will

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Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yequtiʾel b. Moshe is also known from T-S 24.1, dated 1082 CE, and numerous other documents from the India Book.

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Document date

8 Tishri 1369 Seleucid (9 September 1057 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document in which Shimʿon ha-Levi agrees to rent his wife a place to keep her belongings separate from his; Shimʿon also takes over her dowry without permission. Signed by Ghālib ha-Kohen b.

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العلامات

• eli b. amram

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Ibrahim Ibn al-Ḥaver, probably in Fustat, to Ibrāhīm Ibn al-Melammed, in Malīj.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Natan b. Nahray, from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1062.

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العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: fright
• illness: recovery
• illness: waja'

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Document date

1341-03-18 Seleucid (26 November 1029 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

The divorce is between Ṣedaqa b. Mūsā and Umm al-Khayr bt. Mūsā. The witnesses are Ṣedaqa b. Naḥūm ha-Kohen and Wahab b. […] On the verso is a note in Arabic script regarding Umm al-Khayr returning engagement gifts. (Information from Goitein's index card)

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Document date

1466-11-19 Seleucid (20 July 1155 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Husband: Manṣūr b. Maḥfūẓ al-Kohen. Wife: Sitt al-Dār bt. Bū Naṣr. Witnessed by: Mevorakh b.

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Document date

1446 Seleucid (20 September 1134–9 September 1135 CE)

Yūsuf, known as Ibn Kujik (כוגך, Kushek, Persian 'Small') and Abū ʿAlī b. Shemuʾel b. Shelomo, known as Ibn al-Dustarī.

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العلامات

• debt

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information from Mediterranean Society, V, pp. 218-219 and partial translation in Mediterranean Society, III, p. 228.) See also T-S NS 163.86 (PGPID 23740).

العلامات

• personal

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The letter was sent with al-Shaykh al-Kohen Abū l-Fakhr. (Information from Goitein's index cards; Goitein did not think the recipient was actually his father but does not explain why.)

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العلامات

• arabic script

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender complains that business is poor; mentions Alexandria and Fustat/Cairo; mentions various people such as his sister Jamīla, possibly the female slave of his cousin (ואלגרייה מתע אבן עמתי) David Falījī.

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Document date

28 Adar II 1535 Seleucid (21 March 1224 CE)

(Information from CUDL.) See also Goitein's attached notes.

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العلامات

• 13th c

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Document date

Last decade of Iyyar 1438 Seleucid (2 May 1127–12 May 1127 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

This fragment contains the end of an agreement about a fictive sale of 1/3 of a house possessed by one Shelomo known as Tamīm, also involving a woman. On "fictive sales" as vehicles for obtaining interest, see Med Soc III, p. 330n77 and T-S 12.502 (doc. 43 in Gershon Weiss's dissertation).

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Document date

Late Elul 1460 Seleucid (August 1149 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Adaya, known as Ben ‘Adi, receives a loan of 45 dirhams from Hibat Allah, the orphan of the recently deceased Abu al-Faraj, in the last third of Elul 1460 sel.

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العلامات

• loan
• orphan

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Document date

19 Tevet 1486 Seleucid (15 December 1174 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Nataniel recording that he would not honor an agreement according to which 25 dinars out of a debt owed to him by Abu al-Khayr b. al-Tinnisi would be paid to him immediately, five at the end of the month, five in monthly installment of one quarter, while he would forego the remaining 20 dinars owed to him.

العلامات

• duress

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