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Judaeo-Arabic

Friedman believes the handwriting "resembles that of Elijah ben Zechariah who served as judge in Alexandria at least from 1204 and in Fustat during the years 1222–36.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Goitein pithily describes it as "mostly about losses" (hence all the sender's excuses and justifications). The sender previously sent the addressee's business accounts with a man who traveled first to Barqa and then traveled on to Egypt by land(!). […] The sender learned that a caravan arrived in "the mountain" (al-Jabal) from Ghāniya (? גאניה)—referring to the territory of the Banū Ghāniya?

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

She testifies concerning the will that the father of her son made for that son and bemoans her state as a "cut-off" woman. There is also someone named Moshe b. Yeshuʿa involved. The continuation of the document is damaged and difficult to make sense of, but mentions an orphan son, debts, expenses, and quotes different people's speech.

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Document date

12 Kislev 1405 Seleucid (4 December 1093 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Betrothal record from 1093 in which the obligatory betrothal gift is 4 and one/sixth dinars. The document also stipulates the daughter receives the uppermost floor of a house; if she preferred to live elsewhere, she would receive rent, but her father and his heirs were responsible for the payment of the ground rent and watchman.

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العلامات

• betrothal

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Moshe asks Araḥ to assist him in delivering a debt of one dinar and not to withhold the wheat he posses, since the condition of the people is difficult. Moshe also expresses desire to accompany Araḥ in his next commercial voyage.

العلامات

• nar

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Primary language

Hebrew

Customs taxes (מכס), the cities of Rosetta (רשיד) and Venice (ויניציאה), and ships’ captains (קפטאן) are also mentioned. Dated Wednesday 2 Tammuz ‘after midnight’ (written as ב with two sublinear dots to differentiate from כ).

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Eli ha-Kohen Fasi, from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1054.

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العلامات

• coin
• suftaja
• textiles
• trade

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Shemarya, in Fusṭāṭ, to the Babylonian congregation in Damascus, sending greetings as part of his efforts to raise funds for his school in Fusṭāṭ, adding that a new law forbids them from approaching the Caliph for assistance. The writer also mentions that his son-in-law drowned while away on a commercial voyage and his widowed daughter remains in Qayrawān, pregnant and impoverished.

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العلامات

• jewish community

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Inferred date

1237–1300 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Barak[āt] b. Shela ha-Levi al-Sukkarī (the sugar-maker) (bride). Groom: [...] b. […] The bride is entitled to keep her earnings, although the bridegroom has to provide her clothing.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

It is not clear whether there remain any clues to what the actual matter at hand is. This fragment also contains a Judaeo-Arabic tafsīr of Ezekiel 23:22–25, writing exercises of Psalms 119:195, and repetitions and variations of the name Yeshuʿa ha-Talmid b.

العلامات

• draft

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Primary language

Arabic

In the margin there are scattered additional notes, including "to Elʿazar" (in Hebrew characters), two upside down entries referring to al-tawqiʿ al-karīm. Needs further examination.

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العلامات

• dimme
• double petition
• lost archive
• multihanded
• physicians
• (+ 2 المزيد)

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Primary language

Arabic

Mentions the leaders of the Jews and a man known as Barakāt b. [...] the perfumer (al-ʿaṭṭār) in the Sūq al-Kabīr, possibly a complaint that the Jewish leaders didn't assist him or the petitioners?

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Document date

21 Dhū l-Qaʿda 403 Hijrī (3 June 1013 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 21 Dhū l-Qaʿda 403 (Khan reads 26 Dhū l-Qaʿda 403). […] Written by the jahbadh Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ. Amount of payment: one-half, one-third, and one-eighth dīnār and two ḥabbas (Khan reads two, one-half, one-third and one-eighth).

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العلامات

• abu l-hasan b. wahb
• daman

2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Qashīshāt (an Ibn Qashīshāt is also mentioned in ENA 2738.23) and other unusual names: Wahīb b.

العلامات

• materia medica
• trade
• tutty

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Gerrit Bos), 44–56; and Oliver Kahl, Ibn al-Tilmīdh's Dispensatory, recipes 70 (a bitter musk remedy though with little ingredient overlap), 74 (the sweet musk remedy, with significant overlap), and 116 and 121 (which similarly employ luxury ingredients such as pearls, gold and silver, amber, coral, and silk). Join: Alan Elbaum.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Yeshuʿa, written in Tyre, dated (not completely legibly) from the destruction of the Temple, along with blessings and pious wishes for the redemption of Israel. […] On verso is the beginning of Kitāb ḥudūd al-bulūgh wa-l-idrāk (Treatise on the attainment of majority), possibly by Shemuʾel b.

العلامات

• ketubba
• marriage
• tyre

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The persons whose names are crossed out probably already had been approached. Notice that most of the numbers are added above the name or in the space after it and in a different ink color, which means either that someone took the list and then rated those individuals, or their contributions were entered when they were made (M. […] Some names have no numbers at all. A few numbers are in Coptic numerals. Verso: Monetary compensations for those indigent people who had applied for a futa (a sari-like garment).

العلامات

• account
• charity
• communal

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Order of payment for an unnamed individual referred to by the title “al-Dayyān” and containing the expression “May my Master the judge, may God grant him long life, kindly pass on to the bearer seven dinars less one seventh,” (‘yataffadal mawlaya al-dayyan ahyahu llah yusallim li-muwassiliha sab‘at dananir illa sub).

العلامات

• order of payment

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Inferred date

1200–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The appointment is carried out not only by the legal transfer of four cubits in the land of Israel, but also through the threshold of the house he inherited from his father.

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العلامات

• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib1
• india book

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Inferred date

1237–1300 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Discussing the maintenance (mezonot) allotted for the addressee in Cairo and Fustat; "their servants the Cairenes" (māmālīkihim al-qāhiriyyīn); a sum of 10 dinars; meeting with a pious person (אגתמאע במן הו חרד לדבר ייי מרתבט בדינה נטאר פי אלעואקב).

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العلامات

• responsum

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(On Tustari textiles, see Gil, History of Palestine, p. 240 note 16.) Also mentions Abū l-Abshar, who plans to travel soon.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Seems to be written by Abu Nasr b. al-Tabib (see TS 8J15.13 where he signed on top). […] Yosef Migash (see Ashur, ‘Responsa of Rabbi Joseph Ibn Migash from the Cairo Geniza’, Qovets-Al-Yad 21 [31], pp. 1˗24, 2012 [Hebrew]). AA

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العلامات

• to examine

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender expresses longing for a mother (al-wālida al-shafīqa). The sender left the addressee(s) in Rashīd and the following day entered somewhere and found [...].

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Primary language

Arabic

Mentioning places such as Baghdād, Kūfa, and al-Ramla. There are recurring terms in almost every entry: "ṭāʾir" and "afrakha" and "farkh" and sometimes "sābiq" or "ghālib" and sometimes "maḥmūl."

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Primary language

Arabic

The sender's name or title appears in the tarjama at upper left (al-ḥazzān? al-jazzār?). The addressee seems to be a ḥaver (مولاي الحابار السيد اطال الله بقاه).

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In many cases sums like 1/3, 1/4 (dinars) 5 qirats added; in other instances, a well-to-do person such as the prominent banker Abu al-'Ala b. Sha'ya stands security (II, approx. l. 27).

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العلامات

• capitation tax
• jaliya
• jizya
• tax

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Primary language

Arabic

T-S K25.240 consists of small written orders, partly in Hebrew and partly in Arabic script, for monthly payments, made out of the rent-revenue from the pious foundation (waqf) 'Compound of the Poor' or from the pious foundation made by the physician al-Muhadhdhab. All dated orders are from spring and summer, 1218.

العلامات

• account
• capitation tax
• heqdesh
• jaliya
• jizya
• (+ 3 المزيد)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List of accounts in Judeo-Arabic that includes prices "סער" expressed in alphanumerical figures and the unit of volume "irdab/ארדב" (l. 14r) possibly in connection with the measurement of grain. […] On the verso Ramaẓān "רמצאן" is mentioned in the first entry, as are the names Nūr al-Dīn and Aḥmed in the second entry. MCD.

العلامات

• late ja

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Document date

Thursday, 18th Iyyar 1410 Seleucid (12 May 1099 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A leaf from the court register, with five different entries, all signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemu'el, all explicitly dated between Shevat and Iyyar 1410 Sel. (1099 CE).

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• ib7
• india book

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Document date

last third of Adar 14[8]4 Seleucid (8 March 1173–16 March 1173 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Natan, active ca. 1150–81). Abū l-Maʿālī al-Ḥarīrī leases to Avraham b. Yosef the small compound (duwayra) belonging to him in Fustat, in Sūq al-Kabir, for a period of one year.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On the verso, two forms of Ottoman coinage are referenced along the right margin of the fragment: "sherifi" and "kurush", which are accompanied by notes in both Hebrew alphanumerical figures and eastern Arabic numerals.

العلامات

• 18th or 19th c
• kurush
• ledger
• numismatic dating

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Primary language

Arabic

The first 2 lines are a writing exercise, incorporating all the letters of the alphabet (طرقت شموس فظل ذا جزع *** خبلا حديثك نصه غض).

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Primary language

Arabic

Folio from a ninth-century geography text written by the Persian geographer Ibn Khordadbeh (d. 912), entitled "Kitāb al-Masālik wa l-Mamālik" (The Books of Roads and Kingdoms). […] The edition of this folio closely matches, although with some slight variations, the published version of this manuscript published in Leiden in 1889.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

This fragment describes a partnership in a dyeing business between Efrayim b. Yaʿaqov al-Mawṣilī and Avraham b. Hiba al-Dimashqī. Efrayim, the owner of the shop, invests slightly more capital (nineteen dinars to Avraham’s seventeen dinars and five qirāṭs).

العلامات

• dyeing
• foreigner
• partnership

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Petition from Cairo to Gaon Sar Shalom (ca. 1177–95) in which the wife of Abū l-Ḥasan the miller (al-Ṭaḥḥān) Ibn alMaghāzilī requests that he not be permitted to order his wife to do embroidery in other people's houses and bring him her earned money.

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العلامات

• 12th c
• communal
• petition

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The husband, a merchant who travels, complains “I have no one to hand me a cup of water” and states that the female slave “is better than you and your mother.” The letter also includes the expression “cut your hair and ransom yourself.”

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Document date

Elul 498[.] Anno Mundi (1220–1229 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Greetings from: ʿUmar; Sitt al-Hāl (=Sitt al-Ahl?); Ḥaqqūn(??); Makhlūf; "I, Kātib(?

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Primary language

Hebrew

Hebrew poetry. Including some alliterative tongue twisters.

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Primary language

Hebrew

Amulet to heal Sa‘īda daughter of Sitt al-Ahl.

العلامات

• magic

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Primary language

Unidentified (Latin script)

A couple words in Latin script, probably. "Al S[...]."

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Primary language

Arabic

There is a single full word: "al-mustaḥabbīn."

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العلامات

• arabic script
• decree
• fatimid

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List of the members of "House of Yehuda" and then "House of al-Umm?"

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