Documents

Primary language

Arabic

The names are written mainly in Arabic script along with weights (e.g., raṭl, raṭl wa-nuṣf). Names include Umm Zuhayr, R.

العلامات

• distribution

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Primary language

Arabic

Table of items in Arabic script. All of them seem to be foods/spices/perfumes/materia medica, such as chicory (hindibāʾ), caraway (karāwiyya), and pomegranate blossom (jullanār).

العلامات

• comb spine lining
• materia medica

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Document date

509 Hijrī (27 May 1115–15 May 1116 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Four different entries, each with its own set of ʿalāʾim. The one on verso is dated [13 Dhū l-Ḥijja?]

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender is preparing for the winter. They ask ʿAbd al-Raḥmān to pray for them. Mentions drugs/perfumes (ḥawāʾij ʿiṭr).

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Document date

1508 Seleucid (1196–1197 CE)

Groom: [...] b. [...] ha-P[arna]s. Bride: Sitt al-ʿIzz.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Note from Yaʿaqov the agent of Abū Saʿd b. Mufaḍḍal al-Sukkarī (same as in T-S NS 264.48 (PGPID 24564)?)

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Primary language

Arabic

The beginning is: "ḥaḍrat mawlāya al-shaykh". Only formulary. The draft is surrounded by a rectangular design frame.

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Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Power of attorney in which Moshe appoints Berakhot as his agent to sue Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya al-Ḥayfī known as Bū Farajūn (or Ibn Farajūn?).

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Shemarya b. Yakhin, in al-Maḥalla, sent to Shemuel ha-Nagid dealing with the production of cheese in Bashmur and its transport to Fustat.

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العلامات

• communal

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He reports that Abū l-Surūr has already traveled.

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Primary language

Arabic

Two entries are preserved. The phrase "ʿan al-mamʿūl fīhā" is preserved in both. There is a number (433?)

العلامات

• cmp

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Primary language

Ladino

The shelfmarks ENA 3077.8–13 all appear to be related, including pen trials, accounts, and poetry in Ladino.

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Primary language

Hebrew

Mentions the kāshif (prefect) Ikhtiyār; Sharaf al-Dīn; a sum of 225 peraḥim;

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

From a certain Mordekhay al-Baḥrī[?] to Merkada and Brahem Diyalo[?] (דייאלו).

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2

العلامات

• 18th or 19th c
• late ja
• yemen

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Document date

Kislev 5390 Anno Mundi (16 November 1629–15 December 1629 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated along the right border Kislev-Sivan 5390 AM (1629 CE).

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العلامات

• list

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Primary language

Arabic

Large and well preserved. Needs examination. Alt description: Fragment, recto, and verso both contain what look like pen trials (some repetitions, abusive ligatures, no lines but broken up words and phrases).

العلامات

• dimme
• fiscal

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Only the address and a fairly formulaic opening are preserved ('all that delayed (wakhkhara) my letters to you was fate and its calamities').

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yeshuʿa al-Qarawī 'the supervisor (mushārif) of the Qaysariyya,' in Sunbāṭ, to Shelomo ha-Sar ha-Nadiv.

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1

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto with address on verso: Letter from a woman (ʿammat al-dayyān) to her brother-in-law. In Judaeo-Arabic.

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1

العلامات

• women's letters

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions 25 qinṭārs of something and ginger (zanjabīl); and coming down from the dīwān. Indirect join: Alan Elbaum.

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Document date

19 [I]yyar 5585 Anno Mundi (7 May 1825 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Stating the amount of money to be paid to al-Khwāja Eliyyahu Lanyado and signed by Yaʿaqov Yaʿabeṣ, who was evidently the scribe.

العلامات

• lanyado
• late ja

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions David Revaḥ and possibly someone with the surname Ben-Zikrī, although these could be patronymics b. Zikrī. Part of the address is extant on the verso but solely comprises the recipient's honorifics.

العلامات

• late ja

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Primary language

Hebrew

Dated 24 Nissan below the main section of text, possibly with a two-alphanumeral year. The latter part of the date is unclear in meaning, but likely falls in the 15th- or 16th-century based on the paleography.

العلامات

• 15th or 16th c
• cmp

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At least one name is visible on the recto: ʿAlī Çelebi. The accounts continue on the verso.

العلامات

• 16th c or later
• early modern

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Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

On the last page contains the interesting stipulation that if you are in Ereṣ Yisraʾel then the date should be from the destruction of the Temple, and if you are in al-Ramla then the date should be from the exile of Yehoyakhin.

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العلامات

• formulary

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

One of the parties resorted to the Muslim courts ("al-goyim"). The sum at stake is a matter of 12 dinars.

العلامات

• muslim court

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Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Involving Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. Kathīr al-Ḥalabī, Salāma, and perhaps a partnership with 17 dinars.

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1

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender complains about isolation (al-wiḥda wa-l-inqiṭāʿ) and is anxious for the addressee to give an update about something.

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Primary language

Arabic

The words 'fi-s-safina' (in the ship) and 'al-miyah' (the waters) are legible. Another line was written at the bottom of this fragment upside down to the rest of the text.

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Primary language

Arabic

The first line contains a name which is not very legible but is followed by "al-Yahūdī".

العلامات

• capitation tax
• dimme

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer asks Abū Isḥāq to obtain for (?bi-rasm) Abū l-ʿAlā' a piece of fabric of high quality (jayyid rafīʿ) and close weave (ṣafīq) with the pattern (?

العلامات

• informal note
• textiles

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Draft of the beginning of a letter from an unidentified person addressed to his or her mother al-Ḥurra and his or her sister Jawhara. In a late-ish, crude hand.

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

One is for a document involving Sitt al-Ahl bt. Avraham ha-Levi and her husband Manṣūr b.

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1

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العلامات

• betrothal

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ezra, Abū Sahl b. Azhar and Menashshe al-Maghribī. It is signed by Moshe b. Shelomo and Shemuʾel b.

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Document date

29 Kislev 1448 Seleucid (25 November 1136 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The testator is owed 2/3 dinars by his niece (brother's daughter) Sitt al-Fakhr and specifies what this should be used for.

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1

العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe
• will

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yaʿaqov; sending purses with various sums of dinars; [Hārū]n(?) b. Rajā Ibn al-Dirghām(?); Tamīm; a kerchief; 'for some of the people in Fustat/Egypt'.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Aharon ha-Kohen, with a lengthy Hebrew opening. Mentions Abū ʿAlī. It continues in the right-hand margin, where a final sentence mentioning Abū Zikrī has been added with a different pen.

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A lane known by the name of Rabbenu Ḥananel is named. Almost certainly in the hand of Imanuel b. Yeḥiel.

العلامات

• real estate

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

1138–1139 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Maymūn, in Spain, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel. Consists almost entirely of polite expressions of longing and flattery.

العلامات

• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• india book

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة

Document date

Monday, 23 Sivan 4856 Anno Mundi (16 June 1096 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Beginning of a settlement in court in Fustat between Wāfī b. ʿAmram al-Iskandarānī and [...] b. Yefet Tifʾeret ha-Qahal.

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1

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a business letter to ʿAllān b. Ḥassūn announcing the arrival of a large ship from Spain and two other ships from Mahdiyya and Sfax.

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2

العلامات

• trade

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in which a son acknowledges receipt of a shipment sent by his father, along with the statement, “And paid the dinar for the capitation tax with the money earned by my own hard work.”

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1

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