Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender refers to a prior letter addressed to al-Mumḥe, concerning Abū l-Munā b. Abū l-Faraj and cheese (מענא אלגבן אלדי . . .).

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Primary languages

Judaeo-Arabic, Spanish

Verso contains a summary with the accounts (almost entirely numerals). (Identification kindly provided by Daniel Duran Duelt.)

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For example, on the lower recto there is mention of al-Hajj Ahmed Ibrahim amidst a complex array of numerical figures.

العلامات

• arabic script
• coptic numerals
• list

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Document date

9 Dhū l-Qaʿda 403 Hijrī (22 May 1013 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 9 Dhū l-Qaʿda 403. Measurements: 13.4 × 8.4 cm.

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العلامات

• abu l-hasan b. wahb
• daman
• fiscal
• tax receipt

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: Probably 12th or 13th century, based on handwriting. Alt description: A curious mix of notes, scripts, and a tidy hand of archival notes in Hebrew script on 18th C documents on verso.

العلامات

• bialphabetic
• dimme

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Primary language

Arabic

Petition or formal letter from ʿAbdallāh b. Bū Bakr to ʿIzz al-Dīn the amīr shikār (master of the hunt). In Arabic script.

العلامات

• mamluk

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender, a scribe, already sent with Abū Manṣūr the cantor what he needed to send, and asks the addressee to send him paper and 10.5 dirhams for expenses.

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Inferred date

1150–1181 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Banīn and Abū l-Khayr al-Ṣayrafī. Signed by Menahem b. Berakhot, Yaʿaqov b.

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العلامات

• mevorakh b. natan

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions a sum of either 39 7/8 or 69 7/8 or 89 7/8 dinars left in an inheritance. Mentions a certain al-Ṣayrafī at the bottom.

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Accounts in an orderly hand and Hebrew alphanumerical characters that delineate columns with days and months in the Hijri calendar (i.e.

العلامات

• late ja
• list

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Document date

26 Jumādā II 1205 Hijrī (2 March 1791 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Involves Mīkhāʾīl Nāyūtī(?) al-Kātib(?) and Yaʿqūb Ḥarrāf(?). There are four witness signatures at the bottom as well as an inscription and a stamped seal in the right margin.

العلامات

• seal

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Involves [Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa b. Menashshe ha-Levi al-Jubaylī, known from several other documents in this period (e.g.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a partnership document (per FGP), involving R. Shemuel, Abū l-Faraj al-Yatom, Yiṣḥaq ha-Dayyan, Abū l-Bishr. Written by Mevorakh b.

العلامات

• mevorakh b. natan
• partnership
• shemuel b. hananya

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Short note in Judaeo-Arabic: "Let it be known to Mūsā that Avraham al-Shammāʿ agreed with us that he live in the house that his sister used to live in, and no one may prevent him from living there.

العلامات

• neighbors

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Document date

Adar 1416 Seleucid (February 1105 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Iqrār (Hebrew script) in which Yūsuf b. ʿAlī buys a Maghribī female slave named Ḥadaq ("pupil [of the eye]") from Shelomo b.

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العلامات

• bill of sale
• slave

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to Eli (‘Allun) ha-parnas, active 1057-1107, which mention his less well-known son, the parnas Abu Kathir (Efrayim ha-Kohen b.

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Goitein's note card describes a letter from Moshe b. al-Ashqar, (see Mosseri V.394.1) who wished to travel to Safed but heard that there was an epidemic (dever) in Damascus.

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العلامات

• epidemic
• epidemic: dever

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Fragment of a letter from Abu Sad al-Magribi, might be from Jerusalem, to Nahray b.

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Sale by two women, presumably cousins, in al-Mahdiyya, of a Bible codex worth 20 dinars. The sellers confirm their willingness to sell, accept receipt of the payment and acknowledge their and their heirs' responsibility to indemnify the buyer should his proprietorship of the book ever be contested.

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العلامات

• bill of sale

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Abū l-Waḥsh could be Abū l-Waḥsh Sibāʿ although he is not attested with a patronymic in the other references to him in IB4.

العلامات

• halfon b. netanel
• ib-addenda
• ib4

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Document date

1544 Seleucid (16 September 1232–5 September 1233 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Parties: Yosef and Abū l-Fakhr b. Sayyid al-Ahl. Witnesses: Elʿazar b. Netanʾel ha-Kohen and Shelomo b.

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العلامات

• partnership

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Azarya and his brother-in-law Abu al-Tayyib know about the situation I was in in Syria...'

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to Abu 'Ali, probably from his brother, inquiring about the lack of correspondence.

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Primary language

Arabic

Elevated register, possibly referring to people who heretically left the path of [...] and praising al-shaykh Sabra(?) and referring to obeying an order (متابعتها والعمل بمرسومها).

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Netanel ha-Levi and his brother Abū ʿAlī Yeḥezqel b. Netanel ha-Levi. Should be included in the addenda to India Book IV.

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العلامات

• halfon-addenda
• ib-addenda
• ib4

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Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

There are phrases about a man's legal competence (as in deathbed wills); quotes him as saying "my son Abū l-ʿAlāʾ with his mother so-and-so" (hence this is a draft); and "I found it/her missing the dinar."

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العلامات

• head of the jews
• parents
• poverty

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Names include Ṣefanya Kohen, Yaʿīsh Shāmī, Shalom Sambari, Raḥamīm Maghribī, Khiḍr Barakāt, al-Ḥaver Khiḍr Kohen, followed by Coptic numerals or ‘a raṭl of olive oil’.

العلامات

• account

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions [...] al-Maḥallī; Bū l-ʿIzz Yūsuf; [...] b. Mūsā; Yūsuf b.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Mūsā; Yaḥyā; Iyov; Yosef; Ṣedaqa; Ibn Kohen; Dāʾūd; Sahl; Ibn al-Lādhiqī; Mardūkh. Same hand as T-S AS 204.231 (PGPID 22713).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List of items belonging to Abū ʿAlī. Written in a rudimentary hand on a small bifolio.

العلامات

• list

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Recto: children’s Hebrew textbook consisting (ff. 1-2r) of the alphabet vocalised with the various Tiberian vowels, followed by חֲזֶק (sic) and the benediction ‘You chose us’ (אתה בחרתנו).

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(Information from Goitein's note cards) Hebrew alphabets in a crude hand and in different directions across the pages; Arabic jottings on f. 1r.

العلامات

• education

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Document date

14 Adar 1419 Seleucid (28 February 1108 CE)

Colophon of Saʿadya Gaon’s book on the laws of evidence and documents (Kitāb al-Shahadāt wa-l-Wathāʾiq) belonging to Yosef b.

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Primary language

Arabic

Mentions a carpet (bisāṭ); a Christian man named Jirjis; a woman in Fustat or Egypt (Miṣr); and 'ahl al-bayt.'

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Probably from a prenuptial agreement, stipulating that the wife can force the husband to sell any enslaved woman she dislikes, and that the man will not take a second wife ([wa-lā] yatazawwaj ʿalayhā] or concubine (wa-lā yatasarrā).

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe
• polygyny
• prenuptial
• slave

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Accounts in Arabic script which list monies (given in Greek/Coptic numerals) owed to (ʿinda) various people, such as Ḥayyim (حايم), Makārim, Yūsuf, Maḥāsin, Abū l-Faraj, Ibrāhīm, Mukhliṣ, Abū ʿAlī, Khalaf, Barakāt, Ḥasūn, Bū Saʿd, Hilāl, and Mūsā.

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العلامات

• account

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef, the bride is Sitt al-Banīn bt. Avraham. Written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (ca. 1100–38).

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العلامات

• dowry
• marriage

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