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Document date

Jumada II 534 Hijrī (23 January 1140–20 February 1140 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Acknowledgement of receipt of money by Abu al-Faraj b. Shanuda the Christian seaman, leader of the sailors of "the weavers," from Abu Sa’d Daniyal b.

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العلامات

• acknowledgment
• iqrar

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Prescription for pills against coughing; ingredients include red gum tragacanth, almond resin, licorice robe, and “bottled gourd seeds and quince mucilage, of each one mithqal.”

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العلامات

• prescription

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information from Mediterranean Society, IV, p. 96.) Same hand and ʿalāma (בייי בטחתי) as DK 236 (PGPID 6573).

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

21st Elul 1418 Seleucid (10 September 1107 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Husband: Moshe b. Siman Ṭov. Wife: Sitt al-Dār bt. Ṣedaqa. Witnesses: Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel; Shelomo b.

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Letter from Zekharya b. Ya’aqov b. al-Shama, from Tripoli (Libya), to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat.

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2 نسخين 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Arabic

What prevented him was his illness and the fact that Cairo is "qalīlat al-khāṭir (or ḥāẓir?)"—a somewhat cryptic statement.

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العلامات

• arabic script
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He thanks Nahray for burning his last letter. He asks for news of 'al-kabīra' Sitt Muruwwa, who had been sick.

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العلامات

• 11th c
• abun b. sedaqa
• clandestine
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• (+ 4 المزيد)

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Natan (dated documents ca. 1150-1181) mentioning a brocade sadr with two 'sidepieces,' and preserving the groom's name, Yahya ha-Levi, and the bride was probably Sitt al-Baha. (Information from Mediterranean Society, IV, pp. 120, 382, and from Goitein's index cards)

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العلامات

• ketubba
• marriage

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

4738 Anno Mundi (17 September 977–4 September 978 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Kabīr asks for approval about a shipment of indigo to Qayrawan for the person who previously had the indigo in Fustat, Qimoy b. al-Ḥasan. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #106) VMR

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العلامات

• 10th c
• qayrawan
• testimony

2 نسخين

Letter from Isma’il b. Barhun al-Tāhartī to a relative (probably his sister’s son, his nephew).

1 نسخ

Document date

1466 Seleucid (9 September 1154–29 August 1155 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Yehuda owes to Abū Zikrī Yaḥyā the doctor al-Levi. Hand of Mevorakh b. Natan? Jottings in Arabic and Hebrew script in the margin.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

9 Av 13[.]8 Seleucid (17 July 997–13 July 1087 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Abraham renounces any claim against Saʿīd b. Yisraʾel al-Ṭustarī (Saʿadya b. Yisraʾel b. Yaʿaqov Tustarī), a scion of the famous Qaraite family.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter sent from al-Mahdiyya by Yosef b. Musa Tāhartī to his brother Barhun in Susa.

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2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

25 Sivan 1395 Seleucid (1 June 1084 CE)

Ya'ish and his wife from all obligations regarding an inheritance. Dated Sivan 1395/1084 (date in document) or 1375.1064 (date given in Mediterranean Society II, p. 570 n. 34).

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The statements were written in India, almost certainly in 1145.

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العلامات

• ib3
• india book
• testimony
• trade

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Hebrew

The writer thanks Faraḥ for his letter, praising him at length and sends greetings to Ibn al-Barakāt. (Information from CUDL.)

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Inferred date

1127–1138 CE

Beginning of a ketubba.Location: Fusṭāṭ. Bride: Sitt al-Milāḥ bt. Moshe, a widow. Groom: Sason. In the hand of Ḥalfon b.

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Will of a notable, dividing his landed property, his flocks of sheep and all the orchards possessed or leased by him between his brother and his children.

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العلامات

• copy
• will

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer accuses her of having ruined the honor of her family and his family, although he does not believe the more serious rumors about her.

العلامات

• honor
• to edit

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Perhaps intended as a aid for those who were already knowledgable about calendar calculations.

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العلامات

• calendar controversy
• manual

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

Av 1451 Seleucid (1140 CE)

Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay the household of al-Riyānī, in cash, 2 and a half dinars (and following that another) half dinar.

العلامات

• abu zikri kohen
• cheque
• order of payment

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Literary text in Judaeo-Arabic containing a chapter entitled "In praise of knowledge and in condemnation of ignorance and anger," which opens with a discussion of Quran 41:34 (وَلَا تَسْتَوِي الْحَسَنَةُ وَلَا السَّيِّئَةُ ۚ ادْفَعْ بِالَّتِي هِيَ أَحْسَنُ فَإِذَا الَّذِي بَيْنَكَ وَبَيْنَهُ عَدَاوَةٌ كَأَنَّهُ وَلِيٌّ حَمِيمٌ) citing ʿUmar Ibn al-Khaṭṭāb.

العلامات

• islamic
• quran

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

29 Dhū l-Qaʿda 404 Hijrī (31 May 1014 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: End of Dhū l-Qaʿda 404. Both the recto and the right margin of verso (the tax receipt side) contain a fiscal account (see PGPID 39214), suggesting that the paper for the tax receipt was cut from the account.

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العلامات

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

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic but mostly comprised of alphanumerical calculations. Mentioning the currencies mashṭ, corona, and kalb.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions the amīr Sayf al-Dawla's business dealings with the writer. Among the commodities mentioned are luxury textiles (ʿattābī and saqlāṭun), rock crystal, and a tall door made of date palm wood.

العلامات

• dimme

1 نسخ

Primary language

Arabic

Question addressed to a Muslim jurisconsult (faqīh) with regard to a man who was frightened by another man concerning the medicine that he had taken, so that he then feared a chronic illness (shayʾ min amrāḍ al-zamān) on account of the fright that he had received.

العلامات

• illness
• illness: fright
• illness: medicine
• legal query

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

The sender orders acacia (aqāqiya) and mentions condensed walnut juice (rubb al-jawz) and the pressing of something. (Information in part from CUDL.)

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العلامات

• physicians

1 نسخ

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso (secondary use): Letter which consists entirely of a versified Grace after Meals for Shabbat in Hebrew (this identification is from FGP) and the closing lines, in the same hand, in Judaeo-Arabic ("I greet you and all the friends, and may R. Natan and Rabbenu and his son be in perfect well-being").

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Nisan 1451 Seleucid (21 March 1140–19 April 1140 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The contents of the order are repeated at the top in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. All this is crossed out.

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العلامات

• ib5
• india book

2 نسخين

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Mentions Abū ʿAlī, Aharon, Meshullam a.k.a. Musallam, Shela known as Abū l-F[aḍl?]

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العلامات

• ib-addenda
• yemen

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Barsime(o) Robaldo al-Janawī (=the Genoese). Sal ammoniac (nushādir) is mentioned a few times.

العلامات

• account
• genoese

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1066–1138 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe known as Ibn al-[...]. Refers to Yemen (maybe he died there); and another person [...] b. [...]n ha-Levi.

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العلامات

• ib-addenda

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to the sender’s mother, in Cairo (yaṣil ilā maḥrūsat al-qāhira). In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Few names or specifics are preserved, but he mentions having recruited ʿAyyāsh al-Safāquṣī to help him. Reused on verso for Judaeo-Arabic accounts.

العلامات

• estate

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif, to his brother Abū Saʿīd Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentioning the city of Maḥalla al-Kubrā; Abū l-Ḥasan; and Abū l-Munā Tiqva ha-Levi (possibly the same as the one mentioned in T-S 12.683 and Bodl.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

One side: Something involving Shemarya b. Yosef al-Iq[rīṭishī?] and his wife Malīḥa (cf. T-S NS 323.27 (PGPID 25606)).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1128–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information in part from CUDL) Join: Alan Elbaum.

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العلامات

• warraq

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: likely early 13th century. Involves Abū Manṣūr al-Shā[...], Ṭāhir b. [...], something being certified for a woman, and a sum of nuqra dirhams.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

אלטוב) for two months... saved the slave (=me) and after all this...." AA. ASE.

العلامات

• aden
• private letter

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Perhaps a settlement between an abusive husband (...lahā bi-ḍarb wa-qaṣd...) and a woman named Ḥākima (another version of her name may appear in line 7: [...]aba al-madhkūra). (Information in part from CUDL)

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العلامات

• abusive marriage
• marital conflict

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر