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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: no earlier than 1425 CE, since it mentions the currency ashrafī which was first minted under Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay in that year. (Information from CUDL and Goitein's index card.)

العلامات

• numismatic dating

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Document date

24 Muḥarram 404 Hijrī (5 August 1013 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Written by the jahbadh Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ. Measurements: 12.5 × 7.7 cm. The verso is blank.

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العلامات

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

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Primary language

Arabic

Main document: Petition or letter draft from Sulaymān from Banī Sarrāj "in the districts of Ṭaḥā and al-Ushmūnayn." In Arabic script. Dating: Late.

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العلامات

• to edit

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Persian

The fragment is labeled "L4" in Shaul Shaked's (unpublished) classification of Early Judeo-Persian texts. OH. Alternate description: Letter from Iran to Yaʿaqov ibn `Awkal and his son Yosef in Fustat (FGP).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mercantile letter from an unknown sender, possibly in Sicily, to Abū Zikrī Elḥanan b. Ismāʿīl (al-Andalusī). In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (vertical piece from the middle).

العلامات

• silk

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender complains that the bustān is ruined: the livestock have died of hunger and the produce has dried up, and al-rayyis Abū Isḥāq has taken possession of the bustān.

العلامات

• agriculture

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions: Ibn ʿAṭiyya; possibly customs taxes (maks); someone drinking with his brother-in-law; a girl (al-ṣughayyira); Naḥum; Futūḥ; Maʿānī; and Hilāl b.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Note from Abū l-Faraj to Abū ʿAlī, urgently summoning him to the sender's home, it seems for a medical appointment ("to show me your eye").

العلامات

• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: eye
• illness: physician
• illness: treatment

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions the "peasants/farmers" (fallāḥīn) of Minyat al-Mukhliṣ, a small town in the Nile Delta, in in the heading on the upper right corner of the verso.

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العلامات

• account
• sewn documents

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions previous correspondence and different business matters, and names such as Abū Naṣr Ibn al-Sharābī, Abū l-Ḥasan and Abū As[...]. He inquires about the prices of pepper and lacquer and asks for a quick reply.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

24 Shevat 1404 Seleucid (24 January 1093 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef, 80 dinars, a monthly payment of 10 zuzim from the writer to the addressee, and the refusal of someone to appoint an agent. Dated at the end, ‘all this happened on Monday 24th Shevat 1404 of the Seleucid Era’ (= 1093 CE).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Elʿazar makes an acknowledgment in favor of Abū Naṣr al-ʿAṭṭār. No other details are preserved.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Maymūn, mentioning Sarah’s cousin, the mother of the writer, Mūsā the ugly (al-kāfūsh?)) and Yiṣḥaq the cantor. Dating: ca. 14th–17th century based on hand and formulae.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Addressed to a physician (al-ḥakīm). Contains prolonged blessings and praises, hopes that God will remove a cause of discord, and curses upon sinners and enemies.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The bottom two lines are intriguing: "the Byzantines blocked the road before us (פקטעו אלרום עלינא אלטריק). . . and I put it in my belt (al-himyān). . . ." (Information in part from CUDL)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On verso, a record of the income on a certain Shabbat, including an entry for "the sick" (al-marḍā). Another entry on the verso reads "תולידו" (Toledo?)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

From one who boasts to have belonged to ‘the owners of money’ (aṣḥāb al-amwāl) and became one of those who lost their riches (מיורדים מנכסיהם).

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The expenditure section lists several ordinary items, but in the main gives details of sums spent on repairs in Dar al-Nagid. (Information from Gil, Documents, pp. 339 #85)

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العلامات

• 12th c
• account
• communal
• qodesh
• waqf

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List, eight columns, of more than 180 names receiving alms. Many payments of 1/8 dinar. Many foreigners, designated as such: Palestine 13; Iraq 12; Syria-Lebanon 7; Rum 3; Sicily 2; Qayrawan 1; Barqa 1; Spain 1.

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• charity
• communal
• gift of money
• poverty
• recipients

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He reports that he fulfilled the order concerning the ḥaver R. Barukh despite what all the other people said—they don't understand the issue inside and out.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

First two, including again the representative of the merchants al-Hakim, give 1/8 dinar, approx 5 dirhams. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 477, App.

العلامات

• charity
• communal
• donors
• poverty

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A list of revenue for two months is partly preserved. All names given here have been encountered in previous documents.

العلامات

• 11th c
• account
• communal
• qodesh
• waqf
• (+ 1 المزيد)

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Document date

1507 Seleucid (7 September 1195–25 August 1196 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

The bride's name is Sitt al-Furs. Only the groom's father's name is preserved ([...] b.

العلامات

• dowry
• ketubba

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

David appears to have recently arrived from the Maghreb (al-Mahdiya). The letter is largely about sending and receiving correspondence.

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العلامات

• correspondence
• nahray b. nissim

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Primary language

Arabic

The beginning formula following the taqbīl resembles petition openings during the time of the Fatimid caliph al-ʾĀmir. (For parallels see - T-S Ar. 30.273, T-S Ar. 38.138, T-S Ar. 34.88).

العلامات

• dimme
• petition

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender provides an update about money owed to the addressee; mentions Raʾs al-Seder; previous letters sent to Tinnīs; an order for an unidentified item described in some detail (ll. 9–13); an order for a large vessel (?

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Primary language

Arabic

The formula "ضاعف الله انواره واعلى مناره" is very similar to the formula in petitions addressed to the Fatimid caliph al-ʾĀmir. (For parallels see - T-S Ar. 30.273, T-S Ar. 38.138, T-S Ar. 34.88).

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العلامات

• dimme
• petition

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

; a request to convey information from Ḥassūn b. ʿAllūn. Yefet has sent something for Yehuda b. [...] with this letter.

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe
• yefet b. menashshe

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With three exceptions (including two names written on the margin), all names are preceded by a stroke, indicating perhaps that the task of soliciting the persons concerned had been assigned.

العلامات

• charity
• communal
• donors
• poverty

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