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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso contains a very faded text in Arabic script (see separate entry, PGPID 35164).

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العلامات

• captives
• charity
• communal
• crusade
• crusades
• (+ 1 المزيد)

2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين

Document date

Sunday, 17 Tammuz 4918 Anno Mundi (15 June 1158 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Berakhot b. Avraham Ibn al-Ḥājja (aka Abū l-Barakāt Hibatallāh b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṣāʾigh), in Būsh outside the Fayyūm (בעמאל אלצעיד אלאדנא/بعمال الصعيد الادنا), to his mother, in Alexandria. […] The address is made out to Alexandria, the goldsmiths' market, to be given to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. […] In any case, the addressee should shelter [Yaman] and feed her until the sender can arrive and take her to her brother in al-Shām. The best way to contact the sender is to send letters to Fustat to al-Bilbaysī or to Abū Sahl in Darb al-Kharrāṭīn, and they will forward them with the Jewish merchants to Abū l-Barakāt al-Ṣāʾigh the Jew in Būsh.

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العلامات

• flax

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Faded letter in Hebrew. Dating: looks late, ca. 15th–16th century.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

5544 Anno Mundi (27 September 1783–15 September 1784 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

The bride's legal status is listed as batula and bogeret. The text is faded, and can be partially deciphered. The marriage gift is 60,000 medin - a common Ottoman currency of this period.

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العلامات

• ketubba
• marriage

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Persian

Samuel; Ezra b. Eli; Faḍlān b. Yosef; Ḥasan b. Yaḥyā. On verso there is a Judaeo-Arabic literary text discussing the Land of Israel in question-answer format.

العلامات

• judaeo-persian

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The names include: Abū Ṭāhir Ibn al-ʿAnbarī; Abū l-Makārim al-[Koh]en; Sulaymān Ibn al-Zanīʿa(?)[…] Nuʿmān Levi, money assayer who sells copper coins (naqqād yabīʿ al-fulūs); Mufaḍḍal and Abū l-Faḍl the children of Nabīqa(??)[…] ; his foster son; Hilāl the dyer of red fabric (al-ṣabbāgh al-aḥmar) the foster son of Abū Riḍā al-Kohen; Sulaymān; Abū ʿUmar the Alexandrian the dyer; Abū Saʿd al-ʿAdanī the perfumer; his foster son Makārim, porter (yaḥmil); Hiba b.

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Document date

Nisan 1502 Seleucid (28 March 1191–26 April 1191 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: Nisan 1502 Seleucid = 1191 CE, or perhaps 15[4]2 Seleucid = 1231 CE. The fragment is faded and very difficult to decipher. The suggested reading is uncertain.

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العلامات

• engagement

1 نسخ

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

מוענא) with a Hebrew poem on the other side; the other two pages contain a faded Arabic text. (Information in part from CUDL)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Farrāj (who is dead), Ḥassūn, Ibn Faḍl, and Ibn Mardūk. The addressee had previously cursed the sender (תסובני ותקול הדא קביח), who insists that he has done everything his wife (whom he calls "your daughter" or "the girl") demanded, though she and her paternal aunt are crying day and night.

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1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

MR Cohen: in right margin, many entries preceded by a final mem, in a more faded ink, presumably standing for tasallam, paid.

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العلامات

• charity
• communal
• donors
• poverty

2 نسخين

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: late 12th or early 13th century, based in part on the reference to the ruler of Bijāya Abū ʿAbdallāh Ibn Yūmūr (mentioned in literary works by Ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Marrākushī (https://shamela.ws/book/17056/2241#p1) and al-Maqqarī al-Tilimsānī (https://shamela.ws/book/1002/808)). […] Farrāj, who brought the sender's case to Abū l-Faḍl b. ʿAliyyal-Nās(?), who in turn brought it to (the ruler) Abū ʿAbdallāh Ibn Yūmūr, who evidently allowed him to leave together with his family. […] grandfather?) of Zekharya b. Yehuda al-Aghmātī, who is known for his commentary on the Halakhot Rabbati of al-Fāsī which he composed in 1189/90 CE and in which he cites Ibn Migash as an authority; see Michael Wechsler, "Zechariah ben Judah al-Aghmāṭī," EIJW.)

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1 نسخ

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Between his request for funds due to him and his discussion of an ongoing divorce, he interposes the line, “for I am a lump of flesh waiting to die,” continuing later that “I am in need of mercy, my strength is fading” — a common rhetorical strategy for gaining the sympathy of one's correspondent.

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العلامات

• 11th c
• disability
• disability: vision
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• (+ 5 المزيد)

3 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

September 1140 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Netanel, probably in Fustat, to Yehuda ha-Levi, in Alexandria. Extremely faded and damaged. Dating: September 1140 CE. […] Ḥalfon states that he remained in Alexandria "a year less a month" (verso, right margin, l. 13) immersed in deep depression and thoughts of death. […] As a result of his prolonged stay there and especially his gloomy state of mind, his business affairs suffered. He also mentions delays caused by a number of court documents being "under seal" and inaccessible (verso, right margin and top margin).

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العلامات

• ib4
• india book

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Inferred date

1029–1029 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Qandarī or Qundarī, which he has passed to Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllūn b. Mūsā, even though payment was not due for another month. […] Mawhūb the blind, Abū l-Faḍl, and Mubārak b. Ṣemaḥ are in prison for debt and the rest are under demand; he has asked Jāsūs al-Maghribī to see to his family's needs in Jerusalem, though they do not want the help. […] In addition to the edition by Gil, there is also one by Goitein in Shalem 1 (1974), 34–44.

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العلامات

• catastrophes
• communal strife
• illness: metaphor
• karaites
• prison
• (+ 2 المزيد)

3 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1168–1204 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

David of Lunel to Moses Maimonides (active in Egypt ca. 1168–1204), writing in his own name but alsoall the sages of Provence. The letter discusses three topics. (1) They have succeeded in finding a translator for the Guide for the Perplexed, Shemuel b. […] From the response, we also learn that this letter by Yonatan of Lunel was accompanied by a letter to Maimonides from Shemuel Ibn Tibbon. […] Verso contains three different text blocks. At the top, very faded, is the address, most of which Stern succeeded in reading with UV light (משה יצ בן . . .

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العلامات

• guide for the perplexed
• ibn tibbon
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• maimonides (autograph)
• (+ 2 المزيد)

2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

However, he has no way of accessing his money. Abū l-Faḍl has not been helpful in this matter. He urges the recipient (possibly his brother, since he invokes "my master's upbringing" of the recipient) to do his utmost to get hold of the 5 dinars belonging to the writer, and to go to the Rayyis Abū l-Najm and purchase a female slave with the money.

العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: household
• illness: matruh
• illness: nursing
• (+ 5 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1100–1100 CE

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The community in Ashqelon had spent over 500 dinars; ransomed over 40 captives; continues to bear the high expenses of caring for the 20 redeemed captives who remain in Ashqelon; and is now in debt for more than 200 dinars. The writers also mention Jews who had escaped from Jerusalem on their own, and others who had been given safe-conduct with the wālī. […] See DK 242 + T-S AS 146.3 for a letter written one year earlier from the Rabbanites of Fustat to the Rabbanites of Ashqelon, also having to do with the campaign for the ransoming of captives. (Information CUDL and from Goldman, "Arabic-Speaking Jews of Crusader Syria" (PhD diss., 2018), 49–58. See also Goitein, Med Soc 5:537; Goitein, "New Sources on the Fate of the Jews during the Crusaders' Conquest of Jerusalem" (Heb.)

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العلامات

• 12th c
• ashqelon
• captives
• crusades
• epidemic
• (+ 12 المزيد)

2 نسخين ترجمات 3 2 مناقشتان

Document date

Rabīʿ I 407 Hijrī (8 August 1016–6 September 1016 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The name of the sender is faded, but may be legible with effort. The sender has recently lost his only son in a particularly traumatic way (at sea?).

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العلامات

• grief

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

On verso there is very faded Hebrew text, likely literary.

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العلامات

• 11th c
• cinnamon
• eli b. amram
• indigo
• legal query
• (+ 4 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Names include: Sulaymān al-Qandīl; al-Ṣulayḥī; David al-Qandīl; Yaḥyā al-Najjār; his son; Ibrāhīm al-Ṣārim(?)[…] ; Sulaymān al-Qarrās(?); Yaḥyā al-Barsh(?); Yaḥyā al-HKRY(?); Yaḥyā al-Quḍāʿī; Saʿīd al-Ḥāsir; Saʿīd al-[...]; al-DQL(?)

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العلامات

• yemen

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

C 136) Names include: Column 1: Naḥum Baqqāl; Isḥāq Baqqāl; Mūsā; Yaʿqūb Maghribī; Yosef Ḥarīrī; [...] al-Ṣāniʿ; al-Nafīs Sharābī; Ibn al-Sofer Ṣaghir; al-Mumḥe Hiba; Hilāl rabīb al-Kohen; Ibn al-ʿAnbarī and his brother; Sulaymān Ṣabbāgh; Abū l-ʿAlāʾ b. […] Ibn Nufayʿ; Maḥāsin Naqlī; Bū Naṣr Naqlī; Ibn al-ʿAdanī; Ibn al-Kāmukhī; al-Shaykh al-Nākhūdha. […] Ibn al-Jabbān; Bū Saʿīd; Makārim;[...] al-Rayyis; Ibn al-Dayyān; al-Muzaghlil; al-Rashīd Column 5 (verso): al-mawlā al-Muhadhdhab; awlād al-rayyis; al-Gaʾon al-[...]; al-Mashmiaʿ Mufaḍḍal; al-Shaykh Yosef and his son; Ibn al-Jalājilī; Yeshuʿa; Abū l-Maʿānī; al-Shaykh al-Najīb Kohen [...]; al-Shaykh al-Najīb Kohen Kāmukhī; al-Thiqa Ibn al[...]; Makārim Ibn al-Ghuzūlī; the son of Abū l-Maʿānī.

العلامات

• charity
• communal
• donors
• poverty

2 نسخين

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Bishr; Ṣadaqa b. Maḥfūẓ; Maymūn Ibn al-Maghribī; Mawhūb Ibn al-Muʿṭī; Ghālib Ibn al-Ḥalabī; Abū Sahl al-Uzurī; Hiba b. Manṣūr al-Uzurī; Mawhūb Ibn al-Maghāzilī; Khalaf al-Mugharbil; Abū Sahl Ibn al-Bunduqī; Ibn Binyām; Kathīr al-Jallād; Yaḥyā al-Ṣabbāgh; Ṣadaqa Ibn al-Zalaṭ; [...] al-baytī(?) al-Tirmisānī; Yaḥyā Ibn al-Maṭarī; Thābit al-Qudsī; Ibrāhīm al-Dhabbāḥ; Abū l-Ṭayyib b.

العلامات

• list

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Shawwal 1239 Hijrī (30 May 1824–27 June 1824 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

, Muḥ[ammad] Suleymān al-Khātib, Ṣalm Ralūwa(?), ʿAbd-al-Jaffār al-Malākh, Muḥ[ammad] al-Ḥikmī, Aṣlān ʿAbdīn, Shlomo al-Yahūdī, Aḥ[mad] Subaşı al-ʿAttār, Suleymān Qūrā, ʿAlīal-Āʿrig(?)[…] , Um al-Satar(?) [26 Shawwāl] Khaṭāb Msīrī, ʿAmr al-Yāzin, ʿAlī Khālīl, Musṭafa al-Ṣaḥn, Muḥ[ammad] Arnavūt(?), Muṣṭafa Jinnah, Musṭafa al-Dantī(?), Ṣāliḥ Abū-Hīb, Suleymān al-ʿAlāf, ʿAlī Manīʿīm, Darwīsh al-Ḥamamjī (Derviş Hamamci), Qāṣr al-Dumyāṭī, Ḥamūda Abū-ʿAlfī, Muṣṭafa Fesār(?)

العلامات

• 19th c
• alexandria
• silk

1 نسخ

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Al-Muhadhdhab Abū Saʿīd is also named in T-S NS J494. (2) An entry in Arabic containing several words in Judaeo-Arabic: the document of the dowry belonging to the daughter of Yūsuf Ibn Nufayʿ, the wife of al-Shaykh al-Sadīd b. al-Shaykh al-Rashīd the son of al-Ḥakīm al-Muhadhdhab. Then mentions Abū Saʿīd al-Muhadhdhab. The same person's name might be repeated on verso: [...] sadīd Bū Naṣr the son of al-Shaykh al-ḥakīm [...] al-ḥakīm R. Yosef the son of al-Shaykh al-Muhadhdhab. Yosef Ibn Nufayʿ also appears in T-S NS J357 (mid-13th-century).

العلامات

• betrothal
• bialphabetic
• physician

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Other names include: Hiba al-Mūrid; Abū l-Riḍā b. Hilāl; the widow of al-Najīb; Abū l-Faraj al-Tājir; Ibn Ghulayb; his brother-in-law Abū Zikrī al-Ṭabīb; al-Kohen al-Siqillī; Abū ʿAlīal-Bilbaysī b. al-Bustānī; Ibn al-Muṭrib Ibn Nufayʿ; al-kātib b. al-shammāʿ; Ibn al-Nāqid; Ṭayyib b. al-Sarjās(?); ʿEli al-Parnas b. Abū Saʿd; Abū l-Faraj b. Ḥātim b. ʿAllān; Abū l-Faraj al-Ghuzūlī; Ṭayyib al-Bazzāz; Hiba al-Simsār b.

العلامات

• donors

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

531/533 Hijrī (1137–1139 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Khan believes the vizier addressed in the petition is likely Riḍwān ibn Walakhshī because the titles correspond to the ones bestowed on him by al-Ḥāfiẓ in a document copied by al-Qalqashandī (Ṣubḥ VIII, 345): al-sayyid al-ajall al-afḍal amīr al-juyūsh sayf al-islām nāṣir al-ānām kāfil quḍāt al-muslimīn wa-hādī duʿāt al-muʾminīn. The title of Bahrām, attested in no. 5 of Stern’s corpus of Fāṭimid decrees, was al-sayyid al-ajall amīr al-juyūsh sayf al-islām nāṣir al-imām ghiyāṯ al-ānām. […] The titulature of the ephemeral Yānis was no doubt similar. Al-Maqrīzī (Ḵiṭāṭ II, 16) records his title as amīr al-juyūsh sayf al-islām.

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العلامات

• petition

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Arabic

To a dignitary whose titles are "al-karīm al-akhaṣṣ al-awḥad al-raʾīs al-mufaḍḍal al-makhdūm zayn al-dīn sayyid al-ʾumarā fakr al-khawāṣṣ ʿumdat al-mulūk thiqat al-salāṭīn khalīl amīr al-muʾminīn".

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العلامات

• dimme

1 نسخ

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions al-muʿallim Ṣāliḥ; the cantor al-Mesos (المسوس الحزان); Hārūn ʿAbd al-Qawiyy; al-ʿAjamī; "In Cairo"; al-Baṣīr(?); Abū l-Ḥasan al-Mubayyiḍ; mentions flax; Ismāʿīl al-Ghazalī the acquaintance of ʿAbd al-Bāqī;Ibrāhīm the brother of ʿAbd al-Qawiyy; ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Ḥaffār; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz "in his dwellling in Zuqāq al-Ruqyānī(?)."

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso of the letter mentions the murder of Fakhr al-ʾUmara near Alexandria and also mentioning ʾAmīr al-Jūyūsh, which was the title of Badr al-Jamālī, the Armenian general and actual ruler of Egypt, 1074-1094 (see Cohen, Jewish Self-Government, pg. 61-65). Fakhr al-ʾUmara was a title of the viziers of the sword (arbāb al-sūyūf) and was third in the ranks of such viziers (see al-Qalqashandī, Ṣubḥ al-Āʿashā, pg. 104). […] He (Fakhr al-ʾUmara) is also referred to as Sulṭān al-ʿArab in some historical sources (see ʿImāduddīn, ʿŪyūn al-Akhbār, vol. 7, pg. 61-65).

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العلامات

• amir al-juyush
• badr al-jamali
• berber
• lawata

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

; Abū Thābit al-Danfīqī; al-Qāḍī al-Shalshalmūnī(?); Maḥāsin al-Ṣabarī; Nuʿmān b. [...]; [...] al-ʿUmarī; Ṣalāḥ al-ʿUmarī; Thābit b. Miyās al-ʿĀʾidī al-Rufayqī(?); Abū Shaḥfūr(?); ʿUbayd b. […] al-ʿĀʾidī; Abū Ṭāhir. Some of these (e.g. al-ʿĀʾidī and al-ʿUmarī) may be names of Bedouin tribes.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Opens with a taqbīl and salutations for al-majlis al-sāmī al-ajallī al-ʿālīal-mawlawī al-makhdūmī etc. Mentions terms such as "al-dīwān al-maʿmūr" and "al-khidma." Needs examination for content. In between the lines and in the upper margin: there is a draft of another letter in Arabic script, possibly in the same handwriting, addressed to Abū l-Futūḥ. Also mentions al-Qāḍī Mūsā, another Qāḍī (al-ajall al-wajīh al-mukarram al-aʿazz al-sadīd) Jalāl al-Dīn, and Abū l-Makārim al-Kātib (same as in T-S 10J6.3 (PGPID 3042)?).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

The addressee is an amīr with various titles including [...] al-salāṭīn. ِA state official by the name of Hilāl al-Dawla is mentioned and someone "al-Muʾayyad". […] The allowance/ salary (jāmakiyya) of an amīr with the title ʿAlamal-Dawla, who probably oversaw the transport of the produce, is also mentioned. The word Ṭanāḥ (or Ṭabbākh?), also appears. There are also other text blocks. On verso there is also a Hebrew poem.

1 نسخ

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Names include Muḥammad al-Ḥājj; Ghālib ʿArīf al-[...]; Mukhtār al-[...]; Barakāt b. ʿAlīal-Ṭarābulusī; ʿAbd al-Malik al-[...]; ʿAbd al-Munʿim al-Sarrāj; ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. ʿAlīal-Ṭarāʾifī(?); and many more. Needs further examination.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Official Ottoman-era accounts concerning the produce of the city of Lajjūn (qāʾima mubāraka in shāʾ allāh taʿālā bi-muqāsamat al-ghilāl al-mawjūda bi-madīnat al-Lajjūn al-makhdūma(?) al-dīwān al-saʿīd al-ʿālīal-mawlawī al-sayyidī al-mālikī al-maḥrūs...."

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Not much is preserved beyond the titles of the distinguished addressee: al-ajallī al-rayyisī al-ʿālimīal-ʿāmilī al-wariʿī al-akmalī al-ṣadrī al-karīm(?) al-muḥtaram(?) al-awḥad al-aʿazz....

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: (1) Letter/petition in Judaeo-Arabic from Abū ʿAlī to al-Shaykh al-Makīn. Complains about al-Shaykh al-Mufaḍḍal. […] (2) Draft of a petition ("al-mamlūk fulān yakhdum al-majlis al-sāmī....") containing various praises and honorifics for the addressee and blessingsfor the prolongation of the reign of the sulṭān al-Malik al-Kāmil[…] One of them refers to ʿĪsā b. ʿAlīal-Mutaṭabbib and "... fī maʿrifat amrāḍ al-ʿayn" — probably a reference to Tadhkirat al-Kaḥḥālīn.There are also a few phrases in Judaeo-Arabic.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

5 Elul (no year) Anno Mundi

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Marduk b. Musa from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. In the handwriting of Avraham b. […] The letter mentions three members of the al-Tāhartī family who also travelled in a qārib, that of Ibn al-Manajjā, which left before that of al-Mufaḍḍal al-Hayfī but had not yet arrived. Four members of the al-Tāhartī family were making the journey from al-Mahdiyya to Alexandria in one summer and in ships in the same convoy of ships, which suggests some major, joint, coordinated ventures.

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العلامات

• 11th c
• nahray b. nissim
• trade

3 نسخ 2 ترجمتين

Primary language

Arabic

Legal document(s) in Arabic script. Recto mentions "al-majlis al-ʿālī.... al-ʿāmil... al-fallāḥ fī al-nāḥiya al-madhkūra... al-nāṣirī al-madkhūr... jamīʿ al-mablagh...."

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

531 Hijrī (29 September 1136–18 September 1137 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The text block underneath elucidates: "min māl thaghr al-Iskandariyya ḥamāhu Allāh taʿālā bi-mushārafat al-qāḍī al-[...] al-makīn amīn(?) al-mulk ʿizz al-quḍāt..." Dated: 531 AH = 1136/37 CE. The document on recto also refers to al-Muḥarram of the same year. Merits further examination.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Addressed to somebody titled [al-shaykh al-ʿālim] al-ʿāmil al-wariʿ al-zāhid [...] ʿAbd al-ʿAliyy Ibn al-Sukkarī. The next two lines refers to a city name (X al-maḥrūsa) and then perhaps to a neighborhood (al-[...] al-qadīma) where the sender lives or used to live.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر