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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Moshe, probably from the Maghreb, to Abu al-Faraj b. Sdaka al-Ramli, probably from Alexandria. […] Mentions that goods that arrive in Alexandria and their owners are absent, are being held in a storage. Mentions people such as ʿAṭiyya b. Bunyām al-Iskandarānī; Abū Yūsuf; Abū l-Surūr Ibn al-Qābisī; al-Rayyis al-ʿAjamī; Abū l-Barakāt b.

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Primary language

Arabic

Mentions old decrees which were in possession of the Rāʾs al-Mathība and also the new ones, probably alluding to the communal archive. Also mentions petitions the Jewish communal leaders wrote to the reigning Caliph. "al-sijillāt al-muʿaẓẓama al-karīma al-qadīma wa l-mujadadda".

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العلامات

• kalam
• mutazilis
• philosophy
• ras_al-mathiba
• theology

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

At the end of the letter Abū l-ʿAlā is mentioned, who had been very ill. The writer also mentions Ibn Sālim al-Labbān, who is a tax farmer in Minyat Zifta, Abū l-Ḥasan צהר אלחבר, Abū l-Baqā, Bint Manṣūr […] al-Kohen al-Malījī, Bint Umm Manṣūr, Bint Umm Nawīm (or Nuways?), Abū ʿAlī b. Sahlān, Abū Saʿd al-Malik, Abū l-Khayr al-Kohen, Amīn al-Dawla Abū Saʿd and his son, Abū l-Maʿāli al-Levi, Abū l-Makārim, Abū l-ʿAlā, and also Minyat Ghamr and the Nasi.

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العلامات

• to edit

1 مناقشة

Document date

1983 Seleucid (5 September 1671–21 September 1672 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Synagogue (פוראסטיפוס), "the ruined synagogue" al-Khīlīf[...], al-Midrash, al-Faʾr Synagogue, Khālatī Masʿūda Synagogue (see also: PGPID 17028), al-Ḥūjj(?) al-Jīrīd Synagogue, al-Sario/Shario Bashā Synagogue, Shūqar Synagogue, the two Maghrebī (Mūghrebī) synagogues, Talmud Torah, Nava[r]o Synagogue, al-Ḥuqnājī Synagogue (אל חוקנאגי), al-Miṣriyyim Synagogue, al-Mināwī Synagogue, and Abū Shaʿra Synagogue (see also: PGPID 30688). This list of synagogues is incomplete based on other early modern fragments, but quite significant for the number of synagogues mentioned here that are otherwise unattested in Cairo—perhaps in some cases because of alternate titles or identification by adjacent street names.

العلامات

• late synagogues

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic. Abū ʿAlī died, leaving three children: Mūsā, Abū Saʿd, and Sitt al-Kull. Abū Saʿd died, leaving one son: Yaḥyā. Mūsā is still alive and has three children: Abū ʿAlī, Yosef, and Ṣedaqa. Sitt al-Kull is also still alive and has two daughters: Sitt al-Niʿam and Nasab.

العلامات

• genealogy

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Khalaf b. Fuhayd, in Tyre, to al-Shaykh al-jalīl Abū Isḥaq Ibrāhīm Ibn al-Sheviʿi. […] The writer requests a decree (tawqīʿ karīm) of al-Afḍal: ... tawqīʿ karīm min al-ḥaḍra al-mājida (al-Malik al-Afḍal) khallad allāh ayyāmahu ilā al-qāḍī al-ajall thiqat al-dawla ṣāḥīb al-tartīb from al-Mālik (al-Afḍal?) to the Qāḍī Thiqat al-Dawla. Information partly from Goitein's note card for this shelfmark and for BL OR 5566B.5.

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العلامات

• al-malik al-afdal (1094-1121)
• decree
• fatimid decree
• mint
• petition
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions grains and vegetables (al-ḥubūb wa al-mazrūʿāt), al-dhahab al-Ashrafī, the Nile (baḥr al-Nīl al-Mubārak), the port of Alexandria (l. 3), and al-Baḥr al-Aʿzam (Mediterranean Sea). […] The currency towards the end "al-nuḥās al-aḥmar al-mutaʿāmil bihā alʾān bi-l-dīyār al-Miṣrīyya" hints toward a plausible dating of this document. […] Another numismatic reference that might be the most useful for dating is "dhahab al-Ashrafī al-Dhāhirī"; in general, ashrafī refers to the late Mamlūk dīnār first minted in 1425CE under Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay which stayed in circulation under the Ottomans (but which was known more commonly as sharīfī/şerifi post-1517CE).

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العلامات

• dimme
• numismatic dating
• pinholes

1 نسخ

Inferred date

1025–1035 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Yosef the leader of the community of Aleppo, probably in Aleppo, to a gaʾon, probably Shelomo b. […] Levi, whose previous letter was lost. Also mentions Tamīm [b.?] Avraham and Yefet Ibn al-Shayzarī. The writer is also on good terms with the local governor. The writer is leaving for Kalne (Calneh) to attempt to resolve a dispute within the Jewish community there; a man named Ibn al-Lādhiqī (potentially identical with Yehoshuaʿ al-Lādhiqī or his son ʿAlī, cf.

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العلامات

• communal
• governor
• state

1 نسخ 2 مناقشتان

Letter from Natan b. Nahray, from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1065. Alexandria is influenced by the declining value of dirhams. The writer mentions a sweater that someone is weaving for Nahray in Alexandria. Also mentions ruby. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, #424) VMR

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2 نسخين 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Arabic

Letter in Arabic script. Addressed to [...] al-Malikī al-Nāṣirī. Dating: Probably Mamluk era. 'warada l-musharraf al-karīm al-ṣādir ʿan al-majlis al-ʿāl... wa-ʿalima jamīʿ ma sharaḥahu wa-ammā mā dhakarahu bi-sabab al-bighāl...'

العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List of names (al-Shofeṭ; Abū l-Mufaḍḍal; Abū Kathīr al-Ṣayrafī; Abū l-Ḥusayn al-Barādī(?); Salāma al-ʿAṭṭār; Abū Ṭāhir al-T[...]; Abū l-ʿAlāal-Ṣaydalānī; Ḥasan al-Tājir; Ibn Rashīd; Abū Zikrī; Mubārak al-Ṣayrafī) with numbers ranging from 1 to 5.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Heavily reused for writing exercises on recto and possibly also between the lines of the original document. From a certain Ibrāhīm. Additional names are also mentioned: (the addressee?) Jalāl al-Dīn and (in the margin, possibly a later addition) "wa-l-mamlūk al-Mutaṭabbib b. al-Māwardī al-Isrāʾīlī" (the physician the son of the Jewish rose water dealer). Mentions the addressee's prior benefactions (al-ʿāda al-jamīla) and a judge (maʿa l-qāḍī). Needs further examination.

العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions a woman and her husband Tamīm(?) (l. 2); Yaʿqūb Ibn al-Aswad al-Yahūdī (l. 3); possibly an agreement between two heirs (al-wārithayn al-madhkūrayn. . . al-muṣādaqa al-tāmma al-sharʿiyya wa-aqarrā annahumā ʿālimān bi-dhālika ʿilman sharʿiyyan. . .); a valid receipt (al-wuṣūl al-sharʿī); and then a release of the aforementioned husband.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1132–1149 CE

Primary language

Arabic

Dating: ca. 12th C. Recto is headed "al-muqīmīn" and mentions "al-mustakhraj" in the third line, probably related to tax payments, and refers to people such as awlād al-Fakhr(?). There is also some text in the left margin, which reads as "al-tawqīʿ". […] The next line begins with "zakāt al-ladhī"and refers to an iqṭāʿ. Possibly dated to the period of al-Ḥāfiẓ because of the mention of "al-ghallāt/ghulām al-Ḥāfiẓī".

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Accounts of a pawnbroker or goldsmith? Mentions: al-Muʿallim Abū l-Surūr and the fee for a ring; a small silver ring, 2 nuqra dirhams; a third ring belonging to a woman; then a small ring (al-khuwaytim al-ṣaghir); something "in the hand of his son, 2 dirhams"; something "with al-Muʿallim Tāj al-Dawla"; something for Ṣāḥibat al-Dār, 1 dinar and 9 qirats; something with Saʿāda; something with ʿAbd al-Ṣamad: a ring weighing 1.5 dirhams; he is also owed 1.25 dirhams; gold; Ibrāhīm; another kind of ring (ḥalaqa); silver; Abū ʿAlī; al-Muʿallim Tāj al-Dawla and gold.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

The addressee is addressed as al-maqām al-sharīf (l. 17). The sender (al-mamlūk) describes his dealings with a group of governmental and other overseers (jamīʿ khawla al-sulṭāniyya wa-ghayruhum min khawla al-jihāt, l. 7). The sender had submitted a previous report concerning a certain issue and the addressee had issued an order to convene an assembly (wa-aṣdara al-mamlūk khidma bi-qaḍiyyat . . . fa-kharaja al-amr al-ʿālī zādahū allāh nafādhan bi-ʿaqd majlis . . . bi-mā yataḥaqqaq fīhā, ll. 4–5). The remainder of the text repeatedly refers to the assembling of the overseers. Also mentions Ḥasan b. Ibrāhīm (l. 6) and governmental funds (māl al-dīwān, l. 11).

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العلامات

• diwan
• fiscal
• report

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Makkī b. ʿĪsā b. ʿAwf of Alexandria (d. 1188), who was one of Saladin's teachers. The same faqīh is also mentioned in T-S 12.290 (PGPID 3121) and T-S 16.272 (PGPID 3480). Dating: Before 1188 CE, based on the identification of the faqīh. The letter also mentions a blind person, a 'rabbenu ha-qodesh', Alexandria, as well as ahl al-Maḥalla.

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العلامات

• faqih

2 نسخين

Primary language

Arabic

An order from the military administration: "min Majlis al-Ḥarb al-Saʿīd." There is an ʿalāma, scribbled out, between lines 1 and 2 of the main text. […] (and to send?) them to the Majlis al-Ḥarb, and to promise the deputies (nuwwāb) in the district also [...] the aforementioned. And if the local leader (al-muqaddam) and the deputies (al-nuwwāb) and the slaves (al-khawal) ward you off... let them all be brought(?)

العلامات

• arabic military report
• battle
• majlis al-harb
• military
• shawar

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1237–1300 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Also mentions various other distinguished people: the judge of judges (qāḍī al-quḍāh) and the Nagid David (I Maimonides, 1222–1300, held the office after 1237). Also mentions a certain Menaḥem, a Persian (al-ʿajamī), and Alexandria.

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العلامات

• mosul nasis

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Draft of the opening of a petition to 'al-majlis al-sāmī al-ajallī al-mawlawī. . . al-malikī al-muʿaẓẓamī al-muʿizzī al-manṣūrī..."

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Draft of the opening of a deferential letter to someone addressed as 'al-mawlā [...] al-jalīl al-aṣīl al-ḥakīm al-fahīm al-wadīd al-sadīd..." On verso there are similar jottings in Judaeo-Arabic (al-Rayyis etc.) and accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Important business letter sent from Alexandria to Fustat by a Maghribi merchant named Nissim who, coming from al-Mahdiyya, had arrived in Alexandria at time of a civil unrest. The writer describes the difficult situation in Alexandria and al-Mahdiyya, attaches valuable price lists and assures the addressee that his wife and baby daughter are perfectly comfortable. […] Summer of 1062. Lists prices in Alexandria. Mentions trade links with Byzantium, Genoa, Crete, Sicily, and Spain.

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العلامات

• alexandria
• byzantium
• crete
• genoa
• prices
• (+ 3 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

Jumādā I 539 Hijrī (30 October 1144–28 November 1144 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions two different bureaus: dīwan al-jihād al-miṣrī (line 2) and dīwān al-ḥubūs al-miṣriyya (line 7), probably mentioning a transfer of funds between the two bureaus of probably 420 dīnārs. […] Mentions the state official Nāhiḍ al-Dawla Khalīfa b. Ḥasan b. al-Ḥayy(?). Nāhiḍ al-Dawla [Abū ʿAlī] is also mentioned in three other Geniza documents (PGPID 18733, PGPID 19780, PGPID 25172). Al-Maqrīzī reports a state official by this title to be active towards the end of al-Āmir's period which fits the chronology of this document.

العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Verso: The 16 geomantic figures captioned in Arabic (e.g., al-qabḍ al-dākhil, al-qabḍ al-khārij, jawdala, awrāʿ, al-rakīza al-dākhila, al-rakīza al-khārija, al-ijtimāʿ, al-ṭarīq, al-ʿuqla). […] The ones in the lower right corner may be al-ḥiyān and inkīs. There is additional text in the middle, which seems distinct from the figures and their captions ("... ṣawāmit fī waṭn(?)

العلامات

• geomancy

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List of men's names, possibly recipients of alms. Hand of Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya? Names include: [Sal]āma b. [...]; Muslim b. Ḥarbash; Moshe b. Shuʿayb; [...] Ibn al-Khaṭṭāṭ; Abū l-Ḥasan b. ʿEzra; Abū Isḥāq Avraham he-Ḥaver; Abū Naṣr and Naḥum; Salāma b. al-[...]; Yosef [...]; Khalfa [...]; Ismāʿīl Fārizī; Yosef b. al-[...]; Ghālib b. Moshe; Avraham al-Maghribī; Abū Naṣr [...]; Salmān; Abū l-Faraj and Abū ʿAlī Ibn al-Shofeṭ; Abū Saʿīd b. [...] and his friend Avraham; Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllūnal-Ṣahrashtī and his brother; Avraham b. [...] al-Abzārī; Ḥusayn al-Abzārī; Ghulayb al-Labbān; Abū Saʿīd [...]

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated Thursday, 1 Adar II, but the year is not given. Sitt al-ʿAlāʾ, the wife of Abū l-Fakhr al-Kohen, the brother of Abū l-Baqāʾ al-Kohen, appears before the court together with Maḥāsin al-Kohen al-ʿAsqalānī. […] He says that he gave it to Rabbenu Moshe (= Maimonides), "because he is the one who gave them to me." Also present was the son of al-Shaykh al-Thiqa. The continuation is missing.

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Primary language

Arabic

A group of poor workers (ṣunnāʿ) petition the Caliph and remind him of his promise of not extracting revenue from them except for the “customary portion” “al-ḥilf al-maʿmūl” as decreed by the qāḍī al-Asʿad from the dīwān. The petition contains the “raʾy” clause “ḥusn al-ārāʾ al-ʿaliyya”. Geoffery Khan cites this as an example of a shortened raʾy phrase and translates it as “the boon of the lofty resolutions” (Khan, ALAD, p. 315, n44). Another qāḍī by the title ‘al-Akram’ is also mentioned.

العلامات

• dimme
• petition
• ra`y

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Probably sent from Alexandria to Fustat. Refers to the arrival of ʿImrān to Fustat; the addressee is to ask him for news concerning another trader, and whether this other trader has left al-Jāwa yet. Also mentions the arrival of somebody else, a Maghribī, in Alexandria from Aden who conveyed news concerning Abū l-ʿAlāʾ. This person stayed in town (= in Alexandria) for 5 days and then returned to Aden. The sender goes on to refer to the difficulties he would face in traveling to Fustat whether by land or water.

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العلامات

• ib-addenda
• java
• red sea

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter of Benayahu b. Musa, an Alexandrian from Maghribi origin, to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat. The letter contains severe complaints on the local Alexandrian Jews treatment of foreigners, especially from the Maghrib. […] Benayahu also conveys his preoccupation for the addressee, who is recovering from an illness (r3–6).

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العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517

4 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

Ṣafar 537 Hijrī (26 August 1142–23 September 1142 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Record of an ordinance dated Ṣafar 537 AH (= September 1142 CE) from Al-Ẓāfir to instruct Al-Hāfiẓ’s book warehouse to issue ‘the epistle of the elder ʿAlī b. ʿĪsā’ (i.e. the ophthalmological treatise Tadkirat al-kaḥḥalīn) to the amir Fakhr al-Dīn Abū Manṣūr ʿIzz al-ʿArab b. Muḥammad. The oversized ʿalāma (endorsement) in thick pen reads as "yuṭlaq dhālik", "may it be granted", possibly in the Caliph al-Ẓāfir's own autograph ("al-khaṭṭ al-sharīf").

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العلامات

• dimme
• khatt sharif

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Simḥa al-Nīsābūrī ha-Levi to Abū l-ʿAlāʾ Salāma b. Hillel al-Ḥalabī. The sender reports that he arrived in Alexandria on Tuesday after spending three days in Malīj. […] But now he has recovered. The sender also refers to the addressee's intended travel to Yemen.

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العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: marad
• illness: recovered
• nisaburi

1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Bifolio containing accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. There are also Hebrew jottings at 180 degrees, probably a secondary use. Many names mentioned, e.g. Abū ʿAlī Ibn Ḥaffāḍ(?); Aḥmad al-Ṣabbān; Abū Manṣūr; Abū l-Ḥajjāj; Futūḥ al-Shāmī. Also may mention bāb al-futūḥ.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1074–1074 CE

Primary language

Arabic

The first is "Turkān Shāh b. al-Amīr Asad al-Dawla Baladkosh", son on the rebellious Turkish army general Baladkosh. The last line of the top entry mentions "istiqbāl tārikh al-tawqīʿ al-madkhūr." Also probably mentions the month of Dhū l-Ḥijja. This document is dated before 466 H/1074 because, according to al-Maqrīzī, Turkān Shāh fled towards Bilād al-Shām after his father Baladkosh was assassinated for inciting the civil war together with Nāṣir al-Dawla (al-Maqrīzī, al-Muqaffā al-Kabīr, II, 340).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

909 Hijrī (26 June 1503–13 June 1504 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

ENA 3960.6–10 are five distinct but related legal acknowledgments (iqrārs) in Arabic script, all dated 909 AH (1503/04 CE), and involving the same people (e.g., Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad b. al-Khwājā Yūsuf b. al-Ḥājj ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Tājir al-Saffār(?) al-Ḥalabī) and the same witnesses (Aḥmad ʿAbd al-Qādir b. [...] and Ismāʿīl [...]).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

A lot is preserved on both recto and verso, but very difficult to read, mentions "kharaja al-amr al-ʿālī bi l-marsūm", and "imtithāl al-marsūm". […] A state official by the name of Nūr al-Mulk al-Qurhub is also mentioned. Needs examination.

العلامات

• dimme
• jarida

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Customers include Makārim al-Ṣayrafī, Barakāt al-Azraq, Maḥāsin b. al-[...]; the son of Simḥa; Abū ʿAlī Ibn al-Sukkarī; Bū Manṣūr b. al-Dhahabī; al-Shaykh al-Makīn and his brother Abū l-Baqā'.

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العلامات

• account
• wine

1 مناقشة

Document date

12 Elul 4968 Anno Mundi (26 August 1208 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from the teacher Bū l-Ḥusayn Yehuda (b. Aharon?) Ibn al-ʿAmmānī, in Alexandria, to his third cousin and brother-in-law the physician Yeshuʿa b. […] There are further instructions about Ibn al-Tinnīsī and obtaining a ruqʿa in the hand of the judge (al-dayyān) from the Qaraite al-Shaykh al-Thiqa. […] Yakhin), and the allies of Anatoli were also there. Yosef was then denounced to the amir Ḥusām al-Dīn as someone who curses the Jewish law and who must be banished from the city.

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العلامات

• 4800
• bimaristan
• dating tricks
• medicine
• physicians
• (+ 2 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim. Offers details of ill-fated ships that were destroyed in a storm or met with the Byzantine navy. Of the ships that had been in al-Kanāʾis (a port in western Egypt), the only ones that had made it all the way to Alexandria were 7 ships of al-Ishfīlī, and one qārib apiece of Ibn Dayṣūr, Ibn Sindūr, Ibn al-Dajdāj, Ibn al-Jannānī and al-Jazūla — 12 in all. […] Gil connects this with the 15 ships mentioned in T-S 8J27.2, his #447, and therefore understands this letter to imply that the ship of Ibn al-Baʿbāʿ was among those that hadn't yet returned to Alexandria).

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العلامات

• fayj
• ibn al-ba'ba'
• khums
• qarib
• ships
• (+ 2 المزيد)

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

Dhū l-Ḥijja 407 Hijrī (1 May 1017–29 May 1017 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Acknowledgment of the repayment of a debt in monthly installments over the preceding year. Al-Ḥasan b. al-Ḥusayn b. Jaʿfar al-Hāshimī al-Khazīnī and his paternal sister Mubāraka bt. al-Ḥusayn b. Jaʿfar al-Hāshimī al-Khazīnī acknowledge the receipt of the following amounts of money as repayments of a debt from Aḥmad Ibn al-Sayyidī, representative of the head of the Ṭālibīs, Abū l-Qāsim ʿAlī b. […] The document is witnessed by ʿAlī b. Aḥmad, Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Sādān and ʿAbd al-Wahhāb b.

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العلامات

• debt
• installments

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yehuda b. Yahya from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1050. […] He also mentions two ships of Abū ʿAbdallah (Ibn al-Baʿbāʿ), a qārib of Bū ʿAlīal-Shāmī and three ships from the Shām. Also mentions a shipment of camphor and the account of Yehuda b.

Related People

3

Related Places

1

العلامات

• camphor
• ibn al-ba'ba'
• qarib
• qunbar
• ships

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Arabic

Recto: Letter/petition in Arabic script to a qāḍī (al-majlis al-sāmī al-ajallī al-qaḍāʾī al-shamsī). The sender's name is given at the top but is tricky to read (al-mamlūk al-aṣghar Abū l-[...]). There is a large upper margin. […] The sender only gets to the substance of the petition in the last preserved line (wa-siwāhu inna muʿrīḍ(?) hādhih al-khidma al-shaykh al-jalīl Abū l-[...]...." Dating: Mamluk era.

العلامات

• dimme
• petition
• to edit

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The addressee is called al-shaykh al-ajall... al-muwaffaq al-ṣadīq al-kohen al-vatiq. The sender complains that this year he has perished and his flesh has been afflicted (...fī hādhihi al-sana alladhī halaktu... ilā allāh taʿālā wa-qad baliya laḥmī...).

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