Documents

Primary language

Arabic

The one on the left says "let it be copied in the Dīwān al-Mufrad lil-Iqṭāʿāt al-Murtajiʿa in shāʾa llāh." […] Al-Ḥakīm established an office called dīwān al-mufrad for the administration of estates, but later came to be known as dīwān al-murtajʿā; see Michael Brett, Fatimid Empire (Edinburgh:2017), 177. Apparently, Barqūq also established Dīwān al-Mufrad in either 1382 or 1395 CE; see Daisuke Igarashi, "The Establishment and Development of al-Dīwān al-Mufrad: Its Background and Implications," Mamluk Studies Review 10 (2006), 117–40.

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Primary language

Arabic

Upper part of a petition (first 9 lines) addressed to "al-amīr... al-mujāhid al-muthāghir al-murābiṭ al-isfahsalār... Shihāb al-Dīn." Dating: 13th century, or possibly later. […] On this madrasa, named for Sayf al-Dīn Yāzkūj, a mamlūk of Asad al-Dīn Shīrkūh who later served under Saladin and al-Malik al-ʿAzīz and died in Egypt in 1203 CE, see Ogden Goelet and Sameh Iskander, "The Restoration of Sunnism: The Early History of Islamic Law Schools and the Professoriate in Egypt, 495-647/1101-1249," pp. 185–86.

العلامات

• ayyubid
• isfahsalar
• madrasa
• muezzin
• old age
• (+ 1 المزيد)

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Primary language

Arabic

In Arabic script. 6 lines preserved. Mentions a wall (al-ṣūr), the dispatching of a warship (ʿushārī), someone named Ibn al-Qaṣʿ(?)[…] This document was identified and catalogued on PGP by Alan Elbaum in 2022. Pending publication by Paul Cobb and Alan Elbaum. Reused on recto for the beginning of a Judaeo-Arabic treatise on divining the future using a table of 89 letters which are referred to as "the chess houses" (al-buyūt al-shaṭranjiyya). Further down, mentions the city of Alexandria in an unclear context.

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العلامات

• arabic military report
• dimme

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Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Moshe ha-Rofeʾ, the representative of the merchants, to the cantor Avraham b. Neḥemya. Also mentions Shemarya b. Yeshuʿa, al-Mahdiyya, and alum (shabb). […] ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Also signed by ʿUlla b. Yosef ha-Levi and Yehuda b. Moshe ha-Ḥazzan (also signed Halper 341 + Halper 348 (PGPID 19634)) and Shem[uel].

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Primary language

Arabic

Possibly to the caliph himself (al-ḥaḍra al-ṭāhira). The sender desires to be sent to Syria to fight (raghiba al-jihād) with the victorious army (...wa-yatajarrad ilā al-Shām fī jumlat al-ʿaskar al-manṣūr wa-yabdhul majhūdahu fī al-khidma al-sharīfa...). The addressee is asked to issue an order to the Kātib al-Jaysh ordering his deployment (tajrīd). Recto (secondary use): Informal note in Arabic script confirming the granting of a gift without any conditions.

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العلامات

• army
• jihad
• petition

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Headed with the name of Ibn al-Zūlāq(?). Mentions al-funduq al-sāḥil (apparently in Alexandria), and the hire of a ship from Alexandria to Rashīd.

العلامات

• customs

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

Full of fulsome praises for a very important person who is also a Kohen. Refers specifically to Benei Ṣadoq, so perhaps also a Qaraite? There is also some Arabic script at the top of recto.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Detailed business and personal letter from Alexandria to Fustat. The letter narrates the difficult situation in Alexandria during a siege, probably al-Afdal's siege of 1094, when Nizar took refuge in Alexandria after the death of the caliph al-Mustansir. […] Frenkel suggests that the writer describes an epidemic, which is known from other letters, but here there seems to be no sign of an epidemic (the reading of the last word of line 7 as al-nās is tentative and does not completely fit the context). He reports that no pepper, cinnamon or ginger were available in Alexandria, and asks the recipient to keep these commodities for the Byzantines, saying that all Byzantines are set to leave for Fustat as soon as two ships from Constantinople arrive.

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العلامات

• byzantine merchants
• byzantines
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: bedbound
• (+ 2 المزيد)

3 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The opening greetings include a complaint about lack of letters and mention that Yeshuʿa and al-mawlā al-Amjad are living in Alexandria. The substance of the letter concerns the question of whether Hebrew script ("ktav ashuri") may be used for secular purposes. […] The largest subset of this seems to be a letter draft to a certain Waliyy al-Dawla, addressed with titles such as al-ḥaḍra al-sāmiya al-ajalliyya al-sharīfa. . . . . There are also drafts of Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew letters, as well as a small section of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.

العلامات

• hananel b. shemuel
• maimonides
• responsum

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Document date

955 Hijrī (11 February 1548–29 January 1549 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Dating: Unclear if this is the date of the document itself, but the document mentions the year 955 AH, which is 1548/49 CE (l. 11). The judge is al-ḥākim al-shamsī Shams al-Dīn [...]. The document mentions several people, notably Yehuda b. […] Yosef Castro, presumably identical with the merchant Yehuda Castro known from CUL Or.1080 J133, ENA 2808.2, ENA NS 54.7 (though this seems too late), T-S NS 320.127, and probably other Geniza documents. Also mentions Isḥāq b. Isrāʾīl b. Yaḥyā al-Yahūdī. Also mentions al-Raʾīs Muḥammad; certification (taṣdīq) of claims; various large sums of money (including 800 medins/niṣfs and al-dhahab al-sulṭānī); a ship; and Istanbul (اسطنبول).

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العلامات

• castro

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Document date

25 Ramaḍān 405 Hijrī (19 March 1015 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

ʿAbd al-Masīḥ the jahbadh and registered by the Dīwān al-ʿAmal and the Dīwān al-Ishrāf. Payment made under the supervision of three officials: (1) the auspicious, rightly guided qāḍī Thiqat al-Mulk Makīn al-Dawla wa-Amīnuhā, protégé of the Commander of the Faithful, Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Nahār; (2) on behalf of the fiduciary qāḍī Abū ʿAlī l-Ḥasan b. Yaḥyā b. Nahār; and (3) under the tax accounting of the elder Sadīd al-Dawla Abū l-Faraj ʿAbd al-Masīḥ b.

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العلامات

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

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Primary language

Arabic

There are distinct sections headed by individuals' names: [...] b. Mūsā al-[...]; Rāfiʿ b. al-[...]; ʿAbd al-Khāliq b. ʿAbdallāh. […] The first full entry mentions al-amīr al-ajall al-muʿaẓẓam; the next Saʿīd min ṣibyān al-[...] al-ajall al-muʿaẓẓam; and the next "ghilmān Sharaf al-Umarāʾ [...].

العلامات

• cmp

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Rajab 1163 Hijrī (6 June 1750–5 July 1750 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Rajab 1163 AH = June/July 1750 CE. Aṣlān b. Yūsuf al-Yaḥūdī known as al-Dūka(?) rents a 'sitting hall' (al-qāʿa al-muʿallaqa) which is on the road of the seven halls (Darb al-Sabʿ Qāʿāt). The lessor is al-Ḥājj Ibrāhīm the son of the late Muḥammad al-Janzūrī, who is the wakīl (agent/representative) of al-Ḥājj Shihāb al-Dimāṭī (or al-Dimyāṭī?).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1525–1575 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter in Hebrew (peppered with Arabic, Turkish, and Italian), addressed to two unnamed merchants (one the uncle of the writer), written almost certainly in Alexandria in the mid-16th-century. […] The Alexandrian authorities apparently cut the anchors of multiple other European ships and damaged the docks (? […] The writer has been dealing with a merchant from Ragusa (Dubrovnik) who tells him that after these events in Alexandria, even if he were to receive the weight of all his merchandise in gold, he would not come back to Alexandria, and no European merchant will want to come again after this; all those in Alexandria at present are intending to leave.

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العلامات

• 16th c
• consul
• florence
• italian words
• piracy
• (+ 2 المزيد)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter sent from Alexandria by Yiṣḥaq Nisaburi to Abu al-'Ala Sa'id b. Munajja in Fustat, asking him to send a Byzantine scribe to Alexandria to write a Torah scroll. (Information from Goitein's index cards)

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العلامات

• byzantines
• nisaburi

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Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

List (fragment) of names and amounts, all contributing 1/2 (though also looks like the Hebrew letter alef). The second column is headed "al-ghayr qāṭinīn" (the non-residents). Ca. mid-12th century.

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العلامات

• communal
• list

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Document date

4 Rabiʿ II 595 Hijrī (3 February 1199 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

This operation is witnessed by ʿAmmār b. al-Ḥasan b. Ismaʿīl b. ʿAlī and Abū l-Maʿālī Yūsuf b. […] At the time of this document, al-Malik al-Manṣūr, the son of al-Malik al-ʿAzīz, was titular sultan, with his uncle al-Malik al-Afḍal serving as regent. This is reflected in the two nisbas of the title al-Manṣūri and al-Afḍalī. On verso is a list of names in Arabic script that has no apparent connection with the document on recto.

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1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abī l-Ḥayy Khalila in Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat, ca. 1060-1075 (Udovitch) or ca. 1050 (Gil). […] Abī l-Ḥayy had been in Buḥayra buying grain; he mentions the movement of ships from Alexandria to the Maghrib, and trade with the east, presumably Shām and possibly Iraq; also mentions other commodities, including silk, wax and alkali; Ibn al-Baʿbāʿ is mentioned in the margin.

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العلامات

• commodities
• grain
• ibn al-ba'ba'
• movement of ships
• nahray b. nissim
• (+ 1 المزيد)

3 نسخ 2 ترجمتين

Primary language

Arabic

Describing an arrangement between two men possibly involving wax/candles, mentioning for example "whoever [...] requiring customs (maks) shall bring it to the customs house (al-ṣināʿa al-maḥrūsa)." There is also a string of epithets for something to do with a ruler or the government: [...] al-muʿaẓẓama al-sharīfa al-nabawiyya al-[...] [...].

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Names such as the daughter of Zanbūr; yatīm al-aḥyāʾ(?); the orphan of Elʿazar; the orphan of the goldsmith; Nājiya; Umm Khallūf; Abū l-Surur; Abū ʿAlī; al-Bayrūtī; Abū Saʿd; Ṭayyib; Ibrāhīm; Dāwūd; Sālim; a divorcee; Umm Abū Saʿd; Suwayqāt; Ibn al-Amʿaṭ; the wife of Shimlāṣ; Shabbat; al-Aqṭaʿ; Abū l-Khayr; Salāma; ʿAzrūn; al-Mūṣilī; al-ʿIblānī; Yosef; the wife of Mukhtār; a paralyzed woman (maflūja); al-muqaddasī

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Jottings and drafts of phrases both from a petition (yuqabbil al-arḍ) and an order of payment (yadfaʿ li-muwaṣṣilhā) addressed to al-Shaykh al-Makīn Abū l-Faraj (early 13th century). There is also one line in Arabic script. These are written in the margins and on verso of a literary Hebrew text (seems liturgical or piyyuṭ). There are also various pen trials.

العلامات

• petition

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions names such as: al-ʿAfṣī, the Jewish woman (al-yahūdiyya), Ibn al-ʿIrāqī, two or three gharībs, a silk trader (al-ḥarīrī), a Christian man (al-naṣrānī), Muḥammad the wool trader (al-ṣawwāf), Ḥusayn, Wahb, al-Maghribī, etc.

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العلامات

• account
• arus b. yosef

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Mūsā b. Barhūn al-Tāhartī, in Alexandria, to Yosef b. ʿEli Kohen Fāsī, Fustat. […] He intends to spend the winter in Alexandria. He writes about the flax market in Alexandria.

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Document date

1235 Hijrī (20 October 1819–8 October 1820 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Receipt or order of payment issued by the state administration for silk production in Alexandria. Dated 25 Ramadan[?] 1235 AH which is 1819 CE. A state official, the "overseer of silk looms [in] Alexandria" signed and stamped the document. A certain Barakāt al-ṣarrāf is also mentioned, possibly the same official mentioned in JRL SERIES C 7 (PGPID 31857).

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العلامات

• 19th c
• dimme
• late arabic script

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Above that, there is an ʿalāma (al-ḥamdu lil-lāhi rabbi al-ʿālamīn). Refers to money exchange (ṣarf) and possibly the treasury (al-dhakhīra al-sharīfa, though looks like it is written الذخرية rather than الذخيرة), and at least twice to "the millers" (al-ṭaḥḥānīn).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

21 Iyyar 4807 Anno Mundi (20 May 1047 CE)

Recto: Declaration made by the merchant Yosef b. Moshe b. Barhūn al-Tāhartī. Location: Alexandria. Dated: Sunday, 8 days remaining in Iyyar 4807 AM, which is 1047 CE. […] The woman is described here as the wife of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Ibn al-Zākī who joins with Yosef b. Moshe (b. Barhūn al-Tāhartī) in making the declaration. Also, it is mentioned that Khalaf/Khulayf died while traveling to Syria.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a father in Cairo to his son, Abū Manṣūr al-Rashīd, in the Fayyum. The name Jamāl al-Dīn also appears in the address. […] Dating: Likely late 12th or early 13th century based on handwriting and typical names; more precise dating should be achievable by identifying the people mentioned in the letter, such as Fakhr al-Dīn ʿUthmān, Abū Saʿd Ibn al-Shavuy, Ṭāhir b. al-Gadol and his partner Ibn al-Wazzān, Ibn al-Ḥaver, Ibn Wahbān, Abū Saʿd the addressee's cousin, Sitt Ḥaẓẓ, Sitt al-Ahl, Sitt al-Milāḥ, Sitt Nadd, al-Shaykh al-Thiqa and al-Wajīhiyya.

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العلامات

• diwan
• nar
• torture

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1158–1158 CE

Primary language

Arabic

The addressee mentioned on verso begins with "ḥaḍra mawlāya al-Shaykh al-Ajal Abī al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad b. Ibrāhīm". The letter is most probably dated to ~1158, when both Almeria (in 1157) and Tripoli (in 1158) had been retaken by the Almohads. During these developments, al-Mahdiyya was still under Norman rule, so it makes sense that the ship of the Ṣāhib al-Mahdiyya and the ship of al-Rūm (Byzantines) were traveling together as mentioned in the letter.

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العلامات

• dimme
• morocco

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Document date

16 Dhū l-Qaʿda 597 Hijrī (18 August 1201 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Abū l-Yāsir the Christian (al-Naṣrānī) who lives in the alley of al-Karma... Yūsuf al-Wāsiṭī... a Sicilian coppersmith (ṣāniʿ nuḥās siqillī)... sayyid ʿUthmān... […] Makārim who collected money for a fine blanket (malḥafa rafīʿa)... Sulaymān al-Yahūdī and Sitt Ziyāda... ʿAlī in New Cairo... [...] al-Yahūdī Ibn al-Maqdisī

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Petition or a report, from a group of people to al-ʿĀḍid (cf. formulae in T-S Ar.51.107). Mentions iqṭāʿāt and muqṭaʿīn, several place names, the ṣāḥib al-ḥarb in al-Maḥalla and how the Maghribīs sought the expulsion of the petitioners from their iqṭāʿāt (fa-lammā uqṭiʿat al-mamālīk rāmū l-maghāriba ikhrājhum). A case of bribery "rishwa" is also reported. There are at least two state officials mentioned: Tāj al-Dawla and Amīr al-Jūyūsh Sayf al-Dawla.

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العلامات

• dimme
• iqta'
• sahib al-harb

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Document date

24 Ramaḍān 405 Hijrī (18 March 1015 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

ʿAbd al-Masīḥ the jahbadh and registered by the Dīwān al-ʿAmal and the Dīwān al-Ishrāf. Payment made under the supervision of three officials: (1) under the supervision of the auspicious, rightly guided qāḍī Thiqat al-Mulk Makīn al-Dawla wa-Amīnuhā, protégé of the Commander of the Faithful, Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Nahār; (2) on behalf of the fiduciary qāḍī Abū ʿAlī l-Ḥasan b. Yaḥyā b. Nahār; and (3) under the tax accounting of the elder Sadīd al-Dawla Abū l-Faraj ʿAbd al-Masīḥ b.

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العلامات

• abu l-hasan b. wahb
• daman
• damin
• fgp stub
• tax receipt

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

first decade of Rabīʿ I 486 Hijrī (1 April 1093–10 April 1093 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The captain/owner (rayyis) of the ship who delivered the produce to the arsenal (Dār al-Ṣināʿa) may be insisting that the taxes have already been paid on these shipments. […] The rayyis swears by God, by the caliph al-Mustanṣir, and by the amīr al-juyūsh, sayf al-islām, nāṣir al-imām, chief dāʿī, etc. (=Badr al-Jamālī?). The document also mentions Dīwān al-Abwāb (see tag).

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العلامات

• arsenal
• captain
• diwan al-abwab
• produce
• tax
• (+ 1 المزيد)

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