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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information from Mediterranean Society, IV, pp. 97, 374; V, pp. 110, 536.) Also: "The daughter of Futūḥ al-Shamshūrī says that the wife of my paternal uncle fasts for her son because of his illness. […] Dating: Probably early 13th century, based on the mention of Abū l-Futūḥ al-Shamshūrī in a letter by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu: Moss. VII,170.1. This letter also mentions the faqīh Jamāl al-Dīn, presumably the same as in Bodl.

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العلامات

• fasting
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: fasting
• illness: marad
• (+ 2 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1156–1156 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: ca. 1156 CE. Sitt al-Ahl bt. Sayyid al-Kull, the widow of Hiba b. […] Tiqva ha-Levi known as Ibn al-Amʿaṭ, a certain sum from the estate of her late husband. Sitt al-Ahl's father Sayyid al-Kull is also known as the druggist Hillel b.

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• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib2
• india book
• testimony

2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Two persons are called "son of the midwife," but are not listed together. Two others, also separated from each other, "son of the [female] dressmaker." […] Some persons, like Yiṣḥaq b. Nisan, are also in T-S K15.62. The name al-Ḥinnāwī ("dealer in henna") appears also in T-S K15.34.

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Document date

First 10 days of Shawwāl 480 Hijrī (December 1087–January 1088 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Tax collection (ḍamān) contract from the era of the caliph al-Mustanṣir, dated 477 kharājiyya (1087–88 CE). […] The taxes will be directed to the Imām al-Mustanṣir billāh and to his Amīr al-Juyūsh (Badr al-Jamālī). Also mentions an official called Ḥātim b. Faraj.

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العلامات

• al-mustansir
• badr
• damin
• zakat

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

529 Hijrī (22 October 1134–10 October 1135 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The muqirr is Bū Saʿd b. Hibatallāh al-Isrāʾīlī. Mentions a loan of 3.5 dinars and the region of the Upper Ṣaʿīd (al-Ṣaʿīd al-Aʿlā, southernmost Egypt). […] Refers to "the customary agricultural activities" (... al-filāḥāt ʿalā jārī al-ʿāda) and a stipulation that "when he fails to produce the aforementioned receipt in the name of the aforementioned tax farmer, he shall become liable for the aforementioned sum from his own money" (ومتا عدم احضار الوصول المذكور باسم الضامن المذكور كان عليه القيام بالمبلغ المذكور من ماله).

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العلامات

• damin
• upper egypt

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Document date

Wednesday, 21 Shevaṭ 4871 Anno Mundi (1 February 1111 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Shemuel ha-Sefaradi (the Spaniard); also signed by Peraḥya b. Shelomo. Opens by invoking the courts of Cairo and Fustat and the authority of the Nagid Mevorakh b. […] Declaration made by the Byzantine dyer (al-ṣabbāgh al-rūmī) David b. Avraham in favor of Yiṣḥaq b. […] Avraham and two local people of whom one is called Dimyāṭī, i.e., of Damietta. Also mentions the names Abū l-Munā b. Abū l-Faraj, and Abū Isḥāq Avraham b.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ghanīma, probably in Alexandria, to 'my brother' Bū Yaʿqūb b. Nissim, in Fustat. […] גלה) for the addressee, but the cheapest available would have been 3 or 4 dinars. He entered Alexandria with the julla he already had and obtained new gold for the addressee. […] to the addressee's house (in Alexandria?). The wife and the boy are healthy. The boy had an attack of ophthalmia but it subsided.

العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: children's
• illness: eye

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Wednesday, 11 Jumādā II 697 Hijrī (26 March 1298 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Maʿālī and by Abū l-Mufaḍḍal b. al-Dayyān al-Maskīl (probably not al-Rabbān al-Maskīl as Khan has it, and he missed the Abū); the latter seems to be Abū l-Mufaḍḍal Shelomo b. […] Saʿadya ha-Levi, whose father, Shemuʾel, was titled al-Dayyān al-Maskil, although this is a bit late for him (Khan's reading of the date appears to be correct).

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العلامات

• death
• inheritance
• report of death

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

The sender and "the girl" (al-ṣaghīra) have arrived safely in the Fayyūm (l. 5). They are settling in magnificently, for "the people of the area honor me and serve me and fulfill all my needs." The happiness is spoiled only by homesickness and longing "for all of the noble sisters" (jamāʿat al-sittāt al-khawāt). […] ; and again Sitt al-Khafar. The last two lines on verso may be an address, but they are tricky to read.

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العلامات

• fayyum
• women's letters

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

The writer is complaining about Yehuda al-Hami with whom he had a quarrel over monetary issue. This al-Hami forged a bill of debt and sue the writer in a Muslim court. […] The writer brought to court in front of the judge al-Malafi and was able to be rescued also thanks to Moshe Dammuhi.

العلامات

• late heb

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Small fragment of a legal query sent to Maimonides about Reuven who passed away and left a house and tow sons. Also mentioned Bu Shiyya (as Friedman's and Blau's reading) or BOSHEYYA (= convert to Islam. Zinger's reading) who received a quarter of a house. Also Mahalla is mentioned and a big brother who passed away. […] A Family Dispute from the Cairo Geniza, Al-Masāq (2019), vol. 31)

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• fgp stub

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a man, probably in al-Maḥalla, to a friend or family member, probably in Fustat. […] They must not tell the sender's father that he might be traveling to Alexandria, since that would make him worry. The addressee is to convey a complaint to the "[R]aʾīs" about a group of misers (qawm shiḥāḥ) who can barely be made to pay. […] He is not sure if he should travel next to Alexandria or to Sammanūd and Damīra. ASE

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The letter is in Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic: to [Sūq] al-ʿAṭṭārīn, to Ibn al-Amshāṭī, to be given to [...] al-Ḥazzān, to be given to his son Mūsā. […] The letter continues onto verso, where there is also an astrological table in Arabic script. (Information from CUDL.) […] Join: Alan Elbaum

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العلامات

• arabic address
• ib6
• india book
• mysterious sign

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Inferred date

1055–1055 CE

Primary language

Arabic

Refers to the well-known Jewish leader [Daniel b.] ʿAzarya al-Dāʾūdī (second half of the 11th century) and to the addressee's benefactions in the administration of the Fatimid state: "...wa-bi-sāʾir aʿmāl al-dawla al-Nabawiyya wa-tummimat al-niʿma ʿa[lā ...]... al-ṭāhir...." […] See also Claude Cahen, “Notes pour l’histoire de la ḥimāya" (1956) and Jürgen Paul, "Ḥimāya Revisited" (2020) (https://journals.openedition.org/anisl/7518?lang=en). See also T-S Misc.8.67 for a similar-looking Arabic-script document involving Daniel b.

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العلامات

• dimme

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yiftaḥ ha-Kohen, in Tinnīs, to Abū l-ʿAlā' Ṣāʿid b. al-Munajja al-Dimashqi (perhaps the same as Abū l-ʿAlā' Ṣāʿid b. […] The writer sends holiday wishes and reports that he has already met with Abū ʿImrān as requested, who said that he already sent the addressee letters of his own with what he needs to know. […] The writer has also written to Abū l-Mufaḍḍal about these events, אולי יש תקוה.

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العلامات

• damin
• hujja
• maks
• tax
• tinnis

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

This document concerns the settlement of an account between Abū al-Mufaḍḍal Netanel b. Yefet and Abū al-Ḥasan Ṭoviyya b. […] Lieberman speculates that the Abū al-Faraj al-Wakīl mentioned here may have been Abū al-Faraj Yeshu‘a b. […] A draft copy of this document also exists; see (see T-S 8J4.9, PGPID 2128. (Information from Lieberman, "A Partnership Culture", 177).

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العلامات

• court record
• partnership
• perfume
• silk
• trade

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Avraham Ibn Miṣbāḥ, in Alexandria to Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat. Written in the hand of Avraham ha-Melammed b. Yefet. "I arrived in Alexandria with Manṣūr b. Simḥa ha-Kohen and found all the {orphan} children sick (marḍā tālifīn). […] Eliyyahu is his patron; he repeatedly praises his generosity and reports how he praised him to various people in Alexandria. The writer has been waiting around in Alexandria for various officials to help him, and in the interim receives bread from the public distribution.

العلامات

• boat
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: cost
• illness: treatment
• (+ 4 المزيد)

2 مناقشتان

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Its location has been much discussed, especially by the editors of al-Rāmhurmuzī (ʿAjāʾib, 247–53), who identify it with Palembang, in southeastern Sumatra. Given that Sumatra is already represented in our text by the island of al-Rāmanī and that Sarbuzah is itself said to be a large island, it should perhaps be sought elsewhere. Borneo has also been suggested as a possibility. At the risk of adding to the confusion, Sulawesi, on the grounds both of its name and its size, might also be a contender."

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العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: eye
• illness: treatment
• mail-order medicine
• (+ 1 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

There are a handful of Hebrew words, also in Arabic script. Dating: Likely 11th century, based on the reference to the Tustaris. […] In the upper margin of recto, mentions a woman planning to travel; also mentions the Tustaris (al-Dasātira) and Umm Abū l-Khayr(?). […] and says more about the house — cleaning it and its roof (naẓẓafnā al-dār kullhā... al-saṭḥ...). There is a line that contains the Hebrew word "dreams' (الحلوموث).

العلامات

• al-tustari
• education
• girls
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• (+ 2 المزيد)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1020–1030 CE

The rent of a compound in Aleppo has been dedicated by its owner, Hilla b. Joseph, to the Great Synagogue in that city; the sons of Hilla, Mevorakh and Mufarrij, now live in Tyre. They declare before the court that the allegations of a certain man from Aleppo, who claims that the house was sold to him by their father, are vain and unfounded. […] The first part of the introduction is a eulogy, alphabetically arranged, to the learned people of Aleppo and their leader, the head of the court, R.

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• 11th c
• tyre

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter (fragment) referring inter alia to a Nile voyage in the entourage of 'the king,' probably al-Malik al-Afḍal (r. 1095–1121). […] When we arrived in Manūf, the king (al-mālik) //may God make his reign eternal// embarked, along with my master (mawlāya) as well as my master Abū l-Mufaḍḍal, and they traveled to al-Maḥalla. […] The day that my master arrived from al-Maḥalla, I wrote a letter and sent it with Salāma al-Shīrajī, and it was concise... because I did not have enough time...."

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العلامات

• al-malik al-afdal (1094-1121)
• shashiyya
• slaves

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Family letter from Natan b. Yehuda (Alexandria, ca. 1160) to Moshe b. Ṣemaḥ and his brother (Fustat), the writer’s cousins-in-law. […] Yehuda reports that everyone in the house was ill because of a great epidemic of sweating sickness (wakham) in Alexandria. He praises the brothers for their munificence but also politely reminds them that it was time for them to marry and wishes that their mother may see their “joy”.

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• epidemic
• epidemic: wakham
• family
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• (+ 3 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

There are interesting opening blessings, including the phrase "zohar ḥashmalim." There are also interesting phonetic spellings, with vowels, throughout. […] These are prefaced by an apology for bothering ʿEli when he has so many strangers to take care of (wa-ʿalā annī aʿlam anna ʿalayh ʿā'ila kabīra min al-ghurabā')—it seems that عائلة is being used here in its broader sense of "dependents" rather than a literal family.

العلامات

• appeal

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

1541 Seleucid (20 September 1229–8 September 1230 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: 1541 Seleucid = 1229/30 CE, under the authority of Avraham Maimonides. Al-Shaykh al-Muhadhdhab Abū l-Thanāʾ Netanʾel b. Berakhot known as Ibn ʿAmmār al-Sukkarī makes a declaration concerning al-Shaykh al-Thiqa Hiba/Natan b. […] The following shelfmarks are all related, and some subset of them may join: T-S NS 320.130b (PGPID 25402), T-S AS 153.31 (PGPID 16605), and Bodl.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Several entries on recto are of the form: al-wārid ʿalā yad X bi-l-Qāhira al-Maḥrūsa min jihat al-Miṣriyyīn. The dates are then given according to the Muuslim calendar (but the year is always stated as "in the same year"). In one case the person delivering the payments is Ibrāhīm al-Ḥāshir (i.e., the tax collector).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

405 Hijrī (2 July 1014–20 June 1015 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Capitation tax receipt for a 1 dinar payment made by Bū l-Thanāʾ b. Bū Saʿd b. Ṭayyib al-Murakkib (the saddle maker) in New Cairo and Fustat for the year 405 AH, which is 1014/15 CE. Dated: 21 Muḥarram. Registration mark: 'al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ʿalā niʿamih', all praise be to God for his benefactions (found twice on recto and once on verso). Verso also has some numbers written out in Judaeo-Arabic (might be a writing exercise).

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العلامات

• dimme
• fiscal
• tax receipt

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yiṣḥaq b. Ḥalfon from Alexandria that one should not make exception to 'gentile manners'. Trade in Lazuward (Lapis lazuli) is also mentioned. (Information from Frenkel. See also Goitein, Med.

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2 نسخين

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

"A divorced woman complains that her former husband constantly asks her to return to him. She has left for Alexandria and all the time he keeps asking her to return to him in Fustat which she is afraid to do. Even the Rabbi's servant continues to pressure her to comply (ghulām al-rav baqiya yulzi(mu)nī ʿalāal-safar) saying that “it might be good for you.”

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العلامات

• appeal
• divorce
• ghulam
• halfon b. menashshe
• women's letters

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Meshullam and his brother Ṣedaqa b. Meshullam, along with their mother Bahiyya bt. Ḥalfon, from debts incurred by their deceased father Abū l-ʿAlā Meshullam b. […] Mentions 'the judge of judges' (qāḍī l-quḍāh). See also T-S 12.94 and T-S 20.30. All need further examination. […] Joins: S. D. Goitein and Alan Elbaum.

2 نسخين 2 مناقشتان

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter of appeal written by Menashshe, the Alexandrian school teacher, to Abu al-Barakat Yehudah ha-Kohen b. Elazar, Thiqat al-Mulk (Goitein translates 'Trusted Servant of the State'), a high ranking official in the Fatimid court. […] The request for help is written on the occasion to the pilgrimage of Passover because the writer recently got married and suffers 'the burden of a house' (Information from Frenkel. See also Goitein, Med. Soc. 3:440).

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Document date

54[.] Hijrī (1145–1154 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Opens with a conditional clause (wa-lammā lam yuʾkhadh(?) al-amr...) and a statement that something must only be done after [...] from the dīwān (...illā baʿd [...] min al-dīwān al-saʿīd bi-l-[...] ḥarasa Allāh sultānahū...). There is then a reference to a noble rescript/decree (al-tawqīʿ al-karīm), an inshallāh, and a date (54[.]

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

khawātim) of tin (qaṣṭīr); scissors (miqaṣṣ); a party who undertakes to watch over these items (wa-ʿalayhi ḥifẓ dhālika wa-ṣawnuhū); the heirs of Sālim; Qāsim; ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. [...] al-Maghribī al-Ṭarābulusī; Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Maghribī al-Salātī (likely the nisba of Salā, i.e., present-day Salé); and a phrase referring to their looking at something (?

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

and "khubz" (bread for the poor). Some also say "iqtaraḍa" (borrowed). Names include: Yiṣḥaq and his wife, the mother of R. Efrayim, a sick man (marīḍ min ahl al-balad), a stranger (gharīb), a stranger known as al-Najīb, and Ibn al-Parnas al-Dimashqī.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Sunday, 9 Iyyar 1559 Seleucid (3 May 1248 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Location: Fustat. Involves Sulaymān al-Ṣayrafī al-Levi b. Abū l-Munā al-Sukkarī, a sum of 140 dinars, the brothers Abū l-Rabīʿ Sulaymān al-Levi and Abū l-Faraj Zayn al-Tujjār al-Levi the executors (or heirs?)

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العلامات

• mosul nasis

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Yehuda undertakes to act as surety for Yosef b. Yaʿaqov; possibly also draft of another contract; with marginalia. Verso: Accounts in Arabic script. Mentions Salāma b. ʿAllūn; Ibn al-Kohen; ʿAllūnal-Ḥaver; Maymūn; Hiba Ṣayrafī (Ṣūfī?)

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العلامات

• efrayim b. shemarya

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document containing the wording of the vow to be made by Bū Isḥāq Ibn Kathīr. Also mentions ʿOvadya b. Aharon and the wife of the baker. […] Among many other things, Bū Isḥāq must vow that he reported all of the profits from the sale of a special kind of watermelon (al-Burullusī) and that he embezzled nothing "except what a mosquito (baʿūẓa) can carry." Join: Alan Elbaum. ASE.

العلامات

• business
• oath
• trade

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Left upper corner, of list of persons receiving emoluments from the community, headed by judges and including 2 scholars, 3 parnasim, the beadles of the 2 synagogues, a woman teacher, and 5 unspecified others. The Rayyis Abu al-Mufaddal was judge in the capital of Egypt but also a merchant who traveled as far as Qus. He appears also in contributor lists App. C 18, 19, 119. Written by the clerk Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ibn al-Qata'if, dated documents 1100-1138. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, 442, App.

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العلامات

• 12th c
• communal

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Document date

Iyyar 5411 Anno Mundi (22 April 1651–20 May 1651 CE)

List of communal funds dated 1651 (Iyyar 5411 AM) that may relate to stipends allotted for Torah study given the fact that the verso mentions haspaqa (הספקה) in Cairo (or perhaps all of Egypt: "יד אלבעלי תורה אלדי כאנו במצר ען אל הספקה"). […] This number seems somewhat high to have applied to just Cairo and might also include Torah scholars from Alexandria and Rosetta (Rashīd) which appear collectively in the final line of figures Toward the bottom of the recto. […] "Maghrebi" congregation(s). Some entries also include mention of unnamed study(?) partners (שותפו), such as: "Moshe Villisid and his partner" and "Yaʿacōv Zagdun and his partner."

العلامات

• 17th c
• late prosopography
• list

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Syriac (Serto)

Written by a pupil. Mainly consists of alphabet practice, along with religious or liturgical phrases, an incomplete Lord's Prayer in the Peshitta version, a phrase in Garshuni (al-qiddīsīn al-mumajjadīn), etc.

1 نسخ

Primary language

Arabic

Only a few words are preserved, and it is not clear they all belong to the same original document. Includes phrases such as "allāh taʿālā" and "mawlāy al-shaykh al-ajall."

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Verso: Note addressed to al-Shaykh al-Makīn. In Arabic script. Mentions the director of a government bureau (mutawallī dīwān al-khāṣṣ, probably) and "the conditions in the city/country" (aḥwāl al-balad).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

An epistle from the community of Alexandria to that of Mastuara (in Byzantium). The letter deals with the ransoming of Byzantine Jews taken captive, and was probably a letter of introduction to be carried by one of them, called Leo. Leo’s brother Eliyyahu is also mentioned.

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العلامات

• byzantines
• captives
• jewish community

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Document describing the four borders of a certain area, mentioning 'the alley of the poor' (zuqāq al-masākīn), the house of Muḥibb(?) al-Dawla, and the house of Abū ʿImrān Ibn al-Ṭawīla.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe? Mentions some words (al-khayr... al-barakāt... Allāh...), all of which might be part of names.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر