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Document date

Thursday, 18 Av 1500 Seleucid (3 August 1189 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Aleppo. Dated: Thursday, 18 Av 1500 Seleucid = 3 August 1189 CE. […] Shelomo ha-Kohen, called Abū Naṣr al-Ṣārifī from Egypt. Wife: Sitt al-Gharb bt. Yehuda from Egypt. […] (Information from CUDL.) See also Goitein notes linked below. And description for MS 8254, fol. 15 (PGPID 32292) for the whole story.

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العلامات

• get

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Abu ‘Ali Ḥasan b. Imran in Alexandria to his nephew Abu Musa Harun b. al-Mu‘allim Yaqub, admonishing him for having vowed to maintain his elderly mother but failing to keep that promise; the mother had already passed away by the time of the letter’s composition. […] You do not have the faith of the Jews, nor even that of the Majus,” Abu Ali proclaims, referring to the Aramaic-Arabic name for Zoroastrians.

العلامات

• alexandria
• personal

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a business letter from Barhun b. Salih al-Tāhartī in Busir, probably to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat, mentioning bales of flax being prepared for shipment to Alexandria and places further on, and the writer's intention to travel to Mahdiyya. […] (Information from Gil) Description from PGPID 5823: Letter from Barhun b. Salih al-Tāhartī, from Busir, probably to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. […] The writer sold goods in the Delta area and arranged flax shipments from Alexandria. He is planning to travel to Mahdiyya. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, #330) VMR

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• al-tahirti
• flax
• nahray b. nissim
• trade

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He describes how he saved an estate of an Alexandrian woman (who died in Bilbays) from confiscation by the government. He also mentions the arrival of Ibn al-Maqdisī from Gaza together with a convert, and he hopes to study Qiddushin with Ibn al-Maqdisī.

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• report of death

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Abū l-Ḥasan b. Ibrāhīm al-Zayyāt to the notable Yehuda b. Elʿazar ha-Kohen. […] Abū l-ʿIzz Aharon b. Elʿazar. Also mentions 'the rayyis' Abū l-Walīd. Dating: Late 12th century. Topics: (1) formal openings; (2) something about accompanying a person to the synagogue in a big crowd; (3) physicians; (4) eye illnesses. See also T-S 13J33.8 and DK 245. (Information in part from CUDL and Goitein's index card.)

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Document date

14 Elul 1405 Seleucid (29 August 1094 CE)

Groom: Yakhin the cantor. Bride: Sitt al-Kull, a virgin. Marriage payments: 50 + 105 = 155 dinars. The fragment also contains drafts of various legal documents (one involving the rent of a house in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ and 125 dinars; another involving Abū l-Surūr's claim that he came to Fustat with 25 dinars and spent it all) and letters (one to a judge called al-Rayyis), and many jottings.

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• ketubba
• marriage

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Inferred date

1200–1218 CE

Primary language

Arabic

A divorce document involving a high-level Ayyubid official described as one of the mamlūks of al-Malik al-ʿĀdil (aḥad al-mamālīk al-ʿādiliyya). A pregnant woman is also involved (l. 2). The type of divorce is a khulʿ, probably as a result of adultery (khiyāna).

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العلامات

• adultery
• pregnancy

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Document date

403 Hijrī (23 July 1012–12 July 1013 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

In addition, at the bottom, it mentions Dīwān al-Karāʿ (bureau of the livestock). Al-Qalqashandī mentions the duty of this office in overseeing the affairs of the [state] stable (iṣṭabal); al-Qalqashandī, Ṣubḥ al-ʿĀshā, III: 568 (https://shamela.ws/book/9429/1658). In the endorsement at the top, the word "yuqābal" appears: "yuqābal hādhā al-diwān al-karāʿ", (cf. ENA 3918.11). Needs further examination.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ḥofni, three halakhic treatises, Sefer ben Sira (אבן סירא), and Geʾonic commentaries on Ṭohorot. The fragment also mentions some biblical books and their commentaries. (Information from CUDL.) NB: Allony et al. edited this manuscript under the name "T-S K23.25–26," which was either a mistake or the shelfmarks have changed. Note also that T-S K23.25 either doesn't exist any more or has not been digitized.

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Document date

5343 Anno Mundi (17 September 1582–16 September 1583 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic on a bifolium that is suggestive of the existence of a broader ledger (which is also attested to by this fragment's joins). The owner of the ledger mentions being in Alexandria in the year 1583 CE (Iyyar 5343) in the middle portion of the verso and in the same entry mentions "Ibrāhīm Basha" which may constitute a reference to a state official. At the top of the verso, the scribe also mentions a transaction with one Yiṣḥaq b. Rozel in which silver medin coinage is in use "מיידי".

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العلامات

• 16th c
• alexandria
• late ja
• ledger

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Business letter from a father, probably in Alexandria, to a son, probably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. […] The son is to make sure that this happens, and if he wants to travel back with Sulaymān, all the better. After all, it is the end of the year, and the son has to pay his capitation tax in Alexandria.

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العلامات

• capitation tax
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: nahda
• illness: waja'
• (+ 2 المزيد)

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The bottom section states that he has 4 notebooks (dafātir) with Maḥfūẓ and one with Yūsuf al-Qāʿa(?). He received two "books of stars" (kitābayn nujūm) from Bayān al-Murjānī. On recto it also says "Ibn Naḥrīr: 1 notebook." On recto there is also a poem of praise in Hebrew.

العلامات

• abu sahl levi

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Shemuʾel b. Avraham Ibn al-Majjānī, probably in Aden, to (Abū Zikrī) Yehuda ha-Kohen b. […] He reports on the the aṣḥāb (Nahray and Ibn Nufayʿ and Ibn al-Yatīm and al-Fāsī and a Jew whom the writer did not know) who were traveling with ʿAlīal-Dībājī and speculates that perhaps they were detained in Dahlak, because they haven't caught up with the writer's party. […] There is a postscript about smuggling Ibn al-Yatīm's coral through customs. ASE

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• ib5
• india book

2 نسخين

Document date

October 1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shemuel ha-Levi known as Ibn al-Lukhtūsh, probably in Granada, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi, probably staying somewhere in Spain not far from Granada. […] In Judaeo-Arabic. See also IV, 3 (PGPID 9054) and IV, 40 (PGPID 9096), other letters with the same sender and addressee. […] A greeting is sent to Abū l-Barakāt b. Harith al-Levi, who arrived in Almeria from Alexandria in August 1138 CE.

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• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• india book

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter (likely a draft) dictated by the wife and written by the son (Zayn al-Dār) of the India trader ʿAllān b. Ḥassūn, beseeching him to return. […] The only other adult male in the family has also been absent. The family is in financial straits and has had to sell household furnishings and lease the upper floor in order to pay the physician and buy medicine and two chickens every day. […] Soc., viii, C, 2, n. 116; see also T-S 10J17.3, CUL Or.1081 J5, T-S 16.265 and T-S 13J24.22.)

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العلامات

• distant husband
• family
• ib-addenda
• ib6
• illness
• (+ 7 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

(It is also possible that mutālaba refers to seeking legal redress against someone who has wrongfully appropriated the property.) […] The title of the governor, ending in al-dawla, dates the letter to the Fatimid period. The text also contains a taqbîl clause in which the petitioner kisses the hand of the addressee rather than the ground, so this puts it likely but not definitely in the late Fatimid period.

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العلامات

• bishop
• decree
• fatimid
• monastery
• petition
• (+ 2 المزيد)

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Document date

Monday, 24 Elul [1451] Seleucid (8 September 1140 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from ʿAmram b. Yiṣḥaq, in Alexandria, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel, in Fustat. Dating: 24 Elul [1451] Seleucid = 8 September 1140 CE. […] She has developed, in addition to her infinite illnesses, an illness in her ear for 20 days now, to the point that we have forgotten all the illnesses that came before..." ʿAmram also complains about his own "swollen" (muntafikh) state and his ophthalmia: "I cannot see where I place my pen." He also informs Ḥalfon that Yehuda ha-Levi is on the ship that has just arrived in Alexandria.

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العلامات

• ib-partial translation-heb
• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• (+ 5 المزيد)

3 نسخ ترجمات 4 2 مناقشتان

Letter from Yosef b. Khalfa from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1062. […] Mentions that he received fabrics. He states that although his business is wide, he cannot support himself in Alexandria, and he considers coming to Fustat to work as a tailor.

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2 نسخين 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Salāma b. [...] to Abū Saʿīd Makhlūf al-Neʾeman al-Nafūsī. In Judaeo-Arabic. The letter is written in pairs of lines with wide space in between. […] The writer has sent what he needed to send with Sālim b. Nissim al-ʿIblānī (also mentioned in T-S AS 173.209 + T-S AS 153.293 (PGPID 17851)).

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1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions ʿIwāḍ; Ibn Samḥūn; Abū l-Surūr; Dāʾūd; Abū l-Barakāt; Zikrī; the price of a Fayyūmī covering (kisā); "his brother-in-law"; Ibn al-Ṣābūnī; al-Tāhertī; Ibn Būbū(?); Dāʾūd al-Fāsī and Nissim; the debts owed to Abū Naṣr from al-Ṣābūnī and al-Nafūsī.

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العلامات

• account
• arus b. yosef

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

.]; possibly a small synagogue (though looks more like כנינסה), someone titled Tāj al-Mulk wa-Fakhruhā, someone called al-ḥaver al-jalīl, and someone called al-talmid al-nabīl Yosef b.

العلامات

• halfon-addenda
• ib-addenda
• ib4

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Blessing formula for the caliph al-Ḥāfiẓ li-Dīn Allah (1131-1149 CE), possibly a draft petition. See also T-S NS 110.26. (“Prayers from the Geniza for Fatimid Caliphs, the Head of Jerusalem Yeshiva, the Jewish community and the Local Congregation,'' in Studies in Judaica, Karaitica and Islamica, Presented to Leon Nemoy...Bar-Ilan University, 1982, 49-58) EMS Goitein thought this was a prayer, but it is almost certainly the draft of a petition formula.

العلامات

• al-hafiz
• draft
• petition

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Arabic

Order of payment, in late Arabic script with a seal. ʿĀzar (=Ezra) al-Yahūdī al-Ṣayrafī is to pay the bearer (Nāṣif) 20 and half silvers. […] The currency mentioned is new Sulaymānī silvers "al-Fiḍḍa al-Jadīda al-Sulaymāniyya" which is a coinage minted according to the standards of Suleiman I's reign in the 16th century (post-1520).

العلامات

• 16th c
• dimme
• late arabic script
• numismatic dating
• seal

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Contains part of the physical description of one of the parties: [muʿtadi]l al-qāma asmar al-lawn wāḍiḥ al-jabha wa-bi-hā ghuḍūn maqrūn al-ḥājib ashhal [al-ʿaynayn] = average stature, brown in complexion, with a smooth forehead with some wrinkles, with joined eyebrow(s), with dark brown eyes.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions goods such as hyacinth and pepper, and their quantities, and many other goods; also mentions the customs in Qūṣ and the agents of the Ṣināʿa. […] Likely related to T-S AS 153.79 (PGPID 34987) and T-S NS 32.100 (PGPID 25357). Also similar appearing are T-S AS 204.99 (PGPID 32045) and T-S AS 210.175 (PGPID 22814). All may be indirect joins.

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العلامات

• account
• ib-addenda
• ib7
• india book unedited

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: likely early 13th century. Mentions al-Kohen al-Maghribī who was with Ṣāfī the Alexandrian; an embroidered robe (malḥafa marqūma); selling something for 27 [dirhams?]; two dinars; Abū l-Faraj Ibn al-Rayyis; Abū l-Riḍā; the price of the bracelet (ḥadīda); and someone's mother in law.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Sunday Elul 1st 1409 Seleucid (1 August 1098 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

For Ḥalfon b. Yeshuʿa known as Ibn al-Ṭārima(?), who wanted to reverse his purchase of half a house from his brother Elʿazar for the amount of 10 dinars. The financial arrangements take into account his brother's upcoming travel to al-Shām (Palestine or Damascus). Also mentions travel to upper Egypt (al-Ṣaʿīd).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1062–1065 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Back in Fusṭāṭ, he reproached Abū Naṣr in front of Abū l-ʿAlāʾ, and Abū l-ʿAlāʾalso told Abū Naṣr off: “You did not inform me of anything of that, nor did I authorize you to do it.” […] Nissīm and the responsa. The addressee is also upset about money he had sent for carrying R. […] The passage also mentions the estate of R. Berakhya. See Goitein, Med.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

He mentions Abu l-Surur and asks for something to be sent and says that al-Shaykh al-Ra’is thanks the addressee. From lines 5-10, he discusses the affair of Ibn al-Taffal (presumably identical with his nemesis Yefet b. Shelomo the physician known as ‘the son of the fuller’; cf. the other fragments tagged with ‘Ibn al-Taffal’). Moshe appears to be gloating over how Ibn al-Taffal had to leave Qalyub with his tail between his feet, but he is also anxious to hear the news of how Ibn al-Taffal has fared in Fustat, “as if I were present.” […] Verso The tail end of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, also by Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, perhaps to the same addressee.

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العلامات

• ibn al-taffal
• moshe b. levi

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ṭahor partners with Abū Saʿd b. Abū l-ʿAlāal-Ṣabbāgh in an apothecary shop. Moshe is paid 6 dirhams a month agrees to work for a year and a half. His wage is guaranteed by Abū Saʿd’s father Abū l-ʿAlāʾ (ll.7-8). Because of the guarantee of Abū al-ʿAlāʾ, three qinyanim are performed: Moshe's agreement to work, Abū Saʿd’s agreement to pay, and the guarantee of Abū l-ʿAlāʾ’. Although the parties’ relationship is described as a partnership, Moshe's wages being fixed suggests an employment agreement, though likely not an apprenticeship, both because Moshe is not a youth (line 5 alludes to his five sons) and is said to manage or set up the store.

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العلامات

• debt
• partnership
• pharmacy

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Arabic

"reinforcement") from the treasurer (al-khāzin) Marzūq b. Yūsuf al-[...]. It seems that he also commits to repaying the treasurer at a future date. […] The text in the upper left margin seems to be an oddly placed witness clause (by ʿUmar b. ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-[...]) but this requires further examination. […] The last text block to be added, in a different hand than all the preceding text blocks and unrelated to them, appears to be technical instructions related to alchemy and/or medicine.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

1030 Hijrī (26 November 1620–15 November 1621 CE)

Primary language

Ottoman Turkish

Pervīz himself is clearly a high regimental officer, and if he is sending someone to Alexandria en route to Mecca, he himself must be located north or west of Al- exandria, possibly even in the imperial capital. The tone of his appeal to Salmūn makes it clear that for anyone passing through Alexandria, the customs director was an invaluable contact. Perhaps the most noteworthy feature of this letter is its emphasis on hometown ties: Pervīz insists that Salmūn must help Manṣūr because they both come from Alexandria. Manṣūr is not a common name among military personnel from the Ottoman central lands, and if this Manṣūr is a native Arabic-speaker from Alexandria, then he represents an exceedingly rare instance of an Arab joining the Ottoman military and rising to mid-level officer rank."

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العلامات

• fgp stub
• military
• ottoman era
• ottoman turkish

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He wants (Kitāb) al-Khalq if they have not already sent it, and a book called (Kitāb) al-Mayl wa-l-Hijrān, which Moshe left in storage in Fustat. […] He wants a commentary on the simple meaning of something (tafsīr . . . peshaṭ), and he urges them to get him a copy of al-Faraj baʿd al-Shidda quickly. After all this, Moshe should still have 3 dirhams of credit (1/2 from Saʿāda and 2 1/2 from Abū l-Riḍā); with this money they should buy aromatic wood (ʿūd rīḥ) for 14 or 15 an ounce. […] Yaʿaqov on his behalf concerning "al-Mayl" (probably the same book mentioned earlier, al-Mayl wa-l-Hijrān).

العلامات

• book trade

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). See also T-S NS J401m (PGPID 26466) regarding the same matter. […] Her request of the court was two-fold: a. as mentioned above, to fix her an allowance for living expenses, and b. to confirm in a recorded document that all that she was obliged to sell in order to survive should be regarded as due her from her husband. […] Because the husband delayed his return, and she repeated her requests for help, it was decided to grant the woman an allowance on a temporary basis. It seems that she was one of the notables of the city and she was not even deprived of her servants who were also taken into account when the amount of the allowance was determined.

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). See also T-S NS J401k (PGPID 42323) regarding the same matter. […] Her request of the court was two-fold: a. as mentioned above, to fix her an allowance for living expenses, and b. to confirm in a recorded document that all that she was obliged to sell in order to survive should be regarded as due her from her husband. […] Because the husband delayed his return, and she repeated her requests for help, it was decided to grant the woman an allowance on a temporary basis. It seems that she was one of the notables of the city and she was not even deprived of her servants who were also taken into account when the amount of the allowance was determined.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Faraḥ b. Yosef, in Alexandria, to Nissim b. ʿAṭiyya, in al-Mahdiyya. The writer gives details about shipments of goods to al-Mahdiyya and asks the recipient to help sell them.

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العلامات

• trade

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

State document, fragment, in a chancery hand, mentions the dīwān al-amwāl. The duality of the noun "aʿdāʾhuma" (line 3) suggests that it is addressed to two people, the first name ends with[..] al-Dawla, and the second is referred to as al-Shaykh al-Jalīl.

العلامات

• dimme
• diwan al-amwal

1 نسخ

Primary language

Arabic

Small fragment of a state document with a large ʿalāma at upper left. Mentions the name ʿAbd al-Karīm b. al-Ḥājj Muḥammad b. al-Ḥājj [...].

العلامات

• 'alama
• mamluk
• pinholes

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions books such as Kitāb al-Wadīʿa; the book of Lamentations; Tehillot (= Tehillim?); a book of jurisprudence (פיקה); a tafsīr on Daniʾel; the book of Job; a book of "Alfāẓ"; Kitāb al-Aflāk; Kitāb al-Wakāla.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

On one side, names, the first one 'min Abu...' and the last readable line begins 'the Alexandrians]'; the other side, names and numbers and also measures of wheat (waybas).

العلامات

• charity
• communal
• donors
• list
• poverty

1 نسخ

Document date

10 Jumāda II 1237 Hijrī (4 March 1822 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The name of the notary is al-Ḥāj ʿUmar Agha who was the overseer of dīwān anwāl al-ḥarīr in Alexandria.

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العلامات

• 19th c
• dimme
• late arabic script

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

7 Rabīʿ II 1239 Hijrī (11 December 1823 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Issued by the Dīwān Anwāl li-Maṣliḥat al-Ḥarīr, an institution in Alexandria connected to the state's monopoly on silk production during Meḥmed ʿAlī Pasha's administration.

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العلامات

• late arabic

1 مناقشة

Document date

4812 Anno Mundi (9 September 1051–28 August 1052 CE)

Legal document dated Iyyar (4)812 (1052), regarding a business dispute between ʿAllān bar Avraham bar ʿAllān and Yaʿaqov ben Salmān concerning flax, al-Lādhiqiyya, Fustat, and Nahray b. Nissim, Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq al-Talmīd.

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العلامات

• flax
• nahray b. nissim

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة