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Judaeo-Arabic

Nissīm, Fusṭāṭ, to his cousin Barhūn b. Ṣāliḥ al-Tāhartī, probably in Egypt, ca. 1045 (Gil). Nahray anxiously mentions to Barhūn that he has already paid the amīr's emissary, Abū Ishāq, 150 dīnārs in Fusṭāṭ; it concerns him that the amīr is still demanding the same from him in Alexandria. "If, God forbid, he continues to demand payment from you after he knows that it was already collected from me, then you will certainly remind him of his own letter to his emissary Abū Isḥāq, so that he will return to us what he has taken from us." Also mentions a shipment of pearls. Nahray also sends his blessing to Khalfa from the Tāhartī family on the occasion of his marriage to a woman from the ʿUqba family.

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• barhun al-taherti
• marriage
• nahray b. nissim
• trade

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Document date

23 Shevat 4968 Anno Mundi (12 February 1208 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Letter from Yehuda b. Aharon b. al-ʿAmmānī, in Alexandria, to Abū l-Majd Meir b. […] Yehuda rebukes Meir for sending him vague requests without specifying the opening lines of the piyyutim, which cools Yehuda's ardor for fulfilling his requests (r12-17). He also asks Meir to send back the note about the reading of Deut. 1:44, which Yehuda had seen in the Tāj (the Aleppo Codex) (r17-19). He also wants Meir to send him the fatwa that relates to Yehuda's court case against a judge (r20-22).

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• 4800
• aleppo codex
• cantor
• dating tricks
• piyyutim
• (+ 1 المزيد)

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Document date

511 Hijrī (5 May 1117–23 April 1118 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

ʿAllūsh and 205 dirhams. (Information in part from CUDL.) […] India Book III, doc. 29, ll. 8,10 and III, doc. 2, verso, l. 2). People include: Mūsā al-Nafūsī, al-Faqīh al-Siqillī, and Abū Saʿīd Khalaf b. […] Sums of money listed are in the tens of dinars. Join: Alan Elbaum

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• civet
• halfon b. menashshe
• ib7
• india book

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The list includes books in the hand of R. Anaṭoli and al-Dayyān al-Maskil (identified by Friedman as Shemuel ha-Levi b. […] Anatoly Muqaddam of Alexandria," Tarbiz 83 (2015), p. 155.

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• booklist

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentioning names such as al-Parnas, Abū l-Surūr al-Dumyāṭī, Yeshuʿa, al-Qazzāz, Salāma b. Saʿīd (the "b." is written with a nun sofit which became common in later periods), Khalaf, Abū l-Ḥasan b. Masʿūd, Abū l-Aʿlā, Isḥāq b. [...], Abū l-Barakāt.

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العلامات

• account

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Primary language

Arabic

Cuts off after the taqbīl clause. Addressee may be al-Afḍal b. Badr al-Jamālī (cf. Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections, p. 284). Cf. also CUL Or.1080.15.77 (Khan, no. 84).

العلامات

• badr al-jamali
• fatimid
• lost archive
• petition
• report
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from 'the representative' (al-Nāʾib), in Minyat Zifta, to the Nagid, presumably in Fustat. […] He reports on previous correspondence and messengers ([...] al-Ḥalabī, Ṭāhir, and ʿAbd al-Baqī) and confirms receipt of the Nagid's letter and orders. […] He may mention Tinnīs (Ḥanes) and someone titled Nāṣir al-Dawla.

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Primary language

Arabic

Indian spikenard is mentioned in line 1 (سادج/ساذج; this can also mean "simple") and in line 2 a "raw" (خام) good of some sort is mentioned but is mostly lost to damage. Also reference to a paste (maʿjūn) and the instruction "let it be ground" (yudaqq).

العلامات

• cmp

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Primary language

Arabic

Small fragment of a state document addressing "[...] al-amīrī al-kabīrī al-ʿaḍudī al-naṣrī." It seems that only one line and a few words of another line of the original are preserved, and the other lines were later filled in as a copying exercise.

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Primary language

Arabic

At the top there is the glyph and a basmala. Then, "al-mamlūka ukhtuhā... Umm Yaʿqūb." Then: "to Saʿīda" (which appears to have another "Umm" written after it)? This is probably a letter, because it continues "wa-siwāhu innanī arhantu...." and the phrase "allāhallāh" appears in the margin (a common phrase that appears almost exclusively in letters).

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Primary language

Arabic

Mentions [...] b. ʿUmar b. Muḥsin b. ʿAlī and the phrase "ʿalā iqrār al-bāʾiʿ wa-l-mushtarī al-madhkūr fīh bi-jamīʿ mā fīh fī taʾrīkhih..."

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Business letter from Marduk b. Musa, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat. There are details on moneychanging, and the order of various commodities, mainly gems, perfumes and spices, which the writer asks Nahray to get him in Fustat. January 10th 1048 (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, #534) LB see also Goitein Nachlass material

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العلامات

• nahray b. nissim

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Document date

13 Ramaḍān 1243 Hijrī (29 March 1828 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The banker/money exchanger (ṣārrāf) Mūsā al-Yahūdī gave back the possession of a caravanserai (wikāla) and paid its rent for the business of rice he had leased it for. It could also be that the wikāla was known as "buyūʿāt al-urz".

العلامات

• dimme

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mordekhay, in Fustat, to the sons of Abū l-Khayr Ibn al-Mashshāṭī (same family as Ibn al-Amshātī?), probably also in Fustat.

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العلامات

• communal

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Primary language

Hebrew

Postscript by Avraham Shaʾul (this might also be two different people, Avraham and Shaʾul; the main letter seems to be signed "Avraham Yehoshuaʿ Shaʾul" which also may be three different people).

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Document date

9 Shevaṭ 1639 Seleucid (21 January 1328 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: Monday, 9 Shevaṭ 1639 Seleucid = 21 January 1328 CE. Concerns al-Shaykh al-Asʿad b. al-Shaykh al-Sadīd Abū Naṣr.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Informal note addressed to al-Shaykh al-Sadīd. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender reminds him that he owes the sender 40 dirhams and should repay the money before he travels. However, it seems that the sender also owes him the equivalent of 40 dirhams, so he proposes a mutual cancellation of debt.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Arabic document with list of names such as Ibn Sulaymān, Ismāʾīl, at least one woman, and people such as al-Baysānī and al-Ṭabarānī. Possibly a charity distribution list. […] The sender refers to his return from a journey and also receiving condolences from others. Refers to 'our master Av.'

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions people such as Wafiyy al-Dawla, Abū l-ʿAbbās al-Farrāsh; Abū l-Maʿālī; the addressee's brother; and Abū l-Qāsim b. Munqidh. Mentions "the canal" (al-khalīj) and al-Buḥayra. (Information in part from Goitein notes linked below.)

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• to examine

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Primary language

Arabic

There are eight renditions of an ex libris (min kutub) for Murhaf Ibn Munqidh. There is also a snippet from an order of payment (yadfaʿ al-shaykh. . .) and an entry that looks like it contains numbers or a date. […] Blurton and Reynolds (2022), 26). Murhaf was also a known bibliophile with a large library, and the ex libris here appears to match the examples from other works belonging to him. […] Information from Alan Elbaum, Stephanie Luescher, and Paul Cobb.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Avraham, and someone who seems to be named Matan Rosh ha-Qahal (a rare name; this man appears also in T-S NS 342.74 (PGPID 26095)). He then met with Abū l-Ḥasan the brother of Matan, who complained ("cried a cry") about "their cantor." […] Also present was the Frank (al-ifranjī) R. Yaʿaqov and Abū l-[...] al-Kohen. […] Reused on verso for a large vocalized piyyut. Join: Alan Elbaum.

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• cmp
• reuse
• textiles

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Document date

Tuesday, 23 Adar II 1540 Seleucid (20 March 1229 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Opens by stating that on Tuesday, 23 Adar II 1540 Seleucid (= 20 March 1229 CE, a legal deed was drawn up in which Abū l-Rabīʿ Sulaymān aka Shelomo Segan ha-Kohanim b. Abū l-ʿAlāʾ Meshullam ha-Kohen Kelil ha-Yofi Ibn al-Istibānī acknowledged a debt of 260 dinars to Abū l-Munajjā b. Abū Saʿd known as Ibn al-Labbān, to be repaid as a lump sum whenever the creditor desired it. Then, Abū l-Rabīʿ Sulaymān presented an Islamic deed (ḥujja islāmiyya) stating that ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAbd al-Ghaniyy al-Iskandarānī al-Tājir known as Ibn Sanad al-Tājir owes him 100 dinars by way of qirāḍ.

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العلامات

• draft
• garden
• tenant

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Primary language

Arabic

If it dates to 1058 or earlier, then it is probably addressed to al-Yāzūrī, the vizier of al-Mustanṣir from 1050 to 1058. […] al-taʿarruḍ li-liqāʾ al-mawkib al-saʿīd) and raising up petitions (rafʿ riqāʿ) with the opposition of the [opposers against] Daniel b. ʿAzarya al-Dāʾūdī, for most people are not content with him, and the sect of the Qaraites (ṭāʾifat al-qaraʾiyyīn)... in the headship (bi-l-riyāsa)...."

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• daniel b. azarya
• dimme
• petition
• qaraites

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Primary language

Arabic

In one of them the addressee is called 'al-zāhidī' (ascetic). There are also jottings in Hebrew script.

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Primary language

Arabic

Tax receipt, Fatimid. Registration marks - al-ḥamdu lil-lāh shukran and al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ḥamd al-shākirīn.

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• dimme
• fatimid
• pinholes
• tax receipt

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