Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a letter in which the writer describes a business affair in which he was under threat (taḥta al-tahdīd) and also involved the sultan. (Information from Goiten's notes) EMS

العلامات

• business

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Nissim to a person in Alexandria. Mentions merchandise and textiles, along with books and various texts that someone is copying for Nahray.

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العلامات

• nahray b. nissim
• trade

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentioning Abū Sulaymān and Ibn al-Qafaṣ (?). (Information from CUDL.) See also Goitein's attached transcription.

العلامات

• unedited 11th c

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

On recto there appears to be an itemized bill for (ʿalā) Abū l-Ḥasan for the year '16. The portion on verso mentions entering Alexandria.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Catalogued as a document involving a dispute with a certain Abū ʿAlī, but the dispute seems to be an intellectual one; the same bifolium mentions nūr al-ḥaqq and ahl al-naẓar.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Tripoli, Lebanon (Ṭarāblus al-Shām), Abū l-Surūr b. Muʿammar, and someone traveling to Aleppo.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Verso: tax receipt, or possibly credit instrument? Contains an ʿalāma at the upper right, maybe, and a jahbadh signature at the bottom. Also contains the glyph, and a mirror imprint of a similar document on recto.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Family letter. In Arabic script. Almostall of what remains (the first 8 lines) consists of formulaic expressions of longing. The sender informs the addressee that the children (al-ṣibyān) are well.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Farrāḥ; Abū Saʿīd; Ghālib;Abū l-Khayr; Yosef al-Khabbāz; Mūsā al-Thaqqāb; Abū l-Qāsim al-Naṭṭās(?). Detailing various expenses including for shipping goods between Fustat, Alexandria, and Rashīd. Mentions goods including lac and pepper.

1 مناقشة

Document date

1150–1181 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

In addition, "I have rented myself to him to work . . . every day for 3 dirhams for a period of 4 years starting with the date of this contract . . . ." Also mentions Zayn al-Kohen the son of the sister of al-Kohen al-Dhabbāḥ (the slaughterer), who may be the guarantor.

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العلامات

• apprenticeship

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Yefet; his son Mevorakh is a signatory thereto as well; their ‘alāma: yeshaʿ rav (‘a great salvation’ like that of the Gaon Shelomo b. […] Yeshuʿa ‘the excellent (haver), the judge’ b. Yefet was also one of the scholars in Ascalon at the beginning of the twelfth century, and it seems that he was a partner of the Natan ha-Kohen family in managing the affairs of the Ascalon community (see: 588, upper margin, line 7; 589, upper margin, line 6)." Gil, History of Palestine, 199, note 73. Ṣedaqa ha-Zaqen is also mentioned here.

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العلامات

• ashqelon
• natan b. mevorakh

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Yefet to two brothers, to the dukkān of Bāb al-Futūḥ, which means this was probably sent to New Cairo rather than Fustat. […] One of the addressees is named Maḥāsin [b. Ab]ū l-Ḥasan al-Nākhudha, and the address also refers to the shopowner الي אלכהן = Eli[yya?] al-Kohen. Only a couple lines of the body of the letter are preserved: ולדי יצל אלי עלם אלמואלי אלכרימין באן אלממלוך משתאק אלי נצרכם כתיר פאן . . .

العلامات

• arabic address
• glyph

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Discusses: the rain and the snow in Jerusalem; a man from Seville ("al-Andalusī al-Ishbīlī); the addressee passing on the sender's news to Ṣāḥib al-Mulk; Avraham b. al-Rayyis Abū Sahl (=Avraham b. […] ; "[you should] inform the owner (of the house) the trials I suffered this year in/concerning this house, and the demands/lawsuits of "the fortress" (אלחצן) every day, from the government (al-sulṭān), and the people of the city...." (Information in part from Gil's edition.)

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Document date

Jumāda II 602-603 Hijrī (13 January 1206–10 February 1206 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Ayyubid era receipt, contains the glyph which may mean a "basmala" here. Mentions "min māl al-dīwān". Needs examination. Verso: Document in a different hand in a large cursive script. […] The numbers towards the end reads as 578 and some fraction preceded by "al-jumla". Both documents seem to be related because the date on recto is 602 and 603 on verso, and payments in both instances are from al-Musāʿid b. […] Ibn al-Dajājī al-Naqlī.

العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Dhū l-Ḥijja 1246 Hijrī (13 May 1831–11 June 1831 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Ottoman-era legal document, in Arabic script. Dated: [Dhū] al-Ḥijja 1246 AH (1831 CE). The Jew Musā Naṣīr (or Nuṣayr) pays the ḥikr (ground tax) for his house in the Jewish neighborhood (ḥārat al-Yahūd). The tax was collected by the agent of the Agha/eunuch who was responsible for the administration of the Ottoman imperial harem and the supervision of the administration of the awqāf (endowments) of Mecca and Medina, and also some of the Ottoman sultan's awqāf. (information from Yildiz Yilmaz, Cutting a fine figure among pots and pans: Aghas of the Sultan's Harem in the 18th century). The document is signed by Aḥmad Agha, the agent (wakīl) of the chief eunuch of the sultan's palace at the dār al-saʿāda.

العلامات

• dimme
• hikr
• late arabic script

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Abū ʿAlī, in Baghdād, to his cousin (ibn ʿamma) Tamīm b. Mūsā, in Fustat. Sent to Abū Manṣūr al-Nushādirī who is to deliver it to the addressee. […] ʿEli gaʾon, where the addressee is spoken of highly. Also mentions Abū l-Fakhr Ḥunayn Ibn al-Sirafī. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #88) VMR

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2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Document date

1434 Seleucid (4 September 1122–21 September 1123 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Quittances for 15 dinars and 68 dinars (the latter apparently in Alexandria) to Sitt al-Kamāl, widow of Abū Sahl Mukhtār, witnessed by Yefet b. […] Menashshe (left side) and another hand (right side), which was written in Alexandria. She received 15 dinars on 8 Tevet 1434/8 December 1122 and 68 dinars on 13 Shevat 1434/11 January 1123.

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العلامات

• widow

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Jābir b. Nāṣir buys a house in al-Muʿizziyya (Cairo) from […] b. ʿAlī b. Ḥusayn b. Ibrahim b. ʿAlī, one of two trustees of Cairene legacies, under the supervision of Abū l-Ḥasan Masarra b. […] (Information from Khan, ALAD). Join by Marina Rustow.

العلامات

• bill of sale
• house
• qadi court
• real estate

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Note from Barhūn b. Yiṣḥaq al-Tāhartī, probably from al-Mahdiyya, to Nahray b. Nissim, Alexandria. Around 1045 (Gil). Nahray is in his early days in Egypt, and his cousin Barhūn writes him instructions about buying flax, managing the goods that will arrive by ships, and dealing with the money that he will get from sales (information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, #378). Mentions harnawa, a name for aloeswood or ʿūd (see Blau s.v. harnawa) and דארכסה, which may be another aromatic wood (on the model of dār ṣīnī, literally Chinese bark, which is cinnamon).

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العلامات

• flax

2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter fragment from the cantor Khalfa Ibn al-Qafṣī (i.e., from Qafṣa/Gafsa, in Tunisia; Abramson and Golb incorrectly read "al-Qifṭī," from Qifṭ in Upper Egypt). The letter T-S AS 145.81 + T-S 13J23.18 (dating to ca. 1063 CE) mentions Maymūn b. Khalfa al-Qafṣī, perhaps related. (The presence of a Jewish community in Gafsa in the 11th century is proven also by L-G Ar.

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

1 Tammuz 1433 Seleucid (8 June 1122 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Names mentioned: Ṣedaqa b. ʿEli, Mawhūb al-Dhahabī, Abū ʿImrān ha-Parnas Ibn Majjān, Abū l-Munā b. Raḥma, Abū l-Faraj al-Sibāḡ, Abū ʿImrān ha-Kohen, Najā al-Qaṣṣab, and אלכצאבי. […] Menashshe ha-Levi, who also wrote the document. (Information from CUDL.)

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Inferred date

1155–1155 CE

Primary language

Arabic

The decree is addressed to the military general Fāris al-Dawla. The document is a draft as the recto has scribal practice in the same hand and formula. As for the state official Fāris al-Dawla, there are three attestations of the same name so far in the Geniza (T-S Ar.30.308 + T-S 12.359 + T-S AS 148.96 (PGPID 20426), T-S Ar.42.171(PGPID 8293), ENA 1822a.95 (PGPID 12362)). al-Maqrīzī records an official by the title Fāris al-Dawla to be active in the later Fatimid period in the time of al-Fāʾizz (Ittiʿāẓ, III, 227).

العلامات

• dimme

1 نسخ

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Entry at upper right: mentions the 17th of Jumādā, the name of a witness Ibn al-Ṭ[...], Abū ʿAlī, and a modaʿ. Main entry: summary of a sale (bayʿ al-jalb) of an enslaved woman. […] He had previously purchased her from (alladhī ishtarāhā min) Abū l-Faraj Natan. Buyer: Salāma Ibn al-Amʿaṭ.

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العلامات

• slave

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Middle third of Ṭevet 1435 Seleucid (31 December 1123–8 January 1124 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The document is another version of the testimony achieved by eavesdropping on Jayyida and her business partner. The case is told also in ENA NS 16.22 (PGPID 11712), Bodl. MS heb. e 94/19 (PGPID 2579) + Bodl. […] Joins: Moshe Yagur, Oded Zinger, and Alan Elbaum. MY. T-S AS 166.179 and T-S AS 166.178 might also join.

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Probably begins with "aqarra al-ṭawāshī", which would date the document to the Mamlūk period, as the usage of ṭawāshī for eunuch appears around the Mamlūk time. […] Perhaps the document was written by a lower official. Contains: basmala; al-ʿabd; and mentions "al-khassa" a financial account and "man talaba dhalika min," both towards the end of the document. Many numbers and the verb "addada" (x2) in the middle section. Also mentions an iqṭāʿ "iqṭāʿ muwakkala" in l7.

العلامات

• dimme
• financial
• fiscal document
• iqta'

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Adar II 1440 Seleucid (22 February 1129–22 March 1129 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

The debtor claimed that he already paid it and asked for a bill of release. There is also reference to the father of Mufaḍḍal. Also involves Abū l-Ḥasan b. Ayyūb (maybe the same who appears in T-S 8J37.3 (PGPID 3826)).

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العلامات

• damascus
• halfon b. menashshe
• masliah gaon

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

List of 43 notables and their honorific titles (alqāb). Dating: mid-12th century. "The list was certainly jotted down by, or for the use of, a cantor, who had to mention them with their proper designations, when their contributions to public appeals were lauded in the communal prayer. Many of these notables are known from other sources, which enables us to assume 1142 as the approximate date of this important document." Ed. N. Allony, Sefunot 8 (1964), 129–37 (רשימת נכבדים ותאריהם במצרים במאה הי"ב). See also Goitein, Med Soc II, App. C, 26. NB: Goitein and Allony cite this document as T-S NS 246.22.

1 نسخ 2 مناقشتان

Inferred date

1016–1036 CE

Primary language

Arabic

Petition submitted to the Fatimid caliph al-Mustanṣir upon his accession in 1036 CE. Requesting that he confirm the appointment of Yosef ha-Kohen, a judge of Alexandria. […] (Information from Gil, Goitein, and Rustow, Heresy, p. 94 n. 58.) Alternate possibility (from DIMME database): Arabic-script draft of a testimony to be submitted to the government, written by Efrayim b. […] Shemarya in which two partners release Yeshuʿa b. Seʿadel from all claims.

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العلامات

• communal
• petition
• state

2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 2 مناقشتان

Primary language

Arabic

Goitein comments that "al-Asʿad is the tax farmer of the customs in ʿAydhāb. […] But the document might be better interpreted with al-Asʿad as a business associate or trading partner. This would explain why al-Asʿad himself wasn't the one getting the paperwork in order (this was normally the job of the ḍāmin), and also the sender's complaint that he took as much as the aṣḥāb.

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العلامات

• damin
• ib7
• india book

2 نسخين

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

She has sent seven rubāʿīs' worth of betel nut with the Aleppan, the friend of Yaʿaqov b. Avraham b. Faraḥ. […] They were then attacked at the instigation of the qāḍī (al-shofeṭ) al-Jazarī(?), and some were killed, some imprisoned, and some fined. […] The writer's other sister, Sitt al-Dār (unless this is the same person as Miryam), also requests a kerchief.

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العلامات

• family
• ib7
• india book
• women's letter

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Compare the documents edited in Gil, Palestine, vol. 3, #514–#517, all of which are addressed to Dāʾūd b. Shaʿya (and two of which also suffer from a milder version of the wet-ink problem). The distinctive feature of the present letter is that the ink was still wet when it was folded/pleated, so almostall of the text is obscured by mirror-image imprints of other lines. […] for he will come around by being gentle (ʿalā l-mulāṭafa)..." ASE

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العلامات

• caravan
• damascus
• mirror image
• pepper
• rose water
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Reason: The list is headed by Abu Zikri (taking him as son of Eliyyahu the dayyan, who was a prominent physician in Alexandria), while R. Yeshu'a is second, even though he donated only 4 pounds 'The haver' is also listEd. All three are conspicuous in T-S 10J16.6, the complaint of the administrator of the quppa in Alexandria, who was threatened with death when he retained certain quantities of wheat in order to meet emergencies in time of scarcity. The Nagid might have asked that all the relevant lists connected with the breadbasket of the community be submitted to him, one of which (the present list) would have finally made its way into the Geniza.

العلامات

• charity
• communal
• donors
• poverty

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

They were moved there 120 days earlier and have seen no Jew who knows whether they are alive or dead. The man holding them plans to travel and take them with him, possibly to Barqa. […] They acknowledge news that "the relative" (al-qarīb) has arrived safely in Antalya. They also mention a man from Antalya, a chief or ship's captain (rayyis) in Germanikopolis, an orphan boy from Latakia, and the land of the Rūm. […] (The location in the earlier version of this record, "near Alexandria," rests on the settlement of Balaqāṭar in Egypt and a restoration in recto line 3, but there may also be a Balaqāṭar in Anatolia.)

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العلامات

• to edit
• to examine

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The addressee is titled Amīn al-Dawla Thiqat al-Mulk, “Trusted by the Dynasty, Relied upon by the Government.” […] Goitein, Mediterranean Society, 5:271, 582.) EMS. "All that reaches a man with respect to praise [al-madīḥ] and sincere thanks [al-shukr al-ṣarīḥ] falls short with regard to the lofty lord, confidant of the state, security of kingship, our lord and master Ovadiah the minister, the noble, the wise, the intelligent, may God extend his grace, elevate his status, and give him abundant fortune in the eyes of kings and ministers. May he bless his brothers and his sons the ministers and may they be a blessing in the midst of the land. All that they address before him [of praise and thanks] is but a fraction of what is said when he is not present according to what the rabbis [al-awāʾil], may God be satisfied with them, made clear in their saying, “One says little of a man’s praise before him but all of it when not before him.”

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1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Eliyyahu, probably in Fustat, to his paternal aunt (Umm Dāʾūd) and paternal uncle (Abū Manṣūr), probably in Alexandria. He says he (and possibly other family members) are pained on behalf of Abū Zikrī, and they weep and fast on his behalf. He asks to be sent some sea squill (ʿunṣul) because he is perishing from a boil or some other skin lesion (ḥabba). As for Sitt al-Yumn, she continues to send (? tawaṣṣalat fī tasyīr) the bath clogs (qabqāb), and he wishes he could repay her adequately but is unable to travel to Alexandria because of the capitation tax, though he does wish to (leave Fustat and?) be closer to al-Shām. He urges his paternal aunt and her daughter—probably the same Sitt al-Yumn mentioned previously and the same Sitt al-Yumn whom Shelomo is known to have wooed unsuccessfully from T-S 13J18.22, CUL Add.3343 and T-S 13J34.9—to come stay with him.

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العلامات

• capitation tax
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: skin
• mail-order medicine
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 نسخ

Document date

505 Hijrī (10 July 1111–27 June 1112 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

To paraphrase, "This is a document of the caliph al-Āmir bi-Aḥkām Allāh (r. 1101–30) {issued} by his slave Abū ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn b. […] Yaḥyā is a Jewish 'newcomer.'" (There is also a Sahl b. Yaḥyā mentioned in DK 232.4; could be the same person.) […] At the top and perhaps the right margin there are registration marks / ʿalāʾim. Needs further examination.

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العلامات

• damin

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1041–1041 CE

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Eight rough drafts of a petition to the Fatimid Caliph al-Mustanṣir from the followers of Shelomo b. Yehuda, probably the end of 1041 (according to Gil's estimate) and 1036, at the earliest, based on al-Mustanṣir's reign. […] The Rabbanite Jews write to al-Mustanṣir (r. 1036–1094) regarding a conflict that arose in the community because of two leaderships (riyāsatayn), this conflict was earlier addressed by the Caliph by appointing Dāwūd b. […] The Jews urge the Caliph to resolve this issue by sending his royal command "al-ʾamr al-ʿālī".

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العلامات

• al-mustansir
• communal
• dimme
• petition
• shelomo b. yehuda
• (+ 1 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 3 مناقشات

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Specifically, he outfitted four of them for an attack on Zabīd. Yosef also reports on a military venture of Bilāl and the sultan by land 'in the area of the mountain' in which they took over many villages and excellent fortresses of their enemies, praise be to God. Al-Fawfalī (ʿAlī b. Manṣūr?) is mentioned. See also T-S 8J20.19 (same writer, same addressee).

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العلامات

• ib5
• india book

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

, to the ḥaver Abū l-Waḥsh, who should deliver it to Damascus, to Suq al-Ṣāgha (סוק אלסארה(!)), to Makārim b. Ibrāhīm al-ʿAjamī or to Surūr. Explain in it all that has happened to you (or maybe: all that came over you (from grief)). And greet Abū l-Bahāʾ b. al-Muʿallim and his father. On verso (which seems to be written in the same hand, but the ink and the size of the letters look different), the sender again mentions Abū l-Waḥsh al-Ḥaver (spelled both אבו אלוחש and אבו אלוחס); 15 dirhams; something about the holiday and the journey 'to here'; and that he has sent her 1 Egyptian dinar which Abū l-Waḥsh will forward to her.

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العلامات

• bereavement
• condolence

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Shaʿbān 459 Hijrī (22 November 1066–10 November 1067 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Concerns default in debt payment; involves [...] b. Abū Ṭāʿa(?) al-Ḥāmī and Manṣūr b. Faraḥ al-Ḥāmī in Cairo. The testimony declares that the debt Manṣūr owes is proven (kitāb lahu daynan ʿalayhi ḥatman wa-ḥaqqan wājiban lāziman ḥāllan lahu ʿalayhi), and that there is no record of a bankruptcy established in his favor (wa-lā yaddaʿī lahu fi dhālika falsan walā ʿadman). […] On of the witnesses is Ibrāhīm b. al-Ḥasan b. ʿAbdallāh al-.... Dated: Shaʿbān 459(?)

العلامات

• dimme
• pinholes

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Tammuz 1443 Seleucid (16 June 1132–14 July 1132 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information from Mediterranean Society, III, p. 436.) See also T-S AS 152.141 (PGPID 38812). Verso: another court record titled 'Wuḥsha's daughter' and dated 1444 Seleucid = 1132/33 CE. concerning the sale of half of a house in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ by a woman [...] bt. Fahd, the wife of Abū l-Faraj Ibn al-Malījī, to Sitt Ghazāl bt. Sibāʿ b. Yehuda al-Dimashqī the wife of Avraham ha-Kohen Ibn al-Tawwān.

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة