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Judaeo-Arabic

Yaʿaqov hopes he will receive an answer from Maṣliaḥ within the year. He also comments on books that he has sent to Ḥalfon, and notes that he had already copied the letter sent to him from al-Ghuwwa while he was staying in Aden. […] Salīm had left Aden for al-Ghuwwa because, like others, he was seceding from the authority of Maḍmūn b. […] Yaʿaqov b. Salīm was already known from Mann, Jews in Egypt and in Palestine, 2:366 (doc. 65; read al-Ghuwwa instead of אלגיוהומא).

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• aden
• al-ghuwwa
• communal controversy
• contributions
• halfon ha-levi b. netan`el
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Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

There may be a prayer for God to protect the infant from the evil eye (r11–12; the first letter of the word is smudged; Gil reads al-ḍaw' rather than al-sū'; neither one is strictly grammatical). […] Mūsā, Yehuda b. Mūsā, Abū ʿAbd Allāh, the notables of Qayrawān and al-Mahdiyya, Isḥāq b. […] Labrāṭ concludes with the bad news of Ifrīqiyya, Sicily, and al-Andalus (v35–40). The price of wheat has skyrocketed this summer; Qayrawān is a ruin; the Bedouins are waging war on each other; people are worried about Sicily this year, for the Franks have attacked with a great army; they ('Franks') have also invaded al-Andalus this year and destroyed many of its villages, killed many people, and imposed taxes on all the areas they conquered.

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• al-andalus
• arabic address
• banu hilal
• evil eye
• illness
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

I sent him 10 gold coins with Abū l-ʿAlā' Muslim." The next line is tricky and involves something called "kutub al-sulṭān." […] They are also to go to al-Amīr al-Ṭahīr (? אלטהיר. There is a qāḍī with the same epithet in the Arabic document T-S Ar.41.9. But perhaps it is al-ẓahīr). The subject matter on verso becomes still more obscure.

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• amirs
• damietta
• dar al-imara
• hujra
• inheritance
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Judaeo-Arabic

Several alchemical recipes written at all angles to each other.

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• alchemy
• recipe

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Hebrew

Poem composed by Yehuda b. ʿAllānal-Ṭabarānī (= of Tiberias).

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Ladino

Fragment of a commentary on Beshalaḥ in Ladino (see also ENA 2799.2).

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• ladino literary

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Hebrew

Hebrew poetry in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī.

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• nasir

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Ladino

Poem in stanzas. In Ladino. There is also some different text in Hebrew.

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Text in Judaeo-Arabic, likely literary but could also be a letter.

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Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. There are also two lines in Arabic script.

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• arabic script

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Philosophical treatise. Stories of Alexander the Great and Aristotle in a calligraphic hand.

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• popular literature

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to Ismail Al-Lawi al-Andalusi. VMR

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Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts mentioning months and some numbers. Also a drawing. Late

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27 Adar 1403 Seleucid (8 March 1092 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Bishara is to journey to Aleppo and Antioch and to sell goods purchased there in Fusṭāṭ. […] Bishara is to journey to Aleppo and Antioch and to sell goods purchased there in Fusṭāṭ. […] Bishāra, the active partner, seems not to have received a copy. See also T-S 8J4.11 and T-S NS J6 (PGPID 7623). (Information from Lieberman, "A Partnership Culture", 172-173).

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• court record
• partnership

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25 Shevaṭ 1339 Seleucid (5 February 1027 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document concerning the financial claims of Yeshu'a Abu al-Khayr against Ovadya. Goitein describes the endeavor as "civil law" (אלחק פי מא בינהם) adjudicated by the court. […] VMR and EMS (join: SDG). See also Goitein's index card.

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• register

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Simha al-Naysaburi, in Alexandria, to Ulla ha-Levi b.

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• commodities
• prices
• saffron
• ships
• silk
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Document date

4 Tishrei 5569 Anno Mundi (25 September 1808 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: 4 Tishrei 5569 AM, which is 25 September 1808 CE. There is also a postscript in Ladino signed by Avram al-[...], clearly relating to the main content because Karo y Frances are mentioned in this part as well.

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1040–1050 CE

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Marduk b. Musa in Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat; June 22, 1046 (per Gil). […] Mentions a serious accident on one of the ships. Barukh b. al-Shama adds a message at the end of the letter.

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• nahray b. nissim
• trade

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Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Abū l-Yumn Ibn al-Baṣalī, Abū ʿImrān b. Ghulayb, Abū Isḥāq, and Harūn Ibn Shamāri (appears also in ENA NS 77.220 (PGPID 13544)).

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Hebrew

Names include Gedalya; Yiṣḥaq al-Ashqar; Yaʿaqov b. Shemuel; Avraham Reʾuven; Meʾir Frances; Mordekhay b. Yosef; Sason. There are also fragmentary/draft legal records on verso, one of them about a debt.

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions people including a woman named Sitt al-Nās, Mevasser b. [...] known as Ibn al-ʿAni, and Shemarya ha-Kohen. […] Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Join: Alan Elbaum.

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• halfon b. menashshe
• jariya
• slaves

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1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Efrayim; Yiṣḥaq ha-Zaqen ha-Nikhbad; Isḥāq al-Nafūsī. Also Moshe ha-Nagid Sar ha-Sarim and a certain Dā'ūd.

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• halfon b. menashshe

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Arabic

Opening of the letter, starting with an ʿalāma (al-ḥamdu lillāhi kathīra?) in a thick pen. […] The tarjama is followed by a basmala and the beginning of the correspondence ([Kitābī] aṭāl-Allahu baqāka wa adāma). On verso a liturgical or biblical text (parashat sheqalim?).

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Primary language

Hebrew

Large swaths of the same manuscript are also available (perhaps from other copies by Corcos): JTS 2631 (alt.

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• responsa

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Document date

Elul 5539 Anno Mundi (13 August 1779–10 September 1779 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Meyuḥas will rent a house on "darb al-midrash" (on the street of the beit midrash) in the qodesh of the Mustaʿribim from the 7th of Elul II until the end of Elul of the year 1779 CE (5539 AM) for 300 a month, yielding a total of 2100. The number 1050 is also given, perhaps a down payment?

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• 18th c
• late synagogues
• meyuhas
• musta'ribim
• rent
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Headed by a mention of Abū l-Ḥusayn al-Ṣayrafī (the banker, maybe the well-known Aleppan banker Abū l-Husayn Yaḥyā active in this period) and followed by reference to numerous ruqʿas (here referring to orders of payment, probably).

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Judaeo-Arabic

Detailed and well-preserved. People named: Ibn al-Maqāniʿī; Abū ʿAlīal-Ṣūrī; Zikrī b. Yaḥyā; Yūsuf b.

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• ib-addenda
• india book unedited
• maks

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List of names that was recorded alongside a column of numerical values before the paper was torn. […] The list of names mentions: R. Ḥayyīm al-Yemenī, R. Yiṣḥaq Sharqī, R. Yaʿaqov al-Farūq, Eliyahu Kohen, Bakhor Ḥanīn, Avraham Kohen, Yaʿaqov Qedosh, Musa[?]

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• 16th c
• early modern

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Arabic

The first one seems a literary text mentioning death 'al-mawt'. The second mentions the occurrence of marriage at the end of the month. Recto: Mostly writing practice, "Yaʿqūb" and "Uthmān', also continues on verso. Geomancy or some occult practice related markings towards the bottom.

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• dimme

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Judaeo-Arabic

Netanel. The letter consists almost entirely of congratulations (for a newborn son?) and good wishes and blessings, e.g., that the recipient enjoy the favor of the king and his servants. The writers also greet Abū Manṣūr and the Nagid Moshe (Maimonides?)

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• congratulations

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Inferred date

1063–1063 CE

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Musa b. Abi al-Hayy, from Alexandria, to Azhar b. Avraham, the judge.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a letter from Abū ʿAli b. al-Dimyāṭī to his brother Abu Saʿīd b. Hibat Allah (Ḥalfon b.

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• halfon b. netanel
• halfon-addenda
• ib-addenda
• ib4
• illness
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Judaeo-Arabic

Khalaf, probably from Alexandria, to David b. Shaʿya, probably in Fustat. […] Mentions the arrival of Byzantine and Andalusī merchants, as well as the ships of Ibn al-Baʿbāʿ and Ibn Shiblūn, shipments of textiles, and a deal in Byzantine quarter-dinars.

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• andalusi merchants
• byzantine coins
• byzantine merchants
• byzantines
• coins
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Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef, apparently for Yaʿaqov he-Ḥaver, regarding the inheritance of Ḥasan b. Faraj al-Āmidī. Mentions Yosef b. Yiṣḥaq, [...] ha-Levi b. Furqān, Mukhtār, and towns such as Aleppo and the Lebanese Tripoli. (Information mainly from the Cambridge Genizah Research Unit via FGP.)

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• power of attorney

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Umm Makīn, the wife of al-Sadīd, in Bilbays, to Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat. […] The writer inquires from Eliyyahu about her son who was left under the judge's supervision, and requests release of money left to her other children. She is also concerned about the son's capitation tax.

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• 13th c
• orphans
• women in court
• women's letters

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Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a letter by Israel ha-Kohen Gaon b. Shemuel to a certain Alluf, concerning books which he promised to send the addressee. The sender also mentions a conflict he is engaged in and describes his efforts to conciliate his rivals.

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Judaeo-Arabic

The ten pieces of advice given by a mother to her daughter is a Judeo Arabic reworking of an Arabic literary anecdote usually told about the advice Umm al-Ḥārith gave to her daughter when the latter was about to be married to al-Ḥārith al-Mālik, the king of Kinda.

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