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  1. 5301Legal documentT-S 6J12.6

    Legal document with the testimony of Natanʾel b. Tamīm concerning a signature he witnessed for Saʿīd b. Yūsuf, who releases Mufaḍḍal b. Salāma b. Saʿīd …

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    1. יקול נתנאל בר תמים אנני תכפלת 
    2. לסעיד בן יוסף אחצאר אלכט אלדי 
    3. עליה למפצל בן סלאמה בן סעיד
    4. בסבב אלכט אלדי כאן תסלמה מנה
    5. באסם {ב}אבן נגיב אלדולה…
    Salāma b. Saʿīd
  2. on account of the signed document that he was supposed to accept from him

  3. in the name of Ibn Najīb al-Dawla.

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  5. 5302LetterT-S 13J9.4

    Letter from Shimʿon b. Shaʾul b. Yisraʾel ha-Ṭulayṭulī, in Jerusalem, to his sister Ballūṭa in Toledo. Dated at the last line: the month of Marḥeshvan …

    1. בשם רם ונשא
    2. כתאבי אליך יאכתי וחביבה קלבי אטאל אללה בקאך ואוזעני שכרך ואגמע ביני ובינך
    3. פי הדא אלקדס אלמקדס ברחמתה וקד תקדמת לי אליך כתב עדה ולא אעלם …
    But when I discovered this, I argued with [the elders], and a dispute erupted between us on account of them. My answer to Jacob was that your wife is really forbidden to you according to your religion and rite, as two brothers married to two sisters, and this is forbidden to the Karaites.

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  6. 5303LetterT-S 28.20

    IB II, 61. Letter from Ḥalfon and Bundār b. Maḍmūn, in Aden, to Sulaymān b. Abū Zikrī Kohen, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1150 CE. In …

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    1. [ל]הא וליא ומעינא וחאפצא ונא[צרא פי גמיע אמורהא וכאן אגדל וארד]
    2. ורד ואבהג ואפד ופד וסרא ממלוכיהא בורודה וגדלא בופודה וקבלאה
    3. קבל פץ כתאמה ושכרא…
  7. ...We hope that his excellency
  8. will kindly find a substitute. As to the balance of the account that his exalted excellency mentioned, 
  9. if you had sent them, there would be nothing to say.
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  11. 5304Literary textT-S Misc.35.48 + T-S Ar.48.121

    Copy of the story of Natan b. Yiṣḥaq the Babylonian, from 'Akhbar Baghdad.' In Judaeo-Arabic, in the hand of Natan (ha-nezer) b. Shemuel (fl. 1128–1164 …

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    1. [        נתן הכהן אבן אסח]אק מן אכבאר בגדאד ממא חדת בעצה
    2. [ען אמר ראס אל]גאלות עוקבה אלדאודי אלדי כאן וצל אלי אפריקיא
    3. [ותקדם אלרי]אסה סנין כתיר…
    But Kohen Tsedek did not like his appointment, being jealous of his supremacy, and being afraid on account of what had been done to ‘Uqba. So the academy of Sura appointed him in Baghdad.

    Thereupon he wrote to Sura, to the ordained scholars and to the students regarding this matter, and commanding them to bless him and to acknowledge his supremacy.

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  12. 5305Legal documentT-S NS J11 + T-S 10J4.16 + T-S 16.158 + T-S 10J4.17

    IB VII, 10a + 10b + 10c + 10d. Legal document. Agency agreement. Location: Fustat. Written in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. T-S 10J4.16: …

    T-S 10J4.16 Recto

    1. ונשתרי פי טריקנא מן אלצעיד באלעין מא אתפק לנא מן אלבצאיע ונביע דלך גמיעה
    2. פי דיאר אלימן וגירהא מן אלבלאד אלדי יתפק לנא אלממר אליהא …
    Likewise, also, none of us has a claim upon the
  13. glorious Elder, this Abū al-Riḍā for the original accounting for this merchandise—neither regarding deceit in its purchase nor in raising
  14. the price of the precious objects, nor anything of the like, since all of us have attested before you effective immediately that he need not add
  15. anything.
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  17. 5306LetterT-S NS J131

    Letter from the Nagid Mevorakh b. Saʿadya to Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Natan (a.k.a. Avraham b. Natan) who is titled Ḥemdat ha-Qahal. Fragment (upper part …

    Recto

    1. בשמך
    2. תקדם כתאבי למולאי אלשיך חמדת הקהל אטאל אללה בקאה

    Recto, right margin

    1. קמוח אלפיום

    Recto, top margin

    1. כאלק ללקות..יל ..וק
    2. פלא יותד לי אל…
  18. I had mentioned to him (i.e., you) in my previous letter
  19. the situation of our coreligionists the glassmakers
  20. who are in the Fayyūm and the worry that has flowed into my heart
  21.  on their account constantly. I had asked him (i.e., you) —
  22. and I now renew my request of him —
  23. to mediate among them
  24. Verso, address, right

    1. My lord the elder Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm
    2. b. [   ] our teacher Natan,
    3. may God prolong his existence and make his glory, support, and benefactions eternal

    Verso, address, left

    1. The one who loves him, Mevorakh bar Saʿadya, of blessed memory.

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  25. 5307LetterT-S 8J41.1

    Recto: Brief letter/petition from a person in dire straits suffering from illness and lack of clothing, and unable to buy anything to eat for the …

    1. יקבל אלארץ וינהי בין ידי אל [ . . . . . . .
    2. אלאגל [ . . . . . . . . . . ] הבחור ביקר סט
    3. אלמנעם אלמתפצל עלי עבדה וגלט.
    4. פי כל וקת ואלממלוך שאכר מן
    5. . .…
  26. Your slave is [experiencing] adversity on account of his being naked and ill
  27. and lacking food during the upcoming holiday.
  28. I have not even one fals (a copper coin of low value) with which to buy
  29. anything.
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  31. 5308State documentT-S AS 181.225

    Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: Middle of Dhū l-Qaʿda 403. Measurements: 13 × …

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    1. يثبت نيابة عن ديوان الاشراف
    2. ان شا الله
    3.                                       اثبتو المبلغ نصف وربع وسدس واثنين
    4.                                …
  32. A valid receipt has been granted to ʾAbū al-Ḥasan ibn Wahb for the sum owed through his standing surety for the estates in the town of al-Fayyūm
  33. for the year four-hundred and three, under the supervision of the auspicious, rightly-guided judge, Ṯiqat al-Mulk
  34. Makīn al-Dawla wa-ʾAmīnuhā, the protégé of the commander of the faithful, ʾAbū al-Ḥasan ʿAli ibn Bahār,  
  35. with ʾAbū al-Sarī Theodor ibn Yuḥannis acting as accountant. 
  36. Half of this: One, a quarter and a sixth. Its amount: Two, a half, a quarter and a  sixth.
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  38. 5309LetterT-S NS J389

    Letter in which a man who calls himself the father of the cantor who is "sick, poor, and naked" asks a prominent physician to arrange …

  39. ...I inform you that your slave is experiencing adversity on account of sickness
  40. and dearth and lack of income, as well as nakedness.
  41. Your slave req[uests] that you give charity to your slave [and that]
  42. you collect for me a pesiqa of charity, from you and from the congrega[tion]
  43. that prays at your house.
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  45. 5310LetterT-S 13J30.6

    Public letter in Arabic script. An appeal to the community, to be read in the synagogue, against a certain 'Rayyis' who had rented a newly …

    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    2. يا معشر اليهود اين انتم من 

    3. الله تخلوا الريس يسكن ابن 

    4. المصموري في الدار الذي

    5. خلف كنيسة العراقين

    6. التي اشتروها ملاز…

  46. ...Your honor has departed 
  47. from you on account of him. Peace.
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  49. 5311State documentT-S Misc.20.92

    Decree of the caliph al-Ḥākim to the Qaraite community in Fusṭāṭ and elsewhere, granting them administrative independence from the Rabbanites, on the basis of the …

    1.                         سجل معظم باعلاه بخط اليد العالية
    2. الحمدالله رب العالمين
    3. بسم  الله الرحمن الرحيم
    4. من عبد الله ووليه المنصور ابى على الامام الحا…
  50. From the beloved slave of God, al-Manṣūr Abū ʿAlī, the imām al-Ḥākim bi-Amr 

  51. Allāh, commander of the faithful, son of the imām, al-ʿAzīz bi-Allāh, commander of the faithful,

  52. to the community of Karaite Jews, in Fusṭāṭ and elsewhere. On account of the

  53. righteous path that the commander of the faithful follows and the just course that he pursues,

  54. he has given instructions for you to be separated from the Rabbanites, due to the cleavage

  55. between you regarding the law and your differences regarding ritually clean

  56. and unclean food.

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  58. 5312Legal documentT-S Misc.29.24

    Deed in which Abū Saʿd Efrayim b. ʿEli the Jew acquires the lease of a plot of land in Fusṭāṭ from Abū l-Futūḥ Ghālib b. …

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    1. بســــــــــــــــم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله وصلواته على سيدنا محمد رسوله واله وسلامه
    2. هذا ما استاجر افرایم بن عالي الاسرائيلي من أبي الفتو…
  59. ...This  acknowledger no longer has any right to his property, or to any part thereof, [nor  any claim, on account of ]  
  60. nor (on account of) a price, a value, or any type of landed or mobile property,  either real or [notional].  
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  62. 5313LetterENA NS 48.9 + JRL B 7859

    IB II, 31. Letter from Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan to Avraham Ibn Yiju: freight jettisoned. Aden, ca. 1137–39 or 1145–49. Join: Alan Elbaum.

    II, 31

    1. בקאה וחרס [מדת]ה ... [... ומן חסן]
    2. תופיקה לא אכלאה וכבת חסד[ת]ה ואעדאה
    3. פקראתה ופהמתה וסרני עלם סלאמתה וצלאח
    4. חאלתה ושכרת אללה עלי דלך כתיר וסא…
    All of this
  63. is detailed in the copy of the account, accompanying this letter, 

  64. that you are reading, God willing.

  65. [C] Arrival of copper from {Aydhāb in two small matiyya boats to be followed by other commodities in four ships (lines 15–20).}

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  66. 5314Legal documentT-S 10J2.34

    Legal document. Bill of divorce, Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 20 Elul 1492 (2 September 1181). This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 …

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    1. בתרי בשבה דהוא עשרין יומי לירח אלול דשנת
    2.  אלפא וארבע מאה ותשעין ותרתין שנין ל לשטרות
    3. בפסטאט מצרים דעל נילוס נהרא מאתבה אנא פל׳
    4.  בר פל׳ וכל שום…
  67. ...Now that I divorce 
  68.     you, you have the licence and power over yourself 
  69.     to be married to any man that you wish, and no-one will interfere 
  70.   on my account, from this day forth and forever, and behold you are
  71.   [hereby] permitted to any man, and this will serve for you as 
  72.   a document of divorce, and a bill of release and a letter of leaving.
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  74. 5315State documentT-S Ar.34.18

    Receipt issued to the khuzzān of the Fayyūm tax districts against revenue delivered by Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Amount: one-quarter, one-sixth and two ḥabbas (Khan …

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    1. يثبت نيابة عن ديوان الاشراف
    2. ان شا الله
    3. اثبتو المبلغ ربع وسدس واثنين         اثبتو المبلغ ربع وسدس واثنين
    4. والحمد لله حمد الشاكرين والحمد لله عل…
  75. A valid receipt has been granted to the warehouse-keeper in the province of al-Fayyūm on behalf of ʾAbū al-Ḥasan ibn Wahb
  76. the estate-manager, for the year four-hundred and three, under the supervision of the auspicious, rightly-guided judge,
  77. Ṯiqat al-Mulk Makin al-Dawla wa-ʾAmīnuhã, the protégé of the commander of the faithful, ʾAbū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Bahār, 
  78. with ʾAbū al-Sarī Theodor ibn Yuḥannis acting as accountant. 
  79. Half of this: One, an eighth, and two qīrāts (= twelfth). Its amount: Two, a quarter and a sixth.
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  81. 5316Legal documentT-S AS 182.291

    Legal query to Muslim jurisconsults regarding the practice of prostration (sujūd) and genuflection (rukūʿ) during the synagogue liturgy. This practice had been customary for the …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم 
    2. ما يقول السادة الفقها الائمة ائمة الدين وقدوة
    3. المسلمين وفقهم الله الطاعتــــ[ــهــــ]ـــــم واعانهم على مرضاته
    4. في جماع…
  82. ...What action should be  taken with regard to him  
  83. on account of his opposition, if he opposes (the practice). Grant us your opinion,  may God have mercy upon you. 
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  85. 5317Paraliterary textT-S K1.150

    Verso and bottom of recto: Amulet(s) for Makārim b. Nujūm to give him charm and grace and to silence his enemies. (Information from CUDL.)

    The slave kisses the ground and reports
  86. to his master (that) his situation is straitened and lowly on account of the burden of his expenses and his family and that the slave

  87. has returned from noble service in the border post of Ascalon, may God, he is exalted, protect it, after

  88. exhibiting vigour and a forceful spirit, obedience to God and obedience

  89. to his master, and (after) his fighting the accursed enemy and the gratitude of the leaders for his service

  90. and energy, and their recognition of the valour that he exhibited ...

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  92. 5318State documentT-S K1.150

    Petition from an impoverished army veteran who had served in ʿAsqalān, possibly to the vizier Ibn al-Salār (r. 1149–53). 1153 is a terminus ante quem …

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    1. خلد الله تعالى ملك المجلس العا[لـ]ـي [ا]لسيدي [الاجلي الجيوشي السيفي]
    2. الناصري الكافلي الهادي وعضد به الدين وامتع بطول بقاىه
    3. امير المومنين وادا…
    The slave kisses the ground and reports
  93. to his master (that) his situation is straitened and lowly on account of the burden of his expenses and his family and that the slave
  94. has returned from noble service in the border post of Ascalon, may God, he is exalted, protect it, after
  95. exhibiting vigour and a forceful spirit, obedience to God and obedience
  96. to his master, and (after) his fighting the accursed enemy and the gratitude of theleaders for his service
  97. and energy, and their recognition of the valour that he exhibited ...
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  99. 5319State documentT-S H15.62

    Petition to the Ayyubid sultan al-ʿĀdil regarding the capitation tax. Dating: ca. 596–615 AH, which is 1200–18 CE. The petitioner asks that his tax rate …

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    1. العادلى المظفري [     ]ـي .[سلطان]

    2. جيوش المسلمين وادام قدرته واعلا ابدا كـ[ـلمته] ...

    3. المملوك يقبل الارض امامه وينهى الى

    4. رافته واحسانه …

    He is unable [to pay this]
  100. on account of his poverty and destitution. He has Muslim notables [ ]

  101. who can testify to the poverty and destitution of the slave.

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  103. 5320LetterCUL Or.1080 J88

    Letter at one point thought to have been sent from Cairo to Bilbays containing a request to contribute to the capitation tax of a poor …

    1. . . .] כגק מר ור אלישע [. . . . . . . .
    2. הלויים הירא שמים הנדיב יברכו צורו
    3. ויעזרו ויגן בעדו ויזכהו לראות
    4. שמחת חמודו ותורתו ואריכות ימיו
    5. אמן סלה     מ…
  104. ...May he rejoin
  105. us in your presence on the most joyous of occasions. [. . . . . ] 
  106. Aside from this, your servant received on [Wednesday] 21 
  107. Tammuz disturbing and alarming news about 
  108. our lord, our teacher Moses, may he live forever, who requested that your servant 
  109. come as quickly as possible on his mount on account of his illness. 
  110. May God, the exalted prevent harm from befalling the community because of him, and may He protect him.
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  112. 5321LetterT-S 10J15.18 + T-S 8J18.25

    Letter in Hebrew from Yosef, a scholar with minimal assets and now in a perilous situation because of debts, dependents, and sureties on his behalf. …

    1. קול אומר קרא ואומר מה קרא כי אין בלשוני מלה לדבר ולא בפי תהלות לחבר
    2. כי אני סום בשפה ולשוני רפה וב . . . . סרעפי בקרבי רעדה אחזתני ואמרתי
    3. בלבי א . . …
  113. the Creator to find favor in your eyes to call upon the people to help us and bestow aid upon us like one
  114. of the needy. For we are in dire straits on account of debts
  115. we have, child care, and sureties on our behalf. I, Joseph, come to bow down and entreat my masters: If you
  116. do kindness to people from all places, do so, too, to your slave.
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  118. 5322Legal documentHalper 359

    Legal document (debt settlement) issued by a qāḍī court in the Musallamiyya madrasa of Damietta. In Arabic script, with a Judaeo-Arabic filing note. Dated: 10 …

    Recto,ʿalāma

    1. الحمد لله وهو حسبي هلك حساده
    2. كتبه [؟] الفقير عبد الرحمن الاقصراي الحنبلي
    3. المولى قضا دمياط وخلافتها

     Recto, main text

    1. باس…
    The aforementioned Yaʿqūb added, in
  119. his acknowledgement, that his aforementioned employer [i.e., Abraham] has no claim against Budayr and his father, [no] right, no entitlement,

  120. no claim, no demand in any manner or [for any] reason, not in silver, gold, or copper,

  121. not by seizure or confiscation, not by account or by an error in one, not in ignorance or forgetfulness, not

  122. in absentmindedness, not by coercion or claim to it, not in valuables and not by liability, not by swearing by God the exalted,

  123. nothing, not a little nor much, from previous times to the present day.

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  125. 5323Legal documentT-S 8J5.8

    Acknowledgement of receipt of money by Abu al-Faraj b. Shanuda the Christian seaman, leader of the sailors of "the weavers," from Abu Sa’d Daniyal b. …

    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. اقر ابو الفرج بن شنوده النصراني البحرى مقدم نواتية الحاكة
    3. شركة الديوان الجبريرى عند شهود هذه الحجة واشهد على نفسه في صحة
    4. عقله…
  126. Abū al-Faraj ibn Shanūda, the Christian seaman, the leader of the sailors of ‘the weavers',  

  127. partners of the Jibrīrī office, acknowledged in the presence of the witnesses of  this document and called (them) to be his witnesses, while he was in sound 

  128. mind and body, legally capable of conducting his affairs, willing, not coerced, nor forced, nor constrained, this taking place in the town  

  129. of Ikhmīm in the last ten days of Jumādā II of the year five-hundred and  thirty-four, (he acknowledged) that he had taken and received in full  

  130. from Abū Saʿd Dāniyāl ibn Mīnā, the cashier of monies in the province of Ikhmīm, from the review of money received  

  131. and administered by him, under the supervision of the auspicious judge, Mukhliṣ al-Dawla wa-Amīnuhā, Abū ʿAlī  

  132. al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḥassān, the statement of account being drawn up by the  elder Thiqat al-Dawla, Abū Manṣūr Hibatallāh ibn Ḥasan ibn  

  133. Hibatallāh, for all the produce carried on his ship from the province of Ikhmīm to the town of Qūṣ, this being for five-hundred irdabbs  

  134. [ … ] ..... all that he received formerly for the whole, and the sum passed into his possession  

  135. [ … ] ... in that, with a valid quittance, a quittance of receipt in full, 

  136. [ … he] called witnesses on the date (of the document).

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  138. 5324State documentT-S Ar.41.131

    Petition likely addressed to the vizier of al-Ẓāfir, al-ʿĀdil Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī Ibn al-Salār (r. 1149–53), regarding an iqṭāʿ worth 5500 dinars and a market …

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    1. صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامى وافضل تحياته و[سلامه]

    2. ما اخذ لهم من طين اقطاعهم وهو ماية فدان احتوى عليها النايب 

    3. وقد خرجت الاوامر العالية باعا…

  139. They request the issuing of an exalted ordinance, may God increase its efficacy, to establish a market for their fief

  140. one day a week in place of their (present) market and the return of the aforementioned land to them,

  141. or their compensation with another fief that is registered in the auspicious office of al-ʿAdil,

  142. on the grounds that these two villages are suitable to be annexed to the district of Minyat Ghamr, on account of the cultivation of sugar cane

  143. and the tilling of (the land) that is the subject of this petition,

  144. as a kindness and benefaction to them.

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  146. 5325Literary textT-S NS 163.101

    For an early modern geniza fragment mentioning someone who is "from Samarqand," in modern-day Uzbekistan, see the following Ladino accounts: T-S AS 209.112 (PGPID 39773)

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    1. ...] .שמינ
    2. ...]. אמא ענך אבולגיי.
    3. ...] ולא מסאפר : מן ספרכא (men safargā)
    4. ...] סאן קילורסאן (sēn qīlūrsen) : אקעד חתי אגי : אולתור (oltūr) 
    5. ..…

    Recto, translations of Judaeo-Arabic phrases with transliterations of Judaeo-Turkic phrases (line numbers approximate)

    1. [damaged]
    2. [damaged]
    3. and not a…

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  147. 5326State documentCUL Or.1080 J80

    Petition to a Fatimid dignitary regarding a theft of money. The archer Manṣūr b. Zakī al-Dawla (or: Rukn al-Dawla, which seems more likely given al-Maqrīzī's …

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    1.                     المملوك 
    2.                     منصور بن زكى الدولة
    3.                      احد الرماة تحت ركابها
    4.                      السعيد
    5.   …
  148. ...A tarsīm was instituted
  149. against the slave on account of the two dinars that Badr took. The tarsim
  150. against him has been in force for a month.
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  152. 5327Legal documentT-S 13J5.2

    Legal document. Transfer of money to the poor of Jerusalem, 1085 CE. Shelomo b. Hayyim, one of the leaders of the Palestinian Jews, had forwarded …

    1. בשמך רחם
    2. יקול שלמה בן כגק מרנור חיים השביעי בחבורה זצל אן קבצת מן מר
    3. ור עלי הכהן הפרנס הנאמן ביר יהיה נע עשרין דינארא גיאדה עינה ואזנה
    4. נקד מצר מן גמ…
  153. This sum had been transfered to me on his account by the Rabbanite Jews residing in Jerusalem, the Holy City, after 

  154. I had lent them 20 dinars against it.

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  156. 5328State documentT-S Ar.42.158

    State document. Petition to the caliph al-Mustanṣir regarding a murder on a boat. The son of the petitioner was traveling with a young fellow-merchant from …

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    1. بِسْم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    2. صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامى زكواته وافضل تحياته على مولانا وسيدنا الامام المستنصر بالله

    3. أمير المومنين صلوات الله ع…

  157. ...The slave of my master, the blessings of God beupon him, takes refuge in God,
  158. of exalted name, and in the justice of the prophetic dynasty, on account of the following: He had a son, a man of twenty-three years of age, who travelled
  159. from Sirsinā in a boat, together with a merchant, a young man who was also twenty-three years old.
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  161. 5329State documentT-S K25.214

    Petition from Ṣāliḥ al-Khaybārī, a Jew from the community of Baghdad, to the Fatimid amīr Tāj al-Dawla. In Arabic script. Ṣāliḥ petitions regarding a miserable …

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    1. عبده وغلامه صلح الخيبرى البغدادي
    2. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم 
    3. عبد مولاى الامير تاج الدولة اطال الله بقاه وادام تاييده وعلاىه وكبت حسدته وعداه
    4. رجل …

  162. ...Recently he has been brought low by misfortune
  163. on account of a pledge that his slave made in the office of the elder Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn b. Ḥasan,
  164. may God cause his support to endure.
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  166. 5330LetterCUL Or.1080 J33

    Letter sent by the cantor Sheerith to Maimonides, in which the writer excuses himself for being unable to do a certain service for the recipient, …

    1. ממלוך חצרתה
    2. שארית החזן
    3. הדרת מר ור השר הרופא החכם והנבון
    4. משה שצ
    5. ממלוכהא שארית יקבל קדמיהא
    6. חרס אללה מעאליהא אן בעד חצורי
    7. בין ידיך ותקרר אלחאל אלדי תעל…
  167. Whereas this matter came up this morning in the synagogue, 
  168. I neglected informing you on account of your servant’s concern with his son and his journey. 
  169. Now I inform you about the matter. 
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  171. 5331Legal documentENA NS 16.27

    IB III, 30a. Rental contract for an apartment in Sicily for 40 years, paid in advance, rented by a Jewish woman named Umm al-ʿIzz bt. …

    1. חצרת אלינא נחן אל כאתמין פי הדא אל כתאב אם אל עז בנת זרעה
    2. וקאלת לנא אשהדוא עלי ואקנוא מן ידי מעכשיו בכל לסאן חגה 
    3. ואכתבוא ואכתמוא עלי דלך במא הודא א…
  172. ...
  173. Whenever either of us desires to cancel the agreement or believes that he has suffered damages from the other and is not able
  174. to live together with him, he will collect his money, after I settle accounts with him, deducting from the twenty rubā{īs
  175. the amount for the period he shall have dwelled there until the time of the cancellation, at a rate of one-half rubā{ī per year,
  176. just as I have rented to him."
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  178. 5332LetterT-S 8J24.6

    Fragment of a letter (right margin, top and bottom cut off). First part discusses the plight of a 'humble' cantor and teacher of small children …

    1. ] ופיה אלברכה ויקים
    2. ] יעגב מנך אלדי מא חנית עליה יום כמא. . .יק
    3. ] לא אבעתת לה קט תחפה פכם יריד אלחזאן אלעניו
    4. ] שגל תקים בה והו יריד פצה אלכתאב וכלף …
  179. ...God had
  180. ...] against him in his land on account of the affair of the supplier of metal to the mint. He [...] that [...] would not befall him
  181. ...] arrived in this country after undergoing hardship and entered the
  182. ... th]is dispute, "as when a man flees from a lion (and is attacked by a bear)," (Amos 5:19).
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  184. 5333Legal documentCUL Add.3420.1

    IB I, 3. Court proceedings dealing with the dispute between Yosef ha-Lebdi the India trader, and Yequtiʾel b. Moshe, 'the representative of merchants' in Fustat. …

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    1. בתרין בשבה דהוא תמני סר יומין בירח אדר
    2. דשנת אלפא וארבע מאה ותשע שנין למניאנא
    3. דרגיליננא ביה בפסטאט מצרים דעל נילוס
    4. נהרא מותבה כן הוה חצר אלי בי…
    Joseph had guaranteed that he would settle the account
  185. with the House of the Qadi {add: for them, in his name}. Meanwhile some time had passed, 

  186. and “these days I was sued by the House of the Qadi

  187. for the aforementioned amount.

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  189. 5334Legal documentT-S 10J21.2

    Sale by two women, presumably cousins, in al-Mahdiyya, of a Bible codex worth 20 dinars. The sellers confirm their willingness to sell, accept receipt of …

    1. הדא מא אשהדנא [בה אסמ]על(!) ביר [ . . . . . . . . . ]ן חית[ה . . . .
    2. אבנת תנחום בן אליתים ומן [רחל אבנ]ת יחיה [ . . . . .
    3. אבא ימות אשתרא מנהם אלמצח[…
    They acquired it [the payment] from them, for their consent to sell this Bible; and by their acquisition of the money and by guaranteeing that their children—and also those who are not their children—anyone who would rise against Isma‘il ibn Mūsā on account of this Bible . . . them, Ḥiyyuna bint Tanḥum Ibn al-Yatīm and Rachel bint Yaḥyā Ibn Aba Yamut.

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  190. 5335LetterT-S 13J13.6

    Letter from the widow of the cantor Ben Nahman to a Head of the Jews (entitled Gaon) concerning the difficulties she is having with her …

    1. אלעבדה זוגה
    2. אלחזאן בן נחמן
    3. אלעבדה תנהי אלי הדרת הגאונות תכן משרתה לנצ[ח
    4. חאלהא הו וולדהא וגועהם ועריהם וכונהא להא אליום
    5. ענד? בין?] אלנאס משתתה ה שהור…
  191. ...Your slave's brothers are not able
  192. to show themselves in public on account of the poll tax. My husband did not pass away and forsake me
  193. without having me dwell in the house, sustaining myself and my son with whatever else comes from rental income.
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  195. 5336LetterT-S 13J18.22

    Recto: Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to his paternal aunt Umm Daʾūd, asking for her daughter Sitt al-Yumn in marriage and enquiring about the dowry. …

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    1. ולדה שלמה ברבי אליה היב
    2.                למה כאן יום אלאתנין אלכאמס ואלעשרין

    3. יי' אורי וישעי וג'     מן שחר תמוז שנת אלפא וחמיש(!) מאה ותלתין

  196. longing, and am grieved on account of my being far from her. I am in perfect health

  197. and well-being. I lack nought save gazing upon you.

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  199. 5337Legal documentT-S 16.222

    Lease of a date plantation owned by the Qodesh. Dating: ca. 1150 CE and, more broadly, ca. 1128–1164 CE based on the years when the …

    1. [לקנית מעכשיו ברצונו ]קנין גנור חמור בכלי הכשר לקנות בו
    2. בלי אונס כלל בביטול כל מודעין ותנאין אנה קד אסתאגר אלבסתאן אלמדכור מדה תמאניה סנין כואמל אל

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    (We acquire from Hiba)

    1.  . . . . as a complete and solemn acquisition, with an instrument that is proper to acquire with, 

    2.  (from now on, with his agreement), without any compulsion, declaring void any declarations or conditions, that he rents the above-mentioned plantation for a period of eight full years 

    3.  according to the dates mentioned above, their full account being of 88 dinars. He will pay 9 2⁄3 dinars every year, in the month of

    4.  Tishri, after 1 2⁄3 dinars have been computed to his credit by monthly payments during the eleven previous months, to the end of his lease.

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  200. 5338LetterT-S 8J20.24

    Letter from a certain Efrayim concerning consignments of wheat and sums of money, written in a very polite form with many Hebrew phrases, among them …

    recto, main text

    1. וכתאב לחצרתך [
    2. אשתכית מן תפצלך ותבעת לעבדך ד אראדב קמח מנהא ארדבין ונצף מן תמנהם // מקארב מן סער סו דרהם אלארדב // וארדב ונצף
    3. תתצרף…
  201. ...I ask from your excellency
  202. 60 dirhams, one dinar
  203. on your [a]cco[u]nt, leaving one half.
  204. As for me, I [...]
  205. silver and not gol[d] and [...]
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  207. 5339LetterT-S 13J7.27

    IB III, 7. Letter from Yosef b. Avraham, Aden, to Avraham b. Yiju, ca. 1147 or 1148. The letter discusses business matters and mentions the …

    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. כי ייו יהיה בכסליך ושמר רגלך מלכד. יוי
    3. שמרך יוי צלך על יד ימיניך. יוי ישמרך
    4. מכל רע ישמר את נפשך. ישמר צאתך
    5. ובאך מעתה ועד עולם. יומם השמש לא
  208. ...You mentioned, my lord, that this
  209. bahār and a quarter less four pounds of pepper was (sent against) the balance of my, your servant’s, entire account
  210. from the cardamom and the ‘eggs,’ etc. May God reward
  211. and care for you well {alt. tr.: undertake to provide you with a good reward}, and may I never miss your favors!
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  213. 5340Paraliterary textT-S NS 31.4

    Astrological almanac with prognostications regarding the month of Abīb in the Coptic calendar, when the Nile begins to rise. Refers to the heliacal rising of …

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    1. אלחאג וידעו אלנאס ולא יסתגאב להם
    2. ויכון באלנאס אוגאע מן תורת וסועאל
    3. וגדרי ורמד ויכתר אלסמך ואלעציר
    4. ויסלם ויקל אלזיתון ויכון פי בעץ
    5. אלאתמאר עאהה…
  214. ...There will be fear for the king
  215. on account of illness and other causes of destruction.
  216. If it rains water for 3 days, there will be no benefit,
  217. and it will be a sign of the king's demise and the cessation of benefaction.
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  219. 5341LetterT-S 10J12.1

    Letter from a physician to his uncle. Tells the writer's sad story, which involved the death of his beloved wife, an unfortunate second marriage, and …

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    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. כתאבי אלי ואלדי ואעז אלכלק עלי והו ענדי אלואלד עוץ אלואלד //חתי\\
    3. אן מא מנהא וקת מן אלאוקאת יבלגני מנך תדכאר אלא וכאני
    4. ראית וגהך פאללה…
  220. She left behind for me this 3-year-old boy and I became dependent on people on his account
  221. after he relied (on others’ help) and reunited (with me). As soon as I left the town after 18 days, slandered, I
  222. and four other physicians (who came) in my honour, I was overtaken by expenses, for cloths,
  223. for shrouds, burial and reception.
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  225. 5342LetterT-S 10J12.20

    Letter from Mevasser b. David in Damsis to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat, ca. 1053. The main issue discussed in the letter is an argument …

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    1. כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך וכלאיתך מן

    2. דמסיס יום ערובה סכות אעאדה אללה עליה אעואם כתירה תזכה לביאת גואל

    3. ובנין…

  226. ...What he said
  227. to you was that you would ask him to produce an accounting and letters and the testimony of Ibn Shaʿyā. He already
  228. wrote to me in his letters that he would demand this.
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  230. 5343List or tableT-S 8J17.18

    Document (bifolium) giving details of a collection (pesiqa) for the ransom of prisoners, conducted by Abū l-Surūr b. Ṭarīf and Abū l-Maʿālī in al-Rīf—here, the …

    P.1, recto

    1. Account of what was collected from the pledge drive
    2. for the captives, may God release them,
    3. in the Rīf.

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  231. 5344State documentCUL Or.1080 J7

    Petition to al-Mustanṣir in Arabic, preliminary draft (possibly also in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya), complaining about the closure of the Palestinian synagogue in …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم العبيد ينهوا الى الموقف الشريف زاده الله شرف حالهم وذلك انه لما
    2. جرى على ريسهم واحبارهم منذ سنتين [[من الفا]] ما كان فيه…
  232. ...The slaves report their case to the noble presence, may God increase his nobility, as follows: When 
  233. their leader and their scholars had suffered harm for two years the pure presence, may God make his rule eternal, charitably issued
  234. a mighty decree, on account of which the harm done to them ceased, until a man
  235. called Nātān ibn Ibrāhīm arrived from the West, claiming the position of thehead of our Academy, who had been head of this Academy for sixteen years.
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  237. 5345LetterT-S 8J16.7

    Letter addressed to Abu Sahl b. Moshe, the cantor, in which the writer requests aid in a mixture of Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic. In a post-scripted …

    1. תו שלום וג'
    2. שלום רב לאהבי תורותך
    3. שלום שלום לירחוק (!) ולקרב
    4. סבב הדה אלרקעה ולכבר מן מר' ור'
    5. אלשיך אבו // סהל // החבר השר ה/א/דיר החכם
    6. והניבון (!) ומ…

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    1. By the religion of the Jews, on account of great hunger
    2. and fasting a veil has come across my eyes
    3. and a blot over my heart such that I do not know what
    4. I am writing.

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  238. 5346Legal documentT-S 10J7.10

    Copy of the will of Khulla bt. Shabbat in which she lists her assets (three different dārs held in partnership with her two sisters and …

  239. She also has a ghulām (slave, business agent) who is to be sold, the proceeds to be divided equally, one-half for the upkeep of
  240. Dammūh and the other half to remain with the court designated for someone who d[i]es impoverished
  241. or to a person who gets detained on account of the poll tax and has not the wherewithal to extricate himself. We made to her the suggesion
  242. of the Diadem, may his Rock [God] preserve him, "the Diadem of the Scholars," that in the synagogue of the Iraqis and in that of the
  243. Palestinians there is a Bible codex wort[h] a certain sum.
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  245. 5347LetterT-S 13J28.24

    Letter addressed to 'the boy' Abū l-Futūḥ al-Muhadhdhab the physician in the Dār al-[...] in al-Bāṭiliyya (evidently an area of New Cairo which was originally …

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    1. ב שלום רב וגו יתן לך כלבביך וגו
    2. الولد العزيز الشيخ الاجل المهذب الموفق اسعد الله جده
    3. وقرن بالتوفيق حله وعقده مخدوم بافضل سلام واعلمه دامت
    4. معا…
  246. ...A charge was brought against him concerning a basket, on account of an animal
  247. he had purchased for Shaykh Abū al-Riḍā. Witnesses testified against him, and they seized
  248. the animal, the price, and what was intended.
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  250. 5348Legal documentENA 3181.6 + T-S 16.34

    Legal document. Partnership release. Dated: 7 Shevat 1390. Location: Fustat. An olive-oil partnership is dissolved. This fragment contains two documents related to the same partnership …

    T-S 16.34 Recto

    1. שרחה בראה פאצלה באוכד מא תקדם מן שרוט אל 
    2. אלאבארי אלתי תקדם דכרהא מן רפע אלאימאן ואלאחריות 
    3. ואלמחילה .... בביטול כל מודעי ותנאי אלמק…
    Each of them absolved his fellow from all types of
  251. oaths which he (could) demand //that which// and from others, except for seven dinars remaining
  252. of this Ghālib b. Ḥalfōn as the remainder of the account, after they performed their reckoning.
  253. Each of them accepted //the reckoning// on the condition that this Ghālib would pay to this m(aster) Moses ha-Kohen the …
  254. to Meshullam b.
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  256. 5349LetterNLI 577.3/6

    IB III, 16. Letter from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq in Aden to Avraham Ibn Yiju in Mangalore, dated July-August 1148. The letter contains information about their …

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    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. וצל כתאב חצרה אלשיך אלאגל מולאי ומאלכי
    3. חרס אללה נעמתה וסרמד גבטתה ומכן
    4. בסטתה ואעלי כלמתה ורפע פי אלדארין דרגתה
    5. וכבת אעדאה וחסדתה ומא ד…
  257. ....: I, your servant, feel
  258. regret on his account.} There arrived what you kindly sent, my lord, namely the betel nuts, the two locks and the two wooden qa a-bowls. 
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  260. 5350LetterT-S 13J11.5

    Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Sahlan b. Avraham (fl. 1034–1049 CE). Dating: approximately 1035 (per Gil) and ca. 1034–1049 CE based on the years …

    1. שלום שלום להגדילה ברכות להרבות משמי מעלה ותהילה רונינה
    2. וריצוי תפלה וחן וחסד למצוא להשכילה בעיני אלדים ואדם להכלילה
    3. כל אלה וכהנה וכהמה להכפילה ליקר ת…
    They recount your praise and testify to your strength on account of what you have done for us.

    A letter from our envoy has arrived relating how you helped and aided him; how you encouraged the people to help their poor brethren time after time; and you informed them with touching words of their misery, their helplessness, and this heavy burden which has weighed like a yoke upon its inhabitants.

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