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Judaeo-Arabic

He wants to know if they have received the silver from Saʿāda the female slave of Ṭāḥir b. al-Ghuzzī and to purchase with it all the goods that Moshe had already told his mother about, viz., polypodium (? […] He has sent another letter with the bearer of the letter for Ibn al-Ṭaffāl. He mentions Ibn al-Nuʿmān in the last couple lines.

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• business
• family
• moshe b. levi
• qalyub
• silk
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Document date

Thursday, 25 Tammuz 1395 Seleucid (1 July 1084 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

However, Amram seems to have placed the items in the care of Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Tinnīsī, who seems to have assumed responsibility for them by means of a power of attorney. […] Avraham, counterparty in the sale of a quantity of silver to Abū al-Ḥusayn, also appears in a number of geniza documents.

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• cinnamon
• flax
• lawsuit
• partnership
• power of attorney
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Avraham mentions a "brother-like" relationship with Abū Bishr that he entered into at Eliyyahu's recommendation, however Abū Bishr has died and the authorities have confiscated all his property. Avraham also mentions divorcing a woman in Jerusalem "after much suffering and paying her more than was due her." […] Avraham requests that Eliyyahu convey the news of the divorce to Avraham's son and to the son's mother. He also requests charity for a man who recently arrived in Jerusalem after a harrowing journey.

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• abu zikri al-rayyis
• divorce
• jerusalem
• judge eliyyahu

2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Document date

1134 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Some of the business was already arranged in Aden, 'in his seat' and in his presence. […] He is sending a large shipment of fabrics to Aden with Barakāt b. Mūsā al-Ḥalabi. (Information from Goitein and Friedman, India Book IV.) […] On verso there are largely undeciphered mercantile accounts involving shipments of silk in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. There is also an unrelated block of text containing medical prescriptions in Arabic script.

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• ib4
• ib6
• india book

2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Saadya), though they know that Mevorakh is busy with the “service of the rulers” (khidmat al-salāṭīn), see Rustow, Heresy, p. 339, and Cohen, Jewish Self-Government, p. 220. See also ENA 2805.5a, in which Natan b. Nahray informs Musa that as instructed he has given 1 dinar each to Moshe the Judge and Yeḥezqel the Alexandrian, who is sick and confined to his house.

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• 11th c
• appeal
• cane
• disability
• disability: vision
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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Letter from Meʾir Ibn al-Hamadhāni to a notable named Moshe (Moshe ha-Sar... ha-dayyan ha-mesūyyan... al-Shaykh al-Sadīd...). […] Peraḥya ben Yiju and that the addressee's brother's son al-Shaykh al-Zaki mentioned in l. 39 is Peraḥya b.

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• maimonides
• prescription

1 Transcription 2 Translations 2 Discussions

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The addressee is addressed as "my son" and perhaps also as al-Shaykh Makīn [...]. The writer is angry at the addressee because ever since the latter traveled, he has sent no letters regarding Mukhalliṣ who has the money belonging to Manṣūr. They heard that the addressee "took from him" 30 dirhams but never sent them to the writer, and also that the addressee returned to Fustat but did not come to see them.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On recto there is the end of a legal query concerning an alley and a qāʿa and a majlis. This is followed by greetings for "our master R. Moshe" titled both Sayyid(?) al-Zamān and Ṣadr al-Zamān (ותוצל סלאמי למולאנא וסידנא ס[י]ד אלזמאן ר משה צדר אלזמאן תאג אל . . .). […] He is unsure if he will survive (הל הו יעיש) but if he does survive (ואן כאן יעיש) says something involving fine maqṭaʿ cloths (ועמל מקאטע רפאע). There are also greetings to the addressee and his son.

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yeshuʿa, who is well known for his piety (sulūk al-wājib), who had a good father somehow associated with "... Moshe, may the memory of the holy and righteous be blessed" (this could be Moshe Maimonides). It would also be possible to reconstruct this differently as referring to "the son of Moshe," in which case it could be Avraham Maimonides. Either way, describes one person as "shamefaced/modest" (בישן), and another person as perfidious (ותבתת כיאנתה). Also mentions a renovation of the synagogue (עמארה בית הכנסת).

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Primary language

Arabic

Fragment of a private letter reporting the death of an individual named Najm al-Dawla (probably a state official based on the title), followed by conventional expressions of grief and reflections on the hardship of separation and the transience of worldly life (فما تسوا الدنيا للفرقة ولا الحياة للموت). […] He further refers to the place formerly occupied by Najm al-Dawla (الموضع الذي كان فيه نجم الدولة), remarking that it should not be neglected (لا يفرط) and mentioning the possibility of carrying out additional work to the east (qibla) and west of the site. The verso preserves greetings addressed to Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad and those under his care. There are also jottings in Arabic, mainly basmalas, and a few words.

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• saqiya

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Document date

Ḥeshvan 1432 Seleucid (25 September 1120–24 October 1120 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Avraham b. Ḥananel known as al-Amshāṭī (אלאמשאטי), the comb merchant, was a witness when the father wrote his will (the document notes he was summoned from a ‘drinking party’ in order to be a witness). […] Shemuel and Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, who also wrote the document. (Information from CUDL.) See also Goitein's index cards. Goitein referred to these two fragments as T-S NS J185 (8) and (12).

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• halfon b. menashshe
• slaves

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Document date

Ḥeshvan 1498 Seleucid (16 October 1186–13 November 1186 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Inventory of the books and furnishings of the Palestinian Synagogue received by Ṭāhir b. Maḥfūẓ the beadle (al-khādim). Dated: Ḥeshvan 1498 Seleucid = October/November 1186 CE. […] (Information in part from Goitein's index card.) See also previous fragment.

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• book trade
• synagogue

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Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Avraham Maimonides served as Rayyis al-Yahūd between 1205–1237 CE and also bore the title Nagid after 1213 CE.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Reports on a scandalous matter involving one of the supporters of Ibn al-Sadīd, one of the slaves of the king, a decree (marsūm), someone throwing something in someone's face and one of the two men getting angry (ḥaniqa) and marching off to the king, who also seems to have gotten angry.

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Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

With Greek/Coptic numerals. 32 names are preserved, of the type common among Jews at the end of the Middle Ages (ca. 13th–14th century), such as Naṣrallāh (twice), ʿAbd al-Karīm, Khiḍr, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, ʿAbd al-Wāḥid. (Information in part from Mediterranean Society, II, pp. 505-506, App.

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• communal

2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Probably a dowry evaluation (taqwīm): consists almost entirely of a list of valuable items and sums of money (in one place headed with Arabic "al-jumla"). […] The name Abū l-Muf[aḍḍal?] al-Ṣayrafī appears.

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• dowry
• slave

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Describes a dangerous situation in Fustat. Also informs about the passing of the brother of the writer’s mother. Mentions the name of Sa’id Khaluf b. Zakarya al-Ashkar, from b. Awkal’ social circle. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #199) VMR

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from an unknown sender, in Jerusalem, to Samḥūn b. Yaḥyā al-Maghribī, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. "Spanish" layout, including shape of the right margin and position of the address at the top of recto. Mentions Damascus, a scary situation, Nāblus, Shelomo Ibn Ḥabīb, and various business matters. Also mentions Shelomo b. Efrayim ha-Kohen. Uncited in the literature and needs examination.

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• to edit

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Alchemical and/or medicinal recipes. The first line on ENA 2862.1r mentions silver, copper, and gold. The lower entry on ENA 2862.1v provides instructions for dealing with a "būnduqī", possibly a Venetian gold coin, but the scribe could have also intended "hazlenut." The entry includes instructions for placing the object in fire and may rely on the Ottoman Turkish word for "smoke" (dūmān).

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• cmp

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer seems to be complaining about something. Mentions colocynth (al-ḥanẓal) and melon (al-faqqūs); the addressee's reward for helping the sender; seeking (help at?) various 'gates'; that it would not be easy to sue a person; something about 5 children; 'the acts of his wife'; the gloating of enemies; and the exchange market (sūq al-ṣarf).

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• to edit

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Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The names listed on the recto mention: Aḥmad Ben-Temīm, Muḥammad al-Najjār, Muḥammad al-Ziyyāt, ʿĀmr al-Minawī, among others.

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• list
• pepper

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Hebrew

Yosef b. Khāliṣ(?) and Ṭayyib al-Ḥakīm. The name Faraḥ b. Yosef also appears at 180 degrees preceded by איך (so a phrase from a legal document?)

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• unedited 11th c

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Judaeo-Arabic

Most of the entries include names, such as: ʿAlīal-Bsūsī, ...ʿī al-Fayyūmī, Khalīl Effendi, and many others.

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• 18th or 19th c
• numismatic dating

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Legal document concerning the marital status of the daughter of Sayf al-Dīn, dated 15 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 808 H. [1406]. [Described on the paper wrapper as : "Acte de divorce de prince Al Togan avec sa femme" ; on a separate small piece of paper: "An act of giving liberty to a slave dated A.H. 591"; [next line] : "Important"].

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• arabic

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Legal document concerning ʿArūs b. Yosef and Sibāʿ al-Lādhiqī (cf. L-G Misc. 113 + L-G Misc. 115 (PGPID 4037)). […] (Information in part from CUDL.) See also Goitein's note card.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Mūsā b. Yaʿaqov al-Miṣrī, probably in Alexandria, to ha-Nagid Yehuda b.

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Compensation bill given by Alush b. Yeshua to Shemuel (Isma’il) b. Avraham al-Andalusi, July 24, 1011. The two Spanish merchants (Alush and Shemuel) arrived in Fustat and wrote the bill at the Fustat court (Beit Din).

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Letter from Ya’aqov b. Salman al-Hariri, from a port city in Syria (maybe Ladikiya), to Nahray b. […] The writer describes the hardships of the ship’s journey from Alexandria, when for 8 days the passengers had to draw water that entered the ship and damaged the linen that was there.

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Document date

16 Sivan 4920 Anno Mundi (23 May 1160 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Ketubba (marriage contract). Location: Alexandria. Dated: 16 Sivan 4920 AM, which is 23 May 1160 CE, under the authority of the Gaʾon Netanel ha-Levi. Groom: ʿAmram b. Seʿadya. Bride: Sitt al-Fakhr bt. Hillel, a divorcee. Marriage payments: 1 + 5 = 6.

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Document date

Dhū al-Qada 508 Hijrī (April 1115 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Recto describes her sale to Sitt al-Munā bt. Natan/Hibatallāh, the widow of Nahray b. […] Here on verso, in 1115 CE, this mistress sells the woman to the Christian physician ʿAbd al-Masīḥ b. Maqāra(?) b. Hārūn. Dated: First third of Dhū al-Qa̔da.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Some entries crossed out. Mentions Ibrāhīm al-ʿAṭṭār al-Yahūdī (associated with 1 dinar until the end of Ramaḍān); someone else associated with 1 dinar on Tuesday, the 21st of Ramaḍān, who will repay it by the middle of Shawwāl; Muḥammad(?) al-ʿAṭṭār; mastic; saffron; polypody, sugar, sorrel syrup.

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Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information from CUDL.) See also Goitein's index cards. Joins by Mordechai Akiva Friedman (and the minute fragment T-S AS 207.216 — first and second images on FGP, bottom row, 2 boxes away from the yellow shelfmark label — identified by Alan Elbaum).

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• avraham maimonides
• minyat ghamr

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List of names associated with numbers of dirhams, probably recipients of alms. Names include: Salāma al-Saqqāʾ and his son; Abū l-Ḥusayn and his brothers; Makhlūf Ibn Jāsūs; Shemaʿya and his brother; Hassūn al-Qarqī(?)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Mentioning Bar Ṣedaqa ha-Levi, Muḥammad al-Ghazāwī, Avraham Shalom and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ghazāwī and the months Rajab, Shaʿbān, Ramaḍān, Shawwāl and Dhū l-Qaʿda.

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• account

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Isaacs (1994) suggests that it presents a ‘diet for invalids’ but does not explain why. Also includes firewood and fuel, and in Judaeo-Arabic upside down, myrtle. On verso there are names such Abū Saʿd, Ṭāhir, Abū l-Faraj, and [...] b. al-Thiqa. Dating: Probably ca. 1150–1250. (Information in part from CUDL)

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Primary language

Arabic

Petition or report to a vizier (beginning only), possibly under al-ʿAḍid (see line 4, where the blessing uses the verb ʿaḍada; thanks to Lara Balaa for this observation, though this blessing was also used for earlier viziers, see for example T-S Ar.39.304 (PGPID 20876), fol. 1v, l. 4).

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• arabic script
• dimme
• lost archive
• petition
• report

3 Transcriptions 1 Translation

Primary language

Arabic

The main one is a report of the death of al-Ḥājj Ṭāhir. After reporting his death the document lists his heirs including daughters named [...], Ṭuhr, and Sitt al-ʿIyāl(?). […] See tag and see Khan, ALAD, docs. 125–31. Merits further examination.

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• report of death

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Primary language

Arabic

"It is necessary to write a noble letter (kitāb karīm) to the administrator (mutawallī) of the [...] in Qūṣ in which it is conveyed that the area known as Abnūd neighboring the iqṭāʿ of [. . .] al-Murtaḍā al-Saʿīd Ṣifwat al-Khilāfa. . . ." Reused on verso for Hebrew text in rudimentary hand, and possibly an archival note.

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Document date

11 Dhū l-Qaʿda 1221 Hijrī (20 January 1807 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The second line of the recto mentions the keyword al-ṣayrāfī. The verso also features account calculations in Judaeo-Arabic which reference "expenses from the soap"– which may be related to the recto if the last word in l. 3r is indeed "صابون".

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• 19th c
• sayrafi
• soap

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Primary language

Arabic

and T-S K25.240 ff.1, 2, 7, 9, and 10 comprise another cluster (jāliya receipts?). See also T-S AS 177.154. All need examination.

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• hikr

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Nissim, in Fustat, to Salāma b. Nissim al-Barqī, in Buṣīr. Dating: ca. 1046 (Gil). Asking him to acquire various items in Buṣīr, and asking him to draw a special symbol on the packages he sends. (Gil.) Also mentions saffron packed in paper. (MR.) NB: This was previously listed on PGP as T-S Ar.25.19.

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• busir
• diagram
• flax
• nahray b. nissim
• salama b. nissim
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