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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yehuda demands the possessions of her brother Shemarya/Maḥfūẓ from his widow Sitt al-Ahl bt. Avraham. Amounts of 18 and 12 dinars mentioned. This Ḥasana is also known from ENA 2727.18d (published by MAF, Polygyny, p. 119).

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• halfon b. menashshe

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Arabic

Business letter from Mufaḍḍal al-Kohen to Abū l-Banīn. In Arabic script. The sender apologizes for his delay. He has sent camphor candles (shamʿ kāfūrī, also sometimes translated as camphorated wax) with the bearer (Aodeh incorrectly read samgh, gum, rather than shamʿ).

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• aodeh

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The names are missing. The man apparently already has a wife, as there is reference to a contract he makes with his current wife. The woman is marrying for the first time. There is also a reference to 'drinking the glass' (of wine), signifying the engagement/qiddushin.

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Iyov / Yūsuf b. Ayyūb, al-Maḥalla, al-Mahdiyya, 8 dinars and 2 dinars, and the Dār al-Wakāla.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

in the village of אלב̇יג̇ש (the dots may or may not be diacritics; they also appear over תאגה). This location "Alvegas" may be a reference to Alvega, a village on the Tagus River in modern-day Portugal. The bulk of the document is in Hebrew, but four lines from the bottom begins a list of all the potential defects in the vineyard in Judaeo-Arabic, which Sha'ul accepts. […] Of cases like this we read in our papers, for example, about an exquisite vineyard belonging to, or being under the jurisdiction of, the governor of Alexandria, which the writer of the letter had for years tried in vain to lease.

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• spain
• tagus

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: no earlier than 1141 CE, as Yehuda ha-Levi is dead; if 'al-Nezer' refers to Natan b. Shemuel, that would date the letter to no later than ~1164 CE. […] For this purpose, I have borrowed the diwans of Shelomo the Little (the famous Ibn Gabirol) and of Yehuda ha-Levi—may their memory be blessed—and made excerpts from them for my use" (Goitein, Med Soc II, p. 221 n. 10). He has also borrowed a siddur and has been studying the prayers in it. […] He adds that on Tisha b'Av, al-Muhadhdhab and al-Nezer and his brother approached him and asked him to compose a dirge based on אשתונן ואתאונן (it seems referring to Aharon Ibn al-ʿAmmānī's dirge with the same opening: see BL OR 10594.4).

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• cantor
• damascus
• ghulam

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Concerning kabbalistic issues. See also: PGPID 15811

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• responsa

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Primary language

Ladino

Refers to sums in medins (מאידיש). Also mentions the word טורקישש.

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Persian

Astronomical or calendrical text/tables in Persian. There are also a couple of words in Hebrew script.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment addressed to al-mawālī al-munʿimīn. In vocalized Judaeo-Arabic.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Recto contains the opening of (or a description of) Tadhkirat al-Kaḥḥālīn by ʿĪsā b. ʿAlī.

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Western Arabic Numerals

Mainly literary text. Late. There is also a page of sums in western Arabic numerals.

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Aramaic, Hebrew

Formulary for a bill of divorce. There is also Hebrew poetry (אופן(?) ליהודה הלוי זל).

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• divorce
• formulary

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Natan b. Nahray, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat.

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• 11th c
• nahray b. nissim
• natan b. nahray
• trade

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Report of transactions, payments, and assets, mentioning a payment to patrolmen and customs, probably in Alexandria.

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• customs

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso (secondary use): Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions Alexandria.

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• account
• arus b. yosef
• ib-addenda
• ib6

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Hebrew

Small fragment of a poetic letter or panegyric addressed to a notable who is also a kohen.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Part of a business letter, mentioning Alexandria and Fusṭāṭ. (Information in part from CUDL)

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Arabic

Some sort of receipt. Mentions 'al-qāḍī al-sadīd' and there is a date at the bottom.

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Arabic

Official-looking accounts in Arabic script. Mentions al-ṣabiyy al-malikī.

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Arabic

In Arabic script. Could also be poetry. Needs examination.

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Arabic

Small receipt for the ḥikr (ground rent) payment of Abū ʿAlīal-Ṣāʾigh.

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• hikr

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Arabic

ʿAlāma from a state document: al-thiqa bi-l-lāhī waḥdahū

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Judaeo-Arabic

Popular poetry in Judaeo-Arabic in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī.

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Inferred date

1109–1143 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Yeshu'a the physician (Date: 1109-1143), Alexandria

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Arabic

State document that begins "waṣala ilā bayt al-māl al-maʿmūr."

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• arabic script
• dimme
• fiscal
• receipt

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Primary language

Hebrew

Recto and verso: Hebrew composition in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī.

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• nasir

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Judaeo-Arabic

A letter to Ya'aqov Fransin in Rashid Also mentioned Nissim Faranji. 15th century?

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• late ja
• rashid

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The sender complains that his clothes have been lost or ruined in the Nile (...shidda fī al-baḥr wa-ʿaṭiba al-thuwaybāt alladhī kānat lī...) and reminds the addressee of his "renowned generosity toward cantors" (...fī mā jarat ʿādatuh bihi maʿa kull ḥazzan...) […] Goitein reads מא לי מאעיד בה עלא חֶלי (mā lī mā uʿayyid bihi ʿalā ḥalī) and translates "I have nothing beautiful with which to celebrate the feast” (MS IV:156). […] (Information in part from Goitein's index card and Mediterranean Society, references above; see also Cohen, JSG, 261, 263, 297, 363. Rustow, Lost Archive, ch. 14, nn. 37, 39 and 40 gives the shelfmark incorrectly as 95/69).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Addressed specifically to the shop of Abū l-Surūr al-Ṣayrafī. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. […] He says that the judge Abū Isḥāq al-Rayyis has written several times to Abū l-Surūr and that Nissim b. Naḥum also came (from Damietta?). He particularly wants the collected poems of Yiṣḥaq Ibn Khalfūn (an Andalusi Hebrew poet of the late 10th–early 11th century), either his copy that is with the addressee, or a new copy that the addressee has made.

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• damietta
• garments
• honey
• ib7
• india book
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The happy father was Abī ʿAlī Yeḥezqel b. Netanʾel Ibn al-Dimyāṭī, the brother of the scholarly India trader Ḥalfōn b. […] Soc., III, 230–31, 475 fn. 47.) It is also quite likely that these two notes describe two different births. The top note describes the birth of Abū l-Fakhr to Abū ʿAlī Ibn al-Dimyāṭī on Thursday morning the 15th of Ḥeshvan/Dhū l-Qaʿda.

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Document date

Tevet 1493 Seleucid (December 1181 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The collector of the qodesh in Cairo, Kohen Abu al-Munajja, surnamed al-Zariz, submits his account to the court. […] Isacc the dayyan is mentioned. Alternate description: Record of payments of the Qodesh in Cairo ca. 1181-82 (Gil). […] ENA NS 28.15: List, an account of expenditures, by Abū al-Munajjā al-Zariz, including clothing the poor (140 dirhams), money for the children of the nasi, for payment to the acquaintance of the dayyan. | List or account in which the Kohen Abū al-Munajjā, surnamed al-Zariz, collector for the charitable foundations in New Cairo, turns in 100 dirhams that were used for the distribution of clothing, and an additional 50 that were spent on another approved charity.

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• account
• communal
• heqdesh
• qodesh
• waqf

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Concerning a distinguished physician, evidently also the Head of the Jews ("Sayyidnā al-Rayyis") whose burdensome medical responsibilities affected his ability to respond to the needs of the Jewish community. […] Upside down, there is also a list of medicinal herbs in Arabic script, unrelated to the letter. […] (Published by Mark Cohen, “The Burdensome Life of a Jewish Physician and Communal Leader,” Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 16 (1993), 125–36.) Join: Alan Elbaum. EMS. ASE

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• jewish community
• medicine
• physician

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Document date

Kislev 5567 Anno Mundi (12 November 1806–11 December 1806 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Ladino

The issues between Pariente, Barūkh, and others become clearer in lines 12-14, where Pariente reports that "Shelomo Barūkh said at the shop (magazin) that he does not intend to give a single para (coin) saying that he will not pay what is owed to your/his father nor to me nor to all of you or to any person (ben Adam)." Although there is no address listed, the sender's knowledge of Barūkh's actions points to Damietta as a potential origin for the correspondence (where the latter was active in the early 1800s). Pariente also reports that Mūṣṭafa Agha sends his salutations and that the latter is involved in trying to sell "קראייס", a term that requires further examination. Pariente sends his salutations to a variety of people, probably in Cairo based on the names mentioned: Avraham Crespin, Yiṣḥaq De Curiel, Ḥayyim Noṣirī, among others. The sender also requests in the final lines that Gatenio "take the letter from him (Senyor Efrayim) that is for Shaykh ʿAlī Kapacı."

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• fariente
• gatenio
• ladino

1 Transcription

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

When he began to recover, he found that all the wheat stored in the upper room had been stolen except for 3.5 waybas and two qadaḥs, along with their sleeping carpet (waṭa'). "I emerged from the ranks of the sick as a beggar." On top of all this, he still has to pay the capitation tax. […] Information in part from Goitein's index cards. See also Med Soc IV, p. 370, n. 164. ASE.

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• capitation tax
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: household
• illness: marad
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He asks the addressee to a sell the coats (al-shuqaq) and with the proceeds to buy for him what he had specified in his preceding letter. […] He sends regards to his other paternal uncles, ʿImrān and Bayān. He also sends regards to Bū l-Yusr. Verso: letter from Abū Sahl Levi to his son Moshe, with a detailed list of transactions he had conducted on behalf of the recipient. […] It also mentions Ṣāfī, the ghulam who sometimes shuttled letters and commercial goods for the family members letters between Qalyub and Fustat (hence no need for addresses).

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• abu sahl levi
• moshe b. levi

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Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

These two fragments are part of single document containing a partnership release and renewal. Amat al-Qādir, widow of Shela, and her son Yefet (possibly a minor), release ʿArūs b. Yosef from a partnership he had with Shela. Amat al-Qādir seems to be acting as trustee for her son, but also seems to have a financial interest in the partnership; since she would not have ordinarily inherited from her husband, her equity in the partnership may represent payment of her ketubba. […] This document was mistakenly identified as a join with T-S 10J5.2 (PGPID 26426) in Goitein, Med Soc III (viii,C,3, n. 24), and it was also treated as such in Lieberman, "A Partnership Culture," 122.

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• ib6
• india book

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Describing communal strife and what appears to be an uprising of common people (such as cobblers) in Alexandria. The dispute also involved a Jewish judge, a Muslim Judge, the Rayyis, the Nagid Mevorakh, Ibn Jamāhir (appears also in T-S 16.24), and Abū l-Faraj Ibn Alqāsh.

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• unrest

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Document date

Thursday, 1 Tammuz 4940 Anno Mundi (26 June 1180 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shelomo who had inherited from his wife 8 out of 24 shares of a house in the neighborhood of Ḥammām al-Akhawayn, which had belonged to his father-in-law Hillel b. […] Elishaʿ, gives two shares to his mother-in-law Sitt al-Tujjār bt. Yaʿaqov b. Ḥananʾel as a gift and leases the remaining 6 shares to his two sisters-in-law (Sitt al-Kafāʾa and Sitt al-Turaf the wife of Elʿazar b. […] Shela "who was the husband of Sitt al-[...] our sister."

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• property
• women's

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Primary language

Arabic

Tight line spacing, stylized dhālika ذلك in l. 2, stylized ṣaḥīḥ in l. 4. Mentions ḥaqq and al-nās ajmaʿīn. Involves two women (hātayn al-mutaqāriratayn), one of whom is called Sitt al-Fakhr. Might be a deed of sale (mentions "al-mushtarī" near the bottom) of real estate. Probably a join with Bodl.

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• dimme

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Document date

Nisan 1493 Seleucid (7 March 1182–5 April 1182 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū Manṣūr Elʿazar b. Elʿazar al-Dimashqī gives the female slave Rahj (possibly meaning "Arsenic") as well as clothing and household goods which he had inherited from his wife Fakhr bt. Abū l-Surūr Ibn al-Jashshāsh as a gift to their two daughters, Ḥasab and Khafāʾ. He also gifts the daughters various other items typically found in trousseaus.

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• jariya
• register
• slave

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The figures for entries are alphanumerical and on the recto the first heading is labeled "אלמביע" indicating a sale perhaps to various individuals, among them "Yehuda al-Qara / יהודה אלקרה" is mentioned (l.2r). Similar to this fragments join, we also find a heading on the recto where "masruf/משרופ" (l.10r) appears in indicating expenses (though it's important to note that this is a less common spelling given that the word is often rendered "מצרופ" in Judeo-Arabic).

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• list

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Arabic

Greetings to 'the noble mother' (al-umm a-jalīla al-ʿazīza al-muwaffaq al-rashīda...)

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The sender is a goldsmith in the central exchange (Dār al-Ṣarf). A certain Daylamī named ʿAzīz al-Dawla has been persecuting him (יעמל מעי פי שפיכות דמים... […] He uses the stock phrase, "The knife has reached the bone." There are also a few words in Arabic script upside down at the bottom of the page (possibly from an earlier document reused for the petition).

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• appeal
• dar al-sarf
• enemy
• sarf
• violence

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, Abraham Meyuhas, Shaḥata Danon, Shmuel 'Ajmi, Yakov Metzliḥ, and many others. Although the meaning of the main list's heading is unclear, on the lower left portion of the recto a smaller list is labeled "אלדי וצל מן מדכורין" which translates to "that which has been paid from those mentioned". Along these lines, it possible that the other lists also indicate incoming payments.

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• 18th or 19th c
• late prosopography

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Document date

Wednesday, 27 Rajab 1256 Hijrī (24 September 1840 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

In Arabic script. Yaʿqūb Balūl al-Khayyāṭ ("the tailor") b. Khiḍr al-Yahūdī who lives in ḥārat al-yahūd owes Shūʿā Zayn(?) b. Ibrāhīm al-Yahūdī a sum of 122 Rūmī qirsh (piasters), 1 qirsh equaling 40 medins (niṣf fiḍḍa).

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