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Inferred date

1136–1149 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The AIU copy is written in Arabic script and may be the original of which this is a copy, or alternatively ENA NS 48.2 could be a draft for the more complete AIU XII.116. […] Another possibility is that Maḍmūn sent the same letter to two different addressees (ENA NS 48.2 to Avraham Ibn Yiju and AIU XII.116 to a Muslim merchant), but then it would be unusual to see the same text verbatim in each letter.

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• dahlak
• ib2
• india book

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Document date

1182–1197 CE

Primary language

Arabic

the traveling trader (al-tājir al-mutaraddid) together with his Jewish colleagues who come out from Egypt and who come in from India (wa-jamāʿat al-yahūd aṣḥābuh al-ṣādirūn min Miṣr wa-l-wāridīn min al-Hind). These traders have enjoyed protection by the government (al-riʿāya... wa-l-ḥimāya...). […] See Roxani Margariti, Aden and the Indian Ocean Trade, p. 138, for a discussion of Ibn al-Mujāwir's account of Ṭughtakīn's involvement in trade (by instituting or enforcing the service of maritime patrols to protect the merchants from pirates and to charge the merchants a galley tax in exchange).

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• aden
• ayyubid
• ib-addenda
• ib7
• india book (arabic)
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Dhū l-Qaʿda [502] Hijrī (2 June 1109–1 July 1109 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Among many other matters, it discusses: a request for a Fatimid fleet to come to the aid of Tripoli; how Ibn ʿAmmār was an enemy of the people and of the notables (muqaddamīn) of Tripoli and of the Fatimid state; how the traitorous al-Sharīf al-ʿArīḍī had been sending Ibn ʿAmmār state secrets (akhbār al-dawla) until Sayf al-Mulk b.

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• arabic crusades
• arabic military report
• chancery
• crusaders
• franks
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Document date

12 Ḥeshvan 1462 Seleucid (3 October 1150 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information from Goitein’s index card and Friedman's article on Zuta, pp. 484–85.) Probably related: ENA NS I.81 (PGPID 11334), Moss. VII,210 (PGPID 27096), and/or Bodl.

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Sunday, 29 Tammuz 4898 Anno Mundi (10 July 1138 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Concerning their joint business endeavors which are related to Yehuda ha-Levi as well.

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• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• india book
• trade

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Document date

24 December 1139 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He reports that he arrived safely, probably to Qalyub, and that he took care of the things mentioned in certificate IV,59 and also in the subsequent documents, such as his sale of khazz silk and a payment to Abū Yiṣḥaq. At the end of the letter he greets his son Abū l-Fakhr, who was staying with Ḥalfon in Alexandria.

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• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• india book

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Document date

end of Kislev 1441 Seleucid (15 November 1129–14 December 1129 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shelomo ha-Kohen. Dated: end of Kislev 1441 Seleucid = December 1129 CE (the date appears both in the document itself and in the letters surrounding Natan's signature).

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23 Nisan [4810] Anno Mundi (18 April 1050 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Written on Isru Ḥag (the day after the holiday), probably of Passover, as ENA 2805.14 (PGPID 695), written in Nisan, concerns the same issue of retrieving Nahray's capitation tax receipt for the year 441 AH (= 1049/50 CE).

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• capitation tax

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Lower part of verso: The physician responds that the medicine has [not had enough time to] work, and that he should take another dose.

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: consilia
• illness: cost
• illness: gastrointestinal
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Document date

1532 Seleucid (31 August 1220–17 September 1221 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Information in part from Mordechai Akiva Friedman, "The Minimum Mohar Payment as Reflected in the Geniza Documents: Marriage Gift or Endowment Pledge?" (1976).

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Judaeo-Arabic

The sender is ashamed to ask this and says that (s)he shouts at Barakāt to write an Arabic letter to the son who owes the 11 dinars. The entirety of this document is devoted to this issue, and the sender is worried.

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Hebrew, Italian

Dating: Probably 19th century. The first page is entirely in Hebrew. Mentions Alexandria, a certain Pinkerli, and includes the line, "If you wish to 'plant the tents of your palace' [Daniel 11:45] in Trieste, inform me...

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Primary language

Arabic

Fragment of correspondence in Arabic script, chancery hand, possibly an official report. The ends of four lines are preserved. Reused between the lines and on recto for piyyuṭ.

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• dimme

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Possibly the same handwriting as ENA NS 35.2. The writer has been sick and bedbound for 15 days, but now he is better.

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• illness
• late ja

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

It forecasts abundant rain and fruit, a full Nile flood, and successful barley and fruit harvests, but also predicts cattle disease, an outbreak of skin disease (al-ḥikka, "the itch"), Byzantine naval expeditions ending in shipwreck, the death of the noblest kings, civil strife (fitna), economic turmoil, famine, high prices, and mass displacement.

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• astrology
• byzantines
• kasad
• prognostication

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Primary language

Arabic

روفيل, possibly a diminutive of the name Refaʾel); an official from the dīwān al-mawārīth (cf. ENA 4194.3 (PGPID 5411)) who opened a man's warehouse and confiscated all of the contents (فتح مخزنه واخذ جميع ما فيه); legalistic phrases referring to somebody in sound health (صحة الجسـ]ـم والبدن لا علة ولا سقم ولا حال يلزم فيه ال . . ).

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

The same scribe probably wrote ENA NS 69.20 and T-S AS 156.42, based on the handwriting similarity combined with the presence of the relatively uncommon blessing "min dār al-fanā' wa-l-shaqā' ilā dār al-naʿīm wa-l-baqā' (from the abode of perdition and woe to the abode of blessing and immortality)."

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• appeal
• arabic literary
• prison

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There is an address: to [...] al-Dawla Moshe ha-Zaqen ha-Sar the tax farmer (ḍāmin), in Damīra. But it is not entirely clear that this address belongs with the note on the other side, which is a letter of recommendation.

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• damin
• marital dispute

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He reports that he lost the entirety of the 400 dinars that he saved in Fustat over a period of 40 years, and how he is devastated and has no choice but to "eat" his poverty.

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Hebrew

Five memorial lists. (1) ll. 1–16: geʾonim of the yeshiva of Jerusalem (and later in exile), from 1046 to about 1138, the dynasty from Shelomo ha-Kohen to Maṣliaḥ ha-Kohen. (2) l. 17–l. 9: geʾonim of the yeshivah in Fustat. (3) l. 10: the Dynasty of negidim of Egypt, including Mevorakh ben Sa'adya (1094–1111). The list ends with Netanʾel, who served immediately before Maimonides (see Jacob Mann, The Jews in Egypt and in Palestine, 2:249–50; Cohen, Jewish self-Government, pp. 132–56). (4) ll. 11–20: The list of a family of ḥakhamim.

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• memorial list

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Goitein: "Cakes, called kaʿk in Arabic (a word that seems, however, not to be connected with its English equivalent), also were normally bought in the bazaar, and the name or designation ka'ki, or cake master, is rather frequent.

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• cake
• food

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

It is crucial to note that the l. 17v entry is dated according to Friday of the week of the Lecha-Lecha parsha reading (which is a format common in the JRL C Series for communal lists).

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• 18th or 19th c

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Primary language

Arabic

The part about the Etruscans is from one of the chapters of Kitāb Tawārīkh Mukhtaṣar Yunabbi'u ʿan Mamālik wa-Bilād ʿAdīda, printed in Malta by the English Church Missionary Society in 1833 CE (see JRL Gaster heb. ms 2110b/17 – PGPID 32439).

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Document date

15 Sivan 5584 Anno Mundi (11 June 1824 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

, Yeshʿīya Moṣeri, Yehonatan de Boṭon, Avrahavam Aṭorṭīl, Avraham Yisraʾel, Moshe Viyas, Yehuda Enriqa, Avraham Shaḥatīya Kohen, Raḥamīm Ḥasān, Nissim Barzilī, Shuʿa Yisraʾel, David Boṭon, Avraham Suares, Moshe Ḥasān.

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• alexandria
• ben na'im
• late ja

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

She invokes the Torah and Moshe b. ʿAmram at the end. (Information in part from CUDL.)

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• communal
• excommunication
• petition

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions the geographical area of Jazāʾir al-Qurashī (also mentioned in T-S 16.13) and awaiting a group of people called al-Fīshāniyyīn or al-Fayshāniyyīn (also mentioned in Sassoon 713). At the end, asks for news of a young woman (al-ṣabiyya) and marriage.

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• account

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Fragment from the end of a different letter in Judaeo-Arabic, in a rudimentary hand, probably that of Abū Sahl Levi (Moshe's father).

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• abu sahl levi
• moshe b. levi ha-levi

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dāʾūd gives her son 1/4 of a house which her husband had given her for her ketubba (with certain conditions); cf. ENA 4011.55 (PGPID 36559). (Information mainly from Goitein notes and index card linked below.)

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