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Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Both pages are covered with jottings and scribal practice in Hebrew and Arabic. There may also be the remnants of a legal document in Judaeo-Arabic.

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Arabic

Leftmost column, fifth from the top. There are also several dozen other minute literary fragments.

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• arabic script

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Arabic

Probably a transaction involving real estate; mentions al-makhzan alladhī. . .

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Hebrew numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Late account in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew numerals. Bifolio. Mentions Alexandria in the upper left corner of the recto. Verso is blank.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, involving silk and mercury. Alexandria and Fustat are named and [...] b. Hārūn.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Contributors list? Mentions Yaḥyā al-Ṭabīb and Abū l-[...] al-Ahwāzī.

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Document date

16 Sivan 1394 Seleucid (5 June 1083 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

David b. [...] makes a declaration concerning the parnas Mevorakh called Segulat ha-Parnasim (appears also in T-S NS 225.99 (PGPID 24239)) and Avraham b. Yaʿaqov and the goods which he shipped to al-Mahdiyya the previous year. Probably a join with T-S AS 148.206 (PGPID 16400).

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Document date

Thursday, 6 Adar 4996 Anno Mundi (14 February 1236 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Location: Probably Alexandria, since Goitein identifies the handwriting as belonging to the teacher Yehuda b. Aharon Ibn al-ʿAmmānī. One of the entries is dated: Thursday, 6 Adar [4800 +] 196 = 4996 AM = 14 February 1236 CE.

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• register

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

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Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Quittance or bill of release (barāʾa) from Almeria, in al-Andalus, confirmed in Egypt. Individuals mentioned include […] b. al-Naḡara, Ḥalfon ha-Levi, Yiṣḥaq b.

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• almeria
• halfon-addenda
• ib-addenda
• ib4
• release
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Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions people such as al-Kohen al-Nā'ib; Yehoṣadaq ha-Kohen; an elder who is blind (sagi nahor); Ibn Yaḥyā; a fine owed to the governor (wālī al-ḥarb); a certain Ṣedaqa; and a Nasi.

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• synagogue conflict
• to edit
• yedutun ha-levi

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

On verso: "The reason for this haste in this correspondence is that I have hired (passage) and am coming down tomorrow God willing." Also on verso, at 90 degrees, in a different hand: names in Judaeo-Arabic along with mention of various animals and agricultural goods.

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Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Alms distribution list. In Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. […] Characteristic names: ʿAbd al-Karīm, ʿAbd al-Dāʾim, Nāṣir, Naṣrallāh. Beneath the names on verso: "The women - 3.

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Inferred date

1500–1800 CE

List of alphanumerical "expenses / מצרופ" where the Ottoman silver "guruş / גרוש" may be in use but is also possible that "גרוש" is a shorthand for European silver coins.

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• list
• numismatic dating

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Arabic

على سبيل الشركة الشرعية ....) between Yūnus b. al-Ḥājj b. ʿAbd al-Qādir and Yūsuf b. al-Ḥājj. Mentions the district of Sindiyūn (near Qalyūb).

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Arabic

Refers to the difficult situation of a woman (or a female entity) this year, and mentions administrative terms such as nawāḥī, dīwān, ḥukm al-majlis. The script seems to be quasi-chancery, and the phenomenon of the stacking of baselines, and the official terminologies suggests that it may be an official correspondence written in a letter format. Also contains the standard report and petition formulaic "yunhī".

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• dimme

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Arabic

Narrow space between the lines on one side (this part mentions a fortress/qalʿa), wide space between the lines on the other (this part addresses somebody as "al-jināb al-ʿāl" and mentions his iḥsān and ṣadaqāt).

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• to edit

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Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Agreement made by Abu al-Faraj Yaʿaqov b. Avraham b. Allan with his business partner Efrayim b. Ismail al-Jawhari, who takes care of his commercial interests in the Maghreb, containing details about the partner's wage and the goods.

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• efrayim b. shemarya
• partnership

3 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Document date

1 Shevat 5578 Anno Mundi (8 January 1818 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Avraham ha-Kohen טרייקלי is "rebellious" (moredet) against her husband Yosef Castile, and she therefore forfeits her right to her ketubba or any alimony. The deed was scribed by Meʾīr b. Shalōm Ben-Naʿīm who also served as witness.

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• 19th c
• marital dispute

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter sent from the mother of Abū l-ʿIzz (Alexandria) to her son Abū l-ʿIzz b. Bishr in the shop of Abū l-Riḍā ibn al-Lebdi (Fustat).

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Judaeo-Arabic

The partnership is to last one year and the parties include a woman named Sirwa -- who is to receive a third of all profits -- and a man named Tamīm al-Kohen al-Zayyāt(?).

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Document date

Thursday, 10 Iyyar 1446 Seleucid (25 April 1135 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Shelomo ha-Kohen, documenting that Abū Naṣr al-ʿAṭṭār received from the court 19 triple-weave (muthallath) garments, as set forth in the conditions, on Thursday, 10 Iyyar 1446 Seleucid = 25 April 1135 CE, in Fusṭāṭ, in the presence of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Ṣāliḥ the brother of Ṣedaqa the deceased. Signed also by Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen (=Abū Zikrī?).

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• druggist
• recipients

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Primary language

Hebrew

The addressee is asked to intercede with Rabbenu Aharon he-Ḥaver, possibly to allow the sender to go up to the 'dukhan' in the synagogue and lift his hands (i.e., for the priestly blessing) (לעלות לדוכן ולשאת את כפיו). […] going down before the ark and the sender being ashamed (וירד לפני התיבה ובשתי). Also mentions the evening prayer (ʿaravit).

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Sheʾerit to Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm al-Talmid. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender heard from Abū l-Barakāt that the addressee is sick (ḍaʿīf) and is very preoccupied and hopes for a letter with news of his recovery. Abū l-Munā is also anxious for news of the addressee and his wife.

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: du'f
• illness: letter norms

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer is aggravated that the addressee has allowed "the two of them" to sit idle all day long, and demands that he put them to work studying the Qānūn (or in a lawful occupation?)[…] Fiscal accounting? Mentions Jawhar al-Muʾayyadī.

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• education

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Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions people such as al-Melammed and al-Shaykh al-Makīn. Mentions goods such as bamboo chalk (ṭabāshīr) and vessels (qawārīr and zanābīr).

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• account
• coptic alphanumeral
• letter of accounts
• perfumer

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The trader [Abū l-Surūr] Peraḥya [b. Tiqva ha-Levi?] Ibn al-Amʿaṭ (known from several other documents from the second half of the 12th century) declares that he has received a sum of money from the trader Abū Naṣr [...] Elʿazar al-Levi [...] ha-Negidut with which he will travel to upper Egypt (al-Ṣaʿīd) and do business.

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Hebrew

Mevasser and his brother, having to do with their silk shop in Alexandria. Information from Miriam Frenkel, The Compassionate and Benevolent, p. 82 (where she corrects Gil's dating of the document to 1071 CE). On verso there are extensive accounts in Arabic script, some entries beginning with "al-dār."

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Judaeo-Arabic

Note on parchment. Addressed to al-Shaykh al-Makīn. Making a request about obtaining silver for the sender, and passing on a message to Abū Saʿd al-Ḥazzān(?)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy from Alexandria to Yosef b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī, Fustat. Inferred dating: around 1055 (Gil).

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• 11th c
• trade

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

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Judaeo-Arabic

People mentioned: Rabbenu Yiṣḥaq; Rabbenu Avraham al-Meʿulle; Abū l-Bayān; a man from Barqa (this may be the sender referring to himself); Yiṣḥaq al-Rav; and Rabbenu al-Meʿulle.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yosef b. Yaʿaqov al-Kohen, probably in Minyat Ghamr, to Eliyyahu the judge, in Fustat. […] There he had agreed with Avraham אלמורקי, the bearer of the letter, that the latter would bring the sender's wife and 40 dirhams from Alexandria. (Information from CUDL and Goitein's index card.)

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• 13th c

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Judaeo-Arabic

Shelomo ha-Kohen he-Hasid, regarding various errands concerning textiles and other matters. He also refers to a stepdaughter as 'bint al-mara.'

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Yiṣḥaq, probably to Mūsā b. Yaḥyā al-Majjānī, probably from Alexandria. Dating: ca. 1030 (Gil).

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• trade

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Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

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Judaeo-Arabic

The cantor Ghālib b. Ḥalfon al-Zayyāt claims that his sister Bārra was given by their father only the upper floor of the small house adjunct to the brother's own, whereas she had laid her hands on the whole house. (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, 437.) See also T-S AS 173.27 (PGPID 38595).

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Arabic

In Arabic script. The sender also greets Munajjā and Abū l-ʿAlāʾ. He reports "I am in the place which you know.

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Arabic

Issuing instructions about looking after the property of 'the two noble mosques,' something to do with expenses (maṣraf), and helping a qāḍī and an ʿāmil advance the interests of the government (maṣlaḥat al-dīwān). Verso: Multiple notes in different hands, with ʿalāʾim. […] At the bottom there is the beginning of a letter to Sharaf al-Dīn. Needs further examination.

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Arabic

Dating: late, probably Ottoman-era. In which al-Muʿallim Aḥmad b. Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbdallāh acknowledges having received a sum of money owed from Shemuʾel b. […] Mūsā the Rabbanite Jew. Also mentioning the latter's brother Mūsā (b. Iṣḥāq b.

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• late arabic script

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a father to a son. In Judaeo-Arabic. Also conveying messages from the son's mother about her distress about his absence. […] Mentions a woman called al-Sadīdiyya (cf. T-S 6J3.34 and CUL Or.1080 J28), which together with the handwriting suggests a date in the late 12th or early 13th century.

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Arabic

Refers to cleanliness/hygiene and to the consistency of something; also possibly a cough and young chickens, but these are tentative. The back contains a report about the travel of someone/something 'al-wasṭāniyya.' Then concludes with greetings. Merits further examination.

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• to examine

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Arabic

May mention the Franks or the land of the Franks in the top margin of the first side. Also uses the phrase 'God confound him' (khadhalahū Allāh) often used in reference to Franks, but the context is unclear.

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Hebrew

Possibly a deathbed will, because the witnesses describe how they entered the house of Abū l-Faraj ha-Kohen. Also mentions [...] al-Ṣāʾigh. He makes an acknowledgment in favor of his son-in-law Netanʾel b.

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Document date

449 Hijrī (1057 CE)

Different individuals, such as Ibn al-Majjānī, the prominent Qayrawani merchant, are also mentioned to whom debts should be paid.

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• 11th c
• account
• material culture

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Document date

Sivan 5343 Anno Mundi (22 May 1583–20 June 1583 CE)

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Hebrew

Reused for accounts in Judaeo-Arabic on both recto and verso mentioning items such as rice, almonds, and soap. A few partial names are also preserved, [...]

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Same sender and addressee as DK 232.2, where Goitein identified the sender as Binyām al-Rashīdī and his location as Alexandria.) The letter contains many details about trade in materia medica.

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