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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Moshe Ibn ʿUsfūra for the purpose of suing Meshullam b. Hiba Ibn al-Shuwaykiyya. Also mentions Abū Yaʿqūb Yosef b.

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• register

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Organized by parshiyot. Mentions Barakāt al-Qazzāz b. Sulaymān; Sukkot (ʿīd al-miẓalla); mulūkhiyya; olive oil; linseed oil; pigeons; green lemons; possibly palm fronds for the sukka (jarīd li-l-miẓalla); chickens. The facing page on verso is headed "account of my lord [...]"; mentions Yūsuf al-Ṭabbākh.

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• arabic script

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Document date

Tishrei 5325 Anno Mundi (7 September 1564–6 October 1564 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

They specify the details of how the scribe will allow the patron to erase and rewrite one word and also the payment schedule.

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• torah scroll

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Arabic

Note in Arabic script from Bū Saʿd Ibn al-Dayyān(?) to a woman. The words כשני עדים כשרים נאמנת are written in Hebrew. […] Sitt Ṣalaf, "Lady Inaccessible," appears also in Med. Soc, II, 432, sec. 162 = T-S Misc.25.129 (thirteenth century), but our note seems to belong to the eleventh century. There is also a Sitt Ṣalaf greeted in T-S NS 264.99.

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• bialphabetic

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Document date

Thursday, 23 Shevat 1406 Seleucid (1 February 1095 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shelomo b. David (known as al-Dustarī) claimed 70 dinars from Benayya b. Moshe, of which he had received back only a part, the rest being paid in installments by Yaʿaqov/Yaʿqūb the dyer and Yaʿaqov/Yaʿqūb al-Ḥarīrī. […] This document was drawn up following the termination and settlement of a commenda. Shelomo b. David al-Dustarī was allocated ten dinars and change, five dinars and one qirāṭ to be paid immediately by Benayya. The balance was to be collected by Shelomo b. David al-Dustarī, acting as an agent to collect on debts owed to Benayya by both of the Yaʿaqov/Yaʿqūbs.

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• commenda
• mudaraba
• partnership
• power of attorney

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

All clothing and provisions of wheat and wine hoarded in the house of the writer's maternal uncle were plundered; even the rope of the well was taken way. […] The meaning of ʿṬY is not clear; khazm is also not clear, but comes from a root referring to piercing, sometimes nose piercing. The term hinbāzīn/הנבאזין/هنبازين (appears also in T-S 8J22.30 (PGPID 3671)) is apparently known from Coptic martyrologies (according to some sources deriving from Greek ἑρμητάριον < Latin armentarium < Armentarius, the nickname of the emperor Galerius Maximianus); see https://st-takla.org/Coptic-Faith-Creed-Dogma/Coptic-Rite-n-Ritual-Taks-Al-Kanisa/Dictionary-of-Coptic-Ritual-Terms/9-Coptic-Terminology_Heh-Waw-Yeh/henbazeen.html and Phillips Barry, "Martyrs' Milk" (1914) (https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Open_Court/VuoXAQAAIAAJ?

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Document date

10 Shaʿbān [no year] Hijrī

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

From this partnership there have survived orders of payments to Khiyār ranging from 1¼ to 100 dinars between 1138 and 1141. In four columns, all crossed out with a vertical stroke probably indicating that the accounts were settled or transferred to al-daftar al-kabīr, the ledger referred to in other accounts that are similarly crossed out. […] The account shows among other things how many payments — even in dirhams — were made by book transfer. It also shows that Abū Zikrī, despite his position in the community of merchants, refrained from making overdrafts. He also avoidedd letting his money sit and deposited payments immediately.

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• ib5
• india book

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Even Ibn al-Sarūjī sold his house because of the Ghuzz." […] As soon as you see this letter, send its response and whatever you see fit with whomever will deliver it. I will pay for it. All of my children have fallen sick, and the female slave is also sick, may God make the end good. […] For Ibn Hilāl is not waiting for Ibn al-Qāḍī to arrive. He has already sent and made me take a vow regarding you. . . ."

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• condolence
• dictated
• ghuzz
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

"I had expected you to congratulate me on my survival in al-Mahdiyya, my deliverance from destruction, and the terrible ordeal (al-mawqif al-ʿaẓīm, also mentioned in r23) that I would not wish on anyone. I was bound (kutiftu) and almost killed (or executed, ʿuriḍtu ʿalā l-sayf) four times (or five—the ink is flaked here). […] Interestingly, when Salāma mentions Yehuda's illnesses of last year (mā laḥaqak tilk al-sana min al-ḍuʿf wa-l-tawajjuʿ, r75), there is not a word of the usual sympathy or congratulations on his recovery.

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• al-mahdiyya
• fright
• ibn al-ba'ba'
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Eliyyahu is familiar with the case already, but Abū l-Faraj repeats some of it here. […] He visited Alexandria, but it seems that Mufaḍḍal discouraged him from seeking a ruling from the judge [A]natoli on account of his strictness. […] Another version of the phrase also appears in the first chapter of Ibn Buṭlān's Daʿwat al-Aṭibbā', in the mouth of a physician whose income has dried up and who has nowhere to go: mā baqiya aqallu mimmā maḍā ("what remains is less than what has passed").

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• anatoli
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: marad
• illness: marital
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Document date

Shevaṭ 4872 Anno Mundi (1 January 1112–30 January 1112 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Efrayim, acting as agent (wakīl). Also mentions dealings in the villages Būra and Ibwān, near Damietta (called Kaftor); Abū l-Surūr and his father; government officials including the wālī and 'the protectors of the districts' (ḥumāt al-nawāḥī); Ibrāhīm and Abū l-Faraj; Avraham b. Ḥalfon; Ṭayyib b. ʿAlī; Abū Saʿd b. Yaḥyā; Abū l-Faraj b. Efrayim. There are eight signatures, all written in rudimentary handwriting: Elʿazar b.

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Document date

1100–1138 CE

This undated fragment concerns a partnership in money-changing; the active partner was Abū al-Surūr Peraḥya b. Menashshe, brother of Ḥalfōn b. […] The name of Peraḥya’s partner is also not preserved, though it may have been Ḥasan Eli b. […] But the title "Mordecai of his time" (see line 1) is applied to Moshe b. Mevorakh alone; thus, although his name is not preserved, this document may refer to Mevorakh b.

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• 12th c
• halfon b. menashshe
• mevorakh b. saadya
• moshe b. mevorakh
• partnership
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Document date

25 Av 1538 Seleucid (9 August 1227 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document. Last will of Abū al-Barakāt b. Abū al-Riḍā Yosef al-Lebdi. This deathbed declaration was made in the presence of his sons and of the partner in his sugar factory. […] When his eldest son reminds him that according to Jewish law the firstborn was entitled to a double share (Deuteronomy 21:17), the dying man replies: "I do not prefer one child over another." Also, he and his business partner mutually declare that they trust each other completely; Abū l-Barakāt’s account books would speak for him after his death.

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• deathbed will
• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib1
• india book
• material culture

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso, with the address on recto: Letter from Yaʿaqov b. Salmān, in Alexandria, to his sister, in Qayrawān. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address written in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. […] He is now torn between whether he should bring his flax merchandise to al-Mahdiyya or al-Lādhiqiyya, or whether he should return to Fustat to take a job with Abū l-Faraj b. 'Allān. He refers to his wife as "the mistress of my heart," and to his daughter as Sutayt (little mistress).

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: cost
• illness: foreigner
• illness: marad

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Inferred date

1500–1850 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Overall, the fragment likely dates to the early modern centuries (16th-19th) although it is unclear how much time passed between its various points of reusage. […] The text on the verso appears to be that of a different hand (see esp. variation in aleph) and the tone shifts significantly from an epistolary one to a poetic descriptions with phrases such as "אן ייקול אל ן אדם לקלבו" or "that the son of Adam says to his heart" (l. 1v). It should be noted that "[be]n adam" can also be translated more generally as any human individual depending on the context.

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• late ja

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Judaeo-Arabic

Concerning an audience with a state official, potentially even the caliph, based on the involvement of the Ṣāḥib al-Sitr ("a curtain behind which the Fāṭimid caliph was concealed at the opening of the audience session (majlis) and which was then removed by a special servant (ṣāḥib/mutawallī al-sitr) in order to unveil the enthroned ruler" (H. […] Mentions the writing of a petition (ruqʿa), then officials including [...] al-Riyāsa Ḥaydara, then "they were standing before us and arranged for us on Monday another session (majlis) in the antechamber (dihlīz), and they were the ones who advised the governor (wālī), so I gave a petition to the master of the veil (ṣāḥib al-sitr)...." […] Fuess, "Between dihlīz and dār al-ʿadl: Forms of outdoor and indoor royal representation at the Mamluk court in Egypt," in Court Cultures in the Muslim World, 2011).

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• caliph
• petitioning

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

On verso, there are repetitive instructions about not allowing a certain man (Avraham's brother?) to go anywhere without taking Avraham's mother with him. At the end of the letter, Moshe reports that he has obtained the ophthalmic medications (ashyāf) from the physician Abū l-Faraj as requested, and has forwarded them along with a letter from the same Abū l-Faraj. Several towns of the Delta are mentioned in the letter: Bilbays, Minyat Ghamr, and—if this a place name—al-Ṣāliḥiyya. Avraham responded on the same piece of paper, writing nothing more than that he read the letter and thanked God for the health of his father and mother and the children. There are also some Arabic jottings on verso. ASE.

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• ashyaf
• bilbays
• distant son
• mail-order medicine
• minyat ghamr
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Document date

middle third of Tammuz 1529 Seleucid (6 July 1218–15 July 1218 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Emerging from the court of Avraham Maimonides, this document concerns the disintegration and settlement of a partnership in an apothecary which had been managed by Munajjā al-ʿAṭṭār b. Abū Saʿd al-ʿAṭṭār and Abū l-Khayr b. Abū l-Riḍā al-Naqqād ha-Levi. There are a number of provisions concerning the assets of the concern: first, Munajjā is entitled to one dinar from Abū al-Khayr for fourteen months, a debt recorded in a separate document; second, the balance of all the shop’s merchandise is to be retained by Munajjā; third, the first 800 dirhams of the shop’s debts will be repaid by Munajjā (any excess will be repaid by the two partners jointly); fourth, both partners will share in collecting accounts receivable, with the funds divided equally between them; and, fifth, six copper basins will go to Munajjā (which previously belonged to Abū l-Khayr, as he is held responsible for anything missing from them).

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• druggist
• partnership
• pharmacy

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Goitein writes, "[T]he shubbān yisraʾel, the youth, were enticed by a guest preacher, who expounded the Holy Scriptures in the way of mystical allegory, 'which should not be listened to, let alone be believed.'" He is accused of engaging in "inquiries concerning permanence (baqāʾ)" (al-mabāḥith al-baqāʾiyya), which seems to be an allusion to Jewish Sufism (sometimes called pietism).

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• pietism

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Document date

441 Hijrī (5 June 1049–25 May 1050 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The dating is discussed in Stern's article and should be considered definite; it is also corroborated by the caliph's name. The Arabic text is written in five different hands, reflecting administrative procedure. […] Whether T-S 24.21 and ENA NS 10.31 also join is less clear: they were reused by the same scribe for the same text, but may not have been part of the same state document. […] On verso is Shemuʾel b. Ḥofni's Kitāb Aḥkām al-Shurūṭ, parallel to the text in SP RNL Evr-Arab.

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• communal
• dimme
• endorsement
• fiscal
• lost archive
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Primary language

Hebrew

The join is based on the fact that both pieces are in the same handwriting and contain a dirge for Bahlūl rhyming on -im, but it is also possible that these come from two distinct copies. […] The portion on T-S NS 312.127a + T-S NS 312.127b also refers to a certain Maṣliaḥ (whom God "filled in his (Bahlūl's?) […] The end of the portion on on T-S NS 312.127a + T-S NS 312.127b again refers to Bahlūl. Join: Alan Elbaum.

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Judaeo-Arabic

He inquires about conditions of travel from all the caravans arriving from al-Shām. Around this point of the letter he switches to addressing Abū Isḥāq and Eliyya and has many fulsome praises for the Nagid Avraham (II?) and sends regards to many community members in Fustat, including Sulaymān b. Abū l-ʿImrān al-Talmid. (Information in part from Goitein's index card.) There are also a few words in Arabic script, possibly from a prior document.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Judaeo-Arabic poetry in the hand of Nāṣīr al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. Large and well-preserved. Probably mainly love poetry.

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• judaeo-arabic poetry
• nasir

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Judaeo-Arabic

"Your letter arrived, O brother, inquiring after the books of Galen... and the Alexandrians..."

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Arabic

May be a state document. Refers to "al-niẓām al-ḥamīd." Ends with a ḥamdala and a ḥasbala.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Hillel to Abu Sa`id ibn al-`Afsi al-`Attar, dealing with business matters.

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• trade

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in the hand of Avraham b. Farrāḥ of Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Needs examination for content.

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Primary language

Arabic

Fragment containing some Arabic script in the margin, which is difficult to read. There is also a Hebrew literary text involving marriage payments.

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• arabic script

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Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions NʿM al-Muʾadhdhin (the muezzin); Muḥammad al-Bannāʾ; and the term tazrīb.

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Arabic

Perhaps a fiscal account: the word al-mablagh appears on recto, and al-ʿāmil on verso.

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• arabic script
• fiscal

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Primary language

Arabic

May mention the names and descriptions of garments. Also the word (or name) "jawhara." Needs examination.

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Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Magical recipes/spells in a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script: (min nār al-[...] bi-l-Ḥayy al-Qayyūm . . . ).

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Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Rosh Yeshivat Geʾon Yaʿaqov (i.e., Maṣliaḥ?). Also mentions a legal transaction (qinyan).

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Arabic

Writing exercises in Arabic script, in which the main sentence copied is about al-Muʿallim Samʿūn b. al-Muʿallim Anṭūn.

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Arabic

Accounts or possibly a recipe in Arabic script. There are also a few words in very large letters, possibly from an earlier state document.

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Hebrew

Moshe, Tyre, to Yaʿaqov he-Ḥaver b. Yosef, Aleppo, ca. 1025.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions a letter sent to Alexandria. (Information in part from CUDL)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter - needs examination. Mentions "bilād al-Hind," Damascus (or al-Dimashqī), Nahrwāra, lac and the Baghdādī raṭl as a unit of measurement.

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• ib-addenda

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Primary language

Arabic

Legal testimony, in Arabic script. Iqrār, ʿAbd al-Sayyid owes his debt in al-Siyūṭ to Sahyūn b.

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• dimme

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Primary language

Aramaic

Resembles Targum Onqelos on the making of the Menora (Exodus 25 and 37), but there are also significant variations.

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• targum
• yemeni

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