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  1. 6151Legal documentT-S 8J9.18

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    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Hanāʾ, the wife of Khuḍayr al-Qalyūbī, promises to pay 10 nuqra dirhams to Sadīda bt. Abū Naṣr al-Ṣabbāgh for 6 pearls of amber (kharaz ʿanbar), otherwise she will be liable to excommunication (taḥt al-nidduy).

    1. למא כאן יום אלגמעה תאסע ניסן שנת אתקעו
    2. לשטרות [[חצרנא]] נפד אלקנין מן הנא זוגה כציר
    3. אלקליובי אן ענדהא ופי דמתהא לסדידה בנת
    4. אבו נצר אלצבאג נע עשר דרא…

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  2. 6152LetterT-S 8J22.19

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from Umm Sālim, probably in Fustat, to her sister Umm Salāma, in the house of al-Ḥemdat b. Pinḥas, in New Cairo (based on ENA NS 2.11). […] She is worried about her son Sālim who has traveled to Byzantium. Mentions Muʿammar Ibn al-Jāzfīnī (or al-Ghāzfīnī). (Information from CUDL and Goitein's index card.)

    Translated by Renée Levine Melammed.

    My letter to you, oh my sister, the most honored of creatures to me and by me, may God prolong your life and per…

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  3. 6153LetterT-S 8J22.20

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from Yefet b. ʿE[li] the cantor Ibn al-Jāzfīnī to the dignitary Moshe b. Ghulayb ha-Kohen. The sender wishes to get a position in Alexandria, Fustat, or Cairo. He mentions his pain for the death of "the lily" (אלשושנה) of Abū Isḥāq (a daughter?)

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    1. כגק מר ור מ . . . [
    2. ויפ . . . .וייטי[ב] אח[ריתו] ראשיתו וכן יהי רצון
    3. קד עלם אללה תעאלי מא ענדי מן אלשוק אלי חצרה מולאי
    4. אלשיך אלאגל ושגל קלבי ב…
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  4. 6154Legal documentT-S 10J6.20

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    Hebrew

    Partnership agreement from Cairo, for partners in the "ṣarraflık trade" who were working for a state bureau (דיואן אלמירי) under Muḥammad ʿAlī Pasha's administration. Dated Heshvan 5570 (= 1809 CE), between Yaʿaqov ha-Levi (known as ʿAkubas) and Moshe Ṣevi (known as Ḥbāk). Line 6 also mentions ʿAkubas' business dealings with a certain Kheḍūr Shuweka (Choueka).

    1. בע׳׳ה
    2. להיות שמאז וקדם יש חברה ושותפות בין הכה׳׳ר יעקב הלוי ידיע עכובס יצ׳׳ו ובין הכה׳׳ר משה צבי
    3. ידיע חבאך יצ׳׳ו עז׳׳ה דהיינו שהר׳׳י היה מתעסק בעסק ה…
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  5. 6155LetterT-S 10J7.18

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu (Barakāt al-Muʿallim) to al-Shaykh al-Rashīd ('the father'—evidently an elder relative).

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  6. 6156LetterT-S 10J12.18

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from a woman to her mother ʿAzza al-ʿIblāniyya (from Iʿbillīn, a village in western Galilee), in Fustat. She is asked by her daughter to save her from her husband, life with whom was hell (l. 10), and who wants to take her, against her will, to his native town of Aleppo. The daughter asks her mother to come herself or send a proxy.

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    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. אלדי אריד בה אעלמך יא ואלדתי אני וצלת אלי אלמחלה
    3. וקלבי ענדך אללה תעאלי יגעלך פי חייז אלסלאמה
    4. וענדי מן אלשוק ואלוחשה לפרקכם מא לא אחסן…

    Translated by Renée Levine Melammed

    In Your name, O Merciful One.

    That which I wish to inform you, mother of mine, is that I arrived in al-Maḥalla, b…

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  7. 6157LetterT-S 10J21.7

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    If he intends to travel he should swear that he would settle his affairs with Mufaddal b. al-Maqdisi in Bilbays immediately. Also mentions a company traveling to Jerusalem.

    1. . . . . ] . אנא כאדמה אלכתאב
    2. אלדי פי באטן הדה אלכדמה דכר
    3. לי יוסף בן מכתאר אנה רהן ענד
    4. צאחבה עמאמה תסוא מאיה
    5. דרהם חתי יעידה לה תנעם
    6. תבצר אן כאן פי נפ…
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  8. 6158Legal documentT-S 10J26.1 + Bodl. MS heb. d 66/4

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Yisraʾel ‘the lame’ authorizes Avraham b. David al-Kafarmandī, to bring his wife al-Ḥasana b. Sahlān (known as Ibn al-Zajjāj ‘the glazier’), from Fusṭāṭ to Ramla.

    T-S 10J26.1 1r

    1. זכרון עדות שהיתה בפנינו אנו ב[ית די]ן והעדים החתומים למטה בשטר הזה באחד בשבת שהוא
    2. שלושה ימים בחודש אלול בשנת [ארבעת] אלפים ושמונה מאו…
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  9. 6159LetterT-S 12.10

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Vague and somewhat long-winded. Refers to: "al-nawba al-mubāraka"; sending various things; preoccupation on account of others; something which arrived, which the sender was worried would be damaged on the road, and which he is keeping with him until he can find someone to send it with. […] It closes with greetings to Sayyid al-Kull and his son, and to Abū Saʿd. (Information in part from CUDL.)

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  10. 6160LetterT-S 12.24

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    Hebrew

    Begging letter, prefaced with a rhyming poem, from Isaac the blind ("bereft of all the pleasures of the world"), asking for assistance from Ismaʿīl b. ʿAdāya. See also Goitein's note cards (attached and #27116).

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  11. 6161Legal documentT-S 12.75

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    Aramaic, Hebrew

    Yiṣḥaq ha-Talmid and Ṣedaqa b. David ha-Kohen (also signed ENA 3475.5 (PGPID 11347)). There is a diagram in the right margin. […] Verso: Arabic and Hebrew jottings (mentioning the son of Sayyid al-Kull?) and a drawing. (Information mainly from CUDL)

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  12. 6162LetterT-S 12.243

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    It is hard to get wheat, and the writer tries to provide wheat to his family, and asks Nahray for his help. Also mentions lacquer and silk. The writer is worried about his family and asks that his son, Abū l-Ḥusayn will keep studying with the teacher (al-muʿallim).

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    1. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם עזה וסעאדתה וסלאמתה

    2. ונעמתה מן מנית סמנוד ען סלאמה ונעמה ותעב קלב וסר

    3. אללה גלת קדרתה קאדר אן יפרג ול…

    recto

    1. אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את גדולתך ואת אושרך ואת שלומך
    2. ואת חסדו לך, ממנית סמנהוד. שלומי טוב, ואני מאושר, אבל…
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  13. 6163LetterT-S 12.264

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from Yeshuʿa b. Yosef Ibn Alqāsh, in Alexandria, to Yehuda ibn Sighmar, in Fustat.

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    1. כתאבי יא סידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם נעמאך ומן תופיקה [לא]
    2. אכלאך מן אלמסתקר יום אלארבעה ליב' כלת מן שבט ערפך אללה ברכא[תה ]
    3. מאציה ויומן ב…
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  14. 6164LetterT-S 12.283

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Question submitted to "sayyidnā," it seems the Head of the Karaite community, about a case that had come before the governor/chief of police (wālī) of Alexandria. One of the writer's opponents was Ibn al-Laḥḥām, who had been under a ban of excommunication for 25 years for having a child with a woman lacking kashrut (according to Karaite law).

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  15. 6165LetterT-S 12.429

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter to Abū Saʿd Ibn al-Khāzin. In Judaeo-Arabic. Probably from Spain and dating to the 12th century (based on layout, handwriting, style, and names—an Ibn al-Khāzin and an Abū Ayyūb appear in the correspondence of Ḥalfon b. […] Contains an eloquent opening and mentions the synagogue, difficult circumstances, Ibn al-Shāmī, and Abū Ayyūb. In the address on verso the addressee appears to be called "ha-Rav ha-Gadol."

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  16. 6166Legal documentT-S 13J2.9

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Ismaʿīl (known as Nabāta al-Maghribī). He wills out of his total assets of 111 1/4 dinars, after the burial expenses, one dinar to Ismāʿīl the son of his brother and all the rest to his sister Umm al-Yumn and to her two children Ibrāhīm and Mawlāt.

    Recto

    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתמות ידנא לתחתא בתלתה בשבה
    2. דהוא ארבעת עשר יומי בירח מרחשון דשנת אלפא וארבע מאה וחד עשר
    3. שנין למניינא דרגיליננא בי…
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  17. 6167LetterT-S 13J15.7

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Mentions people including Ibn Ḥashīsh; Ibn al-Dāya; Abū l-Munajjā; Abū l-Ḥasan Natan al-Sheviʿi; al-Peʾer; Abū Manṣūr; Abū l-Ḥasan; Abū l-Faraj; Abū l-Surūr.

    1. בשמך רח
    2. שלום מכל עברים וברכות מ.ודרים וגילות נהדרים וטובות משופרים
    3. ושמחות מיוקרים וששונות מעוטרים וברכת מצא מאה שערים ובשבע[ים
    4. נפש ירדו למצרים ובבוץ…
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  18. 6168LetterT-S 13J17.6

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Yaʿaqov, in Damascus, to Abū l-ʿAlā Yūsuf b. Dā'ūd b. Shaʿya, in Fustat. Dating: 29 December 1057 CE (Gil) or ca. 1066 CE (Goitein). News has come from Egypt concerning a severe epidemic (wabā'), and the writer is worried and asks for news of the addressee as well as of the merchandise that he had sent to be sold in Egypt. The writer also encloses a letter for Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Dā'ūd b.

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    1. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולי אלשיך
    2. ואדאם עזה מן דמשק סלך שואל
    3. ען סלאמה פי נפס ושגל פי אלקלב מן
    4. אנקטאע כתב מולי וכתב אלאהל ולא
    5. חילה ואלאכבאר ענדנא …
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  19. 6169LetterT-S 16.13

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Dating: ca. 1069 (Gil).The writer writes how two ships had sunk together with their merchants and goods. He also describes doing business both with Jewish and Muslim merchants from Sicily and mentions Ibn al-Baʿbāʿ and the ʿushr tax imposed in Sicily on imported goods.

    Verso

    1. על ש'מ'ך'
    2. [כתאבי] יא[סי]די ומולאי [אטא]ל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך ונעמתך מן אלמדינה מסתהל כסליו
    3. ואנא בחאל כמא שא אללה [ת]עאלי מן גאיחתי וגואיח א…

    verso

    1. (2−1) על שמך; אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את שלומך ואת אושרך, מפלרמו, בא' בכסלו
    3. כשאני במצב – שאל ירצה אותו אל…
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  20. 6170LetterT-S 16.262

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from Moshe b. Labrāṭ, in al-Mahdiyya, to the Head of the Jews of Egypt (Moshe b. […] (Information from CUDL.) See also Goitein notes linked below.

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  21. 6171Legal documentT-S 20.5

    Ketubba. Location: Alexandria. Dating: ca. 1143 CE. Bride: Zayn al-Dār bt.

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  22. 6172Legal documentT-S 20.8 + T-S 12.552

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    Aramaic

    Tiqva ha-Levi. Bride: Sitt al-Thanāʾ bt. Avraham. Signed by Berakhot b. Shela ha-Kohen, Nadiv b. […] (Information from CUDL.) See also Goitein's index card.

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  23. 6173LetterT-S 20.28

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    Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter by the Palestinian cantor, Yefet b. ʿAmram Ibn al-Jāzfīnī/Ghāzfīnī, praising his host Hillel, the elder son of prince Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Ibn ʿAwkal, and asking Hillel to come to his rescue after he had traveled to Alexandria, where he hoped to make money with his vocal art, but incurred debts and pawned some of his indispensable belongings.

    1. ולשבחו אשור.ד
    2. . . . . .]עלי כל . .ר על הלל וכלל . .רה
    3. . . . . .]בני אדם והנציח בכל נברא
    4. . . . . .].יר צדק ובעל . . . יתפארה
    5. . . . . ]גביר מש.ה יפה מ…

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  24. 6174Legal documentT-S 28.6

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    This PGP record is for the copy of the earlier legal document embedded within T-S 28.6r (PGPID 3573), ll. 8–57. Location: Zuwaylat al-Mahdiyya. Dated: Tammuz 4834 = June/July 1074 CE. Power of attorney in which Nājiya bt. Shelomo b. Hiba al-Miṣrī appoints Abū Sahl Menashshe b. Moshe al-Qarawī as her agent to collect her property from her mother and sister.

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  25. 6175LetterT-S Ar.7.6

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    The addressee's mother and sister were involved in an affair of 220 copper dirhams belonging to the widow of Abū l-Surūr who had 'screamed' against her 'oppressor.' The qāḍī had already dealt with the matter which was a "desecration of the name of God in public" (חילול השם בפרהסיא). Also mentions 'sayyidnā,' R. Efrayim, and Rabbenu Ḥananʾel.

    1. ]אל שמצו יקול לסייד[נא אלנגיד
    2. אן ארמלה אבו אלסרור צארכה אלי אללה [מן סבב
    3. צאלמהא ומן סבב תו . . ר מעהא ומע אל[
    4. לא כל שכן רכ נחאס כרגת פי אלדראהם
    5. וקאל…

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  26. 6176LetterT-S Ar.18(1).164

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from Yūsuf b. Ismāʿīl in Alexandria to Abū l-Faraj b. Ṣedaqa al-Ramlī, announcing to him that five boats had arrived from Suwaydiyya, the port of Antioch, carrying gallnuts, jujube, raisins, walnuts, sumac and tragacanth gum, and specifying the prices of these goods.

    1. בשמך רחמנך (!)
    2. אסאל חצרת מולאי אלשיך אלאגל אטאל אללה
    3. בקאה ואדאם עזה ונעמתה וכבד (!) בדול (!) אלמהין
    4. חסדתה ואעדאה אסאל אללה תעאלי קרב אלאגתימאע
    5. ביננא…
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  27. 6177List or tableT-S Ar.20.30

    Primary language
    Arabic

    Detailing sums collected from various people (Maḥfūḍ, Bū l-ʿIzz al-Sharābī, Hilāl, Makkī(?)). Also detailing what is owed by Bū l-Faraj and others.

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  28. 6178State documentT-S Ar.30.308

    Primary language
    Arabic

    The document presumably describes a conflict resolution between two state officials, where both parties will respect each other for their collective goal of serving their master "khidmat mālik al-riqq", probably a reference to the Fatimid caliph. For the use of the phrase "khidmat mālik al-riqq", see Khan, ALAD, 345, 368, 434 for meaning and other examples; and see T-S Ar. 42.162 (PGPID 21115).

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  29. 6179Legal documentT-S Ar.34.12

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Might mention business in al-Mahdiyya (per an earlier description but it's immediately clear where this is written). The document on verso specifies the location as Alexandria and is dated 4856 AM = 1095/96 CE. (It looks like בתתנו is written but the only way to make sense of this is as דתתנו.)

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  30. 6180State documentT-S Ar.34.302

    Primary language
    Arabic

    Perhaps this is a petition or appeal for help (...min kiswatin wa-ʿāda ilā l-bāb al-ʿazīz... ṣuḥbata Bū l-Faraj...). In the copious space remaining, there are writing exercises (including an effort to copy the original lines). On verso there are writing exercises in Hebrew script. There is also some additional Arabic script with Greek/Coptic numerals.

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  31. 6181Credit instrument or private receiptT-S Ar.35.201

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    Arabic

    For Bū Najm Hilāl b. Mūsā al-Ḥarīrī. 'What remains to him' of dyed silk (al-ḥarīr al-muṣabbagh) and wariq dirhams.

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  32. 6182Legal documentT-S Ar.39.482

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    Arabic

    Concerns Muḥammad b. Nāṣir al-Dīn Muḥammad known as al-Ṭaḥḥān ("the Miller") and al-Muʿallim Muḥammad b.

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  33. 6183LetterT-S Ar.42.95

    Primary language
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    The main crux of the matter seems to be preserved on the verso towards the end of the letter and is about the capitation tax: "shughlī maʿ l-dīwān wa shughl qalbī fī hādihi l-jawālī" (my preoccupation with the government bureau and my anxiety surrounding this capitation tax). The letter is almost fully preserved, and there might also be a date.

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  34. 6184Legal documentT-S Ar.53.59

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    Arabic

    Abū l-Ḥusayn Yaḥyā b. ʿAlī b. Aslama b. ʿAbi Zayd (a dealer in dates) buys part of a shop from Aḥmad b. Ibrahim b. Muḥammad al-Muzanī. The shop’s boundaries extend to the property of the heirs of Shuʿayb (dealer in dates) and the heirs of Ilyās b. […] The store is located in the Dār al-Tammārin. (Information from Goitein’s index card and Khan.)

    Recto

    1. [بـ]ـسم الله الرحمن الرحيم 

    2. [هذا ما ا]شترى يحـ[ـيى و]يكنى أبا الحسين بن على بن اسلم بن أبي [زيد التمار من احمد بن ابرهيم بن محمد]

    3. المزني …

    1. In the name of God, the merciful [ and compassionate.]  

    2. This is what Yaḥyā, who has the patronymic Abū al-Ḥusayn, ibn ʿAlī ibn Aslama ibn Abī [Z…

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  35. 6185Legal documentT-S Ar.53.70

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    Arabic

    Sale of a one-fourth of a new portion of a small house (duwayra) in Fustat by Ḥassan b. Shabbat the Jew to ʿAlī b. […]. Verso: Legal document concerning the same individual. Khan reads the seller's name as Ḥusayn ibn Shabāb and the buyer's name as ʿ Alī b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad, known as Ibn al-Ṣīnī (Information from Goitein’s index card and Khan.)

    Recto

    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    2. هذا ما اشترى على بن [محمد بن احمد المعروف بابن الصيني المتصرف بباب] الجفار بمصر من حسين بن شباب الاسرائيلي اشترى منه…

    Recto

    1. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.  

    2. This is what ʿ Alī ibn [Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, known as ibn al-Ṣīnī, the  money-changer…

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  36. 6186LetterT-S AS 147.109 + T-S AS 147.105

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    On verso: "...set sail for al-Aflayah (אלאפלאיה). . . I was waiting, and news arrived. . ." […] Pedro Teixeira wrote in the 17th century, en route from Baghdad to Aleppo, ""We halted in a plain that the Arabs call Aflayah, the name of a town from which the whole district is so called."

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  37. 6187LetterT-S AS 149.147

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    In the hand of the India trader Makhlūf b. Mūsā al-Nafūsī (cf. T-S 8.69 (PGPID 9265)), and also cut into a similar shape as his other fragments.

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    1. . . . [
    2. חארת ימצא ר[חמים
    3. אדונינו בטלוע [
    4. אלי דאכל אלהיכל [
    5. מן אסתחסן הד[א
    6. מוצע אבוה . . [
    7. אבנך [
    8. להם נש[
    9. כניסיה [
    10. גזל ומא תת[
    11. חזין עלי [
    12. נזל …
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  38. 6188Legal documentT-S AS 151.39

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Legal document mentioning 20 dinars and people including Ibn Bundār (likely one of the prominent merchants of Aden known from the India Book documents), Abū Saʿīd (the speaker), Abū l-Ḥusyan Ibn al-Sharā[bī], Aḥmad al-Wazzān who lives (al-muqīm) in a place whose name is missing, and a partnership in a bale of a commodity.

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  39. 6189LetterT-S AS 151.85 + NLI 577.10/37

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter by Yefet b. Menashshe Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif to his brother Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif. […] He refers in vague terms to some good news or advice and urges Peraḥya to act on it. Join: Alan Elbaum.

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  40. 6190Legal documentT-S AS 152.182 + JRL Gaster heb. ms 1863/4b

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    Hebrew

    Yosef known as Ibn Bānūqa (who also features in CUL Or.1081 J30 and several other documents from this period) and Nissim b. […] ʿAmram; Tammām. Join: Alan Elbaum. AA/ASE

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  41. 6191LetterT-S AS 153.286

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from Abū ʿAlī b. Bū Sahl (Menashshe) Ibn (al-)Qaṭāʾif to his brother Abū Saʿīd Ḥalfon b. Menashshe Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script.

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  42. 6192Literary textT-S AS 162.55

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Mentions the Ghuzz; 'the crosses' (al-ṣulbān) - perhaps a reference to the Crusaders; possibly the rise of a military hero; possibly an allusion to Ṣārim al-Dawla (تصرم دولة . . .); Damascus, Jerusalem, Yāfā(?)

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  43. 6193List or tableT-S AS 177.98

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    Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

    Each page is headed "the wheat sold in the name of Abū Saʿīd al-Yahūdī al-Sukkarī." Dated: ca. 623 AH = 1226 CE. […] One entry refers to "the captain of the ship" (raʾīs al-markab).

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  44. 6194State documentT-S K6.150.2

    Primary language
    Arabic

    Likely a fiscal document recording amounts of money associated with the operations of dīwān al-maṭābikh al-maʿmūra (the state sugar refineries?) […] The name "his slave Khalaf b. ʿAlī" appears at the upper left. A disbursement to the ghilmān of mawlānā is mentioned.

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  45. 6195State documentT-S K15.7

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    Arabic

    Ḥasan; another is [Sham]s al-Dīn Aḥmad b. Ḥannā(?); another is a phrase from a letter (فلا يوحش من جلال المولى ادام الله توفيقه); at the bottom there is the text of a capitation tax (jizya) receipt for Abū l-Faraj b. Bū l-Ḥasan for his tax in Alexandria for the year 600-something AH. Needs further examination.

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  46. 6196Legal documentT-S K16.61

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    Arabic, Hebrew

    Masʿūd, leader of the archers in Alexandria of long experience (since the day of al-Kāmil) is asking that two boys he trained be employed in his unit.

    Verso

    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    2.                المملوك عمر بن مسعود مقدم الرماة

    3.               القوسية ثغر الاسكندرية المحروسـ[ـة]

    4. يقبل الارض وين…

    1. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. 

    2. The slave ʿUmar ibn Masʿūd, the leader of the archers 

    3. in the frontier city of Alexandria,…

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  47. 6197List or tableT-S Misc.8.25

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    An alms list from Friday, Marheshvan, probably 1107 (given the overlap between recipients here and those in PGPID 4609). […] The handwriting is that of Avraham b. Aharon, who also wrote App. B 23, 24. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 443, App.

    recto, right

    1. بسم الله الرحمان الرحيم
    2. وصل كتاب حضرة مولاى
    3. الشيخ الاجل .............
    4. وادام تاييدة وبقاه ع...
    5. واولاه 

    recto, left

    1. ואנפק פיהם איצא
    2. יו…

    recto, right [Arabic characters]

    1. In the name of God the Merciful and Compassionate.
    2. [I have] sent a letter to my honourable master,
    3. the sublime elde…
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  48. 6198LetterT-S Misc.20.166

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    Hebrew

    In the margin the name Bū l-Faraj appears. On verso the writer alludes to conflict between the Maghrebi and Sefaradi populations. There is also a writing exercise in a different hand. Information from Avraham David.

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  49. 6199List or tableT-S Misc.24.39

    He was a doctor but was also involved in the trading business, especially of pearls. Bifolio written on three pages, all crossed out. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, vol. 2, p. 901, and Goitein's index cards)

    Verso

    1. למולאי אלשיך אבי זכרי אלטביב אדאם אללה עזה 
    2. ספתגה סלמאן               מ' די'נ' 
    3. ספתגה אבן אלאסכנדראני   כ'ה' די'נ' 
    4.           וען ר' נתן      …
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  50. 6200Legal documentT-S Misc.24.137.2

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    A leaf from the court register, with five different entries, all signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemu'el, all explicitly dated between Shevat and Iyyar 1410 Sel. (1099 CE). Verso: Lefthand side: top - Abū al-Khayr Shelomo ha-Kohen b. Se'adya sues Se'adya b.

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