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Primary language

Arabic

Official-looking document in Arabic script. Fiscal? Might also be private accounts. Verso is a less formal list of names with sums of money.

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Hebrew

Accounts, late, at least partially in Hebrew in and Ashkenazi(?) scribal hand. Also has words such as קארטה. Detailed but difficult to understand -- needs examination.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The name "Julia" (גולייה) may also appear in the opening lines before the body of the letter.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The name Maḥāsin is preserved. Might also be accounts.

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Primary language

Arabic

Decree, possibly of al-Malik al-Ashraf. Partially transcribed by S.

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Primary language

Spanish

Calligraphic. 4 folios. The third folio may also have Arabic script on it. Needs examination.

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• arabic script
• latin script
• spanish

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Nissim to Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy in Alexandria.

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• aodeh
• arabic script
• receipt

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Multifragment. 25 fragments, most of them legal, almostall of them in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe.

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• halfon b. menashshe

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Possibly a letter, but everything preserved consists of ethical exhortations, so might also be from a literary text.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Poetry in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. One of the poems appears to be macaronic (uses both languages).

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• macaronic
• nasir

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There are greetings to 'the sisters' (al-khawāt al-sādāt) and expressions of longing due to separation.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Also some Hebrew numerals, but these might be design elements rather than meaningful numbers.

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Primary language

Hebrew

Yiṣḥaq and Abū [...]. There are also a couple of words in Arabic script on verso.

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• appeal

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Primary language

Ladino

Difficult to read. Izmir is mentioned. Also mentioning R. ʿAmram. AA/ASE

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Document date

Sivan 1525 Seleucid (11 May 1214–9 June 1214 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document. Abū al-Bahā' al-Kohen Ibn al-Naḥḥāl (“the beekeeper”) undertakes to pay back his nephew Moshe ha-Kohen 66(9)0 silver dirhams, 200 dinars, and 100 irdabb of fresh wheat in the course of five years.

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• 13th c
• wheat

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Document date

2[.] Ḥeshvan 1352 Seleucid (30 October 1040–8 November 1040 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In which Yiṣḥaq b. Seʿadya al-Manbijī agrees to teach Fahd ha-Levi the liturgy in evening courses to be continued over a period of 3 years. […] Shemuel; Efrayim b. Shemarya. Also concerns figures from a town in the Nile delta.

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• cantor
• education

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Hārūn b. Sulaymān ha-Ḥaver al-Kohen to [...] b. Ṣadaqa(?) Ibn Shaʿya(?). In Judaeo-Arabic. […] The writer opens with complaining about his ear illness (if that is what ʿalā aṣli udhnī means; same phrase as in MS Heb. e 45/75). Mentions a jar of rose petal jam (ward murabbā); silk; a mandīl; a Nisapuri thawb; Sulaymān; Ghulayb; and "al-jawhara." Needs further examination.

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: ear
• unedited 11th c

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List of persons on payroll of the community, headed by Sayyiduna al-Nasi, referring, it seems, to the head of the Jews David b. […] Letter writer asks a cantor who was also in charge of the social services to look after him.

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• communal
• illness

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Document date

6 Nisan 1396 Seleucid (3 April 1085 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Four drafts of legal documents ca. 1085 CE, in one of which Hiba b. Hillel al-Ṭarabulsī and Yaʿaqov b. Yiṣḥaq al-Lādiqī witness that they know Maḥfūẓa bt. Avraham al-Lādiqī and that she was married to אבן אלמנחמה, who divorced her and died.

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• divorce

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Document date

14th of Av 1557 Seleucid (29 July 1246 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Nājī, after having acquired 3 out of 24 shares in a house from Efrayim b. Moshe, also known as Nafīs al-Sharābī, grants him the right to purchase them back, under certain conditions, during three years.

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• real estate

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto and verso: Draft of a legal document. Abu Saʿd al-Levi undertakes to provide his elderly father Shemuel with food and drink and the money for the capitation tax, since his father had traveled widely on business and was too exhausted for regular work. This fragment also contains an unrelated legal document dated 1232 CE (see separate PGP record).

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• capitation tax
• disability
• disability: vision
• elder
• jaliya
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1 Transcription

Primary language

Arabic

Letter from a woman to her son Abū ʿAlī Ḥusayn b. Salāma al-Ghurābī(?). In Arabic script. […] She writes that she has heard about his betrothal (imlāk) to a young woman, and then mentions ʿĪd al-Aḍḥā. She is sick and ailing and urges him to come back lest "the same thing happened as with your father, I won't see you and you won't see me."

Tags

• to edit
• to examine

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The poet's name is spelled in an acrostic in the last 5 words of the poem. Alexander Scheiber argued in 1960 (based purely on internal evidence) that the poet was [Yiṣḥaq Ibn] Khalfūn and the addressee Shemuel ha-Nagid. The note underneath the poem starts, "And seeing as my poetic inspiration (qarīḥa) has died due to all my worries and has not managed to make something worthy of our master the Nagid..." and concludes with best wishes for the holiday of Purim.

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Primary language

Arabic

Letter in Arabic script. Complete, filling all of recto and verso. The sender is Christian: he (or she) swears by the baptism in r15 (wa-ḥaqq al-maʿmūdiyya) and by Christ in v7 (wa-haqq al-masīḥ).

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• christian
• dimme
• ishbin

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Document date

26 Adar 1530 Seleucid (15 March 1219 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He asks about the value of Yiṣḥaq's pepper and frankincense. ʿAṭiyya al-Dajājī is to write with an update on the bag (kharīṭa) of aloeswood and the silk fūṭa. Greetings to al-Asʿad.

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• ib7
• india book

2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Most names appear in connection to certain markets (including Sūq Barbar, Sūq Wardān, and al-Sūq al-Kabīr), suggesting this was some sort of collection of communal tax(?). All the goods are materia medica. On verso the name Yeshuʿa b.

Tags

• list
• to edit

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Inferred date

1500–1600 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List of names and amounts, such as: (recto) Shemuʾel Ibn Shanjī, Shemuʾel Palīgī (verso) Musa Jalabi (Çelebi), Yeshūʿa Alfandari. Join with ENA 3730.3 + ENA 3730.4?. The surname Ibn Shanjī commonly appears in fragments from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, a timespan that coincides with the likely paleographical dating of this fragment. For a letter that was authored by Shemuʾel Ibn Shanjī (perhaps the same individual listed here) see T-S NS 320.137, PGPID 25408. Alexandria is mentioned in two of the subheadings on the recto.

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• 15th or 16th c
• list

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Document date

10 Shaʿbān 997 Hijrī (24 June 1589 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Document or receipt of some kind issued for al-muʿallim Salmūn al-Yahūdī. Dated: 10 Shaʿbān 997 AH = 24 June 1589 CE.There is a signature at lower left and a seal imprint on verso. […] This may be the same Salmūn al-Yahūdī who appears in ENA 3924.5, (PGPID 10270); T-S Ar.38.111 (PGPID 20707); T-S Ar.39.425 (PGPID 20938); T-S AS 178.88 (PGPID 36909).

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• 16th c
• ottoman
• pinholes

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Primary language

Arabic

Recto and verso appear to contain versions of the same text in almost identical hands. The margins of recto also have some Hebrew script and some Arabic script (mentioning Mūsā).

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• petition
• pinholes

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Document date

1463 Seleucid (13 September 1151–31 August 1152 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Seller: the parnas Abū ʿAlī Yefet b. Shemarya. Buyer: Abū Isḥāq Avraham b. […] This name could be translated as "dust" or "discord" (Lane, Lexicon, 1109). Dozy also defines rahj as "zarnīkh" (arsenic). Price: 20.5 dinars.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Congratulating her on the successful delivery of her daughter Sitt al-Yumn (presumably the same whom Shelomo wooed in T-S 13J18.22). […] In the upper margin, the writer practices the phrase "al-mamlūk Barakāt yuqabbil al-arḍ" in Arabic script.

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• shelomo b. eliyyahu

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Mevorakh b. Natan to Thiqat al-Mulk. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mevorakh describes his financial difficulties and asks for help obtaining wheat. He complains that al-Shaykh al-ʿAfīf Masarra had failed to provide wheat to Mevorakh's family during his absence on a journey (r9–11).

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: household
• illness: marad
• mazalim
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Abū l-Faraj Ibn al-Kallām (a man of the same name appears in the 1140s in T-S 10J17.22 and T-S NS J422, and in the undated document T-S NS 113.37 (PGPID 23569)), al-Shaykh al-Yesod (a man of the same title appears in many of Moshe b.

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Primary language

Arabic

Verso: Informal note addressed to 'my lord and master al-rayyis.' Unclear what the content is. Ends "waffaqahu allāh taʿālā in shāʾ allāh."

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

ʿAmmār Madīnī of Palermo, Sicily, to Abū Zikrī Yaḥyā b. Menashshe al-Ṣayrafī (Fustat). Ca. 1060. The sender, who is writing from Alexandria, has visited Fustat and stayed with the family of the recipient.

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• cutlery
• sicily
• thanks

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Primary language

Arabic

Letter in Arabic script. Addressed to [...] al-Ḥakīm, the physician of the amīr Jamāl al-Dīn Aḥmad. […] He swears twice by the Torah: "wa-ḥaqq al-Tawrā." There are few commodities with prices in dirhams, including rice, listed on both recto and verso.

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• bialphabetic
• dimme

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Written on behalf of al-Maghribī al-Shaʿʿāb and addressed to two judges. […] However, JRL SERIES AF 248 (PGPID 32594), JRL SERIES AF 249 (PGPID 32595), and JRL SERIES AF 255 (PGPID 32596) all may be from the same letter.

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Letter from Salāma b. Mūsā Safāquṣī (Alexandria) to Nahray b. Nissim (Fustat), ca. 1062. […] He laments the death of Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 4, p. 450 and Goiteins notes linked below.)

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• al-tahirti
• flax
• movement of ships
• nahray b. nissim
• prices
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2 Transcriptions 1 Translation

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

May begin with a reference to the Torah (al-Tawrāt). Seems to be a letter of recommendation for somebody (وان يجريه على عادته في ذلك وذلك كرامة لي). […] Ends with the legal phrase והכל שריר ובריר וקיים. There is also a list in Arabic script, naming various items (building expenses?

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• avraham maimonides autograph

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Abū l-Faraj Ibn Qayyūma, who appears also in ENA 3793.6 (PGPID 9564) ca. 1050 CE. Mentions having purchased something "and all I received was 60 dinars and 1000 dirhams."

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: du'f
• unedited 11th c

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Primary language

Arabic

Beginning formula and opening honorifics are preserved. Addressed to "al-ḥaḍra al-sāmiyya al-ajalliyya," probably late Fatimid.

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• dimme
• petition

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