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601LetterAIU XII.104
Primary language
Arabic
Difficult-to-read and very brief Arabic document, containing the common but mysterious glyph لے at the top of recto and phrases such as "mamlūkuhu", 'li l-sharṭ' …
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602Unknown typeAIU XII.89
Primary languages
Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic
Image 1: The end of an account in Arabic, along with what might be a fragment of a legal document discussing buildings in ḥārat al-yahūd. …
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603LetterAIU XII.85
Document date
Ramaḍān 1133 Hijrī (26 June, 1721 – 25 July, 1721 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Arabic business letter sent from Istanbul (or written by someone named Constantine??), with the format closely resembling the Judaeo-Arabic letters ca.1800 CE. Needs further examination.
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604Paraliterary textAIU XII.168
Primary language
Arabic
An amulet in quirky Arabic script. The main section is Quran 3:18.
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605LetterENA 2176.14
Primary languages
Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic
Letter fragment from an unknown writer in Syria to 'Rabbenu' in Bilbays. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning the capitation tax (... al-jawālī) in al-Shām and specifically mentions …
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606State documentT-S Ar.34.197
Petition, draft, from an ex-government servant asking for work, from the period of the Fatimid caliph al-Ḥākim (996–1021) or possibly earlier. Recto, from later reuse: …
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1. عـ[ـبدها ]
2. [بسم الله ا]لرحمن الرحيم
3. [عبدها ومملوكها ينهـ]ـي الى جلالها حرس الله عزها وضاعف سعدتها
4. [وكبت حسادها وضعفها] وينهي انه من ج…
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607State documentT-S Ar.34.197
Tax receipt, Fatimid, in the hand of Mikhaʾil b. ʿAbd al-Masiḥ, from the caliphate of al-Ḥakim.
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608List or tableCUL Or.1080 J104
Primary language
Arabic
Account of the Qodesh: payments to building workers, ca. 1045. Two fragments written in Arabic script, on vellum, the verso of a letter. Apparently, this …
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1. بسم الله الرحمان الرحيم
2. اثبات ما عملو صناع [
3. ]يوم اﻻثنين الذى ثلثه عشر من ذى الحجه [
4. وهو اليوم الثالث لعيد اﻻضحى
5. صانعين اسم الواحد عبد ا[لله
6. يوم ا…
I, verso
1. In the Name of God, the merciful:
2. Record of the work done by the special masons….
3. .......... Monday, 13 Dhūʾl-ḥijja,
4. the 3rd day of…
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609LetterMoss. IV,40.3
Primary languages
Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic
Recto: Legal query for a qāḍī in Arabic script regarding a man "known for ḥujaj" (unpaid promissory notes?), and there are several testimonies against him, …
Recto
1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
2. ما يقول مولاي القاضي الفقيه المخلص النبيه جمال العلـ[ـما
3. وفقه الله لما يرضيه في رجل معترف في حجج معاملـ[ـة
4. وعلي…
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610LetterAIU XII.87
Document date
19 Safar 1224 Hijrī (5 April, 1809 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Letter in Arabic addressed to Muhammad Ḥasan al-ʿAttar in Fustat/Cairo, from a certain Hajj Muhammad ʿAthari (?) al-Attar. Appears to be dated 5 April 1809 …
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611LetterT-S 13J26.20
Primary languages
Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from an unknown writer to an unknown addressee. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer rebukes the addressee for failing to write with his news. Everyone has …
1. בשמ רחמ
2. כאבי(!) אליך וג ען שוק שדיד עגבנא מנך יא מולאי אלוף תעלם
3. מן תעלק קלבנא בך ואלתטלע אלי אכבאר חצרתך ולם תכתב
4. לנא חרפין תערפנא כיף כאן וצולך ומ…
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612LetterENA NS 68.9
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee is called 'my brother.' The content is not clear; mentions someone fearing death and mentions the capitation tax (jizya).
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613LetterT-S 10J17.12
Primary languages
Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic
Recto: Letter from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, Qalyub, to a family member in Fustat. Partial translation from S. D. Goitein, Mediterranean Society, 2:271: "I am …
1. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקאכם ואדאם //עזכם//
2. ונעמאכם ומן חסן אלתופיק לא
3. אכלאכם ואמא אלדי אעלמכם
4. בה אני כתיר אלשוק לנצרכם ואלאן
5. קד בעתת לכם מע חאמלהא כמס
6. עשר…
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614State documentT-S Ar.40.55
Primary language
Arabic
Fatimid fiscal requisition for the dīwān al-jaysh, including information about an iqtā`. Contains a request for registration and at least one registration mark.
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615List or tableT-S 20.144
Document date
603 Hijrī (8 August, 1206 – 27 July, 1207 CE)
Primary languages
Arabic, Coptic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Accounts in Arabic script with names and numbers arranged in neat columns. Needs examination. The space around this document has been filled with Judaeo-Arabic text …
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616Credit instrument or private receiptAIU XII.42
Document date
Sha'ban 1248 Hijrī (24 December, 1832 – 21 January, 1833 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Probably a receipt for a rent payment by Yashūʿ (?) al-Yahūdī for his store (? ḥānūt) in ḥārat al-yahūd, mentioning the date Dec 1832/Jan 1833 …
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617State documentENA 3844.14
Primary language
Arabic
State document, possibly a decree. Suggests orders conferred upon an authority: hayʾat (?) l-muṭālaʿa wa-l-āʿmāl bihā. There is Arabic script in another not-so-elegant hand and …
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618State documentT-S Ar.22.140 + T-S K25.221
Primary language
Arabic
Report to a Fatimid vizier. Dating: fifth/eleventh century. Khan published T-S K25.221 as the end of petition. Marina Rustow later found the join to the …
Lower fragment
1. ولمولانا الوزير الأجل صفى أمير المؤمنين وخالصته ادام الله علاه وكبت اعداه
2. الراى العالي في ذلك ان شا الله
3. والحمد لله وصلواته على…
1. To my master, the mighty vizier, the sincere and intimate friend of the commander of the faithful, may God cause his exaltation to endure and crush…
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619LetterT-S 13J13.19
Primary languages
Arabic, Hebrew
Letter from Mūsā (or Musallaḥ?) b. Ṣāliḥ to an unknown addressee. In Hebrew and in Arabic script. Appealing for help from the addressee. (Cf. Geoffrey …
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1. [עבדה] מוסא . בן צאלח
2. אלבגדאדי
3. דודי שכלולו יצריח: ואהלו יפריח: בכתר כילולו:
4. והוא מבין ונעלם יאמצנו: ויהי בעזרו ויחלצינו רבות עוז
5. יקר וה/י/לו…
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620State documentT-S Ar.35.48
Primary language
Arabic
Tax receipt from the archive of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb, in the hand of Mikhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ
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621LetterBodl. MS heb. c 28/33
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from Nahray b. Nissim (Misr) to Abu Ishaq Barhūn b. Salih at-Tahirti (Busir).
Recto
1. כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך וצרף אלאס[וא ענך]
2. ברחמתה מן מצר יום אלב' לו' בקין מן שבט כתמה אללה עלינא ועליך באחסן …
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622List or tableENA 641.21 + ENA 641.23 + ENA 641.19
Account whose heading reads taʿrīf rafaʿahu Abū al-ʿAyb al-šayḫ al-ġilmānī). Once belonged to the same account as ENA 641.20 + ENA 641.22 + ENA 641.24. …
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623List or tableENA 641.22 + ENA 641.24 + ENA 641.20
Account whose heading reads taʿrīf rafaʿahu Abū al-ʿAyb al-šayḫ al-ġilmānī). Once belonged to the same account as ENA 641.19 + ENA 641.21 + ENA 641.23. …
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624List or tableENA 641.19 + ENA 641.23 + ENA 641.21
Account whose heading reads taʿrīf rafaʿahu Abū al-ʿAyb al-šayḫ al-ġilmānī). Once belonged to the same account as ENA 641.20 + ENA 641.22 + ENA 641.24. …
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625List or tableENA 641.22 + ENA 641.20 + ENA 641.24
Account whose heading reads taʿrīf rafaʿahu Abū al-ʿAyb al-šayḫ al-ġilmānī). Once belonged to the same account as ENA 641.19 + ENA 641.21 + ENA 641.23. …
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626List or tableENA 641.19 + ENA 641.21 + ENA 641.23
Account whose heading reads taʿrīf rafaʿahu Abū al-ʿAyb al-šayḫ al-ġilmānī). Once belonged to the same account as ENA 641.20 + ENA 641.22 + ENA 641.24. …
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627List or tableENA 641.20 + ENA 641.22 + ENA 641.24
Account whose heading reads taʿrīf rafaʿahu Abū al-ʿAyb al-šayḫ al-ġilmānī). Once belonged to the same account as ENA 641.19 + ENA 641.21 + ENA 641.23. …
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628State documentENA 3935.5
Primary language
Arabic
Capitation tax receipt, Fatimid. For Abū Naṣr b. Yūsuf (someone with this name also appears in T-S 10J30.15). One registration mark: al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ḥamd al-shākirīn. …
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629LetterENA NS 7.47
Primary languages
Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic
Original document: Accounts in very small Arabic script. Subsequent document: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to a woman. Written in the spaces around the original …
verso
1. אשמעת בל[שיך] אבו . . . . . חבר קד
2. אסתקר ביני [ובי]נהם אנה ידכל אלי בלביס ויקדס
3. עלא אלצגיירה פי בלביס ומן דו יק[דס] עליהא
4. יגֿרי עליהא אלנפקה …
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630Legal documentENA 3917.2
Primary language
Arabic
Recto: Document in Arabic script. Possibly a letter. Rudimentary handwriting and orthography. Sings the praises of a Coptic sage in Alexandria. This sage is versed …
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631LetterENA 3904.1
Primary language
Arabic
Letter addressed to al-Shaykh al-Ajal al-Raʾis Abū ʿĪmrān Mūsā (Shelomo b. Mūsā al-Mahdāwī in al-Mahdiyya) from his business associate (Peraḥya b. Yosef in Fusṭāṭ) regarding …
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1. مملوكه
2. ابن [
3. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
4. عبد حضرة مولاي الشيخ الاجل الريس ابو
5. عمران موسى اطال الله بقاك وادام عزك ونعماك
6. ومن حسن التوفي…
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632State documentENA 1177.76
Primary language
Arabic
State document, fragment of a longer text, dismembered at the collesis. What has remained is wa-mā tawfīqī illā bi-l-lāh. Possibly Ayyubid (tawfīqī billāh was an …
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633State documentENA 1177.78 + ENA 1177.77
Primary language
Arabic
Five lines remaining of an official report mentioning two messengers sent from the caliph (al-ḥaḍra al-ṭāhira) to Damascus and also mentioning the Banū Hilāl. The …
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634LetterMoss. Va,11
Primary language
Arabic
Business letter in Arabic script in which a father reports to his son on events in Alexandria and the arrival of the aṣḥāb, about which …
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635LetterMoss. Va,11
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter written in Fustat on 6 Ṭevet (no year) from a son to his mother (l. 17, yā wālidatī). Very emotional. Mentions Alexandria and flax, …
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636LetterAIU XII.83
Primary language
Arabic
Letter in Arabic from Ṣāʿid, probably a Jewish merchant, in ʿAydhāb, to his mother and brother in Fusṭāṭ. He reports that his party left Qūṣ …
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637Paraliterary textENA 3982.36
Primary language
Arabic
Template fragment of a divination/magical charm starting with a few words of prayers followed by a spell: "fulān b. fulān". Then: 'blind his heart and …
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638State documentENA 2917.1
Petition or report, Fatimid, fragment from near the beginning containing end of blessings, the taqbīl clause, and part of the qiṣṣa. Dating: 1100–71. Related to …
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639Legal documentT-S 8J11.19
Primary languages
Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic, Romance
Query from Nadiv b. Yiṣḥaq, “the son of the brother of Umm Nadiv,” asking whether a woman who was deserted by her husband with whom …
1. בש רח עבדו ותלמידו הקטן נדיב
2. כתבתי זו הכתב לשאול בשלום הדרת יקרת צפירת
3. הדרת מרנו ורבנו המלמד ר ישועה הרב הגדול גאון (?) ה/ח/כמים
4. תפארת הרבנים מרדכי …
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640LetterMoss. IV,40.1
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Recto: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mercantile. Mentions something coming from Gaza and possibly the commodity tartar (or Mongols? al-tatar). "As for the woman who came, …
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641State documentENA 3971.23
Very tiny note in Arabic script, in the same type of hand as many of the early 5th/11th century tax receipts. Some contain the mystery …
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642Paraliterary textENA 3207.17
Primary languages
Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic
Magical recipes in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script and magical script. Including a birth control recipe: "If you want a woman not to become pregnant. . …
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643Letterp. Heid. Hebr. 12
Primary languages
Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic
Memorandum from Khalaf b. Isḥāq al-Yamanī. In Arabic script, with additional notes in Judaeo-Arabic. Ordering pharmaceuticals from Egypt. There is an entire short book devoted …
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1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم تذكرة مباركة صحبة الشيخ
2. مشرقة كتب الله سلامة اصحبه عبده خلف
3. بن اسحق صرة هيل الوزن اربعة عشر رطل يتفضل حرس الله
4. عزه…
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644Credit instrument or private receiptENA 3971.5
Receipt in the hand of Abu Zikri Kohen: saḥḥa lil-shaykh Abū l-Surūr dirham wa-niṣf la-ghayr. Old IB: 229f. There is a line or two in …
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645State documentT-S 10J19.13
Primary language
Arabic
State document: Official report (fragment) concerning armed insurrection and civil unrest. For the letter on recto, see separate entry.
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646State documentT-S AS 184.156
Primary language
Arabic
State document, Fatimid period. Petition or report to a vizier (beginning only), possibly under al-ʿAḍid (see line 4, where the blessing uses the verb ʿaḍada; …
1. مولانا وسيد[نا
2. وابنائه الاكرمين [
3. المجلس السامي السـيد[ي
4. الكاملي الهادي عضد [الله به الدين وامتع بطول بقاءه امير المؤمنين]
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647LetterT-S Ar.40.184
Primary language
Arabic
Letter from a man in Minyat Ghamr to his brother Maḥfūẓ in Fustat. In Arabic script. The writer has been ill, and people tell him …
Recto:
1. من اخوه [. . . . . .]
2. الذي اعلم به الاخ العزيز محفوض
3. الله تعالى وينهي ان مملوكه في
4. منية غمر مريض اليوم من خرج(؟) الاعياد
5. وكم قد سيرت لك من ال…
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648LetterBL OR 5542.19
Business letter from Avraham ben Khalaf, probably from Alexandria, to Abū al-Faḍl Sahl b. Ḥasan b. Salāma al-Sukkarī in Fustat. Datable to ca. 1062 on …
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1. [כתאבי] אטאל אללה בקא סידי ומולאי ואדאם עזה ותאיידה וסלאמתה מן
2. [אלמסת]קר לי בקין מן אללה ערפך אללה ברכתה וברכה מא יליה ואל
3. חמד ללה רב אלע…
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- aodeh
- arabic script
- debt
- textiles
- trade
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649LetterENA NS 21.5
Primary languages
Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from Yaʿqūb b. Isḥāq to Abū ʿImrān [...] and perhaps ultimately to the writer's son (li-waladī). In Judaeo-Arabic (for the letter) and Arabic script …
1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ]אלויה אטאל אללה
2. . . . . . . . . . . .]הא ועלאהא ותמכינהא
3. . . . . . . . . . .] באלדל חסדהא ועדאהא
4. . . . . . . .] כל סו פ…
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- arabic script
- illness
- illness letter 969-1517
- illness: eye
- illness: women's
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650LetterT-S Misc.11.53
Primary languages
Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic
Recto: Bottom part of a letter in Arabic script, from a man to his 'brother.' He spells والساعة as والسعا numerous times. He mentions people …
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- alexandria
- arabic script
- communal
- diwan
- qalyub
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