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Arabic

Verses of poetry penned by al-Mutanabbī followed by a commentary or elaboration. Mentions two key figures he wrote panegyrics for - Sayf al-Dawla and Kāfūr.

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• dimme

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Hebrew

Following the responsum, there is a copy of Maimonides' letter to Pineḥas ha-Dayyan of Alexandria. (Information from Amir Ashur via FGP)

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• maimonides

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Judaeo-Arabic

Concerning a partnership and mentioning 4 3/4 dinars. Also mentions the years דאתנ and דאתנא but it's not clear how to understand these.

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Eliyyahu to the communities of Egypt, through al-Shaykh al-Makīn Abū l-Faraj. (Information from CUDL)

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Addressed to important people (al-shuyūkh al-afāḍil). In Hebrew (for the introductory blessings) and Judaeo-Arabic (for the body).

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Arabic

Mentions transactions in gold (ʿayn) and silver (wariq) and also contains Coptic/Greek numerals. Needs examination.

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• dimme

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Legal document concerning money owed by Avraham ha-Levi to Meshullam (EMS). Likely also a join with T-S 8J4.10. Joins by Oded Zinger.

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• loan

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter sent by Musa b. Abu Ali b. Salah to Abu al-Faraj Yeshua b. Hananya.

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions David Bibas and Alexandria. Dating: 18th or 19th century. (Information from CUDL)

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• 18th or 19th c

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to Eliyyahu the judge from a female(?) relative in Alexandria, complaining about his treatment of her family.

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• 13th c
• complaints

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Judaeo-Arabic

Saadya's Sefer ha-Galuy also appears.

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• booklist

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Fragment of a ketubba, with menstrual purity conditions. The husband also accepts that he will not take a second wife.

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Arabic

One side is headed "Cairo" and lists names such as al-Shaykh Abū l-Faraj al-Ṣāyigh

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537 Hijrī (27 July 1142–15 July 1143 CE)

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Arabic

Yūsuf, a Jewish goldsmith (yahūdī ṣāʾigh), in Fustat, for the year 537. See also T-S Ar.35.197.

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536 Hijrī (6 August 1141–26 July 1142 CE)

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Arabic

Yūsuf, a Jewish goldsmith (yahūdī ṣāʾigh), in Fustat, for the year 536. See also T-S Ar.35.196.

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Iyyar 1540 Seleucid (26 April 1229–24 May 1229 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Text in Judaeo-Arabic detailing the rising of a celestial body (al-maṭlaʿ al-saʿīd. . . .). Dated: Iyyar 1540 Seleucid = April/May 1229 CE.

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Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Verso: accounts in Arabic with Coptic numerals. Mentions Ibn al-Muṭrib and Hiba al-Khādim. Recto: probably piyyuṭ.

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Aramaic

The beginning of the qiyyum also appears, possibly signed by Shelomo [...].

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Judaeo-Arabic

On verso there is more writing, probably also legal, in a different hand. (Information from CUDL.)

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Hebrew

Fragment in poetic Hebrew, possibly from a letter. Might also be a literary text. Refers to the arrival of a letter or letters, "signs and wonders," "our princes read it."

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Arabic

Unidentified document in Arabic script, probably legal or state. Mentions al-shaykh al-Mukhliṣ [...] The top ~3 lines are preserved and additional text on verso.

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Arabic

Refers to a military man: "min rijāl al-ʿasākir al-muʾayyada." Verso may be a distinct document.

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1785–1825 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Address of a letter to Meʾir Ben-Naʿim (fl. 1785-1825 CE) in Cairo, from someone in Damietta (קפוטקיא). One line is also preserved on verso.

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Hebrew

Copies of various epistles of historical importance, at least some attributed to Ḥasdai ibn Shaprut. There are also piyyutim of Dunash b. Labrat. There is an extensive bibliography on FGP.

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• hasdai

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The other side: Rhymed text (-hū) in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī.

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• literary with documentary value
• nasir

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Arabic

Fragment (lower right piece). Involves ʿAllun and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān and possibly a business dispute.

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Arabic

Reporting that the sender left the addressee, rapidly found a boat, traveled to Alexandria, and delivered the letter to the Najīb, who read it and [...]

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Arabic

On fol. 1r there are a few jottings in Arabic script: al-wāḥid... al-ithnayn...

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Arabic, Hebrew

Documentary, Philosophy/ethics; the main text, in Hebrew and Arabic, may be a discussion of reward and punishment; recto also contains Arabic accounts. (Info from FGP)

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Hebrew

Rabbinica; probably from the preface to a work of rabbinic literature, but can also be from a letter; the author mentions having consulted the Tosefta; (info from FGP).

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Aramaic

Verso: In large, calligraphic, Hebrew script: Shelomo b. Yiftaḥ, to al-Shaykh al-Ajall Abū l-ʿIzz.

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Arabic

Fragment (upper left piece). Involves Abū ʿAbd Allāh known as ʿUbayd b. [...] al-Ḥammār. Needs examination.

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Document date

3rd Nissan 1409 Seleucid (8 March 1098 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Goitein and Friedman (India Traders, 217) summarize the settlement as follows: The parties agreed that "Lebdi, or his representative, will deliver to David Ibn Sughmār in Alexandria two flasks of musk worth no less than 13 dinars." […] Finally, Lebdi's representative (Jacob al-Qalaʿī) will go to al-Mahdiyya and "clarify, by legal action, whether Judge Moses had sequestered 10 Murābiṭī and 10 al-Mahdiyya dinars."

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• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib1
• india book

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Document date

1090 CE

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Judaeo-Arabic

These individuals are likely Abū l-Ḥasan Yaḥyā b. Shemuel ha-Kohen al-Baghdādī and Abū l-ʿAlā ʿUlla b. Yosef ha-Levi al-Dimashqī, who repeatedly release one another and rekindle their partnership in a number of documents in the Geniza corpus. […] The active partner is liable for losses at sea, a departure from the commenda model (see also the verso of T-S K25.153 (PGPID 9291) for an example).

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• partnership
• ulla ha-levi

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Inferred date

1139–1139 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Netanel ha-Levi, in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 1139 CE. This fragment contains three different drafts of letters. […] He blames this on his wretched condition in the wake of his illnesses (v16–18) and the tribulations of his four-year journey to the Maghrib and to al-Andalus. In particular, he has been shaken by the deaths of his brother and the death of 'our diadem and crown and master and head' (v19–21); Goitein concludes that the references are to Ḥalfon's brother ʿEli and to the head of the Yeshiva, Maṣliah Gaon. Presumably, Ḥalfon wrote these drafts during the period he spent in Alexandria upon his return from the West to Egypt in April 1139 CE.

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• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: emotion
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Judaeo-Arabic

Moshe now asks the recipient to go to Abu 'Ali, who is to go to Sar Shalom and get the letter. Moshe is also worried about what Bu l-Khayr told him, namely that his brother Abu Ishaq has been beating the wife of his paternal uncle. […] He concludes, "As for Ibn al-Taffal, may God sort him." ASE.

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• abu sahl levi
• moshe b. levi
• sar shalom

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Document date

last third of Adar 1428 Seleucid (25 February 1117–5 March 1117 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A woman whose name is not preserved bequeaths a house, part of which she owns, to another woman, Sitt al-Dar bt. Shaʾul, probably her daughter (or housekeeper?). […] Another part of the duwayra (small compound) was owned by al-ʿaniyim (the poor), i.e. by the qodesh. To prevent any loss to the qodesh, the recipient of the estate was forbidden to sell it to non-Jews or to build an additional floor over it. In case she sold it, the same restrictions would have to be applied to the purchaser. It is also stated that Sitt al-Dār will serve and care for her benefactor until her benefactor's death.

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• gift
• heqdesh
• release

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Judaeo-Arabic

This letter/petition opens with a discussion of the least worthy among the patriarchs (the first line seems to be a reference to how Abraham, called Sayyid al-Kawnayn (! this is typically an epithet of Muḥammad), prayed for intercession on behalf of Lot, "the least worthy of the Avot; there is then mention of Esau); then mentions the superhuman humility of Moses especially at the time of Korah's rebellion. […] tarḥīm) for a deceased woman (al-marḥūma). If the addressee doesn't go along with the request, the sender threatens to harass him by sending 20 nobles and 20 commoners his way. He also mentions "the people of Cairo and Fustat." (Identification of the scribe kindly provided by Amir Ashur.)

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• tarhim

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from an unknown sender to Eliyyahu the Judge (called Abū l-Faraj al-Dayyān), in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script ("[to be delivered to] Ibn al-ʿAjamī who should give it to the judge Abū l-Faraj"). […] who gave birth (but this is not at all clear), and then urges Eliyyahu to help him "for God's sake." […] The reason Abū Zikrī has not yet come in person is that he has "a touch of ophthalmia" (ramad yasīr). Join: Alan Elbaum.

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: eye
• jariya
• slaves

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Inferred date

1134–1134 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ḥasan did not send any merchandise to Egypt this year [in fact, that he did not sell any pepper this year] (r17–18); various Jewish merchants who reached Aden from Egypt this year, including Abū l-Ḥasan Ibn al-ʿAkkāwī, the son of Ibn al-ʿAfṣī, the son of Sibāʿ, [...] al-Mahdawī, and Ismāʿīl al-Maghribī, who brought good news about relations with the sultan (or government, r22–25); the arrival of two ships from India (r32); and Khalaf's six-month illness, from Tevet to Sivan (v8–10). Greetings are extended to colleagues in al-Qaṣṣ and Bharuch. Information in part from Goitein and Friedman.

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• halfon-addenda
• ib-addenda
• ib2
• ib4
• illness
• (+ 2 more)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Somebody's son acted with kindness (anʿama) in some way; may mention soldiers or provinces (ajnād); also mentions the price of sugar; after this, the sender still owed 40 dinars. […] ahl baytī) and take refuge in Qūṣ. There, al-Shaykh al-Asʿad and al-Makīn the sons of Abū Saʿd treated him well; he now teaches their children, leading prayers and slaughtering animals.

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• appeal
• qus

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Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

, two bales of lac, the entirety of their proceeds after the musāmaḥa was [...]; also at his hand, two bales of pepper [...] Yaʿqūb b. […] The next entry refers to "that which I sold in the Dār": eleven bales of lac and three bales of pepper The next entry refers to "eighteen bales of lac and pepper," then "and also at the hand of the Dār" (bi-yad al-dār) five bales of lac and five of pepper "in partnership" (bi-khulṭa).

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• ib-addenda

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Hebrew

Levi became embarrassed by all the trouble Maimonides went to on his behalf, so he ran away. He also complains that he could not find any water with which to wash his hands. […] ENA 1810.2 and 1810.3, also written by Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi contain drafts of poetry in praise of Maimonides, several phrases of which are recycled in the present letter.

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• book trade
• moshe b. levi

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