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Judaeo-Arabic

Left part of a letter from Nahray b. Nissim, who also wrote the letter enquiring about commercial matters and conveying greetings. […] Verso contains illegible lists in the hand of al-Tāhartī (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #259) VMR

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• flax
• nahray b. nissim
• trade

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Document date

4826 Anno Mundi (3 September 1065–22 September 1066 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Nahray sends two witnesses (the narrator and ʿAmmār b. Farrāḥ al-Iṭrābulsī) to his in-law Abū ʿAlīal-Kohen, promising to pay him 1 dinar per month for the part of the house which may exceed one sixth.

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• court record
• nahray b. nissim

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Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: letter from Binyām to Abū Saʿīd al-ʿAfṣī concerning business matters regarding commodities such as tamarind (tamar hindī) and pomegranate flowers (jullanār). Mentions people including Musallam b. Ayyūb (appears also in the upper right fragment under BL OR 13153.4/2 (PGPID 19172)).

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Judaeo-Arabic

Yahaboy, probably in Amalfi, to a partner, in al-Mahdiyya. Dating: ca. 1040. Describes a long sea voyage that lasted about 70 days on board a Christian ship. The journey probably started in Alexandria and went through Constantinople, Crete and Amalfi.

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• amalfi
• christians
• flax
• indigo
• italy
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender informs him that the money he sent for the capitation tax payment was finally deposited with Abū l-Maḥāsin Ibn al-Munajjim who issued a written note (ruqʿa) to that effect to the addressee's name. Also, some items he had sent by the Christian had reached them.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter consisting of a long list of Ḥanukka greetings and well-wishes to dozens of people, including Abū l-Riḍā and his siblings, the recipient’s mother, the paternal cousin of the recipient and her child, her sister, to Sitt al-ʿAyyāl and her child, Sitt al-Jalīla, Sitt Yāqūt, the recipient’s maternal uncle Abū Saʿd, Abū l-ʿAlā and his father, Abū l-Faraj and his father, Yaʿqūb/Yaʿaqov and Ṭāhir.

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• coptic numerals

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Judaeo-Arabic

Farrāḥ, Fustat, to [ ] b. Isḥạq b. ʿAlī Majjānī in Alexandria. Mentions an ullaba (container) holding bible codices, details about a commercial shipment and a discussion with the owner of a boat.

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• 11th c
• nahray b. nissim
• trade

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Primary language

Hebrew

The addressee appears also in T-S Misc.28.168. The letter concerns trade with Venice, where scammony (אשקמוניאה) is in high demand. […] Mentions Rabbi Moshe D'Larya of Safed, who is the representative of 'the holy congregation of Turkey'; Yehuda Masʿūd; and Yaʿaqov Albo. Dated Sunday 29 Adar. (Information from CUDL and A.

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Monday, 6 Shevaṭ 4716 Anno Mundi (21 January 956 CE)

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Hebrew

Signed by at least thirteen witnesses, all in very shaky hands. The Kohen signs first, then the Levi. […] Appears to have been torn and reused as the cover page for a literary volume, as verso has an ownership note for 'this daftar,' and a title: Alfāẓ Tafsīr wa-Ghayruh (sounds like a miscellany partly consisting of a biblical commentary) of ʿAmram b. Moshe al-Maghribī.

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Document date

Ḥeshvan 5139 Anno Mundi (23 October 1378–20 November 1378 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Sar Shalom b. Avraham b. Yaʿaqov (all of the male ancestors are designated as physicians). Reused on verso for a list of names with sums in two columns (see separate record). There is also a medical or technical recipe. (Information in part from S.

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• bill of sale
• real estate

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Thursday, 24 Sivan 1416 Seleucid (8 June 1105 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Statement in which Shelomo b. Avraham al-ʿAssāl (the honey maker) asks that his wife Nāshiya bt. Shemuel ha-Kohen should receive a divorce deed from his brother in case he dies and she has to marry him in a levirate marriage. Also signed by ʿEli b. Yosef ha-Kohen. (Information from CUDL and Goitein's index card.)

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Letter from Nissim b. Yishaq al-Tāhartī. Around 1057. The letter was probably from Susa to Fustat and it contains the account of Musa b. Barhun al-Tāhartī after his death. The writer calls Musa “al-Marhum” – the one who has God’s mercy, a phrase that is taken from the Muslim culture.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Moshe declares that Abu al-Ala Mevorakh b. Avraham al-Safuri, owed him 1/3 and to his brother Aharon 2/3 of a sum of 230 dinars, but left for their payment only 100 dinars.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He has received the petition (ruqʿa) of the Alexandrian woman whose divorced husband is not providing enough alimony.

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• communal
• malij

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Document date

888–987 CE

Primary language

Aramaic

Seleucid, which is 888–987 CE. Bride: Zahra bt. ʿAlī. The groom's name is missing. Witnessed by Shelomo b. [...], Ṣadoq b. Yiṣḥaq (signed also ENA 2556.12 (PGPID 15839) ca. late 10th century), Ḥabīb b.

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• ketubba
• marriage

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1128–1164 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Siman Tov, known as Abu l-Ḥasan, states that if his wife permits him to marry another woman, if she should then desire a divorce, he will divorce her, and she will have access to her delayed settlement throughout the marriage. The document also states ‘Her mother is present and hears all this’.

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• 12th c
• marital reconciliation
• marriage

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yosef al-Muṣallī to Yeshuʿa the Cantor. In Judaeo-Arabic, with 14 lines of biblical quotations at the top. […] In the next section, he greets the addressee's son Moshe, Peraḥya, the noble lady Mudallala, and ʿAlāʾal-[...]. He conveys greetings from Farajallāh.

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Arabic

Letter from Abū Manṣūr to his 'father' (it seems father-in-law) al-Rayyis Hibatallāh the judge, representative of the Nagid David, in Alexandria: Dating: Based on the name of the Nagid, either 1237–1300 (if David I) or 1355–1410 (if David II).

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• bialphabetic

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Arabic

The document is witnessed and signed by ʿAbd al-Qawī b. ʿAbd al-Muʾṭī b. Hilāl al-Anṣārī. Dating: ca. 1250 CE.

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• illness
• illness: cost
• illness: eye
• illness: physician
• illness: women's
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Arabic

Refers to government property (amwāl al-sultān) and contains a request to investigate something (bi-an yakshif ʿan...). […] It seems a letter or report—but there are also legal elements such as the date mentioned in line 3 (15 Ṣafar 664 AH(?)).

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• amwal al-sultan
• petition
• to edit

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Arabic

The next refers to Sayyid al-Ahl, 120 pounds, and the ḍamān, maks, and samsara again: qabaḍū al-ḍamān al-mutaqddimīn maksuhu wa l-samsara.

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Document date

962 Hijrī (26 November 1554–15 November 1555 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

(Or possibly just 960 AH.) Involves ʿAbd al-Karīm b. ʿAlī b. ʿAlī and Mūsā b. Dāwūd b. Ibrāhīm the Rabbanite Jew.

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• dimme

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Document date

1124 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Names Isḥāq b. Makhlūf al-Nafūsī; a Lebdī; and [...] b. Abū ʿUmar al-Ṭabīb. […] Elʿazar ha-Ḥazzan, Sitt al-Kull bt. Yaḥyā." (Information from Goitein’s attached notes.)

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• ib6
• india book

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Sivan 1529 Seleucid (17 May 1219–15 June 1219 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a leaf on which the accounting for the apartment of Ibrāhīm Ibn al-Shāʿir is presereved. The apartment is in the compound named after Menashshe (b. Yosef, the judge). Ibrahim b. al-Dayyan, mentioned in our documents of this period, is perhaps the son of the judge who lives in the apartment, half of which belongs to the qodesh. The compound is elsewhere described as sharikat al-Dayyan R. Menashshe. (Information from Gil, Documents, pp. 422 #125)

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• account
• partnership
• qodesh

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Arabic, Hebrew

The Judaeo-Arabic jotting in the upper margin is in the hand of Avraham Maimonides, a draft for the beginning of an order or request addressed to al-Talmid Abū Saʿd. Also mentions Abū Manṣūr.

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Judaeo-Arabic

(Information from CUDL.) See also Goitein's index cards. Joins by Mordechai Akiva Friedman (and the minute fragment T-S AS 207.216 — first and second images on FGP, bottom row, 2 boxes away from the yellow shelfmark label — identified by Alan Elbaum).

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• avraham maimonides
• minyat ghamr

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Judaeo-Arabic

ENA NS 2.24) and mandrake root (luʿāb) (cf. ENA 2739.2). Also mentions: 3 dinars; Yemeni "sinn" (= aromatic wood? […] ENA NS 21.7, r4 — interestingly, goods for Ibn al-Qatāʾif, probably Ḥalfon, are specifically mentioned in that letter).

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• yefet b. menashshe

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Maḥāsin b. Abū ʿAlī, probably in Alexandria, to his mother Sitt Ghazāl bt.

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Judaeo-Arabic

In the same style as Nāṣir and includes his typical sign off "anā al-adīb al-ʿibrī" (see Elbaum, Fragment of the Month, October 2021). […] However, the handwriting seems different than that of all the other Nāṣir fragments. Needs further examination.

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• nasir

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Arabic

Literary anecdote (khabar) in the name of Ḥammād al-Rāwiya, conveying an account he heard from ʿUmar b. […] Practically identical to the anecdote titled "خبر الجعدين" in modern editions of al-ʿIqd al-Farīd (https://shamela.ws/book/23789/2643).

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Arabic

Fragment (upper right corner of recto, part of the address on verso). Addressed to [...] b. al-Mubārak b. Dāʾūd, in Jerusalem. The sender's name should be legible with effort. […] Needs further examination. On verso there is also an imprint of mirror letters from an Hebrew literary text.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Someone else took over his position, which was agreeable to the Jews of the area (aṣḥābnā) until the new administrator (ʿāmil) Abū l-Fakhr arrived, who began oppressing the Jews. A cantor known as al-Peʾer opposed him and was also fined or subjected to tarsīm.

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• 'amil
• hashshar
• petition
• tarsim
• tax

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Inferred date

1180–1180 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from an unknown sender in Aden to Abū Yaʿqūb b. Hibat Allah (?) in Lawāmanda (?), possibly an island off the west coast of Burma. […] The letter reports on the favorable political and economic conditions in Egypt and advises the recipient on the price of commodities such as pepper, two varieties of camphor, nutmeg, and cloves. It also mentions rhubarb, galangal, and aromatic wood.

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• ib-partial translation-eng
• ib2
• india book

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Sent from Fez, probably to Fustat, to al-ʿAfṣī (possibly Abū Saʿīd al-ʿAfṣī or his father Abū Naṣr). […] He refers to having left the addressee while intending to travel, probably on a vessel loaded with goods belonging to the state, or on a state-owned vessel (markab matāʿ al-sulṭān). ASE/YU.

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• fez

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Document date

426 Hijrī (16 November 1034–4 November 1035 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Dated: 426 AH = 1034/35 CE. The year 424 is also mentioned in the body of the document (l. 1). […] Abī l-Ḥusayn; Abū Ṭāhir b. [...]; Ibrāhīm b. ʿĪsā b. Muḥammad al-Khatīb(?). Merits further examination.

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Arabic

Petition for charity from Bū Bakr b. al-Bābā al-Ṭūrī to an amīr with many titles (including al-isfahsalārī).

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• charity
• isfahsalar
• petition

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Refers to an "aforementioned" (al-madhkūra) someone or something. Almostall of the remaining text is a discussion of the punishment due "a wood gatherer" (מקושש עצים), i.e., someone who violates the sabbath.

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Adar 1446 Seleucid (16 February 1135–16 March 1135 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In which Maḥfūẓa bt. Yosef known as Zayn al-Tujjār (cf. T-S Ar.38.115) sells part of her compound in zuqāq al-ḥarrānī in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ (see Gil, Pious Foundations, 224).

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• halfon b. menashshe

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A teacher, Abū l-Ḥasan b. Abū l-Riḍā al-ʿAṭṭār confirms that he has received 12 dirhams for teaching 3 children for the duration of the months Av and Elul. The pupils are the son of Hilāl the water carrier (al-saqqāʾ), the son of the daughter of Khalaf the rice miller (daqqāq al-ruzz), and the son of the daughter of Miska.

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• education
• teacher

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Primary language

Arabic

The sender expresses anguish over news from the Maghrib, including the death of colleagues and the loss of merchandise in ships. He is also dismayed at the news that 'the young man, the kātib, Ibn al-Maghribī," has separated from the addressee; Sulaymān urges him to help this young man however he can.

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• aodeh

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Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: The lower part of a letter of appeal signed by the cantor Yedutun ha-Levi who had fallen on hard times and needs money to support and feed himself. He alsoalludes to the pains of an illness. The upper half probably had a poem in praise of the recipient, a Levi.

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• yedutun ha-levi

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Primary language

Arabic

Folios from the Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ (Epistles of the Brethren of Purity) on parchment. The folios are from the epistle on magic and talismans (Risāla fī siḥr wa al-ʿazāʾim).

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Primary language

Arabic

Six pages, Arabic script. See also Bodl. MS heb. c 13/3 (PGPID 6406). (Information from Goitein’s index card)

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Primary language

Arabic

Six pages, Arabic script. See also Bodl. MS heb. c 13/2 (PGPID 6405). (Information from Goitein’s index card)

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