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6601LetterT-S AS 184.106
Primary language
Arabic
Informal note to Bū ʿAlī beginning "يا مولاي الشيخ بو علي قد طلقت. . . ." Regarding a divorce? Needs examination. There is an unusual …
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6602LetterT-S NS 31.7
Inferred date
1310–1355 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from the office of the Nagid Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides (b. ca. 1310–d. 1355) in which the cantor Faraj Allāh is ordered to arrange a collection …
1. בסם אלרחים
2. הנה אל ישועתי וכול
3. אלחזן אלשיך פרג אללה שצ יעלם
4. באנך(!) תתוצא בחאמלה אלשיך
5. יוסף שצ ידיע צפתי לאנה מן
6. בתי אבות וכאן ללה עליה נעמה
7. וגאר אל…
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6603Literary textT-S NS 165.112
Primary languages
Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Prayer in a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew ending "God the exalted is the one asked to lift the veil of ignorance from us, amen." …
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6604LetterT-S NS 183.78
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, damaged and fragmentary. Dating: probably late, no earlier than 14th century, based on format and formulae. Mostly sending regards to various people. …
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6605LetterT-S NS 315.209
Primary language
Arabic
Phrases from the opening of an Arabic letter to a brother. Underneath there are jottings of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. On the …
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6606Legal documentT-S NS 327.151
Primary language
Arabic
Fragmentary document(s) in Arabic script. One text block appears to be legal (two witness signatures preserved), another literary (at 180 degrees), and another is a …
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6607LetterT-S NS 338.17
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Headed by ישועת יי כהרף עין (a non-biblical phrase) and לקי = לישועתך קויתי ייי. Addressed to 'the boy' Sulaymān b. …
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6608LetterT-S NS J192
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter, possibly a draft, to a certain Sulaymān, inquiring about various business transactions and whether the addressee had taken the two copies of the Halakhot …
1. אלדי אעלם אלשיך סלימאן באני מחתאג אלי אלעמאמה
2. פאשתהי אן תגתהד פי . . . הא ואשתהי באן תערפני
3. אן כנת אכדת אלנסכתין אלדי מן אלהלכות או מא אכדתהם
4. פאן כנ…
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6609LetterBL OR 5542.10
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from Shemuel b. Yaḥyā, in Fustat, to his wife ʿAzīza, perhaps in Gaza. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably no earlier than 14th century. He informs …
Recto:
1. סלאם אללה תע עלא עזיזה ועלא ולדי אבראהים //י[חיה] ל[עד]//
2. ועלא כל מן יסאל עננא אלף חמל סלאם אללה
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6610LetterT-S AS 150.17
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter to a judge. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender reports that he has sent a copy of a power of attorney (nuskhat al-wakāla) involving al-Shaykh al-Ajall …
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6611Literary textAIU VI.B.98
Inferred date
1400–1800 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Medical recipes in Judaeo-Arabic, two folios faded with water damage but legible in most places. On the recto of the first folio the term "rūḥ …
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6612LetterCUL Or.1080 15.50 + T-S AS 153.16
Primary languages
Arabic, Hebrew
Letter from Yehuda b. Ibrāhīm b. al-Faraj, possibly in Ṣahrajt, to Abū l-Ḥusayn ʿAllūn b. Muʿammar (probably identical with ʿEli b. ʿAmram, the head of …
Recto
1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
2. وصل كتاب مولاي الحابار الجليـ|ـل الفاضل اطال الله بقاه واعلا علاه وكبت عداه
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6613Literary textNLI 577.2/8
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
The first folio of the astronomical/astrological treatise Kitāb al-Qirānāt (The Book of Conjunctions) by Abū l-ʿAbbās al-Faḍl b. Ḥātim al-Nayrīzī (fl. 9th/10th CE). The prologue …
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6614Legal documentPER H 20
Document date
17 Heshvan 1483 Seleucid (18 October 1171 CE)
Dowry deed from Fustat, October 1171 CE (17 Heshvan 1483 Seleucid). It was customary to bring together all the objects of the dowry and to …
1. [...]מִןִ אסבאב אלו[צלה] בין אבו אלמ[נגא] אלקזאז הבחור ב̇ר ̇מ יפת הזקן [...]
2. [...] עליה בנדוניה אלקימה […] סתה [וכמס]ין דינר <שוי דינר בדינר קרן בלא…
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6615LetterT-S 12.785
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender is in Fustat, writing with four days remaining in the month of Tamuz. Dating: Likely 12th or early 13th century. …
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- suitor
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6616LetterT-S 13J25.13
Document date
1134 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi, in Bharuch, northwest India, probably to Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan/Yefet, in Aden. Dating: 1134 CE. The addressee is a dignitary …
Recto
1. ב̇שר̇ח
2. קד עלם אלקדים ̇גל ̇תَנَאَה מא י̇גדה עבד אלח̇צרה אלסאמיה אלריّיסיה אלא̇גליّה אלעאליה
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6617LetterT-S Ar.18(1).130
Primary languages
Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from an unknown writer, probably in Alexandria, to Abū l-Khayr (?) b. Yūsuf, in Fustat, care of Abū l-Ḥasan al-Yahūdī al-Ṣā'igh in the market …
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- arabic address
- hostile letter
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6618LetterENA 1822a.1
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Recto with the address on verso: Letter from a man whose name is too faded to read, near al-Mahdiyya, to his 'brother' ʿArūs b. Yosef, …
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6619LetterT-S 12.431
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from an unidentified writer to Eliyyahu the Judge. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer conveys condolences for a death in the family of Eliyyahu (r6–9). He …
Recto
1. בש רח
2. כתאבי [אלי אלמולאי] אלאעז אללה בקאה
Recto
1. In (Your) N(ame, Oh) Mer(ciful).
2. My letter [to the] most distinguished [master], may God lengthen his life,
3. p[erpetuate his honored position] and deprive him not of the best of
4. fortune] . . . . . . in g'o'o'd'n'e's's' and well-being . . .
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- epidemic
- epidemic: wakham
- illness
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6620LetterYevr. II A 1278
Primary language
Hebrew
A long letter from a Yequtiel b. Siman Tov to his mother. He intended to go from Alexandria to Constantinople, but was tempted by his …
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6621LetterENA 2808.29
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from Mūsā, in Ṣandafā, to his brother, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Written in a lovely …
Recto
1. כתאבי אטאל אללה[בקאך ואדאם עזך
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6622LetterF 1908.44KK
Primary language
Hebrew
Letter from Moshe b. Abudarham, probably in Rashid, to an unknown addressee. In Hebrew. Dating: Second half of the 16th century, based on Avraham David's …
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6623LetterT-S 8J18.18
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from a merchant in Alexandria to a business associate in Fustat, advising him to dispose of goods costing a large amount of money and, …
Recto
1. כתאבי ישיכי וסידי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך
ע׳׳א:
1. אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את שלומך ואת אושרך,
2. ויהיה חסדו שלם עליך, בכ׳׳ז בשבט. שלחתי לך לפני כן מכתבי אחדים…
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6624Legal documentT-S 13J3.21
Document date
Sivan 1521 Seleucid (June 1210 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
The scholar and hazzan Shela ha-Levi gives a loan of 552 dirhams to the silk weaver Efrayim b. Sedaqa, to be paid back in three …
1. למא כאן פי אלעשר אלאכ[י]ר מחדש סיון שנת אלפא וחמש מאה וע[שרין
2. וחד שנין לשטרות בפסטאט מצרים דעל נילוס נהרא מותבה כן הוה
3. חצר אלינא אנן חתומי מטה אלשיך…
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6625LetterT-S AS 153.131
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Business letter from Sulaymān to Abū l-Munajjā. In Judaeo-Arabic. He reports that he has sent some items with al-Thiqa (l. 11) and wishes to know …
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6626LetterT-S NS J274 + T-S 6J5.6
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Recto: Letter addressed to Nahray b. Nissim. Verso: Draft of a letter from Nahray b. Nissim to a person in the Maghreb. Dating: ca. 1046 …
…אלקזדיו
verso, top margin
1. …אלג'לאיל ג' דנא'
2. …ואלעלאוה
verso
1. אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את שלומך ואת אושרך (מ… ביום… בחודש… יראה)
2. אלוהים (לנו) ולך את ברכתו ואת אושרו, וגם…
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6627LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/75
Primary languages
Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Letter of appeal for charity addressed to ʿEli ha-Zaqen the Parnas. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. There are interesting opening blessings, including the phrase "zohar ḥashmalim." …
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6628LetterCUL Add.3348
Primary language
Hebrew
Verso (original use) Letter of appeal for charity. The writer lost his wealth "in an instant" and had to wander in search of help. He …
1. יש מתעשר ואין כל מתרושש וג
2. יש הבל אשר נעשה על הארץ וג
3. את הכל ראיתי בימי הבלי יש צדיק וג
4. ואני אמרתי בשלוי בל אמוט לעולם וכמעט
5. הייתי בכל רע בתוך קהל ו…
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6629Literary textCUL Or.1080 4.27
Primary languages
Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Recto: The first page from an Arabic literary work, copied in Judaeo-Arabic in a late hand. The book seems to be a guide to witty …
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- arabic prose
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6630LetterENA 2558.30b
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter probably addressed to Avraham Maimonides—[the son] of our Lord and Rabbi Moshe the Great Rabbi (ZL). In Judaeo-Arabic. It is written on a reused …
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6631Legal documentENA 3616.7
Primary language
Hebrew
Letter from the court, in Togarma (Istanbul?), to Moshe Abudarham, in Alexandria. In Hebrew. Dating: Second half of the 16th century, based on Avraham David's …
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6632LetterENA 4020.34
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Petition to Shelomo ha-Nasi from a man whose name is missing, reporting that a pesiqa (pledge drive) in his favor had brought a substantial sum, …
1. כאדמה [. . . . .
2. אבו .[. . . .
3. אלמסאול מן אללה תע ומן מושב הד יק צפ[ירת
4. מר ור אדונינו מלכינו נשיאנו שלמה הנש[יא
5. הגדול נשיא גליות כל ישראל ירום הודו …
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6633LetterJRL A 656
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (Iower left piece of recto). The content is unclear. Excerpts: "...his brothers, and he took one of the cloaks (milḥafa/malaḥif)... a …
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6634LetterJRL Gaster heb. ms 2111/17
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter by Yefet b. Menashshe Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif to one of his brothers. He reports that 'your mother and sisters' are well. He sends regards to …
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6635LetterT-S 10J16.2
Inferred date
1094–1097 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
India Book (IB) II, 7: Letter from Amram b. Yosef, probably from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1075. Regarding a shipment of palm …
recto,top margin
1. קאל מאלה ענדי שי פאחב יקנא מנה קדאם ב' מן יערף כטוטהם
אבקש ממך כי תואיל ותדבר בשבילי עם אסמעיל הכהן הקלעי
על בד אריזה שהציע והשאיר אותו אצל מסלם היהודי
בשוק; אחר כך בבוא זמן נסיעתו הלכנו אני והוא
recto, right margin
ומצאנו שהחנות נעולה והוא כבר נסע. וביקש ממני שאשלם לו את התמורה ואקח אותו ממנו כשיגיע; אחר כך הלכתי
recto,top margin
ואמר: אין לו אצלי כלום, רצוני אפוא שייקנה ממך לפני ב' שחתימותיהם ידועות
verso
1. כאן, או מישהו שיבוא הנה, שבד האריזה הזה הוא של זולתו וכי אין
2. לו בו כלום וכי נשאר אצלו, וכי לא קיבלתי ממנו דבר, וכי
3. קבלתי קבלתך וכל כיוצא בזה, כדי שאקבל את י״ב הדרהמים ששילמתי לו.
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6636Legal documentT-S 12.8 + T-S 10J4.9
Document date
Nisan 4830 Anno Mundi (16 March 1070–14 April 1070 CE)
Primary languages
Aramaic, Hebrew
Legal document, in which Sitt al-Rūm, a former slave who had been freed by her master Abū ʿ[...] before his death, appears in person before …
1. זכרון עדות שהיתה בפנינו אנו העדים החתומים מטה באחד ב[שבת . . . . . . .
2. יום לירח ניסן שנת ארבעת אלפים ושמ[ונה מא]ות ושלשים שנה [
3. למנין שאנו רגילין למ…
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- power of attorney
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6637Legal documentT-S 13J3.24
Document date
1 Sivan 1525 Seleucid (May 1214 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Debt contract. No witness signatures. Bahāʾ b. Abū l-Ḥasan al-ʿAṭṭār owes 61.5 dinars to Abū ʿImrān al-Kohen al-Tifʾeret. The sum is to be paid in …
1. נקול נחן אלשהוד אלטארחין כטוטנא אכר הדא
2. אלמסטור אן חצר אלינא אלשיך בהא אבן אלשיך אבו
3. אלחסן אלעטאר וקאל לנא אשהדו עלי ואקנו מני בלפט
4. מעכשיו באבטאל כל…
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6638State documentT-S Ar.30.89
Document date
Rajab 574 Hijrī (13 December 1178–11 January 1179 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Fiscal document in Arabic script. The upper text block refers to a transfer from "the account of the (governmental) urban properties to the account of …
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6639LetterT-S Ar.34.278
Primary language
Arabic
Letter in Arabic script. Fragment from near the beginning. 3 full lines are preserved, and portions of another ~8 lines. The content is quite obscure. …
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6640State documentT-S Ar.42.211
Primary language
Arabic
There are at least two state officials mentioned: Tāj al-Dawla and Amīr al-Jūyūsh Sayf al-Dawla.
1. صلوات الله عليه وعلى ابايه الطا]هرين وابنائه المنتظرين العبيد يقبلوا الارض وينهوا ان كان
2. نـ]ـصر الله واحسن عونه وتوفيقه قد سير فيهم منشور ووصلو…
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6641LetterT-S Ar.54.23
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Recto: Letter from a certain Yūsuf who is ill. In Judaeo-Arabic, with erratic handwriting and spelling, difficult to read. He explains why he couldn't come. …
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6642Literary textT-S AS 131.60
Primary language
Hebrew
Poem (qaṣīd) in Hebrew. A panegyric for an infant composed by "the great Davidite prince Ibn Abū l-Kirmānī" on the occasion of the circumcision (the …
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6643Legal documentT-S AS 145.39
Document date
21 July 1042–19 August 1042 CE
Primary languages
Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Legal testimony. Dated: Wednesday, 10 Av [possibly 5348 AM?? אבנש] but the paleography appears much too early to be 16th-century. Perhaps the date is Seleucid …
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6644LetterT-S AS 145.42
Primary languages
Arabic, Judaeo-Persian
Recto and verso are two versions of a similar letter concerning the same issues, recto in Arabic and verso in Judaeo-Persian (with occasional Arabic). Dating: …
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6645LetterT-S AS 147.217
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, with a few words preserved from the Arabic-script address on verso. Mentions Menaḥem, someone whom the sender thinks is stingy (wa-qad raʾaytuh …
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6646LetterT-S AS 161.15
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Personal letter in Judaeo-Arabic, quoting Genesis 34:7; 31:27. Begins "there is no doubt that you are the one who has wronged me," then "I would …
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PGPID
18040
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6647State documentT-S NS 89.4
Primary language
Arabic
State petition and endorsement on the same page. Recto, right column: petition by Muslim b. ʿAbd al-Jabbār to a Fatimid judge regarding an endowment consisting …
Petition (Right side)
1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ثبت
2. قد اجاب حضرة مولاى القاضى الاجل اطال الله بقاها
3. وادام تمكينها وعلاها وسموها وارتقاها ورفعتها
...(It is my) request to him to
issue a rescript for them, confirming that they recognize this,together with his reply
to the substance of it.
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2023
PGPID
38240
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6648LetterT-S NS 225.95
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Upper part of a long vertical letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 12th or 13th century. Addressed to a notable. Reporting something about Furayj al-Bayyāʿ; couriers; …
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2019
PGPID
24235
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6649Legal documentT-S NS 320.54
Inferred date
1100–1138 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). In which Eliyya b. [...] acknowledges that he has received 18.25 dinars from …
Recto
1. [ ]ת[ ]
2. [ ]מה מ [ ]
3. [ ]לך אשהדו עלי אנא אליה ביר [ ]
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2017
PGPID
8673
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6650LetterT-S NS J530
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Short and wide piece of paper. The content is cryptic. "When what happened happened and the messengers came and brought us [to …
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- police
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2019
PGPID
26491
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