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Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Two lines of Arabic script mentioning al-shaykh al-ajall Abū l-Ṭāhir. Needs examination

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Written on a reused Arabic legal document (upper right corner only). There are also pen trials on recto and verso, including the word קומוס written numerous times.

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Sahl, probably from Alexandria, to Yeshua b. Isma’il, Fustat. Around 1050.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

They plan to spend Passover in Alexandria. (Information mainly from Goitein's index card.)

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Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Mentions people such as ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, Abū l-Faraj al-Ṣayyād, Sulaymān the brother of Aḥmad, Ibrāhīm, and Aḥmad the brother of Sulalymān.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Yakhin) to the ḥaver Abu al-Ghayth, apologizing for not being able to come to Minyat Zifta because he has been detained in al-Maḥalla.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yosef b. Yefet al-Shaʿrānī(?) to his relative Abū Naṣr Elʿazar b. Abū l-Khayr al-Kohen, congratulating him on the birth of a son.

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Document date

1118–1128 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Seleucid, meaning 1118–28 CE. Also signed by Nissim b. Shemuel.

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• halfon b. menashshe

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Primary language

Arabic

Provides updates on receipt of prior letters; mentions 'al-dār al-saʿīda' and a qāḍī. Greetings to various people.

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• dimme

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Document date

28 Rajab 1237 Hijrī (20 April 1822 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The receipt was issued by the state's silk monopoly administration in Alexandria. MCD.

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• 19th c
• alexandria
• late arabic script
• seal

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Primary language

Arabic

Recto: Legal document in Arabic script. Ishāq b. Saʿīd al-Yahūdī al-ʿAṭṭār rents a house from 1 Muḥarram for four dinars, “pays in advance.”

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legible phrases include "I ask my master for help. . . . al-jalīl adām allāh 'izzahu. . . .). The phrase האדא אלשי is repeated twice.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Note addressed to Abu al-Faraj, saying that Abu al-Makarim is to receive payment from the bearer, in the amount of two qirats (of a dirham) and a half fals, and apologizing for the delay in conveying the payment.

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• trade

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Judaeo-Arabic

Opens with blessings for the addressee, then a request to al-Rashīd to "preserve the capital" and the something to do with [Ibn] al-Jabbār and wool (ṣūf).

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: letter by a certain Shelomo to his father Yeshuʿa, also mentioning ‘the brother’ Yaʿaqov ha-Talmid and the arrival of the addressee’s brother in law in Fusṭāṭ.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentioning names such as Ibn al-Ghaniyy (?) and Yosef b. Yehuda al-Levi. Lists a number of dates, weights, numbers and commodities, such as honey, wine and sugar.

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• account
• honey
• sugar
• wine

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Judaeo-Arabic

, and verso seems to be from the father to the son (in Alexandria). Dating: Probably Mamluk-era. Recto mentions Yosef, Shūʿa and the currency dirham.

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Judaeo-Arabic

The sender places an order worth 16 dirhams, including for 1/2 ounce of Iraqi copper sulfate (zinjār). There are also inquiries about prices. (Information in part from CUDL)

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document mentioning ʿImrān al-Nafūsī and Moshe the elder and a partnership (commenda) contract (sheṭar al-muḍāraba).

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Primary language

Arabic

Small, official receipt for ʿImrān Ibn al-Riṣāfī(?). Landscape format. Trigger: afrada... […] T-S AS 176.437, T-S AS 176.438, and T-S AS 176.439 all belong together.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recipes for פתיחת לב, to quell a storm at sea, to heal scorpion-bites, for a headache, to send a fever upon your enemy, and for charm and grace (including before a governor). See also T-S K1.91. (Information from CUDL.)

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Primary language

Arabic

. ~4 lines preserved. Refers to al-dīwān al-Mustanṣirī. On verso there is piyyut.

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• dimme
• petition

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Primary language

Arabic

Extremely fragmentary to glean any context, but it references the current year and perhaps the beginning of a date. There is also a reference to agriculture (zirāʿa), a few names, and genealogy (واعرفك ان جميع النسب).

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Judaeo-Arabic

Mentioning Abū Manṣūr Ibn al-Tawwazī(?); requesting news of somebody; a dispute that was settled; and a rumor that Manṣūr al-Aqṭaʿ ('the amputee') said something involving capitation taxes and the government.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender (also a judge?) woke up sick, so instead of coming to work he sends this detailed report on an ongoing court case.

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• courts
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517

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Document date

A Monday in the last decade of Tammuz 1[4]34 Seleucid (1123 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Yefet/Ḥasan ha-Kohen transfers property rights for half of a well-known house in al-Qālūs to his wife Sitthum aka Sitt al-Jamīʿ bt. […] The full names of the couple may be found in T-S NS 323.19 (probably the beginning of this document, but not a continuous join) and T-S 12.82 + T-S 12.553 (probably a distinct document). Joins: Alan Elbaum. (Information in part from CUDL.) ASE

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• halfon b. menashshe

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Document date

Thursday 6th Nissan 1409 Seleucid (11 March 1098 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On left hand side of Recto, bottom, is a court document concerning an agreement about a dect between Yefet b. Menashe known as al-Lawwāz and Shelomo b. Avraham known as al-Assāl. Paymenst should start on mid-Iyyar, "which corresponds to mid-Jumāda al-ukhra". Signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel, Avraham b Shema'ya, and Nissim b.

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• 12th c
• notebook

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Document date

Tammuz 1395 Seleucid (7 June 1084–5 July 1084 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yeshaʿya that he has no claims against his father-in-law the pharmacist (ṣaydalānī) Abū l-ʿAlā Elʿazar b. Yosef nor against the latter's wife Ḥasana after having received from them seventy and odd dinars, out of the estate of his wife Dalāl bt. Elʿazar. Also signed by Shelomo b. Yosef ha-Kohen. (Information in part from Goitein’s index card.)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer sends greetings (and a rebuke) to Abū l-Najm Hilāl and greetings to R. Yaʿīsh al-Kohen and his son and to all the parnasim (maybe the son is the parnas ʿEli b. Ḥayyim = ʿAllūn b. Yaʿīsh of the late 11th c?). Needs further examination

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Refers to someone's mother; the daughters of Ibn al-ʿArīsḥī; the sender and another man falling sick; and trebuchet stones (גנק/junuq) which were sold to Nissim b. [...] for the astronomical sum of 4,000 dinars. "Junuq" is a very rare word and seems to be the only plausble reading of גנק, but it may not be correct. It is also not clear how much of the paper is torn away from the right side of the letter (probably ~2 words per line), which means the 4,000 dinars may refer to something other than the גנק.

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Document date

Sunday, 26 Ṭevet 1537 Seleucid (28 December 1225 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Bū Manṣūr and Abū l-Ḥasan the sons of Hillel al-Mūrid sold to Yosef and ʿAfīf the sons of Futūḥ Ibn al-[...] an entire house belonging to them in Cairo on Darb al-Mugharbilīn ("the street of the sifters"). 2/3 of the house had belonged to Abū Manṣūr and 1/3 to Abū l-Ḥasan.

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• 13th c

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Primary languages

Judaeo-Romance, Unidentified (Hebrew script)

Writing exercises in which the student practiced Judaeo-Romance words and names on at least one occasion in both Hebrew and Arabic script: פארין בן שביליינה بارين بن شبيليينة (Paren ben Shbiliyina). Although the first part of the name is difficult to interpret the second component may be related to medieval orthographies for the city Sevilla in Andalusia. There is also a fragmented phrase in late medieval or early modern Latin-script that could be Italian or, perhaps, an Iberian Romance language (this is likely a different scribal).

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• italian
• ladino
• learning

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Primary language

Arabic

Much of the remaining text is formulaic. They refer to khurūj al-amr al-ʿālī ('the issuing of the elevated command').

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• petition

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Document date

Monday, 12 Sivan 1347 Seleucid (7 June 1036 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The contents are as follows: Shemuel b. Sahlan al-Barqī brought a shipment of pearls from Farrāḥ b. […] (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 4, #799. See also Goitein's attached notes.) VMR

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• bialphabetic
• draft
• ib7
• india book

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