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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

Judaeo-Arabic

On verso, righthand page, there is also a note stating "my arrival in Fustat (or Egypt) was Sunday night the 27th of Ḥeshvan."

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Primary language

Hebrew

The full title page is intact along with two others on the recto and verso–all with exquisite wood engravings.

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• 19th c
• passover

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Primary language

Arabic

Fragment (first three lines only). The muqirr is Abū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Bū Saʿd b. Abū l-ʿAlāʾ, a Jewish goldsmith (ṣāʾigh).

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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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Primary language

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 languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

One of the columns is headed "dār al-murabbaʿa." There are entries for construction expenses (e.g., rubbish collection (ramy turāb)), many for a certain Abū Sahl, and one for "the Jew" (al-Yahūdī).

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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.

Tags

• 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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Document date

1244 Hijrī (14 July 1828–2 July 1829 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

1244 AH. The sender, Muḥammad al-Firqī(?) expresses his affection for the addressees Shimʿon Francis and Ishāq Suwāris (Suares), probably European names, and expresses his longing towards them. He mentions longing towards someone he last saw in Beirut, probably the addressees, and conveys his greetings towards a bunch of people. He also mentions the arrival of something through Dāwūd and tells the addressee to acknowledge its arrival.

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• 19th c
• beirut
• dimme
• shim'on frances

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Inferred date

1063–1071 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter of Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy, Alexandria, to Yosef b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī, in Fusṭāṭ (c. 1065 CE).

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• norman conquest
• sicily

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Document date

17 Sivan 1410 Seleucid (9 June 1099 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: The testimony of ʿArūs b. Yosef about Yosef al-Lebdi's partnership with his brother Shelomo al-Lebdi. Dated: 17 Sivan 1410 Sel. After Shelomo al-Lebdi drowned in the spring of 1099 on his way from Tunis to Spain, his son David had to secure his rights as heir.

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• ib1
• india book
• partnership

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter sent to Alexandria, mentioning Abū Manṣūr al-Mashmiaʿ (אלמשמיע), Abū l-Munā (vocalised אלמֻנֵי), and Yaʿqūb/Yaʿaqov b.

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• capitation tax
• jaliya
• tax
• unemployment

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Document date

25th Marḥeshvan 1418 Seleucid (25 October 1106 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Four fragments of a ketubah from 1106. The bride is Sitt al-Dar b. Yefet. The groom is Eli b. Yehezkel ha-Haver be-Sanhedrin Gedola. Contains also a dowry list. Signed by: Mevorakh b. Isaac, Isaac b.

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• ketubba

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Ibrāhīm, unknown location, to Ḥayya ha-Kohen the teacher, in Palermo ("al-madīna"), Sicily. The addressee is asked to deliver two tailored woolen mayzar covers, which had been deposited with him, to the bearer of the letter. […] The writer is ill this winter (perhaps this is why he needs the woolen covers). The letter also mentions the process of “cutting up” for making and fitting the sleeves of a garment.

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: marad
• illness: winter
• mayzar
• (+ 2 more)

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Document date

1148-07-17 Seleucid (15 March 1172 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Husband: Manṣūr b. Avraham. Wife: Sitt al-Bayt bt. Muwaffaq the freedman (ha-meshuḥrar). […] A daughter of Muwaffaq the freedman appears also in T-S J2.78 (PGPID 1325).

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Document date

7 Tishrei 5568 Anno Mundi (9 October 1807 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentioning people including Nissim Mshish, Mūṣṭafa al-Fersqūlī(?) (אל פרסקולי), Naṣr Shaʿbān, and someone with the surname Yaʿbeṣ in connection with a money-purse containing 6550 (niṣf) fiḍḍa. The letter also mentions various commodities including: 8 cubits of tamarind-colored wool (צופ ...

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• avraham haman
• business
• gavriel hefez
• haman & hefez
• karo y frances

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

It is primarily concerned with the commodities of saffron and safflower (specifically that the miller doesn't cheat them out of the right amount of saffron or dilute it with safflower), along with a report of products ground by the miller by request. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, pp. 270-272, 585.) There are Hebrew alphabet and Arabic jottings in the margins. Moshe mentions someone named al-Siqilli; a young donkey (jahsh); three children who have been sickened; dragon's blood (dam akhawayn); EMS.

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• moshe b. levi
• saffron
• trade

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Two eloquent drafts of complaint addressed to the Nagid Avraham and two of the chief justices in Fustat, against against Zikrī b. Musallam Ibn al-Naʿja al-Ṭabīb. In the draft on verso the writer notes that most people in the town knew what had happened between him and Ibn al-Naʿja.

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• communal
• petition

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Document date

Heshvan 1452 Seleucid (14 October 1140–12 November 1140 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Concerning the plunder of Aden (involving a person called al-Dughaym and the struggle between "the two Sultans" (=ʿAlī b. […] Abū Suʿūd)), losses at sea, and the sender's failure in purchasing a household male slave (waṣīf) from a ship from East Africa (Bilād al-Zanj) containing newly enslaved individuals (raqīq).

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• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib2
• ib4
• india book

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Second leaf of a letter from an unidentified merchant, probably in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated 1052 by Gil and 1066/67 by Goitein (in Mediterranean Society, II, p. 534). […] (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 4, #816.) VMR. Almost certainly the same sender (but probably not the same letter) as CUL Or.1080 J268.

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• qaraites
• war

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Letter from ʿAyyāsh b. Ṣedaqa, from Alexandria, to the Tāhartī family, Fustat. May 27, 1050. […] ʿAyyāsh mentions deals of silk and pearls with Abd al-Rahman the jeweler, and several other goods.

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• bribe
• flax
• tax
• trade

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Document date

1 Sivan 1525 Seleucid (May 1214 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

No witness signatures. Bahāʾ b. Abū l-Ḥasan al-ʿAṭṭār owes 61.5 dinars to Abū ʿImrān al-Kohen al-Tifʾeret.

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• loan

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Primary language

Hebrew

Letter, c. mid-16th century, from Avraham Sagish, in Jerusalem, to Yosef Qorqos, who is normally resident in Jerusalem but is currently visiting Egypt, regarding the distribution of funds sent to Jerusalem by various Egyptian donors, including the dignitary Shelomo al-Ashqar. That amount also included support for the Ashkenazi yeshiva and the recipient’s own yeshiva, both in Jerusalem.

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• 16th c
• al-ashqar

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Dunash, Fustat, in the handwriting of Nissim b. Yiṣḥaq b. al-Sahl. Both the sender and the addressee are probably from Fez, and have business with the Maghreb and Egypt. […] (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #228) VMR. Mentions a ship "al-markab al-mubārak", probably referring to a state owned ship or owned privately by the ruler.

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• dimme

2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Primary language

Arabic

ʿan salaf wa-ḥāḍir ʿan ghāʾib min al-tamassuk." Legible words and phrases from T-S 13J33.11 include: fa-lammā warada min al-shām... al-iṣtināʿ rājī... bi-murāʿā... wa-lā siyyamā wa-qad taqammaṣat(?)

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yaʿaqov b. Yiṣḥaq, in Aleppo, to his son Yiṣḥaq b. Yaʿaqov, in Fustat. Dating: c. 1030 CE (based on Frenkel's assessment). […] On verso there are Arabic-script writing exercises (each letter of the alphabet written with different letters after it).

2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from an unknown writer, in Qūṣ, to al-Shaykh al-Asʿad, probably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. […] Likewise none of the oil (duhn) has sold at all. The writer plans to leave the goods in Qūṣ and return to Fustat.

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• to edit

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Primary language

Arabic

Four names are mentioned: Ḥusayn al-Khamīrī, ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Najjār (the carpenter who repaired the waterwheel?)

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Document date

Sunday, 28 Muḥarram 547 Hijrī (5 May 1152 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto reports that Abū l-Riḍā received 25 dinars from "our master the Rav" (identified by Goitein as Elʿāzar al-Qaṣabī) and will buy for him 200 manns of sal ammoniac over the course of 1.5 months. […] from the judge R. Yaʿqūb. There are also calendrical jottings on recto and Greek/Coptic numerals on verso.

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Draft of the will of the teacher (al-muʿallima) Sittūna bt. Avraham the parnas, the sister of the teacher Wahb. […] Her personal belongings go to her sister's daughter Sitt al-[...] the [wife] of Abū l-Ḥusayn al-Ḥabrāwī.

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• funerals
• will

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Document date

1 Av 5279 Anno Mundi (29 June 1519 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Someone named Avraham b. Ḥayyim also acknowledges something related to the debt payment. There are several signatures, all mostly torn away.

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• heb
• late

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Document date

last decade of Shevaṭ [5]141 Anno Mundi (16 January 1381–25 January 1381 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The court convened in the synagogue; present were Bū l-ʿAlāʾ b. al-Wathīq and Sulaymān al-Ṣāʾigh, who negotiated at length concerning a quarter of a house; someone's daughter; and small sums of dirhams.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Entries include citrons and myrtle (for sukkot), the beadle (khādim) of Dammūh, trash collection (ramy turāb), Wafāʾ al-[...], Farajallāh, capitation taxes (al-jawālī) for the foreigner from Damascus (lil-gharīb al-Dimashqī); Ibn Sharwīl or Sarwīl; under the header 'mezonot' (food distribution), names include Hilāl.

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• account
• tax

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Primary language

Hebrew

Mentions someone who is known as "the madman" (al-Majnūn) who is also evil, like the people of Sodom, and a relative of the שורפא (=shurafāʾ = sharīfs?).

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• to edit

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Primary language

Hebrew

Later on, he amended "son" to "sons" to reflect the new recipient. See also T-S NS 108.78 + T-S H11.37 + T-S NS 96.54 (PGPID 41717). […] Friedman.) Identified by Alan Elbaum.

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• ib-addenda
• ib3

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Document date

Elul 1411 Seleucid (8 August 1100–5 September 1100 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

; 24 dinars and 5 qirats." Also mentions Ḥalfon's brother Elʿazar b. Avraham Involves a payment in installments over a period of 13 months starting in Elul 1411 Seleucid. […] (III) See PGPID 40208 (IV) See PGPID 8408 (Information in part from Goitein's index card with additions by MY/AA/ASE). Join: Alan Elbaum.

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Primary language

Hebrew

The prayer is entirely in Hebrew and mostly formulaic until the final line where a custom wish in Judaeo-Arabic was added after "may God grant all his wishes": that Moshe be reunited with Abū Naṣr his sister's son (mentioned also in T-S Ar.42.213 (PGPID 21145)).

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Primary language

Arabic

A neighborhood, probably what reads as "Ḥārat Baqāshī(n) l-Bilā[d]", which matches to al-Baqqāshīn, a human settlement north of Cairo. A few names also appear. Around it, in the upper margin, there are accounts in Arabic script in at least two hands.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The second instruction, written in the margin, is addressed to al-Dayyan al-Maskil (i.e., Shemuʾel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi) concerning a lawsuit made by Bū Hibatallāh, it seems instructing him to delay the date. Published by Allony, "שלוש הוראות אוטוגראפיות לרמב"ם," and again (with significant differences) by Friedman.

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• maimonides autograph

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