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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender has purchased flour. Also mentions sugar and sending things back and forth.

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• tarjama on right

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Primary language

Arabic

Account in Arabic script, probably fiscal based on the hand and the extravagant line spacing. The top line mentions al-jarīda al-madkhūra. L. 6 refers to a waẓīfa.

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Primary language

Arabic

Original use: Bottom part of a state document in Arabic script, containing only the ḥamdala, taṣliya, and ḥasbala. There is also one more word written in the margin at an angle.

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Primary language

Hebrew

Verso: List of names including Salāmah Ra's al-Kull, Abū l-Faraj b. al-Qaṭā'if, Yūsuf Ṣayrafī, Isḥāq Sharābī, [...] b.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions the names ʿOvadya and David, and reports that the son ('the noble branch' / al-farʿ al-najīb) R. Ḥayyim is in good health.

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Primary language

Arabic

Mentions 11 dinars, something related to the government (al-[...] al-maḥrūsa), the year 610 (=1213/14 CE) or 620 AH (= 1223/24 CE), and other quantities in pounds.

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Document date

Monday, 5 Av 1443 Seleucid (19 July 1132 CE)

Semaḥ (called ha-Meshorer, the poet or singer) and Sitt al-Kull bt. Berakhot ha-Levi. The separation took place three months earlier (8 Iyyar 1443/1132). By the decree ("marsūm") of Maṣliaḥ Gaon (probably after the request of the woman's father: see T-S 8.131), a committee of eight elders (all undersigned) was appointed in order to confirm and fix the alimony for Ṣedaqa's wife and child. […] This sum was intended to cover all her expenses for food, lighting, public bath and rent.

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• alimony
• divorce

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Document date

first decade of Iyyar 1447 Seleucid (4 April 1136–13 April 1136 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Sitt al-Banāt bt. Shelomo (Salāma) al-ʿAṭṭār inherited 1/6 of a house in the al-Mamṣūṣa neigborhood of Fustat from her late husband Abū l-ʿAlā' b. […] The buyer receives the husband's will and all former property deeds. Witneses: Natan ha-Kohen b.

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Document date

5604 Anno Mundi (25 September 1843–13 September 1844 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

She appoints a certain Moshe al-Gāzī to sign the engagement deed on her behalf (he also appears in AIU VII.D.100- PGPID 30594). […] The conditions are extensive, in part discussing how the bride's father commits to purchase an enslaved woman (שפחה) who will prepare food in the married couple's household. There are also a variety of conditions about future housing plans and the timing of the wedding.

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• 'adda
• betrothal
• contante
• early modern enslaved people
• late heb
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Document date

20 Sivan 4964 Anno Mundi (28 May 1204 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Levirate case in which a widow appoints an attorney to sue her brother-in-law with the demand either to marry or to free her. Zayn al-Dār bt. Zekharya, the widow of Yefet b. Shela Muqaddasī, appoints Meʾir b. Yakhin to sue the brother of her late husband to make him come to Alexandria to marry or repudiate her. Witnessed by the teacher Zekharya b. […] To write 4964 in Hebrew, you would have to use a lot of characters, since the alef-bet only covers up until 400. So 4964 would be דתתקסד (that is, 4(000) + 400 + 400 + 100 + 60 + 4).

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• 4800
• dating tricks
• marriage
• power of attorney
• widow

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. The letter also contains greetings and messages from several additional family members. Mentions: Hārūn b. [...]; previous correspondence and the hope that every ship would bear a letter from the addressee; how prosperity has returned in the country, and maybe that the silk dealers can't even keep up with the work to be done; how the addressee should act quickly (something to do with business); how Ibn Zaqṭūn gave them good news (also something to do with business), causing Makhlūf and their sister to rejoice. This sister may be Sitt al-ʿAshīr who greets Ṣedaqa in the next line, saying, "You would not know me if you saw me..."

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

It (word of this?) did not spread at all. It arrived in Damīra, 12 (dirhams) of profit. […] As for the combing of the untwisted silk into tow (Ar. tamshīq al-laʿāliʿ), this was attributed to the craftsmen who made the untwisted silk (Ar. laʿlaʿūhu) out of a middling robe without the lord's knowledge. […] The sender appears to be implicitly blaming the addressee for the low-quality goods he had sent but is offering him an out (in the spirit of judging favorably). See also Goitein's index card ("the recipient had sold him for less than he usually did").

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• business
• silk
• trade

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yiṣḥaq ha-Sefaradi, in Jerusalem, to Shelomo b. David Ibn al-ʿArīshī, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address written both in Hebrew and Arabic script. […] He conveys his longing for the addressee ("every time I go to the majlis and do not see you there, the world darkens for me") and that he prays for him always. He reports that he attended the lesson (nawba) of Abū l-Faraj b. […] He has been afflicted by regret (ולקד נדמת נדאמה אהל אל[...]) in this winter, "which has mired (me) in a mire never seen before" (alladhī awḥalat/awḥaltu waḥla mā ruʾiya [qaṭṭ]). Join: Alan Elbaum

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• 11th c
• appeal
• begging
• jerusalem
• qaraite
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Inferred date

1146–1146 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

The rabbinical court of Fustat reports hearing the news of the shipwreck first from gentile witnesses, but they waited to act until the news was confirmed by Maḍmūn himself, and shortly thereafter, three reliable Jewish witnesses also reported on the event. Divers salvaged some of the goods from the shipwreck. […] But Ibn Baqqāl refused, and further negotiations could not take place as he was already in the process of leaving. We know from PGPID 5534 that he arrived in Aden in 1146. The court in Fustat tells Maḍmūn that they accept if he has found anyone else to serve as trustee, and also empower him to make an arrangement with Ibn Baqqāl himself if the latter is amenable.

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• ib2
• india book
• shipwreck

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Inferred date

1132–1132 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Netanʾel (here called Abū Saʿīd b. Hibatallāh al-Dimyāṭī), which opens / refers to itself with the phrase "tadhkira mubāraka." […] Abū Zikrī Kohen served as Ḥalfon’s representative and paid a debt to Khiyār for him. Also mentioned here are business affairs of Halfon, in which Abū Zikrī Kohen and Khiyār participated together. […] The letter was written in 1132, and it is alluded to in Abū Zikrī Kohen’s letter to Ḥalfon, from Fustat to Aden, doc.

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• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• india book

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Document date

1 January 1132–4 November 1132 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Friedman/Ashur suggest that Abū l-Faraj was to hand over the goods to Ḥalfon in ʿAydhāb (l. 2, although it is cut off). The document stipulates Abū l-Faraj's return to Yemen before Kislev 1442, i.e. before November 4, 1130. […] AA subsequently identified ח101, which has similar wording and could plausibly belong to a different document, but he leaves open the possibility that it could also be connected to this document. ח101 (PGPID 9144) has a date: the last third of Tishrei in 1441 Sel. […] If the other documents refers to the same case, then perhaps this document can also be dated to 1129 CE. Otherwise, it is not possible to narrow down the date of this document except to say that it was written sometime before Kislev 1442.

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• ib-untranslated-eng
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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The congregation of Fustat has already raised 80 dinars, and he now must raise the remaining 30 dinars. The different copies are inconsistent about who stood security for him to allow him to travel. T-S AS 154.128 + T-S AS 147.5a says that it was "some of the Byzantines" (baʿḍ al-rūm), but this is crossed out and replaced with "the ḥaverim of ʿAsqalān, may they be remembered with a thousand blessings." […] (Information in part from Goitein's index card and CUDL.) Joins: Alan Elbaum

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• ashqelon
• byzantines
• captives
• fundraising
• ransom

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Various names are mentioned as well, including al-Shaykh al-Asʿad

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• carpenter
• construction

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Scribed and signed by Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya. Also signed by ʿEli ha-Kohen b. Yaʿish. The husband may be named Ḥal[fon].

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• get

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Primary languages

Arabic, Unidentified language and script

The unknown language/script may also appear in faint ink on the verso of the neighboring shelfmark ENA 2847.10.

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Primary language

Arabic

Ibrāhīm the Jew attests that he has received 15 rounds (aqrāṣ) of Levantine cheese (al-jubn al-Shāmī)from Ibrāhīm b. [...]. Dated likely late Mamlūk or early Ottoman.

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• cheese
• dimme

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Primary language

Arabic

Yaʿqūb. Trigger: ṣaḥḥa. See also: ENA 3945.9, T-S NS 297.171, T-S Ar.35.133, and T-S AS 181.31.

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• dimme
• jizya
• tax receipt

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender greets the entire congregation. Mentions [al-Shaykh] al-Sadīd Zikrī. There are prayers for God to reconcile the addressee with his opponent and to spare them from baseless hatred (sinʾat ḥinam).

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Primary language

Hebrew

The addressee is asked to speak with the sender's brother Avraham, and Yaʿaqov Villareal (he appears also in ENA 4101.10 and T-S 13J24.28). (Information from A.

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Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Some of the names mentioned are, Yiṣḥaq Kohen, Yaʿaqov Jamīla, and possibly "al-Yahūd al-Ṣafadī" (of Safed). The word "qamīṣ" (shirt) appears in many of the entries.

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• 15th or 16th c
• clothing

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Ḥalfon ha-Kohen; someone known as Ibn al-ʿAkkāwī; the neighborhood of raḥbat [...]; the situation of a property relative to a mosque; and a mature virgin (Sitt al-Sharaf?).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

With a rudimentary hand and spellings. Mentions Ibn Ṭayyib al-Zabībī, going to Tyre, selling wheat, Abū l-Qāṣim the addressee's neighbor, Ismāʿīl, and Abū ʿImrān Ibn al-Kohen.

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Primary language

Arabic

Folios from the versified book of Islamic Law entitled "al-Murshid al-Muʿīn" by the influential Moroccan Mālikī Jurist Ibn ʿĀshir (d. 1042/1631).

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• dimme

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Mentions names such as Nāḥūm, Barakāt, Manṣūr al-Naṣrānī, and Maḥāsin al-Naṣrānī. Weights are listed underneath the names.

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