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Short letter from Yahya b. Musa al-Majani to his uncle, Ishaq b. Eli al-Majani, probably from Mahdiyya.

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Letter from Isma’il b. Farah from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Probably September 25, 1056.

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Hebrew

Letter from a certain Shemuʾel to a dignitary called Thiqat al-Dawla. On parchment. In Hebrew. Consisting entirely of blessings and flattery for the addressee and his son Saniyy al-Dawla (perhaps an effort to obtain private charity).

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Document date

Monday, 12 Iyyar 5337 Anno Mundi (29 April 1577 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Signed (and probably written) by Yosef b. Moshe Dammūhī, also signed by Rānī(?) Shtīwī. (Information in part from CUDL.)

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• dammuhi

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter, mentions consignments from the Aleppians to Fustat (the writer had written to Damascus).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Note on vellum sent on the evening following the day of Atonement, asking to return liturgical material for the feast of Tabernacles, which the writer had “borrowed.” The writer also wishes that the fast of the addressee should be accepted by God.

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Ya’aqov b. Awkal’s agent in Alexandria. The writer informs b. Awkal about a ship that suits b.

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Primary language

Arabic

"mā rāḥ ḥaẓẓuk fī l-ʿūlyā bi-muntaqiṣ", a variant of the poem by al-Buḥturī. Contains a name "Ḥassūn b. Muḥamad b. ʿAbd al-Ṣamad". Needs examination.

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• dimme

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(Information in part from Goitein's index card.) See also Med Soc III, p. 414 no. 319a.

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• ketubba

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Document date

Tuesday, 13 Nisan 1326 Seleucid (5 April 1015 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Bride: Muʾammala, described as בעולתא (= not a virgin but also not a widow/ארמלתא or divorcee/גרושתא). In the hand of Yefet b.

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• ketubba

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Primary language

Arabic

Needs examination. (There are also two lines in Arabic script on recto, which say "to my noble master" followed by blessings.)

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Document date

21 Ramaḍān 544 Hijrī (22 January 1150 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Wuhayb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm Dated: 21 Ramaḍān 544 (22 January 1150). With endorsements/registrations at the top ("athbaṭū al-mablagh..."). It is unclear if/how the text on verso is related.

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Document date

15 January 1882 CE

Primary language

Arabic

Refers to the railroad (ṭarīq al-sikkat al-ḥadīd). Signed by Shamʿūn b. Yaʿqūb (Shimʿon b.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions the maṭbakh (sugar refinery) known by the name of "the sons of al-Lebdī" (awlād al-Lebdī); a deed (sheṭar) in the writer's possession, and an Arabic-script document.

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Primary language

Hebrew

Both instances of the name Sahlan are spelled without the usual alef.

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Primary language

Arabic

Verso: Petition, probably ("al-mamlūk..."). In Arabic script. Small fragment from the upper right corner. Mentions the word Ṣalāḥ, which may be part of the name Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn (Saladin). Reused on recto for piyyuṭ. (Information in part from CUDL)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter mentioning a number of names (although most are broken off after Abū) such as al-Najīb, Abū l-Makārim, Abū Isḥāq, Maʿānī b.

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Primary language

Aramaic

Contains some rare formulae, some of which are also found in T-S 12.118. See M. A. Friedman's edition for further information.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts for brazilwood for Barhūn, mentioning several sums of dinars and people such as the Kohen at the Dār al-Baraka, Ibn al-Majjānī, and Mūsā. Hebrew numerals.

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• account

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Probably the top of a legal or communal declaration (naqūl....), introduced by a Hebrew composition with citations from Numbers 18:7 and allusions to Ezekiel 44:8. Location: Cairo (al-Muʿizziyya).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentioning Hilāl b. Binyām (appears also in T-S AS 148.166 and T-S 13J27.9) and, later, (Abū) l-Faraj Binyām.

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Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On verso (original use) there is a piece of a document in Arabic script greeting al-Ḥakīm Jamāl al-Dīn. (Information from CUDL and Amir Ashur.)

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• avraham maimonides autograph
• cheque
• order of payment

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions al-Talmid al-Jalīl αnd something to do with the synagogue (עלי אלהיכל קבל ראש השנה), and conveys greetings "from the congregation."

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Judaeo-Arabic

Seems to be complaining about the difficulties faced this year: "...we have no mind and no [...] from all the storms (? al-anwāʾ) which have happened to us..."

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer is sending regards to some family members including Efraim, and also to his sister Rivka and to Mas’uda, Amran, Zaharun and Moshe.

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• ja
• late

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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 languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions values of some items and then Yefet b. ʿAmram al-Dayyān and ʿAbd al-Munʿim.

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Primary language

Arabic

Mentions names such as Abū ʿAbdallāh and Hibtallāh b. al-Ḥasan b. Khalaf al-Qaysarānī. Merits further examination.

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Primary language

Arabic

Letter from Abū ʿAlī b. Barakāt al-Isrāʾīlī to Abū Saʿīd b. Abū Sahl, in the perfumers' market in Fustat.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The recto mentions a date in Jumada al-Awwal but the meaning of the alphanumerical year is unclear: מץ[?]

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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

Judaeo-Arabic

After the beginning of a citation of a legal document, it refers to the death of Abū Manṣūr, who is "the son of my sister"; it is not clear if this is an actual person or a fictional example. Also mentions "the illnesses of his heart."

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• illness

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List of recipients of charity (bread) along with the khuddām al-kanīs (the list begins with three parnasim).

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• charity
• communal
• glyph
• moshe b. levi
• poverty
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Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

Verso: A few words in giant, calligraphic Arabic script: mawlāy al-shaykh al-jalīl. . . . Recto: Rhymed Hebrew maxims about the months of the years, including Tammuz, Sivan, and Av (the last, roughly translated, "in like a lion, out like a lamb").

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• arabic script

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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

Arabic

The sender expresses his gratitude to the addressee, who may be referred to as al-mawlā al-shihāb(ī). Mentions an account (ḥisāb) and a dīwān.

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• dimme

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Ibn Elishaʿ, Alexandria, and the number 70 (in the margin).

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• alexandria
• ib-addenda
• ib5
• india book unedited

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138) informing on various business transactions including one to Dammuh. Cairo is also mentioned in the fourth line from the bottom of the recto.

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• halfon b. menashshe
• yefet b. menashshe

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Inferred date

1871–1888 CE

Primary language

Arabic

Typewritten or printed letter addressed to Moshe Pardo, the head rabbi of Alexandria (served 1871–88). In Arabic script, with Hebrew insertions.

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• christians
• messianism
• printed

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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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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

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a will in which a gift is given to Abū l-Faraj, the brother, and to Abū Saʿd, of a part of a house and a warehouse including some books, probably written by Hillel b. ʿEli. Also mentions a copy of the book Midrash Hashkem (מדרש השכם).

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• will

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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

522 Hijrī (6 January 1128–24 December 1128 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Written on a reused page that already had a few words in Arabic script written on it (referring to the months of the year 522 AH = 1128/29 CE). On verso there is a Hebrew alphabet writing exercise.

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• arabic script

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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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