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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
• (+ 1 more)

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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
• ib4
• india book

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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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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Almost complete. Unclear if Ḥalfon himself is the sender; could be written on behalf of somebody else. […] חגה אסתעין בהא עליה). More recently he also spoke to Mubārak's brother Abū Naṣr and shamed him into offering 3 dinars, probably toward the same debt, but he chose not to accept this. […] He asks the addressee to collect one dinar from the sum owed by Asad and purchase with it olive oil. He also tells him to tell Hiba b. Abū l-Khayr to send a letter to Baqāʾ, who recently returned from Yemen with great wealth (וצל מן אלימן בנעמה כבירה).

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• halfon b. menashshe
• ib-addenda
• india book unedited
• to edit

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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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Document date

Ramaḍān 421 Hijrī (2 September 1030–1 October 1030 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Reused for Hebrew text (lower margin and verso), maybe including part of a book list (mujallad...). There is also ink transfer from another unrelated fragment on verso.

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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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Document date

5495 Anno Mundi (28 September 1734–16 September 1735 CE)

There are daily entries listing measurements for "al-Nīl al-saʿīd" in "fingers" (אצבע), which was one of the standard units for recording flood levels.

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• 18th c
• nile

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Primary language

Arabic

Mentions the treasury (bayt al-māl al-maʿmūr): بالنفق من بيت المال المعمور من جملة . . . .

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• account

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Recto: Claim on money (one dinar), though other property is also mentioned, and an acknowledgement of debt. The document has witness signatures in a different hand.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The congregation should also solicit from people who are absent from the synagogue.

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• charity
• communal
• recommendation

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Refers to Rabbenu Menaḥem. Also involves an excommunication and an oath made by somebody who refused to sign the will.

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• inheritance
• testimony

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Inventory of items in possession of Abū l-Surūr, including a ring with a semi-precious stone (‘faṣṣ’), an item adorned with four pearls, and various types of beads. Abū l-Manṣūr is also mentioned. Signed by 'the nazir' Yehoṣadaq b.

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• inventory
• jewels

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Repeatedly mentions a qisṭ (payment due?), Ibn al-Qasṭallānī, and ṣāḥib al-ḥawāla. Needs more examination.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

She is writing from Rashid (Rosetta) on her way to Alexandria, instructing her children to convey news to relatives and friends and to write to her.

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• personal
• women's letters

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Mentions galls, Camphor, and shipment of money. Nahray Also expresses his worries for his family in Qayrawan.

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• family
• money
• nahray b. nissim
• qayrawan

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Primary language

Hebrew

Verso contains greetings and the name of the addressee, Neḥemya b. Perahya. Recto also contains the name of the addressee. The letter may have been sent from the Yeshiva of Iraq to Fustat and from there to Damsis, which is mentioned in the address.

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• communal

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions a young man from Aleppo and a medicinal syrup. The letter is written in rhymed prose, like many of Abū Zikrī b.

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• abu zikri al-rayyis
• rhymed prose

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Primary language

Hebrew

The opening of a circular letter for "all the cities of the Rīf" in the name of Moses Maimonides. […] BL OR 5533.1, T-S 12.238, and T-S 16.9 are all versions of the same letter.

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• circular
• maimonides

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Awkal, Fustat, regarding a shipment of oil. Around 1015. Also mentions money that was sent to the Israel Yeshiva.

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Primary language

Arabic

The beginnings of ~6 lines are preserved, including prayers for the caliph: wa-li-mawlānā. . . amīr al-muʾm[inīn]. . . al-ṭāhirīn. . . . Reused for Hebrew text (see separate record).

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Musa ha-Tāhartī, probably from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1060.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yaʿaqov b. Ismail al-Andalusi, in Sicily, to Yoshua b. Natan al-Andalusi, in Fustat.

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• trade

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Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac (Estrangelo)

Palimpsest consisting of the Palestinian Talmud (including Peʾa 18d and 20b-c and Šeqalim, 44a-b; 46b), written over a Syriac text, The Life of St Anthony by Athanasius of Alexandria. Edited in Lewis (1902: 146–49) as text XXXV.

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• palimpsest
• syriac

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Primary language

Arabic

Many of the phrases are legible but the overall content is obscure. Mentions Abū ʿAlī Ṣemaḥ (ابو علي صمح) several times. Reused on verso for accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and some Arabic script. Mentions "3 from al-Fayyūmī."

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