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Document date

Thursday, 23 Ḥeshvan 1410 Seleucid (21 October 1098 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Containing an agreement between Abū l-Munā and Abū l-Faḍl regarding a debt of 55 dinars, 35 of which were to be paid immediately and the remaining 20 at the middle of Kislev. Also signed by Shelomo b. Yosef Av ha-Kohen and Yiṣḥaq b.

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Document date

Nissan and Sivan 1409 Seleucid

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Persons named as concerned (line 1) are Abu Fadl b. al-Assal and Ibn al-Lawwaz Sar Shalom b.

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• 12th c
• notebook

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Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a court record containing testimony about a negotiation between Abū l-Faḍl b. Abū l-Majd and Abū l-Barakāt b. al-Dayyān (a.k.a. […] In the top margin are a few words in Arabic script referring to Abū ʿAlī b. Dāʾūd and 100 dinars(?). On verso there are sundry other jottings in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script, including a calendrical list, phrases from letters, and lists of items like potash (ushnān) and lemon with Greek/Coptic numerals.

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• register

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Judaeo-Arabic

Yiṣḥaq (not the Tāhartī one) who also wrote Bodl. MS heb. d 68/110 (PGPID 2561) and Yevr. III B 640 (PGPID 27836). This letter is very faded. Mentions preoccupation due to news about ships; one arrived which had apparently been captured by Byzantines (and escaped?).

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• trade

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yaʿaqov, who is otherwise unknown, writes regarding a dispute with Ḥalfon over the sources of a halakhic ruling, whether one should refer back to the talmud directly or to the geʾonim. Also includes ad hominem attacks. Yaʿaqov sought to bring the dispute to arbitration before Ibn Migash and Yehonatan Ibn Ghiyāth. Faded and difficult to decipher, in addition the usual problems of vagueness on matters well-known to both sender and recipient.

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• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• india book

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Document date

1404 Seleucid (1092–1093 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Including: (1) A case involving Yaʿaqov b. Yefet and Ṣedaqa al-[...]. 1 dinar is to be repaid by Pesaḥ. (2) The wife of Abū l-Faḍl b. […] She 'cried out to the Jews' for help, and they sat/assembled and issued payments for the girl of 1/2 dirham a day. (3) Yaʿaqov al-Shaʿʿāb sued his in-laws for 3 dinars. (4) Abū Saʿd b.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He sends regards to Umm Faḍāʾil, Faḍāʾil, and his sister, and to Yāqūt and the children.

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Document date

8 Ḥeshvan 1473 Seleucid (30 October 1161 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Natan ha-Kohen concerning many claims dropped by Sitt al-Ḥasab bt. Abū l-Faḍl ha-Sar ha-Levi Ibn al-Baṣrī against one of her agents who happened to be a tenant in one of her houses. Written and signed by Mevorakh b. Natan he-Ḥaver; also signed by Yaʿaqov b. Yosef ha-Kohen. (Information from Mediterranean Society, IV, p. 326, and from Goitein's index cards)

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Judaeo-Arabic

The sender reports that after finishing the letter, al-Bazzāz al-Ḥajj arrived and insisted that the sender's son owes him 11 dinars and that he knows that the son arrived in Damascus. […] Asks for the response to be sent with Umm Fadāʾil. In the margin of verso urges the addressee to not be negligent (unusually, uses ר for غ in the word ghafla) in obtaining a rescript (al-tawqīʿ) and reminding Ibn al-Dimyāṭī to help with paying off the debt.

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Document date

1390 Seleucid (1078–1079 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The entries on recto are very faded. The one that begins at the bottom of recto contains a statement by Yosef b. […] Mentions the wife of Sulaymān, a judge (al-shofeṭ), the house or wife of Abū l-Surūr. Also mentions a mill (ṭāḥūna) and maybe someone named Shāhīn. The bottom entry on verso is a detailed list of the items pertaining to the Dār al-Ṣarf that were sold in the presence of the court (Yefet b.

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• polygyny

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter. Quite faded. In Judaeo-Arabic and some Hebrew. Addressed to a dignitary. […] Mentions a man titled "al-Meʿuttad" and a letter from him. Mentions the community of Damīra and a quarter-dinar. Also mentions Damietta and Tyre. (AA, OZ, ASE)

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• to examine

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Mūsā b. Barhūn al-Tāhartī and his brother Yiṣḥaq b. Barhūn, in Qayrawān, to the senior Tustari brothers (Abū l-Faḍl Sahl (Yashar), Abū Yaʿaqov Yosef, and Abū Sahl Saʿīd the sons of Yisraʾel), in Fustat. […] Though the address lists all the brothers (the members of the respective family firms), the letter is principally from Mūsā al-Tāhatī to Sahl al-Tustarī.

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• qaraites
• textiles
• trade

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ḥalfon and his wife Maḥfūẓa bt. Yosef known as Zayn al-Tujjār. Underneath, mentions Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. [...] […] Headed: "the names of those who are sued (? al-mudʿā ʿālayhim)." The list includes: [...] the sister of Abū l-Faḍl; ʿElī b. [...]his father [...] b.

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• bialphabetic

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Document date

Av 1466 Seleucid (2 July 1155–31 July 1155 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Seller: the trader (tājir) Abū ʿAlī b. Natan he-Ḥaver. Buyer: the trader (tājir) Abū l-Faḍl b.

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• bill of sale
• ib-addenda
• reuse
• slave

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Primary language

Hebrew

Verso, upper text block: Panegyric in to a notable woman in Egypt followed by an appeal for assistance in rhymed prose. All in Hebrew. Verso, lower text block: A second piece of paper was glued to the bottom, containing a different poem in the same hand, at 90 degrees to the upper text block. This poem is very faded. Recto: On the larger page created from the two pieces of paper that were glued together, there is a third poem, in the same hand, this one a panegyric to a male notable.

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Primary language

Arabic

Mentions 300-something al-kharājiyya (a year? in which case this would be ~1009 CE at latest). […] one seems to be Būṣīr) and quantities of faddāns (200, 300, 500, 11,00, 1400, 5000). Cf. T-S Ar.35.348 (PGPID 39233).

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe (active 1100–38 CE). Concerning Abū l-Faḍl Shela b. ʿAyyāsh, Faraḥ, and Abū Yaʿqūb (Yosef) al-Lebdī, 22 bales of something, and something which either was or was not mentioned in a letter.

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• halfon b. menashshe

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Judaeo-Arabic

Shemeul b. Seʿadya. Very faded. Verso: Sketch for a legal document, to the effect that Abū l-Bayān and the Rayyis, after much negotiation, reached the following compromise: Abū l-Bayān will take over the shop with all its perfumes/drugs (ʿiṭr) and food (maṭʿūm), and he will owe the Rayyis 76 3/4 dirhams and some vessels (burniyya/barānī).

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Abū l-Faḍl to his father Abū l-ʿIzz. In Judaeo-Arabic. […] Ahmed, "An Initial Survey of Arabic Poetry in the Cairo Genizah," Al-Masāq (2018).) Either the bottom half of the letter was torn away, or the letter was never finished.

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• judaeo-arabic poetry

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a certain Hibatallāh to the physician al-Shaykh al-Thiqa Abū l-Faḍl in the Fayyum. Since this person is independently greeted in the body of the letter, the main addressee must be someone else, presumably a family member or associate of his. […] Reports very low prices of wheat in Cairo and a story of unsold bread. There are also subsequent jottings on verso apparently in the same hand as the letter, including a list of names in Arabic script (Barakāt, Ismāʿīl, Abū Saʿd, and Abū l-Faraj) and a partial story in Judaeo-Arabic stating that someone used to tell "me and my teacher and Rav Ḥananʾel" that "in the days of the king Ardashīr...." There are also pen trials on both recto and verso in a different hand.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Eliyyahu (ca. late 12th and early 13th century). In Judaeo-Arabic. Faded. Compare T-S 24.72 (PGPID 1811). Mentions the sulṭān numerous times and at one point specifies al-Malik al-ʿAzīz. The sender had requested that the sulṭān's teacher (al-muʿallim alladhī lil-sulṭān) keep him apprised of something. […] T-S AS 148.163r mentions "mawlānā al-wālid," probably greetings to Eliyyahu. ASE

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Judaeo-Arabic

Names include "Ghālib b. Sitt al-Ahl" "from Abū l-Faḍl b. Fāṭima" (recto top margin). On verso: "the woman wearing the radda"; "the one known as Sitt al-ʿAlam"; Fāṭima bt. Farjiyya the old woman (al-ʿajuz); [...] bt. al-Jayyida; Muʿizz b. […] Verso also contains a few additional jottings and several lines of the beginning of an Arabic letter at the bottom.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(3) Lease from Sālim Ibn al-Lakhkhāf (cf. Bodl. MS heb. f 56/52v and Moss. […] (7) Debt contract for Abū l-Ḥasan al-[...]. (8) Contract for Faḍāʾil b. Wafāʾ. […] (9) Refers to [...] al-Banhāwī and a qirāḍ in the sum of 50 dinars(?).

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• slave

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Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. Handwriting of Natan b. Shemuʾel? In which [...] Khalaf the parnas who used to be a ḍāmin (tax farmer or guarantor) appoints Abū l-Faḍl the parnas of Cairo as his agent to collect a sum of money.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Faded note in Judaeo-Arabic referring to [...] b. Yosef and Sitt al-Dalāl bt. Yiṣḥaq. Verso: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. […] Yaʿaqov Rosh ha-Seder? Refers to Sadīd al-Dawla Elʿazar ha-Levi Hod ha-Leviyyim. The commodities that are somehow related to him include Sumac, black raisins, and walnut.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Makārim b. Faḍā'il, probably in Qūṣ, to Hibat Allāh (at least a mawlā of this name is respectfully greeted at the end), presumably in Fustat. […] The writer asks the addressee to inform a woman (the female pronouns likely refer to an actual woman rather than being signs of respect to al-ḥaḍra like earlier in the same letter, because here they are not referring to the addressee) that he has sent her 120 dirhams with his neighbor Abū Saʿīd the Qaraite, and he is anxious to know if they have arrived.

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Document date

First decade of Tammuz 1489 Seleucid (June 1178 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ḥotam ha-Levi (known as 'al-Masos') promises to pay to Abū l-Barakāt b. Abū l-Faḍlal-Quṣayyir a sum of money, when 50 ṭamāwiyā of wine sold to the letter by the former's son (who meanwhile had left for Aden) had been found to be bad.

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Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Deed of transfer in which Abū ʿAlī Shemuel b. Aharon ha-Kohen gives his wife, Karīma bt. Mevorakh, the widow of Abū l-Faḍl […] b. Moshe, the gift of part of a house in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ, Fusṭāṭ.

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Primary language

Arabic

The remainder of the goods are not selling (sāʾir al-baḍāʾiʿ ghalat wāqifa). The sender has done something with 450 (what unit?) […] The sender repeats that cotton is very expensive, and "[...] the crop of this year, for a tremendous, extraordinary heat came (fa-qad jāhu ḥarr ʿaẓīm fadhdh aʿẓam al-[...]."

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Document date

1048–1049 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Dating: Ca. 1048/49 CE. Damaged and faded. Mentions a scholar who escaped from trouble with the government, apparently in the Maghrib; his sister and a guardianship; that the community honored him when he came to Jerusalem "three years ago [in] the year 4806," which is 1045/46 CE. Also mentions Natan Av Bet Din. Goitein speculated that this might be a description of Daniel b.

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• spain

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Primary language

Arabic

Muḥammad b. [...] and Ibrāhīm al-Shāmī (neither seems readily identifiable, unless someone can decipher the poems or the name of Muḥammad's father). The text is faded and damaged but merits further examination. The most legible (but unattributed) poem includes two lines that continue to circulate in anthologies of zuhdiyyāt (sometimes credited to the mourners of ʿAbdallāh b. ʿAmr al-ʿĀṣ): لِلْمَوْتِ فَاعْمَلْ بِجِدٍ أَيُّهَا الرَّجُلُ ...

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• classical arabic poetry
• palimpsest

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yakhin), Fustat, to Bū l-Futūḥ (Yehuda b. al-ʿAmmānī), Alexandria. Meir reports that he received the letter containing the two qawls and apologizes for having sent a letter complaining about not receiving them shortly earlier. […] Here the letter is torn off horizontally. The verso is more faded but probably mostly decipherable. Meir inquires whether his cousin ("ibn khali") Manṣūr b. Maʿālī is in Alexandria with Yehuda, because he heard that he had been in Minyat Zifta ("May God guide his perplexity").

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: excuse

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Document date

Tuesday, 15 Ṭevet 1416 Seleucid (3 January 1105 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū Saʿd Ḥalfon (lines 18, 20, 26 but spelled Khalaf in line 4) and Abū l-Faḍl Yosef, sons of Moshe ha-Kohen, a high government official (titled Saniyy al-Dawla, cf. T-S NS 204.14 (PGPID 23924)), sell a Nubian female slave named Ḥidhq ("Dexterity") to their sister Zayn Sitt al-Dār (identical with Zayn Sitt al-Ḥusn from T-S 12.104 (PGPID 16119)?) […] Natan Av Bet Din, who was also the scribe for the document. (Information in part from Mediterranean Society, I, p. 137.)

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• bill of sale
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Arabic

Letter of appeal/private petition in Arabic script. The writer, Faḍā'ilal-ʿŪdī b. Baṣīla (?), had lived for 6 years in Alexandria until he had to come this year ("in which nothing is blessed") to Fustāṭ. […] He asks for charity especially for the rent of a boat (to travel back to Alexandria?). He concludes with blesings for the addressee, in the midst of which he writes, "If it were not for God and your mercy with regard to this year's jāliya, I would be in prison."

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• appeal
• arabic script
• capitation tax
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
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Primary language

Arabic

Seems to be an addendum or final page of a letter, since there are no opening greetings but rather begins "... tamām al-kitāb...." Mentions various business matters; something that is in high demand this year; "my goal is only... my mother-in-law (? ḥamātī), and the house/wife (al-bayt), and the female slave (jāriya), and the male slave (ʿabd)[…] Concludes with greetings to various people, including: Abū l-Qasam ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, Abū l-Faḍl; Brāhīm al-Fāsī. At the very end, the scribe Barakāt chimes in with his own greetings.

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• slaves

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

One mentions a commentary (Perush); another might mention (Abū) l-Thanāʾ; then Muḥammad al-Ṭabīb (the physician); a bound Arabic "Tadhkira" (likely Tadhkirat al-Kaḥḥālīn); 19 notebooks/quires; 7 dirhams of rent owed for a shop; 4.5 dirhams owed by the writer's cousin (ibn ʿamm) Yosef b. Abū l-Faraj Ibn al-Tawwazī (cf. T-S 6J5.19 (PGPID 17122)); and other debts owed by Abū l-Faḍl Ibn Nafūsī(?), the writer's maternal uncle, Sayyid al-Ahl, and various other people. At the bottom there are several lines of a damaged list of materia medica (headed "ḥawāʾij al-ʿiṭr") in Arabic script.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Natan b. Yehuda of Alexandria to Sason b. Meshullam, a judge of Cairo. The letter contains many personal matters that reflect the milieu of the political elite in Alexandria and Cairo. The letter reveals important details on the life of Avraham b. […] Saadya (referred to in the letter as 'the rayyis Abū l-Faḍl) in Alexandria after the year 1094 died in the end of the first decade of the twelfth century due to a sudden disease.

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: foul play
• illness: treatment
• personal

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, likely sent from Alexandria. Very faded. Concerns a dispute between groups within the community and mentions the synagogue. One group turned to the amir "Nāṣir al-Dawla wa-Sayfuhā" to intervene. There was a person -- Ibn al-Dayyan -- who went to Fustat "to execute the rescripts from the king" (wa-kharaja ilā Miṣr fī injāz al-tawqīʿāt al-musallama min al-malik). Mentions someone from Tripoli (al-Iṭrābulsī) in the margin. It is hard to extract further details.

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• alexandria
• communal strife
• nasir al-dawla
• nile

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions numerous people: Simḥa, Yūsuf, Ibn al-Sharābī, ʿAbd al-Ghaffār b. Makhlūf Ibn al-Ḥajjār, ʿImrān, al-Shamūsī, Thanā', Faḍl, al-Shaykh al-Rashīd Abū l-Faḍl, and Sayyidnā.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(This is consistent with the information from T-S NS 264.98, a letter written by Moshe, indicating that both Moshe and Levi were alive in 1206.) We also learn that Abu l-Mufaddal the judge died in 1212, only a month or so following the death of Moshe. […] [If there is substance to their claims,] how have they ignored this matter for all this time? ... Every penny that falls into my or my wife/family's hands goes to [Abu l-]Bayan... and it is the same with Abu l-Fadl." […] Each poem mourns multiple deaths—a father, a brother, and a judge—in addition to the main subject of the elegy, and this letter clarifies that Yedutun indeed lost a father, a brother, and a judge in rapid succession. Join: Alan Elbaum. ASE.

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• abu sahl levi
• funeral
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: chronic
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The. names of the parties appear, but they are very faded. In the margin refers to something feminine or plural "coming from Tilimsān." On recto there are a few words in Arabic script, very faded. VMR. ASE.

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Primary language

Hebrew

Above and between the two verses remains of a (legal?) text in faded ink are visible that include the words פרוטה and י״ב זוזים. […] Yaʿaqov are written in the same faded ink. (Information mainly from CUDL.)

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Judaeo-Arabic

On recto: "...the freedwoman (al-maʿtūqa)... and the rest of the furnishings... and the quarter of the... to Sitt al-A[hl?]... […] Shaʾūl, the widow of Abū ʿAlī Ibn al-Ṣabbāgh." Verso includes the details of a deed of sale for a female slave, a black woman named Intijāb. […] Ṣadoq, perhaps the wife of Abū l-Faḍl Shela ha-Levi Sar ha-Leviim (who also appears in T-S 10J28.16 in 1157 CE, another slavery-related document).

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• slaves

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Document date

1430–1431 CE

Primary languages

Greek, Hebrew, Judaeo-Greek

There is a calendar for the year 1430/31 CE (folio 26), written in an interesting ink that has faded to pale silver; the page now looks blank at a glance, but much of the text is legible. There are accounts (folios 1 and 15) with a Hebrew grammatical structure (X של Y) but in which nearly all of the nouns are in a different language, presumably Greek in Hebrew characters, but needs examination by an expert. […] The former at least is signed by a Shabbetay who also gives the name of his city (קרישטו = Karystos, probably).

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• byzantines
• byzantium
• greek
• judaeo-greek
• notebook

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Judaeo-Arabic

Zikri Rosh ha-Kahal, Abu l-Faḍl and his son Abu Sahl, Abu l-Munā, and Abū l-Faraj al-Parnas.

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• fragment (head)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

and a request to write to the boy of Abū ʿImrān b. Ibrāhīm b. al-[...]. The letter is quite faded and damaged, and it is difficult to figure out more.

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