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751Legal documentENA 4011.62
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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752LetterENA NS 63.4
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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753State documentT-S 10J11.23
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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754Legal documentT-S 10J21.11
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.
1. . . . . . . . . . ]א[בו אל]פצל מ שלה בר מ עיאש נע ידיע [
2. . . . . . . . . . . דלך אתבאתה פחצר אלשיך אבו . [
3. . . . . . [ . . . . ]מ . וקאל לנא אנני וק…
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755Legal documentT-S Ar.6.29
Primary language
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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756LetterT-S NS 102.104
Primary language
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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757Legal documentBodl. MS heb. d 66/77
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)
1. למא כאן פי יום אלא[ אל]תאמן מחדש מרחשון
2. דשנת אלפא וארב[ע מא]ה ושבעים ותלתה שנין
3. לשטרות בפסטאט מצרים דעל נילוס נהרא
4. מותבה רשותיה דהדרת יקרת צפירת תפא…
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758LetterENA 2808.62
Primary language
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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759Legal documentENA NS 18.27
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.
ENA NS 18, f. 27 ed. Friedman, Jewish Polygyny, pp. 56, N.H. 2-24-88, (P). Draft of a document containing a punishment for taking a second wife. Prob…
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760LetterENA NS I.66
Primary language
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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761LetterT-S 12.133
Primary language
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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1. כתאבי יאשיכי וריסי וכבירי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך וזאד פי א[חסאנה]
2. אליך וענדך ו ט' מרחשון ען סלאמה ועאפיה ללה אלחמד וצלת כתבך יאס…
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1. אני כותב, אדוני וראשי וגדולי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את שלומך ואת אושרך וירבה את חסדו
2. לך ולאשר לך, בט׳׳ו במרחשון. שלומי טוב, ואני …
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762Legal documentT-S AS 169.62
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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763LetterT-S 10J17.10
Primary language
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.
1. ותשועת צדיקים מייי מעוזם בעת צ
2. רננו צדיקים בייי והרנינו כל ישרי לב
3. ואמרתם כה לחי ואתה [[לחי]] שלום
4. אלדי אעלם בה חצרה מולאי וסידי
5. אלשיך אבו אלפצל אטא…
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764LetterT-S AS 148.161 + T-S AS 148.162 + T-S AS 148.163
Primary language
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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765List or tableT-S 13J18.3
Primary language
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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766Legal documentT-S AS 160.282
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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767Legal documentENA 2845.2
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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768Legal documentT-S K6.165
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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769List or tableCUL Or.1081 J63
Primary language
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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770LetterENA 2727.26
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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771Legal documentT-S 12.587
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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772Legal documentT-S 16.72
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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773LetterT-S Ar.39.100
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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1. ويكون جواب كتابي هذا الى بلبيس باخباره واحواله والعارض من حاجاته فانه يسرني بذلك
2. وساير البضايع غلت واقفة من السقط وغيره وسرت عن خلت(؟) و…
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774LetterT-S Ar.47.243
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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1. ]ה בנו אל [ ] בידינו ופיצינו
2. ] הגדול וכתבנו וחתמנו בכל
3. ]מנו בשביל אחותו
4. ]א אפיטרופוס שלה ובידינו
5. ] אלינו //כתב// כבוד
6. מבית דין הגדול ב[ ]
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775Literary textT-S Misc.28.145
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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776Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.12
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Loan contract (with interest?!). Faḍā'il b. Yosef and his mother Sitt al-Banīn bt. Avraham borrow 27.5 dinars from Sitt al-Ukhuwwa bt. Ḥalfon. There is an additional note on the same page stipulating that they will repay 0.5 dinars a month for a period of 6 years—which would yield a total of 36 dinars.
1. חדש סיון אתסז
2. אקני מן פצאיל יוסף בר יעקב ומן ואלדתה סת אלבנין בת אברהם
3. אן ענדהמא לסת אלאכוה אבנה חלפון //מ . . תה// מן אלעין אלגייד כז
4. דינ> נצף דינא…
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777LetterAIU VII.E.21
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
He says he set out to kiss the feet of the addressee in gratitude, but he fell sick in Banhā and was also sought out by the tax collectors. Some of the next lines are faded, but he later returned (home?) and decided to fast for 30 days and donate a dinar to the poor, and his children likewise. He also reports on the farming out of a concession for bee-keeping; Abū l-Ṭayyib al-Naḥḥāl has died and left behind him 300 hives.
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- benha
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- illness
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778LetterT-S 8K13.5
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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779Legal documentT-S 16.188
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.)
1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתימין לתחתא בשטר זבנא דנן
2. בתלתא בשבה דהוא חמש עשר יומין בירח טבת שנת אלפא וא[רבע
3. מאה ושתת עשר שנין למנינא דרגילינאנא(!…
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780LetterT-S Ar.40.187
Primary language
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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مملوكه فضائل اليهودي بن بقيلة
2 بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
3 عبدها يقبل يديها ويعرفها بان عبدها له اليوم
4 في اسكندرية ستة سنين مقيم باودي والجالية
…
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- arabic script
- capitation tax
- illness
- illness letter 969-1517
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781LetterT-S AS 178.223
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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782List or tableT-S NS 225.102
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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783LetterT-S 10J6.5
Primary language
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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1. בש'
2. לגברא דכולא ביה נהיר וחכים בר אבהן ובר אוריין דחיל חטאין ומהימן דיינא כרב נחמן
3. כג"ק מר' ור' ששון החכם והנבון נט' רח' וברכיה וסעדיה בכל אור…
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784LetterT-S 10J12.15
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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1. . . . .
2. וסעאדתך וסלאמתך ואעלמך י[א]כי מא אצף לך מא עלי קלבי [מן
3. מפאר]קתך [. . .] . . . . וג[מע אללה] ביננא ובינך עלי אפצל חאל
4. א . ל . . . . [ …
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785LetterENA NS 22.4
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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786LetterT-S 12.30 + JRL B 2367
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.
T-S 12.30, recto:
1. ותופא ואלדנא מר ורב לוי החב<ר> זל פי יום אלאתנין כד מן תשרי שנת אתק[כג לשט׳
2. אלמואפקה לשנת דתתקעב ליצירה והי אליג׳ מן מחזור רסב ותם…
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787Unknown typeDK 36
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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788LetterT-S 12.384
Primary language
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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789LetterT-S NS 338.100
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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790Legal documentT-S NS 320.126
Primary language
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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791LetterENA NS 7.85
Primary languages
Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic
The only name surviving in the address is Musāfir b. Hiba al-Sabīʿī, which is presumably an Arabic transliteration of the Hebrew al-Sheviʿi, 'the seventh. […] As for the content: the writer mentions the addressee's maternal uncle Abū l-Faḍl and a letter from a court to a court (or from a judge to a judge) and someone obtaining what is due him. Regards to 'all the children'; mentions someone's sister. ASE.
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792Legal documentMoss. IV,33.1
Document date
1165–1181 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Abū Naṣr; an agent, Abū l-Faḍlal-Parnas; the one he is an agent for, Abū l-Ḥasan al-Zajjāj Ibn al-Maṭar.
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793Legal documentT-S 16.151
Document date
Ṭevet 1441 Seleucid (15 December 1129–12 January 1130 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Abū l-Ḥusayn Shemarya ha-Kohen had deposited items with Abū l-Faḍl Shela before traveling abroad, but his return home was overdue and no one was sure whether the man was still alive. […] Written under the jurisdiction of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon, and, unusually, he also signs the validation giving his full name. (Information from CUDL.)
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1. 1 [ ]ק[ ]
2. [ ]ק[ ]א מ אלעז[ר ]
3. [ ] בר [ ] אלעזר [ ]
4. [ ] בית דין אן דלך [ ]
5. [ ] מן תחת ידה באלגמלה [ ] אודעהא אלאב[ ]
6. וכאלה מן מודעהא עלי תסלי…
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794LetterT-S Misc.28.72
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from Abū l-Faḍl b. al-Dhahabī to ʿArūs b. Yosef. In Judaeo-Arabic. […] Joseph (dated documents 1088–1116), a traveling merchant with his seat in Alexandria orders one irdabb of sieved wheat every month; he clearly did not wish to receive the entire quantity of the yearly provision at once, because, as he mentions, the price was high (only four waybas for 1 dinar)."
1. כתאבי אליך אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך ותאיידך
2. וסעאדתך וסלאמתך ונעמתך ואנא מהני למולאי
3. בהדה אלאעיאד אלמב[ארכ]ה ערפה אללה ברכתהא
4. וברכה מא יליהא ולא תסאל…
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795Legal documentENA 3392.1
Primary languages
Aramaic, Hebrew
Marriage document. A torn, faded and damaged ketubah. The name שמריה Shemarya is preserved, probably the bride's or groom's father. The marriage gift is 50 dinars. Although the date is not preserved we can date it to 1176 onward, thanks to the appearance of the stipulation regarding the bride's ritual bath after menstruation, enacted by Maimonides in 1176 (see M.A Friedman, "Social Realities in Egypt and Maimonides' Rulings on Family Law” Maimonides as Codifier of Jewish Law [N. Rakover ed., Jerusalem 1987], p. 230), and appearing in almost every ketubah from this year on (e.g ENA 3811.2).
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796LetterENA NS 71.15
Primary language
Arabic
Letter from Faḍāʾil to his father. In Arabic script. He has sent prior letters but received no response. […] Towards the end of the letter he describes that he would rather die “mittu wa-lā ʿishtu” as no one could enter the building(?), he is also unable to fast or observe holidays. It is unclear to determine the ongoing events but it seems like they had a tax farming scheme but the ʿĀmil and the Muḥtasib intervened.
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1. بسم الله ال]رحمن الرحيم
2. الذي اعرف به سيد]ي ووالدي جعلني الله فداه انني كتبت عدة كتب وما
3. وصلني لها ا]لجواب واشتغل ذلك قلبي كثير بحكم ما دخ…
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797Legal documentT-S AS 145.8
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Marwān releases the clothier (al-bazzāz) Abū l-Faḍl Yosef b. Avraham ha-Levi from all obligations.
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798List or tableAIU VII.D.72
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Many names of foods and herbs are given along with some people's names. Items include sumac, chard (salq), rue (sadhāb), green onion (baṣal akhḍar) or alternatively another kind of onion (baṣal [...]), mulūkhiyya, taḥīna, coriander, linseed oil (zayt hār), olive oil (zayt ṭayyib), honey ("from the kitchen/factory (maṭbakh) of Bū [...]"), saffron (followed by the name Bū Manṣūr), mastic (followed by the name Bū l-Faḍl), pepper (followed by the name Bū ʿAlī b. Bū Daʾūd), and cinnamon (followed by the name Saloman [sic!] al-ʿAṭṭār). In line three the writer seems to offer an option: "and if we/you think best (wa-in kān narāhu [or yarāhu?]...
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799Legal documentBodl. MS heb. b 13/39
Document date
middle third of Kislev 1487 Seleucid (26 November 1175–5 December 1175 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
In which the physician al-Shaykh al-Muhadhdhab Abū l-Faḍāʾil Yequtiel b. Moshe ha-Sar ha-Nikhbad ha-Sofer ha-Mahir Paqid ha-Soḥarim (ZL) sells his slave (waṣīf) Fayrūz who was born into slavery (muwallad) for 12 dinars to his maternal uncle al-Shaykh al-Thiqa Abū l-Barakāt Yehuda b. Elʿazar (ZL).
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1. [. . . .] אלעשר אלאוסט מחדש כסליו אתפז לשטרות בפסטאט מצרים
2. דעל ני]לוס נהרא מותבה חצרנא נחן אלואצעין כטוטנא באכרה אלי
3. דאר אלשיך אבו אלפצאיל אלט…
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800LetterENA 2738.23
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
(a) Letter from Yaʿaqov b. Yosef [..]ān al-Barqī to Shemarya b. Shemuel. He decribes the difficult winter they have had, not to mention the illness and inkisār (debts to the diwan? […] Khulayf (mentioned in several other letters) and having purchased two robes (shuqqatayn) for the addressee. ʿAwāḍ is also seriously ill, as well as his elder daughter. […] enter or leave." Mūsā b. ʿAllūsh has run away from his family. ASE.
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1. בשמ
2. ואלדי אעלמך [ב]ה אנני קד אנפדת לך מע בן קשישאת
3. כתאב ואשרחת ל[ך פיה] אלאמור וקד גמני עודאך (?)
4. פי הדא אלעיד ואנת תערף חאלי ומא לחקני מן אלמ…
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