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Primary language

Hebrew

Asking him to conduct the fundraising drive (pesiqa) and give him the funds without delay, so that he can travel. Also mentions the judge Rabbenu Ḥananel (b. Shemuel?).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Includes the phrase "min dār al-fanā' ilā dār al-baqā'."

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Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The sender is from Minyat [...]. Verso also contains a list of the community of Fusṭāṭ’s weekly expenses, in Judaeo-Arabic.

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Primary language

Arabic

Some sequences can be read: l. 1 al-maʿānī allatī and l. 2 b. Isrāʾīl; at the end of the document, traces of signatures of the witnesses.

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• dimme

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Primary language

Hebrew

A vast array of signatures are listed, such as: Yosef David Bu-Alʿafiya, Yiṣḥaq ... Rofe, Ḥayyim(?) al-Ḥadīb, among others.

Tags

• tiberias

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Primary language

Arabic

Refers to a document with the signature of 'the king of the Turks' (وعليه خط . . . . ملك الاتراك). Also perhaps a wish that a different person be employed in a certain government position (. . .

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Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: ca. 1034 CE. See also CUL Or.1080 J85 (PGPID 8880). (Information from CUDL and Goitein's index card.)

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Primary language

Hebrew

The letter is written by Tamim b. Tobias from Aleppo around 1036-1037. (Information from Goitein's index cards)

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• 11th c
• aleppo
• petition
• private

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Document date

17 Heshvan 5585 Anno Mundi (8 November 1824 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from David ben Naʿim to Moshe ben Naʿim in Alexandria concerning business matters, dated 17 Heshvan 185 (5585 of the Era of Creation = 1824 CE).

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• 19th c
• ben na'im
• business

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Eli Kohen Fasi, from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. June 27, 1057.

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• coin
• nahray b. nissim

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Avraham b. Tahor, in Alexandria, to R. Ḥananel, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Nissim (according to Gil) or by Barhun b. Yiṣḥaq al-Tāhartī (according to Ben-Sasson) to Barhun b. Musa al-Tāhartī in Fustat, containing prices of goods and information about the movements of ships.

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• nahray b. nissim
• trade

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Document date

4890 Anno Mundi (16 September 1129–5 September 1130 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: 4890 AM = 1129/30 CE. Location: Alexandria (?). On verso there is a note of transference of ownership (of this document?)

Tags

• release

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Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

In Hebrew for the introduction, Judaeo-Arabic for the body, and Arabic for the address on verso: from Yūsuf b. Khalaf to mawlāy al-ḥazzān(?) al-jalīl. The upper margin of recto was reused for a Hebrew scribal exercise.

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Primary language

Arabic

The sender reports that conditions are terrible in his location; reports on the price of wheat and bread; prays for deliverance from God; mentions his intention to enter Alexandria; begins to provide an update on the condition of Abū Ghālib.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A mention of Ba'al ha-Mahanot, which can be translated as Amīr al-juyūsh, Badr al-Jamālī.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef, concerned with business matters, and mentioning people including ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm, Abū Sahl Mukhtār, Avraham, ʿAllān, Abū l-Waḥsh, and Abū Naṣr.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter sent from al-Mahdiyya by Hayyim b. Immanuel to Mevorakh b. Saadya in Fustat, dealing with a purchase of books for Mevorakh from the estate of Berekhya and dismissing the allegation that the recipient was stealing partners from existing partnerships.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter sent from Alexandria in which a cheese-maker asks his son to send him the receipt for his capitation tax and writes that he hopes to travel home as soon as the Khalij canal of Fustat has enough water.

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Primary language

Hebrew

Looks like the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī (active ca. 1300). Verso: poetry in honor of ha-Sar Nissim, in a different hand an ink than recto.

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• nasir

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Rhymed prose in Judaeo-Arabic, perhaps with a bit of Hebrew. In the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. One side involves a physician; the other side involves a retelling of the story of Moses bringing down the Torah.

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• nasir

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Document date

20 Shaʿbān 405 Hijrī (13 February 1015 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Written by the jahbadh Mīkhāʾil b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ.

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• abu l-hasan b. wahb
• daman
• tax receipt

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions something in agreement with the opinion of al-Qāḍī al-Rashīd. Then again refers to "the signature/handwriting (khaṭṭ) of the amīr."

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Primary language

Hebrew

Shelomo and Shelomo b. Yiṣḥaq. Also mentioned in the line underneath the signatures: Yiṣḥaq b.

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Primary language

Hebrew

The sender heard that a certain woman 'went up' from somewhere to somewhere (שמעתי שעלתה הגברת...). The sender also departed from somewhere (מיום צאתי משער...).

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• late heb

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ṣadoq (active mid-12th century in Alexandria).

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• alexandria
• capitation tax

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Primary language

Arabic

The trigger term might be افرد but needs further examination. The ʿalāma at upper left seems to read wa-l-ḥamdu li-l-lāhi ʿalā iḥsānih

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Document date

520 Hijrī (27 January 1126–16 January 1127 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Receipt for 1/3 dinar for the capitation tax of Yaʿqūb b. Isḥāq al-Yahūdī in al-Maḥalla for the year 520 AH = 1126/27 CE.

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Document date

19 Muḥarram 541 Hijrī (1 July 1146 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Capitation tax receipt for [...] b. Hibatallāh [...] al-Ḥasan the Jewish banker in Fustat for the year 541 AH. […] Several registrations at the top, including one mentioning Dīwān al-ʿAmal (the Office of the Fisc).

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Primary language

Arabic

مسلوكه المغربي(؟)) and perhaps "one of the diggers of the neighboring districts" (aḥad ḥufaraʾ al-nawāḥī al-mujāwira). Needs examination.

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Primary language

Hebrew

The portion of the text that is preserved mentions the names: Moshe Almados[?] and Ḥabīb/Ḥavīv Ben-Alḥam_[?]. MCD.

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• 16th c or later

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Document date

463 Hijrī (9 October 1070–28 September 1071 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

In Arabic script. Groom: Zayd b. ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn. 1.5 (dinars) are mentioned. May be dated.

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• muslim marriage contract

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Mainly materials for ceilings and roofs, palm branches, ropes, reeds, etc. Treesare also listed and the supply of doors. (Information from Gil, Documents, pp. 189 #20.)

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• 11th c
• account
• communal
• qodesh
• waqf
• (+ 1 more)

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Page from a children’s Hebrew textbook consisting of the consonants alef to tet with the various different Tiberian vowels.

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• education

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to Eliyyahu the Judge (c/o the shop of the sons of al-ʿŪdī). In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper right corner). Mentions the month of Ramaḍān and the Muslim holiday (presumably ʿīd al-fiṭr). It is difficult to gather much more from this fragment without a join.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Elʿazar and Abū Luʾluʾ (this might also be another Abū l-Walīd) b. Elʿazar. Commodities include mummy and possibly Valencian gold (דהב בלאנסי).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts of rents of communal apartments occupied (with one or possibly two exceptions) by women, including Dār al-Maqāniʿiyya and Dar Ibn al-Kallām. Dating: ca. 1181 CE.

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Primary language

Arabic

Probably sent from the village of Danūhiyya (modern spelling: دنوهيا) in the Sharqiyya district of the Nile Delta (the water situation in دنوهية is mentioned three lines from the bottom). Also mentions agricultural land "arāḍī l-muzāriʿīn."

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• dimme
• to edit

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: letter in Judaeo-Arabic with introductory rhymed praises in Hebrew. Addressed to al-shaykh al-Talmid. Little of the substance is preserved.

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Primary language

Arabic

Includes the raʾy clause (fī hādha l-bābi ʿālī l-raʾyi in shāʾa llāhu). On verso there are liturgical instructions in Judaeo-Arabic followed by a prayer in Hebrew (attributed to al-Zinjārī?).

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• dimme
• petition
• to edit

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