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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Stating that the ḥerem stam will be issued by the Nagid in the synagogues for the benefit of the children and heirs of Hilāl the Alexandrian, whose will was not taken down in sufficiently clear form.

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• ban

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Judaeo-Arabic poetry in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. There are at least two compositions here (one of them oriented at 90 degrees).

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• nasir

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Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Everything is crossed out with vertical lines. Headed "with Isḥāq al-Qazzāz." Other names mentioned: Ibrāhīm; Ibn Abū l-Ḥayy; Abū ʿImrān; Bū Naṣr al-Mawāzīnī; Shākir.

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Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Mentions the eunuch (ṭawāshī) Sanad al-Dawla or Sayyid al-Dawla (cf. T-S AS 177.93 (PGPID 37044)) on fol. 1r and a qāḍī on fol. 2r.

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Document date

15 Jumādā II 423 Hijrī (29 May 1032 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Reused (a century and a half later) by Maimonides for a literary work on the other side. It is also possible that the date is 523 AH = 1129 CE.

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• maimonides autograph

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto, and margin of verso (secondary use): Letter or draft in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic involving Abū Naṣr al-Dustarī (=al-Tustarī) (d. 1049/50), something from "the West," [...]q Av Bet Din, and "our friends (aṣḥābunā) the Qaraites."

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• al-tustari
• qaraites
• unedited 11th c

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Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

On verso accounts in Arabic script, also mentioning an Abū l-Ḥasan, his travel, and the rent for a month; may be related to recto.

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Natronai (from the end of the 9th century). Also mentions Avraham b. Bahlul. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #46) VMR

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• communal

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The property is in Qaṣr al-Rūm (the Jewish quarter of Fusṭāṭ), in or related to Dār al-Qubba.

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Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Yefet ‘the generous’ gives his testimony and makes claims against Saʿīd b. Abraham. Also mentioned is [...] b. Ḥalfon the Ḥaver. (Information from CUDL)

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

In the upper margin, the sender asks to be informed, urgently, if it is true that the addressee is going out to the Rīf. He also mentions a shop. (Information in part from CUDL)

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Primary language

Arabic

Maybe a deed of sale, as 'al-mushtarī' ('the buyer') is mentioned at the bottom. Mentions [...] b. Ibrāhīm b. ʿAllān. There is an additional piece of parchment stitched onto the bottom (with the original thread still in place) with at least one additional witness statement/signature.

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Primary language

Arabic

Petition in Arabic script to somebody called "mawlānā al-Ṣāḥib." Conveying a story about a brawl at the Dār al-Wakāla and people getting arrested.

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Document date

5 Ṣafar 520 Hijrī (2 March 1126 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Dated: 5 Ṣafar 520 AH = 2 March 1126 CE. Sayyid al-Kull b. Jaʿfar, a clothier in Fustat (al-bazzāz bi-Miṣr), acknowledges a debt of 270 dirhams to the Jew Abū Hiba(?)

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Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The addressee may be asked to write to 'al-ḥaḍra al-nafīsa' on behalf of the petitioner.

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• bialphabetic

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The sender came down with an illness (wa-thāra ʿalā ʿabdih al-maraḍ) and he has been prostrated by it for two weeks (wa-lahū usbūʿayn maṭrūḥ), "may God not afflict any other Jew with this."

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• appeal
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: appeal

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Primary language

Arabic

Verso (original use): Fragment of a letter in Arabic script from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to 'al-shaykh al-rashīd,' aiming to pawn his turban for 40 dirhams.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Other people mentioned: Yehuda al-Fāsī, the Rav, R. Elḥanan, Abū Yaʿaqov, and Abū ʿImrān Mūsā Ibn al-Majjānī.

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• maghrib

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Document date

486 Hijrī (1 February 1093–20 January 1094 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Register of ground rent (ḥikr) receipts for Manṣūr b. Muslim al-Zajjāj for his compound in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ with numerous tidy entries spanning a period of approximately 15 years (starting 486 AH = 1093/94 CE and extending into the 500s AH).

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Arabic

Mentions "bi-mushārafat al-qāḍī . . . Yūsuf b. [...]." In the upper margin, ʿalāʾim and registration marks from different government offices (athabatū l-mablagh....).

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• receipt

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Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Mentions Qalyūb multiple times, and names such as Abū l-Riḍā, al-qāḍī al-muwaffaq (who may have sold the writer gallnuts/ʿafṣ), and Abū l-Makārim.

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Hebrew

Most of the fragment seems to consist of Hebrew literary text, but there are also two lists of names (some of them unusual): ʿEzra, ʿAbīd, Isḥāq, Dāʾūd, Zaqzūq, Saʿid, Sulaymān, Manṣūr, Ḥalīma, Huwayd, Salāma, etc.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Toward the bottom the name [Abū] ʿImrān Moshe appears (the buyer or the seller). The name Abū l-Ḥasan also appears at the top.

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The beadle Abu'l-Farah (known also as Tahir) pays 30 wariq dirhams for removal of garbage, apparently from the synagogue.

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• 13th c

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Document date

[4]911 Anno Mundi (23 September 1150–12 September 1151 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef in Mazara, Sicily, to Avraham b. Eliyyahu in al-Mahdiyya, inquiring about Perahya's uncle, Avraham Ibn Yiju. […] Elijah [Eliyyahu] of al-Mahdiyya. It is tempting to speculate that his letter was not sent because Peraḥyā realized he had made a mistake in writing the name of the addressee's father. But the appearance of two Abrahams of al-Mahdiyya in the same context is probably a matter of coincidence only."

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• ib-partial translation-eng
• ib3
• india book

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Document date

1351 Seleucid (1039–1040 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

Yaʿaqov b. Aharon, known as al-Jāsūs (אלגאסוס), and his ex-wife Surūra b. Shelomo the physician b. […] T-S 13J8.2, part of CUL Or.1080 J7, and T-S NS J149 all include versions of the same document, or at least concerning the same case. Verso: continuation of the drafted documents and a preliminary draft of a petition to al-Mustanṣir (see separate entry). (Information from CUDL)

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Inferred date

1700–1850 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In the first section, lines 9-10r echo the structure of the drafts in the join ENA 2716.10r and also the third section of the same page (l.26-31r) in ENA 2716.11. […] And the unit of weight "אוקה" is in also use (l.24). On the verso a wide variety of quantities in various Ottoman coinage denominations are listed often with respective numerical quantities, for example: gold "maḥbūb Istanbuli" (l.11v) and silver kuruş (l.13).

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• 18th or 19th c
• numismatic dating

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Judaeo-Arabic

Benaya, in Tinnīs, to Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī al-Maghribi, in Fustat, both prominent in the Geniza correspondence of the eleventh century. The writer mentions merchants from the Maghreb, Syria, and Iraq doing business in the busy Mediterranean seaport. He probably alludes to his illnesses in lines r3–6: "You tasked me with buying ladies' caps (maʿājir), but you know what a 'pain' (wajaʿ) it is, especially selling clothing in Tinnīs, from morning to evening. I relapsed only twice due to the burdens I take upon myself (mimmā najūr ʿalā nafsī). But today, praise be to God, I am in every state of well-being."

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• 11th c
• business
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: emotion
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yehuda, in Jerusalem, to the elders of the Palestinian congregation of Alexandria, specifically to the cantor Shela b. Moshe. […] The letter deals with a prior complaint from the congregation in Alexandria against Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen he-Ḥaver b. Yosef and reprimands him ("if what you have said is true") for degrading the title of ḥaver.

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• communal
• complaints

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Document date

5 Nisan 1453 Seleucid (2 April 1142 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from ʿAmram b. Yiṣḥaq, Alexandria, to Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel, Fustat, third page only (numbered at the top). […] After the trip of one relative to India, ʿAmram was left alone, and the loneliness only worsened after the trip of someone else (perhaps Ḥalfon himself). There is news of the arrival of another merchant, Yiṣḥaq al-Sijilmāsī; ʿAmram repeats his request to Ḥalfon to send him the commentary on Isaiah; he asks for help with the paperwork necessary for the estate of a family member of Ḥalfon.

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• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: chronic
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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Goitein's note card points out that Yefet and Peraḥya are the two brothers of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi Ibn al-Qaṭāʾīf and that the brothers also had at least two sisters. […] Yefet sent to Ḥalfon the bitumen (uṣūl(?) al-qifār) which he had requested. Regards to Sitt Naʿīm (Ḥalfon's wife).

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• yefet b. menashshe

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Simḥa ha-Kohen (in Alexandria) to his parents-in-law Eliyyahu the Judge and Sitt Rayḥān (in Fustat). […] Simha now begs her to visit again soon. See also T-S 18J4.10. Discussed in Goitein, Med Soc II, 251.

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• alexandria
• grief
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: children's
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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

This fragment begins in Arabic script, switches to Judaeo-Arabic for the remainder of recto, then switches back to Arabic script for all of verso except for a name written in Hebrew script. […] As for what the master needs to know without doubt: I was passing through the square (al-murabbaʿa) and found Bū l-Ḥajjāj al-Ṭabīb (the physician) talking with Ibrāhīm al-Jābī.

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• bialphabetic

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Arabic

To judge from his signature, he belongs to the imperial Çavuşān regiment or, alternatively, to the regiment of Çavuşān attached to the personal entourage of the governor of Egypt and known as the ‘corps of servants of the imperial palace’ (Ottoman Turkish, Cemāʿat-ı Gılmān-ı Dergâh-ı ʿĀlī). […] Meḥmed’s note is addressed to the Jewish ʿāmil, or tax farmer, of Miṣr al-Qadīma, whom he accuses of wrongfully taking a receipt for a shipment of sheep sent to Meḥmed by the amīr ʿAlī."

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• dimme
• old cairo
• seal

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Primary language

Ladino

Large cluster of 14 bifolios with accounts and lists in Ladino. These folios may have all be part of the same ledger given the sewing marks that appear on the inner spines. 15th-century or later based on the paleography. […] 5v: sugar. 7r: belts and gold items. 86: Umm(?) Moshe al-Qanshi/Qansi. 11v: "dos sondas" (drills or metal probes). 12v: Yiṣḥaq Marnon(?). […] Ducados, specifically, are also mentioned on folio 2r. Requires further examination.

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• 15th c or later
• ladino
• ledger
• sewn documents
• shanji

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso continuing onto recto: Instructions for treasure in a village called אלכרבה (al-Khirba?) in the Fayyūm, in a known genre: treasure-hunting instructions. […] Treasure manuals (kutub al-maṭālib) often send seekers to churches, monasteries, and ancient ruins. Assorted other notes: v10 קים may be קיס qis, “measure”; v10 ḥufra raṣāṣ, literally “a hole of lead,” presumably means a hole sealed or filled with lead, like a marker or dowel hole in reused masonry; v18 אלחליה perhaps a decorative feature on the qibla wall around the miḥrāb? On recto there is also an unrelated poem by Ibn Gabirol. ASE; MR

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• treasure

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He has purchased a 6-year-old female slave for Sitt al-Ḥusn and two pearl bracelets, among other items, which he hopes will be transported in the Kārim convoy. […] Mentions Khalaf the son of the Kohen, Yiṣḥaq al-Nafūsī, 'the parnas,' and Abū l-Surūr al-Kohen Ibn al-Dawānīqī.

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• ib7
• india book
• karim

2 Transcriptions

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

The Judaeo-Arabic portions are edited by Allony et al. Arabic portion awaiting transcription.

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• arabic script
• book trade

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Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

MS heb. c 56/17 is headed with a basmala followed by "owed by Abū l-Ḥasan al-Tājir al-Dimyāṭī."

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Hebrew

It is torn off before the substance of the letter begins. On verso there is also a legal document, a release (שטר פיצוי). Unclear if this is a draft or not.

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• vellum

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Judaeo-Arabic

The text oriented at 90 degrees may also be in the same hand, but it is difficult to tell as it was written with a wider calamus.

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• prescription

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