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Account for shipping wood from Egypt to the Maghreb via Mayadiya. Also mentions accounts about shipping varnish and buying flax.

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• 11th c
• flax
• nahray b. nissim
• shipping
• trade

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender says that he would be able to obtain all that he needs if he could travel to al-Maḥalla 'or elsewhere' — evidently his goal is to leave his current place/position.

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Primary language

Arabic

The preserved text reads "liyaʿlam Inshāʾ Allah wa kutiba yawm al-khamīs".

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• decree
• dimme

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There are no names in the preserved portion of the address (من محبه لا عدمه الرملة سوق العطارين), but we learn that it is to be sent to al-Ramla, Sūq al-ʿAṭṭārīn.

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• arabic address

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Arabic

Measures of some commodities in terms of their monetary value and sizes are also mentioned. Needs examination.

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• account
• dimme
• mamluk
• nisf
• ottoman

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Primary language

Arabic

for Abū l-Mūnā b. Ibrāhīm al-Malījī (?) Bū l-Ḥusayn b. Sulaymān [tawliya al-shadd??].

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• dimme
• pinholes

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Letter from Natan b. Nahray (Alexandria), probably to Nahray b. Nissim (Fustat).

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• cloves
• indigo
• lead
• spain
• turbans

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A variety of of names are mentioned throughout the accounts such as: (recto) Aḥmad al-Mīʿmār (the architect), Muṣtafa[?] Bölükbaşı Ḥam_a min al-Muṣṭaḥfiẓān (a janissary regimental commander).

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• 16th c or later
• janissary
• list
• turkish words

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Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Small fragment from a ketubba. All we have are the usual stipulations found in marriage contracts. Part of the bride’s name has survived: [...]טר, so her name was probably סת אלנטר (Sitt al-Naẓar) Dating: Possibly 13th–14th century. AA

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• ketubba
• marriage

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A date in the month of Nisan is given but the year is missing in the lower entry. The upper entry may also retain a partial date. MCD/ASE

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• cmp

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Arabic

Starts with a basmala and ḥamdala and mentions al-Najm al-Yahūdī. " بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله كثيرا ..للنجم اليهودي" .

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• dimme

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Arabic

Second text in thick names has names [...] Ḥasan(?) b. Isḥaq al-(zujājī?) al-Yahūdī(?). Needs examination.

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• dimme

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Arabic, Hebrew

Verso: another letter (both are possibly drafts), also addressed to a notable, in the same hand, written transversely in relation to the text on recto, overwriting an earlier Arabic text (mercantile or fiscal account).

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Document date

73[.] Hijrī (25 October 1329–8 July 1339 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The seller is Dāʾūd and his son is also involved. Two witness clauses are preserved.

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• dimme

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Arabic

Letter from al-Ḥājj Aḥmad [...] to his son al-Ḥājj Abū Zikrī.

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Letter from Yeshua b. Isma’il al-Makhmuri from Malig to Barhun b. Musa al-Tāhartī, Fustat.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in which Shelomo, who was appointed to a new post, complains that he found only opponents and asks advice of the Nagid. He also complains about his illness (l. 16). (Information from Goitein's index cards.)

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• communal
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: marad

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Dirge on the death of a scholar which also appears in another document (Or 5557 P. f. 56) believed to have been written on the occasion of the demise of Shemarya b.

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• dirge
• poem

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a document preserving the beginning of an appeal by a plaintiff who feeling himself unjustly treated is exercising his right to interrupt public prayer until his case is heard. Involves Abū ʿAlī b. al-ʿĀbid.(Information from Mediterranean Society, II, pp. 324, 598)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Nissim, Fustat, to Abu al-Faraj Yeshu'a b. Ismail, Upper Egypt. The recipient is buying goods. Nahray writes with the news of Abu Imran's death, to confirm that Abu al-Faraj has the money from previous trades, and to discuss future ones.

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• 11th c
• nahray b. nissim
• trade

3 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Ḥayyim, mentioning Alexandria, Shelomo Solal (cf. T-S NS 175.30) and Yehuda Fanu.

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• 18th c

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Primary language

Aramaic

Legal document fragment, probably late 11th century, since witnessed by Yakhin b. Netanel who also signed T-S 13J5.2 ca.1085. Other witnesses: Shemuel b.

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• 11th c

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Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

A few phrases from the dowry list are preserved. Also signed by Moshe b. Ṣalḥūn. (Information from Goitein's index card.)

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Primary language

Hebrew

(Information from Goitein's index cards.) See also BL OR 5550.1 (PGPID 19202), another legal document involving Sa'dan b.

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• release

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter sent from Alexandria by Hayyim b. Eli ha-Kohen to his father in Fustat, asking him to complete a number of errands, in particular in connection with a woman, probably the writer's divorced wife.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Information in part from CUDL. See also Goitein's notes below.

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• ib6
• india book

2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Document date

First third of Elul 1446 Seleucid (12 August 1135–21 August 1135 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

One of the parties is Hiba. Also signed by Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen and Moshe b.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef. Mentions ʿAmrūn al-Iṭrābulsī; Al-Ashqar; gharīb nafūsī; ʿAyyāsh; lapis lazuli (azuward) both middling and high quality; starch; gum; 7 raṭls of something called "India"; nutmeg; boxthorn; sal ammoniac

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Arabic

Verso: Document in Arabic script mentioning the words al-waraq (paper) or more likely al-wariq (silver money), 28 dirhams, and a date, which looks like the beginning of Ṣafar 598 AH, which would be 1201 CE if read correctly.

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Arabic

Mentions names such as al-Fakhr, Abū l-Khayr, Manṣūr, Saʿd, and Abū ʿAlī.

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Primary language

Arabic

Asking the addressee to exchange the writer's possessions for food. Mentions Abū ʿAlīal-Parnas and the judge Efrayim. The writer is without work "and the mice have eaten my clothing."

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• appeal
• arabic script
• mice

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Primary language

Hebrew

Letter addressed to Shelomo b. al-Gazi(?). In Hebrew. Dating: Late, based on handwriting. […] to be deposited or which is already deposited in Ṣefat (Safed).

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• recommendation
• safed

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Primary language

Hebrew

Mentions ships and Alexandria. (Information in part from A. David via FGP.)

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• fgp stub

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Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions someone known as [...] al-Ḥarīrī al-Dimyāṭī (of Damietta), and financial affairs regarding a house.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Simḥa, asking him to give the bearer a copy of the book al-Faraj baʿd al-Shidda, immediately. Handwriting of Shelomo b.

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• informal note

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Abraham, verso is in Judaeo-Arabic and mentions the Jews in Fustat and Ibn al-F[...] and [...] al-Dawla. (Information in part from CUDL)

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Document date

Tammuz 1464 Seleucid (25 June 1153–23 July 1153 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Abū Manṣūr known as al-Shaykh al-Najīb. On verso there is unidentified Arabic writing.

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Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The parties are Avraham b. Faraj ha-Kohen al-Raḥbī (known from other documents from the late 11th century) and Yiṣḥaq b. David al-Fāsī. (Information in part from CUDL.)

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Arabic

Muḥammad recognizing the validity of a claim; and "official and governmental correspondence" (al-mukātabāt al-dīwāniyya wa-l-ḥukmiyya). Reused on verso for Hebrew text, probably literary ("my soul... bitterness of heart...").

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Arabic

There are statements about witnessing toward the bottom, including the name Sinān(?) al-ʿAsqalānī al-Tājir in the market of [...] in Fustat.

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Document date

13 Jumādā II 403 Hijrī (30 December 1012 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 13 Jumādā II 403 AH (December 1012 CE). Written by the jahbadh Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ. The verso is blank. Measurements: 12.8 × 6.7 cm.

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• abu l-hasan b. wahb
• damin
• tax

2 Transcriptions 2 Translations 1 Discussion

Primary language

Arabic

second to last line of recto) and the amirs Majd al-Dīn and ʿIzz al-Dīn. Needs much more examination.

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