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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Inquiry whether a meeting should be held in the Palestinian Synagogue (kanīsat al-shāmiyyīn) concerning "the affair of ʿAmram ha-Talmid Ibn al-Duājī".

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Inferred date

1000–1055 CE

Primary language

Arabic

The writer states that he will send reports on a daily basis "aktub bi-l-akhbār al-mutajaddida fī kull yawm". The phrase "aḍammathu l-kitāb al-kabīr" demands examination.

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• dimme

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Document date

27 Av 5599 Anno Mundi (7 August 1839 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yaḥyā Mizraḥī in Alexandria to Binyamin de Curiel in Cairo. Dated 27 Av [55]99 AM = 1838 CE, this nineteenth-century dating is confirmed by the paleography.

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• 19th c

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Judaeo-Arabic

Business letter from Mūsā b. Abū l-Ḥayy in Alexandria to Abū l-Afraḥ Avraham (ʿArūs) b. Yosef in Fustat.

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• flax
• trade

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Primary language

Hebrew

Dating: ca. 1090 CE. The scribe, also a Byzantine, has been identified by Ben Outhwaite.

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• appeal
• byzantines

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Document date

Kislev 1[4]14 Seleucid (14 November 1102–13 December 1102 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: mentions a period beginning in Kislev 1[4]14 Seleucid = November/December 1102 CE. Mentioning Alexandria. In which the 'righteous elders' intervene and settle a dispute, with Yeshuʿa agreeing to repay a debt of 6 dinars to Abū l-Barakāt Benaya b.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Important business letter sent from Alexandria by Farah b. Ismail to his father in Fustat, containing details about delivering money, commodity prices, and ordering goods from Fustat.

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• trade

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(Information from CUDL.) See also DK 201.2.

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• 13th c
• account
• partnership
• shelomo b. eliyyahu
• wine

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Abū Saʿīd Ibn al-Dimyāṭī (i.e. Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi); Abū Isḥāq; Abū ʿUmar; Abū ʿAlī; Ibn Muʿallā.

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• ib5
• india book

2 Transcriptions

Primary language

Arabic

Medical prescriptions for "the little one" (al-ṣaghīra) Sitt al-Bayt(?) and for her son. In Arabic script.

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• prescription
• to edit
• to examine

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Document date

694 Hijrī (21 November 1294–9 November 1295 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Subsequently reused by Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī (see separate record).

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Arabic

In a different hand, there are several dozen names written in the margins of recto and on verso; these may be the names of the petitioners or alternatively an independent list (e.g., alms distribution list).

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• petition

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Primary language

Arabic

Mentions "the great resolution" (al-ʿazm al-kabir) in l. 2 and possibly jihād and rich people (dhawī l-aḥwāl wa-l-rafāha) in l. 3.

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Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

T-S Ar.51.76v + T-S Ar.51.77r: A book list of a book seller. Allony et al date this to the first half of the 13th century, while Frenkel dates it to the second half of the 11th century.

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• booklist

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Order from Mordekhai Ḥafeṣ to a cheesemaker (al-muʿallim Yaʿīsh al-Jabbān) to hand over to the bearer of the note 2 ½ [pounds?

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a teacher to a certain Moshe informing him that his son, Abū Saʿīd, read his Torah portion with a translation (tafsīr; likely refers to an Arabic translation but could also refer to Aramaic targum) and his portion in the Prophets as well.

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Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The left edge has been cut into a serrated pattern. There is also a small diamond cut out of the bottom, and a string has been used to tie a knot through this hole (to turn it into a decorative hanging?).

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• interesting shape

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a statement by Abū l-Ḥasan b. Sibāʿ al-Ṣāʾigh (the goldsmith) that he has received 75 dirhams from his maternal uncle Abū Naṣr Ibn al-Dimyāṭī.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recommendation letter for charity for Yeshuʿa Ibn al-Miṣrī al-Ṣunbāṭī. His difficulties include something to do with his son and the jizya.

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Arabic

The addressee is referred to as 'al-ḥaḍra al-ṭāhira' which in another context could refer to the caliph, but this is a very routine-appearing letter and it is doubtful that the addressee is the caliph.

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Primary language

Arabic

With the registration notes at the top "li-yuqābal bihī in shāʾa Allāh" and underneath "qūbila." Then the mark that may say "nuqila" which cuts through the text. The body of the document begins with a basmala, then "ʿaraḍa min al-amīr [...] bi-taʾrīkh...." The date may be Shawwāl 554 AH, but this is not certain.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Recto: list headed by the glyph, entirely consisting of materia medica. Verso: also a list of materia medica, such as doronicum, Chinese cinnamon, crystalline sugar, mace, borage-water, nard, cloves, Myristica fragrant, Elettaria cardamom and Cissus vitiginea.

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Primary language

Arabic

Recto (secondary use): Letter of appeal for charity from Asʿad b. al-Ḥājj Ḥusām. In Arabic script. Dating: Probably Mamluk-era. He says that "I have nothing over me" and that he is "on the tiles/floor/pavement (ʿalā l-balāṭ)" and asks for the price of a mat (ḥaṣīra).

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Judaeo-Arabic

The bifolio was probably part of a broader booklet given the two sets of thread-holes along the spine. Joins: Alan Elbaum.

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• olive oil
• sewn documents

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Primary language

Arabic

The rest of the fragment is also covered with Arabic script, but much of it is crossed out, and it is hard to say if there is another document here.

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Primary language

Arabic

There is another line of Arabic script at the bottom of the document in a huge script mentioning two Jews. Recto also seems to be some sort of an administrative document but most of the text is effaced and difficult to read.

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• dimme

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

term Yūsufī; Bint Mufliḥ; Bū l-Majd; a ruqʿa in the hand of Ibn Mufaḍḍal Ṣāʾigh; Yūsuf; Baqāʾ b. Nuʿmān (appears also in T-S NS 297.209 (PGPID 24814)).

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Arabic

It is a title and a name, perhaps Thiqat al-Dawla Ḥammād b. ʿAlī. Above it, at 90 degrees, there is another text block in Arabic script.

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• arabic script
• decree

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

This recently discovered document presents a detailed account of the calendar controversy from the perspective of a Qaraite. It is also the only source confirming that the controversy continued until the beginning of 924, when Palestinian and Babylonian calendars converged back to the same dates, without however either side emerging victorious over the other.

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• calendar
• controversy

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Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

The entries have headers such as makhzan; al-dār al-maʿrūfa bi-Ibn Dāwūd; duwayra; duwayra; makhzan; duwayra; ḥānūt; ḥānūt.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Yehoshuaʿ, in Tyre, to the ḥaver Abū l-Faraj Shemaʿya b. al-Faraj, in Jerusalem. See neighboring fragments. T-S NS 322.101–17 all belong to the same dossier as Gil, Palestine, #521–23.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Letter or essay regarding the proper authorities to consult when learning the art of ophthalmology; the author of this fragment seems to be a partisan of using ʿAlī b. ʿĪsā's handbook Tadhkirat al-Kaḥḥālīn, and "the big books" must only be consulted from time to time.

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• medical
• tadhkirat al-kahhalin

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions the brother of the Rayyis Abu l-Najm, Ibn Munajja, Zayn al-Din b. al-Sawwaf. In the margin, "abstain from soft bread and water."

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

There is a poem addressed to Abū l-Faraj Yehoshuaʿ Ibn al-Qamūdī; a poem addressed to Shemuel Ibn al-Lebdī (hence Goitein's inclusion of this fragment in the 'India Book'); a poem addressed to Abū Sulaymān, complaining about the delay of the response to his panegyric from Menashshe b. Ibrāhīm al-Qazzāz; a poem that he sent together with a Purim present; poems on generic themes (parting, elegy, praise); and a poem that he wrote to a friend who gave him some cheese instead of the wine that he had asked for.

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• cheese
• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib1
• india book
• literary letters
• (+ 1 more)

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Both brothers were assassinated (Abū Saʿd in October 1047 on the orders of his rival, the vizier Yūsuf al-Fallāḥī, whom the caliph’s mother then had killed in June 1048; and Abū Naṣr in 1049 or 1050). (Information from Rustow, Heresy and the Politics of Community, 322.) See also Mann, Jews in Egypt and in Palestine, 1:82 and Gil, In the Kingdom of Ishmael, sec. 371.

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• al-tustari
• elegy
• fire
• liver

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Document date

First decade of Ḥeshvan 1493 Seleucid (12 October 1181–21 October 1181 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Avraham, appoints Maʿālī b. Khalaf al-Dajājī as her representative to sue her ex-husband for the 12 dinars owed to her under the terms of her ketubba. […] Seʿadya ha-Levi (active ca. 1181–1209). Also signed by Levi b. Avraham ha-Levi (likely identical with the cantor Abū Sahl Levi, the father of Yedutun and Moshe).

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• abu sahl levi

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

In which the correspondents state they are well, “though troubles passed over us during the years of famine, from all of them our God rescued us.” The correspondents also assure Daniel of their loyalty to him, “rejoicing in thy kingdom (a reference to his descent from King David) and taking pride in they epistle.”

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• famine
• jewish community

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In the present letter, among other matters, he asks the addressee to purchase for him a good copy of Hilkhot ha-Rif (al-Fāsī). The handwriting switches halfway through this letter. […] Avraham (see DK 230.2), but rigorous identification will require further examination. Abū Saʿd may also be identical with Saʿadya and he could have relied on another scribe.

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• sedaqa b. semah

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

May mention madder (fuwwa); two bales; and a bribe (barṭīl). Mentions ʿAbd al-Raḥmān. In the bottom section, calculates the remaining credit of Abū l-Surur Ibn Yijū in murābiṭī dinars (beginning with 19 1/2). […] In the section at 90 degrees mentions his credits with Wāfī and Hilāl and Ibn Umm al-Futūḥ. On verso mentions Ibn al-Ṣābūnī

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• account
• ib-addenda
• ib3
• yiju

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Inferred date

1150–1181 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ḥananya) gives 3 dirhems, the physician Abū l-Najm contributes 2 for his father and himself, which he pays by transfer, ḥawāla; three other persons also pay by transfer. In the hand of Mevorakh b. […] The persons to be solicited are mostly grouped according to their professions, al-Ṭibb, the members of the medical profession, forming the largest single group of tardy contributors.

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• pesiqa

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Najm [...] al-Muʿallim the brother-in-law of Kamāl b. Yūsuf, in Fustat, to his 'brother' the cantor Musāfir ha-Bavli, in Alexandria.

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517

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Primary language

Arabic

Letter from (Abū Saʿd) Ibrāhīm b. Sahl al-Tustarī (d. 1048) to [...] b. ʿAzarya. In Arabic script. […] ʿAzarya, but there are also attestations of Yosef b. ʿAzarya, Efrayim b.

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• al-tustari
• unedited 11th c

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Primary language

Ottoman Turkish

"The latter cluster of fragments is a conglomeration of recycled alphabetical practice, epistolary exercies, voweling drills, and model correspondence that were cut uniformly and bound together as scrap paper. […] The inscription left by Abūlafīya could also indicate that he was one of the students responsible for the exercises.

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Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The letter is to be delivered to Fusṭāṭ, al-Murabbaʿa, the shop of Abū ʿAlī b. Abū l-Ḥasan. […] Opens with blessings for the addressee's sons Abū ʿAlī Yefet and Abū l-Makārim Nadiv. Conveys congratulations for the holiday.

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• recommendation

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Document date

Thursday, 17 Sivan 1386 Seleucid (4 June 1075 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

ʿEli ha-Parnas ha-Neʾeman produces before the court a letter from Nahray in which he announces that he wants to pay a debt of 36 dinars owed to the wife fo Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb (brother of R. Moshe al-Andalusī), the daughter of the daughter of Abū Durra, out of a debt owed to him by Abū Isḥāq b. […] Likewise a silver box with pearls (obviously belonging to that young woman / ṣabiyya) should be deposited in court. She had also part in consignments of flax and other goods, which he would send.

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