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Document date

Monday, 25 Jumādā I 423 Hijrī (9 May 1032 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions Aḥmad b. Hibatallāh al-Wakīl. The last sentence states that ʿAlī b. […] Two names visible are ʿAbd al-Raḥmān and Yaḥyā.

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• dimme
• inheritance

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Document date

first decade of Av 1456 Seleucid (1145 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yefet; Yeshuʿa b. ʿAmram. The qiyyum also lists Yosef b. Yaʿaqov ha-Mumḥe as one of the witnesses and is signed by Menashshe b. […] On verso there is a receipt for all but one installment—115.5 dinars—dated 1457 Seleucid and signed by Shelomo b.

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• debt

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Underneath mentions Abū l-Faraj b. al-Sadīd b. al-Faqīh Ibn Mukārī(?). On verso one of the Arabic jottings refers to a medical epistle by ʿĪsā b. ʿAlī.

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Document date

16 Dhū l-Ḥijja 1245 Hijrī (8 June 1830 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Letter in Arabic, from a state official within Meḥmed ʿAlī Pasha's administration detailing a variety of transactions involving individuals with the title Effendi. Dated 16 Dhū l-Ḥijja 1245 AH (1830 CE). Meḥmed ʿAlī Pasha is referenced indirectly at least once in the letter (l. 8: efendīna wālī al-niʿam) where his title appears in connection with a kethüda who was in the Pasha's service.

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• 19th c
• state

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The document concerns Yaḥyā b. Yehuda al-Ẓefira, his brother Saʿīd b. Yehuda, and Saʿīd b. Dā'ūd al-Abhar, who all jointly own and live together in one house.

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• yemen

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Primary language

Hebrew

Daniel is not named in the letter or address, but can be identified by his ʿalāma, ישועה, which occurs at the end of the letter and next to the direction of the letter on verso. […] In a different hand, there is also a long text consisting of a collection of passages from the Babylonian Talmud, Ḥagiga 12; Moʿed Qaṭan 5, 9, 16, for liturgical-homiletic purposes.

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• daniel b. azarya

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: 18th or 19th century. The righthand page is all women: Simḥa the sister of Mikhaʾel ben Naʿim; the daughter of Nissim Danon; Rayna the daughter of [...] […] the daughter of Eliyyahu Levi [...]; Esther the daughter of Manṣūr al-Fallāh; Astūta(?) the daughter of Yosef Abū ʿAsal; Kona(?) the daughter of David Levi ʿAjamī. The lefthand page is all men: David Mafriel(?); Nissim [...]; Eliyyahu [...]; Binyamin and Nissim who are connected somehow to Yehuda Dayyan; Yosef Zakkay; Merkado Aghion; the sons of Nissim Molkho; Avraham Levi Wazzān; Yehuda Levi Skandarī; Ḥayyim Levi [...].

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• late prosopography

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Involving a bridegroom and his fiancee, Sitt al-Ahl. After a temporary dissolution of the engagement, the prospective groom agrees that all future income from his fiancee, Sitt al-Ahl, would be considered her property.

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• engagement
• halfon b. menashshe

2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter previously thought to be from Abū Yaʿqūb Ibn al-Najera, somewhere in Spain, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel, likely in Lucena. […] [However, T-S AS 149.119 is a letter from Ibn al-Najera and does not resemble this one.] This letter recounts the writer's visit to a woman who owed him 10 mithqāls, but he found her sick. He now asks Ḥalfon to advance him a certain sum, probably the same 10 mithqāls, for the purpose of his travel to Almeria. Information from Goitein and Friedman, India Book 4, pp: 182-183.

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• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: marad
• (+ 2 more)

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yaʿqūb b. Salmān al-Ḥarīrī, in Ramla, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fusṭāṭ. […] In some respects it is a standard mercantile letter, mentioning various commodities and prices. The sender also mentions being caught in a storm while sailing from Jaffa, the port of Ramla.

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• famine
• sea travel
• shidda

2 Transcriptions 3 Translations 1 Discussion

Inferred date

1161–1172 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a letter from Peraḥyā Yijū to Abu ʾl-Fakhr Ibn al-Amshāṭī. Written in al-Maḥalla, ca. 1161-72. […] Presumably, Abu ʾl-Fakhr's other children, whom Peraḥyā had blessed with life in [PGPID 4741], line 3 and margin top, did not survive. Alternatively, III, 53, was written before the birth of the other children

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• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib3
• india book

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

She asks the addressee to speak to her brother (probably Sālim al-Naqqād al-Ṣayrafī) and rebuke him for not helping her in this foreign land. […] Later she specifies that she only left to reach al-Shām (Damascus?) but never made it. If they want her to come to Fustat, they must send her the costs of the journey.

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1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Outsiders: seven from Cairo (in a separate appendix superscribed 'The Cairenes and including the beadle of that city'); three each from Alexandria and al-Mahalla; one from Qus; one Maghribi; one from Damascus.

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• capitation tax
• census
• tax

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Hebrew

The author calls his addressee, somewhat unusually, ‘my sage’ and ‘my scholar’. It also goes through and refutes a list of numbered Palestinian arguments. All three texts share in common the tendency of attributing absurd calendrical opinions to their opponent in order to refute them easily.

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• calendar controversy

1 Transcription 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

His brother Mevorakh b. Seʿadya is also mentioned (l8). The sender asks for employment in copying books. "This country on account of our sins now has few scholars, and nobody seeks any of the works/knowledge (? maʿnā min kathīr al-maʿānī) which these lands are famous for...."

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• 11th c

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Document date

22 Shevaṭ 1576 Seleucid (9 February 1265 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Written and signed by ʿImmanuel b. Yeḥiel, also signed by Efrayim b. Shemuel ha-melammed. In which the creditor, Abū l-Majd b. Abū l-Maḥāsin, transfers to his wife Saʿdiyya bt. Abū l-Fakhr al-Ṣayrafī David b. Yefet's remaining debt of 327 dirhams of the original 377 dirhams owed.

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• immanuel b. yehiel

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The letter is mainly about arrangements for the long-deferred pilgrimage of Mūsā b. Barhūn al-Tāhartī to Jerusalem. On verso, amidst family greetings and business matters, Moshe conveys his wife's urgent request for myrobalan for her to drink. […] At least four letters from Moshe to Nahray survive: see also T-S 13J13.5 (from March), T-S 13J17.18 (from July), and Halper 411 (May 1054 CE).

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: treatment
• illness: women's
• jerusalem
• (+ 4 more)

2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender's father sends his regards as does "the little one" (al-ṣaghīra) Zayn al-Dār (it seems that Goitein deduced from this that the sender is married to Zayn al-Dār and that he is writing to his father-in-law).

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• christian
• personal

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Document date

Tammuz 1530 Seleucid (16 June 1219–14 July 1219 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Eliyyahu to his paternal aunt Umm Daʾūd, asking for her daughter Sitt al-Yumn in marriage and enquiring about the dowry. […] Eliyyahu, concerning the claims between two sisters and Thanāʾ, the mother the late Manṣūr concerning the inheritance of the late Ibn Abū l-Majd the dyer Ibn al-Nāʾila. Abū l-Maḥāsin guarantees his mother ʿIbād’s release for her sister Ḥasab and Thanāʾ bt. Sayyid al-Ahl. (Information from CUDL.) See CUL Or.1080 J116 (PGPID 8889) for a list of related documents.

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• 13th c
• inheritance
• marriage
• shelomo b. eliyyahu

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Seʿadya, the agent of Yaḥyā b. Maʿ[ālī?], and Maḥāsin b. Shemuel and his divorcee (Qiwāma bt. […] Yosef ha-Levi is quoted, who sold half of his house in New Cairo in the Zuwayla quarter. Also mentions Yosef b. מרא. (Information from Goitein's index card and CUDL.)

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Document date

439–40 Hijrī (28 June 1047–4 June 1049 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

May involve a tax farm (ḍamān) and includes the dates Ṣafar 439 AH and Rabīʿ I 440 AH. Mentions "al-miʿdiyya": a raft or a pontoon bridge (Agius, Classic Ships of Islam pp. 376–77 citing Ibn Baṭṭūṭa), and also mentions a "jisr", a dyke or a bridge.

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• dimme

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Document date

Monday, 8th of Adar II Seleucid

Primary language

Hebrew

Dating: Not before 1019 CE when Shemuel wrote his will, but not after late 1026 when his son Avraham was already mature, and sued his guardians in court. The eighth day of Adar II occured on a Monday on 1020 and 1023. […] For the guardians' actions see also PGPID 3478 and PGPID 3013.

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• register

2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions people such as 'the woman' (al-sitt); Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm Ibn Siqbāl al-Andalusī; Barakāt Ibn Shūʿa; "my cousin (ibn ʿammī) Yiṣḥaq; and 'the woman the daughter of al-Kharazī.'

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• gems
• gold
• materia medica
• women traders

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Primary language

Arabic

Reports on the delivery of produce (al-ghalla), most likely state produce. Recto: Scribal practice. […] and the Muslims have great benefit" (ولنا وللمسلمين به نفع كبير). Also mentions "ḍamin maks bi-miṣr" (overseer of the customs in Fusṭāṭ).

1 Transcription

Primary language

Arabic

He asks the addressee to meet with somebody (al-amīr?) about the matter of the sender's brother. […] Closes with a raʾy clause, an afterthought ("please meet with him in the alley of Wikālat al-Qand"), then another raʾy clause.

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• dimme
• petition

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Greetings are sent to Abū ʿAlī, al-Talmid al-Jalīl, and the addressee's wife: מא צדקת הדא . . .

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Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Only scattered words and phrases are preserved (translations uncertain): "...apostate... when you read this... you declare an excommunication... or cause for them... for them in any harm... and judg[e]... if there is any opposition from you... that you prevent that action..." Ends with the ʿalāma/motto עזרת מעוז, perhaps identifying this as from the office of the Gaʾon Sar Shalom ha-Levi (cf. […] On verso there is either the beginning of a petition (a basmala then al-ʿabd al-mamlūk yu[qabbil]) with massive line spacing, or simply a draft of the first two lines.

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Primary language

Arabic

Seems to regard a construction project for a government building (Dār al-Malik and maybe al-ḥujra al-saʿīda are mentioned on recto) and quantities of an item in raṭls.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Rough translation: "... the divine overflow which my m[aster] left with me... and my master knew all of the... God-fearing, and the slave (=I) copies/conveys it from [...] which my ancestors knowledgeable in the [...] copied/conveyed... Israel, among the 'people of the path' (ahl al-ṭarīq) who are... the son of Maymūn, peace be upon him, and the slave... and the slave's opinion concerning the [...] of worship/obedience, and my master... and he will not 'honor the mighty' (Leviticus 19:15), and this... Peraḥya... the congregation, lest... the honoring that is not legitimate... and although it is not unknown that...." AA. ASE.

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• maimonides
• pietism

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Declaration of a ban of excommunication against anyone who owes money in any form to Abū l-Khayr al-Ṣayrafī known as Ibn Khalfa and does not hand it over to his son Abū Saʿīd b. Abū l-Khayr (appears also in T-S 12.60 (PGPID 7140)), and against anyone who has relevant testimony and does not bring it to the attention of the court.

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• excommunication

1 Transcription

Document date

Tammuz 4831 Anno Mundi (2 June 1071–30 June 1071 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: Tammuz 4831 AM, which is 1071 CE. Location: Zawīlat al-Mahdiyya. (This is rare; others from Zawīlat al-Mahdiyya are T-S 13J9.5 from 1047 CE and T-S 20.187 from 1073 CE). […] David acknowledges that Abū ʿAlī Yefet b. Muslim known as Ibn Ḥarbash has handed over to him the contract(?)

1 Discussion

Primary language

Arabic

Apparently from a Muslim sender (there are the standard prayers for Muḥammad in the last line) to a Jewish addressee (something has to be arranged before the onset of the Sabbath, dukhūl al-sabt, ll. 7–8). Most of the formulaic beginning is torn away, so only the body is preserved. […] Then I woke up on Thursday and went to Cairo, but I couldn't find you, and I also went to the castle and couldn't find you...."

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• castle
• dimme
• petition

1 Transcription

Document date

Jumādā II 527 Hijrī (9 April 1133–7 May 1133 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Refers to 'the tax farmers in the aforementioned Minya' and probably to a dyeing workshop (maṣbagh). AA. ASE. Join: Alan Elbaum. T-S NS 226.109 (PGPID 24250) and T-S AS 169.293 (PGPID 37668) are likely related but do not appear to be direct joins. See also T-S NS 226.33 + T-S NS 226.31 (PGPID 24355) and T-S NS 342.98 + T-S NS 342.89 (PGPID 26100).

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• damin
• halfon b. menashshe

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Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

On recto some of the writing exercises are based on a poetic couplet about weak memory sometimes attributed to al-Shāfiʿī (شكوت إلى وكيع سوء حفظي ، فأرشدني إلى ترك المعاصيوقال إن علم الله نورٌ ، ونور الله لا يعطى لعاصي), here with some variants/mistakes. On verso there is a poetic couplet beginning "when my wife complained about me to the judges" (لما اشتكتني زوجتي للقضاة فمسني منها جميع الالم فقالت يا قاضي اكتب عليه فقلت تبريني لاني قلم). There are also many practice signatures by Nissim Ṭawīl.

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Document date

Middle third of Ḥeshvan 1478 Seleucid (8 October 1166–17 October 1166 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(This is the latest known document to invoke the authority of Netanel, though he was still alive in 1169 CE, as we learn from Bodl. MS heb. a 3/6.) The merchant-banker Yehuda (al-tājir bi-dār al-ṣarf) receives from the merchant-banker Tamīm b.

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1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The addressee had suffered an attack of colic (qawlanj) but is now feeling better. Yefet also mentions "the large notebook of seliḥot." Join: Oded Zinger.

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: colic

1 Transcription

Primary language

Arabic

Mentioning finding someone suitable for a government job (khidma); Ibn Khalīfa from [...] al-Sharīf and Muʾnis al-Ṣiqillī; how the governor or Ṭaḥā (in Upper Egypt) broke into somebody's house and raped his w[ife]; and someone's representative and something being sealed in a gathering.

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• report
• to edit

1 Transcription

Deed of engagement written on the bottom left part of the document (apparently from the court's legal folder) that contains also a dowry list (not present here). The handwriting is similar to that of Mevorakh bar Natan (Fustat, 1150-1181) but he probably did not write the document.

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• engagement

2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

The letter is from the community of Alexandria to Efrayim b. Shemarya and the Palestinian congregation of Fustat.

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• communal

3 Transcriptions

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Hillel b. Ḥasan, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat, ca. 1065. Hillel opens his letter lamenting the death of an important person who is unidentified.

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• nahray b. nissim
• trade

3 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion