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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Moshe, Avraham b. Pinḥas, Abū l-ʿAlāʾal-ʿAsqalānī and others. The list was recorded by at least two different scribes based on the paleography.

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• cmp

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Arabic

State document, Fatimid. Mentions "al-khidma" and "al-muṭāʿ" or maybe "iqṭāʿ" (but less likely).

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• dimme

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Aramaic, Hebrew

Yiṣḥaq ha-̣̣Ṣarfati, in Jerusalem, to an unknown addressee, in Alexandria. The letter consists of a halakhic discussion, mostly in Aramaic, perhaps a responsum.

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• french rabbis
• responsum

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458 Hijrī (3 December 1065–21 November 1066 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Refers to a guarantor (ḍāmin al-darak). One witness signature is preserved: Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-[...]. Reused on recto for Hebrew piyyuṭ.

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Sunday, 12 Ḥeshvan 1461 Seleucid (16 October 1149 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Incomplete. In which Sayyid al-Ahl testifies that he heard Abū l-Faraj ask Abū Isḥāq b. al-Shofeṭ for some wheat from the storehouse (makhzan) and the dispute over this that ensued.

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• 12th c
• qodesh

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1 Kislev 1456 Seleucid (30 October 1144 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Sends greetings to Abū Saʿīd al-Dimyāṭī and Muslim/Musallam al-Kaʿbī.

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• ib5
• india book
• tefillin

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Eliyyahu to his father-in-law al-Shaykh al-Makīn Abū l-Faraj. In Judaeo-Arabic.

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: women's

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso is covered with Arabic-script jottings of many kinds (mainly drafts of legal and epistolary formulae). May also join with ENA NS 2.33.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recommends the bearer for charity and probably asks the addressee to intervene on his behalf with the Nagid. The sender also says that he has sent a bundle of letters (rabṭat kutub) to Yemen with Abū Saʿīd ha-Levi (i.e.

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• ib-addenda
• india book unedited
• recommendation

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145[.] Seleucid (8 September 1138–15 September 1148 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Seleucid, which is 1138–48 CE, which is consistent with the reshut clause invoking the Nagid Shem[uel b. Ḥananya]. Also mentions the name Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen ha-Zaqen.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The original scribe seems to have written Abū Saʿd, but the patronymic was added in later. Also added in later: the name Abū l-Fatḥ Naṣrallāh in between the lines.

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• magic

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Arabic, Hebrew

Letter fragment addressed to the dignitary Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Isḥāq Ibn al-Furāt (aka Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Kohen), sent either to or from al-Ramla.

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• arabic address

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Primary language

Arabic

He intends to "complete our errands" (ḥattā naqḍī ashghālnā), as "all the Arabs have completed their errands" (kull al-ʿarab qad qaḍaw ashghālhum).

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• camel

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1 Kislev 5583 Anno Mundi (15 November 1822 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Meʾīr Ben-Naʿīm in Cairo to his son Moshe Ben-Naʿīm in Alexandria. Dated 1 Kislev 5583 AM which is 1822 CE.

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• 19th c

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Judaeo-Arabic

Neither note seems complete. Recto: inviting al-Shaykh al-Nafīs to "come out (perhaps from Fustat to the Rif) and enjoy yourself."

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• informal note
• mail-order medicine
• syrup

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Last third of Marheshvan 1460 Seleucid (November 1148 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Agreement between Sitt al-Baqāʾ and her husband Tahor ha-Levi the astrologer (al-Munajjim) b.

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• marital reconciliation
• marriage

2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Fragment of a letter from an unknown person from Alexandria, to Barhun b. Musa ha-Tāhartī, Fustat. Around 1060.

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10 Jumādā I 1202 Hijrī (17 February 1788 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Rental contract for a property (ṭabaqa) for a period of three years. Lessor (al-mālik) ʿAlī Nāfiʿ. Lessee: Mūsā/Moshe/Moses Schlesinger (موسى شليزنجر) from Austria(?)

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Document date

1890 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The scribe Ḥanān acknowledges receipt of the torah scroll and a pair of finials from Nissim Yosef Moṣeri (Mosseri), gabbay of the Rav Ḥayyīm Congregation. There is also an addendum by Ḥayyīm Ḥāmī confirming that the aforementioned items exchanged hands.

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Arabic

"sharḥ mā taḥaṣṣala min thamn al-[...]." This seems to be the third reuse of the fragment: first it was a decree, then it was a letter, then it was torn and used for accounts (note that the accounts constitute the only document that is not continuous across the tear). Several names appear, including Bishr al-ʿAṭṭār.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The name Menashshe b. Yiṣḥaq also appears in the last line. (Information in part from Goitein's index card.)

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• cheese

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Draft of sale contract for 12 out of 20 shares (the whole house constituted 24 shares) in the Qadi Badr alley of the al-Mamsusa quarter, at a price of 1000 wariq (silver) dirhams (exchange rate of 1:40).

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• 13th c
• bill of sale
• draft
• real estate

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to a Gaon, according to Goitein, perhaps from the time of Nethanel Gaon (1160), congratulating him on his son's recovery from illness, and complaining about the cessation of correspondence. It is also a letter of recommendation for the bearer. (Information from Mediterranean Society, V, pp. 294, 295, and from Goitein's index cards)

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• communal
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: public figure
• illness: recovered
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Awkal’s merchandise that arrived in Qayrawan and the writer's dealings with selling them and sending their payment to Fustat. Also lists the prices. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #222) VMR

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• ibn awkal
• trade

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Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Protagonists include Moshe ha-Kohen known as Abū ʿImrān. and Abū Saʿd b. Abū l-ʿAlā. Witnesses include [...] ha-Kohen b. Mevorakh, Moshe ha-Levi b. Ṣedaqa, and Yiṣḥaq b. Ghālib al-Ḥazzan. ASE.

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• partnership

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Yosef for everything he owed in the marriage contract of his deceased daughter Sitt al-Ḥusn and all other obligations due him. (Information from Goitein's index cards)

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Sivan 5001 Anno Mundi (1 June 1241–10 June 1241 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Nissim of Syracuse, Sicily. Location: Alexandria. Dated: last decade of Sivan 5001 AM = June 1241 CE.

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• cheese
• kashrut

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Bill of release of dowry from [...] to her husband Abū l-Barakāt b. Abū [al-...] b. al-muqaddasī. Signed by Hillel b. Abraham, Eleazar b.

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• dowry
• fgp stub
• ketubba

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Primary language

Hebrew

Dating: Ca. 10th century, based on the signature of Ḥabīb b. ʿAday, who also signs T-S 16.189. Other witnesses here: Iyov b.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Decree (copy in Hebrew script) from the Fatimid caliph al-Ẓāhir to a governor of Palestine (probably Anushtekin al-Dizbirī) informing him of another decree that had come in response to a petition in the name of the Rabbanite Jews regarding a conflict with the Qaraites.

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• communal
• copy
• decree
• qaraite
• state

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Original letter was sent from Marseilles to Qabes; this copy went to Alexandria. The letter mentions that Elazar of Worms believed in this prophet.

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• 13th c
• communal
• elazar of worms
• france
• marseilles
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Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Parts of a שטר צוואה (‘will’) and שותפות (‘partnership’) are also preserved. (Information from CUDL)

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18 Muḥarram 475 Hijrī (18 June 1082 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Cites "the method of the Sind Hind" probably referring to the 9th century work Zīj al-Sindhind by al-Khwārizmī. (Information from Goldstein and Pingree, "Horoscopes from the Cairo Geniza," JNES 1977.)

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• horoscope

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Primary language

Arabic

From the period of the Fatimid caliph al-Ḥākim (996–1021) or possibly earlier. Recto, from later reuse: tax receipt in the hand of Mikhaʾil b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ (see separate entry).

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• arabic script
• dimme
• lost archive
• petition

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Document date

Rajab 516 Hijrī (5 September 1122–4 October 1122 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The sum is 7.5 (written at lower left), and half of that is 3.75 (written at lower right). The sum of 7.5 is also written on verso in Judaeo-Arabic. The name of the scribe appears at the bottom.

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• dimme
• fiscal
• receipt
• tax

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions a debt of 3 dinars by way of collateral for a "turkiyya" (an enslaved woman?). Also mentions the remnant of what is owed due to "an accounting error" (ghalaṭ fī ḥisāb).

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Primary language

Arabic

Recto mentions two people and also "nails and iron." Verso mentions a collection of sums of money; maybe payments toward a debt obligation from the document on recto ("bi-bāṭin hādha l-kitāb").

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• to edit

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