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801Literary textT-S Misc.34.24
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Maimonides prescribes various concoctions to increase Taqi al-Din Umar’s vigour and recommends a diet that avoids ‘cooling’ foods (long pepper, galanga, ginger, aristolochia, cinnamon, anise, clove, mace, and nutmeg are recommended but lentils, vetch, and cold vegetables such as cucumber, donkey cucumber, melons, garden orach, spinach and especially lettuce are to be avoided).
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802LetterT-S NS J480
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The sender reports that he came down with a stomachache (tukhma) and nearly died and everyone despaired of his health—but now he is better.
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803LetterYevr. II A 1409
Document date
Shevat 5409 Anno Mundi (14 January 1649–12 February 1649 CE)
Primary language
Hebrew
Shemuel Ḥazzan b. Yaʿaqov Ḥazzan died in Ḥeshvan. Regards to the entire Qaraite community of Istanbul.
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804LetterT-S 13J21.17
Document date
1 Av 1448 Seleucid (21 July 1137 CE)
Primary language
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[Recto 8-9:] The writer was unable to cure Avraham, "the little beggar from Akko," who died and left his son an orphan. [Recto 10-17:] The writer provides a detailed list of the dowry that he gave his son-in-law Shemuel b.
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1. אישה כי תזריע ושאן . . . ן
2. דכר כמא כתבת אליך פיוט עמלתה עבראני ולעלה יצל
3. קלת פיה יוחברו עצמי עם זקיני ותראה לי רביה בן זקונים
4. ולעל ימן אללה ב…
Fahd, the son of al-Ṣahrajti, and his son have died. Only his wife, the daughter of Ben Shumailē, is still alive. Please inform his brother, my lord R. Solomon.
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805Legal documentBL OR 4684.10
Document date
Shawwāl 456 Hijrī (16 September 1064–14 October 1064 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Document of sale dated 456 AH. Marqūrah and Buṭrus are purchasing from ʿUqayl ibn Ḥudayj ibn Aḥmad who is introduced in the document as the …
1. اعترف عندي بذلك وكتب
2. الحسن بن ابراهيم بن رزق بخطه في تأريخه
3. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
4. هذا ما اشترى مرقورة و بطرس ولدي رببيل بن مينا بن جرجة الططونی من …
...They bought this two feddāns for (a sum of) money which amounts
in Muʿizzī coins of full weight eight dīnārs, the half of which is four dīnārs of gold coins.
Aqil ibn Ḥudayj ibn ʾAḥmad received this price completely.
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806LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/16
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Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Malīḥa feared for the well-being of her children were she to die. We have a resolute petition written on her behalf to the head of the Jews, Maṣliaḥ ha-Kohen, informing him of the following: "I am the wife of Adam, the money changer.
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1. בשמ רחמ
2. יענך יי ביום צרה ישגבך שם אלהי יעקב וג
3. אעלם חצרה אדונינו גאונינו נזרינו וכתרינו ועטרת ראשינו
4. מצליח הכהן ראש ישיבת גאון יעקב יברכהו וי…
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807Legal documentBL OR 4684.15
Document date
Ṣafar 430 Hijrī (2 November 1038–30 November 1038 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Document of sale dated 430 AH. The sale is between Bandalūs the son of Buṭrus and Baqām the son Kayl the son of Qūrīl. In …
1. صح ذلك عندي وكتب
2. الحسن بن ابراهيم وكتب بخطه
3. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
4. هذا ما اشتری بندلوس بن بطرس الخياط من بقام بن كيل بن قوريل و هما جميعا من سكان ال…
...He bought all of this living room and its passageway and its storehouse and the passageway belonging to the storehouse for (a sum of) money which amounts in Muʿizzī gold coins of full weight
to nine dīnārs, half of which is four and a half dīnārs in gold minted coins of good alloy.
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808Legal documentCUL Add.3339b
Document date
Thursday, 30 Kislev 1530 Seleucid (20 December 1218 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Shelomo ha-Levi states that his brother Barakāt made his will at the beginning of Shevat and died on the 26th of Tevet, and that his widow Niʿam/Noʿam bt.
1. שהדותא דא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי
2. דחתמות ידנא לתתא כן הוה ביום חמישי בשבה
3. דהוא שלהי כסליו שנת אתל לשטרות בעיר בלביס
4. חצר אלינא מותבה רשותיה דאדונינו מרנ…
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809Legal documentJRL AF 23 + BL OR 10112B.8
Inferred date
1100–1138 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Either a will or concerning arrangements after someone has already died
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810Legal documentT-S 18J2.16
Document date
Iyyar 1337 Seleucid (21 April 1026–19 May 1026 CE)
Primary language
Hebrew
Gulayb, who had recently died without making a will, two of whom, a son called Gulayb (a future son-in-law of Efrayim b.
1. [באו ל]פנינו לבית ד[י]ן [והז]ק[נים החתומים למטה בסוף ה]שטר הזה ישועה
2. [ב]ר צדקה ואחרים עמו צועקים מערערים ובכן אמרו לא נעלם מכם
3. אחינו כי משה הכהן בר …
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811LetterT-S Ar.39.492
Primary language
Arabic
After about 10 lines of prologue, the sender complains about the lack of letters; reports that the addressee's paternal aunt died, and her inheritance is in the hands of the government ("aṣḥāb al-mawārīth"); they will not pay anything to the family until the addressee arrives, and if he does not, the sender predicts that the government will claim the property for themselves.
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812LetterT-S AS 158.173
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
He asks to be sent the 'miḥbas' (either a collar necklace or a cotton textile, according to the Diem-Radenberg dictionary) so that he can do something with it to keep it from going bad.
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813Legal query or responsumT-S Misc.8.90
Inferred date
1168–1204 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Shemuel is Shemuel b. Seʿadya ha-Levi, who died in 1203. (Information in part from Amir Ashur's Fragments of the Month, April 2011, November 2016.)
TS Misc. Box 8, f. 90, ed. S. D. Goitein, "Unpublished autograph Responsa by Maimonides" (Hebrew), Tarbiz, 28(1959), pp. 191-192, 11-10-89, N.T. (pp)…
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814Legal documentT-S Misc.22.285
Document date
5 Shawwāl 427 Hijrī (1 August 1036 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
ʿAllūn Ibn al-Dabbāb has died in Maʿarrat al-Nuʿmān after the death of his son Bū Faraj in the town of al-Lādhiqiyya (Latakia) and that his sole heir is his daughter Yamānī, the wife of Mawhūb b.
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1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
2. شهد الشهود المسمون في هذا الكتاب كلهم يعرفون صدقة بن علون ابن الدباب
3. الاسراىيلي معرفة صحيحة لا يسلون فيها ولا يتطلبون ش…
The witnesses named in this document, all of them knowing Ṣadaqa ibn ʿAlūn ibn al-Dabbāb,
the Jew, with a legally valid knowledge, not having need to ask about him or inquire concerning anything relating to him, testified that Ṣadaqa ibn ʿAlūn, known
as ibn al-Dabbāb, has died in Maʿarrat al-Nuʿmān after the death of his son Bū Faraj in the town of Latakia and that he has not
left anyone having rights to his inheritance except his daughter Yamānī, the wife of Mawhūb ibn Bashār.
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815Legal documentT-S Misc.27.4.27
Inferred date
1007–1055 CE
Primary language
Hebrew
legal document, mentioning Abū l-Faraj Yaʿaqov, somebody who died at sea, a claim on 80 dinars "in accordance with the will of our father," someone being compelled to take an oath, and a remaining balance of 25 dinars.
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816LetterT-S Misc.28.166
Primary language
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In the remainder of the letter he gives his own news (traveling to the 'west') (r9). Two people have died (r13) in addition to the writer's own wife (r14).
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817LetterT-S NS 327.10
Primary language
Arabic
But then the dark girl (al-samrā), the daughter of ʿAbd al-Salām, died. The sender has enclosed a letter from Umm Abū Manṣūr.
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818Legal query or responsumT-S NS 342.11 + T-S NS 342.82 + T-S NS 342.104 + T-S NS 342.72 + T-S NS 342.75 + T-S NS 342.73 + T-S NS 342.1 + T-S NS 342.70
Inferred date
1100–1138 CE
Primary languages
Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
The first wife's jewelry, valued at nearly 50 dinars, stayed with him, and he was her heir according to halakha. Now that he has died, there is a dispute between the first wife's family and the living widow.
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819Legal documentYevr. II A 1312
Primary language
Hebrew
ʿUzziyahu may be a brother of Shelomo b. David b. Ḥisday, who died in 600 AH (1203/04 CE) according to Ibn al-Hiti's Arabic Chronicle of Arabic Doctors.
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820LetterT-S NS 297.6
Inferred date
1594–1689 CE
Primary language
Ottoman Turkish
Letter in Ottoman Turkish. Dating: 1594–1689 CE, based on the legible numerals 10[..] AH, but probably toward the beginning of this date range per Hathaway …
ḳayd olunduḳdan ṣoñra nidāʾ olunub, baʿdehu mübārek Cumʿa güni ve Sebt güni iki günlük muḥāsebesin suʾāl ü tefaḥḥuṣ
olunduḳda bunda Ḥusrevzāde Meḥmed Bey’in vekīli olan kimesne—[ki] Bender-i Süveys rüesāʾlarından olub sābıḳā bunda līfi
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1. My honoured and esteemed lord, the tax farmer of the port of Damietta, the pride of the exemplary and first among equals, his exce…
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821LetterMIAC 23973.21
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Arabic
Letter from Ḥiṣn al-Dawla ibn al-ʿAsqalānī to the Nubian eparch Uruwī in Ibrīm. Ibn al-ʿAsqalānī begins by acknowledging having received the eparch's letter and responds …
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1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
2. وَصل كتاب مولاي الاكشيل صاحب الخيل اطال الله بقاه
3. وادام نعماه وكبت اعداه ووقفت عليه وقوف مسرور بوروده
4. مبت…
As for their saying that I am the slave boy
of the Master of the Spear—I am only a merchant. I was the guest of the king and I lodged with the Master of
the Spear like the (other) merchants.
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822LetterBL OR 5544.14
Document date
5480 Anno Mundi (14 September 1719–2 October 1720 CE)
Primary language
Hebrew
The writers heard that David Miranda (דוד מיראנדה) of Salonica recently died and that the addressee had taken custody of his estate.
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823LetterENA 2808.66
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Sa'id, "the head of the congregations," who was given the money in order to bring timber from Alexandria for this sum, died before he could go to Alexandria and the money was left with his widow.
1. [ ] וצלח [
2. [ ] תולי חביבי ולד ק[ ]ת[
3. [ יכ]ון אלמשי ענדי אסהל מן רכוב דאבה דון פלמא
4. [ ]אב עישי וזאלת אלאמראץ ואלעלל וצח אלגסם
5. [ ]אלממחה חפטך אללה אן …
But (fate) decided that Ṣāʿid should not go to Alexandria and he died here, that
well-known death.
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824List or tableHUC 1003
Primary language
Hebrew
Hananya ha-Nagid: - Shemarya ha-Shishi - Shemarya's three sons: Ṣedaqa, Seʿadʾel, and Ḥananya - Ḥananya's two sons: Avraham and Shemuʾel (the Nagid) - Shemuʾel's two sons: Yaḥyā who died young, and Ḥananya - Ḥananya's son Shemuʾel (known as "grandson of Nagids") Verso continues with other memorial lists, including for the family (ʿitra) of al-Rashīd Shemuʾel (ʿEli --> Ṣemaḥ --> Yefet), of Ibn ʿAmmār (ʿAmram --> Berakhot --> Yeshuʿa (and his son Elʿazar), ʿAmram, ʿEli, and Netanʾel); then a list of names including Shemuʾel, Yehoshuaʿ, and Ḥananya, and finally an invocation of the current Nagid Avraham Maimonides (הרב המבהוק(!)).
1. דוכ טב וני נפ לז המש המיוח משפ השרי
2. החכ הנג אש[ר] נהגו שררה בע יי' צב עד
3. כב גד קד ה[ד י]ק תפ תפ מור שמריה הששי
4. בחבורת הצדק זצל ושלשת חמודיו בראשם הש…
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825LetterMoss. IV,4
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Now, fate has caught up with the sender. His wife has died, he has three children to support, and his vision is weak (ḍarra baṣruh).
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826LetterT-S 8J16.2
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
The old woman (presumably the mother of Hilal and Abu l-Majd) is frail and no longer able to work, and everyone is distressed, and they wish Abu l-Majd to come before she dies. The Ḥaver and Ibn Daud reached an arrangement to alternate Shabbats (in receiving income?)
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1. ותבלג סואלי לזוגתך ולא [
2. לי פי אלסטל מן כל בד ואנא [. . . . . . . . . . ] והדא
3. פתח אללה בשי אנפדה יהון עליך [סער?] אלגאליה פי ...הא
4. וקד אלתקא…
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827LetterT-S 8J27.17 + T-S 10J12.11
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
The recipient's ʿamma (in general paternal aunt, but Goitein interprets it as mother in this case) wants to see him before she dies. At the end of the letter, either the writer or the aunt/mother asks him to send two (ounces?
Recto. T-S 8J27.17
1. בשמך רחמנ
2. כתאבי אליך יאכי ואלעזיז עלי וענדי אטאל
3. אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך ונעמאך ומן חסן תופיקה
T-S 8J27.17 and T-S 10J12.11
1. לא אכלא…
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828LetterT-S 10J27.7
Inferred date
1007–1055 CE
Primary language
Hebrew
Concerning two sisters from the Tyre Jewish community, who are trying to claim their inheritance after their father, Ḥalfon b. Taʿlab, died in Fusṭaṭ in 1040 CE. Most of the details, such as the names of the sisters, are not preserved, but the name of the husband of one of the sisters, Ṣedaqa b.
....
1. [ ]וע [ ]
2. קרא לשמע השוא אשר הושמע בימי הקייץ יאולם
3. משמיעו בראשון ותכרת השפה אשר הוציאתו תחילה
4. וכשניתברר לנו שיקורה וכיזובה אז נחה הנפש
5. ונתקוררה…
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829Legal documentT-S 13J3.12
Document date
9 Kislev 1477 Seleucid (15 November 1165 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
The latter retained the 8 dinars as payment for the rent of Ibn Numayla, who had meanwhile died. But as Abu Sa'd had to return the debt to Ibn Numayla’s heirs, he had to take recourse to Abu Ma'ali; ca. 1165., in the hand of Shemuel b.
1. למא כאן יום אלאתנין אלתאסע מחדש כסליו שנת אלפא וארבע מאה ושבעין ושבע שנין לשטרות
2. בפסטאט מצרים דעל נילוס נהרא מותבה רשותיה דהדרת יקרת צפירת תפארת מרי…
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830LetterT-S 28.20
Inferred date
1150–1150 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Maḥrūz's widow and children are fine, but Maḥrūz's daughter had died two years before (rm2–v5).
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1. [ל]הא וליא ומעינא וחאפצא ונא[צרא פי גמיע אמורהא וכאן אגדל וארד]
2. ורד ואבהג ואפד ופד וסרא ממלוכיהא בורודה וגדלא בופודה וקבלאה
3. קבל פץ כתאמה ושכרא…
...And all the family, young and old among them, are singled out for the best
greetings from them. And his young daughter had died two years ago. And for her presence,
health and survival. Your servant informs her of that.
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831Legal documentT-S AS 145.143
Inferred date
1100–1138 CE
Primary languages
Arabic, Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic
The epithet al-ʿĀdilī is less clear; the vizier Ibn al-Sallār was known as al-ʿĀdil, however he died in 1154.
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832LetterYevr.-Arab. II 1440
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It seems that the sender had a male newborn who died. When the wife of R. Avraham Qudsī came on Friday, the guard of the neighborhood brought a miscarried fetus (walad siqṭ) and left it in the road in front of the house of the addressee's sister Ḥana (blood libel??).
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833Legal documentT-S Ar.38.131 + T-S Ar.42.212
Document date
15 Dhū l-Ḥijja 870 Hijrī (29 July 1466 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Legal document from a qāḍī court. Dated: 15 Dhū l-Ḥijja 870 AH (Sunday 29 July 1466 CE). The raʾīs al-yahūd, Yūsuf b. Khalīfa, and his …
T-S Ar.38.131r
1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله وحده جرى ذلك اللهم صلى على سيّدنا محمد وآله وصحبه وسلم تسليماً كثيراً
2. بمجلس الحكم العزيز بين يدي …
The aforementioned Manṣūr accepted this from them with legal consent according to the sharīʿa, and he took an oath before God, may He be magnified and exalted,
with a legally valid oath (not) to obstruct him in any of this, either personally or through representatives, in an unlawful manner. Each of them confirmed this (as a duty incumbent upon himself) in accordance with the law,
T-S Ar.42.212r
1. on pain of their possessions and their property, jointly, in keeping with the legal oath, going to the treasury of the Muslims (Bayt Māl al-Muslimīn), may it be protected, in Ẓāhirī and Ahsrafī gold (coins),
2. of standard weight, free from defect, in circulation in Cairo, may it be protected, in the amount of two hundred dīnārs, half of which is one hundred.
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834Legal documentT-S Misc.27.4.29 + T-S Misc.27.4.23
Document date
Monday, 2[7] Kislev 1405 Seleucid (19 December 1093 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
along with her daughter, in Ashqelon, for domestic service. After the daughter died, ʿEli freed the Nubian woman and married her, under the supervision of the Gaon Eliyya ha-Kohen (who served 1062–83). […] There was concern in Fustat that Milāḥ was actually identical with the original daughter whom ʿEli purchased and who died. ʿEli presents two witnesses from Ashqelon who confirm that the woman had no child when she married ʿEli.
TS Misc. Box 27, f. 4.23 + TS Misc. Box 29, ed. Friedman, Jewish Polygyny, pp.314-319, N.H. 06-15-88, (P). Legal document in the hand of Abraham b. I…
(of) b(lessed) m(emory), for his intention is only the... of God, may His name be exalted, and of the laws of Israel [...]
so that it will be as marriage (qiddushīn) and marriage contract (kethubbā). . . transmitted by (the ancients of[?])
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835LetterT-S 16.62
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Hebrew
Letter from Yaʿaqov b. Nissim of Qayrawan to the Tunisian port of Qabis, c. 1000. The letter concerns legal questions asked by the addressee from …
... שתהיו לו לפה בקהלכם ... אדם ... יש
In the rest of the lines only a few words and letters can be deciphered Verso
1. לכ[בוד] התלמידים היקרים הדרים במדינת
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- legal query
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836Legal documentT-S 10K15.1
Document date
1487 Seleucid (18 September 1175–5 September 1176 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Maimonides' decree on menstrual purity. Dated 1487 Seleucid = 1175/76 CE. See Eve Krakowski, "Maimonides' Menstrual Reform in Egypt," JQR (2020), 245–89.
After we had proclaimed this matter in public for years, we saw that the plague held before him and only a few had turned to good—and that this neglect came mainly from the women, because they held onto heresy and immersion was hard for them.
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- menstrual purity
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837LetterL-G Misc. 35
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from a Jewish woman, in or near Tripoli (Lebanon), to her brother-in-law, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. She is a refugee from Jerusalem who has …
1. [כתאבי אליך יאולדי ורייסי] וגלילי אדאם אללה סלאמתה וסעאדתה
2. [ ] אליך יאולדי [ואלעזיז ע]לי אמר אן נצפה
3. [ כאן אבו אלכיר] מע אלמנתצר פמאת אלמנת[צר]
4. [ופק…
About the books of Abu 'l-Khayr I learned only in Tripoli. For the
crate was locked and I learned about its contents only in Tripoli …
I witnessed much bloodshed and experienced everything terrible.
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- illness letter 969-1517
- illness: mental
- refugees
- trauma
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838LetterENA 2716.10 + ENA 2716.11
Inferred date
1700–1850 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
On the recto, the same letter is practiced five times and discusses maritime trade in Beiruti silk with prices in reales (which is more likely the immaterial unit of account of 1:90 medin rather than Spanish coinage). The spelling shifts between the instances of "אל רייס מחמד" and "אל ריס מחמד" (l. 5-6r, 11r, etc.) yet it seems possible that this could be referencing "the captain Muḥammad" of the maritime vessel "מרכב" mentioned in each draft (l. 2r, 8r, etc.).
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839LetterENA 2716.11 + ENA 2716.10
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1700–1850 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
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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840State documentT-S H2.83
Document date
442 Hijrī (26 May 1050–14 May 1051 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Given that al-Muʾayyad appears in this document together with a vizier who is most likely al-Yāzūrī in the context of official documents confirming an appointment in Damascus, it is probably not coincidental that his assumption of power coincided with al-Yāzūrī's assumption of power as vizier in Cairo in Muḥarram 442 AH = May/June 1050 CE.
1. [. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . اطال الله بقا مولانا]
2. سيد الوزرا وتاج الاصفيا قاضي القضاة وداعي [الدعاة علم المجد
3. خليل امير…
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841LetterAIU VII.E.21
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Judaeo-Arabic
He also reports on the farming out of a concession for bee-keeping; Abū l-Ṭayyib al-Naḥḥāl has died and left behind him 300 hives. His son-in-law approached the sender with a request for letters to the addressee for transferring the documents from the name of Abū l-Ṭayyib to his name.
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- benha
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842LetterBodl. MS heb. c 28/52
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Avraham writes that Abū l-Ḥayy died after his ~6-month illness. Avraham writes that his expenses amounted to 25 dinars.
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1. כתאבי יאכי ואלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך ותאידך
2. וסעאדתך וסלאמתך מן אסכנדריה לי' כלון מן אלול וסאעת אן
3. כתבת לך הדא אלכתאב ארתפעת מן אבו …
recto
1. אני כותב לך, אחי היקר לי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את גדולתך ואת עזרתו לך
2. ואת אושרך ואת שלומך, מאלכסנדריה, בי' באלול. ובעת שאני
3. כותב…
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843LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/45
Letter addressed to Abū Sahl ha-Levi (the cantor of the Palestinian synagogue in Fustat, who died in 1211), with greetings also to his brothers Moshe and Abū ʿImrān.
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844Legal documentENA 2727.13b
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
[Bin]yām b. Aharon ha-Kohen died. Her possessions are to be given to her son according to certain conditions.
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845LetterENA 3921.1
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Arabic
Bū l-Faraj Ibn Qasāsā arrived and conveyed "news of the traders (al-nās), who has died and who is alive, and we praised God and thanked Him."
1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
2. كتابي اطال الله بقا مولاي الشيخ وادام عزه وتاييده وسعادته وسلامته ونعماه وبركته(؟) وكبت اعداه
3. من مرباط عن سلامة وشوق اليه شدي…
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846State documentENA 3974.4
Document date
1101–1130 CE
Primary language
Arabic
The petitioner's mother died, and he has been living in her house enclosure (dār).
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1. العبد المملوك
2. منصور بن سلامة من اهل سنديون
3. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
4. صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامي زكواته وافضل سلامه وتحياته على مولانا وسي…
The slave has
in the district known as Sandiyūn of the province of al-Muzāḥamiyya a house enclosure, which used to belong to his mother. She has died and the slave has succeeded her ⟦and he asks⟧
and he has continued to dwell in it, and nobody has been found who has a greater right to it than he.
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847Legal documentHalper 351
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Abū Naṣr known as [...] had claimed goods confided to Moshe Sh{ī}rajī, who had died. The tax farmers of the market protested, as Khaṣīb owed to them something.
1. ח]צר לבית דין הנגיד ירום הודו ויגדל כבודו [רגל
2. ידיע כציב ולד אלשיך אבו נצר אלמערוף בבן אלמה
3. נע יטלוב עודה משה אלשרגי נע פמנענא צאחב
4. אלסוק אעני אלצמן…
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848LetterL-G Misc. 43
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Judaeo-Arabic
The writer asks the judge to submit the matter of an old man who was supported by his nephew and lost this support when the nephew died to the Nagid Avraham Maimonides for redress; otherwise, it will end up in the hands of the Muslim authorities.
1. יצח]ק ירושלמי
2. בשמ רח
3. מושב הדרת כגק מרינו ורבינו אליה
4. הדיין החכם והנבון שצ ינהי אלממלוך
5. בעץ שוקה אלי אלפאטה אלמפידה וטלעתה
6. אלסעידה פאסאל בורא עולם אן…
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- eliyyahu b. zekharia
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849Legal documentMoss. VII,40.2 + T-S Ar.50.73
Document date
Shevaṭ 1432 Seleucid (23 December 1120–21 January 1121 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Verso: In the main text block, a man refers to his capital and appoints someone as his agent, who will earn 1/6 of the profit. If the man dies on his travels, the agent must give something to the man's wife and mother of his children, Sitt al-Kull bt.
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850Letterp. Heid. Hebr. 13
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Arabic, Arabo-Hebrew, Hebrew
III 49 and has been edited both by Aodeh and by Diem; a partial transcription (lacking the Hebrew words) is available on the Arabic Papyrology Database.
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- bialphabetic
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