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Arabic

Then mentions the victory (naṣr) or maybe aid (nuṣra) of al-Malik al-Manṣūr (a vizier?). Most of the continuation is lost.

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Primary language

Arabic

The sender received a letter from ʿAlī b. Aḥmad Ibn al-Aysar delivered by the ghulām of one of the Baghdādī merchants.

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Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

The addressee is greeted with many respectful titles, such as "jamāl al-umma al-isrāʾīliyya." On verso additional notes in both Arabic and Hebrew script.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions a box containing coral and a leather bottle. Also mentions a man with a pockmarked face. Information from Goitein notes linked below.

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• ib5
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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Contains the phrases "[May God] guide the perplexity"; greetings to various people; "I met with ... may God prolong his life ... al-Shaykh Abi ... and all who met with him..." ASE.

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The house "is in Fusṭāṭ in the alley of [..] in Qaṣr al-Rūm, and this 3/4 [of the house?]...."

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Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Bayān is to pay Maḥfūẓ al-Khādim various sums of dirhams for various things: 6 for one thing, and 4 for his work on skins and carrying things, altogether 10 dirhams.

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Primary language

Arabic

A basmala, probably writing practice, can also be read on fol. 2 recto. Requires further examination.

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• vellum

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

, beginning with an Andalusian lamp; (3) 'The remainder of this qumāsh (dowry) with the wife'; (4) something to do with the synagogue; (5) a certain deposit (al-mawdūʿ al-...); and perhaps further subsections.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Majd ibn Bishr, Abū Saʿīd ibn al-Shomer, Yūsuf ibn al-Qadūrī). The Arabic marginalia mention other proper names.

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(Information from Goitein's note cards) Alphabetical practice of consonants vocalised with all the various Tiberian vowels.

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• education

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Primary language

Hebrew

The sender refers to a ship and something he sent with Raḥamim and warns the addressee not to give it to just anyone who asks. There are also various jottings, pen trials, and practice signatures on both recto and verso.

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The name Moshe appears also in the first line, maybe the father of the bride or groom.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Sunday: I went out. . . "). Mentions 'ghilmān al-ṣāḥib', provender for a donkey and camel, and Avraham al-Parnas.

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The writer deals with cloths and scarves for Nahray. Also mentions money delivery and asks Nahray to check it, weigh it, and write its account.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

"Please draw up a power of attorney for Sitt al-Milāḥ bt. Avraham Segulat ha-Yeshiva my sister.... for Abū Sulaymān Dāʾūd b. [[Sulaymān]] Shelomo, for selling her house in al-Maḥalla... the synagogue in the presence of her husband Abū [...]...."

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Document date

Adar 143[.] Seleucid (14 February 1119–3 March 1128 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The buyer is Abū l-Khayr Ṣedaqa. Also mentions Abū l-Ḥasan the brother of the deceased.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The top list is headed "al-ḥāḍir" (the present): a bucket; brass; something gilded; something blue; a bukhnuq of lānas. The bottom list is headed "al-rahn" (the collateral): cushions, a pair of something dabīqī; a pair of something else; something brass; and a ṭabarī bardaʿa.

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Primary language

Arabic

The petitioner may be named Abū ʿAlī b Abū Bakr al-Bazzāz (the clothier). None of the standard petition formulae are preserved but the petitioner is requested to be appointed in the service of the addressee.

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• dimme
• petition

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Primary language

Arabic

Probably a petition addressed to al-Mansur ʿImād al-Dīn and various sums; several Hebrew and Aramaic words are written between the Arabic text, including jottings - needs examination.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On verso there is a note in Arabic, probably a filing note describing the contents of the document: Kitāb Farḥān(?) al-[...] . . . min al-muʾakhkhar (likely referring to the delayed marriage payment of the woman mentioned on recto).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions the "citadel" (qalʿa) several times and the Ottoman-era title שויש (çavuş). Also mentions Yiṣḥaq Arokh and Yosef Arokh (cf. T-S NS 32.53 (PGPID 25364)).

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• late ja

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

On recto beginning of a letter to Avraham Maimuni from Abu Sa'id (identification according to BL 5542.14. He also wrote T-S 8 j 21.12). On verso a letter written by Avraham Maimuni to Elya b.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Petition addressed to Masliah Gaʾon, requesting that he allow Abū l-Riḍā b. Yehuda he-Ḥaver to lead services in the synagogue of the Palestinians (אלשאמיין), because of his noble descent, his blindness, and his poverty. (Information from Goitein's index card.) EMS/VMR Join: Alan Elbaum

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• 12th c
• blind

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Primary language

Arabic

Futūḥ, and it is for his capitation tax in Alexandria. Same cluster: T-S AS 178.69 (PGPID 36898) T-S AS 180.22 (PGPID 37373) T-S AS 182.312 (PGPID 38982) T-S NS 327.43 (PGPID 25835)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Eliyyahu to a certain Abū l-Barakāt, reporting that he spent Shabbat in Qalyūb and traveled onward to Alexandria, and asking him to meet with R. Ḥananʾel and convey greetings to Sayyidnā and Rabbenu David.

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Eliyyahu requesting a payment (from the revenue of the dwelling of Imran b. al-Muzanjir) of 1/2 dirhem per week for the teaching of the boy of the sick man Abu l-Khayr al-Ruhbi.

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• shelomo b. eliyyahu

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Document date

535 Hijrī (17 August 1140–5 August 1141 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

He has booked passage to Aden in one cabin (bilīj, originally a Malayan word) in the ship of al-Dībajī together with Nahray (b. ʿAllān, cf. BL OR 5566D.6) and Ibn al-Yatīm. […] It is now with Thābit but lacking a registration mark (ʿalāma). And for the year [5]35, 1 dinar and 2 qirats and 1 dirham. […] Thābit should be reminded to press the wine for the sender. They should all take care of 'the old woman.' Greetings to Sayyid al-Kull b.

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Document date

1098 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Lines 8–24. Lebdi’s travel to al-Tīz in southeast Iran, his troubles there, his safe arrival in Nahrawāra (Gujarat), and his actions there for Ḥasan b. […] Request that Ḥasan list the accounts of all the transactions made for Abū Yaʿqūb al-Ḥakīm, approval without reservation of all that Ḥasan had done for Lebdi personally (as communicated to him in a letter) and order to buy goods for the payments due to Lebdi and al-Ḥakīm. […] Elaborate conclusion with greetings to Ḥasan’s brothers and sons and “to all friends who have inquired or will inquire about me.”

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On the righthand page of verso there is a Judaeo-Arabic retelling of the Book of Esther, along with the words of Esther's prayer to God. This might be related to the lefthand page of recto. […] Saʿadya (active 1094–1111) and Sar Shalom ha-Levi (active 1170–95). There are also a few lines in Arabic script, mostly variants of 'mawlāy al-shaykh al-jalīl,' but there may be one or two names amidst the honorifics. In the tentative and deferential letter draft, the sender states that he wishes to travel soon 'with the Jews' and so he reminds the addressee of his promise made in his 'majlis' on the Sabbath, namely that he would issue a document (ikhrāj al-kitāb) concerning the sender's rights against a certain person and his children (ליכון בידי חגה לי עליה ועלי אולאדה), because that person made a legal acknowledgment in this document before the addressee (לאן קד אקר פי אלכתאב לסידנא).

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Judaeo-Arabic

Concerning Natan b. Moshe al-[...], his sons Yefet, Ṣedaqa, and Mevorakh, and their sister Sitt al-Kull, and a property in Fustat.

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Monday, 5 Tammuz 1369 Seleucid (29 June 1058 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Scribed and signed by Aharon ha-Mumḥe b. Efrayim. Also signed by Ṭoviyya b. Hillel. Verso not photographed here.

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Arabic

in Arabic script. Abū l-Khayr al-ʿAṭṭār is to pay 80 dirhams out of the price of the drugs/perfume. The scribe had some trouble with the pen and ink: the script deteriorates in the fourth line, a fifth line (yadfaʿ al-shay...) was started and abandoned, and there are scribbles and smudges and several fingerprints.

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• dimme
• fingerprint

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment (last 6 lines). Names: Mūsā Ibn al-Sofer; Yosef Ibn al-ʿŪdī; Abū l-Surūr; Yiṣḥaq.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Reporting that 10 ships, each carrying around 500 persons, had arrived on that day in Alexandria from Sicily. (Information from Goitein's index card.)

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Primary language

Arabic

Mentions bearing witness about something; probably the tail end of a raʾy clause (...al-ʿālī fī dhālika in shāʾa llāh); and concludes with prayers for Muḥammad and a ḥasbala.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Some contain the mystery mark (backwards ط). All are dated after the formula kutiba. ENA 3971 13–24, 31 and 34. For Sayf al-Dawla. Sum: 31 (dirhams).

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• dimme
• tax
• tax receipt

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Document date

Shevat (4)791 Anno Mundi (28 December 1030–26 January 1031 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from the two congregations of Alexandria to David b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi, requesting 33 1/3 dinars for the ransom of a prisoner.

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• communal
• mosul nasis

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: List of pledges (thabat al-pesiqa). Dating: ca. 1032 CE (based on the date on recto). […] cf. elsewhere in the lists), professions clustered together, 'the deceased' (al-marḥūm), the abundance of 'bankers' (ṣayrafī, spelled srfi), 'son of the kushit ' (Ethiopian woman), 'sons of the man'.

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• account
• charity
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Document date

Ṭevet 5338 Anno Mundi (1 January 1578–8 January 1578 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Involves the guarantors Yehuda Serrano and David אאילייון (perhaps a misspelling of Ayalon). Also mentioned: Yiṣḥaq Navarro. Witnesses: Shemuel de Medina; Ezra Barokas.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In the hand of the same supporter of Daniel b. ʿAzarya who also wrote T-S K25.244. Probably related to the Arabic-script petition on the other side.

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Primary language

Hebrew

Shelomo ha-Shofeṭ and his son Yeshuʿa on behalf of the two congregations of Alexandria, addressed most likely to the community of Fustat.

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Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Moshe and ʿEli ha-Parnas. Also signed by Nissim b. Natan, Shelomo b. Shela, and Yehuda b.

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Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

A certain Yosef is mentioned and also a sum of money to be paid to the Muslim authorities (שלטון).

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• hillel b. eli
• legal

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic, with a few words in Hebrew and also Ladino דוזינה. Dating: ca. 16th century. (See T-S 13J24.22 (PGPID 8032) for another letter to the same addressee.)

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Document date

6 Jumada I 1235 Hijrī (20 February 1820 CE)

Dated 6 Jumada I [12]35 AH which is 1820 CE. Location: Alexandria. One of the entries toward the middle of the document mentions the name of a ṣarrāf with the surname Barakāt.

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• 19th c
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