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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto looks like the handwriting of Nahray b. Nissim. Mentions "al-Ḥākimiyya" (probably referring to Ḥākimī dinars), the wheat of Salāma, Ibn al-ʿUjaylī (cf. […] צדקה לצעף), something involving bitumen (qifār), rent of a house (כרי בית), another poor or sick person (ḍaʿīf), the shipping for the bitumen, sending a letter with the fayj, the shipping for the oil, the "release" (tafrīj) for the oil, and שפאכין(?). All this is written on top of an earlier account in Arabic script.

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• business

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Primary language

Arabic

This piece begins with Sūrat al-Nās and ends with Sūrat al-Fātiḥa (with some errors), then yā Allāh yā Muḥammad.

Tags

• dimme
• prayer
• quran

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Deals with trade in pepper, brazilwood, saffron (zarnaba), dragon's blood (qāṭir), a flask of sorrel (baṭṭa l-ḥummāḍ), and other items. Also mentions the zakāt (here: customs?), someone who died in Beirut, someone who works as a goldsmith in the citadel of the sultan, the purchase of a female slave ('to be imported from [...]'), various amirs, the Qāḍi Jaʿfar, and someone referred to merely as "the accursed one (al-arur)."

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• amir
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: gastrointestinal
• illness: technical
• jariya
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1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

This document concerns the settlement of an account between Abū al-Mufaḍḍal Netanel b. Yefet and Abū al-Ḥasan Ṭoviyya b. […] Ṭoviyya claimed that he sent the amount via the agent Abū al-Faraj to be sold in Tunisia. It is unclear whether the 65 dinars is a partnership account or a debt owed Netanel by Ṭoviyya.

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• court record
• debt
• draft

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Document date

Wednesday, 26 Iyyar 1552 Seleucid (8 May 1241 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Written in the same hand as verso. The cheesemonger (al-jabbān) Abū l-Fakhr b. Saʿadya gives his mature virgin daughter, Karam, 2/3 of a house as well as 130 black dirhams. […] Abū Naṣr ha-Kohen, receives 1 dinar in addition to the 2 dinars of her delayed marriage gift. He also releases her from the requirement for an oath.

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• will

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Document date

Thursday, 4 Nisan 1341 Seleucid (March 1029 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Sahlān, records the dissolution of a partnership between Ibn al-Kashshāsh Isḥaq b. Elijah and Samḥūn b. Tamīm. Isḥaq is to pay six dinars at the end of roughly seven months, at the end of the month of Tishri of the next year, and Samḥūn thereby absolved Isḥaq of any further obligation. Isḥaq also agreed that if he were to travel to the West without Samḥūn, that he would pay the six dinars prior to his departure.

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• 11th c
• autograph
• avraham b. sahlan
• partnership

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He travelled with a Nasi to Egypt. In Alexandria, he bought something nice for 15 dinars for his wife. […] The join with T-S AS 145.278 was identified by Alan Elbaum.

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• army
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: eye
• mosul cantor
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Document date

9 Kislev 1477 Seleucid (15 November 1165 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Numayla had rented from Abu al-Ma'ali Shemuel b. Yehuda a house in Alexandria for two years (rent: 9 dinars).

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• damin
• tax

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Document date

Friday, 1 Kislev 1515 Seleucid (7 November 1203 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Barakāt the supplier (al-mūrid). He owes 238 dinars to the banker Abū l-Karam b. Abū l-Naṣr Ibn al-Dayyān. This sum should be paid out of his sugar stored with Abū l-Barakāt b. Abū l-Riḍa Ibn al-Lebdī. What remains from the value of the sugar will belong to the dying man's son.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A woman with the strange name of Qirā al-Lawn (קרא אללון), the widow of the late Marwān, appoints Shelomo b. […] Shemuel what was due to her from the estate of her paternal uncle. She had already received 38 dinars. On verso the name Sittnā bt. […] The scribe uses ה and א interchangeably at the ends of words, so the first part of her name may be Qurra (solace), as in the set phrase "qurrat al-ʿayn"; the "lawn" (color) part remains mysterious.

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• power of attorney

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentioning many people including Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf al-Qudsī, Abū ʿImrān b. Avraham al-Kohen, Abū Manṣūr, Abū l-Barakāt al-Ḥalabī (and India trader), Yaḥyā ‘the son of the dyer’ and Abū l-Barakāt b.

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• ib7
• india book

2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Document date

4757 Anno Mundi (17 September 996–5 September 997 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Shelomo, known as Salmān al-Tabīb, receives a loan from his brother Yiṣḥaq b. Salāma al-Ṭabīb (Goitein: Salāma ha-Levi b. Salman [!]), for which he mortgages his inheritance from their father, a quarter of the courtyard in the Roman fortress of Fusṭāṭ, in the alley of the Jerusalmites' synagogue. The loan of seven 'good dinars' is for two years, starting Av (1)308 Sel.

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Primary language

Hebrew

This person claimed in Muslim courts that Daniel's brother was his slave, but "God forbid that a Jew should be a slave of a Gentile, all the more so of a Jew like him" (r34–38). Various Jewish dignitaries are mentioned, including Elḥanan Rosh ha-Seder. Yoshiyyahu is asked to intervene. This fragment also contains a state document in Arabic and a Hebrew piyyuṭ in a different hand than the letter (larger and cruder).

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• 11th c
• communal
• petition
• slaves

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Document date

1 Tammuz 5509 Anno Mundi (17 June 1749 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

The communal rabbi Nissim Shelomo Algazi (b.1670-d.1761 CE) has also signed below the document acknowledging its validity.

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• 18th c
• ben na'im

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Document date

Wednesday, 13 Sivan 1351 Seleucid (28 May 1040 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: Wednesday, 13 Sivan 1351 Seleucid = 28 May 1040 CE. In which Ḥasan b. ʿAllūn Ibn al-Judayy confirms that he has received, on behalf of his sister Karīma, that which had been deposited with Ḥusn, mother of Hannah, Sarah and Isaac, the children of Burayh al-Šīrajī (i.e.

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Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Recto: Letter from the two congregations of Alexandria (No-Amon), led by the judge Yosef b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, to the Jerusalemite congregation in Fustāt, led by Efrayim b. […] Verso contains the address, written in rhymed prose and closing with an 'alāma, ברית שלום. (Information from CUDL.) See Bodl.

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• captives
• pirates
• ransom

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Document date

1390-10-23 Seleucid (26 June 1079 CE)

Daniʾel ha-Kohen releases ʿAbdallāh aka ʿOvadya b. Meshullam al-Ṣūrī from their partnership in weaving. The terms of the dissolution require Abraham to pay Obadiah 10 dinars. Following the dissolution, each partner is allowed to work on his own in the same industry, both individually and with other partners. Presumably each of the partners committed all his efforts and production to the partnership, to the exclusion of other business transactions, prior to the dissolution.

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The second part contains the final part of an accounting of revenue for six months; the sum paid to the parnas as a collection fee is also mentioned. The account is said to have been made in the presence of the head of the yeshiva, Nataniel b. […] (Information from CUDL and Gil, Documents, pp. 300 #67) The Abū l-Ḥasan al-Naḥḥāl mentioned here is likely the same one whose son and grandson feature in Bodl.

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• 12th c
• account
• heqdesh
• qodesh
• waqf

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Document date

1138–1190 CE

Primary language

Arabic

Bifolio containing calendrical jottings in Hebrew script for the years 1454–1501 Seleucid = 1142–90 CE. There is also the beginning of a birth record in Judaeo-Arabic "Thursday halfway through Kislev" but this is incomplete. On the facing page there are Arabic jottings including a reference to "al-ʿĀdiliyya" and a numeral. One of the four pages contains two complete birth records in Arabic script

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Primary language

Arabic

The sender reports that he or she arrived in Barqa safely and explains why he is unable to return by ship (mā wajadtu ṭarīq fa-masakūnī al-ṣibyān(?)). There may be a siege in the addressee's location (fa-lammā samiʿtu akhbārkum annakum muḥāṣarīn...) […] On verso there are a few lines of what may be accounts in Arabic script (mentions 10 dinars), but this could also be the continuation of the letter. (Information in part from Goitein’s index card)

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517

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Primary language

Arabic

On his right cheek there are two moles’. Also mentions the elder Sadīd al-Dawla Abū Saʿd, Abū l-Ḥasan the Samaritan, and Abū l-Ḥasan the financier (quṣṭāl).

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Primary language

Arabic

He is writing from Jerusalem (al-Quds al-Mubārak, 6 lines from the bottom). The addressee is a woman (sittī al-karīma(?)).

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Inferred date

1127–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

ʿEli, twice mentioning Natan ha-Levi known as Hiba Ibn [...], also mentioning Sitt al-Ahl. Secondary use: Draft of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The bearer is named Abu l-[Faraj?] al-Sayrafi. Goitein deduces that the bearer was sick even before his time in prison from the language in lines 14-18: "You knew him in his prosperous and happy state and how he was at that time and what he suffered. […] (Information from Goitein's index cards. See also card #27109.) EMS. ASE.

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• appeal
• communal
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• petition
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Document date

Tuesday, 17 Nisan 5338 Anno Mundi (25 March 1578 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Deed of sale for a property. Location: Alexandria. Dated: Tuesday, 17 Nisan 5338 AM, which is 1578 CE. […] The property borders that of Yosef Sultani and is across from that of Masʿūd al-Djerbi. One witness is משה אג'ימאן, the other signs their name in Latin script, possibly beginning with the first-persion "io" from Italian.

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• alexandria
• late heb

1 Transcription

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions: speaking to someone in secret; Maʿālī al-Qābiḍ repaying somebody; 2 dinars; Abū l-Qāsim Ibn al-[Fa?][…] Probable join (based on the same draft layout, hand, and references to the parties Abū l-Qāsim and Maʿālī) found by Alan Elbaum.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ibn Jumayʿ, who are named Sitt al-Ahl and Sitt al-Qawām. The situation is not totally clear; this might be a divorce agreement or another kind of agreement based on the conditions that were written in the ketubba. […] Underneath, there is a note about the conditions agreed upon, involving property in the al-Qālūs neighborhood. There are additional jottings in both Arabic script and Hebrew script.

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• marriage

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Document date

517 Hijrī (1 March 1123–18 February 1124 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

On verso: refers to an agreement between two parties, one of whom is a woman, that she will receive the sum that is owed to her by a man according to the Jewish legal deed (al-sheṭār al-muktatib ʿalayhi fī l-Yahūd), perhaps 28 dinars: واستقر بينهما ان يقوم لها من جملة الشطار المكتتب عليه في اليهود ومبلغه تمان وعشرين دينارا(؟).

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Natan himself in other documents. Also refers to "my son al-Rayyis Abū l-Bahāʾ." In the next line mentions "the great pain of my knee which I fell on," likely as a justification for not appearing in person.

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• condolence

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Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Avraham (Maimonides)," which Cohen takes as proof that this is a donor list rather than an alms list. Goitein speculates that this might be "a collection arranged by women to which also a few gentlemen contributed."

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• alms
• avraham maimonides
• poverty

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Primary language

Arabic

Petition or report concerning a government official (Mutawallī al-Sayyāra) named Samyūn (سميون), likely a Christian.The document was cut into two or more pieces and rearranged in order to make a substrate for the Hebrew literary text on verso. […] Apparently a fruit seller (al-fakkāh) named [...] Ibn ʿAtīq entered Samyūn's house at night when Samyūn was away and began insulting Samyūn and others (انه اتا في الليل الى دار سميون العبد متولي السيارة وهو على حاله وسميون غائب فشتمه وشتم غيره). The following lines mention something Samyūn said; the involvement of another official (al-ʿāmil); and someone taking an oath (وقسمه باليمين).

Tags

• dimme
• professions

1 Transcription

Document date

Pesaḥ 1529 Seleucid (12 April 1218 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Majd is to give 10 dirhams to Yeshuʿa for teaching Ibn al-Ziftāwī through the end of Pesaḥ 1529 Seleucid (=1218 CE). T-S K25.240 consists of small written orders, partly in Hebrew and partly in Arabic script, for monthly payments, made out of the rent-revenue from the pious foundation (waqf) 'Compound of the Poor' or from the pious foundation made by the physician al-Muhadhdhab. All dated orders are from spring and summer, 1218.

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• account
• capitation tax
• heqdesh
• jaliya
• jizya
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Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Majd is to give the bearer 30 dirhams from the waqf of al-Muhadhdhab for somebody for teaching poor and orphaned children. […] T-S K25.240 consists of small written orders, partly in Hebrew and partly in Arabic script, for monthly payments, made out of the rent-revenue from the pious foundation (waqf) 'Compound of the Poor' or from the pious foundation made by the physician al-Muhadhdhab. All dated orders are from spring and summer, 1218.

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• account
• education
• heqdesh
• qodesh
• tax
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Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Majd is to give the female bearer, the messenger of the sick Umm Nissim, 5 dirhams from the waqf of al-Muhadhdhab. T-S K25.240 consists of small written orders, partly in Hebrew and partly in Arabic script, for monthly payments, made out of the rent-revenue from the pious foundation (waqf) 'Compound of the Poor' or from the pious foundation made by the physician al-Muhadhdhab. All dated orders are from spring and summer, 1218.

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• account
• heqdesh
• medical charity
• qodesh
• tax
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Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

is to give Ṭāhir the beadle (al-khādim) 2.5 dirhams. T-S K25.240 consists of small written orders, partly in Hebrew and partly in Arabic script, for monthly payments, made out of the rent-revenue from the pious foundation (waqf) 'Compound of the Poor' or from the pious foundation made by the physician al-Muhadhdhab. All dated orders are from spring and summer, 1218.

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• account
• heqdesh
• qodesh
• tax
• waqf

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Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Majd is to do something for the bearer, a judge (? looks like al-dayyān). T-S K25.240 consists of small written orders, partly in Hebrew and partly in Arabic script, for monthly payments, made out of the rent-revenue from the pious foundation (waqf) 'Compound of the Poor' or from the pious foundation made by the physician al-Muhadhdhab. All dated orders are from spring and summer, 1218.

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• account
• capitation tax
• heqdesh
• jaliya
• jizya
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Document date

Shawwāl 512 Hijrī (15 January 1119–12 February 1119 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Yehuda b. Yisra'el b. Efrayim al-Isrā'īlī al-Tājir known as Ibn Abī Kathīr apparently owes 100 dinars to Abū Kathīr Efrayim b. Yūsuf b. Ibrāhīm al-Isrā'īlī (l. 3). His collateral is a little house (duwayra) located in Fustat; there follows a description of the property.

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Primary language

Arabic

Blaming a spy named Abū Saʿīd Ibn al-Ḥammāra and one other person for betraying Damietta to the Franks and possibly the Byzantines as well, either leading to its loss or simply a military setback. […] This document was identified and catalogued on PGP by Alan Elbaum in 2022. Pending publication by Paul Cobb and Alan Elbaum.

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Tags

• arabic crusades
• arabic military report
• crusades
• military
• spy

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information in part from CUDL.) See also Goitein's attached transcription and compare T-S AS 157.482 (PGPID 38905). Join: Alan Elbaum.

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Document date

Ṭevet 1444 Seleucid (11 December 1132–8 January 1133 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Summar (ikhtiṣār) of a legal transaction, also in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Thursday, 18 Shevaṭ 1444 Seleucid = 26 January 1133 CE. […] received a loan of 2 dinars from Mudallala bt. Abū l-Layth Ibn al-Ḍabʿa(?) and agrees to repay it within a specified time frame.

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• halfon b. menashshe
• masliah gaon

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

To be delivered to the shop of Abū Naṣr al-Sharābī (same as in T-S AS 183.111 (PGPID 37875)?) […] The handwriting is familiar but does not seem to be the handwriting of Abū Zikrī Kohen (who also had a son named Abū l-Rabīʿ Sulaymān). The letter is quite damaged.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

It may have to do with a group of people who are being persecuted by a tax collector (...al-jābī yudawwir ʿalayhim dawra...). The remainder consists of expressions of deference (two versions of a raʾy clause, blessings for the addressee, and apologies for being long-winded). […] The last line includes the phrase "until Rosh ha-Shana (raʾs al-sana)."

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Document date

10 Elul 1403 Seleucid (1006 CE)

Legal document: Qaraite ketubba from Ramla, part only. Yaʿaqov b. David al-Shulḥanī (groom) and Sayyida bat Wahb al-ʿArḍī (bride). […] The bride’s agent is Menaḥem b. Iyyov al-Ḥalabī, and his appointment was witnessed by David b.

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• ketubba
• marriage
• qaraite
• ramla

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

Opens with Hebrew praises and wishes for a speedy recovery, then switches into Arabic (in Arabic script) for the body of the letter, which opens with a quotation from the Qaraite sage Yūsuf al-Baṣīr (fl. early 11th century). The continuation of the letter is lost. The Yefet in question may well be Ḥasan/Yefet b. Abī Saʿd Ibrāhīm al-Tustarī, on whom see further T-S 16.50, given the Qaraite content, the grand titles of the addressee, and the fact that he's called ḥemdat ha-nesiʾut (his father-in-law was the Qaraite nasi Ḥizqiyahu). This presumably dates from some time between his marriage ca. 1040–47 and his conversion to Islam ca. 1064. (Alan Elbaum and Marina Rustow)

Tags

• al-tustari
• bialphabetic
• qaraites

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from ʿAyyāsh b. Ṣadaqa, in Alexandria, to Barhūn and Nissim b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Tāhartī, in al-Mahdiyya.

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Document date

14–28 Ramaḍān 433 Hijrī (7 May 1042–21 May 1042 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Numerous foods are listed, e.g., eggplant, green almond, onion, mulūkhiyya, starch, cucumber (faqqūs), eggs, apple, herbs (baql), meat, 10 pounds of offal (buṭūn), "oiled pegs" (? awtād madhūna), and something called צֿעפי or קטוע אלצֿעפי. There are also some additional notes, including a boxed note on Friday the 15th which mentions going to the bathhouse; that the faqīh will spend something; and that "he said, until I write you a ruqʿa after the sabbath."

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• bathhouse
• food

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Document date

Nisan 4979 Anno Mundi (19 March 1219–17 April 1219 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Involves a certain Seʿadya and Sitt al-Tujjār bt. Peraḥya b. Zuwayn. It might be the sale of an eighth of a house. Interestingly, the word "taqlīb" is used in the section where the recipient accepts all the blemishes in the new acquisition. This word often appears in the context of inspecting slaves, but maybe it simply means physical inspection in general. […] Aharon the physician (Ibn al-ʿAmmānī).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer reports that his wife, son, and wife's sister had died, while his mother and her brother (the writer's uncle) are still alive but need help paying the capitation tax and buying clothing (גאליה וכסוה). […] Mentions people such as Abū l-Riḍā; the rayyis Abū l-Suʿūd Shemuʾel ha-Kohen; the sender's wife and her illness before she died; Sitt Rabāb; a daughter named Sitt al-Nasab whose father is the son of the judge Abū l-Makārim; and Sitt Ṣayd bt. al-Naẓar(?).

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• capitation tax
• illness letter 969-1517
• jaliya
• personal

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