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Document date

1441 Seleucid (16 September 1129–5 September 1130 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Naḥrīr (the father Naḥrīr appears also in T-S 6J3.5 (PGPID 3637)) and Abū ʿImrān Moshe.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Some of the formulary is identical to T-S 10J15.7, and the handwriting is also similar. On verso there are jottings in Hebrew and Arabic script; the latter look like drafts of the beginning of a letter but aren't fully deciphered.

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There is one line in the margin that reads as "al-mamlūk" in a chancery hand, probably a continuation of the official document on verso. The Arabic text on verso reads as "al-manṣūba", probably in a chancery hand. Needs examination.

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• 'aqid
• dimme
• ib5
• india book

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Contains a request to help with a shipment that it was in the hands of Nissim b. Yaʿaqov. Also mentions Mukhtār and Abū l-Barakāt. (Information in part from CUDL and Goitein notes linked below.)

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• ib6
• india book

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Document date

20 Adar 4812 Anno Mundi (24 February 1052 CE)

Husband: Yeshūʿa b. Mev[orakh?] of Alexandria. Wife: ʿAziza bt. Aharon of Fustat. Goitein writes that this was not Yeshuʿa's first divorce, but he does not explain how he knows that.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Small fragment from a legal document. Abū l-Bahāʾ al-Kohen Ibn al-Naḥḥāl owes money to his nephew Moshe and gets another 4 weeks for installments on top of a prior period of 5 years.

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Document date

7th Kislev 1410 Seleucid (4 November 1098 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document recording that the parnas Eli ha-Kohen and his colleague testified in court that three orphan girls had received ten dinars bequeathed to them by an uncle in Tyre, which had been sent by Abū al-Khayr b. al-Muʿassal; Thursay 7th of Kislev 1410 Sel.

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• testimony

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Document date

Tuesday, 4 Iyyar 5320 Anno Mundi (30 April 1560 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

(Information from CUDL; see also A. David's description and edition on FGP.)

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe, in Alexandria, to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE).

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• yefet b. menashshe

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Goitein and Cohen see this as the same Efrayim from T-S 12.3 (PGPID 3153) (Information from CUDL) See also Goitein's index card.

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• communal
• petition

1 Transcription 1 Translation 2 Discussions

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter regarding business from Yaḥyā b. Mūsā al-Majjānī, probably in Mahdiyya, to Nahray b. Nissim (c. 1045 CE). […] Menashshe and expressing the hope that [...] b. Abū Ibrahim al-Iskandarānī, who travelled from Barqa, is fine.

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• 11th c
• nahray b. nissim
• trade

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

End of a letter conveying greetings to all family members ('father, mother, sister, uncle, aunt, and anyone else under your care') of the addressee. Conveying the heartsickness (fasting, weeping) of everyone at home and telling the addressee that attaining the world (al-dunyā) will not be worth this if a certain woman in the house (his mother?)

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Document date

22 April 1140 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Netanel, in Qalyūb, to his brother Ḥalfon b. Netanel, in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Monday, 3 Iyyar [4900 AM], which is 22 April 1140 CE.

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• ib-partial translation-heb
• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• india book

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Zikri b. Abu al-Rida, the perfume seller, to Abu al-Mahasin, a tailor and weaver, dealing with financial business and referring to several textiles.

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• business
• tailor
• wedding

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Document date

18 Shaʿbān – 15 Ramaḍān 934 Hijrī (8 May 1528–3 June 1528 CE)

Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: 18 Shaʿbān 934 AH through 15 Ramaḍān 934 AH = May/June 1528 CE. Mentions al-qāḍī Shihāb al-Dīn b. Shirīn, Yūnus from Damietta and Abū l-Barakāt.

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• account

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Document date

428 Hijrī (25 October 1036–13 October 1037 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A very damaged record, mentioning the supply of different materials, such as oakum, straw, reeds, bricks, lime, twigs, clay, nails, water. Also, payments to sawyers, masons, carpenters, plasterers, and helpers.

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• 11th c
• account
• communal
• heqdesh
• qodesh
• (+ 1 more)

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Signed by Palṭiel b. Efrayim (appears also in T-S AS 145.52 in the 990s CE, and T-S 24.11 in 1002 CE).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Concerning a dispute between Abū Isḥāq Avraham b. Shelomo Ibn al-Tawwazī and his father-in-law Abū Manṣūr Aharon b. Mevasser al-Zayyāt. Describing the resolution to the dispute after the invention of the 'righteous elders' except for an outstanding sum of 23 dinars which Aharon will repay in installments to Avraham.

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1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Here he writes about expecting a shipment of empty quires, and he also requests ink.

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2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

His son, Sasson, was a judge in Cairo; Sasson had a son called Yiṣḥaq who was also a judge in Cairo, see Med. Soc. 2:514, #24, #25.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information from Goitein's index cards.) See also T-S 12.329 + T-S Ar.48.136, by the same writer, possibly to the same recipient.

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• trade

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Details of an oath to be taken by Abu al-Ḥasan Qasim as demanded by the haver Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham with regard to a consignment of cinnabar (zanjafūr) that had to be delivered by his servant to Ḥasan b. Ḥasan in al-Mahdiyya. This document was written in Denia, Spain, in 1083, according to another written deed on the same issue (PGPID 7271).

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Primary language

Hebrew

The sender reports on family affairs and his happiness on the birth of his grandson. He also reports on business matters and various commodities intended to be sold overseas (ll. 14–21).

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Salama b. Nissim b. Ishaq al-Barqi of Busir to Abu Ishaq (Barhun) b. Ismail al-Tāhartī, dealing with the production of flax and linen.

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• flax

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The father conveys a strong message to his son to return to God and stop acting in a manner pleasing only to 'fools and people of little religiosity.' He also urges him to travel only with a caravan or on a merchant's itinerary.

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• mansur b. salim

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Inferred date

1150–1181 CE

Natan he-Ḥaver (fl. 1150–1181 CE), also signed by Levi b. Avraham ha-Levi (= the cantor Abū Sahl Levi?)

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Letter from Isma’il b. Ya’aqov al-andalusi, probably from Mahdiyya, to Yoshe’a b. Natan al-andalusi, Fustat. Around 1050. Regarding goods that are being sent to the Maghreb, especially linen.

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Primary language

Arabic

Probably a report mentioning the royal kitchen "maṭbakh" and lamb meat "laḥm al-kharīf." The term maṭbakh often means sugar refinery in state documents, though the reference to meat suggests it is a kitchen here. Lamb is technically kharūf, so it may read laḥm al-khirāf (pl.).

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Document date

Av 1451 Seleucid (17 July 1140–15 August 1140 CE)

Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyār, instructing him to pay al-Rayyis Abū Saʿd 6 dinars. This may be Moshe b. Netanʾel al-Shishi; see T-S 13J13.12 (PGPID 7990). Dated Av 1451 (= 1140 CE).

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• abu zikri kohen
• cheque
• order of payment

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Arabic

Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār) for Maḥāsin b. Saʿīd b. Hilāl al-Yahūdī al-ʿAṭṭār, first five lines only. In which he acknowledges a debt owed to Bū l-Riḍā b.

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• iqrar

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Bifolio of accounting for the purchase of wax (sharḥ shary al-shamʿ). Mentions Nuʿmān; pepper; the word אכדת is spelled אכת; selling a turban to Salāma; the term tashmīʿ (presumably somethign to do with wax); the customs at Dār Mānak and other payments. The right page of recto is headed "explanation of the indigo which I left [in] Almeria with Abū ʿUmar b. BQNṢ(?)

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• fgp stub

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Judaeo-Arabic

Asking the addressee to ask al-Qāḍī al-Murtaḍā for 1,294 1/4 dirhams. On verso, rhyming jottings in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script (note that the word that looks like אלעזר is actually אלעדר).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mathāb(?) to Abū l-Faraj Ibn al-Rayyis al-Iskandarānī (=Eliyyahu the Judge).

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The sender seems disgruntled that someone didn't accept his help setting up a shop; he also owes two months of rent. Greetings to various people including the addressee’s father.

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Document date

1770 Seleucid (9 September 1458–29 August 1459 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Lines 4–11 are an elaborate reshut clause, but it is not clear if the name of the Nagid is preserved. ʿAbd al-Karīm b. Maḥāsin b. ʿIwaḍ al-Kohen makes a declaration of some kind.

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