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Primary languages

Hebrew, Ladino

On verso, there is rudimentary alphabetical practice and a line in cursive Hebrew script, perhaps Ladino (לאש . . . אינטרא. . . .).

Tags

• italy
• ladino
• late books
• ownership
• printed

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Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

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.

Tags

• al-tustari
• bialphabetic
• qaraites

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Inferred date

1560–1565 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yaḥya al-Fayruzī (a debt release with one of his other brothers/sisters-in-law). MCD.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The addressee's brother-in-law Shelomo Rofe has come. Needs further examination.

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1

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Inferred date

1759–1759 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Undated, perhaps because this document was cut from a larger piece of paper that did include dated entries.

Tags

• 18th c
• divorce
• karaite

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Document date

Adar I [1]467 Seleucid (25 January 1156–23 February 1156 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The letter gives a detailed report on a shipwreck, as the addressee's son-in-law Hiba b. Abū Saʿd was on board, and the addressee had requested verification of his death and details about the retrieval of his possessions. […] During the rest of that year and the following year, travelers arrived in Aden coming from all over India, from East Africa ("the land of the Zanj"), from Somalia ("the inland region of Berbera"), from Abyssinia and its provinces, and from the south Arabian regions of Ashḥār and Qamar, and the accounts of all travelers were consistent with the Kūlamī ship having been wrecked.

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11

Tags

• aguna
• baribatani
• ib-partial translation-eng
• ib2
• india book
• (+ 2 more)

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But everything else in the folder is much later, so this is likely incorrect). Names listed include Shelomo b.

Tags

• 16th c
• late prosopography

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Primary language

Arabic

Letter from a woman, in Cairo, to her brother Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb the brother-in-law of [...], in Malīj. In Arabic script. The sender is identified as "his sister" (karīmatuhū) in the address on verso.

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2

Tags

• arabic
• dimme
• letter
• malij
• proverb

1 Transcription

Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Then, a government representative "attacked" the majority of the houses in the city, demanding the harvest stores "for the strengthening of the lands." (There is a tricky phrase at the beginning of this section: this representative appears to be called בליל, which could be Bulayl and a diminutive of Bilāl; it is faintly possible that בליל חמס refers to "the one sodden with discord/oppression"; it is also possible that there is a pun or code for בעל המס, tax collector, and the querier did not wish to put that phrase in the document.)

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1

Tags

• avraham maimonides
• tax

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Primary languages

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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• aodeh
• bialphabetic

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Primary language

Ladino

He asks Moshe to speak with him, and Shemuel hopes to pay him later when he travels to Salonica. There is also a note about the bearer of the letter in the margin.

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• ladino
• salonica
• shemuel sidi

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

אשתריה או אסתרהנה) 5 pawned books (asfār, later tafātir for dafātir), in which case he would need more money.

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2

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Primary language

Arabic

Written on top of the inshallah there is another phrase written in a different hand and ink and larger letters: يسفح(؟) باب . . . . مستخدمي الاعمال.

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Primary language

Arabic

The account was reused later by someone who copied some sections of the text in the margins or between the lines as a trial of the pen.

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1

Tags

• dimme
• fiscal
• lost archive
• sugar

1 Transcription 1 Translation

Primary language

Hebrew

On verso there is part of a calendar including for the years 969–75, which are either reckoned from the destruction of the temple, i.e., 1037–43 CE, or from the creation of the world (which is much more common), yielding 1208–15 CE. The layout of the ketubba is quite odd, and the phrase כך וכך appears in the bottom line, suggesting that this could be a copy or a draft.

Tags

• ketubba

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

The second is in the name of al-Muwaffaq [...]. 4) A later scribe evidently folded the page in half and used the left side of recto for private accounts, now in fainter ink and ina non-fiscal hand.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender has previously sent two letters of instructions to the community of Ṣahrajt concerning what should be done with the heirs of the late Hiba. Subsequently, Hiba's sons Yaʿaqov and Ṣedaqa along with their mother arrived in Fustat and filed a complaint against their brother ʿAllūn.

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1

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1

Tags

• sahrajt

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Document date

8 Kislev 5459 Anno Mundi (11 November 1698 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

The recto contains accounts in Judaeo-Arabic from the first of Tūt of the Hijrī year 1126 AH, (1715 CE) and thus represents the later instance of reuse. The prospective groom is Avraham b.

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Tags

• 17th c
• engagement
• marriage

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There seems to be a dispute between the physician and an in-law of the sender (יקום יצארב הו ויה ויקול לה איש לך פי דא).

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1

Tags

• conflict
• physician
• turbans
• zunnar

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Hilāl; the widow of al-Najīb; Abū l-Faraj al-Tājir; Ibn Ghulayb; his brother-in-law Abū Zikrī al-Ṭabīb; al-Kohen al-Siqillī; Abū ʿAlī al-Bilbaysī b. al-Bustānī; Ibn al-Muṭrib Ibn Nufayʿ; al-kātib b. al-shammāʿ; Ibn al-Nāqid; Ṭayyib b. al-Sarjās(?)

Tags

• donors

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

The handwriting and the jottings of eastern Arabic numerals are more consistent with the later date. Gives a spell for annulling other spells, warding off umm al-ṣibyān (infant colic or epilepsy), and exorcising the spirits of the jinn from one who is afflicted (muṣāb).

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• arabic script
• illness
• illness: mental
• illness: umm al-sibyan
• jinn
• (+ 2 more)

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Document date

Tevet 1570 Seleucid (29 November 1258–27 December 1258 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a circuit judge's report about actions with estate of Abū l-Fakhr in Damīra, written December 1258 CE (late Tevet 1570 Seleucid). Abū l-Fakhr appears to have been a druggist, and he left a widow and three children, two mature and one younger.

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2

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Primary language

Arabic

In the address section, Uruwī is given the titles "governor of the fortress of Ibrīm and the Land of Marīs, Abū al-Khayr Uruwī. MR Khan, Qaṣr Ibrīm doc. 7.

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2

Tags

• qasr ibrim

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Primary language

Arabic

Petition to the caliph al-Āmir (1101–30) from a woman attempting to collect a large debt of 241 dinars on the estate of a deceased person.

Tags

• archives
• petition
• woman

1 Transcription 1 Translation

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

The beneficiaries include: Abū Yaʿqūb; Barhūn; Abū Zikrī; גזוק; Mūsā; Abū Sahl; Ibn al-ʿAjamī; Surayr; Ṣudayqa; Buraykāt and his mother; מגא; אשוימי; the ear cleaner (munaqqī al-adhān); Ibn Sulaymān; the sons of the killed man; the Kohen; al-maʿārīf; Fuḍayl; Mawhūb; al-jār and his mother; the disabled man (al-muqʿad); the teachers; the blind; Isḥāq; Sulaymān; the Lādhiqī; the Baʿalbakkī; Maḥfūẓ; al-Ramādī; the brother of the disabled man; Khallūf b. al-Dabbāgh; the Baghdadi; the philosopher.

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• charity
• disability
• distribution
• professions

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Title: Pardes rimone ha-ḥokhmah ṿe-arugat bosem ha-mezimah.Title: פרדס רמוני החכמה וערוגת בושם המזמה. Note: An ethico-philosophical poem, incomplete. […] Title: אהה אמי ילידתיני לרמה.Note: A rhymed metrical piece. Explicit: עד כאן מצאתי זאת המחברת בנוסח ישן והעתקתיו כיד אלהי הטובה עלי הצעיר וזעיר משה הלוי יר"ו בלאאור כמוהרר אברהם הלוי הפקיד הנאמן דק"ק ירושתו זצ"ל.. […] Note: Directions for betrothal marriage ceremonies according to Karaite law. Fols 88r-89r: Title: Dine giṭin. Title: דיני גטין.

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Primary language

Arabic

Recto: Six lines from a formal Arabic petition, probably late Fatimid. The second line reveals the name of an official: "...al-salāṭīn khāliṣat amīr al-muʾminīn Asad al-Dīn."

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• dimme
• late fatimid
• state

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