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Document date

20 Kislev 1550 Seleucid (29 November 1238 CE)

Goitein's index card suggests that the Nagid at this time is already David I, but it is not clear if he deduced that from the phrases in the document or if he already knew that Avraham died before this date.

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• ketubba
• marriage

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Primary language

Arabic

Fragment (the beginnings of 4 lines from the bottom). Mentions al-Shaykh Ḥamīd and the Jewish m an Khalaf who lives in [...]. Asking the addressee's help to "stop the harm from him" (kaff al-ḍarar ʿanhu). More specifics might be preserved.

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Addressed to someone important, possibly the Nagid, and possibly specifically Maṣliaḥ Gaon (based on some flattering phrases that also appear in other letters to Maṣliaḥ). He is writing to seek help on behalf of a man named Isḥāq b.

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• halfon b. menashshe
• prison
• recommendation

1 Transcription

Primary language

Arabic

Poem in elegant Arabic script followed by a curious note: (the poet and/or scribe?) "Mukhliṣ al-Raḥmān b. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad Hādī l-Islām Iyādi (?)

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• 19th c
• arabic poetry

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Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from the office of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE), in Fustat, to the community of Alexandria (נאמון). Dating: ca. 1220 CE. He instructs them to help a woman and her little daughter to get to Palestine, where she had another daughter.

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• avraham maimonides

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter sent from al-Mahalla by a man who is sought by the controller of revenue, asking a friend to obtain for him a letter from Shams al-Din (the director of revenue in the capital), saying that he is registered as absent.

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• appeal
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• petition

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Marriage agreement between a Rabbanite husband and a Qaraite wife, with a 30 dinar fine to the poor if one transgresses the religious practices of the other. The groom is called al-Rayyis Abu Ali Yefet ha-Kohen, and the bride is called [Sitt?]

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• ib-addenda
• ib2
• marriage
• qaraite
• stipulations

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions: giving or paying something to Yaʿaqov; the testimonies (al-shahādāt... shahādāt kathīr mukhtalifa...); an urging not to forget to add the validation (qiyyum), presumably on the same testimonies; the price of mandrake root (luʿāb); and Khalaf al-[...].

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The language is very legalistic and it could also be a legal document. It seems to be describing the terms of a reconciliation agreement.

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• halfon b. menashshe

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For an example of the appearance of a name and location, on the recto's left section "Skenderiye/Alexandria" is mentioned, as is the name "Yūsuf" in the same entry (l. 18r).

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• arabic script
• coptic numerals
• list

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Abū l-Bahāʾ, in Ashmūm, to his father al-Mashmiaʿ al-Melamed (the crier/herald, the teacher), in Minyat Zifta.

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• capitation tax
• jaliya
• jizya
• minyat zifta
• personal
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1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Arabic

Yiṣḥaq, in Aden, to Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllān b. Ḥassun, in Fustat. Reused on verso for Judaeo-Arabic accounts in ʿAllān's hand.

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• aodeh
• ib6
• india book

4 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Citing BT ketubbot 87a, and probably BT Baba Batra 23a and Arakhin 22a. Also mentioning a legal deed that has to be fulfilled and a testimony.

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• responsum

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: Ca. 15th century (no earlier thah 1415 CE), as it mentions the currency niṣṣ/nuṣṣ/half (i.e., the muʾayyadī). Also mentions the currency jadīd in the sense of 'not even a penny.'

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• numismatic dating
• to edit
• wine

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Abū Manṣūr; Amīn al-[...]; the Kārim convoy and whether something will happen in time for the 'mawsim'; the current prices for aloe; a request to be informed the prices of mastic; greetings to [Abū l-]Rabīʿ, to whom the sender had sent a letter of condolence on the death of his cousin (ibn ʿamm).

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• ib-addenda
• india book unedited
• karim

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: likely ca. 13th century. Headed "response" (al-jawāb). Reporting that 12 nuqra dirhams were sent with with R. Ḥisday and 35 with the bearer of this letter along with 85 'white' dirhams and a number of pounds of flax.

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• trade

1 Transcription

Primary language

Arabic

At least two names are mentioned in ll. 1-2: Isḥaq Kr..l and al-Ḥajj Sulaymān al-Makkawī. MCD.

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• dimme
• numismatic dating

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Primary language

Arabic

Letter of appeal from Yefet addressed to al-Shaykh al-Raḍiyy. In Arabic script, with the sender's name in Hebrew script.

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• appeal

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Primary language

Hebrew

Letter sent to ha-Talmid ha-Baḥur Nissim Agostaro (אגושתארו) in Alexandria from his father Shelomo Agostaro, including a warning that he should not come to Cairo before the epidemic has finished, because every day one or two people die.

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• epidemic
• epidemic: magefa
• late

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Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: 1045 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1007–1055 CE, based on the years when Efrayim b. Shemarya was active. Also on verso, Arabic jottings, part of which are written transversely across the page.

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• communal

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Regarding fundraising for captives, asking the addressee to take charge of it, and also "to collect something from the women." There is some sort of registration mark at the top of the page, which resembles those used by the offices of Yehoshua Maimonides (d. 1355) and David II Maimonides (d. 1410).

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• 14th c
• captives
• nagid
• yehoshua maimonides

1 Transcription 1 Translation

(Information from Mediterranean Society, III, 53; V, 312, and Goitein's index cards.) See also Goitein notes linked below(?).

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• homiletics

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Avraham b. Farāḥ, in Alexandria, to Abu Yūsuf Yaʿqūb, probably in Fustat.

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3 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The sender received Frankish kohl (kuḥl ifrānjī) from the addressee but does not know its price. There are also standard expressions of yearning for the address (מא נעדם מן אללה סוי אלנצר אלי טלעתהם אלרשידה).

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Document date

Sivan 4856 Anno Mundi (25 May 1096–23 June 1096 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Location: probably Alexandria. Dated: Sivan 4856 AM = May/June 1096 CE.

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Beautiful fragment of a legal document from Alexandria in the hand of the court clerk Mawhub. A father gives an entire house to his son Yaʿaqov, who was borne to him by his wife Rafi'a.

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Document date

1028 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shari undertakes to pay after his return from Alexandria, no later than after 40 days. Dated Iyyar, 1028, and witnessed by seven signatories, headed by Yosef ha-Kohen, the judge.

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• 11th c

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Only the opening and the address are preserved, along with a note in the upper margin requesting a speedy response (jawāb), together with the fatwas (al-fatāwā, i.e. responsa) of Bū l-Maʿālī.

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• legal query
• responsum

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mukhtār the Banker is also mentioned. (S. D. Goitein, Mediterranean Society, 5:245, 574) EMS

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• business
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: du'f
• illness: women's
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