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18 Tevet 1496 Seleucid (24 December 1184 CE)

The bride is represented by her father, who also receives the engagement from the groom. Here, as elsewhere, there is no mention of a fine if any of the sides would cancel the engagement or the marriage would not be conducted at the agreed upon date.

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• engagement

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment from Yoshiyya Ibn al-Dhahabī to Abū Saʿīd Ibn al-ʿAfṣī (=gallnut merchant).

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• flax

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Primary language

Hebrew

(Information from Goitein’s index card.) See also T-S 6J2.19 (PGPID 7602).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information in part from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 585, and from Goitein's index cards.) See also T-S 8J21.31 (PGPID 17206).

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• trade

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Document date

[474]9 Anno Mundi (15 September 988–2 September 989 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Mentions a certain David and probably other names; also mentions 'among the group of the artisans (האומנים).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions that "he tried to escape several times and thieved. . . ." Also mentions the name Avraham known as Ibn Ṣandal.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Goitein, 'The Jewish trade in the Mediterranean Sea at the beginning of the 11th century' (Hebrew), Tarbiz, 37(1968), p. 166. Also ed. Gil, Ishamel, doc. 214

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Musallam acknowledges something concerning the textile merchandise that that Abū ʿAlīal-Ṣāʾigh received from him. (Information in part from Goitein’s index card.)

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Inferred date

1000–1075 CE

It is not clear whether he is the witness or the groom. This man also appears in ENA 4010.44 [PGPID 2661]. On the other side of the page is a piyyut.

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Primary language

Arabic

Collesis joint, suggesting it was once a longer rotulus, but also holes where it may have been bound into an archive, quire or codex.

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• fiscal
• lost archive
• tax

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shemarya, the dayyan of Barqa, in Alexandria, to “his brother” Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat.

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• nahray b. nissim
• trade

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Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Signed by צדקה הכהן בן דוד נ"ע, Ṣedaqa b. David ha-Kohen (also signed T-S 12.75 (PGPID 16799) no later than 1093 CE).

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• legal

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Concerning a trader who shipped 100 silk fūṭas from Alexandria to his partner in Tyre, Lebanon, where they were sold for a sum of 149 dinars, amounting to 1 1/2 dinars per fūṭa.

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• ib-addenda
• responsa

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On verso regards to Abū Sahl al-Kohen. Join: Alan Elbaum.

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Primary language

Arabic

Entire fragment is full of patronage language but it could also be just business-related. In the commencement, the sender thanks the receiver for his patience and apologizes for the delay in replying, and asks to come in person if asked to do so.

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• arabic script

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Meshullam known as Ibn Ḥirbish permits a certain individual to collect all that is due to his late father in al-Mahdiyya.

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Yehuda b. Yaḥyā, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim. Around 1052. The letter contains details about purchases and payments.

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Primary language

Arabic

Literary text about al-Khansāʾ and her brother Ṣakhr. ٍSeems like an adapted narrative with few a selected elegiac verses from al-Khasāʾ’s dīwān, could be pages from a literary book of jāhiliyya poetry.

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• al-khansa`
• dimme
• jahiliyya poetry

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

To the best of my knowledge we don’t have legal documents written by him. Also, the format of the fragment is identical with those of his responsa.

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• responsum

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a business letter addressed to [...] b. Abū ʿAlī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary hand and spellings (e.g. […] Mentions saffron; various other commodities and prices and shipping logistics; having sent something with Khuḍayr; various quantities in "jarawī raṭls"; balsam oil; "little ships" (muraykibāt) from al-Shām; and greetings to Abū l-Fakhr.

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Hārūn Ibn Shamārī (appears also in ENA 3616.21 (PGPID 12064)); collecting something from someone; a certain Ḥalfon; and the people who appointed someone an agent (muwakkilīka).

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Arabic

The addressee may be a noble woman: the adjective "jalāliyya" could easily refer to "al-ḥaḍra" regardless of the gender of the addressee, but Nāṣirat al-D[īn?

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Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Seems to be dealing with sums in excess of 1000 dinars. Also mentions coral. Phrases: خمسة واربعين دينار غير قيراطين الباقي الف وثلثة مائة . . . .

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On folio 37v, there are 3 lines of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, naming Abū l-ʿAlā', Abū l-Faraj, Yūsuf, and al-Muʿallim.

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• ownership

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Aharon Sijilmāsī (Fustat) to Avraham (ʿArūs) b. Yosef (Alexandria), ca. 1080. Iṣḥaq b. Aharon reports about money he sent, asks to buy lac and provides information about silk prices.

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• ib6
• india book
• laque
• order of payment
• prices
• (+ 1 more)

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Inferred date

1700–1900 CE

The dating is likely 18th- or 19th-century based on the paleography and mention of the Ottoman kurush. There are also a few references to French coinage. The names of people include: Se[nyor] Bibas, Se[ynyor] Mikhiʾel (Mikhail?)

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• 18th or 19th c
• numismatic dating

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Primary language

Arabic

Note addressed to al-Shaykh al-Ṣafiyy. In Arabic script. Has the glyph.

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• glyph

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a certain Mūsā, in Alexandria, to Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat. The sender, who is apparently engaged to a minor girl soon to reach maturity, asks Eliyyahu to intervene with his future father-in-law Bū Zikrī b.

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• minor fiancee
• minor marriage

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Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Eliyyahu) ordering several medicinal syrups from Abū Isḥāq to be given to the bearer: sharāb aṣīl, sharāb laymūn, sharāb ward (one ounce each) and also one ounce of water of borage (lisān thawr, 'oxtongue').

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• arabic script
• mail-order medicine
• sharab

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Primary language

Arabic

Written around the text on verso and also on recto is the liturgy for Rosh ha-Shana, including the ʿamida for the additional service and a reshut, אחג כפתי ובער.

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• dimme

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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.

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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

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Primary language

Arabic

Recto contains jottings apparently written by "al-khādim Yiṣhaq b. Shela"; the handwriting of the word סטרת at the top resembles that of Avraham Maimonides although the rest does not look like his handwriting.

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• dimme

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Arabic

Mentions Miqdād b. l-Aswad al-Kindī (disciple of the Prophet), Fāṭima (the Prophet's daughter) and refers to the bravery of ʿAlī b.

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• dimme

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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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