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Judaeo-Arabic

IB VI, 9. Letter from Barakāt b. Khulayf to ʿArūs b. Yosef. […] "Tartar (Ar. ṭartār, derived from the same medieval Greek word as the English) was another mordant, also coming to the capital of Egypt via Alexandria. […] Yosef in Fustat, cost 10 13/48 dinars, that is, approximately the same as gallnuts." Med Soc I, p. 405, n. 166 (on mordants, i.e., "liquids with which fabrics were saturated to hold the dyestuff").

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• ib6
• india book
• movement of ships
• tartar

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Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment sent to Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. […] Little of the content remains. "... the response... may he please inform me the [n]ews of the effeminate young man (al-ghulām al-mukhannath) who was with Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan Ibn al-Turkash (or Ibn al-Tarkash) [and if] he arrived in health..." […] In the upper margin mentions 'the island' (al-jazīra). Underneath the address on verso is the name (one of the bearers?)

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• arabic address
• island
• unedited 11th c

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Judaeo-Arabic

Mercantileletter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (right side of recto). […] Dating: 11th century. Mentions Barhūn and a robbery (נזלו עליה לצוץ) (recto l.5); the addressee's mother praying for him (recto l. 10 and verso l. 4); documents including a power of attorney (recto l. 11); Yosef and Nissim al-Muʿallim (recto l. 12); an instruction to find someone to comb (flax) (recto l. 16); news of the ships and the commodities arriving from the West (recto right margin); Abū Yūsuf (recto top margin); and concluding greetings (recto margins and verso).

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• unedited 11th c

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to an notable; wide space between the lines. […] There are several other men with the name Sheʾerit b. Yefet mentioned in Geniza documents (e.g.

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Legal document in Hebrew, very damaged. Location: Cairo. […] Based on the paleography the year is most likely 5552 AM (1791/1792 CE), but this estimate needs to be confirmed through further examination of the names mentioned. Signed by Yaʿacov Arūkh and with a calligraphic scribal signature. […] The transaction is likely related to the long list of items between ll. 5-11: "muslin shirt" (קמצאן שאש), "blue satin cloth" (אטלס אזרק), "old chests" (סנאדק ישנה), etc. Based on the items mentioned it seems this may be a trousseau list– but the extent of damage makes it impossible to be certain.

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• 19th c
• late heb

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Nearly complete letter in Judaeo-Arabic regarding a political conflict within the Jewish community, in which the parties have recourse to the government. […] The remainder is rather obscure and mentions the governor (wālī) of Fustat, who may have refused to talk to anybody until he had personally met with al-Sayfī.

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• tawqi'
• wali

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yeḥezqel, unknown location, to Avraham ha-Melammed, probably in Fustat. […] When the writer previously met with Abū l-Bahā' regarding this matter, Abū l-Bahā' said that he was ill but would bear it and finish the work (annahu yataḥammal al-maḍaḍ).

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: madad

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter possibly from the ḥaver Yehoshuaʿ b. ʿEli, in Ramla, probably to Yehuda b. […] This was evidently written before Yehuda gained the title Nagid. His brother Mevorakh b. Seʿadya is also mentioned (l8). The sender asks for employment in copying books.

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• 11th c

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Document date

Iyyar 1456 Seleucid (1145 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Legal document written and signed by Natan b. Shemuel. […] Includes validation by Ḥiyya b. Isḥāq and Mevorakh b. Shemuel ha-Ḥaver. Verso: the repayments are recorded, and the debt is paid in full by Iyyar 1457 Sel., with signatures of Natan b. Shemuel, Elʿazar b. Moshe and Moshe b. Mevasser. (Information from CUDL and Goitein's index card.)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Perhaps 13th or 14th century, but this is a guess. […] The manager defends himself from charges of negligence brought against him after Bedouin raids. Mentions numerous amirs (including Shams al-Dīn, Saʿd al-Dīn, Fakhr al-Dīn, and Jalāl al-Dīn), qāḍīs, a wālī, a nāẓir, and a faqīh. […] (Information in part from CUDL and S. D. Goitein, Mediterranean Society 1:118, 426.) EMS. Joins: Alan Elbaum.

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• fayyum

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Document date

Sivan 1435 Seleucid (16 May 1124–14 June 1124 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fol. 1: Several legal documents, all in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. […] See Goitein's note card and Med Soc III, A, 3, n. 24 and B, 4, n. 41. Partially ed.

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• halfon b. menashshe

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Document date

5 Shawwāl 427 Hijrī (1 August 1036 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Isḥāq; ʿAlī b. Ḥusayn; Yūsuf b. Menashshe; Barakāt b. Menaḥem b. Mubārak. Three of the signatures have צח ("valid") in Hebrew script above them. As the witnesses are Jews, this would not have been regarded as a valid legal instrument in a Muslim court. (Information from Khan.)

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• death
• female inheritance
• inheritance
• jewish witnesses
• state

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Letter from Yosef b. Ya’aqov al-Itrabulusi from Gabes (Ifrīqiya) to Yosef b. […] Describes his difficulties managing Ibn Awkal’s merchandise. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #172) VMR

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• ibn awkal
• trade

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to Abū Yaʿqūb b. Yūsuf al-Fāsī. In Judaeo-Arabic. […] The writer gives updates on his own father and mother and broaches various business matters. He mentions the goods of Abū Isḥāq Ibn Barukh.

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• unedited 11th c

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Letter from Yosef b. Avraham, in Qayrawan(?), to Nahray b. […] The writer expresses his sorrow for the situation in Qayrawan. Mentions Nahray’s mother who is still in Qayrawan.

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Fragmentary letter (on vellum) from Tunisia by Manashe b. Ammar to Joseph b. […] Information from Goitein's notecards and Mediterranean Society II, 87-88.

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Handwriting of Hillel b. ʿEli? Mentioning someone's brother and al-Nezer. The writer then asks the addressee to pass on his copious excuses for not having rendered sufficient service to someone who has bestowed much favor (tafaḍḍulāt) upon him.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The name Yosef b. Seʿadya appears on the other side (technically recto); perhaps this is the name of the sender. The sender is in terrible straits and urges the addressee to meet with him and help him. He reminds the addressee that "when [he] was healthy," he used to do whatever the addressee asked of him no matter how unpleasant.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a teacher to the father of a pupil. In Judaeo-Arabic, fully vocalized. […] There is discussion of payment of wages; sums named are a rubāʿī and 1.5 dinars. Also mentions Divre ha-Yamim and Psalms and Iyov and Daniʾel.

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Arabic

Fragment of a legal Islamic (fiqh) manual. The preserved text is a commentary passage on the Islamic ritual of ṭahāra and ablution. […] The infamous hadīth transmitter Qāḍ.ī Abū al-Faraj is also mentioned.

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• ablution
• dimme
• fiqh

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Moderately wide space between the lines. […] There is a man who says he is the nephew (sister's son) of Rabbenu Meir who arrived in the land of Egypt in the days of Rabbenu Moshe Gaon (ZL); this man knows the addressee and sends greetings to 'sayyidnā.'

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter of appeal for charity. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. […] The sender, now fallen on hard times, may be referring to his own prosperous origins when he refers to "a great family, a family of knowledge and good and merchants and travelers" (מן בית כביר בית אלעלם ואלכיר ואלתגאר ואלמסאפרין).

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• appeal

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Letter from Mūsā b. Yaʿaqov al-Miṣrī, in Malīj, to Yosef b. […] The writer deals with selling and buying goods for the partnership between the two. Mentions several names of people who are involved in their business.

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• trade

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Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a commercial letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Medieval-era. Very fragmentary.

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Inferred date

1750–1850 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Small fragment from the top of a late letter to Yosef Ya'betz יוסף יעבץ dated 17 of Nissan (no year preserved). […] There are a wide variety of late 18th- and early 19th-century documents connected to Yosef Yuʿbaṣ and his family members in Cairo (the surname is also transliterated as Yaʿabeṣ in the PGP).

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• fgp stub

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Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a letter to a Nasi. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 13th century. Mentioning something that arrived from Damascus; something the writer sent with Yaʿqūb; Rabbenu Ḥananel; "the matter of the dyer"; and a matter that the mawlā is asked to take care of.

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• mosul nasis
• rabbenu hananel

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Judaeo-Arabic

Small fragment of a business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Makhlūf b. […] Dating: 12th century. Mentions [...] b. Jabbāra and a report that ʿAbdallāh traveled from Zinjibār (in eastern Yemen) to Mirbāṭ (75km east, in modern Oman).

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• business
• ib-addenda
• ib7

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Arabic

Letter fragment, in an official looking hand. First preserved line contains blessings "المالك سبحانه بالعلا" and in the next line "سبحانه من شا". Also mentions 'al-Shām' and probably the name of an official (Nawāl?)

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• dimme

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Primary language

Hebrew

Recto: Letter in Hebrew. Mentions expenses for the holidays.

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Letter from Avraham b. Farrāḥ (Gil, on the basis of handwriting) from Alexandria to an unknown recipient, ca. 1055. Mentions various wares – raisins, clothes, pearls.

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• nahray b. nissim
• trade

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Inferred date

1140–1159 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document. Location: Fustat. in the hand of Natan b. […] Involves Abū l-Faraj Menaḥem, a husband and a wife, and Yosef ha-Kohen.

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• halfon b. menashshe

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Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment from a letter of appeal in which the writer alludes to news 'that made my chest constrict and the world collapse on me.'

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• appeal
• language of distress

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Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document. Bū l-Majd b. Thābit, known as Meir b.

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• meir b. yakhin

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Inferred date

1237–1300 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto and verso: Begging letter from Baqāʾ the cantor to the Nagid David Maimonides (who served intermittently between 1237–1300 CE). […] Touching on various issues such as copying of books and composition of religious poetry, renting out of a house, and alimony. Mentions the sender's paternal aunt’s son Ismāʿīl.

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• account

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE).

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• slave

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Letter from Ḥayyim b. Imanuel b. Kayoma, probably from Mahdiyya, to an unknown addressee. […] Regarding selling oil, crocus, pearls, and Tustari clothing. The writer mentions a problem with dinars and the request for “Nisari” dinars.

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