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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter sent from al-Mahdiyya (Gil)/ al-Maghrib (Ben-Sasson) to Fustat (Gil)/Sicily (Ben-Sasson), by Ishaq b. Alial-Majjani to Abu al-Fadl, dealing with a debt of Banu al-Majjani to one named al-Shiraji (Gil) and mentioning legal opinion of Rabbi Hananel b.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Salmān b. Hārūn, al-Faḍl and Avraham b. Farrāḥ, Alexandria, to Nahray b. […] Al-Faḍl then asks Nahray to run other errands related to clearing up a conflict with a certain Abū al-Surūr, which precipitated the severance of his relationship with Yosef b. […] and the khums related to them. The letter also mentions the Muslim shipowner Abū ʿAbdallāh b. al-Baʿbāʿ, here called Muḥammad b.

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• 11th c
• ibn al-ba'ba'

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Inferred date

1446–1465 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from an unknown writer, in Alexandria, to an unknown recipient, presumably in Fustat. […] The writer greets the addressee as his 'brother', excuses his imposition (al-tahajjum (!) ʿalāfaḍlikum) and mourns that the people of Alexandria have lost the science of intercalation, and requests that the addressee send him a calendar, starting with the upcoming Tishrei and extending to the end of mahzor 275.

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• 15th c

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Persian

There are several names and place names in Arabic script (e.g., Abū Naṣr, al-Fāḍil Abū ʿAlī, Abū ʿAlīal-Ḥasan (b.) Zakariyya, Damascus, and Baghdad.

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Fragment of a faded Judaeo-Arabic letter with greetings from Menaḥem at the bottom and sent to Tiberias. […] Verso: Jottings and a draft of the beginning of a legal testimony, "What occurred before us, we the witnesses," followed by the names Abū Saʿd Avraham b. Shela and Abū Naṣr al-Faḍl b. Sahl" (i.e., Ḥesed al-Tustarī, who died in 1049/50 CE).

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• al-tustari
• runaway
• tiberias

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Ṣedaqa b. ʿAyyāsh, in Alexandria, to Abū Naṣr al-Faḍl b. Sahl al-Tustarī (aka Ḥesed b. […] The letter deals with shipments of goods to the Maghreb and Sicily. The letter also mentions the triumphal march of al-Muʿizz b. Bādīs, ruler of Ifrīqiyya ("News came that the amīr Sharaf al-Dawla, may God prolong his glory, returned to Tripoli and defeated his enemies; I hope this is accurate, God willing").

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Primary language

Arabic

The case is that of two brothers who inherit 3.5 shares in a property from their third brother, but upon selling their shares, they learn that the deceased brother had already sold 1 share in the property, so that each brother owned 0.5 less share than he thought he did. The case is potentially connected to the document on the recto (PGPID 5335), a partnership agreement between two brothers, Abū al-Faḍl and Abū al-Riḍā Yosef b. Berakhot, who have inherited a sugar factory from their father and purchased the remainder from their brothers. The partnership agreement also references "Arabic documents" that allegedly detail the nature of the inheritance/purchase, as well as the dimensions of the property.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He speaks about his children (he probably also had a wife). He had been in al-Maḥalla for 2 months, then came to Fustat intending to stay only 5 days, but it was impossible to leave on account of the children. He now sends her 40 dirhams with Ibrāhim Ibn al-Ashqar. She should pay 5 to Abū ʿAlī and buy 10 dirhams of wheat (qamḥ) for the children. […] He is staying with Abū Naṣr b. Karīm at Qaʿāt al-Fāḍil. (Information from Goitein’s index card.)

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• family
• grain
• meat
• prices

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Document date

18 Ramaḍān 438 Hijrī (18 March 1047 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Headed by a basmala, next to which appears the name al-Faḍl b. Sahl (= Ḥesed b. Yashar al-Tustarī, presumably the issuer of this document). […] Nissim) the associate of the son of Barhūn al-Tāhartī: two loads of brazilwood (ʿadlayn baqqam), 820 raṭls; vinegar (khall), 10 raṭls...." […] There are several other documents from the 1040s CE concerning business between Ḥesed al-Tustarī, Nahray b. Nissim, and the Tāhartī family (e.g., Bodl.

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• commercial receipt
• dimme
• unedited 11th c

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Document date

Final third of Kislev 1445 Seleucid (19 November 1133–28 November 1133 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Avraham to enter a certain compound on the punishment of ten dinars. b: Contract of rent in which Abu Ali rents the 'empty part and the floor under it' of a house to Abu al-Fadl, his sister's son, for him to live in, paying 1 2/3 dirhams a month as rent. c: Transfer of a debt of 2 1/3 dinars to Husein b. Abu al-Faraj originally owed by Yaʿaqov b. al-Shomer to Makarim [?] b. Yahya al-Hakim. The debt is to be paid by Husein b. Abu al-Faraj in monthly installments of half a dinar, while the responsibility remains with the original debtor. d: An excommunicated person is advised by the court in Fustat to settle the disagreement he had with the provincial community and which is the cause of his being excommunicated within fifty days.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū ʿUmar, probably in Alexandria, to Abū l-Barakāt b. Abū ʿUmar, Abū l-Majd b. Abū l-Faraj (Abū l-Majd is also called אבו אלאם or אבו אלגם), and Abū l-Barakāt b. […] Verso: Draft of petition for help from a noble woman (al-Sitt al-Fāḍila), edited by Oded Zinger in a forthcoming article.

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• address as seal

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender appears to be al-Faḍl b. Yūsuf. The addressee is Abū l-Surūr Faraḥ b. Yehuda al-Kīnānī(?) known as ṣāḥib (the friend of?) al-Baradānī; underneath is written "to Abū l-[Faraj] Yūsuf b. […] Yaḥyā Ibn al-Ṭaḥḥāla. Mentions the (arrival of?) the ship of ʿArūs.

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• ibn 'awkal
• to edit
• tutty
• unedited 11th c

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Document date

26 Sivan 14[..] Seleucid (1108 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

An agreement between Abū al-Faḍl Mevorakh b. Abraham Ibn Sabrī and Abū ‘Imrān Moshe b. […] The partners are not allowed to quit the partnership before the end of the one-year period, after which they may either renew or terminate it.

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• 12th c
• hillel b. eli
• partnership

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Document date

1551 Seleucid (1239 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Location: Fustat. The brothers Abū al-Faḍl and Abū al-Riḍā Yosef b. Berakhot, owners of a sugar factory, take on Yosef b. […] There is a reference to "Arabic documents" which record the dimensions and location of the factory, and the fact that the brothers inherited part of the factory and purchased the balance from their father. The investors allow the brothers to pursue other investments outside the partnership with partnership funds.

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• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib1
• ibn yiju
• india
• partnership
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2 Transcriptions 2 Discussions

Primary language

Aramaic

Naḥmūn; Yosef b. Yaʿaqov; ʿEli b. al-Faḍl; ʿEli b. Mevorakh. The validation has 4 signatures: Ṣadoq b. Yoshiyyahu Av Bet Din (who also wrote it); Eliyyahu b. Ḥalfon; Netanel b. Yosef; Araḥ b. […] Wahb, known from documents from Alexandria ca. 1090s–1110s CE).

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• ib-addenda
• ib6

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Jalāl al-Dawla, in Cairo, to Shelomo b. Yishai the Mosul Nasi, in Bilbays. […] A physician was treating me, al-Rayyis Sulaymān al-Ḥakīm al-Fāḍil of the family of Rabbenu Menaḥem (ZL). […] And R. Eliyya the Judge was also generous. When I recovered after some days… [I came down] with what was worse than it… ophthalmia in my eye on the night of Shabbat Shoftim… a painful scream, against my will, all night….

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• 13th c
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: eye
• illness: gastrointestinal
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A few days after the addressee(s) set out to sea from Alexandria, the son of al-Faḍl Ibn Sabra arrived "drowning" (ghāriq), which caused distress to everybody (did he survive a shipwreck?). […] , and his forces have reached as far as MSYD al-Rudaynī (Minyat al-Rudaynī in the Sharqiyya district in the Nile Delta?). Alternatively MSYD may be a colloquial spelling (cf.

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• coins
• drowning
• geography
• mint
• nile
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1 Transcription

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Discussed in detail, with translation, in Oded Zinger's dissertation, pp. 201–02: 'Malīḥa bt. Abū al-Faḍl wanted a divorce. She claimed that her husband suffered from many illnesses and that his children from a previous marriage were irreligious. […] Examine my state and please liberate me.3 .... All that I want is the liberation of the servant, by any means necessary. […] The three men declared to the court that they had made the symbolic purchase from Malīḥa confirming that she relinquished the entirety of her meʿuḥar and was willing to take an oath over her claims regarding the dowry. Her husband also made the symbolic purchase confirming that he had no claim over her.

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• abusive marriage
• arabic script
• communal
• divorce
• illness
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Document date

Monday, 8 Kislev 1463 Seleucid (18 November 1151 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: Monday, 8 Kislev 1463 Seleucid = 18 November 1151 CE. Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm al-ʿAṭṭār al-Siqillī and Abū l-ʿAlāʾal-Kohen al-Munādī testify regarding the deathbed will of Makhlūf [b.] Faḍḍālal-Qābisī. Makhlūf declared before them that his son Faḍḍāl, also in the drug trade, owes him nothing, not even the obligation to pay for his burial expenses. He also told Faḍḍāl before the witnesses that he has no money to leave for his wife, and he requests that Faḍḍāl give her a dinar out of his own money.

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• inheritance

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The names include: Azhar; Faḍāʾilal-Ḍarīr; Faḍāʾil the brother of the deceased; Abū l-Ḥasan al-Levi; Abū ʿAlīal-Parnas; Abū l-ʿIzz b. Nuʿmān; Abū l-Bayān al-Ḥazzan; Khalaf; Abū l-Faḍlal-Kohen; Munajjā b. Abū Saʿd; Abū Saʿīd; Ibn Faḍāʾil b. Nuʿmān; Abū l-Ḥasan b. Abū l-Faḍl; Abū Saʿīd; Maḥāsin b. al-Kohen.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic. Extremely faded, reddish ink. Verso: Letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly the response to the original letter. Also quite faded. Mentions a Christian and Alexandria and the government; also mentions someone writing a 'khuṭṭa' or 'khaṭṭuhu' for a total of 6,000 (of what, it is not clear); the numbers 2000-something and 7000 also appear.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Abū l-Faḍl and his mother, perhaps in Fustat, to his father Abū Naṣr, in Asyūṭ. […] It seems that Abū Naṣr had deposited some gold with a certain Abū l-Faḍl (a different person than the son who wrote this letter) in Alexandria "for the orphan girl." But the family has heard no news of this gold and fears it is lost, because Abū l-Faḍl's wife has died and Abū l-Faḍl himself is very sick (ʿalā khuṭṭa) (last lines of right margin, continuing into the upper margin).

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• distant husband
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: khutta
• illness: women's
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Document date

Iyyar 1431 Seleucid (1 April 1120–29 April 1120 CE)

Dated: Last decade of Iyyar 1431 Seleucid, which is 1120 CE. In which Abū l-Faḍāʾil leases half of a house for a monthly rent of 7 qīrāṭs of gold from ʿAyn al-Qurrah sitt al-Milāḥ, the daughter of the deceased Abū l-Faḍl Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif. Sitt al-Milāḥ is his sister-in-law, as he is married to Sitt al-Gharb, the other daughter of Abū l-Faḍl Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif, as is described in UPenn E 16510 (PGPID 8962) which was written in the same days - last ten days of Iyyar 1431 Sel. An agent, Abū l-Ḥasan ʿEli ha-Kohen, is acting in the name of sitt al-Milāḥ. A ‘property chain’ was involved, in that the contract specifies that Abū l-Faḍāʾil will not be able to move into his accommodation until the new house of sitt al-Milāḥ is ready (it is currently being built).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

With greetings to a certain Ṣedaqa, his wife, and various other people and family members including Faḍāʾil, Abū l-Faḍl, and Ibn al-Qābila. Arabic address on verso ("to Alexandria").

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions people such as Abū l-Faḍl b. Muʿallā; Ibn Ṣaghīr; Abū l-Yumn Ibn Ṣaghīr; Hiba al-Ḥamawī; Yosef b. ʿAṭāʾ; ʿAllūsh; Ibn Ḥārith; Abū l-Faḍl Ibn Ṣaghīr; Ben Yiju; Ibn Semekh(?) al-Daʿwa; Yiṣḥaq; Khiyār b. Faḍl. Mentions places such as Barqa, Almeria, Egypt, and Aden.

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• ib6
• india

2 Transcriptions

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Mentions: brokerage (samsara); Bū l-Faḍl; Bū l-ʿIzz al-Jabbān(?); Bū l-Faḍl Bayyāʿ; Ibn Masmūṭ(?); Barakāt; al-Naḥḥās (or al-nuḥās). On verso: bread, sumac, olive oil, and linseed oil.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef to the relatively well-known Abū l-Faḍāʾil Ḥayyim b. Ḥananel, who was the son of the judge Ḥananel b. […] This letter consists almost entirely of deferent formalities and greetings. […] He also sends regards to "your associate (sharīk) al-Shaykh al-Sadīd," probably a physician; to Abū l-Barakāt Waliyy al-Dawla; and to another associate, al-Mawlā al-A[. .]d.

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• arabic address
• david i maimonides
• hananel b. shemuel
• pietism

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Document date

Rabīʿ II 534 Hijrī (25 November 1139–23 December 1139 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a letter from [Abū l-Ḥasan?] b. Abū l-Faḍl to [.........] al-Shāmī. The addressee's name is given both in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic but is very faded. The Arabic may say Abū Kathīr (?) . . . b. Sulaymān al-Shāmī. Dated Nov/Dec 1139 CE (Rabīʿ al-Thānī 534). The writer sends regards to al-Shaykh Shemuel and Sitt al-Yumn and Sitt al-Gharb.

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• arabic address
• dated

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Document date

545 Hijrī (1150–1151 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Petition, draft, addressed to al-Malik al-ʿĀdil (aka the vizier Ibn al-Salār), in the handwriting of Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, asking that he release the estate of the Jewish merchant Abū l-Faḍāʾil b. Baqāʾ, which had been illegally sealed by the Mutawalli al-Maʿūna in Fustat. […] The dead merchant Abū l-Fadāʾil b. Baqāʾ appears also in T-S AS 219.129 = T-S AS 219.131, a letter of Makhlūf b.

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• communal
• draft
• ib-addenda
• ib5
• petition
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Primary language

Arabic

Mentions: Ibrāhīm b. Ṣāʿid al-Yaḥudī... Yūsuf, Fāḍil, and Fāḍila... "his wife" Sitt al-Nās.

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• pinholes

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment (right side of recto), very faded. What is left is mainly just the formulaic introduction. In the margin "al-Shaykh Abu l-Fadl" is named. ASE.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Possibly addressed to the physician Abū l-Faḍl (אבו אל]פצל אלחכים אלסד[יד). Dating: ca. late 12th or early 13th century. The sender mentions the judge's delay in appearing before the addressee; Abū l-Faḍl b. Hillel; Ibn al-Sadīd; Bū l-Karam Ibn Ḥunaykh (cf. […] name); Yūsuf the brother of the judge; someone named Ibn Qifl who came down from Fustat; and Ibn Yaʿqūb the opponent or debtor (gharīm) of Abū l-Faḍl b. Hillel (Information in part from CUDL.) See also T-S AS 145.287 (PGPID 17301).

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