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9951Legal documentT-S 10J2.26
Document date
1464-07-19 Seleucid (17 March 1153 CE)
The verso contains the acceptance of the bill of divorce by the wife, signed also by Saʿadya b. Mevorakh and Mevorakh b. Natan (he-Ḥaver).
verso
1. מטא גיטא לידה
2. קמן אנן עידי מסירה
3. מבורך בר נתן ס'ט'
4. סעדיה ביר
5. מבורך נ'ע'
recto
1. בתלתא בשבה דהוא תשעת עשר
2. יומי לירח אדר שני …
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9952Legal documentT-S 10J2.28
Document date
1486-02-12 Seleucid (21 October 1174 CE)
The verso contains the acceptance of the bill of divorce by the wife, signed also by Mevorakh b. Natan ha-Haver and Avraham b.
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9953LetterT-S 10J19.11 + T-S AS 147.180
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Mentions the addressee's brother Moshe, Rabbenu Nissim, Hārūn Ibn al-Sharābī and Rabbenu Yiṣḥaq. Later, "I and she went to the synagogue to read. […] (Information in part from CUDL and Goitein's index card.) Join: Alan Elbaum
1. אן יער[ף. . . . . . . . . . . . ] עני כלאם יצעב [ . .
2. קלבהא [. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ] מן מא יעלם לה ד . ת[ .
3. גיר טלב [ . . . . . . . . . . . …
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9954LetterT-S 10J31.5
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Reminding the addressee that al-Ḥemdat had sent with him אלדרקה (probably not shield or coat of mail but rather a leaf of a door), but had not received the price. […] קעדה מגלפה in T-S K15.9) sent by the addressee arrived, but was not yet taken by al-Ḥemdat. When the latter's brother Abū Naṣr arrives, Yaḥyā should pay him immediately the price of אלדרקה.
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9955Legal documentT-S 12.26
Document date
Ḥeshvan 1402 Seleucid (28 September 1090–26 October 1090 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Ḥalfon was wrongly accused of improper conduct by Hārūn al-Ṭārī and thereby unjustly prevented from reading the lection from the Torah. Other people joined in the brawl, including Budayr al-Ḥalabī. On the bottom part of recto and on verso is a piyyuṭ, which continues in the left-hand margin.
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1. מעשה שהיה בפנ[ינו אנו החתומים מטה . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2. זה כן הוה חצרנא בסנבאט יום אלסבת אל[ . . . . . ]פי אל[ . . . . . .
3. וצלינא ואכרג אל…
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9956LetterT-S 12.373
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from Mardūk b. Mūsā, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic.
Recto
1. על שמך
2. כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך וצרף אלאסוא ענך מן אסכנדריה
3. מסתהל מרחשואן ען חאל סלאמה ונעמה ושוק אליך קרב אללה…
recto
1. (1–2) על שמך; אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את שלומך ואת אושרך, ויסלק ממך כל רע, מאלכסנדריה,
3. בא' במרחשון. שלומי…
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9957Legal documentT-S 12.547
B, sec. 6; according to Reif, this document is also mentioned in Ashtor, Histoire des Prix, p.173.)
1. כארז בלבנון ישגה שתולים בבית ד דשנים ורעננים יהיו
2. מנינא דרגיליננא ביה בעיר מניה זפתי
3. ברת מרור הלל הלוי נע בר מ פרח
4. מכל]כלין ומוקרין ומסורבין ית נשיה…
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9958Legal documentT-S 12.567 + T-S 8J35.9
Document date
1444 Seleucid (12 September 1132–1 September 1133 CE)
Primary languages
Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Netanʾel Rosh ha-Qehillot gives a gift to his son Abū Saʿd Netanʾel, and the latter's wife Sitt al-Milāḥ bt. Yefet promises that she will have no claim on this gift from her ketubba or otherwise. […] (Information in part from Goitein's index card and CUDL.) Join: Alan Elbaum.
T-S 12.567
1. [ ]עלאלה ולא אלאחתגאג פי שי מנה ב[ ]
2. אריך ושריר וקיים ומוחזק דיזכון ביה בכל בתי דינין לעלם לא [ ]
3. אלמתנות ובטילית נמי כל מודעי ותנאי ומוד…
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9959Legal documentT-S 12.636
Inferred date
1100–1138 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Khalaf if she is still alive. She gives 1/2 dinar to her cousin Abū l-Khayr, the son of her paternal uncle Kathīr al-Naḥḥal (the beekeeper), who lives in New Cairo.
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1. [ מ]ן [ ]
2. מן אללה סבחאנה ויק[ ]
3. מן אלאתם וחלפת בין [ ]
4. ולא תחת אלארץ ולא פוקהא [ ]
5. ומונהא פי וקת ופאתהא חתי לא תחת[ ]
6. ונצף רדא ונקאב דרי וצראו…
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9960Legal documentT-S 13J2.25
Document date
Ṭevet 1451 Seleucid (24 November 1139–22 December 1139 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Legal document concerning the Sicilian Abū Yaʿaqov Yosef b. Moshe al-Kohen who has a first wife in Damascus and is not allowed to marry a second wife in Cairo before depositing what is due to the first wife with the court.
1. מעשה שהיה לפנינו אנו בית דין כן הוה בחדש טבת דשנת אלפא וארבע מאהוחדא וחמשין
2. שנין לשטרות בפסטאט מצרים למא אלתמס אלשיך אבו יעקוב יוסף אלכהן אלסקלי בן …
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9961Legal documentT-S 13J3.9
Document date
Elul 1462 Seleucid (15 August 1151–12 September 1151 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Yosef, gifts this house to her daughter Sitt al-Naẓar, the wife of Manṣūr al-Ṣabbāgh. The house is located in Fustat in the Kammūna(?)
1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתמות ידנא לתתא סוף שטרא דנ[ן כן הוה] בחדש
2. אלול דשנת אלפא וארבע מאה ותרתין ושתין שנין לשטרות בפסטאט מצרים דעל
3. נילוס נהר…
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9962LetterT-S 13J9.19
Primary language
Hebrew
Letter from Moses גליפאפה, in Venice, to his teacher Shemuʾel ben Sīd, in "Alexandria or Cairo." In Hebrew. Dating: Late 17th century (per CUDL) or early 17th century (per Avraham David, based on a potential reference to the same events in a pinqas entry from the community of Mantua dated 31 January 1616 CE).
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9963LetterT-S 13J13.22
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Abū Saʿd Shemuel to Avraham al-Maḥallī al-Talmid (the student/scholar). Addressed to Fustat, the synagogue of the Palestinians, situated in Zuqāq Khabīṣa.
1. ואמרתם כה לחי ואתה שלום וביתך שלום
2. ממלוכה בו מנצור
3. בן בי סעד נע.
4. ממלוך כגק מר ור אברהם התלמיד המבין המלמד החכם
5. והנבון ישמרו אלהינו ויהיה בעזרו ויציל…
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9964LetterT-S 13J25.21
Primary language
Hebrew
See Mann, Jews, II, 207–08. See also T-S 13J10.11.
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9965LetterT-S 16.284
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from a son to his mother describing the events of his journey from Alexandria to Fustat and mentioning the illness of his uncle.
1. .] שיויתי ייי לנגדי תמיד כי מימיני בל אמוט
2. ו]לדהא אבו אלברכאת געל פדאהא כתאבי אלי
3. ח]צרה אלואלדה אלעזיזה אלכרימה אלמכרומה
4. . . .] כ[. . . . .] אלמחתרמ…
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9966Legal documentT-S 16.333
Document date
last third of Tammuz 1410 Seleucid (13 July 1099–21 July 1099 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Dated: last third of Tammuz 1410 Seleucid = July 1099 CE. Hiba b. Moshe Ibn al-Ṣalʿa acknowledges to have received from Abū l-Khayr Ṣadaqa b. Yaʿaqov Ibn al-Raṣāṣiyya 1.5 dinars owed by the latter to Hiba's late brother Abū l-Munā.
1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתמות ידנא לתחתא כן הוה חצר מ הבה בר מ משה
2. נע דידיע בן אלצלעה וקאל לנא כאן בין אכי אבי אלמנא אלמתופא ובין אלשיך אבי אלכ…
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9967Legal documentT-S 18J1.10
Document date
Thursday, 17 Tammuz 1383 Seleucid (5 July 1072 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Details about Maymun’s belongings, including goods that are in other’s hands and money that belongs to Maymun, or that he owes others. Also mentions several books that belong to Nahray b.
Recto
1. חצרנא נחן אלשהוד אלכאתמין לתתא ענד מ' מימון בן כלפה אלמגרב[י]
2. אלמערוף באבן אליתים נע והו מריץ פסאלנאה ען מא ענד אלנאס
3. ומא ללנאס ענדה בחכם כונה…
recto
1. באנו אנו העדים החתומים לתתא אצל ר' מימון בן כלפה המגרבי
2. הידוע (בכינוי) בן היתום נ"ע, והוא אז חולה. שאלנו אותו אפוא על מה שחייבים לו אנשים
3. ומה…
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9968LetterT-S 18J4.13
Document date
20 Shevat 1565 Seleucid (10 January 1254 CE)
Letter from Jalal al-Dawla in the name of Yishay b. Shelomo to the Nasi Shelomo b. […] Yishay, so it cannot be sold, but ha-Kohen Nafīs al-Dawla is interested in buying it for his son.
Recto
1. בשמ' רחמ' אלממלוך אלמשתאק ישי
2. תקדמת כתבה אלי כרמה אלמג'לס אלסאמי
3. אלאגלי אלעאלמי אלפאצ'לי אלסיידי אלמכדומי
4. הוא כבו' גדו' קדו' נשיאנו נסיכנו מלכ…
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9969LetterT-S Ar.35.159
Primary languages
Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic
The content is difficult to make out, but it mentions silver and gold; mentions al-Malik al-ʿĀdil, either the sultan from 1200–18 or his grandson with the same title who served intermittently as regent from 1232–38 and reigned 1238–40; and concludes by urging the addressee to act.
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9970State documentT-S Ar.38.136
Primary language
Arabic
Report of a provincial official, Ibn Lifsh(?) al-Shihābī. In Arabic script. It seems that he received an order to present himself, together with the qāḍī and the ʿāmil (and the kātib?) […] He reports that a well/cistern overflowed and posed a danger to all the land underneath and had to be fixed (ll.10–12).
1. المملوك بن لفش الشهابي
2. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
3. يقبل الارض وينهي حضور السايق تجاري(؟)
4. وعلى يده كتاب كريم بحضور المملوك والقاضي
5. والعامل فاما الكاتب فان…
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9971LetterT-S Ar.39.277
Primary language
Arabic
Recto: Letter/petition from Barakāt Ibn al-Dayyān Abū l-Faraj (=Shelomo b. Eliyyahu the Judge). […] In which Shelomo complains of his poverty and illnesses (alām) and asks for help paying the capitation tax.
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9972State documentT-S Ar.39.403
Primary language
Arabic
There are two different registration marks at the top: The one in bold reads "al-ḥamdu li-llāh ḥamdan yurḍīhi", and the other is a ḥasbala followed by other formula.. […] About halfway down, on the right, there is a testimony of a Qāḍī attesting to the case named Thiqat al-Mulk. Needs further examination.
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9973State documentT-S Ar.42.177
Primary language
Arabic
Petition to a Fatimid ruler in which the writer asks to be exempted from the payment of his capitation tax (of 1 + 1/3 + 1/4 dinars and a dirham), since lost his sight as a consequence of an eye illness and is now unable to perform his job, while the tax collectors are increasingly pressing. The writer also states that in the past he had been able to pay his capitation tax only thanks to the charitable intervention of the community.
Recto
1. ويقوم بالجزية الواجبة عليه ومبلغها فى السنة دينار واحد وثلث وربع ودرهم
2. وفي اكثر اوقاته يتعذر عليه تغليقها الى ان يتصدق له من اليهود اهل طائ…
1. He pays the poll tax that he is liable for, the annual amount of which is one dīnār, a third and a quarter, and one dirham.
2. At most times it is d…
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9974Legal documentT-S AS 121.229
Document date
Monday, 13 Shaʿbān 657 Hijrī (5 August 1259 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
The witnesses are Hilāl b. Bū ʿAlī and Bū Saʿd b. Sālim. There is a validation—stating that the witnesses are trustworthy elders of the Jews—written in the hand of the Nagid David I Maimonides, who signs his name "Dāʾūd the son of the ḥākim Ibrāhīm b. Mūsā, Head of the Jews (Rayyis al-Yahūd)." (Information from Khan.)
Verso (recto in Khan's edition)
1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
2. المماليك ينهوا وفاة ستيت بنت مفضل اليهودى
3. وتركت من الورثة المستحقين لميراثها ابوها المذكور
4. وك…
Verso
1. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
2. The slaves report the death of Sutayt daughter of Mufaḍḍal, the Jew.
3. She left by way of he…
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9975LetterT-S AS 146.300 + T-S AS 151.211
Primary language
Hebrew
Letter probably from [Shem]uel Algıdın (? אלגידין). In Hebrew. Dating: Possibly 16th century. […] Mentions people such as Yaʿaqov Kohen, Yosef Malṭi ("of Malta"), Moshe ʿĀl, Shemuel, Yishamʿel, the sender's brother-in-law Shabbetay, Doña Zahra (the same as in JRL SERIES B 7430 (PGPID 40415)?)
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9976LetterT-S AS 149.82
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Note addressed to al-Neʾeman reporting on the "red brick" (tūb aḥmar, cf. […] Mentions 29 manns, possibly 300 dinars, and the bricklayers (al-ṭawwābīn). Excerpts: בשמ רחמ אערף מולאי אלנאמן אן גא עדד אלטוב תסעה ועשרין מן(?)
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9977LetterT-S AS 149.89
Inferred date
1168–1204 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Autograph letter from Maimonides to al-Dayyan al-Maskil (i.e., Shemuʾel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi).
1. [הדר]ת אלדיין אלמשכיל שצ תרום
2. [תתו]סט בין אלשיך אבי אלפכר מוצלהא
3. [ובין] כצמה אלשיך אבי אלמחאסן פאן גלבת
4. פ[י] דלך תחלפה ימין אלעדם אלמעלומה
5. [ות]חדר ע…
1. [הדר]ת הדיין המשכיל ש[מרו] צ[ורו] תרום
2. [תת]ווך בין השיך אבו אלפכר המוכ"ז
3. [ובין] בעל דינו השיך אבו אלמחאסן. ואם נבצר ממנה (= מהדרתו)
4. לעשות כך, תשביע …
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9978Legal documentT-S AS 153.179
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
If a letter, the sender is instructing the addressee or somebody else to summon the "experts" (aṣḥāb al-khibra) and the Jewish elders (mashāʾikh aṣḥābinā) and divide a house into three equal portions. It may have to do with a dowry evaluation ("...fī taḥrīr al-taqwīm...") or possibly a will. If a legal document, this is describing what someone has to do.
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9979Legal documentT-S AS 153.341
Primary languages
Aramaic, Hebrew
Their brother Yosef and another male relative named Efrayim are also involved, perhaps as guarantors. There is a fragment of one signature preserved, perhaps [Ya]ʿīsh b. [...].
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9980Unknown typeT-S AS 159.248
Primary languages
Gujarati, Unknown language in Devanāgarī script
Images: https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/files/ts-as-159-248-big-f.jpg and https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/files/ts-as-159-248-big-b.jpg. See also T-S AS 159.248 (PGPID 41086).
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9981Legal documentT-S AS 160.158
Document date
תשרי אתקיא (1199 CE)
Primary languages
Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Shemuʾel Halevi (ca. 1180's-1210). Also on verso, on the right side of the page, a bottom part from a legal deed from Tishrei 1511 (1199) by a different hand.
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9982State documentT-S AS 180.153
Primary language
Arabic
Recto: Fragment of an official report or possibly a legal document, notable for mentioning an amīr named Iftikhār al-Dawla Jawhar. The best-known Iftikhār al-Dawla was the governor of Jerusalem when it fell to the Franks in 1099, but this may or may not be him; his name is not otherwise known to have been Jawhar.
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9983List or tableT-S AS 200.252 + T-S Ar.30.185 + AIU VII.F.14 + AIU VII.F.28 + JRL B 1937 + AIU VII.F.92
Primary language
Ladino
The list uses the Hebrew honorific in between first and last names, also an uncommon feature. Requires further examination.
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9984LetterT-S J2.26
Primary language
Hebrew
Almost poetic letter of a Gaon, perhaps Shelomo b. […] A woman deserted by her husband for many years had brought up her only son and when he was old enough had sent him out to find his father, but the boy perished on his way. Along with attempts at consolation the Gaon refers to a debt of 300 dinars and losses incurred by the recipient of his letter.
1. שקר ואחר ימלא פיהו חצ[צים
2. וכמה מעשיות יש בחסידים שניסרו
3. בבניהם אבל אשרי מי שנלקח בנו
4. והוא רצוי לפני בוראו ואיך להרהר
5. אחר מידות יוצרנו המשאל ממנו
6. לכב…
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9985Legal documentT-S K2.67
Primary language
Arabic
Involving an agent named Abū l-Ṭāhir Ismāʿīl (l. 1), a drug store (al-ʿiṭr wa-l-ʿaqāqīr, l. 4), and describing the boundaries of a property. Dated: Dhū l-Ḥijja [..]5 AH (the full year should be legible with further examination). Signed by ʿAbd al-Khāliq b. Ismāʿīl. On verso there is a calendar in Hebrew script for the 263rd and 264th cycles (maḥzors), corresponding to 1217–55 CE.
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9986List or tableT-S Misc.8.76
The parnas who recorded the list probably advanced money of his own, or even resorted to loans, since he lists the sum collected each day and the deficit, which is called salaf (also dawn). 52 dirhams are due on the first, 21 on the second, and 21 on the third day.
recto, column I
1. בשמ'
2. מבתדיאלעמארה
3. יום אלאתנין אלחאדי
4. עשר מן אלול
5. אשתרי ק''כ חמל
6. טין אלתמן ו'ל דרהם
7. אגרה מן אדכל בהא
8. אלכניסה ג' דר'
9. תמן כמסה אלאף
10. טוב…
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1. In Thy Name,
2. the beginning of the reconstruction:
3. Monday, the 11th
4. of Elul:
5. bought 120 ḥimls
6. of clay, paid 36 dir.
7. The wa…
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9987List or tableT-S Misc.25.84
When a beadle is listed here with a salary of 4 dirhams (instead of 2, as usual), the sum certainly included arrears for the preceding week. Also, some entries of personal expenditure made by the official.'
1. אל..אל ביד בו אלעלא ותעטת?
2. כי תשא ע' 1/3? ½ ¼ י ואגרה
3. כבז קנטאר וחמאל אלחזן ר' יפתח מנקי שמש
4. כב' ורבע ו ו ½ ד ד
5. שמש בו אלפצל בית אלמבי בית ר' ישועה …
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9988LetterT-S Misc.28.88
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
The handwriting resembles that of CUL Or.1081 J28 (containing a similar complaint about mice). This letter also mentions business in cannabis (qunnab).
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9989LetterT-S Misc.36.207 + Bodl. MS heb. e 44/80 + BL OR 5561B.9 + BL OR 5561B.10 + Bodl. MS heb. e 44/81
Primary language
Hebrew
Originally written in ca. 1005. Sent to Fustat to an aluf, probably Avraham b. Sahlān. Mentions Shemarya b. […] Mentions “the son of the deceased ruler,” probably al-Ḥākim. Refers to distress and persecutions that the writers suffered, and hints at a controversy in Fustat.
Recto (fol. 2r)
1. אלוף ובהצלחת מעשיו ובתת חנו ובהגבר
2. ידיו אשר חסדי ייי האלה עמנו ועם כל ישר
3. כעל כל אשר גמלנו יי'י ורב טוב לבית ישראל
4. אשר גמלם כרחמיו ו…
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9990List or tableT-S NS 83.3
Document date
440 Hijrī (16 June 1048–4 June 1049 CE)
In this list writes details about buying flax in Munimun and its shipment to Rashid, and probably from there to Alexandria. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #275) VMR
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1. ווצל איצ'א בהד'א אלתאריך [ ]
2. מן סנה' תמ עלאוה כ'ר[ז
3. ח ביעאת בקי ש'ע'ב' סער [
4. ק'ק' ביעה אזורדי סער י'
5. דלך ע' ד…
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9991Literary textT-S NS 89.36
Primary language
Hebrew
This prayer (al ha-nisim), added to the Amidah and Grace after Meals during Hanukkah, and to other Hanukkah texts, is preserved on a twelfth-century bifolium in the Cairo Geniza. The first part presents passages from Targum Onkelos on Numbers 7, a part of the Torah read during Hanukkah. This version of Al ha-nisim combines both Egyptian and Eastern traditions.
[We thank you] for the miracles, the mighty deeds, the acts of salvation, the battles, the redemption and the rescue that you performed for us and fo…
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9992Legal documentT-S NS 184.97
Inferred date
1127–1138 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
known as Ibn Kawjakh (mentioned also in T-S NS 226.107. On this name, from the Persian for 'small' see India Book IV/A, p. 355, note 115), [...] b.
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9993Legal documentT-S NS 305.115
Primary language
Arabic
Khan labels recto (as conserved) verso and vice-versa; verso contains drafts 1 and 2, and recto contains draft 3. The verso also has the glyph at the top. (Information in part from CUDL and Khan.)
Recto - draft 3
1. شهد من اثبت شهادته اخر هذا المحضر شهدوا
2. جميعا وفرادى انهم يعرفون فلان منتجزه معرفة
3. صحيحة جامعة بعينه واسمه ونسبه ويخبرون
4. حاله…
Draft 1
1. The people whose names occur at the end of this court record, they being free,
2. honourable and good Muslim men, testified,
3. together …
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9994Legal documentT-S NS 320.17
Document date
1469 Seleucid (7 September 1157–25 August 1158 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Dated: 1469 Seleucid, which is 1157/58 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Seller: Sitt al-Dalāl bt. Abū Naṣr, probably [the wife or widow of ...] known as Ibn Saʿdān. Buyer: Abū l-Bayān Moshe ha-Levi the merchant in the Dār al-Ṣarf. Price: 13 dinars. Enslaved person: A Persian woman named Qaḍīb.
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9995Legal documentT-S NS 320.25
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Written and signed by Avraham b. Natan Av. Also signed by Ṣadaqa b. [...] and Hillel b. Yosef ha-Levi.
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9996Legal documentT-S NS 324.47
Document date
first decade of Tammuz 1471 Seleucid (7 June 1160–16 June 1160 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
In which the agent of Khulla bt. Abū l-Riḍā al-Ṭawwāf sues the perfumer Avraham b. Ṣedaqa al-Ḥinnāwī for the 7 dinars still owed out of an original 10 dinars owed by the latter to her father Abū l-Riḍā.
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9997LetterT-S NS 324.142
Document date
Kislev 1497 Seleucid (27 October 1185–24 November 1185 CE)
Primary languages
Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
The community of Aden wishes for the visit of the addressee, and they congratulate him on something to do with Alexandria and somebody who was arrested. (Information in part from Goitein's index card.
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9998LetterT-S NS 327.93
Primary language
Arabic
Letter from ʿAmmār b. [...] to al-Rayyis Bū l-Mufaḍḍal. In Arabic script. Dating: likely 12th or 13th century. […] Simples mentioned include anise, rose, lavender, oregano, mastic, liquorice, myrobalan, and aloe. The writer mentions his recent move to the town of Qalyūb.
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9999LetterT-S NS J88
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
The writer complains about ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz and his mistreatment of a woman (his wife?) […] The addressee is asked to arbitrate between them, for the wretched petitioners (al-suqamā') are perishing. The letter is written on a reused page of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, of which a few lines are visible at the bottom of verso.
Recto:
1. יא סידנא רייס אליהוד
2. לא תסאל מא נחן פיה
3. מן עבד אלעזיז אלעאדה
4. אלדי תערפהא מנה מא
5. תגיירת ירמי להא אלכב[ז
6. וחדה ואלפלוס תבקא חאירה
7. עלי מן ישתרי ל…
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10000LetterT-S NS J261
Primary languages
Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from a certain Yiṣḥaq to Yosef b. Shabbetay al-Rūmī, Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Very deferential, filled with language of patroange (e.g. li-l-mawlā ʿuluww al-ra'y fī dhālik).The writer has sent the copy of the book and excuses the delay by saying that he fell ill in the winter and it delayed him until now.
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1. עבדו יצחק
2. בש רח
3. קד וצל אלי אלממלוך אלמכאתבה
4. אלשריפה והו כט מ ור יוסף
5. ביר שבתי זצל וקראה אלממלוך
6. ופהם מא פיה ואמתתלת
7. דלך ובעד דלך קד סיר אלממלך…
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- byzantines
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- illness letter 969-1517
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