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Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: 11th or early 12th century. Concerning Mūsā Ibn al-Majjānī; bringing letters to the ḥaver; sending something with Ibrāhīm; "brown (people) or a slave" (sumr aw raqīq) but the context is missing; and quantities of rubāʿīs (quarter-dinars). Join: Alan Elbaum.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions people including Abū l-Mufaḍḍal, Ibn al-Muqaddasī, and a woman who died. On verso mentions a Maghribī animal driver (mukārī); and a certain Yaʿqūb, who along with the sender, is very grateful to Eliyyahu.

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Sunday, 20 Sivan 1609 Seleucid (1 June 1298 CE)

The bride agrees to live wherever (in Egypt) her husband chooses, to observe the laws of menstrual purity, and to free her husband from the obligation to provide her with clothing on the condition that all she earns be her private property. Signed: Seʿadya b. […] (Information in part from Med Soc III, 455 n. 86 and Goitein's index card.) Joins: Alan Elbaum.

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• contract
• mamluk

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Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic asking Bū l-Ḥasan to purchase 2.5 raṭls of pepper, 1 raṭl of almonds, and 1 raṭl of "bustaj lubbān ṣāliḥ" = good-quality olibanum incense(?). Ṣāfī will do something with the almond oil and the myrtle (marsīn). Dating: Probably late 12th or early 13th century.

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• informal note

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Judaeo-Arabic

The smaller piece is probably a letter, referring to 70 dinars, someone known as Ibn Kaḥla/Kuḥla (בן כחלה), Zikrī, a ghulām, and the Muslim courts. the larger piece is probably also a letter, in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen? Refers to Yosef b.

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• muslim court

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to Abū Ibrāhīm Isḥāq b. al-[...]. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. […] Mostly containing regards to family members such as Abū Isḥāq, Sitt al-ʿUlamā, and the addressee's son Avraham. The sender has heard no news of the addressee except in one letter in the hand of Yaʿqūb b.

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• dictated

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Ramaḍān 557 Hijrī (14 August 1162–12 September 1162 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

L7 contains a cipher, which seems like an ʿalāma, could be the ʿalāma juyūshiyya but this is a wide guess.

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• iqta'

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4854 Anno Mundi (24 September 1093–13 September 1094 CE)

Sedaqa the cantor, a man known to have served also as judge and scribe in Minyat Zifta. He may have been the scribe, using his own name and his wife's name merely for the sake of example in drawing up this form.

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• ketubba
• marriage

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1040–1139 CE

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Judaeo-Arabic

Muvḥar, since the name Berakhot appears throughout the document) and Yefet Tifʾeret ha-Qahal b. Avraham (who also appears in T-S 20.31 in 1092 CE, T-S Misc.24.137.1 in 1108 CE, and T-S NS J259 in 1099 CE).

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Letter from Hillel b. Ḥasan, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Dating: ca. 1070.

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The large number of households receiving 3 loaves was clearly attributable to some monetary shortage, when the normal ration of 2 loaves per person could not be maintained. The additional allocations (verso: ziyada fi al-'aniyyim) were certainly answers to protests.

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• bread
• charity
• communal
• poverty
• recipients

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Judaeo-Arabic

He was believed to be very influential with the viceroy al-Malik al-Afḍal. He signed documents in 1098 and died in or shortly before 1121.

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• charity
• communal
• donors
• poverty

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to Abū ʿAlī Aharon ha-Kohen b. Avraham. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, and quite eloquent. […] He justifies his rebuke with an (unattributed) quote from Kitāb al-Zahra, the treatise on love by the 10th-century Muslim jurist Muḥammad b. Dāwūd al-Ẓāhirī: "Without rebuking lapses, one can't preserve a friendship."

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• letter norms
• sayings

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Judaeo-Arabic

He very happily reports on the birth of a son to him—"may God keep him alive and preserve him and send him a speedy recovery(!)"[…] He prays that God will keep his son alive so that he can 'toil over him like my father toiled over me.' […] The writer says he is always praying for the addressee during Birkat Kohanim.

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• children
• education
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: children

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Judaeo-Arabic

to him by the authorities (the letter mentions arbāb al-dawla, al-sulṭān, al-ṣāḥib, the qādī of Qalyūb, and the wālī) on condition that the young man remain in Qalyūb instead of traveling to the Levant as he had intended.

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• capitation tax
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: marad
• jaliya
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Inferred date

1094–1097 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Nissim requesting to forward a letter to Hassan b. Bundar. Location: Alexandria. Dating: 1094–97 CE. ʿAmram congratulates Nissim (Nahray's son) on his recovery (r4–8). […] Bundār, which he asks Nahray to forward to Aden in the hands of any Jews who might be passing through, or alternatively in the hands of a trustworthy Muslim.

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• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib2
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: recovered
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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Umm al-Khayr, the widow of Eliyya al-Dimunshī, in Ragusa, Sicily, to her son Yehuda b. […] In fact, the family had heard a rumor that he died three years prior, so they held a large funeral and mourned him as if he had been present, believing that he died alone in a foreign land with no one to mourn him.

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• threatening to die

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Rabīʿ II 952 Hijrī (12 June 1545–10 July 1545 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

At the top of recto, there is a circular red stamp that seems to read "al-sulṭān al-Malik al-Muẓaffar"; this is puzzling, as it would suggest a Mamluk-era date.

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• 'ayb
• early modern enslaved people
• seal
• slave

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Arabic, Hebrew

How much more (difficult are these times) on she who is hidden in the belly of the earth and is dependent on all (היא חבויה בבטן האדמה וצריכה לכל)." She also mentions that she has instructed a certain Menahem to speak on her behalf and collect money for her.

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• petition

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Hebrew, Ladino

On the facing page there is another list (also a trousseau list?) in a different hand. Several of the items are written in Ladino. […] Yaʿaqov Najjār and Ḥannah bt. Hillel al-Ḥedef includes the stipulation in Hebrew that each party will pay a sum of zeri maḥbūb in the event that either breaks off the engagement.

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• engagement
• ladino
• numismatic dating
• shiddukhin

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Judaeo-Arabic

The sender complains further about the lack of letters and says that even if Eliyyahu has taken a vow not to correspond with him, he should send a letter to 'the judge' concerning the disputed household objects. The sender has also sent with Sayyidhum a letter detailing the lawsuits; Eliyyahu should present this account to Sayyidnā al-Rayyis (=Avraham Maimonides?).

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Judaeo-Arabic

Sar Shalom, likely Abū Zikrī b. al-Shāmī b. Sar Shalom, an India trader and nākhudā who eventually died in a shipwreck between Aden and India. Makhlūf also mentions an ivory trader residing in one of his houses who possesses mother-of-pearl that Makhlūf intends to use for wooden clogs (either as inlay or to sell and spend the proceeds).

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• ib6
• india book

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Verso: document from Fusṭāṭ concerning financial matters between Isaac b. Elijah, known as al-Qaš[...] and Samḥūn. Dated Nisan 1340 of the Seleucid Era (= 1029 CE), and signed by Abraham he-Ḥaver b. […] (Information from CUDL.) See also Goitein's index card.

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The second (r8–15) contains two garments, sent via Muḥsin b. Ukht al-Bantīt: a dabqāwī garment and a lower-quality muʿallam garment Intended for Abū ʿImrān b. […] The third (r margin 6–13) includes two turbans for Abū Yiṣḥaq. There is also a discussion of white scarves that are being prepared (r margin 10–13, v1) and of plans for a twenty-day business trip to the countryside (v2–3).

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Arabic

Uses the phrase khidmat mālik al-riqq (see Khan, ALAD, 345, 368, 434 for meaning and other examples); and see T-S Ar. 42.162. […] One of them mentions the amir Fāris al-Dawla. ASE.

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Document date

1142–1159 CE

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Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Yehosef) to Abū Isḥāq Avraham b. Yaʿaqov known as Ibn al-A[...]ān and vice versa, for all partnerships and transactions and other liabilities between them, except for a debt of 45 + 1/3 + 1/4 dinars owed by Avraham to Abū Zikrī, which was documented in another legal document drawn up on the same date. […] Saʿīd, and another involving (Abū) Saʿīd Ibn al-Dhahabī. A filing note on verso states that Abū Zikrī Kohen received the entirety of what he was owed by Avraham, namely 45 + 1/3 + 1/4 dinars Signed by Natan b.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Together with four other people he was called to attend the deathbed declaration of Sitt al-Husn, the wife of Judge Natan b. Shemuʾel ha-Ḥaver, "the Diadem of the Scholars." […] An eighth of another compound partly owned by her is to be sold to cover the expenses ofher burial. She also states which of her belongings should be given to her husband.

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• 12th c
• natan b. shemuel
• slave
• will

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Judaeo-Arabic

Natan, location unknown, to Khalaf b. Barakāt b. al-Dayyān, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer has had no news of the addressee's family ever since he traveled, so he asks them to write to him with their news (r5–12). He sends his gratitude to Umm Khalaf and to the wife of the ḥaver, Umm Bū ʿAlī, probably for their hospitality (r12–18). He is very worried on account of the children's sickness (ḍuʿf al-ṣibyān, r10 and probably r21 and v8).

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• hospitality
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: children's
• illness: du'f

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Document date

Wednesday, 21 Iyyar 1387 Seleucid (27 April 1076 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Muvḥar and Shemuel b. Aharon ha-Kohen al-Ṣayrafī ("the money-changer") are released from a partnership between Ṣedaqa’s father and Aaron, apparently at the death of Ṣedaqa’s father. Unlike trading partnerships, which often include allusions to consignments in general or traded commodities in specific in their release clauses, this release includes mention of both bills of exchange (suftaja) and vouchers (khaṭṭ). […] Elʿazar and Ghālib b. Ḥalfōn al-Zayyāt (the olive-oil dealer), both known from other contemporary documents, and Yaḥyā b.

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• partnership
• release
• suftaja

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Recto: part of a deed of release (אביזר), granted by ʿEli b. Ḥusayn b. Moshe al-Maghribī, to his brother Azhar b. Ḥusayn b. Moshe al-Maghribī,. […] Ḥarbish, Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham al-Ḥazām, Avraham b. Hillel b. Avraham, ʿEzra b.

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Judaeo-Arabic

These pages narrate how ʿUmar Ibn al-Khaṭṭāb oversaw the sweeping and cleaning of Jerusalem in search of the Foundation Stone (אלצכרה אלדי הי אבן שתיה). […] The patriarch suggest 50 households, the Jews ask for at least 200, and they compromise at 70 households. The Christians are alluded to as the "rivals/opponents" (khuṣūm) of the Jews. The Jewish neighborhood in Jerusalem is specified as the southern district known as Sūq al-Yahūd as well as the area around the waters of Silwān for ritual immersion.

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Arabic

Note addressed to Abū Naṣr, in which the sender asks for a loan of a wine jug for three days (yā shaykh Abū Naṣr anʿim ʿalayya bi-ʿayrat baʿḍ al-adnān masāfat thalathat ayyām wa-uʿīduh). The last two lines of this document are difficult to read, maybe about finding someone to send the jug with or "if you are not able to loan it...." The phrase "baʿḍ al-adnān" could indicate several wine jugs, however "I will return it" suggests that a singular is meant.

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• wine

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Judaeo-Arabic

We did not expect you to fail to arrive with Rabbenu David and ʿAbd al-Ghaniyy. What is this behavior?! You know that your mother has her eye on the road... and your sisters, too." […] bread goes for 2 dirhams... and there is nothing cheap in the city. " Further down, mentions travel to Fustat and that (al-shaykh) al-Saniyy R. Shemuel traveled to Beirut, and from Beirut to Cyprus.

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Regarding the debt and goods belonging to the late Abū l-Faraj Yaʿaqov b. Avraham b. ʿAllān. The money and goods belong to Mevasser, the writer’s brother. Also mentions clothes that the writer probably deals with their manufacture.

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: chronic
• illness: marad
• illness: physician
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Document date

1127–1139 CE

Primary language

Arabic

Sulaymān the head of the Jews (Raʾīs al-Yahūd), who appears in the antepenultimate and penultimate lines, is probably the Gaʾon Maṣliaḥ b. […] the Jew who is named Sitt al-ʿAfāf Umm ʿAbdallāh; and a Bū l-Faraj mentioned in the last line. […] In the next line, someone is said to "deserve all of the موىد(?) without [...]." Mentions a power of attorney (the wikāla at the beginning of l. 5).

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As usual, the manufacturer also trades with finished products. He offers good sūsiyāt and local arḍīs (pl. arāḍī) of utmost thinness (margin l.2) but not of the pattern alluded to. […] Ackerman-Lieberman, "Partnership Culture," #56) where we find Ṣedaqa b. Ṣemaḥ b. Dāwud al-Raqqī and, perhaps, T-S 13J17.8, which is addressed to Abū l-Khayr Ṣedaqa b.

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• sedaqa b. semah
• textiles
• weaving

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Document date

1159 Hijrī (24 January 1746–12 January 1747 CE)

Primary language

Ladino

The Hijrī years '54, '55, and '56 are also mentioned in the second heading of the third column on the recto. […] At least three different officials bearing the title "קשפ" appear in the accounts, which is probably an erratic spelling of the title كاشف (sub-provincial governor): (recto) Ḥasan Ağa קשפ Gharbiyya, ʿAlī קשפ Beḥayra, (verso) Ibrahīm קשפ Sharqiyya. Additional Ottoman officials and title-holders include, for example: Aḥmad Ağa Çerkasī, Muḥ[ammad]/Maḥ[mūd] Qaʾīmaqam, Ḥalīl Beğ, Aḥmad Çorbacı, Aḥmad Efendī t[ābiʿ] Ib[rahīm] Beğ, ʿUmr Efendi Baş, Katkhuda al-Bāb, Muḥammad Ağa. At least two tailors are mentioned (sastre, שאשטרי), one of whom is listed as "the tailor of the aforementioned Beğ," whose household is referenced at the top of the third column on the verso: "Account of the house of Yosef Beğ ישיר(?)

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