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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter of appeal from a cantor to a certain Moshe ha-Sar who is in government service. The letter also addresses Ṣedaqa ha-Sar. He asks for assistance in the payment of his capitation tax, of five months of rent, and of three months of payment incumbent on him from a promissory note.

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• appeal
• capitation tax
• charity
• iftiqad
• illness
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1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Elʿazar of Minyat Zifta writes to Abū l-Ḥasan and Abū l-Munā and instructs them to pay four dinars to Yosef b. ʿAllūnal-Maqdisī, which is the price of the mastic and the sack containing the mastic.

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• power of attorney

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, #595. VMR. Nissim also twice exhorts Nahray to look after his children, "the fire is in my heart due to their state. . . for you know their state," and to finish the business quickly for this reason.

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• nar

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The addressee is to go to Abū ʿImrān b. al-Ṭawīla and get the letters from him. "The congregation" and "the gentile" are mentioned. The writer concludes by telling the addressee to go to the wife of Ezra al-ʿArīf (the same Ezra who was sick on recto?)

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Each entry ends with the unit ḥabba. There's also a variety of repetitious exercises of Greek/Coptic numerals throughout the verso, but in a different scribal hand than the list of weights.

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• cmp
• coptic numerals
• scribal practice

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Document date

2 Muḥarram 1138 Hijrī (10 September 1725 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

and the two sellers ʿĀbidīn b. Ibrāhīm al-Khawlī and Aḥmad b. [...] b. Sālim al-Khawlī.

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• real estate

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Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The sender may be Mufarrij b. Ṣāliḥ al-Baghdādī the tax farmer for the capitation taxes of the Jews (ḍāmin jawālī al-yahūd).

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• bialphabetic

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Primary language

Hebrew

Shemuʾel HaKohen and his brother Avraham are mentioned at the top of the deed. Also mentioned is 'Azarya haLaḥ... עזריה הלח[...]

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• legal

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Avraham, in Minyat Zifta, to the judge Zakkay b. Moshe, perhaps in al-Maḥalla. In Judaeo-Arabic. (Zakkay was in al-Maḥalla in 1147 CE, per T-S 13J3.6v.)

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• capitation tax
• minyat zifta

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Document date

Nisan 1424 Seleucid (20 March 1113–18 April 1113 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Involves Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa [...] al-Ramlī and Abū Yaʿaqov [...] Avraham. The acknowledgment has to do with a portion of a house in Fustat that is located on the alley of Michael (זקאק מכיל); maybe a lease or a temporary sale.

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• halfon b. menashshe

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in which the sender relates about some letters that reached him, discussing financial matters, among others some account books of different people and a registration document to be taken by the recipient to a Muslim judge, and also mentioning some letters that should be brought to Cairo.

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• account
• expropriation
• islamic court
• tawqi'

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Document date

Wednesday, 15 Ṭevet 4837 Anno Mundi (14 December 1076 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Ṣedaqa ha-Ṣobi (= the Aleppan), through the agent Ṣedaqa b. Moshe, on 6 out of 20 dinars.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 4, p. 475. See also Goitein notes.) (Formerly PGPID 5735)

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• partnership
• sicily
• trade

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On the verso, another list appears and a signature may also be present at the bottom with the common opening title in Hebrew "הצעיר".

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• 17th or 18th c
• list

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: 18th or 19th century. There is also a midrash on Psalms 135:6 on the recto.

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• numismatic dating

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The Hebrew term "חלק / share" is repeated throughout and the unit of weight "אוקאס / okas" also appears (l. 18r). MCD.

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• 18th or 19th c

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The weekly parshas are listed such as "אחרי מות" and the formula for each weekly entry repeats, as "עלם מקבוץ ס[דר] אחרי מות של שנת התקנו" which translates as "notice of the [contributions] received [for] seder Acharei Mot for the year of 5556". The week of Passover also appears among the entries on the recto and verso.

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• 18th c
• communal
• list

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Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating to 1205–1237 CE, based on Avraham Maimonides years of service as Rayyis al-Yahūd. It is a recommendation for the bearer, the French rabbi R. […] Yiṣḥaq Ẓarfatī], to the community of rabbis (ʿulamā' al-sharīʿa) in Palestine and Jerusalem. Moshe b.

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• autograph
• avraham maimonides
• french rabbis
• lor

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

An enslaved woman by the same name Ḥidhq is mentioned in T-S 16.188 (PGPID 3437) where she was sold to Zayn Sitt al-Dār (aka Zayn Sitt al-Ḥusn) on 15 Ṭevet 1416 Seleucid (3 January 1105 CE).

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• jariya

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Rosh ha-Qehilot (appears also in T-S NS 226.127 (PGPID 24269)). Recto contains two signatures and the beginning of a third: Shemuʾel b.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

kalkh abyaḍ — see Gerrit Bos et al, Marwān Ibn Janāḥ, nos. 460, 797); a request to purchase 'Judaic stone' (ḥajar al-yahūdī — ibid., no. 363), long pepper (dār filfil), some more commodities which are difficult to decipher (חב כלא?

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• yefet b. menashshe

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in which a notable to whom Abu al-'Izz b. Imran owed about 60 dirhams proposes, as a charitable act, to let him work off his obligation. A copyist had been copying quires of the Torah for the letter-writer, but had left for Palestine. Knowing that Abu al-'Izz has a good handwriting, the writer now wants to have him discharge his debt by taking over the project.

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• scribes
• scroll

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Document date

16 Elul 1355 Seleucid (13 August 1044 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Written and signed by the cantor Yefet b. David; also signed by Khalaf b. Yefet and Raḥamūn b. Yiṣḥaq.

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• marital dispute
• register

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He greets 'the father' and 'the brother al-Rashīd.' The letter was written on the 22nd of Tammuz. He repeats a request that the addressee intervene (yuqīm jāhah) with Ḥananel concerning the Muslim (al-Yishmaʿel) who loaned something to the sender....

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Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Draft of a legal document. Abū l-Manṣūr al-Ṣabbāgh known as Ibn M[....] receives a loan/investment from Makārim b. […] Whatever profit Abū l-Manṣūr makes will be divided equally between himself and the orphans. If he incurs a loss, all the liability will be his. The wife of Abū l-Manṣūr brings several items from her dowry and deposits them as collateral with Makārim.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Saʿīd of any future claims related to a signature that he, in turn, had given on behalf of Ibn Najīb al-Dawla Mammātī (likely an elder relative of the famous Ibn Mammātī). […] There was a Fatimid official named Ibn Najīb al-Dawla who was active in the early twelfth century.

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• ibn_najib_al-dawla
• state

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Document date

28 Ṭevet 1448 Seleucid (24 December 1136 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Ibrāhīm the poor spindle-maker (al-ʿAni al-Maghazilī). (Information in part from Goitein’s index card and Weiss's edition.)

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Document date

Iyyar 1443 Seleucid (18 April 1132–16 May 1132 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information from CUDL; see also Goitein's index card.)

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Document date

1435 Seleucid (22 September 1123–10 September 1124 CE)

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Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

These are the same two parties as in ENA 2712.10 + T-S NS 320.111 (PGPID 11444) and T-S NS 320.54 (PGPID 8673). See also JRL SERIES AF 23 (PGPID 38250), concerning the death of Eliyya b.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information from David Avraham, Alei Sefer 14, 1987, p. 135, and David Avraham, “The Role of Egyptian Jews in Sixteenth-century International Trade with Europe,” in From a Sacred Source: Genizah Studies in Honour of Professor Stefan C.

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• business
• isaac luria
• shelomo halafta
• trade

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ismāʿīl, in Malīj, to Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf b. ʿAlī ha-Kohen. Dating: 11th century. Concerning business matters. […] Shuʿayb, who showed it to Ibn al-Aʿraj, who refused to buy it. Abū l-Manṣūr now awaits instructions.

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• 11th c
• business

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Document date

Thursday, 12 Sivan 1532 Seleucid (3 June 1221 CE)

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Aramaic

Husband: the goldsmith (al-dhahabī) Mūsā b. Makārim from Cairo. Wife: Sitt al-Waqār bt.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Addressed to a certain Avraham, c/o the shop of Abū l-Ḥasan al-Ṣā'igh, in Fustat. The sender asks the addressee to send two cubits of malā'is(?) with the muleteer (al-mukārī). It seems that the sender will send the price back with him.

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• ib-addenda
• india book unedited
• java

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Document date

first decade of Ḥeshvan 1445 Seleucid (2 October 1133–11 October 1133 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe ha-Kohen gifts a new enslaved woman, Rahaj, to his wife Sitt al-Nasab bt. Abū l-Munā Yiṣḥaq after selling the enslaved woman, ʿAlam, who was part of the wife's ketubba.

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Document date

1051–1062 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Mann originally published this letter and interpreted dukkān as "shop"; Goitein pointed out that it can also mean the office of a communal leader.

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Document date

Tishrei 4759 Anno Mundi (24 September 998–23 October 998 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

An early legal document, in Hebrew rather than Judaeo-Arabic. Location: al-Banā, near Fāqūs in the Nile Delta. Dated: Tishrei 4759 AM = 1309 Seleucid = September/October 998 CE. […] The latter lived in the house and had already received another twelfth as the dowry of his wife (Ghaniyya bt.

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• bill of sale
• real estate

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Inferred date

1190–1204 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Having read part of Maimonides’ Guide - and finding that he has not entirely understood it - the writer asks if he can either meet with Maimonides or with someone else that Maimonides recommends. He also asks for dietary recommendations that will help him in his pursuit of knowledge.

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517

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Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

One of three draft versions of a document concerning the leadership of the community of al-Maḥalla during the administration of Mevorakh b. […] The spiritual leader of al-Maḥalla had left them two years ago. On Sabbaths and holidays, people sat under the sycamores in the streets instead of attending synagogues and lectures.

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Part of a ketubba. Bride: Sitt al-Maʿālī bt. Ḥesed, a divorcee. Groom:Daniel b. […] Witnessed by Yiṣḥaq b. Simḥa ha-Levi al-ʿAsāb, Yeḥezqel b. ʿEli ha-Kohen (Ezekiel ha-Kohen 'the Ḥaver in the Great Sanhedrin' b.

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Document date

Shaʿbān 941 Hijrī (5 February 1535–5 March 1535 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

to the hand of Yahuda Naḥmias for the merchant of Alexandria" (מה ארסל ה׳׳ר יעקב מרחיים יצ//ו מן פולווקמח ליד ר׳ יהודה נחמיש יצ׳׳ו לתאגר אסכנדריה).

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• 16th c or later
• late alexandria
• ottoman shipping

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Primary languages

Judaeo-Arabic, Unidentified (Hebrew script)

This entire interpretation is tentative, because the handwriting is dreadful and the orthography even worse. The letter ד is alternately rendered as ד ,ת ,and ט. The letter צ is alternately rendered as צ and ז.

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