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Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

of white (cheese?) from Abū l-Majd al-Parnas. He asks for the price of something - a mantle (burda)? - because the garment mender (al-raffāʾ) has been demanding the money. Moshe's brother Abū Isḥāq is well.

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• abu sahl levi
• cheese
• moshe b. levi

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Primary language

Arabic

Letter from Mūsā b. Hibatallāh al-Yahūdī al-Mutaṭabbib ("the Jewish doctor") to an unidentified dignitary.

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Hebrew

It is followed by a text for Purim (also included here), which may mean that it was part of an originally larger liturgical collection.

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The verso lists expenditures in building operations, mainly for wood work, repairs for locks and doors, but also for sewage and other work materials. (Information from Gil, Documents, pp. 200 #26.)

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• 11th c
• account
• communal
• qodesh
• waqf
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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen who appears in T-S AS 211.81 (PGPID 22837) and who is already dead in T-S 6J12.9 (PGPID 16164), T-S AS 149.84 (PGPID 18611), and PER H 21 + Moss. VII,39 (PGPID 7024). Join: Alan Elbaum. The join is not continuous and therefore not 100% certain.

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• halfon b. menashshe
• ib-addenda

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Document date

Monday, 26 Shevaṭ 4837 Anno Mundi (23 January 1077 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Yosef ha-Kohen in honor of the caliph al-Mustanṣir and of Badr al-Jamālī on the occasion of their military victory over the Seljuks.

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• literary with documentary value

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Primary language

Hebrew

For Zeraḥ Dammūhī, see also T-S 8J6.22 (PGPID 16221). Moshe Dammūhī appears in several documents from this period, including as the father of one of the witnesses of T-S 8J8.23 (PGPID 16227).

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• 16th c
• communal
• dammuhi
• late heb
• musta'rib

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Judaeo-Arabic

With a rudimentary hand and spellings. Mentions: 'al-rayyis'; how the sender's sister went to someone's house and accused someone of not paying the money due to the miserable children; how the addressee's brother and paternal uncle are in Damascus; how the addressee had complained about difficult making a living; how the sender took some money (a lot of small change?) […] (Information in part from CUDL.) Join: Alan Elbaum

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Hebrew

The “masters” of the pool here are the Jewish people. This poem has also been interpreted as having been meant to celebrate a wedding.

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Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

One of the Judaeo-Arabic sections lists the names al-Shaykh al-Makīn and Abū l-Munā, which are familiar from the circle of Avraham Maimonides (Avraham himself had the kunya Abū l-Munā).

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3 Av [15]42 Seleucid (4 July 1231 CE)

‘Imrān and Futūḥ b. Abū al-‘Izz, with the profit to be split in two halves, half for Futūḥ b. Abū al-‘Izz (less a twenty-fourth) and half for Abū Sa‘d, with Suleymān given 19 as a commenda.

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• 13th c
• business
• partnership

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Concerning the restoration of a Bible codex called al-Jāmiʿ, "the brother of the codex called the Tāj (i.e., the Aleppo Codex," which was in need of restoration and could not be replaced even for 100 dinars.

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• aleppo codex
• book trade

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef b. Eleazar. However, al-Mahdiyya is not mentioned, and it is not his hand, as evident, for example, from T-S G1.5a (+ T-S 12.397 + T-S AS 155.329), where he signed (published by M.A. […] Judah took place between 1034-1042, so the year 1040 is more likely. Also signed by Moshe b. Zekharya. Judeo-Arabic.

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first decade of Kislev 5439 Anno Mundi (16 November 1678–25 November 1678 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

His orphans are David, Nissim, and Yiṣḥaq. Levi's widow Esther (also now deceased) used to reside in one of the properties, a shop in Sūq al-Kharuzātiyya of Cairo (spelled here as: סוק אלכ'ריזאתיין).

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• late heb

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The main text consists almost entirely of condolences and exhortations to have patience (ṣabr). […] (For the strange-seeming phrase "lahu marīḍ," see also ENA 2738.37.) The context is unfortunately quite difficult to decipher.

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• abu zikri al-rayyis
• condolence
• grief
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
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Document date

16 Tammuz 5324 Anno Mundi (26 June 1564 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

He owes them ongoing rent payments for the līwān in an ʿaliyya belonging to the heqdesh in which he lives, as well as a prior debt of 123 muayyadis. […] Elʿazar Ḥonik (? חניך) ha-Levi (who also appears in ENA NS I.57 and ENA NS 29.11). On verso there is an archiving note: "the rental contract of Sulaymān Ṣafiyy, debt of 123 muayyadis to the congregation."

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• 16th c
• musta'rib

2 Transcriptions

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

This section opens with an expression of emotional distress (fa-yabqā qalbī marjūf). The wife of Surūr al-Qalyūbī has been harmed (? inḍarrat) because of the delay of the silk. The addressee should send it with the frying pan (al-ṭājin). Muʿammar spoke with the sender about something (a beverage?) […] The addressee should send the knife (? al-sikkīna) and the tefillin, as the sender has injured his left arm "because of the throwing of the jug" (??).

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Sulaymān b. Samhūn b. al-Sahl, in Tilimsān, to Abū Sahl Menashshe b. David Ibn Labrāṭ, in Fustat. […] The sender has not heard from anyone in Egypt for "several years" because "the caravans have been cut off" (li-inqitāʿ al-qawāfil). He requests that the addressee send back news with the same pilgrims (ḥujjāj) who are bearing this letter for him. […] Otherwise "the news of the West" is good, all is safe and the roads are secure. He concludes by asking for news of the Yeshivot, and who is the current Head of the Yeshiva, as he wishes to write to him.

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• personal
• yeshiva

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The agreement is a tawqīm ("estimate") of the trousseaux for the bride, Sitt al-Suʿada ("Mistress over the Happy Ones"). The groom approved of the evaluation of the tawqīm of the dowry and took on the responsibility of keeping the items safe. […] This was because the official Rabbinate marriage contract, which also listed these details, would be in formulaic Aramaic.

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• autograph

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Document date

Middle of Tammuz 1445 Seleucid (July 1134 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa b. Ṣedaqa al-Ramli was appointed to supervise the building operations, and Obadiah advanced the sums that were necessary. […] Shelomo ha-Kohen ha-Meʿulle, who is also a signatory of the agreement. (Information from Gil, Documents, pp. 254 #47 and CUDL)

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• halfon b. menashshe
• heqdesh
• qodesh

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Primary language

Hebrew

He married either a Christian woman or a Jewish woman who converted to Christianity (along with him? והלכ[ה] אחרי אלי נכר). Then he tried to persuade her to return to Judaism. […] (Information in part from Goitein's index card, Goitein, Med Soc IV, 236, note 82, and de Lange, Byzantium in the Cairo Genizah, 40.) This document has also been edited by Ze'ev Falk in Sinai 85 (1979), 147–48.

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• adultery
• bribe
• byzantium
• christians
• conversion
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Primary language

Arabic

Yusuf and son(s) to a postal agency in Old Cairo, called three times "al-Ḥusayn b. Ṭāhir," and twice "Najā b. al-Ḥusayn al-Anṣārī and Tamim b.

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• dimme
• fiscal

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Judaeo-Arabic

It seems that the sender waited for al-Thiqa in Gaza but he never came. So he left without him and walked with Zayyāta(?) […] They reached אלכשבי on Friday but they weren't in time to catch up with al-ʿAbbāsa (a caravan? another town?). So he traveled onward alone until he reached Bilbays before Shabbat and spent Shabbat with Ibn Bishāra.

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Fiancée: Sitt al-Dalāl. Conditions: 1. Should separation occur, the document freeing Sitt al-Dalal ("Lady Bold") will be produced by her husband without delay. 2. […] He will not separate her from her parents, as long as the latter are alive and cannot force her to live anywhere else. 9.

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• betrothal

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Inferred date

975–1025 CE

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Judaeo-Arabic

Cohen and Somekh suggest that the account corroborates Ibn Khallikān's anecdote about Ibn Killis's majlis and may even describe the same incident. They also argue that the author's decision to confront the vizier with verses from the Torah implies that he regarded Ibn Killis as still, in some sense, answerable to his origins. The blessing "may God sustain his high station" after the vizier's name indicates that Ibn Killis was alive and in office when the treatise was composed, suggesting a dating for the text of 979–91 CE. […] Cohen and Sasson Somekh, “Interreligious Majalis in Early Fatimid Egypt,” in Hava Lazarus-Yafeh, et al., eds., The Majlis: Interreligious Encounters in Medieval Islam (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 1999), 128–36.

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Document date

22 Av 5595 Anno Mundi (17 August 1835 CE)

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Hebrew

or perhaps bubonic plague given that there was a major outbreak in Alexandria/Egypt in 1834-1836). All the gentiles were trying to flee in boats to Jedda. […] The writer then had a second bout of fever ("my whole body burnt, and my tongue cleaved to my palate, and I went to the doctor, who treated/cured me a second time"). By this point all his money had run out. Shortly thereafter he developed an eye disease. […] Relatively early on he made his way to Fustat/Cairo, where he had little success raising money or gaining allies. The capitation tax collector (baʿal ha-kharāj) apprehended him for failing to pay for 'the third year' (he had only paid for the years '50 and '51) and he spent three days in prison, where he fell ill again for the fourth time.

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• capitation tax
• epidemic
• epidemic: magefa
• kharaj
• late illness
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Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

The original deed was given by Avraham b. Yeshuʿa al-Raḥbi to Yehuda b. Moshe ha-Ḥazzan al-Dimashqi (lines 1-11). […] This original deed was also validated in Fustāt by the court of the Great Nasi David b. […] The title of the Nasi as 'head of all diasporas' hints at a date between late 1091 and the summer of 1094.

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• hillel b. eli

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Document date

Tuesday, 18 Shevaṭ 1405 Seleucid (7 February 1094 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Yefet he-Ḥaver (known also from Bodl. MS heb. a 3/38, ENA NS 18.1, T-S 24.1, T-S 12.1, T-S 16.192, and possibly T-S 16.212), also witnessed by Aharon b. […] in a different hand, concluding with an ʿalāma, ישועה. Below, there is a scathing, 40-line responsum about the defects of this legal document written by the Palestinian authority ʿAmram b.

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• divorce

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Judaeo-Arabic

Faraj and his prospective father-in-law Fuḍayl b. ʿAllūn, for the hand of Fuḍayl's elder daughter Mufaddāt. […] The groom’s worries about the trousseau of his wife are also found in the condition that allowed him to check the items of the trousseau, to see that it meets his standards. In the case that it does not pleases him, he may take back the sums of money he already spent on the wedding expenses, or other expenses, and cancel the marriage.

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Letters or groups of letters written by an apprentice who trained in the basics of the alphabet

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• arabic script
• ottoman
• pen trial

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