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Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Unusual format. The trustee ("al-neʾeman") Yefet b. Elʿazar, who is the representative of al-Maḥalla, and the 4 undersigned elders of Fustat (ʿUlla b.

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Hebrew

Lawrence Fine, Physician of the Soul, Healer of the Cosmos: Isaac Luria and His Kabbalistic Fellowship, 33. Moshe also mentions "the other person who left for Ancona."

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• 16th c
• isaac luria
• krispin

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Sivan 1391 Seleucid (22 May 1080–20 June 1080 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Copy of a court record from Alexandria (אלכסנדריא שלמצרים) from a court appointed by Mevorakh [b.

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Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Evidently Eliyyahu brought these to Avraham Maimonides (Sayyidnā al-Rayyis), who wrote his response at the bottom of the query but who did not sign the masṭūr or the pisqei din. […] Avraham Maimonides' years of service as Rayyis al-Yahūd support an inferred date range estimate of 1205–1237 CE.

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• 13th c
• eliyyahu b. zekharia
• legal query
• responsum

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The letter contains many details about the last phase of arranging the linen for business: the lack in paint to paint the strings and flax growers that did not deliver the goods although they already received the payment. The writer asks Nahray to contact the special Diwan who was in charge of the linen, through Yehuda b.

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• flax
• suftaja
• wheat

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Tishrei 1326 Seleucid (28 August 1014–26 September 1014 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document concerned with a case of slander. Location: Aleppo. Dated: Tishrei 1326 of the Seleucid Era (= 1014 CE).

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• slave
• testimony

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Last decade of Adar 1481 Seleucid (March 1170 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Concerning the installments of payments of the delayed wedding gift from Surūr b. Ghālib al-Dajājī to his divorcee Sitt al-Jamīʿ bt. Shemarya.

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Israel writes that if he decides to come to the Maghreb he will have to decide to stay there. Also mentions Israel’s brother in-law or son in-law, which took from Yisrael a Mishna book and 1,000 dirhams and traveled to Israel.

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On verso there are pen trials or magical amulet, in a crude hand, followed by the Hebrew alphabet. Verso has been pricked all around the edge.

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• pinholes

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Document date

Ḥeshvan 1604 Seleucid (13 October 1292–11 November 1292 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Dated: Ḥeshvan 1604 Seleucid = October/November 1292 CE), under the authority of David I Maimonides, also with a blessing for his son Avraham. Goitein notes that the document distinguishes between the titles מרינו and מורינו, a distinction which later became lost (including in modern Hebrew).

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• avraham ii maimonides
• david i maimonides
• ketubba
• marriage

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Document date

1129 CE

(Information from Mediterranean Society, III, p. 259) Recto: Legal document recording that Sitt al-Husn, daughter of Saadya, sought a gold tiara ('isaba) that she had pawned to the recently-deceased physician Abu al-Murajja b.

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• family
• real estate

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First decade of Ṭevet 1445 Seleucid (1133 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: First third of Ṭevet 1445 Seleucid, which is 29 November–8 December 1133 CE. Isḥāq b. Makhlūf al-Nafūsī acknowledges that he received money and goods (pearls and coral) from Barakāt b. Mūsā al-Ḥalabī. Witnesses: Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi; Avraham b.

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• ib4
• ib6
• india book

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Av 1413 Seleucid (18 July 1102–16 August 1102 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mevorakh sells to Turfa, the daughter of the late Ṭayyib al-ʿIblānī, half of a house in the Ḥarrānī street in Qaṣ[r al-Shamʿ] (l. 8) for 51 dinars.

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• 12th c
• daughter
• family
• mother

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Arabic

Sharāḥīl in Kawlān (مسجد مالك بن شراحيل). [Khan, ALAD: "a document recording the granting of a loan ʿāriyya of property, in which the offeree of the loan acknowledges and accepts the terms of the document, 'aqarra bi-dhalika kullihi wa-qabila minhu'."] […] (Information in part from Goitein's index card, and Khan, ALAD).

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• dimme

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Document date

Jumādā I–Jumādā II 393 Hijrī (8 March 1003–5 May 1003 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Note that the scribe uses a variant of the aleph-lamed ligature (ﭏ) to represent 1/2 dirham.

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• account
• partnership
• textiles

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Primary language

Arabic

Addressed to 'the dear boy Naṣr al-Dawla' and mentions another person with an official-sounding title, Wafiyy al-Dawla.

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• dimme
• poetry
• to examine

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Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Letter in Arabic script addressed to Abū ʿImrān (presumably the same paternal uncle mentioned on recto). Possibly also from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, but more specimens of his Arabic handwriting need to be collected.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to Yaʿaqov b. al-ʿAbbās al-Kohen. In Judaeo-Arabic. On parchment.

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• unedited 11th c

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Several distinct entries, each terminated by a circle with a dot in it (هـ for انتهى). One has to do with allotting funds from monthly rent payments for bread; another has to do with Abū l-Faraj b. Ḥātim and a woman; on verso there is a reference to a property probably adjacent to the Palestinian synagogue along with the tower or dovecote (burj) to its east.

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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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Judaeo-Arabic

A variety of names and, perhaps, their corresponding calligraphic signatures appear: Shemuʾel Simḥōn, Moshe Talmid, Yosef Alguares– but none of these names are direct matches with signatures. The most legible signature is Yiṣḥaq Alguares in the lower right corner, verso. Requires further examination.

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• 16th or 17th c
• numismatic dating

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Primary language

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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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

At least some of the originally Islamic elements were kept ("fa-wa-lladhī anzala furqānahu ʿalā l-nabiyyi l-muṣṭafā l-muntajab"). There are two bifolia here, so 8 pages. […] Ghamr dies, and she elegizes him, and a man named Qutayba then starts to court her. Al-Ḥajjāj (the king?) appears as well. There are several joins (see T-S Ar.37.15, T-S AS 161.95, and FGP Joins Suggestions).

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• arabic poetry
• elegy
• judaeo-arabic poetry
• love
• popular literature
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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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Document date

5225 Anno Mundi (3 September 1464–20 September 1465 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Lists of Judeo-Arabic account entries related to financial arrangments in which figures are expressed alphanumerically. The dating may be provided on the fragment's verso where the month Tamuz is mentioned and possibly the year [5]225/ה]רכה] or roughly 1464/1465CE (these chronological markers may be parts of different heading). […] The verso contains highly repetitive entries which may constitute pen trials of alphanumerical figures. MCD.

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• 15th c
• sanduq

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Primary language

Arabic

The sender conveys his worry (hamm) and describes how he read a letter to its end and mentions his distress over the cutting-off of the correspondence (inqitāʿ al-mukātaba). He says he must resort to an oath to clear his name before the addressee (وقد احتجت الان الى يمين في الوسط(؟) لتبرؤ ساحتي عندك والله العظيم وحق التوراة...). Reused for Hebrew literary text (recto). Join: Alan Elbaum.

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Primary language

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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Primary language

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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Primary languages

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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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen; a black Nubian enslaved woman named ʿAlam; Natan the father of Abū l-Ḥusayn Moshe; Milāḥ bt. Elʿazar al-Sharābī; something to do with market duties.

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• halfon b. menashshe

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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

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation

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

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