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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

One of his two wives and the daughter of the other died also. The remaining wife was brought to Fustat at the expense of the community, because she had a cousin (ibn ʿamm) there.

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• 11th c
• communal
• eli b. yahya
• fayyum
• illness
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from ʿIwāḍ b. Ḥananel, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. Around 1060.

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• 11th c
• benaya b. musa
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: despair
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from the teacher Abū l-Khayr, in Minyat Zifta to his brother Abū Naṣr Maḥfūẓ, the brother-in-law of Abū l-Bishr(?) Ibn al-Abzārī(?), in Darb al-Dahhān, Ḥārat Zuwayla, Cairo.

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• minyat zifta
• nile voyage
• teaching
• trade

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi b. al-Qaṭā'if to his brother Peraḥya discussing business matters, the illness and recovery of Abu al-Muna, a forwarded letter, and conveying greetings.

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• 12th c
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: boil
• illness: nursing
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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Avraham, a physician living in the Rif (and muqaddam of al-Mahalla, see T-S 10J20.21 (PGPID 2950)), recommending the cantor Abū l-Bayan Moshe b. ha-Hazzan al-Ahuv (i.e., Moshe b.

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• 12th c
• capitation tax
• jaliya
• jizya
• moshe b. levi
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

No one thought I would live, but thank God that everything ended well, and I am doing well, thank God." There are also a couple lines of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: gastrointestinal
• trade

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

"I believe Mar Joseph is traveling to your place to pass there the Passover with Ibn al-Fakhkhar, for the latter has made him desirous of spending the holidays in his house, where he would have a good time. […] (Mediterranean Society, V, pp. 16, 638.) Join: Alan Elbaum.

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• halfon-addenda
• ib-addenda
• ib4

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Reports arrival of Raḥamim and Ibn Samḥūn. A ship from al-Mahdiyya brought khiyār (=khiyār shanbar = cassia fistula?). […] Greetings to the addressee's brothers-in-law and the sender's cousin (ibn khāla) Abū ʿImrān and two people called al-ḥakīm. Reused for accounts by ʿArūs (see separate record).

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• account
• trade

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Primary language

Hebrew

During their conquest of the Holy Land, the Crusaders took not only prisoners for ransom but also Jewish books and scrolls. This leaf is presumably from one of the books that passed through Crusader hands but was eventually sold back to the Jewish community.

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• acre
• book trade
• colophon
• communal
• crusaders

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

"Stop occupying yourself with marriage plans and such idle things," writes a father, reminding his son, a fledgling physician, that he had not yet made enough money for such ventures. (wa-tukhalli ʿannak al-ishtighāl bil-jīza (=zija) wa-l-umūr al-hadhayāniyya.

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• business
• marriage
• molasses
• physician
• wine

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

[then improved]... but I still have terrible weakness." Also mentions the rent from the heqdesh (pious foundation) to the poor people in Jerusalem and other private and public affairs. 1060 (Gil's estimation).

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• acre
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: despair
• illness: gastrointestinal
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Document date

9 Ḥeshvan 5304 Anno Mundi (7 October 1543 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

The witness Badusa b. Asher may have also scribed this document. He is listed as the sole witness in a nearby shelfmark from 1569CE (CUL T-S 13J4.20).

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• 16th c
• partnership

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Document date

Adar 1525 Seleucid (12 February 1214–12 March 1214 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Mentions Meʾir (perhaps the son of Barukh from France), Yefet, Eliyyahu, Kalev ha-Kohen, Saʿadya and his sons, Eliyyahu, who is from Alexandria, and Elʿazar. A marginal note mentions a certain Yehuda.

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• nasi

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Document date

940 Hijrī (23 July 1533–12 July 1534 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

For each day of the week, lists the boats (qārib) belonging to different people (Muḥammad, Shihāb al-Dīn, Naṣr al-Dīn. . .) and commercial goods and numbers associated with them.

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• late ja
• ottoman shipping
• to examine

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Primary language

Arabic

Connected with T-S 18J1.1, since one of the witnesses there signed this document also. Dating: ca. 1000 CE. (Information from Goitein’s index card and Med Soc II, 602, n. 40.)

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Document date

11 Sivan [4901 Anno Mundi (18 May 1141 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Abū Naṣr b. Avraham, in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic with several lines in Arabic script on verso.

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• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• india book

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Document date

4974 Anno Mundi (17 September 1213–5 September 1214 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

That the document is written in Hebrew and uses the anno mundi dating system is consistent with other documents from the court of Abraham Maimonides (e.g., TS 12.126, which also refers to the "old system" of dating and is entirely in Hebrew).

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• commenda
• hebrew
• partnership

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Document date

19 Av 1515 Seleucid (18 July 1204 CE)

Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

List of items sold from the inheritance of Abū l-Futūḥ al-Kohen, probably a druggist or a doctor. In the hand of the court clerk Yosef b. […] Very similar to T-S NS J214 (PGPID 39203) and possibly a join. Join: Alan Elbaum

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• account
• druggist

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Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment from Yosef b. David Lebdi to Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan b. Bundār, the representative of the merchants in Aden, written in the hand of Hillel b. […] The join (T-S AS 153.160) includes the phrase "from Dahlak" in the first line. Joins: Alan Elbaum. Edition below is for JRL SERIES B 6028 only.

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• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib1
• india book

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Primary language

Hebrew

(Information from CUDL.) See also Goitein's index card and separate record for verso.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The sender reports that he approached [Abū] Nāṣr Kātib al-Jaysh (=Ḥesed b. Sahl al-Tustarī?) and discussed the situation of three different kinds of garments (kisāʾ, thawb, fūṭa), "which are necessary, whether you travel or are delayed."

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

If one of his brothers, he might have been acting as scribe for his mother. It is also possible that the address on verso is not directly related to the letter on recto.

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• ib-addenda
• ib3

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Inferred date

1517–1517 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated in the month of Rajab on the verso above the main heading, possibly with a year in the left corner כגץ which is 923 AH (although this may be a stylized repetition of Rajab or some kind of abbreviation). […] Muḥ[ammad] Sāmī(?), Aḥ[mad] al-Manṣūr[ī], among others. Probably the same scribal hand as T-S AS 210.50 (PGPID 22816) and ENA 2903.8 (PGPID 12535).

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Document date

Ṣafar 261 Hijrī (15 November 874–13 December 874 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

From l. 8 onward (and possibly beginning earlier in this fragment), all of the names are followed by the witness formula وكتب شهادته, in some cases written as a ligature (وكتبـشهادته). […] Reused on verso for Hebrew piyyuṭ for Shemini ʿAṣeret. Identified by Alan Elbaum in August 2026.

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Document date

1693 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

The financial dispute results from Moshe Zerḥīya's travel to the "cities of Yemen" as a shaliaḥ on behalf of the Jerusalem community. Moshe also became involved in the Cairo-Mokha coffee trade, but throughout his travels has let his family become destitute.

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Primary language

Ladino

(I received a Turk from the hand of R. Yosef...). It is also possible that these are transactions in "Moorish" and "Turkish" goods but the nouns/items themselves are not mentioned.

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• early modern enslaved people

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Document date

9 Av 1529 Seleucid (2 August 1218 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

T-S K25.240 consists of small written orders, partly in Hebrew and partly in Arabic script, for monthly payments, made out of the rent-revenue from the pious foundation (waqf) 'Compound of the Poor' or from the pious foundation made by the physician al-Muhadhdhab. All dated orders are from spring and summer, 1218.

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• account
• capitation tax
• heqdesh
• jaliya
• jizya
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Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

T-S K25.240 consists of small written orders, partly in Hebrew and partly in Arabic script, for monthly payments, made out of the rent-revenue from the pious foundation (waqf) 'Compound of the Poor' or from the pious foundation made by the physician al-Muhadhdhab. All dated orders are from spring and summer, 1218.

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• account
• heqdesh
• qodesh
• tax
• waqf

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Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

T-S K25.240 consists of small written orders, partly in Hebrew and partly in Arabic script, for monthly payments, made out of the rent-revenue from the pious foundation (waqf) 'Compound of the Poor' or from the pious foundation made by the physician al-Muhadhdhab. All dated orders are from spring and summer, 1218.

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• account
• heqdesh
• qodesh
• tax
• teacher
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Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

T-S K25.240 consists of small written orders, partly in Hebrew and partly in Arabic script, for monthly payments, made out of the rent-revenue from the pious foundation (waqf) 'Compound of the Poor' or from the pious foundation made by the physician al-Muhadhdhab. All dated orders are from spring and summer, 1218.

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• account
• heqdesh
• qodesh
• tax
• waqf

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Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

T-S K25.240 consists of small written orders, partly in Hebrew and partly in Arabic script, for monthly payments, made out of the rent-revenue from the pious foundation (waqf) 'Compound of the Poor' or from the pious foundation made by the physician al-Muhadhdhab. All dated orders are from spring and summer, 1218.

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• account
• heqdesh
• qodesh
• tax
• waqf

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Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

T-S K25.240 consists of small written orders, partly in Hebrew and partly in Arabic script, for monthly payments, made out of the rent-revenue from the pious foundation (waqf) 'Compound of the Poor' or from the pious foundation made by the physician al-Muhadhdhab. All dated orders are from spring and summer, 1218.

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• account
• heqdesh
• qodesh
• tax
• waqf

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Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

T-S K25.240 consists of small written orders, partly in Hebrew and partly in Arabic script, for monthly payments, made out of the rent-revenue from the pious foundation (waqf) 'Compound of the Poor' or from the pious foundation made by the physician al-Muhadhdhab. All dated orders are from spring and summer, 1218.

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• account
• heqdesh
• qodesh
• tax
• waqf

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Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

T-S K25.240 consists of small written orders, partly in Hebrew and partly in Arabic script, for monthly payments, made out of the rent-revenue from the pious foundation (waqf) 'Compound of the Poor' or from the pious foundation made by the physician al-Muhadhdhab. All dated orders are from spring and summer, 1218.

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• account
• heqdesh
• qodesh
• tax
• waqf

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Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

T-S K25.240 consists of small written orders, partly in Hebrew and partly in Arabic script, for monthly payments, made out of the rent-revenue from the pious foundation (waqf) 'Compound of the Poor' or from the pious foundation made by the physician al-Muhadhdhab. All dated orders are from spring and summer, 1218.

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• account
• heqdesh
• qodesh
• tax
• waqf

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Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

T-S K25.240 consists of small written orders, partly in Hebrew and partly in Arabic script, for monthly payments, made out of the rent-revenue from the pious foundation (waqf) 'Compound of the Poor' or from the pious foundation made by the physician al-Muhadhdhab. All dated orders are from spring and summer, 1218.

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1

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1

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• account
• capitation tax
• heqdesh
• jaliya
• jizya
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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Avraham; the mother giving 6 out of her 12 shares in a house in al-Mamṣūṣa to her daughter; the condition that the groom not host weddings "or do anything from the ornaments (? […] of a state document. Join: Alan Elbaum.

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Primary language

Arabic

Recto contains a list of simples used for curing eye complaints and follows roughly the list found in ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā, Tadhkirat al-kaḥḥālīn (ed. Hyderabad 1964, p. 347).

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• education
• hospital
• petition
• physicians
• to edit

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Primary language

Arabic

Business letter in Arabic script from Abū l-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī in Cairo to his father. He reports that he has sent 50 dinars' worth of pepper with the bearer of the letter. He asks his father to sell the pepper to Abū l-Ḥasan al-Wakīl for a good price and to send the money back to the sender.

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• aodeh

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Document date

1359 Seleucid (24 September 1047–11 September 1048 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Candlesticks and chains are supplied to the synagogue. The record also contains some bigger money matters between the leading officials of the congregation, such as the return to one of them of a sum he had advanced for the needs of the synagogue.

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Verso: Account by ʿAyyāsh for business with his partners. Also mentions a Christian named Yuhannis. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, #475) VMR/MR

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• flax
• trade

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender reports that he conveyed some information to al-Shaykh al-Sadīd. Then: "... he will take it, and I will hopefully be with him... on a day when he is in town... the dīwān...

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• yedutun ha-levi

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