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Judaeo-Arabic

Rendering of the book Esther into Judaeo-Arabic. Late.

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• late ja literary
• popular literature

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Sivan 1819 Seleucid (30 April 1508–29 May 1508 CE)

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Colophon for an unidentified work. Location: Cairo. Dated: Sivan 1819 Seleucid = Muharram 914 AH = 1508 CE. On verso there is a note in …

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• colophon

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Judaeo-Arabic

The story of Esther in Judaeo-Arabic.

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• booklist
• qaraites

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Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter draft from an unknown man in Egypt to Marzūq Chelebi (? גלבי) in Damascus. Both writer and addressee are Qaraites. The latter is greeted …

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• arabic
• damascus
• pasha
• prison
• qaraites

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Literary. Muqaddimāt and tafsīr.

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25 Tammuz 1693 Seleucid (7 July 1382 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

In any case, this corresponds to 1382 CE. Witnesses: Avraham b. Moshe b. Shemuel Ibn al-Kāzarūnī and David b. […] The document has to do with Sitt al-[...] bt. Saʿīd b. Faraj Allāh who received from ʿAbdallāh b. [...] b. Khaṭīr Ibn al-Khāzin the 2200 dirhams nuqra that she had been willed by the deceased, ʿAbd al-Qādir b. ʿAbd al-Kāfī b. Khaṭīr Ibn al-Khāzin. The aforementioned ʿAbdallāh was the executor of the will.

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• inheritance

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2 Adar 5497 Anno Mundi (3 February 1737 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Dated Monday 2 Adar 5497 AM, which is 1737 CE. ʿEzra b. Eliyyahu Rofe Fayrūz acknowledges a debt of 31 golden funduqlis from Yosef Levi b. […] This took place in the house of Moshe ha-Rofe b. Aharon Ẓaʿīr. There are no signatures and there are several corrections; probably a draft.

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• 18th c
• fayruz
• fonducli
• late ja

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Judaeo-Arabic

Attesting that the bride (Qamr bt. Moshe Levi b. Shelomo Levi Qayyim) and the groom agreed upon the conditions. ʿEzra b. Eliyyahu Rofe Fayrūz appears (the groom?), also known from Yevr.

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• fayruz
• mahbub

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Frontispiece of the Torah printed in Venice by Giovanni Colleoni, 1627 CE. Contains an ownership note on the verso: "property of al-faqir(!) Eliyya Fayrūz." For …

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• ownership note
• printed
• venice

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Sivan 5503 Anno Mundi (24 May 1743–22 June 1743 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Two of the drafts provide detailed record of how David b. Reuven Nāqish wished to travel to Istanbul for business, and how he agrees that if he is absent for longer than 2 years, his wife Masʿūda bt.

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• 18th c
• aguna
• conditional divorce
• istanbul
• late ja
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19 Heshvan 5527 Anno Mundi (22 October 1766 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Location: Fustat/Cairo. Venue: The house of Shelomob. Aharon Kohen Khāzinī. Dated: Thursday, 19 Heshvan 5527 AM, which is 1766 CE. […] (the wife of Moshe Levi), and Qamr (the wife of Yūsuf Naqqāsh), the daughters of Naḥum b. Aharon Kohen Ḥāṭūs(?) attest that they have sold their share in a house to Shemuel b. […] Scribed and signed by Shelomob. Moshe Rofe known as Ẓaʿir. Additional witness signatures: Shelomob.

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• 18th c
• karaite
• qadi court

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4 Heshvan 5488 Anno Mundi (19 October 1727 CE)

Location: Cairo. Groom: Naḥum ha-Levi b. Yosef b. Raḥamim. Bride: Marḥaba bt. Yaʿaqov ha-Levi b.

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• 18th c
• fgp stub

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Hebrew

Recto: Responsum in the name of Shelomo Kohen b. Aharon Kohen Kanzī(?) Dimashqī. Dating: After 1490 CE. […] Numerous proofs are cited as well as the authority of Yehuda Hadassi (12th c) in Sefer ha-Peles (= Eshkol ha-Kofer), Aharon b. Eliyyahu (d. 1369) the author of Etz Ḥayyim, Eliyyahu Bashyaẓi ZL (d. 1490), and finally the great sage Shemuel ha-Rofe ha-Maʿaravi (active 15th century) in chapter five of his Book of Commandments. Shelomo Kohen writes an addendum in his own hand with his own signature, confirming everything above (that was written in his name but not by him).

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• responsum
• shemuel b. moshe al-maghribi

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8 Elul 5588 Anno Mundi (18 August 1828 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Involves Nissim ha-Levi b. Yequtiel and Menashshe b. Yūsuf b. Yehuda and a complex partnership in a shop.

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• 19th c
• karaite
• late ja

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Judaeo-Arabic

Legal testimony? In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ottoman-era. it is a first-person narrative recounting the events of several years, involving financial disputes, a shofar, the Muslim courts, …

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• muslim courts
• turjuman

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27 Tammuz 1613 Seleucid (24 July 1302 CE)

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The elders of the Qaraite Jews of Cairo lease the right of way (sulūka) through a doorway of the street of the synagogue (darb al-kanīs), "may it soon be reopened" (in Hebrew in an otherwise Judaeo-Arabic text), to al-Ṣafiyy Abū l-Maḥāsin b. al-Asʿad Abū l-Ḥasan, for 6 dirhems per year.

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• 14th c
• qaraite waqf

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Rabīʿ I or Rabīʿ II 915 Hijrī (19 June 1509–16 August 1509 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Tuesday, Rabīʿ I or Rabīʿ II 915 AH = June–August 1509 CE (a more precise date may be legible). It …

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• material culture

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20 Heshvan 5549 Anno Mundi (20 November 1788 CE)

Dated: Tuesday, 20 Heshvan 5549 AM, which is 1788 CE. Involves Yaʿaqov Levi b. Avraham Hītī (? היתי) and a sum of 80 "dīwānī reals" and a partnership with Eliyyahu Ḥakham known as Maʿānī b.

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19 Kislev 1857 Seleucid (24 November 1545 CE)

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Venue: House of Eliyyahu b. Fayrūz Rosh Bet Din. Groom: Ibrāhīm b. Yehuda al-Ḥakīm. […] Scribed and signed by Netan'el b. Aharon ha-Somekh.

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• betrothal
• bunduqi
• qaraite marriage

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27 Kislev 5346 Anno Mundi (18 December 1585 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Ṣadaqa ha-Levi attests that he owes 500 medins to his brother-in-law Avraham ha-Levi b. David Shaykh al-Yahūd. Signed: Eliyyahu Fūlādhī Ḥazzan; Avraham b.

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6 Tammuz 5415 Anno Mundi (11 July 1655 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

After a dispute between them, Shaḥata b. Aharon Feyruz takes an oath not to divorce his wife Ḥanīna bt.

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• 17th c
• marital dispute
• reconciliation

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14 Adar 5525 Anno Mundi (7 March 1765 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

(Note that the year is covered by a paper flap in the digitized image; this dating is from the catalogue.) Groom: Yaʿaqov b. Shelomo Fayrūz known as Shāmī. Bride: Karīma bt.

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• 18th c
• engagement

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29 Adar 5539 Anno Mundi (17 March 1779 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: Thursday, 29 Adar 5539 AM (=Ṣafar 1193 AH), which is 1779 CE. Avraham Fayrūz b. Eliyyahu Fayrūz known as Shuwaykh makes arrangements for the inheritance of his late wife Marḥaba bt.

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• 18th c
• inheritance
• karaite

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Sunday 23 Sivan 5506 Anno Mundi (11 June 1746 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Between the groom Elʿazar b. Shelomo known as Fayruz with the bride Ṣipora d. Shʿaya b. Naḥūm. Location: probably Cairo, the house of Yosef b.

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• karaite
• marriage conditions

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Sunday 15 Tevet 5496 Anno Mundi (30 December 1735 CE)

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Location: presumably Cairo, in the house of Eliyahu the physician b. Elisha Rofe, in the presence of Yehuda b. Shemuel Rofe, Aharon Kohen known as Shami and Shemuel Levi Gabi b. […] Signed by the scribe Yeshu'a (surname omitted), Avraham Fayruz, Shelomo Levi known as Karsi, Eliyahu b. Elisha the physician, Ishaq Levi known as Qays, Sa'adya Halevi known as Qayīm, Aharon Kohen known as Shami.

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• inheritance
• karaite

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25 Av 5335 Anno Mundi (1 August 1575 CE)

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Hebrew

Recto: Qaraite legal document. In Hebrew. Dated: Monday, 25 Av 5335 AM, which is 1575 CE. The context is a communal struggle over who would …

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• cantor
• conflict
• jamakiyya

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17 Heshvan 5472 Anno Mundi (30 October 1711 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Legal testimony, Qaraite. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Sunday, 17 Heshvan 5472 AM, which is 1711 CE. It has to do with the floor (ṭabaqa) that is …

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• 18th c
• karaites
• qaraite waqf
• qodesh
• ruin

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Tishrei-Kislev 1751 Seleucid (10 September 1439–7 December 1439 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Also an curious entry documenting that there were rumors about the daughter of ʿAbd al-Laṭīf b. Bashīr(?), somehow connected to the bathhouse of Ibn al-Ashqar, and indeed the rumors were proven true by her pregnancy.

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• adultery
• conversion
• court notebook
• dar simha
• hammam

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4 Tevet 5530 Anno Mundi (1 January 1770 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Signed mostly by Karaite community members Shelomo Kohen, Eliyahu b. Yisrael, 'Amram Hazan and Avraham Rofe.

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• 18th c
• karaite

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15 Sivan 5519 Anno Mundi (10 June 1759 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

II A 1274 (PGPID 27488). The groom is Yosef b. Gedalya b. Aharon known as Ṣaʿīr. The bride is Hana bt. Aharon b. Raṣon Rofe and her legal representative is Yosef b. Shelomo. The document mentions the following witnesses (who have not signed): Yiṣḥaq b.

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• 18th c
• karaite
• marriage

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1 Sivan 5347 Anno Mundi (7 June 1587 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

The groom Yisrael Hakohen b. Shemuel. The bride Esther d. Shemuel Ibn Yahya.

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• 16th c
• karaites
• marriage

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11 Ṣafar 699 Hijrī (7 November 1299 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: 11 Heshvan = Safar 699 AH = 7 November 1299 CE. Abū l-Bahā b. Mukram (Makārim?) Ibn al-Ṣūrī agrees not to involve his daughter Sitt al-Yumn in his ongoing court case with her husband. She agrees to behave well with her husband and not to harass him and not to report untrue things about him to her father. Signed: Moshe b. Yehoshuaʿ ha-Levi. (Information in part from Goitein's index card.)

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Monday 19 Sivan 5410 Anno Mundi (18 June 1650 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Yiṣḥaq Shāmī, Rosh Mish[meret], b. Aharon Ḥazzan and Yaʿaqov b. Moshe Berakha agree to cease their partnership and acknowledge outstanding debts totaling to 120 gold şerifi (all of which are itemized).

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4 Nisan 5408 Anno Mundi (27 March 1648 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

The partners Avraham Levi Qudsi b. Yaʿaqov Qayyim and Eliya b. Aharon Levi agree to repay a sum of guruş riyyal to Sitt al-Bayt bt. Shelomo Feyruz on a monthly basis. Signed by Aharon Feyruz, Shemuʾel Ḥazan and Yaʿaqov Berakha.

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5489 Anno Mundi (4 September 1728–23 September 1729 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Draft of a document confirming payment to the orphan ʿAbd al-Muḥsin b. Yiṣḥaq Levi by Esther bt. Moshe Rofe. The funds are somehow connected to real estate on Darb al-Mudawwar.

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• 18th c
• karaite
• marriage
• orphan
• real estate

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23 Elul 5522 Anno Mundi (11 September 1762 CE)

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Shemuel ha-Levi b. Avraham ha-Levi, in Jerusalem, to ʿOvadya Kohen and his son Nissim Kohen, presumably in Fustat/Cairo.

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Thursday, 8 Elul 1743 Seleucid (6 August 1432 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Moshe ha-Levi to a group of unknown individuals. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Thursday, 8 Elul 1743 (אתרקמג) Seleucid = 6 August 1432 CE. The …

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18 Adar I 5398 Anno Mundi (4 March 1638 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Legal resolution by the Karaite community regarding the issue of marriage before the completion of the betrothal period. Dated: 18 Adar I 5398 AM (1638 …

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• dar simha
• karaite
• remarriage

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8 Tishrei 5351 Anno Mundi (6 October 1590 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Draft debt acknowledgment. Dated 8 Tishrei 5351 AM (1590 CE). Involves a variety of shareholders in connection with a sum held by a certain Mordekhay, …

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• karaite

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Tuesday, 28 Elul 5406 Anno Mundi (8 September 1646 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: Tuesday, 28 Elul 5406 AM, which is 8 September 1646 CE. Rahamim b. Ya'aqov Qayyim and his wife Muhja bt. Yaʿaqov Qayyim acknowledge that they owe 15 Abū Kalb gurūsh (=esedi kuruş) to Aharon b. […] The signatures section shows a wide spectrum of scribal ability, ranging from Rahamim b. Ya'aqov Qayyim's erratic signature to the Aharon Miʿmār's well-trained hand.

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Adar II 5334–Sivan 5535 Anno Mundi (1574–1575 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Court record dated Adar II 5334 AM. Involves Yosef b. Yehuda al-Naqqāsh and perhaps his elderly mother.

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• karaite

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12 Nisan 5402 Anno Mundi (12 April 1642 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Court record approving a payment for Ya'aqov Berakah the cantor b. Moshe for his service in communal prayers for five years.

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• 17th c
• cantor
• karaite

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29 Tammuz 5417 Anno Mundi (10 July 1657 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Dated Thursday, 29th Tammuz 5417 AM (1657 CE) Venue: Dar Simha Synagogue (Cairo). Ṣadaqa b. Ya'aqov Qayyim and his son Shelomo receive payment from Moshe Levi b.

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• 17th c
• dar simha
• karaite

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10 Iyyar 5454 Anno Mundi (5 May 1694 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

The partners are Moshe b. Aharon Kohen and Yosef b. Elaʿzar Rofe, and the debtor Yosef b.

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• 17th c
• janissary
• karaite

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5 Iyyar 5452 Anno Mundi (21 April 1692 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Venue: Dār Simḥa Synagogue. Moshe b. Aharon Kohen, the wakīl of Masʿūda bt. ʿAbdī ha-Kohen, testifies that debts have been settled between Masʿūda and her mother, Hana, with a certain Yosef b.

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• 17th c
• dar simha
• karaite

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24 Shevat 1816 Seleucid (29 January 1505 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Then al-Shammās ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. ʿAbd al-Raḥīm Ibn Fayrūz appeared together with his brother ʿAbdallāh. […] Likewise ʿAbdallāh's wife Ṭurfa bt. Mūsā b. Ṣafiyy committed to not speaking against him or doing him any harm. […] Witnesses: ʿAbd al-Laṭīf b. Ibrāhīm al-Nasi, Yūsuf Ibn Ṣaghīr, ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b.

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• 16th c
• reconciliation

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934 Hijrī (27 September 1527–14 September 1528 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Scribed by David ha-Ḥazzan. Involves [...] b. ʿAbd al-Karīm b. Abū l-Faraj and [...] bt. al-Nasi.

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3 Iyyar 5550 Anno Mundi (17 April 1790 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Mordekhai ha-Levi b. Shemuel, Moshe Levi b. Shemuel, and the Qaraite community of Jerusalem to Shelomo Kohen, his son Yosef Kohen, Aharon Levi, Yosef Gabbai, and Yeshuʿa Ẓaʿir, in Fustat/Cairo.

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• bolsa

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Shemuel ha-Levi b. Avraham, in Jerusalem, to ʿUzziel Fayrūz, presumably in Fustat/Cairo. The writer's son Avraham Levi b. Shemuel added his own signature as well. In Judaeo-Arabic.

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Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to Aharon Rofe and Avraham Rofe. The address reads "to the teacher ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Yahūdī al-Ṭabīb in the Wikāla of K[...]." Unknown writer, unknown …

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