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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to Shemuel ha-Hazzan with a long Hebrew poem and a few lines of Judaeo-Arabic containing a request for the Kitāb al-ʿAnṣara by Ibn Ghiyāth. (Information from Goitein's index cards and CUDL)

Tags

• poem

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Trousseau list. Location: Al-Maḥalla. Mentioned in Med Soc. IV, section IX, B, 2, notes 465, 472, 486–88.

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• 12th c
• dowry
• marriage

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Testator: Abū l-Faraj Wahb al-Muʿallim (aka the teacher and ḥaver Natan b.

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Primary language

Hebrew

Nahoum, probably from Tyre, to Abu al-Khair Efrayim ca. 1085, which continues on verso.

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• 11th c
• marriage
• poem

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Primary language

Arabic

The case is referred to the office of the chamber of al-Ẓāfir. Dating: mid-12th century. (Information from CUDL)

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Ṣemaḥ collected [...] two dinars from the money owed to him by Ṭayyib al-Kohen."

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Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Containing various questions; the first is attributed to Amīr al-Mu'minīn and mentions Muʿāwiya. Verso: Judaeo-Arabic poetry.

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• arabic literary
• judaeo-arabic poetry

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Primary language

Arabic

It seems that the sender is urgently ordering medicinal powder for dysentery (safūf al-zaḥīr) and other materia medica "for we need them."

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• arabic script
• mail-order medicine
• order

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Primary language

Arabic

One of the parties is a Jew (al-Isrāʾīlī). A certain Ibrāhīm b. Salāma is mentioned.

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Document date

13 Rabīʿ II 596 Hijrī (1 February 1200 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The debtor agrees to repay the debt or submit to tarsīm (house arrest), taḥbīs (imprisonment), or be summoned in front of a judge (ḥuḍūr ilā majlis al-quḍāt).

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Dating: No earlier than 1425 CE, based on the use of the ashrafī which was first minted under Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay in this year.

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• arabic script
• numismatic dating

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Primary language

Arabic

P3 recto mentions a certain Abū l-Ḵayr al-Ṭabīb.. Arabic, in various handwritings (FGP)

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• fgp stub

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Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Mentions names such as al-Ḥājj [...]; Umm Mūsā; the sister of Najīb; Umm Yūsuf.

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Muḥarram 557 Hijrī (21 December 1161–19 January 1162 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Receipt for the capitation tax of Bū Saʿd b. Bū ʿAlī the Jew in Fustat for the year 557 AH = 1161/62 CE if read correctly.

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Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Mentioning a deceased person (al-marḥūm), various numbers, and sales. On recto there is part of a rabbinic text in Hebrew.

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Hebrew

יקרת צפירת ... בישראל יחיהו .... Almost none of the letter itself is preserved except an intriguing mention of the name Hyrcanus (הורקנוס).

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Arabic

Verso: Astrological fragment listing the symbols for the "lords of the triplicities" (arbāb al-muthallathāt), i.e., the three planets that rule over each of the elements (here labeled in Arabic "fire, earth, air, water")

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Arabic

One line of Arabic text from an official letter or document, mentioning al-jāmiʿ ("the mosque"). Reused for piyyuṭim, one of which is ascribed to Isaac b.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Original use: Probably a letter from [...] al-Dayyān to Abū Ṭāḥir b. Avraham. Secondary use: Drafts of a deed of sale of a property, specifying its borders.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment from the bottom of a legal document. Mentions Ibn al-Jashshāsh (maker and/or seller of pounded boiled wheat, cf.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Business letter from Elʿazar b. Yosef. Mentions Ibn al-Ḥusayn and various transactions, including the receipt of nutmeg.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions 5 dirhams for 3 daftars, the first being [...], the second the book of Genesis with tafsīr, and the third a daftar containing Kitāb al-Sharāʾiʿ. (Information in part from CUDL.)

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Fragment of a letter from Barhun b. Musa al-Tāhartī. Mentions business with pearls and the coming travel of two people to Ladikya.

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• trade

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Inferred date

1141–1141 CE

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Order of payment by Abū Zikrī Kohen to Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār to pay to the leader (‘al-raʾīs’) 2 dinars. Circa 1141 CE. (Information from CUDL)

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• 12th c
• abu zikri
• cheque
• ib5
• india book
• (+ 1 more)

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Arabic

Opening lines of a petition with a blessing on al-Hāfiẓ. On verso there is additional Arabic text in a different hand, possibly a response to the petition.

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• petition
• tawqi'

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Document date

4 Iyyar 1553 Seleucid (6 April 1242 CE)

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions greetings to various people including Sayyid al-Ahl. (Information in part from CUDL)

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Judaeo-Arabic

With a negative tone, talking about losses and how someone can ינקל אלף נקלה whatever that means, and how the addressee shouldn't pay anything to [...] al-Dawla.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe and his wife; his sister al-Turfa bt. Menashshe and their mother; a certain Ṭoviyya; and Efrayim or [... b.]

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Arabic

Small receipt for payment made by Abū l-Najm on behalf of 'the poor Jews' (ḍuʿafāʾ al-yahūd) for the ground rent (ḥikr) payment for Jumādā I.

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• hikr

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Arabic

Order of payment in Arabic script. The judge (al-dayyān) is asked to pay 4 dinars to the bearer Bū l-Khayr.

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Arabic

Mentions people owing debts to each other, and mentions "the fortress" (al-qalʿa) at the bottom of recto. Continues on verso, mentioning more names and ending with a ḥamdala.

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Arabic

Informal note to Bū ʿAlī beginning "يا مولاي الشيخ بو علي قد طلقت. . . ."

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Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Referring to the sugar shops in the Sūq al-Naqqālīn (verso) and the two sugar shops (ḥānutayn sukkar) of Abū l-Faraj.

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• sugar

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Greek/Coptic Numerals

It is possible that these are intended to spell out words (other documents are known that use Coptic numerals as an alphabetic cipher) but it may simply be sums for accounting.

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• coptic
• unknown language

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Arabic

Refers to "the acquaintance of Maʿālī al-Sukkarī." This shelfmark was likely issued by the same scribe as the neighboring fragment T-S AS 185.281.

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Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Medieval-era. Headed Abū [...] al-Qaṣṣār(?). The paper was reused for writing exercises in Hebrew-script and many ink dots.

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• arabic reused

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Judaeo-Arabic

Joins: Oded Zinger (the first five pieces) and Alan Elbaum (T-S AS 210.186). Needs examination.

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Likely a release of a debt for Abū l-Faraj al-[...]. AA

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Small fragment from a legal deed relating to Abū l-Faraj al-Jubayli, and his trip to Yemen. Written by Halfon b.

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• halfon b. menashshe
• ib-addenda
• yemen

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Dream vision of Mawhūb al-Muʿallim. In Judaeo-Arabic (introduction) and Hebrew (vision).

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• dreams

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Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Book list including several talmudic tractates, commentaries on them by Moses ha-Kohen and Saʿd b. Hillel, and Shaykh al-Yahūd, a work by Judah b. Ḥalfon. (Information from CUDL)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: In a different hand, apparently alchemical recipes -- or at least they use many toxic minerals.

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Fragment of a letter from Yosef b. Ya’aqov al-Itrabulusi to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal. Mentions transferring money.

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Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Benaya to Abū Isḥāq Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script.

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• unedited 11th c

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Involves Abū Saʿd; a house in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ; and someone's maternal grandmother. Probably a deed of gift or sale.

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• badhanj
• halfon b. menashshe

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Primary language

Arabic

One of them refers to Dāʾūd b. [...] Ṣamṣām al-Dawla. Needs further examination.

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Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Names include Nāṣir, Abū l-Riḍā, Ibrāhīm, "a Jew" (yahūdī), ʿAlam(?), Hiba, Manṣūr, Ṣafiyy.

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Arabic

Mentions various dates and the name ʿAbd al-Ṣamad. Reused on the back for a Judaeo-Arabic prayer of praise for God.

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Maʿālī and Mūsā the brother of al-Sh[...]. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE).

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• halfon b. menashshe
• prenuptial

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Hebrew

Involves Shemuel ha-Levi and Sitt al-Kafāʾa and a quarter-house in Fustat that she had previously sold to Shemuel.

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