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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer informs him inter alia that the only commodity which sold well in the "West" was lac.

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Judaeo-Arabic

A variety of names with Ottoman titles are mentioned, such as: Yosef Jalabī (Çelebi), dīwān (of the) Efendī, ʿAbd al-Raḥman Aga, Maḥ[mūd]/Muḥ[ammad] Efendī. Requires further examination.

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• ottoman
• ottoman state

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Primary language

Syriac (Serto)

Syriac Memro for Palm Sunday. 14 lines, with a catchword at the bottom and the Garshuni heading yuqraʿ turjām ʿīd al-saʿānīn. This was edited by Siam Bhayro. Information from Kiraz, "Learning Syriac and Garshuni in Early Modern Egypt."

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Memorial list for the family of "al-Rayyis Abū l-Ḥasan, the family of our holy rabbi (Rabbenu ha-Qadosh.

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(a) List of names and sums. Probably an alms distribution list. Entries include "the dyer"; "and her daughter"; Ṣedaqa; Umm Labwa; Ibrāhīm.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Abū l-Ḥassan b. Ṣāliḥ Muḥammad al-Q[...]?), then several figures in Greek/Coptic numerals, with a grand total written at the bottom.

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Primary language

Arabic

ENA 3695.4, ENA 3695.5, and ENA 3695.8 all look very similar, might be from the same original document.

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Primary language

Arabic

Receipt or legal document in Arabic script. Mīkhāʾil al-Dabbāgh (the tanner) sold cow hide(s) to Jaʿfar b.

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• leather
• tanner

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Document date

402 Hijrī (4 August 1011–22 July 1012 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Reused for a tax receipt issued for 402H written by Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ the jahbadh, so written earlier than that.

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• dimme
• fiscal

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Primary language

Arabic

Informal note addressed to Abū l-Faraj concerning a settling of accounts in the Dār al-Wikāla, involving 10 dirhams and the months of Ramaḍān and Shawwāl.

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Primary language

Arabic

Including epithets of God (Ḥayy, Qayyūm, Dā'im, Dayyūm, Huwa Huwa) and Quranic verses (idhā qaḍā amran innamā yaqūlu lahu kūn(!) fa-yakūn) alongside nonsense words.

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• arabic script
• magic

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Primary language

Arabic

Expenses for the house of al-Muʿallim Sulaymūn. Dating: probably Mamluk or early Ottoman period based on handwriting, format, and paper.

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Power of attorney by Shemuel Ibn al-Lebdi from late tenth-early eleventh century Fustat.

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• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib1
• india book
• power of attorney

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter of appeal for charity addressed to Abū ʿImrān al-Kohen. Written in Hebrew (the opening poem and formulae) and Judaeo-Arabic (the body).

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• appeal
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: appeal
• illness: cost

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter sent from Fustat by Barhun b. Salih al-Tāhartī to his cousin Barhun b. Musa. The letter deals with business dealing with Muslims and the collection of debts.

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• al-tahirti
• muslims
• trade

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Primary language

Hebrew

Names mentioned include: ʿAbd al-Karīm; Muhadhdhab; Yisraʾel; Yaʿāqov ha-Le[vi?]

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Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Abū l-Bishr and his son; ʿAbd al-Wāḥid; Menaḥem b. Majd; Abū Isḥāq b. Ṭayyib; [...]

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

E.g., Abu l-[...] known as Ibn al-ʿAmm (cf. ENA 2744.1 for this family name) and ʿOvadya.

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Primary language

Arabic

Order or receipt in Arabic script with Judaeo-Arabic annotations for 2 dinars for [...] Makkī(?) al-Khabbāz from Yehuda b. Yosef (presumably this is Abū Zikrī Kohen).

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• bialphabetic
• ib-addenda
• ib5

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Primary language

Arabic

One section seems to be for countering the evil eye ("kadhālika tatafaqqaʿ al-ʿayn wa-l-naẓra").

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment (left side of recto, left side of verso) of a Judaeo-Arabic letter giving intriguing glimpses into a distressing situation: mentions the addressee's female cousin (bint ʿammak) and something "accursed" (al-mayshūma) and enduring hard.

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Includes the phrases "her husband," "from the house," and "the scribes of the gentiles" (ilā warrāqīn al-goyim).

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• muslim court

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic of a wide array of individuals known from other 18th/19th-century documents with eastern Arabic numerals. Although the meaning is unclear, the lists are clearly titled with the heading "עלם אלשוכוך סבלך".

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• 18th or 19th c

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Tale in the style of A Thousand and One Nights, told partly in the first person, mentioning a period of seven years, robbers who took all the narrator’s possessions, and a (barren) wife praying to God in the night.

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• popular literature

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic to someone addressed as "al-majlis" regarding communal issues. May mention people who are violating a ruling of the addressee; mentions Bū l-Faraj the cantor; and someone who is unsuitable for a job.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yaʿqūb, in Damascus, to Abū l-ʿAlāʾ Yūsuf b. Dāʾūd (Ibn Shaʿyā), in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script.

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• arabic address
• unedited 11th c

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Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

Verso: Arabic and Hebrew jottings, along with much mirrored Hebrew text. (Information from CUDL)

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Primary language

Arabic

Unclear if state or private. Mentions someone al-ʿAjamī. One of the headings is "ʿamāla." Reused on the same side for a story in Judaeo-Arabic (see separate PGP record).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender may be named [Abū l-Ḥa]san. Almost none of the substance is preserved. (Information in part from CUDL.)

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Document date

589 Hijrī (7 January 1193–26 December 1193 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The place mentioned seems to be Mīt al-Khayr in the Gharbiyya province.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document, concerning Abū ʿAlī b. [...], a debt of 100 dirhams, and possibly the appointing of an agent.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Business letter, which begins after seven lines of poetical complaints about separation, concerning camphor (kāfūr) and garments (aksiya) transported by Abū al-Afrāḥ ʿArūs. (Information from Goitein's index card).

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• trade

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Signed by Yusuf b. Faraj al-Fasi and Dawud b. Nahum, who signs twice. (Information from Goitein’s index cards) EMS

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• loan

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in which Abu al-Barakat b. Tayyib apologizes for not having sent a certain sum owed by Abū l-Ṭāhir.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef, mentioning Abū l-Makārim, Avraham and his brother Ḥananʾel, Abū Isḥāq, Moshe (Maimonides), Rabbenu al-Maskil, and Sitt Mubārak. (Information mainly from CUDL.)

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• ib-addenda
• ib3
• post-ib
• recommendation

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Perhaps a writing exercise of Genesis 1, but this seems to be prefaced in Judaeo-Arabic: "[...] al-ṣalā [...] taqūl."

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• 10th c

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Primary language

Hebrew

The words ‘Mar Yefet’ are written above the name Ḥananya throughout the poem. Join: Alan Elbaum. (Information in part from CUDL)

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• poetry

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Primary language

Arabic

Accounts written by a government official indicating sums owed by someone, probably for Abū l-[...] al-ʿAfṣī, on various dates, arranged in two columns.

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• dimme
• to examine

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Primary language

Arabic

Mentions names like Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallāh and Abū Ṭālib ʿUmar(?) b. al-Ḥasan(?), which makes it seem like a legal document.

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Primary language

Arabic

Abū l-Riḍā b. Hilāl Ibn al-Amshāṭī.

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Primary language

Arabic

There is one name in Hebrew script (אלמהראני); the addressee is called "my son" (yā waladī); and the writer mentions "when I left the country" (kharajtu min al-balad). Needs examination.

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• bialphabetic
• to edit

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Document date

506 Hijrī (28 June 1112–17 June 1113 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso (original use): ḥikr (ground-rent) receipt in Arabic script for the Jewish community's properties (املاك) in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ (the Fortress of the Lamps) in Fustat.

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• hikr

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Little of the content is preserved. A wicked man (al-rashaʿ) is mentioned: אלרשע בן זעפראנה(?). (Information in part from CUDL)

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Possibly a signature, along with jottings, on verso. (Information in part from CUDL)

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