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Primary language

Arabic

Includes the phrase "لا تجد في الوقت في البلد عند وكلا ال . . . " which sounds more mercantile. But the large "al-ʿabd" in the next line is more suggestive of a report or petition.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Mūsā; Yaḥyā; Iyov; Yosef; Ṣedaqa; Ibn Kohen; Dāʾūd; Sahl; Ibn al-Lādhiqī; Mardūkh. Same hand as T-S AS 204.231 (PGPID 22713).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating is perhaps 14th-16th-century but the month Muḥarram appears with illegible years twice along the left border of the recto. The first two digits are נו=55 but it is unclear which century is indicated (if any) by the letters/symbols that appear thereafter.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List of items belonging to Abū ʿAlī. Written in a rudimentary hand on a small bifolio.

Tags

• list

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ḥunayn; Elʿazar; siblings from the same father; and Abū l-Ḥasan al-Ṣayrafī.

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• halfon b. menashshe

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Recto: children’s Hebrew textbook consisting (ff. 1-2r) of the alphabet vocalised with the various Tiberian vowels, followed by חֲזֶק (sic) and the benediction ‘You chose us’ (אתה בחרתנו).

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(Information from Goitein's note cards) Hebrew alphabets in a crude hand and in different directions across the pages; Arabic jottings on f. 1r.

Tags

• education

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Document date

14 Adar 1419 Seleucid (28 February 1108 CE)

Colophon of Saʿadya Gaon’s book on the laws of evidence and documents (Kitāb al-Shahadāt wa-l-Wathāʾiq) belonging to Yosef b.

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Primary language

Arabic

Mentions a carpet (bisāṭ); a Christian man named Jirjis; a woman in Fustat or Egypt (Miṣr); and 'ahl al-bayt.'

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Popular poetry written in a mixture of Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic on the subject of a man addicted to the love of singing women (ʿishq al-maghānī, pl. of mughaniyya), and who is bankrupt (muflis) and fond of beer (mizr).

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Primary language

Arabic

On verso, the instructions for how to compound it and use it. Mentions "istiʿmāl al-iṭrīfal." It should be used for three days, at the same time on each day.

Tags

• prescription
• to edit

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Primary language

Arabic

The verso may comprise a letter address given that it ends with al-khawaja Ibrahīm. Needs examination.

Tags

• arabic script

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Probably from a prenuptial agreement, stipulating that the wife can force the husband to sell any enslaved woman she dislikes, and that the man will not take a second wife ([wa-lā] yatazawwaj ʿalayhā] or concubine (wa-lā yatasarrā).

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Tags

• halfon b. menashshe
• polygyny
• prenuptial
• slave

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Accounts in Arabic script which list monies (given in Greek/Coptic numerals) owed to (ʿinda) various people, such as Ḥayyim (حايم), Makārim, Yūsuf, Maḥāsin, Abū l-Faraj, Ibrāhīm, Mukhliṣ, Abū ʿAlī, Khalaf, Barakāt, Ḥasūn, Bū Saʿd, Hilāl, and Mūsā.

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Tags

• account

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef, the bride is Sitt al-Banīn bt. Avraham. Written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (ca. 1100–38).

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• dowry
• marriage

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Primary language

Hebrew

One poem, which rhymes on the word/syllable צאן, is headed נה אישטה לה ייפאנטה די דולור די קוראשון (something something "of the pain of the heart"). Joins: Alan Elbaum.

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

One of the parties is Abū l-Munā [b. ....] the elder al-Dimashqī. Regarding a shipment to be sent to Fustat and the division of profit.

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• halfon b. menashshe

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions: [...] and Menashshe b. Ḥananʾel known as al-Amshāṭī; and Moshe ha-Kohen known as Ibn Ghulayb; a tāj (Torah scroll?)

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Document date

5 Dhū l-Qaʿda 545 Hijrī (23 February 1151 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

Dated: 5 Dhū l-Qaʿda 545 H. Mentions total sum, "al-Jumla". Contains jottings in Hebrew script. Reminiscent of the jottings on the back of T-S AS 146.89 + T-S NS 99.56, but might be unrelated.

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Primary language

Arabic

Official correspondence. Possibly alluding to a need for financial assistance in a district.

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Primary language

Arabic

Involving Ibrāhīm b. Sulaymān al-Yahūdī. Dated: 25(?) Jumādā II 6[..] AH. The rest of the date should be legible; the words are strangely elongated.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Umm Ṣanīʿa/Ṣanīʿihi to the mother of ʿAbd al-Raḥīm. Fragmentary (upper right corner). In Judaeo-Arabic with some Hebrew, in a square book hand.

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Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

The groom's name is probably Michael and the bride [Sitt al S]ada d. Eli. AA

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Tags

• hillel b. eli
• isaac b. samuel ha-sefaradi
• ketubba

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Primary language

Arabic

Receipt issued by Karīm al-Ṭabbākh to Abū l-Ḥasan for a payment of 4 young chickens (farārīj) toward a debt on the date of Sunday, 10 Jumādā I.

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Document date

Elul 1460 Seleucid (7 August 1149–4 September 1149 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Contract between Abū l-Ḥasan al-Kohen and Abū l-Maʿālī regarding tax-farming in the town of Būsh and its environs.

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Tags

• damin
• tax

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List of donations, qa’imat al-nedava (Hebrew), recording around forty-five names and the sums of their contributions.

Tags

• charity
• communal
• donors
• poverty

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Letter from Salama b. Nissim b. Ishaq al-Barki, from Busir, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat.

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Tags

• flax

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Groom: Yosef b. Yeshuʿa b. ʿAllūn. The bride is not a virgin. Marriage payments: 3 + 6 = 9.

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Document date

Tishrei 1451 Seleucid (28 August 1139–26 September 1139 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Deed of sale of one half of a house in the al-Musasa quarter in Fustat, in which one owner sells his half to the other owner for 300 dinars to be paid in three installments.

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• bill of sale
• real estate

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal query involving Sitt al-Ḥusn and the property of an orphan. With responsa from Moshe Maimonides, Sason ha-Dayyan, and Shelomo b.

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• legal query
• responsa

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The question is whether a woman who was suspected, but not convicted, of intimate relations with a man was allowed to marry him, in particular as he was prepared to give an oath that no such relations had occurred.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

The other side: Letter in Hebrew. Consisting almost entirely of devout blessings, together with greetings to women in the family of the addressee, including his mother and sister.

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Menashshe. On parchment. Almost nothing is left. The name of some of the other signatories may be recovered.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Some contain the mystery mark (backwards ط). All are dated after the formula kutiba. ENA 3971 13–24, 31 and 34.

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• dimme
• tax
• tax receipt

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Primary language

Hebrew

Dating: Late, probably 16th century. Written by Yehuda al-Ashqar b. Yiṣḥaq b. [...], a resident of Jerusalem who, when circumstances became difficult, decided to approach the Gedolim for help, "setting my face as flint not to be ashamed."

Tags

• 16th c
• appeal

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Primary language

Arabic

The sender is awaiting an order or rescript to a petition (wa-anā muntaẓir al-tawqīʿ bi-[...]). Mentions business matters.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: 16th century. From Yosef Ibn al-Ashqar (see T-S NS 304.1 (PGPID 24958)). Mentions a tarsīm, matters of money, and someone named Ḥayyim Ḥariba/Mariba.

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Primary language

Arabic

in Arabic script. Sepiolite (zabad al-baḥr), 2.5 dirhams; rock salt (milḥ andarānī); white lead (isfīdāj); pepper (filfil); long pepper (dār filfil); sanbal/sunbul (spikenard).

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• pepper

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Inferred date

1127–1139 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yehuda and Shelomo ha-Kohen appear before the court and attest concerning the sister of Zakkay, Sitt al-Ahl. It seems that she appointed her brother as her agent for something.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef Yiju to Saʿadya b. Avraham Ibn al-Amshāṭī. Fragment. The letter is prefaced with three short decorated lines of biblical quotations.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Describing how a settlement (על דרך שלום) was achieved or should be achieved with Abū l-Maḥāsin al-Kohen. The sender urges people to settle their rivalries, because everyone is being harmed and there is no sense in quarreling.

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Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Primary language

Aramaic

Get (bill of divorce) from Fustat for Menashshe b. Shemuel and Sitt al-Fakhr bt. Yefet Tif'eret ha-Qahal. Hand of Hillel b.

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• divorce
• get

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yaʿaqov b. Shela to Yaʿīsh al-Ḥaddād (the smith). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Possibly 11th century.

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The last part of her father's name is preserved, maybe [... al-Par]nas.

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• deathbed will

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