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13801Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 146.5
Daniel, head of the Jews 1082–94) ordering 3 communal officers to pay a quarter dinar to the foster sons of al-Afḍal, using the revenue from houses donated 'for Jerusalem.'
1. דוד הנשיא [ . . .
2. ידפע מחפוט וסאלם ואבו עלי [ . . .
3. ממא תחת ידהם מן אלחאצל ללמקדס לל
4. צביאן רבאב אלסייד אלאגל אלאפצל
5. רבע דינאר
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13802LetterT-S AS 146.227
Inferred date
1205–1218 CE
Primary languages
Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic
Tuviahu) who was the muqqdam of Bilbays (1170's - 1218), including the Arabic phrase muqaddam al-yahūd Bilbays. The years of service for the sender and recipient support a dating estimate of 1205–1218 CE.
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13803LetterT-S AS 150.114
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
please let me know what arises. . . ." On verso alphabet writing exercises. (Information in part from CUDL)
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13804LetterT-S AS 153.14
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
; a poor old man (shaykh suʿlūk); Ibn al-Fakkāh. Mentions goods such as: pepper, cinnamon, brazilwood, wheat, oil, and Kirmānī indigo.
recto
1. ] פי אלמרכב
2. ] אסאל אללה יכתוב עליהום אלסלאמה וקד ק[בצ]ת יאכי
3. ] מא טאר עלי יאכי אלדי ודית דינארין ורבאעי ילזמ[נא]
4. ] פלפל רבאעי לאן כ…
verso
1. (1–2) .... תפסה אותו קנאה, ואילו אנחנו נסתפק .... אחי .... והפיקדון שהצילו אותו בשבילו, אצל בן אלפכאה, הוא כמו שהיתה ההצלה
3. (3–4) .... ; ...…
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- brazilwood
- cinnamon
- indigo
- oil
- pepper
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13805LetterT-S AS 167.195
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
There are few Shauls in Goitein's name cards, all of them from 11th- to early 12th-century North Africa.
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13806Paraliterary textT-S AS 173.50
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
This is surrounded by large Arabic script; above there is a phrase typical of letters, "yā mawlāy al-shaykh." On verso there is a different spell in Judaeo-Arabic (באב תהיג).
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13807LetterT-S AS 173.53
Document date
444 Hijrī (3 May 1052–22 April 1053 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
The sender refers to the addressee as 'my brother' and alludes to how well he has treated him. Mentions a letter from Abū Saʿīd.
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13808LetterT-S AS 176.291
Primary languages
Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Recto is an unidentified text in Arabic script, which at first glance looks like a state document, though mentions "yawm al-dīn," which sounds more like a Jewish phrase.
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13809List or tableT-S AS 183.86
Primary languages
Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals
In the first line names Abū l-Faraj al-Ṭaḥḥān. Specific items include lemon, pepper, saffron, mastic, cinnamon, sesame oil, olive oil, a burniyya vessel (spelled برنيية), chicken, linseed oil, cups (?
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13810Literary textT-S AS 184.23
Primary language
Arabic
In another source (e.g. https://al-maktaba.org/book/3610/17): الْمُجَاهِدُ مَنْ جَاهَدَ نَفْسَهُ بِنَفْسِهِ.
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13811Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 184.56
Primary languages
Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Abū l-Najm the parnas is asked to pay 5 dirhams to the bearer for something to do with Dār al-Burj. Written on the 8th of Sivan. Likely in the hand of Avraham Maimonides.
Margin:
1. בתאריך ח
2. סיון
3. ישע יקרב
Recto
1. . . . 𐋥 אמת
2. الشيخ ابي النجم الفرناس שצ
3. يوصل لموصلها //خمسة// دراهم سوه
4. برسم عن دار البرج من كل بد
5. וש…
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13812List or tableT-S AS 200.149
Document date
1005 Hijrī (25 August 1596–13 August 1597 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated along the upper edge of the verso: שואל ס׳ א/\ה, likely making use of the "V' (1000) symbol common among early modern fragments to denote the year 1005 AH (1596/97 CE).
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13813LetterT-S AS 215.344
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Petition from a woman to a group of men, presumably communal leaders: [...] wa-sādatī wa-l-ʿazīzīn ʿalayya wa-ʿindī. She says "I am perplexed (wa-anā ḥāʾira) and do not know [...]."
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13814LetterT-S G1.17
Primary language
Hebrew
A letter, almost complete, from Shelomo b. Shem Tov, who served as a proxy of the Jerusalemite community in Egypt.
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13815State documentT-S H10.166
Primary language
Arabic
Only the first few words are preserved from ~12 lines. Mentions "mawlāya al-qāḍī". The Judaeo-Arabic text on top of the state document is a mixture of love poetry and humorous anecdote.
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13816Paraliterary textT-S K5.18
(Information from Goitein's note cards) Recto: Children's writing exercise, consisting of the alphabet with the various Tiberian vowels. Verso: Inexpertly written copy of the beginning of a letter, blessing a dignitary.
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- education
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13817Paraliterary textT-S K5.33
(Information from Goitein's note cards) Leaves from a children’s Hebrew textbook. Alphabetical writing exercises on P1. Passage from Leviticus 1:5-8 with Tiberian vocalisation on P2.
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- education
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13818List or tableT-S K6.117
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Verso: a list of halakhic books in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning the Mišna, Halaḵot by Isaac al-Fāsī, Talmud (Yevamot), a halaḵic midraš on Parašat Tazriaʿ (Leviticus 12:1-13:59) and books by Hai Gaʾon and Samuel b.
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- booklist
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13819Legal documentT-S K22.27
Document date
1693 CE
Primary language
Hebrew
Only one name is preserved along the paper tear, Avraham Ḥanīn. MCD.
Verso
:Right side of bifolio 3v (Documents 23-24)
1. באופן שנשארה הן אשה הנז׳ במותבוך(?) בין ההקדש הנ׳ ובין הכה׳׳ר שלמה ובין הר׳ שמואל
2. הנז׳ בזה האופן ל…
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13820Legal query or responsumT-S Misc. 35.90 + T-S Misc.35.104 + T-S Misc.35.105 + T-S NS 310.64 + T-S NS 329.445 + T-S Misc.35.103
Primary languages
Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic
Index of Geonic responsa and their subject matter, numbered and organised by authority or questioner where known (‘questions of the people of Wādī al-Qarī to rabbenu Šerira Gaʾon’). ;Belongs with T-S Misc. 35.90, T-S Misc. 35.104, T-S Misc. 35.105, T-S NS 310.64 and T-S NS 329.445.
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13821State documentT-S Misc.9.29
Primary languages
Arabic, Hebrew
Headed with a paragraph naming ʿUthmān b. ʿAbd al-Ghanī b. Ismāʿīl and mentioning the dīwān. Likely state/tax related.
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13822State documentT-S Misc.22.252
Primary language
Arabic
One column is probably a petition and the other the rescript (identical format to T-S NS 96.66, which was edited by Khan). Mentions Saʿd al-Mulk in l. 3 of the right column. This fragment may have been turned into a book binding, based on the mottled splotches and brushstrokes on it.
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- petition
- to edit
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13823LetterT-S Misc.28.245
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Evyatar ha-Kohen and the flax of Abū l-Barakāt al-Jaʿfarī. (Information from Gil.)
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13824List or tableT-S NS 83.37
Document date
Sivan 4813 Anno Mundi (21 May 1053–19 June 1053 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Mentions names such as Abū l-Khayr b. Tammām and Yosef al-Ḥazzan. Most of the books seem to be religious in nature.
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- booklist
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13825LetterT-S NS 99.23
Document date
18 Ḥeshvan 5565 Anno Mundi (23 October 1804 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from the brothers Shelomo Cesana, Ḥayyim Cesana, and Avraham Cesana to Merkado Hayyim Avraham ha-Levi (although this looks like a single name, it may actually be 2 or 3 people).
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- cesana
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13826List or tableT-S NS 99.78 + T-S NS 99.77 + T-S NS 99.79 + T-S NS 99.80 + T-S NS 99.81
Document date
Elul 5341 Anno Mundi (31 July 1581–28 August 1581 CE)
Primary languages
Judaeo-Arabic, Ladino
One and a half pages are filled with a poem in Ladino involving a husband and wife and a knight, with refrains which are different from each other but which all end with "yo." The remaining two and a half pages are filled with accounts in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning the year 1581 (Elul 5341) and 1582 CE (Elul 5342).
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13827List or tableT-S NS 226.35
Document date
Shaʿbān 962 Hijrī (21 June 1555–19 July 1555 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
The elegant scribal hand is distinct and more cursive than many other 16th-century fragments in this genre. Old Cairo (Miṣr al-Qadīma) is referenced at least three times on the recto and verso.
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- old cairo
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13828Legal documentT-S NS 226.97
Inferred date
1100–1138 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
, "5 for Furayj who is in Malīj and 5 for Saʿīd who is in [...], and the children all release each other, and everything in the house belongs to Dāʾūd."
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13829LetterT-S NS 226.116 + T-S NS 226.114
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
It is worth noting the term [tashtarī] bi-mā qasama Alāhu wa-razaqa , literally ‘purchase for whatever price God apportions and grants as a livelihood (and send it).
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13830Legal documentT-S NS 264.35
Primary languages
Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic
The first part is in Arabic script: "What remains (owed) to al-Shaykh Abu l-Faraj...." The sum is 25 wariq dirhams.
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13831List or tableT-S NS 264.39 + T-S Ar.34.270
Document date
Jumāda I 960 Hijrī (15 April 1553–14 May 1553 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Dated in the upper left corner of folio T-S NS 264.39v and T-S Ar.34.270: Jumāda al-Awwal 960 AH (1553 CE). Mentions many names, many of them Muslim (Aḥmad, Muḥammad, etc.).
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13832Credit instrument or private receiptT-S NS 297.76
Document date
507 Hijrī (1113–1114 CE)
Primary languages
Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals
Receipt for rent of for house for a period of one year, Ramaḍān through Shaʿbān. The tenant is Manṣūr al-Dajājī (same as in Bodl. MS heb. d 68/104?).
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13833LetterT-S NS 305.61
Primary language
Arabic
Dating: Perhaps ca. 13th century. From Ibn al-Miṭrān ('son of the bishop'). Seems to be recommending the bearer (muwaṣṣilhā, l. 5) for charity or some other kind of support (isʿāf... muʿāḍada...).
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13834LetterT-S NS 306.5
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Mentions the arrival of al-Shaykh Asad on Sunday, sums of 10 and 3 dirhams, and a request of the addressee, perhaps involving the sender's wife (or just his house).
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13835LetterT-S NS 314.6a
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Dating: No later than 1038 CE, since it mentions a letter from Hayya Gaon, who is still alive. Refers to somebody who fled into 'the lands of the Turks' and then into 'the lands of the Persians.'
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13836Legal documentT-S NS 320.140
Inferred date
1100–1138 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
The name Abū Naṣr Ghazāl(?) al-Kohen may appear toward the bottom. Much of the text remains, but the content is opaque.
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13837LetterT-S NS 321.112
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Yosef, who asks the addressee to return books which he had lent to Rabbi David and which, he learned from Mūsā b. Abū l-Manṣūr al-Kohen, David had lent to the addressee. Reused on verso for piyyuṭ.
1. ] . . . . . . . . . . . [
2. בעלצון סואה כאן אלממלוך קד אעאר לר דויד החכם והנב[ון
3. כראריס פיהא פירוש ונפד לי בעצהם ובקי אלבאקי וכנת קד
4. וצית אלשיך מוסי א…
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13838Legal documentT-S NS 327.146
Primary language
Arabic
Document in Arabic script. It seems imposing alimony of 1/2 dirham per day on ʿEzra b. Menaḥem, the ex-husband of Jawhara bt.
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13839LetterT-S NS 338.74
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Mentions: receipt of the addressee's letter; news of a terrible thing (akhbār al-ʿaẓīma); something from the recipients student in his handwriting (min tilmīdhika bi-khaṭṭihi); something that will lead to corruption (fasād); an admonishment that the addressee should have written about something; greetings to Abū l-Faraj b.
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13840LetterT-S NS J207
Primary languages
Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from an unknown writer, in an unknown location, to Abū Isḥāq Ibrahīm b. Isḥāq al-Talmid, in Fustat. The letter is in Judaeo-Arabic and the address is in Arabic script.
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13841LetterT-S NS J290
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Know that if you do not close the yearly account that you owe to me, on the morning of the holiday I will send you the messengers of the house of the Ṣāḥib [al-Dīwān, the official in charge of the capitation tax]."
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- yehoshua maimonides
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13842List or tableT-S NS J400
At bottom, a line followed by 'al-shamiyyin b' no doubt meaning that this collection was made on a Monday morning in the synagogue of the Palestinians.
1. בשמך רח'
2. אלשיך אבו אלעלא ב
3. אבו אלסרור ב א]סמאעי[ל? ב
4. סלאמה ב אבו אלטייב ב
5. אלזביבי ב בן נוציר א
6. הל]וי?[ א אבו גאלב ב גאלב א
7. יוסף א סילימאן א יוסף אלפ…
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13843Legal documentYevr. II A 1308
Document date
Sunday 1st Kislev 5545 Anno Mundi (1783 CE)
Primary language
Hebrew
He should treat her well and not harm her or her relatives. She is allowed to visit her relatives after getting permission from him.
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13844Legal documentBL OR 6356.1–16
Document date
10 Adar 5443 Anno Mundi (8 March 1683 CE)
Primary language
Hebrew
The little boy's (קטן) father is still alive but he is listed as an orphan, implying that his mother (Gentil's daughter) was already deceased.
Verso
:(Documents 19-20) Folio 5v
1. להר׳ אברהם הנז׳ ולא לשותפו הר׳ יאודה הנז׳ לא לשניהם יחד ולא לשום אחר מהם לבדו על הר׳ מרדכי הנז׳ ול[א]
2. על שום א׳ מב…
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13845Legal documentBL OR 12369.10
Primary language
Hebrew
The document BL OR 12369.10 bears two witness signatures, one very stylized Yiṣḥaq Shelomo[?] al-____[?] and the other more legible: David ha-Levi Caraso. […] Due to the damage at the opening of line 13, one of the key operative words in this document is illegible– making it difficult to ascertain what specific legal action the first group of individuals is taking with reference to the second group (although "transferring" (מוסרים) is clearly visible just before the damaged word).
1. [בע]׳׳ה
2. לפ[ני]נו עדי[ם] החתומים מטה בא היקר
3. כה׳׳ר סי׳ אברהם שאש[א]נו(?) יצ׳׳ו והיקר כה׳׳ר
4. ח׳ דוד בירא יצ׳׳ו והיקר כה׳׳ר משה הכן יצ׳׳ו והודו
5. הודאה(…
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13846Legal documentBodl. MS heb. f 56/57
Document date
13 Tishrei 1496 Seleucid (20 September 1184 CE)
The date of marriage was set for the month of Elul in the following year, almost two years after the document was composed. […] Vol. 3, pp. 92. } The father of the groom vows to take care of all the bride's expenses for five years after the marriage.
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1. בחמשא בשבא דהוא תלת עשרי יומי לירח תשרי
2. שנת אלפא וארבע מאה ותשעין ושית שנין לשטרות
3. בפסטאט מצרים דעל נילוס נהרא מותבה רשותיה
4. דאדונינו גאונינו ש…
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13847LetterENA 2558.29
Document date
10 Sivan 4999 Anno Mundi (15 May 1239 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
The letter reports on a man who came from Alexandria and said that he had litigation against his wife and that he sued his wife using responsa of rabbi Yosef (?)
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13848State documentENA 4193.19
Primary language
Arabic
But if the situation changes — if a guarantor steps in to pay the debt, or the treasury (al-māl, short for bayt al-māl) steps in to seize the debtor's assets, the petitioner will inform the vizier.
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13849Legal documentF 1908.44SS
Document date
Tammuz 1453 Seleucid (26 June 1142–24 July 1142 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Three records at least: 1) Settlement of a complex marriage dispute involving Abū Yaʿqūb b. Yosef Ibn al-Dhahabī, his daughter, and her husband Abū l-Mufaḍḍal Avraham b. […] Price: 34 dinars. 2 dinars will be paid in Tishrei 1454 Seleucid = 1142 CE, and the remaining 32 dinars in monthly installments of 1 dinar. The guarantor is al-Labbān b. ʿAbdallāh. Jinān has a 2-year-old daughter named Wafāʾ, who will remain with the seller (separated from her mother).
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13850LetterIOM D 55.3
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Mentions people such as David ha-Dayyan, Bū l-Ḥasan Ibn Nufayʿ, and Mufaḍḍal Ibn al-Maqdisī. "In an eloquent letter a traveler details all he had sent: 6 irdabbs of wheat (making 36 waybas per year, or 3 per month, as so often reported up to now), 4 "gold dinars," and several smaller remittances in silver, totaling 51 dirhams; here one or two lines are lost, no doubt containing the remaining 30 or so dirhams which could make a grand total of 6 dinars, again half a dinar per month.
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