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Judaeo-Arabic

There are 4 lines of standard introductory material, then 3 lines of the sender's annoyance that the addressee hasn't been responding to his letters (innanī ʿatbān ʿalayk). Mentions "this difficult time." This is reminiscent of Shelomo b.

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Seller: Moshe b. Mevasser. Buyer: al-Rayyis Abū Naṣr. Sold: a woman named Rabāb together with her son Ṣāfī.

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• halfon b. menashshe
• slave

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Letter from Barhun b. Salah al-Tāhartī, from Mahdiyya to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat.

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• flax
• trade

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Document date

5th Shevat 1456 Seleucid (1 January 1145 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

David, known as Ibn Sulimān, to his wife Sitt al-Naẓar bnt. Moshe. Fusṭāṭ, Monday 5th of Shevat 1456 Sel. (1.1.1145).

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Primary language

Arabic

Bū l-Waḥsh should be exempted from paying taxes (or from standing surety on the tax-farm?) on a shop (ḍamān al-ḥānūt) and that he requires no further documentation of his exemption.

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• damin
• decree
• dimme
• handbook

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions his shop; an inability to pay something; someone who received letters; someone who has many worries; "fulān b. fulān" and Abū ʿAlī.

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• halfon b. menashshe
• yefet b. menashshe

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso seems to be in a different hand. Mentions "for al-Mesos" (ללמשוש); Abū Isḥāq; prices of garments (thawb); Abū l-Ḥasan b.

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Primary language

Ladino

Letter in Ladino from the merchant Avraham Mayo to his father, probably from Alexandria to Fustat/Cairo, dealing with numerous business transactions and the arrival of a Venetian ship. […] Just so, you and Khuḍayyir should be like brothers. Always help him." Avraham then mentions five sacks of raisins. […] מירסה) and asks his father to write quickly [if he wants any], because mersa is in high demand. He also purchased some more raisins, and five qintals of cheese (?

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• 16th c
• ben hini
• epidemic
• epidemic: magefa
• ladino
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2 Transcriptions

Fragment of a marriage contract of the groom Elʿazar and the bride Sitt al-Dar, in which the bride undertakes to bring up the groom's children.

Tags

• ketubba
• marriage

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Shelomo ha-Levi. Bride: Sitt al-Kuttāb. No dowry. The document was subsequently covered with jottings in Arabic script.

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Document date

423 Kharājī

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions an amīr with the laqab Nabīh al-Dawla (though this title appears to be unattested in literary sources).

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• dimme
• fiscal
• kharaji

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Avraham to Abū Ibrāhīm Ismāʿīl b. Yaʿaqov al-Andalusī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning that the sender sent textiles marked with his name, and asking Ismāʿīl to buy sandals and a scarf for the writer's son.

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• 11th c
• trade

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Primary language

Hebrew

This is followed by another memorial list (Dukran Tav) for Avraham Aluf ha-Yeshiva and his two sons Sahlān and Neḥemya.

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• drawing

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Letter, fragmentary, from Ismāʿīl b. Barhūn ha-Tāhartī, al-Mahdiyya, to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. ʿAwkal, Fustat.

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• al-tahirti
• charity
• communal
• donors
• poverty
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Primary language

Hebrew

There are several ketubahs of the same layout, all from the beginning of the 12th century (e.g T-S 16.52; T-S 16.224, most of them by the hand of Halfon b.

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• ketubba
• marriage

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Late list of commodities, with one entry instead listing the name: Ibrahīm al-Fīlālī. The dating is likely 16th or 17th-century based on the paleography.

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• 16th or 17th c
• list
• silk

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Primary language

Arabic

Mentions a sijill and a reunion with someone on the next day (al-ijtimāʿ maʿhu fī ghad). The format and scribal hand resemble T-S AS 188.63 (PGPID 40009).

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• cmp
• dimme

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The recto includes a reference to the Lekh Lekha parsha reading, perhaps as part of a broader dated entry heading. The name Farajallah al-Qudsī appears on the verso among other less legible entries.

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Primary language

Hebrew

Goods mentioned include: alkali (הקלי) in line 6, and coral in line 8. The writer mentions his trip to Friuli (NE Italy) in line 9.

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• alkali
• coral
• friuli
• late heb
• perahim

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Primary language

Arabic

Some ingredients mentioned are pear (ijjāṣ), jujube (ʿunnāb), almond oil, seeds of chicory (bizr hindabāʾ), Egyptian Cuscuta epithymum (aftīmūn Miṣrī), Syrian Borage (lisān thawr Shāmī), white sugar, rose water, ambergris (ʿanbar) and basil (rayḥān).

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• dimme
• ib-addenda
• medical

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The elders of the community orchestrate a settlement concerning the companies of grave diggers (aḥzāb al-ḥaffārīn). One is led by Wusayd b. ʿUqayb ("little lion son of little eagle”).

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Primary language

Hebrew

Letter in Hebrew and Aramaic addressed to someone with the title Rosh Yeshiva (Aramaic: ריש מתיבתא), whose full name is missing along the paper tear. Late. Mentions Elʿazar Castro, Ḥabīb Ben-Lḥmīt(?)

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• late heb
• yeshiva

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Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Moshe (אמי ב. משה) in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ. AA. ASE. Join: Moshe Yagur.

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• waqf

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Document date

middle decade of Nisan 1424 Seleucid (30 March 1113–8 April 1113 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Settlement between a husband and his wife, Sitt al-Kull. written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender vigorously rebukes his son for his poor decisions and lack of "manliness" (muruwwa). Mentions al-Thiqa and the sulṭān. Bears some resemblances to the letters of Manṣūr b.

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Fragment of a legal document mentioning Abū l-Khayr Shelomo b. [Saʿadya] al-Ṣūrī and ʿIzrūn. Possibly documenting the settlement of a dispute.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In the section of text on the left side of the recto, Mensahe Aliyon (in Rashīd) and Yaʿaqov Raṣon are mentioned.

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• 18th or 19th c
• late ja
• masis

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Document date

1 Elul 5323 Anno Mundi (20 August 1563 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Deed on mint partnership from 1563, in Cairo, between Yitsḥak d’Molina and Shlomo al-Faranji. Wednesday, Elul 1 5323 AM. Published אברהם דוד, 'יהודים במנהלי בית המטבע במצרים במאה השש-עשרה', בין הסטוריה לספרות: ספר יובל ליצחק ברזילי, תשנ"ז, עמ' קו-קז.

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• legal

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shelomo asks him to help him out with the payment of the capitation tax, as he had been ill and had to spend all the money he could save from school fees paid to him on medicine and chicken.

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• capitation tax
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: cost
• illness: treatment
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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

bought "the rest of Plato's Laws (nāmūsiyya)." A cane seller (bayyāʿ al-qaṣab) is mentioned. The writer's business is not immediately clear; needs further examination.

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• late ja
• plato

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Primary language

Arabic

The sender reports that the saffron arrived along with المداد(?) and الصىحة (?). He sends greetings for the holiday.

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• to examine

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List in Arabic that offers an inventory and other information for a variety of food and household items such as beans, honey, watermelon, sugar, charcoal, almonds, and many other commodities. The inventory structure is very orderly and systematized according to days of the week.

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• 18th or 19th c
• arabic script

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The figures are epressed alphanumerically throughout the entries and the palegraphy suggests that this fragment may be 17th/18th-century.

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• 17th or 18th c
• aga

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Inferred date

1700–1900 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Some of the account entries mention names, such as: Abdaraḥman al-Maghribī and Raḥamīm Gershon. MCD.

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• 18th or 19th c
• numismatic dating

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Document date

19 Ṣ[afar] 1243 Hijrī (11 September 1827 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Ladino

Concerning the cultivation of cotton and berries (ashjār al-tūt) in the lands of the valley (arāḍī l-wādī).

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Document date

Rajab 1238 Hijrī (14 March 1823–12 April 1823 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The main heading at the top of the recto mentions: المعلم يعقوب صيرفي خزينة المبيع ثغر دمياط (al-Muʿallam Yaʿqūb ṣayrafī accountant/moneychanger, treasury of sales, port of Damietta).

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• dimme

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Primary language

Hebrew

The responsum corresponds to #355 in Blau's edition ("I am very troubled by various matters, and my body is weak, and I have no ability to even read the letters, let alone respond to them..."). Another copy of the same responsum may be found in ENA 2743.3.

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• maimonides
• responsum

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He previously sent something with Yūsuf b. al-[...] and 1 1/2 raṭls of sugar(?) with Baqāʾ(?).

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Document date

Nisan 1455 Seleucid (7 March 1144–5 April 1144 CE)

The banker’s name is Abū l-Faraj al-Kohen and Abū Zikrī writes וכתב before his signature, which is atypical.

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• cheque
• ib5
• india book
• order of payment

1 Transcription

Primary language

Hebrew

He asks the addressee to join with Yiṣḥaq al-Ashqar and raise some money on his behalf. Dating: mid-16th century.)

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• 16th c
• al-ashqar
• prison

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Primary language

Arabic

Addressed to a certain Shihāb al-Dīn. Possibly from Abū l-Munā b. Khiḍr, but this is tricky to read.

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• dimme

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Document date

452 Hijrī (6 February 1060–25 January 1061 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Verso: State document, in Arabic script. Almost three lines preserved. Probably a report. Mentions land tax "kharāj zarʿ".

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• dimme

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Verso: quotation from a Hebrew poem by Shemuel ha-Nagid ibn Naghrela of Granada (d.1056), apparently quoted from memory and somewhat altered. See Jarden, Diwan Shemuʾel hanagid p. 33 (poem no. 7, lines 38ff) or Schirmann, Hashira ha-'ivrit 1:111.

1 Transcription

Primary language

Hebrew

She releases her husband from responsibility for her dowry because her father had already seized it. (Information from CUDL and Goitein's index card.)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A certain individual promises to make a payment of 298 dinars for precious items of textile merchandise (aʿlāq) which he had received in Damascus. He will pay off the debt in a single payment as soon as the seller/creditor arrives in Fustat.

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