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14001LetterT-S 12.274
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
The sender warns Ḥalfon not to travel from Fez or Almeria, on account of the war in the Mediterranean.
recto
1. בשמ' רחמ'
2. קד אתקדמת כותבנא אלי חצ'רה מולאנא אלשיך אלאגל אדאם
3. אללה עזהא וסמוהא ועלאהא וארתקאיהא ורפעתהא וכבת באלדול אלמהין
4. חסדתהא ואעדאהא וכאן …
recto
1. בשמ[ך] רחמ[נא].
2. כבר נשלחו מכתבים שלנו אל הדרת אדוננו, השיך המפואר ביותר, יתמיד
3. ה' את יקרו וגדולתו ועליונותו ורוממותו ומעלתו ויכניע בהשפלה מבזה
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14002LetterT-S 12.325
Yiṣḥaq from Tripoli (Libya) to Yiṣḥaq b. Barhūn al-Tāhartī, Fustat. Around 1030. Describes imagery or exaggerated event, of an attack against the ship, which the writer was traveling, before the ship entered the port of Tripoli.
Recto
1. על שמך
2. כתאבי אכי וסידי אלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך וצאנך ווקאך וכאן לך
3. ומעך פי גמיע אמורך וליה וחאפצ'ה מן אטראבלס לי' כלון מן
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14003Legal documentT-S 13J3.22
Document date
Tuesday, 25 Av 4973 Anno Mundi (13 August 1213 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Abū l-Faraj) and wife (Maʿālī bt. Manṣūr) from al-Maḥalla appear before the court of Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 25 Av 4973 AM (=1524 Seleucid), which is August 1213 CE, under the reshut of Avraham Maimonides.
1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי דחתמות ידנא לתתא בתלתה בשבא דהוא עשרין וחמשה
2. יומין לירח אב יהפך לשמחה דשנת ארבעת אלפין ותשע מאה ושבעין ותלת שנין ליצירה
3. …
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14004Legal documentT-S 13J6.14
Primary language
Aramaic
The bride's father gave her an appartment in Acre where the couple will live, under the condition that he (the father) can stay in the appartment with them whenever he wants, alone with other family members, for a visit or for good.
1. רשותיה יתפלג בקרקע ומה
2. ומה דאתותר מן נדונייתה לתרין חלקין בשוה פולגא יזכה בו בעלה
3. ופולגא יחזור לבית אבהתה ואית הוא תניי ממון קיים והודה
4. מנצור חתנא ד…
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14005Legal documentT-S 13Ja1.2
Document date
Tuesday, 24 Tammuz 1358 Seleucid (21 July 1047 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Faraj b. Sulaymān known as Ibn al-Muqashshir was asked about the oath that he said (or: it was said) that Avraham b.
1. יקול מן כתב כטה פי הדא אלמחצר אנא סאלנא פרג בן סלימן אלמערוף
2. באבן אלמקשר ען חאל אלימין אלדי חכי אן אברהים בן בניאם אלמעלם
3. חלפהא פי מעני אלתעלים פקאל…
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14006LetterT-S 18J2.8
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Reports on the complaint of a teacher from Ṣafad who had settled in Gaza, to the effect that the local leader had incited the boys of the congregation (sibyan al-yahud) against him, a charge that the leader strongly denied.
1. . . . .]. . . והו מקבל ואמא ק[. . . .]ל אן
2. צל]טנא עליה צביאן אליהוד וחק אל
3. תו]רה אלקדושה לם צלט עליה אחד ולא
4. אדנת ולא וכלת ולא צדר מני פי חקה
5. שי מן …
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14007LetterT-S 20.71
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from Yosef b. Musa al-Tāhartī from Mahdiyya, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat.
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1. כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך מן אלמהדיה מסתהל אלול ערפך אללה
2. ברכתה ען סלאמה ונעמה למוליהמא אלחמד [ ] ו…
recto
1. אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויחמיר את שלומך ואת אושרך, ממהדייה, בא' באלול, יודיעך אלוהים
2. את ברכתו. שלומי טוב ואני מאוש…
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14008LetterT-S Ar.38.56
Primary language
Arabic
The sender instructs the addressee to give the bearer, Durmī al-Qarmaṭī (probably the same man from the legal document on recto), 10 irdabbs of wheat and not to delay its delivery under any circumstances.
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14009State documentT-S Ar.39.70
Primary language
Arabic
Might mention someone called al-Tūnisī in l. 4. Needs further examination.
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14010State documentT-S Ar.42.204
Primary language
Arabic
The individual sections begin with the word "wa-yunhī" and end with "anhā al-mamlūk dhālika" (e.g. left page of recto, line 8).
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14011Legal query or responsumT-S Ar.48.88
Her husband refuses, and her previous owner (or alleged owner) claims she was not enslaved, and that she became Jewish out of her own free will (תהודת מן דאתה).
Verso, left side (page 1)
1. פקאלת לה אלגמאעה נחן נעלם אן לם תכן ענדך אבדא
2. אלא עלי סביל אלעבודיה ואנת איצא לם תאכדהא
3. אלא לשום שפחה ואסתפאץ ענדנא וענד א…
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- responsum
- shemuel b. saadya
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14012Legal documentT-S Ar.53.66
Primary language
Arabic
Barakāt buys for his wife (name not preserved) one-half out of twenty-four shares of a house, from her brother Abū l-Faraj b. Yūsuf, in Khiṭṭat al-Rāya in the district known as Maḥbas Banāna.
1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد [لله وحده ]
2. هذا ما اشترى ابو البيان بن بركات اليهود[ي بمالها]
1. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be [to God alone.]
2. This is what Abū al-Bayān ibn Barakāt the Jew [ … ] bought [ ……
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14013List or tableT-S Ar.54.21
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Dating: ca. 1140s CE, per Goitein. Bū Naṣr al-Mūrid here is likely identical with the one mentioned in BL OR 5549.5 (PGPID 34013).
1. הבה אלמורד [
2. בו נצר אלמורד א
3. אלחלבי אלצבאג א
4. ברכאת בן אלדקלאץ א
5. מסלם אלעטאר א
6. אלשיך בו אלפכר בן אלרב א
7. בו אלפרג אלכהן אלצירפי א
8. אבו סעד בן אלדמשקי א
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14014List or tableT-S Ar.54.55
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Shevaṭ." Mentions: aṣḥāb Dār al-Qarāʾin(?); flax. Expenses are organized according to the day of the week.
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14015List or tableT-S Ar.54.88
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Written by Yeshua b. Ismail al-Makhmuri (Gil). (Information from Mediterranean Society, I, p. 111; Gil, Kingdom, vol. 3, p. 69, and Ben-Sasson, Yehudei Sitzilya, p. 337)
verso
1. אלחאצל פי אלכלטה
2. ואלכאצה ד אלאף
3. תש[ ] ואיצא כה רבאעי רבח דמנש
recto
1. אשתרא מן דלך סג נטע סרקוסה [
2. …
verso
1. (1–3) קנו מזה ס"ג עורות בסירקוזה .... סך התמורה .... כ' יחידות עופרת, המשקל: כ"ד קנטארים,
4. (10-4) התמורה, כולל הוצאות הובלה ושוחד, קק"ג ו.…
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14016Legal documentT-S AS 114.55
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Involving a man and his wife Sitt al-A[...]; her giving up her right to something (אנהא נזלת ענה); and periods of time.
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14017State documentT-S AS 133.111
Document date
1 Shawwāl 504 Hijrī (12 April 1111 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Fiscal order requesting the registration of an expenditure (?) in the Fatimid dīwān al-majlis (privy council). Written in five (?) different hands, reflecting a complex procedure.
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14018Legal documentT-S AS 145.315
Document date
8 Tammuz 5613 Anno Mundi (14 July 1853 CE)
Primary languages
Arabic, Hebrew
Both documents concern the same case, involving a harsha'a and Se. Yosef b. Yaqar aka al-Khwāja Yūsuf b. Yaqār. ASE. MCD.
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14019Legal documentT-S AS 146.415
Inferred date
1007–1055 CE
Primary languages
Aramaic, Hebrew
Involving [...] known as al-Ṣāʾigh. Signed by Yeshuʿa b. Yosef and a certain Yefet (whose signature is now lost).
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14020Legal documentT-S AS 151.188
Document date
Thursday, 28 Adar 1409 Seleucid (4 March 1098 CE)
Primary languages
Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
One or more entries in a court register from Fusṭāṭ, dated Thursday, 28 Adar [1]409 of the Seleucid Era (= 4 March 1098 CE), mentioning Abū l-Faraj al-Dimyāṭī, [...] b. Nahray, Nissim, Netanʾel b.
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14021List or tableT-S AS 152.13
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Taḥanun for 15 and a half dinars, and ‘3 rubāʿiyya received for the tax collector (ṣāhib al-kharāj)’. (Information from CUDL.)
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14022Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 153.189 + T-S AS 156.259
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
(Information in part from CUDL.) Join: Alan Elbaum. (Join found via the Dicta Genizah Search website for the MiDRASH Automatic Transcriptions https://zenodo.org/records/17734473.)
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14023LetterT-S AS 159.17
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Mentions people such as "his brother Barakāt Ibn al-Maqdisī"; ʿEli; Menashshe the cantor; and Efrayim.
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- sicily
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14024LetterT-S AS 166.22 + T-S AS 166.21 + T-S AS 166.20
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Mentioning people such as [...] b. Jaʿfar and Mubārak al-ʿAkkāwī. Mentions "the least lands of Egypt" and encourages the addressee to come "in the protection of God" (פי אמאן אללה).
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14025LetterT-S AS 167.5
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Containing tantalizing details: "his letter (arrived) with al-Nafūsī... and he mentions that he swore to him... the dinars, and he traveled by land... the journey, and I arrived in Fuwwa... they went... the qāḍī... the Christians... to the government... their price, and likewise... to the qāḍī and the wālī... what I suffered...
1. ] . . . . כתאבה מע אלנפוסי פי
2. ]ה וידכר אנה חלף לה לא
3. ] אלדנאניר וסאפר פי אלבר
4. ] אלטריק וצלת לפוה
5. ] . . . ומצאו
6. ] . . אלקאצי
7. ] . . אלנצארי
8. ] ללסלטאן …
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14026LetterT-S AS 176.187
Primary language
Arabic
Reports on something to do with ʿAbd al-Salām; that some people were delayed in the addressee's location on account of the ḥajj pilgrims; then mentions Bilbays and a period of 15 days.
Recto
1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
2. كتابي الى ست ابو العز
3. اطال الله بقاها وادام
4. عزها ونعماها ومن حسن
5. التوفيق لا اخلاها جمع
6. الله بيننا على اسر حال بمنه
7. وكرم…
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14027LetterT-S AS 177.100
Primary language
Arabic
Asks after the children (khabar al-ṣighār). Mentions sending various things, and 8 dirhams.
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14028State documentT-S AS 179.39 + T-S AS 177.217
Document date
16 Ṣafar 404 Hijrī (27 August 1013 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Written by the jahbadh Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ. Measurements: 5.3 x 8 + 6.7 x 8.1 cm.
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14029Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 179.204
Primary languages
Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic
Order of payment in Arabic script. The judge (al-dayyān) is asked to pay a sum of money to someone.
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14030List or tableT-S AS 183.43
Primary languages
Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic
The bottom entry of recto states that the balance owed to al-Ḥājj Ṭāhir is 2.5 raṭls and 1 2/3 raṭls. Verso contains a Judaeo-Arabic entry possibly concerning debts owed to Abū Yamīn (or Yumn?)
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14031LetterT-S AS 200.308
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Mentions: Moshe; a Cypriot commodity (? קוברסי); Yehuda al-Ashqar(?); "your maternal uncle Yaʿaqov ben Hini" (someone of this name appears in BL OR 5561B.20 (PGPID 19239) in 1803 CE); "the Indian khwājā"; "to the Ḥijāz"; something for Saʿadya ha-Kohen; Nissim; and cloth (jūkh).
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14032List or tableT-S AS 208.178
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
An entry on the right side of the bifolio mentions the weight of a good with the unit ʿidl, along with its corresponding price. Requires further examination.
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14033Paraliterary textT-S K5.34
(Information from Goitein's note cards) Writing exercises consisting of the Hebrew alphabet in atbaš, abag-bagad and other groupings, and biblical passages from Exodus 1:1 and Genesis 25:19-22, unvocalised.
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14034Paraliterary textT-S K6.186
Only incipits of Exodus 19:2–4 in Hebrew are included. Full text of all verses in Aramaic is included. Verso: colophon mentioning Saʿadya b.
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14035List or tableT-S Misc.8.8
Document date
Tishrei 1696 Seleucid (17 September 1384–16 October 1384 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
The main text on the pages consists of tables of names along with numbers and sometimes the notation "baṭṭāl" (unemployed).
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14036Legal documentT-S Misc.10.15
Document date
1435 Seleucid (22 September 1123–10 September 1124 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Groom: Yefet. Bride: Sitt al-Naẓar. There is an agent named Abū l-Khayr b.
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- halfon b. menashshe
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14037State documentT-S Misc.22.14
Document date
3 Dhū l-Ḥijja 403 Hijrī (15 June 1013 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Written by the jahbadh Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ. Measurements: 8.6 × 8.7 cm. The verso is blank.
Recto
1. يثبت نيابة عن ديوان الاشراف يثبت بديوان العمل
2. ان شا الله ان شا الله
3. …
Recto
1. Let it be registered in the office of accounts,
2. if God wills.
3. They have registered the amount of a sixth and an eighth.
4. Praise be to God for…
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- abu l-hasan b. wahb
- daman
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2018
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14038Legal documentT-S Misc.28.164
Inferred date
1066–1108 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Verso (original use): Remnants of three words of a state decree in enormous calligraphic Arabic script ("...ī maṣāliḥ al-musli[mīn]" (ى مصالح المسل[امين...).
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14039LetterT-S Misc.35.20
Primary language
Hebrew
Barukh of France had commended the Nasi to the local community, and that all the scholars would be there to meet the visitor.
Address (fol. 2, verso)
1. אל שער יקרת צפירת תפארת מרינו ורבנו אדונינו נשיאנו נשיא
2. גליות כל יש אביר התעודה מלך העדה רבנו יהוד הנשיא הרב על
3. כל בני מזרח …
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- 12th c
- mosul nasis
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14040LetterT-S NS 108.21 + T-S NS 108.146
Primary languages
Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Probable (indirect) join identified by Alan Elbaum.
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14041LetterT-S NS 150.127
Primary language
Arabic
The sender leads with something about his (or her) late mother (anā wa-wālidatī raḥimahā Allāh), then refers to the addressee's benefaction (ان تتفضلي كما لم تزل عوائد...).
Tags
- women's letter
- women's letters
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14042LetterT-S NS 163.48
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
"O you whose slave I am: the servant came to the house in the end, seeking you on account of the meat (al-laḥma) that is with me, since I didn't manage to make it, because it is low quality (muqāraba). . . . by God, get up and buy for me. . . from the market. . . . for seven(?)."
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14043Literary textT-S NS 213.19
Primary language
Arabic
The wise man goes to the king and tells him that the prince must travel to China (balad al-Ṣīn) in order to see if his vision was true, and if so he will marry the woman.
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14044Legal documentT-S NS 225.27
Document date
Tishrei 1440 Seleucid (28 August 1128–26 September 1128 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Among the books mentioned: אצאראת (יוצרות) ללשלישי (see Allony, the Jewish LIbrary, p. 33), and Drashot on the Torah.
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- halfon b. menashshe
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14045LetterT-S NS 225.97 + T-S NS 225.98
Primary languages
Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic
Addressed to the judge (al-dayyān) Yo[sef?]. Contains long opening greetings, a prayer that a deceased person will find mercy and that God will "make his resting place cold" (يبرد مضجعه), i.e., not Hell.
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14046LetterT-S NS 264.55
Primary languages
Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Little of the content remains apart from blessings and formulae. He reports that he already sent the tutty (zinc oxide) and that they "used them" and payed their price.
Right Margin
1. ואלצביה פכר פקד קוי ע[ז]מהא באנך קריב מנהא
2. פאלוציה בהא(?) ואחסן תלקאהא ואכר מתואהא
Recto
1. כי ייי יהיה בכסליך ושמר רגלך וג׳
2. נחמו נחמ…
Tags
- moshe b. levi
- yedutun ha-levi
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2020
PGPID
24572
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14047LetterT-S NS 322.145 + T-S NS 322.142
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
A mirror imprint of another text, probably a piyyut, is visible between the lines. Join: Alan Elbaum.
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2019
PGPID
25582
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14048Legal documentT-S NS 325.23
Document date
Ṭevet 5359 Anno Mundi (29 December 1598–26 January 1599 CE)
Primary language
Hebrew
Mentions a שילבש (= Çelebi?) and an amīr and maybe al-Buḥayra.
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1
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2026
PGPID
41821
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14049Legal documentT-S NS 325.102
Inferred date
1146–1247 CE
Primary language
Aramaic
The husband's name is missing, and the wife's name is Sitt al-[...]. On verso there is a note listing "Malīḥa bt.
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1
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2023
PGPID
37632
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14050Legal documentT-S NS J113 + T-S AS 153.4 + Moss. VII,85.1 + T-S 6J8.11 + T-S AS 142.250 + Moss. VII,85.2
Document date
1456 Seleucid (1144–1145 CE)
Primary languages
Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Involves: Abū l-Barakāt; a small house (duwayra) in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ in Fustat; Abū l-Makārim. (Information in part from CUDL.)
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2
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1
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2018
PGPID
26314
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