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5 Ṣafar 570 Hijrī (5 September 1174 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

All or almost all begin with a name, then specify the rent for specific properties, often followed by "al-murājaʿ ʿan {another name}."

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• dimme

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Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

II.Twelve parties (of whom at least six are repeated from list I) getting sums, mostly of 2.5 or 5 (dirhams). III. Names without any explanation added, some identical with those in the list T-S NS J440. […] The overlinings may mean these persons have now received, which would explain the fact that mostly it is the same names above and below that are overlined. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, pp. 462–63, App.

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• charity
• communal
• list
• poverty
• recipients
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1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender places an order for 12 irdabbs of wheat as well as different types of wine products (nabīdh, khamr, muwallad). The sender may have been a physician and/or a person of some importance. He alludes in vague terms to various dealing with the Rayyis ("you may speak to the Rayyis in my name"). He also admonishes, "Your mother should not fast (as an expression of mourning for the dead), for this will impair her health."

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• fasting
• wheat
• wine

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Document date

Dhū l-Qaʿda 530 Hijrī (August 1136 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Bunān, contribute 400 and 100 dinars respectively; the name of the fourth partner and the amount of his contribution is not preserved. […] Yeshuʿa is also the party under whose name the wine-producing enterprise has been registered with the tax-collecting authorities.

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• 12th c
• partnership

3 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

As for the power of attorney appointing Ibn al-Ḥulaybī as an agent, the sender is involved in a legal dispute with him before Sayyidnā al-Nasi. This agent states that he owes a group of children only the proceeds of a container of cassia fistula (khiyār shanbar) and that he paid it to ʿImrān when he was in Egypt.

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• eli b. ezekiel
• eli b. hayyim
• jerusalem

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Inferred date

1168–1204 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Y[...], probably in Yemen, to a judge (who had a son named Netanel), probably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. […] Goitein suggests convincingly that this letter was sent from Yemen, on the basis of the style, the script, the names, and the fact that two copies were sent. (Information in part from Goitein's index card.)

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• maimonides
• yemen

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Document date

Kislev 1411 Seleucid (November 1099–December 1099 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Record detailing the action of a court in Fustat in preparing a claim to an estate in Aleppo, made by a man name Sālimو residing in Fustat. The man’s uncle was from Aleppo and died in Akko; having never been married, his heirs included two brothers and this nephew from a deceased third brother. […] Signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemu'el, Shelomo b. Natan ha-Haver, and Yeshu'a b. Yakhin.

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Wednesday 11 Kislev 1362 Seleucid (28 November 1050 CE)

Court record, in which Naḥum b. Avraham b. Neḥemya declares that he possesses nine qiraṭs of a house in Fusṭāṭ in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ (the other owners are Zūrʿa b. […] Jābir al-Levi, wife of Abū Yiṣḥaq b. … b. Neḥemya). Naḥum agrees that he will not sell his share of the house to the apothecary Yosef al-Kohen.

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Document date

603 Hijrī (8 August 1206–27 July 1207 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Coptic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Arabic script with names and numbers arranged in neat columns. Needs examination. […] At the very bottom, in Arabic script: al-ḥurūf al-nāṭiqa sabʿa ("the 'speaking letters' are 7"), which is followed by 7 letters that appear to be Coptic.

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• arabic script
• coptic
• jafr
• magic

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Document date

21 Ramaḍān 405 Hijrī (15 March 1015 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Payment made under the supervision of three officials: (1) under the supervision of the auspicious, rightly guided qāḍī Thiqat al-Mulk Makīn al-Dawla wa-Amīnuhā, protégé of the Commander of the Faithful, Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Nahār; (2) on behalf of the fiduciary qāḍī Abū ʿAlī l-Ḥasan b. Yaḥyā b. Nahār; and (3) under the tax accounting of the elder Sadīd al-Dawla Abū l-Faraj ʿAbd al-Masīḥ b.

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• fatimid

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Primary language

Arabic

Isḥāq, the doctor. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. (The slave) kisses the ground and reports that he is a trained and able practitioner in the profession of medicine. […] (See also Goitein's Nachlass, IE.1.4: included on a list of Med Ppl documents.)

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• arabic script
• bimaristan
• khan
• makarim b. ishaq
• mediterranean people
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Document date

2 Shevaṭ 14[..] Seleucid (16 January 1089–3 January 1188 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The protagonists are Abū l-Fakhr and Abū Saʿd b. Naḥman. The witnesses state that somebody was coerced to pay a sum of money due to fear alone, and it was not a gift or charity. […] On verso there is a very interesting first-person narrative in Arabic script probably summarizing the same case from the standpoint of one of the parties. "[...] my three brothers and their three wives prosecuted me with this at the time of my father's death, God's mercy be upon him, without any right (ḥaqq) or will (waṣiyya), and they took it from me [...] with slander and calumny, even though [my father] (God have mercy upon him) already paid them, and their [purpose?]

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Several groups of people belonging to the same profession appear together, such as four mustaʿmals, persons employed in a government workshop (all in the Bazaar of the Threads), three labbāns or dairymen, three sabbāks or metal casters employed in the mint, or three money-assayers. At least five names of a very specific character, such as Durrī the ghulām of the Nagid (see Med Soc I, 133) or Manṣūr of the family of the scarf makers (maqāniʿī) are identical with those in T-S K6.149, and at least eight recur in T-S K15.6.

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• ghulam

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Document date

Nisan 1348 Seleucid (20 March 1037–18 April 1037 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Verso: Two distinct text blocks in Arabic script. (1) The names of the months of the Coptic calendar. (2) Accounts, recording credits and debits and mentioning a paternal aunt and her son. Gil understands these as the private accounts of one of Nehemya’s sons, mentioning the name of two sons, Yoshiyyahu and Avraham. List of monthly rental payments, for one third of Sahlān’s house that was probably inherited to the writer.

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• communal

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a draft letter in the name of the community of Fustat regarding the imposition of an excommunication a certain Avraham, ca. 1035.

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• communal
• excommunication

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document in Hebrew. Very faded. A woman named ʿAzīza makes a declaration. "My husband Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen" is mentioned three lines from the bottom.

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• filing note

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Document date

Middle ten days of Tishrei 1458 Seleucid (September 1146 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Court record containing a complete list of items of a trousseau (without prices) returned to Sitt al-Hasab on the order of the Nagid. Dated Tishri 1458/ September 1146. Signed by Ḥiyyā b.

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• 12th c
• register

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter addressed to Avraham b. Natan Av Beit Din. In Hebrew. The first 28 lines of the introduction are preserved.

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Document date

[15]48 Seleucid (2 September 1236–20 September 1237 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated [15]48 Seleucid = 1236/37 CE, under the authority of the Nagid (Avraham Maimonides). Mentions the judge Yeḥiel.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Petition appealing for help from Shemuel ha-Nagid (1140–59). A woman asks him for help paying the capitation tax for her husband, who is in detention (muʿtaqal) for non-payment of the capitation tax, and the family has no food.

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• communal
• petition

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A list of clothes and household utensils returned by a divorced woman to her ex-husband, Naḥman, after she had taken them to the house of her brother, Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa al-Bazzāz.

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). No names preserved. Release from legal obligations in a business relationship involving a store in which one party was present during the absence of the owner.

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Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

In the hand of Avraham b. Natan Av (cf. T-S 8J12.1). Probably related to ENA NS 3.3, a replacement ketubba for Malīḥā bt.

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Document date

1150–1181 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Seems to be in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Only a few words (conveying greetings) have survived.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Addressed to the Jewish community of Jabal Wānsharīs (גמאעה אלגבל ואנשריס, i.e., Ouarsenis in present-day Algeria). The sender's name includes David in it. Very little of the content of the letter is preserved, beyond the opening greetings and blessings.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Notes about business or debts. Names Khallūf b. Yaʿaqov; then the agent (wakīl) Isḥāq b.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from the office of a Nagid of the Maimonides family. Dating: 13th–15th century.

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Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal fragment involving a certain Avraham, a woman named Sutayt, and 50 dirhams. Dating: first part of the 13th century.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shimʿon; arriving "in these parts"; meeting with the Nagid or somebody close to him.

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