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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

The writer reports on his meeting with the prospective groom of the addressee's daughter, in which they reached an agreement that the man would go to Bilbays and betroth (yuqaddis ʿalā) the woman (al-ṣughayyira) there and maintain her until Shavuʿot (al-ʿAnṣara), at which time the wedding will take place (yadkhulu baytahu). […] He exhorts the addressee to be diligent in all this so that her daughter will obtain her livelihood/support. […] The writer mentions the army or army camp (al-ʿaskar) in connection with his own affairs. The letter is very faded in some places; this reading is provisional.

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• arabic script
• army
• betrothal
• bilbays
• qiddushin

1 Transcription

Primary language

Hebrew

The first five lines are very faded. Legible phrases include חסידיו קהל . . . הקהל הקדוש . . . […] Yeshaʿya ha-Ḥazzan. In ʿAyn al-Zaytūn, near Safed: Sason b. Elʿazar ha-Ḥazzan; Elʿazar b. […] Saʿadya ha-Ḥazzan. In al-ʿAlawiyya (the identity of this location is unknown), near Gush Ḥalav: Shelomo b.

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• communal

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Report from a man called only "al-nāʾib" (the deputy), in Malīj, to the Nagid Shemuel b. […] Abū l-Khayr, a man from Malīj who had been robbed by bandits on his way to Cairo, in between a town called Dijwa (likely present-day دجوي just south of Banha) and a town called Kharāb Fazāra (present-day al-ʿAmmār al-Kubrā). But he managed to conceal some of his possessions from the bandits. […] The nāʾib has acknowledged that he received Ṣāliḥ in his town, in the majlis of the deputy of the Ṣāḥib al-Ḥarb of al-Sharqiyya province. The report ends after a few more faded lines, with a version of a raʾy clause; evidently the Nagid Shemuel is expected to intervene and achieve some kind of justice for the heirs.

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Fragment of a ketubba (marriage contract). Bride: Fādila bt. Sahl. Little else is preserved, except for part of the dowry list.

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Large piece but very damaged and faded.

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Calendar for the year 1430/31 CE, written in an interesting ink that has faded to pale silver; the page now looks blank at a glance, but much of the text is legible.

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• 15th c

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document, probably. Faded/damaged. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions sums of money, the paternal uncle of a wife, Abū l-Bahā' (or Abū l-Baqā'), and a teacher.

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Primary language

Ladino

Probably medieval. Only one line, very faded, is preserved. Fragment 2: Business letter, fragment.

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• ladino
• trade

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Primary language

Hebrew

Part of the shemaʿ has been written between the lines in faded ink and a different hand. (Information from CUDL)

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• ketubba
• marriage

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Primary language

Arabic

Mentions names such as Abū Naṣr and Abū l-Faḍāʾil and items such as ʿajwa (dried dates) and two vessels for wine (טמאויתין).

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Arabic love poetry transcribed into Judaeo-Arabic. Verso: One very faded line in Arabic, then in Hebrew characters, "Abu Sa'id b.

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• arabic poetry

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter concerning business (very faded) in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions "after Shabbat" and sending something with Yeshuʿa.

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• business

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Very faded list of books, e.g., a commentary on (Bava) Batra.

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• fgp stub

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts of expenditures and income, mentioning dancers, and names such as Abū l-Faḍl, Abū l-ʿAzz and Elijah, with Hebrew, Coptic (?)

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• account
• coptic numerals

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Primary language

Hebrew

Legal document(s) in Hebrew. Late. Very faded, but the remnant of Anno Mundi year is visible on the verso: 53..

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document. Extremely faded. Fragmentary (upper left corner). Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic.

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Primary language

Hebrew

Very faded letter from Hillel he-Ḥaver b. Avraham(?).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe to Abū [...]a b. Faḍl. Fragment (upper right corner of recto). None of the content of the message is preserved.

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Very faded. Probably acknowledging a debt. (Information in part from CUDL)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe ha-Levi probably to one of his brothers. Recto is too faded to read. Part of the address is preserved on verso.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Top of a legal document from Fustat. Very faded/damaged. Two parties are mentioned. On verso there is mirror image Arabic text (imprint from another fragment).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe to one of his brothers. In Judaeo-Arabic. Faded and damaged. Large fragment (right side of recto).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. Perhaps a letter of gratitude; the sender is very deferential.

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Hebrew

Hand of Shelomo b. Yehuda? Very faded. Needs further examination.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Very faded and fragmentary beginning of a legal document written on parchment under the reshut of Shemuel b.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Detailed letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Simḥa Naysābūrī, Alexandria, to Abū l-ʿAlā Sā'id (i.e. ʿŪllā) b. Yosef ha-Levi the Trustee of the rabbinical court of Fustat in Fustat. […] One of the Jewish travellers, Abū l-Faḍl b. Abū l-Yumn al-Dimashqī, known to the addressee from a previous visit to Fustat, perished. […] Main merchandise: silk and other textiles, corals, but also wax and millstones. Information from Goitein's attached notes.

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• commodities
• coral
• millstones
• nisaburi
• prices
• (+ 3 more)

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary language

Arabic

Recto: One line in a relatively small and faded chancery hand interspersed with Hebrew text.

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• dimme

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Primary language

Hebrew

The year is given in the final line but is very faded.

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• late heb

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso (original use): Very faded document in Arabic script. Recto (secondary use): Small fragment of a deferential letter in Judaeo-Arabic to Abū l-F[araj?]

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• arabic script

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Likely a distinct document, mentioning Abū l-Faḍl.

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Primary language

Arabic

In Arabic script. Very faded. Apparently asking him to "send another five" (dirhams?)

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Primary language

Arabic

Two big fragmentary lines with faded text. The first line begins as "يذكر السيد المذكور".

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• dimme

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Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: illegibly rubbed, faded and stained Arabic and jottings in Hebrew script.

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Primary language

Hebrew

Verso: Remnant of several faded lines of Arabic. ASE.

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Document date

1554 Seleucid (28 August 1242–16 September 1243 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: 1554 Seleucid = 1242/43 CE. Involves Faḍlallāh known as Shela b. Berakhot. AA.

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Document date

947 Hijrī (8 May 1540–26 April 1541 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

End of a letter/petition (wa-l-masʾūl min tafaḍḍulika.... min faḍlika wa-iḥṣānika...). In Arabic script. Dated: 947 AH, which is 1540/41 CE.

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Primary language

Arabic

4 lines preserved. Very faded. Reused on recto for prayers for ʿAravit and Minḥa with Judaeo-Arabic heading.

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Document date

440 Hijrī (16 June 1048–4 June 1049 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Verso: Fiscal document. Very faded. Dated: 440 AH? A sum of money is specified in the middle section.

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Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Opening of a faded letter written (and signed) by Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE), addressed to the the Great Dayyan [...] b.

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• avraham
• maimonides

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions 'the ruqʿa with Yaʿaqov'; a man with the unusual name שלימון (a version of Sulaymān?); Hiba; and Mūsā. Faded. Needs further examination.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: Likely Mamluk-era, based on paleography. Quite faded. Mentions wheat repeatedly. Needs examination.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Extremely faded. Mentions legal opponents (khuṣūm). Needs examination, ideally with multispectral imaging.

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• halfon-addenda
• ib-addenda
• ib4

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Primary language

Hebrew

The word "Egypt" or "Fustat" (Miṣrayim) appears in the address on verso. Too faded to read. Mentions a certain Shemuel three lines from the bottom.

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Primary language

Arabic

In Arabic script. On parchment. Two faded lines are preserved. A row of minute holes at the bottom where the parchment may have once been sewn.

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• sewn documents

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Primary language

Aramaic

Minute fragment, very faded, from the top of a legal deed dated according to the Creation, but no date is preserved.

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Primary language

Arabic

Two lines in huge script with wide spaces between the lines; faded and difficult to decipher. Reused for a text in Judaeo-Arabic that is datable to the 1090s or early 1100s.

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• arabic script
• fatimid decree

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

One side has many lines of Judaeo-Arabic, very faded. The other side has two columns of numbers in Hebrew script, perhaps calendrical jottings or accounts.

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