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(Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, p. 30 and Allony, Frenkel, The Jewish Library in the Middle Ages, p. 312.)

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• 12th c
• copy
• saadya

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Document date

1457-06-12 Seleucid (26 February 1146 CE)

The divorce is between Yoshiyya b. Dawūd and Sitt al-Yumn bt. Saʿadya. The witnesses are Zakkāy b.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Greetings to Bū l-Bishr and Abū ʿAlī and Baarakāt. (Information in part from Goitein's index card.)

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• personal

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Court record dealing with a disagreement about a delayed dowry payment to the divorced wife of al-Qaysarani. Ten dinars were supposed to be paid in monthly installments of 2/3 dinar, but only 3.5 dinars had been paid over the last 25 months.

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• register

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Inferred date

1105–1105 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Rescript of the judges of the court appointed by the Nagid Mevorakh to the community of al-Mahalla, advising the community in strongest terms to take back their judge who had left.

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• 12th c
• communal
• rescript

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Inferred date

1094–1097 CE

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Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Power of attorney to Perahya ha-Kohen to travel to India and sue Abū l-Faraj Nissim b. al-Raqqī for the recovery of goods--primarily textiles--entrusted to said Nissim.

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• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib2
• india book
• power of attorney

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter noting that the Rayyis, or ‘head’, is referred to by his nickname “The Tail” in letters going to “all countries East and West.” A note on the right margin mentions Wuhsha’s will and its provision that 25 dinars should be paid to the cave, meaning the Jerusalem synagogue.

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• wuhsha

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Document date

28 Sivan 142[.] Seleucid (29 May 1109–20 June 1118 CE)

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Aramaic

(Information in part from CUDL.) Join: Alan Elbaum. AA

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• dowry list
• ketubba

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Inventory (thabt al-ḥawāʾij). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE).

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Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The other signatures are not preserved. The parties Abu al-Muna, and Tamim ha-Parnas. This Tamim is known from other document relating to the pious foundations: TS 8J11.7d (from 1182, published Gil, Pious foundations, no. 82) and TS 8J11.7a-b (Gil, ibid. no. 88).

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• fgp stub
• mevorakh b. natan

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4 Adar II 4845 Anno Mundi (3 March 1085 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

He attests having gotten his money back from those in charge of the compound known as Dar al-maqadisa in Fustat, dedicated to the poor of Jerusalem.

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• 11th c
• charity
• communal
• hawala
• rabbanite

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Judaeo-Arabic

The writer further notes that “By chance I befriended a man from Damascus who introduced me to the family of Sayf al-Islam. I entered their house and treated them, whereupon they fixed for me a payment of one dinar every month.”

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• physician

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Nissim, the muqaddam of al-Maḥalla, and centered on issues relating to a marriage ceremony and the public evaluation of a dowry.

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• al-mahalla
• dowry
• illness
• illness: excuse
• marriage
• (+ 1 more)

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

There is a mention of Yehuda ha-Nasi in the penultimate line of recto, apparently the name of the sender (al-khādim Yehuda ha-Nasi). (Information in part from CUDL)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter sent by a son to his father in a silk shop in Minyat al-Qa'id. He inquires about the eye disease of the addressee and advises him to not remain in the premises occupied by the family.

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• ibn habib's patient
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: eye

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Judaeo-Arabic

(Information from Gil, Palestine). VMR. Although Daniʾel b. ʿAzarya is writing in Judaeo-Arabic, he writes the sliding blessings and some numbers in Arabic script, similarly to his fellow Iraqi Shemuʾel b.

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• bialphabetic
• suftaja
• trade

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Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef ha-Kohen he-Ḥaver to a public role, or at least a letter concerning his learnedness and humility and his suitability for a public role, alluding to a rivalry with another person. The handwriting is apparently that of Yeshuʿa himself, though it refers to him in the third person.

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• communal

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Document date

Elul 1525 Seleucid (8 August 1214–5 September 1214 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shelomo the physician (ha-Rofeʾ) known as Ibn al-Ṭaffāl. Marriage payments 10 + 25. (Information in part from CUDL)

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• clothing

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Involves the banker Abū Isḥāq Ibn Sunaynāt, Abū l-ʿAlā, and Abū Manṣūr. The portion in Judaeo-Arabic deals in part with the purchase of a riding animal.

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• to edit

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Aramaic, Hebrew

Aharon. The asterisked names all appear in documents from the first half of the 11th century.

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Judaeo-Arabic

The scribe often spells Allah in Arabic script. The formulae on T-S Ar.29.69 address "the ʿifrīt. . . the jinn and the shayāṭīn. . . ."

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• jinn

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Judaeo-Arabic

The first step is to soak it in citron vinegar for a week; a subsequent step is to insert it into a fish's belly and cook the fish; a further step is to feed it to a chicken and observe the chicken until it defecates the pearl; finally you bake it in an oven. If after all this the pearl is still clear without any turbidness, you will know that it is of the highest quality (aḥsan mā yakūn).

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Document date

25 Rabīʿ II 630 Hijrī (8 February 1233 CE)

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Arabic

Abū l-Thanāʾ b. Abū Saʿīd al-Naṣrānī. The payment documented is for 22 wariq dirhams (much too low to be the price of the enslaved woman, so most likely the tax).

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• glyph
• receipt
• slaves
• tax

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Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Bifolio of business accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, listing several names and itemized expenses or revenues, including ḍiyāʿ al-maṭbakh and ḍiyāʿ. On two of the four pages, there are anecdotes, jokes, and pieces of wisdom, making this a sort of commonplace book.

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• humor

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Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Each column is this merchant's accounts with one other merchant, e.g., Murajjā b. [...], Ṭāhir the Jew, Dāʾūd, and Maʿānī al-Ṣayrafī. (Information in part from FGP.)

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20 Shaʿbān 441 Hijrī (17 January 1050 CE)

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Arabic

Dated (ll. 4–5): 20 Shaʿbān 441 AH = 17 January 1050 CE.The muqirr is the sharīf Abū l-Ḥasan b. Aḥmad b. al-Ḥasan b. Aḥmad. A large portion is preserved: 22 full lines from the top of the document, with the bottom of the document missing.

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Sunday, 16 Heshvan 1456 Seleucid (15 October 1144 CE)

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Aramaic

Dated: Sunday, 16 Heshvan 1456 Seleucid = 15 October 1144 CE. Location: al-Maḥalla. Husband: Yeshuʿa b. Merayot (a man of the same rare name appears as a witness in T-S 8J12.2).

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• get

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Inferred date

1310–1355 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Official letter headed by the ʿalāma (motto) of the Nagid Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides (b. 1310–d. 1355) and written in the typical hand of his clerk (compare Moss.

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• yehoshua maimonides

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Arabic

In the right margin is the Arabic alphabet. On verso there is a calendrical work in Hebrew (hand resembling Avraham Ibn Yiju?).

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• illness letter 969-1517

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Document date

Kislev 152[.] Seleucid (1208–1217 CE)

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Naming various houses (Dār Sitt [...], Dār al-Zayt...). Fragments of at least five signatures are preserved: [...] b.

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Hebrew

Verso: Official letter/order from the office of one of the later Maimonidean Nagids, with motto/ʿalāma at the top. Similarly concerns the releasing a vow between Yiṣḥaq and Ṣedaqa b.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Directive concerning a legal case in Judaeo-Arabic. "The elder Abū l-ʿAlāʾ must come, and if he is tardy, he will owe 10 (dinars?)...

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• dimme

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Judaeo-Arabic

Appears to be a chronicle or literary narrative about a caliph and someone named ʿAbd al-Ṣamad. Parts of ~10 lines are preserved on each of recto and verso.

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Judaeo-Arabic

On verso there appears to be a line of accounting in Arabic script: "the cantor (al-ḥazzān): 7 dirhams." (Information in part from CUDL)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Pinḥas al-Ṣāʾigh to R. Shūʿa. In Judaeo-Arabic. Late. The sender opens with a complaint about his arthritis and a request for medicine.

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• illness
• illness: joints

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Judaeo-Arabic

Other entries include Abū Saʿd the kātib (5), Ibn Ghulayb (2), Hudhud ("hoopoe") (4), Dumyāṭī (1), ʿAmīd (1), Ḥabash (1), Muslim (1) Abū Munā (1), Abū Saʿīd, Ibn Majjān (1 wayba), al-ḥakīm (2 waybas). Verso: Distribution list, in a different hand.

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• to edit

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Arabic

At the upper left corner: "for Muḥammad b. Aḥmad(?) al-Ṭūsī(?)." The trigger may be "ḥumila." May mentions spices (saqaṭ).

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• bill of lading

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Arabic

Reminding the addressee of his prior promise (ينهي ان المولا سبق وعده), maybe involving Khalaf al-Sharāʾiḥī (seller of sliced meat). The sender went to the amīr (سافر المملوك الى عند الامير).

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Arabic

Recto (secondary use): Possibly a medical prescription in Arabic script, for a swelling? (e.g., "wa-yulaṭṭakh al-waram bi-khawlān..."). Needs examination.

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Arabic

Order of payment (حوالة) in Arabic script. The "judge" (al-dayyān) is asked to pay 5 dinars to the bearer.

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Judaeo-Arabic

He excuses the lack of a letter by saying there was no messenger, but then he found the addressee's brother outside of the Muslim court (dār al-qāḍī) one morning with a riding beast, so he asked him to wait until he could scrawl this note.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Including an arrangement of Seliḥot; the liturgy for the taking out of the Torah; a text listing all of the leaders of Israel from Moshe until Ṣedaqyahu and the lineage of the Davidites from Adam until Shelomo the Exilarch; and the names of the women from Eve until the mother of Avraham Avinu; and something from a book of interpretation of dreams.

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Inferred date

1100–1115 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

II represents the addition of 4 loaves resulting from changes in three allocations in the list. Ca. 1107. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 443, App.

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• 12th c
• charity
• communal
• poverty
• recipients

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Document date

Tishrei 1412 Seleucid (6 September 1100–5 October 1100 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(IV) See PGPID 8408 (Information in part from Goitein's index card with additions by MY/AA/ASE). Join: Alan Elbaum.

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• alimony

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Iyyar 5465 Anno Mundi (25 April 1705–23 May 1705 CE)

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Hebrew

The remnants of a validation clause and second set of signatures are visible along the lower tear of the document.

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• late heb
• real

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Primary language

Arabic

Verso: One line from a state document, evidently a decree or official letter issued by the caliph al-Ḥākim: من عبد الله ووليه المنصور ابي علي الامام الحاكم بامر الله امير المومنين بن الامام العزيز بالله امير المومنين Reused for 4 aggressive magical recipes, one to destroy a house, one to drive a person away from an apartment or a shop, and two recipes to cause hatred between two people.

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Marduk and Yosef, the sons of Israel, probably from al-Mahdiyya, assign Nahray to collect a debt deed that was left by their uncle, Yehuda b.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Yefet has heard that a rejection is already included in Daniel's letter to Avraham ha-Masos and feel like people harassing him.

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• communal
• daniel b. azarya
• draft
• shehita
• yefet b. david

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Judaeo-Arabic

(Information from CUDL.) Likely all related: T-S Misc.34.67 + T-S AS 155.224 (PGPID 33582), T-S AS 145.231 + T-S AS 145.240 (PGPID 16288), T-S Misc.34.59 (PGPID 41572).

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Judaeo-Arabic

Written on behalf of a woman (al-mamlūka, l. 5). Addressed to a notable ([ḥaḍrat a]donenu, l. 1).

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• yefet b. menashshe

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