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Inferred date

984–984 CE

On verso there is a note in Arabic script "that which is owed by Yūsuf Ibn al-Miṣrī" followed by three lines of accounts. (Information mainly from Mediterranean Society, IV, p. 215, 426, 473, Goitein's index cards, and Friedman, Jewish Marriage in Palestine, 279 and multiple other locations.)

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• ketubba
• marriage

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Document date

2nd Av 1545 Seleucid (29 June 1234 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

The house was located in or near darb al-Muṣāṣa. The deed is in Hebrew, but the location and boundaries are given in Judeo-Arabic.

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Hebrew

Avraham 27 dirhams per month as alimony for his daughter from her, Ḥassāna. Signed by: Avraham b.

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Hebrew

Yehuda ha-Levi; Shemuel b. Yosef al-Baṣrī; Ṣedaqa b. Moshe; Yosef b. Aharon ha-Levi.

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Document date

Sunday, 1 Sivan 1539 Seleucid (7 May 1228 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

On verso there are a few lines in Judaeo-Arabic, possibly hijāʾ (invective) poetry: yā jāhil bālī wa-yā khabīth al-ṭawiyya kam.... Underneath there are a couple words in Arabic script together with Greek/Coptic numerals.

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• avraham maimonides

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Thursday, 14 Iyyar 1399 Seleucid (18 April 1098 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: an acknowledgement of debt by Yosef b. Menashshe al-Ramlī, who owes 11 dinars to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b.

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• account
• arus b. yosef

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Tammuz 1415 Seleucid (July 1104 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document with testimony from al-Sitt bt. Yosef b. ʿAmram and her mother Jamīla bt.

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• testimony

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Document date

Tishrei 1556 Seleucid (5 September 1244–4 October 1244 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Followed by post-classical rhymed seliḥot for the ten days of repentance on recto and verso, with an alphabetic acrostic. (Information in part Goitein's index card and from CUDL)

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• acknowledgment
• iqrar

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The letter is probably an appeal to the Jewish community in Fusṭāṭ for funds to secure the girl’s release. With an allusion to PT Giṭṭin 4:6 in reference to not paying exorbitant ransoms.

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• captives
• pirates

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

To be delivered to Abū l-Munā al-ʿAṭṭār, who will forward it to the addressee.

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• judge eliyyahu
• shelomo b. eliyyahu

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

The first entry is regarding jusūr (dams/dykes), "min jumla mā ʿalayhi min māl l-jusūr". The upper section is headed "wuṣūl" (receipt), and the immediate word after reads as "li-muqṭaʿ".

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• iqta'

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Friday, 12 Muharram 417 Hijrī (5 March 1026 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter sent from al-Ahwaz by Efrāyim b. Saʿīd to the three senior Tustarī brothers, Abū Naṣr Sahl, Abū Yaʿqūb Yosef and Abū Sahl, in Fustat.

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• tiraz
• trade

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Last third of Kislev 1420 Seleucid (26 November 1108–5 December 1108 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Seʿadya ha-Kohen known as Ibn al-Maṣmūda(?). Buyer: Ṣedaqa b . Yehuda. Price: 21 dinars.

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• bill of sale
• slave

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

This regret was shared by Abū l-Fakhr b. al-Dimyāṭī. On the reverse side a male person addresses another male leaving the country.

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• women's letters

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Provides minimal information on the calendar, perhaps intended as a aid for those who were already knowledgable about calendar calculations.

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• calendar
• controversy
• manual

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Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Its origins are unknown, although scholars generally date it to the early medieval period.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto, right side: Account of expenditures in Dammuh (ca. 1182-3) by Sayyid al-Ahl, consisting of a list of disbursements made at the plantation in Dammuh in the course of a year.

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• 12th c
• account
• communal
• dammuh
• qodesh
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Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

There are sections for the months of Dhū l-Ḥijja, Muḥarram, Ṣafar, and Rabīʿ al-Awwal. After the header a sum for the month appears, and individual entries are provided for specific dates within each month.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions some people looking after some other people (yakūnū murāʿiyyīn lahum) and Sayyidnā al-Nagid. AA. ASE.

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Primary language

Hebrew

The document at hand seems to be an earlier draft, since an alternative phrase written above the line here (line 9), is found as part of the original text in the later draft.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On verso there is the Hebrew alphabet. (Information in part from CUDL)

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Judaeo-Arabic

He reports that a tremendous Fatimid treasure had been commandeered by al-Bulyanī (perhaps the head of the tribe dominating the Qūṣ-ʿAydhāb route).

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• ib7
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: waja'
• india book
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Inferred date

1442–1442 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Draft of a petition from the Jewish community of Fustat to the Mamluk government concerning the malpractices of ‘Abd al-Latif the physician, head of the Jews, who is reported to have sold portions of pious foundation properties and leased others below their value, imposed high fiscal penalties, and confiscated property of the Jews, among a litany of other harmful acts.

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• 15th c
• communal
• draft
• mamluk
• petition
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Inferred date

1168–1204 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in the hand of Maimonides (ca. 1168–1204 CE), with a medical recipe consisting of (iron) water, lentisk and spikenard, and a mysterious mention of a huge number of wooden ships ("There arrived from the wooden (ships) that which blocked the sea/Nile, 100 ships and 18 great ships, all of them wood.") (Information from CUDL, join from CUDL.)

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• maimonides autograph
• recipe

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Then conveys news about the illness of "the old woman" (al-ʿajūz): [לא] תסאל מא נחן פיה מן אלם אלקלב מן קליוב(?)

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• illness letter 969-1517

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Primary language

Arabic

Mentions land holdings and an iqṭāʿ in Upper Egypt (al-Ṣaʿīd). It is difficult to read more than scattered phrases: والان اني لا افرط فيه . . . .

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Judaeo-Arabic

(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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Document date

Rabiʿ II 448 Hijrī (18 June 1056–16 July 1056 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Dated: Rabiʿ II 448 AH = June/July 1056 CE. Signed by al-Ḥasan b. Muḥammad b. ʿUbaydallāh. Underneath in Hebrew script there are a pair of unusual female and male names: Imāma bt.

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Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

The introduction is followed by the name of the first month, al-Muḥarram, and how to use it for protection against predators.

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Document date

Thursday, 14 Av 1406 Seleucid (19 July 1095 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

F. 2r contains most of the ofan; f. 2v contains the meʾora and the first part of the ahava; f. 1r contains the final two lines of the מי כמוך, all of the י‫׳ מלכנו‬, and most of the ועד מתי, which concludes on f. 1v.

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Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

In the following colophon, the text is referred to as Alfāẓ Megillat Rut and the scribe’s name is given as Aaron b.

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Document date

Jumādā I 550 Hijrī (3 July 1155–1 August 1155 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

Yefet ha-Levi in the month of Jumādā al-Awwal, 550 of the Hijra (= July, 1155 CE). (Information from CUDL.)

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Verso, ll. 1-3, contributions, possibly received on the morning of the same day in the synagogue. Headed by Ibn Jalal al-Mulk, 'the Splendor of the Kingdom,' a government official.

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• account
• charity
• communal
• salary

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Document date

10 Sivan 4898 Anno Mundi (22 May 1138 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mevorakh Jazāʾirī appeared before the court bearing a power of attorney from Berakha b. Yosef Ibn al-Sartī(?). The power of attorney may have guaranteed the goods (ʿilab?)

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• sicily

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Judaeo-Arabic

Details about the family of Salīm al-Ghazūlī the Levi. Perhaps for the purpose of dividing an inheritance.

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• dammuh
• disability
• disability: hearing
• genealogy

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Primary language

Hebrew

"Levanīm" coinage is mentioned throughout, an alternate label for Ottoman silver akçe. (MCD with information from Shmuel Glick's description/edition in FGP).

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Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions a market (fī l-sūq) and ambergris (al-ʿanbar). Needs further examination.

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Document date

last decade of Adar 1441 Seleucid (3 March 1130–12 March 1130 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Contains formulae of release; reference to someone dawdling (וגרגר אלי אן אקאם עני בדלך); obtaining a 'noble rescript' concerning the speaker's (probably capitation tax) payments in a certain place (אסתנגזת תוקיע כרים בוזני פי מכאן); an explicit reference to paying the capitation tax to somebody else (אנפד לה גאליתי); and the granting of this document/release to a certain Nissim known as Ibn al-[...]. AA/ASE.

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• capitation tax
• halfon b. menashshe
• masliah gaon

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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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Primary language

Arabic

Might be a narrative about the miracle of "the splitting of the chest" (shaqq al-ṣadr) intended to be read during Mawlid celebrations—this is based on the recording of the identical text that can be found in a Facebook video (https://fb.watch/ajqp49g5TK/).

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Primary language

Arabic

The writer refers to himself as "al-mamlūk"; the script is chancery-esque. Fragment (upper left piece).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

קנה חכמה קנה בינה. May God make him always among the seekers of His law and those who cling fast to it."

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In two cases (of eight dirhams each), the outstanding amount is designated as balance. In all the others, obviously the sums accompanying the names represent the total pledged.

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• charity
• communal
• donors
• poverty

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List of ten donors, headed by the Raṣuy (see T-S K15.36), seconded by the Shāʿir (Poet, see BL OR 5566C.11 and 12), and followed by other names known from the beginning of the thirteenth century. All but the last gave 1, namely, one jug (of wine), as proved by the last contribution which consisted of 'half a jug.'

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• charity
• communal
• donors
• poverty

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Lower part of a carefully written list of contributors, practically all of whom appear in earlier or later lists, e.g.

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• 13th c
• charity
• communal
• donors
• poverty

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Everyone is distressed on account of the addressee's illness. Bū l-ʿIzz al-Ghāsūlī brought a letter and three dirhams. ASE.

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• arabic address
• damin
• fuwwa
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
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Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

"No wailing women; and of garments in which I shall be buried, no more than these: two cloaks, three robes, a washed turban of fine linen—it is already wound up—new underpants (sarāwīl) of mine, and a new waist­band (zunnār) of mine."

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• clothing
• funeral
• will

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