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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Verso (original use): Official-looking account in Arabic script. Faded and difficult to read.

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This fragment is therefore serving the same purpose of communal recordkeeping as surrounding shelfmarks that also record Shabbat donations such as JRL SERIES C 77 and JRL SERIES C 93. This particular shelfmark is not a join to these two others, however, because the scribal hand and layout are distinct and it's even possible that red ink was used here but has since faded. With future research the names of those listed may help ascertain a specific dating estimate: (recto) Yiṣḥaq Gabbay[?][…] , Eliyahu Abu-ʿAsl, Salmūn Simḥon, Moshe Jūnīd, Saʿad Wahba, Av[raham] Benyamīn, Yaʿacov ʿAkūbas, Ḥayyīm Raṣon, Yiṣḥaq Dayyan, Yosef Levi, Avraham al-Rukī[?], Yosef Nadda[?], Maʿatūk Ḥadad, Ḥayyīm Sāhl, Mūsa Dhabaḥ, Ḥayyīm Mosseri, Yosef Mosseri, Nissīm Dayyan, Bakhor[?]

Tags

• 18th or 19th c
• communal
• late prosopography

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

; how certain people's houses were locked up and sealed; Faḍāʾilal-Naṣrānī (the Christian) was forced to go into hiding (amr aḥwajahū ilā l-khafiyya); then mentions, "going out to you every day of the week to stay with you... on Saturday, al-Bama (? אלבָמָה; or rather probably "al-bima," going up to the platform in the synagogue) will go while he is weak(?)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yūsuf b. Faraḥ al-Qābisī, in Alexandria, to his nephew Abū l-Surūr Faraḥ b. […] He passes on the news (r14–15) that the addressee's uncle (ʿamm) Sulaymān was seriously ill in Sūsa but recovered (פק, to be read fāq); that Yaḥyā b. Mūsā al-Majjānī died (r16–17); that the writer's own cousin (ibn khālat{ī}) Abū l-Faḍl is critically ill (ʿalā khuṭṭa) in al-Mahdiyya (r17–18); that the customs tax (ʿushr) has become more stringent (r18); and that Yosef b. […] Note that on v9 Gil reads "Kūsh" (thus also in his article on flax, p. 85), but this is clearly Būsh, the settlement outside the Fayyūm.

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Tags

• arabic address
• conversion
• customs tax
• flax
• illness
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3 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary language

Arabic

He instructs the addressee to diligently look after (وصيتك بهم غاية الوصية) the house (al-dār), the scales (al-mīzān), the warehouse, the codex (al-muṣḥaf), something else (الصدر؟), and all his other goods. May mention 30 dinars in recto, l. 6. Mentions al-shaykh Ṣanīʿat al-Mulk twice (the addressee is told to buy something for him in recto, ll.15–16, and to greet him in recto margin). […] Verso contains greetings to numerous people: the sender's maternal uncles and cousins, his paternal uncle Abū l-Faḍl and cousin Abū l-Baqāʾ, Abū Naṣr, Bayān al-Kharrāz, Abū l-Riḍā al-Naqqād and his son, his maternal aunt, and Wafāʾ.

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Tags

• ib-addenda
• india book unedited
• madmun

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Verso: Hebrew script. Very faded. Mentions R. Yosef. See folio 26 for the probable dating.

Tags

• greek

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Primary language

Hebrew

Letter possibly from a Gaʾon to a member of his yeshiva. Very faded. Scattered legible words: מנהגכם . . . החכמים . . .

Tags

• gaon

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions a ḥaver. Very faded. In the second (damaged) line refers to somebody [...] b.

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Very faded and damaged, hardly legible, fragment from a legal query addresed to 'our Rabbis', regarding a quarell between two people and a payment of 15 dinars.

Tags

• responsa

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Primary language

Hebrew

Yisrael ha-Ḥasid appears in the address. There is faded text underneath the address, perhaps giving the names of the locations.

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Document date

23 Ḥeshvan 1539 Seleucid (11 November 1227 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Sending greetings from Abū l-Faḍl and asking the addressee to write them back.

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• 13th c

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The remnant of a very faded text in Arabic script is discernible on the verso.

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Primary language

Hebrew

Very damaged and faded Hebrew letter, with many Biblical verses, seems to contain some moral instructions?

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: ownership transfer note for a book, in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew, quoting Job 22:28. Owner: Faḍl b. Aharon. Verso: ex libris in Judaeo-Arabic.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The whole paper is preserved, but the text is faded; good candidate for multispectral imaging.

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1

Tags

• qalyub

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Needs examination for content. Quite faded. Might mention a commodity called qiṭmīr. (Information in part from CUDL)

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: unidentified text in Hebrew; very faded; written at 90 degrees to the text on recto.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A remnant of the address is preserved on verso ("Aharon...") but is faded beyond legibility.

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Primary language

Arabic

Recto appears to be a letter of recommendation on behalf of Faḍāʾīl; the addressee is asked to look after him.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentioning names such as Avraham b. Hilāl and Abū l-Faḍl; mentioning commodities such as pepper and a silk fūṭa.

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1

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Primary language

Hebrew

Moderately wide space between the lines. Very faded. Approximately 7 lines are preserved. Mentions [...] he-Ḥaver b.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Extremely faded legal document or legal notes. In which Karīma bt.

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Document date

26 Ṣafar 907 Hijrī (10 September 1501 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Dating: Perhaps Ṣafar 1097 AH, which would be 1685/86 CE. But the year is faded, and this should be checked. Needs examination for content as well.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

One of the parties is Abū l-Faḍl. Signed by Yeshuʿa b. Yakhin. AA/ASE

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1

Tags

• natan b. avraham

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Refers to a gift given by a woman named Fāḍila and refers to a man's paternal grandfather.

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Tags

• halfon b. menashshe

1 Transcription

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The addressee's father's name appears in the main text, but is very faded. Consists mostly of blessings, typical of letters of appeal for charity/assistance.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Document in Arabic script; only a small, faded portion of the original document remains.

Tags

• arabic script
• moshe b. levi

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic. Abū l-Faḍl is mentioned, and probably ʿImrān.

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1

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū l-Faḍl and Sayyidnā and then a woman whose husband is unemployed—so perhaps this is a letter recommending this woman and her family for charity.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Faded business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions "the rest of the dirhams" and "I say they are recorded in his ledger."

Tags

• condolence
• daftar

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Eliyyahu to the ra’is (leader) concerning commercial matters, in particular an issue regarding the price of a small scale (mizan saghir) that was purchased, and a note about silk. Abu Fadl is mentioned. EMS

Tags

• shelomo b. eliyyahu

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Large but very faded. The writer asks the addressee to have Abū l-ʿIzz write something; perhaps the copies whose price is mentioned two lines later.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Faded and damaged. Written in the month of Tishrei.

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Primary language

Hebrew

On verso list of names, might be from a memorial list. Very faded and most of the names are only partial: Sar Shalom; Yosef b. [...]; [...] ha-Levi b.

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Document date

1411 Seleucid (19 September 1099–5 September 1100 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In which someone declares to Abū l-Faḍl Yosef something about 3/4 of a house in Fustat.

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Primary language

Arabic

Dating: probably 11th or 12th century. Faded and unclear how much of the content is preserved.

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• bialphabetic

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: ca. 1030 CE. Quite faded and damaged. Refers to correspondence with notables of Fustat and Palestine, including Shelomo b.

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1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On a blank page there is a draft of a legal summons: Abū l-Faḍl is summoned to the court with his legal opponent immediately.

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Inferred date

1310–1355 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to Yehoshua Maimonides (1310–55) reminding him of somebody who was excommunicated when his father Avraham II Maimonides (1245–1313) was Nagid. The letter is rather faded and difficult to follow. Needs further examination.

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1

Tags

• 14th c
• yehoshua maimonides

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Witnessed by Ghālib(?) b. Abū l-Faḍl and Jaʿfar b. Hilāl. EMS

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The writer filled the entirety of the main text with praises and conventional phrases, leaving the business for the (faded) margin. He may be offering an excuse for failing to come to Fustat to study with the addressee.

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Primary language

Hebrew

Square letters. Extremely faded. The second line of recto reads כבוד גדולת שלמה איש חמודות.

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Primary language

Hebrew

In Hebrew. Damaged and faded. "We further inform our master that... a man from the congregation of... the man...

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. Addressed to a notable (אלחכם אלנבון אלרייס אלאגל....).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The verso has a line of very faded Arabic, perhaps an address. Requires further examination.

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Document date

621–29 Hijrī (1224–1231 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

In Arabic script. The deceased is Fāḍila, who was survived by her son Abū Dāʾūd. Dating: 621–29 AH, which corresponds to the range 1224–31 CE.

Tags

• report of death

1 Transcription 1 Translation