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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Few details are preserved; mentions various small transactions and asks for news. Very faded. (Information in part from CUDL.)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Conveying various pieces of news, including about Abū Hillel, the synagogue, and notables. Very faded. On verso there is an unidentified document in Arabic script.

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Primary language

Arabic

Or maybe the first name is Efrayim instead of Ibrāhīm). In Arabic script. Faded. Dating: Probably 11th century. Needs examination for content.

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Inferred date

1310–1355 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yehoshuaʿ informs Avraham that Sayf al-Dīn Bahādur appeared (before the court) and sued ʿIwāḍ the Alexandria for silver that he was owed. […] The hand is distinctly sefaradi and would probably have been dated to a couple centuries later if it weren't for the context. The text is very faded, but some information can be extracted: Avraham found either ʿIwāḍ or his wife or at least people who knew him and threatened to place a ban on him the next day under the authority of the Nagid, unless he paid up the 120 silver pieces that he owed—but ʿIwāḍ refused. […] (A previous cataloguer also saw the word "convert" somewhere in here.) OZ, AA, ASE.

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• motto

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Document date

1492 Seleucid (22 September 1180–11 September 1181 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment (upper right piece). Faded. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1492 Seleucid = 1180/81 CE.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter of instruction to ʿEli ha-Kohen ha-Parnas to cash from Abū l-Faḍl Netanel Ibn ha-Shofeṭ 18 dinars due to one Seʿadya and to prepare 'the necessary papers.'

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Primary language

Hebrew

It seems to have few words from the date, but it is too faded. AA

Tags

• fgp stub

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Primary language

Hebrew

Ownership note, and much faded text (perhaps another one). 'This is what Shelomo b.

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

An agreement involving Abū l-Faḍl Shela b. Elʿazar and his wife Malīḥa and [...]fiyya b.

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• halfon b. menashshe

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yaʿaqov?); the wife of Abū l-Faḍl; Abū l-Maʿālī; a daughter and her husband; and a dignitary (Head of the Jews?)

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Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from the teacher Yehuda b. Aharon ha-Rofeʾ Ibn al-ʿAmmānī to Yeḥiʾel ha-Rav (b. Elyaqim?). In Hebrew. […] tax for half a month. The continuation is faded and damaged; mentions R. Ṣadoq; Yosef ha-Kohen; someone standing guarantee; a funduq; and how Yehuda acted to prevent this man from being imprisoned, which he did due to his love for the addressee.

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• tax

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Abū l-Faḍl b. Sahl to his relative Ibrāhīm b. Ṣalḥūn, in which he describes a difficult journey that cost three times as much money as he had budgeted for it. […] Yūsuf insults Nahray and Ṣedaqa and all the kohanim "up to Aaron." "No one approves of this.

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• letter etiquette

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Document date

1182–1197 CE

Primary language

Arabic

The addressee's other titles include "sulṭān juyūsh al-muwaḥḥidīn... bahāʾ al-milla, naṣr al-umma, dhū l-faḍāʾil wa-l-manāqib, [...] amīr al-muʾminīn, abū l-fawāris, Ṭughtakīn al-Nāṣirī...." The petition refers to trading houses of 'the west' (or possibly 'of the Arabs') (matājir al-gharb or al-ʿarab); something "to the lands of Yemen" (ilā diyār al-Yaman); a request for justice for a group of people (al-inṣāf ʿalayhim); the arrival in Aden (madīnat ʿAdan) of al-Shaykh Abū ʿImrān b. Abū Saʿīd b. ʿAllūn (or Ghulayb?) the traveling trader (al-tājir al-mutaraddid) together with his Jewish colleagues who come out from Egypt and who come in from India (wa-jamāʿat al-yahūd aṣḥābuh al-ṣādirūn min Miṣr wa-l-wāridīn min al-Hind).

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• aden
• ayyubid
• ib-addenda
• ib7
• india book (arabic)
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Letter from a woman to her son Abū l-Faḍā'ilal-Yahūdī al-Bawāridī ('the maker of cooling or cold vegetables') in al-Qamra, Alexandria. […] The qumāsh which they brought with them from Alexandria has now been pawned for 40 dirhams. Karīm has not paid a penny of his capitation tax. […] Then: I regret leaving Alexandria. Regards to you and your family. Send us news of Umm Maʿānī quickly.

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: marad
• illness: women's
• nar
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Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: Avraham Maimonides is called Nagid, so 1213–37 CE. Quite faded. Quittance between Abū l-Fakhr b. Abū Saʿīd and Munajjā b.

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Primary language

Hebrew

Some deletions and correction in the text. Faded and very cursive. AA. ASE.

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Primary language

Hebrew

Top part of a legal document in Hebrew. Very faded/damaged. Dated: Tuesday, 27 Nisan of an unknown year; likely 11th century.

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Document date

4 Rajab 596 Hijrī (20 April 1200 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Dated: 4 Rajab 596 AH = 20 April 1200 CE. Mentions the name Faḍāʾil(?) b. Manṣūr b. Hilāl. Likely a rental contract, as it refers to a property in Fustat and specifies a period of one year ending Jumādā II 597 AH.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The left-hand page is very faded; it seems to be a list of names and dates in a mixture of Hebrew script and Arabic script.

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• appeal

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Document date

End of Ṭevet 1393 Seleucid (January 1082 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The witnesses state that they were present in the Babylonian synagogue along with Yehuda b. Ḥayyim and that some of them spoke with Yosef b. […] The witnesses state that Yehuda spoke with a certain Abū l-Faḍl b. Sukkar(?) but did not assault him. They state that Yehuda also rebuked Abū l-Khayr for the ban of excommunication that he declared, but did not lay hands on him.

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• arrest
• excommunication
• police

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Inferred date

1149–1151 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In Yeshuʿa's earliest letter, he offers to rent a home for Ibn Yijū in Dhū Jibla; the current account details Ibn Yijū's expenses in various places between Aden and Dhū Jibla including the rent for houses (e.g., in al-Juwwa and al-Janad). Yeshuʿa's earliest letter also conveys greetings from a certain Fayrūz, who is mentioned here in l. 5. […] Places mentioned: Aden, "the gate of Aden," al-Mafālīs, al-Juwwa, Maḥqama (? this location is unidentified), Maṣābiḥ, al-Janad, Dhū YʿRQ (or TWRQ? this location is also unidentified), Dhū Jibla, and Maḥraṣ (= watch-post?)

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• ib-addenda
• ib3
• slaves

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Names of addressee and sender are visible (but faded) on verso.

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• personal

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Primary language

Hebrew

In Hebrew. Late. Recto has one faded text referring to a groom; on top of this there is a legal text in darker ink referring to Esther.

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentioning Abū l-Makārim, his brother Abū l-Faḍāʾil, two legal documents, the Bet Din, the estate of someone's son, Ḥiyya, and the sending of a messenger.

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Probably from a letter written on behalf of a poor man (hādha l-miskīn), referring to the generosity of the addressees (faḍluhum). This man has lost 6 dinars, and he may be obligated to pay maintenance (mawna) to a wife and/or children.

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Primary language

Arabic

Brief order or note in Arabic script addressed to Abū l-Faḍl requesting a favor regarding the price of the yarn (عن ثمن غزل).

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Primary language

Arabic

The ends of 8 lines are preserved. Rubbed and faded. Probably either a legal document or a letter.

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Arabic

Deed of sale for real estate (يحد هذه الدار وحدودها وارضها) in Arabic script. Quite faded. The price is 12 dinars (العين الجيد المصري المحقق اثنا عشر دينارا نصفها ستة دنانير).

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Document date

Monday, 1 Kislev 1632 Seleucid (3 November 1320 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: Monday, 1 Kislev 1632 Seleucid (=[...] 720 AH), which is November 1320 CE. Damaged & faded. Perhaps a settlement of a dispute. Mentions "the meat" and "any more than 10 dirhams nuqra."

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Nissim, Fustat, to ʿAyyāsh b. Ṣedaqa al-Maḡribī, Jerusalem. Dating: ca. 1067 CE, Gil's estimate based on another letter that it mentions, written by Yosef b. […] Mentions the taking of a ship by al-Rūm (the Byzantines) and trouble with a (tax?) […] According to CUDL, there's a list on recto, but it's faded and difficult to read. MR

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• 11th c
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• trade

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Document date

5300 Anno Mundi (13 September 1539–1 September 1540 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Communal letter in Hebrew. Faded and torn. From the content it is a letter with legal sermonizing and instructions, though it ends with phrases typical of legal documents and two signatures partially preserved: Moshe b. [...] and [...] b.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Moderately wide space between the lines. Quite faded. Reports on something that occurred after exiting the synagogue with the congregation.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Regards to: Abū l-Faraj and his son; Abū ʿImrān; Hilāl and his son Abū l-Faḍā'il; the addressee's mother and brother; and Abū l-Yusr.

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Primary language

Arabic

The ends of 10 lines from the lower left corner are preserved. Quite faded and difficult to read. Seems to concern a ḍāmin and flax-based industries: الضامن ال . . .

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Primary language

Arabic

Contains a registration mark in faded (iron gall?) ink, unless this is the concluding phrase of the Judaeo-Arabic letter.

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• dimme
• lost archive
• registration mark
• report
• taqbil

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Primary languages

Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The Hebrew-script text may be in the hand of Ḥillel b. ʿEli? Abū l-Faḍl leases his house to somebody. The names Yefet b.

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Document date

Ramaḍān 568 Hijrī (16 April 1173–15 May 1173 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The case seems to involve three men (including Abū l-Faḍā'il and Abū ʿAbdallāh) and a woman. (Information in part from Baker/Polliack catalog.)

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Primary language

Arabic

Lower part of a petition in Arabic script: "...to your slave my son Faḍāʾil, and please bestow favor on me with this great favor, and the reward and recompense will be from God the exalted.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: Probably early 13th century. Extremely faded. Mentions 'my master the rayyis' and possibly the sale of a property; Shemuel; and [...] b.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(This Abū l-Khayr Ibn al-Amshātī is not known from the published India Book documents but may be the same as the one who appears in T-S NS 305.82 (PGPID 35209).) […] in India (בלאד אלהנד) . . . without success (גיר מצלחה), may God have mercy on us all." Apparently "they" (Abū Naṣr and Abū l-Khayr?) […] One of the Judaeo-Arabic jottings includes the name Abū l-Faḍl. The largest Arabic text block on verso is a "consignment letter" (Kaplony refers to the Quṣayr al-Qadīm documents of this type as Geleitschreiben) specifying the goods which are to be conveyed to (yusallam ilā) al-mawlā al-shaykh al-ajall al-muʾayyad al-manṣūr.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

It seems that Yedutun was attempting to prove that it was cracked and that he therefore that he had a right to return it to the seller (ṣāḥib al-dast, l. 4) based on the legal principle of al-radd bi-l-ʿayb. […] Therefore they went to the qāḍī, who ordered that the cauldron should be shown to the experts (arbāb al-khibra). The experts said that it should be tested with steam from the bathhouse tank. […] The next few lines are too faded to understand. Yedutun says "if it were not for the capitation tax, we would take/keep it due to its quality."

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• business
• oil
• perfume

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Primary language

Hebrew

Shemuel). And for the Ibn Faḍlān family: Efrayim b. ʿAzaryahu b. Efrayim b.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Tūnis, Abū Saʿ[īd], Abū l-Faḍl, someone's arrival in Fustat/Egypt, someone's love for Abū l-Riḍā; and Mubārak.

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• ib-addenda
• ib2
• letter

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Primary language

Hebrew

Complete, but very faded late letter in Hebrew from Jerusalem to ha-Ḥakham ha-Shalem ha-Dayyan ha-Meẓūyan Raysh Metivta Qedishta [...]

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• readable with imaging
• shemuel sidi

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: List of contributors of wheat. Dating: Early 13th century, per Cohen. Goitein speculated that the wheat was contributed in connection with mourning rites (as …

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The other letter is T-S 10J9.13, addressed to Abū l-Faḍl Ibn Sabra, whom Goitein identified as her maternal uncle and as Mevorakh b. […] The least she did was that she said to me: 'Go away and become like your notorious mother.'" Umm Sitt al-Nās then probably alludes to her mother (the sister of both the addressee and the mother-in-law) when she writes, "You remember well how everyone reacted to your sister Baqā'." […] She begs him for a letter and for news of their younger brother, who also has not written to her. For more, see T-S 10J9.13 and Goitein's translation and discussion of the other letter in Med Soc III:175f.

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• ibn sabra
• women's letters

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Only the beginning is preserved. Mentions Abū l-Faḍl b. Yehuda. (Information in part from Goitein and Friedman, India Book III, p. 56 n. 122.)

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• ib-addenda

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