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20 Kislev 1550 Seleucid (29 November 1238 CE)

Dated: 20 Kislev 1550 Seleucid = 29 November 1238 CE. Groom: Yosef b. Yaʿaqov. Goitein's index card suggests that the Nagid at this time is already David I, but it is not clear if he deduced that from the phrases in the document or if he already knew that Avraham died before this date.

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• ketubba
• marriage

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Acknowledgment made by [...] b.

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• halfon b. menashshe

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On recto: Letter from Khalfūn b. Benaya(?) to Abū Zikrī Yaḥyā b. Mūsā Majjānī.

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• unedited 11th c
• vellum

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Khalfūn b. Benaya(?) to Abū Zikrī Yaḥyā b. Mūsā Majjānī.

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• unedited 11th c
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Document date

1595 Seleucid (23 September 1283–11 September 1284 CE)

Marriage contract, possibly. Only a few words of the inscription at the top (mentioning rejoicing and the Nagid) and the first line of the document …

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Hārūn b. Sulaymān ha-Ḥaver al-Kohen to [...] b. Ṣadaqa(?)

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: ear
• unedited 11th c

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Document date

2 Adar I 1437 Seleucid (28 January 1126 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Location: Fustat. Husband: Avraham b. Shemarya. Wife: Esther bt. Namir. Signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe and Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel ha-Sefaradi. The attestation on verso that she received the get is signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe and Yiṣḥaq ha-Melammed b. Ḥayyim Nafūsī.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Elegy for the Tustari brothers Ḥesed b. Yashar (Abū Naṣr b. Sahl) and Avraham b. Yashar (Abū Saʿd b.

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• al-tustari
• elegy
• fire
• liver

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Document date

10 Iyyar 1454 Seleucid (26 April 1143 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Dated: Monday, 10 Iyyar 1454 Seleucid, which is 1143 CE. Husband: Abū Naṣr b. Dinar(??). Wife: Sutūt bt. Abū l-Ḥasan. Signed by Zakkay b. Moshe and Tamīm b. Yosef ha-Levi. The same two witnesses also sign the attestation on verso that she received the get.

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• get

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Panegyric addressed Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. ʿAṭā' (aka Avraham b. Natan), the Nagid of Qayrawān.

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• panegyric

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Document date

Nisan 1145 Seleucid (27 March 1145–25 April 1145 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Appears to be a writing exercise, because there are multiple efforts and because there are inconsistencies (on recto Abū l-Maʿānī states that he gave money to Abū l-Faḍl and on verso he receives money); however, verso is signed by Natan b. Natan ha-Kohen and Ḥiyya b. Shelomo ha-Kohen like a genuine document. […] Date: Nisan 1456 Seleucid = March/April 1145 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. The document has to do with a payment of 20 dinars and a release from subsequent claims.

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Tevet 1529 Seleucid (1217–1218 CE)

Yosef Beḥir ha-Misra sells 1/4 of a house to Abū l-Faḍl ha-Sofer ha-Mahir b. Yosef ha-Sar ha-Kohen for 150 dinars ("good gold dinars").

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• 13th c

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16 Sivan 1394 Seleucid (5 June 1083 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: 16 Sivan 1394 Seleucid, which is 1082 CE. Shaʿyā b. David b. [...] makes a declaration concerning the parnas Mevorakh called Segulat ha-Parnasim (appears also in T-S NS 225.99 (PGPID 24239)) and Avraham b.

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Document date

1448 Seleucid (29 August 1136–17 September 1137 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Concerning the divorce arrangements of Elʿazar b. Saʿadya and his wife. Signed by: Moshe b. Ṣadoq ha-Ṣadiq Av Bet Din b. Yoshiyyahu; and the cantor Moshe b. Yehuda.

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Inferred date

1100–1100 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Barukh b. Yiṣḥaq, the chief Rabbi of Aleppo, Syria, to a colleague, it seems in Fustat.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yehuda b. Moshe ibn Sighmār, in Alexandria, to ʿEli ha-Kohen b. […] Yehuda explains the problems he has been having collecting monies owed him by a 'partner,' Abū Isḥāq Avraham b. Faraj al-Raḥbī, having to do with the sale of a valuable piece of ambergris.

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• ambergris
• brazilwood
• byzantine merchants
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Family letter from the end of the 12th century to Abu al-Faraj b. Abu al-Barakāt, a doctor in Fustat, from his brother in Alexandria.

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• capitation tax
• jaliya
• jizya
• personal
• tax

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Document date

Monday, 8 Shevaṭ 4866 Anno Mundi (15 January 1106 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: Monday, 8 Shevaṭ 4866 = 15 January 1106 CE. In which Musāfir b. ʿEli, the tax farmer of the dues from dyeing and selling silk in the district of Damietta, sub-leases his rights regarding a small town named Ibwān to three partners (the judge Yosef b. Avraham, and the brothers Daniel b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Ḥazzan and Ḥalfon b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Ḥazzan.) for the duration of one year against a payment of two dinars per month. […] Witnesses: Avraham Danafta (?), Peraḥya b. Ḥalfon ha-Meʿuttad ("the candidate," a yeshiva title), Mevorakh b.

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• damin
• lease
• silk
• tax

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Document date

437 Kharājī (1046 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

In addition to numbers, there is also the name Masīḥ(?) b. ʿAbdallāh. Needs further examination. Reused on both recto and verso for Hebrew-script documents.

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• capitation tax
• dimme
• kharaj
• tax

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Quittance/release (שטר אביזאריה). Mivḥar b. Ṣedaqa releases Moshe b. Moshe known as Ibn Majjān from all obligations except for an ounce of זבאר(?)

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Document date

Thursday, 26 Elul 1386 Seleucid (September 1075 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There is an invocation of the Nagid Yehuda b. Seʿadya at the beginning. Yiṣḥaq b. Musāfir b. Pinḥas b. Zurayq, heir to his maternal uncle Yūsuf b. ʿAbdallāh's estate registers a claim against Avraham b. Naṣīr ha-Levi, with whom his uncle had deposited some of his belongings.

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• plunder
• unrest

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Tammuz 1456 Seleucid (24 June 1145–22 July 1145 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document in the hand of Natan b. Shemuel. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tammuz 1456 Seleucid = June/July 1145 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. […] The goldsmith (al-ṣāʾigh) Yosef b. Yehuda al-Shomer acknowledges a debt of 30 wariq dirhams owed to the parnas Abū ʿAlī Yefet b. […] Only payments listed on back of document are regarded as having been made—but the back is blank. Witnesses: Saʿadya b. Mevorakh; Shelomob. Nājī ha-Parnas. The validation (qiyyum) is signed by David ha-Paliṭ ("the refugee") b.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Avraham ha-Ḥaver b. Amram from Jerusalem to an Andalusian merchant staying in Ramla.

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Primary language

Arabic

"traditions and mnemonics" (מוסרות וסימנות) written by Shemuel b. Sahl the teacher for Saʿadya b. Shelomo. Multiple different hands (likely of both teacher and student).

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• 'ushari
• customs tax
• dimme
• maks
• official correspondence
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic concerning the India trade. Apparently the second or the third folio of a very long letter. Mentions numerous people and family members …

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• hinge
• ib-addenda
• india book unedited
• to edit

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Ṣedaqa b. ʿAyyāsh, in Alexandria, to Abū Naṣr al-Faḍl b. Sahl al-Tustarī (aka Ḥesed b. Yashar), in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1023 (Bareket and Ben-Sasson) or May 1027 (Gil). […] The letter also mentions the triumphal march of al-Muʿizz b. Bādīs, ruler of Ifrīqiyya ("News came that the amīr Sharaf al-Dawla, may God prolong his glory, returned to Tripoli and defeated his enemies; I hope this is accurate, God willing").

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Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

A four-line entry in a page from a court notebook records that on 28 June 1127, Malīḥa appointed Nathan ha-Levi b. Abraham as her representative to sue her husband. […] It is unclear how much, if any, pertains to the main letter on recto. Shelomo ha-Levi b. Moshe is named. Many of the Arabic writings appear to be formulaic phrases from a letter to a dignitary (titled in one place Imam and Amir), probably scribal practice.

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Primary language

Arabic

Formulaic phrases from petitions and letter to dignitaries.

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Document date

Tammuz 1458 Seleucid (1 June 1147–29 June 1147 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Sub-leasing agreement of a tax farm of silk production for the town of Bush and its surroundings, which was worth 3.5 dinars. Dated Tammuz 1458/ …

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• lease
• silk
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Inferred date

1502–1517 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Yehuda Leib the Ashkenazi to the Nagid Yiṣḥaq Sholal. In Hebrew. Dating: 1502–17 CE (date range of Sholal's post as Nagid). The writer …

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter by a cantor in a small town, addressed to Rabbi Eliyyahu the judge, complaining bitterly about his lack of opportunity for further study and …

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Written and signed by Berakhot (b. Shemuel). Expressing thanks to the poet Yiṣḥaq b. Shelomo for his “sweet poems and powerful words” with which he had honored the writer.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

She has sent seven rubāʿīs' worth of betel nut with the Aleppan, the friend of Yaʿaqov b. Avraham b. Faraḥ. She tells him to be clever and to guard the merchandise of Avraham b. […] The dead include Maḍmūn b. Dāʾūd, his mother, the mother of Abū l-Ṭayyib, and Isḥāq b. […] She requests a kerchief. Mūsā b. Yaḥyā and Shalmān b. ʿUqba have not yet arrived.

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• family
• ib7
• india book
• women's letter

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Document date

Friday, 4 Ṭevet 4831 Anno Mundi (10 December 1070 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Dated: Friday, 4 Ṭevet 4831 AM = 10 December 1070 CE. Groom: Fuḍayl b. Yosef. Bride: Sittūnā bt. Ṣāliḥ. (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, p. 388)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from the cantor Musāfir b. Yosef ha-Bavli, in Alexandria, to his relative Yehuda the schoolteacher in the Iraqi synagogue of Fustat.

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Arabic

Fiscal document. Mentions a payment of 9 wariq dirhams a day for the month Ramaḍān al-muʿaẓẓam, for a total of 270 dirhams. Reused on recto …

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Letter from Yosef b. Avraham, in Qayrawan(?), to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat.

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Document date

1487 Seleucid (1175–1176 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Manṣūr b. Maḥfūẓ, in Alexandria, to Abū Saʿīd b. Berakhot al-Melammed, in Fustat. […] The remainder of the letter consists of greetings to various people, including: Rabbenu Elʿazar; 'all the students/scholars' (talāmidha); 'the father, mother, and brother'; Rabbenu Yiṣḥaq; Abū l-Ḥasan; Abū Manṣūr; Yosef; Abū l-Maʿānī and his brother; Rabbi Nissim; Rabbi Daniel and his son; Abū l-Faraj al-Ṭabīb; Barakāt b. Rosh ha-Qahal; Avraham b. Abū Naṣr; Abū l-Faraj Hiba; al-Rayyis Abū l-Mufaḍḍal and his brothers.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Musa b. Abu'l-Hayy to Evyatar ha-Kohen Gaon, ca. December 1094.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Daniel b. Yiṣḥaq he-Hazzan from Jerusalem to Eli b. Sadaqa.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter by Shelomob. Yeshuʿa ha-ḥaver, in Damīra, to Abū Isḥāq Avraham b.

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: eye

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The main document is signed by [..]LM b. Yosef; Shemuel b. Yiṣḥaq; [...] b. Shelomob. Manṣūr nin Qāṣir; [...]Sofer; Yehuda ha-Ḥazzan b. ʿEli ha-Ḥazzan b. Moshe ha-Ḥazzan; Suhayl b. […] The qiyyum mentions [..]l b. Aharon; Meshullam b. [...]; Shemarya b. Moshe; and [...] b.

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Primary language

Hebrew

Only the bottom part is preserved, which includes praises for the Nagid Sar ha-Shalom (or at least a Nagid with that title). Signed: Natan b. Shelomo; Peraḥya b. Aharon ha-Kohen; Yefet b. Araḥ; Avraham b. Seʿadya.

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Inferred date

1150–1181 CE

The judge, among other questions, asks for a report about who took the orphan into his house and cared for her. Signed by Mevorakh b. Natan (fl. 1150–1181 CE), Shemuel ha-Levi b. Saadia and Elazar b. Michael. (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, p. 303)

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Primary language

Hebrew

Genealogical list at beginning of letter from Masliah Ha-Kohen Gaon ca. 1120. Circular letter from Maṣliaḥ to the community of Damsīs.

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• genealogy

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Masʿūd/Seʿadya (Umm Ibrāhīm), in Bilbays, to the dignitary Abū l-Barakāt Yehuda b. Elʿazar ha-Kohen (titled "ha-Sar" and "Sofer ha-Malkhut," i.e., a government secretary/kātib).

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• captives
• women's letters

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Document date

Sunday, 22 Adar 4985 Anno Mundi (3 March 1225 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The document concerns an oath given by Shelomob. Eliyyahu. Witnesses: Mikhaʾel b. David; ʿEzra b.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Avraham b. ʿAṭā' (=Natan), in Malīj, to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b.

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• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: cost
• illness: location
• illness: nursing

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Inferred date

1060–1080 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Natan ha-Kohen ha-Mumḥe b. Mevorakh (a.k.a. Wahb b. Barakāt), in Ashqelon, to the parnas ʿEli b. Ḥayyim ha-Kohen (a.k.a. Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllūn b. Yaʿīsh), in Fustat. In Hebrew, with the address in Arabic. […] He also notes that this is not the handwriting of the well-known Natan b. Mevorakh ha-Kohen who sent letters from Ashqelon during the period ca. 1090–1140 CE.

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to Abū ʿAlī Aharon ha-Kohen b. Avraham. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, and quite eloquent. […] It may be the same Avraham as in JRL SERIES B 7173 (PGPID 40460). Recto is entirely introductory blessings. […] He justifies his rebuke with an (unattributed) quote from Kitāb al-Zahra, the treatise on love by the 10th-century Muslim jurist Muḥammad b. Dāwūd al-Ẓāhirī: "Without rebuking lapses, one can't preserve a friendship."

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• letter norms
• sayings

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