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  1. 1751Legal documentENA 4010.26

    Document date
    Primary language
    Hebrew

    On verso there are a few faded words, probably from a piyyuṭ.

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  2. 1752Legal documentT-S 8.121

    Primary languages
    Aramaic, Hebrew

    (Information in part from CUDL and Goitein's index card.) Verso: faded Arabic script, maybe accounts or maybe related to the legal document on recto, mentioning textiles (e.g., brocade/dībāj) and colors, quantities, and other characteristics.

    1. [... ובלב] ש[ל]ם ובנפש חפצה [...]
    2. [...] מיושבת בין ונתתי לה ארבע אמות קרקע בחצר [שיש לי ... ואגבן]
    3. [הרשיתיו השלטתי]ו עשיתיו מניתיו אפטרופא על אחי מר…
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  3. 1753LetterT-S AS 159.124

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    The paper is dark and the text is faded. The sender describes his poverty ('weakness') and the losses he suffered for 4 months.

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  4. 1754Legal query or responsumT-S Misc.28.208

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    Hebrew

    Dating: early 11th century. Verso contains a faded address in Arabic script, to Fustat, Abū l-Faraj (Yosef b.

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  5. 1755Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.22

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Ghilāth bought from Abū l-Faḍl Mevorakh b. Shelomo Ibn Qamḥa for 15.5 dinars (not including fees).

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  6. 1756LetterT-S 10J9.13

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    One of a pair of letters written by Umm Sitt al-Nās to family members when she had been thrown out of her husband's and mother-in-law's house. […] The present letter is addressed to Abū l-Faḍl Ibn Sabra, whom Goitein identified as her maternal uncle and as Mevorakh b. […] Perhaps the sentence simply means that in the widow's house, she cannot even obtain a skein of yarn (this would also fit with her preoccupation with her lack of clothing).

    1. כתאבי אליך יא סיידי ורייסי וגלילי ועז אלנאס ענדי אטאל
    2. אללה בקאך וצאנך ורעאך ומן תופיקה אלחסן מא אכלאך וכאן
    3. לך וליא וחאפטה פי גמיע אמורך ואלדי נעלמך …

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  7. 1757Legal documentT-S 13J2.16

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    In which the widower Abū l-Faḍl Shela b. ʿAmram arranges with his bride Mubāraka bt.

    1. ] ודלך אן ואלעיאד באללה דהמה אלאמר [אלמחתום
    2. ואלמציר (!) אלי אלמוצע אלחק אליקין לא ילזמה להא בית תרמל [אן אלא אלקעוד פי דארי
    3. לא גיר וליס להא עלי וראת…
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  8. 1758LetterJRL B 2031

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    The paper is darkened and the text is faded (damage from a book binding?). The addressee is given grand titles such as משה הרב המובהק הפטיש החזק דגל הרבנים. […] After a very deferential introduction, the sender expresses his deep regret (al-nīrān wa-l-nadāma) for having neglected something. […] He mentions Kafr Ḥāris and ʿAwarta and the tombs of al-Sayyid Elʿazar, Itamar, and Pinḥas; and apparently another village with the tombs of al-Sayyid Yehoshuaʿ, his father Nūn, and of Kalev b.

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  9. 1759LetterT-S 8.22 + NLI 577.10/1

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    At the bottom and in the margin mentions Abū l-Majd, Makārim al-Wakīl the collector for the compound of the מלכיין, Ṣafiyy al-Dawla, Ibn Sibāʿ, and Raḍiyy al-Dawla. […] Mufaḍḍal; possibly a physician (al-ḥakīm); someone who is 'long of ears' (ṭawīl al-adhān) and clever (shāṭir); a deed of release and a power of attorney; Hiba al-Labbān and various collaterals; Zayn b. Saʿīd; the town of Qalyūb; Alexandria; a request that the addressee meet with the elder Fakhr al-Ṣanāʾiʿ; Rabbenu Moshe (likely Maimonides); greetings to the addressee's father Abū l-Faraj Beḥir ha-Kohanim; to Abū l-Fakhr al-ʿAṭṭār; al-shaykh al-yesod; Abū ʿImrān al-Tifʾeret; Abū l-Faḍl; and Abū l-Makārim.

    Recto:

    1. לאנה כאן פי אלאתנין ובאע(?) נקץ(?) פטן(?) אל[שי]ך אבו אלכיר א . . .  פי אלא . . ואלאשראף(?)
    2. פיתפק ראיך וראי רבינו פי ביעהם אמא גמלה ואנא מפרק…
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  10. 1760LetterT-S NS 297.6

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    Primary language
    Ottoman Turkish

    In the introduction to her edition, Jane Hathaway notes: "This letter, in Ottoman Turkish.... deals with competition over revenue-collection rights for Damietta’s customs in the context of delivery of the tribute known as māl-i mīrī, which Egypt sent to Istanbul each year, usually through Damietta and Alexandria.... It is written in a rather hasty hand on a sheet of paper that is torn at the upper left and right corners and that has deteriorated around the edges; it is also stained on the left edge and smudged on the right, while the ink has faded significantly. Since the writing runs all the way to the edges of the page, except at the top, these qualities make the document all the more challenging to read. […] The villain of the document is one Ḥusām Reʾīs, the former director of Damietta’s customs operations, who, the letter implies, will not allow the agents of his replacement to do their work....

    Recto, main text

    1. Devletlü ve saʿādetlü sulṭānım bender-i Dimyāṭ mültezimi faḫru’l-emāsil ve züḫrü’l-aḳrān çavuş bey efendim ḥażretleri[nin ḫāk-ı pā…

    Recto, main text

    1. My honoured and esteemed lord, the tax farmer of the port of Damietta, the pride of the exemplary and first among equals, his exce…

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  11. 1761Legal documentBodl. MS heb. d 65/43

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    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.

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  12. 1762Legal documentENA 2727.14b

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    On recto, there are two engagement agreements, the first in the righthand side of the page and the second begins in the lefthand side of the paper and continues on the verso. The writing is faded and difficult to decipher. (I) Groom: Shemuel b.

    Part A:

    1. בתאריך יום אלאתני כד מרחשון
    2. שנת אתרמו לשט[...]ם [...] אללה
    3. תע אלצלה ב[ין אלחתן] שמואל בר
    4. מר אברהם נע בר נ[...] ובין אלכלה
    5. צריפה הבתולה [...]…
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  13. 1763Legal documentJTS MS 8254.17

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Underneath, there is an extremly faded text block (a letter?) in the hand of Avraham Maimonides.

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  14. 1764LetterT-S 16.343

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Involving communal affairs in the Delta. Nearly complete, but faded. Mentions: Malīj; "I have written a letter for R.

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  15. 1765LetterMS Meunier

    Primary language
    Hebrew

    David to the Tustarī brothers, Abū l-Faḍl Sahl, Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf, and Abū Sahl Saʿīd b. […] The writer then spent a full year on the road before reaching Aleppo, arriving destitute and dependent on the local Jewish community for food. In Aleppo, he heard disturbing news about the Tustarī brothers and Damascus, but he leaves this unclear.

    Recto

    1. [                                                  ]תי זה 
    2. [                                                  ]ו הושיעם 
    3. [                    …

    Recto

    1. [                                           ] this
    2. [                                           ] He has saved them
    3. [                          …
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  16. 1766Legal documentT-S 8J9.17

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Khalaf the silk trader and Abū l-Faḍl b. Nathan concerning shares of the house Duwayra Zaʿfarān (the ‘little saffron house’).

    1. ] בן כלף אלקזאז קבץ ותסלם מן אבו אלפצל בן אבו
    2. אל[ ] ג דנא' ואבאעה אלקיראטין מן אלסדס מן אלדאר // אלדי כלפה לה

    אכוה //

    1. אל]מערופה בדוירה זעפראן אלמק…
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  17. 1767LetterT-S 13J7.19

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Others send their congratulations, including Umm Abū l-Faḍl, Abū l-Majd, Abū Manṣūr, Abū l-Fakhr, and Umm Hiba.

    1. בשר
    2. כתאבי אלי אלאכת אלעזיזה אלואלדה אלגלילה
    3. שת סעוד אטאל אללה בקאהא ואדאם עזהא
    4. ונעמאהא ומן חסן אלתופיק לא אכלאהא
    5. ואגעלני מן כול סו פדאהא ואלדי תרידי…

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  18. 1768Legal documentT-S AS 153.237 + T-S AS 153.238 + T-S AS 153.240 + T-S AS 153.242 + T-S AS 153.243 + T-S AS 153.244 + T-S AS 153.245

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    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Other names include [Abū l-]Faḍl b. Moshe and someone titled Rosh ha-Qehilot (both of these are on T-S AS 153.242).

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  19. 1769LetterBodl. MS heb. c 27/82

    Letter from Mūsā b. Isḥāq b. Ḥisda, al-Mahdiyya, to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal, Fustat.

    Recto

    1. ישיכי ורייסי וגלילי וכבירי אטאללה(!) בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וכאן לך וליא ונאצרא וחאפצ'א פי גמיע אמורך [מן] אלמהדיה לו' כלון מן אילול
    2. ען סלאמה לא זל…
  20. ...When I departed from Sicily, Ismāʿīl
  21. al-Andalusī asked me to collect all your goods, whatever was in his hands and in the hands of Barhūn, to collect and store in a warehouse until a letter would arrive from the elder with whatever he would instruct. The one who took charge was al-Faḍl ibn Faḍlān.
  22. He unrolled it, and Saʿāda and Yaḥyā ibn al-Mājjānī tied it back up. [ ... ] arrived [ ... ] taken to the Dār al-Zabīb [ ... ].
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  23. 1770LetterT-S 13J9.4

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    He has become paralyzed (mabṭūl), blind (aʿmā), and feeble-minded (madkhūl al-dhihn), and suffers much (mumtaḥin). The bearers of this letter will tell you about him and about my care for him. […] A second theme of the letter is the story of a fellow Toledan, Ibrāhīm b. Fadānj, and his wife, who arrived two years earlier after having been taken captive in Byzantium and redeemed in Ramle. For a detailed analysis of their case—involving multiple changes of allegiance between the Qaraite and Rabbanite communities, and the writer's role in aiding them—see Rustow, "Karaites Real and Imagined" (2007), 43–47.

    1. בשם רם ונשא
    2. כתאבי אליך יאכתי וחביבה קלבי אטאל אללה בקאך ואוזעני שכרך ואגמע ביני ובינך
    3. פי הדא אלקדס אלמקדס ברחמתה וקד תקדמת לי אליך כתב עדה ולא אעלם …

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    29. Regarding Ibrāhīm b. Fadānj and Ibrāhīm b. al-Harūnī, they arrived in 
    30. Jerusalem from…
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  24. 1771LetterDK 314

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from Salmān b. [...] to Zayn b. Abū l-Faḍl. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender was happy about the recent letter from the addressee, and is very grateful for something the addressee did.

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  25. 1772LetterENA NS I.62

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    Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

    Verso contains a very faded text in Arabic script (see separate entry, PGPID 35164).

    1. כה אמר ייי שמרו משפט ועשו [צדקה
    2. כי קרובה ישועתי לבוא וצדקתי להגלות
    3. אשרי שומרי משפט עשה צדקה ב ע
    4. אעלם אלגמאעה אלמקדסה זאד אלל[ה
    5. פי גלאלתהא אנני אמ[…

    Thus says the Lord: Do justice and deeds of charity, for my salvation is near to come and my charity to be revealed (Isaiah 56:1).

    Blessed are thos…

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  26. 1773LetterIOM D 55.11

    Inferred date
    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    It was a lawsuit between Abū l-Faḍāʾil Shela b. Natan, on one side, and Seʿadya b.

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  27. 1774LetterT-S Misc.28.149 + T-S Misc.28.58

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    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    The addressee, having no received no letters — the sender counters that he sent plenty of letters, but the messengers probably didn't deliver them — appointed a legal representative, Abū l-Faḍl b. al-Masos, to travel to Damascus and sue the sender for the value of a shipment. […] For other Geniza documents concerning the Gaʾon ʿEzra, see T-S 8J8.15 (PGPID 2204) and the letter from ʿEzra himself discussed in Mann, Texts, I, p. 252 (current shelfmark TBD); see also Goldman, Arabic-Speaking Jews in Crusader Syria, PhD diss. (2018), pp. 268–70. Join: Alan Elbaum. ASE

    Verso

    1. לאכן ענדי תקתי בך | אללה [[יבקיק]] יבקיך דפעת ללוכיל
    2. הדא אלשי אלדי דפ|עתה לה ואנת תעלם באני מא 
    3. טלבת מנך תדפ|ע לי הדא אלכתאן ולא סואה ותמנעת
    4. מ…
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  28. 1775LetterT-S NS 181.35

    Primary language
    Hebrew

    Faded letter in Hebrew. Dating: looks late, ca. 15th–16th century.

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  29. 1776LetterENA 2558.10

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    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from Berakhot b. Avraham Ibn al-Ḥājja (aka Abū l-Barakāt Hibatallāh b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṣāʾigh), in Būsh outside the Fayyūm (בעמאל אלצעיד אלאדנא/بعمال الصعيد الادنا), to his mother, in Alexandria. […] The address is made out to Alexandria, the goldsmiths' market, to be given to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. […] In any case, the addressee should shelter [Yaman] and feed her until the sender can arrive and take her to her brother in al-Shām. The best way to contact the sender is to send letters to Fustat to al-Bilbaysī or to Abū Sahl in Darb al-Kharrāṭīn, and they will forward them with the Jewish merchants to Abū l-Barakāt al-Ṣāʾigh the Jew in Būsh.

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  30. 1777Legal documentENA 3306.1

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    Aramaic, Hebrew

    The bride's legal status is listed as batula and bogeret. The text is faded, and can be partially deciphered. The marriage gift is 60,000 medin - a common Ottoman currency of this period.

    1. ב.ה׳׳[..]
    2. בשישי בשבת  ב[עש]רה ימים א.[. ....] חמש[ה] אל[פי]ם וחמ[ש]
    3. [מא]ות [ארבע]ה וארב[עים שנים] לב[ריא]ת עולם [למני]ן שאנו מנין הכא -
    4. במתא רשיד יע…
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  31. 1778Legal documentT-S K24.1 + T-S Ar.30.301

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Persian

    Samuel; Ezra b. Eli; Faḍlān b. Yosef; Ḥasan b. Yaḥyā. On verso there is a Judaeo-Arabic literary text discussing the Land of Israel in question-answer format.

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  32. 1779LetterBL OR 5566D.6

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from Nahray b. ʿAllān in ʿAydhāb to his son ʿAllān b. Nahray in Alexandria concerning shipments. […] Additionally, he paid Abu ʾl-Faḍl b. Abu ʾl-Faraj al-Dimyātī ("from the Egyptian seaport of Damietta") a dinar for expenses for the lac. al-Dimyātī was to deliver the lac, a copy of the account, and the distribution list to Abū Zikrī Yehuda, the Kohen, who will sell the shipment and distribute his portion to his partners before delivering the remaining balance and the account to ʿAllān. […] Nahray sends regards to ʿAllān, his grandsons, his own wife, ʿAllān's wife, his brother, and his nephews, and urges ʿAllān to take care of the family.

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  33. 1780Legal documentCUL Or.1080 J59

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Dated: Nisan 1502 Seleucid = 1191 CE, or perhaps 15[4]2 Seleucid = 1231 CE. The fragment is faded and very difficult to decipher. The suggested reading is uncertain.

    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן שהדי [...]
    2. דהוא עשרין וחמשה יומי בירח ניסן שנת אלפא וחִ[מש]
    3. [מאות] ותרִתִיִן שנין למנין שטרות למנינא דרג[יליננא ביה]
    4. בעיר אלק…
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  34. 1781LetterT-S 8.279

    Primary languages
    Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

    מוענא) with a Hebrew poem on the other side; the other two pages contain a faded Arabic text. (Information in part from CUDL)

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  35. 1782List or tableCUL Or.1080 J285

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    The names include: Abū Ṭāhir Ibn al-ʿAnbarī; Abū l-Makārim al-[Koh]en; Sulaymān Ibn al-Zanīʿa(?)[…] Nuʿmān Levi, money assayer who sells copper coins (naqqād yabīʿ al-fulūs); Mufaḍḍal and Abū l-Faḍl the children of Nabīqa(??)[…] ; his foster son; Hilāl the dyer of red fabric (al-ṣabbāgh al-aḥmar) the foster son of Abū Riḍā al-Kohen; Sulaymān; Abū ʿUmar the Alexandrian the dyer; Abū Saʿd al-ʿAdanī the perfumer; his foster son Makārim, porter (yaḥmil); Hiba b.

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  36. 1783LetterT-S 10J31.14

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Farrāj (who is dead), Ḥassūn, Ibn Faḍl, and Ibn Mardūk. The addressee had previously cursed the sender (תסובני ותקול הדא קביח), who insists that he has done everything his wife (whom he calls "your daughter" or "the girl") demanded, though she and her paternal aunt are crying day and night.

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  37. 1784List or tableT-S NS J205

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    MR Cohen: in right margin, many entries preceded by a final mem, in a more faded ink, presumably standing for tasallam, paid.

    1. ש ויהיו
    2. ם יעקב סכנדרי צהר אלחזן ( ½ 12 או ½ 112) 105
    3. ם שמואל בן סעדון ( ½ 12 או ½ 112) 105
    4. ם עבדאללה צהרה 30
    5. ם יצחק צהר שמואל אלפרנאס 30
    6. ם יוסף נשאד…
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  38. 1785Legal documentENA 2560.6

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Futūḥ and Sulaymān. (2) Lease. Property: Ṭabaqat al-Burj (referring to a tower? or to a dovecote?). […] Lessor: Bū l-Faraj Ibn al-Abzārī. Lessee: Bū l-ʿAlāʾal-Ṣabbāgh. Rent: 12 dirhams/month. (3) Involves Makārim b. […] Fiancee: Mudallala bt. Mufaḍḍal al-Ṣāʾigh. Delayed marriage payment (muʾakhkhar) is 50 dinars.

    verso

    1. ולדת בנת לא[ב]ן [י]עלמו

    2. מן בנת טויר אלעשא

    3. והי ממזרת

    4. פי אתק'לב'

    verso (vertical)

    1. לאן כאנת אמהא פשעה (!) והי זוגה אפרים אלדמירי

    ו…

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  39. 1786Literary textYevr. II A 104/2

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    Shemuel wrote him when he traveled to Māzar; from the letter that Abū l-Faḍl wrote to him. According to the FGP bibliography, this manuscript was edited by Elisheva Hacohen, שירי ר' אנטולי בר יוסף, in 1995/96.

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  40. 1787LetterT-S AS 154.376

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    Dating: late 12th or early 13th century, based in part on the reference to the ruler of Bijāya Abū ʿAbdallāh Ibn Yūmūr (mentioned in literary works by Ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Marrākushī (https://shamela.ws/book/17056/2241#p1) and al-Maqqarī al-Tilimsānī (https://shamela.ws/book/1002/808)). […] Farrāj, who brought the sender's case to Abū l-Faḍl b. ʿAliyyal-Nās(?), who in turn brought it to (the ruler) Abū ʿAbdallāh Ibn Yūmūr, who evidently allowed him to leave together with his family. […] grandfather?) of Zekharya b. Yehuda al-Aghmātī, who is known for his commentary on the Halakhot Rabbati of al-Fāsī which he composed in 1189/90 CE and in which he cites Ibn Migash as an authority; see Michael Wechsler, "Zechariah ben Judah al-Aghmāṭī," EIJW.)

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    1. פעלהא לאנכם מעדן אלעלם ואלעמל [
    2. קצד אלי אללה ואליכם אן תפעלו מעה [. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ושלום
    3. אדונינו יגדל ולא יחדל אמן סלה     [ופ]…
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  41. 1788LetterT-S 12.780

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    Between his request for funds due to him and his discussion of an ongoing divorce, he interposes the line, “for I am a lump of flesh waiting to die,” continuing later that “I am in need of mercy, my strength is fading” — a common rhetorical strategy for gaining the sympathy of one's correspondent.

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    1. [                                                                                                                                             …
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  42. 1789LetterT-S 13J36.5

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Qandarī or Qundarī, which he has passed to Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllūn b. Mūsā, even though payment was not due for another month. […] Mawhūb the blind, Abū l-Faḍl, and Mubārak b. Ṣemaḥ are in prison for debt and the rest are under demand; he has asked Jāsūs al-Maghribī to see to his family's needs in Jerusalem, though they do not want the help. […] In addition to the edition by Gil, there is also one by Goitein in Shalem 1 (1974), 34–44.

    1. קד כאן יא ולדי וקרה עיני אטאל אללה בקאך נפדת אליך כותבי מן [אלרמלה]
    2. במא ארגו אן תקף עליהא וערפתך כיף גרא אלאמר פי אלקודס ופי אלרמלה
    3. ואני נזלת אלי אל…

    Recto

    Recto, right margin

    Verso

    Verso, address

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  43. 1790LetterT-S 24.47

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Netanel, probably in Fustat, to Yehuda ha-Levi, in Alexandria. Extremely faded and damaged. Dating: September 1140 CE. […] Ḥalfon states that he remained in Alexandria "a year less a month" (verso, right margin, l. 13) immersed in deep depression and thoughts of death. […] As a result of his prolonged stay there and especially his gloomy state of mind, his business affairs suffered. He also mentions delays caused by a number of court documents being "under seal" and inaccessible (verso, right margin and top margin).

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    1. מגדל עוז שם יי וג'
    2. יאמולאי ומאלך נפסי וגאיה אמלי ומנאי אִןִ ..לִלִ.....אה יִגִדהא פי חאלה
    3. ואחואל לא יצלח לה ולא יתפק לִיתקִ[ן] מִכא[טבה ...] ה…

    Translated by Amir Ashur.

    The name of the Lord is a strong tower (Proverbs 18:10).

    My lord and master of my soul, and the object of my hopes and long…

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  44. 1791LetterBodl. MS heb. b 11/33

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    David of Lunel to Moses Maimonides (active in Egypt ca. 1168–1204), writing in his own name but alsoall the sages of Provence. The letter discusses three topics. (1) They have succeeded in finding a translator for the Guide for the Perplexed, Shemuel b. […] From the response, we also learn that this letter by Yonatan of Lunel was accompanied by a letter to Maimonides from Shemuel Ibn Tibbon. […] Verso contains three different text blocks. At the top, very faded, is the address, most of which Stern succeeded in reading with UV light (משה יצ בן . . .

    For and on behalf of the notables and sages, by the order of old and young, upon the decision of the counsellors and advisors, I was moved to say wor…

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  45. 1792LetterT-S 12.327

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    However, he has no way of accessing his money. Abū l-Faḍl has not been helpful in this matter. He urges the recipient (possibly his brother, since he invokes "my master's upbringing" of the recipient) to do his utmost to get hold of the 5 dinars belonging to the writer, and to go to the Rayyis Abū l-Najm and purchase a female slave with the money.

    Recto:

    1. ] . . מן ספרהא (?) מא אקעדני ענך
    2. ] וגע . אללה יסתגיב מני פיך צאלח אלדועא (!)
    3. ]לם אנני וגיע כתיר ולא אחד יסקיני . . טת מא
    4. ]ולציגאר מטרוחין לא …

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  46. 1793LetterT-S 10J5.6 + T-S 20.113

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    Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

    The community in Ashqelon had spent over 500 dinars; ransomed over 40 captives; continues to bear the high expenses of caring for the 20 redeemed captives who remain in Ashqelon; and is now in debt for more than 200 dinars. The writers also mention Jews who had escaped from Jerusalem on their own, and others who had been given safe-conduct with the wālī. […] See DK 242 + T-S AS 146.3 for a letter written one year earlier from the Rabbanites of Fustat to the Rabbanites of Ashqelon, also having to do with the campaign for the ransoming of captives. (Information CUDL and from Goldman, "Arabic-Speaking Jews of Crusader Syria" (PhD diss., 2018), 49–58. See also Goitein, Med Soc 5:537; Goitein, "New Sources on the Fate of the Jews during the Crusaders' Conquest of Jerusalem" (Heb.)

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    1. ויפדם שומר יצחק ויעזרם צור יעקב ויהי למו משגב [. . . . . וימלא]
    2. משאלותיהם ויחון עליהם וברכותיו יפיק להם ויעדיף חסדו אליהם וישלח
    3. ברכה במעשי ידי…
  47. sends his greeting to your excellencies 
  48. and begs you to note ... 
  49. al-Fadl Abu.... 

    50. T-S 20.113, verso, right margin (in Arabic script)

    1. Hanina b.
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  50. 1794LetterT-S Ar.34.286

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    The name of the sender is faded, but may be legible with effort. The sender has recently lost his only son in a particularly traumatic way (at sea?).

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  51. 1795Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1701

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Qayūma and an unnamed woman who is alternately referred to as "the daughter of Abū l-Maʿālī b. […] Ṣadaqa al-Labbān and Abū Naṣr b. Qayūma was also present, he witnessed Abū Naṣr's vulgar speech and behavior toward the woman, but he had no knowledge of whether anything else passed between them. (6) A number of other women were then questioned. […] Yefet, and probably others that are now faded. He adds an addendum the following day stating that he attended "al-majliṣ al-marsūm" (Goitein interprets this as 'the next prayer service') of the Qaraites in Cairo and declared the agreed-upon ban of excommunication, effective for a period of one week.

    1. חבשם יודע תעלומות
    2. סלמא כתרת אלשנאעאת ען אבו נצר בן קיומא
    3. מנד עדה סנין באבנה אבו אלמעאלי בן תאמאר אלתי הי
    4. זוגה אבו סעד בן צדקה אללבאן ואעתמד אלמגון מ…
    1. Bad rumours about
    2. Abū Naṣr ben Qayyūma multiplied for
    3. several years regarding the daughter of Abū al- Maʿālī b. Tāmār, who is the
    4. wife of Abū Saʿd b…
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  52. 1796Legal documentII Firk. Arab. 1

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    Arabic

    It "records on its recto the purchase of a portion of a house in Cairo (referred to as al-Muʿizziyyah al-Qāhirah) in 553 AH / 1158 CE. The house is located in Ḥārat Zuwayla, on Raḥbat Surūr al-Luʾluʾi. On its verso there are two documents recording the subsequent transfer of its ownership in 555 AH / 1160 CE and 572 AH / 1176 CE respectively. […] This can be paraphrased as ‘old certificate of sale relating to what has been established as a pious foundation.’" This note also located the said endowment in "Raḥbat Surūr al-Luʾluʾi" (רחבה שרור אללולוי), a toponym also mentioned in PGPID 40228 (13th century) and PGPID 40230 (from the 14th century).

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    1. ثبت والحمد لله موفق من توكل عليه
    2. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله وحده [وصلوته على سي]دنا محمد نبيـ[ـنا وا]له وسلامة
    3. هذا ما اشتري الشيخ سعيد ا…
  53. The fourth boundary, which is the western one, extends to the house known by (the name of) Abū al-Faḍl, the cloth merchant, known (also) by (the name of) Ibn Ḵuwār; with the boundaries of all that the contract of this sale entailed, namely its boundaries,
  54. its structure, its door, its lower courtyard, its staircase, its upper apartments, its passage, its storeroom, its bench, its engraved doors, its windows, its ventilation shafts, its brick, its baked bricks, its unbaked bricks, its timber, its silver, its treasury,
  55. all its rights, by which it is know and which are attributed to it, for sixtyfive dīnārs, gold, in minted coin, full weight, verified, of good alloy, a decisive, effective, permitted, operative, valid sale, without a condition
  56. that may corrupt it, without a defect that may invalidate it, it being not by way of pledge, nor trading, nor surety for a debt.
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  57. 1797Legal documentT-S NS J161 + T-S 12.5

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    On verso there is very faded Hebrew text, likely literary.

    1. אלתמן סתה [דנאניר ורבע ועדל ניל תמנה ]
    2. אלקנטאר מנה בעד אלכ[ ]
    3. כאלץ מאיתי רטל פלפ[לי אלתמן אחדי עשר דינר ]
    4. ותלת ורבע ותלתה אמנא ורבע טבאשיר אלתמן תמנ…
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  58. 1798List or tableBL OR 13888.3

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    Shaykh al-Yahud, 'Abd al-'Aziz b. Katib al-'Arab, Yehudah [...], Sulayman [b.] al-Shaykh al-'Afif, 'Abd al-Rahim al-Maghribi, 'Abd al-Ghaffar b. 'Abd al-Wali, 'Abd al-Wahid b. Fayruz, Barzilay al-Faranji, 'Abd al-Ghaffar al-Kazaruni, 'Abd al-Karim al-Mawardi, 'Abd al-Latif b. 'Abd al-Wali, Sedaqah al-[...] and his son, Ibrahim al-Maghribi, 'Abd al-Wahid b. al-Mu'allim, Ya'qub b.

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  59. 1799List or tableBodl. MS heb. e 32/50

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Names include: Sulaymān al-Qandīl; al-Ṣulayḥī; David al-Qandīl; Yaḥyā al-Najjār; his son; Ibrāhīm al-Ṣārim(?)[…] ; Sulaymān al-Qarrās(?); Yaḥyā al-Barsh(?); Yaḥyā al-HKRY(?); Yaḥyā al-Quḍāʿī; Saʿīd al-Ḥāsir; Saʿīd al-[...]; al-DQL(?)

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  60. 1800List or tableHalper 467

    C 136) Names include: Column 1: Naḥum Baqqāl; Isḥāq Baqqāl; Mūsā; Yaʿqūb Maghribī; Yosef Ḥarīrī; [...] al-Ṣāniʿ; al-Nafīs Sharābī; Ibn al-Sofer Ṣaghir; al-Mumḥe Hiba; Hilāl rabīb al-Kohen; Ibn al-ʿAnbarī and his brother; Sulaymān Ṣabbāgh; Abū l-ʿAlāʾ b. […] Ibn Nufayʿ; Maḥāsin Naqlī; Bū Naṣr Naqlī; Ibn al-ʿAdanī; Ibn al-Kāmukhī; al-Shaykh al-Nākhūdha. […] Ibn al-Jabbān; Bū Saʿīd; Makārim;[...] al-Rayyis; Ibn al-Dayyān; al-Muzaghlil; al-Rashīd Column 5 (verso): al-mawlā al-Muhadhdhab; awlād al-rayyis; al-Gaʾon al-[...]; al-Mashmiaʿ Mufaḍḍal; al-Shaykh Yosef and his son; Ibn al-Jalājilī; Yeshuʿa; Abū l-Maʿānī; al-Shaykh al-Najīb Kohen [...]; al-Shaykh al-Najīb Kohen Kāmukhī; al-Thiqa Ibn al[...]; Makārim Ibn al-Ghuzūlī; the son of Abū l-Maʿānī.

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    אלאטבא

    אלמולי אלמהדב שצ

    אולאד אלרייס שצ

    אלגאון אלמ..

    אלמשמיע מפצל

    אלשיך יוסף וולדה

    בן אלבלאגלי

    ר` ישו…

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