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Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Sums are mainly in the 10s (of dirhams?). Join: Alan Elbaum. Names on fol. 1r include: ʿAbd al-Karīm; Yosef Ibn al-Dajājī; Mūsā b. […] Names on fol. 1v include: al-muʿallim Muwaffaq; Shelomo; Yosef Ibn al-ʿŪdī; Hibatallāh al-Ḥazzan; Hibatallāh Ibn al-Kātib; [...] b. […] Abū l-Faraj; Yosef Ibn al-Dajājī; Mūsā b. Ibrāhīm; Ibrāhīm al-Maḥallī.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: ca. 13th–15th century. Names include: al-Kohen Yaʿqūb; Shemuʾel b. Zaḥḥām; Farajallāh; Shemuʾel b. [...]; al-ḥakīm [...]; al-ḥakīm Avraham; al-ḥakīm ʿAbdallāh; al-ḥakīm [...]; [...] al-ʿaṭṭār; al-ḥakīm [...]; Yūsuf b. [...]; [...] b. al-Dajājī; Yehoshuaʿ ; Yaʿqūb al-ʿaṭṭār; and the children of al-shaykh Yūsuf.

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• cmp

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Arabic

Recto (secondary use): Accounts in Arabic. Mentions al-Yahūdī Ibn al-Raʾīs al-Shaykh Bū l-Faraj (this is probably Eliyyahu b. Zekharya); al-Naṣrānī; Ṭāhir al-Simsār (who has or owes a nice qumqum); al-Yahūdī; Mūsā; al-Faqīh Manṣūr; Bū Naṣr(?) al-Naṣrānī; and Ibn al-Baghdādī.

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Testimony that Abu al-Rida known as al-Subki had gifted all his property in Alexandria to his wife, Sitt al-Zaman bat Yiṣḥaq. Dated May 1185 in Alexandria. (Information from Mediterranean Society, IV, p. 359)

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• testimony

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Arabic

Fatimid official correspondence. Addressed to al-Mawqif al-Ashraf (likely the caliph himself, as in ENA 3974.4 (PGPID 11702)) and to the qāʾid ʿIzz al-Dawla. Mentions the amīrs Shujāʿ al-Dawla, Majd al-Dawla, and the city of Tripoli. The writer mentions sending a delegate/appointee to the amīr Shujāʿ al-Dawla, but the latter refused to accept him and sent the delegate back claiming that he hadn't received an amr (order) from al-Haḍra al-Muṭahhara (also a reference to the Fatimid caliph).

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• 'izz al-dawla
• amir
• dimme
• mulattaf
• tripoli

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Letter from Avraham b. Farah from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1055. Regarding ships movement from Alexandria to Sicily and back. Mentions several ships, including the ship of Abu al-Husain b. al-Shari and Ibn Avi Akil. Also mentions a shipment of oil that arrived in bad condition and that he is worried about the situation in Alexandria.

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Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Probably an alms list in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic. There are also some names of people who may be contributors. Mentions names including ʿAzīz; Rashīd; Bū Saʿd; Bayt ʿAbīd; Mūsā; Bū ʿAlī; Bayt Barakāt; Naṣrallāh; Ibrāhīm al-Kohen; Shemuel al-Muhadhdhab; al-Rayyis Abū Manṣūr; Ibn al-Dayyān; al-Riḍā; Abū Isḥāq; Abū l-Ṭāhir; Abū l-Majd Ibn al[

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a supporter in Alexandria to the nasi Shelomo b. Yishay, Fustat. Dating: ca. 1240. The writer arrived in Alexandria on commercial business to deal with an order of pillows, carpets, robes, and turbans for the nasi made by local artisans. […] Elʿazar ha-Dayyan, was also involved with the Nasi's order. Also mentions that the people of Alexandria are eager to hear the Nasi’s lessons and lectures.

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• mosul nasis
• textiles
• tiraz

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Primary language

Arabic

On recto (at 90 degrees to the Judaeo-Arabic text) there are notations about registering a document: "li-yuthbat bi-dīwān al-majlis in shāʾa Allāh" and underneath "athbatū al-ḥamdu lillāh waḥdah" and next to that "li-yukhraj al-ḥāl bi-dhālik." Variants of these phrases also occur several times on verso, as well as variants of "yastawḍiḥ al-ḥāl bi-dhālik" (so-and-so should investigate/clarify the matter), giving in one place the name Abū l-Faraj ʿAbdallāh Ibn al-Maghribī and in another place the name Najīb(?) al-Dawla. Seemingly unrelatedly, there is also a draft of an opening of a letter addressed to a woman (mawlātī al-sitt al-jalīla) expressing the sender's disappointment in her (mā kān amalī fī mawlātī... hādha al-amal wa-lā hādhā...").

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Judaeo-Arabic

David who died in 1099); Khalaf the in-law of ʿUmar; Barakāt; Ibn al-Dhahabī; ʿImrān al-Sijilmāsī; Abū l-Murajjā Ibn al-Nāqid (appears also in T-S NS 225.99 (PGPID 24239)); Ibn ʿUmayr; Ibn Yaḥyā; Abū Manṣūr b. [...];Ibn Qaṣāyā(?); Abū l-Karam; al-Ḥatan (the groom); Abū l-Ḥasan al-[...]; Abū l-Faraj b. [...]; Abū ʿImrān b. [...]; ʿAllān; Sayyid al-Ahl b. Makārim; Salāma al-Malījī; Abū l-Surūr his paternal uncle; Ibn Nuṣayr; Ibn al-Qarawī; 'my master' al-Ḥemdat; Abū l-Munā al-Ṭabīb.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Late 12th or early 13th century. Names include: al-Rayyis Bū l-Najm; al-Rayyis Bū l-Riḍā; al-Shaykh al-Nadiv; al-Shaykh al-Makīn; al-Najīb Abū l-Surūr; Karam al-ʿAṭṭār; Abū l-ʿIzz Sharābī. At the top of verso mentions Sūq al-Kabīr.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Mentioning debts, Saniyy al-Dawla (also called al-ḥaḍra al-ajalliyya al-sanawiyya) owing 87 dinars. Abū Yaʿaqov [...] owing 91 dinars, Abū ʿAlī, somebody's son, and Ṭarābulus al-Shām (Tripoli in Lebanon). (Information in part from CUDL.) Join: Alan Elbaum.

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Rabīʿ II 909 Hijrī (23 September 1503–21 October 1503 CE)

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Arabic

ENA 3960.6–10 are five distinct but related Mamlūk-era legal documents in Arabic script, all dated 909 H (1503/04 CE), and involving the same people (e.g., Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad b. al-Khwājā Yūsuf b. al-Ḥājj ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Tājir al-Saffār(?) al-Ḥalabī) and the same witnesses (Aḥmad ʿAbd al-Qādir b. [...] and Ismāʿīl [...]). This document is a deed of sale pertaining to 6 dinars and 8 medins for 10 Aleppan shaylas. The genre of the sale document is an iqrār, i.e., an acknowledgment which is also a sub-genre of Islamic legal manuals (shurūṭ al-fiqh).

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• dimme
• iqrar

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Judaeo-Arabic

Moshe, probably from the Maghreb, to Abu al-Faraj b. Sdaka al-Ramli, probably from Alexandria. […] Mentions that goods that arrive in Alexandria and their owners are absent, are being held in a storage. Mentions people such as ʿAṭiyya b. Bunyām al-Iskandarānī; Abū Yūsuf; Abū l-Surūr Ibn al-Qābisī; al-Rayyis al-ʿAjamī; Abū l-Barakāt b.

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Arabic

Mentions old decrees which were in possession of the Rāʾs al-Mathība and also the new ones, probably alluding to the communal archive. Also mentions petitions the Jewish communal leaders wrote to the reigning Caliph. "al-sijillāt al-muʿaẓẓama al-karīma al-qadīma wa l-mujadadda".

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• kalam
• mutazilis
• philosophy
• ras_al-mathiba
• theology

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Judaeo-Arabic

At the end of the letter Abū l-ʿAlā is mentioned, who had been very ill. The writer also mentions Ibn Sālim al-Labbān, who is a tax farmer in Minyat Zifta, Abū l-Ḥasan צהר אלחבר, Abū l-Baqā, Bint Manṣūr […] al-Kohen al-Malījī, Bint Umm Manṣūr, Bint Umm Nawīm (or Nuways?), Abū ʿAlī b. Sahlān, Abū Saʿd al-Malik, Abū l-Khayr al-Kohen, Amīn al-Dawla Abū Saʿd and his son, Abū l-Maʿāli al-Levi, Abū l-Makārim, Abū l-ʿAlā, and also Minyat Ghamr and the Nasi.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Khalaf b. Fuhayd, in Tyre, to al-Shaykh al-jalīl Abū Isḥaq Ibrāhīm Ibn al-Sheviʿi. […] The writer requests a decree (tawqīʿ karīm) of al-Afḍal: ... tawqīʿ karīm min al-ḥaḍra al-mājida (al-Malik al-Afḍal) khallad allāh ayyāmahu ilā al-qāḍī al-ajall thiqat al-dawla ṣāḥīb al-tartīb from al-Mālik (al-Afḍal?) to the Qāḍī Thiqat al-Dawla. Information partly from Goitein's note card for this shelfmark and for BL OR 5566B.5.

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• decree
• fatimid decree
• mint
• petition
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Arabic

Mentions grains and vegetables (al-ḥubūb wa al-mazrūʿāt), al-dhahab al-Ashrafī, the Nile (baḥr al-Nīl al-Mubārak), the port of Alexandria (l. 3), and al-Baḥr al-Aʿzam (Mediterranean Sea). […] The currency towards the end "al-nuḥās al-aḥmar al-mutaʿāmil bihā alʾān bi-l-dīyār al-Miṣrīyya" hints toward a plausible dating of this document. […] Another numismatic reference that might be the most useful for dating is "dhahab al-Ashrafī al-Dhāhirī"; in general, ashrafī refers to the late Mamlūk dīnār first minted in 1425CE under Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay which stayed in circulation under the Ottomans (but which was known more commonly as sharīfī/şerifi post-1517CE).

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1025–1035 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Yosef the leader of the community of Aleppo, probably in Aleppo, to a gaʾon, probably Shelomo b. […] Levi, whose previous letter was lost. Also mentions Tamīm [b.?] Avraham and Yefet Ibn al-Shayzarī. The writer is also on good terms with the local governor. The writer is leaving for Kalne (Calneh) to attempt to resolve a dispute within the Jewish community there; a man named Ibn al-Lādhiqī (potentially identical with Yehoshuaʿ al-Lādhiqī or his son ʿAlī, cf.

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• governor
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Letter from Natan b. Nahray, from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1065. Alexandria is influenced by the declining value of dirhams. The writer mentions a sweater that someone is weaving for Nahray in Alexandria. Also mentions ruby. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, #424) VMR

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Arabic

Heavily reused for writing exercises on recto and possibly also between the lines of the original document. From a certain Ibrāhīm. Additional names are also mentioned: (the addressee?) Jalāl al-Dīn and (in the margin, possibly a later addition) "wa-l-mamlūk al-Mutaṭabbib b. al-Māwardī al-Isrāʾīlī" (the physician the son of the Jewish rose water dealer). Mentions the addressee's prior benefactions (al-ʿāda al-jamīla) and a judge (maʿa l-qāḍī). Needs further examination.

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Inferred date

1132–1149 CE

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Arabic

Dating: ca. 12th C. Recto is headed "al-muqīmīn" and mentions "al-mustakhraj" in the third line, probably related to tax payments, and refers to people such as awlād al-Fakhr(?). There is also some text in the left margin, which reads as "al-tawqīʿ". […] The next line begins with "zakāt al-ladhī"and refers to an iqṭāʿ. Possibly dated to the period of al-Ḥāfiẓ because of the mention of "al-ghallāt/ghulām al-Ḥāfiẓī".

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Arabic

The addressee is addressed as al-maqām al-sharīf (l. 17). The sender (al-mamlūk) describes his dealings with a group of governmental and other overseers (jamīʿ khawla al-sulṭāniyya wa-ghayruhum min khawla al-jihāt, l. 7). The sender had submitted a previous report concerning a certain issue and the addressee had issued an order to convene an assembly (wa-aṣdara al-mamlūk khidma bi-qaḍiyyat . . . fa-kharaja al-amr al-ʿālī zādahū allāh nafādhan bi-ʿaqd majlis . . . bi-mā yataḥaqqaq fīhā, ll. 4–5). The remainder of the text repeatedly refers to the assembling of the overseers. Also mentions Ḥasan b. Ibrāhīm (l. 6) and governmental funds (māl al-dīwān, l. 11).

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Judaeo-Arabic

Makkī b. ʿĪsā b. ʿAwf of Alexandria (d. 1188), who was one of Saladin's teachers. The same faqīh is also mentioned in T-S 12.290 (PGPID 3121) and T-S 16.272 (PGPID 3480). Dating: Before 1188 CE, based on the identification of the faqīh. The letter also mentions a blind person, a 'rabbenu ha-qodesh', Alexandria, as well as ahl al-Maḥalla.

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1237–1300 CE

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Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Also mentions various other distinguished people: the judge of judges (qāḍī al-quḍāh) and the Nagid David (I Maimonides, 1222–1300, held the office after 1237). Also mentions a certain Menaḥem, a Persian (al-ʿajamī), and Alexandria.

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Important business letter sent from Alexandria to Fustat by a Maghribi merchant named Nissim who, coming from al-Mahdiyya, had arrived in Alexandria at time of a civil unrest. The writer describes the difficult situation in Alexandria and al-Mahdiyya, attaches valuable price lists and assures the addressee that his wife and baby daughter are perfectly comfortable. […] Summer of 1062. Lists prices in Alexandria. Mentions trade links with Byzantium, Genoa, Crete, Sicily, and Spain.

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• byzantium
• crete
• genoa
• prices
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Judaeo-Arabic

Dated Thursday, 1 Adar II, but the year is not given. Sitt al-ʿAlāʾ, the wife of Abū l-Fakhr al-Kohen, the brother of Abū l-Baqāʾ al-Kohen, appears before the court together with Maḥāsin al-Kohen al-ʿAsqalānī. […] He says that he gave it to Rabbenu Moshe (= Maimonides), "because he is the one who gave them to me." Also present was the son of al-Shaykh al-Thiqa. The continuation is missing.

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