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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

ʿEli ha-Kohen (whose signature includes the superscript "12" likely indicating that the document was written on the 12th of the month, based on comparison with T-S NS J322); Shelomo b.

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Document date

21 Ramaḍān 405 Hijrī (15 March 1015 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Payment made under the supervision of three officials: (1) under the supervision of the auspicious, rightly guided qāḍī Thiqat al-Mulk Makīn al-Dawla wa-Amīnuhā, protégé of the Commander of the Faithful, Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b.

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• fatimid

1 Transcription 1 Translation 2 Discussions

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Account in Judaeo-Arabic, headed with the name Ibn Shaʿyā, mentioning garments (fūṭ) and "al-Sharīf al-Qābiṣ[ī]" and 30 dinars.

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• account

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts for the synagogue, mentioning the women’s entrance of the synagogue, dates such as Shabbat Pinḥas and a number of names, such as Ibrāhīm, Abū l-Riḍā and Manṣūr b. Futūḥ. (Information from CUDL)

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• account

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and eastern Arabic numerals on verso with occasional notes indicating that specific quantities are in different types of coinage. For example, the silver kuruş ("גרש") is attached to certain figures and others bear the designation of "תקיל/ثقيل" indicating coinage of a weight higher than current standards– which helps date this fragment to no earlier than 1690 CE when the earliest variants of the Ottoman kuruş may have been produced (Pamuk, A Monetary History of the Ottoman Empire, 160).

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• numismatic dating

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List of items—mainly different kinds of fūṭa (a piece of cloth to cover the body commonly found in India) together with prices.

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A small remnant of the date is visible in line two "[ה]עשרים ושש", which could be the latter two digits of the year [53]26, [54]26, or [55]26 AM. Location: Alexandria.

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• alexandria
• divorce
• early modern

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

'Distribution of money and clothing,' superscribed 'The rest through Abu'l-Bayan' (the parnas).

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• charity
• communal
• poverty
• recipients
• shemuel b. saadya

1 Transcription

'Distribution of money and clothing,' superscribed 'The rest through Abu'l-Bayan' (the parnas).

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• charity
• communal
• poverty
• recipients

2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Document date

13 Ramaḍān 405 Hijrī (7 March 1015 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Payment made under the supervision of three officials: (1) under the supervision of the auspicious, rightly guided qāḍī Thiqat al-Mulk Makīn al-Dawla wa-Amīnuhā, protégé of the Commander of the Faithful, Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b.

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• damin
• tax

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Perhaps 1437 or 1537 Seleucid, which would be 1125/26 or 1225/26 CE.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There is some ambiguity as the ḥarf aḥmar or ḥarf dhahab aḥmar was a gold coin, presumed to be a name for the ashrafī and sometimes the sequin, whereas plain "ḥarf" was a name for a copper coin of low value.

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• harf

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Primary language

Arabic

The occurrence of few sums of money indicates a fiscal account or commercial transaction - 'min al-fiḍḍat al-anṣāf al-judūd', which points to the Mamlūkī silver 'half' coin of al-Muʾayyad Shaykh and suggests that this letter is dated no earlier than 1415 CE, as this was the year when the ruler imposed the 'half' as the basic silver coin.

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• dimme
• mamluk
• numismatic dating
• samaritan

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Inferred date

1703–1850 CE

Accounts in Judeo-Arabic that mention a variety of coinage types such as gold maḥbūb (specifically Egyptian mintage "מצרי"), bundūqī (Venetian ducat), fındıklı, and on the far left column the "ق" symbol for silver kuruş appears. Each of the Ottoman forms of coinage are helpful for dating the fragment to the eighteenth or early nineteenth century (for example the kuruş was minted perhaps as early as 1690 but did not begin to appear in wide circulation until 1703CE: Pamuk, A Monetary history of the Ottoman Empire, 167).

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• 18th or 19th c
• numismatic dating

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Document date

27 Iyyar 4846 Anno Mundi (14 May 1086 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Manṣur handed him (Menashshe) some dinars to weigh, and Menashshe found among them 15 or 17 ʿAdliyya dinars, which frightened him, as such coins weren't available to the public. He weighed them and handed them to the Muslims in payment for the flax, and later asked one of the Muslims to exchange three or four of the dinars with him, despite his earlier fear. […] Manṣūr replied: "I told him that I didn't have any more of these coins, but had borrowed them from my brother," Maʿālī.

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Tags

• adliyya dinars
• coins
• embezzlement
• mint
• qasr al-rum
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1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef ha-Kohen pays [..]ta bt. Shemuel either 23 or 26 dinars. Yosef may be identical with Abū l-Makārim.

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• arabic script
• jariya
• slaves

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Document date

Thursday, 1 Tammuz 4940 Anno Mundi (26 June 1180 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: Thursday, 1 Tammuz 4940 AM = 26 June 1180 CE. A man named Moshe b. Shelomo who had inherited from his wife 8 out of 24 shares of a house in the neighborhood of Ḥammām al-Akhawayn, which had belonged to his father-in-law Hillel b.

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• property
• women's

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List of weekly emoluments, preceded by the collection made for the purpose. Superscription: 'Statement about the revenue from the collection for the weekly payments, jibayat al-mujama'a, for the week of Naso' (Numbers 4:21-7:89, read mostly in May or June); 'our Master' (Moses Maimonides) 8 dirhams, 'the Trustworthy' (title of Maimonides' father-in-law) 12 dirhams, three others 10 dirhams, one, three, and five other 6, 5, and 4 dirhams respectively; Several items are lost.

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• capitation tax
• communal
• payment
• salary
• tax

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Document date

30 Jumādā I 403 Hijrī (17 December 1012 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, the cashier, and registered by the Office of Accounts on behalf of the Office of Supervision: Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb has paid the sum of 3 and a half and a sixteenth (dirhams?) for the estates in Al-Fayyūm, under the supervision of the judge Thiqat al-Mulk Makīn al-Dawla wa-Amīnuhā, of the protégé of the commander of the faithful Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b.

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• daman
• damin
• majlis al-harb
• tax

2 Transcriptions 2 Translations 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

, that new territory is conquered by him every day, that coins have been minted for him, ואלדעוה פי מכות (this phrase is difficult to understand—does it refer to the Fatimid Daʿwa being "in residence"?)

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• coins
• drowning
• geography
• mint
• nile
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List of quantities of gold dinar and perhaps other coinage types. The word/placename(?) "ʿAqaba" (עקבה) appears on the recto.

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Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions people such as Bū Isḥāq, Abū l-Surūr, and Abū l-Khayr b. Futūḥ. Mentions books including a commentary on Lamentations, a commentary on Ezekiel, and the tractates Berakhot and Shabbat.

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• booklist

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Little of the substance remains, mainly allusions to distress, good wishes for the future, and greetings to a number of family members, including Abū l-Faraj Sayyid al-Kull, and the sender's sister and her children (misspelled אלולאדהא).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a certain Ibrāhīm concerning business matters in which the writer mentions silk and asks the addressee for further trade-related instructions to be sent to him in a future letter. From the circle of ʿArūs (b. Yosef), ca. early 12th century.

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• trade

1 Transcription

End of a document recording a sale, in which an unnamed male is released from obligations concerning some goods he offered his uncle for sale of any future restitution claimed by the uncle. Verso has four lines an unrelated account in Arabic.

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• contract
• sale

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Late, detailed, narrative account entries in Judaeo-Arabic. The paleography and coinage in use (Ottoman jadīd) support a dating estimate of 16th- or 17th-century.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer inquires from Eliyyahu about her son who was left under the judge's supervision, and requests release of money left to her other children.

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• 13th c
• orphans
• women in court
• women's letters

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary language

Arabic

On verso mentions three red Maghribī fūṭas. (ثلثة فوط حمر مغربي). Needs further examination.

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