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1901State documentCUL Or. 1080 5.2
Primary language
Arabic
A group of poor workers (ṣunnāʿ) petition the Caliph and remind him of his promise of not extracting revenue from them except for the “customary portion” “al-ḥilf al-maʿmūl” as decreed by the qāḍī al-Asʿad from the dīwān. The petition contains the “raʾy” clause “ḥusn al-ārāʾ al-ʿaliyya”. Geoffery Khan cites this as an example of a shortened raʾy phrase and translates it as “the boon of the lofty resolutions” (Khan, ALAD, p. 315, n44). Another qāḍī by the title ‘al-Akram’ is also mentioned.
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1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
2. المماليك يقبلو الارض بالمجلس [الكريم وينهون ان … ؟]
3. واهلك اعاديه وحساده [
4. من جملة صناع مقامه الكريم و[
5. بانه ل…
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1902LetterENA NS 67.6
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Probably sent from Alexandria to Fustat. Refers to the arrival of ʿImrān to Fustat; the addressee is to ask him for news concerning another trader, and whether this other trader has left al-Jāwa yet. Also mentions the arrival of somebody else, a Maghribī, in Alexandria from Aden who conveyed news concerning Abū l-ʿAlāʾ. This person stayed in town (= in Alexandria) for 5 days and then returned to Aden. The sender goes on to refer to the difficulties he would face in traveling to Fustat whether by land or water.
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1. ואן דלך אלשכץ אקאם פי אלבלד כמסה
2. איאם ותוגה אלי עדן אעלמת מולאי
3. בדלך ובאללה עליך יא מולאי אן אחוגת
4. עבדך אן יבטל אלדכאן אלי אן נסאפר
5. למצר לאנך …
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1903LetterT-S 13J23.3
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter of Benayahu b. Musa, an Alexandrian from Maghribi origin, to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat. The letter contains severe complaints on the local Alexandrian Jews treatment of foreigners, especially from the Maghrib. […] Benayahu also conveys his preoccupation for the addressee, who is recovering from an illness (r3–6).
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1. בשמך רחמ
2. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך אלגליל גדול הישיבה ואדאם סלאמתה
3. וסעאדתה ונעמתה מן אלמסתקר כאן קד בלגנא אן מולאי אלשיך לחקה וגע
4. …
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1. (1 – 2) בשמך רחמ'; אני כותב לך, ייתן לך אלוהים, אדוני ורכי הנכבד גדול הישיבה אריכות ימים ויתמיד את שלומך
3. ואת אושרך ואת חסדו לך, מן הבית. נוד…
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1904State documentT-S Ar.40.41
Document date
Ṣafar 537 Hijrī (26 August 1142–23 September 1142 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Record of an ordinance dated Ṣafar 537 AH (= September 1142 CE) from Al-Ẓāfir to instruct Al-Hāfiẓ’s book warehouse to issue ‘the epistle of the elder ʿAlī b. ʿĪsā’ (i.e. the ophthalmological treatise Tadkirat al-kaḥḥalīn) to the amir Fakhr al-Dīn Abū Manṣūr ʿIzz al-ʿArab b. Muḥammad. The oversized ʿalāma (endorsement) in thick pen reads as "yuṭlaq dhālik", "may it be granted", possibly in the Caliph al-Ẓāfir's own autograph ("al-khaṭṭ al-sharīf").
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1. يطلق ذلك
2. خرج الامر العالى الظافرى الشريف صلوات الله عليه
3. بالايعاز الى خزانة الكتب الحافظية الشريفة
4. ضاعف الله انوارها باطلاق رسالة ا…
Recto, left side
1. Let that be granted.
2. The exalted and noble ordinance of al-Ẓāfir, the benedictions of God be upon him, was given
3. to instruct al-Hā…
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1905LetterT-S NS 320.11 + T-S NS J209
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Simḥa al-Nīsābūrī ha-Levi to Abū l-ʿAlāʾ Salāma b. Hillel al-Ḥalabī. The sender reports that he arrived in Alexandria on Tuesday after spending three days in Malīj. […] But now he has recovered. The sender also refers to the addressee's intended travel to Yemen.
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1906List or tableT-S AS 143.178
Primary languages
Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals
Bifolio containing accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. There are also Hebrew jottings at 180 degrees, probably a secondary use. Many names mentioned, e.g. Abū ʿAlī Ibn Ḥaffāḍ(?); Aḥmad al-Ṣabbān; Abū Manṣūr; Abū l-Ḥajjāj; Futūḥ al-Shāmī. Also may mention bāb al-futūḥ.
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1907State documentT-S Ar.39.285
Inferred date
1074–1074 CE
Primary language
Arabic
The first is "Turkān Shāh b. al-Amīr Asad al-Dawla Baladkosh", son on the rebellious Turkish army general Baladkosh. The last line of the top entry mentions "istiqbāl tārikh al-tawqīʿ al-madkhūr." Also probably mentions the month of Dhū l-Ḥijja. This document is dated before 466 H/1074 because, according to al-Maqrīzī, Turkān Shāh fled towards Bilād al-Shām after his father Baladkosh was assassinated for inciting the civil war together with Nāṣir al-Dawla (al-Maqrīzī, al-Muqaffā al-Kabīr, II, 340).
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1908Legal documentENA 3960.7
Document date
909 Hijrī (26 June 1503–13 June 1504 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
ENA 3960.6–10 are five distinct but related legal acknowledgments (iqrārs) in Arabic script, all dated 909 AH (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 [...]).
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1909LetterT-S 24.67
Document date
12 Elul 4968 Anno Mundi (26 August 1208 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from the teacher Bū l-Ḥusayn Yehuda (b. Aharon?) Ibn al-ʿAmmānī, in Alexandria, to his third cousin and brother-in-law the physician Yeshuʿa b. […] There are further instructions about Ibn al-Tinnīsī and obtaining a ruqʿa in the hand of the judge (al-dayyān) from the Qaraite al-Shaykh al-Thiqa. […] Yakhin), and the allies of Anatoli were also there. Yosef was then denounced to the amir Ḥusām al-Dīn as someone who curses the Jewish law and who must be banished from the city.
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1. בשמ רחמ מחבהם יהודה המלמד
2. תקדמת כתבי אלי אלמואלי אלסאדה אלאגלה דאם אללה עזהם
3. ונעמאהם ומן כל סו פדאהם ומן חסן אלתופיק לא אכלאהם
4. גמע אללה אלשמל …
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1910Legal documentRNL Arab. D 39
Document date
7 Jumāda II 961 Hijrī (10 May 1554 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
The buyer is Yūsf b. ʿAbd al-Ghaffār b. ʿAbd al-Karīm, the Qaraite Jew, on behalf of his brother, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz. […] Farjallah, the Qaraite Jew, the Jewller (al-Ṣāʾigh), and ʿAbd al-Karīm b. Mūsā b. ʿAbd al-Latīf, the Qaraite Jew, the physician (al-ṭabīb). […] In another deed, from 1583, the same property is also described as endowed by ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. ʿAbd al-Ghaffār already in 1559 CE (PGPID 40646).
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1911LetterENA 4096.g
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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Letter to David ha-Nasi the Exilarch. He is also addressed as al-Rayyis. Written in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. The writer reports that he arrived safely in Alexandria on Friday after 10 very difficult days of travel over sea and over land from Rashīd to Alexandria. On Shabbat, the travelers gathered in the great synagogue of Alexandria and recited blessings over their good fortune.
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1912Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328
Document date
24 Adar II 5323 Anno Mundi (19 March 1563 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Dated 24 Adar II 5323 AM (1563 CE). Farjallah b. ʿAbd al-Bāqī al-Levi and his brother Reʾuben al-Levi testify that they gave permission to their maternal uncle, Avraham b. David al-Levi Shaykh al-Yahūd, to render payment to their mother Estīta bt. David al-Levi that is related to a ten-year loan. The legal arrangments also mention a Rabbanite man by the name of Avraham al-Ḥakīm al-Iskrānī(?)
Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 21r
1. למא כאן בתא׳ נהאר אלגמאעה כ׳׳ד פי שהר אדר שני סנה ה׳ש׳כ׳ג׳ ליצירה
2. חצרו לולד [[פל]] פרגא׳ אללוי א׳אלאך ע׳אלבאקי אללוי וא…
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1913State documentT-S Ar.35.161
Primary language
Arabic
A lot is preserved on both recto and verso, but very difficult to read, mentions "kharaja al-amr al-ʿālī bi l-marsūm", and "imtithāl al-marsūm". […] A state official by the name of Nūr al-Mulk al-Qurhub is also mentioned. Needs examination.
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1914List or tableT-S Ar.40.103
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Customers include Makārim al-Ṣayrafī, Barakāt al-Azraq, Maḥāsin b. al-[...]; the son of Simḥa; Abū ʿAlī Ibn al-Sukkarī; Bū Manṣūr b. al-Dhahabī; al-Shaykh al-Makīn and his brother Abū l-Baqā'.
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- wine
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1915LetterCUL Or.1080 J167
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim. Offers details of ill-fated ships that were destroyed in a storm or met with the Byzantine navy. Of the ships that had been in al-Kanāʾis (a port in western Egypt), the only ones that had made it all the way to Alexandria were 7 ships of al-Ishfīlī, and one qārib apiece of Ibn Dayṣūr, Ibn Sindūr, Ibn al-Dajdāj, Ibn al-Jannānī and al-Jazūla — 12 in all. […] Gil connects this with the 15 ships mentioned in T-S 8J27.2, his #447, and therefore understands this letter to imply that the ship of Ibn al-Baʿbāʿ was among those that hadn't yet returned to Alexandria).
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1. על שמך
2. כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך וצרף אלאסוא ענך ברחמתה
3. מן אלאסכנדריה לנצף מן תמוז כתמה אללה עלינא ועליך בא…
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1. (2−1) על שמך; אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את שלומך ואת אושרך, ויסלק ממך כל רע ברחמיו,
3. מאלכסנדריה, בחצי תמוז, …
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- fayj
- ibn al-ba'ba'
- khums
- qarib
- ships
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1916Legal documentT-S Ar.38.43
Document date
Dhū l-Ḥijja 407 Hijrī (1 May 1017–29 May 1017 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Acknowledgment of the repayment of a debt in monthly installments over the preceding year. Al-Ḥasan b. al-Ḥusayn b. Jaʿfar al-Hāshimī al-Khazīnī and his paternal sister Mubāraka bt. al-Ḥusayn b. Jaʿfar al-Hāshimī al-Khazīnī acknowledge the receipt of the following amounts of money as repayments of a debt from Aḥmad Ibn al-Sayyidī, representative of the head of the Ṭālibīs, Abū l-Qāsim ʿAlī b. […] The document is witnessed by ʿAlī b. Aḥmad, Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Sādān and ʿAbd al-Wahhāb b.
1. [بسم الله الرحمن الرحـ]ـيم وصلى الله على محمد النبي واله وسلم تسليما
2. [اقرا الحسن بن الحسين بن جعفر الهاشمـ]ـى الخازني واخته لابيه ولده مباركة ابنت ا…
1. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. God bless Muḥammad, the prophet, and his family and save them.
2. [Al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn…
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1917LetterT-S 12.369
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Yehuda b. Yahya from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1050. […] He also mentions two ships of Abū ʿAbdallah (Ibn al-Baʿbāʿ), a qārib of Bū ʿAlīal-Shāmī and three ships from the Shām. Also mentions a shipment of camphor and the account of Yehuda b.
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1. תקדם כתאבי למולאי אלשיך אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם סלאמתה וסעאדתה ולם נרא לך גואב ארגו שגל כיר
2. אן שא אללה ואללה אלעאלם מא אנא פיה ומא עלי קלבי מן…
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1. כתבתי לך לפני כן, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את שלומך ואת אושרך, אבל לא ראינו ממך תשובה, אקווה שאתה עסוק בדברים טובים,
2. ברצו…
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1918State documentT-S Misc.25.73
Primary language
Arabic
Recto: Letter/petition in Arabic script to a qāḍī (al-majlis al-sāmī al-ajallī al-qaḍāʾī al-shamsī). The sender's name is given at the top but is tricky to read (al-mamlūk al-aṣghar Abū l-[...]). There is a large upper margin. […] The sender only gets to the substance of the petition in the last preserved line (wa-siwāhu inna muʿrīḍ(?) hādhih al-khidma al-shaykh al-jalīl Abū l-[...]...." Dating: Mamluk era.
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1919Legal documentT-S 13J20.21
Document date
1528 Seleucid (15 September 1216–3 September 1217 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Legal document. Location: al-Maḥalla. Dated: 1528 Seleucid = 1216/17 CE. Al-Nuṣayr b. al-Ḥakīm, a Muslim, declares before Yosef b. […] (Information from Goitein's index cards; also Mediterranean Society, I, p. 242; II, 402.) It seems that al-Nuṣayr is not stating that he will do this, but rather threatening to do so if al-Makīn's in-law al-Rashīd Abū ʿAlī b. al-Makīn does not pay off his debt (the part about al-Rashīd appears in the section of l. 8 that Goitein left unread).
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1. למא כאן יום אלגמעה ראבע [ . . . . . . . . . . .
2. שנת אתקכח לשטרות בעיר אלמחל[ה . . . דעל
3. יאור נילוס מותבה ראינא ביד גוי יוסמא אלנציר
4. בן אלחכים …
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1920LetterT-S 6J7.2
Primary languages
Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
The addressee is called al-shaykh al-ajall... al-muwaffaq al-ṣadīq al-kohen al-vatiq. The sender complains that this year he has perished and his flesh has been afflicted (...fī hādhihi al-sana alladhī halaktu... ilā allāh taʿālā wa-qad baliya laḥmī...).
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1921LetterT-S 8.91
Primary language
Arabic
Begins: "Uṣdirat/aṣdartu hādhihi l-[...] ilā al-majlis al-sāmī.... al-ajallī al-mawlawī... al-makhdūmī... al-sayyidī al-sanadī... al-Badrī...." The addressee is probably titled something like Badr al-Dīn or in the service of one. On recto there is a ketubba (see separate entry).
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1922List or tableT-S Ar.4.3
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Mentions people such as: Abū l-Faraj, al-Faqīh Ibn Manṣūr al-Ḥarīrī, al-Ḥājj Ibrāhīm the partner of Hunayd, Jamāl al-Dīn ʿUmar (of Funduq al-Būrī?), Dā'ūd b. Naba, Yūsuf al-Ṣabbāgh, Nuṣayr b. ʿAlī, and al-Shaykh al-Rashīd.
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1923Legal documentT-S Ar.20.24
Primary language
Arabic
Mentions other landmarks including the house of Bū ʿAlīal-Urjuwānī and that of Fāris al-Kubarāʾ(?). Also mentions the al-Mamṣūṣa neighborhood of Fustat. […] Mentions Abū Jaʿfar b. ʿAlī and Qāsim b. Jamīl al-Ḥāmī. Needs examination.
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1924LetterBodl. MS heb. d 66/6
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. The letter mentions forceful collection of the capitation tax (jaliya) in Alexandria. (Information from Frenkel. See also Goitein, MEd. […] Goitein describes the document as following: Family letter from a physician in Alexandria to his brother, also a physician, who had traveled to Fustat without having paid his poll-tax (or having forgotten to send the receipt back).
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1. בשמ' רחמ'
2. חצ'רה מולאי וסידי אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם עזה ומן חסן
3. אלתופיק לא אכלאה גמע אללה ביננא עלי אסר חאל במנה וגודה
4. אן שא אללה אלדי תריד עלמה …
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In the name of the Merciful.
Honored man, my master and sir, may God lengthen your life and prolong your strength.
May H…
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1925LetterCUL Or.1080 J29
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter that mentions the death of Aharon b. Yeshu'a Ibn al-'Ammani. A man writes to his two brothers in Alexandria. He left Alexandria for Fustat in order to get from the sons of Aharon b. […] Hanan that instructs his Na'ib (his deputy) in Alexandria to give assistance in regards to the will.
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1. בשמ' רחמ'
2. כתאבי אליכם יא כואתי ואעז אלכלק עלי וענדי אטאל אללה
3. בקאכם ואדאם סלאמתכם ואחיאכם ומן חסן אלתופיק לא
4. אכלאכם אערפכם פיה אנני כרגת מן ענ…
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1926State documentT-S AS 184.148
Primary language
Arabic
Recto, lower section: -a header: "al-Maḥāriqa" (perhaps a tribe/family name; there are also places by this name in both present-day Yemen and Algeria) -people's names including Ḥasan(?) […] -the term "khāṣṣa" or "khāṣṣatih" (his retinue?) also appears frequently. Verso, upper section: -a header: "min al-Suwayqiẓa (? […] -"min Dāmūs" (there are places by this name in present-day Spain (Ademuz) and Algeria, but it's also a common noun meaning 'vault'; could also be Kāmūs here).
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1927Legal documentENA 3960.9
Document date
20 Rabīʿ I 909 Hijrī (12 September 1503 CE)
Primary language
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 [...]). […] The genre of the sale document is an iqrār, i.e., an acknowledgement which is also a sub-genre of with Islamic legal manuals (shurūṭ al-fiqh).
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1928State documentMoss. IXa,2.32
Document date
Dhū l-Qaʿda 509 Hijrī (9 April 1114–8 May 1114 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
An official in the Fatimid military administration (mutawallī dīwān al-juyūsh) submits an account, presumably to do with military spending. The main text (l. 2) opens: rufiʿa ilā dīwān al-juyūsh al-manṣūra al-ladhī yatawallahu l-ʿabd (Submitted to the victorious military bureau that the servant directs). On verso, there is the name — presumably as an address of the accounts on recto — of a superior with the extremely lofty titles al-Amīr al-Muʾayyad al-Manṣūr ʿIzz al-Mulk Sharaf al-Khilāfa Ghuṣn al-Dawla wa-Tājuhā Dhū l-Fakhr Ḥusām Amīr al-Muʾminīn Abū Manṣūr.
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1929Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.23
Document date
26 Tammuz 1467 Seleucid (16 July 1156 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Testator: Abū l-Wafā Tamīm al-Kātib Ibn al-ʿAnbariyya. He wills to his younger sister, the widow of Abū ʿAlīal-Tājir ("the merchant in Dār al-Ṣarf") Ibn al-Ṭaziyya, the 1/2 house in which he lives. Address of the house: Fustat, Qaṣr al-Shamʿ, between the two synagogues, across from "the women's bath house, Ḥammām al-Dīk." He also wills her 1/2 of the adjacent ruins. He releases her from all claims.
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1930List or tableENA 3907.5
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Many names mentioned, including Shihāb al-Ḥajj; Munjid; Munajjā al-Ḥajj; ʿAlī b. Ibrāhīm al-[...]; "the Christian who is in the qāʿa of Abū Naṣr"; Abū ʿAlīal-Yahūdī; Sālim b. Yūsuf; Aḥmad al-[...].
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1931LetterENA 2744.5
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He states that he consulted God and sent with al-Rayyis Fāris 7 manns of saffron in a receptacle (ẓarf); also mentions a pouch (mizwad); he also sent [...] weighing 109; and also a bale of אש.... Almost nothing else remains. On a second unrelated piece of paper underneath, dated 1942, somebody (Alexander Marx?)
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1932State documentT-S Ar.39.500
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State document with a header invoking the name of al-Qāḍī al-Ashraf thiqat al-imām. The main text is barely three lines long, followed by sums and registration marks. There is a mention of "carpet spreaders of the palace" (farrāshī l-quṣur), and an iqṭāʿ. A date is also preserved. Extremely elegant hand. The ʿalāma is: "al-ḥamdu li-llāh ḥamd al-shākirīn".
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1933LetterT-S NS 305.109
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Arabic
Mentions Muḥammad b. ʿAmmār al-Tājir in l. 3. Mentions a variant of the raʾy clause: "al-ʾārā al-ʿāliyya". Could be a petition, but could also be a formal letter, as no other petition formula is preserved. Also ends with the Quranic verse (53:22). On the verso, there are a few words in Hebrew (Proverbs 1:8).
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1934Legal documentT-S NS J347
Document date
1531 Seleucid (12 September 1219–30 August 1220 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Mentions people including: his daughter (receives 47 dinars); his cousin (ibn ʿamm); Efrayim his son; Sitt al-Khafāʾ bt. Abū l-Munajjā; Futūḥ b. [...]; Sayyid al-Ahl al-Qāhirī; Makārim al-Maḥallī; al-Rayyis [al-shaykh al-sa?][…] Bū Ghālib; Abū l-Riḍā b. Abū Zikrī; Abū l-ʿAlāʾ; Abū l-Maḥāsin al-Shaykh al-Tifʾeret; Ibn al-Sunbāṭī; Abū l-Fakhr Ibn al-Shammāʿ; Dāʾūd al-Bilbaysī; Abū l-Bahāʾ.
1. דחת]מין לתתא סוף צואה דא כן הוה בחמשה בשבה
2. שנת אלפא וחמש] מאה ותלתין וחד שנין לשטרות בפסטאט מצרים
3. דעל נילוס נהרא מותבה רשותיה דאדונינו נגידינו אב]רה…
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1935Legal documentNLI Ms. Ar. 276.14
Document date
4 Rabīʿ II 1106 Hijrī (22 November 1694 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Judge: Muḥammad Abū l-Mawāhib b. Muṣṭafā al-Marzūqī al-Mālikī. Also present were ʿAlī b. Aḥmad known as al-Faqīh and the two brothers al-Ḥājj Badr al-Dīn and al-Ḥājj ʿAbd al-Raḥīm the sons of the late al-Shihābī Aḥmad known as al-Rūmī b. […] Also somehow involved in the waqf or the legal case is al-Ḥājj Muḥammad b.
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1936State documentBL OR 5554A.43
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Judaeo-Arabic
Renews the appointment of a Jewish physician "to the headship of all the Israelite denominations: the Rabbanites, Qaraites, and Samaritans." States that the order to write this document was issued by the caliph to the chancery (kharaja amr amīr al-muʾminīn ilā dīwān al-inshāʾ bi-katb hādha al-sijill bi-tajdīd mā kāna anʿama bihī ʿalayka min al-riyāsa ʿalā jamīʿ ṭawāʾif al-isrāʾīliyya min al-rabbānīn wa-l-qaraʾiyyīn wa-l-samara).
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1. באנתה[[א]]/א/ג אסלם אלטראיק אלפאיזין בסטוה אלאחמאד ⸱
2. אלבאלגין באלמנאצחה אלי אבעד אלאמאד ⸱ אלדין
3. שכרת מסאעיהם ואסתצובת מקאצדהם ⸱ ותקדמו
4. עלי אהל…
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1937Literary textENA 3982.22–23
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With a popular character: it has extremely short verses with dense rhymes: (1) wa-starhabūhā al-ruhbān. . . wa-staqsamū [..] al-ṣulbān. . . (2) yā ṣāḥ ludhdh bi-alwāḥ wa-nhaḍ [...] al-afrāḥ [...] al-mirāḥ [...] al-aqdāḥ. The latter poem is full of conventional love imagery and reminiscent of Yemeni Shabazian poetry (but there is nothing to suggest that this fragment is late or that it has any connection with Yemen or even with Jews). There is also what may be a name of a woman: Ghālī bt. al-Dawālī.
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1938LetterT-S AS 148.38
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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
The sender seems to be conveying a legal query from the original queriers (ahl al-suʾāl) to a higher authority (adonenu) concerning a controversy over half of a Torah scroll (al-nuṣf al-sefer). There is also a question concerning the beadle (khādim al-kanīs... al-melammed) and two brass platters (ṭabaqyn nuḥās) Verso: Another letter, in a different hand. Possibly referring to tailors' work, and also to the bearer of this letter. (Information in part from CUDL.)
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1939LetterT-S AS 155.78 + T-S AS 155.79
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Refers to someone's illness (r2), and evidently the sender was also sick because God sent him health (r4) and now he is well. He mentions that he fasts. On verso mentions al-nīl, likely referring to indigo rather than to the Nile (which is usually al-Baḥr). Also mentions somebody who traveled to Ashmūnayn (280 km south of Cairo), also mentioning "al-Minya" and the news of bread and wheat.
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1940List or tableMIAC 41
Document date
Tishrei 5690 Anno Mundi (5 October 1929–3 November 1929 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
A scan of this document is available in Al-Janiza wa-l-maʿābid al-Yahūdiyya fī Miṣr, where Ḥasan and Sarrāj also offer a transliteration of its contents to Arabic script. This is a fascinating list because it names the approved kosher butchers by twelve specific locations in Cairo: Hārat al-Yahūd, Ismaʿilīya, Tawfīqīya, al-Ẓāhir wa al-ʿAbassīya, Darb al-Barābarā[?], Heliopolis, al-Mansi wa al-Khalīj, Suq Khuḍar Bāb al-Lūq, Sharʿa Ġamara, Meydān Fakhrī Qabīsī, Fustat [Miṣrayīm al-ʿAtiqa], and Ḥelwan.
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1941List or tableT-S AS 207.23
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Arabic, Hebrew
The first states that Muḥammad b. ʿAlīal-Mālikī owes Salmūn b. al-Dayyān Mūsā Ibn al-[...] […] The next entry also refers to a Muḥammad b. ʿAlī and calls him a qāḍī. […] Some of the other jottings also refer to other names, such as al-Muʿallim Samawʾal Kūhān (Shemuʾel Kohen).
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1942Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328
Document date
14 Sivan 5326 Anno Mundi (1 June 1566 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Incomplete partnership agreement between Khalfūn al-yahūdī al-Rabbān b. Saʿīd Ibn Abu Jadīd (a Rabbanite Jew) and Yosef al-Naqqāsh. […] There is also reference here to the involvement of a certain Ṣedaqa [no surname] and Yaʿīsh al-Kohen. […] ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Kohen aka al-Mawardī. MCD.
Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 32v
1. למא כאן] נהאר אלאתנין ראבע עשר פי שהר סיון המכובד סנה ה׳ש׳כ׳ו׳ ליצירה אשהד עליה
2. ... ...]ן אלמולא יוסף אלנקאש מן כלפון […
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1943Literary textBL OR 5559D.38 + BL OR 5559D.37
Primary language
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Beginning of Chapter 7 from a late ethical treatise ("The letter that Aristotle wrote to Alexander of Macedon on the behavior of kings"). It also gives Alexander's reply and Aristotle's reply.
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1944LetterBodl. MS heb. c 72/38
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Judaeo-Arabic
He reports that a man named Shelomo Siqillī is en route to Alexandria with R. Yosef Castro—it seems this man also needs money. Mentions the arrival of 'the blue khirqa' (which is also mentioned in a previous letter in this binder). There is yet another man coming to Alexandria who also needs help with the capitation tax; this one is named Mūsā b.
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1945LetterENA 2558.31c
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1213–1237 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Autograph note from Avraham Maimonides to al-Shaykh al-Talmid al-Ajall al-Raṣuy(?). In Judaeo-Arabic. […] The third line on the other side appears to also be in Avraham's handwriting (at least the Hebrew script that refers to al-Tifʾeret, but perhaps also the preceding words in Arabic script). […] The original address of that letter (in both Arabic script and Hebrew script) is still preserved: "al-Ḥarīrī should deliver this to Sayyidnā al-Rayyis...
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1946LetterMoss. Ia,17
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Judaeo-Arabic
Letter to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Menashshe b. David al-Ṣayrafī. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender might be Faraḥ b. Yūsuf al-Qābisī (the usual correspondent of Yehuda b. […] Mercantile letter concerning the trade in commodities such as pepper and mentioning Abū Saʿd and traders from al-Andalus. Mentions the geographical area of Jazāʾir al-Qurashī (also mentioned in T-S 16.13) and awaiting a group of people called al-Fīshāniyyīn or al-Fayshāniyyīn (also mentioned in Sassoon 713).
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1947State documentMoss. IV,21.3
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Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic
Recto: Petition draft in Judaeo-Arabic. Abū ʿAlī b. Abū l-[ʿIzz al-Yahūdī] kisses the ground before al-maqām al-ʿālīal-sulṭānī al-malikī al-sayfī al-ʿādilī, and reports that he is a poor man and cannot pay even his own capitation tax (al-qiyām bi-l-jāliya) except through the charity of others. […] He asks for the issuing of a rescript (khurūj al-tawqīʿ) confirming that he should only be liable for his own capitation tax.
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1. אלממלוך אבו עלי אבן אבי אלעז
2. יקבל אלארץ באלמקאם אלעאלי אלסלטאני
3. אלמלכי אלסיפי אלעאדלי כלד אללה מלכה
4. וינהי אנה רגל פקיר לא יקדר עלי אלקיאם
5. בגאל…
1. The slave Abū ʿAlī b. Abī l-ʿIzz
2. Kisses the ground in the elated, mighty,
3. powerful, brave, and just presence [of al-ʿĀdil] may God perpetuate his re…
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1948LetterT-S 10J19.7
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Letter from Abu al-Nasr b. al-Melammed mentioning the impending divorce of his nephew and niece. Abu al-Nasr describes himself as suffering 'dispersion and separation from family and friends' after he traveled from Fustat to Alexandria, where he hoped his mother would join him. He adds that he will spread the fame of his benefactor at warehouses and social gatherings. He also writes that his wife refused to return with him to Alexandria after he had had to flee to and spend some time in Fustat after having gone bankrupt in Alexandria.
1. אעלם אלמולא אלואלד שמ צו אנני כתיר אלשוק אליה ואלדאעי
2. ללה תע אן יחסן בקרב אלאגתמאע בה והו עאלם אנני פי שדה
3. עצימה מן אלוחדה ואלשדה ואלגרבה ואלתשתת וא…
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1949LetterT-S 13J26.22
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Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from Abū l-Manṣūr b. Ṭāhir al-Kohen, in Alexandria, to Abū ʿAlī Manṣūr b. Yiṣḥaq al-Dimashqī, in Fustat. […] The letter reports on a decree of Saladin that was proclaimed in Alexandria, halving the customs dues (maks) that had been incumbent on local and foreign Jews and Christians. The ṣāḥib al-dīwān authenticated and registered the decree (athbatahū), and the amir Fakhr al-Dīn ordered for it to be implemented.
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1. בשמ' רחמ'
2. אלדי נעלם בה חצרה מולאי וסידי אלשיך אלאגל אבן אלמנצור
3. אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם עזה ונעמאה ומן חסן תופיקה לא
4. אכלאה געלני אללה מן גמיע אלא…
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1950Literary textENA 2916.1
Primary language
Arabic
Title and introductory page (recto) for the ophthalmological work Tadhkirat al-Kaḥḥālīn by ʿAlī ibn ʿIsa al-Kaḥḥāl (d. 1038 or 1039 CE). […] The Arabic text on the verso could also be from the Tadhkirat al-Kaḥḥālīn but is in a different scribal hand. The paper was also reused on the recto for piyyuṭ. ASE/MCD.
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