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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter sent from Damascus to ʿAllūn b. Yaʿīsh al-Firnās al-Hārūnī (aka the parnas ʿEli b. […] Reporting among many other matters that Abū ʿAlī Ḥassūn b. Musallam Ibn al-Ḥirbish had come to Alexandria and asking that he see to it that al-Hirbish fulfills his obligations.

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• communal

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer revised the letter, probably after completing it, and added in several missing alifs. He has an unspecified illness. He is lying sick in the house of Baqā' b. al-Muṣinn (at least in the daytime), also attended by Ibn al-ʿAṣṣār. […] He describes his nights and days twice. Ibn al-Muṣinn is also in distress because his little boy is also sick. […] Date: Probably early 13th century. Abū l-Baqā' b. al-Muṣinn ("son of the stinkard") appears also in T-S NS J32, but this document is undated.

Tags

• bloodletting
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: bloodletting
• illness: hospice
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a legal document, mentioning Ibn Abū l-[...]ān and Bāb(?) al-Ḥarīr (silk) in New Cairo (al-Muʿizziya) and Fustat. Also specifies a sum of cash. (Information in part from CUDL.) For the phrase "bāb al-ḥarīr" see also ENA 2715.23 (PGPID 11106).

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Document date

18 Rabīʿ I 909 Hijrī (10 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 acknowledgment which is also a sub-genre of with Islamic legal manuals (shurūṭ al-fiqh).

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Document date

1140 CE

Dating: 1140. The partners (Abū al-Barakāt and Abū al-Faraj) split losses evenly but grant the active partner (Abū al-Faraj) thirteen twenty-fourths of the profit. In fact, the document specifies two twenty-fourths of the profit allocated to Abū al-Faraj, the amount by which his share exceeded Abū al-Barakāt's, as "remuneration [for his trouble and work]". […] Abū al-Barakāt also declares that his partner’s testimony would be trusted, even though both partners are supposed to perform an accounting.

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• partnership

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Document date

Tuesday, 27 Dhū l-Qaʿda 632 Hijrī (13 August 1235 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Verso: Legal document in Arabic script. Headed by an ʿalāma: tawakkaltu [...] ʿalāAllāh. The Arabic word at the bottom of the page may also be some sort of registration mark (or signature of the scribe?). […] Abū l-Majd report the death of the Jew Yūsuf al-[...] al-Ṣaghīr b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṣabbāgh on the date of Tuesday, 27 Dhū l-Qaʿda 632 AH, which is 13 August 1235 CE. […] Khan, ALAD, docs. 125–31 for a cluster of similar documents from the same period.

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Primary language

Arabic

It seems that there is an urban food shortage or a case of grain hoarding and the writer is asking for a state intervention. The amir Munjid al-Dawla, Abū l-Ḥasan Mukhtār al-Mustanṣirī comes from a family of government officials, his father Amīn al-Dawla was also an amir and his grandson Maʾmūn al-Baṭāʾiḥī was a very influential government official and wazir of the Caliph al-Āmir Billah. According to the time period al-Maqrīzī situates Munjid al-Dawla in, he was an amir during the time of al-Mustanṣir Billah and the food shortage he is referring to could be the Shidda ʿUzma or some other famine that occurred during his reign. (See al-Maqrīzī, al-Muqaffāʿ al-Kabīr: VI, 254). YU

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• dimme
• famine
• food shortage
• shidda
• wheat

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The four men are Abū l-Ḥasan the cantor known as Ibn מכור; Yaʿaqov and Khulayf the sons of Yosef al-Ḥazzan; and Khalaf b. Hiba known as al-Ṭunnāmilī (appears also in ENA 1822a.24 (PGPID 2620) in the context of mushāq). The document also mentions R. Yiṣḥaq; Abū l-Maʿālī; checking the court records (al-shimmush); Barakāt known as Ibn ʿĀdī. There are also other commodities involved, including codices (maṣāḥif).

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• flax

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Many people and professions and commodities are named. Mentions Dār al-Maqādisa; Darb al-Maqādisa; Dār Ibn ʿImrān; al-ʿAnbarī; Ḥashshāshīn; Bū l-Faraj; Bū l-Munā; Bū ʿAlī; and al-Shaykh al-Rashīd al-Ṣayrafī.

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• list

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document concerning business matters, particularly the price of wax (thaman al-sham’), and citing various sums of money. Abu Yaqub Yusuf al-Fasi, Ibn Ishaq al-Andalusi, al-Farah b. Ishaq al-Muqaddas, and Yusuf b. ‘Ali are all mentioned.

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• business
• wax

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Primary language

Arabic

State document, a decree from the chancery of al-Ḥāfiẓ. Probably a copy of a decree, than an original decree as it is less elegant and less grandiose. Contains some administrative notes on verso like: sijill muʿazzam, al-ʿalāmaal-sharīfa, al-ʿalāmaal-juyūshiya. Merits further examination.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

אלעזריזי(??), a scribe and judge (al-sofer al-dayyan), Sason, Ibn al-מדור, Hilāl the blind (al-ḍarīr), Bū ʿAlī, and the wife of Ibn Sutayt. Books mentioned include 1001 Nights (alf layla wa-layla). See also the description for the whole notebook Bodl.

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Document date

1141 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Abū l-ʿAlāʾ, in Alexandria, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel, in Fustat. Dating: 1141 CE. Abū l-ʿAlāʾ reports on quarrels and intrigues within the Alexandrian community regarding the visit of Yehuda ha-Levi and also includes information about the compilation of Yehuda ha-Levi's new poems in a dīwān.

Tags

• clandestine
• halfon b. netanel
• yehuda ha-levi

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions soap; Ḥassūn; al-wakīl; Umm Wāfī; madder and almond; lead; a ṭārma (cabin on Nile boat); travel provisions; al-Ṣābūnī; silk; Abū l-Riḍā; Abū l-Khayr; Abū l-Aʿlā; ʿArūs; ʿUmar; Abū l-Maʿālī; ʿAbd al-Ḥayy; al-qāḍī; Abū l-[...] al-Iṭrābulsī; al-Waṭanī.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Mentions people such as Manā[..] al-Dajājī, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, Jamāl al-Ṭaḥḥān (the miller), Mūḥī(?) al-Dīn, al-Sharīf, the carpenter (al-najjār), al-Ḥabashī , the tailor (al-Iskāfī), and soap (ṣābūn).

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Primary language

Arabic

Dating: Ottoman-era based on the venue al-Bāb al-ʿĀlī (the chief qadi court of Cairo). […] The petitioner requests that an official (royal?) order (al-khaṭṭ al-ʿālī) be granted to the effect that no suit against them be heard except in al-Bāb al-ʿĀlī– rather than any of Cairo's subordinate qadi courts.

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• al-khat al-'ali
• dimme
• petition

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef detailing accounts for the export of five qintars of wool worth thirty dinars from Alexandria to Almeria in al-Andalus. The trader had to pay six dinars for freight, half in Alexandria and half on arrival in al-Andalus. […] (Information in part from Mediterranean Society, I, pp.105, 344, 419.) See also T-S AS 151.167 (PGPID 17662) for another letter potentially from the same sender.

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• alexandria
• almeria
• spain
• trade
• wool

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Inferred date

29 June 1155–29 June 1155 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Moshe Yijū, in Alexandria, to Abū l-Fakhr Ibn al-Amshāṭī, in Fustat. […] Greetings are also extended here to an anonymous brother, apparently the third brother, Ḥayyim. The letter thus not only testifies to the Yijū family's dependence on the Ibn al-Amshāṭīs but also provides additional information on members of that illustrious family.

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• ib-partial translation-eng
• ib-partial translation-heb
• ib3
• india book

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Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Abū Manṣūr, declares before the court that she had previously reached a settlement with her half-sister (from the same father) Sitt Khafar, the wife of Yehuda al-Ṣāʾigh al-Maghribī, regarding the inheritance of their brother (from the same father) Abū ʿAlīal-Kohen al-Ṭabīb al-Muwaffaq. […] She has also received an unspecified sum from Sitt al-Maʿālī, the widow of the deceased brother Abū ʿAlī. […] The first involves a woman named Sitt al-Sāda and mentions "70 dirhams every week." The second involves a physician ('al-ṭabīb al-sadīd) Abū l-Faraj b.

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• sar shalom ha-levi
• shemuel b. saadya
• yosef b. shemuel

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Document date

24 Ṣafar 405 Hijrī (24 August 1014 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Mīkhāʾīl, the son of the jahbadh who wrote most of the receipts in the corpus, Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ (see also T-S Ar.30.40, PGPID 8180). Registered by the Dīwān al-ʿAmal, but not by the Dīwān al-Ishrāf. 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. Nahār; and (2) in the presence of Ṣafī al-Dawla ʿAbd al-Majīd b. Ḥasan on behalf of the Bureau of Supervision; and (3) (under) the tax accounting of the elder Sadīd al-Dawla Abū l-Faraj ʿAbd al-Masīḥ b.

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• abu l-hasan b. wahb
• damin
• tax receipt

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Primary language

Arabic

The end of the recto refers to a caliphal ʿalāma that ratified this document/order. The verso contains a registration note mentioning the Dīwān al-Majlis al-Ḥāfiẓī al-Saʿīd and a written record of what had been allocated or expended by that dīwān (كتب بذكر ما بذل عليه ديوان المجلس). The mention of al-Majlis al-Ḥāfiẓī dates this document to the reign of al-Ḥāfiẓ (1132–49). The verso also has some scribal exercises, possibly from a learner copying the text of the original document.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from the physician Abū Zikrī, in Alexandria, to his father Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat. […] Abū Zikrī tries to convince Eliyyahu to accept the post of judge in Alexandria. He promises that he will procure Eliyyahu's pension from the Ayyubid sultan al-Malik al-Kāmil (r. 1218–38 CE). […] Vol. 1, p. 64 and Vol. 2, pp. 353, 380, 596.) See also T-S Ar.39.64. ASE

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• 13th c
• abu zikri al-rayyis
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: letter norms

3 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Primary language

Arabic

Many glorifying phrases: "...[al-shaykh] al-ajall Sadīd al-Mulk ballaghū Allāh taʿālā aʿlāal-manāzil... dīn wa-dunyā... awdaʿahū Allāh taʿālā...."

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• dimme
• pinholes

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter ending written from Fustat to Alexandria about a dispute between Yehuda (al-'Ammani?) and Yusuf al-Ifranji in the days of Avraham Maimonides. Apparently Hananel did not allow Yehuda to travel from Fustat to Alexandria before an answer to his letter reached him.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions business in Fustat and Alexandria and a list of commodities involved: storax (מאיעה for מיעה), saffron, labdanum (lādan), and perhaps even a book by al-Qāḍī al-Tanūkhī (Abū ʿAlīal-Muḥassin b. ʿAlīal-Tanūkhī of Baṣra, d. 994)—but this needs further examination.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto is a fragmentary letter containing mostly formulaic expressions of deference (al-mamlūk, al-mawlā, al-ḥaḍra al-sāmiya, request for forgiveness, request to carry out a task for the sender). Verso may be an independent note requesting that Abu l-Faraj al-Kohen al-Jalīl hand over the deposited turban (al-ʿamāma al-mawdūʿa) to the bearer.

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Letter from Salama b. Nissim b. Ishaq al-Barki, from Busir, to Marduk b. Musa, Alexandria. […] Regarding money and goods that were delivered for the writer, from the Maghreb to Alexandria. Salama sends instructions what to send him to Busir, by Yosef b. Musa al-Tāhartī, what to sell in Alexandria, and what to keep there for the winter.

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Primary language

Arabic

Verso: Petition from ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq, who calls himself 'al-mamlūk al-Asʿadī al-Sharīf.' He asks the addressee to speak on his behalf to 'al-janāb al-bahāʾi.' The next few lines are damaged and difficult to read. The last surviving line reads, "rather, the intention is my attendance to the Majlis al-Ḥukm...." (Cited in Khan, ALAD, 398, n7, in reference to the usage of "al-majlis al-ḥukm" for court.

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• dimme
• double petition

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Literary text in Judaeo-Arabic in two columns about Alexander the Great. Narrating how when Alexander went east to wage war on Persia in a place called YQṬR(?) […] Dārā) sent him a letter commanding him to desist and to submit to him ("This is the text of the letter: From Darius, king of kings and master of the nations of the world, to Alexander the Macedonian. I know, O Alexander, your might, but God has raised me over the whole world and everybody is under my command and rule. . . ."). The text goes on to say that Alexander ignored the letter and invaded Persia, and there ensued a great battle.

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Primary language

Arabic

State document in Arabic script. Letter/report also containing accounts about shipments made on specific dates. Several names of ships (mainly state-owned), and state officials are mentioned. "al-ʿushārī al-maʿrūf bi l-amīr", "al-amīr Farkh al-Karāʿī", and markab al-dīwān al-wazīrī". All of the ships seem to be transporting harvest from [Mit] Damsīs on the Nile (l11), "wa-fī l-markab jamīʿan al-ghalla".There is a ḥamdala and a ṣalwala at the bottom.

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• 'ushari
• dimme
• fiscal

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Document date

14 Rabīʿ I 909 Hijrī (6 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 acknowledgment which is also a sub-genre of Islamic legal manuals (shurūṭ al-fiqh).

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• dimme
• iqrar

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Primary language

Arabic

Dating: Probably Mamluk-era. Lessee: ʿAlī b. Yūsuf b. ʿAlīal-Shawwāʾ. Lessor: al-faqīr ilā llāh taʿālā [...] b. Niʿmat (or Nūr?) al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Shams al-Dīn. Needs further examination.

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Primary language

Arabic

Many officials are named (ʿIzz al-Mulk, Qamr(?) al-Dawla, Jamāl al-Mulk, Mukhtār al-Dawla, and many more. Also large sums of money. Needs examination.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Eliyyahu, to a judge, perhaps his father ([al-Shaykh] al-ajall al-amīn al-makīn. . . al-dayyan al-aṣīl).

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Primary languages

Arabic, Ottoman Turkish

Concluding fragment of a 39 paged bilingual Arabic-Ottoman Turkish language primer entitled "al-Shudhūr al-dhahabīyah wa-al-qiṭaʻ al-Aḥmadīyah fī al-lughah al-Turkīyah".

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• dimme

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Inferred date

1094–1111 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Araḥ b. Natan, also known as Musāfir b. Wahb, in Alexandria, to his brother, Avraham b. […] In the letter, Araḥ reports of serious riots in Alexandria and a drunken brawl that ended only with the intervention of the chief of police (wālī), although he also accuses the other faction of having alerted the wālī, in addition to the drunken brawl having drawn his attention. […] (Information from Miriam Frenkel, Alan Elbaum and Marina Rustow)

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• alexandria
• amir
• brawl
• decree
• drunkenness
• (+ 10 more)

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