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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yefet/Ḥasan known as Ibn כתרתאן(?) al-Zajjāj, the widow of [...] Elʿazar ha-Levi known as Ibn al-Amʿaṭ, sold to her son Bū Saʿīd a number of items (טסת ומתארה והאון ודסת . . .) for 3 dinars. […] (c) Details of a sale of a female slave. Seller: ʿĀliya bt. Moshe ha-Kohen known as Saniyy al-Dawla (the father and some of his offspring, including ʿĀliya's sister Zayn, are mentioned also in T-S 12.104 (PGPID 16119) and T-S 16.188 (PGPID 3437); the latter is also the sale of a slave). […] Shelomo ha-Sar known as al-Dustarī (appears also in T-S 10J7.10).

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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

3 Transcriptions 2 Translations 1 Discussion

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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Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: Before 1146 CE. Abū ʿAlī(?) Yefet(?) b. Avraham ha-Zaqen Ibn al-Amshāṭī testifies that the letter is his letter and written in his hand. He further testifies that he has received from Abū ʿAlī Yeḥezqel b. Netanel ha-Levi (d. before 1146) all of the [...]. Also mentions Ibrāhīm al-Kohen al-Siqillī. ASE

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• halfon-addenda
• ib-addenda
• ib4

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: An Arabic note with instructions. "Send to Alexandria with the ghulām of Ibn al-Falā[tī?] 5 1/2 manns of aloe wood (ʿūd), to be delivered to the faqīh Ibn ʿAṭṭīya. And send with ʿAlī b. Raḥīm and Ibn al-Maṣīṣī (?) 10 manns of fine aloe wood and 10 manns of middling aloe wood.

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• aloe wood
• arabic script
• ghulam

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Primary language

Arabic

Some of the surviving phrases refer to the bride's brother Yūsuf, as her representative, giving her in marriage to the groom: [...] al-madkhūr wa-huwa mustaḥiqq al-wilāya ʿalayhā. . . fa-zawwajahā akhūhā Yūsuf al-madhkūr min al-zawj al-madkhūr. . . […] The second is Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb b. ʿAbd al-Khāliq.

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• muslim marriage contract

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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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Document date

501 Hijrī (22 August 1107–10 August 1108 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The text in the upper margin on both recto and verso addresses "sayyidnā al-qāḍī al-ajall al-rashīd ʿImād(?)...." Recto, right margin: mentions 'the auspicious seat/council' (al-majlis al-saʿīd) and 'the aforementioned service' (al-khidma al-muqaddama dhikruhā). […] Verso, right margin: refers to al-shaykh Abū Sulaymān Dāʾūd al-Isrāʾīlī al-Mushrif. Verso, lower margin: requesting a disbursement from the revenue(?) of the “dīwān al-abwāb al-mufrad” under the supervision of the amir [...] al-Juyūshī al-Afḍalī: ليطلق ليطلق ذلك من ارتفاع(؟) مال ديوان الابواب المفرد لشهور سنة احدى وخمسمائة بعد مشارفة الامير. . . . . . .

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• diwan al-abwab

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Arabic

Phrases from the end of a medical prescription, in Arabic script. There is also a possibly unrelated line underneath, ending "ṣalawāt allāhʿalayhi." There is also piyyuṭ in Hebrew. (Information in part from CUDL.)

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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.

Tags

• al-khat al-'ali
• dimme
• petition

1 Transcription

Primary language

Arabic

Some of the names: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān... Tāmir from QṬ[...]... Muḥammad Ibn al-Turkmānī... Ibrāhīm al-Qazzāz... al-Ḥājj Ḥasab(?)... al-Ḥājj Aḥmad... […] Altogether, 43[.] dirhams." Then a new section underneath in a different hand, also listing names and figures.

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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

1 Transcription 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary language

Arabic

From "your slave and son" to "al-majlis al-[...] al-[...] al-makhdūmī al-thiqatī al-amīnī muʿtamad al-mulūk wa-l-salāṭīn."

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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

2 Transcriptions 2 Translations 1 Discussion

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

2 Transcriptions 2 Translations 1 Discussion

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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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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Arabic

After a taqbīl, the addressee is greeted with many titles ("al-majlis al-ʿādilī al-sayfī al-nāṣirī(?) al-kāmilī al-hādī"). […] The addressee could possibly be the wazīr of al-Ẓāfir or the Ayyubid Sultan al-ʿĀdil based on the opening but requires further examination.

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• dimme
• fatimid

1 Transcription

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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1 Transcription 1 Translation 1 Discussion

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

1 Transcription 1 Translation 1 Discussion

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

2 Translations

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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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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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

Judaeo-Arabic

Refers to a young woman (al-ṣabiyya); an illness (dhāk al-maraḍ); someone who intended to travel to Syria (al-Shām) in (or for?) two months; "her mother"; "her husband"; entering Alexandria; al-Shaykh al-Thiqa; "the sultan intended to...."

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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
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2 Transcriptions 2 Translations 2 Discussions

Primary language

Arabic

The one on the left says "let it be copied in the Dīwān al-Mufrad lil-Iqṭāʿāt al-Murtajiʿa in shāʾa llāh." […] Al-Ḥakīm established an office called dīwān al-mufrad for the administration of estates, but later came to be known as dīwān al-murtajʿā; see Michael Brett, Fatimid Empire (Edinburgh:2017), 177. Apparently, Barqūq also established Dīwān al-Mufrad in either 1382 or 1395 CE; see Daisuke Igarashi, "The Establishment and Development of al-Dīwān al-Mufrad: Its Background and Implications," Mamluk Studies Review 10 (2006), 117–40.

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Primary language

Arabic

Recto: Official document in Arabic script concerning administration of a district. Phrases include "al-[...] al-marfūʿa min al-aʿmāl.... fī dhālik alladhī uqṭiʿa... min al-jiha al-madhkūra.... in shāʾ allāh... wa-l-ḥamdu lillāh taʿālā(?) wa-ṣalawātuh ʿalā sayyidinā Muḥammad wa-sallama taslīman." Written on top of the inshallah there is another phrase written in a different hand and ink and larger letters: يسفح(؟) باب . . . . […] In the margins at 90 degrees, in a different hand, possibly another registration or official note possibly reading "bi-rasm (or yursam?) . . al-amr al-ʿālī." Reused for Hebrew jottings. Needs further examination.

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Arabic

Upper part of a petition (first 9 lines) addressed to "al-amīr... al-mujāhid al-muthāghir al-murābiṭ al-isfahsalār... Shihāb al-Dīn." Dating: 13th century, or possibly later. […] On this madrasa, named for Sayf al-Dīn Yāzkūj, a mamlūk of Asad al-Dīn Shīrkūh who later served under Saladin and al-Malik al-ʿAzīz and died in Egypt in 1203 CE, see Ogden Goelet and Sameh Iskander, "The Restoration of Sunnism: The Early History of Islamic Law Schools and the Professoriate in Egypt, 495-647/1101-1249," pp. 185–86.

Tags

• ayyubid
• isfahsalar
• madrasa
• muezzin
• old age
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1 Transcription

Primary language

Arabic

In Arabic script. 6 lines preserved. Mentions a wall (al-ṣūr), the dispatching of a warship (ʿushārī), someone named Ibn al-Qaṣʿ(?)[…] This document was identified and catalogued on PGP by Alan Elbaum in 2022. Pending publication by Paul Cobb and Alan Elbaum. Reused on recto for the beginning of a Judaeo-Arabic treatise on divining the future using a table of 89 letters which are referred to as "the chess houses" (al-buyūt al-shaṭranjiyya). Further down, mentions the city of Alexandria in an unclear context.

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Tags

• arabic military report
• dimme

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Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Moshe ha-Rofeʾ, the representative of the merchants, to the cantor Avraham b. Neḥemya. Also mentions Shemarya b. Yeshuʿa, al-Mahdiyya, and alum (shabb). […] ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Also signed by ʿUlla b. Yosef ha-Levi and Yehuda b. Moshe ha-Ḥazzan (also signed Halper 341 + Halper 348 (PGPID 19634)) and Shem[uel].

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Document date

647 Hijrī (16 April 1249–4 April 1250 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Legal document, but could also be a state document because of the various ʿalāʾim (registration marks) on the top of the document and the mention of "al-muqṭaʿyn". […] The scribe gives his name at the upper left [...] wakīl [...]. Also mentioned is a ḥānūt (shop/warehouse) which the beneficiary can use as per their discretion. One particular ʿalāma: "al-ḥamdu li-llah ʿalā kull ḥāl" is repeated a few times.

Tags

• iqta'

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Primary language

Arabic

Possibly to the caliph himself (al-ḥaḍra al-ṭāhira). The sender desires to be sent to Syria to fight (raghiba al-jihād) with the victorious army (...wa-yatajarrad ilā al-Shām fī jumlat al-ʿaskar al-manṣūr wa-yabdhul majhūdahu fī al-khidma al-sharīfa...). The addressee is asked to issue an order to the Kātib al-Jaysh ordering his deployment (tajrīd). Recto (secondary use): Informal note in Arabic script confirming the granting of a gift without any conditions.

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• army
• jihad
• petition

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Document date

973 Hijrī (29 July 1565–18 July 1566 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There are several entries very similar to each other which all begin "qāʾima mubāraka in shāʾa Allāh taʿālā bi-mā yuqbaḍ wa-yuṣraf fī al-dīwān al-sharīf al-ʿālī dīwān thaghr al-Sakandarī al-maḥrūs...." […] They mention names including Avraham b. Ṣūr, Shelomo Ibn al-Ashqar (אלשקר), and Yehuda Castro. Needs further examination.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

It is described as a 'noble book' (kitāb jalīl), 'arranged according to signs' (murattab ʿalāʿalāmāt), something to with letters (ʿalā aḥad al-ḥurūf), the response of the conscience (jawāb ḍamīrih), Alexandria, Muslims, a cave in Alexandria, and Israel. it then says "give it to somebody who . . . the signs that the hand(?)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions the following individuals: Abū l-Ḥusayn ibn Mashiaḥ; al-Fayyūmi (Saʿadya), and the following locations: al-Raqqa, Tiberias, the river of Egypt, and Bālis. Also mentions the following literary works: Kitāb al-[...], Kitāb al-Ifṣāḥ[.], Kitāb al-Intiqām, al-Mukāfaḥa.

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Arabic

Likely an official report. Mentions al-Amīr ʿAfīf al-Dawla Mutawallī al-Bāb (=Ṣāḥib al-Bāb = al-Wazīr al-Ṣaghīr = 'head chamberlain'). […] On verso there are accounts in Arabic script, also official-looking.

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• dimme

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Headed with the name of Ibn al-Zūlāq(?). Mentions al-funduq al-sāḥil (apparently in Alexandria), and the hire of a ship from Alexandria to Rashīd.

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Tags

• customs

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Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

Full of fulsome praises for a very important person who is also a Kohen. Refers specifically to Benei Ṣadoq, so perhaps also a Qaraite? There is also some Arabic script at the top of recto.

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