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Judaeo-Arabic

Refers to the sum contained in two purses (ṣurratayn) in the weight (sanja) of Alexandria: 151 dinars and 1 qīrāṭ. Repeatedly refers to "mawlāy al-shaky adāma allāh ʿizzahū"; it seems that this account is being drawn up to be submitted to this person. Refers to "the blessed bales" (al-aʿdāl al-mubāraka). States that Abū Yūsuf al-Ṣayrafī is due 30 dinars less 1/8. […] AA/ASE. Join: Alan Elbaum.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from ʿAmram b. Yiṣḥaq to Ḥalfon. Alexandria; probably about 1143-1145. ʿAmram b. Yiṣḥaq sends Ḥalfon a short greeting for Purim. Abu Al-Ma'ali wanted to help Abu Al-Fakhr, the son of Ḥalfon’s brother, Abu Ali Yeḥezqel, to do what he had not succeeded in doing. […] According to Amram, Abu Al-Fakhr was like one of his sons, an expression that alludes to the familial closeness between them.

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• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• india book

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The letter reflects the economic difficulties of the Jewish community of Alexandria due to the heavy expenses of freeing captives. […] Azarya resided in Fustat and, apparently, planned to visit Alexandria at the time. (Information from Frenkel. See also Gil, Ishmael, 4:671 which describes the document as following: Letter sent from Alexandria by Yeshua ha-Kohen b. […] The writer complains about damage caused to his vineyard by one of the leading Christians in Alexandria, Abu al-Khayr b. Hanun, and notes that he has complained about it to the Amir Abu Mansur.

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• suftaja

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Ḥasan b. Manṣūr al-Neʾeman, probably in a small town, to ʿAllūn b. […] He reports that "al-Mumḥe Ibn al-Shofeṭ" spent the holidays with their community and served as cantor. […] This document used to be listed on PGP under the nonexistent shelfmark ENA 2736.20. See also T-S NS J454 (PGPID 8792), a letter from al-Mumḥe Ibn al-Shofeṭ which appears to be in the same handwriting as this one.

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• brawl
• communal strife
• synagogue

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Document date

21 Ramaḍān 405 Hijrī (15 March 1015 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Mīkhāʾīl, the son of the jahbadh who wrote most of the receipts in the corpus, on behalf of his father (see also T-S Ar.39.26, PGPID *). Registered by the Dīwān al-ʿAmal and 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; (2) on behalf of the fiduciary qāḍī Abū ʿAlī l-Ḥasan b. Yaḥyā b. Nahār; 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
• fatimid
• tax receipt

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Arabic

Mentions an amir named ʿAlamal-Dīn Sanjar al-Maḥmūdī; a granary (shūna); a complaint about another official's irregular behavior; how the sender took the aforementioned sum of money to the treasury, but the Dīwān al-Murtajaʿ (Bureau of Reclamation) interfered. The sender now asks the addressee to issue an order (wa-suʾāl al-mamlūk khurūj al-amr al-ʿālī) to the dīwān. Apparently the petitioner was an official who had collected taxes in kind and sold them for 1400 dīnārs, but a group of Mamlūks came along and one of them, ʿIlm al-Dīn Sanjar al-Maḥmūdī, took 29 dinars from what the petitioner had collected, and now the group of Mamluks was withholding the 29 dinars from the fisc.

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• mamluks

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Document date

Jumada II 944 Hijrī (5 November 1537–3 December 1537 CE)

For another 16th-century document where these two forms of currency are listed alongside one another, see: T-S NS 83.7 (PGPID 26200). […] The entries include many names and locations: (recto) sūq al-ḥarīr (silk market), sūq al-gor__[?], Muḥammad al-Bābī, Jamāl al-Dīn al-Wafāʾī, ʿAbd al-Qādr al-Wafāʾī, (verso) sūq al-waraq (paper market), Yosef אלמחלוי, al-Emir Fil__ ___[?] al-Jablī. MCD.

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• 16th c
• paper
• silk

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Rajab 527 Hijrī (8 May 1133–6 June 1133 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Fatimid-era rent receipt of 10 dirhams for a shop. The renter is Abī al-Naṣr and the property owner is Jamāl al-Dīn al-Malik al-ʾAʿaz. The property is located in "Ḥammām al-Fār", a known locality outside the Roman fortress on its north-western side. It was a whole complex - a bathhouse, a market, and dwellings. There was also a Jewish presence there including shops, a Jewish endowment, and a kosher slaughterhouse.

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• dimme

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Hilāl, in Alexandria, to al-Shaykh al-Najīb b. Mufaḍḍal b. al-Dayyān, in Fustat, to the shop of Ibn al-ʿŪdī, Sūq al-‘Attārīn.

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• arabic address
• to edit

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Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: jottings in Arabic, including the name of a physician (al-mutaṭabbib) al-Ḥasan Hibatallāh b. Mufaḍḍal al-Yahūdī. Jottings also include Coptic numerals; the names al-Shaykh Yūsuf al-Shaykh Abū ʿImrān paired with more numerals; and a note addressed to Mufaḍḍal.

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Arabic

The names mentioned are all of the form X al-Dawla, e.g., Jamāl al-Dawla... Shams al-Dawla Abū Asad... Kawkab al-Dawla... [...] al-Dawla al-Bilbaysī.

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Arabic

Needs examination. See also PGPID 23556 and PGPID 34769. Mentions a place with the adjective "al-Maḥrūs" and the partial name of an amīr, "al-mulk", l4 also mentions the caliph [Amīr] al-Muʾminīn.

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Names include: Bū l-makārim; Ibn al-Mukandij; al-Bilbaysiyya; Ibn al-Quṣayyira; the wife of al-Būnī; Umm Bū Saʿīd; the acquaintance of Sitt Wafāʾ; Umm Ghāliya; Umm Ḥasana; the wife of Fāris al-Shām(?)[…] ; Yosef ha-Kohen; the wife ('house') of Ibn Ḥātim; Abū l-Ḥasan al-Qudsī; Abū l-Ḥasan; the judge (dayyan); Makhlūf; a widow; a Persian ascetic (nazir ʿajamī); Umm HIlāl; the acquaintance of al-Kohen. […] Namir; al-Muhadhdhab; and al-Tifʾeret. There are also accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals in the margin.

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• account

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Arabic

The sender describes suffering dangers and misfortunes (muqāsāt akhṭār wa-ankād) and then something to do with the government: "...fa-mā waqaʿa fīhi min ṣādif(?) ṭulūʿ al-khizāna(?) al-sulṭāniyya sallamahā Allāh....," then refers to a happy ending (...al-ʿāqiba illā ḥamīda...). The sender reports that ʿAbdallāh arrived safely in Qūṣ ("maḥrūsat Quṣ") on the date of 12 Nisan together with al-Shaykh al-Rayyis. On the other side: "...and with him are letters for al-mawlā al-rashīd b. al-dayyān, and the slave has (=I have) sent with him [...] […] In sum, the slave has imposed on the favor of al-mawlā al-ajall al-rashīd to collect it, and if he (cannot?)

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• aden
• ib-addenda
• india book unedited
• qus

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Arabic

Small fragment of an official document. "...al-malikī al-Nāṣirī..." and "al-amr al-ʿālī". In between the two lines there are larger words (rescript on a petition?).

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Arabic

A few words in large Arabic script: al-mawlā al-shaykh al-makhdūm. State document? There are also several Hebrew literary texts on this fragment.

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Tammuz 4857 Anno Mundi (14 June 1097–12 July 1097 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Two merchants setting out from Alexandria on a voyage to the Muslim West appoint their wives as executors and guardians of their children: (1) Yosef b. Isḥāq b. al-Dānī al-Fāsī gives his daughter Sitt al-Ḥusn 200 dinars and appoints his wife Sitt al-ʿAshīr bt. […] This record also mentions that he is going to be trading with the merchandise from his partnership with Sibāʿ al-Lādhiqī (cf.

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• 11th c
• alexandria
• hinge
• ib7
• india book
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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a young man named Sibāʿ, in Alexandria, to his mother, in Fustat, but addressed to his brother Abū l-Najm. […] MS heb. d 66/23 (PGPID 6459): Musāfir in Alexandria to his brother Yehuda the teacher in Fustat[…] - DK 315 (PGPID 30290): Najm in Fustat to his brother Musāfir in Alexandria - ENA 2808.19 (PGPID 6709): Sibāʿ and Musāfir in Alexandria to their brother Najm and mother in Fustat

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• boat
• capitation tax
• jaliya
• tax

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Arabic

Fragment from near the top of an official report or petition, mentioning the storehouses of the sugar refineries: ". . . ṣalawāt Allāhʿalā mālikih wa-yunhī anna . . . fī khazāʾin al-maṭābikh al-mubāraka. . . al-mubāraka al-saʿīḍa. . . " On verso there is Hebrew piyyuṭ.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Small fragment from the beginning of a Judaeo-Arabic letter in the hand of Yehuda Ibn al-ʿAmmānī, probably in Alexandria, to Bū l-Majd (i.e., Meʾir b. […] Dating: early 13th century. Almost nothing is preserved. Mentions (al-Shaykh) al-Thiqa in the margin.

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Hebrew

Either a poetic introduction to a letter from the Yeshiva of Jerusalem to the community of Aleppo, or a letter that is in its entirety a poem. Recto contains the poem, in which not only is there an acrostic (אנשי צב. . . probably "the people of Aleppo"), but also each verse is composed entirely of words starting with the same letter.

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• jerusalem

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Judaeo-Arabic

Concerning business matters, mentioning the writer’s brother Shemuel, Alexandria and a certain Avraham, also sending greetings to Qamar, Yaʿaqov, Ṣedaqa, AVraham Aleman, Avraham Shānjī and others.

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• shanji

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Letter from Musa b. Abi al-Hayy, from Alexandria, to Yosef b. Musa al-Tāhartī. Around 1045. The situation in Alexandria is very complicated. The writer mentions details about shipments of goods. Contains a copy of a receipt for goods that Alal b. Nahray b. Natan sent to Fustat. Mentions details about the process of weaving and bleaching linen.

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• al-tahirti
• trade

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Letter from Avraham Ibn Sughmār, from Fustat, to Nahray b. Nissim, Alexandria. Nahray traveled to Alexandria and the writer is sorry that he did not say goodbye. Mentions one dinar that the writer owes a person, the son of a person Ibn Sabra and he asks Nahray to arrange its return. Also mentions b. al-Qafsi, who is Maymūn b. Khalfa.

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Arabic

Mentions a payment to Muʿallam Ibrahem bin Naʿīm Bu-Saʿad[?] al-Ḥakīm al-Yahūdī. Dated 2 Shawwal ___ AH. Has an ʿalāma "al-ḥamdu li-lāh rabb al-ʿālamīn" at the top and two witness signatures at the bottom. The line after the ʿalāma in an elongated script reads as "qāʾima" literally meaning table.

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• dimme

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Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Entires include: Jamāl Ṣāʾigh; Shemuʾel [...] Kohen; Najm(?) al-Shāmī; [...]; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Abū ʿAlī; Rashīd Ibn al-Ṭaḥḥān; Abū l-Majd Ibn al-Aʿsar(?)[…] Muwaffaq; Maḥāsin Ḥazzān; Fuhayd Kohen; [...] al-Ṣāʾigh; Yosef Ibn al-Muʾajjir(?); [...] b. Mukhtār.

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• list

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from ʿAwāḍ b. Ḥananel from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat, ca. 1060. In the handwriting of Avraham b. Abi al-Hayy and concerning business matters, specifically a shipment of nuts that was send by the writer to Nahray, and a shipment of oil that Nahray sent to the writer. Also mentions several other goods, and an apartment belonging to Nahray in Alexandria, in which the writer lives.

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• 11th c
• nahray b. nissim
• oil
• trade

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

Yefet and Yosef b. Avraham (who also have many more titles). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Verso: Also a list of names, with Greek/Coptic numerals, including Abū ʿAlī, Ṣedaqa al-Jazzār b. Isḥāq al-Ṣāʾigh. Final word is probably "defter". (Information in part from CUDL)

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Arabic

In which Maymūn b. Yūsuf b. Ibrāhīm al-Yahūdī (perhaps the same as in T-S AS 147.122?), whose physical features (ḥilya) are described, affirms that he is the agent of Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm b. [...] al-Muslim al-Mukandij (the closet maker), whose physical features are also described, for the purpose of collecting the amount of money owed to the latter from the 'ṣundūq al-nafaqāt' in Qalʿat al-Jabal.

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Judaeo-Arabic

The writer expresses his regret at the addressee's departure, and his distress at what the addressee will soon learn from ʿAfīf al-Dīn. The language is somewhat confusing but may refer to a secretary (kātib) working against the interests of the addressee (al-ʿāmil ʿalayka). The writer urges the addressee not to ignore his legal rights in this matter. Al-Shaykh al-Muwaffaq has also written to the addressee about this.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham, in Alexandria, to Shemuel b. Baḥur, probably in Fustat. […] The sender intended to travel to Tūnis, but when he arrived in Alexandria, the ships were already setting sail. He conveyed the addressee's rebuke for Dāʾūd al-[...] who says he will travel as soon as Bū l-Ḥasan Ibn ʿAṣīda arrives. The sender has occupied himself in a shop with Yaʿaqov al-Qalʿī and they are awaiting a ship with a messenger.

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Letter from Mardūk b. Mūsā from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat. Gil dates this letter to August 10, 1047. […] Mardūk reports he was unsuccessful in selling beads/pearls and it really concerns him. He also narrates events related to the Bedouin (al-ʿArab) in Egypt. "there was a widespread rumor on the day your letter reached me ... but the bedouins have abandoned Mariout lake and left the caravans alone. Hence, the ship from Tripoli will definitely reach Alexandria."

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• bedouin
• fayyum
• nahray b. nissim
• shidda
• trade

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Likely a household inventory, but could also be business accounts or a dowry list. In Judaeo-Arabic. […] (See mediakron.bc.edu/ottomans/iznik-dish-2.) There are also "Chinese coffee cups (fanājīn)." (ASE) Presumably those coffee cups are also porcelain. Paleographically, datable to the 16th or 17th century, which was also the period of Iznik porcelain. (MR)

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• ceramic
• iznik
• list
• ottoman
• porcelain
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Arabic

Petition from a group of Sufis written in the style of a testimony with a dozen witness statements, addressed to someone referred to as "mawlānā al-jināb al-ʿālī"). In Arabic. Dating: Probably ca. 15th century, based in part on the mention of the Zimāmiyya Madrasa, which was founded in 1395 CE (right margin, second witness statement from the bottom). The petitioners ask that al-Fakhrī / Fakhr al-Dīn Abū Bakr b. al-Shihābī al-Fayyūmī(?) be reinstated in the position of collector (waẓīfat al-jibāya) as well as general leadership of the community and caretaker of the business of the waqf.

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• madrasa
• petition
• sufi
• waqf

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Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Eliyyahu to someone with the title al-Shaykh al-Rashīd. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 1218–38 CE, based on the name of the sultan al-Malik al-Kāmil, which appears on verso. Shelomo begs forgiveness (mustaʿdhir) for something having to do with his need to study more (? al-qirā'a ʿalā _____) and benefit from the addressee's wisdom. Verso: Remnants of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and jottings in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script, including phrases from a formal letter/petition like "al-mamlūk", and "yuqabbil al-arḍ". ASE.

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• shelomo b. eliyyahu

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Natan tried to establish his position in Alexandria and al-Mahalla, an attempt reflected in this letter. […] Natan's residence in Alexandria see M. Gil, 'Scroll of Evyatar,' p. 89 lines 29-30. See also Goitein, Med. Soc. Vol. 5, p. 596 no. 19. (Information from Frenkel).

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• 11th c
• avraham b. natan
• munir al-dawla
• nahray b. nissim
• trade
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Document date

515 Hijrī (22 March 1121–11 March 1122 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The person making the acknowledgment is ʿAntar al-ustādh al-Zukhrī(?) (a eunuch and/or government officer). He is 'yellow-skinned' (aṣfar al-lawn), has a wide forehead (wāḍiḥ al-jabha), and a pointed nose (aqnā al-ʾanf). […] Yūsuf al-Isrāʾīlī. Needs further examination.

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Arabic

Letter/petition of appeal for charity from a woman ("al-mamlūka"). Very damaged; unclear if any of the substance of the request is preserved. Mentions an appeal to the addressee's charity (min ṣadaqatika. . . ); a request to be informed of something (an yuʿrif al-mamlūka in kānat. . .); her occupation with housework (shughl al-bayt); her request to be honored by being tasked with something (fa-hiya tashtahī al-tasharruf (or: al-sharaf) bi-qaḍāʾ. . .); the addressee's benefaction with a response either with a yes or a no (min inʿāmika al-jawāb. . . immā naʿm wa-immā lā. . .). There is also one line of effaced script on verso, maybe the address.

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• dimme
• petition

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Arabic

A list of at least 42 books of poetry, all called Dīwān or prefaced "min shiʿr [X]." In Arabic script. Poets named include: Ṭarafa, ʿAntara, al-Farazdaq, al-Shammākh, al-Quṭāmī, Abū Nuwās, Ibn al-Rūmī, Kushājim, Ṭāhir al-Ḥaddād. Underneath most entries it says جز واحد (one volume); some, such as the Dīwān of Ibn al-Khāzin al-Kātib, are labeled as two volumes (جزان).

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• booklist

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Arabic

It could be a draft or was later reused for scribal practice, also in chancery hand. "...wa-yasʾal al-inʿām ʿalayhi wa-l-iḥsān ilayhi...". The petition is addressed to a Fatimid caliph due to the taqbīl and the adjective "al-maqām al-ṭāhir al-nabawī". The beginning formula following the taqbīl resembles petition openings to the Fatimid caliph al-ʾĀmir and hence could be addressed to him.

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• dimme
• petition

1 Transcription 1 Translation

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yaʿaqov al-Dar'i, who was active in Alexandria around 1100 (see Goitein, Med Soc, v. 1, pp. 53, 407 fn 45: v. 3, p. 481 fn 171: v. 4, p. 399 fn 84: v. 5, p. 591 fn 173. See also Cohen, Jewish Self Government, pp 215 and 241-2, for a discussion of a letter in which Natan b. Yehuda accuses al-Dar'i of causing his death). The verso is also a letter, though it is unclear whether the two are related.

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Document date

516/521 Hijrī (1123–1127 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

IB VI, 35. Fatimid petition to al-Āmir bi-Aḥkām Allāh from a Jewish merchant, Mūsā b. Ṣadaqa, who was detained unlawfully after his return from India and Yemen with goods on which duties were imposed. He had already registered documents in the court of the qāḍī al-quḍāh Jalāl al-Mulk Tāj al-Aḥkam (Abū l-Ḥajjāj Yūsuf b. […] Information from Khan; see also linked Goitein notes.

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• dimme
• ib6
• india book
• petition
• yemen

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Document date

675 Hijrī (15 June 1276–3 June 1277 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Mentions at least one amīr (maybe ʿIzz al-Dīn or ʿAlāʾal-Dīn), the mutawallī of the al-Gharbiyya(?) […] There is a phrase that looks like "li-muwaẓẓaf mustaẓhir al-wilāya," but the meaning is opaque. On verso there are two additional annotations ("qubiḍa min dhālika nuqra... qubiḍa ayḍan...") indicating sums collected, with Greek/Coptic numerals. Also mentions a bureau "dār al-wukalā(?) bi-dār al-malik".

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Arabic

Letter from [...] al-Urjuwānī, in Darūṭ Sarabām (or Sarayām, aka Dayrūṭ al-Sharīf), addressed to Abū l-Afrāḥ (here called Abū l-Farḥa) ʿArūs b. Yūsuf al-Isrāʾīlī al-Urjuwānī. In Arabic script. The sender's name and location are both preserved, but are difficult to read. […] , Abū Isḥāq, and Abū l-ʿAlāʾ. Needs further examination. Join: Alan Elbaum.

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