Documents

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Mentions names such as Abū Faḍl (in New Cairo); Shihāb; Bū Naṣr al[...] al-Yahūdī; Ẓāfir and Amīn al-Dawla; Muwaffaq; and Abū l-Barakāt.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document, quite faded. Dating: likely 12th or 13th century. Concerning the purchase and subsequent dedication of a property in the town of al-ʿAlāqma (near Bilbays) to the Heqdesh. Mentions Shemuel al-Kohen. Signed by ʿOvadya b. Shemuel.

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Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment (right side of recto, right side of verso), probably from Alexandria to Fustat. Extremely faded. Legible phrases include: "Send to Alexand[ria]" and "he bought for him."

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Judaeo-Arabic

It concerns Moshe ha-Kohen's will (line 9), which can be found in T-S 8J21.14 + T-S 8J8.12 (PGPID 7679) and which discuses all the above mentioned individuals. Identified by Rivlin, Inheritance and Wills, p. 339. Faded. Unfinished and unsigned. On verso there is more writing in Hebrew script in a different hand, even more faded.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. Dating: Maybe ca. 1100, if the "Sar ha-Sarim" mentioned is the Nagid Mevorakh. Also refers to Ibn al-Jabīna(?), al-shaykh al-jalīl Bū l-Khayr Andūna, the late Mārūt(?)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Badly rubbed and faded business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions sending something to Alexandria and inquires about the price of שרב (wine?

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List of names, including Abū l-Faraj, Abū l-Faḍl, Mevorakh b. Naḥum, Abū ʿAlī Ibn al-Sukkarī, Ṯābit the cantor and Isaac b. [...].

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Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

List of names with Coptic numerals. Names include FaḍlAllāh; Dāʾūd; Ibrāhīm; al-Rashīd Ibn Iṭfīḥī; Muḥammad b.

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Arabic

Names such as Aḥmad, Sālim al-Ḥammār, Bū ʿAlī, al-ḥakīm al-[...], Bū l-Ḥasan, Faḍāʾil b. [...].

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• arabic script

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Arabic

Letter in Arabic script. Opens with an ornate "al-izza lillāhi taʿālā." Addressed to al-amīr al-rayyis Abū l-Faḍāʾil.

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document, mentioning Sitt al-Hanāʾ(?) bt. Yaʿaqov. Extremely faded. (Information in part from CUDL)

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Arabic

In Arabic script. Crumpled and faded. Mentions a power of attorney (wikāla/wakāla), someone who signed something (saṭara ʿalā), "min al-ṭaraf," the number 24, and an aforementioned house (al-dār al-madhkūr).

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Judaeo-Arabic

List of names with weights and quantities of currency. Names include: Faḍāʾilal-Ghuzūlī; Hiba; Abū Faraj(?); Yiṣḥaq; Makhlūf; al-ʿAdanī; Abū Thanāʾ; Abū Fakhr; Abū ʿAlī b.

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Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Quite faded. Contains some blessings for the addressee and mentions Alexandria. Verso: Several lines in Arabic script, all crossed out. Probably accounts (based on words such as ʿinda and rubʿ).

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Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. Mentions "finishing all of the sections of..." (istīfāʾ jamīʿ furūʿ), including a Murshid (Guide) and two books of Abū Zakariyyā (al-Rāzī?).

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• book trade

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Entries are arranged by the parsha of the week. Mentions al-Shaykh al-Rashīd Bū l-Faḍl. (Information in part from CUDL)

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• account

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Primary language

Aramaic

Part of a ketubba for Sitt al-Ḥasab (bride). Most of the text is too badly faded to read.

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• ketubba
• marriage

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Judaeo-Arabic

Nearly entirely preserved, but faded. Mentions well-known merchants such as Barhūn Ibn al-Tāhartī (r4). Also mentions the name ʿAbd al-Jabbār b. ʿAbdallāh.

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• unedited 11th c

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Document date

Dhū l-Ḥijja 624 Hijrī (12 November 1227–11 December 1227 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Involves Abū l-Faraj b. Fāḍil(?) b. Khalaf al-Tājir and Bū l-ʿIzz b. Bū ʿAlī b. Khalaf al-Yahūdī al-ʿAṭṭār. Needs examination.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter mentioning Abū l-Faḍl, Abū Saʿd Ibn al-Kurazī (?), Abū Manṣūr al-Tabib, Abū l-Ḥasan and the elder Jalāl al-Mulk (here not used as a title but as an actual name).

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Document date

689 Hijrī (14 January 1290–3 January 1291 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Legal document, dated 689 H, (=1290/91 CE), in a very faded script, with signature(s) at the bottom. One of the parties is al-Ḥājj Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz. Needs examination for content.

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• dimme

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Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Extremely faded, would need multispectral imaging to be legible. Verso: drafts of phrases from letters in Arabic (including an address to Abū Isḥāq in Alexandria). (Information in part from CUDL)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Yiṣḥaq had paid 30 dinars and Abū l-Faḍāʾil b. Abū l-Barakāt 52 dirhams into a partnership. It was agreed that Shelomo, who was also the agent, would take 23 parts and Abū l-Faḍāʾil only 1/24. […] in Judaeo-Arabic, Arabic script, and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions Bū l-Khayr al-Nafīs. (Information from Goitein's attached notes.)

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• shelomo b. eliyyahu

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Document date

1112–1126 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Concerning financial settlements after the death of Abū l-Faḍl ʿAmram b. Raḥamim. Mentions the blessed congregation of Fustat; a woman who paid a large sum out of her own money; the mother of Abū l-Faḍl who is a widow; al-Rayyis al-Jalīl Yiṣḥaq b. Simha al-Nīsābūrī; Netanʾel ha-Sar; 20 dinars, ʿimāra (repairs), and a piece of ʿanbar (ambergris).

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• halfon b. menashshe
• mevorakh b. saadya
• moshe b. mevorakh
• nisaburi

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Likely a distribution list for communal funds. Entries include: al-ḥazzan; al-shammash; al-munaqqī(?); Menashshe; the house (bayt) of Yeshuʿa; Ibn al-Ḥazzan; Bū l-Faḍl Shomer; the daughter of Moshe; the wife (zawja) of Yaʿqūb; the house (dār) of Ibn Saʿdān; Rayyisa; Sumaysima; Shomer Yosef; Bū l-Faḍl; al-Faṣīḥ; al-Bilbaysiyya; Ibn Ḥātim; Umm Simḥa; Umm Hilāl; Mikhaʾel; al-Najjār; Umm Khafāʾ; Sitt Ṣāfī; the widow of Bū ʿAlī; ʿUbayd; Muḥāsin the shammash and his mother; Umm Bū l-Faraj; the wife of Hilāl; Ibrāhīm. Verso: Account of expenditures for the teaching of schoolchildren (ḥisāb taʿlīm al-ṣighār bi-kuttāb), maybe specifically the children of communal functionaries. Names: Nissim; the son of Ibrāhīm al-Parnas; the son of al-Najjār Ḥayyūn al-Maghribī; the three children of Khalaf al-Mahallī; Yosef al-Munaqqī; Yefet someone's cousin; Ḥayyūn al-Maghribī al-Yatīm again; the children of the wife of al-ʿAjamī al-Kharrāz; the sons of Yeshuʿa who has been arrested (al-muʿtaqal); the son of Maḥāsin al-Khādim; the son of Bahāʾ al-Shomer; the youth from al-Maḥalla.

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• education

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Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. Mentions someone who arrived safely, and a woman named Sitt al-Milāḥ.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Short, faded note to 'al-melammed' telling the addressee to take a 'dast' (a certain quantity) from 'this paper,' for the writer is without employment.

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