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Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Arabic

Recto: Legal fragment in Arabic script. Involves a trader (al-tājir), a miller (al-ṭaḥḥān) named Nuṣayr b. […] Ḥasan, Avraham Maimonides (Abū l-[Munā] Ibrāhīm [b. Mūsā] b. Maymūn al-Yahūdī al-Isrāʾīlī), and a mill (al-ṭāḥūn). In Fustat. Dating to 1205–1237 CE, based on Avraham Maimonides' years of service as Rayyis al-Yahūd. Needs further examination.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Of persons to whom pitch (zift) was sold, headed by a general (al-qāʾid Abū Tamīm), the representative of an amir (Yūḥannas wakīl al-amīr), and a government secretary (Abū l-ʿAlāʾal-kātib). Further down there is a soldier (al-jundī). Obviously(?) all buyers had taken the commodity on credit.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The third patient has an unspecified perforation "like that of the patient whom you were treating." Abu Zikri also requests that Abu 'Ali send him a black-lead ophthalmic from his own stock, since all the ophthalmics Abu 'Ali's father had sent were ineffective. […] He alludes to a potion that Abu Zikri is already familiar with, and suggests that the patient may benefit from smelling myrtle, water lily, or dates. […] Goitein's index cards. Alan Elbaum 11/2019. Technical terminology follows Oliver Kahl, The Dispensatory of Ibn al-Tilmīdh, Brill: Boston, 2007.

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• physician

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Document date

Rajab 1089 Hijrī (19 August 1678–17 September 1678 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Dated in multiple entries, possibly as Rajab 1089 AH: אפ׳׳ט, with the aleph marking 1000 (1678 CE). This digit may be non-alphanumerical, however, and requires further research because the paleography could also be eighteenth-century or, less likely, sixteenth-century. […] מנקעדין, multazim of the district al-שבכאניין under wilayet al-Sharqiyya; -Badr-dīn al-Samlawī müteferriqa in the Diwān Miṣr, multazim of the district Minyat מעלה and others under wilayet al-Sharqiyya; -Qāsim ibn ʿAbdallah(?) […] , multazim of the district שנכאב and others under wilayet al-Gīziyya; -Muḥ[ammad]/Maḥ[mūd] ibn Aḥmad al-Rashdī müteferriqa of the Diwān Miṣr, multazim of [... i]khrāj Jazīrat al-Khaḍara; -Iskender ibn ʿAbdallah müteferriqa, former kāshif and multazim of wilayet al-Sharqiyya; -Yosef ibn Ibrahīm and the ..(?)

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466 Hijrī (16 November 1034–4 November 1035 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

اجرته end of line 1) for al-shaykh Abū al-Ḥasan Saʿīd al-Yahūdī al-Ḥarīrī for a dār in the al-Mamṣūṣa neighborhood of Fusṭāṭ.

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• dimme
• glyph

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Arabic

From Efrayim b. Ismāʿīl to Abī ʿAbd Allāh b. Khodādād at the Dār al-Wakāla. The writer mentions sending several commodities with Mubārak al-Ḥalabī and urges that their names be registered in the dīwān, dīwān al-Ṣināʿa, and Dār al-Wakāla.

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• aodeh
• dimme
• trade

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Farah b. Yosef Qabisi in Alexandria to Abu al-'Ala Sa'id b. Naja al-Dimashqi ('Ulla ha-Levi b.

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• 11th c
• alexandria
• commodities

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Efrayim b. Isma'il al-Jawhari, probably in Alexandria, to Yosef b. […] , ships of the amīr, the ship of ּḤusayn al-Lakkī (?), the ship of Yaḥyā b. al-Sāḥilī, and the ship of Ḥassūn.

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• 11th c
• yosef b. awkal

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Related to the Qodesh? Mentions: al-ṭāḥūn; the brother of ʿIwaḍ; al-Midādī; al-Ḥazzan; bayt Nuṣayr; Mufliḥ al-Jazzār; Dhurrī; al-Iskandarāniyya; Mufliḥ; Abū Surūr; building expenses (nāshūsh, ṣāniʿ, mismār).

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• account
• coptic numerals

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Judaeo-Arabic

List of names and shops, probably for tax purposes. Mentions the elder al-Hod, al-Raṣuy, Abū l-Munā, Abū Naṣr b. Maʿānī, Ibn al-Makīn, Ibn al-Maqdisī, and al-Rashīd Shemuʾel (spelled שמול).

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Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a letter addressed to al-Kohen [...] Abū l-Bayān. Dating: probably late 12th or early 13th century. Refers to legal queries and/or responsa (fatāwa) and possibly medical collyria (ashyāf). Also mentions 'al-mawlā al-rashīd.' (Information in part from CUDL)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Describing a squabble between a person claimed to be Qaraite and a local Rabbanite. Shabbetay al-Rūmī was knocking on the door of Yosef al-Rūmī early one morning. Abū l-Faraj Ibn al-Wazzān was at the gate of the alley, knocking and shouting out to Shabbetay, "Hey, Ananite (עאנאני), go to the guard of the alley (al-darrāb) and let him open the alley for Abū Thābit who needs to attend a circumcision. […] The addressee is asked to meet with "al-ḥaḍra al-rayyisiyya" (probably the head of the Jews) and determine if Shabbetay needs to be brought before the Jewish court.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a woman, in Rashīd, to Yom Ṭov al-Buḥayrī (it seems her son-in-law) and his wife Esther (it seems her daughter), in Fustat/Cairo. […] She seems to use masculine verb endings when addressing each one of the two; she opens with "salām allāh taʿālā ʿalā a[l]-ṣihr(?) al-ʿazīz wa-ʿalāal-bint al-ʿazīza Esther min ummik" and there is no clear alternative to eading ṣihr, which can mean son-in-law as well as brother-in-law; but she also writes "greet your mother-in-law" (with masculine verb ending), a statement that has to be addressed to her own child.

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• jariya
• late ja
• slaves
• women's letters

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Arabic

Mentions the Ayyubid sultan al-Malik al-Kāmil (r. 1218–38) twice (r6, r22); a ṣāḥib al-dīwān (v4–5); 1000 gold dinars (v10); Ḥusām al-Dīn and Amīn al-Dīn (v13–14); Fakhr al-Dīn ʿUthmān who has someone's agent whipped (v16–17); Ṣadīq b. […] Seems to primarily deal with Mecca (r5, r18, r25, v6–7, v15), including multiple allusions to unjust and/or irreligious rulers. May also mention the city of Medina (r18) in a section where it seems that both Medina and Mecca are personified (r18: فلما سمعت المدينة المحروسة, r24–25: فلما سمعت مكة). […] There is a later Rangstreit between Mecca and Medina in BNF MS Arabe 1667, 190v-200v, in which the dispute is mediated by Sayf al-Dīn Yalbughā (d. 1366). Merits further examination.

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• to edit

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Judaeo-Arabic

Ibrāhīm, in Fustat, to Abū Isḥāq Ibāhīm al-Kohen b. Yūsuf, in Alexandria. Dating: 11th or 12th century. […] The sender also wishes to know if the addressee has forwarded his letter to his father. […] In a postscript he asks for fresh Byzantine cheese if available in Alexandria.

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Arabic

The year is difficult to read, maybe 520 AH which would be 1126 CE. Mentions Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Ibrāhīm b. ʿAṭāʾ and transporting something to do with the government (الاىىان(؟) al-sulṭāniyya) to the shore of the Nile or the sea (ilā sāḥil al-baḥr). […] Probably related to verso, as it mentions the same term الاىىان. Headed by an ʿalāma (من وثق بالله...). Instructing someone to ship something somewhere, mentioning the bustān of Fakhr al-Mulk and how it must not be delayed. Also something about not charging heavy brokerage fees (al-juʿl al-thaqīl.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: no earlier than mid-13th century, based on handwriting and formularies used, plus the citation of a poem by al-Būṣīrī (dates: 1213–95). There are also two lines from the opening of a petition written in Arabic script, a few scattered words in Arabic script, and a single word(?) […] The contents include: (1) the alphabet written several times, both right to left and left to right; (2) the scribe's signature several times, al-faqīr Isḥāq al-yahūdī; (3) two verses from Qaṣīdat al-Burda by al-Būṣīrī (أمِنْ تذَكُّرِ جيرانٍ بذي سلمِ); (4) some legal jargon (jarā dhālika fī ākhir jumādā al-thāmī(!) sanat ar[...]; (5) and two pornographic sections, one of which ends "all this is lies" (כל הדה כדב). ASE

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• cipher
• sex
• sufism

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Betrothal contract between Avraham ha-Kohen and Sitt al-Ḥusn bt. Arye b. Yehuda. Her father Arye was the ex-husband of Karima al-Wuḥsha, and Sitt al-Ḥusn may be the daughter of Karima al-Wuḥsha, as Sitt al-Ahl bt. Avraham (potentially the daughter of Avraham ha-Kohen and Sitt al-Ḥusn) is described as the granddaughter of al-Wuḥsha (see T-S 13J1.21 (PGPID 926), dated 1150 CE).

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Primary language

Hebrew

Genealogical list of Fustat families, beginning with the Nānū family. Also mentions Abū l-Maʿālī ʿOvadya b. ʿUlla "the Nagid of the land of Israel and Judah," for whom the Geniza also preserves an investiture of appointment as Jewish communal leader in Damascus, Syria, and al-Salṭ from the son of Saladin, al-Malik al-Afḍal: T-S Ar.38.93 (PGPID 9436).

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• genealogy
• memorial list

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Primary language

Arabic

Letter from Moshe ha-Kohen to Yeshuʿa ha-Sar, care of Abū l-ʿIzz in the market of the goldsmiths (sūq al-ṣāgha) in Fusṭāṭ. Mainly in Arabic script, with names, titles, and blessings given in Hebrew characters in the midst of the Arabic text. Moshe reports that al-Shaykh al-Ajall al-Sadīd b. al-Tilmīdh and his son al-Shaykh al-Muwaffaq (שמ צורו again in Hebrew characters) arrived and informed him that the addressee had left [...], and this was very distressing.

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• bialphabetic

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Document date

16 Dhu l-Qa’da 550 Hijrī (11 January 1156 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Hilāl, the secretary (kātib) in "the compound of al-Ḥāfiẓ" (al-rabʿ al-Ḥāfiẓī al-saʿīd) at Bāb Zuwayla in Cairo. The sender's name appears on verso but is tricky to read (Ibn ʿAlamal-dawla?). The sender refers to both himself and the addressee as "friend" or "honest"(ṣadīq/ṣiddīq). […] There is a date on verso at 180 degrees to the address: 16 Dhū l-Qaʿda 550 AH (after the end of the reign of al-Ḥāfiẓ, 1132–49 CE).

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• katib

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Arabic

Bifolio of a larger Arabic text, mentioning a conversation between ʿAbd al-Malik b. Marwān (646-705; the fifth Umayyad caliph) and his general al-Ḥajjāj b. […] This text is most likely part of al-ʿIqd al-Farīd, a tenth-century composition by Ibn ʿAbd Rabbihi (d. 940), an Andalusian poet and writer. The preserved text is part of the section "Wūfūd al-Shaʿbī ʿalā ʿAbd al-Malik b. Marwān", which is written in red-ink on recto.

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550 Kharājī (1156–1157 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

State accounts relating to the tax farm of the lands of Dayqūf, in the province of al-Bahnasā, administered by Basṭiyya b. Marqūra and the property of the office of the noble lady of al-Āmir in the "Muḥawwil chamber" (al-majlis al-muḥawwil was a chamber in the qaṣr al-baḥr, which in turn was a component of al-qaṣr al-kabīr, the great palace complex of the Fatimid caliphs).

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• account
• damin
• dimme
• farming
• fiscal
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Document date

25 Shawwāl 480 Hijrī (23 January 1088 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Recto: Deed of sale for the purchase by Abū ʿAlī Ḥassān b. Ibrahim b. Azhar (the Jewish moneychanger) of two houses in Fusṭāṭ from Abū l-Munajjā Bahūr b. […] Baḥāsh (the Christian clerk). Witnessed by Yaḥyā b. al-[…], al-Ḥusaynī, and Ḥasan b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad Abū ʿUbaydallāh. […] Also mentions al-Thābit b. Ḥasan.

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• 11th c
• gift

1 Transcription 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary language

Arabic

Fragments of 6 lines are preserved, wide space between them. Refers to al-Shaykh al-Muʾayyad fī l-Dīn (maybe al-Muʾayyad fī l-Dīn al-Shīrāzī?), a sum of money and a dīwān (ikhrājuhu min al-dīwān al-maʿmūr bi-mablagh kāna...), and possibly someone's days of living in Tripoli (ayyām al-maqām fī ...

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

The phrase "the Maghribī scribe" also appears in the address. Written in a mixture of Arabic (in Arabic script) and Judaeo-Arabic. […] Mentions someone called Sayf al-Dawla al-[...] al-Juyūshī; a profit of 8 3/4 dinars; and "the small ship" (al-qārib al-ṣaghīr), which Aodeh suggests is the ship of the ruler of Tyre Ibn Abī ʿAqīl, but does not explain why.

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• aodeh

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Refers to "stories of Alexander... and the school of philosophical politics" (madhhab al-siyāsa al-falsafiyya).

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Arabic

Mentions honorifics like "al-karīm al-ʿālīal-makhdūmī."

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yeshu'a b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmuri, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Mentions the safe arrival of (probably) relatives to Fustat; a female slave who was sold in Alexandria, and instructions for the coming winter dealing mostly with wheat and oil.

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• nahray b. nissim
• trade

3 Transcriptions 1 Translation

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

May have to do with a debt. Also mentions "aʿmāl al-Ushmūnayn" and "the aforementioned estate/village" (al-ḍayʿa al-madhkūra)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Several drafts of an order of payment addressed to "al-qāḍī al-ajall." In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. late 12th or early 13th century. The handwriting resembles that of Maimonides but is not his (different alif-lam ligature). There are also various geometrical jottings and pen trials in both Hebrew and Arabic.

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Arabic

Refers to "the ladies" (al-sādāt), Abū Yaʿqūb Ibn al-Baradānī, and an upper storey (al-ṭabaqa al-ʿāliya).

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Arabic

Includes many fiscal-related terminologies, "al-dīwān al-maʿmūr", "min al-ḥisāb", "[D]īwān al-istikhrāj", and "māl al-najm".

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Arabic

At least partially about agriculture and mentions the town of Minyat al-Layth in the Delta. Also mentions "if [...] arrives from Cairo," and "the regiments in Syria" (al-ajnād alladhī fī l-Shām).

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Musa b. Abi l-Hayy from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1055. Mentions details about changing coins and business between the two of them. Also mentions money that was sent to Alexandria to Yisrael b.Natan (Sahlun), Nahray's cousin.

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• 11th c
• coin

3 Transcriptions 1 Translation

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dealing mainly with business matters and also raising money for the capitation tax. Mentions many people including: Ṭāhir al-Simsār; Hiba al-Bilbaysī; Abū l-Makārim al-Kohen. Regards to al-Sadīd and to Abū l-Thanā' and his wife. Shelomo has been suffering an attack of ophthalmia and only wrote this letter with great effort.

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: eye
• illness: ramad
• ramad
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6 Rabīʿ II 1238 Hijrī (21 December 1822 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

State receipt/order of payment issued by the "khazīnat anwāl al-ḥarīr", a branch of the state-run silk monopoly under Meḥmed ʿĀlī Pasha's administration. Date: 6 Rabīʿ II 1238 AH (1822 CE). Location: Alexandria. Begins with "ʿAmmā yuḍāfu bi-ḥisāb warath(waraqat?)"... and then "al-qāḍī". The two state officials subsequently mentioned are the ṣarrāf, Mūsa Naʿīm al-yahūdī, and the overseer (nāẓir), ʿUmr Agha.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Ḥananʾel, probably in the town of al-Ṣaffayn. Dealing with various business transactions. There was also a market named al-Ṣaffayn in Fustat; in this case the address would likely have been written "to Fustat, to al-Ṣaffayn," but there are some examples of addresses that list only the name of a location within a city, e.g., T-S 6J4.20 (PGPID 17099). (Information from Stephanie Luescher, Moshe Yagur, and Alan Elbaum.)

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Arabic

Containing an official order; probably a copy of a decree/sijill, but also written in an elegant script. Stating that Manṣūr b. Sahl, one of the secretaries/scribes employed in the military administration (al-kuttāb al-mustakhdamīn fī dīwān al-juyūsh al-manṣūra) will be reassigned to a different government employment (khidma).

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• copy
• decree
• military
• scribes

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Petition in which the sender reports that a certain person (dhāt al-shakhṣ) had not come down from the citadel (al-qalʿa), and the ruler and Jamāl al-Dīn were busy with the arrival of Ibn al-Jawz (or perhaps Ibn al-Jawzī). […] Yehuda has gone out to the shop, and the payments for alimonies (presumably orphans staying with the writer) were incomplete, and he asks for relief.

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• citadel
• informal note

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Arabic

Record of a donation. Faraḥ b. Natan b. ʿAllūn donates a newly erected olive oil press with a mill wheel of Ḥawrānī stone. Boundaries include: a street leading to the market of Banū Wāʾil (on the Nile, SW of Qaṣr al-Shamʿ); also mentions the church of St. Sergius (kanīsat Bū Sarja), al-Ḥadīd lane, and "the two rows" (al-Ṣaffayn).

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• church
• endowment
• press

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Primary language

Arabic

A few lines from the bottom it refers to "al-tawqīʿ fī Dīwān al-Naẓr." On verso (probably originally recto) there is another state document referring to al-dīwān al-saʿīd، في الديوان السعيد العامر يتوجه الى ما في . . . ). On verso there is also a Judaeo-Arabic legal document (see separate record).

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