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Mentions brazilwood; a turban; wheat and wine; shipping expenses (? tawjīh); a Christian (al-naṣrānī); a foreign Christian (al-naṣrānī al-gharīb); and a Jewish yeast(?) merchant: al-yahūdī al-khamīrī.

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Arabic

One uses red anemones (shaqā'iq al-nuʿmān, Anemone coronaria). This work may be derivative of عمدة الكتّاب وعدة ذوي الألباب, which is attributed to al-Muʿizz b. Bādīs (https://al-maktaba.org/book/31950). But there are also substantial differences.

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• ink
• recipes

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Mentions Mūsā b. ʿImrān al-Bayyāʿ; Ibrāhīm b. [...]; "my maternal aunt in Dammūh"; Abū Naṣr b. al-[...] al-Qazzāz; Bū Naṣr b. al-Thiqa al-Ḥarīrī; Salāma.

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• account

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Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions names such as Abū Naṣr; Ibn Qayyūma; Ibn al-Fakhkhār. Mentions commodities such as flax, brazilwood, cinnamon, and pepper. Also mentions חאמס = ḥamas = usually government oppression. Also mentions several sums in dinars. Dating: 11th or 12th century; likely 11th.

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• unedited 11th c

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Judaeo-Arabic

Legal note, unsigned, beginning "Yaqūlu...": "ʿAllān b. Ḥassūn says that Abū l-Ḥusayn al-Ḥalabī has a note (ruqʿa) of [...] under the name of Abū ʿImrān worth 2 dinars. I lost it (wa-qad waqaʿat minnī) and I collected the substitute/equivalent (al-ʿiwaḍ) and released him from it. Whenever it surfaces, it is false and invalid." The dates are then specified. ʿAllān b. Ḥassūn was an India trader in the early 12th century (and the subject of Goitein's "Portrait of a Medieval India Trader"); Abū l-Ḥusayn (Yaḥyā) al-Ḥalabī was a banker (ṣayrafī), also known from several other documents from the same period.

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• ib-addenda
• ib6
• india book unedited

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Arabic

Addressed to someone titled al-amīr al-ajall reporting on a ship bearing wood (markab al-ḥaṭb) that arrived at the port of Fusṭāṭ on the Nile (al-ṣināʿa maḥrūsa). […] I’m sorry for the delay, it’s not my habit. Please hold off Ibn al-Tabbān and tell him to wait until a fiscal official (ʿāmil) is available to […].” It seems that the addressee was in the service of al-Afḍal b. Badr al-Jamālī, hence the letter could be dated to that period.

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• al-malik al-afdal (1094-1121)
• dimme
• markab

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Primary language

Arabic

The slave requests his benefaction and the favor of coming to the 'Canal House' (Dār al-Khalīj), to the house of [...]. The servant (al-ghulām? al-khādim?) sent for this time...." The last few words are difficult to read. The Dār al-Khalīj appears also in T-S 10J14.27, where it's indicated that there are smaller dārs within this larger dār (it is mentioned in this context in Goitein, Med Soc IV, p. 56 note 36).

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Not clear. very little text remaining. also dots on the verso. Seems to be also from the same fragments. same type of late paper and hand

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Judaeo-Arabic

Draft of the beginning of a letter addressed to two people ('al-mawlā al-hadrat' and 'al-mawlā al-tifʾeret').

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century. Mentions pepper; ʿAbd al-Dāʾim al-Dajājī; Cairo; Alexandria.

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Friday, 9 Nisan 1688 Seleucid (20 March 1377 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

In which Sadīd b. Saʿadya known as Ibn al-[...] grants a release to Fakhr bt. ʿAlam b. Futūḥ al-Levi along with her daughters Sitt al-Nās, Turkiyya the wife of Muwaffaq, and Ḥanna the wife of Yiṣḥaq al-[...], and along with a certain Yiṣḥaq b. […] Sadīd serves as guarantor for his sister Sitt al-ʿIyāl, while Fakhr serves as guarantor for her two daughters.

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• bara'a
• nagid

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Document date

484 Hijrī (23 February 1091–11 February 1092 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Also concerning the same Ṣāliḥ b. Ismāʿīl b. ʿAlī. Later on mentions ʿAbd al-Muʿṭī. 3) Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). The name of the person making the acknowledgment (the muqirr) appears in l. 2 followed by a physical description (... wāḍiḥ al-jabha...). In lines 4–5, the same Ṣāliḥ b. Ismāʿīl b. ʿAlī from the previous two documents appears.

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Arabic

Discusses extensively government service (khidma). Mentions al-Qāḍī al-Rashīd Ibn Sanāʾ al-Mulk (probably the father of the famous poet, cf. […] Al-Shaykh al-Sadīd was terrified at the prospect of being put in charge of government funds; the sender offers an excuse for him (perhaps that he doesn’t even know accounting? lā yaqtadir ʿalā istirfāʿ ḥisāb). Needs further examination.

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• dimme

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Involves someone close to the government (יתעזז באלמלכות); someone who obtained a governmental rescript (tawqīʿ) ordering the investigation of a matter (ווקע לה עליהא בכשף אלאמר); Barakāt al-Kohen; Sitt al-Kull bt. Mūsā known as al-Raṣṣāṣ, the widow of Barakāt; al-Rayyis al-Ajall al-Nagid; Abū l-ʿAlāʾ; testifying that someone has never been a relative of Barakāt al-Kohen; instructing the widow to try to obtain the tawqīʿ and "the tathbīt" from the person who has it; the property of orphans; a prolonged dispute; and seeking help from the Nagid.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Abū Sahl the crier in the moneychangers' market (al-munādī fī sūq al-ṣarf, the same profession as Bishr b. […] On verso the letter returns to some monetary affairs involving Banīn (who is also mentioned on recto), and ends with greetings to Mufaddal b. Abu al-[...] and Abū l-Majd the cantor (=Meir b. Yakhin).

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Inferred date

1820–1825 CE

Primary languages

Judaeo-Arabic, Ladino

Letter (ending only) addressed to David Ben-Naʿim and Moshe Ben-Naʿim in Alexandria ( נא אמון) presumably from their father, Meʾīr, who only signs with his initials MBN. […] Dating: the Ben-Naʿim brothers worked for a short timespan together in Alexandria during the early 1820s and their father died c. 1825 CE. […] This is probably a reference to the letter recipients' sister, who may have also been in Alexandria at the time. The final lines of the letter close with greetings from a long list of other family members who are present (probably in Cairo).

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• ben na'im
• ladino

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Document date

20 Adar II Anno Mundi (15 March 1137 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Letter from Abū Naṣr b. Avraham, in Alexandria, to an India trader (probably not Ḥalfon b. […] Netanel's representative in Alexandria, possibly to Abū Zikrī Kohen, the representative of the merchants in Fustat (paleographic and stylistic identification by Goitein/Friedman). Reports hard times in Alexandria. The letter testifies to Abū Naṣr's involvement in the India trade, as well as local textile production.

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• addendum
• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• india book
• trade

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Primary language

Arabic

The sender reports (yunhī) on a man who owes him "anna hādhā l-rajul lahu ʿalayya" and seeks the addressee's help in settling his accounts. The addressee, whose name in the tarjama reads as "al-awḥad al-amīr Raḍī l-Dīn", is a military official (walī al-shadd) whom the sender promises to convey news of his area "anā ūkātibuka bi l-khabr". The accounts that the sender is asking the addressee's help in settling could be taxes as the "al-shadd" was a military officer, classified by al-Qalqashandī as belonging to the 'arbāb al-suyūf' 'masters of the sword'.

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• dimme
• inha`
• tarjama
• tax

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Document date

Thursday, 25 Adar 1408 Seleucid (12 March 1097 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The document also mentions Avraham b. Yefet ha-Levi, and is dated Thursday, 25 Adar 1408 Seleucid = 12 March 1097 CE. See also T-S 10J5.18 + T-S 6J2.28 (PGPID 3026). Verso: statement of Abū Yaʿqūb Yiṣḥaq b. […] (Information from CUDL. See also Goitein's index cards.)

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• disability

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Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions two partners, Abū al-Ḥasan b. Abū al-Faraj and Khalaf b. Ḥasan, who withdrew from a group involved in banking because some of the partners had loaned funds without the permission of Abū al-Ḥasan. […] The withdrawal appears to have taken place six years before this document was written and the account with Abū al-Ḥasan was settled. The partnership likely charged interest on some of its loans, since the clients include Muslims and Christians (e.g., a Coptic clergyman from Barbaya). (Information from Lieberman, "A Partnership Culture," 234) Also mentions a number of government officials, including Jalāl al-Dawla, head of the dār al-ṭirāz.

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• interest
• tiraz

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions names such as Abū Ṭāhir b. Abū Aḥmad, Ḥasan al-Ḥalāwī (sweets maker/seller), Musharraf (or Mushrif?) al-Baqqāl (the grocer), Abū ʿAlī b. Bushayr, Abū ʿAlī b. […] One page lists the dates of various consignments received of honey (from Būṣīr and from Barqa) and "water and raisins." It also lists the "sign" (ʿalāma) associated with the manufacturer, e.g., (pictures of?)

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2 or 8 Dhū l-Qaʿda 405 Hijrī (April 1015 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 2 or 8 Dhū l-Qaʿda 405. Payment made under the supervision of three officials: (1) the auspicious, rightly guided qāḍī Thiqat al-Mulk Makīn al-Dawla wa-Amīnuhā, p[rotégé of the Commander of the Faithful], [Ab]ū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Nahār; (2) (in) the presence of the fiduciary qāḍī Abū ʿAlī l-Ḥasan b. Yaḥyā b. Nahār [on his] beh[alf]; (3) (under) the tax accounting of Sadīd al-Dawla Abū l-Faraj ʿAbd al-Masīḥ b.

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

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A lament at his prolonged absence or abdication of a position, quoting and/or mentioning the following people (notably, most of the individuals seem to be female family members): mawlātnā; mawlānā; sittī al-bayḍāʾ (his sister); מחסנה (a boy or man); the congregation (al-qahal); the "[people of] the palaces" (ahl al-quṣūr); mawlāy al-rayyis; Abū l-Riḍā's paternal aunt; al-rayyisa (also his sister, maybe identical with sittī al-bayḍāʾ); "his sister" (maybe identical with the prior sister(s)); his maternal aunt; "O you group of judges"; and "O my son."

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• popular poetry

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Document date

3 Shawwāl 405 Hijrī (27 March 1015 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 20 Shawwāl 405. Written by the jahbadh Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ. Payment made under the supervision of three officials: (1) 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) (in) the presence of the fiduciary qāḍī Abū ʿAlī l-Ḥasan b. Yaḥyā b. Nahār on his behalf, 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
• daman
• damin
• tax receipt

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Judaeo-Arabic

(I) Set of quittances each beginning "ubriʾa min X," all relating to to a quantity of coral which the late Nissim had deposited with the late ʿAllān via a power of attorney registered with the court. […] Mevorakh; and the third is for Benaya b. [Mūsā?]. There is also mention of "that which was deposited with Avraham b. Yosef ha-Mumḥe and Shelomo b. Saʿadya al-Ṣurī." See also T-S 10J28.12 (PGPID 2987).

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20 Ramaḍān 946 Hijrī (29 January 1540 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

See also JRL SERIES B 7663 (PGPID 40386). ENA 2898.4: Recto is headed "the ship of Kara ʿAlī arriving from Antalya on 20 Ramaḍān '46." […] taghlīq) of the ship of ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ʿAbbās." The entries underneath include the names ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Qūqū, Salim(?) […] Various commodities are listed in the itemized entries, including soap, silk, rosewater, ḥalāwa, alum, and apricots (unless Mishmish is part of the name of ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz).

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• antalya
• early modern
• opium
• ottoman shipping

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Dhū l-Qaʿda [502] Hijrī (2 June 1109–1 July 1109 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The document resembles another report to al-Malik al-Afḍal also preserved in the Geniza, T-S 16.114 + T-S 24.57 + T-S AS 11.383 + T-S AS 146.195, edited by Geoffrey Khan (ALAD doc. 111). Among many other matters, it discusses: a request for a Fatimid fleet to come to the aid of Tripoli; how Ibn ʿAmmār was an enemy of the people and of the notables (muqaddamīn) of Tripoli and of the Fatimid state; how the traitorous al-Sharīf al-ʿArīḍī had been sending Ibn ʿAmmār state secrets (akhbār al-dawla) until Sayf al-Mulk b. […] The significance of this document and all of the joins were identified and catalogued on PGP by Alan Elbaum between 2020 and 2022.

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• arabic crusades
• arabic military report
• chancery
• crusaders
• franks
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Musa b. Abi al-Hayy in Alexandria to Abu Yahya Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat. […] This is not an exhaustive accounting of what's in the letter; also mentioned are the ship of al-Muʿizz, which was carrying the son of Abū Yūsuf, who perished, may God have mercy on him. […] (The late King Faruk had a summer palace there, and since Ra's al-Kanaʾis means 'Cape of the Churches,' he renamed it Ra's al-Ḥikma, 'Cape of Wisdom.')

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• 11th c
• ibn al-ba'ba'
• khiti
• nahray b. nissim
• qarib
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Might be a letter or might be literary. It is about the book al-Faraj baʿd al-Shidda ("Relief after Adversity") and emotional distress and entertainment/distraction. Also includes the phrase "outside of our religion" (al-khārija ʿan madhhabinā").

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to the Nagid Mevorakh (1079–1111 CE), it seems from the community of al-Maḥalla. Mentions Yosef al-Dimashqī, Ibn al-Mushaṭṭab(?), and Hillel (b. ʿEli) al-Ḥazzan al-Baghdādī. On recto there are responsa or a halakhic treatise concerning the laws of Shabbat.

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where his shop was not successful and to come and try to make a living in the quarter of al-Qamra in Alexandria. There is a shortage of silk traders (qazzāzīn) and dyers (ṣabbāghīn) and criers (munādiyyīn) in Alexandria.

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Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Booklist in Arabic script listing individual Epistles (of the Brethren of Purity) that have been copied and bound and into how many majallāt and karārīs, including risālat al-ʿadad, risālat al-akhlāq, al-ārā' wa-l-madhāhib, and al-ṭarīq ilā Allāh.

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• arabic script
• book trade
• ikhwan al-safa

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Arabic

Naṣr; Abū Naṣr; Barakāt; Ibrāhīm; his brother; Sulaymān Ibn al-Ḥazzān; ʿAbd Allāh [...]; Samawʾal [...]; al-Muʿallim Bū l-Surūr; al-Makīn Bū l-Faraj b. Nuʿmān(?); ʿAbd Allāh b. Salāma.

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• arabic script

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Document date

Ramaḍān 455 Hijrī (28 August 1063–26 September 1063 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Some legible bits: ḥaḍrat sayyidnā al-sharīf(?) al-[...] al-mukhliṣ [...] al-mulk; someone renting something from someone; Cairo; trade (tijāra); al-ḥāmī; the phrase "kull jawhar bihā khārij."

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Document date

1475 Seleucid (31 August 1163–18 September 1164 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: order of payment addressed to the collectors (jubāt) of the compound of the Jerusalmites (גבאה רבע אלמקאדסה) over 9 dirhams to be given to Ibn al-Sālim al-Ṣayrafī. Dated 1475 of the Seleucid Era (= 1163/64 CE). Also mentions Ibn al-Malījiyya. Signed by Shemuʾel b.

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Arabic

Sent by an official with the title ʿĀzim al-Dawla. An order from al-Ḥaḍra al-Majīdiyya (probably al-Ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Majīd) granted the sender an exemption (?) from customs tax (maks) for the goods arriving on a royal Nile boat "al-ʿushārī al-malik/al-malikī" on government business (shaʾn al-dawāwīn). The addressee didn't honor the order and hence the sender rebukes him the rebuke of friends "fa-aʿtibhu ʿatb al-aṣdiqāʾ". The last two lines are difficult to contextualize but an attempted interpretation could be - with the command of the overseer of his business/accounts, someone wrote from the dīwān regarding what is obligatory on the different types of taxes.

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• 'ushari
• customs tax
• dimme
• maks
• official correspondence
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