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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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1 Transcription 1 Translation 1 Discussion

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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3 Transcriptions 1 Translation

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Mentions a violet (banfasajī) velvet (mukhmal) kufiyya apparently for a certain ʿAlī. Also mentions al-ʿAjamī.

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Primary language

Arabic

Poetry. Extract from Abu l-ʿAlāʾ Aḥmad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Sulaymān al-Maʿarrī’s (d. 449/1058) al-Luzūmiyyāt.

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• arabic poetry
• dimme

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List of amounts of money received from al-Shaykh al-Makīn and al-Shaykh al-Nadiv, written by Shelomo b.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a letter from Maymun b. Efrayim of Alexandria to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov b. Awkal. (Information from Goitein index cards; also Gil)

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Hebrew

Mentions Avraham b. Pinḥas (appears also in T-S 16.228 (PGPID 7461)) and Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif al-Shulḥani.

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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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Document date

11 Adar I 4973 Anno Mundi (3 February 1213 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Other stipulations forbid Yeshuʿa from leaving Alexandria for four years and from ever remarrying his first wife, and instruct him to sell his clothes and to give the proceeds to Sitt al-Kull. There is also a continuation of the text of the letter from the verso. […] The name of the recipient has been carefully rubbed out. There is also a continuation of the legal document from verso.

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• 13th c
• bankruptcy
• divorce

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16 Ḥeshvan 4835 Anno Mundi (9 November 1074 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto (original use): Power of attorney. Location: Alexandria. Dated: 16 Ḥeshvan 4835 AM = 9 November 1074 CE. A woman, Nājiya bt. Shelomo b. Hiba al-Miṣrī, the wife of Abū Saʿd Yiṣḥaq b. Khalaf al-Miṣrī, had previously appointed Abū Sahl Menashshe b. Moshe al-Qarawī as her agent to help her collect her property from her mother Ḥusna and sister Sittūna (she had moved from Alexandria to the Maghrib and left some of her property with them).

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• power of attorney

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions people such as Abū ʿAlī; [...] al-Bukhtaj; Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Pinḥas; [...] al-Sharābī; Abū l-Faraj; a parnas; and Aharon. Mentions goods such as a 30-cubit Maghribī sūsiyya. Also mentions the government and the capitation tax.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter written and sent probably from Alexandria by Yaʿaqov b. Salman al-Hariri perhaps to Nahray b. […] Discusses business matters, announces that merchandise transported in Ibn al-Baʿbāʿ's ship arrived safely in al-Mahdiyya, and describes an attack by warships on the commercial ships in port.

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• ibn al-ba'ba'
• nahray b. nissim
• trade

2 Transcriptions 2 Translations 1 Discussion

Letter to a qāḍī (addressed "al-jināb al-ʿālī"). In Arabic script. Dating: Maybe Mamluk-era. The letter concerns a horse that was purchased for 17 dinars; also mentions "money for the dīwān." Needs further examination.

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Primary language

Arabic

Letter/petition from Bū Bakr to a notable named Burhān al-Dīn, in Fustat. In Arabic script. Dating: Probably Mamluk-era based on hand, layout, and formulary. Asking for alms. Contains many eloquent expressions of deference, including kissing the hands and the beautiful fingertips (anāmil) of the addressee (al-jināb al-ʿālī).

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• to edit

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He also rebukes him for failing to send condolences on the death of his mother. He is also angry at Mufaḍḍal, apparently another cousin, the son of a different aunt of the writer, for his behavior after the sender lost 4,000 mithqāls. […] The fragment ends with the sender cursing the Aleppan (al-Ḥalabī) who made off with everyone's qumāsh.

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• ib7
• india book
• java
• letter etiquette

2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List of beneficiaries receiving clothing (jūkāniyya) via the local parnas Abū l-Faraj. Also mentions ʿAllūnal-Parnas. Information from JRL catalog.

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Hebrew

A poem in honor of somebody important, perhaps a groom, since verso also contains (in the same hand) blessings for the bride. In the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī.

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• nasir

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Document date

Av 1404 Seleucid (July 1093 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document involving a man from Alexandria and signed by ʿAmram the banker son of Ezra, Head of the Congregation, the Alexandrian', issued in Fustat, Ab 1404/July 1093.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to Makhlūf al-Maghribi in Jerusalem, in the 'house of Natan,' about various commercial matters. Yehuda al-Ashkenazi and Abu Khalifa are also mentioned.

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• business

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List of names in a very cursive hand in Judaeo-Arabic. Including Bū ʿAlī Ibn al-Amshāṭī al-Dayyān(?); the boy of the Mosuli; and [...] Ibn al-Labbān.

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Letter from Yeshua b. Isma’il al-Makhmuri from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. […] The writer traveled safely from Rashid to Alexandria, after he had to leave a large part of the goods in Rashid.

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• sahib al-diwan

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from David b. 'Ammar and Musa b. al-Hayy from Alexandria to Yeshua b. Ismail al-Makhmuri in Fustat. The letter describes a situation of insecurity in al-Mahdiyya and mentions matters related to currency and to silk and pepper.

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Inferred date

1 June 1054–1 June 1054 CE

Letter from Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī, probably from Alexandria, to Nahray b. […] Mentions shipments and details about ships. Also mentions details about storing goods and some details about coins.

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• coin
• trade

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmūrī. Dating: May 12, 1052 CE. Business letter with many details about ships going west. The sender reports on the sinking of two ships, including that of the sultan al-Muʿizz b. Badīs. Al-Fāriqī is also mentioned.

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Primary language

Arabic

Mentions people such as Abū l-Majd, the amīr ʿIzz(?) al-Dīn, al-Rayyis Sulaymān, al-Rayyis ʿAlī, and Abū ʿAlī Sulaymān.

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Arabic

The portion preserved here consists mostly of greetings, naming people such as Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā, ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Ḥādī, Nūr al-Dīn, Quṭb al-Dīn, and the faqīh Saʿd al-Dīn.

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• dimme

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Hebrew

Abudarham, probably in Rashīd, to Elʿazar al-Kātib, probably in Alexandria. In Hebrew. Dating: Second half of 16th century, based on Avraham David's identification of the writer. […] Mentions Damietta and Alexandria. See tag for other letters by the same writer.

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• late heb
• moshe b. abudarham
• rashid

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Letter from Barhun b. Musa al-Tāhartī, from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. […] Mentions shipments of crocus and some shipments by sea. Also mentions a manuscript of the book of Kings.

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• trade

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Document date

Ramaḍān 442 Hijrī (17 January 1051–15 February 1051 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Receipt in Arabic script (waṣala ilā bayt al-māl al-maʿmūr) in the name of Ibrāhīm b. Sunbāṭ al-Ṣabbāgh (the dyer), the Maghribī Jew, dated Ramaḍān 442, with the funds being delivered by Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā; ʿalāma on recto and a detailed registration in the dīwān al-jawālī of Fustat (!)

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• 'alama
• aodeh
• fiscal receipt
• registration mark
• tax receipt

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions having shipped to the elder Abū Yīṣḥaq Ibn Ṭībān a shipment of aloe and brazilwood; details the payments made for this shipment, naming Rashīd and Alexandria and "the west" (al-gharb). Mentions Saʿāda the ghulām of Ibn al-Iskandar; red fuṭas.

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Document date

552 Hijrī (13 February 1157–1 February 1158 CE)

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Arabic, Unidentified (Hebrew script)

In Arabic script. Mentions "al-mawlid al-saʿīd," Alexandria, the year 552 AH (=1157/58 CE). In the margin, twice, "The name is ʿAlī b. Zīz." Verso: List of 13 Greek or Latin-sounding names (e.g., Gregorius, Adrianus).

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Arabic

الكريم زاده الله شرفا ونفاذا بالصدقة عليها . . . . . The ḥasbala "ḥasb al-mamlūka Allah wa-niʿm al-wakīl" also suggests the petitioner was a woman.

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• dimme
• petition
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1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Informal note from Eliyyahu, in Alexandria, to Yefet ha-Kohen ha-Ḥazzan. In Judaeo-Arabic. Urging him to heed the letters that have already been sent from Alexandria regarding helping a poor man.

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• recommendation

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Arabic

Fols. 1 and 2: Petition in Arabic script. From Mubārak b. ʿAllūn. The addressee is al-Ajaliyya al-Afḍaliyya al-sharafiyya, probably one of the Fatimid wazīrs post al-Afḍal b. Badr al-Jamālī, which dates this petition to the 12th C, and towards the last decades of Fatimid rule.

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• dimme
• petition
• tax evasion

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List of names, roughly alphabetized. It is unclear for what purpose (a community census?). […] Isḥāq ʿAkkāwī; Wahbān b. Shabbāt; Wuḥaysh b. ʿAllūnal-Ḥammāl; Wahb b. Ibrāhīm al-Mawṣilī; Wahb b. Khalaf al-Ṣūrī; Wahbān b. al-Darāqin(?). There are a few additional notations that may represent sums of money.

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• cmp

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Arabic

Mentions the day of movement (ʿalā l-nahr al-sālik) and an occurrence which enforced the preparation of something (biḥaithu kān l-ʾamr kadhālik li-tajhīz dhālik..). Emphasis is also laid upon majlis al-qaḍāʾ (wa-nahnu nuʾakkidu ʿalā l-Majlis fī qaḍāʾ), ending with in-shāʾ-llāh taʿālā.

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• dimme

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Document date

28 Dhū l-Ḥijja 1238 Hijrī (5 September 1823 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Order of payment issued for the ṣarrāf Mūsā Naʿīm (Moshe ben Naʿim) involving the Dīwān Anwāl al-Ḥarīr in Alexandria and a certain al-Ḥajj Muḥammad Kh..iyya. The official that signs and seals the document is the nāẓir of the Dīwān, al-Ḥajj ʿAmr Agha. Dated: 28 Dhū l-Ḥijja 1238 = 5 September 1823 CE. There is a note in Hebrew script on verso "מח׳ חירייה", probably referring to al-Ḥajj Muḥammad Kh..iyya, but using ח instead of כ as the initial letter of his surname.

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• 19th c
• alexandria
• silk

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Business letter (c. 1100 CE) from Abū al-Ḥasan b. Khūlayf Iskandarānī to the prominent purple-cloth merchant Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yosef al-Mahdawī in Fusṭāṭ. Asks for news of the Kārim convoy. […] Greets people such as Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllān and Abū l-l-ʿAlāʾal-Ḥalabī the in-law of Ṣāʿid al-Parnas.

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• karim

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Isma’il b. Farah from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Dating (Gil): ca. 1060. The letter deals with shipments of goods that arrived in Alexandria and are being sent to Fustat. Mentions difficulties in selling wax. Nahray sold Isma’il’s old grain and bought new grain for him. In Alexandria, they are expecting the first ships (the letter is from the beginning of Tammuz).

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• nahray b. nissim
• trade

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Inferred date

1139–1140 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel in Alexandria to Yiṣḥaq b. Barukh in Almeria. Ḥalfon requests Yiṣḥaq's help with a shipment that the judge Elʿazar b. al-Qaṣabī in Fusṭāṭ sent to his brother in Lucena. […] (Information from Goitein, Friedman and Ashur, India Book IVB) Maybe Alexandria; End of 1139 - Middle of 1140

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• 12th c
• halfon ha-levi b. netan`el
• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• india book

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe (per Weiss). Abū al-Wafāʾ Shemarya al-Dallāl receives a release from Abū l-Mufaḍḍal and his sister Nasab for all obligations resulting from dealings with their late father. […] Nuṣayr and Abū l-Munā, were brought by Abū l-Wafāʾ to testify. There is also someone called al-Bilbaysī. No signatures preserved.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter probably from Abū l-Surūr al-Shāmī to Umm Abū l-Faraj, in Fustat, Qaṣr al-Shamʿ. […] Dating: No earlier than 1425 CE, since it mentions the ashrafī currency– which was first minted under Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay in this year. Mentions Farajallāh; a teacher; various goods; the house of Avraham; Elʿazar; Zayn al-Dīn. […] Join: Alan Elbaum

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• numismatic dating

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender reports that he has sent a copy of a power of attorney (nuskhat al-wakāla) involving al-Shaykh al-Ajall al-Nafīs [with?] […] Elyaqim, active 1213–33 CE) and look into it and help extricate the sender from some legal dispute. On verso there are also some legal formulae in Aramaic. (Information in part from CUDL.)

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