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Judaeo-Arabic

Natan at the gate of the Dār al-Ṣarf. The two parties were dragged before the qāḍī, the parnas came and said he’d represent one of them and take care of it the following day in the Jewish court, but then an hour later the amir Shahm al-Dawla had the two squabblers and the parnas dragged before the Ṣāhib al-Bāb (possibly even the high Fatimid official also known as al-wazīr al-ṣaghīr). Salāma and Sason reached a settlement and had to pay a brokerage fee (5 dirhams each?). "They also said" that someone had tried to beat Shelomo with a crop (miqraʿa), only for Sason to intervene and grab the crop out of his hand, 'out of fear lest the gentiles intervene between them.' #2: A testament in which a father gives the house in which he lives to his baby daughter Sitt al-Gharb, who was still nursing, with the exclusion of her brothers.

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• brawl
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Document date

1101–1130 CE

Primary language

Arabic

Petition, or maybe its draft, to the Fatimid Caliph al-ʾĀmir bi Aḥkām Allah. Verso is also some form of state document in a chancery hand, might be the same scribe.

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• dimme
• petition

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Sayyid al-Kull b. Yeshuʿa, since one of them is sick, and "death and life are in the hand of the Creator." […] Another version of the same document is found in JRL Gaster heb. ms 1760/10 (PGPID 32317) (upper left fragment), which also involves Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi a.k.a. Sayyid al-Kull and a mutual release. T-S AS 152.2 (PGPID 4197) is also related. Verso of one of the fragments (Bodl.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions ships from various places including three from al-Mahdiyya and others from al-Andalus. The writer had three successive illnesses over the last month and a half, but he is now better and back to work (al-yawm anā mutaṣarrif), "unless another one comes over me." […] Alas, "the ḥiṣrim here is not like the Levantine ḥiṣrim" (cf. T-S 13J23.17, also featuring ḥiṣrim shāmī). Further down, the writer discusses the price of silk.

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: relapse
• materia medica
• nisaburi
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Primary language

Arabic

Mentioning sums of dinars and names (mostly Syrian) such as Ibn al-Ḥimṣī (from Homs), Ghālib Ibn al-Raqqī, and someone from the Ibn Zawbaʿa family. Also Ismāʿīl b. Ṭalyūn (=Shemuel b. Avṭalyon, active as judge in Fustat from ca. 1016 CE through at least 1041 CE; see Goitein, Med Soc II, pp. 438, 511.) (l. 14). Also seems to mentions a Byzantine dinar (dīnār rūmī) (l. 13).

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Sunday, 1406 Seleucid (14 September 1094–2 September 1095 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū Isḥāq Avraham b. Mevorakh al-Maqdisī and Abū Saʿīd ʿAmram b. Yosef each bring three hundred dinars into a joint venture in an apothecary shop, and agree to split profit and loss equally. […] Goitein deduces that ʿAmram "was not supposed to contribute work regularly" as the text implies that he will not always be in Fusṭāṭ. However, it's also possible that ʿAmram traveled as part of his responsibilities to the partnership, perhaps buying commodities to be sold in the apothecary shop. The sale of certain commodities in the shop were allocated to the partnership, while the partners were alsoallowed to sell other commodities and credit their individual accounts with the proceeds.

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• drug store
• partnership
• pharmacy

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First decade of Ramaḍān 495 Hijrī (June 1102 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

ʿAskar al-Qarīṭī and his wife. The record is witnessed and signed by Naṣr b. Badr al-Salūlī, Jawwāb b. Naṣr al-Salūlī, Zaydūn b. Mahdī al-Salūlī, Rikāb b. Jawhar al-Salūlī, Futūḥ b. Qāsim and Sughlūl b. Mahdī.

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Primary language

Arabic

A precise date may appear somewhere on the document since almost the complete document seems to be preserved here. The Qaraite Mūsā b. ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq b. ʿAbd al-Karīm known as al-Māwardī confirms to have rented (istaʾjara) from the Qaraite [...] b. […] Mentions Dār Ibn Samīḥ (= the Dār Simḥa synagogue) in ll. 4 and 7, probably as a landmark in describing the location of the waqf property which was rented. Also mentions "the properties of the Christians" (amlāk al-naṣārā) in l. 6.

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• arabic script
• awqaf
• dar simha
• qaraite

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The writer wishes to move his children to Alexandria. He complains about R. Anatoli ('It is not concealed from you all the 'informing' (מסרות = מלשינות) that took place among us, nor the anger (khulq) of R. […] The writer mentions Manṣūr al-Miṣrī in the context of business matters; sends regards to Abū Zikrī; and the title of a lady (al-sitt al-rayyisa) appears on verso, apparently not as part of the letter. […] Anatoly Muqaddam of Alexandria," [Hebrew], vol. 83 (2015), p. 155, n. 80.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Regards from Abū Isḥāq al-Ṣayrafī and Abū l-Ḥasan al-Khāzin. The addressee should pass on greetings to Abū ʿImrān al-Kohen and tell him that his son is well and that "all the friends" were pained to hear about his illness. […] Then: "Yours is the noble opinion (wa-lak ʿuluww al-raʾy). [Please kiss for] me the hand of my master the father." (Information in part from CUDL.) Join: Alan Elbaum.

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• idleness
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: sympathy
• ra`y

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to a certain ʿIzz al-Dīn. In Judaeo-Arabic. Yemeni origin. Dating: uncertain, likely no earlier than 13th century. Dealing mainly with details of shipments of different kinds of grains in different kinds of containers, including shipping grain to Ṣanʿāʾ and a delivery to "the house of the dome" (bayt al-qubba). Mentions several names including ʿAbd al-Munʿim, Ḥusayn, Zayd, Muḥammad b. al-Ḥājj, Ṣāliḥ b. ʿAlī, Sulaymān al-Sharāʿī (? אלשראעי), and the sender's son Sālim.

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Document date

436 Kharājī

Primary language

Arabic

There are three or four distinct documents present: (I) the end of a petition with blessings for the caliph or a high authority (wa-li-mawlānā ṣallā Allāhuʿalayhial-raʾy al-ʿālī) (II) account for the receipt of grain(?) […] Reused on the other side for a Hebrew sermon or prayer about sinfulness and repentance. Also reused on the same side by a different Hebrew scribe for an unidentified text.

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• dimme
• matbakh

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Little of the content remains. "... the response... may he please inform me the [n]ews of the effeminate young man (al-ghulām al-mukhannath) who was with Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan Ibn al-Turkash (or Ibn al-Tarkash) [and if] he arrived in health..." […] In the upper margin mentions 'the island' (al-jazīra). Underneath the address on verso is the name (one of the bearers?) Muḥammad b. Hibatallāh b. al-Ḥusayn. ASE

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• arabic address
• island
• unedited 11th c

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Abū Saʿīd b. Abū l-Ḥasan al-Abzārī, possibly in al-Mahdiyya, to his mother, probably in Fustat. He also addresses the letter to his brother Abū l-Barakāt. […] Greetings to people such as Abū ʿAlī and Abū l-Munajjā. On verso there are also jottings in a different ink.

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Document date

1434 Seleucid (4 September 1122–21 September 1123 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Concerning the claims of Turfa Sitt al-Kamāl, the widow of Abū Sahl Mukhtār, to an estate. […] Payment to be made in Alexandria. In Fustat, a guarantor (ḍāmin) stands security that he would pay in Fustat, if a letter from Alexandria to the court in Fustat states that the debtor had not paid within 15 days of his arrival in Alexandria.

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Document date

Wednesday, 9 Tammuz 4793 Anno Mundi (9 June 1033 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Court deed, in which five representatives of the Alexandrian Jewish community, Yosef b. Avraham (known as ʿIrāqī), Binyamin b. […] Efrayim, receive a donation of ten dinars given by Yosef b. Khalaf Ibn al-Bannāʾ (the mason), and delivered by Thābit b. Ṭoviyya ha-Kohen (known as the Babylonian), for the building of the holy ark of the Great (i.e. the Palestinian) Synagogue in Alexandria. Location: Alexandria. Dated: Wednesday, 9 Tammuz 4793 = 9 June 1033 CE.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Expressing his enthusiasm about the future connection (ittiṣāl) with him and stating to have heard from the Ḥazzan Ṣadaqa Ibn Nufayʿ (the go-between) that the younger daughter Sitt al-Ahl and not the elder daughter was to be the prospective bride. […] (Information from Goitein's note card.) Alternatively, the sender is already the son-in-law of the addressee, and Ṣadaqa Ibn Nufayʿ is also hoping to marry one of the addressee's daughters, specifically the younger daughter ("I met with him. . . and saw that he preferred, for his part, the younger daughter" wa-raʾaytuhū mūthir li-janbihī al-ibna al-ṣaghira).

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Document date

25 Ramaḍān 405 Hijrī (19 March 1015 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 25 Ramaḍān 405. Amount of payment: one-half dīnār. 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; (3) (under) the tax accounting of the elder Sadīd al-Dawla Abū l-Faraj ʿAbd al-Masīḥ b.

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• daman
• tax receipt

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Document date

Rajab 495 Hijrī (21 April 1102–20 May 1102 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Verso: makhzūma (ledger of receipts) submitted in Rajab 495 AH (= April-May 1102 CE) by Muḥammad b. ʿAlī, representative of a sugar cane extraction factory (al-maṭbakh) and a honey factory (dār al-ʿasal), to the office of supervision (dīwān al-ishrāf). The makhzūma is witnessed and signed by ʿAlī b. al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī. The accounts are for the kharājī years 490 and 491, corresponding respectively to 493/94 H and 494/95 H.

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• honey
• makhzuma
• sugar
• tax

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Document date

26 Adar II 1600 — 26 Elul 1601 Seleucid (20 March 1289–3 September 1290 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Release between [...] Ibn al-Ghuzūlī and Abū l-Surūr [...] Sar Shalom. Also mentions the name Elʿazar "which is written in the shimmush" — perhaps the witness of the original document. […] The entries on verso are also crossed out and too damaged to read. T-S NS J297b + T-S NS J297a: 1. […] (Compare DK 236, probably unrelated, but also about the tax farming of al-Maṭariyya.) 6.

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Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

The other two pages contain accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions: al-muʿallim Qāsim; [...] and "al-sharīfa" his wife; Hārūn al-Ṣayrafī; Sulaymān al-Ṣabbāgh; Abū Naṣr; Abū Isḥāq al-Ṣabbāgh; Abū Naṣr al-Naqlī; Abū l-ʿIzz; Ibrāhīm; Hiba and his father.

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Primary language

Arabic

Some of the names mentioned are Abū Jawhar, Sayyid al-Ahl bin Muḥammad and ʿAbd al-Bāqī bin...Day recorded in the margin is Thursday; 'bi tārikh Yawm al-Khamīs'. Also mentions 'sulṭān' and '[...]al-Dawla', probably the title of an official.

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• fiscal

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Primary language

Arabic

Fragment (right side only). Mentions Sayf al-Dawla in l. 3. Goes on to mention wheat; provisions for farmers (maʿūnat al-fallāḥ); quantities and sums; flax; ʿUmar b. Ṣārim al-Dawla; and Shams al-Dawla Tāj al-[...]. Verso (secondary use): Letter addressed to the amīr Qamar al-Dawla.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic of a man to his social superior mentioning that a Nasi asked the writer's father to travel with him to Alexandria. The writer is very sick and is afraid he wil soon die. Also his mother is sick, as is his wife, so he asks the recipent to talk to the Nasi that he will not make such a great request upon the father. On the back is what remains of the address: "your slave Shelomo be-Rabbi Eliyyah." There is also a piyyut and 5 lines of a legal document dealing with the house of Ibn Qurra and mentioning the Iraqi synagogue.

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• abu zikri al-rayyis
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: women's
• shelomo b. eliyyahu

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to Fusṭāṭ, al-Muṣāṣa, the shop of Abū l-Thanāʾ the wine merchant (al-sharābī), to be delivered to Abū Naṣr known as Sabīkh (?) al-Sharābī. There is also a second address on verso: "to al-Rashīd to give it to his friend/partner."

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Hebrew

Letter fragment from the Jewish community of Palermo to the Jewish community of Alexandria. Dating: ca. 1030 CE. May mention [Ḥayyim b.] Yaʿaqov ha-Sef[aradi] (who also appears in T-S 24.6). Concerning the appointment of a guardian for the orphan Moshe b. […] The guardian was supposed to collect money—800 טריים—which belonged to the dead father in Alexandria. There is one line of Arabic script in the margin, probably blessings for the addressee.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Against an adversary who denounced the sender to the government, gave false witness against him in qāḍī courts and told the Nagid Mevorakh that the sender alowed his cows to be grazed on Shabbat by Gentiles. Same scribe as T-S 13J34.5 (Alexandria, 1090 CE). (Information from Goitein's note card.) Same scribe likely also wrote T-S H10.171. Verso contains a seliḥa for the New Year (יי שמעה בקולי ראה), with alphabetic acrostic (information from CUDL).

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• denunciation
• mevorakh b. saadya

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Inferred date

1420–1420 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Elʿazar in Palestine, mentioning various individuals including Abū l-Faraji, Elʿazar the doctor, Joseph the doctor, ʿAbd al-Karam, Sulayman b. ʿAbd al-ʿAziz, and David the Spaniard. The letter also refers to the house of Shemuʾel the prophet. […] Assaf (1944:190), however, suggests לי should also be dotted, giving a date 1420 CE. (Information from CUDL)

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• 15th c

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Primary language

Arabic

Dating: beginning of the 12th century, during the reign of al-Afḍal. Describes a battle against the Crusaders. […] Mentions "the plague which is widespread among the accursed Franks" (al-ṭāʿūn al-kathīr al-makān ʿinda al-Ifranj al-malāʿīn), but the continuation is unfortunately missing.

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• arabic crusades
• arabic military report
• battle
• crusaders
• epidemic
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Urges the addressee not to neglect something; the arrival of something or someone (a female slave? אלגאר[יה]) from Alexandria; and refers to terrible distress. See also T-S 13J36.11 (PGPID 8093) in which Meʾir also discusses the sale of a female slave.

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