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Arabic

Only blessings for the caliph are preserved: ... amīr al-muʾminīn ʿaḍada allāh bihī [al-dīn...] ṣalawāt allāh wa-barakātuhū wa-nawāmī zakawātihī...

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Arabic

Recto refers to a new gold denomination of currency (al-dhahab al-jadīd al-sulṭānī al-tāmm). Needs further examination.

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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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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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• dimme
• fiscal

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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

Arabic

The writer expresses his longing towards the addressee and addresses him as Mawlānā l-Karīm al-ʿĀlī. He mentions being in the service of (an official?) Jamāl al-Dīn al-Ḥakīmī and also refers twice towards taking cognizance of something (fahimuhumā l-Mamlūk), possibly two earlier letters arrived from the addressee.

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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

In which Meʾir narrates how 'Sayyidnā' (identified by Frenkel as the Gaon Netanel ha-Levi) attempted to force him to accept the post of judge in Alexandria in return for annual payment. The addressee is asked to mediate between the writer and the Gaon. It seems that the addressee was the Gaon's representative (nāʾib) in Alexandria. (Information from Frenkel; see also Goitein's index card.)

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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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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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Judaeo-Arabic

Business letter from the druggist Binyām to Zayn Ibn al-Ger. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: early to mid-12th century. For the same sender, see also DK 232.2 (alt: VIII) (PGPID 6554) and AIU VII.E.43 (PGPID 30345). For the addressee, see also T-S NS J301 (PGPID 26407). Concerning shipments of materia medica, including licorice root (ʿirq sūs), endive (bizr hindibāʾ), black spleenwort (ashtwuān).

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Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Ḥayy and announcing the writer's arrival in al-Mahdiyya (this part makes it seem like a note addressed to somebody else, with accounts enclosed). Also mentions al-Andalus. Commodities mentioned include flax, wax/candles, and garments such as shuqqas, fūṭas, and malḥafas. Other names mentioned: Yehuda al-Dimashqī, Abū l-Faraj, Abū l-Ḥasan, and maybe Azhar al-Kabīr.

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Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Lower section: List of names accompanied by numerals. Names include: Ibn al-Ḥazzan; al-Ḥazzan; Asʿad; Yosef al-ʿAdanī; Moshe b. Ṣadoq; Sh[aykh?] al-Yahūd; Hibatallāh; ʿAbdūn; Yosef al-Jabbān; Muwaffaq al-Ṣayrafī.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Involving an abused woman, the wife of Mūsā, who has petitioned for help both in activating a condition written in her ketubba as well as a document she had from the Nagid allowing her to live on the property of the Qodesh. "[T]his letter may indicate that the real estate of the qodesh was occasionally used as a shelter for abused women kicked out of their homes." Also refers to meeting with 'al-shaykh al-ajall al-ʿamīd zaqen ha-ʿeda.'

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Arabic

Verso (original use): Distribution list for cash and wheat for the poor of the Rabbanites, administered by the ḥaver (al-ḥibr) [...] and Yaʿqūb al-[...]. Written in Arabic script. […] About 55 lines are preserved, listing dozens of alms recipients, many of them blind. Also mentions "... al-Andalusī wa-akhūhā (l. 4)."

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• alms
• blind
• distribution

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Judaeo-Arabic

beginning Adar II, with 80 due every month to Abū l-Munajjā b. Abū Saʿd. He also owes various sums to Abū ʿAbd Allāh; Barakāt al-[...]; Karam al-[...]; and Baqāʾ .

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The main part of the letter is a recommendation for a person named Isḥāq, the student of Isḥāq al-Ifranji. The writer also mentions business matters: dinars exchange and a request to pay the rent for two houses that he rented to Nahray in Alexandria.

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• lor

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Primary language

Arabic

On recto there are administrative/secretarial notes at the top: yuʿāmal.... mutawallī al-nāḥiyya....bi-ʿadl.....inshā Allāh...It also mentions a government bureau towards the end of the third line (dār al-[ ]).

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Arabic

Separate text on verso, also in Arabic script. Verso: Commercial letter starting with a basmala addressed to Muḥammad b. (?) Allah informing him about the goods that have been sent for him. Another person, Abū ʿĀmir is also mentioned. Needs examination.

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• dimme

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Document date

Ṣafar 436 Hijrī (11 October 1040–8 November 1040 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Fatimid document, probably fiscal, more than one hand, one large in shā allāh, and one registration mark: al-ḥamdū lil-lāh ʿalā niʿamih. […] Verso contains a large ʿalāma, al-ḥamdu lil-lāh kamā huwa ahluhu, and other writing, genre unclear.

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• dimme
• tax receipt

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Arabic

Recto: Table of names in Arabic script, together with sums of money mostly ranging from 1/6 dinar to 1 dinar. (But there are also entries that say 4 and 15—unclear if dinars or dirhams.) Perhaps a contributors list. Names include [...] al-Ṭarābulsī, [...] al-Iskandarānī, Abū l-Faraj, Abū Naṣr b. Ḥasan, Hibatallāh b. al-ʿArīf(?), Nāṣir [...].

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Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions a number of people with grand titles, such as Saniyy al-Dawla b. al-Nezer Tāj al-Kuttāb and Tāj al-Dīn. […] Some phrases: "I sent with the wife of.... and his brother with urging you... inform me of all your news... present with you tomorrow or... when you come into the city..."

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Letter from Natan b. Nahray, from Alexandria, to Musa b. Abi al-Hayy, Fustat. Around 1080. […] Details about payments and supplies that the writer sends to Musa’s family in Alexandria. Mentions Mevorakh b. Se’adya the Nagid, about helping orphans.

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Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Bifolio that seems to have originally contained official-looking accounts in Arabic script but which might pertain to the qodesh rather than to the state (al-marsūm... iqtiṭāʿatuh bism Aḥmad b. Ibrāhīm... al-tawfīr... fī khaṭāʾiṭ(?) al-yahūd... al-muṭlaq...al-masāmīr...). On the other two pages, there are private accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.

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Ṣafar 548 Hijrī (28 April 1153–26 May 1153 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The basmala appears twice, and one line begins, "Qāla Amīr al-Muʾminīn..." Verso: State document, Fatimid. Opens with a reference to an employee of the treasury (al-mustakhdam fī bayt al-māl al-maʿmūr) and possibly the date Ṣafar 548 AH, which would be 1153 CE, and then the funds of Dīwān al-Abwāb (see tag).

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• diwan al-abwab
• fatimid
• treasury

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Arabic

Lessee: ʿAbdallāh b. [...] al-Dawla [...] al-Tājir. Lessor: Mūsā b. Yaʿqūb (Moshe b. Yaʿaqov) al-Isrāʾīlī al-Tājir. Dated: Possibly Rajab 510 AH (last words of antepenultimate line), which would be 1116 CE if read correctly. Needs examination for details. Almost entirely preserved.

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• to edit

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Primary language

Arabic

Recto involves Bū ʿImrān b. Bū l-Faraj b. Mardūkh al-Ṣayrafī, then refers to an administrator of a compound (mutawallī al-rabʿ), then might refer to all the houses pertaining to 'the waqf' (=the qodesh?) in Qaṣr al-Rūm/Qaṣr al-Shamʿ. Verso seems to be a different document, but probably related.

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Dhū l-Qaʿda 502/503 Hijrī (1108–1110 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Verso (original use): Provincial fiscal account concerning the maintenance of the dikes (ʿimārat al-jusūr al-maʿmūra) in the districts of Shubrā and one other by the responsible official (wakīl) ʿAbd al-Karīm b. Naṣrallāh. Also mentions kharāj and an official by the name Abū Rakwa.

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Document date

Monday 10 Nisan 1528 Seleucid (20 March 1217 CE)

Perhaps a ketubba? On recto, all that is preserved is the date: Monday, 10 Nisan 1528 Seleucid, which is 1217 CE, under the reshut of [Avraham Maimonides]. On verso there are a few more phrases preserved: "the wife of al-Maghribī al-Shābb... and also [...] died, God's mercy on him.

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Nisan 1497 – Tishrei 1498 Seleucid (1186 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

4 legal records. (1) Taqwīm for the marriage between Avraham b. Abū l-Ḥasan Ibn al-Maghāzilī and Niʿam bt. Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ḥazzan. […] Marriage payments: 5 + 20 = 25. Dowry = 44. See also T-S NS J287, a petition from the same woman to the Gaon Sar Shalom ha-Levi (1170–95 CE), written on her behalf by her father. (2) Taqwīm for the marriage between Abū al-Mufaddal b. al-Rayyis Abū l-Najm and Sitt al-Nasib bt. […] Total = 85. (3) Taqwīm for the marriage between Abū l-Ḥasan b. al-Shammāʿ and Sitt al-Thanā' bt. Abū l-Makārim אלתווזי.

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• dowry
• marriage
• slaves
• taqwim

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Document date

Adar 1471 Seleucid (10 February 1160–9 March 1160 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Khalaf and Abū al-Ḥasan b. Abū al-Waḥsh. The court demanded that Peraḥya provide a "guarantor" (Abū Sahl al-Tājir al-Levi b. Yosef ha-Levi b. Ayyūb), allowing the court to allocate the funds from the partnership to Peraḥya while the partnership accounting was ongoing. […] (Information from Lieberman, "A Partnership Culture", 39) Verso: Dowry list. Bride: Sitt al-Banāt bt. Yusuf. Groom: Mevorakh b. Abū ʿAlī.

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Document date

Av 4959 Anno Mundi (26 July 1199–24 August 1199 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Location: Probably Alexandria, where legal documents in this period tend to be dated according to the anno mundi calendar as opposed to the Seleucid calendar used in Fustat and the other towns of Egypt. Concerns Sitt al-Gharb bt. Yehuda, the divorcee of Abū Naṣr Elʿazar ha-Kohen b. Shelomo al-Ṣayrafī al-Miṣrī. Friedman has synthesized her story based on (a) T-S 8.239 + Bodl.

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• arabic script
• maimonides

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Document date

3 Av 1542 Seleucid (4 July 1231 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Unsigned form of a commenda agreement between four parties (Abū Sa‘d b. Ibrahīm al-Ṣabbāgh, Abū Manṣūr b. al-Sūkkari, Suleymān b. ‘Imrān al-Ṣabbāgh and Futūḥ b. Abū al-‘Izz al-Ṣabbāgh), all of whom are to travel to al-Shām to trade. […] The three active partners are allocated 13/24ths of profits while Abū Sa‘d is allocated 11/24ths, while losses are split evenly.

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Document date

25 Tishrei 4973 Anno Mundi (23 September 1212 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter dated 25 Tishrei 1212 (4973) from Yehuda b. al-Ammani, a cantor, schoolmaster, and clerk in Alexandria, to Abu l-Majd Meir b. […] Almostall of the letter deals with this topic and with the vicissitudes of mail delivery, since many letters both from Yehuda and from Abu l-Majd's brother Abu l-Najm Hilal were either delayed or never arrived at all. […] This is apart from the 41(?) beggars we already have in the city [Alexandria], and most of the congregation has been exhausted by poverty."

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• meir b. yakhin
• personal
• poverty
• yehuda b. al-ammani

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Document date

Sivan 1508 Seleucid (20 May 1197–18 June 1197 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Halakhic questions had been addressed to Yosef, and then to Shemuʾel and Avraham in Aleppo, and Shemuʾel had come to Raqqa with a commentary on Berakhot. Various business matters are also discussed, involving ʿEli, and also Abū l-Zuhd in Damascus, as well as the recipient. […] He was expecting to receive several books from Aleppo and other places but only one of them arrived.

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• business
• merchant

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Primary language

Arabic

Repeatedly mentions shahr al-aʿyād (presumably Tishrei), al-faṭīr (Passover), and al-ʿanṣara (Shavuʿot). Mentions Abū ʿAlī b. Isḥāq. Needs further examination.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yehuda b. Yosef b. Simha, Alexandria, to the Taharti brothers (Ismāʿīl and Ṣāliḥ b. […] The writer is aboard a ship in Alexandria and asks for help selling his musk.

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• musk
• trade

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Primary language

Arabic

Mentions the arrival of a group "wa-waṣalat al-jamāʿa", and maybe barley "al-shaʿīr". Also mentions the beginning of a date "in the year xx7".

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• dimme

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Mentions lāzuward; Salāma; Abū l-ʿAlāʾal-Ṣabbāgh; Ibn al-ʿŪdī; Barakāt; al-Khiṭāmī; Rashīd; Hiba; Abū l-Faraj.

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Arabic

Possibly a business letter; mentions goods (al-baḍā'iʿ) and something being sent to Alexandria (irsāluhu ilā thaghr al-Skandariyya).

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• arabic script

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Judaeo-Arabic

Tells the addressee to sell indigo, and mentions 100 pounds of soap. Also mentions a sum of 200 dinars. Also tells the addressee to put the gold in a safe place.

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