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Arabic

Recto, with the address on verso (secondary use): Letter addressed to al-Rayyis al-Rabīʿī (=ha-Reviʿi) Abū l-Ḥasan. In Arabic script. Mentions people named Manṣūr and Abū l-Faḍl. And mentions "al-qāʿa al-maʿmūra bi-baqāhi."

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Arabic

Recto: Brief letter. Mentions Aḥmad b. ʿAlīal-[...]; "seeking my master Abū l-Faḍl"; "in this there is courage and vigor"; and a request of the addressee. […] Written in much larger letters. Mentions [...] al-Dawla Jaʿfar b. Ṣafiyy al-Dawla.

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Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions al-Tājir al-M[...]; Abū l-Ḥasan al-Tinnīsī; Abū l-Faḍl; Abū l-Ḥasan al-Ṣāʾigh

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. Mentions someone who arrived safely, and a woman named Sitt al-Milāḥ.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Short, faded note to 'al-melammed' telling the addressee to take a 'dast' (a certain quantity) from 'this paper,' for the writer is without employment.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef. Quite damaged and faded. At the bottom of verso mentions laundry and a porter and alum and cleaning; and myrobalan.

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Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

ʿImrān, involving [...]sh al-Ghazzī. Torn and faded. AA/ASE

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Arabic

In Arabic script. Quite faded. The ends of 5 lines are preserved. Mentions that a certain ʿāmil is more capable than somebody else (aqdar minhu) and then mentions "the lofty order" (al-amr al-ʿālī).

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Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document involving Abū l-Faḍlal-Parnas, Abū Saʿd, and payments in installments. The margins and verso are filled with accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Verso also has a section of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic calculating sums still owed.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Long and full of interesting details, but parts (especially verso) are faded beyond legibility. Dealing with personal issues and mentioning people such as a qāḍī, al-Ḥilwānī, Yaʿqūb Ibn Qihāya(?), Moshe al-Ḥabashi, and al-Rayyis. AA

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23 Shevaṭ 4975 Anno Mundi (25 January 1215 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a family member, in Alexandria, to Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat. Dated: 23 Shevaṭ [4800 +] 175 = 4975 AM, which is 25 January 1215 CE. […] v13) and rode it to Alexandria. Also mentions Marseilles (מרשיליה v5), but the context is too faded to read.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yiṣḥaq had paid 30 dinars and Abū l-Faḍāʾil b. Abū l-Barakāt 52 dirhams into a partnership. It was agreed that Shelomo, who was also the agent, would take 23 parts and Abū l-Faḍāʾil only 1/24. […] in Judaeo-Arabic, Arabic script, and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions Bū l-Khayr al-Nafīs. (Information from Goitein's attached notes.)

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• shelomo b. eliyyahu

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Document date

1112–1126 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Concerning financial settlements after the death of Abū l-Faḍl ʿAmram b. Raḥamim. Mentions the blessed congregation of Fustat; a woman who paid a large sum out of her own money; the mother of Abū l-Faḍl who is a widow; al-Rayyis al-Jalīl Yiṣḥaq b. Simha al-Nīsābūrī; Netanʾel ha-Sar; 20 dinars, ʿimāra (repairs), and a piece of ʿanbar (ambergris).

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• halfon b. menashshe
• mevorakh b. saadya
• moshe b. mevorakh
• nisaburi

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe. Mentions Abū l-Faḍl b. Abū Kathīr (cf. Moss. VII,104.1 (PGPID 26997)). Also mentions the term אלקטיעה and אלמעונה במצר.

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto is in Judaeo-Arabic and verso is in Hebrew, which also appears to be poetic phrases for a letter to a notable. Quite faded, unclear if any of the substance is preserved.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Abū l-Ṭayyib Ibn al-Dhahabī; al-ʿAmid; flax; Abū l-Faḍl; Muẓaffar; "owed to Menashshe by Ḥasūn"; various numbers of bales; and pepper.

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• account
• arus b. yosef

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

List of names, including Abū l-Munā, Abū l-Faḍāʾil b. Ḥajar, Abū ʿAlī b. Saʿāda, Abū ʿAlī b. Makḥūl, Ibn al-Marjānī and Abū Zikrī al-Kohen, probably as contributors to the poor.

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• abu zikri yehuda
• ib-addenda

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Arabic

State document, in Arabic script. Six lines of a faded petition, or report, the top four lines are extremely effaced. Mentions probably a man of the countryside "al-rajul al-rīf". The last line also contains the raʾy clause: "انعاما واحسانا ولسيدنا الارا عـ".

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The excerpt is either from Kitab Zahr al-Ādāb wa-Thamar al-Albāb by al-Ḥuṣarī al-Qayrawānī (d. 1061 CE) or from the source that he quotes, Abū l-Faḍlal-Mīkālī (d. 1045 CE).

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• classical arabic literature

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Arabic

Letter fragment. In Arabic script. Faded and damaged. Mentions Damietta (ENA 3598.1, third line from the bottom); a qalʿa (ENA 3598.2, line 7 and again in the margin); Alexandria (al-Thaghr) (ENA 3598.2, second line from the bottom); and asks for the addressee's news.

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Arabic

A report to an official: Shujāʿ al-Dawla Bū Faḍl Ziyāda regarding issues pertaining to Abshīsh and Ṭamlay.

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Primary language

Hebrew

Legal document, extremely faded, perhaps regarding the sale of a house in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ.

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• 10th c

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Arabic

Fragment (bottom part). Faded. "By that which I believe of the Holy Law (al-sharīʿa al-muqaddasa)!

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Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: Probably no earlier than 13th century based on the abbreviations used (e.g., al-wālid al-makh[dūm]). Refers to a weight of 190 mithqāls and a rent of 20 something. Faded.

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Arabic

Receipt or legal document in Arabic script. Faded. Late. Concerning the rent of a shop in Ḥārat al-Yahūd, possibly for the month of Shaʿbān– unless it is mentioned as a specific date of issuance for the receipt. The name [...] b. al-Azhar appears at the bottom.

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Document date

26 Jumādā II 736 Hijrī (10 February 1336 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Faded Arabic accounts, mentioning the state treasury, on the blank page of a bifolio of piyyuṭ. Begins "bi-l-khizāna al-ʿāliya" followed by the date 26 Jumādā II 736 AH = 10 February 1336 CE if correct.

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Arabic

Rental contract (هذا ما استاجر) on parchment, mentioning titles of high state officials (e.g. qāḍī al-quḍāt wa-dāʿī [al-duʿāt]) and with a long ʿalāma at the top. Names mentioned include Ibrāhīm b. ʿĪsā al-Baghd[ādī], Abū Muḥammad al-[...] b. ʿAbd al-[...], and [...] al-Dawla. There is a faded note on verso.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Refers multiple times to Sayyidnā al-Muftī. Also deals with business matters and asks if a purchase should be made in New Cairo or Fustat. Mentions the customs (maks). Mentions Abū l-Faḍl. (Information in part from Goitein's index card.)

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• mufti

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Document date

548/549 Hijrī (1153–1154 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Petition to the Fatimid vizier Al-ʿAbbās requesting an allowance in grain to be paid to the petitioner in yearly installments. […] The dating is based on the identification of the vizier in question with Abū l-Faḍlal-ʿAbbās Ibn Abī l-Futūḥ.

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• allowance
• dimme
• grain
• installment
• petition

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Document date

Tuesday, 17 Tammuz 1438 Seleucid (28 June 1127 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(1) Malīḥa bt. Abū l-Faḍl the wife of Adam al-Ḥalabī al-Ṣayrafī appoints Natan b. […] Abū l-Ḥasan al-Tinnīsī(?) appoints Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Yiṣḥaq al-Kohen known as Ibn Ghazāl to represent him in all his claims against Abū Naṣr b. […] , the parnas Abū l-Faḍl, and the parnas Abū ʿAlī, and testify that Malīḥa and her husband Adam al-Ḥalabī al-Ṣayrafī have reached a settlement concerning release each other from all claims, including any further claim on her delayed marriage payment (muʾakhkhar).

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Primary language

Hebrew

Letter to the Gaon, probably from Aleppo, complaining that the Gaon is paying too much heed to those who slander the writer, approximately 1035. Verso: Very faded and mostly illegible text, possibly liturgical or a sermon.

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• 11th c
• communal

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Inferred date

1150–1181 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Very damaged and faded marriage agreement written by Mevorakh b. Nathan (active c. 1150-1181 CE). Some lines from the dowry list is visible, and also few of the commonly found conditions such as the trustworthy and the monogamy clause.

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• dowry list
• marriage
• mevorakh b. natan

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Judaeo-Arabic

Late letter in Judeo Arabic. Much faded and the cursive hand makes it difficult to read. Few names are mentioned: Hasan(?) b. David (also partially mentioned in the address), Ishaq b.

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• ja
• late

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Arabic

Upper part of a legal deed (iqrār), an acknowledgment made by both Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad b. Abū l-Faḍāʾil Hibatallāh b. Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan and the Jewish yarn merchant (al-ghazalī) [...] b.

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Arabic

In Arabic script. "yā akhī yā Bū ʿAlī wa-Faḍāʾil yā akhī Sahl wa-Abū Ṭayyib....."

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Faded and damaged. Almost none of the substance is legible.

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Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. Mentions something ill-fated (al-mayshūm, two lines from the bottom of recto).

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Document date

20 Ṣafar 560 Hijrī (6 January 1165 CE)

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Arabic

Tax receipt or private receipt, in Arabic script. Mentions bayt al-māl and contains the cipher which may denote "addā" at the top. Faded.

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• dimme

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Judaeo-Arabic

Faded fragment of a letter in the hand of Yefet b. […] The first letters of ~16 lines are preserved along with the one-line margin.

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Document date

153[.] Seleucid (1218–1227 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The dating is deduced from the related documents; however, could also be 1530 Seleucid = 1218/19 CE, see T-S 13J18.22 (PGPID 8006). People mentioned: [...] b. Abū l-Faḍl, 'my mother' ʿIbād, her sister Ḥasab, Ibn al-Nāʾila, someone's deceased father Manṣūr, Sulaymān and someone else who are the sons of the maternal aunt of Manṣūr, Abū l-Faḍl Ibn al-Rabbāṭ(?), Abū l-Maḥāsin al-Naqlī. On verso there are additional jottings in Hebrew, some biblical verses or themes, including a reference to Miryam and to Batya the daughter of Pharaoh.

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• 13th c
• court record

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Two records of a legal transaction involving Sitt al-Sāda bt. Abū l-Surūr Ibn Maṭrūḥ, mentioning al-shaykh al-Rayyis Abū l-Faḍl, and Yosef.

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Document date

1408 Seleucid (20 September 1096–9 September 1097 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Moshe Ibn Majjān and Abū l-Faḍl Yosef b. Yoshiyya al-Dhahabi, which arose when the former claimed from the latter a complete bible codex he had bought from him some time before. The resolution is that Abū l-Faḍl gives the codex to Abū Sahl Menashshe to give to Abū ʿImrān (because he had taken a vow that he would never give it himself).

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• bible
• book trade
• codices
• register

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The writer describes how he became so sick he despaired of life, but God sent health. Also mentions Abū l-Ḥasan b. Khulayf (first half of the 12th century) and Alexandria. Regards to Abū l-Faḍl and the writer's father. (Information in part from CUDL)

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: despair

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Primary language

Arabic

Addressed to a 'brother.' Quite faded. On verso, there is the header "al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ḥamd al-shākirīn" followed by a prayer on for the Fatimid caliph: allāhumma ṣalli ʿalā Ābāʾihi al-ṭāḥirīn al-maʿṣūma min al-khanā wa l-fashal wa al-jazal inshā Allah..

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