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Judaeo-Arabic

Copies of 2 letters, likely as writing practice. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 19th century, and ca. 1808–39 CE if the maḥmūdī mentioned is the gold coin minted under Maḥmūd II (1808–39). Several other currencies and commercial goods are mentioned. The two text blocks on recto are copies of the same letter; the text block on verso is a different letter.

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• numismatic dating

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1100–1138 CE

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100-38 CE). Fragment (upper left corner). On parchment. Opens with a string of titles very similar to those given to the Nagid Moshe b. Mevorakh in T-S 24.55. Then goes into the case of the youth Abū l-Ḥasan b.

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• halfon b. menashshe

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yoel to Efrayim. Fragment (upper left corner). The sender is likely identical with Yoel ha-Melammed (see e.g. T-S 20.148), since it is a rare name and their handwriting appears to match. Little of the content is preserved; the sender mentions the bearer of the letter, Yosef, and offers an excuse about why he has not traveled.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: part of a Judaeo-Arabic letter, complaining about the lack of letters from the addressee and explaining that a letter had been sent to the Ḥaver concerning Ibn al-Ẓālimī(?) on Wednesday 22nd Kislev. May mention 100 (or 500) dinars in Cyprus (קברס) and may mention departure from another location (דאכר?).

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Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, maybe mercantile. Mentions Sar ha-Sarim; a burniyya (a kind of vessel); 'our master' (adonenu); a paste (maʿjūn); Ibrāhīm al-[...]; and a small amount of ambergris (ʿanbar). Resembles the handwriting of Hillel b. ʿEli in the letters he wrote for Yosef Lebdi (see India Book I), but does not appear to be a direct join with any of them.

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Inferred date

1094–1097 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Line 30-verso, line 13: In that letter Nissim had mentioned that he had shipped to Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan b. […] Recently a number of acquaintances, all mentioned by name, had arrived from Aden, some with letters and receipts from Adenese merchants. […] Verso, lines 14-24: Having learned that the merchants who had arrived from Aden were returning there, Amram wrote to them letters and now asks Nahray to meet 'all of them' and to give them his letters.

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• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib2
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: joints
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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Letter from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, Qalyub, to a family member in Fustat. Partial translation from S. D. Goitein, Mediterranean Society, 2:271: "I am sending you with the bearer of this letter 15 dirhems. Please buy for me 1¼ pounds of emblic (amlaj) [“Indian gooseberry,” see above], approximately for 4¼ dirhems or less; 2½ pounds of deep-red rose water (mā' ward), approximately ¾ d.; A fuqqā‘a (bottle of potions), approximately ½ d. or less; 1 pound eye powder, well made, on special order, approximately 2 d. or less; 1 miswāk (tooth-cleaning twig), approximately 2 d.; 1 pound antimony, approximately 3¼ or 3½ d. or less; 2½ pounds cosmetic cream (mathāth), approximately 2¼ d.or less.

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• arabic script
• druggist
• materia medica
• moshe b. levi

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to Abū ʿImrān, in Zuqāq al-[...], Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Of the body of the letter, only the lower right corner remains. Difficult to determine the content. Mentions various family members and either the king (al-malik) or the property (al-mulk).

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1471 Seleucid (14 September 1159–2 September 1160 CE)

Legal fragment in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Dated: 1471 Seleucid = 1159/60, under the authority of the Gaʾon Netanʾel ha-Levi. Signed by Meʾir b. Hillel b. Ṣadoq. Concerning a textile business and a boy who will sleep [in the shop?].

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to Avraham b. Aharon ha-Kohen, with a lengthy Hebrew opening. Mentions Abū ʿAlī. It continues in the right-hand margin, where a final sentence mentioning Abū Zikrī has been added with a different pen.

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi to his brother the court clerk Ḥalfon, who was active ca. 1100–1138 CE. (S. D. Goitein, Mediterranean Society, 5:422, 626; EMS). Join by Oded Zinger.

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• halfon b. menashshe
• yefet b. menashshe

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Legal document mentioning guardianship, R. Berakhot, and a deceased man. Verso: Legal document in a different hand (that of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu?) mentioning capital and people such as Moshe, Abū l-Khayr, and Bū Isḥāq.

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably a mercantileletter of the 12th century. The main text seems to be rhymed Hebrew blessings from the introduction. The marginal text mentions 3.25 manns of something selling for 1 dinar.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Looks like the handwriting of Yefet b. Menashshe. Mentions various commodities: purging cassia (khiyār shanbar), white poppy (khashkhāsh abyaḍ), red lead (a.k.a. minium, here spelled sīlqūn), and turmeric (kurkum).

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• yefet b. menashshe

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Minute fragment from a letter by Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi to his brother Halfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Only a few formulaic words from the top three lines, and part of the address on verso, are preserved.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yehuda b. Ṭuviyyahu ha-Kohen, in Bilbays, to Shelomo b. Natan ha-Levi, in Fustat. Mentions that there is only a single Torah scroll at the synagogue; the writer asks Shelomo to persuade the leader of the community to add another one since prior promises to do so have not been kept. Regards to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Maḍmūn al-Levi. Also mentions al-Shaykh al-Iftikhār and al-Shaykh al-Muhadhdhab.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Mercantileletter in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning Qayrawān and al-Mahdiyya, written prior to 1057 CE. Mentions people such as Abū Naṣr [Dāvid?] b. Naḥum. Mentions saffron and the people who arrived with the caravan.

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Inferred date

1145–1148 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

India Book II, 55. Letter from Maḥrūz b. Yaʿaqov, Mangalore, to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. […] Abū Zikrī was a representative of the merchants in Fustat, stranded in Bharuch after having been captured by pirates near Tānā (modern Thane) in northern India — the same port from which Marco Polo reports piracy a century and a half later. […] Maḥrūz's sister (back in Fustat) was married to Abū Zikrī (Abū Zikrī's sister meanwhile was married to Maḍmūn b. Yefet, representative of the merchants in Aden).

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• ib2
• india book
• mangalore

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1066–1108 CE

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Judaeo-Arabic

Legal fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Written and signed by Hillel b. […] ʿEli mentioning Abū l-Ḥusayn Yaḥ[yā] b. Shemuel ha-Kohen and Mevorakh b. […] Some of the same people are mentioned in ENA NS 85.1254 (PGPID 14572).

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Judaeo-Arabic

Each entry includes the weight (wazn), unit price (siʿr), total price (thaman), deductions for brokerage (samsara), discount (samāha) and advance payments (taʾjīl), and the final balance (bāqī). Recto, left side: the total for 9 sacks (220½+¼ dinars); deductions, including transport from Tinnis, Ascalon port fees, labor costs (11½+⅛ dinars); and the net amount (209⅛ dinars). […] Goes on to list approximately 25 merchants or individuals along with textile quantities and values, including ʿAyyāsh, Khalaf, Isḥaq, Ḥasan al-Qaṣṣār, “Ḥa]mmād al-Ṭarrāz (the embroiderer or tirāz weaver), ʿImrān b. […] Hilāl, Barakāt, Haffāz, Yaʿqub al-Ghazzī, and others. Verso, left, continues listing textile values for the 9 sacks in the Tinnīs flax account: 3 sacks with ʿUmarī, 2 sacks with Muḥammad, 4 sacks with ʿAbd al-Waḥīd; total weight: 1,179 raṭls.

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• flax
• nahray b. nissim
• silk
• sumac
• tiraz
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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to Abū [...]a b. Faḍl. […] None of the content of the message is preserved. (Information from CUDL.)

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Hebrew

Long fragment of a lettermentioning dignitaries and members of the Yeshiva.

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Arabic

Letter. In Arabic script. Dating: Ottoman-era, based on hand and layout and vocabulary ('after the arrival of the basha... kiss the hands of Muḥammad effendi for me...'). Dealing with business matters, mentions Indian coral (marjān al-hind), and lead (raṣāṣ).

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• dimme

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Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: legal document concerning debt. Hand of Hillel b. […] Verso: probably a subsequent legal document in a different hand, mentioning Abū Yaʿaqov, 10 dinars, collaterals, and conditions mentioned 'in the document' (probably on recto).

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Small fragment from the top. mentioning [Saʿa]dya ha-Kohen, [...] b. Saʿīd, and the 'head of the community' (Rosh ha-Qahal).

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1100–1138 CE

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Judaeo-Arabic

Legal fragment in the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Damaged. Mentions Tamīm ha-Kohen and the sale of pepper. (See description for T-S Misc.28.79.7 + T-S Misc.28.79.11 for more on this Tamīm.)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to one of his brothers. in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower left corner of recto). Mentions: brazilwood (baqqam); other business deals; regards to Sitt Naʿīm (Ḥalfon's wife); good wishes for a holiday, perhaps Purim.

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1100–1138 CE

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Judaeo-Arabic

Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). […] Refers to the "market fees" and specifically mentions that these pertain to the "(Dīwān) al-Ishrāf."

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Private account of Yosef b. Eli Kohen al-Fasi. Dating: around 1057 (Gil). Contains details about partnership between the writer and Barhūn b. Ṣāliḥ regarding purchasing …

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• flax
• holes
• silk
• trade

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Mūsā b. Yaʿqūb al-Miṣrī, in Minyatayn (the "two Minyas," Ghamr and Zifta, located across from each other on one of the Delta tributaries), to Abū l-ʿAlā' Yūsuf b. […] Dating: ca. 1056 CE. The letter discusses the flax harvest and confirms the receipt of some clothes. There is a passing mention of someone's illness in the margin (line 3).

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• arabic address
• flax
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: marad
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Private account written by Nahray b. Nissim. Around 1065. This account was written as a draft. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #298) VMR

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Private account written by Nahray b. Nissim. 1060. Daily account that was probably a draft. Might be the account of Maymun b. Khalfa. (Information from …

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Judaeo-Arabic

The writer ("Moshe son of his honor, our master and lord Yosef the teacher—may he live until the coming ofthe messiah!") writes a brief letter, almost complete, which is addressed to the family's patron Abū l-Fakhr b. […] Greetings are also extended here to an anonymous brother, apparently the third brother, Ḥayyim. The letter thus not only testifies to the Yijū family's dependence on the Ibn al-Amshāṭīs but also provides additional information on members of that illustrious family. […] I don't know what to do. (17) Should I sell that lac or leave it? I request (18) sound advice. Please do this act of complete kindness for (19) me, your servant, who is staying here.

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• ib-partial translation-eng
• ib3
• india book

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yosef b. Aharon the cantor to a certain Abū l-Faraj. Mentions the Nasi; his brother-in-law Abū ʿAlī; the gloating of enemies; then, "by God and by the bones of your father! […] You promised me that you would be on my side." The letter concludes with blessings in Hebrew.

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Document date

1205–1237 CE

(Information from Goitein, Mediterranean Society, III, 400.) NB: In Letters from Medieval Jewish Traders, Goitein mistakenly cites this shelfmark for the document T-S 12.114, which is a letter from a merchant from southern Italy.

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• marriage

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe probably to Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Binyām al-Rashīdī. […] The addressee should encourage someone (probably Abū l-Surūr) to come down with Baqāʾ, because there is still employment to be had in the castle. At the end: "The letters which arrive from [...] Ḥārat Zuwayla, please forward them to their owners."

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Salmān b. [...] to [Abū Sa]ʿīd Khallūf b. […] Zikrī mentioned in T-S Ar.18(1).101, who is probably the Khallūf b. Zekharya who sent T-S 13J17.11. Mentions "the merchants and "from the Sultan and from the Wazīr."

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Arabic

Recto: Memorandum in Arabic script, with a learned disquisition on the meaning of the term "ṭabīʿa" in the works of Hippocrates. Names several specific medical treatises. Margins contain mention of "al-Shaykh" and his tafsīr on Kitāb al-Aghlūqun (Glaucon). Unclear if this is related to verso, which is a medical prescription, mentioning chebulic myrobalan, white agaric, turpeth, and Chinese rhubarb.

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• dimme
• medical
• prescription

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