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Judaeo-Arabic

Concerning a "wicked kohen" who, while married in Alexandria, took an enslaved woman and fled with her to the Delta. […] Avraham Maimonides served as Rayyis al-Yahūd between 1205–1237 CE and also with the title Nagid after 1213 CE.

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• avraham maimonides
• communal
• polygyny

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Inferred date

1500–1800 CE

The verso is blank but on the recto the names include: Abu-al-Khayr al-Majjani, Badir al-Ḥalabi, Suleiman al-Maghribi, 'Omer al-Anbabi, Sinan Reis.

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• late prosopography
• ottoman shipping

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Arabic

, 3 fragmentary lines, containing part of an inhāʾ section (al-mamlūk yunhī anna) in which reference is made to the petitioner's unfortunate condition, involving the capitation tax (al-jawālī) and the tax collector (al-ḥāshir). Preceding the narrative is the phrase wa yamḥaq al-ribā which clearly alludes to Quran 2:276 ("God blots out usury") suggesting a possible reason for the petitioner's misfortune.

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• dimme
• petition
• usury

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Judaeo-Arabic

Isḥāq to Abū Isḥāq Avraham b. Yosef(?) al-[...]nī. In Judaeo-Arabic, in a large Maghribī hand. […] It would normally be written on verso, except that in this case verso was probably already occupied. Almost entirely concerned with trade in silk. Mentions Alexandria. Merits further examination.

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. Abū l-Munā ʿUlla al-ʿAṭṭār b. Ḥasan acknowledges something for Natan aka Wahb b. Yiftaḥ al-Ṣayrafī who is in New Cairo, by the magnificent castles (al-quṣūr al-zāhira), by Bāb al-Zuhūma. . .

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from the raʾs al-kull (= rosh kalla) Isrāʾīl b. Dāniyāl / Yisraʾel b. Daniʾel to Abū l-Ḥasan Salāma b. ʿAllūnal-[Ṣayrafī], in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. […] Concerning various business matters, e.g., a tūnī (linen) garment from the tailor and putting something in a burniyya. See also F 1908.44ii (PGPID 29881).

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Inferred date

1139–1140 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel to Yūsuf b. al-Khāzin (Almeria). Ḥalfon requests Yūsuf's help with a shipment sent by the judge R. Elʿazar b. al-Qaṣabī in Fusṭāṭ to his brother in Lucena. Ḥalfon wrote similar notes with requests to two other people; see also PGPID 7885.

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• ib4
• india book

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Letter from Farah b. Isma’il from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1057. The letter contains details about shipments of coins, including coins that Nahray ordered from Alexandria and needs to pay for their exchange. The writer asks for the prices in the linen market (al-Kalus) in Fustat and the spices’ prices as well.

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• coin
• nahray b. nissim
• suftaja

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Document date

1489-12-20 Seleucid (4 September 1178 CE)

The divorce is between Abū al-Ḥasan al-Kohen b. Sayyid al-Kull al-Kohen and Riḍā bt. al-Faraj.

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• autograph

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter sent from Alexandria by Ibrahim b. Farah to Yehuda b. Musa b. […] Mentions the ship owned by al-Amīr Fakhr al-ʿArab, the brother of Nāṣir al-Dawla, the rebellious Turkish ex-military general of the Fatimid army and the ephemeral de facto ruler of Egypt during the Shidda ʿUzma.

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• nasir al-dawla
• trade

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Abū l-Faraj, unknown location, to his father Abū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Daniel, in Alexandria. Abū l-Faraj recommends the bearer of the letter, al-Asʿad, in the strongest terms, because al-Asʿad had been good to him in both Cairo and Qalyūb.

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• recommendation
• to edit

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402 Hijrī (4 August 1011–22 July 1012 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Regarding proceedings in the Office of Inspection in the province of al-Fayyūm. Abū Fatḥ Allāh Shawār b. Yūsuf, the chief accountant (al-mustawfī) and the overseer of Bamawayh town (in Northern Fayyūm) appeared before the dīwān al-ishrāf (office of inspection) in the Fayyūm in the year 402 H, and solemnly swore and testified that he would deliver a certain quantity of produce (al-ghallāt) every day.

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4 Ṣafar 735 Hijrī (4 October 1334 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Dated: 4 Ṣafar 735 AH = 4 October 1334 CE. Sitt al-ʿAdā(?) bt. ʿAbd al-Karīm confirms to have received from [...] b. Samawʾal b. Rashīd b. Abū Saʿd al-Yahūdī al-ʿAṭṭār for the rent of a store in the Sūq al-Maghāriba 28 dirhams for the month of Muḥarram.

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Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

On recto, mentions Abū Naṣr al-Ṣayrafī, [al-Shaykh] al-Rashīd Abū l-Ḥasan, and Yehuda al-Tājir. On verso, mentions Abū l-Bahāʾ, Abū Manṣūr, Bū ʿAlī, Ibrāhīm, Muḥammad, Sulaymān, Surūr, and Abū l-Riḍā.

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• account

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Judaeo-Arabic

Power of attorney mentioning Ibn al-Dimyāṭī, Ibn al-Kuwayyis (see PGPID 9675), Abū l-Munajjā, Ibn Sālim al-Ṣayrafī the perfumer (al-ʿAṭṭār) in zuqāq al-qanādīl, Abū l-Ḥasan b.

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• halfon-addenda
• ib-addenda
• ib4

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Refers to something al-Majīdī, which might place this during the period of al-Ḥāfiẓ (1132–49). Then refers to "the life of" (could be an expression for swearing by) the head of the yeshiva (raʾs al-mathība) Rabbenu [Maṣliaḥ?]; refers to an agreement between the ruling of the Rabbanites and the Qar[aites]; then "all of them in the majlis al-ḥukm."

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• qaraite-rabbanite relations

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Judaeo-Arabic

Probably the same scribe as T-S 13J34.5 (Alexandria, 1090 CE), T-S 13J35.5, and T-S AS 117.131 (PGPID 38280). Mentions Avraham the Byzantine scribe (who also features in Bodl. MS heb. d 66/43). Twice mentions sūq al-bazz (the clothiers' market).

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• synagogue conflict

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Primary language

Arabic

The muqirr is ʿAbdallāh b. Muḥammad al-M[...]ī. The content is unclear. Seems to be a deed of sale for livestock (al-baqar al-mubtāʿ), somehow related to a government estate (al-ūsiya al-sulṭāniyya bi-l-nāḥiya); the description of the animal follows.

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Arabic

The details concern real estate; it mentions Qaṣr al-Rūm; Darb al-Kharrāṭīn; a property probably known by the name of Sulaymān al-Ashqar al-Yahūdī al-Dallāl.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Eliyyahu, in Fustat, to his cousin (ibn ʿamm) Abū l-Barakāt al-Ḥarīrī b. Abū Manṣūr, in Alexandria. He alludes to political unrest and war between Christians and Muslims ("the family of Edom is embroiled with the Ishmaelite," r12–13), and he discusses the marriage of his cousin (bint ʿamma) to Hibatallāh Ibn al-ʿAmmānī and notes that "she is not honored by him, he is honored by her" (i.e., the bride's social class is superior to that of the groom). Many greetings at the end, including to the widow of Abū l-Faraj Ibn Alqāsh. (Information in part from Mediterranean Society, III, p. 5)

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• marriage

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Judaeo-Arabic

The addressee is to purchase a quarter(?) of Alexandrian sūsiyya (apparently a textile originally manufactured in Sūsa) and send it, because it will be worth 50 dirhams in Minyat Zifta. Regards to the addressee's wife; Abū l-Surūr al-Kohen and his wife; and Mukhalliṣ and his wife. The addressee is also supposed to send a jubba that is muthallath ('triple-thread') and muḥtashim (modest?)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Upper right fragment: Letter probably from the cantor Yosef b. Yefet ha-Levi Ibn al-Jāzfīnī to Abū Mūsā Hārūn "the ornament of conviviality and the crown of the revelers" (jāmal al-majālis wa-tāj al-qaṣṣāfīn). […] The sender calls himself "the lamb/suckling of your benefaction" (ghadhiyy inʿām mawlāy) and asks him to immediately come bestow his "benefaction and beauty" on all of his friends (aṣdiqāh wa-awliyāh), for it is indispensable, and they cannot wait to see him. (On the al-Jāzfīnī/al-Ghāzfīnī family of cantors, see Oded Zinger's dissertation, pp. 363–66).

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Arabic

Seems to be a report/petition from somebody keen to join the service of the addressee/government (wa-jarradtu raʾy fī l-khidma), and proclaiming the 'word of righteousness' from on high ([...] ʿalā l-manābir wa-nashr albāb(?) kalimat al-ṣidq bi-aʿlā l-maʾāthir), and how a group of people went to al-Shām (wa-ʿaṭṭaftu/wa-ʿaṭafat ahwāhā ḥattā ṣārū ilā bilād al-shām).

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Document date

19 Shawwāl 4[.]7 Hijrī (21 March 1017–15 July 1104 CE)

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Arabic

An 11th-century deed of sale for a portion of a house, in Arabic script. In between a [...] al-yahūdī al-ḥarīrī (the Jewish silk trader, who is the buyer) and Abū l-Bishr and Salmūn the sons of [...] […] A quantity of 25 high-quality beehives (خمسة وعشرون خلية من اجود ما يكون) is also mentioned. Mentions the term khandaq (trench) at least twice, al-qayṣariyya, certain trees (al-sidra), a plaza, and a bustān (the location of the beehives?).

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• dimme

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Document date

1377-07-04 Seleucid (2 April 1066 CE)

The divorce is between ʿAlī b. Daʾūd and Milah bt. Avraham. The witnesses are ʿAlī ha-Ḥaver ha-Mumḥe b. Amram and ʿAlī ha-Kohen b. Yaḥya. This bill was drafted after the first one at T-S NS J247, written in 1062 also written and signed by ʿAlī ha-Ḥaver ha-Mumḥe b.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Alexandria in which Abu al-Ḥasan al-Dimashqi asks the Ra'is to use his influence against local expressions of anti-Semitism and in particular to rescue an elder who was falsely accused of having been found in the company of a woman of bad reputation. The document is not dated, but Frenkel suggests it may connect to the turmoil in Alexandria in 1141, during Yehuda ha-Levi's visit to the city.

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Soc., 4:160) interprets the deceased as belonging to the lower middle class, but he may have been affluent: in addition to a tunic, two robes, a cloak, a scarf, and numerous porters and laborers, there may also be a mausoleum involved. There is also a cost for making the trek through the desert to the cemetery. […] MS heb. f 103/40 (PGPID 2490) and T-S Ar.4.5 (PGPID 1259), the will of al-Wuḥsha al-Dallāla.

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• account
• burial
• coin
• private

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentioning many people's names, including Dāwud; al-Labbān; the in-law of Mubārak; ʿAbd al-Salām; Naʿīm; Ibn Asad; Ṣāliḥ al-Naḥḥāl; and Qāsim al-Simsār.

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Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Greetings to Abū l-Fakhr and Maʿālī. Mufaḍḍal is also mentioned. Verso: Letter fragment in Arabic script. There is also one line of Judaeo-Arabic in the margin. Unclear if/how recto and verso are relat

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Arabic

The sender refers to someone who was delayed in Rashīd (Rosetta). Also mentions 'sayyidnā' twice and, at the end, Alexandria.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter sent in the sixties of the twelfth century from Alexandria. The recipient is the writer's brother, who he had not seen for a long time. […] Yiṣḥaq and his entourage to Alexandria (Information from Frenkel).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. Mentioning al-Rayyis and Abū ʿAlāʾ. The sender appear also in T-S AS 153.131 (PGPID 17805).

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Arabic

The sender ('the slave of my master the vizier') states that he received a 'noble letter' (probably from the vizier) the evening prior. Also mentions a decree (al-sijill al-[...]). Portions of three lines are preserved.

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• dimme

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer narrates in brief how he left Cairo with spices to sell overseas, was detained in Alexandria for a time due to an illness, spent 6 months (!?) at sea, getting lost and nearly getting drowned, first stopping in Turkey and then continuing the land of the Christians. At some point they also stopped in Tripoli (Lebanon?) and purchased more goods. […] What the elders did is also not clear.) The writer then describes his difficulties selling the goods from Cairo and Tripoli, mentioning the currencies dinar and muayyadi.

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• 16th c or later
• jaliya
• late illness
• late ja
• lor
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Judaeo-Arabic

I paid the aforementioned sum to the gentile." Then Abū l-Maḥāsin al-Ṣayrafī al-Tifʾeret says that he met with al-Shaykh al-Muhadhdhab, who told him that Hiba came and said that a gentile came who "knew the location of Abū l-Fakhr, and we loaned(?) […] (The writer inserts here "just like his brother mentioned earlier.") However, it was also "said to us" that this gentile was never acquainted with Abū l-Fakhr and did not go up to Qūṣ and did not know where Abū l-Fakhr was. Rather, Abū l-ʿAlāʾ Ibn Sakkāk is the one who knows him. Then this speaker says "I met after this with al-Muhadhdhab and told him what Hiba said to me, and he (al-Muhadhdhab) said, 'Even if the gentile wasn't the one who went up to Qūṣ, he must have heard about Abū l-Fakhr.'

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter probably sent from a man in Alexandria to his brother in Aden. In Judaeo-Arabic. […] Ilyās that which he owed him. Manṣur along with several other Jews (including Abū l-ʿIzz and Ibn al-Ḥarīsh) traveled to Sicily and fell into great difficulties - it seems that they were taken captive because they had to raise 50 dinars to be redeemed. […] Elishaʿ and the young son of Avrahm Ibn al-Zurzūr) also traveled to the West and to Sicily and returned to Alexandria only after 14 months with news about the state of Sicily.

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• hemorrhoids
• ib6
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• india book
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