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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter possibly from ʿAllān b. Ḥassūn, in ʿAydhāb, to his sons (addressed to Fustat "to the house of ʿArūs b. […] Goitein identified ʿAllān as the author of the letter, however, the handwriting is actually that of ʿAllān's maternal uncle ʿArūs b. […] One possibility is that ʿArūs wrote the letter on behalf of ʿAllān; this is supported by the greetings to "my son Zayn al-Dār," as ʿAllān is known to have had a son with this name.

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• aydhab
• ib6
• india book
• karim
• red sea

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22 Ṭevet Anno Mundi

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Judaeo-Arabic

Netanʾel, probably in Qalyūb, to Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel, in Alexandria. Dating: after 22 Tevet = December 15, 1139 CE. Yeḥezqel updates Ḥalfon about what has happened since his visit to him in Alexandria. The trip on the Nile was difficult and took a long time. […] His younger son, Abū l-Fakhr, stayed with Ḥalfon in Alexandria, and the writer asks his brother to repay him a favor.

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• ib4
• india book

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Av [14]9[.] Seleucid (6 July 1179–1181 CE)

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Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

In which the syrup maker (al-sharābī) Yosef b. ʿUlla b. Yosef sells to the perfumer (al-ʿaṭṭār) Abū l-Makārim Nadiv b. Elʿazar 1/8 of a house in the Surriyya lane, a blind alley in the Sūq al-Kabīr, which was known as the hall in which Abū l-Maḥāsin Zayn al-Ghuzūlī al-Levi lived. […] Other proprietors were Christians (1/2 of the house), and Abū l-Munajjā al-Levi al-Zayyāt known as Ibn Jallāb (1/6 of the house).

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• bill of sale
• real estate

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Arabic

In which [..]āba bt. Sulaymān b. Yaḥyā al-Isrāʾīliyya appoints her husband Naḥum b. Barhūn al-Isrāʾīlī as her agent for all her affairs in all legal and governmental settings (refers to al-quḍāt wa-l-ḥukkām wa-l-sulṭān wa-khulafāhim). Contains an official endorsement in a thick pen on the top left corner: "thabata wa-l-ḥamdu li-llāhi wa-lahū al-minna." On verso there are 6 columns of all the parshiyot of the year and alphabet exercises. […] Neḥemya he-Ḥaver Rosh ha-Pereq b. Avraham Aluf he-Ḥaver Beḥir ha-Yeshiva Rosh ha-Seder. The handwriting resembles that of T-S 16.6 (PGPID 5303), which likewise mentions אברהם אלוף החבר בחיר הישיבה נבע.

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Judaeo-Arabic

A first-person narrative attributed to Maḥrūz b. Nājiya al-Ruṣāfī set during the reign of the Abbasid caliph al-Wāthiq (r. 842–47). There is a parallel version attributed to Wahb b. Nājiya al-Ruṣāfī in Nūr al-Ṭarf wa-Nūr al-Ẓarf by al-Ḥuṣrī al-Qayrawānī (d. 1095) (https://shamela.ws/book/5351/42), in praise of the hospitality and culture of Bedouins. The narrator explains that he was among those accused of embezzling state funds under the reign of al-Wāthiq and was forced to flee to the wilderness.

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• literary with documentary value
• story

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Arabic

Opens: waṣala ilā bayt al-māl. Two registration marks: al-ḥamdu lil-lāh wa-bihi nastaʿīn, al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ʿalā niʿamih.

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• dimme
• fatimid
• pinholes
• tax receipt

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yosef to Eliyyahu the Judge, it seems regarding a maqṭaʿ cloth currently with al-Shaykh al-Muhadhdhab. The writer greets Abū l-Barakāt (Shelomo) and sends good wishes for the holidays (al-ayyām al-sharīfa).

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Arabic

Iqrār (acknowledgment) made by "al-majlis al-ʿālī Qāʾidbāy al-Muʾayyad." Dating: catalogued as 512 AH but more likely 12 Shawwāl 812 AH (or 912 AH?).

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Avraham b. Yosef al-Sabbāgh, Alexandria, to Yosef b. 'Awkal, Fustat. […] Written by a copyist, Daniel ibn al-Shama. Includes details on government officials and commodities.

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• yosef b. awkal

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Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions: Yosef; Ibn Bayān; al-Muhadhdhab; and Abū l-Ḥaẓẓ. May also mention the al-Buḥayra region of the Nile Delta and its administrator (ʿāmil).

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Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Headed "what was sold from the Indian indigo (al-nīl al-hindī)." There is another header "al-diqq" (ground or powdered indigo?). The list underneath is almost entirely numerals.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Two lines from an opening of a letter from Abū l-Barakāt b. al-Rayyis, probably Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, to his paternal aunt (ʿammatī al-jalīla al-aṣīla al-nabīla).

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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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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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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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1139–1140 CE

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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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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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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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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)

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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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Arabic

Booklet of Hebrew literary text. Almostall the pages contain some prior writing in Arabic script. Fol. 3v consists mostly of Arabic script including a basmala followed by "asmāʾ al-[...]." This page also contains the Hebrew name Yiṣḥaq b.

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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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Arabic

Mentions jihād and a general (al-amīr al-isfahsalār), probably in the context of the Crusades, since the scribe who reused verso for Hebrew poetry was active around 1100 CE (compare T-S NS 111.140 and all the matches on Joins Suggestions). This document was identified and catalogued on PGP by Alan Elbaum in 2022. Pending publication by Paul Cobb and Alan Elbaum.

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• arabic crusades
• arabic military report
• isfahsalar
• jihad

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Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions people such as: Yehuda; Yefet Ḥalabī; the Jewish youth (al-ṣabiyy al-yahūdī); Ibn Sammūna; Avraham; Nissim; Bū l-Ḥasan al-Nābulsī; Manṣūr; Yiṣḥaq Kohen; Shelomo; and Ghālib. Mentions numerous types of goods including garments and materia medica. Also notably mentions a half ounce of something "for the hospital" (lil-māristān).

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• hospital
• maristan

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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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Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions payments associated with the institutions of Dār al-Kattān, Dār Mānak, and Mukhtāra (all discussed in Bondioli, Peasants, Merchants, and Caliphs). Also mentions the term maṣlaḥa and the names Yaʿqūb and ʿAllūsh.

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• bialphabetic
• khalij

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

Primary language

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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Arabic

The addressee is a qāḍī (al-ḥaḍra al-sāmiya al-qaḍāʾiyya). Dating: 12th or 13th century. At the bottom of verso, the sender reports that when he arrived in Dahrūṭ, there arrived a messenger from the sulṭān reporting that the Franks had arrived to a certain location, and therefore mustering cavalry and foot soldiers (al-fāris wa-l-rājil) from all the districts in order to battle the Franks. […] This fragment was identified by Yusuf Umrethwala and catalogued on PGP by Yusuf Umrethwala and Alan Elbaum in August 2023.

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• arabic crusades
• arabic military report
• dimme

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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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Arabic

Names the judge Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Wahhāb b. ʿAbd al-Malik b. Ismāʿīl, and it also involves Maḥfūẓ al-Ṣabbāgh (or al-Ṣāyigh?).

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• dimme
• receipt

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Arabic

Mentions an administrator/supervisor (nāẓir); a Muslim judge: al-qāḍī al-ajall Muḥammad al-[...] Ibn al-Khalīlī; advice to the addressee that if business dries up, he should go to any of Ashmūn, Sakhā, Abyar, or Sammanūd, and write with an update, and the nāẓir will provide him letters/documents for whichever town to ensure that he doesn't meet any opposition. Another judge, al-qāḍī al-sadīd Ibn Karajūn (or Karjūn), is involved with these business dealings.

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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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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from the Jewish physician (al-ḥakīm al-yahūdī) Mūsā b. Nāṣir the perfumer (al-ʿaṭṭār), unknown location, to an unkown addressee, in Fustat, in the perfumers' market (Sūq al-ʿAṭṭārīn). […] Ends with the motto Yeshaʿ Yiqrav. On verso there are also three columns of accounts in Arabic script.

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