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There follows the beginning of another letter to the amīr Thiqat al-Mulk wa-ʿUmdat al-Aḥkām with holiday blessings and reporting something about Abū Naṣr (or Saʿd?) […] P4 verso - right page: mentions 94 dinars and again the 1400 dinars, this time describing it as a loss (انكسر عليه). Also refers to a house and Abū l-Faraj. At the bottom there is the beginning of another letter to the son. […] P6 recto: the opening of a petition to a vizier (al-ḥaḍra al-ʿāliyaal-mālikiyya al-manṣūra al-sayyidiyya al-ajalliyya al-afḍaliyya al-juyūshiyya al-sayfiyya etc.), with some rarer blessings.

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Arabic

An Arabic poem transcribed into Judaeo-Arabic and prefaced as al-Baghīḍī's deathbed advice/testament for his son. See these articles for more information about the poet (also known as al-Waʿīẓī): http://www.alriyadh.com/601502 and http://www.alriyadh.com/318049.

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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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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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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mainly a literary text with other jottings in Judaeo-Arabic (including references to mutakallimīn, kalām philosophers). There is also marginal text in Arabic script, including a few words from a draft of a letter to Abū l-ʿAlāʾ Ibn al-Dayyān.

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Judaeo-Arabic

The Midrash of Solomon’s throne, containing passages also found in T-S Ar.16.25 and T-S Ar.18(2).115, fol. 3 (identification and references by Oded Zinger). This is in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī.

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Judaeo-Arabic

The elder Abū l-Khayr frequently appears. Also Abū ʿImrān; Abū ʿAlī; Marwān al-Kurdī; Abū Manṣūr.

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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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• jaliya
• late illness
• late ja
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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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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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Thursday, 11 Av 4783 Anno Mundi (1 August 1023 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Musāfir and Ibn Ruʿbūb. 1/8 dinar over 23 weeks. (2) Mubārak b. Khalaf al-Ramlī b. al-Ruwaymī and Mubārak b. al-Harrām(?) al-Laḥḥām al-Ramlī. Involves a canister or spice box (zanjala/zinjila) that was deposited against 2 qirats. (3) Ibrāhīm b. Manṣūr al-Ṣāʾigh and Abū l-Ḥusayn Shemuel b. Binyamin b.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions "the people of Egypt and the people of [...], among them [...]," followed by a list of numerous names, including Ismāʿīl b. Ṣadaqa al-Gharbī(?), Abū l-ʿAlāʾal-Baghdādī, Ṣadaqa b. Mawhūb, and Marzūq al-Ramlī. Refers to debts owed or not owed ("I am not owed even a penny by any of them"); a sum of 6 1/2 dinars; how the sender paid 2 1/6 dinars in the presence of the elders, leaving 4 1/3 dinars; how Ḥassūn b. Sulaymān demanded this deposit of 4 1/3 dinars; how the sender investigated and found out that he had a brother in al-Ramla and a rightful heir or heirs; and how the addressee (mawlāy al-ḥazzan al-jalīl) might arrange to have the money delivered.

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Document date

1239 Hijrī (7 September 1823–25 August 1824 CE)

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Arabic

The last column mentions the year, which is 1238 in all columns. The word ماهبة also appears on the heading. Verso also contains a few names with the sum of calculations towards the end. The name of Moses "سيدنا موسى عليه السلام" also appears a couple of times. The document could be a draft as years stop being written after a point on recto and there is an absence of a signature or seal which is a typical feature of Ottoman-era documents.

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• dimme
• late arabic script
• ottoman era

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Elul 1405 Seleucid (1094 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

The bottom is missing, but it seems it was also left incomplete since the day of the week and day of the month were not filled in. […] Binyām known as "son of the Rav" gives power of attorney to Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllūn b. Mubārak to claim from her divorced husband Maḥāsin Ibn al-ʿInānī 24 dinars adjudicated to her by the court as well as alimonies and other expenses for their daughter since he had left the town. […] Fol. 2: Upper right fragment of a legal document with an unusual opening: naqūl naḥnu al-qawm al-[...]. Mentions a "mufāwaḍa." Nothing else preserved.

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Arabic

Deals mainly with business matters but contains many petition-like phrases, maybe to soften the sender's impatience, and all the information about accounting. Also contains the "yujaddid taqbīl al-arḍ" phrase "the slave renews the kissing of the ground" (for the usage of the phrase, see Khan, ALAD, pg. 313, 433), and the phrase "fī khidma mālik al-riqq" (see Khan, ALAD, pg. 345, 368, 434).

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It likely has to do with Avraham Maimonides' decision regarding the appointment of 3 judges in Alexandria (see Mordechai Akiva Friedman, "The Nagid, the Nasi and the French Rabbis: A Threat to Abraham Maimonides' Leadership" Zion 82 (2017) 193–266). […] Yiṣḥaq throughout (possibly Yiṣḥaq b. Ḥalfon); also mentions (at the bottom of verso) a judge named Ḥananel ha-Ḥasid, likely the well-known Ḥananel b. […] The last line of the fragment also mentions an evil man possibly named Abū l-ʿAlāʾ Munīr.

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Letter from Jalāl al-Dawla (or at least a person from the family of Shelomo b. Yishai the Nasi), written during an epidemic, and mentioning the Nagid [Avraham Maimonides] as being ill and also mentioning his (father?)-in-law the judge R. […] The people are in terrible distress, too preoccupied to care for each other--let alone for a stranger." Jalāl al-Dawla also provides an update on his own diarrhea (v7–8): it is intermixed with white phlegm, coiled/twisted (multaff), and it burns when it comes out (yaldhaʿu waqta majī’ihi).

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Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Shelomo b. Yefet ha-Levi (all given titles such as peʾer and hod ha-leviyim). […] There follows a block of text describing the maṭbakh which used to be known by the name of "the sons of al-Lebdī" (awlād al-Lebdī), mentioning Dīwān al-Aḥbās in Fustat (the government bureau in charge of waqf properties), and ending with the line, "its fame makes its description unnecessary." […] There follow several lines of Arabic script in red ink, probably pen trials, including the word "waṣal" several times, then "fī yawm al...," then "Cancer rose." There are also two lines in both Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic on verso.

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• al-lebdi
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Adar I 1464 Seleucid (28 January 1153–26 February 1153 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

A confirmation of the Beit Din that there were no obstacles to the marriage between Sālim al-Ḥalabī al-Ṣabbāgh and Sitt al-Kuttāb b. Yefet. […] (Information from Goitein notes and index card linked below.) See also PGPID 3059, which may come from the same notebook.

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24 Ramaḍān 815 Hijrī (1412 CE)

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Arabic

Receipt of payment (iqrār) in monies minted in copper, owed to ʻAlāʾal-Dīn, dated 24 Ramaḍān 815 H. [1412]. [Described on the paper wrapper as: "reconnaissance du debiteur al Maalim ibn Aly ibn Omar el Kassida de payer sa dette au prince Al el Dine ibn Mar[--]oum el Farsi Shahine ibn Abdalla el Shahani" ; [next line] : "A.H. 510"].

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Judaeo-Arabic

He exhorts the addressee to assist al-Shaykh al-Nafīs, evidently concerning a legal query which the latter had submitted. "The illustrious Judge" will inform the addressee all the details of the case. On verso there are also Greek/Coptic numerals, possibly accounts, together with the word "the total" written in Arabic script.

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• legal query

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Letter from Binyām (druggist of Rashīd), probably in Alexandria, to Abū Saʿīd b. Abū Naṣr (al-ʿAfṣī), in Fustat. […] , white lead (isfīdāj), and mercury (zaybaq), and orders crushed saffron and 4 bags of large needles (אבר). Also mentions money owed to him by Abū l-Munā b.

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Business letter from Yiṣḥaq Nīsābūrī to ʿUlla Dimashqī. Mentions Alexandria, Ashqelon, shipments of rhubarb, and a business dispute brought to court. (Information in part from Goitein's index card and Mediterranean Society, I, pp. 209, 452.) Joins: Alan Elbaum. T-S AS 157.183 appears to be in the same hand and also mentions Abū Sahl Mukhtār, but does not seem to be a join (doesn't fit and has slightly wider line spacing).

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Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Letter from the daughter of Rāfiʿ al-Ḥarīrī to the Nagid asking for a new veil for the holidays. Dating: probably ca. 12th century. She also asked him to appoint someone to make a collection for this purpose. […] (Information in part from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 37 and Goitein's index card.) See also ENA NS 83.107 (PGPID 14157).

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Other names mentioned: al-Sharīf; Yehuda Ibn al-Andalusī;al-Nafūsī; Nahray (b. […] ; Abū l-Khayr; Abū Isḥāq; Abū Zikrī;al-Simsār; Abū l-ʿAlāʾ.

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Arabic

An important and extremely unusual Arabic legal/communal document using Jewish legal formulae and invoking Moses (Mūsā b. ʿImrān al-Rasūl), appointing Sahlān b. Barhūn […] al-Mumḥe (i.e., the well-known Sahlān b. Avraham) as cantor and leader of the (Babylonian) community (…لهم يصلي بهم ويتقدم عليهم…), also as authority over ‘their marriages and divorces,’ citing all of his good traits ( صيانته ومعرفته etc.).

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3 Rajab 876 Hijrī (16 December 1471 CE)

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Arabic

"Aqarra Yūsuf b. Yaḥyā b. Yūsuf al-Yahūdī al-rabbān al-ṣāniʿ ʿurifa bi-l-Qudsī iqrāran sharʿīyan" Later in the document there appears Yūsuf Khādim al-Kanīs as well as a Yaʿqūb ... al-ʿAṭṭār known as the brother-in-law of the Sicilian.

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Judaeo-Arabic

someone says, '"Give me all the prescriptions," and the other person gives one with 30 simples). There is also quite a bit about love and also a mention of a riding camel (hajīn).

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Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto (secondary use): Letter in Judaeo-Arabic written in the space around a large scribble. Mentions entering Alexandria; and how "all of our colleagues the Alexandrians, young and old, are distressed on account of his/your distress, in pain due to what afflicted him (a bereavement?)."

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Arabic

Dating: Probably Mamluk-era, based on the hand and the names. Mentions al-Ḥājj Yūsuf and a desire that the addressees should come quickly. The remainder consists of greetings to various people, including Shihāb al-Dīn and his brother Sharaf al-Dīn, and Shams al-Dīn "jamāl al-mashāʾikh."

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Concerning the inheritance of Abū Isḥāq Avraham ha-Levi, a druggist from al-Maḥalla (al-Maḥallī al-ʿAṭṭār). It seems that the wife of the deceased is demanding what was promised her in the ketubba. A warehouse and apartment are mentioned. The testator appears also in ENA 2558.1 (PGPID 6621) and Moss. VII,71 (PGPID 2751).

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Arabic

On recto, sections are headed by names of profession ("the dyers (al-ṣabbāghīn)... the millers (al-ṭaḥḥānīn)..."), each with lists of names with numbers underneath. On verso, one page was reused for a Judaeo-Arabic list written at 180 degrees in a crude hand, mentioning names such as Bū l-ʿAlāʾ, Baqāʾ b. Nuʿmān (appears also in T-S Misc.8.13 (PGPID 23487)), and Ibrāhīm.

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Judaeo-Arabic

List of belongings of the deceased Abū ʿAlī Ibn al-Raqqī, which were left behind and sent (probably from the Maghrib) to Alexandria with Abū l-Surūr Ibn Sughmār.

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Judaeo-Arabic

List of items—mainly different kinds of fūṭa (a piece of cloth to cover the body commonly found in India) together with prices. Also brazilwood. Mentions the name ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-Razzāq.

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Arabic

Letter from ʿAbd al-Ḥayy b. Hiba to his 'father' Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān. […] (But not his real father, because Hiba is dead—raḥmat Allāhʿalayhi) The writer is asking to be sent some money urgently.

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Dhū l-Qaʿda 526 Hijrī (13 September 1132–12 October 1132 CE)

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Arabic

Lease document, in Arabic script, for a house in Alexandria. The leasee may be Yuḥanna (needs further examination). […] (Information from CUDL; see also Goitein's index card.).

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Arabic

Letter in Arabic script from Abū ʿAlī(?) Yefet(?) b. Avraham Ibn al-Amshāṭī. Mentions going to Abū ʿAlī b. al-Dimyāṭī (=Yeḥezqel b.

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• ib4
• india book unedited
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Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions names such as Bū Naṣr, al-Shaykh al-Thiqa, Yeshuʿa, Maḥāsin, Yiftaḥ, the wife of Bū Isḥāq, Ṭāhir. Also mentions foods such as raisins and bread. Dating: Perhaps 13th century.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions people including Barakāt al-Kohen, Sayyid al-Kull, al-Wazīr, Abū Sahl, Abū Saʿd Ibn Khalaf, Tamīm al-Aṭrūsh (the deaf).

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Letter from Maymūn b. Efrayim (Alexandria) to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov b. ʿAwkal (Fustat). Contains information about the movement of wares via Alexandria and about financial matters. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, p. 551.)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Parts of ~20 lines are preserved. Mentions al-Maḥalla at least twice; someone who died; a stay in Alexandria; a request for help; and "let him not gloat over us more than [he already does]."

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