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Primary language

Arabic

One section ends with the phrase “to the chancery (Dīwān al-Inshāʾ).” There might be a mamlūk and a ḥaḍra and (sideways) wa-ʿalā ābāʾihi al-ṭāhirīn wa-abnāʾīhi al-akramīn.

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Primary language

Arabic

Brief note addressed to al-mawlā al-faqīh ʿAlī.

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16 Rabīʿ I 969 Hijrī (24 November 1561 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

A late Arabic, Ottoman iqrār document with a seal. Issued by the maḥkeme al-Ṣāliḥiyya al-Najmiyya, one of the ~15 qadi courts that operated in Ottoman Cairo. […] Yūnus al-Qirāfī al-Mālikī, whose name is repeated in ll. 5-6. […] Israʾel b. Yaḥya al-Yahūdī al-Rabbān known as Ashkenāzī (l. 11).

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1135–1135 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Saʿdān b. Thābit al-Baghdādī ha-Levi, in Alexandria, to Ḥalfon b. […] He complains about Ḥalfon’s plan to travel to Damascus by land rather than by ship from Alexandria because Saʿdān expected them to meet there, and so Ḥalfon would pay all or part of the debt that Ḥalfon's brother Abū ʿAlī Yeḥezqel owed to Saʿdān. Ḥalfon had already described to Saʿdān the difficult illness of Yeḥezqel.

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• ib-partial translation-heb
• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• india book

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1246–1248 CE

Primary language

Arabic

Verso (secondary use): order addressed to the ʿarīf al-ʿaṭṭārīn ordering a half-ounce of saffron for the bustān of al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ. […] The signature and date are written in a different hand than the main text. According to al-Maqrīzī, this bustān was purchased by al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ in Rajab 643 AH = Nov–Dec 1245. Therefore, the viable years during the reign of al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ when 16 Jumādā II fell on Monday (accounting for the usual error of plus/minus one day) are 1246 and 1248.

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• order
• saffron

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Tevet 1462 Seleucid (22 December 1150–19 January 1151 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ḥananya ha-Nagid, between Abū al-Faraj al-Musta‘mil b. Shelomo and Hillel b. Sālim. Abū al-Faraj gives Hillel 100 dirhams as an absolute debt and the latter agrees to work until the amount is repaid. If Hillel wishes to leave this employment, he must pay the entire balance of the debt. It seems that Abū al-Faraj is also to pay Hillel a wage, though the amount is unspecified.

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• 12th c
• apprenticeship
• partnership
• shemuel b. hananya

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Dhū l-Qaʿda 1119 Hijrī (24 January 1708–22 February 1708 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Verso: Letter in Arabic script to an unknown recipient from ʿAlī Efendi, the commander of Damietta's janissary garrison. […] In the introduction to her edition, Jane Hathaway notes: "The verso is a letter, in Arabic, dated Dhū’l-Qaʿda 1119/late January–early February 1708, from the commander (serdār) of the local Janissary garrison to a recipient whose name has been cut off along with the top of the document.... ʿAlī’s letter alludes to a dispute between one Muʿallim Mūsā, certainly the Jewish amīn who supervised Damietta’s customs on behalf of the holder of the customs tax farm, and ‘the Christian’ (al-Naṣrānī), along with ‘the people’ (al-nās), presumably referring to his associates, who may well be fellow Christians.... This dispute concerns nets (Arabic, shabābik), no doubt fishing nets, that the Christian and his allies owe to Muʿallim Mūsā." (Hathaway, Ottoman-Era Documents from the Cairo Genizah, 99, 101-102)

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• dimme
• seal

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Primary language

Hebrew

Hoshaʿna, is mentioned on leaf 4v, since he was also one of the prisoners. Leaf 1 of the codex contains morning benedictions and is in a different hand to the other leaves. Its vocalisation has also been added secondarily. Leaf 2 should come between leaves 6 and 7. There are leaves missing between leaves 3 and 4 and possibly also between 5 and 6. (Information from CUDL.)

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• megillat misrayim

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Document date

29 December 1139 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Netanel, in Qalyūb, to his brother Ḥalfon b. Netanel, in Alexandria. The left side of the letter and the top and bottom are cut off. […] He was about to buy an inferior item from someone who, however, had just increased his price by 1.5 dīnārs; Yeḥezqel thought Ḥalfon could buy this item anyway in Alexandria. The textile artisans/merchants (al-bazzāzīn) said that the textile he sought could only be found in Cairo. The letter also mentions some tasks that Yeḥezqel is carrying out on behalf of Abū Iṣḥaq.

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• ib-partial translation-heb
• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• india book

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Therefore, exactly as one would beg money for food, one should do so, if necessary, in order to pay rent. 2) The ban will also operate also on anyone who does not accept the amount of the rent as established by three Jews, the muqawwimin. 3) The lessee is obliged to present his deeds of lease whenever asked to do so in the name of the waqf. 4) The ban will also be applied to anybody making use of a Muslim's intervention in order to obtain a lodging in the houses of the qodesh or a reduction of rent imposed on him. […] On recto there is a Hebrew poem in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī (d. after 1298).

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• 13th c
• account
• heqdesh
• muslim courts
• qodesh
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middle third of Ṭevet 1432 Seleucid (4 December 1120–13 December 1120 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: Middle decade of Ṭevet 1432 Seleucid, which is December 1120 CE. Detailing an allowance for a widow, Sitt al-Ḥusn bt. ʿEli, and her baby, Sitt al-Fakhr bt. […] Abū l-Ḥusayn Yaḥyā ha-Kohen (known as al-Ḥalabī al-Ṣayrafī, i.e. the Aleppan banker) died penniless and as his widow is still nursing their baby she is unable to work. She asks the community judges to give her a monthly allowance (20 dirhams) while she is nursing and raising her daughter.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Gotein likely succeeded in reading an obscure passage of the letter, but on its face it seems more like a straightforward appeal for financial aid invoking the afflictions of fate: "al-mamlūk mustaḥiyy min fiʿl hādha l-zamān alladhī ṣayyaranā [[anā]] lā naqdir al-qiyām bi-mā ʿalaynā min al-maḥqūq al-wājiba idh ḥukimat ʿalaynāal-iqrār. . . . wa-baʿd inna l-kull zamān wa-kull waqt aḥwāl yudabbirhā hādha l-falak bi-mā amar wa-bi-mā rakkab fīhi fa-l-mamlūk mustaḥiyy. . . ."

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• appeal
• arabic script
• chess
• fate

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions names such as Abū l-Karam Ibn al-Ḥunaykh, Ibn al-Kirmānī, Mūsā, Abū l-Makārim the son of the late Rabbenu Nissim, Abū Saʿd b. Naḥman, Ibn Kūshak al-ʿAmīd, Muslim Ibn al-Naʿja, Abū Sulaymān the Qaraite, Abū l-Ḥusayn Ibn Sunaynāt, Abū l-Mufaḍḍal al-Wazzān, Abū l-Manṣūr al-Ṭabīb the Qaraite, al-Ṣaʿīdī, and Dammūh (the place). […] Goitein's comment: "Such debts were not always a sign of poverty. The last leaf of an inventory of an estate notes a debt of 125 dinars on tax-farming, but registers purses with gold and silver coins, vessels made of the same metals, promissory notes, and many other assets far exceeding a thousand dinars" (Med Soc II, p. 362 at note 47).

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• damin

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

debt of the city of Fayyūm before Yom Kippur, but is not optimistic, because the official order on the decree (al-amr ʿalā l-marsūm al-karīm) is unchanged. (The scenario may be similar to that of T-S K2.96 (PGPID 18940), a tax farmer's petition for an exemption from government service which was denied, from the same period.) The blessing for the sultan "may his glory be strengthened" (ʿazza naṣruhū) is metonymically applied to either his decree (al-marsūm) or his order/rescript (al-amr). The sender also reports that he has sent a copy of the introduction to the commentary on Avot (probably of Maimonides), and asks the addressees to 'complete it' through the eighth chapter and send it back to him along with the copy of Sefer ha-Madaʿ (the first section of the Mishneh Torah) that they had promised.

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• book trade
• fayyum

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first third of Ramaḍān 54[.] Hijrī (1146–1154 CE)

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Arabic

ʿAqbān the in-law of the physician (ṣihr al-ḥakīm), in al-Ushmūnayn. To be delivered to "the Jewish dairy maker" (al-labbān al-yahūdī). […] Someone (Abu [...]) took her to Alexandria. She mentions Abū Yaʿqūb b. ʿAṭā(?) and two dinars and how they are were given to the synagogue(?). Join: Oded Zinger and Alan Elbaum.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Beginning and end of an important business letter written probably after the arrival of the sender from al-Mahdiyya to Alexandria, containing a list of prices in al-Mahdiyya. […] There are greetings from "I, Abū l-Surūr" at the end, which could mean either that the sender is Abū l-Surūr or that Abū l-Surūr served as scribe for the sender. The journey from al-Mahdiyya to Alexandria took an unusually long time (35 days). […] The sender is concerned about ʿAllān and Abū Yaʿqūb and requests to hear their news and the news of the children.

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• prices
• trade

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū ʿAlī b. ʿImrān, Alexandria, writes to the son of his dead sister, to Abū Mūsā Hārūn b. al-Muʿallim Yaʿaqov, Fusṭāṭ, the shop of Abū Naṣr al-Tilmīdh. […] "The troubles caused by agnates—but endured with resignation—are vividly brought home in a letter from Alexandria, addressed to the sons of a dead sister in the capital. […] "The complaint is to God alone" (for what can one do against a close relative?).

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• capitation tax
• grief
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: cost
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Primary language

Arabic

Perhaps the first page of Tadhkirat al-Kaḥḥālīn. The author's name is given as ʿĪsā b. ʿAlīal-Mutaṭabbib instead of the correct ʿAlī b.

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• arabic literary
• medical
• tadhkirat al-kahhalin

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Arabic

Mentions a caliph by name, "wa sayyiduna al-Imām", but the part of the fragment containing the name is torn. Part of the tarjama is also preserved mentioning a certain Zakariyya al-Marūzī.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Official receipt for Abū [...] al-ʿAṭṭār for a payment of 5 dirhams (unclear what for). The sum is written in three different places and there is an ʿalāma (al-ḥamdu lillāhi ʿalā niʿmatihī). Whatever was written at the bottom (date?

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Judaeo-Arabic

Recipients include: Ibrāhīm al-Ṭawwāf; Abū l-Ṭāhir al-Khādim; Abū Naṣr al-Khādim; al-Dayyan R.

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• alms
• bread
• charity

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Arabic

Might have reused a state document, probably a fiscal receipt, because an ʿalama "al-ḥamdu li-llah ʿalāʾālāʾih" can be read on verso and it seems that the writer has left space around it.

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• dimme

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Fragment of a letter from al-Kabira, probably from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim. Around 1055. Al-Kabira informs Nahray that she sent him silk by the judge’s wife.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to a woman (possibly from her son in law, as it mentions her daughter), and the instruction to come quickly if she wants to come. Also refers to Syria, Fusṭāṭ and Alexandria, and complains about poverty and difficult economic circumstances.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to Abū l-Makārim Ibn al-Amshāṭī, in Fustat, in Qaysāriyyat al-ʿAṭṭārīn. […] The sender purchased עוד רטב from the addressee and took it to Alexandria and was unable to [...]. (The continuation is missing.)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Nissim in Fustat to Abu al-Faraj Daniel b. Allan ha-Kohen in Alexandria, discussing the problem of the ransom of captives and noting that owing to the lack of funds prisoners have to be redeemed one by one, ca. 1045-1096.

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• 11th c
• captives
• nahray b. nissim
• prisoners
• ransom
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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter sent from Alexandria to Fustat, by Avraham b. Farah to Nahray b. Nissim, reporting on the arrival of ships in Alexandria and dealing with commercial affairs. Dated July 1053 by Gil and 1050-1055 by Ben Sasson.

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• movement of ships
• nahray b. nissim
• trade

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Primary language

Arabic

Ḥusayn and Salār(?) b. al-Ṭunṭāsh (or al-Ṭanṭāsh) (this name appears on both recto and verso). There is also Hebrew piyyuṭ. (Information in part from CUDL.)

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Arabic

Recto: beginning of an abridged version of al-Rāzī, Kitāb al-ʾasrār (‘Book of secrets’). Verso: a list in a cruder hand mentioning other works by al-Rāzī, including Kitāb sirr al-ʾasrār (‘Book of secret of secrets’).

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Arabic

Recto: Order of payment. Asking ʿAfīf al-Dīn al-Ṣayrafī to pay a sum to the bearer. Verso: Receipt stating that the scribe (al-faqīr ilā allāh taʿālā) collected a sum of money.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Ṣedaqa; Ibn Saʿīd al-[...]; the boys (ṣibyān) of al-[...]; the garment makers (al-thawwābīn); the servants (ghilmān) of the amīr; something in the sūq al-kabīr.

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Document date

Rabīʿ I 536 Hijrī (4 October 1141–2 November 1141 CE)

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Arabic

Begins "yaqūlu Abū ʿAbdallāh...." There is also someone named [...] al-Dayyān(?) al-Ṣayrafī.

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547 Hijrī (8 April 1152–28 March 1153 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Contains registrations (ʿalāʾim) from the Dīwān al-Ishrāf at the top. There are also several endorsements underneath.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Order from al-Shaykh al-Makīn of endive seed (bizr hindibāʾ), purslane seed (bizr rijla), unripe dates (busr), and sugar. […] This page discusses the management of black bilious tumor (al-waram al-sawdāwī), citing al-Rāzī and stating that the treatment is similar to that of "hardening" (cirrhosis?) of the liver (ṣalābat al-kabid). "As for what the physicians [...] in treating this disease..."

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• order

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Abū Sahl (Menashshe) Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif, the father of Halfon b. Menashshe. Dating: second half of the 11th century. On verso refers to Abū Ḥanīfa either sending a legal query or giving a responsum to (yuftī) a certain ʿEli. Almost certainly the same sender (but probably not the same letter) as T-S 12.215, which is also the second leaf of a long letter and also mentions Abū Sahl Menashshe.

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Primary language

Hebrew

Ṭarfon; Efrayim b. ʿEli (signed also T-S 16.49 (PGPID 16800) in 987 CE); Shelomo b. ʿEli (signed also T-S 12.590 (PGPID 20024)); Avraham b. Shelomo ha-Kohen; Menaḥem b. Tamīm ha-Levi; Ṣadoq b. Yiṣḥaq (signed also T-S 16.189 (PGPID 1715)). On the back there is a prayer.

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Judaeo-Arabic

However the sender of the letter is a woman ("all I desire is that you see me happy (f.)" / מא אשתהי אלא אן תרוני פרחאנה); she could have had Ḥananʾel write on her behalf. The letter is full of expressions of dependence on God's will. She explains also that she determined (by some kind of divination?) that a certain 'movement' (ḥaraka, ḥarakiyya) was favorable, and therefore she acted. She also mentions that 'al-Kohen' made her something beautiful (כרג כטך(?))

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Arabic

Legal document, 12 lines, in Arabic script, dated 4th Muḥarram al-Ḥarām of an undecipherable year [8..?]. Concerning [...] b. al-Muʿallim Ṣadaqa the Samaritan Jew, a receipt of something (waṣala...), and a period of time. The occurrence of few sums of money indicates a fiscal account or commercial transaction - 'min al-fiḍḍat al-anṣāf al-judūd', which points to the Mamlūkī silver 'half' coin of al-Muʾayyad Shaykh and suggests that this letter is dated no earlier than 1415 CE, as this was the year when the ruler imposed the 'half' as the basic silver coin.

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• dimme
• mamluk
• numismatic dating
• samaritan

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Primary language

Russian

Location/Place of publication: Moscow (Москва), listed above a detailed illustration of two figures in armor, with one holding a sword and scale. There is also a crown pictured below "Москва" and variety of other items appear in the foreground. The print references the "brothers Aleksandar and Aleksii Makarović," which is repeated in Arabic script– probably Persian given that "برادر" is the translation for "brother."

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Arabic

Dating: Probably Mamluk-era. Mentions al-Muẓaffarī in the tarjama and begins with a taqbīl clause and yunhī formula. […] Mentions a big house and the hope of well-being for someone (or rather the sender is reporting that various people are well and in good health). Also mentions "al-umarāʾ al-ajillāʾ al-akābir" towards the end of the preserved portion.

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• dimme

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Refers to something shameful (al-ʿār), "what people say" (kalām al-nās), idleness/unemployment (al-baṭāla) which leads to evil and madness (alladhī tūjib al-shirr wa-l-junūn). […] Refers to the money of a young man (durayhimāt al-ṣabiyy). Needs further examination and hopefully a join.

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