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(It is also possible that mutālaba refers to seeking legal redress against someone who has wrongfully appropriated the property.) […] The title of the governor, ending in al-dawla, dates the letter to the Fatimid period. The text also contains a taqbîl clause in which the petitioner kisses the hand of the addressee rather than the ground, so this puts it likely but not definitely in the late Fatimid period.

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• bishop
• decree
• fatimid
• monastery
• petition
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8 Tammuz (4900) Anno Mundi (25 June 1140 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Aharon al-Sijilmāsī, in Dahlak, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel. Dated: 8 Tammuz, apparently of 1140 CE. […] The sender gives the names of the Jewish traders who died and who survived, including (among those who died) Ibn al-Shumūs (whose drowning is also mentioned in doc. 76). Also mentions: Abū l-Khayr al-Najjār (‘the carpenter’), David, Ibn Zughmār (Ṣughmār), Ibn al-Raqqāṣa, Abū Naṣr, Abū l-Faraj, and Abū l-Barakāt.

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• ib4
• ib6
• india book

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Monday, 24 Elul [1451] Seleucid (8 September 1140 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from ʿAmram b. Yiṣḥaq, in Alexandria, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel, in Fustat. Dating: 24 Elul [1451] Seleucid = 8 September 1140 CE. […] She has developed, in addition to her infinite illnesses, an illness in her ear for 20 days now, to the point that we have forgotten all the illnesses that came before..." ʿAmram also complains about his own "swollen" (muntafikh) state and his ophthalmia: "I cannot see where I place my pen." He also informs Ḥalfon that Yehuda ha-Levi is on the ship that has just arrived in Alexandria.

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• ib-partial translation-heb
• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
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Letter from Yosef b. Khalfa from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1062. […] Mentions that he received fabrics. He states that although his business is wide, he cannot support himself in Alexandria, and he considers coming to Fustat to work as a tailor.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Salāma b. [...] to Abū Saʿīd Makhlūf al-Neʾeman al-Nafūsī. In Judaeo-Arabic. The letter is written in pairs of lines with wide space in between. […] The writer has sent what he needed to send with Sālim b. Nissim al-ʿIblānī (also mentioned in T-S AS 173.209 + T-S AS 153.293 (PGPID 17851)).

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Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions ʿIwāḍ; Ibn Samḥūn; Abū l-Surūr; Dāʾūd; Abū l-Barakāt; Zikrī; the price of a Fayyūmī covering (kisā); "his brother-in-law"; Ibn al-Ṣābūnī; al-Tāhertī; Ibn Būbū(?); Dāʾūd al-Fāsī and Nissim; the debts owed to Abū Naṣr from al-Ṣābūnī and al-Nafūsī.

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• account
• arus b. yosef

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Judaeo-Arabic

.]; possibly a small synagogue (though looks more like כנינסה), someone titled Tāj al-Mulk wa-Fakhruhā, someone called al-ḥaver al-jalīl, and someone called al-talmid al-nabīl Yosef b.

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• halfon-addenda
• ib-addenda
• ib4

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Judaeo-Arabic

Blessing formula for the caliph al-Ḥāfiẓ li-Dīn Allah (1131-1149 CE), possibly a draft petition. See also T-S NS 110.26. (“Prayers from the Geniza for Fatimid Caliphs, the Head of Jerusalem Yeshiva, the Jewish community and the Local Congregation,'' in Studies in Judaica, Karaitica and Islamica, Presented to Leon Nemoy...Bar-Ilan University, 1982, 49-58) EMS Goitein thought this was a prayer, but it is almost certainly the draft of a petition formula.

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• al-hafiz
• draft
• petition

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions goods such as hyacinth and pepper, and their quantities, and many other goods; also mentions the customs in Qūṣ and the agents of the Ṣināʿa. […] Likely related to T-S AS 153.79 (PGPID 34987) and T-S NS 32.100 (PGPID 25357). Also similar appearing are T-S AS 204.99 (PGPID 32045) and T-S AS 210.175 (PGPID 22814). All may be indirect joins.

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• ib-addenda
• ib7
• india book unedited

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Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: likely early 13th century. Mentions al-Kohen al-Maghribī who was with Ṣāfī the Alexandrian; an embroidered robe (malḥafa marqūma); selling something for 27 [dirhams?]; two dinars; Abū l-Faraj Ibn al-Rayyis; Abū l-Riḍā; the price of the bracelet (ḥadīda); and someone's mother in law.

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Sunday Elul 1st 1409 Seleucid (1 August 1098 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

For Ḥalfon b. Yeshuʿa known as Ibn al-Ṭārima(?), who wanted to reverse his purchase of half a house from his brother Elʿazar for the amount of 10 dinars. The financial arrangements take into account his brother's upcoming travel to al-Shām (Palestine or Damascus). Also mentions travel to upper Egypt (al-Ṣaʿīd).

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Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

He mentions Abu l-Surur and asks for something to be sent and says that al-Shaykh al-Ra’is thanks the addressee. From lines 5-10, he discusses the affair of Ibn al-Taffal (presumably identical with his nemesis Yefet b. Shelomo the physician known as ‘the son of the fuller’; cf. the other fragments tagged with ‘Ibn al-Taffal’). Moshe appears to be gloating over how Ibn al-Taffal had to leave Qalyub with his tail between his feet, but he is also anxious to hear the news of how Ibn al-Taffal has fared in Fustat, “as if I were present.” […] Verso The tail end of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, also by Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, perhaps to the same addressee.

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• ibn al-taffal
• moshe b. levi

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ṭahor partners with Abū Saʿd b. Abū l-ʿAlāal-Ṣabbāgh in an apothecary shop. Moshe is paid 6 dirhams a month agrees to work for a year and a half. His wage is guaranteed by Abū Saʿd’s father Abū l-ʿAlāʾ (ll.7-8). Because of the guarantee of Abū al-ʿAlāʾ, three qinyanim are performed: Moshe's agreement to work, Abū Saʿd’s agreement to pay, and the guarantee of Abū l-ʿAlāʾ’. Although the parties’ relationship is described as a partnership, Moshe's wages being fixed suggests an employment agreement, though likely not an apprenticeship, both because Moshe is not a youth (line 5 alludes to his five sons) and is said to manage or set up the store.

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• debt
• partnership
• pharmacy

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Primary language

Arabic

"reinforcement") from the treasurer (al-khāzin) Marzūq b. Yūsuf al-[...]. It seems that he also commits to repaying the treasurer at a future date. […] The text in the upper left margin seems to be an oddly placed witness clause (by ʿUmar b. ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-[...]) but this requires further examination. […] The last text block to be added, in a different hand than all the preceding text blocks and unrelated to them, appears to be technical instructions related to alchemy and/or medicine.

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Judaeo-Arabic

He wants (Kitāb) al-Khalq if they have not already sent it, and a book called (Kitāb) al-Mayl wa-l-Hijrān, which Moshe left in storage in Fustat. […] He wants a commentary on the simple meaning of something (tafsīr . . . peshaṭ), and he urges them to get him a copy of al-Faraj baʿd al-Shidda quickly. After all this, Moshe should still have 3 dirhams of credit (1/2 from Saʿāda and 2 1/2 from Abū l-Riḍā); with this money they should buy aromatic wood (ʿūd rīḥ) for 14 or 15 an ounce. […] Yaʿaqov on his behalf concerning "al-Mayl" (probably the same book mentioned earlier, al-Mayl wa-l-Hijrān).

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• book trade

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Faraḥ b. Yosef, in Alexandria, to Nissim b. ʿAṭiyya, in al-Mahdiyya. The writer gives details about shipments of goods to al-Mahdiyya and asks the recipient to help sell them.

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Arabic

Small fragment of a state document with a large ʿalāma at upper left. Mentions the name ʿAbd al-Karīm b. al-Ḥājj Muḥammad b. al-Ḥājj [...].

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• 'alama
• mamluk
• pinholes

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Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions books such as Kitāb al-Wadīʿa; the book of Lamentations; Tehillot (= Tehillim?); a book of jurisprudence (פיקה); a tafsīr on Daniʾel; the book of Job; a book of "Alfāẓ"; Kitāb al-Aflāk; Kitāb al-Wakāla.

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On one side, names, the first one 'min Abu...' and the last readable line begins 'the Alexandrians]'; the other side, names and numbers and also measures of wheat (waybas).

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• charity
• communal
• donors
• list
• poverty

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Document date

10 Jumāda II 1237 Hijrī (4 March 1822 CE)

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Arabic

The name of the notary is al-Ḥāj ʿUmar Agha who was the overseer of dīwān anwāl al-ḥarīr in Alexandria.

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• 19th c
• dimme
• late arabic script

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7 Rabīʿ II 1239 Hijrī (11 December 1823 CE)

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Arabic

Issued by the Dīwān Anwāl li-Maṣliḥat al-Ḥarīr, an institution in Alexandria connected to the state's monopoly on silk production during Meḥmed ʿAlī Pasha's administration.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter, probably sent from Alexandria by a man to his brother, a student of Maimonides, who participated in a class of Rabbi Moshe (ll. 18r, 21r), advising him to also get medical training from his teacher.

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Arabic

Table in Arabic script and Coptic numerals. Mentions ʿIzz al-Dīn b. al-[...]; Bū Manṣūr b. Nuʿmān; Aḥmad b. ʿAbd al-Karīm; Jamāl al-Dīn b. Muyassir(?); Bū l-Ḥasan and his partnership (wa-sharikatuhu).

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• arabic script

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Aramaic, Hebrew

Ghāliya desiring the effect that his wife Sitt al-Ahl Hilāla bt. Malīḥa should keep her love for him. Also that he find favor in the eyes of the judge and all people.

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• amulet

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Judaeo-Arabic

Mentioning Mardūkh, Nahray, Dār Ibn Rajāʾ, Ibn al-Iskandarānī, brazilwood, chebulic myrobalan, and many other things. Also dues of Dār Mānak, Rashīd, and al-Mukhtāra.

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• account

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Judaeo-Arabic

On the verso he turns to accounting: coins sealed with the seal of the Dār al-Kattān reckoned to his account, with receipts taken from the dīwān; and a dispute over short-weight flax bales brought before the amīr Jalāl al-Dawla, shortfalls measured against the Dār al-Kattān standard and attributed to loss in transit. […] Ṣadaqa, Abū al-Ḥajjāj, Abū al-Ḥasan). Gil identifies the carrier of the letter, listed in the address, as Abū l-Qāsim ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz. MR

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• arabic script
• ib-addenda
• muslims
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• red sea
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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

The archer Manṣūr b. Zakī al-Dawla (or: Rukn al-Dawla, which seems more likely given al-Maqrīzī's attestation, see Ittiʿāz II, 297) complains that Badr, one of the horseman of the amir Tāj al-Maʿālī with whom he was traveling, left the camp and took with him two dinars of wages that belonged to the petitioner. A tarsīm regarding these facts has already been issued. (Information from CUDL.)

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• dimme
• tarsim
• theft

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Document date

Jumādā I 592 Hijrī (2 April 1196–1 May 1196 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Lines 4–5: ḥamdala and ṣalwala (wa-l-ḥamdu li-llāh rabb al-ʿalāmīn wa-ṣalawāt ʿalā Muḥammad al-nabī wa-ahlihi wa-sallam taslīman wa-ḥasbunā llāh wa-niʿm al-wakīl).

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