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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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Arabic

Book list in Arabic script. Titles include Kitāb al-Tabṣira of al-Qalaṣādī (d. 1486), Kitāb al-Bayān, and Iʿjāz al-Qur'ā[n].

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• booklist

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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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Primary language

Arabic

Includes a taqbīl clause and refers to the addressee as al-jināb al-ʿālīal-mawlawī. On verso there is unidentified Judaeo-Arabic, possibly a document.

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Arabic

In the margin there are pen trials and/or endorsements, one of them referring to 'al-ḥaḍra al-ʿāliyaal-shaykhiyya.' Reused on recto for Hebrew prayers (in the hand of Ḥillel b.

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Arabic

Abū Yūsuf Munajjā asks the addressee in Alexandria to help the bearer, Abū l-Faraj the scholar. […] Reused for a Hebrew composition in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī.

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• recommendation

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Arabic

The ends of 6 lines are preserved. Mentions: al-muslimīn... mutawallī al-balad... al-ghulām... ʿalā nafsihi l-ʿādila...lammā kānat hādha l-waqt... li-anfusikum wa-khāfa...wa-taḍarraʿa...

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• dimme
• to edit

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Primary language

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
• nahray b. nissim
• red sea
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Arabic

A few words in Arabic script: "... al-wārid ʿalayhi fī maʿnā al-[...]...."

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Arabic

Fragment of the address of a letter to Abū l-ʿAlāʾal-Yahūdī al-ʿAṭṭār.

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Arabic

Small fragment of a state document: "... al-sulṭānī al-malikī al-kāmilī..."

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Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew

Mysterious text with alternating lines of Hebrew script (mostly Aramaic, it seems) and Arabic script, many or all of which are glosses on the former. Mentions some random Arabic words, eg. parts of a bird: al-ḥawṣala, al-qānisa. Could be a magical text.

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• bialphabetic
• glossary

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Arabic

Some phrases: ʿabd... imtathalahā... al-marākib bi-ḥaml al-[...] al-madkhūr... al-sulṭāniyya

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1590–1606 CE

Avraham Skandari, probably in Cairo, to his son, probably in Alexandria. The date is the 2nd of Adar I, probably 1590 but could also be 1606, depending on whether the yod and vav are to be read in ישֿוןֿ.

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• 16th c
• late heb

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Judaeo-Arabic

Horizontal strip from the middle of a Judaeo-Arabic letter. "Al-Parnas al-Kohen went to Bilbays two years ago and lived there and made a living with what God provided, until . . . his living. . . al-ḥaver al-meʿulle. . ."

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Judaeo-Arabic

Mentioning commodities such as spikenard (sunbul) and cardamom (al-hāl al-qāqullī), and moringa (al-bān). Mentions Jamāl al-Dīn Abū l-Jāj[...] and ʿAbdallāh b.

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• ib-candidate

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Document date

5631 Anno Mundi (26 September 1870–15 September 1871 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Receipt issued by the Eliyyahu ha-Navi Congregation of Alexandria, bearing a bi-alphabetic communal seal. Dated: [5]631 AM (1870/1871 CE). The receipt is for funds requested from ʿEzra ha-Levi, indicated by the opening abbreviaiton "אלמט׳" (al-maṭlūb). MCD.

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• communal
• late synagogues

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Avraham b. Farah, Alexandria, to Abu Ishaq Barhun b. Musa al-Tāhartī, Fustat, dealing with shipments of goods, ca. 1053 (Gil). Mentions the qarib belonging to Abū ʿAbdallāh Ibn al-Baʿbāʿ (recto, margin). (Information from Gil)

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• ibn al-ba'ba'
• trade

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Document date

793 Hijrī (9 December 1390–28 November 1391 CE)

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Arabic

ʿAbbās, from ىىا (Binā?) al-Kubrā. Dated: 793 AH = 1390/91 CE. Also mentions Mūsā b. Yūsuf b. Mūsā al-Yahūdī. Needs examination.

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1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from from Sibāʿ b. Ḥasan al-Ḥalabī, probably in Fustat, to Hibatallāh b. Menaḥem al-Jubaylī, in Alexandria. In the hand of Ḥalfon b.

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• halfon b. menashshe

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Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: Probably 11th century. Mentions Alexandria and Abū Isḥāq and items lost at sea or in the Nile (fī l-baḥr). Recto: Mercantile accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, in a different hand, mentioning rose and al-Lāwī al-Qābisī.

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Arabic

Fragment (bottom part only). The name ʿAllūn b. Yaḥyā al-Isrāʾīlī al-[...] appears in the last line of the body. One of the witness statements is by ʿAbdallāh b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿĀṣim. Needs further examination.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The addressee is a physician: al-ḥakīm al-sadīd... [...] al-ʿulamāʾ sayyid al-fuhamāʾ...

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Document date

523 Hijrī (25 December 1128–14 December 1129 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Fragment of a fiscal document referring to the annual budget of the Dīwān al-Abwāb (aka Dīwān al-Kharājī wa-l-Hilālī) "من مال ضمان ديوان الابواب". […] ENA NS 71.22. Dated: 523 H (could also be kharājī). Needs examination.

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• diwan al-abwab

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter dated September 1040 (Gil), sent from al-Mahdiyya by Yaḥyā b. Mūsā al-Majjānī to Zekharya b. […] The letter deals with a financial dispute between the writer and Abū l-Faraj Yaʿaqov b. Avraham Ibn ʿAllān. The Qayrawān Nagid Yaʿaqov b. ʿAmram and Ḥananʾel b. Ḥushiʾel are mentioned. The letter also mentions mail that was sent and the state of Mediterranean maritime and land transport.

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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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• archer
• dimme
• tarsim
• theft

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Somebody forfeits their right to the 1/2 of the big dār located off of al-Darb al-Jadīd from the inheritance of his or her father, it seems leaving the entire house under the control of the other heirs. The document is almost entirely legalese, to the effect that this is a final and irreversible agreement. (Note that this fragment is also known as DK 318.)

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

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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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Document date

491 Hijrī (9 December 1097–27 November 1098 CE)

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Arabic

Conveys praises and blessings for the addressee and for the caliph and the prophet Muḥammad and ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib. Mentions فخر الملك سعد الدولة تاج المع[الى] Fakhr al-Mulk Saʿd al-Dawla Tāj al-Maʿ[ālī].

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Arabic

One part of it (verso) looks literary, with pen trials and doodles underneath. There is also a string of titles addressing someone (al-qurashī . . . al-ajall); preceded by "in this book" (في هذا الكتاب) and followed by "may God have mercy on whoever reads it" (رحم الله من قراه), then ṣalwala and ḥamdala; beneath this there are some drawings; and above this there is what looks like a signature in Arabic script ([...] the son of Ḥaydar the brother of the in-law of al-Ḥamawī Aḥmad [...].).

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• drawing

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Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shelomo Tilimsānī, acting as a custodian (apotropos) releases a certain Yosef b. ʿAmram known as Ibn al-Fituri (? אלפיתורי) in some commercial transaction. Aharon and Nuʿmān are also mentioned. Location: maybe Alexandria. The three fragments do not actually join but they are clearly related to the same case, and perhaps part from the same document.

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• alexandria
• hillel b. eli
• quittance

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Payment order by the well-known trader Abu Zikri Yehuda ha-Kohen b. Yosef al-Sijilmasi, who orders Ibn (or Abu?) al-Ḥasan al-Hud (?) […] A person identified as Abu al-Ḥasan al-Hud appears in T-S 10J6.3. Recto contains business letter.

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• ib-addenda
• ib5
• order of payment

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Document date

5 Dhū l-Qaʿda 1030 Hijrī (21 September 1621 CE)

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Arabic

Mentions the distinguished judge Muṣṭafā Effendi. Involves Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm b. Aḥmad al-Azharī(?) al-Sukkarī(?) and a certain Dāʾūd. May refer to "jamāʿat al-gharb" (the Maghribī Jewish community?).

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Judaeo-Arabic

People named include ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Maḥlāwī and ʿAbd al-Qadīr. The writer asks the addressee that when he comes from Fusṭāṭ he should bring letters from the children of Yiṣḥaq b. […] He then may give his address: Rubʿ al-Ḥamzāwī, the alley of the Karaites.

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• 16th c
• karaite
• late ja

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Avraham b. Madlūb(?) al-Maqdisī to Abū Saʿīd b. Abū Naṣr, in the square of the perfumers, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with very rudimentary spellings. The letter also speaks about Avraham al-Maqdisī in the third person. Mentions various business transactions and people such as ʿArafāt al-Baḥrī, the addressee's neighbor, Yehuda b. Yeshuʿa, and Ḥasan.

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• trade

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Letter from Eli b. Yosef, from Alexandria, to Barhun b. Salah al-Tāhartī, Fustat. Around 1055. […] The writer asks the addressee to take care of an inheritance of his relative, Avraham al-Safakusi, who has two sons – Abu al-Faraj and Ishaq.

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Eliyyahu. In which Abū l-Ghayth al-Sabbāk ("the caster") and his son Ibrāhīm al-Ḥarīrī renounce a claim on two pieces of cloth worth two dinars which belong to Sitt al-Milāḥ, the wife of Sulaymān and divorcee of Abū Saʿīd, as described in her ketubba and left to her by her husband. Also mentions [...] b. Ṣedaqa and Abū Manṣūr. (Information from CUDL and Goitein's index cards)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Concerning a trip of the addressee and a third person, and mentioning 80 dirhams in the possession of someone else and the arrival and news of yet another person. Mentions staying in al-Maḥalla Wednesday night; meeting with Makīn b. Mukhtār, who reported his intention to travel and that 80 jars of his wine had turned to vinegar; also mentions al-Shaykh al-Rashīd; and good quality wheat.

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• trade
• vinegar
• wine

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Document date

4992 Anno Mundi (30 August 1231–15 September 1232 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: deed of transfer, in which Abū l-Ẓāhir and Abū ʿAmr give a sixth of a house to Hillel ha-Baḥur. Location: Alexandria. Dated: 4992 AM = 1231/32 CE. Verso: different document, dealing with matters between the siblings Elʿazar and Sitt al-Maʿānī concerning a house. […] (Information from CUDL; see also Goitein's index card and attached transcription.)

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Document date

1154–1161 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions sprinkler bottles (qumqum) for rose water brought by the qāḍī Najm al-Dīn, and ‘pure’ (ṭahor) cheese sent from Alexandria to Aden. […] Mentions the Franks and the ruler al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ (=Ṭalāʾiʿ b. Ruzzīk, the Fatimid vizier from 1154–61).

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• ib7
• india book

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He intends to sell the slave for 30 dinars and will send. Meanwhile he asked al-Asʿad Abū Saʿd b. Abū l-Munajjā to pay for him 30 to al-Makīn. Also mentions trouble with Abū l-Mufaḍḍal Ibn al-ʿAnbarī.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Addressed to another Nasi (al-Rayyis al-Dā'ūdī), with blessings for his son Abū l-Ḥasan. […] It seems that the sender is asking the addressee to convey condolences on his behalf to al-Shaykh al-Thiqa, to Abū Isḥāq and his sons, to the dear brother Abū l-Barakāt al-Ṭabīb and his mother Sitt ʿArīb(?)

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• condolence
• nasis

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Primary language

Arabic

In Arabic script. Begins, "mā yaqūlū al-sāda al-aʾimma...." Concerns a Jewish(?) widow who has minor children and received alimony from the estate of the orphans(?) […] The legal query seems directed to a Fatimid official because of the beginning, "al-sādāt al-Aʾimma" which is typically the beginning of an Ismaʿīlī legal query.

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