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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

VII,51.1 (PGPID 16085) for a similar case.) There are also Arabic-script section headers for each boundary (al-ḥadd al-awwal... al-ḥadd al-thānī wa-huwa al-baḥrī... etc.). […] (The hand of the scribe may also be known.) (2) Record of debt between the trader (al-tājir) Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa b. […] (3) Something involving Ṣāʿid b. Abū ʿAlī and Hilāl and Karīm the sons of Sibāʿ al-ʿAṭṭār

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• bialphabetic
• island
• women's property

1 Transcription 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary language

Arabic

Only the basmala and a couple other words are preserved. The recto was also used for alphabetical practice, there may be two different hands representing an instructor's model handwriting and the alphabetical letters rendered by a student.

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• learning

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Document date

562 Hijrī (28 October 1166–16 October 1167 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Tax receipt, late Fatimid, for the jizya payment of a Jewish person (name difficult to read), with registration mark - 'al-ḥamdu lil-lāh al-wāḥid al-ḥaqq', praise be to God who is One and He alone is the truth.

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• capitation tax
• dimme
• pinholes
• tax
• tax receipt

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Apparently putting in a good word for an orphaned youth (al-ṣabiyy al-yetom) who is poor and owes the capitation tax. There are also several mentions of "the elders in a partnership" (with the addressee?).

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Primary language

Arabic

The sender is Jewish as he swears by the Torah (bi-ḥaqq al-Tawrāh). On verso there are fragments of two lines of Arabic in a different hand (... min al-wilāya... [...] b. al-Ḥasan b. Aḥmad al-[...]).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Mubarak ha-Levi b. Yosef to Alexandria concerning business matters. The writer calculates how much he has paid the addressee and how much of the account between them remains. The addressee is also ordered to borrow ten dirhams from a third person for trading purposes.

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• trade

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Primary language

Arabic

Mentions various people (X adāma Allāh ʿizzahu... al-shaykh al-jalīl... mawlāy al-shaykh(?)

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Involves a man named Namir known as al-Ḥakham(?) al-Ṣabbāgh. Also mentions someone's father; two people's paternal aunt; someone known as Farrāsh

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• halfon b. menashshe

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Primary language

Arabic

Contains part of a raʾy clause and a reference to Dīwān al-Shām al-Maʿmūr, and then perhaps "the response of the slave with what he performed (wa-ijābat al-ʿabd bi-mā tamaththaltuhū), although the pronouns here are tricky.

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• petition

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Primary language

Arabic

The one on verso looks somewhat later, perhaps Ayyubid-era, and is from a petitioner named Sulaymān to an addressee also named Sulaymān. Unclear if anything substantive from the cases/requests is preserved. They might also be drafts or formularies.

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Writing on both sides. Also mentions Alexandria and probably someone named Isḥāq.

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• halfon b. menashshe

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Primary language

Arabic

Repeatedly mentions "iḥsān mawlāhu ʿAlī b. al-Ḥasan." Also mentions 101 dinars and the month of Rabīʿ II.

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Document date

20 Ramaḍān 632 Hijrī (8 June 1235 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

According to the verso, the property was bought by the judge ʿImād al-Dīn from al-Ḥājj b. Yūsuf who acted as an agent on behalf of al-Sitt Ḥabībat Ḥanūn. […] The document on the recto was probably drafted at the court of the chief judge in Cairo, Sharaf al-Dīn b. ʿAyn al-Dawla (d. 639/1242). (YU, AP)

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Document date

8 September 1051 CE

Letter from Khallūf b. Mūsā Ibn al-Ṣāʾigh, in al-Mahdiyya (Gil) or Qayrawān (Goldberg), to Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmūrī in Fustat. Dating (Gil): September 8, 1051. […] The goods are mainly flax, spices (pepper and others), and textiles. Also mentions a Jewish sailor. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, #581) VMR

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Document date

Tammuz 1473 Seleucid (15 June 1162–13 July 1162 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, including a book list, including al-Faṣīḥ fī l-Lugha, Masāʾīl Ṭibbiyya, and Leviticus in Arabic. Verso: Draft or copy of a legal deed in which Ibn Bū l-Mufaḍḍal b. al-Shelishi and Ibn al-Kirmānī divide a government post (khidma) and salary (jāri) between them. Dated: Tammuz 1473 Seleucid = June/July 1162 CE. See also description for the whole notebook, Bodl. MS heb. f 22/19–52 (PGPID 33686).

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Document date

1 Adar 1539 Seleucid (9 February 1228 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer advises the addressee to resort to the intervention of the mothers and wives of certain 'righteous gentiles': Umm Ibrāhīm and her son; the amir Najm al-Dīn; the wife of Jamāl al-Dīn "who was in the wilāya (=iqṭāʿ?)" of Mubāriz al-Dīn and represented him "in the gate of the Sultan"; and Sitt Masʿūd. He also asks the addressee to inquire about ophthalmics (ashyāfāt).

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• amir
• ophthalmic
• wilaya

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Letter from Yiṣḥaq Nīsābūrī, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, presumably in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1045–96. Yiṣḥaq arrived in Alexandria on Tuesday 6 Tevet and found that the markets were slow (kāsira). […] He asks the recipient to act with regard to a ḥerem setam (Med Soc II, 602, n. 40). Mentions al-Mahdiyya. Yiṣḥaq's son Simḥa greets Nahray's son Abū Saʿd.

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• nahray b. nissim
• nisaburi
• trade

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Primary language

Ladino

On the recto the ingredients and recepticles include "asucar/sugar" (l.10r) and "vasya de laton" (l.14r), also written as "vasya de alaton" (l.12r), which could indicate a container made of a copper-zinc alloy whose yellow-gold color points to the word's etymology in Turkish "altın/gold" (information from the Diccionario de la lengua española – Real Academia Española).

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• ladino literary
• medical

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yosef b. Yehuda b. Simḥa (Alexandria) to Abū Zikrī Yaḥyā b. Nissim (Fustat), ca. 1050. […] He is worried about owing money to a number of people including Yaḥyā b. Nissim and, although they do not demand payment, is anxious to settle the issue. He also mentions having heard about diseases (amrāḍ) that have spread in Fustat.

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• arabic address
• beads
• debt
• epidemic
• epidemic: amrad
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Primary language

Arabic

Concerns farming and safeguarding of land (fī zirāʿatih wa-ḥifẓihā wa-ṣawnihā) for an interval of time for which the parties had asked (al-mudda alladhī iltamasūhā). Includes petition or report formulae, including a the raʾy clause "wa-raʾyuhā al-muwaffaq." Urges haste, followed by petition-like language: wuṣūluh surʿa surʿa fa-anā muḥtāj ilayhi ... wa-raʾyuhā al-muwaffaq in shāʾ allāh.

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• agriculture
• dimme
• pinholes

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment from the bottom of a legal document. Location: Alexandria or another coastal city. Dating: 11th century; it was written on a Monday, 18 Sivan; the number "807" appears on the line below, so perhaps Monday, 18 Sivan 4807 AM = 15 June 1047 CE. […] Yosef; an orphan girl; Avraham b. Farrāḥ al-Iskandarānī; and ʿAzīza. The substance of the case is unclear. See also ENA NS 85.273 (PGPID 14925).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in the hand of Makhlūf b. Mūsā, possibly in Alexandria, addressed to Fustat, al-ʿAṭṭārīn, the shop of Muslim/Musallam al-Kaʿkī. […] The writer mentions Abū l-Surūr traveling to al-Mahdiyya, Tripoli (Libya), and Byzantium. He complains about the capitation tax and his poor fortune in business.

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• arabic address
• ib-addenda
• ib6
• to edit

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Nissim, probably from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Dating: ca. 1050. […] Yashar ha-Tustari) but did not succeed. Musa b. Abi al-Hayy gave the writer books to keep them from the mice while he is traveling. The writer mentions a disagreement that he has with “the Alexandroni”, probably Avraham b. Farah. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 4, #712) VMR

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

A learned man named Yehuda חובל is also mentioned. Verso: Alongside the address of the original letter, there is a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, perhaps the response to recto. There is also a name: Binyamin b. אנתה(?). Needs examination.

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• late heb

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Primary language

Arabic

Opens with two lines of grand titles for the presumably Muslim addressee (Zakhīrat al-Dīn Jamāl al-Ruʾasāʾ, Ṣabī Amīr al-Muʾminīn). […] There is a single word in Hebrew in the upper margin. On verso, there may also be remnants of an endorsement (in Arabic script).

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• petition

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Mentions a Jewish man named Fayrūz many times, and at one point he is called "al-Qaraʾ al-Qāhirī (the Qaraite Jew from (New) Cairo). The main commodities mentioned are cloaks (milḥafa) and flax/linen (kattān) sometimes together with the adjective musarraj(?). Also mentions the amounts still owed to the wife of Ibn al-Musallaḥ.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Natan ('the son of the Nezer') to Abū l-Maḥāsin al-Tājir, in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer includes a request for medicinal substances. He also urges the addressee to return quickly to his mother, because she has been afflicted lately with 'what cannot be described,' and she would have perished were it not for the solicitude of friends.

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: women's

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Document date

1026 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Page from a court notebook dated Thursday, 12 Kislev, 1026, in the hand of Yefet ha-Hazan b. Daud, who signs alone. Sulayman b. Yusuf made ‘amlāk’ (denoting the transferring of ownership of properties) for Sitt al-Dar bt. Yusuf and gave 15 dinars to ‘Umar, the brother of Sitt al-Dar. These were ‘rahīna’ (security, i.e. collateral). See also T-S 8J6.18 C and T-S 8J6.18 D. (Information from Goitein's index card).

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• yefet b. david

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yeshaʿya b. Isḥāq, in Alexandria, to his business associate Abū Ibrāhīm ʿAyyāsh b. […] Advising him to dispose of goods costing a large amount of money and, “This letter of mine is your proof in court.” The writer also notes he received a loan of 80 dinars from a compatriot and asks that all consignments to himself should be turned over to his creditor.

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• 11th c
• merchant
• trade

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Inferred date

1125–1140 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal testimony declaring that Hassun of Ascalon was the father of Abū Saʿd, the illegitimate son of Wuhsha the Broker. Mentions Abū ʿAlīal-Parnas Yefet b. Maṣliaḥ, Ibn al-Sukkarī, Ḥalfon ha-Kohen b. Yosef and Abū Naṣr al-Kohen Ibn al-Kamūkhī. Bifolio 2v of a court register in the hand of Ḥalfon b.

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• debt
• halfon b. menashshe
• intermarriage
• legitimacy
• muslim husband
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The handwriting is similar to that of ʿImanuel b. Yeḥiel (also compare T-S 16.682 from the same period). Fragment (lower middle part) containing part of the trousseau list and referring to half of a ḥujra (lit. "room," but probably an independent building consisting of one room) in Alexandria given to the bride near the al-Qashmīrī mosque.

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• ketubba

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Either a contributors list or alms list. In Arabic script, Judaeo-Arabic, and Greek/Coptic numerals. […] Mentions names such as Nuṣayr, Eliyya, Yosef, Fuḍayl, Majd, Bū Saʿd, Bū Isḥāq, Bū l-Riḍā, Manṣūr, Abū ʿAlī, awlād al-Rūmī. Several names appear more than once. Verso: Draft of the beginning of a note in Arabic script from Abū l-Barakāt (probably Shelomo b. Eliyyahu) to 'al-mawlā al-sadīd.'

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Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Sugar accounting from the administration of the Ayyubid sultan al-Ṣāliḥ Ayyūb (al-Dīwān al-Ṣāliḥī al-Saʿīdī ...). […] The document gives many rich details about sugar production from various sugar refineries (maṭbakh, pl. maṭābīkh) from places such as Ashmūn and Minyat al-Qāʾid (here spelled with the interim spelling مية, in between earlier منية and modern ميت).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Inventory of the items from a dead man's estate that are in Alexandria, mainly books (two pages) and various household items (last page). […] Ḥofni's treatise on partnerships (al-Sharikāt); Saadya's translation (sharḥ) of the Torah; many more sacred books; and what may be a composition on love (Alfāẓʿalā l-Ulfa).

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• booklist
• estate
• inventory

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Primary language

Arabic

Yaʿaqov, the Jew, known as al-ʿIjla (or al-ʿĀjala?) buys from three Christian women one-fourth of a house in the Rāya district for 70 dinars. The other three-fourths were already in his possession (total value 280 dinars). Verso (in entirely different handwriting): He gives this house to the son of his daughter and makes other gifts. This document is also incomplete. (Information from Goitein’s index card)

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Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions a widow; a kohen; Ḥalfon; a parnas; and Ibrāhīm. It is unclear how all these names relate to each other. Also mentions the Dūr al-Wukalāʾ in Fustat (likely the plural of Dār al-Wakāla, merchants' warehouse).

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Document date

1178 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Names include: Bū Manṣūr al-Bilbaysī; the partner (sharīk) of Bū l-Riḍā Hiba; Barakāt b. ʿAmmār; Bū Saʿd al-Zayyāt; Mufaḍḍal b. Ṭayyib; Barakāt b. Ṭayyib; Bū ʿAlī Ibn al-Muṭrib; Bū l-Majd al-Ṣayrafī; Bū Sahl b.

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• ib-addenda

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Document date

Sunday, 11 Tammuz 4912 Anno Mundi (15 June 1152 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal testimony. Location: Alexandria. Dated: Sunday, 11 Tammuz 4912 AM = 15 June 1152 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. […] Ṭahor ha-Kohen; Yiṣḥaq b. Yosef Yerushalmi (also signs T-S 13J3.4 (PGPID 1113)). The two litigants (mutashājirīn) are Shemuel b. Yehuda Ibn Asad and ʿUlla b. Yeshuʿa Ibn al-ʿIrāqī. They appear before the court together with a messenger of the Muslim qāḍī, and all agree that they will annul a previous agreement made before a Jewish court and make a similar agreement in Muslim court.

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• muslim courts

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Document date

Ṭevet 1492 Seleucid (21 December 1180–18 January 1181 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

There is a long passage (in rhymed Hebrew) about the addressee's mother ailing ever since he departed for Alexandria with the caravan. The scribe wrote the letter while very sick (marīḍ lāzim lā aʿaql ʿalā nafsī min al-ḥamāʾil(?) ṣudāʿ(?) al-bārī yulaṭṭif bi-raḥmatihi fa-tabsuṭ al-ʿadhr...).

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517

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Inferred date

1168–1204 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Moses Maimonides (in his own hand with his own signature), in Fustat, to al-Shaykh al-Thiqa, in Minyat Zifta. Dating: ca. 1168–1204 CE, based on the years when Maimonides was active in Egypt. […] Perhaps Ibrāhīm is the son of Yiṣḥaq, and this is a note summarizing the content of the letter ('re: Ibrāhīm al-Darʿī'). Alternatively, he meant to write [Abū] Ibrāhīm. It is less likely to be delivery details (‘By means of Ibrāhīm al-Darʿī’). (Information in part from CUDL.)

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• arabic script
• maimonides autograph
• recommendation

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Abū ʿAlī to his father Abū l-ʿIzz al-Sharābī, in Fustat, in Sūq al-Kabīr. […] If that sum were not sufficient, he would deliver the balance to the carrier. He alludes to his illness in passing by way of explaining why he has not done something (line 21). See also T-S 12.817 (PGPID 7350). (Information in part from Mediterranean Society, IV, p. 446.)

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• arabic address
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: mention

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Document date

7 Tammuz 1524 Seleucid (27 June 1213 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

This account is written on the verso and also on the remaining space of the recto of a document concerning the sale of an enslaved woman to a certain Elazar ha-Kohen. […] There are items of charity, for the local poor and for foreigners, and repairs to buildings of the qodesh, and also to the synagogues of Fustat and Dammuh. Several sums that were emoluments for scholars are included as well. Some revenue from rent is listed, as it is also income from collections for charity, among them one "light" dinar paid by Rayyis, i.e. the Nagid, Avraham Maimuni, the son of Maimonides.

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• 13th c
• account
• heqdesh
• qodesh
• waqf

1 Transcription 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary language

Arabic

In lines 2–3 there is a report on the illness of a woman, who is now doing better (wa-lākin mā hiya illā qad aṣābat al-ʿāfiya). Then from line 5 to the end, there are greetings to numerous people, including Sayyid al-Ahl someone's brother-in-law and to 'my masters the judges' (al-dayyānīn). […] T-S Ar.51.95, which has a drawing of Maymūn Ghulām Saydūk), al-Aḥmar, al-Abyaḍ, al-Mudhahhab.

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: women's

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Primary language

Arabic

.]: some books of Hippocrates (kutub Buqrāṭ) for 5 dirhams. With Abū ʿAlī b. [...]: one book for 5 dirhams. With the dyer (al-ṣabbāgh): 1 book containing Kitāb al-Miʿda(?) and Kitāb al-Aghdhiya for 5 dirhams. With the physician (al-ṭabīb al-[...]): 1 book for 1 dinar.

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• booklist
• vellum

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Primary language

Arabic

The address is rubbed out, although the word thaghr is still legible (unless this is صـ), so it was probably sent to either Fustat or Alexandria. After about 10 lines of prologue, the sender complains about the lack of letters; reports that the addressee's paternal aunt died, and her inheritance is in the hands of the government ("aṣḥāb al-mawārīth"); they will not pay anything to the family until the addressee arrives, and if he does not, the sender predicts that the government will claim the property for themselves. Also, the addressee's brother has had a son in Qūṣ.

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Document date

Sivan 1435 Seleucid (16 May 1124–14 June 1124 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fol. 1: Several legal documents, all in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. In one, Ṣadaqa b. Avraham known as Ibn al-Warda and his wife Sitt al-[...] give to their daughter Sitt al-Khawāt bt. […] Naḥman 1/2 of a new house. There are also entries about dowry evaluations (taqwīm). Dated Sivan 1435 Seleucid, which is 1124 CE.

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• halfon b. menashshe

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