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Primary language

Arabic

Fatimid-era. There is also a remnant of an Arabic text on recto mentioning "Isrāʾīl ʿalayhial-salām," probably unrelated.

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• arabic reused

1 Transcription

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The addressee is referred to as al-sirāj al-qādī (= al-qāḍī?) naṣarahū allāh biʿizzahū. . .

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• appeal
• charity

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic. There is also a fragment of a text mentioning Kitāb al-Īmān by Rabbenu Hayya.

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Primary language

Arabic

Literary text, entitled "tadhkirat al-kaḥḥālīn" or the handbook of ophthalmology by ʿIsā b. ʿAlīal-Mutaṭabbib.

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• dimme

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

People mentioned: Abū l-Riḍā, al-Ḥayawānī, Ismāʿīl, Kātib Ibn al-Saqīl(?), the sister of Abū Manṣūr, Abū l-Mufaḍḍal, Abū l-Munā, the brother of the craftsman (al-ṣāniʿ), Masʿūd, the wife of Saʿd al-Rakkābī(?), Abū Saʿd al-Ṣāʾigh, Ibn Futūḥ, Benaya, Dhakhīrat al-Mulk, and Sharaf al-Dawla. […] There follows a report involving Dhakhīrat al-Mulk and Sharaf al-Dawla, at least in part about a Jewish baker from Jerusalem and his son, working in the market of Ḥabs Bunān in Fustat, who were cheating their customers with bad weights (arṭāl), and who were discovered and arrested.

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• business
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: colic
• illness: women's
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

when he went to the governor (al-wālī), possibly of al-Banha, and said "this man [presumably the letter writer] is my guarantor (ḍamīnī), and I make my payment in Malīj." […] The text in the margin is fragmentary but mentions the capitation tax collector in Malīj (ḍāmin al-jawālī bi-Malīj) and, later, "let him pay it in al-Banha." […] When the story resumes on verso, someone—perhaps the governor of al-Banha—is saying, "I will not let you off without a capitation tax payment for year 8, as the authorities (al-sulṭān) have ordered."

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• capitation tax
• jaliya
• malij
• sultan
• tax
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1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from the physician Yosef, in Alexandria, to the physician Abū l-Faraj b. Abū l-Barakāt (c/o Abū l-Faraj al-Sharābī), in al-Sūq al-Kabir, Fustat. […] And so the boy cried out [in the name of] Islam, and the Muslims gathered in his support (wa-ʾinna al-muslimīn taʿaṣṣabū maʿahu), and they took him [the father] and brought him before the governor. […] The qāḍī Ibn Ghāriḍ deliberated [the matter] and ratified his conversion to Islam (rajaʿa jaddada ʿalayhial-islām). And there were many debates concerning this, [which] will be too long to elaborate"; (4) lancets (ruwayshāt) for bloodletting that the addressee promised to send; (5) a report that friends and family speak well of the addressee (he had asked to be told what people were saying behind his back); (6) a bakers' strike translated by Goitein as follows: "On the second day of the Sukkot feast there were great disturbances in Alexandria because of the bread, which could not be found all over the city, until God brought relief by the end of the day; the governor (al-amīr) and the superintendent of the markets (al-muḥtasib) rode out and threatened to burn down [the houses of] the bakers because of the bread, after they had inquired with the people at one oven in the east and one in the west.

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• bloodletting
• book trade
• bread
• conversion
• muhtasib
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1 Transcription 1 Translation 2 Discussions

Document date

15 Sivan 4968 Anno Mundi (1 June 1208 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter dated 15 Sivan 1208 from Yehuda b. Aharon b. al-'Ammani (Alexandria) to Abu l-Majd Meir b. Yakhin (Fustat). […] Khalifa who arrived in Alexandria at least a year and a half prior and who was blinded by an eye disease and a failed operation. […] Alqash; Bu 'Umar al-Levi b. al-Baghdadi; Yehuda himself; Bu 'Imran b.

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• dating tricks
• disability
• disability: vision
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Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Large letter from "the two congregations" of Alexandria to the Palestinian community of Fustat, and particularly to Efrayim b. […] The head of the Alexandrian community, Netanel b. Elazar ha-Kohen redeemed one of them and suggested writing to all the communities of Egypt to raise the remaining total. […] Shelomo ha-Kohen concerning the ransom of captives, see: T-S 24.29 (PGPID 7567) T-S 10J15.16 (PGPID 2861) T-S 13J14.20 (PGPID 956) T-S 13J20.25 (PGPID 1021) T-S 13J24.11 (PGPID 1799) T-S NS 246.5 (PGPID 40027) ENA NS 17.7 (PGPID 11722) ENA 4020.45 + ENA 4020.44 (PGPID 783) ENA 2804.9 (PGPID 687) and ENA 2804.11 (PGPID 5264) are also from Alexandria and from the same period concerning the ransom of captives, but in the hand of different scribes.

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• byzantium
• captives
• damietta
• qaraites
• sahrajt
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1 Discussion

Primary language

Arabic

The petitioner makes accusations against a Jewish man named Saʿd b. al-ʿAyṣī(?) who held the rights to a capitation tax farm (kāna multazim bi-muqāṭaʿat al-jawālī) but who was caught up in some sort of scandal (unkira ʿalayhi min al-amwāl al-muḥarrara ʿalayhi li-jānib al-dīwān) and had to leave Egypt for a long time. He eventually returned and attached himself to the court of Ḥayyim al-Kapūsī. Now, whenever litigants come before the court, he extorts bribes from them and hinders them from bringing cases before the Muslim courts. […] This document is particularly noteworthy, because the most famous hagiographical anecdote about Ḥayyim Kapūsī (also spelled Capoussi or Capousi) is that he miraculously regained his eyesight after being accused of taking bribes, thereby proving his righteousness and silencing his enemies.

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• 16th or 17th c
• capitation tax
• capousi
• corruption
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1 Transcription

Primary languages

Hebrew, Ladino

See T-S 12.381 for another letter from the same Shemuel Sidi, also with a responsum on the other side. Written on Friday, the 13th of Tammuz. It is not clear where the various people are based. Shemuel's father is also in Damietta, but Shemuel's wife is in Gabriel's location. […] "Our brother" R. Shelomo al-Hanati (אלחאנאטי) and R. David Kivas (דוד כיואס) are also mentioned.

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• izmir
• ladino
• rashid
• responsum
• salonica
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1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Marduk b. Musa, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat, about a shipment of yarn from Fustat to Alexandria. Marduk notes that a baqyar (large-sized turban) 25 cubits long was made for Nahray, along with a bolt of cloth 20 cubits long. He further reports that ‘Atiyya b. […] The letter reveals the importance of Alexandria as a center of textile weaving: in this case, yarn and other raw materials (e.g., combed flax—kattān manfūsh) were sent from Fustat to Alexandria for processing into finished products.

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• flax
• nahray b. nissim
• trade

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Natan (aka Musāfir b. Wahb), in Alexandria, to the Nagid Mevorakh, in Fustat. The sender and addressee are not named in the letter, but Frenkel identified them on the basis of handwriting and content. […] The Banū Naḥum family is involved (a well-known family from Alexandria). The letter also expresses the dissatisfaction of the community with its muqaddam. Araḥ functions in the letter as the 'nā'ib' (deputy) of the Nagid in Alexandria. (Another interpretation of the word niyāba in line 31 would be that "they [Araḥ's enemies] have destroyed the community in the name of representing you.")

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• communal
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: du'f
• illness: marad
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1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions many people: Abū l-Raḍiyy; Abū l-ʿAlā' Ṣāʿīd b. Najā al-Ne'eman (namely Ulla ha-Levi ha-Parnas b. Yosef); and Abū l-Surūr Faraḥ. The word "maẓālim" also appears.

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Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Deals with business matters. Almostall the names are anonymized ("fulān"). Mentions counterfeit promissory notes (wa-l-ḥujaj allatī taẓharu kulluhā zūr). Mentions certain villages and a man named ʿAlī b. Shādān. Mentions a judge. Needs examination.

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Primary language

Arabic

Yūsuf (someone with this name also appears in T-S 10J30.15). One registration mark: al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ḥamd al-shākirīn.

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• arabic script
• dimme
• fiscal
• pinholes
• tax receipt

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Document date

Rabīʿ II 425 Kharājī

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions some sums of dinars and khuddām al-madhalla (chamberlains). Needs further examination for content. Also mentions a makhzūma in the left margin. There is a drawing of a boat. On verso, there is a Hebrew alphabet and atbash.

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• doodles

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Futūḥ; Hilāl; a violent conflict; al-Shaykh al-[Raḍiyy?] Ibn al-Labbān; and Bū Naṣr b. al-Sadīd (unless these last two are the same person); and the escalation of the conflict.

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• violence

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Inferred date

1500–1560 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Avraham Castro, in Alexandria, to an unknown addressee, in Fustat/Cairo. […] The writer had a position overseeing trade or taxation in Alexandria. This letter is quite damaged, but it seems to deal with ships and 'the tower' and 'the men of the tower' and bribery.

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• 16th c
• castro
• late heb

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Possibly an account synthesizing multiple streams of revenue: capitation tax (māl al-jawālī), a tax on palm produce (māl al-nakhl or maybe the profits of merchants 'māl al-tujjār'), and a tax on the market (māl al-sūq).

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Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Lists household items or kitchenware such as ibrīq, kīzān, sikkīn, zabādī (pl. of zubdiyya). Also lists foods such as fennel (shamār), anise (yānsūn), cumin (kammūn), sumac (summāq), chickpea (ḥummuṣ), and pepper. Also cotton (quṭn). (Information in part from CUDL)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Barhun b. Yishaq al-Tāhartī, from Mahdiyya, to Nahray b. Nissim, Alexandria. […] Information about shipments of goods and about the account of the partners. Abū l-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Raḥmān is mentioned favorably. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, #385) VMR

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• trade

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Ibn Ṭībān; Ibn Nuṣayr; Abū Saʿīd; Ibn al-Kutubī(?); al-ʿAfṣī; [...] Ibn Sabra; pepper; [...] al-Dhahabī; Ibn KHuḍayr; Ibn al-Raghbī(?).

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• account
• arus b. yosef

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yehuda ha-Bavli, in Alexandria, to a notable, in Fustat. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. […] Concerning the withholding of money and books belonging to him. See also T-S 16.301 (PGPID 1733). Reused on verso for Hebrew jottings in a rudimentary hand related to the parshiyot.

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Document date

497 Hijrī (5 October 1103–22 September 1104 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

Deed of sale for the sale of half a house in Fusṭāṭ, in the ‘Fortress of the Greeks’ (qaṣr al-Rūm known as the qaṣr al-shamʿ). The house abuts the house of ʿUbayd b. Yasir. The deed also mentions Abū l-Ḥusayn the drinks-seller. Dated 497 AH (= 1103-1104 CE).

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Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Binyamin the elder, and the elder Abū Yaʿqūb. Also mentions 3 qinṭārs of something, maybe 'al-sharābī,' and formulae from a power of attorney. All crossed out. Probably in the hand of Ḥalfon b.

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Document date

24 Rabīʿ I 601 Hijrī (19 November 1204 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Yūsuf the Jew, leader of the Jews of al-Maḥalla, who paid his capitation tax in Alexandria. […] Dated: ca. 24 Rabīʿ I 601/19 November 1204. There is an ʿalāma at the top. (Information from Khan.)

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• 'alama
• corpse

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Document date

Shaʿbān 960 Hijrī (13 July 1553–10 August 1553 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Bifolio containing an index of piyyuṭim in boxes on three of the four pages. One of the boxes also contains the name Avraham Abū l-Khayr repeated five times. […] Mentions Shuʿa; Simḥa; Yaʿaqov; and Alexandria.

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Arabic

.]; and [...] b. Marāḥim al-Naṣrānī al-Kātib, and al-ḥadd al-thānī.

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Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from an unknown man, unknown location (not Fustat or Alexandria), to his mother Umm Mufaḍḍal, in Alexandria. […] If the wife has come to Alexandria, the mother should deliver the bill of divorce directly. He also asks her to send something to Ibrāhīm and to send her response with Ibn Abū l-Najm, "because we have two capitation taxes (we still have to pay)."

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• arabic address
• divorce
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: women's

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Inferred date

1355–1367 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from the wife of Baṣīr (or rather Nuṣayr) the bell-maker (al-jalājilī) to the Nagid David II Maimonides, asking him to help return her husband, who was living in a Sufi community, to his family and to the Jewish faith. She also asks for medicine for her child. "Our Lord has promised the little one a medicine for the ear, for he suffers from it. […] Goitein suggests that the last line in Arabic script may be a notation from the addressee reading ليلتها ("this very night"), however this is unlikely; what is expected after ורחמה is the phrase الله وبركاته, which also fits the rasm better [ASE]. Goitein identifies the addressee as David II rather than David I based on the reference to the Sufi master "al-Kūrānī," who he says is no doubt identical with Yūsuf al-ʿAjamī al-Kūrānī, who died in Cairo in January 1367.

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• david ii maimonides
• distant husband
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: barber
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Document date

Sunday, 21 Adar 1408 Seleucid (8 March 1097 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Moses traveled to al-Shām and sent merchandise back to the Fustat agency house of Abū al-Ṭāhir b. […] This document was likely written directly after Moses’ death and concerns itself with the division of partnership assets between Moses’ heirs Nathaniel and Aaron and the investor Samuel, mentioning commodities deposited in the names of the heirs, and also those "allocated to the Elder Abū al-Baqā". The active partner bore responsibility for losses (similar to the Talmudic ‘isqa), though no additional amount was allocated to him for his maintenance or as compensation for his work.

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• inheritance
• partnership

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Primary language

Arabic

The letter around it is addressed to a dignitary and may report that someone has been captured (qubiḍa ʿalā X jazāhu allāh), and may God expose the works of a certain group of dogs (jamāʿat al-kilāb). Another letter by an official titled Nāṣir li-Dīn, to the wazīr who is also the supreme judge and chief Dāʿī beseeching him to look out for him. Another text block is the beginning of the muʿallaqa of Imruʾ al-Qays ("Qifā nabki...") Another text block, located in the margin at 90 degrees to the muʿallaqa, names one of the parties from the Judaeo-Arabic legal document on recto, or perhaps his brother: "...and the slave was employed with Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b.

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• dimme
• family

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Notable phrases include "for every plague there is a plague," following "al-ʿibāra destroyed ʿatāra | al-fajāra destroyed al-hijra | al-maskada destroyed al-MaḤalla." Also "If Efrayim puts out my eye, they'll ban | if Saʿīd kills me, they'll cut off | if Sālim strangles me, they'll topple." […] JRL SERIES B 3087 has what seem to be nonsense rhymes in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic ("they will excommunicate ʿAzīz | he will eat the coins (al-fulūs) | and Saʿīd the poor man | is imprisoned (maḥbūs)").

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• bizarre
• purple ink

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Small slip of paper containing the words al-mamlūk al-aṣghar wa-l-muḥibb al-akram.

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