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Arabic

Verso: Unidentified document in Arabic script. Very faded. On parchment with an intriguing stitching pattern along the glued(?)

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• sewn documents
• string

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Arabic

Involving a physician (al-mutaṭabbib) and "to the Jewish woman Fāḍila bt. Abū l-Makārim....." and "... Abū ʿAlī b. Abū l-Makārim b. Abū ʿAlī b. Ibrāhīm." (Information in part from CUDL.)

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Arabic

Bottom of a letter in Arabic script. Faded and damaged. Mentions someone who 'went up to Fustat.' Greetings to various people including 'al-rayyis al-jalīl al-kabīr.' In the margin may report that "Yūḥannā is employed in the citadel (qalʿa) with us" (لان يوحنا مستخدم في القلعة عندنا).

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Primary language

Arabic

The addressee is called "al-ṣabiyy(?) al-akram... al-jamālī jamāl al-dunyā wa-l-dīn..." The text is quite faded and difficult to read. Mentions a ghulām and it seems the city of Ṣanʿāʾ (في صنعا), unless this is an orthographic variant of "ṣanʿa" and means "craft/trade."

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Moshe b. Yeshuʿa, the agent of al-Kohen Abū l-Mak[ā?]rim b. Yosef, al-Makīn Abū l-ʿIzz b. al-Rashīd Abū l-Faḍlal-Ṣayrafī (known from several other documents from the first half of the 13th century).

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Judaeo-Arabic

Then, "Know that from the day I left Alexandria, I did not acquire profit or even a quarter(?), but may (God) do for the sake of His name and be good to us all. And peace to all 'sons of the covenant' (בני ברית)." Mentions Abū l-Faḍl.

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Damaged/faded. The addressee is evidently an important person, as recto consists mostly of poetical praises. The substance of the letter may begin halfway through verso. There may also be an address on verso (the name Yaʿaqov ha-Zaqen is legible - perhaps the father of the addressee?). There is also an undeciphered line in Arabic script underneath the address.

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Malīḥa the sister of Shelomo Ibn al-Amʿaṭ ha-Levi and Abū l-Faḍl Ṣadoq b. Shemarya agree that the latter will teach the Arabic script and the calculations of baqasāt(??) […] The boy was supposed to write a letter without mistakes when one was dictated to him. Abū'l-Faḍl was also to provide Hiba b. Abū Saʿd with arithmetic lessons by which the boy was to master complex accounts.

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• arabic script
• education
• language
• mother
• son
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3 Transcriptions 2 Translations 1 Discussion

Primary language

Arabic

Letter probably from a cantor named Sayyid al-Ahl, in Alexandria, to his son Faḍāʾil and other family members, in Fustat. […] It seems he intends to travel onward to al-Maḥalla, Damīra, and/or Sunbāṭ. He may also be preparing for the wedding of a certain Faḍāʾil, the tax farmer (? […] He complains that he has no money and his clothes have all worn out, and he asks for assistance. He asks for news of everybody and also Mufaḍḍal.

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• cantor
• capitation tax
• illness letter 969-1517

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

and he will do do what he must do"); Yeshuʿa b. Maḍmūn; Abū Manṣūr al-Ṣāʾigh; al-Shaykh al-Makīn b. Mardūkh; the son of al-Shaykh Bū l-Faḍl the son of his brother; Abu l-Fakhr b. […] Abū l-Barakāt; Muwaffaq; Mukrim(?) b. Abū l-Khayr; Fāḍil; Mūsā b. [...]; the sons of al-Ṣafiyy Bū l-ʿAlāʾ; Menaḥem b. Ibrāhīm; the son of al-ʿAfīf(?) Menaḥem; al-Kaʿkī; Kohen; Fāḍil; the sons of Hiba b.

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• list

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions on recto women named Sittāt and Sitt al-Ahl. Quite faded. Needs examination.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Mufaḍḍal b. al-Ḥaver to Abū l-Maḥāsin Bunduq(?) al-Maḥallī. In Judaeo-Arabic. The letter is very faded, but much of it may be legible with multispectral imaging. On verso greetings to the addressee's father, al-Rayyis Abū l-Majd, and Abū l-Riḍā. Needs further examination.

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Acknowledgment made by [...] b. Munajjā al-ʿAṭṭār and his young daughter releasing their in-law Abū l-Faḍl Menashshe al-Raffāʾ ("the darner") from claims.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The right side is very faded. Concerning business matters. Mentions that 'the broker came to me,' something to do with Jewish law, and 'I will not sell to a gentile except....' May also refer to a current or hypothetical partnership.

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Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentioning names such as Bū l-Ḥasan Ibn Nufayʿ; Sulaymān b. Bū ʿAlī; Bū l-Faḍl Ibn al-ʿAjamī; "the Jews." Verso: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif to one of his brothers. Fragment (upper right corner of recto). Very faded. Mentions sending something with 'al-zaqen.'

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The partners are Abū l-Faḍl and Avraham. On top of the Judaeo-Arabic text there are also the remnants of a few lines of large undeciphered Arabic script, some in red ink and some in black ink.

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Primary language

Arabic

State document, in Arabic script. Damaged/faded. About 8 lines are preserved. The document is probably a Fatimid petition requesting a rescript, "khurūj al-tawqīʿ" and mentions all fortified towns "kāffa al-thugūr".

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• dimme
• fatimid
• petition

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Pinḥas b. Elḥanan (appears also in T-S 8J4.6 (PGPID 2125)) and al-Rayyis Abū Isḥāq. […] Shiftal(? שפתאל) and Abū l-Faḍl b. Shemuel.

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• to examine

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Quite faded. Mentions that all slaughtering in Damsīs has been put on hold; asks the addressee to obtain a fatwā in response to some query; mentions (al-ḥazzān / the cantor?) Ibn al-Munajjim (cf. CUL Or.1081 J61 (PGPID 8959) and related fragments); mentions an illness.

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• damsis
• fatwa
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: marad
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Inferred date

1022–1022 CE

Primary language

Arabic

Petition to addressed to a noble woman, probably the Fatimid empress Sitt al-Mulk given the honorifics. In Arabic script. […] The petitioner mentions bringing something to the treasury or a government warehouse (al-khizāna al-maʿmūra bi-dāʾim al-ʿizz) and asks for charity or at least a charitable act (al-ṣadaqa). On verso there is a very faded text in Hebrew (a prayer?).

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• dimme
• petition

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Judaeo-Arabic list of names and numbers. Names include: al-Rashīd; al-Raḍiyy; Ibn al-Makīn; Abū l-Faḍl; Sukkarī; al-Kohen Abū l-[...]; al-Asʿad b.

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Primary language

Arabic

Booklet of alphabetical tables for prognostications in Arabic script. […] The last page may have a colophon, but it is quite faded.

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• prognostication

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, quite faded, in which Ibrāhīm tells his son Abū l-ʿAlā' how much he misses him and how difficult conditions are.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

List of payments; contributors listed include Yaʿaqov, Shemuʾel (?), Faḍl, Mūsā, Ḥusayn, ʿAbd al-Raḥīm, Yosef, ראיס and אדוננו; Coptic numerals.

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Netanʾel b. Shelomo al-Zajjāj. Very faded. Greetings to several people.

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Primary language

Arabic

Letter from Mubārak b. Ṣadaqa al-Ṭarābulsī to an addressee whose name is mostly faded.

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Arabic, Hebrew

Yefet (עבד האל הקטן בישראל בר יפת שמואל) who is probably the same as Bū l-Faḍl b. al-Ḥasan al-Isrāʾīlī (written in Arabic script underneath). There are also a few words in Hebrew on recto referring to God who is enthroned on the cherubs.

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Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Probably addressed to ʿArūs b. Yosef al-Urjuwānī, in Darb al-Ṣafīn in Fustat. Part of the upper right margin is preserved on recto, and part of the address on verso. Mentions Abū l-Faḍl b. Muḥammad (?).

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Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic. Damaged & faded. Dating: Probably 11th century. The sender is writing from Damsīs. Mentions trade in indigo and business in the Rīf. Also contains the intriguing phrase, "I wish someone would come and knock on the door and [...]."

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Arabic

The bottom 9 lines are preserved. Mentions Raḍiyy al-Dawla; sending things; possibly someone named ʿAbd al-Masīḥ; the intriguing line "Woe to the people of Aswān from [...]" (l. 4); and various greetings, including to "mawlāy al-raʾīs Abū l-Faḍl." Needs further examination.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

And the explanation of the difficult words in Zerʿim and Shabbat and. . . " Underneath, in very faded letters: "min. . . al-shaykh . . . "

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Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Document, in a very faded Arabic script. Mentions a few commercial accounts, probably a receipt or just pen trails. Mentions "jumlat al-waraq" in the first line. Needs examination.

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• dimme
• pinholes

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Unidentified text in Hebrew script. Verso: Faded and damaged documentary fragment mentioning al-Ramla and "to Egypt" and "Adonenu."

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Document date

476[0]-476[9] Anno Mundi (14 September 999–21 September 1009 CE)

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Hebrew

AM, which places it in the first decade of the 11th century. Mentions "all of my claims in the city of Ramla." The rest is very faded.

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Primary language

Arabic

Most of the original page is preserved, but the text is damaged and faded. Petition addressed to a Fatimid caliph requesting for the issuance of a decree "bi-khurūj al-tawqīʿ".

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• dimme
• to edit

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Primary language

Arabic

Concerning the liabilities of Bū l-Faḍlal-Urjuwānī and possibly ʿArūs, mentioning a bale of lac a couple lines below their names.

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Primary language

Arabic

The first line is the glyph, then Abū Sahl, then Abū l-Faḍlal-Raʾīs. Needs further examination.

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Primary language

Arabic

Verso: Three lines of faded Arabic script including the basmala and possibly the beginning of a letter (ḥaḍrat. . . . al-sāmī. . .).

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Primary language

Arabic

Letter or legal document. Very faded. In Arabic script, moderately wide space between the lines. Roughly 10 lines are preserved. The word "al-mablagh" appears multiple times. On verso there are Hebrew seliḥot in a distinctive, somewhat crude hand. Join: Alan Elbaum. Needs examination.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The earlier text is extremely faded; it is in Judaeo-Arabic and at least partially deals with recipes or prescriptions. The later text is also Judaeo-Arabic, in a late hand. It is an elaborate recipe/prescription followed by a magical invocation ("I bind you, O Maymūn. . .

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• late ja
• magic
• palimpsest
• recipe

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Judaeo-Arabic

The sender reports that he met with Abū l-Mufaḍḍal al-Ṭībī. There are two people who are afraid on account of something. Mentions "the absent one" and "the name of the absent one (al-ghāʾib)." On verso there are faded jottings.

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Document date

1160–1171 CE

Primary language

Arabic

The only phrases preserved are a reference to the caliph ("al-imām al-ʿĀḍid li-Dīn Allāh Amīr al-Muʾminīn," r. 1160–71) and "ʿalā abāʾihī" as part of a blessing. Reused on recto for Hebrew piyyuṭ and on verso for a very faded text in Arabic script, perhaps from a lexical work (e.g., "wa-aṭrada iṭrādan," two lines from the bottom).

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• dimme

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Primary language

Arabic

Refers to prophets (ʿalayhimal-salām) and mentions "the birth" (al-wilāda). May also refer to biblical verses (البواسيق؟). Extremely faded.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Very faded document in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably a letter or petition (כבוד גדולת קדושת . . . […] יכדם בין ידי אלמולא . . . אן ראי . . .). Also contains terms more typical of a legal document (e.g. "al-madhkūr" multiple times). Mentions someone [...] b.

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Document date

27 Muḥarram 498 Hijrī (19 October 1104 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Dated: 27 Muḥarram 498 H. For Abū l-Faḍl Jaʿfar b. ʿAlīal-Dimashqī. The commodity is mentioned is lac and the quantity is 300 arṭāl. The document is registered at the court of the chief justice Abū Yaḥyā al-Fāriqī. On verso there is a line of accounts or other notation in Judaeo-Arabic.

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• commercial receipt
• dimme

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Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Someone's notes to self: "I will find out from Abū Isḥāq אלגוולי if Ibn Ṭalāʾiʿ traveled to Mecca... and from Faḍāʾilal-Ḥazzan... and I'll go to al-Shaykh al-ʿAfīf and demand the thing from him: 40—20—1—40—200—40.

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