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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: probably 11th century. Mentions Ibn al-Samīn and a bale of turquoise-colored (silk?) (fayrūzī al-lawn). Verso: Mercantile accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. […] Mentions "the blessed pearls" (al-luʾluʾ al-mubārak).

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Primary language

Arabic

Trigger: afrada.... For ʿImrān b. al-Riṣāfī(?). Seems to be for 25 dinars. The ʿalāma at upper right looks like wa-l-ḥamdu li-l-lāhi musābiq al-hamd. T-S AS 176.437, T-S AS 176.438, and T-S AS 176.439 all belong together.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions: the ṣināʿa; Hārūn al-Kohen who agrees on a payment plan; Abū l-ʿAlāʾ, whose warehouse is mentioned several times; Ibn al-Raṣṣāṣiyya; the term juwārīsh (stomachic); lemon; al-Ḥuṣrī; kerchiefs.

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Inferred date

1213–1237 CE

Concerning a certain Kohen who is seeking a restraining order against his divorcee and to prohibit her from entering the alley where he lives, because he is scared of her and her witchcraft (כישוף). She keeps visiting her female friends who live in the same alley as he. (Information in part from Goitein's index cards.) Avraham Maimonides served as Rayyis al-Yahūd between 1205–1237 CE and also with the title Nagid after 1213 CE.

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• legal query
• responsum

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment apparently from Alexandria to a notable called Yesod ha-Yeshiva, reporting that a woman named ʿAdhbiyya bt. […] The phrase 'tabarraʾaat min al-ketubba' appears. There are repeated references to "this great catastrophe" and various legal proceedings. […] The lower portion of the letter awaits transcription, and it's also not clear if this is actually a join (for one thing, the margin is much wider).

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• tarsim

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

People mentioned: Abū l-Surūr Ibn al-ʿAnānī; Abū l-Ḥasan Ibn al-ʿAni; Abū Naṣr Ibn al-Bār[...]; Zayn; Abū l-Munā b. [...]; Abū l-Ḥasan b. Abū Sah; Mūsā al-Sabrāwī(?); and Bu l-Faraj Ibn al-Shuwaykiyya.

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• account
• damietta

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Primary language

Arabic

One mentions Mūsā b. Abū Sahl al-Ḥazzān(?); the other mentions ʿAlī b. Ibrāhīm. […] : the middle of Av, corresponding to the 15th of Shaʿbān. See also CUL Or.1080 J117 (PGPID 8890) and T-S AS 177.448 (PGPID 36118) possibly involving the same Mūsā b. Abū Sahl, who may be Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi. Join: Alan Elbaum. ASE

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• moshe b. levi

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Primary language

Hebrew

The writer seems to be a woman (although the also letter has מתנפל and not מתנפלת). […] The writer is a widow named Simha, and her daughter is Rahel. יוסף טורישאקס is also mentioned. Probable join: Oded Zinger.

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• dowry
• petition
• safed
• women
• women's letters

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from an unknown writer, probably in Hebron, to his wife (addressed as al-Sitt al-Jalīla), probably in Fustat. Addressed to al-Shaykh al-Muhadhdhab al-Khayyāṭ (the tailor), possibly the wife's father.

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• distant husband
• hebron
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: du'f
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Avraham with an urgent request to hand over six loads of textiles to the Dar al-Kattān. The sender also writes that he has paid a messenger four dirhams per day to travel from Alexandria to Cairo and back, which took him seven days in total.

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• dar al-kattan
• exchange rate
• state
• state expropriation
• textiles
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions payments for responsa; a complaint about the handling of a shipment of flax destined for Abū Naṣr Yehuda al-Dimashqī and Abū l-Barakāt (acting for Abū Zikrī b. Qayyoma). Also mentions people and places including Abū l-ʿAlā b. Shaʿyā, Abū l-Ḥasan, the late Rabbenu Nissim and al-Mahdiyya. Written over an official Arabic document (see separate record).

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Judaeo-Arabic

The letter describes a matter with a Qaraite known as al-Shaykh al-Thiqa Ibn Kūshak and a government official (ṣāḥib dīwān) known as Jamāl al-Dīn al-Nāwī who was formerly the secretary of the treasury (kātib al-khizāna).

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• 13th c
• abu zikri al-rayyis
• jerusalem
• judge eliyyahu
• shelomo b. eliyyahu

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Describing the wedding of her daughter Sitt al-Yumn to Hibatallāh the son of the teacher Futūḥ (=Yehuda) Ibn al-ʿAmmānī. […] She asks the addressee to speak to Abū l-Karam Ibn al-Siqillī concerning 18 dirhams. She also tells him to speak to his mother concerning packaging and sending various household items.

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• 13th c
• wedding
• women

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Rajab 574 Hijrī (13 December 1178–11 January 1179 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The upper text block refers to a transfer from "the account of the (governmental) urban properties to the account of the capitation taxes (min māl al-ribāʿ ilā māl al-jawālī) for Rajab 574 AH = December 1178 / January 1179 CE. The words in the middle are rubbed out but the word "month" (al-shahr) is evident and possibly a number. At bottom left there is a separate entry mentioning the same year, then Dhū l-Ḥijja of "the aforementioned year" (min al-sana al-madhkūra), then the figure of 6 dinars.

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2 Rabiʿ II 558 Hijrī (10 March 1163 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions the faqīh ʿAfīf al-Dīn Abū ʿAlīal-Ḥasan b. ʿAbdallāh. Verso: divorce contract (also for Saʿīd b.

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• divorce
• marriage

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Document date

Jumādā I 589 Hijrī (5 May 1193–3 June 1193 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

ʿUlla, as the Jewish leader in Syria issued by the court of al-Malik al-Afḍal ʿAlī (the eldest son of Saladin). […] On recto (fol. 2r) there are also Hebrew writing exercises. (Information from Khan and CUDL)

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Document date

Beginning of Rabīʿ I 648 Hijrī (June 1250 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Letter from Muẓaffar to his cousins (awlād al-ʿamm). In Arabic script. Dated: beginning of Rabīʿ I 648 AH, which is June 1250 CE. […] Mentions the arrival of a letter sent from Sayyidnā al-Nāsī to Petaḥya reporting on the death of the addressees' uncle ʿAbd al-Kāfī at the beginning of Shawwāl 647 AH (January 1250 CE). The sender reports that al-Shams (or al-Shammas?) and Makīn are healthy.

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• dimme

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Inferred date

1161–1164 CE

Primary language

Arabic

Petition to a vizier of Al-ʿĀḍid li-Dīn Allāh from a baker in Fusṭāṭ concerning a debt that he had incurred with a certain ʿAbd al-Bāqī b. […] He is asking for a decree allowing him to pay his debt in instalments. On verso are two versions of the same reply to the petition, in which the judge Kāmal al-Dīn is entrusted with clarifying the status of the petitioner and working out a solution for him.

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• dimme
• petition

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Recto (original use): List of names accompanied by numbers, e.g. Manṣūr Ibn al-Zaʿīm; Abū ʿAbdallāh; ʿAnnān(?) b. ʿAbd al-Muḥsin; Futūḥ al-Ḥājj; Manṣūr the aquaintance of Yaḥyā the brother of ʿAbdallāh al-ʿAsqalānī; Abū l-Riḍā b. [...]; Ibrāhīm [...]. […] Interestingly, it appears very similar to the other receipts for the same Manṣūr Ibn al-Zaʿīm whose name appears in the accounts on recto (see person page).

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Document date

1055 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Contains details about commodities such as pearls, silk, textiles, oil, mercury, perfumes, metals, hides, almonds, glue, resin, and saffron, mostly with the cities of Sfax and Palermo. Most amounts are in dirhams. Also mentions Ibn al-Baʿbāʿ traveling in the amīr's qunbar carrying a pouch containing 4,000 dirhams belonging to Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, and from CUDL)

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• commodities
• ibn al-ba'ba'
• palermo

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Goitein: Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Asking for oil to be purchased for the synagogue in Dammūh. Yefet also mentions the arrival of ships from Al-Andalus (Spain) and al-Mahdiyya.

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• dammuh
• movement of ships
• yefet b. menashshe

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Inferred date

2 March 1135–2 March 1135 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yaʿaqov, in Fustat, to his in-law Abū Zikrī Kohen, in Alexandria. Dating: Sunday, 15 Jumāda = 16 Adar, which is probably 3 March 1135 CE. The letter is an urgent warning advising Abū Zikrī to take all his merchandise out of a warehouse in Alexandria. […] {The dying man, Abū Saʿīd, was related to Abu Zikrī's partner the well-known Alexandrian India trader Abu Naṣr b. Elishaʿ. Evidently, Abu Saʿīd did not have any heirs of the first degree, and the officials of the diwan al-mawārīth (line 5: aṣḥāb mawarif!)

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• arabic literary
• arabic poetry
• hamas
• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib2
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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter/petition from an unknown sender, in Alexandria, to Mevorakh b. Saʿadya, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with some Hebrew. […] He has recently returned from a business venture to al-Andalus. He is writing with a complaint against the young man Baqāʾ Ibn Shuwayʿ (appears also in T-S AS 209.251 (PGPID 22788) and Bodl. […] Once the sender had returned to Alexandria, Baqāʾ showed up with a power of attorney from his father and the partnership document (sheṭar... al-muwāṣafa).

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• 'ushr
• illness: emotion

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Primary language

Arabic

Verso: Unidentified document in Arabic script. Mentions "al-kātib ... al-ishrāf(?) Muḥammad b. Ḥammūd al-Qāḍī."

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List of the members of "the house of al-Kohen [...]." On recto there are also a few lines of accounting in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions the owner of the boat (ṣāḥib al-markab) and Alexandria.

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14 Jumādā I 1249 Hijrī (29 September 1833 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Emanating from the anwāl al-ḥarīr (bureau of silk looms) in Alexandria. Needs examination.

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• 19th c
• dimme
• late arabic script

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21 Rabīʿ II 1184 Hijrī (14 August 1770 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Probably a receipt of payment for Binyāmīn al-Ukūrand(?) in Alexandria. Needs examination.

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• dimme

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Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Mentions expenses for Tuesday, the 27th of Jumādā II; rent; Hiba; al-Muʿallim al-Shaykh al-Muhadhdhab.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Large account in Judaeo-Arabic, listing many types of garments. Also mentioning the word Mahdawī (the nisba of al-Mahdiyya).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Zikri b. Hananel, from Alexandria, to ʿArūs b. Yosef, Fustat. Around 1080. […] He asks the addressee to send him power of attorney to deal with his goods that need to be send from Alexandria to Mahadiya. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 4, #785) VMR

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Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Shavuʿot and previous letters sent from Alexandria. Mentions several people: Efrayim al-Ḥaver; a Rayyis; Yosef; Avraham al-Ḥaver; ʿEli ha-Kohen.

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