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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

1036–1094 CE

Primary language

Arabic

Recto, center: The title of a section of an Arabic medical treatise: المقالة الاولى من كتاب تركيب الادوية بحسب المواضع الالمة لجالينوس الحكيم نقل حنين بن اسحق المتطبب (kitāb tarkīb al-adwiya bi-ḥasab al-mawāḍiʿ al-ālima) attributed to Galen and transmitted by Ḥunayn b.

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• galen
• medical

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Probably a will, because it alludes to death which comes for all mortals. Mentions a city adjacent to Fustat (New Cairo?). Refers to a dilapidated house (al-dār al-dāthira).

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• halfon b. menashshe

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24 December 1139 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Netanel ha-Levi, in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Sunday, 2 Shevaṭ (1451 Seleucid) = 24 December 1139 CE. […] He reports that he arrived safely, probably to Qalyub, and that he took care of the things mentioned in certificate IV,59 and also in the subsequent documents, such as his sale of khazz silk and a payment to Abū Yiṣḥaq. At the end of the letter he greets his son Abū l-Fakhr, who was staying with Ḥalfon in Alexandria. (Information from Goitein and Friedman, India Book IV.)

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• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• india book

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Document date

Tishrei 4961 Anno Mundi (11 September 1200–10 October 1200 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Ṣadoq, a prominent public figure in Alexandria, to ݂the prominent merchant Moshe ha-Kohen Ibn Ghulayb, in Fustat. […] This indicates that Alexandria suffered from severe food shortage before the great famine that struck Egypt in 1201/02. […] (Information from Frenkel and Goitein's attached notes; see also partial translation in Goitein, Med. Soc. 4:238-239, 5:550.)

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• alexandria
• famine
• trade

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Italian

The first page is entirely in Hebrew. Mentions Alexandria, a certain Pinkerli, and includes the line, "If you wish to 'plant the tents of your palace' [Daniel 11:45] in Trieste, inform me... I'll find you a wife." Also mentions a school and dealings in books. The second page is in Italian, with Hebrew phrases mixed in. […] Another of the Hebrew phrases is the line about settling down in Trieste from the first page (prefaced 'con tale parole...'). The Italian portion also mentions an affectionate reprimand (amoroso rimprovero) (information kindly provided by Laura Ingallinella).The Italian page may be the draft of a response to the Hebrew page; there are many lines crossed out.

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Judaeo-Arabic

The bearers of the shipments include ʿAbd al-Raḥmān; Sulaymān; ʿAbd al-Wahhāb; al-Hāshimī; ʿAlīal-[...]; Yaḥyā; Shuhayb; Yūsuf al-Manānī.

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• beans
• list
• shanji

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Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

ENA 3928.9: Mentions Mūsā al-[...]; the price of pepper; Yūsuf b. Shadīd; Hārūn (several times). ENA 3928.10: One of the headers on verso reads "muḥasabat Hārūn Jāmiʿ al-Azhar" referring to the mosque of al-Azhar. Another refers to a partnership (sharika). […] Shadīd; Shams; pepper; saffron; chebulic myrobalan (also mentioned on several other pages). ENA 3928.12: Mentions Hārūn; chebulic myrobalan; saffron; Hārūn again.

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Arabic

In Arabic script. ". . . if he has it done by the jahbadh of the arsenal (al-ṣināʿa), that would be better for him, but your opinion is the most excellent. […] And you will not find any knowledge of this with him(?), also, they will be submitted(?) without signatures (khuṭūṭ). As for the market of the [...], when it was brought to his attention, there is no doubt that he supplied it to the Dīwān al-Hilālī, the documents (awrāq) of the treasury (bayt al-māl). . . ."

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• pinholes

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Primary language

Arabic

A tentative interpretation is as follows: The sender expresses his privilege of existing in the Caliph's(?) reign (saʿda Allahu bi-ṣuḥbatihi wa l-kaun fī jumlatihi), reports glad tidings (wa l-aḥwāl bi barakat Maulana wa-Sayyīdina ṣalawāt Allahʿalayhi), and expresses his gratitude (la-mashkūr jamīl al-ṣunʿ fīhi). He also reports traveling to a place (wa kharaja ʿabd Maulānā).

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• dimme

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

This fragment makes predictions in the case of a year born in Gemini (al-Jawzāʾ). It forecasts abundant rain and fruit, a full Nile flood, and successful barley and fruit harvests, but also predicts cattle disease, an outbreak of skin disease (al-ḥikka, "the itch"), Byzantine naval expeditions ending in shipwreck, the death of the noblest kings, civil strife (fitna), economic turmoil, famine, high prices, and mass displacement. […] The fragment concludes with the conventional formula allāhuaʿlam bi-l-ghayb ("God best knows the unseen").

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• astrology
• byzantines
• kasad
• prognostication

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Inferred date

1152–1152 CE

Mentions large quantities of jewelry, money, and goods that Ibn Yijū had deposited with Abū l-Fakhr (Ibn al-Amshāṭī) and others in Fustat, and daily expenditures, especially for bread, oil, and household goods. Mentions Bama (his Indian factotum) three times. Also mentions a sum of 197 3/4 dinars from the sale of a load of pepper to Abū Naṣr b. Futayḥ and deposited with Abū l-Fakhr Ibn al-Amshāṭī. Also lists other Indian goods that he had brought to Egypt, including bronze (probably from his factory), china, camphor, civet, and lac.

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• account
• dimme
• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib3
• ibn yiju
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2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 2 Discussions

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

At least two of them (fols. 1 and 4) are probably from the same letter, but the other two fragments are in different hands. They were all cut into the same shape so presumably were stacked or folded on top of each other. Fols. 1 and 4: Mentions that all that somebody acquired in Fustat/Egypt was stolen; also mentions Alexandria and a Megilla.

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15 Sivan 5584 Anno Mundi (11 June 1824 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, from David Ben-Na'im in Cairo to his brother Moshe Ben-Na'im in Alexandria. Dated 15 Sivan [5]584 AM which is 1824 CE. David has heard news about a trying situation in Alexandria, which is not fully explained, that leads him to express his concern for the consolation of his brother Moshe and members of the Jewish community. This letter is important for the quantity/specificity of Jewish households and residents in 1820s Alexandria that David names in his salutations (which comprise most of the letter): Daniʾel [Levi Mandolfo?]

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• 19th c
• alexandria
• ben na'im
• late ja

1 Transcription

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment from the Jewish community of Tiberias (جماعة اليهود بطبرية العامد(؟) المحروسة) to Abū Isḥāq [b. Ibrāhīm b.] Isḥāq al-Mutaṭabbib, probably identical with Avraham b. […] The senders describe "our distinction over all other lands" (תמיוזנא מן סאיר אלבלאד) and refer to "al-muṣādarāt al-ḥāḍira" -- something to do with taxation or revenue? The senders presumably go on to ask for financial assistance, like most of the other letters from Tiberias in this period. See also T-S 13J33.2 (PGPID 1125), which appears to be in the same handwriting.

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• arabic address

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Judaeo-Arabic

The writer is probably Yosef פלקון (line 3), but someone named Yiṣḥaq Sūsī also 'speaks' in the first person starting 4 lines from the bottom. In any case, the letter was sent from Alexandria to Shemuel b. Avraham מחיץ, in Tinnīs. The content of the letter is not as interesting as its context and form; it mainly consists of inquiring about family news and small transactions. The writer sends regards to the addressee's mother Doña Dolsa—addressed as al-Ḥurra al-Jalīla—and to Simḥa and Seʿadya and Esther and Ḥanna and the little ones and big ones and Bū Najwā (?).

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• 15th c or later
• ladino words
• tinnis

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yūsuf b. Faraḥ al-Qābisī, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. […] The reason Yūsuf has not yet traveled is that he has been staying in Alexandria with his brother, Ismāʿīl b. Faraḥ, who is sick with fever and chills (v7–8: wajiʿ bi-bard wa-ḥummā, which seems preferable to Gil's reading of wajaʿ kabīr wa-ḥummā). "This has increased my preoccupation on top of what I already had." (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, #511.)

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: chills
• illness: fever
• illness: waja'
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Inferred date

1127–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138). Also signed by Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen and Nathan b. […] Mentions a reclamation document (ורקה אלדעאוי), al-Kohen Abū l-Faraj, al-Melammed Sayyid al-Kull the cantor and Ṣadaqa. […] Husband refuses to pay alimony (mezonot) to the amount of 1 dirham. (Information from CUDL and from Goitein's note card.)

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• illness
• illness: treatment
• legal query

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yūsuf b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī, in al-Mahdiyya, to Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmūrī, in Fustat. […] The letter contains details about shipments of goods and about the route of ships from and to al-Mahdiyya, as well as a price list. It also mentions a lawsuit filed against Yeshuʿa by one of his Sicilian partners.

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• 11th c
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: letter norms

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Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Yeshua ha-Kohen b. Yosef in Alexandria to the community of Fustat. The handwriting is Yeshua's and the letter is written in rhymed prose. […] The page in volume 5 is 368 and not 68. She also does not mention Bareket's edition). While Bareket claims that the letter was sent from Jerusalem, Goitein claims that it was sent from Alexandria.

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• alexandria
• communal

2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Abū l-Faraj, in Alexandria, to his son-in-law Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. In Judaeo-Arabic. […] Abū l-Faraj admonishes Shelomo to treat his wife Sitt Ghazāl well, and informs him that Shelomo's aunt (who is also his mother-in-law) is not coming to check that her daughter is well but rather coming to arrange a marriage between her son and Shelomo's niece, because she is the owner of 9/24ths of a house belonging to the family. He opens the letter with his preoccupation for Shelomo's illness and his happiness upon learning of Shelomo's recovery (r6–10). He also wishes a speedy recovery to Shelomo's mother (Sitt Rayḥān).

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: formalities
• illness: marad
• marriage
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

"When the letter arrived which you sent with the wife of my maternal uncle to Ibn Ṣaghīr al-Ḥakīm (the physician), I came to him, and he read it after kissing it... in the night, when I was sick from the severe headache, and I had convulsions (or 'went mad'? […] Refers repeatedly to someone called al-Saʿīd and discusses the waste disposal (ramy al-turāb) of a certain apartment (al-qāʿa). On verso mentions the house of Sayf al-Dīn al-Rūmī.

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: head

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Judaeo-Arabic

What remains of recto is almost entirely formulaic but contains interesting phrases such as "may your star shine opposite you (wa-yuḍī' kawkabuhu ḥidhāhu)." […] , a grammar, a commentary on Job, a composition on love and companionship and passion, a nice siddur. . . ." The writer also discusses 8 maṣāḥif, and says that the dīwān was not among the books he found. Also mentions a dictionary, a Mishna, and a prayer book.

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• book trade
• love

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Document date

5 Ramaḍān 403 Hijrī (20 March 1013 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 5 Ramaḍān 403 (20 March 1013). […] Written by Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ the jahbadh and registered by Dīwān al-Ishrāf: Amount: one dīnār and one-quarter, one-sixth, and one-eighth. […] Under the supervision of the judge Thiqat al-Mulk Makīn al-Dawla wa-Amīnuhā, protégé of the commander of the faithful, Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b.

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• abu l-hasan b. wahb
• daman
• damin
• tax

2 Transcriptions 2 Translations 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Also requests 5 or 6 good sheep (khirāf baladiyya ṭayyiba); mentions Abū l-Faraj the brother of al-Peʾer; the brother of Abū Saʿd; a request to pay 2 dinars to Ibn Burayk(?) al-Ḥayawānī for a chicken or chickens of a certain kind (muʿarraq wa-musamman?); half is to be brought to 'Dār al-Madīna' together with the sheep. In the margin mentions the receipt again; Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa; and Manṣūr.

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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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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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Primary language

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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1 Transcription 1 Discussion

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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2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary language

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

2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

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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Document date

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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Document date

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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• 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

1 Transcription 1 Translation

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Abū l-Munā b. Yaʿaqov al-Isrāʾīlī al-Ḥāfiẓ al-[...], unknown location, to Abū ʿAlī b. ʿAṭāʾ al-Isrāʾīlī, presumably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script.

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Arabic

Underneath that, mentions the amīr ʿAbdallāh the son of the amīr Ṣārim al-Dawla. A few lines above, reads, "mā taqaddama bihī al-khurūj... ilā Dīwān al-Aṣl...." Near the bottom of recto, mentions a Sicilian ([...] al-Ṣiqillī) and someone named Khuṭlukh al-[...].

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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

1 Transcription 1 Translation

Primary language

Arabic

(1) List of notables' names. E.g., the amir Shahīr al-Mulk; the ustādh Murtajā; the amir Naṣr al-Dawla; the amir ʿIzz al-Dawla; Falak al-Mulk (or Fulk al-Mulk?)

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