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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

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: Probably c.1100, since Abū Naṣr al-ʿAfṣī appears in Halper 466 and T-S K15.106. […] Mentions that Abū Naṣr al-ʿAfṣī owes nothing to the sender nor to Ibn Nuṣayr; mentions going up to Cairo; passing on information about the price of sugar (it is "22"); the addressee is to retrieve dinars from a female shopowner (ṣāḥibat al-dukkān); also mentions Abū l-Mundhir and Rashīd.

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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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• markab

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14 Jumādā I 1239 Hijrī (16 January 1824 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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Arabic

Probably late. Mentions "al-waraq al-sāmī al-Muʾarrakh". Needs examination.

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• dimme

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Arabic

Small fragment reading only "al-qāḍī al-muwaffaq fī l-Daqahliyya wa-mā yajib ʿalayhi."

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Mainly organized by parshiyot. Also mentioning some names such as Abū l-ʿAlāʾ.

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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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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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Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic. There is alsoalphabet practice and numbers in western Arabic numerals (so the date is relatively late).

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Arabic, Hebrew

Poetry in which the lines alternate between Hebrew and Arabic. See also T-S NS 274.17 (PGPID 34763).

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• bialphabetic
• macaronic

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Arabic

Fiscal document, probably. Mentions Yūsuf b. ʿAlī; Muḥammad b. ʿAlī; Mūsā b. ʿAlī, [...] b. Khalīl.

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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
• (+ 7 more)

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Primary language

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

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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Judaeo-Arabic

People mentioned: Bū l-Khayr the relative of the rayyis, Ibn Maṭrūḥ, and Zayn (this list is unusual because it also mentions a non-book item: three Chinese zabdiyyas, a kind of deep bowl.) See also the description for the whole notebook Bodl.

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Arabic

Another one contains a basmala and a first line referring to "[...] al-manṣūra al-[...] al-sharīfa..." and then in much larger letters—likely a remnant of an earlier document—a reference to something al-Ḥāfiẓī.

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Nisan [15]42 Seleucid (6 March 1231–4 April 1231 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Features a freed muwallad slave (al-ghulām al-maʿtūq... al-muwallad al-jins) whose name is unfortunately missing.

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• freed
• slaves

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Middle third of Av 4889 Anno Mundi (29 July 1129–7 August 1129 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yeshuʿa ha-Rofe. Location: Alexandria. Dated: Middle third of Av 4889 AM, which is July/August 1129 CE, under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon. The case concerns half of a ground floor apartment (qāʿa). Also signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Yosef Yerushalmi and Ṣedeq b. [...].

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Arabic

Unclear if or how it is related to the Hebrew-script letter on the other side. Addressed to "al-ḥaḍra al-ʿāliyaal-jalīla...." Mentions distress/"shidda" at least once.

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Judaeo-Arabic

The sender is sick and throws up everything he eats; he repeatedly requests that the addressee send him medicines. Also mentions al-Rashīd b. al-Dayyān; and a shipment of walnuts and raisins sent with a camel driver.

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: gastrointestinal
• mail-order medicine

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Shevaṭ 2005 Seleucid (27 January 1694–25 February 1694 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Wādī al-Sirr (ואדי אלסר), Yemen. Dated: Shevat 2005 Seleucid = January/February 1694 CE. Groom: Dā'ūd b. Yosef al-Ḥamāmī (or al-Ḥammāmī) al-Ḥaḍrī. Bride: Simḥa, a virgin.

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• ketubba
• marriage
• yemen

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Monday, 25 Kislev 5522 Anno Mundi (21 December 1761 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

On verso a reference to the death of the communal leader and rabbi Nissim Shelomo Algazi, on Monday, 25 Kislev 5552 AM = 21 December 1761 CE. For other geniza fragments referencing Algazi, see also: T-S 13J5.7 (PGPID 16135) and T-S 18J1.35 (PGPID 16144).

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• funeral
• funerals

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from an unknown writer, in Alexandria, to Shem[arya?], in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. […] Regards to the writer's sister Sawād(?). On verso there are also the opening lines of another letter, perhaps the response.

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Arabic

First preserved line contains blessings "المالك سبحانه بالعلا" and in the next line "سبحانه من شا". Also mentions 'al-Shām' and probably the name of an official (Nawāl?) al-Mulk. Needs examination. Reused for Judaeo-Arabic (accounts?)

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• dimme

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Tuesday, 9 Kislev 5480 Anno Mundi (21 November 1719 CE)

Primary language

Ladino

Letter from Moshe Yehoshuaʿ Ashkenazi to Alpalas y Sahalon, in Cairo. Dated: Tuesday, 9 Kislev 5480 AM = 21 November 1719 CE. The address is in both Hebrew and Latin characters: "Al Se[nyor] Alpalas y Sahalon, Cairro." See "Alpalas y Sahalon" tag for more documents from the same group.

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• cairro
• ladino

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Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions financial matters involving ʿUthmān and Ibn al-Sabʿ; al-ʿĀlima(?) Umm Yūsuf and something about a minor daughter, who is possibly being sought in marriage by Ibn al-ʿAqqāda; and someone insulting the addressee and complaining about him to the Parnas and the Rayyis.

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Letter from Farah b. Isma’il from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim. Around 1056. Regarding shipments of money, and a deal with one of the Emirs, the general of the Fatimid army. Also mentions the ships movement and shipments of goods: pepper, lead, and leather (for book coveres?).

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Farah b. Yosef b. Farah in Alexandria to Abu Sa'd Khalaf b. Sahl in Fustat mentioning a shipment of coats, turbans, robes, and brazilwood. On the verso in the bottom margin is an unrelated Arabic account of 9 lines with amounts of money (in dinars) due to various people. See also T-S 8.20 (PGPID 7046).

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Half the page is taken up with a Hebrew panegyric, presumably for the physician who wrote the prescription on recto, whose name is also given in red ink: Abū ʿUmar al-Ḥakīm. In the remaining half of the page, the patient [ʿAbd?]allāh the cantor writes a message thanking the physician: "I will drink the medicine tomorrow if God decrees it."

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū l-Munā al-Rayyis; something that happened with the Rayyis and the Amir [...] al-Ẓāhiriyya(?) at the gate of Alexandria, and everyone rejoiced greatly; and Shemuel ha-Sofer.

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• to edit

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Hebrew to all congregations, mentioning David, “Head of All Diasporas of Israel.” […] (Information from Goitein's index cards.) Also in his handwriting (or part of the same letter?)

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• communal
• mosul cantor

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Arabic, Hebrew

Followed by one line in Arabic script ("... al-jināb al-ālīal-mawlā....") and by a short text (a midrash?)

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• circumcision

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Letter from Ezra b. Hillel, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. December 28, 1063. The writer informs Nahray about businesses he has in Alexandria, including one of medical herbs, which failed.

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Arabic

Bifolio containing a copy of a decree (sijill muʿaẓẓam) of appointment issued by the caliph al-Āmir (r. 1101–30) at the behest of the vizier al-Afḍal (r. 1094–1121) for Abū Manṣūr Maḥmūd Murhaf al-Dīn Muʿizz al-Dawla wa-Shujāʿuhā.

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• appointment
• decree
• majlis al-nazar

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Arabic

The sender refers to "even before I went to Alexandria." Opens with Job 12:10 (translated into Arabic) and ends with a rare ṣalwala (ṣalawāt allāhʿalā....) for the prophet Moses.

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Document date

Shawwāl 680 Hijrī (13 January 1282–10 February 1282 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

Notes in Arabic script, recording the arrival of something ([...] bi-mā waṣala) at the funduq al-[daqīq or raqīq] al-Sulṭānī in New Cairo on the 13th(?) Shawwal 680 AH (= January 1282 CE); on recto the beginning of an address(?) to "mutawallī al-Diwān al-Maʿmūr." Reused for an account of the dream of Jacob in Hebrew.

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• funduq

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Adar 1476 Seleucid (15 February 1165–15 March 1165 CE)

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Order of payment (or rather receipt / record of payment) to the community officials Maḥfūẓ al-Shammash and Sālim al-Zariz, dated Adar 1476 Seleucid era = February/March 1165 CE. […] Yosef and Mevorakh b. Natan he-Ḥaver. Also mentions Abū l-Bayān. (Information in part from CUDL)

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• cheque
• order of payment

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to Abū l-ʿAlāʾ Salāma b. Hilāl al-Ḥalabī. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. […] The sender mentions that he/she heard that Ibn Qasāsa was looking for him/her. Also mentions the holiday and a complaint (ishtakaytu lahū).

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Alexandria; traveling by foot from Rashīd; something costing 5 dirhams; al-Kohen al-Khalīl who walked together with the sender; someone who needs to come and do ḥaliṣa (יתפצל יגי יחלץ אמראת); and greetings from the addressee's mother and sister.

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Arabic

Addressed to the weavers' market (? sūq al-mighzal) to [...] Ibn al-Bayṭār al-Ghuzūlī al-Yahūdī.

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• bialphabetic
• to edit

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Document date

1878 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to Av[raham] Aghion, in Alexandria (Join: Matthew Dudley). Dating: 6 August (אגוסת) (18)78 CE, based on the paleography and dating method. There is also a dated letter addressed to Avraham/Ibrahim Aghion c. 1885 CE in Cairo, possibly the same person (T-S AS 145.108 - PGPID 17260).

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Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions people such as Maḍmūn, Abū Zikrī, and [Ishā]q Nafūsī. Also mentions a shipment to Alexandria and a public auction of silk is mentioned (cf.

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• ib-addenda
• ib6
• india book unedited

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Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Aphorisms in Judaeo-Arabic in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. Strangely, for an often-humorous poet, he includes "the one who abandons laughter [is rewarded?] […] Verso: Wine poem in Judaeo-Arabic, also in Nāṣir's hand.

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• nasir

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