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Arabic

Upper part of a legal document in Arabic script. Testimony of al-muʿallim Ibrāhīm b. Khalaf b. Makhlūf al-Naṣrānī who seems to be a sugar refiner (al-ṭabbākh . . . al-sukkar).

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Arabic

The recto is a ḍamān document, mentioning dāmān ṣaḥīḥ, and one of the witnesses also testifies as "al-ḍāmin". Mentions something "royal" (al-malikī) on recto l. 4, and mentions a stable in the house(الاصطبل), verso, larger section, l. 2.

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• dimme
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to [Eliyyahu the Judge?] Ibn al-Rayyis al-Iskandarānī, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. […] The rest of the letter is quite obscure; mentions a boat in the last line. On verso there is also a list of names in Arabic script.

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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
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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

We answered her: "We have neither Sabbath, nor feast, nor rest, nor sleep, until the Prophet of Allah (may Allah pray for him and greet him) fulfill that which Allah has inspired him with." […] And who is my foe is the foe of Allah, and he who is the foe of Allah goes to hell. . . and bad is the abode there. […] Yāsir; Salmān the Persian, the friend of the Messenger of Allah; Abū Dharr al-Ghifārī.

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• khaybar

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

One side is headed Dār al-Birka. Mentions al-Kohen and ʿAllūn and various purses of money.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

In the margin there is also a note in Judaeo-Arabic, likely unrelated: "...the wretched slave Abū ʿAlī wrote this..."

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Arabic

The name of the Fatimid Caliph al-Mustanṣir is written "al-Mustanṣir Billah Amīr al-Muʾminīn."

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Primary language

Arabic

Order of payment, for Muḥammad al-Raīsī(?), which will be delivered (al-wāṣil) from the kitchen (maṭbakh?), by (ʿalā yadd)....... Needs examination.

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• dimme

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Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Table listing names paired with Coptic numerals. Alms distribution? Names include the wife of al-Mawardī and Mūsā al-Yahūdī.

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• dimme

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Primary language

Arabic

In Arabic script and possibly Greek/Coptic numerals. There are also pen trials or writing exercises of the Hebrew alphabet on verso.

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Primary language

Arabic

List in Arabic script mentioning people (Abū Muḥammad, Dāʾūd, al-shaykh) and also 'the bathhouse and chickens" (ḥammām wa-farārīj).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Involves someone named Efrayim, a woman, and al-Sammanūdī; also involves a debt and a document that was lost.

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Primary language

Arabic

Tax receipt, or possibly credit instrument? Contains an ʿalāma at the upper right, maybe, and a jahbadh signature at the bottom. Also contains the glyph.

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Primary language

Arabic

Tax receipt, or possibly credit instrument? Contains an ʿalāma at the upper right, maybe, and a jahbadh signature at the bottom. Also contains the glyph.

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Primary language

Arabic

Tax receipt, or possibly credit instrument? Contains an ʿalāma at the upper right, maybe, and a jahbadh signature at the bottom. Also contains the glyph.

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Primary language

Arabic

Tax receipt, or possibly credit instrument? Contains an ʿalāma at the upper right, maybe, and a jahbadh signature at the bottom. Also contains the glyph.

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Primary language

Arabic

A single phrase in Arabic script, likely from a state document: min injāz(?) al-ḥujja fī dhālika ʿalāal-[...]

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Primary language

Arabic

Small fragment with jottings or part of a document in Arabic script on the verso: al-Shaykh Abū Saʿd al-mawlā al-yahūdī.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Including Abū Manṣūr Ibn al-Zaffān; al-Kohen; al-Shofeṭ; Abūand [...] b.

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Arabic

List of interesting laqabs, maybe of state officials, e.g., Humām al-Dawla, Qamr al-Dawla, and Sayf al-Islām.

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Document date

2 Muḥarram 777 Hijrī (3 June 1375 CE)

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Arabic

The house is located in Ḥārat Zuwayla, a neighbourhood in the northwest of the original Fatimid city of al-Qāhira, southwest of Bāb al-Futūḥ and northwest of Bāb al-Zuwayla, respectively the northern and southern gates of al-Qāhira. Ḥārat Zuwayla became the centre of Coptic residence in al-Qāhira following the catastrophic Muslim–Coptic religious riots of 721AH/1321 CE. These riots, triggered by the Mamluk sultan al-Nāṣir Muḥammadʾs demolition of a Coptic church to make way for his eponymous pond (al-Birkat al-Nāṣiriyya), resulted in a mass conversion of Copts to Islam.

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• 14th c
• copts
• mamluk
• wax seal

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Document date

941 Hijrī (13 July 1534–1 July 1535 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

These fragments may all be from the same ledger but in the hand of two different scribes. […] In the next row it names both Ḥusayn and Yaʿaqov as captains (רייץ = رئيس) and further down mentions three further names of people also called רייץ. Several others are called khwājā (כוגה). […] Recto, right page: The heading also appears to be maritime in nature: "תשלום מרקב אליאו" ("payment for the ship of Eliyyahu").

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• istanbul
• list
• ottoman shipping
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Document date

1050–1055 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

T-S NS J570 contains descriptions of the celebration of the opening of the canal (al-Khalīj) by the caliph Maʿadd Abū Tamīm al-Mustanṣir Billāh, the vizier al-Yāzūrī (called Sayyid al-Wuzarāʾ), and the latter's two sons Khaṭīr al-Mulk and Ṣafiyy al-Mulk. The dates are given mainly according to the Islamic and Coptic calendars, but Rosh Hashana and Sukkot (of the year 4815 AM) are also used as reference points. These documents are uncited in the literature. They were identified by Alan Elbaum and identified as a join by Marina Rustow.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Nissīm, Fusṭāṭ, to his cousin Barhūn b. Ṣāliḥ al-Tāhartī, probably in Egypt, ca. 1045 (Gil). Nahray anxiously mentions to Barhūn that he has already paid the amīr's emissary, Abū Ishāq, 150 dīnārs in Fusṭāṭ; it concerns him that the amīr is still demanding the same from him in Alexandria. "If, God forbid, he continues to demand payment from you after he knows that it was already collected from me, then you will certainly remind him of his own letter to his emissary Abū Isḥāq, so that he will return to us what he has taken from us." Also mentions a shipment of pearls. Nahray also sends his blessing to Khalfa from the Tāhartī family on the occasion of his marriage to a woman from the ʿUqba family.

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• barhun al-taherti
• marriage
• nahray b. nissim
• trade

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Document date

23 Shevat 4968 Anno Mundi (12 February 1208 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Letter from Yehuda b. Aharon b. al-ʿAmmānī, in Alexandria, to Abū l-Majd Meir b. […] Yehuda rebukes Meir for sending him vague requests without specifying the opening lines of the piyyutim, which cools Yehuda's ardor for fulfilling his requests (r12-17). He also asks Meir to send back the note about the reading of Deut. 1:44, which Yehuda had seen in the Tāj (the Aleppo Codex) (r17-19). He also wants Meir to send him the fatwa that relates to Yehuda's court case against a judge (r20-22).

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Document date

511 Hijrī (5 May 1117–23 April 1118 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

ʿAllūsh and 205 dirhams. (Information in part from CUDL.) […] India Book III, doc. 29, ll. 8,10 and III, doc. 2, verso, l. 2). People include: Mūsā al-Nafūsī, al-Faqīh al-Siqillī, and Abū Saʿīd Khalaf b. […] Sums of money listed are in the tens of dinars. Join: Alan Elbaum

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• civet
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The list includes books in the hand of R. Anaṭoli and al-Dayyān al-Maskil (identified by Friedman as Shemuel ha-Levi b. […] Anatoly Muqaddam of Alexandria," Tarbiz 83 (2015), p. 155.

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• booklist

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Judaeo-Arabic

Mentioning names such as al-Parnas, Abū l-Surūr al-Dumyāṭī, Yeshuʿa, al-Qazzāz, Salāma b. Saʿīd (the "b." is written with a nun sofit which became common in later periods), Khalaf, Abū l-Ḥasan b. Masʿūd, Abū l-Aʿlā, Isḥāq b. [...], Abū l-Barakāt.

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• account

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Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Sulaymān; Ḥamīd; [...] b. Saʿīd; Aḥmad al-[...]; Fallāh(?); Jamāʿa(?); Nuṣayr; ʿAlīal-Ḍarīr(?); Mubārak b. Hiba; Sālim al-Khillī(?). Recto: Coptic numeral mathematical table, including some less common ones.

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• myriad

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Arabic

Cuts off after the taqbīl clause. Addressee may be al-Afḍal b. Badr al-Jamālī (cf. Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections, p. 284). Cf. also CUL Or.1080.15.77 (Khan, no. 84).

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• lost archive
• petition
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from 'the representative' (al-Nāʾib), in Minyat Zifta, to the Nagid, presumably in Fustat. […] He reports on previous correspondence and messengers ([...] al-Ḥalabī, Ṭāhir, and ʿAbd al-Baqī) and confirms receipt of the Nagid's letter and orders. […] He may mention Tinnīs (Ḥanes) and someone titled Nāṣir al-Dawla.

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Primary language

Arabic

Indian spikenard is mentioned in line 1 (سادج/ساذج; this can also mean "simple") and in line 2 a "raw" (خام) good of some sort is mentioned but is mostly lost to damage. Also reference to a paste (maʿjūn) and the instruction "let it be ground" (yudaqq).

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• cmp

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Arabic

Small fragment of a state document addressing "[...] al-amīrī al-kabīrī al-ʿaḍudī al-naṣrī." It seems that only one line and a few words of another line of the original are preserved, and the other lines were later filled in as a copying exercise.

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Arabic

At the top there is the glyph and a basmala. Then, "al-mamlūka ukhtuhā... Umm Yaʿqūb." Then: "to Saʿīda" (which appears to have another "Umm" written after it)? This is probably a letter, because it continues "wa-siwāhu innanī arhantu...." and the phrase "allāhallāh" appears in the margin (a common phrase that appears almost exclusively in letters).

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Document date

Muḥarram 1044 Hijrī (27 June 1634–26 July 1634 CE)

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Arabic

Dated: start of Muḥarram 1044 AH (1634 CE) along the lower tear in the paper. Involves Ibrāhīm b. Ḥūr al-Yahūdī and a qāḍī (Aḥīd al-Dīn al-Fūnawī(?)).

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Arabic

Mentions [...] b. ʿUmar b. Muḥsin b. ʿAlī and the phrase "ʿalā iqrār al-bāʾiʿ wa-l-mushtarī al-madhkūr fīh bi-jamīʿ mā fīh fī taʾrīkhih..."

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Business letter from Marduk b. Musa, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat. There are details on moneychanging, and the order of various commodities, mainly gems, perfumes and spices, which the writer asks Nahray to get him in Fustat. January 10th 1048 (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, #534) LB see also Goitein Nachlass material

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• nahray b. nissim

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Document date

13 Ramaḍān 1243 Hijrī (29 March 1828 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The banker/money exchanger (ṣārrāf) Mūsā al-Yahūdī gave back the possession of a caravanserai (wikāla) and paid its rent for the business of rice he had leased it for. It could also be that the wikāla was known as "buyūʿāt al-urz".

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• dimme

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