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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Two fragments of a letter probably from Yehuda Ibn al-ʿAmmānī, in Alexandria, to the cantor Meʾir b. […] She became very sick, and wasted away, and died several times and came back to life." T-S AS 157.505 may also be another piece of the same letter (or else a different letter from the same sender).

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: medicine
• illness: women's

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Monday 12 Nisan Seleucid

Quittance by the rabbinical court of Fustat for the sum of 173 and 7/24 mithqāl dinars, sent by Maḍmūn II at the hands of a Muslim Qadi named al-Sadīd ʿAlī b. Maḥmūd (Ibn al-Muḥtasib). The sum of money represents the assets of the deceased man Petaḥya. In his capacity as Nagīd of Yemen, Maḍmūn II evidently salvaged Petaḥya's assets and sent them to the deceased man's son Abu ʾl-Ḥasan in Alexandria. Fustat, probably 1214. This Petaḥya is probably to be identified with the deceased India trader Futūḥ who died on a ship on the India route (PGPID 5405).

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• ib2
• india book
• quittance

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Alexandria to Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. The hand of the letter resembles that of T-S 16.272, written by an Alexandrian judge. […] Evidently, people feared that Alexandria would be next. (See also T-S 16.286, a letter from Alexandria dated 21 October 1219.) […] See also T-S Ar.39.9 (PGPID 21012), T-S NS 340.15 (PGPID 26014), and Yevr.

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• alexandria
• corvee
• crusade
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Draft of of a legal document in which Sitt al-ʿIzz bt. Yeshaʿyahu b. Yefet appoints 'Amat al-Qādir' Sitt al-Milāḥ Turfa as her representative with regard to her share in the house in the al-Muṣāṣa quarter.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

ʿAyyāsh, in Ṣahrajt, to Mūsā b. Abū l-Ḥayy, in Alexandria. Dating: ca. 1063 CE. Regarding deliveries of money, especially one of seven dinars that Habub b. Haban from Sfax sent, and asks to buy spices and perfumes and sell them for him In Alexandria. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 4, #719) VMR

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Primary languages

Unidentified language and script, Unidentified (Latin script)

On the verso, the surname "Romano" also appears. There is one cluster of Hebrew letters interjected on the verso and below that the square letter aleph is practiced.

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• latin script
• pen trial

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In the first line Abū Saʿīd al-Dimyāṭī (= Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi) is mentioned as owing a debt of 20 dinars. […] Other names mentioned: Zakkay; al-Rayyis Hibatallāh; ʿAbdallāh al-Dallāla; אלכזאלי; Zikrī; Abū l-Ḥasan; Hārūn al-Kohen.

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• halfon-addenda
• ib-addenda
• ib4
• list

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Document date

49[.] Hijrī (19 December 1096–1 September 1106 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions a sum of 20 dinars (min al-ʿayn al-wāzin ʿashrīn dīnār) and repeats twice that someone testified something (shahida ʿalā nafsihī). […] The creditor is probably [...] al-Muqaddasī (l. 3).

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Shaʿbān 507 Hijrī (1113–1114 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions the proceeds to dīwān al-Farjī and the state official Jalīl al-Dawla. […] Possibly related to BL OR 5553.1 + BL OR 5553.2 + T-S Ar.51.49 + BL OR 5553A.1 + BL OR 5553A.2 (PGPID 30817). Also related to ENA 2917.1 (PGPID 30819).

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• arabic
• dimme
• internal memorandum
• lost archive
• multihanded

2 Transcriptions 2 Translations

Primary language

Arabic

Letter addressed to "Shaykh al-ʿIlm wa-l-Milla al-Isrā'īliyya." In Arabic script. […] Various people are mentioned: the addressee's son; al-Muʿallim Yaʿqūb; Abū l-Naṣr; al-Ra'īs Ibrāhīm.

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• late arabic script

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Inferred date

1213–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Concerning the ransoming of female Jewish captives enslaved by the Franks at ʿAkkā (Acre), also mentioning Haifa. An Egyptian Jewish emissary had failed to redeem them, so he turned to the Ayyubid prince al-Malik al-Muʿaẓẓam at Damascus (r. 1218–27).

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• acre
• alexandria
• captives
• crusades
• dimme
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Primary language

Arabic

A page from a text in vocalized Hebrew is fused to the document in Arabic, leaving much of the four lines illegible. There is also extensive text in Arabic on the verso, probably accounts, which also may have fused to the recto fragment due to centuries of pressure in a geniza chamber.

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• cmp

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Letter from Farah b. Isma’il from Alexandria, to his father Isma’il, Fustat. October 22, 1050. Short letter about the money that Farah sent to his father and a request that Isma’il will sell the goods that Farah already sent him, and send him back the money as soon as possible. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, #499) VMR (Alt: ENA L43)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Draft of a legal query addressed to a legal authority referred to as 'our lord and gaon' discussing the marriage of Abū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Abū l-Ḥasan al-Zajjāj (the glassblower), which took place in the Muslim court. Connected with this incident the letter writer also refers to the Qaraites (?) and someone described as an apostate ('meshummad').

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• draft

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Primary language

Arabic

Remnant of an Arabic poem attested in literary sources (رمى الحدثان نسوة آل حرب بمقدار سمدن له سمودا فرد شعورهن السود بيضا ورد وجوههن البيض سودا) and attributed to various different poets (https://shamela.ws/book/9904/429#p1). There is also a colophon in the margin, specifying the name of the poet (Ibn ʿ[...]n), the date (mostly missing), and the city of Alexandria.

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• arabic poetry

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Fragment (lower right corner) of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, likely from a patient to a physician (al-mawlā al-ṭ[abīb]) describing an illness (ḥakayt lak al-maraḍ...) and presumably asking for advice or a prescription. Verso: List of medical ingredients along with quantities, including three different kinds of seeds and the leaf of Syrian borage.

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• consilium
• illness: physician

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Alexandria to Abū l-Maʿānī. Business letter fragment concerning various transactions, some of which are taking place in Alexandria, and mentioning the purchase of poppy seed and rice and a codex apparently used as surety.

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• alexandria
• business
• trade

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Mansur b. Salim in Alexandria to a friend in Cairo inquiring about his son, who had run away to the army and had perhaps travelled as far as Yemen. See also T-S 10J13.10 and T-S Ar.18(1).137, letters by the same sender concerning the same matter.

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• 13th c
• alexandria
• family
• father
• mansur b. salim
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Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

Mentions Ibn ʿAwkal, Ibn al-Madhāmīrī, and Ibn Qurayẓa (v3–4). Also quotes ʿAlī b.

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• bialphabetic
• to examine

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1065. Details about goods that Nahray ordered in Alexandria, probably materials to use for copying books.

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• musa b. abi l-hayy
• nahray b. nissim
• sicily
• trade

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Document date

Monday, 14 Tammuz 4826 Anno Mundi (10 July 1066 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Written and signed by Eliyyahu Gaʾon, also signed by the physician and ḥaver ʿAmram b. Aharon ha-Kohen (also signed ENA 4007.6; unrelated to his namesake who wrote, e.g., T-S 28.5), and Shelomo b.

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• eliyyahu b. shelomo

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Primary language

Hebrew

Letter to a hazzan, Ben Sadoq, who is asked to intervene on behalf of the writer, Menashshe nin Shemaiah, before Sar Salom, head of the community of Alexandria. The writer says he’ll be in Alexandria at the New Year, God willing.

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• 11th c
• communal
• petition

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions people such as Sulaymān; Tamīm; Abū l-Ḥasan al-Mūrid; al-Muqrī(?); al-ʿAjamī; and al-Munādī.

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• jeweler
• jewelry
• profit

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Referring to the opponent; a Jewish person; "I threw myself upon him" (fa-tarāmaytu ʿalayhi); fees (al-ajʿāl); "crying out" (istighāth) to the Ṣāḥib al-[...]; an official named [...] al-Dīn Badrān; the Jewish court (bet din); and an oath.

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Judaeo-Arabic

; mentions the books of Yeshaʿya ha-Levi ("al-Shaykh al-Sadīd"), which the sender apparently sent to R. Yehuda ("al-ḥaver al-jalīl"). Dating: 12th or 13th century.

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Document date

Wednesday, 18 Nisan 1493 Seleucid (24 March 1182 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Testator: Abū l-Faraj b. Moshe Ibn al-Kallām. He leaves to his wife, the daughter of his maternal uncle, one third of a house, if she does not marry again. […] This man owed 2 1/2 dinars to Maimonides, 4 1/6 dinars to al-Shaykh al-Muwaffaq (possibly the physician Ibn Jumayʿ) for a capitation tax paid on his behalf, 1 dinar and 12 dirhams to the poet and judge Ibn Sanāʾ al-Mulk, 4 dinars to the faqīh Ibn Ṣawla, and 5 dirhams to Abū l-Khayr al-Ḥayfī. Written and signed by Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi. Also signed by Elʿazar b. Mikhaʾel. (Information from Goitein's notes and from Mediterranean Society, III, p. 31.)

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• deathbed will
• ibn sana' al-mulk
• maimonides
• register

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Document date

12 November 1141 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Abū Naṣr b. Avraham, in Alexandria, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi, in Fustat. […] In addition, Abu Nasr reported how he acted in regard to a precious headgear given to him by Yehuda ha-Levi, the Spanish poet. The letter also transmits news from Spanish travelers about the passing away of two great Spanish Rabbis. […] Your letter arrived in which you asked me to deliver the bales of silk to Abū ʿUmar Ibn al-Bahgdadī al-Laffāt. However, he has not received a thing, for I have nobody who could carry them to him; my brother Abū ʿUmar is ill since his arrival from Cairo and I have nobody able to act for me, for Abū l-Najm (the writer's factotum or partner often mentioned) and his son are ill also.

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• epidemic
• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
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Primary language

Arabic

Arabic work of literary criticism, several pages, probably Khazānat al-Adab wa-Ghāyat al-Arab of Ibn Ḥijja al-Ḥamawī (d. 1433).

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• arabic literary
• classical arabic poetry

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Primary language

Arabic

Islamic prayers/formulae in Arabic script. Not all of the text blocks are easy to read, but at least three begin with "Allāhuma ṣalli ʿalā Muḥammad" and continue with praises for Muḥammad.

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• arabic script
• islamic

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List recording distribution or, equally if not more likely, contributions of wheat (as in T-S AS 145.21, 'thabat qamḥ al-[ʿaniyyim]'). See also ENA NS 77.94.

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• communal
• contribution
• wheat

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