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3751LetterT-S 13J18.12
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter sent by a traveler-businessman to Abū l-Munā al-Yahūdī al-Sharābī, in the al-Muṣāṣa quarter of Fustat, to be delivered to his brother's son Abū ʿAlī, specifying items that he had sent and how to sell them.
1. בשמ] רחמ
2. כתאבי אלי אלאך אלעזיז אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם עזה ונעמאה
3. ומן חסן אלתופיק לא אכלאה וגמעני ואיאה עלי אסר חאל ואנעם
4. באל במנה וכרמה וכפי לטפה ואלד…
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3752LetterT-S 13J27.9
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter sent from Alexandria by Zikrī b. Ḥananʾel to ʿArūs b. Yosef in Fustat. It is a copy of a previous letter informing the recipient that the writer had already 'ascended' to al-Mahdiyya and was expecting to receive instructions as to whether or not he should carry the merchandise with him.
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1. כתאבי אלי מולאי אלשיך אלגליל אטאל
2. אללה פי אלכיר בקאה וחפצ'ה ותולאה
3. ומן חסן תופיקה לא אכלאה ען חאל
4. סלאמה ועאפיה ושוקי אליה שדיד
5. אסל אללה קרב אל…
recto
1. (2-1) אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי הנכבד, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים לטובה וישמרך וישגיח עליך
3. (4-3) ואת מיטב המזל אל ימנע ממך (כאשר) שלומי טוב ו…
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3753List or tableT-S Ar.30.297
Primary languages
Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic
People include: Abū l-ʿAlā'; the Amir Bayraq Najā(?) (bayraq seems to be a Turkic word for a battle standard); Ibn Bāzil; ʿAllūn b. [...]; al-Anṣārī al-Bazzāz; Sulaymān b.
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3754State documentT-S Ar.37.209
Primary language
Arabic
Both the Arabic and Hebrew poems are headed with "basīṭa." The Hebrew poem is also headed with the name of the melody (ʿalā X) and then "fī nuskhat mawlāyyā al-ḥazan."
Verso
1. واثاره معروفة في الـ[
2. النواحي وافعالهم و[
3. معروف والتي يحـ[
4. خراب النواحي ولىـ[
5. الجاري له بسبب الـ[
6. ذلك ويجهد[
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3755Legal documentT-S Ar.38.28
Primary language
Arabic
Yaḥyā, the Christian bath attendant (al-ḥammāmī) from two people: ʿAlī b. Ibrāhīm al-Ḥāris [...] and [...] b. Abū l-Qāsim al-[…] (ll. 4–5). Dating: ca. 11th century CE. (Information from CUDL and Khan.)
1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العلمين
2. اقر ابو الحسن الذى هذه الكنية اسمه بن يحيى النصراني الحمامي وهو رجل اسمر اللون قصير القامة واضح
3. الجبهة ف…
1. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be to God, lord of the universe.
2. Abū al-Ḥasan - this patronymic being his name - Ib…
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3756State documentT-S Ar.39.288
Document date
Shawwāl 622 Hijrī (6 October 1225–3 November 1225 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Dated: Shawwāl 622 AH, which is October/November 1225 CE (if read correctly). Mentions al-Malik al-Kāmil (r. 1218–38). The phrase 'al-mablagh al-mustakhraj' repeats at least twice.
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3757State documentT-S Ar.39.470
Inferred date
1036–1094 CE
Primary language
Arabic
Recto: Petition to the caliph al-Mustanṣir from a man who has been detained in the arsenal (khizāna, according to Khan khizānat al-bunūd, which was also used as a prison).
Recto
1. [علـ]ـى [مولانا وسيدنا الامام المسـ]ـتنصر بالله امير [المـ]و[ـمنيـ]ـن [وعلى ابائه]
2. الطاهرين عبد مولانا صلوات الله عليه ينهى الي
3. الحضرة ا…
1. [... upon our master and lord the imām al-Mus]tanṣir bi-Allāh, commander of the faithful [and upon]
2. his pure ancestors. The slave of our master, the…
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3758List or tableT-S Ar.54.40
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Names mentioned: Yosef, Abū Yūnus, Abū Birr, the sister of Mūsā, al-Ḥājj Ḥusām and a wālī, Muḥammad al-Qāḍī, Yaʿqūb, Fakhr al-Dīn, Umm ʿUmar. Many of the entries are headed "alladhī ḥaṭṭa fulān." AA/ASE
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3759LetterT-S AS 83.258
Primary language
Hebrew
The text is responding, in the fragment extant, to two arguments that were made by ben Meir against the Babylonians at the time of the calendar controversy: that the Four Gates, a Babylonian algorithm, are inadequate because they do not cover all the days of the week, and that festivals should not be excessively postponed, as the Babylonians did in the years of the contro versy. It also rejects the Palestinian addition of 641 parts to the midday calendar limits.
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- calendar
- controversy
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3760Legal documentT-S AS 149.48 + T-S AS 151.16
Primary language
Arabic
The muqirr seems to be called al-Sharīf al-Mahdawī (i.e., from al-Mahdiyya), and his name is followed by blessings for longevity. […] In the upper margin, upside down, the phrase "aqarra al-sharīf" is jotted again. Join: Adiel Breuer.
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3761List or tableT-S AS 149.61
Primary languages
Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic
Headings include "the collection of Cairo" (jibāyat al-Qāhira) and "what was collected on the holiday." Mentions names such as ʿAbd al-Wāḥid, Ibn al-Jalājilī, Ibn Ḥayy, Rashīd, Nuṣayr, al-Ṣafiyy, and Abū l-ʿIzz.
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3762List or tableT-S AS 153.404
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Abū Sahl; his paternal aunt Sitt al-Kull bt. [...] known as Manṣūr; Farjiyya bt. Yiṣḥaq (called al-wāhiba, "the giver"?); Abū l-Maʿālī; and Avraham b. Ḥalfon, also known as Ibn Abū Salāma. (Information in part from CUDL)
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3763Legal documentT-S AS 179.239
Primary language
Arabic
ʿAmmār a share in a property. The location (Qaṣr al-Rūm/Qaṣr al-Shamʿ) and characteristics are described. Mentions a mill (al-ṭāḥūna) and the market of the wool merchants (sūq al-ṣawwāfīn).
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3764List or tableT-S AS 203.244
Primary languages
Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals
Mentions people such as Bū ʿImrān al-Ṣayrafī; Bū Manṣūr; Abū l-Ḥasan b. Dāniyāl; al-Kohen; al-ḍarīr (the blind); Ṭāhir al-[...]; Bū l-Ḥasan b.
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3765List or tableT-S AS 208.142
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
A few first names open certain entries on the recto and verso: ʿAbbās and Barukh and Ibrahīm. Also mentions the terms "ḥakīm" (could also be a name) and "qāʿa."
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3766State documentT-S H3.63
Document date
4 Shaʿbān 566 Hijrī (12 April 1171 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
The tarjama refers to the sender as from "al-dīwān al-shamsī al-saʿīd"—potentially a bureaucrat in the service of Shams al-Dīn Turanshah (Saladin's brother).
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3767State documentT-S NS 100.63
Primary language
Arabic
Mentions "the release of these seed advances" (khalāṣ hādhihi al-taqāwī). Also mentions peasants (fallāḥīn), and maybe Amīr al-Muslimīn.
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3768State documentT-S NS 209.25
Primary language
Arabic
Ends of 7 lines. Penultimate line: al-jāriya bi-l-dīwān al-Farkhī. Last line: al-mutawallī ʿimārat rubāʿ dīwān al-khāṣa.
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3769Legal documentT-S NS 224.109
Inferred date
1100–1138 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Other names mentioned: a physician (al-ṭabīb) known as Ibn al-Tinnīsī, Abū ʿAlī Ibn al-Sukkarī.
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3770Legal documentT-S NS J455
Document date
18 Adar 4949 Anno Mundi (9 March 1189 CE)
Court record concerning a divorce. Location: Aleppo. Dated: 18 Adar 4949 AM (1189 CE). The husband, from Fustat but now in Aleppo, divorced his wife who had remained in the Egyptian capital.
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1. בבית דין שבצובה חצר מ ור אברהם התלמיד היקר בר מ ור חננאל [. . .
2. אלאסכנדראני וא.[. . . .] וכאלה . .ס[. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3. מטאלבת…
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- 12th c
- register
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3771Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.15
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Stating that a bill of sale (ʿuhda) shall be written for the sale of the slave wailing woman al-ʿAbīr. Seller: Abū l-Barakāt al-Thiqa. Buyer: Not named. Price: 40 dinars + qīrāṭ. She is called both al-mughanniya ("singer") and al-nā'iḥa ("professional wailer").
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- slaves
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3772LetterT-S 32.7
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
There is also an Abū l-Bayān referred to as mawlāy al-rayyis multiple times over the course of the letter as someone closely associated with the addressee but who is in the sender's location. […] It would also be right at the start of Mevorakh's first tenure as head of the Jews (when he was known as Rayyis, not yet Nagid). […] The sender has conveyed the addressee's greetings to Dhakhīrat al-Mulk and Sharaf al-Dawla, who greet him back and kiss his hand.
Recto
1. בש רח
2. וצל אלכתאב אלכרים יום אלגמעה אלתאסע מן תמוז יהפ[כ]הו לששון
3. וורד עלי קלובנא מן אלסרור ואלפרח ואלמסרה אמ[ר יזיד] ען אלוצף
4. ושכרנא אללה תעאל…
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- business
- hisba
- illness
- illness letter 969-1517
- illness: colic
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17079
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3773List or tableAIU VII.F.19
and his brother, Seʿadyah, Yosef b. [...], Yehudah b. Yosef al-Ashqar, Yaʿaqov b. Hīnī, Ḥayyim b. Hīnī, Yehudah Bahlūl (?), Yosef Muḥibb, the brother of Moshe, Shelomo Faranji, Ḥabīb Naftali, Ḥayyim Mador, Shemuel Ghazzāwī, Yiṣḥaq Ahumado (?), Yiṣḥaq al-Ashqar, Yiṣḥaq al-Ashqar Junior, Yaʿaqov Levi, Avraham Darʿī, Avraham al-Ashqar, Yiṣḥaq Talmid, Abū Yaʿqūb, Manṣūr (?) Kohen, ʿAlī b. Hīnī, Emanuel, Shabbetay, the flax worker, and Yehudah al-Ashqar.
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- 16th c
- late prosopography
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3774LetterAIU VIII.B.32
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Perhaps collectively indicating "Egypt" or, alternatively, "Cairo" the locational term "מציר" (l. 10r, 12r) is also in use, which although it does not reflect common Judeo-Arabic orthography may demonstrate influence of the Ottoman Turkish term "Misir." […] In the margin's final line there is also mention of one S[eñor] Yisrael Silmon [?] "ס יסראל שילמון".
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- late ja
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3775LetterBodl. MS heb. d 65/17
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Awkal in Fustat (Gil) or from Ifrīqiya by 'Allush b. Yeshuʿa to Ismaʿil b. Avraham in Egypt (Ben-Sasson). […] The letter mentions the difficulty of transporting goods due to difficult times and praises the business acumen of Yehuda, who sought help from the government (sulṭān) with the transport of goods (ḥattā waffaqa Allahu Yehuda saʾla l-sulṭān fī ḥiml"). Also mentions several shipwrecks and the writer's preoccupation with a barge that hadn't yet reached the port of Alexandria.
recto
1. [ ] כביר ואלכרא
2. ] בראיה [ …
recto
1. …גדול והשכירות
2. …על פי דעתו…והיה…ו' דינרים והסכום שלה…בתמורת מחצית דמי ההובלה, ב־90 דינר
3. …מנכים מהם פ' דינר ח' קיראטים, בעד עשרה, יהיה (הסכום…
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3776Legal documentCUL Or.1080 4.31
Document date
19 Tishrei 5575 Anno Mundi (3 October 1814 CE)
Primary language
Hebrew
Partnership agreement. Location: Alexandria. Dated: 19 Tishrei 5575 AM, which is 3 October 1814 CE. Between Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi from Istanbul ["Costa"] who pitched in 10,000 gerushim, Yiṣḥaq de Curiel from Cairo who pitched in 17,500 gerushim, Avraham Cesana & Company from Alexandria, who pitched in 17,5000 gerushim, and Eliyyahu Ayilion (possibly a variant of "Ayalon") from Cairo, who pitched in 1,500 gerushim, yielding a total capital fund of 46,500 gerushim (it specifies "Egyptian gerushim"). The partners agree to maintain business/partnership ties between the three cities Istanbul, Alexandria, and Cairo for three years with the possibility of an extension.
Recto
1. בסימן טוב והצלחה בפנינו עדים ח׳׳מ נשתתפו ו[.]ו לאחרים הלא המה החכם המעולה כה׳׳ר -
2. יצחק הלוי הי׳׳ו ת׳׳ו מתא קושט׳׳א יע׳׳א העומד היום פה עמנו במ…
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- 19th c
- alexandria
- cesana
- de curiel
- istanbul
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3777LetterCUL Or.1080 J102
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Mentions dealings with the amīrs Shibl al-Dawla (see F 1908.44i (PGPID 5270)) and Nāhiḍ al-Dawla (see T-S AS 118.190 (PGPID 18733) and T-S NS 306.171 (PGPID 25172)). […] The sender complains that he is persecuted in this way more than anyone else, and the previous year he also had great trouble getting reimbursed for merchandise that was stolen from him. […] On verso, he asks the addressee to speak to the wālī (ḥaḍrat al-wilāya) on his behalf.
Recto
1. ] . מ . . ואנני מא ארצאני סערה לאנני מא אנפדת דלך אלשוי אלא
2. ללאמיר שבל אלדולה כתב אללה סלאמתה ועלי אנה הו אלדי יתולא
3. לי אלאבתיאע כמא פעל לי פי…
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- amir
- fallah
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3778LetterENA 3099.6
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
On the second page mentions Bū l-Fatḥ al-Ḥalabī. Umm [...]; her brother; "not her brother and not her cousin"; "everyone who comes up from the people of Ṣanāfīr" (a town near Qalyūb); "tell him that there is no building(?) […] Continues in this vein complaining about this woman and how "everyone is laughing at us" (al-ālam yaḍḥakū ʿalaynā); asks the addressee to send Umm Surūr; mentions going to the nāʾib of Ṣanāfīr; and refers to a mount missing an ear and a tail (maṭiyyatī maqṭūʿat al-udhn maslūbat al-dhanb).
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3779LetterENA 3903.5
Primary language
Arabic
Probably from Aḥmad b. ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Maghribī al-Tūnisī (upper right of recto). […] On verso, he mentions [...] b. Muḥammad al-Shāṭir on two occasions (l. 1v, 17v); he gives prices for pepper and ginger; mentions the return from the ḥajj (al-nuzūl baʿd al-ḥajj); and mentions saffron.
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- hajj
- ib-addenda
- jedda
- lead
- mercury
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3780State documentENA 3974.4
Document date
1101–1130 CE
Primary language
Arabic
Ṣadaqa (Elbaum and Rustow independently of one another) to the Fatimid caliph al-Āmir bi-Aḥkām Allāh (1101–30 CE). In Arabic script. […] Manṣūr asks for a rescript (tawqīʿ) to be written on the back of his petition instructing the judge of al-Maḥalla to register the house enclosure as his property. He also asks for a copy for his own records. Information from Khan's edition.
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1. العبد المملوك
2. منصور بن سلامة من اهل سنديون
3. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
4. صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامي زكواته وافضل سلامه وتحياته على مولانا وسي…
Recto
1. The servant and slave
2. Manṣūr ibn Salāma from among the people of Sindiyūn.
3. In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate.
4. The bl…
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3781Legal documentENA 3975.6
Document date
27 Dhū l-Qaʿda 569 Hijrī (29 June 1174 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Lessee: Tamīm b. Yaʿqūb b. Yūsuf al-Yahūdī who lives in Sūq al-ʿAṭṭārīn. Lessor: the former agent/administrator of the properties of the Qodesh (wakīl al-aḥbās al-mawqūfa ʿalā ḍuʿafāʾ al-yahūd) Bayān b.
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- to edit
- to examine
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3782LetterENA NS 16.29
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
When they reached the second chapter (איכה יעיב באפו), the writer tried to pull up a chair to see better, which caused a scuffle involving Ibn al-Maghribī and Ḥayyūn and Makārim b. al-[...]. Two more people are mentioned later on: [...] al-Qāhirī and Ibn al-ʿAnbarī. Someone said, "You don't know how to recite! […] On verso, there are many greetings: to the venerable father, to the mother Sitt R[ayḥān?], al-Shaykh al-Sadīd Abū Zikrī and the ṣaghīra. The writer may be Shelomo b.
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3783LetterStras. 4110/90
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
In this one: he is upset about a lack of letters in response to his own and to those from his brother Abu l-Ḥasan. He mentions news from al-Mahallah. Much of the letter has to with plans for the holidays, possibly encouraging the recipient (likely his father) to "come out" and spend it with him. Abu l-Faraj b. al-Sammāk (son of the fishmonger) also encourages this. […] A certain Abu Bakr accompanies the bearer of the letter. The writer has also enclosed a letter to Waḥshī (? a man) and another one to Berakhah to Bilbays.
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3784LetterT-S 6J4.1
Primary languages
Arabic, Hebrew
He wants the couple to send a letter at the next opportunity. Also mentioned is a debt and ‘the time that the river rises’, probably a reference to the flooding of the Nile. A number of different names are mentioned: Elijah’s sister is Sitt al-Rūmī (שטירומי); also mentioned are Irini (אריני), Leon (לאון) and his wife Sitt al-Bayt (שטילבית), another son-in-law Kalev, a wife Mershini (מרשיני, vocalised) and a son Shemarya.
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1. ]ת רבות וברכות עצומות לחתני מ׳ אליה ולבתי אתוכלי
2. ] אביך ואמך ואחיך אליה ואחותך שטירומי וזקנה ומן
3. ]ך [ ]בת אחותך דעו אנו לחיים ובוטחים לאל וגם…
1. […] great [wellbeing] and mighty blessings to our son-in-law Mar Elijah and to our daughter ’TWKLY
2. […] your father and mother and your brother Eli…
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3785Credit instrument or private receiptT-S 6J11.3
Inferred date
1168–1204 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Addressed to a certain Abū l-Mufaḍḍal, instructing him to pay the bearer of this letter, named Yaʿaqov, who serves as a proxy for two notables—al-shaykh al-Asʿad and al-shaykh al-Thiqa—whatever amount of money he requires. Maimonides will compensate the addressee. Who was this al-shaykh al-Thiqa? During Maimonides’ lifetime, two people bearing this title are known.
1. אמת
2. אלשיך אבי אלמפצל
3. התלמיד שצ יוצל
4. למוצלהא אלזקן אלגליל
5. מ יעקוב וכיל אלמואלי
6. אלאגלא אלשיך אלאגל
7. אלאסעד ואלשיך אלתקה
8. יש צו מהמא טלבה
9. מן אלמולא מן אל…
1. Truth.
2. May the shaykh Abū l-Mufaḍḍal
3. the scholar, may his Rock protect him, deliver
4. to the bearer (of this letter), the esteemed elder
5. m[ister] Yaʿa…
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3786LetterT-S 12.13
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
The sender, a newcomer in Fustat from Yemen, describes himself as 'a pigeon whose wings have been clipped' (line 1), writes to his brother in Alexandria concerning his trouble having to live on a half or a quarter dirham a day, and also relating family news. […] This suggests the letter was folded when the ink was still wet or was folded for many years in the Geniza, causing the ink to transfer. The reverse side also features mirror text, which seems to be the continuation of this letter.
1. 1          אלי בנתה וקד בקית מתל חמאם מקצץ אל אג̇נחא ולמא קד
  2          תחו[ט]ת עלי נפסי פי אל ספר אלי אסכנדריה[1] קולת עסא עני נפד
  3          מן ג…
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3787LetterT-S 12.478
Inferred date
1007–1055 CE
Primary languages
Arabic, Hebrew
Original use: Letter or petition in Arabic script, mentioning the caliph, witnesses, a document (wathīqa), and a legal or political conflict. The Arabic hand also seems in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (c/f. CUL Or. 1080 J7, could also be in the same Arabic hand on T-S AS 149.39). The sender/petitioner is a tax farmer (ḍāmin) and requests to look into his affair "al-inʿām ʿalayya bi l-naḍr (=l-naẓr) fī amrī." He mentions reporting something directly to the caliph "wa-ashuftu ḥāluhu ilā l-ḥaḍra."
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3788Legal documentT-S 13J33.11 + ENA NS I.23
Document date
1391 Seleucid (31 August 1079–16 September 1080 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Possibly the inventory of a coppersmith who possessed also the three parts of the Bible. Mentions the Iraqi synagogue. […] Yiṣḥaq, [...] the trader Pinḥas b. Elʿazar Ibn al-Shofeṭ, and Nahray he-Ḥaver (who may sign somewhere). […] ENA NS 13.3 (PGPID 36025) is probably also realated. Needs further examination.
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3789LetterT-S 16.231
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter in which a Naib of Alexandria in the days of Saladin reports to the Nagid of Alexandria of two cases he took care of. […] He was then dragged around Qamra, a Jewish quarter of Alexandria, while the wali's messengers announced his crimes against religion to the public.The second the matter of two brothers who pressured, through threats and blackmail, the previous fiance of one of them not to engage to someone else.
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1. פי באטני עגיבה גריבה גדא פכנת אתחדת
2. מעה ומע גירה ואנא כאנני מעהם פלמא
3. קאל כדלך צרבוה אלחאצ'רין ואכרג'וה ועאד
4. דכל בשהותה אלחק סררת סרור עצים כי…
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- wali
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3790LetterT-S Ar.40.113
Primary language
Arabic
Yosef ha-Kohen, representative of the merchants, from an anonymous correspondent in Alexandria. Mentions the gaʾon (raʾs al-mathība) Maṣliaḥ ha-Kohen with fancy Fatimid titles. […] Shemarya, but lived a century later, so this is impossible. The hand is also different from the other hands Rustow has identified as belonging to Efrayim (see The Lost Archive, 498n49, which identifies Halper 354, T-S NS 320.45, Bodl. MS heb. d 66/83, CUL Or. 1080 J7, T-S 10J6.6, T-S 13J36.14, and T-S AS152.236 + T-S AS 152.269 as all being in Efrayim b. Shemarya's Arabic hand).
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1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
2. كتابي اطال الله بقا حضرة مولاي الشيخ الاجل وادام تاىىدها وعلاها وسموها وسنا[ها]
3. وتمكينها وارتقاها وكبت بالذل حسادها وا…
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3791State documentT-S Ar.42.129
Primary language
Arabic
Petition from a woman to a high dignitary or perhaps to al-Malik al-ʿĀdil himself (one reigned 1200–18 and another reigned 1238–40) in a rudimentary hand. She seems to be appealing for redress against a Christian tax farmer named Abū l-Fakhr and an intricate network of his family members, including his son, his brother Abū Saʿīd, Abū Saʿīd's wife, and possibly also 2 women (slaves?) named Aqrān and ʿAlam. They are behaving in a high-handed way in the hoarding of money, saying things that shouldn't be said, and something involving timber. Concludes with a lengthy curse on anybody who comes into possession of this petition and fails to convey it to al-ʿĀdil and apprise him of its contents. Ed. Tamer el-Leithy, Marina Rustow and Naïm Vanthieghem (December 2016).
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3792Literary textT-S Ar.42.203
Primary language
Arabic
A nearly identical version may be found in Quṭb al-Surūr fī Awṣāf al-Khumūr by al-Raqīq al-Qayrawānī (d. 1034), citing Abū l-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī, citing Yūnus al-Kātib (http://islamport.com/w/adb/Web/672/37.htm).
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3793State documentT-S AS 177.273
Primary languages
Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals
Fiscal document with at least three distinct sections. 1) The main text block concerns ships, requisitioning, ḍummān, and the officials charged with transporting crops from al-Nastarāwiyya to Tinnīs. Similar themes to T-S Ar.40.37 (PGPID 8264). Headed "accounts" (aḥsiba). 2) At lower left: "ʿamālat al-miʿṣarat al-qaṣab..."—the official allowance for the sugarcane press for (the amīr X) al-Mulk. […] The second is in the name of al-Muwaffaq [...]. 4) A later scribe evidently folded the page in half and used the left side of recto for private accounts, now in fainter ink and ina non-fiscal hand.
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3794State documentT-S H15.124
Document date
5 Muḥarram 592 Hijrī (10 December 1195 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Refers to a someone with the titles Khalīl Amīr al-Muʾminīn and ʿIzz al-Dīn (both typical of viziers, though the latter might be this person's specific laqab). […] He then describes how the funds are being distributed, including distributions for the pilgrims or those who have completed the Ḥajj (al-ḥājjūn) from among the scholars (al-fuqahāʾ) and the poor (al-fuqarāʾ), and how all the recipients thank and praise the addressee day and night.
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3795List or tableT-S Misc.8.66
Document date
middle third of Rabiʿ I 545 Hijrī (8 July 1150–17 July 1150 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Mentions names such as Abū ʿAlī Ibn al-Ḥunaykh; ʿIwāḍ b. Miṣbāḥ; ʿAzzāz(?) al-Iskandarānī; Hārūn Ibn Muyassar(?); Nuṣayr; Khulayf Ibn al-Miṣrī; al-Kohen Abū l-Barakāt; Barakāt b. Muyassar; 'the deserving public from the dyers of Damsīs' (אלציבור אלמסתחק ענד צבאגין דמסיס); Hārūn al-Kohen; Yaʿaqov b.
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3796LetterT-S NS 321.32
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
To be sent to the Muṣāṣa neighborhood, to the shop of [...] al-[...] al-Yahūdī. Dating: Probably 12th or 13th century. The sender reports that he has opened a shop with "the physician" (al-ḥakīm), where they will work together for a period of 1 year, from Sukkot to Sukkot. […] There is also some issue involving a silk girdle (zunnār ḥarīr) and an oath.
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3797LetterT-S NS J36
Document date
1094–1111 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Petition from Ḍiyāʾ bt. Yūsuf al-Qamrī (or possibly "bayt Yūsuf al-Qamrī" = his wife) to her relative Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllūnal-Firnās (=ʿEli b. […] She states that she must pay the jailer several dirhams every day, which she cannot afford, and suggests that Mevorakh will be able to secure the release of her son simply by writing a note (ruqʿa) to the Alexandrian qāḍī. (Mark Cohen, Jewish Self-government in Medieval Egypt, Princeton University Press, 1980, 113, 260, 261; S.
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1. בשמ' רחמ'
2. כתאבי אליך יא סידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם
3. תאידך וסעאדתך וסלאמתך ונעמתך וכאן לך
4. וליא וחאפצא ונאצרא אנה ולי דלך ואלקאצר עליה
5. ואלד…
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3798Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328
Document date
3 Av 5325 AM Anno Mundi (1 July 1565 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Debt acknowledgment between ʿAbd al-Laṭīf b. Moshe al-Maghribī and Shemuʾel b. Yaʿaqov al-Levi ha-Somekh. ʿAbd al-Laṭīf commits to make weekly payments until a total sum of 160 niṣf fiḍḍa (medin) is paid off. This entry is significant because it marks the latest point in the court register where the Karaite judge Yehuda ha-Rofe ha-dayyan is listed as being alive (יצ׳׳ו). He is first mentioned as deceased (נ׳׳ע) in the nomenclature of his son ʿAbd al-Wāḥid in legal record #111 from April 1567 CE: PGPID 41686.
Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 27v
1. ..ע קנטאר טייב בסביל אלנדר //אלמד׳ אע׳// לכנסת דאר שמחה תב׳ ותכ׳ תם אשהדת
2. עליהא גאליה אלמד׳ אע׳ אן ליס [[ל]] בקי להא ענ…
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3799Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.19
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
The court ordered Abū l-Rabīʿ Sulaymān al-Kohen to purchase 1/8 of a house for 50 dinars for the unmarried orphan Sitt al-Ḥasab, because this was a "binding debt" owed to her by him him and by their late father (Abū Zikrī Kohen), meaning that this sum had been formally set aside for her dowry (Krakowski, Coming of Age, p. 157). The house is in Fustat, Suwayqat al-Wazīr, Darb al-Nabbādhīn (Winesellers' Street). […] Ibrāhīm acted as agent for this purchase. In case Sitt al-Ḥasab dies unmarried, this property will return (ʿā'id) to her mother, after Abū l-Rabīʿ Sulaymān takes whatever value has appreciated (al-perot) from the time of purchase to her death.
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3800Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 1700.21
Document date
13 Tammuz 1467 Seleucid (3 July 1156 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Dated: Monday, 13 Tammuz 1467 Seleucid. Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq al-Skandarānī appeared before the court bearing a power of attorney from a woman named Munā bt. Shemarya from Alexandria regarding collecting the qumāsh that her late mother had bequeathed her and that had passed into the possession of her late father. The court inquired about the matter, and it seems that the qumāsh was given to her (i.e., to her agent) before the court by Bū Saʿd al-ʿAṭṭār b. Abū l-ʿAlā Ibn al-Zayyātī. The next record clarifies that Bū Saʿd was the trustee of the court with whom the father deposited the items of the qumāsh in the name of his daughter.
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