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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

3 Transcriptions 1 Translation

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

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

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

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

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

Tags

• jeweler
• jewelry
• profit

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Document date

627 Hijrī (20 November 1229–8 November 1230 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The text on recto includes the phrase "bi-ḥuḍūr al-qāḍī Sayf al-Dīn Abī ʿAbdallāh b. al-Qāḍī [...] Jamāl al-Dīn." Needs further examination.

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Document date

28 Muḥarram 587 Hijrī (25 February 1191 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

(Though note that Khan at one time read the date as 787 AH, see ALAD p. 45 n. 143.) Mentions Hārūn al-dhimmī. Could also be a qāḍī court record because of the numerous fuṣūʿ it contains.

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• dimme
• fgp stub

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(A man by the same name is known from India Book 4, as one of Yehuda ha-Levi's companions in his trip to Alexandria, but the name is common, and there is no sign that this is the addressee here.) The other side: Seems to be in the same hand, also consisting entirely of deferential blessings (kissing hands and feet, etc.)

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• ib-addenda

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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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Document date

Dhū l-Ḥijja 514 Hijrī (21 February 1121–21 March 1121 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions Fustat, ḥikr (ground rent), and repeated references to renting (ijāra, mustaʾjir). Also refers to the government bureau of mosques (Dīwān al-Jawāmiʿ wa-l-Masājid al-Maʿmūra) in the bottom line before the witness clauses and the date.

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• hikr

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Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

A version of this appears also in Arabic: "this is for Abū Manṣūr b. ʿAbdallāh al-Isrāʾīlī" followed by blessings, concluding with a mention of someone or something al-Iskandarāniyya.

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Primary language

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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Primary language

Arabic

Verso, is covered with writing in Arabic script in all directions (including fiscal accounting?), with some Greek/Coptic numerals. It contains an archival note from a 12th C state document, "thabata fī dĪwān al-ʿĀdilī al-Saʿīd", "it was recorded in the royal bureau of al-ʿĀdil".

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• dimme
• to edit

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender orders several miʿjars, at least one with embroidery (ṭirāz). Also orders dabīqī cloth. Also mentions something about 'placing the risk on its owner / his friend' (4 lines from the bottom).

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• tiraz

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Primary language

Arabic

Letter in Arabic script. There is also some Hebrew mixed in; "the covenant" (البريث) is mentioned in recto line 1, likely as part of an oath. The sender mentions transactions and dialogue between himself and Abū l-Ḥasan [...] al-Wakīl. On verso, mainly conveys greetings to and from various people, including the head of the Yeshiva (Raʾs al-Mathība) who sends a message.

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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
• (+ 9 more)

2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

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

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List of names (e.g. ʿAbd al-Salām and Bishāra) and numbers. Several names are preceded by open circles; many are also crossed out.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment from the beginning of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning that the addressee recovered (naqahtu) from an illness. Also mentions Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm [al-Q?]ābisī.

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517

1 Transcription

Primary language

Arabic

Fragmentary. Includes the phrase "al-dukhūl ilā awsāṭ al-bilād" ("entering into the heart of the country"), then refers to Byzantium (bilād al-Rūm).

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• byzantium

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Primary language

Arabic

There are multiple fragments under this shelfmark. All are in Arabic script. Top right and top left belong to a similar work. Bottom left is also literary but in a different hand.

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• dimme

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Primary language

Arabic

Daʿwat al-Aṭibbāʾ (The Doctors' Dinner Party) by Ibn Buṭlān. See also Yevr. Arab. II 1545 and BL OR 5565G.44–45 (PGPID 31347).

Tags

• arabic literary
• bimaristan
• medical

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Primary language

Hebrew

Mentions names such as al-ʿAbbāsī, Maymūn, Bū l-Khayr, and Naḥmas. There is also literary text at 180 degrees.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Note addressed to "al-mawlā al-muwaffaq al-saʿīd R. Samawʾal" asking him to do a favor, "if he is able to go out, meet with me [...]."

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Primary language

Arabic

Contains a taqbīl clause, 'al-maqām al-ʿālī,' and the beginning of the report (wa-yunhī annahū rajul).

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• dimme

1 Transcription

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a physician (al-ḥakīm) and gives business instructions. On verso there is a separate document in Arabic script, maybe also a letter.

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Primary language

Arabic

In the name of [...] b. Menashshe al-Isrāʾīlī. There is a description of a woman as "al-ṭaliqat al-lisān" (the fluent/facile of tongue).

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Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Listing various textiles/garments and prices in dirhams. Also mentions the ruqʿa of the banker (al-ṣayrafī).

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Primary language

Arabic

Top of a deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In the name of al-Ḥājj ʿAlī b. Ḥasan b. Maḥmūd known as al-Shāʿir (the poet).

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Hodaya, with the name Atniq Jalīl (אתניק גליל). Possibly also refers to Mevorakh and Abū ʿAlī as the person's enemies.

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Primary language

Arabic

State-related account, on one of the four pages of the bifolio: muḥāsabat al-mawlā [……..] al-muʿāmal/il bi-l-dīwān al-maʿmūr…..Needs examination.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

Poem/piyyut, the last 10 lines alternating between Hebrew and Arabic. (Information from FGP.) See also T-S NS 306.8 (PGPID 38275).

Tags

• bialphabetic
• macaronic

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Entries include: Manṣūr b. Ḥunayn(?)... ḥammām al-shaykh... sayyid al-dār... Ismāʿīl al-Ḥabbās(?)...

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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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3 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary language

Arabic

Letter in Arabic script from Naṣrallāh (he begins the letter "mamlūkuhu akhūhu Naṣrallāh," line 2) to his brother Sharaf al-Dīn (line 3). The writer seems to be a provincial official of some sort. He reports awaiting the arrival of al-Qāḍī al-Ẓahīr (?) (named in lines r5, r10, and rm1). […] He asks his brother to keep him informed about "the story of the Ra'īs." He sends regards to ʿAlāal-Dīn b. [...] and to their mother, among others.

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• arabic script
• jarida
• musharif
• qadi
• saqiya
• (+ 2 more)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

It is a lament about the afflictions visited on a group of people ("calamities have come upon us... and they have not found any reason for our perplexity... the sun disappeared and the moon was eclipsed..."). It also refers to another group of people who "find no country but that they take it into captivity (or: conquer it)." […] There are several words crossed out and replaced with different ones. There are also one or two marginal glosses. In the bottom margins there are jotted accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. The Arabic script on verso mentions a druggist (al-ʿaṭṭār), someone titled Tāj al-Mulk, and possibly [...] al-ʿAdanī.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

People mentioned: the Samaritan (al-Sāmirī). See also the description for the whole notebook Bodl.

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• samaritan

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Nājiya(?); Yaʿaqov. Ḥasan and al-Ramlī; al-Manūfī; the in-law of Mubārak; ṣāḥib al-ʿūd;

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

First page of "The Book of Hidden Treasures in the Art of Medicine and Surgery" (kitāb al-dhakhāʾir al-maknūna fī ʿilm al-ṭibb wa-l-jirāḥa).

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Primary language

Arabic

Mentions the sender's brother ʿAbd al-Kāfī who is with him in the house. Also refers to someone as 'sayyidnā' in the marginal text.

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Primary language

Arabic

In Arabic script, with pious Islamic phrases (incl. lā ḥawla wa-lā quwwa illā billāhi al-ʿaliyyal-ʿaẓīm). With stars of David.

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• arabic script
• magic

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