Documents

Primary language

Arabic

Probably originates from al-Maṭbakh al-Ḍamīrī in al-Marj. Needs examination.

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Document date

500 Hijrī (2 September 1106–21 August 1107 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions an official of al-Afḍal by the name Zahr al-Dawla Bandūd al-Afḍalī. (See al-Maqrīzī, Ittiʿāẓ, III, 34).

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• dimme
• fatimid
• fiscal
• iqta'

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Document date

10 Iyyar 1454 Seleucid (26 April 1143 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Bill of divorce (get). On vellum. Location: al-Maḥalla al-Kubrā. Dated: Monday, 10 Iyyar 1454 Seleucid, which is 1143 CE. […] The same two witnesses also sign the attestation on verso that she received the get.

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• get

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Document date

11 Rajab 989 Hijrī (11 August 1581 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Qaṣīda, ending, by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAlī b. Ṣāliḥ al-Makkūdī (d. 1405 CE), with a colophon giving the date: 11 Rajab 989 AH = 11 August 1581 CE. Verso contains many lines of Arabic text (90 degrees to recto, so probably not the same work), almost completely blotted out with ink. Much of it may still be legible though.

Tags

• classical arabic poetry
• colophon

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Containing a request to deliver letters to the Nezer (= Natan b. Shemuʾel?) and al-Raḍiyy, as well as a request to buy for Yosef a nice dust-colored homemade mantle (jubba jayyida rahja ʿamal al-dār... takūn malīha jayyida...). Abū ʿImrān al-Kohen al-Beḥir is to help the addressee with this purchase.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The writer specifies his wishes for his grave and shroud (for which he has also supplicated God all the days of his life). He wishes to be buried in between his father and mother, and the site is already prepared for his body.

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• cemetery
• funeral

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Document date

550 Hijrī (7 March 1155–24 February 1156 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The petition is addressed to a military general at the time of al-Mustaʿlī or al-Āmir. The petitioner is most likely also a former army personnel and is petitioning regarding an iqṭāʿ.

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• 12th c
• fatimid
• iqta'
• petition

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Most of the continuation is fragmentary. Also involved in the case (as judges?) are Levi Ibn al-Quḍāʿī; Yehuda al-Dimashqī b.

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Primary language

Arabic

Mentions a broker in the market (al-simsār bi-sūq al-[...]) and Muhadhdhab al-Yahūdī. Verso: Later legal document in Arabic script. Mentions a banker (al-Ṣārifī) and several other names. Dating: Looks late, probably not earlier than 13th century, but needs further examination.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On the recto quantities of coinage in Ottoman cedid are listed as well as goods such as wax and eggs. There is also mention of a "muhtasib / מחטסב" a market overseer in the Ottoman empire whose significance is also widely attested in scholarship regarding the medieval economy.

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• late ja
• list
• muhtasib

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Testimony regarding an altercation between Shemuʾel b. Yaʿaqov and Mufaḍḍal al-Kohen al-Dhabbāḥ over ritual slaughter. […] Seʿadya and Binyamin b. Yefet. Join: Alan Elbaum.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto might be a collection of pen trials (tajrīb al-qalam ʿalāal-qirṭāsila(!)) and aphorisms. At the lower left there is a quotation from Galen about asking dead people (ahl al-maqābir) how they died.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

One side: A prayer in Hebrew (each phrase begins תתברך) in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. The other side: Judaeo-Arabic poetry, also in Nāṣir's hand.

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• nasir
• recipe

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An Avraham Serano (שיראנו) is also mentioned in Bodl. MS Heb. c 27/87 (1740 CE PGPID 19319) but these accounts JRL L 56 may be significantly older based on the paleography– perhaps as early as 16th-century. The surname Griyanī is also visible on the verso. MCD.

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• 16th c or later

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The sender mentions that the community members do not fulfill their duties towards the yeshiva. Also discusses the problem of girls forced to marry against their will. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, p. 207. See also Goitein index card.)

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• babylonian academies
• babylonian geonim
• communal
• marriage
• shemuel b. eli
• (+ 1 more)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The addressee should send the response with "the fleet" (al-uṣṭūl). Regards to various people, including "(the friend of?) my wife (ṣāḥibat baytnā) Sitt al-Shām the daughter of the son of Hiba." Mentions a woman who is allalone; the addressee should urge her family to come visit her.

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Document date

6 Shevaṭ 156[.] Seleucid (21 January 1249–12 January 1258 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Seleucid, which is 1256 CE. (Might also be 1564 Seleucid = 1253 CE.) Drawn up under the authority of a leader with many titles including דגל הרבנים; this is presumably David b. […] One of the parties is Abū ʿAlā b. [...] and another is Amīn al-Dīn. (Information in part from CUDL)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic informing the addressee of matters concerning Sitt Maqṣūra (NB: this is not a name but the word maqṣūdhā meaning 'her intention'), also mentioning her sister Sitt Māṭruṣa (מאטרצ֗ה) (this is also not a name but means "she is not content with X" (ما ترضى).

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• to edit

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Document date

25 August 1059 CE

Letter from Salama b. Musa ha-Safaqusi, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Date: August 25, 1059. […] The writer is about to sail from Alexandria, probably to Sicily. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 4, #747) VMR

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Primary language

Hebrew

Information from Avraham David's transcription and notes on FGP, where he also provides detailed commentary on the figures named. ASE. See also Dotan Arad's edition from his dissertation (p. 353).

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• 16th c
• beirav
• damietta
• shanji

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a man, probably in Alexandria, to his 'brother,' probably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. […] Much of it seems to be reported speech between the writer and a woman. The writer also complains of difficult economic circumstances and the high price of flax and yarn.

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• jariya
• slaves

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Mūsā b. Yaʿqūb al-Miṣrī, in Malīj, to Abū l-ʿAlā' Yūsuf b. Dāwud b. […] The writer complains about the behavior of Malij's governor. He also mentions some commercial transactions and expresses worries about relatives in Damascus.

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• suftaja

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Document date

13 Muḥarram 424 Hijrī (19 December 1032 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Legal document concerning the lease of a house by ʿAbd al-Bāqī b. Aḥmad the preacher, from Mūsā b. ʿAdī the Jew, in the district of al-Khawlān in Fustat. […] The transcription appears below along with the transcriptions for several unrelated documents, which were all glued together to form a large sheet.

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• lease

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Letter fragment from Barhūn b. Yiṣḥaq al-Tāhartī. The letter is addressed to someone who is younger than the writer (he calls him “my son”). Mentions a big loss in business because of goods that got wet. Also mentions his brother ʿAṭā, his cousin Yūsuf b. Mūsā, and the ship al-Laki. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, #386) VMR

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• al-tahirti
• ship
• trade

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Document date

531 Hijrī (29 September 1136–18 September 1137 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Dated: 531 AH, which is 1136/37 CE. ʿAlī b. Ḥassān b. Maʿālī al-Tarābulusī rents a small garden house on the Nile from the shaykh Abu l-Ḥusayn Saʿīd b. Manṣūr, one of the mutawallīn al-jawāmiʿ wa-l-masājid al-maʿmūra (superintendent of government mosques) for the duration of 4 years, 8 or 8 ¼ dinars per year.

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Document date

1437 Seleucid (1125–1126 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Other names mentioned (many of them relating to the borders of the property): a house named after Muʾammal al-Kātib al-[...]; the daughter of Abū Malīḥ(?); and [...] b. Ṣadaqa. Also mentions the price of 155 [...]. (Information in part from CUDL.)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The original document is a Judaeo-Arabic letter addressed to Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat, from his "family" (ahl baytih, which can also mean "wife"), in Alexandria. Little of the content is preserved, but it mentions something belonging to a woman named Rivqa.

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Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Signed by Yefet b. Netanʾel ha-Mumḥe (also appears in T-S 10J5.9 (PGPID 3036) in 1102 CE and also signs T-S 6J1.6 (PGPID 3604) in 1101/02 CE).

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Listing Abū l-Faraj b. Ṣedaqa, Maʿālī Ibn al-Ḥallāl (300+ of silver and two dinars), Abū l-Ḥasan al-Aʿraj (23 dirhams), Khalaf Ibn al-Fuqqāʿī (5 1/2), and Naṣr Ibn al-Maghāzilī (2 dirhams).

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• account

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Contains a number of names and professions such as Joseph, Umm ʿAlī, al-Ḥazzān, al-baqqāl ‘vegetable trader, innkeeper’, al-ṣāniʿ ‘the craftsman’.

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• account

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

On parchment. Mentions [...]allāh Ibn Khudādār (possibly the same Abū ʿAbdallāh Ibn Khudādād from ENA NS 71.6 (PGPID 11170) and AIU VII.A.38.1 (PGPID 33701)). Also mentions the Nagid, a purse of money, al-Balnasī and David b.

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