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3901List or tableT-S AS 150.125
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Accounts of a textile dealer mentioning names such as Murhaf al-Dawla, [...] al-Dawla, and Sibāʿ. Entries include a jūkāniyya (spelled shūkāniyya here), the making of an ʿarḍiyya, silk, and the dyeing of wool.
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- dyeing
- textiles
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2018
PGPID
18120
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3902Legal documentT-S AS 159.212
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Fragment of a legal document. Likely an engagement or betrothal agreement (including phrases such as מתי מא אפסכת דלך כאן... and ואלעאיד באללה...), but could be a business partnership agreement.
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2023
PGPID
38496
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3903List or tableT-S AS 176.260
Primary languages
Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals
Bifolio of private accounts in Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Many entries crossed out. There are many other fragments that look like this, possibly from the same scribe or ledger.
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2023
PGPID
37277
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3904List or tableT-S AS 182.69
Primary languages
Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals
Contains some accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, but also contains two entries that begin اصفح(?), and one may mention a woman who was killed by her husband.
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- to examine
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35896
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3905State documentT-S AS 183.149
Primary language
Arabic
Recto: Small fragment from official correspondence. The ends of three lines are preserved. Refers to a "matter" (qaḍiyya) twice and maybe a problem (mushkila).
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2023
PGPID
37857
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3906List or tableT-S J1.13
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Mentions Yaʿaqov; "the partnership between me and Ibn al-Ṣayrafī. . . in wheat"; Raslān and something to do with barley; a partnership with Surūr; and someone named Saḥar(?) with the entry mentioning wheat again.
Tags
- account
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2021
PGPID
23054
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3907LetterT-S K25.240.8
Inferred date
1205–1237 CE
Primary language
Arabic
Recto: End of a letter in Arabic script (this text is from the right margin, with some of the beginnings of the lines of the main text preserved).
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PGPID
35477
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3908List or tableT-S Misc.10.35
Primary language
Arabic
Table in Arabic script, possibly with sums of money underneath each entry. Needs examination. On verso there is a page from a work on magic in Hebrew and Aramaic, including the section on 'everything evil,' e.g., killing and sowing hatred.
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2023
PGPID
38021
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3909LetterT-S Misc.11.203
Primary language
Arabic
On recto there is a long list of items in Arabic script, mostly or entirely materia medica. On verso there are Greek/Coptic numerals at the top and then a message in Arabic script asking the addressee to do something involving the bearer, Bū Saʿd.
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3910State documentT-S NS 135.115
Primary language
Arabic
State document, small fragment. Written in enormous script, which seems most suited to a decree except that the formula bears resemblance to standard petition formula with the additional usage of "mamlūkihi".
1. ولمولانا صلوات الله عليه مملوكه
Recto
1. ولمولانا صلوات الله عليه مملوكه
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- dimme
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2019
PGPID
23624
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3911State documentT-S NS 148.46
Primary language
Arabic
End of an official letter in Arabic script. "...fīmā yaḥtāj ilayh..." then a ḥamdala and ṣalwala.
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23673
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3912Literary textT-S NS 165.112
Primary languages
Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Prayer in a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew ending "God the exalted is the one asked to lift the veil of ignorance from us, amen."
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41096
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3913LetterT-S NS 226.151
Primary language
Ladino
The writer complains about having to be there and not being able to earn enough money to eat. Needs further examination.
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- ladino
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3914State documentT-S NS 297.171
Primary language
Arabic
Dated: Looks like 551 AH, which would be 1156/57 CE if correct. See ENA 3945.9 (PGPID 10485) for a list of related documents.
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- capitation tax
- tax receipt
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3915List or tableT-S NS 315.186
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Verso also has several entries of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century.
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2019
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25341
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3916Unknown typeT-S NS 324.125
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
According to FGP it is a poem with end rhyme referring to `thousand shoes and `two brass lamps' but it might be also a fragment of a list of items.
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- copper
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3917List or tableAIU IX.B.27
Primary language
Ladino
This seems plausible because once the list ends a final monetary value is offered of 8,500 guruş, which implies that the contents of this "nota de ashugar" are altogether valued at 7,000 guruş. Some of the material gifts listed are: "panyo" (l.12r), "ropa franca" (l.12r), "kamizas... de seda" (l.13r), "estanpa" (l.15r), "fezes mughrabis" (l.15-16r), "sabanas" (l.25r) (or in English: cloth, French clothing, silk shirts, stamp, Maghribi Fez hats, and bedsheets) MCD.
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30737
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3918Legal documentBL OR 12369.27
Document date
11 Tishrei 5567 Anno Mundi (23 September 1806 CE)
Engagement (shiddukhin) contract on recto. Dated: 11 Tishrei 5567 AM (התקסז), which is 1806 CE. […] Verso is a dowry list of items and their values apparently relevant to the engagement of Maʿtūqa bt. Eliyahu Palombo and Avraham Levi Skandarī.
Recto:
1. ב[סט׳׳ו] ובנים ועושר והרוחה
2. שידך הבחור ונחמד החתן המפואר כה׳׳ר משה צבי
3. את הכלה יעלת חן וכלילת יופי הבתולה הב[וג]רת מב׳׳ת שמחה
4. מב׳׳ת בת המ׳ ב…
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31697
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3919LetterBodl. MS heb. a 2/20
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
"In the ship of the Amir Nasir al-Dawla I sent you thirty-one new large skins of oil, measuring sixty-two matars; on their stoppers the names Salama and Judah are engraved. They are closed with small stoppers and fixed tightly with soaked palm leaves and parchment. […] The names Judah and Salama are engraved on these as well. I hope everything will arrive.
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1. כתאבי אליך יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם איאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך
2. ונעמאך יום אלג' לד' בקין מן שהר אלול ען חאל סלאמה ונעמה ללה אלחמד
3. שכרא וען ש…
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1. אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את ימי שלומך ואת אושרך
2. ואת חסדיו לך, ביום ג', כ"ו בחודש אלול. שלומי טוב ואני מאושר…
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2017
PGPID
2507
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3920LetterCUL Or.1080 J220
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
-)in-law (ḥamātī) are also mentioned but their place in the story is not entirely clear. He blandishes Abu l-Ḥasan to give him the money immediately because he is in financial straits, and then threatens to take him to court if he fails to pay up. […] T-S 13J27.21, T-S 8J10.16, T-S 8J24.1); this is supported by the mention of Musa at the end but still conjectural. ASE.
Recto:
1. . . . . . קת אהל אלבלד
2. ואללה יגאזיכם באלכיר
3. ובאללה אקסם אנך פי
4. קלבי מתל אבו אלפרג
5. לאנך אנת תעלם פזת
6. אבוך ענך ואמא גיר דא
7. פאנך תשמע באלשיך
8. אבו…
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- abu sahl levi
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2020
PGPID
19805
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3921LetterENA 2727.27
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
(The transcription on FGP for ENA 2727.27 is the trousseau list of Nājiya bt. Abū l-Khayr and belongs with a different shelfmark, probably ENA 4020.62.)
Recto:
1. בש רח
2. יברבך ייי מציון עשה שמים וארץ
3. יענך ייי ביום צרה ישגבך שם אלהי יעקב
4. עקב ענוה יראת ייי עושר וכבוד וחיים
5. פרי צדיק עץ חיים ולוקח נפשות חכם
6. …
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- illness letter 969-1517
- illness: 40 days
- illness: du'f
- illness: lazim
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2017
PGPID
6171
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3922LetterENA 2727.57
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Handwriting of the same scribe: ENA NS 39.22. The sender may be Abū l-Hajjāj b. Abū l-Faraj al-Ṭabīb (see ENA NS I.2 and T-S 10J13.10), and the addressee may be Abū l-Najm, the son of Manṣūr b.
Recto:
1. מתלך מן [
2. מא תריד וא[ס]עה קד וצ[יתך
3. עמך אבו אלפצל ואנת מן [. . . . . . .] מא
4. תדהל(?) חתא תנבא[ע] אלדכאן ולא יבקא
5. עליך ותקול מן אבוך אן כאן מ…
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2017
PGPID
6665
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3923LetterENA 2735.2
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
During the synagogue service, this son of a judge mentioned "our Lord" in the end of the prayer which caused an uproar among the local elders. […] This document used to be listed on PGP under the nonexistent shelfmark ENA 2736.20. See also T-S NS J454 (PGPID 8792), a letter from al-Mumḥe Ibn al-Shofeṭ which appears to be in the same handwriting as this one.
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1. כתאבי אלי מולאי אלכהן אלפרנס אלנאמן
2. אדאם אללה עזה וכתם לה בכיר
3. ואחיאה ואחיא ולדה אלפרנס אבו
4. כתיר ואוראה מנה אלכתרה אמן
5. וגמאעתנא אל . . ין אלכב…
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2017
PGPID
12271
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3924LetterENA 4011.20
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
His presence highly enhanced the prestige of the Jewish community and both Jews and Muslims were happy with him. […] NB: Goitein called this document ENA 4011.19.
1. כר]אמה מקאם נפסה [
2. אל]שיך אלתקה בן אלשיך אבו גאלב //זל// דן ויו[
3. פ]אן אללה קד חאשאהם ו כאצך אלשיך [
4. ירצא באלמסאל תגמלת אלבלד ואלכניסה [
5. ופרחו בה אלי…
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- thanks
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2017
PGPID
2662
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3925Legal documentENA NS 2.45
Inferred date
1100–1138 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
"The primary purpose of providing a woman with real estate was the creation for her of enduring economic security, which would make her financially independent. […] For example, when a widow (or, less likely, divorcee, l. 10) brings into the marriage, besides a valuable bridal outfit, 'an entire large house in the Fortress of the Candles' (l. 7), another 'large house in the Grand Bazaar opposite the Funduq' (l. 9), and quarter of a house somewhere else (where, not preserved)."
1. אל. . .ה ען אלתלתה מואצע אל[
2. קניא א.כתארדונה באלביע וקבץ אל[
3. ירושה בעולם ואן ליס לה אלתעלק ב.[
4. הכשר לקנות בו מעכשו בביטול כל מוד[עין
5. וגעלתה ברסם כבז…
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2017
PGPID
2686
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3926LetterENA NS 16.28
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
This was the only thing that helped; the amir granted permission (to the sender?) to enter the synagogue (which had been closed?). Someone called Ibn al-Dayyan (the son of the judge) is fomenting conflict throughout all this. […] The letter is quite damaged but merits further examination. ENA NS 16.28 (PGPID 11714) and T-S 10J12.15 (PGPID 2810) are about the same events and are probably from the same sender.
1. ] דכרה פי[
2. אל]לה תעאלי יס.[
3. אלאמ?]יר אצחאבנא [. . . . צאל]ח אלדעא וכאן [אלשיך אבו
4. אלפ?]רג אדאם אללה עזה קד אכד לילה [
5. מולאי אלשיך ואיצא אלכתאב אלתי …
Recto
1. [ ] mentioned in [ ]
2. [Go]d the exalted [ ]
3. [the am]īr our colleagues [........ bes]t of prayers. [al-Shaykh Abū
4. al-Fa]raj, may God…
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- shidda
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2017
PGPID
11714
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3927Legal documentIOM D 55.10
Document date
6 Marḥeshvan 1444 Seleucid (17 October 1132 CE)
Deed of manumission for Ashū, an enslaved woman (shifḥa) in the Tuḷu region of the Malabar coast.
Recto
1. בשני בשבת דהוא שיתא יומין לירח מרחשון דשנת אלִ[פא]
2. וארבע מאה וארבעין וארבעה שנין למניאנא דשטרות
3. שאנו רגילין למנות בו במדינת מנגרור דבא[רץ הו]ד…
Recto
1. On the second day of the week, which is the sixth day of the month of Marḥeshvan of the year one thousa[nd]
2. four hundred forty-four according …
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2004
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5501
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3928LetterJRL A 75
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Sighmar mentioned with this title in ENA2804.11 (Goitein, Med.Soc.3:183). The letter also mentions the Nasi and ends with profuse expressions of submission.
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- communal
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5198
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3929LetterMIAC 23973.69
Primary language
Arabic
He specifically requests protection for them, asking the eparch to ensure that no one "has had the audacity to be hostile to them."
Recto
1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
2. اعلم الاكشيل وصاحب الخيل ووزير الملك اطال
3. الله بقاها وادام سعادته وسلامته ونعمته ان
4. كتابي تقدم اليه على يد مولاي كنز ال…
Recto
1. In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate.
2. I inform the Ikshīl, Master of the Horses and vizier of the king—
3. may God prolong his…
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- qasr ibrim
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2024
PGPID
40161
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3930LetterMoss. VII,162.3
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Partial translation by Joel Kraemer: "I have sworn an oath not to wash the clothes I wear until I return to you, nor cut my hair, drink wine or enter a bath until I come home. People know how I am constantly weeping, crying out and sobbing. By the Torah of Moses, peace upon him, I have not forgotten you, nor have I ever replaced you with someone else, or forgotten your piety and love; may God not let me die out of desire for you. I entreat you not to forget me in your prayers ... I wish to treat you with kindness, may God fulfill my hopes in this regard.
Translated by Nadia Vidro
And the . . . was destroyed . . . property that was owed by my brother—may his memory be blessed. And I did not depart from…
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- fasting
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2017
PGPID
9367
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3931LetterMoss. VII,210
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
with the 'matters of the Jews.' It seems he was encroaching on the rights of the legitimate muqaddam, who may have been ʿUbayd, 'who is recognized by the majority of the Gazans.' […] Needs further examination. Probably related: ENA NS I.81 (PGPID 11334), Moss. VII,210 (PGPID 27096), and/or Bodl.
1. קד עלם אללה גלה קדרתה שוקי לחצרה
2. סיידנא ירום הודו וממא אעלם בה סיידנא
3. אן למא כאן יום אלגמעה אלדי הי כד יום מן
4. אדר ראשון פנזל ר שמריה אלכהן אלי אלסוק
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2020
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3932Legal documentT-S 8J5.22
Document date
Wednesday, 9 Kislev 1473 Seleucid (29 November 1161 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Engagement (shiddukhin) contract. Location: Fustat. […] She will live with the groom’s mother and brother in one domicile (maskan) as long as this does her no harm. At the engagement, one ring of silver and of gold was handed over to the representative.
1. בארבעה בשבה דהוא תשעה יומי לירח כסליו דשנת
2. אלפא וארבע מאה ושבעין ותלת שנין לשטרות בפסטאט
3. מצרים דעל נילוס נהרא מותבה רשותיה דהדרת יקרת
4. צפירת תפארת כב…
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1990
PGPID
2148
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3933LetterT-S 8J33.4
Primary language
Hebrew
He is inquiring what should be done with the money of the heqdesh that the addressee had endowed for the building of a ritual bath (miqve). […] The rains have already ended, and the Gentiles do not permit bathing in the Shiloaḥ spring, so there is nowhere else to build one.
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- menstrual purity
- miqve
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3934Legal documentT-S 10J7.10
Inferred date
1135–1135 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Shabbat in which she lists her assets (three different dārs held in partnership with her two sisters and one of their sons) and her intention to sell her ghulām (enslaved man) and split the proceeds as charity for Dammūh and burial expenses for the poor.
1. This is a copy of the will of Khulla bt. Shabbat which was brought before the court, with everything
2. contained therein, written in the hand of Yehud…
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2022
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35194
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3935Legal documentT-S 12.872
Document date
13 Tishrei 1510 Seleucid (15 October 1198 CE)
Primary languages
Aramaic, Hebrew
Deed of manumission (geṭ shiḥrur) for an enslaved slave woman named Saʿāda, manumitted by the trader Abū l-Maʿālī b.
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1.       בתלתא בשבה דהוא תלת עשר יומי
2.       לירח תשרי שנת אלפא וחמש מאה ועש[ר]
3.       שנין לשטרות בפסטאט מצרים דעל
4.       נילוס נהרא מות…
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3936LetterT-S 13J19.6
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
He was sick (wajiʿ) when he entered Cairo. The Nasi in Cairo honored him by letting him lead the congregation in prayer—"may God answer my prayers in my illness (ḍuʿfī) for the whole congregation, small and great." See e.g. ENA NS 6.24 for the notion that it is good for a sick man to lead prayers.
1. יצר סמוך תצור שלום שלום מגדל עז שם ייי בו ירוץ צד ונשג
2. שלומות וטובות וברכות מרובות ושישות רבות ומילוט מכאיבות
3. ורפואות חונות מכל סביבות וניצול מכל חו…
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- illness
- illness letter 969-1517
- illness: du'f
- illness: prayer
- illness: waja'
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2017
PGPID
3303
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3937LetterT-S 13J25.12
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Abūn first consoles Ḥayyim on the death of a son, and he then vehemently refutes allegations against his integrity (charges of debts to the government and the office of the inheritance up to 1000 dinars). He curses his enemies with ṣaraʿat, the biblical disease akin to leprosy, citing a rabbinic dictum: "Anyone who suspects an innocent man is afflicted in his body."
Recto
1. כתאבי יאסידי ושיכי ואלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך מן אלמסתקר מן אלקדס
2. אלמעמור אלנצף מן אדר ראשון סאעה וחק אלקדס וצול כתאבך אל…
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- abun b. sedaqa
- akhlaq
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1987
PGPID
1070
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3938State documentT-S Ar.22.140 + T-S K25.221
Primary language
Arabic
Khan published T-S K25.221 as the end of petition. Marina Rustow later found the join to the upper part of the document, T-S Ar.22.140, and if join is correct, it's not a petition but a report. […] The hand on the two fragments differ slightly, possibly because the text on T-S K25.221 is the end of the document and formulaic, so less carefully written.
Lower fragment
1. ولمولانا الوزير الأجل صفى أمير المؤمنين وخالصته ادام الله علاه وكبت اعداه
2. الراى العالي في ذلك ان شا الله
3. والحمد لله وصلواته على…
1. To my master, the mighty vizier, the sincere and intimate friend of the commander of the faithful, may God cause his exaltation to endure and crush…
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3939LetterT-S Ar.29.105
Primary language
Ladino
He says: ,Rabi Jacob dijo ke afilu ke tuviera ojos podia enganarme kuanto mas ombre sagi naor. And elsewhere he says: ,ke no tengo ojos y no tengo kien me mire*. He continues and says: ,tengo miedo ke me akontesca lo ke me akontesio' and ask his wife: ,venid a Misrayim ke una mujer kon ojos esmas mejor ke mire, por dos vezes adije a meterme en barko y no tope conpania . . .' This blind man, then, lives in Cairo, separated from his wife who seems to live in the Holy Land.
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- ladino
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3940List or tableT-S Ar.30.237
Primary languages
Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Account ledger from the 1730s CE. 14 folios. It is mostly or entirely in Judaeo-Arabic, Hebrew, and Arabic. Currencies: mainly fonducli and cinzirli. […] One clue about identity of the ledger's owner can be found on 9r, where the first entry states: "when my father and master ha-R[av] Mordekhay Ben-ʿAmram died..."
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3941Legal documentT-S Ar.39.503
Document date
955 Hijrī (11 February 1548–29 January 1549 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Yosef Castro, presumably identical with the merchant Yehuda Castro known from CUL Or.1080 J133, ENA 2808.2, ENA NS 54.7 (though this seems too late), T-S NS 320.127, and probably other Geniza documents.
Recto
1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحـ[ـيم
2. بمحكمة الشريعة [ بـ]ـثغر الاسكندرية . . . [
3. بين يدي سيدنا الحاكم الشمسي شمس الدين[ …
Recto
1. In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
2. At the Sharīʿa court in [the po]rt of Alexandria,
3. ]In the presence of our master, the…
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PGPID
20987
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3942Legal documentT-S J3.44
Primary languages
Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Dating: ca. mid-11th century. The first entry is a deed of gift in which Bahiyya bt. Yūsuf Ibn ʿAwkal gifts her slave Nujūm the Byzantine (אלאדומיה), whom she had received against a debt on her late husband Mawhūb b. […] Bishr Ibn Qurayṭa. The second entry is a deed of manumission in which Yosef b.
Recto
1. זכרון עדות שהיתה בפנינו אנחנו הזקנים העדים בכתב הזה ביום כן וכן מחדש פל
2. בשנת כן במדינת כן וכן כה היה כי אמרה לפנינו בהיה בת הזקן יוסף בן עוכל …
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- slaves
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PGPID
6040
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3943LetterT-S NS 164.63
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Fragment from a private letter. On recto there is the end of a legal query concerning an alley and a qāʿa and a majlis. […] Verso contains a request for help for a certain man who is ill and is apparently prescribed to drink "a pound of milk every day" (בשרב רטל לבן כל יום), but it is scarce in Fustat and he has been unable to find enough, so he hopes to find it "with you." This man is probably the sender himself as becomes clear 4 lines from the bottom (עדר אלכאדם מן אגל מרצה...).
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- illness
- illness letter 969-1517
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3944Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328
Document date
26 Adar 5322 Anno Mundi (3 March 1562 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
There is a one-year break in chronological coverage between the entries on f. 10v of the court register and the preceding folios from early 1561 CE. […] The lower lines deal with what Shelomo will charge for grilled meat that he purchased raw. The next entry in the court register deals with communal weighing standards for beef (PGPID 41053).
Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 10v
1. למא כאן בתא׳ נהאר אלכמיס כ׳׳ו שהר אדר סנה ה׳ש׳כ׳ב׳ ליצירה חצרו אלגמא׳
2. בר׳ יה׳ פי (מנזל) אלמולי אלאגל יהודה אלחכים //.הן…
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- butchers
- meat
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3945Legal documentYevr.-Arab. I 328
Document date
1 Tammuz 5326 Anno Mundi (18 June 1566 CE)
Primary language
Hebrew
This arrangement carries the implication that Yiṣḥaq will likely be traveling for business and thus needs to ensure the financial well-being of his family for five months while he is absent.
Yevr.-Arab. I 328, folio 37v
1. בפ]ני עדים חתומים מטה איך בא כ׳׳ר יצחק ב׳כ׳ר׳ משה ידיע
2. מ]גרבי(?) הקראי נ׳׳ע והעיד עליו ברצונו [[בלי]] כי קבל מיד כ׳׳ר מ…
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3946List or tableBL OR 10578A.5
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Mentions garments including miʾzar, qamīs, sarāwil, miqnaʿa. Several entries are preceded by a large open circle and followed by a long horizontal line connecting to the value on the left.
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3947LetterCUL Or.1080 J158
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Possibly in the same handwriting: CUL Or.1080 J158 (PGPID 19788) and ENA NS 34.21 (PGPID 12101).
1. אנפזת [
2. ענדהם(?) וקד קאל אבו אלטאהר [
3. כתאב אלדי ארסלה מא נסל[
4. וצל אלצרף ענדנא כמסה וכ[מסין(?)
5. הדא אלכתאב כאן אחד וכמ[סין(?)
6. מן מאיה דרהם ואלערציין [
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3948Literary textDK 252
Primary language
Arabic
Literary work entitled Ṣifat al-Mulūk. In Arabic script. It gives a census of the tribes of the jinn (72 tribes in all, including Muslims, Jews, Christians, Zoroastrians, Samaritans, Sudanese and Persian, etc.) and descriptions of the kings of the jinn.
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3949List or tableENA 2592.11
Probably an alms distribution list. Entries include "the dyer"; "and her daughter"; Ṣedaqa; Umm Labwa; Ibrāhīm.
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3950LetterENA 2592.19
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
End of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Greetings to the addressee, his children, his father-in-law or son-in-law (חתנו) Abū Isḥāq Avraham, and his whole community.
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