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Hebrew

Dating: Probably 16th century, as the latest author mentioned is Shelomo Almoli (Istanbul, 1460–1530). (Information from AA and Allony et al.)

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Hebrew

Names include Mordekhay, Eliyya, and Shabbetay, but there are also some more unusual ones (אבזגין? פשקיל . . ?). On verso there is Arabic script ([...] al-Dawla?).

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21 Rabīʿ II 1184 Hijrī (14 August 1770 CE)

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Arabic

Probably a receipt of payment for Binyāmīn al-Ukūrand(?) in Alexandria. Dated: 21 Rabīʿ II 1184 AH (1770 CE).

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Arabic

There are multiple fragments under this shelfmark. All are in Arabic script. Top left - beginning of a legal document. Bottom right is also part of the same document and mentions 18 Ramaḍān.

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Arabic

of Damietta (thagr Dimyāṭ) and someone's arrival/appointment to it. Also has an ʿalama in the middle. Needs further examination.

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Arabic

From a certain Manṣūr to the amir Saʿd al-Mulk Naṣr al-Dawla(?) Fakhr al-Mulk.

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Arabic

One of the parties is the daughter of Saʿīd b. ʿAllūnal-Ṣaydalānī ('the pharmacist') al-Yahūdī.

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Arabic, Hebrew

Surrounded by various jottings, including one naming the amir Sayf al-Dawla Ibrāhīm(?). There are also Hebrew piyyutim.

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Arabic

document in Arabic script. Signed by al-Ḥasan b. al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAbd al-[...]. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ.

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Arabic

A few words in Arabic script which read as "al-radd ʿalā taqbīl(?) al-ʾarḍ(?) bi-taḥrīr ʿaẓīm.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Concerning business matters, mentioning sums of dinars. Also mentions "the calamity of the old woman (nūbat al-ʿajūz).

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Judaeo-Arabic

(Information from CUDL.) Join: Alan Elbaum. See also T-S AS 161.164.

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Arabic

"That which was expended for the allowance (ʿamāla) of Mukhtār al-Dawla." Entries include "clay" and "brick." Needs further examination. On verso: "al-mamlūk Yūsuf b. [..]."

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Arabic

Tax receipt, or possibly credit instrument? Contains an ʿalāma at the upper right, maybe, and a jahbadh signature at the bottom. Also contains the glyph, and a mirror imprint of a similar document on verso.

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Arabic

Tax receipt, or possibly credit instrument? Contains an ʿalāma at the upper right, maybe, and a jahbadh signature at the bottom. Also contains the glyph, and a mirror imprint of a similar document on verso.

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Arabic

Tax receipt, or possibly credit instrument? Contains an ʿalāma at the upper right, maybe, and a jahbadh signature at the bottom. Also contains the glyph, and a mirror imprint of a similar document on verso.

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Arabic

Tax receipt, or possibly credit instrument? Contains an ʿalāma at the upper right, maybe, and a jahbadh signature at the bottom. Also contains the glyph, and a mirror imprint of a similar document on verso.

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Arabic

Tax receipt, or possibly credit instrument? Contains an ʿalāma at the upper right, maybe, and a jahbadh signature at the bottom. Also contains the glyph, and a mirror imprint of a similar document on verso.

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Arabic

The ends of three lines are preserved. Phrases such as "... al-dawla al-maʿrūfī(?) al-wāṣil... bi-l-nāʾib fī..."

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Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Names such as Barakāt and ʿAbd al-Karīm. There are also drafts of phrases from letters.

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Arabic

Bottom of a petition. In Arabic script. "...al-raʾy al-sāmī... bi-l-wuqūf ʿalā mā anhāhu... wa-yaqif ʿinda... in shāʾa llāh...."

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Arabic

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

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

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Judaeo-Arabic

Petition from the daughter of Hilāl 'Shaykh al-Yahūd' of Ashqelon to Yaḥyā ha-Sar. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. […] The addressee is identical with the addressee of T-S 20.120 (also a Yaḥyā ha-Sar with some of the same titles: שר בית ישראל זקן התפארה הוד השררה), which may date closer to 1100 than to 1138, as it mentions a figure close to the governor (wālī) named Ṣārim al-Dawla, a relatively unusual title which was held by a Fatimid ruler in Ashqelon under Badr al-Jamālī and his son al-Afḍal ca. 1100 CE. In any case, the sender of this petition is asking for financial support for herself and her children, because she used to be supported by her two brothers in Ashqelon (one is named Saʿd and serves as 'khādim al-yahūd'), but the two brothers are facing difficulties of their own and have cut her off.

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Judaeo-Arabic

"The Tale of the [Jewish] Companions of Muḥammad" also known as "The Tale of Baḥira." Relating how 10 Jewish sages, somehow related to a stylite named Baḥira, made a subterfuge of joining themselves to Muḥammad but actually sought to corrupt the Quran in order to protect the Jewish people. […] The 10 sages are named, including characters well-known from Islamic literature (e.g., Kaʿb al-Aḥbār and the father of Muḥammad's Jewish concubine Ṣafiyya) and characters that are not otherwise attested and have quite unusual epithets (e.g., al-Munhazim ilā l-Janna). Information in part from Krisztina Szilagyi's description on FGP. See also the (faulty) edition in J. Leveen, "Mohammed and His Jewish Companions," The Jewish Quarterly Review , Apr., 1926, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Apr., 1926), pp. 399- 406.

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• polemic
• quran

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Document date

Friday, [25] Nisan [4810] Anno Mundi (20 April 1050 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Upper fragment: Letter from Nahray b. Nissim in Alexandria to his uncle Abū l-Khayr Mūsā b. Barhūn al-Tāhartī in Fustat. […] April 1051 CE (Gil's dating) is less likely but also possible; see description of CUL Or.1080 J170 (PGPID 4480). […] (Information from Marina Rustow and Alan Elbaum.)

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• capitation
• tax
• tax receipt
• trade

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Arabic

The query concerns a young Jewish man who insulted a venerable Jewish rabbi (...ḥākhān ʿālimal-yahūdī...) by calling him "apostate (kāfir), cursed (malʿūn), swine (khinzīr), blackguard (zarbūn)" in the presence of Muslim witnesses. […] The main answer is written by the Shāfiʿī muftī Muḥammad al-Minyāwī (or al-Manbāwī?), which is then endorsed by the Ḥanafī muftī Muḥammad b. [...] al-Dīn and the Mālikī muftī Muḥammad b. Sālim al-Sanhūrī. Literary sources (e.g. https://shamela.ws/book/2138/22) attest to a Mālikī faqīh known as Sālim al-Sanhūrī who died in 1010 AH = 1601/02 CE.

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• fatwa
• insult

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Judaeo-Arabic

Mercantile letter from an unidentified sender, probably in Alexandria, addressed to Abū Isḥāq [Barhū]n b. Mūsā (probably al-Tāhartī), somewhere where one buys flax (the Fayyūm?). […] There are no boats in Alexandria for shipping. Greetings from Moshe b. Yehuda, a cantor. Abū Saʿīd has now been sick (ʿalīl) for eight [days, probably]. In the right margin there appears to be the draft of the beginning of a different letter.

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• flax
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517

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Arabic

Mentions the heirs of Barakāt; a woman and Baqāʾ the orphan girl of Bunyām al-Malījī; the widow of Abū l-Surūr the brother of al-[...]; the orphan girl of Abū l-Maʿā[...]; a relative of Ibn al-Shelishi, the wife of Abū [...]; the ketubba of Malīḥa bt. [Maʿ?]ālī Ibn al-Dihqān the wife of [...]; a deed in which someone gives a gift to his wife and daughters; the will of Yaʿqūb; a governmental rescript (tawqīʿ) perhaps regarding the Jews' right to administrate their own inheritance laws (תוקיע בחמל אליהוד עלי מוא[ר]יתהם); a fatwā from [...]; something involving al-Dhabbāḥ and 14 dinars; a deed for "my paternal aunt" against her husband Abū M[...]; one involving Ibn Khaṣīb and Maʿālī Ibn Asad (this may be the prominent merchant Shemuel b. […] MS heb. b 11/36 (PGPID 6350)); and the will of Mubārak al-Dimashqī (cf. T-S 10J7.6 (PGPID 7856)). On verso there is a legal document in Arabic script (see separate record).

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Judaeo-Arabic

The bearer had a partnership in a commodity with Bū l-Ḥasan al-Ḥakīm known as Ibn al-ʿUjaylī, but it was sold for less than half its value. He has gone to Fustat to collect funds for returning to Palestine. Mentions al-Raʾīs Avraham (Maimonides) and al-Raʾīs Menaḥem; greetings to al-Muhadhdhab, Bū l-Munajjā and his son al-Shaykh al-Asʿad (a.k.a.

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Judaeo-Arabic

The address says the letter should be delivered to a man called Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlūn in Fusṭāt. The addressee is known elsewhere by his Hebrew name, ʿEli ha-Kohen ben Hayyim. The names of the three mail agents are also written. The same agents are also found on a different letter from ʿEli to ʿAlūn, T-S 12.54 (Gil, Palestine, doc. 444).

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Document date

Sivan 1470 Seleucid (19 May 1159–17 June 1159 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Testimony around the engagement of Tamīm b. Abū al-Faraj and Fakhr bt. Yosef, imposing a penalty if Tamīm is found to have an impediment to the marriage. […] Although the partners do not describe their relationship as a shirka, mu‘āmala, muḍāraba, or even shutafut, they do use the verb sh-r-k in Form VIII. (Information from Lieberman, "A Partnership Culture," 203) See also Bodl. MS Heb. b3/4 (PGPID 6338) for a similar confirmation, written in almost identical language and style, possibly even from the same notebook (a join?).

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Abū l-Ḥayy b. Ṣāliḥ al-Ṣabbāgh, in Palermo, to Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī. […] He booked passage on a ship (qunbār) belonging to a man from Tinnīs, but he waited and waited, and all the other ships ("even the ships of Tripoli") set sail. At last, the night of sleeping on the ship (al-mabīt) arrived, but in the middle of the night, the government commandeered the ship and its goods and turned out all the passengers, including even Abū l-Ḥayy the Unlucky (al-ḍaʿīf al-najm) (is he referring to himself?).

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• 11th c
• government
• palermo
• poverty
• sea voyage

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Document date

1412 Seleucid (6 September 1100–25 August 1101 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: 1412 Seleucid (1100/1101 CE), the year א׳ת׳י׳ב׳ is barely visible in line 19 along the lower paper tear. This court record notes the reorganization of a business venture after one of the partners absconded with some of the partnership capital. Abū Mansūr Aharon b. Mevasser al-Zayyat contracted a partnership in an oil and legume shop in Ḥammām al-Faʾr (the "Rat" bathhouse), also known as the shop of Ibn Shahrayn al-Jazzār, with Abū ʿImrān Moshe b. Mordekhay ha-Kohen and Abū Saʿd b. Abū l-ʿAlāʾ, the latter of whom may have been Aharon's brother.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Eliyahu b. Nissim, in Alexandria, to Shela b. Isḥāq, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. […] He states that he is in Alexandria and cannot come to Cairo without an invitation. […] The writer’s uncle Menaḥem and his son, along with the midrash of R. Shemuel, are mentioned.

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• 13th c
• epidemic
• epidemic: amrad
• epidemic: fasl
• illness
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Document date

Monday, 6 Adar 1539 Seleucid (14 February 1228 CE)

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Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew

Shelomo ha-Kohen known as al-Dilāthī (this transliteration is clarified by comparison with the Arabic script). […] One of them is from the Ibn al-Munīr family of physicians, a relation of al-Muhadhdhab Ibn al-Munīr who is also mentioned in T-S 10J12.10. In the second part of this addendum, a physician titled al-Muhadhdhab (unclear if he is identical with the one just mentioned) asks Pinḥas to convey the document to the hands of Eliyyahu the Judge.

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Document date

1437 Seleucid (31 August 1125–19 September 1126 CE)

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Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, who also signed as a witness. Location: Fustat. The date is torn but "hundred and thirty seven years to our calendar" is visible, which means 1437 Sel., which corresponds to 1125-6 CE. […] On verso, there are two legal records that were added later, also in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. (A) Mubāraka, the mother of Sitt al-Ahl, gives her daughter two ornaments worth 6 3/4 dinars as a gift. […] (Dated: 1126 CE.) (B) After Sitt al-Ahl's husband had taken a solemn oath to divorce her, he retreated.

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Judaeo-Arabic

for one dirham and give them to the Rayyis Abu Zikri (the Gaon Sar Shalom ha-Levi?!). He also orders white paper for 3/4 dirham. Of the remaining 21 1/4, Baqa' Ibn al-Sab' gets 20. Apparently Moshe also has some money with the recipient, which he then adds to the remaining 1 1/4. Mahfuz is to get some. 'Imran Ibn al-Dajani gets some. All of these people are to give receipts.

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• moshe b. levi
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. All four fragments likely belong to the same letter. […] In the first pair of fragments, after the standard opening greetings, the sender reports that (s)he ran into [Yaʿ?]qūb al-Kohen al-[...] al-Khawlī (=agricultural overseer) and asked after the addressees' news. […] This is followed by a fragmentary reference to "the siege of the city" (al-ḥiṣār ʿalā l-balad); "you are in Fustat every day"; and instructions about sending letters.

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• illness letter 969-1517
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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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• fatimid
• fiscal
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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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11 Rajab 989 Hijrī (11 August 1581 CE)

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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.

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• classical arabic poetry
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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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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)

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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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