Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to someone addressed as mawlāy al-rayyis. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. Mentions Malīj, al-Maḥalla and Ibn al-Ḥabrāwī, coming to Fustat, and moving to al-Shām. Very faded. Needs further examination. There is an imprint of this letter on verso of CUL Or.1080 J47c (PGPID 19824), which might assist with reading some of the difficult phrases.

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Tags

• arabic address

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter in poor handwriting, including alephs that are often separated by internal spaces and gimels that extend well below the baseline. Several people are named, including Abū l-Barakāt; Abū l-Ḥusayn; Abū l-Faḍl; Aḥmad b. ʿAlīal-Baghdādī (who has run away to Upper Egypt); and Abū l-Fatḥ.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Possibly a letter draft. Very faded. Unusual format, since the left margin is used for several lines of text at a right angle to the main text and there are still smaller words squeezed into the left margin of the left margin. Verso: Phrases from a legal document, also probably a draft.

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Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document mentioning the late [Abū] Manṣūr, someones late father Thanāʾ, Abū l-Maḥāsin al-Naqlī b. Abū l-Faḍl known as Ibn al-Rabbāṭ. (Information from CUDL.)

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Primary language

Arabic

Mentions a dīwān (وهي الان جارية في تلك الديوان), ʿalāal-ṭarīq min ḥuqūq hādihi l-bilād. There is also a name: Abū l-Faḍāʾil, from the Ḥujrat al-Yahūd. Could also be a petition based on the content, but none of the petition elements are preserved.

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Primary language

Hebrew

There is a remnant of a name in l. 6 ([...] al-Kohen b. Yaḥyā(?)). There is further text on verso, too faded to read.

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Primary language

Arabic

Strings of titles. There are alternating lines of light ink (bigger letters) and dark ink (smaller letters). The text in the bigger script is mostly faded and blotted.

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• dimme
• mr
• report

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: 11th or 12th century. Large, but faded and damaged. Refers repeatedly to excommunicating certain people; also mentions a fatwā related to the excommunication. […] Mentions people such as Barakāt, Shemuel, Abū l-Ḥasan al-ʿAṭṭar, and [...] b. Bū ʿUmar. Needs further examination.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Most of the commodities mentioned are materia medica, including balm seed (ḥabb al-balasān), chebulic myrobalan, rhubarb, and kohl. Very faded. There are also remnants of a few words in very large Arabic script, perhaps from a state document.

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• kohl
• materia medica
• myrobalan
• readable with imaging
• rhubarb
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Informal note from Abū l-Majd and Abū l-Faraj to 'the kind brother' (al-akh al-shafīq) Abū ʿAlī and to Abū Manṣūr. In rudimentary hand and spelling. They ask the addressees to provide for the needs of the bearer, Abū l-Faḍl. On recto there is the address in Arabic script and what looks like a Hebrew poem attributed to a certain Yefet.

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Document date

Sunday, 21 Av 4813 Anno Mundi (8 August 1053 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document. Damaged and faded. Location: the city of פלודס or פלורס(??). […] Power of attorney, appointing Abū Sahl as an agent. Also mentions the names Abū ʿAlī and [... bt. ...] b.

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Meshullam/Muslim/Musallam. Also involves [Abū l-]Faḍlal-ʿAsqalānī, a son named Ḥalfon, and a sum of dinars.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Perhaps of a broker—he seems to be selling items on people's behalf. Mentions: Abū l-Faḍl b. Bū Shākir; brass and a ṣiniyya tray; the rent of a house; a lawsuit for money owed involving Shams al-Dawla on Shavuʿot; Ṣāḥib al-Sayf(?) Abū l-Faraj(?) al-Tinnīsī.

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Document date

Shawwāl 1246 Hijrī (15 March 1831–12 April 1831 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The address lists Muḥammad Effendi as the recipient and the opening line of the document mentions Aḥmad Effendi. Mentions "al-majlis al-ʿālī", 300 Kurus and has a seal at the bottom. […] Verso contains a document in a similar hand but the ink has faded. Mentions "dīwān al-mabīʿāt" and is dated Shawwāl 1246. Also mentions several sums of money in Kurus. Seal at the bottom.

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• dimme

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

known as Ibn Sīdū(?) and a sum of money. Also mentions a gift and business deals. The addressee should send his response with Ḥusayn or [...] with "this caravan when it returns." Greetings to "all of the scholars (al-ʿulamāʾ) and cantors and teachers, and the whole community. […] Abū l-Faḍl the Aluf "mentioned inside of this letter."

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Letter to Judge Elijah from his brother-in-law(?) Abu-l-Fadl of Alexandria (13th century). Mentions R. Ḥananel and the Fayyūm and greetings to numerous people. […] The address is partially in Arabic script. There are also accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals on verso.

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• 13th c

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ḥasan/Yefet ha-Levi known as al-Ṭabarānī and her daughter Sitt al-Ahl bt. Abū l-Faḍl Mevorakh [...] Qashqūsh. Also: "her brother Khalaf" and "the wife of the elder Abū Naṣr Elʿazar b.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Draft of a contract for a 2-year partnership in a drug store (dukkān al-ʿiṭr). Faded. Names: [...] ha-Kohen; Abū Yaʿaqov ha-Ḥazzan; [...] b.

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Primary language

Arabic

Fiscal document, with an unusual thick pen, in Arabic script. The text has faded and difficult to read. Begins with a basmala and the next line could read as: "waṣal ilā bayt al-māl".

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• dimme

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Beginning of a letter in which the sender conveys knowledge about his own situation and writes that he needs something. Addressed to Abū l-Faḍl b. Ismāʿīl in the flax market (sūq al-kattān).

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Primary language

Arabic

Receipt for the capitation tax of Bū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Bū l-Faḍl the Jewish silk merchant. Related to the cluster that includes T-S Ar.35.204 (PGPID 20619) (see "people" page).

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Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Nathan (active ca. 1150–81). Faded and damaged. Bride: Sitt al-Fakhr bt. [...].

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• dowry list
• ketubba
• mevorakh b. natan

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef (Yiju) to Saʿadya b. Avraham Ibn al-Amshāṭī. Almost nothing remains apart from the opening verses and the address. He sends regards to Abū Maʿālī and Abū l-Faḍāʾil. Cf. BL OR 5542.23 (PGPID 32779) and related documents listed there.

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• yiju

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Document date

1445 Seleucid (2 September 1133–19 September 1134 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Bill of release between a woman, [..]ma bt. Abū l-Faḍl Shela Ibn al-Masqī (or al-Musaqqī? אלמסקי), and [...] b.

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1

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen (appears also in T-S 13J2.11 and T-S 8J4.20 from the first decade of the 12th century). Very faded. There are greetings to various people and mention of the jizya.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Concerning various family matters. (1) No answer to letters. (2) Abū l-Faḍl came and informed the sender about the death of the little boy. (3) "My brother, I do not need to urge you concerning my sister... for I know that her character is difficult (akhlāqhā ṣaʿba)." She had not received her farḍ (a part in an inheritance, or perhaps alimony). (4) Mardūk brought the מסדיה but the אמשאט were impossible. (5) Greetings to Abū ʿImrān, the wife of the sender's maternal uncle, Abū Naṣr, Faḍā'il, Shibl, and Bū Saʿd.

Tags

• akhlaq

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Document date

626 Hijrī (30 November 1228–19 November 1229 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Legal document (iqrār) in Arabic script. Declaration by al-Masīḥī al-ʿAmīd Abū l-Faḍl b. Abī l-Majd b. Bishāra al-Naṣrānī acknowledges a debt that he owes to Abū l-Fatḥ (or Abū l-Faraj) al-Isrā'īlī al-Ṣā'igh al-Mawṣilī.

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• arabic script

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic. "Tell Faḍā'il that if he wants to live with his cousins (awlād khālatihi) he should move with them." There have been raqqāṣīn (errand boys) milling about the house all day. Verso: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning Abū l-Ḥasan al-Malījī.

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