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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yehuda b. Yosef Ibn al-Haniyy al-Andalusī, in an unknown location, to Abū l-Faḍl Ḥesed b. Sahl al-Tustarī, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script.

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• al-tustari

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Arabic

The parties include a Jewish druggist and Sitt al-Kull bt. Abū l-Faḍl. The property is described. One of the landmarks is known by the name of [...] al-Isrāʾīlī al-Ṣaydālī. On recto there is an additional legal document, likely related.

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Document date

Tuesday, 7 Adar 1505 Seleucid (30 January 1194 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The deed concerns the dissolution of a partnership in a house and in a store between Khalaf and Abū l-Faḍl, the sons of Hilāl. It seems that Khalaf retained the store, while Abū l-Faḍl bought out Khalaf's half of the house for 16.5 dinars. (See also Eliyyahu Ashtor, “The Number of Jews in Medieval Egypt,” JJS (1968), 13; Jacob Mann, Jews in Egypt and Palestine under the Fatimid Caliphs, 2:294.

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• moshe b. levi
• partnership
• qalyub

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Document date

Elul [4]770 Anno Mundi (13 August 1010–10 September 1010 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Bifolio, vellum. Multiple text blocks. All in Judaeo-Arabic. (1) Recto, right page: Possibly a colophon (Kitāb...), but possibly something mercantile. There is a date: 1 Ḥeshvan '362. (2) Recto, left page: Bill of lading (maʿrifa mā ʿubbiya fī al-qafaṣ...). There follows a long list of goods together with their quantities. […] From Abū Yūsuf: [...] rubāʿīs and a half. From Abū l-Faḍl: 9 rubāʿīs. Lower section: "The day of my departure from Mazara was Wednesday [...]

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• materia medica
• mazara
• sicily

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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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• 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 language

Arabic

Mentioning many names, such as Hiba Abū l-Maḥāsin, Abū l-Faḍl, Abū l-Ḥasan, Sālim, Ibrāhīm b. Salmān, ʿAlī, Barakāt, Abū l-Barakāt, al-Sharīf; Ibrāhīm Abū l-Maḥāsin; Yaʿqūb ('for the qāʿa'); al-Sharīf Ṭāhir; Abū l-Ḥasan al-Sharābī

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yemeni hand? Very damaged and faded. Dating: 12th century. Some of the names mentioned are related to India Book II, such as Yaʿaqov al-ʿAdanī and Maḍmūn. In fact it may be addressed to Maḍmūn ("...yā Maḍmūn lā talūmūnā ʿalā..."). Also mentions the names Sulaymān and Manṣūr.

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• ib-addenda
• ib2
• india book unedited

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Document date

Monday 20 Tevet 1520 Seleucid (29 December 1208 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

This document is a partnership agreement in a perfume- and dye-manufacturing shop. The partners, Faḍā’il b. Abū al-Ḥasan and Manṣūr b. Abū Sa‘īd, contribute a total of 700 dirhams (200 and 500 dirhams respectively). […] Manṣūr seems to be the senior partner; he brings more assets to the partnership, and the facility itself may belong to him, as he is allocated 4 dirhams of rent for the shop each month. However, income from the sale of scent sachets was allocated to Faḍā’il, who may have produced these alone without Manṣūr's assistance.

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• 13th c
• bilbays
• dye
• partnership
• perfume

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Faraḥ b. Yosef b. Faraḥ, Alexandria, to Abū Saʿd Khalaf b. Sahl in Fustat. Dating: mid-eleventh century. […] Mentions the recipient's brother Abū l-Faḍl. Goitein identified this document as the last page of a letter written by Abū Naṣr b. […] Netanʾel, and identified the recipient's brother as Abū l-Faḍl b. Abū al-Faraj al-Dimyāṭī; Gil and Fleischer and then Miriam Frankel followed this attribution.

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• ib-partial translation-heb
• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• india book

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Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso (right page): There is a verbatim transcript of an earlier (probably Arabic/Muslim) court record (פאחצר לנא כט והדא נסכתה חרף בחרף) certifying that Faḍl b. Sahl b. Faraḥ owes Abū l-Surūr Faraḥ b. ʿAṭiyya 101 dinars, and he will repay it in Alexandria. […] Saʿadya (later became the Head of the Jews 1094–1111), along with another very faded signature. These pages discuss a business partnership. […] Shela; many valuable commodities (gold, silver, Byzantine brocade); 200 dinars; traveling to Syria (al-Shām) to sell these goods; settling accounts in Alexandria after the travel; Tripoli (likely the one in al-Shām); questioning of Ḥesed about this; and shipping them in the ship of Abū ʿAlīal-Shāmī, which sank.

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• alexandria
• tripoli

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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 languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

The writer seems to be Abū l-Ḥasan and the addressee may be named Abū l-Faḍlal-[. . .].

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• arabic address

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal fragment. Damaged and faded. Concerning the wife of Saʿāda b. Shelomo al-Mawṣilī and mentioning the names of two women, Sittūna and Mudallala.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Moderately wide space between the lines. Too faded to read much. Mentions sending something with Abū Hāshim al-Marzūq(?).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Alphabetical exercises probably in the hand of a child. Some of the phrases come from legal documents including the names Abū Manṣūr b. Nuʿmān; Fāḍil; Hiba; Muwaffaq; Mūsā; and Abū Isḥāœ.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

One of the pages has Talmudic text. Mentions Abū l-Faḍlal-Maghribī

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Damaged and faded fragment of a business letter. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Seems to mention the boat of Ibn Niʿma (עשארי בן נעמה) and in the next line mentions the coast (al-sāḥil).

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Prescription or recipe either for or by Abū l-Faḍl Ibn al-[...]. Ingredients include goat kidney fat, cow brain, chicken fat, and saffron.

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Primary language

Arabic

Document(s) in Arabic script. Quite faded. There is text in all different directions, and some Greek/Coptic numerals.

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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

Business letter to Abū l-ʿAlāʾ(?) [...] Ibn Shaʿyā. In Arabic script. Dating: 11th or 12th century. The paper is almost completely preserved, but the text is damaged, faded, and a difficult hand to begin with.

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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

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 languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions names including Abu l-Faḍl and Ibn al-Kāmukhī; mentions goods such as grapes, qand, silver, and wine.

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Primary language

Arabic

On verso there is Hebrew literary text. Very faded. One phrase might be "ilā al-mukhayyam."

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Zayn al-Tujjār and Rabbenu Nahray Gadol ha-Yeshiva (=Nahray b. […] The sender's name may be Yosef (there is a very faded address on verso).

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• unedited 11th c

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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
• (+ 2 more)

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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

Ṣafar 754 Hijrī (8 March 1353–5 April 1353 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Recto: Possibly an account in Arabic and Greke/Coptic numerals. Quite faded. Verso: A block of text concerning transactions and containing a date and a sum. Mentions al-Ḥājj... someone appointing an agent (muwakkiluhū)... maybe al-ʿAṭṭārīn... the month of Ṣafar 754 AH.... 5 dirhams.

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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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Judaeo-Arabic

This may have been appended to a letter written on a separate sheet. "After I had already written this letter, your letter arrived... with Abū Isḥāq.... As for what you mentioned that [...] is surprised that I hate living in Alexandria...." The sender then explains his or her reasons for hating Alexandria, which are sadly faded. […] On verso, "The only reason I have tarried in Alexandria is because of Sitt [...]."

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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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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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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

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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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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Judaeo-Arabic

The original use of the fragment was probably an Arabic document, only a few faded words are visible. Join: Alan Elbaum.

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Primary language

Arabic

Accounts? Mentions Abū l-Faḍl Sahl b. Manṣūr. Mentions the phrase "mutawāliyat al-ashur" followed by the name of the month Marḥeshvan in Hebrew script.

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