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3951Legal documentCUL Or.1081 2.17
Document date
Friday, 20 Sivan 1600 Seleucid (10 June 1289 CE)
Primary language
Aramaic
Dated: Friday, 20 Sivan 1600 Seleucid (אלפא ושית מ[אה ש]נין לשטרות) = 10 June 1289 CE. (It is possible but less likely that instead of שנין a decade is written). […] The geṭ was delivered by a messenger. On verso the handing over of the geṭ is witnessed.
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3952LetterENA 2739.7
Inferred date
1100–1138 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Lower fragment: Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE), whose partial name is visible in the address. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper left corner of recto). Yefet brings up the fūṭa which he had previously written about.
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3953State documentENA 3959.12
Primary language
Arabic
Letter(s) or official document(s) in Arabic script. Narrow space between the lines on one side (this part mentions a fortress/qalʿa), wide space between the lines on the other (this part addresses somebody as "al-jināb al-ʿāl" and mentions his iḥsān and ṣadaqāt). The document on verso is most likely a decree, probably 12-13th c based on paleographic grounds and the document on verso is a letter or petition. Needs further examination.
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3954LetterENA 4020.20
Document date
5 August 1084 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from Musa b. Abi al-Hayy, from Busir, to Abu al-Afraḥ Avraham (ʿArūs) b. Yosef, Fustat. The letter contains details about the purchase of flax and mentions that a Christian from the delta is sending money to his wife in Fustat with Musa. In addition, mentions some goods such as rose extract, as well as money transfers.
recto
1. על שמך
2. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם עזה מן בוציר יום
3. אלאתנין מסתהל אלול ען חאל סלאמה ונעמה ושוק אליה קרב אללה אלאגת[מאע]
4. בך על…
recto
1. (2−1) על שמך; אני כותב לך, אדוני ורבי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את גדולתך, מבוציר, ביום
3. ב', א' באלול. שלומי טוב, ואני מאושר, אבל אנ…
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- trade
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3955Legal documentENA NS 16.9
Document date
1127–1139 CE
Primary languages
Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Legal document. Small fragment from a beginning of a legal document, probably bill of gift, written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100-1138), under the authority of Masliah Gaon (r. 1127-1139), whose name is not mentioned but his father and grandfathers are (b.
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3956LetterENA NS 63.13
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from "Sāsī" to R. D[...]. In Judaeo-Arabic. […] Mentions Avraham Castro; Ibrāhīm al-Kalaḥ; Mūsā Ḥaqqān. Mentions taxes incumbent on "all who arrive from Hind and Sind and the lands of the Arabs," more than the tithe (ʿushr).
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- avraham castro
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3957LetterF 1908.44D
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic to a certain sayyidnā al-Rayyis. Dating: Probably from the era of Judge Eliyyahu (early 13th century), if he is identical with the judge Abū l-Faraj mentioned in line 4. The letter deals with the settling of accounts with Ibn Ghurāb and the writer's fight with a certain Akram. On verso there are a few jottings of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, mentioning glass. (Information in part from Gottheil-Worrell, p. 25.)
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3958Legal documentJRL B 4804
Inferred date
1100–1138 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). […] For other Ḥalfon documents mentioning Cretans, see T-S NS 323.27 (PGPID 25606) and CUL Or.1081 J35 (PGPID 8954).
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- halfon b. menashshe
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3959LetterMoss. IV,48.1
Primary languages
Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic
Mercantileletter from Nissim b. Ismāʿīl, unknown location, to an unknown addressee, in Jerusalem. […] which ends, "quickly, if God wills." The lettermentions Mūsā (or Nissi?) b. Qūqū al-Bahnasī (or rather al-Nafūsī).
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3960LetterMoss. VII,137
Primary language
Hebrew
Recto: Letter from the yeshiva in Jerusalem to Mevorakh (b. […] Dating: After 1094 CE. This is a letter of support for Shela b. Mevasser and his brother, having to do with their silk shop in Alexandria.
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3961LetterT-S 8J21.15
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from Binyām (druggist of Rashīd), probably in Alexandria, to Abū Saʿīd b. […] He has sent 20 pounds of סארנאן(?), white lead (isfīdāj), and mercury (zaybaq), and orders crushed saffron and 4 bags of large needles (אבר). Also mentions money owed to him by Abū l-Munā b. Daʾūd.
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3962Legal documentT-S 12.814
Inferred date
1127–1138 CE
Primary languages
Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Two fragments from a legal document. Location: Fustat. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138) and mentioning Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon (r. 1127–1139), yielding a date range of 1127–38 CE.
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3963LetterT-S AS 149.40
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions numerous items of clothing and textiles. […] The sender’s brother is in Maḥalla, and he is rumored to be sick. The sender mentions greetings from and to Abū l-Ḥasan, Natan and Shemuel al-Baghdādī, and asks for things to be sent either with the carrier of the letter or with ‘the rayyis’, whoever travels first.
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1. ולי דלך [
2. כתב ולם [יצלני] גואב וקד . . . . [. . . . . . .] . את . אן אני
3. קאל . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ולם יח…
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3964LetterT-S AS 177.230
Primary language
Arabic
Letter in Arabic script. Approximately 6 lines are preserved from each side. […] Verso is the front of the letter, and recto is the back. The front *might* contain medical advice, but it is hard to read any complete phrase or sentence. […] Then concludes with greetings. Merits further examination.
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- to examine
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3965LetterT-S AS 179.84
Primary language
Arabic
Letter fragment in Arabic script. The section preserved here consists mostly of greetings. Verso mentions the addressee's father Abū Muḥammad and cousin (ibn ʿamm) Abū l-Qāsim. Recto contains formulaic expressions for the conclusion of the letter (وسوانح مهماته . . . في ذلك . . . . . . . .
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3966Legal documentT-S AS 179.104
Primary language
Arabic
Legal declaration in Arabic script, with a few Hebrew words (also in Arabic script) mixed in. "I have witnesses to the effect that Abū ʿAlī gave me as a gift (bi-matana) one-third of all that his father, God's mercy be upon him, left him, and the half house where I live and the two shops, and I desire that everyone who knows this and does not say it to the court (fī bayt dīn) be excommunicated...."
1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
2. لي من يشهد بان ابو علي وهب لي الثلث
3. مما خلفه والده رحمه الله بمتانا ونصف
4. الدار التي انا فيها والدكانين واريد ان
5. يحرم باسم كل…
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- inheritance
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3967LetterT-S NS 320.53
Primary language
Arabic
Recto: Letter in Arabic script, in a chancery hand. The first line includes a name: Abū Yaʿqūb [...]. The second line is a basmala, and the letters begins in the third line (asʾal ḥaḍrat mawlāy...). Mentions a promissory note (ḥujja) for the value of half of [...], namely 45 dinars; the next line also mentions the word "debt" (al-dayn).
1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحـ[ـيم
2. اسل حضرة مولاي الحزان ايد الله نعماه[
3. لنا الله عزه وهو حجة بثمن النصف من الجـ[ـملة
4. اربعة وخمسين دينارا وربع و سبعة …
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3968LetterAIU VII.D.116
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter/petition for charity. In Judaeo-Arabic. Likely a draft, as several phrases are crossed out with interlinear corrections. Mentioning the cold. Mentions someone's son Abū l-Makārim.
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3969LetterMoss. III,71.3
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter, possibly. Or literary work. In Judaeo-Arabic. There are interlinear corrections. Mentions Ismāʿīl and [...] b. She'elti'el. Also mentions al-Shām and Damascus and Yemen and heretical people (yastabshiʿū/lā yatbaʿū).
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3970LetterMoss. IV,32.2
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Small, damaged fragment probably from an 11th-century mercantileletter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions people such as a qāḍī, the brother-in-law of Ibn al-Qābisī, and [Yaʿqū]b b.
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3971LetterT-S 6J6.15
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter concerning various business issues and the new agent Abū […]. Mentions a qāḍī, a widow, and a girl. Also mentions the Sar ha-Sarim and Abū l-Faḍl.
1. ] . . . [
2. ואלי אכיה וואלדתה פחצלנא [
3. אלאשיא אלישמעאלים אלדי קאמו [
4. שהוד חתי שהדו כיף קאלו להם [
5. אנא אכיה אבו אלפצל אן כאן לי [
6. אלקאצי ללאלמנה וללצבי…
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3972LetterT-S 8J10.9
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter requesting to buy through “Ibrahim, the slave merchant” a female slave for the Nezer (Diadem [an honorifc]). (S. D. Goitein, Mediterranean Society, 1:452; and Goiten’s index cards) EMS
1. אלי אברהים אלנכאס יוצל אליה
2. כתאבי חתי ישתרי ללנזר
3. אלוציפה וכדהא א[דעהא
4. ענד מן סהל אלי אן תנחדר
5. גיבהא צחבתך ומהמא כסרת
6. עליהא מן מונה או כרא
7. מרכב או ג…
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- business
- slave
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3973LetterT-S 8J23.7
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Short letter on vellum from Palermo by a Baghdadi, mentioning a trip to Sicily and referring to merchandise sent to Damascus by one Harun b. al-Saruji.
1. כתבי יא סידי ואלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה
2. בקאה ואדאם סלאמתה ועודה מן
3. מדינה ל. באקי מן מרחשון ען סלאמה
4. ועאפיה ושוק אליה ואלדי תריד עלמה
5. באן וקמת עלי ספרי אל…
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3974LetterT-S 10J14.28
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from Avraham to the sender's brother mentioning a bill and conveying greetings to the recipient from all his family members who are with the sender. 15th-16th century.
1. לקי
2. סלאם אללה תעאלי ורחמתה וברכתה ואזכא תחייתו עלי
3. אלאך אלעזיז אלמופק אלסעיד יוסף . . . . יצו מני
4. אנא אנה אברהם יסלם עליך כתיר אלסלאם ואמך
5. תסלם עליך…
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- 15th or 16th c
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3975Legal documentT-S 16.243
Inferred date
1100–1138 CE
Legal document written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE) dealing with an oath. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 601, and from Goitein's index cards)
1. ]]רה דראהם אנפקוהא עלי אנפסה]]
2. ] בינהם פי דלך משאגרה כתירה וכל
3. ]צר מן ראם אלדכול בינהמא בדרך
4. ] כצמהמא מר ור ועבדיה המכונה
5. ] עמורה בבקא הדרת אדוננו מ…
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3976Legal documentT-S Ar.34.189
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Involving partners (one is named Meshullam); debts (300 dinars from Abū Saʿd) and 400 dinars from somebody else; splitting something equally.
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3977Legal documentT-S AS 146.357
Inferred date
1100–1138 CE
Primary languages
Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). […] The title "peʾer ha-qehilot" and the name yaʿaqov are mentioned. (Information from CUDL)
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3978Legal documentT-S AS 147.244
Primary languages
Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Legal document, probably a bill of release from a woman. Written by Mevorakh b, Nathan (Date: 1150-1181) and signed by [...] b. Ḥalfon ha-Melammed. Verso: Arabic jottings. AA
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- mevorakh b. natan
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3979Legal documentT-S AS 148.56
Inferred date
1100–1138 CE
Primary languages
Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Possibly the settlement of a dispute between two men, one of whom is Yaʿaqov. (Information in part from CUDL)
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3980Legal documentT-S AS 149.76
Inferred date
1100–1138 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Legal fragment (upper right corner). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Concerning inheritance and mentioning Yeshuʿa (possibly the deceased).
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3981LetterT-S AS 151.196
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions, presumably sarcastically, that "I am grateful to him for how he insults me...
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3982Legal documentT-S AS 151.292
Inferred date
1100–1138 CE
Primary languages
Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Trousseau list from a ketubba, mentioning quantities of (Egyptian) dinars and trousseau items. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). (Information in part from CUDL)
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3983LetterT-S AS 152.298
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Lettermentioning a judge and Faraḥ b. Faḍāʾil. Seems to be addressed to Yaʿaqov, in Bilbays, though the address is in a different hand. The sender is a dyer and mentions his work. (Information in part from CUDL)
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3984LetterT-S AS 158.187
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably mercantile. Moderately wide space between the lines. Too faded to read much. Mentions sending something with Abū Hāshim al-Marzūq(?).
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3985Legal documentT-S AS 159.87
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Legal fragment (right side only). Mentions a shop. On verso there are business accounts mentioning people such as Abū Kathīr and Rabbenu and 'maqṣūr' (whitened?)
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3986Legal documentT-S AS 171.107
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Fragment with two different legal documents in two different hands, one on each side. Recto: Mentions raisins and [...] b. Manṣūr. Verso: Mentions indigo, Yosef, and Yiṣḥaq b.
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3987LetterT-S AS 206.7
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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3988LetterT-S Misc.28.84
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower right corner). Mentions: ʿūd rīḥ; 3 dinars and a rubāʿī; Abū l-Ḥasan b.
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3989Legal documentT-S Misc.34.53
Inferred date
1100–1138 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions 5 dinars and alludes to a conflict between two people.
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- halfon b. menashshe
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3990Legal documentT-S NS 224.21
Inferred date
1100–1138 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Fragment a bill of compromise (פשרה) written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Mentions two people and their brother; a house called Dār al-Jazīra; and a woman.
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- halfon b. menashshe
- island
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3991List or tableT-S NS 236.2
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
In Judaeo-Arabic. Rich and detailed. Mentions goods such as oil and lead. Mentions people such as Yiṣḥaq and Abū ʿImrān.
Tags
- customs
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3992LetterT-S NS 340.53
Primary language
Arabic
Letter in Arabic script. Small fragment. Written on parchment. Mentions "40 dirhams... every dinar... he said, 'I cannot be patient....'" On verso mentions someone called [...] al-Dawla.
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3993LetterT-S NS J607
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Mercantileletter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. Mentions somebody in Sūsa; Abū Zikrī al-Ṭabīb; a container of sal ammoniac; pepper; and Abū Saʿīd Maymūn b.
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3994Literary textCUL Or.1081 1.11
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
The one on verso: "Tell me what kind of bird I saw in the lands of Persians and Arabs. / It is eaten fried and its meat is cooked and it is eaten roasted if it is placed in the flame. / It has no bones nor blood nor leg nor tail. / It has no spirit nor is it dead, tell me, indeed this is a wonder."
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- judaeo-arabic poetry
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3995LetterENA 3787.9
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from Yehuda (b. Ṭuviyyahu) Kohen, in Jūjar, to Rabbenu [Menaḥem?][…] The sender reports that he arrived in Jūjar at midday and found the messenger about to depart. He asks the addressee to send(?)
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3996LetterHalper 420
Primary language
Hebrew
Letter from MeirMessina to his employer or business partner in Gaza.
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- gaza
- late heb
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3997LetterT-S 8J20.30
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from Salāma b. Yosef to his son Abū l-Makārim b. […] Dating: probably 12th century. Mentions goods such as costus (קסט) and gum senegal (קאקיא), saffron; giving various business instructions; mentioning small sums of dinars; mentions the addressee's mother.
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3998Legal documentT-S 12.465
Marriage contract written by the court clerk Mevorakh b. Natan (dated documents ca. 1150-1180) mentioning a brocade sadr with two 'sidepieces,' and preserving the groom's name, Yahya ha-Levi, and the bride was probably Sitt al-Baha. (Information from Mediterranean Society, IV, pp. 120, 382, and from Goitein's index cards)
1. מע[
2. דינאר מרתבה [
3. צדר דיבאג ומגנבין דיבא[ר
4. חמשה דינארי חקה לטיפה ומבכרה ומ[
5. תלתה דנאניר מקדמה וכרסי תרי דינארי והאוי כלל כתובת[
6. יחיי הלוי חתנא דנן א…
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- ketubba
- marriage
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3999LetterT-S Ar.39.254
Primary language
Arabic
Letter fragment. Mainly in Arabic script, with one word in Hebrew script. May mention Bilbays. Refers to "the knowledge of medicine" and perhaps a youth who is both physician and astrologer (shābb ṭabīb munajjim). The sender orders acacia (aqāqiya) and mentions condensed walnut juice (rubb al-jawz) and the pressing of something.
1. . . . . . . . . ويوم الثلثـ[ـا
2. כרמי من بلبيس يقول ان [
3. الذي خليته وخرجت هو الذ[ي
4. تقصرون(؟) بما اعبد(؟) عندكم هـ[
5. مضيه وانما انكسه(؟) كلام جرى [
6. علم …
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Tags
- physicians
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In PGP since
2019
PGPID
20845
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4000List or tableT-S AS 146.136
Primary languages
Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Mercantile accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. The scribe often mixes up emphatic and non-emphatic consonants and omits the lamed of the definite article before sun letters. […] The hand is likely known. Mentions Barsime(o) Robaldo al-Janawī (=the Genoese). Sal ammoniac (nushādir) is mentioned a few times.
Tags
- account
- genoese
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2018
PGPID
18223
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