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Aramaic, Hebrew

Recto: late letter, to someone described as ‘a great man among giants’ and ‘the great tamarisk’, who is also praised as ‘[possessing more wisdom] than all the wisdom of the Bene Qedem and than all the wisdom of Egypt’.

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Document date

Sunday, 5 Adar 1403 Seleucid (February 1092 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

At the top the names Bishāra and ʿAllān b. Saʿīd appear. The letter mentions: someone's in-law Abū Isḥāq; Abū Saʿd al-Ḥalabī; collecting money from someone; Yūsuf; and various business reckonings and instructions. Concludes by mentioning a letter for Sayyidnā al-Rayyis al-Nāsī. Needs further examination.

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• 11th c
• partnership

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment (upper part only). In which Abū Saʿd al-Ḥarīrī Ḥalfon b. Yiṣḥaq, the brother of Abū l-Ḥasan Daniʾel, acknowledges something (perhaps a debt) for Hiba b. Avraham. There is also a filing note on verso ("document from Abū Saʿd al-Ḥarīrī to Hiba").

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23 September 1056 CE

Letter from Isma’il b. Farah, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. September 23, 1056. The letter contains details about shipments of money and goods, and several requests to send letters, as well as requests related to buying goods (mainly sugar) and selling goods (mainly silk) in Fustat. Also mentions a large shipment of wax that was sent to the government.

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• 11th c
• nahray b. nissim
• silk
• state
• sugar
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2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Nahum b. Hakhmon, from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1053. The letter contains several topics: details about the ships movements; oil that was sent from the Maghreb to Egypt; the quite situation in Tripoli (Libya); a disagreement about the price of amber; and a disagreement in Alexandria between the cantor and his son. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 4, #690) VMR

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Primary language

Arabic

Mentions the amīr Fāris al-Dawla. The amīr Fāris al-Dawla was active around 550 H, in the period of al-Fāʾiz. (For other mentions of Fāris al-Dawla, see T-S Ar.39.445, T-S Ar.42.171, ENA 1822a.95).

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• dimme

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Simḥa Kohen, probably in Alexandria, to Abū l-Manṣūr. Dating: ca. 1205 CE. The writer complains about the extortions of a tax farmer who claimed that many people had executed the transfers of the ownership of their houses before a Jewish court without registering them with the government. (Information from Mediterranean Society, IV, pp. 90, 365). See also Goitein notes and index card linked below.

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• 13th c
• construction
• damin
• renovation
• tax

2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Muslim/Musallam, reporting the arrival of a letter from Saʿadya the cantor and mentioning business matters and a certain Barukh, who is coming to Fusṭāṭ together with a certain Majīd the perfumer on the 17th of Av. Also mentions Abū l-Faraj and Rukn al-Dīn who has just arrived from al-Shām (Syria-Palestine).

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• druggist

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Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

So perhaps the addressee is titled Sharaf al-Dīn and his father is a qāḍī titled ʿAmid [al-Dawla]. There are also some jottings in Arabic script. On verso there are Hebrew writing exercises (הקץ עצל).

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Judaeo-Arabic

There are greetings to his brother Ḥalfon's wife Sitt Naʿīm. Also the addressee's "mother and sisters" are mentioned. Yefet reports that Ḥassūn b. ʿAllūn arrived. Mentions Baqāʾ. Mentions a radda (a garment alternately identified as "scarf" or "turban").

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• yefet b. menashshe

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Very deferential and asking for help, including a letter on his behalf to al-Shaykh al-Sadīd Abū l-Faraj Kātib al-ʿArab. (Information in part from CUDL.) Join: Alan Elbaum

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• biblical verses quoted

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Masʿūd the price of the bundle (ṣurra) of ben or moringa (al-bān), because the latter kindly made some wine for Tamīm. Goitein's notes indicate that the use of the term "ṣurra" proves a connection to the India trade. His notes also translate al-bān as "nutmeg."

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• ib6
• india book

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Primary language

Arabic

Mentions a letter from a qāḍī Abū Muḥammad al-Nāʾib and something that arrived for him from Genoa. Asks for news of Abū l-Surūr and whether he has traveled to the west (al-Gharb) or not. Greetings to al-Muʿallā (=ha-Meʿulle?), Abū Isḥāq, and Abū l-ʿAlāʾ. Needs further examination.

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• to edit

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Document date

7 Tammuz 1376 Seleucid (13 June 1065 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Yefet. Not delivered. See also T-S 10J2.6, a bill of divorce for the same couple from several years later, also not delivered.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He wants to know if the addressee has purchased the book of Psalms yet (al-muṣḥaf al-tehillim). If so, Shelomo will send him some of the money. He also apologizes for his delay in coming in person and paying the rest of the money.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Barhūn b. Mūsā b. Barhūn al-Tāhartī, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat.

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• honey
• nahray b. nissim
• trade
• wax

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation

Inferred date

1700–1900 CE

Primary languages

Arabic, Eastern Arabic Numerals

Bill in Arabic script, late. "Al-maṭlūb min al-shaykh Riḍwān al-Tāhir..." The currency listed is Ottoman gurūsh, which helps to date this document as 18th- or 19th-century.

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• 18th or 19th c

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Many names are mentioned, including Barhūn and al-Dustarī (=al-Tustarī) and Bunyām al-Ḥazzan. Commodities inclue ambergris.

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• account
• unedited 11th c

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Document date

Rabīʿ I 1023 Hijrī (11 April 1614–10 May 1614 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Colophon in Judaeo-Arabic. The work (...ʿalā madhhab al-[???]...) was completed in Rabīʿ I 1023 AH, which is 1614 CE, in the synagogue of al-Ḥakham ʿAṭiyya.

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• colophon
• late synagogues

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Many of the people named have Muslim-sounding names (ʿAbd al-Ghanīy, Muḥammad, etc.). The writer also names "Ibn Nissim my brother-in-law."

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a letter addressed to Sayyid al-Kull, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Thin strip from the middle. Mentions a ḥaver, and perhaps a wedding on a shabbat. Also mentions Mubārak and washing something.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Receipt, in Arabic script and Coptic numerals. Contains several ʿalāma, one reads as "alḥamdu li-llāhi waḥdahu". Mentions "al-mablagh".

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• dimme

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Document date

584 Hijrī (2 March 1188–18 February 1189 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Presumably a draft of a letter of appointment for a scribe to the central chancery. ʿAbd al-Ghanī b. Muḥammad al-Kātib is appointed as a scribe in the dīwān al-inshā wa l-mukātabāt in Miṣr.

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• dimme

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

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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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment in the hand of Avraham b. Farah al-Iskandarani, in Alexandria, to one of the merchants in Fustat, regarding shipments being forwarded to the addressee.

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• 11th c
• alexandria
• trade

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Litigation in court between the two partners, Farah and Yosef, concerning a business deal for merchandise that was apparently imported from Buna (Bone, Algieria) to Alexandria. (Information from Goitein's index cards)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a commercial letter in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning al-Dimashqī al-Tifʾeret, the arrival of "ṣāḥib al-kitāb" sums of dirhams, and a woman's speech quoted.

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Primary language

Arabic

Some phrases: "together with the Rayyis ʿAllūn(?)... if it arrives safely... together with Sayyid al-Ahl b. al-[...]."

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Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts with names and numerals, mentioning Abū Saʿd [...] al-Ḥasīd, Abū l-Faraj Ibn al-Nafīs and Abū l-Majd Ibn al-Nafīs.

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• account

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Judaeo-Arabic

Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions al-Ṣayrafī Abū l-Ḥusayn; al-Qaṭṭān; al-Qāhira; Yaʿaqov the brother (or ṣabiyy?)

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• account

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso mentions firewood and alum and wool and tartar. Recto also mentions wool and tartar.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Bifolio of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic (and one line of Arabic). Mentions al-Qāʾid Abū l-Karam; Manṣūr al-Tinnīsī; al-Zaʿīmī; Abū l-Faraj; an amīr; Ghālib.

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Judaeo-Arabic

It seems that the government salary would also require the physician to return to Damīra and practice there, an outcome the writer is desperate to avoid. […] Now, pieces of bloody phlegm (qiṭaʿ balgham dam) are coming up, together with the intense pain (al-alamal-shadīd). How often this flares up in me (yathūr bī)!" He does not ask for a prescription or medical advice, but perhaps the request is implied. The letter also contains quite a lot of discussion of wheat.

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• dustur
• fasting
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: consilia
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Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Draft of the beginning of a letter in unusual Arabic script with balls at the tops of alifs and lams. Also, in Judaeo-Arabic, drafts of the phrase: "[this is to] inform Peraḥya."

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• arabic script

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Arabic

One of the landmarks is Ḥammām al-Dīk. Also mentions common features such as a dihlīz, four marble columns, and a mirḥāḍ.

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• architecture
• hammam

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: Perhaps 11th century, based on the handwriting and the names (e.g. Barhūn). Also mentions Avraham Ibn al-Iskandarānī; Abū Saʿīd.

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• unedited 11th c

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Primary language

Arabic

Petition from a Jewish man to a Muslim general (al-isfahsalārī > isfahsalār), possibly named Bahāʾ al-Dīn or Bahāʾ al-Dawla.

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• isfahsalar

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Groom: [...] b. Dunash. Also mentions Efrayim Ibn al-הזרמיל(?).

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• ketubba
• marriage

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Informal note from Faraj Allāh to al-Shaykh al-Ṣafiyy. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment: only the right side is preserved.

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• order

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Marginal notes in Judaeo-Arabic on top of an almost entirely effaced literary text in Hebrew. One says "al-Ḥākim bi-Amr Allāh" and another "he disappeared after a few days."

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• al-hakim

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