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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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Tags

• ib6
• india book

3 Transcriptions

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.

Tags

• 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 language

Arabic

Mentions "jarā ka-mā jarā" and the phrase "ayyuhā al-sayyid al-malik al-jalīl."

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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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Primary language

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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Primary language

Arabic

Maybe a receipt. Mentions "al-kharāj al-muwāfaqa li l-khidma al-wizāra." Needs further examination.

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Primary language

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

Aramaic

Written and signed by the cantor Yefet b. David. Also signed by Shemuel b. Avraham. The location, date, and names are all missing.

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Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment (a strip) of a legal deed concerning real estate (al-dār al-madhkūra). Mentions a ladder, a Muslim legal deed (kitāb al-'arabī).

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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 language

Judaeo-Arabic

For the sale of an unspecified good (the unit is qiṭʿa). Names: Ibn al-Fawāris al-ʿArīf; Sālim al-Ḥajj; Abū ʿAbdallāh; his brother Ibn Yāsīn; Ṣibyān.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning al-Mutanabbī, the Būyid amīr Muʿizz al-Dawla, and the vizier Abū l-Faraj Muḥammad b. al-ʿAbbās (Ibn Fasānjas).

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• al-mutanabbi

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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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Primary language

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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Tags

• dustur
• fasting
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: consilia
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Primary languages

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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Primary language

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

1 Transcription

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

Tags

• ketubba
• marriage

1 Discussion

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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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: 12th or 13th century. Addressed to "al-rayyis al-ajall" reporting something about a woman from ʿakkā (al-ʿAkkāwiyya)

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Primary language

Arabic

Contains a basmala, and an ʿalāma (الحمد لله حمدا يرضيه). Mentions "al-dīwān" and beginning of a date "bi-tārikh al-khāmis.......arbaʿ miya(?)".

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• dimme

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Primary language

Arabic

On recto refers to "... (Dīwān al-?)aḥbās bi-l-Baḥriyya fa-baʿatha warāhu min...." On verso refers to something pertaining to al-Malik al-ʿAzīz.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List of receivers of alms containing rare names, women and foreigners. The Hebrew alef evidently stands for ūqiyya, ounce. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 462, App.

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• charity
• communal
• poverty
• recipients

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On verso there is a note mentioning [Sitt] al-Ahl bt. Maʿālī, the wife of Abū l-Ḥasan [...] al-Meshorer, and her daughter Sitt al-Banīn.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Elya, asking to give half a cup (קדח) to the bearer of the note and also mentioned that he has sent something already with him.

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• shelomo b. eliyyahu

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Accounts. Mentions al-Shaykh Bū l-Faraj, [...] Ibn al-Tilmīdh or al-Talmid, Abū l-Fakhr, Abū l-Ḥasan, and Manṣūr.

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Arabic

There are two text blocks in Arabic on verso naming "for Barakāt b. al-Shaykh al-Ajall al-Rayyis Abū l-Faraj" (aka Shelomo b.

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Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Large. Recto mentions al-ḥāṣil min [...] and then ʿAbdallāh and other names. On verso: al-darāhim al-muḥtāj ilayhā. . . then mentions 130 dirhams.

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Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter addressed (in Arabic) to Abū l-Ḥasan Bishr b. Hilāl al-Baghdādī. The writer refers to his illness ([mā] anā ʿalayhi min al-wajaʿ).

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: mention

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Primary language

Arabic

Official-looking receipt for Abū l-ʿIzz b. Bū ʿAlī. Unclear for what. Landscape layout. Needs further examination. See also T-S AS 180.126 and T-S AS 181.71.

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Primary language

Hebrew

Possibly a letter of praise. Consists almost entirely of poetical Hebrew phrases. At the bottom there is the writer's name: Kalev b. […] At the top, in Arabic script: ʿAbd al-[...] al-Ṣayrafī dāma ʿizzahū.

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