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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender is apparently a scribe (mentions copies of books) who wishes to defer his wedding date but does not wish to end the betrothal. The city of al-Maḥalla is also mentioned.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Ladino

It concerns books with "glosses in his hand": sabreis komo he hallado ke tienen los libros haga'ot eskeritura de su mano y me recelo y si kereis aun kon todo esto ke os los envie os los enviare mas ha de saver ke no los vendas a ningun modo por amor de la dicha ke tiene ... y si keres os man dare los libros komo kedamos haya de ser kon este partido ke no los haveis de vender a ningun por la razon. […] And he mentions in the penultimate line "las encomiendas de mi parte y de parte de Esther que la cono[ces]"; Gutwirth suggests that Esther is his wife.

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• ladino

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Here, Abū l-ʿAlāʾ reports that he works in a silk shop (dukkān qizāza) together with Muslim artisans, including a Jewish convert to Islam (rajul posheaʿ) who has antagonized him by seeking to expel him from the shop. To this end, the apostate bears false witness against him and accuses him of taking vain oaths in the name of the king. […] The contract between the employer and the laborer indebted to him certainly stipulated that the latter had to pay the whole sum, in case he left the job. This was a means to ensure that the employee would not leave in time of a boom, see the preceding document.

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Tags

• communal
• petition

1 Transcription 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Consists entirely of expressions of longing and blessings. Same sender as Yevr.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Above the horizontal bar each entry has an Arabic word (نقله and حمزتها?) followd by a numeral.There is Hebrew literary text on verso.

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• cmp

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic. There are various entries about different matters, including several deceased people and their surviving offspring, inventories of property, and a narration of things two people said to each other.

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Document date

Dhū l-Qaʿda 933 Hijrī (30 July 1527–28 August 1527 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Late. A variety of the entries list "builders" (בנאין) so perhaps some figures represent construction costs.

Tags

• list

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions pepper; tartar, brazilwood, and lac (in the entry at 90 degrees); "the ʿArīf purchased for me a ridda and [...] for Maḥfūẓ"; lac, sal ammoniac, and pepper; someone's brother in law.

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Document date

7 Muḥarram 607 Hijrī (1 July 1210 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The payment is made (min jihat) by a government employee (al-mustakhdam); the name Fakhr b. Yūsuf appears at the end of the line.) Cf. T-S AS 177.73 (PGPID 37030).

Tags

• dimme
• fatimid
• fiscal
• tax receipt

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Document date

3 Elul 5583 Anno Mundi (10 August 1823 CE)

Primary language

Ladino

Letter in Ladino to Yehuda Gatenio, from a business partner in Alexandria, dated 10 August 1823 (3 Elul 5583 AM). Deals entirely with business transactions; Yehuda is to send something to Shelomo Naḥm__[?]

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• 19th c
• gatenio
• ladino
• late alexandria

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Primary language

Hebrew

Mentions Mordekhai Ḥefeṣ, who was a ḥaver in the Bet Din of the Nagid in Egypt at the end of the 15th century and the beginning of the 16th century.

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• late heb

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Document date

Muḥarram 1224 Hijrī (16 February 1809–17 March 1809 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The object of rent might be a mill (Ṭāḥūn) in the Ḥārat al-Yahūd, the payer is Bū ʿAlī and owner Ishaq. Few sums towards the end of the document. The name of the notary is Sayyidī Ḥasan Effendī.

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• 19th c
• dimme
• rent
• seal

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Primary language

Arabic

Some sequences can be read: l. 1 al-maʿānī allatī and l. 2 b. Isrāʾīl; at the end of the document, traces of signatures of the witnesses.

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• dimme

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The letter consists essentially entirely of formulaic phrases, and it may even be a formulary or draft based on the appearance of "fulān" twice at the bottom of verso.

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Primary language

Arabic

The sender reports that conditions are terrible in his location; reports on the price of wheat and bread; prays for deliverance from God; mentions his intention to enter Alexandria; begins to provide an update on the condition of Abū Ghālib.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter sent from Alexandria in which a cheese-maker asks his son to send him the receipt for his capitation tax and writes that he hopes to travel home as soon as the Khalij canal of Fustat has enough water. (Information from Goitein's index cards)

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1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Arabic

May be addressed to a jurisconsult regarding a legal opinion, ending "wa-huwa wa-raʾyuhū abṣar." The sender and addressee are Jewish, based on the phrase "wa-ḥaqq al-tawrā" (l. 4 and l. 10 of the first page).

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Tags

• dimme
• to examine

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The sender is distressed about something, perhaps that the addressee has exerted himself for the sender's concerns. He wishes a happy ending and blessings on the addressee's son ("ha-beraḥ ha-naʿim" for "ha-peraḥ.")

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The beginnings of five lines from the main text block are preserved, together with a large piece of the right margin, which contain the greetings at the end of the letter. One of the people greeted is Abū l-Rab[īʿ].

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Informal but deferential note from Ḥananel b. Shemuel (cf. ENA 2808.53), informing the addressee that he has sent something for (?

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Document date

1200 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

2 pages from a list of revenues and expenses for the end of 1200, written by Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya ha-Levi.

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Primary language

Ladino

Recto: geomantic designs consisting of series of horizontal dashes organised in groups of 4 lines each and laid out in two columns. At the end of the second column there are four lines in Ladino mentioning a Sabbatical year.

Tags

• geomancy
• ladino

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Primary language

Arabic

The petitioner is one of the traders entering (or importing goods into?) Egypt and claims to be a good man.

Tags

• dimme
• petition

1 Transcription 1 Translation 2 Discussions

Document date

1101–1130 CE

Primary language

Arabic

Verso is a petition to the Fatimid caliph al-ʿĀmir, for which see different entry.

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Tags

• dimme

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He begs for a small loan in preparation for the upcoming holiday. See also ENA NS 2.8 addressed to the same recipient who is given the title al-Mansuri in each letter.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Mentions aḥbās, probably in relation to endowments, and a few like Saturday, 15th Shaʿbān, but a year is not mentioned anywhere.

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Inferred date

1168–1201 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Mainly in Hebrew, with a few lines in Judaeo-Arabic at the end. (Information from Mediterranean Society, IV, pp. 227, 228).

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Tags

• bilbays
• physicians

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso is headed "al-Gharbī" and one entry refers to "the dry" and the next to אלאלין (some category of grain?).

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Very similar to ENA NS 33.12, perhaps even a join (but there are some differences in the handwriting).

Tags

• late arabic script
• ledger
• list

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: 11th–13th century. Some entries deal with the weights of items. The term "וזן" appears repeatedly under the archival tape that was applied along the right border of the recto.

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• cmp

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A wide variety of ingredients are mentioned in each entry's mixing instructions: scammony, natron, sal ammoniac, pepper, saffron, opium, honey, absinthe, among others.

Tags

• cmp
• materia medica

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Inferred date

1497–1600 CE

This fragment is directly related to the neighboring shelmark ENA 3518.2– the two fragments may be joins from a financial ledger.

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Tags

• 16th c
• ladino

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The Lieberman catalog (cited in FGP) connects this shelfmark with ENA 3571.2, but the two shelfmarks are not related.

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Primary language

Arabic

Possibly accounts, with Arabic entries in right column with Coptic numerals in the left column.

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Primary language

Arabic

من ظهر . . وتحصيله اليه. The ends of two lines are preserved on verso: . . . ه كما هو اهله . . .

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Document date

466 Hijrī (16 November 1034–4 November 1035 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Rent receipt (? اجرته end of line 1) for al-shaykh Abū al-Ḥasan Saʿīd al-Yahūdī al-Ḥarīrī for a dār in the al-Mamṣūṣa neighborhood of Fusṭāṭ.

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• dimme
• glyph

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