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Inferred date

1168–1204 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Only the upper portion of recto and the address are preserved, entirely consisting of poetical praises.There are two unrelated notes on verso.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Possibly the same handwriting as ENA NS 70.15 (PGPID 11879) and/or Stras. 4038/9 (PGPID 28970).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Possibly a join: T-S 13J35.11 (PGPID 8085) and ENA NS 47.20 (PGPID 12153).

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• to examine
• very colloquial

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Document date

25 Dhū l-Ḥijja 403 Hijrī (7 July 1013 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The verso, written before the recto, contains part of a petition (see separate entry). Measurements: 11.2 × 8.4 cm.

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• abu l-hasan b. wahb
• daman
• damin
• tax receipt

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Regards to Sutayt, the elder Abū Zikrī, "my brother who is like my father, my brother Abū Zikrī, and our entire family."

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• women

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The author mentions an old woman, and the only legible name is Ibn al-Faraj, though there is not enough information to identify this person.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

"The reason for the debt is that my work is with ... the Shaykh Abū Saʿd known as Abū [...]." The fragment ends around here. Probably he is going to ask for help.

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• appeal

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Accounts in Ladino with a wide variety of detailed entries, which based on the numerical flow may be monetary gains and some expenses.

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• 18th or 19th c

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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic that mention the name Ḥayyīm Ṣanūʿa in each heading. The entries mention different types of cloth, cotton, wool, muslin cloth (shash), decorative woven cloth (Ott.

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• 16th c or later

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On the verso there are clearly labeled entries that are common for the 16th-18th centuries yet on the recto lie the remnants of extensive lists that repeatedly interject the word "zero / צפר" between alphanumerical figures.

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• list

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Primary language

Arabic

Beginning four pages from the 8th/14th century medical text by Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Akfānī entitled "Ghunyat al-Labīb ʿind Ghaybat al-Ṭabīb".

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• dimme

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

The columns are headed "al-mustakhraj" and "al-maṣrūf" (the former is replaced by "al-hāṣil" on one of the pages). Several entries for the month of Jumādā, of an unspecified year.

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• dimme

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Primary language

Arabic

Private accounts, or the amount owed to someone by the people mentioned in the document or the amount of money the person collected from the people mentioned. Every entry begins with "عند" followed by a name (including at least two women, Ḥusn al-Māshiṭa and Ḥusna the wife of Zayd, and amount of money in dirhams.

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• dimme

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

It appears that Meshullam takes over the responsibility for the six years of alimony payments (farḍ) to a certain female relative of his, which a Muslim court had previously imposed on her ex-husband Ṭoviya. But it is not entirely clear. See Goitein's note card.

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• alimony
• muslim courts

1 Transcription 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter by Ḥalfon to the Dayyan Yosef explaining that the Nagid told him that the daughter of the late Mufaddal b. al-Dimyati al-Kohen was otherwise engaged and should not have married Nissim Abu al-Ma‘ani, the writer’s business partner.

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• communal
• marriage

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Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

; Friday -- 2; Arabic words enclosed in squiggly brackets.

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• list

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Eliyyahu's brother, Shelomo, to Abu Zikri (ca. 1200) informing him that their father was well but upset about the hardships Abu Zikri had encountered. (Information from Mediterranean Society, V, p. 257, and from Goitein's index cards)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

P2: Maghribī business letter from the 11th century. Nearly entirely preserved, but faded. Mentions well-known merchants such as Barhūn Ibn al-Tāhartī (r4).

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• unedited 11th c

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Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

The preserved content is only the top of the letter but seems to be entirely praises for God. Verso: unidentified text in faint Hebrew characters.

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Mentions the relationships between the community and the Yeshiva in the time of Hilai b. Natronai (from the end of the 9th century). Also mentions Avraham b.

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• communal

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Primary language

Arabic

In Arabic script. Fragment: only the ends of 6 lines are preserved. It concerns a settlement between two people and lists all the categories of goods that are apparently no longer a matter of dispute (e.g. anything of iron or copper).

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

May be a copy, as there appears to be the end of one letter and the beginning of another one.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

With a formal introduction and blessings in Hebrew, which apparently took up the entirety of recto except for the upper margin. In the upper margin, the sender asks to be informed, urgently, if it is true that the addressee is going out to the Rīf.

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Primary language

Arabic

mithqāls; Bū l-Faraj; a ship; the sender has enclosed a second letter for his brother Bū ʿAlī; goes on to mention Bū l-Ḥasan and Bū l-Faḍl.

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Primary language

Arabic

A few words from 4 lines are preserved. Ends with a ṣalwala. Needs further examination.

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Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Pinḥas, Ramla, to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: end of 1029 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1007–1055 CE, based on the years when Efrayim b.

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• aodeh
• bialphabetic

2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The letter consists entirely of good wishes for the holidays. Greetings to Abū Naṣr Ghālib (Efrayim's son-in-law).

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• communal

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

May be an indirect join with ENA NS 17.2.

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Document date

25 Av 1538 Seleucid (9 August 1227 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

When his eldest son reminds him that according to Jewish law the firstborn was entitled to a double share (Deuteronomy 21:17), the dying man replies: "I do not prefer one child over another." Also, he and his business partner mutually declare that they trust each other completely; Abū l-Barakāt’s account books would speak for him after his death. At the end, a large bag with ʿūd (aromatic wood) was brought in, a purse with gold was put into it; the bag was laid into a Rumī (European) chest, which was locked, and the key was put into the hand of the dying man.

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• deathbed will
• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib1
• india book
• material culture

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Document date

17th Shevat 1411 Seleucid (30 January 1100 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

India Book VII, 12: Bifolium from a court notebook. Dating: One entry is dated Shevat 1411 Seleucid, which is January 1100 CE. […] Signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemu'el. 4. One entry involves a testimony of [...] the judge b.

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• ib7
• india book
• register

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Document date

Thursday, 25 Tishri 1339 Seleucid (28 September 1027 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yaḥyā for a period of four months, for which Yosef is to be paid 15 dirhams a month. By the end of this period, Yosef should have gained competence in working the loom; if not, the apprenticeship is to be renewed for an additional four months and his wage is to be raised to that of an ordinary worker. Barhūn promises to feed Yosef for the entire period, subtracting the cost of maintenance from his wages.

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• apprenticeship
• children
• contract
• partnership
• weaving
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Document date

Wednesday, 15 [Kislev] 1500 Seleucid (December 1188 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Avraham ha-Levi. Same scribe as ENA NS 76.435.1 + ENA NS 76.435.3 and other adjacent fragments: Yosef b.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

"Number of lines varies according to content; text breaks in fols. 1-3 denoted by three puncti; 1r remedies extracted from dogs, from foxes, in Hebrew, starting סגולות השועל; 1v remedies extracted from ducks. in Hebrew; 2r two paragraphs of cures, in Judeo-Arabic; 2v record of words, maybe a magical chant, in Aramaic; 3r instructions in Judeo-Arabic for the preparation of different remedies, followed by Hebrew instructions for the preparation of an amulet, engraved into a heart; 4r in a different hand; contains instructions in Hebrew for preparing parchment for a Torah Scroll. […] This is a complete, distinct essay, ending towards bottom of recto: תם תם; 4v (in the same hand as recto) contains the same, in Judeo-Arabic.

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• recipes

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Document date

10 Adar 5502 Anno Mundi (14 February 1742 CE)

End of a legal document from Cairo dated in the first third of Adar 5502 AM which is 1742 CE. […] These procedures often begin with variations of the verb צוה "to command" (for a clearer example, see ENA NS 56.7, PGPID 12885). One witness signature, to the left side, is that of Avraham Berakha Shalom.

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• 18th c
• orphans

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Goitein's translation: "I do not enjoy life without you. By God! Have compassion with my loneliness, weakness, and constrained heart, and, by God, satiate me with looks at you before I die. […] And Peace." It is also entirely possible that this is a parent writing to a son.

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• personal

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Primary language

Arabic

The sender begins the letter saying - “the justice of the amīr has engulfed every person” and then expresses his gratitude and prayers for the amīr. […] It seems that when the addressee - the amīr - looked into their affairs, no one was brave enough to convey this in his presence, hence the petitioner is reporting the affairs to him.

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• broker
• dimme
• merchant
• petition
• wool

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Document date

Tammuz 5495 Anno Mundi (21 June 1735–2 July 1735 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

The Jerusalem sage is asked to ensure Moshe returns to Cairo and gives a geṭ to Miriam.

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• 18th c
• yemen

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