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Primary language

Arabic

Mentions tawqīʿ at least twice and the purchase and price of timber (ḥaṭab). There is also an ʿalāma or archival note on the verso, which is not extremely readable.

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Primary language

Arabic

The addressee is not identified, but there may be a clue if the unusual raʾy clause, wa-raʾyuhā al-asʿad, is a reference to his title; speculatively, this could be al-Qāḍī al-Asʿad a.k.a. […] The sender reports that he went up (to New Cairo?) with Abū l-Fakhr Ibn al-Rāb (Heb. al-Rav), who appears to have learned from the government dīwān that he overpaid his tax liability. […] The addressee is now asked to go up with this Ibn al-Rav and clear everything up. This fragment was identified by Kedem Golden.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In this unsigned and undated draft, an unnamed active partner receives 200 dinars from Sibāʿ, with which he is to travel to Alexandria and transact in unnamed commodities. Sibāʿ agrees to share equally in all losses to the partnership as a whole (e.g. losses due to work stoppage or broken merchandise). Lines 12-16 indicate that if commodities may end up traveling for sale in Alexandria escorted by someone other than the active partner, the active partner should inform Sibāʿ. […] (Information from Lieberman, "A Partnership Culture", 97–98.) See also separate document record for verso.

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• alexandria
• draft
• halfon b. netanel
• ib4
• india book
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Inferred date

1120–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The document explains that the merchant acted with great valor hiding his companion's merchandise from the rulers of Dahlak who would have confiscated it—and would have killed the merchant himself if they had found out what he had done. This merchant also made haste to go to the court and declare all the goods belonging to his companion (and therefore his orphans) as soon as he returned to Fustat (l. 10), and even mentioned "several things that were not in the account ledger (daftar al-ḥisāb)." […] Rajā?). See also T-S AS 149.84 (PGPID 18611). (Information in part from Goitein's attached discussion, transcription, and translation.) Join: Alan Elbaum.

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• daftar
• dahlak
• ib7
• india book

2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

He lists various people who have helped him in the past: Abū Saʿd Ibn al-Maṣmūdī gave him 2 dinars for him and his son last year; the judge Abū Naṣr gave him a dinar for an ʿarḍī garment worth only a dirham; the son of Abū l-Munā whom the sender owed for the price of rose water also gave him something; Abū Zikrī al-Talmid, Ibrāhīm al-ʿAkkāwī, and Yosef who lives in in zuqāq al-qanādīl all gave him a half dinar. He has heard that there is a village near Minyat Zifta belonging to Nāṣir al-Dīn whose inhabitants have to pay no capitation tax, and he's fantasizing about moving there and never coming back to Fustat.

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Primary language

Arabic

Quittance granted by [...] bt. ʿAbdallāh al-Rummānī to Abū l-Faraj Sulaymān b. Hārūn al-Khaybarī known as Ibn al-Sulūkī (?), an official in the treasury (kātib bayt al-māl al-maʿmūr). (Information in part from Goitein's index card.) […] The witnesses of the document attached autograph witnesses clauses with the formula: shahida fulān ibn fulān ʿalā iqrār al-mubri'a bi-mā fīhi fī tārīkhihi..."

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• khaybari
• quittance
• treasury

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Primary language

Arabic

Fiscal account recording the revenue of wheat, barley and broadbeans produced in five villages of the Gharbiyya province (Basūṭ Nahīsah, Maḥallat Bū l-Haytam, Nawāj, Damshīt, and Minyat Bū l-ʿAṭāf) in the kharajī year 562 and assigned to the military unit of the emir Abū Manṣūr ʿAlī b. ʿAlīal-ʿĀḍidī al-Nāṣirī. In its present state, the account consists of a single vertical bifolio (a format typically used in Fatimid accounting), which now contains only the details of the production of the village of Basūṭ Nahīsah. Originally, however, the account was also meant to contain details of the production of the other four villages, which implies either that a part of the account is missing or that the account was left unfinished. […] In lines 17–19, the scribe was supposed to sum up and account for the whole agricultural production of the five villages after each new entry (min al-ghallāt: qamḥ, šaʿīr, fūl). The sum of the whole production would then have been converted into counted gold money and the number obtained would have been added in front of the entry min al-ʿayn (l. 16).

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• dimme

1 Transcription 1 Translation

Primary language

Hebrew

In addition to this reshut, he also copied an ōfān for Sukkot by the Andalusī Yehuda ha-Levi. If he copied it before 1141, it would have been while the poet was still alive — a remarkable distance for his poetry to travel in his own lifetime; but Ibn Yijū also writes of having met in Aden Sulaymān Ibn Gabbay, Yehuda ha-Levi's travel companion (rafīq) during his eastward voyage to Egypt from al-Andalus in 1140, so perhaps Ibn Yijū saw his dīwān only then and disseminated it from Aden eastward. He also copied a maʿariv for Yom Kippur and composed his own liturgical poetry, including two seliḥot that he wrote in the margins and on the verso of a deed of manumission, as well as secular poetry.

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• ib-addenda
• ib3

1 Transcription 1 Translation

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He is seemingly asking only for advice, but in reality also for help (per Goitein). Sulaymān had written to the addressee to recommend the sender. "The greatest of my wishes is travel from Alexandria into the Mediterranean (al-baḥr al-māliḥ) in the ṣalībī ships."

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Arabic

Sings the praises of a Coptic sage in Alexandria. This sage is versed in theology (الناطق بالقوال التالوغسية) and Hermetic arts (المتادب بالاداب الهرمسية) and translates the Coptic and the Arabic languages (مترجم الغات القبطية والعربية). […] And there is one word (الاوبيين) that perhaps should be read "al-Ayyūbiyyīn" which would date the fragment to 1171–1250 CE. But it might also be al-adībīn. Informtion from Krisztina Szilagyi via FGP.

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• arabic script
• copts
• hermetism
• interreligious strife
• violence

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Document date

21 Adar 1409 Seleucid (25 February 1098 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Court records, all concerning the same persons. Recto: Sason b. […] Continues elsewhere. [Sason b. Natan also appears in T-S 12.1 (ca. 1090 CE), in which testimony is given regarding Sason’s attempt to defraud with counterfeit currency, and Moshe Ibn Majjān features in a dispute over a Bible codex in T-S 18J5.2 + T-S 10J5.16.] […] (Information mainly from CUDL. See also Goitein notes and index card linked below.)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Letter to the Gaon in Cairo (al-Muʿizziyya). In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer explains that he has not yet been able to find a riding animal to come visit (aftaqid) the Gaon in person, and in the meantime his heart is with him. […] in Judaeo-Arabic, addressed to a group of people (al-ḥaverim), it seems the writer's inferiors, mentioning the encouragement of good deeds (istinhāḍ al-thawāb). […] The writer seems invested in strengthening the legitimacy/authority of fatwās (an yakūna li-l-fatwā bāb). Also, a letter should be sent to Ibn al-ʿAmmānī upbraiding him for his tardiness in writing.

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• fatwa
• to edit

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Document date

Last third of Av 1492 Seleucid (August 1181 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

This document preserves the lower part of a partnership agreement between the brothers Abū al-Faraj and Abū al-Mufaḍḍal in a shop selling food. The partners are allocated maintenance from the shop’s stores, as well as one dirham each per day. The two are to eat and live together, though they are given the option of eating separately, in which case Abū al-Mufaḍḍal is to take two dirhams and Abū al-Faraj is to take four dirhams as maintenance.

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• autograph
• joseph b. shmuel halevi
• partnership

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

Letter from Ibrāhīm b. Isḥāq, evidently of al-Maḥalla, to Abu Saʿd Hibatallāh (aka Netanʾel b. […] The beginning is in Hebrew ("twelve lines of exquisite Hebrew proem"), and the body of the letter is in Arabic script, except for two phrases. (On verso there are also a few lines of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.) This is a letter of recommendation for the bearer, one Yakhin ha-Meshorer ("the poet") who had settled in al-Maḥalla but fled from there and abandoned his family,when the superintendent of revenue (ṣāḥib al-Maḥalla) "harassed him" by demanding from him the capitation tax (al-kharāj).

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• arabic
• capitation tax
• jaliya
• jizya
• khaybari
• (+ 2 more)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Testimony about power of attorney regarding Mūsā b. ʿAllush’s bequest. Dating: 1046 (Gil). Mūsā, from Jerba, had businesses in Sicily and drowned on his way to Alexandria. […] ʿAllūsh's belongings, including the judge Maṣliaḥ b. Eliyyahu and Abī Mūsā, approve that all of his money belongs to his partner Berekhya b.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The shelfmark T-S Ar.18(1).123 unites three fragments, which all have Hebrew liturgical poems on one side and remainders of letters in Judaeo-Arabic on the other. All three letters appear to be in the same handwriting, and all the liturgical fragments are likewise in the handwriting of the same scribe (different than the scribe of the letters). […] with the animal, and he should feed it whatever fodder it needs (aʿlifhā aysh mā iʿtalafat) and charge the sender for it.

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Arabic

Part of a preliminary draft of a chancery document addressed to a government official. ". . . bi-l-shadd minka fī istikhrāj al-māl ʿalā l-kamāl ʿalā l-kamāl (sic!) wa-l-tamām wa-qaṣr yad man yudawwim al-iḥtimā' ʿalayka wa-l-manʿ min iḥdāth rasm lam tajri bihi l-ʿāda. . . . " That is, an order has been issued in favor of the addressee: "for you to be granted the power to levy the money in its entirety, for the hand to be restrained of whomsoever continually defaults (on his payment) to you, and for the prevention of an unwonted practice.' […] The provinces in question are the districts of Gharbiyya and Sharqiyya, and Jazīrat Banī Naṣr, which is in the Delta by the Sharqiyya province. (Yāqūt, Muʿjam al-buldān, II, 139).

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• dimme
• shadd

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The first section is a report on a member of the Ibn Sughmār family, who was suspected of having an affair with a Muslim woman or prostitute (אלזונה אלגויה). "He had already paid a fine of 120 gold pieces, an enormous sum, and had already been imprisoned for a month and a half at the writing of the letter reporting the scandal to someone in Qus, Upper Egypt; twelve court records had been written in this matter" (Med Soc V, p. 322, note 49). Abū Naṣr al-Tustarī involved himself somehow. The next part of the letter is a report on the prices of various mercantile goods. Also refers to a Jewish tax-farmer for tanning (hunā mutaqabbil al-dabāgha yahūdī).

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• ib7
• india book
• natan b. avraham
• prostitution
• qus

3 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The petitioners were apparently newcomers to a provincial town (though it is not clear where the document says this) and were dragged to the corvee (forced labor) and forced to work for the government by doing some job (the specifics are lost in a lacuna in line 5) which is perceived by their fellow Jews as tantamount to idolatry. They also assert that the indigenous inhabitants did not permit them to exercise their craft (Goitein). Or, alternatively, the threat of excommunication is for the scenario in which they continue working for the government, and they now wish to be exempted from this work, by asking the addressee to intervene with the ṣāḥib al-shurṭa on their behalf. […] The join is very likely but not 100% certain as there are no words clearly split across the two fragments. There may also be a third intervening piece.

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• corvee
• state

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The Book of the Correction of the Negligence Found in the Books of the Head of the Academy, al-Fayyūmī (Kitāb istidrāk al-sahw al-mawjūd fī kutub ra’s al-mathība al-Fayyūmī), is a book by Mubashshir ben Nissi ha-Levi criticizing Se‘adya Ga’on—who was often referred to as the Fayyūmī, as he was born in the Fayyūm region of Egypt. […] This passage, from the introduction, proclaims that the author will show no loyalty to Se‘adya and instead will verify all religious matters for himself. (Information from Posen Library)

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Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

In a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. The cantor al-Shaykh al-Makīn (=Abū l-Majd?) is to give 10 dirhams to the bearer, a judge. The judge Anaṭoli is also somehow involved. The money should come from the rent of the compound. […] T-S K25.240 consists of small written orders, partly in Hebrew and partly in Arabic script, for monthly payments, made out of the rent-revenue from the pious foundation (waqf) 'Compound of the Poor' or from the pious foundation made by the physician al-Muhadhdhab. All dated orders are from spring and summer, 1218.

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• account
• heqdesh
• qodesh
• waqf

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Document date

25 Shawwāl 422 Hijrī (15 October 1031 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

. […], companion of the amīr Dhakhīrat al-Dawla Ḥaydara b. Muḥammad b. ʿAdnān (appears also in T-S AS 176.1 (PGPID 39213) around the same time and in T-S 13J26.13, twenty years and a promotion later), acknowledges the receipt of 1124 irdabbs of barley from Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. […] On the last page, in a different hand, there is a draft of a legal document in Hebrew. Location: Alexandria. Dated: Thursday, 20 Kislev 4815 AM, which is 1054/55 CE.

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Primary language

Arabic

Naftali, collated by Levi b. al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlīal-Baṣrī. Two pages of Arabic state documents were recycled for this; they seem to be from different documents but this is uncertain. Fol. 1 of the literary work also includes an Arabic name in the margin: Yaʿqūb b. […] The first Arabic page (fol. 3r) mentions Abū l-Faraj; the payment of an account; "and when I returned to al-Ramla, I found that he had arrived. . . . " The second page of Arabic (fol. 4r) shows pronounced stacking of words at the ends of lines and is difficult to read.

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Primary language

Arabic

Likely sent from Jerusalem (since it refers to people "coming up" from al-Ramla this week). Addressed to a woman. The sender reports that the mother of Abū Manṣūr is well. This week, Abū l-Faraj al-Tūnisī "came up" from al-Ramla together with "the girl" (al-ṣabiyya). […] But then the dark girl (al-samrā), the daughter of ʿAbd al-Salām, died.

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• to edit

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Document date

19 Ramaḍān 496 Hijrī (26 June 1103 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

ʿAlī b. Ḥamūl. The document lists the usual lease clauses. […] Khalīj: The Khalīj of Alexandria, the large waterway which connected that city with the Nile. Beyond it: dūnahā, meaning, away from Alexandria to the south. bridge: I am not sure whether the word should be read jisr, bridge, or ḥadd, border.

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• dimme
• fatimid

1 Translation

Primary language

Arabic

Letter in Arabic from a father to a son that consists almost entirely of greetings and well-wishes. The family rejoiced to receive his letters from Tripoli al-Gharb (Libya) and from al-Mahdiyya. […] Yūsuf sends her regards, as do Umm Sitt al-Jamīʿ and Abū Saʿd and Abū Surūr. Verso: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning items that were sent with Abū Surūr and others with [. . .] al-Nafūsī and others with [. . .] b.

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• dimme
• tripoli (libya)

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Concerning a shipment of tartar and a report about the arrival of ships from the West (Spain and al-Mahdiyya). "Tartar (Ar. ṭartār, derived from the same medieval Greek word as the English) was another mordant, also coming to the capital of Egypt via Alexandria.

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• ib6
• india book
• movement of ships
• tartar

2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Document date

Av 5556 Anno Mundi (5 August 1796–3 September 1796 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

The main text of the document also names two non-Jews as partners and the note below the signatures section names a third non-Jewish partner, specifically: Shaḥata, the merchant Ibrahim(?) al-Mamlūk, and the merchant ʿUmr al-Sarrāj. The common purse of the partnership is rather high, in the main text totaling to 183,000 medin (36,000 + 36,000 + 36,000 + 48,000 + 27,000). The addendum note mentions that the sixth partner, ʿUmr al-Sarrāj, contributed 700 reales. The scribe Meʾīr Ben-Naʿīm notes that three copies of the document were issued at the time of its recording.

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• 18th c
• palombo
• partnership

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy (Alexandria) to Nahray b. Nissim (Fustat). Describes his tribulations due to the winter; mentions business in flax; the animals are unable to travel due to the rain and mud. He has sent a purse of 26 dinars weiging 26 1/6 dinars with the bearer Abū Naṣr al-Baghdādī, to be paid to Abū Kathīr al-Ṣayrafī, and out of which the addressee is to take 19 2/3, leaving 6 1/2 dinars. Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa is to add 1 1/2 dinars from Abū Manṣūr al-Zayyāt; the 8 dinars are to be paid to Abū Saʿīd Khalaf Ibn Qaṭṭūs when he arrives from Tinnīs.

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• nahray b. nissim
• trade

3 Transcriptions 1 Translation

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: Possibly first half of the 12th century, based on the reference to the merchant Yiṣḥaq al-Nafūsī (see Friedman, India Traders, p. 258, n. 1). […] The sender has sent a mat (? ḥaṣīr) with Ibn al-Dawāniqī. Regards to Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllān, Khallūf al-Nafūsī, and Yiṣḥaq al-Nafūsī.

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• ib-addenda
• ib6

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe (fl. 1100-138 CE). In which Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan al-Tinnīsī (aka Yefet b. Shemarya) appoints Makārim b. […] Yeshuʿa ha-Ḥaver known as Ibn al-Sulamī (appears also in Bodl. MS heb. c 28/22 (PGPID 9058)) as his agent to claim what the late Ṣāfī b.

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• halfon b. menashshe
• ib7
• india book

2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Document date

first third of Tammuz 500[.] Anno Mundi (1244–1249 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Certificate of kashrut. Location: Alexandria. Dated: First third of Tammuz 500[.] AM; the options are 5004, 5007, and 5009 (=1244, 1247, or 1249 CE). […] Bū l-Barakāt purchases 97 moulds (qālib) of Sicilian (Rūmī Siqillī) cheese from Jewish merchants who have arrived in Alexandria. The cheese has a seal on it, and reliable witnesses testify that it is kosher (lā rayba fīhi, a phrase borrowed from Quran 2:2). Witnesses: Yehuda b. Aharon Ibn al-ʿAmmānī; the teacher Yefet b. Yosef ha-Melammed.

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• cheese
• kashrut
• merchant
• sicily

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Might be a request for a loan of 2 dinars which the sender needs for his travel expenses in Alexandria and Malīj; he will send the money back from Malīj to Fustat. […] Addressed to two maternal uncles, possibly (mawālayya al-akhwāl(?) aṭāla allāh baqāhamā). The sender tells them that they left at a good time ("in a blessed hour") and that Kalil al-Kassār (the woodcutter) stayed in the shop into the night, and nobody came, and eventually Abū Saʿīd ('your cousin,' ibn khālkum) came home.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: Late 12th century, based on the mention of Abū Zikrī b. ʿAṭiyya who also appears in 1182 CE in JRL Series B 3858. The subject of the letter is hard to discern since so much is missing. However, it is mostly about legal thickets involving an orphan girl, an untrustworthy Muslim named ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd, a dead person, his niece, and several ambiguous other people, how the writer is seen as meddlesome and knows more than he's supposed to know, and how he wants the addressee to intervene, including by making sure the case is brought to court in Alexandria.

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• to edit

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions numerous amirs (including Shams al-Dīn, Saʿd al-Dīn, Fakhr al-Dīn, and Jalāl al-Dīn), qāḍīs, a wālī, a nāẓir, and a faqīh. […] Goitein, Mediterranean Society 1:118, 426.) EMS. Joins: Alan Elbaum.

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• fayyum

2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Document date

10 Rajab 997 Hijrī (25 May 1589 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The letter is written on behalf of 'all the qubbāḍ (tax collectors)' in the district of Shubrā, likely Shubra Damsīs, though there is also a district named Shubra in Cairo, reporting on an issue concerning heads of livestock. […] (See Ibn Dawādārī, Kanz al-Durar, I:233, and Ibn Iyās, Badāʾi al-Zuhūr, I:27).

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Document date

6 Kislev 1542 Seleucid (13 November 1230 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Eliyyahu the judge (ha-dayyan) and Avraham al-Maḥallī appear. This is a partnership agreement between Abū l-Bayān b. Mūsā al-Levi and [... b.] Abū l-ʿAbb[ās] al-Ṣabbāgh. […] Join: Alan Elbaum.

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• shelomo b. eliyyahu

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(I) The upper letter mentions: Alexandria; something in which nothing remained "except for its sacks (khuyūsh)"; the ships from al-Mahdiyya; updates about the sailing of the ships; something reported by Ibn Mahdī when he came; various other updates about specific ships (including a shakhtūr and a qārib); updates on pricees of specific goods, including oil; a report that "the city/land is tranquil, and the 'waṣāyā' are [...] ... and no one is dearer to the governmen than the traders... the island (al-Jazīra)[…] "; more updates about specific ships; and a mention of "the fleet" (al-uṣṭūl). (Information in part from CUDL.)

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Document date

5 Shawwāl 427 Hijrī (1 August 1036 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The witnesses attest that Ṣadaqa b. ʿAllūn Ibn al-Dabbāb has died in Maʿarrat al-Nuʿmān after the death of his son Bū Faraj in the town of al-Lādhiqiyya (Latakia) and that his sole heir is his daughter Yamānī, the wife of Mawhūb b. […] Witnesses: Salāma b. Isḥāq; ʿAlī b. Ḥusayn; Yūsuf b. Menashshe; Barakāt b. Menaḥem b.

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• death
• female inheritance
• inheritance
• jewish witnesses
• state

1 Transcription 1 Translation

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from an unknown sender, in Alexandria, to a certain Shalom who has a son named Yehuda, in Fustat/Cairo. (In the actual address, the letter is to be delivered to Moshe b. Sāʾib al-Qūṣanṭīnī (=of Constantine or Constantinople)). […] The sender wanted to travel but didn't have the money to rent passage on a boat or ship, so he borrowed 12 [...] from Yeshuʿa ʿIwāẓ b. Quwaysmāt(?). Also mentions Nuṣayr. An agreement was reached, "and we traveled nearly 40 miles (מיל)," but then the wind turned them back, and now it seems that the sender has to find a different boat/ship.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Coptic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Probably a promissory note for Bū l-Faraj al-Jābī, who is owed (ʿindahū) 17.5 of something. Bū l-Faraj's name is also written in Coptic at the bottom (cf. ENA NS 65.11 (PGPID 12654)).

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• jabi

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Letter from Yeshua b. Isma’il al-Makhmuri from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat.

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• nahray b. nissim
• trade

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation

Primary language

Arabic

List of food items and materia medica in Arabic script with quantities expressed as words and also in Greek/Coptic alphanumerals. Medieval-era.

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• cmp

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