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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions the physician (al-ḥakīm) Abū l-Barakāt and two books containing 'accursed' magic (al-siḥr al-mayshūm).

Tags

• magic

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Account of some sort in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning valuable textile goods including a brocade (dībāj), Sitt al-Ahl, and the house of al-Qāḍī al-Muwaffaq. In the hand of Ḥalfon b.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Congratulating him on a happy union (wedding? al-wuṣla al-saʿīda ilā l-jiha al-karīma...)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Levi ha-Levi, including the phrases, "I took a vow" and "if [al-Shaykh] al-Yesod were not with me. . ." and "let al-Yesod spend the holiday in the house of [my?]

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• moshe b. levi

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Petaḥya b. (abū al-?)Maḥāsin, a refugee from Palestine, to Avraham b. Shelomo, his relative in Fustat, shortly after the Crusader conquests at the beginning of the twelfth century. Ed. Goitein, also G. Weiss.

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• 12th c
• refugees

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in the hand of Avraham Maimonides in which he instructs Fakhr al-Dawla regarding a sum of money, nine dinars, still owed, and what to tell Abu al-'Ala about it.

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• avraham maimonides
• avraham maimonides autograph

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Arabic, Hebrew

Headers include terms such as "al-aṣl" "al-iḍāfa" and maybe "al-ṭārima." On recto there is liturgical text in Hebrew.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: letter in a different hand, mentioning Avraham b. Hārūn and al-Ṣanīʿa (‘the protege’) the son of Abū l-Karam Ibn Ḥunaykh. (Information in part from CUDL.) See also T-S AS 150.15 (PGPID 17604).

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The reports his happiness when he learned of the health of various people (al-mawālī al-sādā al-ruʾasāʾ). Little else is preserved.

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• judge eliyyahu

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions a package of letters including one from "the judge to Sayyidnā" and another from al-Shaykh al-ʿAlam to his mother. (Information in part from CUDL)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Long list of names in several columns, containing over 75 names followed by the letters alef, beth and daleth, including Yehuda and Yaʿaqov Ashkenazi, Avraham Ḥalabī, Moshe al-Kohen and Yona Maḡrebī.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The addressee is likely Abū l-Barakāt b. Abū Manṣūr al-Ḥarīrī to whom Shelomo also wrote CUL Or.1080 J28 (PGPID 8852), CUL Add.3343 (PGPID 3962), and ENA 2559.10 (PGPID 12340). […] T-S AS 150.9 (PGPID 4190) and al-Mutannabī's poem أَبلى الهَوى أَسَفاً). All his money goes to potions and chickens, and all the women who visit him tell him that he is the victim of a spell. […] Greetings are sent to: Abū l-Barakāt, his wife, his brother Abū l-Faraj (al-mawlā al-makīn), and his father (Abū l-Ḥasan).

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Tags

• excommunication
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: etiology
• illness: marital
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Primary language

Hebrew

Saʿadya - Efrayim and Wahb the sons of Suqayr (this Wahb appears also in T-S 18J1.4 (PGPID 3521)) - Hillel b. Ḥadhaqa - Yiṣḥaq b. […] He notes that it must be small, because there is no ḥaver or judge, only a cantor. He also notes that several of the names (e.g., Haysham and Noaḥ and Ḥadhaqa) are not attested or only very rarely attested in the Geniza. […] See also T-S G2.24 (PGPID 23046), identified by Alan Elbaum in August 2025.

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• communal

3 Transcriptions 1 Translation 2 Discussions

Document date

22 Shevat 1525 Seleucid (February 1214 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yehuda b. Aharon Ibn al-ʿAmmānī, in Alexandria, to Abū l-Majd Meir b. […] In the letter are found the repercussions of the arrival of French rabbis to Alexandria. The community seems to be in a serious crisis due to the lack of leadership. […] However, Hilāl's fatal illness was different than the one mentioned in this letter, as Hilāl was still alive in December 1214 when he wrote T-S 13J21.27, having recently traveled from Alexandria to Fustat and back.)

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• alexandria
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: despair
• illness: etiology
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3 Tishrei 5293 Anno Mundi (2 September 1532 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Shemuel then claimed that he had already sent enough of the money to David Ḥavriya (? […] Zubayda (the other sister of Naṣr) and to give the remainder to ʿAbd al-Kāfī, who, however, didn't receive a penny. Shemuel responded that there was not enough money left from the inheritance to pay ʿAbd al-Kāfī his share (and his mother's and siblings'), but there was enough if he made up the difference with property and jewelry and clothing. The document continues for another 100 lines or so, detailing all the different denominations of currency that Shemuel handed over to ʿAbd al-Kāfī, along with all the jewelry, clothing, and other items (with a detailed inventory of 70 items of mainly clothing appearing in a separate list on the facing page).

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Tags

• ben habib
• late palestine
• material culture
• numismatics

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Primary language

Arabic

Verso: Accounts in Arabic with Greek/Coptic alphanumerals, mostly crossed out. Some accounts are also visible on the recto where the paper has been reused for a Judaeo-Arabic halakhic text discussing kashrut.

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• cmp

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Primary language

Arabic

Official correspondence (petition or report). Refers to Dīwān al-Shām (of Syria, cf. T-S AS 111.37). The beginnings of two lines are preserved: "al-mutaqaddim min jihat mawlāy... ilā dīwān al-shām...."

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer reports that a sick man is in dangerous condition (al-marīḍ ʿalā khaṭar (or conceivably ʿalā khuṭṭa)) and he requests help hiring transportation, possibly to Fuwwa.

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: critical

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Primary language

Arabic

Letter or order addressed to [...] Quṭb al-Dīn. In Arabic script. Dating: Might be late, perhaps 14th century or later. […] On verso there are accounts of some sort, also in Arabic script.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Mentions: cotton; coarse cotton; ʿAbd al-Salām; 5 dinars and a qirat less a ḥabba; Ibn Sālim; Jawāhir(?) al-Naṣrānī; al-Naṣrānī Dāwūd; Iṣḥāq Ḥādī(?)

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• prayer
• thanks

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Document date

26 Ḥeshvan [4817] Anno Mundi (6 November 1056 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Ismāʿīl b. Faraḥ, Alexandria, to Yosef b. Eli Kohn Fāsī, in Fustat. 6 November 1056. Discusses goods arriving from al-Andalus, Italy and the Maghrib; mentions cotton, fruit, textiles, oil and honey.

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Tags

• commodities
• cotton

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Primary language

Arabic

Dating: 11th–12th century CE. Ḥusayn b. Ḥāzim al-Bayyāʿ (the food vendor) purchased a house from Ḥasan b. ʿAlīal-Baqqāl (the grocer). (Information from Khan.)

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Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

Verso: Document in Arabic script consisting only of the glyph followed by "al-shaykh al-ajall Bū l-ʿAlāʾ"; it may have been abandoned here.

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Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Avraham and possibly a deposit for an orphan. Also possibly someone named T[...] al-Mūrid. (Information in part from CUDL)

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

List of names, possibly a reading list for Shabbat, including names such as Abū l-Manṣūr, Abū l-[...] Ibn al-Kohen, Yosef Ibn al-Levi, and Makīn b. Muʿammar al-Kohen.

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Document date

Elul 1282 Seleucid (25 August 971–22 September 971 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Fragment of a letter from Sherira Gaʾon to two brothers, probably al-Ḥasan and Abū ʿAlīal-Ḥusayn b. Yūsuf. Dated: Elul 1282 Sel. = September 971.

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• communal

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender was happy at the news of the arrival of the addressee (referred to as "mālik al-riqq"). Mentions al-Shaykh al-Thiqa, the father of the addressee.

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Beautifully illuminated carpet page consisting of a menora and six-pointed stars, followed by alphabetical exercises from a children's Hebrew textbook. The consonants alef to he are presented with different Tiberian vowels, interspersed with star designs.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Details debts owed to a certain person by Yaʿaqov al-Yahūdī; Avraham al-Yahūdī; the acquaintance of Ibn al-[...].

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• account

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions pomegranate seed; marjarom; Ibn al-Ṣayrafī; Ibn al-Dhahabī; Ibn Shaʿyā; Dār al-Qāḍī; Barakāt; Faraj; Ibn Ghālib; Gharīb; Yaʿaqov; Nuṣayr; Yaʿaqov.

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