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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The text on verso discusses the time of death. Also on verso (upside down) is a badly rubbed and faded text, which is some kind of commentary or treatise.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Late letter in a cursive script, very faded with extensive liquid damage. The address lists the recipient as the sender's father: wālidī Ḥ... .... […] The name Yosef Shoshān also appears in the body of the letter, perhaps at the opening of a section, but the text is quite damaged.

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• late ja

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Dating; 13th century. Involves Faḍā'il the cantor, R. Ye[ḥi]el, Bū Naṣr b. al-[...], and Makhlūf.

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• shehita
• to edit

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Primary language

Hebrew

In Hebrew and vocalized. Quite faded; the continuation on verso is almost too faded to read anything. The sender seems to allude to his distress and to his friendship with the addressee.

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• ib-candidate

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Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Written in an elevated register. Damaged and faded. Mentions Damsīs; sending something before Rosh Hashana; Abū Saʿīd; Sammanūd and Jūjar; Namir; 10 dinars; greetings to a brother and to 'the father Netanʾel Sar ha-Bina'. There are also a few words of Arabic script at the bottom of verso.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto and verso: Poetry in Judaeo-Arabic in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. Apparently on the subject of the eye diseases induced by love, but it is quite faded, so this awaits confirmation.

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• heartsickness
• judaeo-arabic poetry
• kohl
• lovesickness
• nasir
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Asher Sefardi to the head Parnas Abū l-Faḍl Mevorakh b. Avraham, instructing him to make payments to needy people, ranging from one eighth of a dinar to half a dinar. The sender appears also in T-S AS 200.124 (PGPID 22587). (Information in part from CUDL)

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• 12th c

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Primary language

Arabic

Five lines are preserved, but they are very faded. Appears to mention "the pillars of the bathhouse" (arkān al-ḥammām).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Damaged and faded. Dating: likely ca. 13th century or later (based on handwriting, names, and linguistic features). Greetings to ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz and his brother Naṣrallāh. The addressee is urged to come quickly.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment (lower part of recto). Very faded, reddish ink, distinctive (late?) hand with long sweeping strokes at the ends of words. Mentions dinars and someone spreading rumors against the recipient (yataqawwal 'alayk). ASE.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Handwriting of Yehuda Ibn al-ʿAmmānī? He reports that someone is sick. He requests various piyyuṭim, including one that his uncle composed. Quite faded. (Information in part from CUDL)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Abū l-Ḥasan; Jaʿfar; Abū Saʿīd; Aḥmad; the Maghribī brothers; Ṣadaqa al-Ramlī; Abū l-Faḍlal-Dhahabī; cassia (dār ṣīnī); al-ʿAfṣī; Ibn Nuṣayr; Abū l-Khayr b. Yaḥyā; al-Muqrī; Yehuda; ʿAmīd; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz; Abū Yiṣḥaq Ibrāhīm b.

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• account

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Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Judaeo-Arabic letter, mentioning Abū Sahl and books, including Kitāb al-Madkhal (of Shemuel b. Hofni) and Halakhot Gedolot. Very faded. Information from FGP. Needs further examination. Verso: Arabic-script letter, related to recto, also containing accounting relating to bookselling, also mentioning Kitāb al-Madkhal, as well as other books such as a volume of Berakhot from the Babylonian Talmud (تلمود براخوث عراقي).

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• book trade

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Probably addressed to the Nagid (al-ḥaḍra al-rayyisiyya, raʾs al-mathība). It may concern a man who was insulting people and challenging the writers' authority. But it is very faded and only the bottom part is preserved. May be related to ENA NS 2.20 (PGPID 2671).

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Arabic

The opening line reads: daftar mubārak yataḍammanu fīhi al-ʿimāra(?) alladhī bi-ṭaraf al-muʿallim. . . There follow lists of names (e.g. […] The document may have originally been recorded over a grid that is now quite faded.

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• late arabic script

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Arabic

In Arabic script. Abū l-Faḍlal-Muḥassin b. Saʿīd b. ʿUthmān, the merchant, buys part of a ruined house (which he already owns the rest of) from Jumān b. ʿAbdallāh b. Ṣāliḥ al-Anṭākī, the miller. Dating: ca. 11th-12th century.

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• ruin

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from an unidentified man, in Fustat, to his brother al-Musāfir al-Kattānī ('the traveling flax-merchant'), in Aṭfīḥ. […] He reports that the ṣāḥib al-ʿasl (owner of the honey) arrived but the writer managed to get rid of him by making a vow and saying something about his brother. Regards from Ṣadaq b. al-Ṭāqī, Abū Naṣr, Faḍā'il, and Ḥasūn.

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• honey

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Line 8 probably reads, "[My heart is wi]th [my brother] al-Shaykh Abu l-Ḥasan in his illness [פי תעבה]." Also mentions flour; Ibn al-Dakli (?); Fada'il; Abu Nasr; Najm the Faqih.

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• trade

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter of condolence from from al-Mubārak, Hiba, Faḍl, and Isḥāq, the sons of Yeshuʿa b. Samḥūn, to the ḥaver Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllun b. Meʾir upon the death of Abū Yūsuf. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script on verso. Also wishing blessings upon the community of the Jerusalemites.

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Primary language

Arabic

The lower ~10 lines are preserved. Faded in places. Some phrases: "...if he is still alive..." (l. 4); "going up to Jerusalem" (ll. 4–5); "the two congregations" (al-jamāʿatān) (l. 7). Ends with a ḥamdala and ṣalwala (prayers for the prophet Muḥammad).

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Primary language

Hebrew

Fragment of a 16th-century business letter. Faded and damaged, so the contents are difficult to determine. […] Mentions Fusṭāṭ and Alexandria (line 7) and Sariel the Judge who owes the writer 84 peraḥim (line 8).

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• 16th c
• late heb

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yakhin, appoints his brother Hilāl/Hillel as his attorney for all his claims and in particular those resulting from the estate of his deceased wife Sitt al-Dār bt. Bū l-Faḍl. Information from Goitein’s index card.

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• meir b. yakhin

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Document date

545 Hijrī (30 April 1150–19 April 1151 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Receipt for the capitation tax (jizya) for the Jewish man Bū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Bū l-Faḍlal-Qazzāz (the silk trader) in Fustat.

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52[.] Hijrī (27 January 1126–10 October 1135 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Receipt for the capitation tax (jizya) for the Jewish man Bū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Bū l-Faḍlal-Qazzāz (the silk trader) in Fustat.

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Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic with an Arabic-script address. Very faded. The name Yūsuf b. Faraḥ al-Qābisī appears at the end, but it is not immediately clear whether he is the writer.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Legal record containing a story about Abū l-ʿIzz, the sale of wine, Abū l-Faḍl, a judge [...] b. Zekharya, a prior document which was not validated, a claim that someone took interest, and Abū ʿAlī b.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In the hand of Yehuda Ibn al-ʿAmmānī? The text is very faded. In the margin, there is an update on the health of the addressee's sister (she is doing well, presumably in the context of a recent illness).

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Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Names include: Sayyidnā Shelomo; Sayyidnā Shemuʾel; Sayyidnā Avraham; al-Ṣafiyy Abū l-ʿAlāʾ; Abū l-Naṣr al-Saʿīd; Yūsuf; al-Muwaffaq; al-Rashīd; al-Muhadhdhab; al-Shaykh al-Nafīs; al-Thiqa; al-Kohen Sulaymān; Barakāt; Yeshuʿa; Eliyya; Mūsā; Yosef; ʿAfīf; Makīn; Abū l-Majd; Muwaffaq; Yosef; Fāḍil; Abū l-Riḍā

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Judaeo-Arabic

A letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Alexandria. Mentions Avraham; Ibn ʿAllān; the trade in camphor (upper margin). It is quite faded. Needs further examination. "From the address it is possible to read that the recipient was Isḥāq b. […] Shemarya, a relative of Isḥāq b. ʿEli al-Majjānī. See ENA 2805.9." Information from Oded Zinger via FGP.

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Document date

Iyyar 571 Hijrī (12 April 1176–10 May 1176 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

IB VI, 42. Letter from Abū l-Faḍl Shela, in Alexandria, to his son Ismāʿīl al-Fāṣid al-Yahūdī, in Aden. Probably dictated to his son Yosef b. Shela, who also wrote IB VI, 41 (PGPID 5270). In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script.

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• ib6
• india book
• jariya
• slaves
• to type

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Primary language

Arabic

Accounts in Arabic script with Greek/Coptic numerals (possibly secondary use). Medieval-era. Along the right margin at 270 degrees, a more faded layer of text is visible in a distinct scribal hand, perhaps fiscal.

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• cmp

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Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Riḍā to the mint supplier (al-mūrid) Abū l-Faḍl b. Tamīm. In Judaeo-Arabic.

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• business

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