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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe Halevi (1100-1138) Published by Allony, pp. 102–04. (AA.) See also T-S NS 190.1 + T-S NS 190.2 + T-S 8K22.7 (PGPID 7739).

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Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts for the synagogue at Dammūh. "That which Mevorakh al-[...] the khādim of Dammūh collected from Saʿīd b. […] (The word דמוה is not written very clearly, but this seems a better reading than the alternative, דמויי.) Most or all of the items listed are connected to the synagogue.

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• dammuh

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Document date

404 Hijrī (13 July 1013–1 July 1014 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Multiple registration marks such as 'al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ʿalā niʿamih', praise be to God for his benefactions, and 'al-ḥamdu lil-lāh shukran', praise be to God and gratitude.

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• abu l-hasan b. wahb
• dimme
• tax receipt

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to Abū ʿImrān, in Zuqāq al-[...], Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Of the body of the letter, only the lower right corner remains. […] Mentions various family members and either the king (al-malik) or the property (al-mulk).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning a variety of names and figures in Hebrew alphanumerals. The dating is likely 16th- or 17th-century based on the paleography. The entries on the recto mentions Yosef al-Levi(?), Maḥmūd al-Laṭīf, and other individuals.

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• 16th or 17th c

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic to the Square of the [Perfumers?], to al-Ḥazzan Abū Yaʿqūb. Mainly notable for including the rare word "al-hirjās" (אלהרגאס), which apparently means either jasīm (corpulent) or jirhās (lion). Almost no context is preserved.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Upper left corner of a bill of release given by Abū Saʿd Mevorakh to his maternal aunt Gharb; also mentions his mother. Concerning the rent of a dwelling and the inheritance of Berakhot al-Zayyāt.

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Letter from Barhun b. Musa al-Tāhartī, from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat.

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Primary language

Arabic

Fatimid decree (possibly in the hand of Ibn al-Ṣayrafī himself?). Two lines preserved. See also the separate PGP record for the letter by Yeḥezqel b.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to Najīb al-Siqillī, in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script.

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• 13th c

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a Tāhartī in al-Mahdiyya to her brother Ismāʿīl b. Barhūn al-Tāhartī in Fustat, reporting about the family members in al-Mahdiyya and mentioning his daughter called Mawlat.

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• fasting

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Currency: ashrafī. There is also a list of the months of the Franks along with how many days are in each.

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• consul
• italian

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Primary language

Arabic

Appointment of a Christian dignitary by the government and confirmation that the ordinances of previous caliphs are still valid, mentioning al-Mustanṣir, al-Āmir and al-Afḍal. (Information Khan, CUDL, and Goitein's index card)

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Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: jottings in Arabic, including the name of a physician (al-mutaṭabbib) al-Ḥasan Hibatallāh b. Mufaḍḍal al-Yahūdī.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment mentioning the servants (ghilmān) of the amīr, going to Caesarea, a ḥaver, and a broker. Also mentions "I brought it/him to the Morning Breeze Inn" (reading "subḥ" as "ṣubḥ" in the phrase funduq rīḥ al-subḥ).

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

The sender gave or paid something to the son of the addressee, who traveled, which distressed him; also mentions Yosef al-Kohen. (Information in part from CUDL)

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Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: distinct document, also in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli, dealing with a business partnership between Saʿadya al-Nīlī, Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm Ibn Ṭībān, Abū l-Ḥasan Yūsuf, Yaḥyā, and ʿUlla.

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Primary language

Arabic

Reused by the India trader Abū ʿAlī Yeḥezqel b. Netanel in Qalyūb for a letter to his brother Ḥalfon in Alexandria.

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• decree
• dimme
• lost archive

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

ṣabbāghāt); someone who had a bit of flax with him; and the small salted fish (ṣīr) which either Yefet or Peraḥya had requested. Also asks for items including Indian and chebulic myrobalans and ginger. He will send the kohl and the "saliva" (luʿāb). Mentions a shop, Alexandria, and a judge (shofeṭ). Join: Oded Zinger.

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• hinge
• ib-addenda
• ib7
• perahya b. menashshe
• yefet b. menashshe

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Document date

Monday, 11 Kislev 1372 Seleucid (1060 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Written and signed by Yehuda b. Avraham, who also wrote T-S 13J13.2 and ENA 2465.8–9. Also signed by: Ḥalfon b.

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Primary language

Hebrew

Copy of a letter from an as-yet-unidentified Nagid, describing inter alia his appointment by the caliph. The interpretation of this document has been controversial ever since its original publication by Elkan Nathan Adler (with numerous errors) in "The Installation of the Egyptian Nagid" JQR (1897), 717–20. Most recently edited by Shulamit Sela, "The Headship of the Jews in the Fāṭimid Empire in Karaite Hands" in Masʾat Moshe, ed. Fleischer et al. (Jerusalem, 1998). See also the bibliography on FGP for discussions of this document by Cohen and Friedman.

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• nagid

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Document date

5558 Anno Mundi (21 September 1797–10 September 1798 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, probably communal in nature– there are many communal lists from the turn of the 19th century matching this format (some of which also demonstrate reusage of Arabic-script documents). […] Dating: the week of the Lekh Lekha parsha year 5558 AM appears at the top of one page = 1797/98 CE. There are also sums in eastern Arabic numerals and the opening lines of an Arabic letter that must have been cut up and reused for the subsequent recording of accounts.

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• 18th c
• arabic reused

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Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions an apostate to Islam (al-posheaʿ), the community of Ṣahrajt, a ban of excommunication, a Jew who drank with the sender, someone who intended to denounce (יגמז) something to the government, a group of people referred to as "these pigs," and someone who asked the addressee for a "kitāb ʿināya" (some kind of letter of recommendation or document or support?), which must be denied to him. Abū Saʿīd Khallūf b. al-Ashqar is mentioned (also mentioned in the transcription for PGPID 4214, shelfmark currently unknown).

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• drinking
• feud
• pigs

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Judaeo-Arabic

Listing various names, including Thābit b. Khalaf al-Baghdādī; Shūʿa b. ʿIrfān(?) al-Ḥalabī; Thābit b. Yaʿqūb al-Baghdādī; Ibrāhīm b. Ghālib al-Mawṣilī; and the bottom section includes expenses similar to those on recto.

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Primary language

Hebrew

It is addressed to "my brother who is like my soul" and mentions the writer's arrival in Alexandria from Cairo, and, later, "I will pay you when you come to Jerusalem." Mentions Yiṣḥaq Almsini (=Almosino?) in l. 12. The document was then reused, recto and verso both, for accounts, perhaps communal donations.

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• 16th c
• late donations
• late heb

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE) to his brother-in-law Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Hilāl (=ʿEli b. Hillel) al-Ḥazzan al-Baghdādī. […] Halfon reports that Sitt al-Gharb was very sick for 13 days and died on Wednesday, the 17th of [...] and was buried on Thursday.

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• condolence
• grief
• halfon b. menashshe
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
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Document date

Wednesday, 6 Tammuz 2210 Seleucid (14 June 1899 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: Wednesday, 6 Tammuz 2210 Seleucid = 14 June 1899 CE. For Sālim b. Hārūn al-ʿUzērī, known as Zuhra, and Ghinā bt. Sālim b. Shakir al-Tām. Written and signed by Levi b. Yaḥyā al-Najjār. The deed, a replacement for a ketubba that was lost, was written in the Jewish quarter, Qāʿ Bīr al-ʿAzab. Verso contains an additional legal note concerning the arrangements for the repayment of a debt owed by the husband to his wife.

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• ketubba
• marriage

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Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Eliyyahu to Abū l-Faraj al-Makīn (probably his father-in-law). In Judaeo-Arabic. […] Shelomo mentions Abū l-Futūḥ al-Shamshūrī and how the addressee has cut off his letters (perhaps to be read in the context of the letters discussed by Krakowski in Coming of Age, pp.285–86). Shelomo also mentions the youth Abū l-ʿIzz (probably his cousin by the same name).

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Yehuda, an Egyptian Jew traveling to Sicily, to an Italian Jew named Ser Mishaʾel al-Ṭarābansī (אלטראבנשי) al-Siqillī. The first nisba signifies origin from Trapani. Also mentions Refaʾel ha-Sar b. Daniʾel, who serves as guarantor for the loan.

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• debt
• testimony

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Letter from Isma’il b. Farah from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1060. […] Mentions details about Byzantine merchants and the prices of several types of goods: resin, fabrics, soap, and oil. Also mentions a shipment of wax, that has not been sold entirely yet.

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• byzantine merchants
• byzantines

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Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef informing him that he arrived in Alexandria and found Yosef’s wife and children to be well. […] (Information from Goitein's index cards) EMS C. 11th century - but unusually refers to ‘your wife’ as זוגתך (who also seems to be involved in some of the business activities).

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• 11th c
• business

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Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef to a judge of Alexandria regarding a dwelling (this is the only word concerning the content of the letter preserved.) The writer (good hand), probably a cantor in a town near Alexandria, must have been close to the judge, for his wife prays for Sitt Nu'aym who had trouble with her feet.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Saʿadya (1165-1203) of a settlement between the orphans of the secretary (kātib) Abū l-Ḥusayn ʿAmīd al-Dawla, Yaḥyā b. Avraham, and Abū l-Maʿālī Shemuel b. Yehuda in the Dīwān al-Ṣāliḥī (perhaps referring to an office associated with Ṭalāʾiʿ b. Ruzzīk a.k.a. al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ, the Fatimid vizier from 1154–61).

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The landmarks mentioned include 'the blessed canal' (al-khalīj al-mubārak), the stable, the Lemon Tree Mosque (Masjid al-Laymūna) which overlooks the Khalīj, and the house known by the name of al-Ghazāla.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Farah b. Yosef, in Alexandria, to Abū Saʿd Khalaf b. Sahl, in Fustat. Dating: October 1056 CE. […] Mentions that the army’s entrance to the city (it is not clear which city) improves trade. Also mentions that a ship arrived from Tyre, and the writer’s nephew who came from there in a different way.

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• material culture
• trade

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Document date

Tishrei 1556 Seleucid (1144 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef b. Yeshuʿa known as Ibn al-Dijlī(?) appoints Meshullam b. Yefet known as Ibn al-Musk(?) as his agent to sell one half of his house in al-Maḥalla which he had bought from his daughter Sitt al-Yumn.

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First decade of Kislev 1429 Seleucid (29 October 1117–7 November 1117 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: First decade of Kislev 1429 Seleucid, which is October–November 1117 CE. In which Sayyid al-Kull Moshe is given a little house (duwayra) by his mother, as well as the leasehold of an accompanying empty plot of land (sāḥa) connected to the house and owned by the government (under the auspices of the Dīwān al-Jawāmiʿ wa-l-Masājid). Also signed by Menashshe b. Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen. (Information from CUDL and Goitein's index card.)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Simḥa ha-Kohen (Alexandria) to his father-in-law Eliyyahu the Judge (Fustat), explaining a recent incident involving two cloaks worth 109 dirhams and a brush with the police. […] Simḥa has been unable to fulfill an obligation to Eliyyahu because his wife (Eliyyahu's daughter) has been sick for the last year, and he has been unable to travel. See also T-S 13J24.10.

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• eliyyahu b. zekharia
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: amrad
• illness: chronic
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