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Primary language

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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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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Document date

27 Ṣafar 501 Hijrī (17 October 1107 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The two parties are ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Salāma al-Yahūdī and Ṣaʿīd b. Yūsuf al-Yahūdī.

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• arabic script
• iqrar

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Hebrew

Damaged fragment from a Hebrew letter mentioning "our Rabbi son of our Master" (רבינו בן אדוננו). Also refers to separation (פרידותו) and delaying (לרבינו להתעכב) and instructing (להורות דרך . . .). Almost nothing else remains. AA/ASE

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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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• funduq

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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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Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions a loggia (maqʿad). There is also a line of Arabic script at the top of verso beginning "al-muʿallim" and probably followed by a name.

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Primary language

Arabic

He may refer to unrest in Ramla (al-ʿajjāj bi-l-Ramla). He has also sent a thawb to Ramla.

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Arabic

Fragment from a therapeutical work, dealing here with the treatment of the sort of convulsion known as Umm al-Ṣibyān, dysuria and alopecia. Rue cooked in oil is recommended for dysuria, and when topically applied, it is used to treat alopecia.

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Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Two fragments of a legal deed regarding a debt of Abū l-Karam Ibn al-ʿAṭṭār, written and signed by Yosef b. Shemuel ha-Levi (active ca. 1180–1211). Also signed by Yefet b. Shem[uel]. AA

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• yosef b. shemuel

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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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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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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

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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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Arabic

The document is probably written for a recent convert to Islam from Samṭā (on the Nile delta). The Amīr Fakhr al-Dīn has written to ʿIzz al-Dīn that he write to the governor of Samṭā that the person concerned shouldn't be troubled for his capitation tax because he has already converted. The beginning of the document asks for an official document (mashrūḥ) to be written with the addressee's registration mark in his own handwriting (bi-yadihi li-ʿalāmatihi). Needs examination.

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• capitation tax
• convert
• damin
• dimme

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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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Primary language

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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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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Judaeo-Arabic

Referring to [...] ha-Levi; his travel to al-Andalus; 20 dinars; a half dinar; going with him to the house of a deceased man; a widow (of Yiṣḥaq?) named Umm al-ʿAysh; another woman named Sitt al-M[...]; a man named Avraham and another named Yefet; an acknowledgment froma group of people that they received a sum from somebody; release formulae; and Umm al-ʿAysh again together with a woman named Jamīla.

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• widow

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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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Coptic, Hebrew

Magical prayer for protection (from every evil, evil eye and impious persons) written (by an unskilled, possibly Hebrew rather than Coptic) hand in the Bohairic (lower Egyptian) dialect of Coptic, plus an (incomplete) Coptic alphabet on the recto, and another (incomplete) Coptic alphabet glossed by Hebrew letters on the verso (the relationship between the Hebrew glosses and the individual Coptic letters is not clear). (Information mainly from Sebastian Richter via FGP.) See also https://www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m933/.

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Document date

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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Primary language

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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Arabic

Fol. 2v: Legal document in Arabic script. Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan b. Khalaf, a Jew from Tyre, renounces all of his monetary claims against Isḥaq b. […] (Information from Khan and CUDL; see also Goitein's index card.)

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Aramaic, Hebrew

The main block of text on recto seems to mostly relate to Genesis 13:4 (quoted at the top) and various glosses on portions of the verse. Berakhot 17a is also cited ("by what do women merit? for bringing their children to read in the synagogue and for sending their husbands to study in the study hall"). There are also short notes on both recto and verso for a scribe?

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• late

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Arabic

اثنتين وستين درهما . . . . . There is also an unrelated Arabic document glued at the top. There is also a Judaeo-Arabic text on recto and verso, seems to mostly consist of praises for God.

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Arabic

The senders of the query object to the innovations and hope that the Muslim government will also disapprove. See also AIU XI.258, one of the draft versions of this query.

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• avraham maimonides
• legal query
• prayer reforms

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Document date

last decade of Kislev 1419 Seleucid (8 December 1107–17 December 1107 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen concerning potential claims of the latter against the orphan son of the late Abū l-Surūr al-Ḥalabī. Dated: last 10 days of Kislev 1419 Seleucid = December 1107 CE. […] (Information in part from GRU, updated by MRC 05.17.16.) See also Frenkel, Qehillat Halab, 63–69. Join: Alan Elbaum.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Business letter related to the India trade, mentioning commodities such as pepper, quantities of dinars and ʿAlīal-Fawfalī (a well-known nākhudā from the mid-12th-century) and Abū l-Faraj (another nākhudā). […] Ḥasan; may be an indirect join with T-S AS 146.366 (PGPID 17411) and/or T-S AS 173.380 + T-S AS 152.242 (PGPID 38566). Also mentions the shipowner Budda and Ibn Fayyūmī, probably Avraham Ibn Fayyūmī (mentioned in II,20).

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• ib-addenda

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Primary language

Arabic

The witnesses: [...] b. Muḥammad b. Ṭāhir b. al-Ḥusayn; Ishāq b. Ṣadīq(?) b. Ibrāhīm al-[...]; Ḥammād b. Muḥāmmad b. al-Ḥasan; Ibrāhīm b. [...] b. Muḥammad al-Khaṭīb.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Yeshuʿa and the phrase "four cubits of land" (used in powers of attorney but also other legal genres) and ending וקיים ונכון, a formula which appears in the digitized PGP transcriptions only in PER H 83 (PGPID 908), a legal document from Tyre in 1019 CE. […] The honorific מרי (unusual in Egyptian documents) is also used in both documents.

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Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

There are writing exercises in Arabic in a chancery hand reading "thiqat al-mulk dhū l-riʾāsa ṣanīʿat amīr al-muʾminīn" and a similar phrase on the facing page. The facing page also includes an unfinished note in Judaeo-Arabic: "I learned that the bearer of this note is a Muslim man who knows that the lofty presence. . . " (אתצל בי אן מוצל הדה אלרקעה רגל מסלם יערף באן חצרתה אלסאמיה)

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A fragment seemingly belonging to the same record as T-S NS J264a and also written by Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya. It contains a partial accounting of rent collected for (probably) Dhu'l-qa'da and Dhu'l-hijja, i.e. the accounts for five months, between T-S NS J264a and this one, are lost. Almostall the tenants are identical with those of T-S NS J264a.

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• 11th c
• account
• communal
• qodesh
• waqf
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1 Transcription 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary language

Arabic

Recto: Letter or note in Arabic script, ending with the ʿalāma "al-ḥamdu lil-lāhi shukran." Likely a draft considering that some words are stricken out. The word al-Mustanṣiriyya might appear. Verso: Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār) in Arabic script involving ʿUbayd/ʿAbd Allāh who acknowledges that he owns 20 dinars.

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