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Arabic

Mentions the chief Fatimid judge and dāʿī Qāsim b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. al-Nuʿmān, and that his name is registered in the dīwān al-nafaqāt.

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• arabic reused
• dimme
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Judaeo-Arabic

One section is headed "al-ḥāfiẓ allāh" (God is the guarantor) followed by "Owed to Barhūn and Nissim the sons of Isḥāq al-Tāhertī. . . "; later mentions Yisraʾel b.

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Arabic

The writer is Barakāt b. al-Dayyān (presumably Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, cf. ENA 3927.1 and CUL Or. 1080 J155 for other specimens of his Arabic-script handwriting). The recipient is an older, respected relative: the writer addresses him as both 'father' and 'brother' in the protocol, where he also includes blessings for the [addressee's?] father Abū l-Thanā'. […] Line 15f: "By the Law, I rejoiced for his sake when [a newborn boy] took the place of the boy of our master the Nasi on Saturday and consoled his heart" (wa-ḥaqq al-sharīʿa laqad faraḥtu lahu lammā khalafa yawma l-sabt ʿalā ghulāmi Sayyidinā al-Nāsī wa-jabara qalbahu).

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1094–1097 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef to Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy, Alexandria. Dating: 1094–97 CE. "The addressee Moses, mostly referred to as Mūsā, was active in communal affairs and was honored, because of his generosity, with the title Segullat (ha-'Yeshiva), 'Treasure' (of the Academy). He was a native of Tunisia, who had settled in Alexandria and was temporarily in Fustat. Lines 1-32, and margin: Expressions of friendship, complaints about the bad times, personal misfortune, and an eye disease, which made it impossible for Amram to come to Fustat in person. […] Lines 7-20: In his dire circumstances ʿAmram had given some of his books to the schoolteacher Yiṣḥaq al-Nafūsī (also a Maghrebi) to sell, but this man had moved to Fustat and nothing was heard from him.

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• india book

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1238–1252 CE

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Judaeo-Arabic

The sender reports on a circumcision that he performed on the 9th of Av for (the newborn son of) Mufaḍḍal al-ʿAnbarī, the paternal uncle of Muhadhdhab and Abū Saʿd al-ʿAnbarī. […] Ḥananel has disappeared; some say that he went to Qūṣ, some say Alexandria, and some say he is hiding in Fustat. His son now gives public lectures on Shabbat and Monday and Thursday eves. […] The same day, a decree was proclaimed, requiring Christians and Jews to wear a distinctive mark (ʿalāma and zunnār) under threat of life and forfeit of property.

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• 'alama
• david i maimonides
• rabbenu hananel
• zunnar

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Sivan 1470 Seleucid (19 May 1159–17 June 1159 CE)

Yaaqov, Miska Berakhot b. Avraham al-Ḥaver, Makārim al-Parnas, Abū l-Ḥasan Kohen b. Ṣāliḥ, Abū Saʿd (known as Ibn al-[..]ṭ), Yehuda b. Shelomo and Shelomo ha-Levi b. […] Information from CUDL. See also Goitein's note cards.

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19 Adar 1538 Seleucid (16 March 1227 CE)

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter on behalf of a Byzantine convert named Raḥel, in Alexandria, to Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat. The main part of the letter (in Judaeo-Arabic) is scribed by the teacher and court clerk Yehuda b. Aharon Ibn al-ʿAmmānī; there is a postscript (in Hebrew) added by Shemuel (a.k.a. […] Yaʿaqov corroborates the story in the body of the letter and blames the husband's mother, who tempted him to do these bad things, and also "his wife, the snake, who married him against his will"—which makes it sound that Yosef has already married the local woman.

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• communal
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middle decade of Ṭevet 145[5] Seleucid (20 December 1143–29 December 1143 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Elʿazar ha-Ḥazzān known as Ibn Thābit reaches a settlement with Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa b. Berakhot Ibn al-Dayyān who had sued him and made him take an oath in court. […] The original contract stipulated that after Ramaḍān 538 AH, Yeshuʿa would become responsible for the rent and all of the government taxes. With this document, they are changing that stipulation, and Yakhin will continue to pay the rent and be responsible for all the government dealings and taxes; he will also continue to pay the rent of 15 wariq dirhams and retain the right to live in the store. […] (Information in part from Goitein's index cards.) Join: Alan Elbaum

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Judaeo-Arabic

Abū Zikrī reports that his masters, the princes al-Malik al-ʿAzīz and al-Malik al-Muʿaẓẓam, were laying siege to Damascus and that he was unable to get through to them to request a leave. Although ill himself, the writer states that he visited the sultan’s palace every other day. The letter also makes a note of “our colleagues at Qūṣ.” (Eliyyahu Ashtor, “The Number of Jews in Medieval Egypt,” JJS 18 (1967), 18; and S.

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• al-malik al-aziz
• al-malik al-mu'azzam
• damascus
• illness
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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

There are several distinct items on this fragment, all but one in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. […] Maʿālī who is presumably her husband; alimony (mezonot); her ketubba; and "a complete geṭ." A daughter of Muwaffaq the freedman appears also in T-S 10J2.15 (PGPID 7757). (IV) Something to do with al-Nadiv and monthly rent payments for a certain house.

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• communal
• draft
• maimonides

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Monday, 4 Av 1758 Seleucid (17 July 1447 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

It then states that the oath was taken by ʿAbd al-Wāḥid Ibn al-Levi and ʿAbdallāh Qaṣṣār. "Mubaḥtara" derives from standard Arabic "mubaʿthara," i.e., scrambled eggs mixed with other items (source: Aklat Beirut on Youtube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?[…] Witnesses: Shemuel b. Naṣrallāh al-Levi known as ʿAṭṭār; ʿAbdūn al-Kohen b. [...]. […] Ibrāhīm, and Farajallāh al-Neʾeman(?).

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• food
• wine

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Primary language

Arabic

Upper left quadrant: Arabic poem beginning لله دهر مضا لي سعدت في بعض عمري Lower right quadrant: Arabic rhyming prose beginning من العاشق المستهام حليف السقام which is from Ibn al- Washshāʾ’s (d.325/937) guide to love-letter writing,Tafrīj al-muhaj wa-sabab al-wuṣūl ilā al-faraj. […] Towards the latter part of the Fatimids' rule of Egypt, state officials were given titles based on the titles of Badr al-Jamālī and al-Afḍal, like "al-shaykhī al-ajallī.

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• arabic poetry
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Arabic

Made by Q[...] b. Mūsā al-[...], "one of the captains of the victorious fleets" (aḥad quwwād al-asāṭīl al-manṣūra).

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• to edit

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Arabic

Mentions: "the blacks (al-sūdān) and those who accompany them from the nomads (al-jawwāla) and the community (al-jamāʿa). . . the path to corruption in the lands of the sulṭān. . . the slave reported the reason for his patience concerning what they are doing. . . ."

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Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic headed "God is the repayer" (al-wāfī Allāh). Names Hibat Allāh (1/2); Bū Saʿd (1/2 + 1/8); Nafīs (1/4); Yosef (1/4 + 1/8); and Ḥalfon (1/2)

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The Judaeo-Arabic seems to contain instructions for sheḥiṭa but also refers to "yāqūt kuḥlī" and "al-shaykh" which are somewhat unexpected in that context.

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Arabic

Legal document, in Arabic script. Mentions two names "al-Adab al-madhkura bt...." and "... b. Abī l-Ḥūsayn al-madhkūr".

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• dimme

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Letter from Isma’il b. Ishaq al-Andalusi, Aleppo, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat.

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Thursday, 18 Av 1536 Seleucid (20 July 1225 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Court record mentioning Abū l-Mufaḍḍal Menaḥem and Ibn al-ʿAnbarī. Dated: Thursday, 18 Av 1536 Seleucid = 20 July 1225 CE, under the authority of Avraham Maimonides. (Information from CUDL.) See also Goitein's index card.

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1546 Seleucid (1234–1235 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Document containing a few names: Abu al-Faraj b. Asad, Shemuʾel b. Surur. Also mentioned are representatives of the Sultan, the destruction of houses, and the sum of 500 dinars.

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Judaeo-Arabic

IB IV, 58 (ח68). Letter of Abu Ali Yehezqel b. Netanel, Alexandria, to his brother Ḥalfon, 1140, written on a fragment of a Fatimid decree (see PGPID 7521).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

People mentioned include al-Wakīl al-Kabīr; al-Sharīf; the ghulām of ʿAbdallāh.

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• dates

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Judaeo-Arabic

Document entitled tadhkira (list/memorandum), listing the parnas (al-firnās), the Jerusalemites (al-Maqādisa), Yosef the beadle of the synagogue, Ibn al-Maqrūṣ, Khiyār, and Banī Naḥum.

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Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Simha al-Naysaburi, in Alexandria, to 'Ulla ha-Levi b.

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• pearls
• silk
• trade

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1100–1138 CE

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Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions the elder Masliah al-Ṣiqillī. (Information in part from Goitein typed text; also Ben-Sasson.)

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Arabic

The first 7 lines are preserved. Made by al-muʿallim Aḥmad(?) b. [...] b. ʿUthmān al-[...] the sugar seller (al-sukkarī) for another, Jewish sugar seller.

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Judaeo-Arabic

The sender is apparently a scribe (mentions copies of books) who wishes to defer his wedding date but does not wish to end the betrothal. The city of al-Maḥalla is also mentioned. (Information from Goitein's index card) EMS

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28 November 1062–28 November 1062 CE

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. […] He visited Jerusalem, and had the time to manage trading, as he bought textile products, oil, nuts, and silk, and arranged shipments of coins. The writer also mentions the bad times in Egypt and the pressure that the community in Tripoli, Libya, is having because of the taxes. […] I proceeded to Jaffa and from there went up to Jerusalem—may God rebuild it—and again I could not do there business for more than eight days and then was confined to bed (lāzim al-farsh), suffering from chills and fever (al-bard wa-l-ḥummā), during the month (of the High Holidays).

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• illness: chills
• illness: du'f
• illness: fever
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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a woman who was the wife of Yehoshuaʿ al-Lādhiqī and the mother of Dosa b. Yehoshuaʿ, in al-Raqqa, to her son Dosa b. […] In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. The address also identifies the sender as Sahl b. Ḥātim. Given that she states she is living with her daughter, Sahl b. […] (Frenkel's translation.) She also asks him to buy her certain items, including Isfahani kohl; tutty, both Indian and Marāzībī'; and a sky-blue veil (muʿayjir kuḥlī) with dark blue trimming (ṭarz zarqāʾ).

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• fasting
• mail-order medicine
• personal
• threatening to die

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