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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Deut 20:16 is quoted; Jericho is named, along with Sulayman ibn David, also Musa and Harun, and the king of the Ḥimrīyūn (?).

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Judaeo-Arabic

Mentioning names such as Abū Naṣr, Abū 'Alī, al-Shaykh al-Itrābulsi, and Abū l-Qāsim. ASE.

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• account
• brazilwood
• merchant
• oil
• pepper
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Arabic

Deed of sale (refers to "hādhā al-bayʿ" three lines from the bottom). Involves the daughter of Yaḥyā b. Naṣr al-Kātib, a payment of 50 dinars, and a Jewish man named Yūsuf b. Faraj al-Mutaṭabbib (the physician). Needs further examination.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dealing with goods such as red antimony (rāsakht), perfumed cherry bark (qishr maḥlab), sour dough/yeast (khamīra), and rose water. Also mentions the name Ibn al-Mushanqiṣ. (Information in part from CUDL)

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• materia medica

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6 Ramaḍān 405 Hijrī (28 February 1015 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Written by the jahbadh Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ. Dated: 6 Ramaḍān, year not preserved, but almost certainly 405, the year for which the tax was paid and the latest year in the archive.

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• abu l-hasan b. wahb
• damin
• tax

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(Information from Goitein's note cards) Alphabetical exercises. Recto: The alphabet in abag-bagad style. Verso: Partial Hebrew alphabet. (Information from CUDL)

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• education

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Arabic

Tax collection (ḍamān) contract from the era of the caliph al-Mustanṣir. Mentions a state official by the title of Kāfī al-Dawla. Mentions two gates of Cairo; only the name of one, Bāb al-Zuwayla, is preserved. Reused on verso for Hebrew piyyuṭ built on the term "holy" (qadosh, qedoshim).

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• damin
• dimme

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Letter from Natan b. Nahray, from Alexandria, to Musa b. Abi al-Hayy, Fustat. Around 1080.

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• byzantine merchants
• byzantines

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First decade of Ḥeshvan 1442 Seleucid (6 October 1130–15 October 1130 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: First decade of Ḥeshvan 1442 Seleucid, which is 1130 CE. Betweeen Sitt al-Kull bt. Berakhot known as Naṭīra and her husband the poet (ha-meshorer) Ṣedaqa b. Ṣemaḥ. He grants her all her dowry; she releases him from responsibility. He is also warned that he would have to give her the delayed marriage payment if he should ever take a second wife.

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• dowry
• marriage

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Arabic

Letter in Arabic script from [...] al-Ḥazzān, in Damascus, to Abū l-Faraj Yashūʿ (?) b. Barhūn al-Ḥibr (= the ḥaver). Dated: Tuesday, 10 Shaʿbān (year not given). Mentions "the brother, my master, Raʾs al-Kull" (line 5) and contains a few words in Hebrew including "his enemies" (line 10).

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Adar II 1456 Seleucid (26 February 1145–26 March 1145 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In which Abū l-Makārim b. Abū l-Faraj al-Parnas and/or Nadiv b. Yeshuʿa ha-Parnas (appears in several other documents from this period) acknowledge a debt of 12 dinars owed to Abū Saʿd Saʿadya b. Menashshe al-Kohen (appears also in Moss. VII,125.1 (PGPID 2734)), to be repaid in monthly installments of 2 dinars.

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Judaeo-Arabic

CUL Or.1081 J54 mentions Ibn Ṭībān; a wathīqa; Abū l-Munā; Abū Manṣūr al-Zayyāt; Abū Yaʿqūb al-Ḥakīm; a midwife (? al-qābila); a couple ruqʿas; Ḥāmid in Caesarea. T-S AS 167.23 mentions the house of Ibn Shaʿyā; a barqalū (mid-sized bale) of pepper; a blue cap/veil (maʿraqa); Abū Manṣūr al-Zayyāt again.

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Arabic

This stipend has evidently been threatened, so he writes this petition to ensure that he will continue to get it. Alternatively, he has been promised the stipend but hasn't actually started to receive it yet. […] Instead of جملة in l. 2 it is also possible to read جمكية (jāmakiyya, "stipend," though this is typically spelled with an alif).

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• bimaristan
• fatimid
• government officials
• jamakiyya
• petition
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Some of these other fragments are identified with al-Qāḍī 'Abd al-Jabbār's Kitāb al-Mughnī fī Abwāb al-Tawḥīd wa-l-'Adl by Ayala Meyer Eliyahu on FGP.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Isḥāq b. ʿAlīal-Majjānī, probably in al-Mahdiyya, to Nahray b. […] The writer orders a dirham of bitumen (qifār), "for the need is pressing" (lines 12–13). He is most likely alluding to an eye disease. In the margin, he sends greetings to Abū Zikrī Elḥanan the physician and writes, "tell the friend of Tammām, the physician, 'My hope is in you.'"

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• bitumen
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: eye
• illness: physician
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Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions an old woman, then somebody's (probably the writer's) intention to bring a matter before the state authorities ([anā] ʿāzim ʿalā l-dukhūl ilā l-sulṭān. . . fī qaḍiyyatī wa-injāz qiṣṣatī. . . al-salāṭīn ʿazza naṣruhum. . .), then perhaps returns to the old woman and the desire for her to enjoy peace of mind and tranquil years. If [...] agrees, the writer will send another letter, and if a certain woman also wishes something. . . otherwise, let her sit until God has mercy . . .

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• dimme
• state
• sultan

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1246 Hijrī (22 June 1830–11 June 1831 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The Jew Musā Naṣīr (or Nuṣayr) pays the ḥikr (ground tax) for his house in the Jewish neighborhood (ḥārat al-Yahūd). The tax was collected by the agent of the Agha/eunuch who was responsible for the administration of the Ottoman imperial harem and the supervision of the administration of the awqāf (endowments) of Mecca and Medina, and also some of the Ottoman sultan's awqāf. […] The document is signed by Aḥmad Agha, the agent (wakīl) of the chief eunuch of the sultan's palace at the dār al-saʿāda.

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• dimme
• hikr
• late arabic script

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5 Shevaṭ 1437 Seleucid (1 January 1126 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

A settlement in connection with the dissolution of a partnership between Abū ʿAlī Yeḥezqel ha-Levi and Banīn (possibly the druggist Banīn b. Daʿūd), who had jointly run a perfumery in Giza. Abū ʿAlī will continue to run the store on his own, and Banīn will repay him in weekly installments for his share of the rent of the store. […] Dated: 5 Shevaṭ 1437 = 1 January 1126 CE. Ḥalfon also signed the document, together with the teacher Yiṣḥaq b.

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• halfon b. menashshe

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Thursday, 7 Av 1443 Seleucid (21 July 1132 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

MS heb. d 66/7, namely the separation three months earlier of Ṣedaqa ha-Meshorer b. Ṣemaḥ and Sitt al-Kull bt. Berakhot ha-Levi. The purpose of this document is for the court to issue Sitt al-Kull's father a certificate confirming that there will be no reconciliation; this enables him to claim alimony for her. The alimony arrangement is described in Bodl. MS heb. d 66/7.

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Hebrew

He sends greetings to the widow of Rabbi Anatoli of Marseilles (living in Alexandria) and to her daughter Esther and granddaughter, sending wishes to the latter to bear male children. (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, 462.) He also greets Yefet ha-Melammed ha-Ḥaver, possibly Yefet b.

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• french rabbis
• personal

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Mevorakh b. Yiṣḥaq from Alexandria to his father in law, Seror (Surur) b. Ḥayyim b. […] He mentions pillaging in Maḥalla (the writer hopes that Abū l-Ḵayr Mubārak is safe), an epidemic (dever) in Fusṭāṭ and that the writer himself had been robbed. Also mentions Ibn Naḥum the cantor. Probably written in the 1060s.

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• epidemic
• epidemic: dever
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517

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Thursday, 25 Av 1411 Seleucid (2 August 1100 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Moshe from a partnership with ʿAllān b. Nahray, after the former had handed over to him corals deposited with Abū Isḥāq Avraham b. Yefet ha-Levi and Abū l-Khayr Shelomo b. Saʿadya al-Ṣūrī (of Tyre). Dated: Thursday, 25 Av 1411 = 2 August 1110 CE. (Information from Goitein's index cards.) See also T-S J1.11 + T-S 6Ja3 (PGPID 40206).

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• trade

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in which the writer sends greetings to R. Hananel, “al-dayyan al-jalil” (the illustrious judge) and to the judge Yehiel b. Eliakim (of Aleppo). The note, mostly in Judeo-Arabic, begins with the Hebrew expression, “In the name of the Merciful, (a letter) to the honorable, great, holy, precious, crowned, glorious […] judge Eliyyahu the wise.”

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• aleppo
• yehiel b. elyaqim

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Two repeated testimonies regarding a commercial dispute which took place in Alexandria. Involves Yeḥezqel; Khalaf b. Yosef; Abū ʿAlī; and the late Abū l-Ḥasan. […] Natan, the President of the Court of All Israel (Heb. Av beit Din shel kol Israel) and is dated around the year 1100.

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• testimony

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middle third of Adar 4876 Anno Mundi (May 1116 CE)

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Yoshiyya, on board the Sultan's ship which was to leave Alexandria for Spain, to Seʿadya b. Elʿazar. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. […] In the margin, he promises to find a spouse for a friend (al-Rayyis) in Spain and advises that he should not look for one in al-Mahdiyya.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Family letter from a son to his father, Abu al-Muna al-Muwaffaq. Two main family matters are discussed. […] The son had intended to bring the Rumi to the head of the police or to the rabbinical court, but he had already run away. Secondly, the writer asks his father to allow his brother, Abu Ishaq, to spend the holidays with him.

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• marital dispute
• personal

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The letter contains the interesting oath "wa-ḥaqq al-yiḥud," where yiḥud = tawḥīd. He also writes that al-ḥūrma (his wife?)

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• appeal
• epidemic
• epidemic: marad
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
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Arabic

Recto: Two drafts of the opening of an Arabic petition from Abū ʿAlī b. Abū l-ʿIzz al-Yahūdī to the sulṭān (possibly al-Malik al-Kāmil).

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• dimme
• kohl
• petition

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Document date

1036–1094 CE

Primary language

Arabic

Petition to the caliph al-Mustanṣir regarding a murder on a boat. The son of the petitioner was traveling with a young fellow-merchant from Sirsinā to Fuwwa and then Alexandria on a boat carrying 500 dinars in cash and 200 dinars in goods, when the captain of the boat and the sailors robbed and murdered the two merchants. The petition asks that the caliph issue an edict to the lieutenants of the amīr Sinān al-Dawla to arrest the captain and the sailors.

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• murder
• petition

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Document date

9 Jumādā I 872 Hijrī (6 December 1467 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The month is referred to as "Jumādā al-Fard" (גמאדי אלפרד). This is followed by the blessing "may it be a good sign for all Israel. […] From other sources, we know that Timurbugha became sultan on Saturday, 5 December 1467 CE and ruled under the name al-Malik al-Ẓāhir before being deposed by Qaitbey two months later.

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• mamluks

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Among those mentioned: Salim the Parnas, Abu l-Ḥasan the Ḥaver, Khalil the cantor and his cousin, al-Ahuv, al-Rayyis Abu l-Najm, Mahfuḍ al-Khadim, Ibn al-'Anbari.

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• 12th c

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