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Arabic

Recto: Legal query in Arabic script, in an unprofessional hand. Addressed to "al-sāda al-fuqahāʾ. . . al-aʾimma", a jurisconsult, asking whether a beardless Jewish eye doctor (kaḥḥāl), who has received a certification from Muslim witnesses on his trustworthiness for practising in a Muslim family, can actually practise there.

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• beardless
• dimme
• fatwa

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Document date

Friday, 25 Iyyar 1439 Seleucid (27 April 1128 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Husband: Natan b. Shela. Wife: Sitt al-Dalāl bt. Mevasser known as Bishāra the freedman. Also signed by Ḥalfon b. Ghālib. There is confirmation of receipt on verso.

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Furaykh ('Little Chick,' twice), Frjlh (also twice, an abbreviation of Faraj Allah, 'God had helped').

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• charity
• communal
• donors
• poverty

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Letter from Mūsā b. Yaḥyā al-Majjānī, Alexandria, to Binyamin b. Yūsuf Ibn ʿAwkal.

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Primary language

Hebrew

On verso there are four different text blocks, all in very cursive Hebrew. The main one also has poetic phrases that might be about the sufferings of fate, perhaps a letter of recommendation?

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Three fragments of a Judaeo-Arabic letter, all in the same hand, probably all from the same letter. Mentions the sons of al-Baradānī; R. Natan he-Ḥaver someone's brother-in-law; and the punishment of people who feast with apostates (מאכל ומשתה פי בית אלמין . . .

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Primary language

Hebrew

Letter of a foreign scholar who was afraid of being forced to marry, although he did not wish to do so, because of his mother and daughter, and who refused to become judge and teacher in Alexandria because he was in charge of a house with tenants in Fustat, belonging to a friend.

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• to examine

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Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Contains translations of of various Talmudic terms, all by R. Sherira and his son R. Hiyya Gaon. Also published in Otzar ha-Geonim, Gittin, p. 195, no. 454.

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• gaon
• responsa

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Order of payment in dirhams. The addressee (al-shaykh) is to pay the bearer 53 wariq dirhams and 50(?) […] Verso contains Arabic jottings including the basmala several times, and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions the names ʿAlī b. Furayj and ʿUmar al-Maghribī. (Information in part from CUDL)

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• cheque
• order of payment

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Mentions Sitt al-Kull and her mother Sirwa, one of whom acknowledges receipt of something. Also mentions Abū [...] Elʿāzar ha-Kohen. (Information in part from CUDL.)

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Judaeo-Arabic

May have been sent from Qayrawān, as the writer mentions Funduq al-Maṭmūrī, also known from T-S 13J25.1. Information in part from CUDL.

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• business

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy, in Alexandria, to Thābit b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṣabbāgh. Dating: ca. 1062.

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• 11th c

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Business letter from Farah b. Yosef in Alexandria to Yehuda b. Menashshe in Fustat concerning the delivery of goods, namely items of silver, olive oil, cheese, almonds and saffron sent from Ifrīqiya to Sicily.

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• trade

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Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Listing names such as Abū Nāṣir; Zuhayr; Yūsuf; Ibn Ḥusayn; ʿAbd al-Ṣamad; ʿAbd al-Raḥīm; Ḥusayn; Abū ʿUthmān, Aḥmad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, with Coptic numerals.

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• account
• coptic numerals

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso continuing onto recto: Instructions for treasure in a village called אלכרבה (al-Khirba?) in the Fayyūm. There are approximately three sections. […] The second involves a bathhouse, and the third involves a well. On recto there is also an unrelated poem by Ibn Gabirol.

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• treasure

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Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: no earlier than 1425 CE based on the mention of ashrafīs which were first minted under Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay in this year. Values given mainly in ashrafīs, also in bunduqīs.

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• numismatic dating

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Letter from ʿAyash b. Ṣedaqa, Alexandria, to Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tahartī. Aruond 1045.

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• trade

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Fragment of a list of recipients of alms, similar to Bodl. MS heb. c28.24, in the hand, it seems, of the judge Yeshu'a ha-Kohen b. Yosef of Alexandria (dated documents 1028 through after 1062).

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• charity
• communal
• poverty
• recipients

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Inferred date

1039–1039 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Yehuda. This letter also mentions the arrival in Fusṭāṭ of the Nasi Daniel b. […] As an afterthought, the sender alludes to terrible wrongs being inflicted by Natan b. […] The writer also mentions the arrival in Fusṭāṭ of the Nasi Daniel b.

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• conflict
• daniel b. 'azarya
• gaonic conflict
• music
• nagid
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Document date

Av 1434 Seleucid (25 July 1123–23 August 1123 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

It was also agreed that the two undertook to be prompt in reversing the deal; i.e., the woman should pay the sum due a week or less before the deadline (l. 10). […] (Information from Gershon Weiss.) See also Goitein's index card. Description from T-S 12.82 + T-S 12.553 (old PGPID 7264): Legal document. […] Yefet/Ḥasan ha-Kohen, and his wife is Sitthum aka Sitt al-Jamīʿ bt. ʿOvadya. In the present document, Elʿazar's son Hillel is also mentioned.

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Document date

26 Adar 1318 Seleucid (16 February 1007 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, with the address written also in Arabic script (where the addressees are called Ibrāhīm and Yaḥyā Tanḥum b. […] Apparently in the handwriting of Hayya Gaʾon himself. The addressees also appear in T-S 13F2 (left margin of recto at 90 degrees), which preserves legal queries that they submitted to Hayya's father Sherira b. […] Ibn ʿAwkal also informed him in that letter of the death of Abū Yūsuf Yaʿaqov b.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yakhin), in Fustat, to his brother Abū l-Najm Hilāl, presumably in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Early 13th century. […] However, the final letter of the word that Goitein read as דעא cannot be an aleph, and the first letter is closer to Abu l-Majd's distinctive כ than his ד. […] By God, by God, send me a healing letter and tell me when you arrived, and how your arrival was, and tell me all of your news." He also asks his brother to inform the teacher Abū l-Futūḥ (Yehuda b. al-ʿAmmānī) that Abu l-Majd sent him the selihot, a letter, and a fatwa, and he wishes to know if they were received.

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517

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Document date

6 Tammuz 5398 Anno Mundi (18 June 1638 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

People mentioned: הר"י אפמאדו (also mentioned in the other letter, identity unknown, appears to be the same "enemy" alluded to at the beginning); הר״מ זגאן; Yaʿaqov Yaʿish; the writer's father Yisrael Binyamin Zeevi (d. 1688 after an illustrious career in Alexandria and Jerusalem); Zerahya Gota (from Istanbul, a student of Yosef de Trani. […] Vilisad (? וילייסיד), also mentioned in the other letter by Zeevi to Castro, a sage who moved from Istanbul to Jerusalem in the first half of the 17th century. Denominations mentioned: sharifis (=ashrafis from the mid 15th century); arayot (=European coins used in the east, Löwenthaler in German); ibrahimis (=coins minted by Avraham Castro in the first half of the 16th century); gerushim (=sometimes identical with arayot, sometimes identical with reales, apparently); zecchinos (Venetian sequins); and reales (Iberian coins from the 14th century); muayyadis (Ottoman coin named after the Mamluk sultan al-Muayyad Shaykh, current in the 15th and 16th centuries).

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• 17th c
• castro
• gota
• late palestine
• numismatics
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Arabic

(The earlier use looks official, and one side refers to al-mamlūk Sayf al-[...] al-Afḍalī.) The addressee is asked to fulfill the promise he made yesterday, possibly that he would purchase honey and ṭaḥīna.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Mentioning many names: Abū ʿAlī b. Barukh; Moshe ha-Kohen ha-Zaqen; Avraham ha-Zaqen. Also mentions Fustat. Probably related: ENA NS 63.12 (PGPID 12209) and T-S AS 152.70 (PGPID 17785).

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Judaeo-Arabic

They are requested to convey the dinar they had pledged for the first installment of the capitation tax to al-Shaykh al-Makīn Abū l-ʿIzz al-Levi. It will be used to pay the capitation tax of a cantor.

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• capitation tax
• jaliya
• jizya
• tax

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Letter from Ya’aqov b. Salman al-Hariri, from Rashid, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. […] The writer describes what he has been through while he delivered linen to Alexandria, and the ship was delayed in Rashid. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 4, #664) VMR

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Judaeo-Arabic

Alchemical recipes describing methods of preparation of metals (copper, sulphur), how to burn them, wash them, dry them and grind them. […] (Information from CUDL; see also Goitein's index card.)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yosef b. Musa al-Tāhartī, probably from Mahdiyya, to Nahray b. […] Deals with selling goods and their prices, especially pepper and silk. Also mentions the condition of Yisrael b.Natan, Nahray’s cousin.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter sent from Damira by Abu al-'Ali ha-Kohen to Tiqva b. Yeshua, asking him to inform the Nagid about trouble that had occurred in Damira caused by someone named b. al-Wasiti.

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