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Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Bill of divorce (get). All names and dates are missing. Verso: A note in Judaeo-Arabic concerning a debt of 13[...] somethings. The handwriting and format of geṭ is extremely similar to T-S 13J6.28 (14th century); the handwriting of the scribe who reused each document for accounts is also extremely similar.

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• get

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Business letter in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen informing its recipient of the purchase of a certain commentary ('al-perush') for fifty dirhams. The writer reports that he will pay forty dirhams and the recipient will pay ten. Verso contains a payment order, also in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen. Undated.

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• trade

1 Transcription

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

Verso contains the address, inverted, along with a great many jottings in large Arabic script. There are also Hebrew pen-trials on both sides. Information from CUDL.

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• mosul nasis

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Letter from Yeshua b. Isma’il al-Makhmuri from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat.

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• flax

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Natan to Abū Ibrāhīm Ismāʿīl b. Ibrāhīm al-Tūnī in Alexandria, ordering him to send two ḥuramdāns with paper, a kerchief, two glass containers, three marble מותקלאת, and a bottle with rosewater.

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• trade

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions Abū ʿAlī; someone al-Ḥarīrī; Nissim (who has "the yarn and the cotton"); Muḥammad b. […] At the bottom of verso at 90 degrees there are travel expenditures (al-ṭarīq) mentioning Qūs and Akhmīm.

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Document date

Jumādā II 463 Hijrī (6 March 1071–3 April 1071 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Acknowledgment of a debt of 300 dinars contracted by the husband of Amat al-Qādir with his wife in Jumādā II of the year 463 AH (= March-April 1071 CE). The name of the acknowledger and also the amount of money mentioned in line 4 have been erased (Information from CUDL and Khan)

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Document date

Jumādā II 520 Hijrī (24 June 1126–22 July 1126 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions the district known as al-Ḥammūdiyya (or al-Maḥmūdiyya) in the [al-Buḥayriyya(?)]

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Opens with a report on "difficulties... and the fear that entered our hearts." Also refers to "our colleagues from Syria" (aṣḥābunā min al-Shām).

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• nissim b. halfon
• nissim b. nahray

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Somebody (perhaps the sender) went to the synagogue on Saturday yearning to hear any message (tashrīf) the addressee had sent, and Sayyidnā al-Shaykh al-Ajall [...] read the letter aloud.

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Primary language

Hebrew

Memorial list for Nadiv and his 3 sons: Shelomo, Yefet and Yosef. Also for Avraham and the Kohanim: Saadya and his son Hillel (Hillel b. Saʿdaya ha-Kohen is known from TS 16.140, from 1121, al-Maḥalla). Hillel's two sons Aharon and Moshe.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Rhymed blessings (... al-ʿaẓīm... dār al-naʿīm...). Verso: Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Refers to someone who has few children (? li-annahu qalīl al-ṣighār) and unemployment/idleness (baṭāla). (Information in part from CUDL)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Refers to sending something to the addressee with a trustworthy messenger and awaiting instructions from the addressee. Also mentions "the congregation" (al-jamāʿa). On verso there is unidentified Arabic text (possibly medical or poetry).

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Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentioning wheat; instructions him not to stay in Fustat or Egypt; Alexandria; a certain Nissim; and the ship of al-Ṭansāwī (cf.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Refers to payments to אלסגאן (can mean either 'the jailer'/'al-sajjān' or the communal position 'the deputy'/'al-segan'). Mentions Abū l-Tammām al-Shāʿ[ir?] (the Abbasid poet?).

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Primary language

Arabic

Top of a letter in Arabic script addressed to Sittī al-Wasṭāniyya (cf. T-S 10J11.11 for this as a woman's name). […] Begins "ruqʿatī ilā ḥaḍrat sittī al-wasṭāniyya wa-l-ʿazīza ʿalā qalbī wa-ʿindī...."

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Primary language

Arabic

Fragment from the bottom official correspondence. Mentions "al-majlis al-sāmī" as well as having issued an instruction to the amīr Sharaf al-Dīn the wālī regarding the addressee (واوصيت الامير الاجل شرف الدين الوالي بالشد منك في تحصيل ال . . . .).

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Qashqūsh; a real-estate transaction; and a quarter of house in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ in the alley of the shop (zuqāq al-dukkān) in partnership with Aharon ha-Kohen.

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Primary language

Arabic

Verso: Tax receipt issued by ʿArafāt(?) b. al-Naqīb the silk tax farmer (ḍāmin al-ḥarīr) to Abū l-Ḥasan the dyer (al-Ṣabbāgh) for a payment of 36 dirhams (for one year?

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• silk
• tax
• tax receipt

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender's name may appear at lower left (al-mam[lūk] [...]). Discusses sending various things and conveys blessings for the high holidays and Sukkot. Also mentions [...] b. Dāʾūd. On verso there are accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.

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Statement originally accompanying a will belonging to Abu al-Baqa. The will has not been found, but from this document it is clear that it comprised 11 assets with a total value of 204 3/4 dinars and 140 dirhams. (Information from Mediterranean Society, I, p. 264; also Goitein index cards)

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• will

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a schoolteacher from Algeria (al-muʿallim al-qalʿī) who taught in small town in Egypt and travelled every year to Fustat to obtain a pesiqa there (i.e., a post), instead of teaching privately, but was not successful.

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• algeria
• education
• teacher

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Arabic

Official memorandum with the signature of an official called al-Ḥasan b. Muḥammad. Belongs together with ENA 2697.8 + ENA 2697.9 + T- S Ar.31.58 + T-S Ar.30.245, but it's not clear precisely how. Joins: Marina Rustow. Also related to ENA 2917.1 (PGPID 30819).

Tags

• internal memorandum
• lost archive
• multihanded

1 Transcription 1 Translation

Primary language

Arabic

The case involves at least one government official, a mutawallī of a bureau, and muhandis al-dīwān (lit. engineer of the dīwān), who also happens to be a qāḍī in Fusṭāṭ.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to the Nagid Mevorakh b. Seʿadya, in Cairo (al-Qāhira al-maḥrūsa bi-l-ʿizz al-dā'im). In Hebrew.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

On the first page there are jottings of pious phrases: al-ḥamdu lil-lāhi waḥdahū lā sha{r}īk lahū. See also the description for the whole notebook Bodl.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(b) Trousseau list. Bride: Sitt al-Furs bt. Abū l-Bayān al-Jābī (cf. Bodl. MS heb. f 56/43). Groom: Al-Munajjā b. Yosef. 10 + 25. Total value: 95 dinars.

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• register
• trousseau

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Primary language

Arabic

Historical treatise (many pages), it seems mainly discussing the rulers and wars of Ifrīqiyya (Al-Jazā'ir, Tūnis, Qayrawān, etc.) in the mid-13th-century. Also discusses events in the 17th century (1068 AH) on 9v, mentions the fortress of Bastīyun (in Taza, Northern Morocco) on 8r.

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• arabic literary
• history

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Primary language

Arabic

Probably regarding the rent of a house or its sale. The beneficiary is ʿAlī b. ʿAbd Allāhal-Ṣayrafī, and some of his physical attributes are preserved.

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• pinholes

1 Transcription

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals, Hebrew

Verso (original use): Small fragment of a letter or official document in Arabic: "min sāʾir al-amākin... yakhruj min ṭawāḥī[n?]...." Recto (secondary use): Order for something in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, also with a Hebrew "emet" superscript.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A piece of the opening page of the abridgement of the Karaite linguist Abu l-Faraj Harun's "Hidayat al-Qari" (aka Kitab al-Shurut). See the edition by Ilan Eldar (based on Genizah documents), "Mukhtasar Hidayat al-Qari," Leshonenu, 51 (1986–87), pp. 3–41.

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• abu l-faraj harun
• hidayat al-qari

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Document date

20 Tammuz 5596 Anno Mundi (5 July 1836 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

The address is bilingual in both Hebrew and Arabic (al-Muʿallim Mūsā Bunān. . .). Verso also contains numerous lines and dots, which are possible signs of geomancy readings.

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• 19th c
• bunan
• geomancy
• late arabic script
• late ja

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document. Location: Al-Maḥalla. Involves [...] b. Yefet ha-Zaqen and [...] b. […] Needs examination. See also Goitein's notes.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Short memorandum by Mūsā b. Yaḥyā al-Majjānī, probably from Alexandria, to Nahray b.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter concerning business affairs in which the writer describes ships that are about to leave port and references ‘al-ṭārma,’ a small cabin on Nile boats, along with garments that the addressee mentioned previously. He reports his intention to leave and asks the addressee for official letters. EMS. Join: Alan Elbaum.

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• business
• trade

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary languages

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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Primary language

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
• (+ 2 more)

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Primary language

Arabic

Commercial receipt for Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs (b. Yūsuf) al-Urjuwānī. Mentions a bale of lac. (T-S Ar.35.128, T-S Ar.35.269, and T-S AS 184.265 are all similar and all for ʿArūs; ENA 3957.11 is from the same genre and for Nahray b.

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• commercial receipt

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Primary language

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.

1 Transcription

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Ladino

The main text is in Ladino and Hebrew, perhaps a sermon or exegetical work. Verso also contains: the draft of the beginning of a Ladino family letter with several drafts of the signature of Eliezer Ḥazaq; a musar text in Hebrew in a different hand; calligraphic pen trials of the Arabic alphabet; and scattered jottings and sums in Hebrew characters.

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• ladino
• ladino literary

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic. Listing names (e.g., al-Ṭabīb, al-Ḥakīm, Abū l-Riḍā (אב אלרטא), Ibn ʿAqbān, Ibn al-Shuwaykiyya, Abū l-Wafāʾ, and Ibn Nuṣayr).

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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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Primary language

Hebrew

Refers to "leaving this copy in Tyre due to [...]" in the fifth line from the bottom. Tyre is likely also referenced along the page tear: היום בצ[ו]ר.

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• tyre

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Document date

Iyyar 5032 Anno Mundi (2 April 1272–30 April 1272 CE)

Power of attorney (sheṭar harshaʾa). Location: Alexandria (נא א]מון דעל כיף ימא רבה). Dated: Iyyar 5032 AM, which is 1272 CE, under the reshut of David b. Avraham Maimonides. Almost none of the content of the document is preserved.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Likely in the hand of Eliyyahu the Judge. Involves Yefet and al-Bahāʾ(?). Verso: Legal document likely in the hand of Shelomo b. […] Refers to 'the inside of this document (the one on recto?)'; al-Shaykh al-Asʿad; someone spending time away from Egypt; and Yefet again.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to "majlis al-qāḍī Bū Qāsim al-Dāʿī." In Judaeo-Arabic with a bit of Hebrew, and the address on verso in Arabic script. Providing a report on various things, with different sections introduced by "wa-min al-muhimm...." Mentions volumes of the Torah, Neviʾim, and Targum in the margin.

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