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  1. 1Legal documentENA NS 18.8

    Document date
    Primary languages
    Aramaic, Hebrew

    Legal deed. Location: Damietta. Dated: 4840 AM = 1079/80 CE. Peraḥya b. Yona ha-Kohen and Netanʾel b. Ḥalfon ha-Levi appoint Yaʿaqov b. ʿEli as their …

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    2017
    PGPID
    6921
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  2. 2LetterT-S 10J16.25

    Primary language
    Hebrew

    Letter. Commercial letter from Rashid (Rosetta) to Damietta, mentioning Christian Italian merchants (e.g., גירונימו/Geronimo), and a French consul. The text has a number of European …

    Recto

    1. בה
    2. גביר ומעולה ונבון ושר עטרות לנו נרו והגביר ומעולה ונבון נרו ראיתי כתבכם
    3. והנה הודעתם אותי בא גאוש לגבות הבואקי איני יודע אנה הם אלו הבואקי
    4. ו…

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    2018
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  3. 3List or tableCUL Or.1080 J138

    Primary languages
    Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

    Recto: Account of Abū l-Faraj the physician upon his arrival from Damietta. Dating: ca. 1130 CE (based on the dating of verso). In Judaeo-Arabic, Arabic …

    Recto - left side

    1. בש רחמנא
    2. אלדי ענד אלשיך אבו אלפרג אלטביב
    3. ענד וצולה מן דמיאט ה דנאנ[יר
    4. ענדה תמן דאבה וסרג ד דנאניר
    5. ענדה ען עמל זרב קס דרהם
    6. ענדה ען …
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  4. 4List or tableJRL SERIES C 83

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    Accounts in Judeo-Arabic related to the finances of Mordechai Bilobos and Yiṣḥaq Bilobos expressed in "פצה/silver". On the right side of the recto the list …

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  5. 5LetterT-S 13J26.16

    Primary language
    Hebrew

    Letter from Yoshiyyahu Gaon to the community of Damietta, approximately 1015.

    1. יאשיהו ראש ישיבת גאון יעקב בירבי
    2. שלום בכל מסעדינו וברכות בכל סומכיהם וש[לומות בכל]
    3. עת ורחמים בכל זמן ושם טוב בכל דור ואחרית [טובה]
    4. ושלום לאחינ[ו] יש…

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    1077
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  6. 6LetterCUL Or.1080 15.19

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    Spanish

    Letter in Spanish with columns of numerical calculations at bottom that appears to be dated 5 Tamuz 5437 or July 5 1677CE (the "4" is …

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  7. 7LetterT-S 10J16.21

    Primary language
    Hebrew

    Recto: Letter in a late hand, 16th-century at the earliest. Verso: Address to "the excellent judge" Meʾir b. Murjī (מרגי) in Dimyāṭ/Damietta (קפוטקיא). (Information from …

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  8. 8Legal documentT-S K25.153

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Legal document. Partnership agreement. A deal between an investor, possibly named Ibrahim, and three unnamed indigo dyers opening a workshop in Damietta. The active partners …

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    1. .............נשתרי בה ניל ונמצי בה לתגר דמיאט ו[..................]
    2. נצבג פיהא ונביע ונשתרי פי הדא אלמבלג פי אצנאף אלצבג ונאכד ונעטי חסב מא
    3. גרת…

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    1. … we will purchase indigo with it and we will go with it to the port-city of Damietta and […]
    2. We will dye it and we will sell and buy with that …
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  9. 9Legal documentAIU VII.D.90

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    Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

    Legal document draft of a debt contract ("shtar/שטר," l. 7, 13) recording financial arrangments where Spanish Seville-minted reales "ריאליס שיבילייאנוס" are in use (l.4r). The …

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  10. 10LetterT-S 12.323

    Primary language
    Hebrew

    Letter from Fustat to the communal leaders of Damietta, Yiṣḥaq Beirav and Ṣedaqa ha-Kohen. First half of the 16th century. Mentions Avraham b. Shānjī and …

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    1. זרע הקדש השומרים משמרת ה[קדש] [...]
    2. זאת להם תורה וחוקה ויד חזקה בק[..] האמת [......] [נ]דיבי[ם][?] 
    3. ונדבות יועצים להציל לחוצים מי[ד] מוחצים [.…

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  11. 11LetterT-S 10J16.20

    Primary language
    Hebrew

    Letter. Commercial letter from Murjī to his son, Meʾir b. Murjī, listing repayments from various individuals, including Moses [...] and David [...]. Address on verso. …

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  12. 12LetterT-S 24.51

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter in the hand of Shemuel b. Natan to a circuit judge (Goitein's index cards). Nine persons mentioned by name acting as a board of …

    1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]ואלמקאבלה עלי אל . . . . . . ולם מאעד.
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . אסת]חלאף אל . . נה עלי מא תסתחקה כמא יגב
    3. . . . . .] כתאב אל…

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  13. 13LetterT-S Misc.22.208.3 + T-S Misc.22.208.4

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    Hebrew, Ladino

    Letter from Daniel Cafsuto (aka Cassuto) and Shemuel Cafsuto (aka Cassuto) to a certain Saʿīd (or the son of Saʿīd), possibly Saʿīd Bardaʿ, in Fustat/Cairo. …

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  14. 14LetterAIU VII.E.56 + T-S 8J20.14

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The writer mentions Minyat Zifta; urges the recipient not to delay with something; mentions the wālī, the qāḍī and the mushrif; mentions …

    AIU VII.E.56, right margin (Elbaum edition):

    1. ונכרג . . . .
    2. לא תברח
    3. חין וצולי אליך
    4. אן שא אללה
    5. ונעלם חצרתה
    6. מא ינכתב פי
    7. כתאב סיידנא
    8. מא יכון פיה
    9. אלצלאח …
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  15. 15LetterBodl. MS heb. a 3/28

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    Hebrew

    Large letter from "the two congregations" of Alexandria to the Palestinian community of Fustat, and particularly to Efrayim b. Shemarya, regarding fundraising for the ransom …

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  16. 16LetterCUL Or.1080 J109

    Primary language
    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from a certain ʿEli, unknown location, to the cantor Isḥāq, in Damietta. Addressed specifically to the shop of Abū l-Surūr al-Ṣayrafī. In Judaeo-Arabic with …

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  17. 17LetterT-S Misc.28.137

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    Judaeo-Arabic

    Letter from Shemuel, in Damietta, to Abū l-Mufaḍḍal Hibatallāh b. Faraḥ, perhaps related by marriage through the latter's sister. The handwriting is often ambiguous, so …

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