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  1. 1LetterT-S AS 160.130

    Recto: commercial letter in Judaeo-Arabic. "That man... to you, you said to me several times... I don't know what he needs, and if he asks …

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  2. 2List or tableT-S Ar.42.203

    Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentioning sugar and names such as Abū ʿImrān and Abū l-Majd. This is a reuse of a literary …

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  3. 3LetterBodl. MS heb. d 75/21

    Letter from Abū Faraj to Eliyyahu the Judge. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender has some unusual spelling habits, e.g., אא for آ; and ת for ד; …

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    1. בש רח
    2. אלממלוך אבו פרג
    3. סבב אצדאר האדא אלאחרף
    4. אלשוק אלא אלמולא אלסייד
    5. רבי אליה שצ הדיין החסיד
    6. זצל אלממלוך מסתוחש מן
    7. אלמואלי אלסאד…

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  4. 4State documentT-S AS 177.41

    Fiscal document. Mentions a qāḍī, "al-maṭābikh al-maʿmūra," and various sums of money. Cf. T-S K6.150.2 (PGPID 34366). Needs examination. At the top there is what …

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  5. 5LetterT-S Ar.30.159

    Verso: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to Abū l-Ḥasan Sar ha-Bina. Bitter complaint of a sugar-maker that the addressee did not send him the material for …

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  6. 6State documentTS AS 183.83

    Sugar accounting for the Dīwān al-Sulṭān (of al-Ṣāliḥ Ayyūb) mentioning the refinery of Ṣafad (or al-Ṣafadī?) and the sugar of Ashmūn. Mentions a quantity of …

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  7. 7Legal documentT-S 13J6.11

    Contract of debt. Location: Fustat. Dated: [157]6 Seleucid = 1264/65 CE, and prior to 9 February 1265 CE (the date of verso). In which the …

    1. ם ס
    2. שיתא שנין לשטרות למנינא אשר הור[גלנו]
    3. נהר נילוס היא יושבת רשות אדונינו נגידנו
    4. מובהק הנגיד הגדול נגיד עם לא אלמן
    5. [ח]צר אלינא כגק מרנ ורבנ דויו הז…

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  8. 8Credit instrument or private receiptJRL Gaster ar. 28

    Receipt for Mufaḍḍal b. Barakāt of 1 dīnār and 2/3 dirhams for qand/sugar.

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  9. 9Legal documentBodl. MS heb. e 101/13 + Bodl. MS heb. f 102/43

    Two fragments of the same legal document, dated 1532/1220-1221. The physician Abū l-Maḥāsin Yefet b. Yoshiyya and the sugar merchant Abū l-ʿIzz b. Abū l-Maʿānī …

    Bodl. MS heb. e 101/13

    1. נקול מן אתבת כטה אכר הדא אלמסטור אנה למא כ[אן פי יום
    2. שנת אלפא וחמש מאה ותלתין ותרתי שנין לשטרות [
    3. מותבה רשותיה דאדונינו נגידי…

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  10. 10State documentT-S K6.150.2

    Document in Arabic script. Likely a fiscal document recording amounts of money associated with the operations of dīwān al-maṭābikh al-maʿmūra (the state sugar refineries?) Cf. …

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  11. 11Legal documentT-S NS 342.33

    Small fragment of a legal deed regarding sugar refining (ṭabīkh al-sukkar). Involving Yeshuʿa b. Yiftaḥ ha-Kohen. In the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 …

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  12. 12List or tableENA 1822a.92

    An inventory dated 8 Jumada II of a shop selling fruit and sugar, the ingredients for homemade candy "for those who wished to enjoy the …

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  13. 13LetterCUL Or.1080 J129

    Letter of business to Judge Eliyyahu, mainly about small quantities of sugar candy-- see Goitein Nachlass material

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    1. time of the sugar........... This (is all) I (have to) tell you (about this matter). I

    2. intend to send my candy and exhibit it in Cairo. As …

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  14. 14Legal documentENA NS 21.1

    Legal document. Partnership agreement. Dated: 1248-1249. Location: Fustat. This document describes a partnership in a sugar-factory. It's likely the document is a draft because it …

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    1. [נ]קול נחן אלשהוד אלואצעין כטוט[נא]
    2. אכר הדא [אלמ]סטור אן נחן נעלם
    3. ונתחקק ונשהד אן פל בן פל  [ופל]
    4. בן פל אשתרכא פי מטבך ס[כר]
    5. מן סנין עדי…

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    1. [We] say—we, the witnesses who have placed [our] signature
    2. at the bottom of this [doc]ument—that we attested
    3. and confirmed and testified that So-…

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  15. 15Credit instrument or private receiptAIU XII.31

    Receipt for the price of sugar collected from a certain ʿAbdūn by the messenger Aḥmad al-Ḥawlī. The document is dated Tuesday, 13th RabīʿII 859 H. …

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  16. 16Legal documentT-S 20.98

    Avraham b. Rason buys from Yeshua Abu al-Fadl b. Eliyyahu 9/24 of a sugar factory for 150 dinars. He permits him to buy it back …

    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנאן(!) ד[חת]ימין לתתא למא כאן פי אלעשר
    2. אלאול מן חודש שבט שנת אלפא ו[ח]מש מאות חמשין וחמש שנין למנין
    3. לשטרות למנינא דרגילנא לממני …

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  17. 17State documentT-S Ar.51.108

    Recto, with address on verso: Petition/letter from Muslim b. ʿAlī b. Muslim to Abū l-Faraj Mawhūb b. Yūḥannā. The sender is a state official or …

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  18. 18List or tableT-S K2.81

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals concerning "Dīwān Maṭābikh al-Mulk," which sounds like the government office in charge of royal sugar refineries. Dated: "four," "five," …

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  19. 19List or tableT-S AS 152.14

    Accounts, mentioning names such as Ibn al-Ḡanī (?) and Joseph b. Judah al-Levi. Lists a number of dates, weights, numbers and commodities, such as honey, …

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  20. 20Legal documentT-S 12.126

    Legal document. Partnership agreement. Dating: 1229. Location: Fustat. In a document written in Hebrew emerging from the court of Abraham Maimonides, Abū al-‘Alā b. Joseph …

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    1. [מעידים אנחנו חתומי מטה מ]ה שהיה בפנינו בחדש אייר שנת 
    2. [..]... אתקמ. לשטרות למיניננו אשר הורגלנו למנות בו בפסטאט מצרים
    3. אשר על נהר נילוס היא יו…

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    1. [We, the undersigned, testify to wh]at took place before us in the month of Iyyar of the year
    2. […] … 154x (of the Era) of Documents according to …

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  21. 21State documentT-S AS 183.28

    Recto: very damaged text of a makhzuma (ledger of receipts). Verso: makhzūma (ledger of receipts) submitted in Rajab 495 AH (= April-May 1102 CE) by …

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  22. 22State documentT-S Ar.42.51

    Recto: An account related to the production of cane sugar. The warrantors (ḍumanāʾ) of a sugarcane plantation have received 56 ⅙ ḍarības of sugarcane (1,348,080 …

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  23. 23List or tableT-S Ar.53.29

    Multifragment. Fol. 2: Mercantile accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. On parchment. Dating: Probably 11th century. A vast sum of 2,033 dinars is cashed in Qayrawān for consignments …

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  24. 24List or tableENA 3306.7–8

    Extensive accounts in Ladino with at least one full date on ENA 3306.8r in the upper left corner: ״27 תשרי [הת]קסח״ which is 27 Tishrei …

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  25. 25Legal documentBodl. MS heb. a 3/16

    India Book I,41. Partnership record. Dated: 1551 Sel. (1239). Location: Fustat. The brothers Abū al-Faḍl and Abū al-Riḍā Yosef b. Berakhot, owners of a sugar …

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    1. [נקול] נחן אלשהוד אלואצעין כטוטנ[א פי אכר הדא אלמסטור אן למא כאן פי … חדש]

    2. [תש]רי שנת אתקנ''א לשטרות בפסטאט [... חצרו אלינא אלשיך] 

    3. [אב]ו…

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  26. 26LetterT-S 10J15.4

    Letter from Isma’il b. Farah, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. September 23, 1056. The letter contains details about shipments of money and goods, and …

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    1. סידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם תאידך וסלאמתך וסעאדתך ען סלאמה ושוק אליך קרב

    2. אללה אלאגתמאע בך ליב כלאת מן תשרי ואלאמר לל[ה צ]אחבה         …

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  27. 27List or tableT-S Ar.30.84

    Accounts of a merchant. Mentioning goods such as pepper (filfil), oil (dihn), cumin (kammūn), bitumen (qifār), brazilwood (baqqam), sugar and syrup (sukkar wa-sharāb). Mentioning names …

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  28. 28LetterBH1-19

    Letter in early Judaeo-Persian. Dating: ca. 790. Matters discussed include the local ruler and his daughter, a trade deal or gift exchange with them involving …

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  29. 29State documentDK 256 (alt: XXI)

    State document: report to a high bureaucrat (with taqbīl clauses), written under the Fatimid caliph al-Āmir, 509/1115; in the Hebrew on verso, the date is …

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  30. 30LetterT-S K25.277

    Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. From a woman, maybe to her son. She mentions that she has been sick (כונת וגעה) and worried (משגולה אלקלב) because she …

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  31. 31LetterT-S 13J29.10

    Letter from Mūsā b. Iṣḥaq b. Nissim al-ʿĀbid (al-Mahdiya) to Avraham b. Daʾūd al-Raḥbī (Fustat), ca. 1030. The writer supplies goods from the Maghreb, including …

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    1.                                       בסם אללה אלרחמן אלרחים
    2. אטאל אללה יאכ'י וסידי ואלעזיז עלי בקאך ואעזך ואכרמך ואידך ואסעדך וכאן לך ומער
    3. ולי…

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  32. 32LetterCUL Or.1080 J237

    Letter from Abū al-Riḍa, in Qūṣ, to Abū Zikrī, in Fustat, c/o the sugar factory (maṭbakh) of Abū al-Maʿānī. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in …

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  33. 33LetterMoss. VII,17

    Verso, with the address on recto: Business letter addressed to Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi. In Arabic script. Dating: Before the beginning of 1136 CE, as …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. وصلت رقعة مولاي الشيخ أطال الله بقاه
    3. ولا تسال ما لحقنا من مفارقتك وعلى انزعاجك
    4. الحمد لله تعالى الذي كانت العاقبة الى خ…

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  34. 34State documentCUL Add.3336

    Bottom part of a decree of a Fatimid Amīr titled Surūr al-Malikī to a provincial governor or fiscal official, dated 2 Jumāda II, no year. …

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    1. ذخر الملك كوكب الدولة وسديدها  ابو منصور بختيار الجيوشي ادام الله تا[يـ]ـيد[ـه]

    2. مكاتبتك بإزالة الاعتراض عن قنده الذي في المعصرة

    3. بجوجر وان…

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  35. 35LetterT-S 13J26.22

    Letter from Abū l-Manṣūr b. Ṭāhir al-Kohen, in Alexandria, to Abū ʿAlī Manṣūr b. Yiṣḥaq al-Dimashqī, in Fustat. Dating: 1170s CE. The addressee was just …

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    1. בשמ' רחמ'
    2. אלדי נעלם בה חצרה מולאי וסידי אלשיך אלאגל אבן אלמנצור
    3. אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם עזה ונעמאה ומן חסן תופיקה לא
    4. אכלאה געלני אללה מן גמיע אלא…

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  36. 36List or tableBL OR 5566C.20 + BL OR 5566C.19

    Accounts in the hand of Nissim b. Ḥalfon, presented to Nahray b. Nissim; 1066 CE. Lists payments for various goods, made either directly or through …

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    1. לר נהראי [            ] מן גמלה אלורק

    2. אלדי קבל האדי קאי ותלת ותמן

    3. > קיר

    4. לה בחק אלברקלו(?) מן אלצרה אלתי

    5. וצלת מן אטראבלס א…

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