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LetterMoss. VII,209
Letter from Aharon ha-Kohen b. ʿAmram (ZL), in ʿAkkā, to his son Shemarya b. Aharon, in Fustat. The son should not be content to study …
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LetterENA 3786.2
Letter from Avraham Ḥazzan. In Judaeo-Arabic. Written in a distinctive, rudimentary hand with some resemblance to T-S 12.271 but probably not the same scribe. The …
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LetterENA NS I.58
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic written by Abu al-Faraj. Mentioning several personalities known from Avraham Maimonides period (Menahem, muhadhdhab, Shemuʾel and Avraham Maimonides himself) among many other …
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Literary textT-S Ar.43.85
Poetry and prose about wine. In Judaeo-Arabic. Includes the phrase "just like the Jews do it" and refers to a holiday celebration "on the night …
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List or tableDK 201.2
Accounts for wine production, submitted by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to his father Eliyyahu the Judge. Similar to T-S Ar.18(1).127. This document is for the month …
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Legal documentENA NS 7.17
Recto: Legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. It seems that a communal official undertakes to not miss any obligations on certain days, regardless of adverse weather, and …
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List or tableT-S AS 179.183
Accounts in a mixture of Arabic and Hebrew script. At least in part concerning wine making (al-nabīdh... al-muwallad...).
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LetterT-S AS 177.86
Note addressed to Abū Naṣr, in which the sender asks for a loan of a wine jug for three days (yā shaykh Abū Naṣr anʿim …
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LetterBodl. MS heb. b 13/50
Letter from Ṭoviyya b. ʿEli ha-Kohen (Bilbays, Lower Egypt) to his cousin and brother-in-law, the judge Nathan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen (Fustat), 12th century. Ṭuviyahu b. …
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- בשמ רחמ
- מוגב הדה אלאסטר אעלם רבנו ישמרו שומר
- ישראל אני קד אנפדת מע אבו צאלח י כדוה(?)
- יבאע ט וואחדה מן אלדי הם מלם אלטין שק
- ראסהא אדא ראיתהא ל…
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List or tableT-S NS J78
Inventory of a wine cellar, listing the sales of a retailer who at the opening of the store had 650 tamawiyas (containers for wine) in …
- בן משאקה קוי
- בן כליל רבע
- בן סיננאת יג
- . . . . . .] ח
- אלא. . . . . י
- ביד אלשיך אבו נצר י
- וארבע טמאויתכל
- ודרהמין עגוה
- וארבע דראהם פכאר
- זח ען צבי בן …
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List or tableT-S Ar.30.177
Inventory of a wine merchant's wine cellar. (Information from Mediterranean Society, IV, p. 259)
- בשמ רחמ
- תלת מאיה אלא עשרה אלטרחה
- אלאולה ואלתאניה מאיתין
- סתה ועשרין ותשעה ועשרין לאגיה
- וכמסה צגאר ואלתלתה מאיה
- וכמסין טמאניה וארבעין
- צגירה וארבעה ועש…
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Legal documentENA 2808.49
Unsigned copy of a contract between Abū l-Bahāʾ b. Abū l-Mufaḍḍal and Abū l-ʿIzz (all called 'al-rayyis,' probably meaning physician here). Concerning 91 + 9 …
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List or tableT-S Ar.40.103
Accounts of a wine dealer (or at least somebody who sells liquid by the jarra) in Judaeo-Arabic. Customers include Makārim al-Ṣayrafī, Barakāt al-Azraq, Maḥāsin b. …
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LetterT-S 10J7.18
Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu (Barakāt al-Muʿallim) to al-Shaykh al-Rashīd ('the father'—evidently an elder relative). The note accompanies a gift of wine for a banquet …
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Legal documentT-S 6J2.17
Fragmentary scrap that contains multiple hands. The recto has been identified as a responsum, whereas the verso is a short note to Abu al-Ḥasan (or …
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LetterT-S 8J15.11
Two rhymed letters between the brothers Shemuʾel and Shelomo, on the subject of wine. See also Goitein's index card, and cf. T-S 8J15.15 (same brothers).
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List or tableT-S K6.82
Accounts, probably for wine sent to the castle (burj), with sums of money in silver of good quality and mentioning the names of Yaʿaqov Ṭayyib …
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Legal documentT-S 12.529
Legal document involving Abū l-Ḥasan and Refa'el and Abū l-Muʿāfā (who may be the same as Refa'el), possibly a dissolution of a partnership. The pressing …
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LetterT-S Ar.30.309
Letter addressed to Abū l-Faraj and Abū l-Ḥasan. In Judaeo-Arabic, with extremely rudimentary spelling and and handwriting (e.g. אכדיל אלכום for ادخل اليكم). This is …
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LetterMoss. II,138.1
Recto: Draft of a letter. "If your brother Abū Saʿīd does not have this amount, let him approach Abū Naṣr, and let the two of …
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Paraliterary textJRL SERIES B 5168
Prescription or recipe. In Judaeo-Arabic. "Its benefits are similar to the benefits of wine (khamr)." On verso there are jottings in Judaeo-Arabic: "In sleep (or: …
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Legal documentT-S 13J30.2
Legal document concerning the dissolution of a partnership in the production and distillation of wine between various partners, mentioning people including Ḥalfon b. Yefet, Mevorakh …
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Legal documentT-S NS 190.106
Damaged legal document written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). Regarding manufacture of wine between [...] b. Yeshuʿa al-ʿAkkāwı known as Ibn Bunān (appears also …
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Paraliterary textT-S Ar.30.65
Medical prescription composed of ingredients that appear regularly in similar prescriptions of those days. Wine is recommended as an alternative for a sharab (a potion). …
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- יוכד עלי ברכת אללה
- כאבלי והנדי מן כל ואחד אוקיה
- בלילג ואמלג מן כל ואחד דר
- סנה מכי ופיתמון אקריטי אוקיה
- ואסטוכודוס ולסאן תור שאמי
- מן כל ואחד ה …
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LetterBL OR 5566D.3
Letter from Natan b. Nahray (Alexandria) to Nahray b. Nissim (Fustat), ca. 1065. Mentions a silk cloak ordered by Nahray and shoes that were sent …
- [כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מ]ולאי אלשיך אלאגל ואדאם תאידה וסלאמתה
- [מן] אלמסתקר לה' כלון מן אדר [כ]תמה עלינא
- ועליך באחסן [כאתמה] אמתאל אלפורים אלמבארך שנים…
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LetterBodl. MS heb. c 50/22
Short note in dreadful handwriting in which the writer orders some wine, because he has just had blood let (wa-qad ukhrijtu l-dam). The name Avraham …
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List or tableT-S AS 147.172
Accounts, mentioning quantities of money and commodities such as wine. (Information from CUDL)
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Literary textPER H 134
Debate poem between hashish and wine. In the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. The narrator is a partisan of wine: "Hashish has a way / …
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Legal documentT-S 13J4.10
Legal document. Location: Bilbays. Dated: First decade of Sivan, 1564 Seleucid, which is 1253 CE. Under the reshut of David I Maimonides. Concerning a settlement …
- נקול נחן אלשהוך אלואצעין כטוטנא אכר הדא אל
- מסטור אן למא כאן פי אלעשר אלאול מחדש סיון
- שנת אתקסד לשטרות בעיר בלביס הסמוכה לארץ
- גשן מותבה רשותיה דאדוננ…
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LetterMIAC 124
Report from the Grand Rabbinate of Cairo naming the butchers intended for the slaughter of poultry in the 5714AM, and an announcement of the schedule …
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LetterMIAC 219
Announcement from the Cairo Jewish community and by the rabbinate that all the wine sold by the company "Curiel Oriental" is not kosher, and an …
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Paraliterary textT-S AS 145.290
Recipe for a certain kind of wine ("al-nabīdh al-mudabbir"). On verso there are calendrical calculations mentioning Tishrei 1423 Seleucid, which is 1111 CE.
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LetterT-S 10J25.3
Letter from Yehuda b. Aharon b. al-ʿAmmānī, in Alexandria, to Abū l-Majd Meir b. Yakhin (Thābit), "the Glory of the Cantors," in Fustat. Dated: 14 …
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- בשמ' רחמ' אלדאעי ללה בכמאל עאפיתה יהודה המלמד
- אלי אלמולא אלשיך בו אלמגד כגק' מר' ור' מאיר השר היקר החזן תפארת
- החזנים חפטה אללה וגמלנא גמיע בב…
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LetterT-S 13J22.22
Letter from Muslim to his son ʿIwaḍ. In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning sugar cane molasses (quṭāra) and wine. "Stop occupying yourself with marriage plans and such idle …
- בשמ' רחמ ואלדה מסלם
- אלולד אלעזיז אלשיך עוץ אני קד
- נפדת לך כתאב מן אגל אלקטארה
- אללה אללה מהמא גאבך אלשיך
- מעאפא תנפד תערפני סרעה
- מן כל בד אלי קד נפדת …
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List 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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Paraliterary textENA 2808.22
Recto: The first part is a description of a plant (ḥashīsha) that is effective against toothache. Its branches and leaves are like those of the …
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List or tableT-S Ar.18(1).127
Accounts, dated October 1230 CE, in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, referring to a cellar (maṭmūra) in his father’s house with 117 jugs of …
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LetterT-S 8J22.11
Informal note from an unknown writer to R. Ḥiyya. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer requests the excellent jug of wine (al-nabīdh al-mamzūj) that Ḥiyya had promised …
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- בשמ רחמ
- כאנת חצרה מולאי רבנא חייא תפארת היראים קד
- ועדת יום אלסבת בגרה נביד גייד לנגדד עלינא אמר
- אלמלוכה אלקדימה ואלאן פי הדא אליום קד אפצד[ת]…
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LetterBodl. MS heb. e 105/38
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Wide space between the lines. The writer is a tax farmer (or perhaps the agent/wakīl of one) in a rural area with …
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State documentENA 3901.5
State petition regarding a Maghribī Jewish trader caught drinking with a Muslim woman and imprisoned. Cuts off right before the request: there arrived from the …
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LetterCUL Or.1081 J42
Recto: Note from Rashīd inviting a physician to come urgently to Rashīd's home, and to bring a friend. Verso: The physician responds that if he …
- אלאך אלעזיז אלמופק יחצר סרעה
- פי בית אלרשיד פאן אלצרורה דאעיה
- לחצורך ואן כאן לך אחד מן אלאצחאב
- פתחצרה צחבתך ולא תנעאק סאעה ואחדה
- מחבה רשיד [. . . . .…
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LetterT-S 13J27.11
Letter from Yehuda b. Aharon Ibn al-ʿAmmānī, in Alexandria, to Abū l-Majd Meir b. Yakhin ("the Glory of the Cantors and their strength"), in Fustat. …
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- בשמ' רחמ' מן שאכר תפצלה יה[ודה]
- וצלת כתב מולאי וסיידי אלשיך אב[ו למגד]
- מאיר החזן ירום הודו ויגדל כבודו גמע אללה
- אלשמל בנטרה אלשריף אמן אלהי אמ…
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LetterENA NS 19.31
Letter from Mevorakh b. Natan to Thiqat al-Mulk. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mevorakh describes his financial difficulties and asks for help obtaining wheat. He complains that al-Shaykh …
- בשמ רחמ ותגזר אומר ויקם לך ועל דרכיך נגה אור
- ורבצת ואין מחריד וחלו פניך רבים
- ישלח עזרך מקדש ומציון יסעדיך
- לם יכף נסאל אלמולא אלואלד אלאגל תקה אלמלוך…
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LetterT-S 16.305
Letter from Yehuda ha-Melammed b. al-Ammani, in Alexandria, to Avraham Maimonides in Fustat. Dated: Adar 1528 Seleucid, which is 1217 CE. Yehuda devotes the bulk …
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- עבדו ומשרתו
- יהודה המלמד
- בשמ' רחמ
- ותשועת צדיקים מיי' וגו'
- תרום ידך על צריך וגו'
- מתהלך בתומו צדיק וגו'
- אלי אלמגלס אלסאמי אלאגלי אלמולוי אלרייסי …
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LetterT-S 10J12.16
Letter from a woman, in Fustat, to her son Abū l-Maḥāsin, in Funduq al-Qamra, Alexandria. Dictated to Abū Manṣūr. Likely belongs with T-S 10J19.26 (PGPID …
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- שלום רב לאוהבי תורתך ואין למו מכשול
- שלום שלום לרחוק ולקרוב אמר ייי ורפאתיו
- אלדי אעלם בה ולדי ואלעזיז עלי וענדי גמע אללה שמלי בה קריב עלי מא י…
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List 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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לר נהראי [ ] מן גמלה אלורק
אלדי קבל האדי קאי ותלת ותמן
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לה בחק אלברקלו(?) מן אלצרה אלתי
וצלת מן אטראבלס א…
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