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Document date

Muḥarram 532 Hijrī (19 September 1137–18 October 1137 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Decree, or rather record of the issuing of a decree/rescript (tawqīʿ) from the chancery of al-Ḥāfiẓ, as a response to a petition (ruqʿa) sent by the judge Sanāʾ al-Mulk ʿAbdallāh b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Abī Kāmil regarding restoring the funds, oil and glass that used to be bestowed upon his mosque out of the warehouse in Fusṭāṭ. […] It contains a reproduction of the wording of the authorizing minute (tawqīʿ) introduced by the words mā mithāluhu, as is the case in T-S Ar. 40.41 [ALAD no. 116]. (Information from Khan, ALAD, doc. 118, and from CUDL) Significant from a material point of view because it shows evidence of once having been part of a bifolio, so suggests that such records were kept in quires or folders of some sort—i.e., evidence of archives.

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Document date

1127–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A lady called Ḥasana is mentioned together with her husband Abū Saʿīd. Also mentions Maḥfūẓ b. Sahlān, Yaʿqūb b. Kawjakh (mentioned also in T-S NS 184.97. On this name, from the Persian word for "small," see India Book IV/A, p. 355, n. 115) and Ibrāhīm b. al-Ḥayfī (from Haifa). Probably a join with T-S NS 192.126 (PGPID 41099) though it's not clear exactly how.

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תגים

• halfon b. menashshe
• ib-addenda
• masliah gaon

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

There is also one line in Arabic script on verso. Dating: Likely Ayyubid era based on hand, overall appearance, and typical titles; may mention Rabīʿ I 632 AH, which would be 1234 CE if correctly deciphered (l. 12). From ʿAbdallāh the mushārif al-jawālī (a diwan official—the supervisor of the capitation taxes). He is reporting on something to do with Abū ʿAlī and his brother Ṭāhir (are they jahbadhs?).

תגים

• capitation tax
• musharif

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, mostly about personal/family matters but also some business issues. The letter is probably from a man to his brother ('yā akhī'). […] Something to do with the house 'fell down,' and the addressee is asked to repair it and also collect the rent from Umm Tamīm. Someone (Tamīm?) […] The addressee is asked to purchase a glass bottle (qaṭramīz) and 10 raṭls of רשאל(?). Mentions Abū ʿAlī and tamarind. Then, "If you receive a letter from your son, do not delay in informing me the news of my daughter" — so the addressee's son may be married to the sender's daughter.

תגים

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Letter from Abū l-Bishr to Abū l-Bahāʾ. Also addresses Abū l-Riḍā on verso. In Arabic script. […] The first ~12 lines of recto are all formulaic well wishes and a requests for news.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Written on parchment. Location: Alexandria. Dating: 1140–59 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. […] Groom: Abū Karam b. [...] ha-Parnas. Bride: Sitt al-Kull bt. Naʿīm, a divorcee. No other details preserved.

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דיון אחד

Document date

1425 Seleucid (13 September 1113–2 September 1114 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: 1425 Seleucid, which is 1113/14 CE. Sitt al-Kull bt. [...] makes a declaration of some kind in favor of Abū Saʿd b. […] Goitein's index card: "We learn from this that Durrī is also a name for a free man."

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דיון אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Eliyyahu the judge to Abū l-Faraj b. Abū l-Ḥasan al-ʿAṭṭār, in Alexandria. Five short lines preface the letter, consisting of the sender’s name followed by biblical verses.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic, in a rudimentary hand. Asking the addressee (al-Maghribī Isḥāq?) to convey something to a certain scribe or secretary (kātib), perhaps asking him to write a letter for Ibn Sayf(?). Also mentions a court and a deposit (?wadāʿa; the word is normally wadīʿa) and bringing Bū Saʿd with him.

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תגים

• arabic script

תעתוק אחד

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic, Judaeo-Persian

Alchemical or medical recipe containing both organic and metal substances, followed by a short history of the Umayyad caliphate in Damascus written in Judaeo-Persian. Both texts are written in the same hand. On recto there are also 2 lines from the end of an Arabic legal document in large, calligraphic script.

תגים

• alchemy
• history

תעתוק אחד

Document date

Monday, 15 Iyyar 1538 Seleucid (3 May 1227 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: Monday, 15 Iyyar 1538 = 3 May 1227 CE. Involves al-Shaykh al-Muhadhdhab the physician known as b. al-ʿAṣṣār (ZL) and his house.

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תגים

• avraham maimonides

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Makhlūf b. Mūsā to Abū ʿAlī Yeḥezqel b. Netanʾel Dimyāṭī. Accusing him and Abū Naṣr b. […] (Information from CUDL.) See also Goitein's index card, and see Moss. II,138.1 (PGPID 26702).

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תגים

• ib6
• india book

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

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

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2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Letter, written by a trader before leaving Aden for Nahrawāra, mentioning Abū l-Waḥš, Abū Saʿd, Abū Naṣr, Abū Yaʿqūb and the family of Bayt al-Baḥr (house of the sea). On verso there is the address in Arabic script. (Information from CUDL.) See also Goitein notes linked below.

תגים

• ib7
• india book

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Letter from Barhun b. Musa al-Tāhartī, probably from Alexandria, to Nahray b.

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תגים

• flax
• trade

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד

Fragment of a letter from Alexandria, probably from Avraham b. Yosef al-Sabag, to Yosef b.

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תגים

• trade

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a Jerusalem pilgrim writing from Alexandria, admonishing his relatives, who were staying in his house in Fustat, to exercise utmost consideration towards “the lady of the house” (his wife). She had always been an excellent companion to them. Ca. 1160.

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תגים

• pilgrim

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Reused for a Judaeo-Arabic text on recto and verso, according to Baker and Polliack about Alexander the Great; mentions China (al-Ṣīn) several times.

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תגים

• arabic
• petition

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Abū Isḥāq b. Abū l-Fakhr al-Amshāṭī. This letter draft is in calligraphic Arabic script; there is also some Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew in the space around it.

תגים

• arabic script

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated in the second entry on the recto: 24 Nissan but the year is unclear. A year was also recorded in the upper right corner of the verso, but it is even more damaged. The first heading on the recto mentions the name Shalom Amoznino, probably a misspelling of the surname Almoznino. Requires further examination. MCD.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

The two sides are in different hands, but each contains elaborate titles of important people (e.g., ʿImād al-Mulk, Jalāl al-[...] wa-Amīnuhā... Shujāʿ al-[...]).

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Greetings to people such as Abū l-ʿAlāʾ, Abū l-Khayr, Abū l-Ḥajjāj Yūsuf, Abū Naṣr, al-Kāhān (=al-Kohen), and Abū l-Rabīʿ Sulaymān.

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תגים

• aodeh

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

Dating: 11th-century, from the time of Daniel b. ʿAzarya Gaon (who also bore the title Nasi and seems to be the person alluded to in line 8).

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תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Dating: early 5th/11th century. See also T-S Ar. 38127 (early 6th c AH), which mentions a house in Fustat in the khiṭṭa of Tujīb known as "the house of the Banī Ṭabāṭabā." (information from Khan, ALAD, p. 88-90)

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תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

A fragment of a dowry list. Location: al-Maḥalla. Bride: Milāḥ (מלאח). On verso a colophon: a collection of Biblical verses for 9th Av, by Zakkāy b. Moshe who was a dayyan in al-Maḥalla 1127–50 CE. For a list of books in his library see Allony, The Jewish Library, no. 27 (TS NS 298.9).

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תגים

• al-mahalla
• dowry list

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

A letter, torn on top and bottom from the widow of [Moshe] Kastro to her brother Yaakov Toledano in Alexandria. 16th century. She report various subjects including financial issues. She payed all her debts, but the debtor refuse to give her back her pawned items, necessary for her son's marriage.

תגים

• fgp stub

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Reporting on a dispute that happened in the Kanīsat al-Shāmiyyīn on Monday the 20th of Shevaṭ at the Minḥa prayer. Reporting on things said between a certain youth (al-ṣabiyy); al-Ḥemdat Ibrāhīm: rude speech (בכלאם לא יצלח למן יכון יתנמס); and the beadle Maḥfūẓ.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

The word "wuṣūl" (receipt) appears at the top of recto. Also mentions at the top of verso the Dīwān al-Matābikh, the bureau overseeing sugar manufacture.

תגים

• account
• coptic numerals

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Judaeo-Arabic poem for a groom in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. Verso: Poem by Bahāʾ al-Dīn Zuhayr (d. 1258) in lovely Arabic script.

תגים

• nasir

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

527 Hijrī (12 November 1132–31 October 1133 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

One is headed by the glyph and is a receipt for Bū l-Faraj b. Bū l-ʿAlāʾal-Yahūdī [...] al-Mutaṭabbib for a payment for Shaʿbān for the year 53[.]

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Isḥāq, likely for what he owes as the tax farmer of something (min jumlat mā ʿalayhi ʿan [ḍamānih?]...). On verso there is petition-like text, possibly a draft or possibly the bottom of an actual petition that was torn up for scrap paper. Also mentions a jahbaz Abī .....Needs further examination.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Petition in Arabic script to "the master of the viziers" (sayyid al-wuzarāʾ). The sender swears by Muḥammad and his family but is himself a Jew or Christian (min ahl kitāb Allāh) who has poor vision (ḍaʿīf al-baṣar).

תגים

• disability: vision
• petition

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Arabic

In which the faqīh Abū ʿAbdallāh b. Muḥammad b. Abū ʿAlī acknowledges that he owes a debt of [...] to Abū l-Ḥasan al-Yahūdī al-Ḥarīrī (the silk merchant).

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto (secondary use): Pen trials including five lines from the opening of a letter/petition to the physician (al-shaykh al-ajall al-ḥakīm Abū l-Makārim) reminding him of his promise to provide some sort of remedy (קצין?

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תגים

• illness letter 969-1517
• medicine
• petition
• physicians

אין רשומות קשורות

Possibly related to the nearby list T-S AS 204.287 (PGPID 32080), which also mentions the name Mordukh al-Kohen and Torah finials.

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Last ten days of Ramaḍān 510 Hijrī

Primary language

Arabic

The first in 511 H and the second in 512 H. Also includes the iḥḍār of a man called Sulaymān b. Badr al-Jamālī.

תעתוק אחד

(Information from Goitein's note cards) Alphabetical writing practice, consisting of the atbash, on recto, and, on verso, the alphabet in reverse order. Both alphabets are followed by חזק. (Information from CUDL)

תגים

• education

דיון אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Writing exercise in a chancery hand, two different hands alternating. Encomium to an official. Alternatively, the original document may be a genuine document rather than an exercise, and a learner later found it and used it as a template for practicing. […] Joins: Marina Rustow and Alan Elbaum.

תגים

• dimme
• lost archive

תעתוק אחד

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Certifying that Abū l-Faraj al-Jubaylī (Yeshuʿa b. Menashshe ha-Levi) delivered goods from Yemen belonging to a deceased merchant. (Information from CUDL; see also Goitein's attached notes.)

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תגים

• ib7
• india book

2 תעתוקים

Primary language

Hebrew

List of names from different families, probably a memorial list. E.g., bayt al-Rav (Shemuʾel, his son Yiṣḥaq, his son Yosef, and his son or brother Shela); bayt al-Iskāf; bayt al-Diqlāṣ; bayt Matrūḥ.

תגים

• memorial list

אין רשומות קשורות