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5473 תוצאות
  1. 5301מכתבT-S J2.66

    Memorandum by Nahray b. Nissim. Dating: ca. 1045 CE. The addressee in unknown; it might be Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī. Contains instructions about payment deduction …

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    1. תדכרה' וליה נהראי בן נסים נ'ע' 
    2. וצל כתאב אלאמיר יקול האת מן יגי יקבץ' אלצראר
    3. ואוגבת אלחאל אנחדארי ולם יתפק לי אלאגתמאע במול[אי]
    4. א‮…
    If he should ask for an additional half gold dinar in order to buy straw mats to be used to protect the bales from the rain, please pay this to him and addit on to our account as expenses for transport.

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  2. 5302מכתבT-S Misc.25.62

    Letter from Abū l-Khayr b. ʿAwāḍ, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender, an Ifrīqiyyan merchant, describes his problems with …

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    1. בשמך רחמנא
    2. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך אלגליל ואדאם עזה ותאיידה וסעאדתה 
    3. ונעמתה וממא אעלמה אן מן וקת אן מצ'ית מן ענדנא מא גרא עלי 
    4. קליל מ‮…

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    1. In the name of God, the Merciful
    2. I am writing – May God prolong the permanence of my master, the splendid elder, and perpetuate his glory, his support , his happiness
    3. and his benefaction –  to inform [you] that since the time you left us, I have had not
    4.  a little trouble on account of the jālah [i.e. jāliya]. In town, few of my acquaintances are going through 
    5. what I have gone through.

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  3. 5303מכתבENA 3616.19 + CUL Or.1081 J3

    IB II, 25 + 26. Letter from Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan to Avraham Ibn Yiju: two fragments. Aden, 1134. See also T-S AS 173.380 (PGPID 38566).

    IB II,25 (ENA 3616.19) recto

    1. שלום עד אין קץ וברכה עד אין
    2. מספר ליקר אדוני מר ור אברהם
    3. בר כגק מר ור יגו נעג אהבך מצמון
    4. בר חסן נעג וצל כתאב מולאי
    5. וקרא‮…
  4. ...You owe: the price of the nougat,
  5. [a product of] the highlands, three dinars less one-fourth; on account of {lit., ‘and for’}
  6. the nākhudā Abū Saʿīd, the price of wheat (sent) from Mangalore,
  7. three dinars; the price of durra (millet), 1 ⅙ dinars; the price of
  8. two Egyptian fūṭas, four dinars; the price of a sharābiyya,
  9. 2 ½ dinars; the cost of a maqṭaʿ, 2 ½ dinars;
  10. the cost of Lakhabī glass, three-quarters of a dinar; the price of
  11. a dast of Egyptian tumblers, six qirāts; the price of
  12. four bottles, firmly set in baskets {alt. tr.: in baskets, of muḥkam glass}, carried by Ibn Qaṭṭūs,
  13. one niṣāfī.
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  15. 5304מכתבMIAC 23973.26

    Letter from Ḥusayn ibn Ḥasan al-Kanzī to the Nubian eparch Uruwī in Ibrīm. Ḥusayn writes that he has received Uruwī's letter, delivered by Uruwī's slave …

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    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    2. اعلم حضرة مولاي صاحب الخيل اطاله الله بقاه وادام عزه وصول كتاب على يده غلامها
    3. ابس فى حال الموضع الذي كان تقدم فيه الحد‮…
  16. As for the southern land, people have been arriving from there complaining about the lieutenant (al-khalīfa), the Master of
  17. the Shipmasts, and a deputy (nāʾib) of the Qūsa. On account of this call for help in the land, the commander has come down and reprimanded the lieutenant (al-khalīfa)
  18. and forbidden him to do wrong to anybody.
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  20. 5305מסמך שלטוניSt. Catherine, Cairo branch, Stern doc. 10

    State document, in Arabic script. Decree of Shīrkūh, the vizier of al-ʿĀḍid, concerning the monks of Mt. Sinai. The caliph grants al-ʿĀḍid privileges to Macarius, …

    1. الحمد لله رب العالمين
    2. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
    3. منشور...مولانا سيدنا الامام العاضد لدين الله امير المؤمنين
    4. ...صلوات الله عليه وعلى ابائه الطاهرين وابن‮…
  21. and when there was submitted to our presence a petition headed by the name of Macarius, bishop of
  22. Mount Sinai, and his monks, in which they stated that they had withdrawn to worship God, and follow in this a fixed habit
  23. and custom; and that they have rules established from the time of al-Ḥākim,
  24. and possess decrees by which this exalted ʿAlid empire as honoured them; and asked that
  25. these decrees be renewed-our order was issued
  26. to include in this open decree our command to take care of them and our insistence to guard them, facilitate their business, treat them
  27. according to their custom, grant them the utmost respect they can wish for, help them
  28. to obtain what improves their condition and brings about the flourishing of their hopes and the gladdening
  29. of their hearts, to look after them wherever they are, behave towards them in such a way as to
  30. bestow upon them bounties both new and old-established, treat them according to their privileges
  31. so as to exempt them from dues newly imposed upon them by the governors of the fortresses of al-Ṭūr for themselves,
  32. during the exaction of which they [the monks] are vexed and on account of which they become poor; and that the traces of this be obliterated...;
  33. to prevent Bedouins from entering their monasteries
  34. and grabbing the food which they acquire and hoard in order to entertain those who visit them;
  35. to treat them in respect to exemptions from taxes, dues, rents,
  36. sharing tithes and fiefs in accordance with the contents of the prophetical decrees
  37. which are in their possession; to prevent lest these decees should be changed or their contents explained away as to any particular;
  38. to protect all their companions and those employed on their business
  39. or appointed to collect the rents of their endowments and
  40. defend and treat well their hired men while they gather their crops;
  41. to keep away harm from those who come to them and hold back forcible hands from damaging those who visit them from
  42. Egyptian provinces or whom they entrust to get them their food from near
  43. and far lands, to prevent Bedouins and settled people from vexing them, and turn towards them so as to abolish
  44. taxes newly introduced and hold back inimical hands.
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  46. 5306מכתבMoss. Ia,26.2

    IB II, 35. Letter of apology for a complaint that Madmun had mismanaged a trust. Aden, ca. 1135. Verso is IB III, 59, containing a …

    II, 35

    1. ...
    2. יראם [...]
    3. [י]שאו רבותינו פארי קהלתינו רוב [ברכה ושלום מעושה]
    4. במרומיו שלום ומעולים ויורדים ב[סולם ... בית] אל
    5. ומן התורה הקדושה אשר היא ת‮…
  47. ...—to his excellency, our lord his brother Maḍmūn, and that the late Sheikh Jacob ha-Kohen, had searched
  48. the account books that had belonged to our lord, the late Bundār, as stated by the sons of the late Jacob, \\our master//, and he found
  49. what he had mentioned, and that our lord Maḍmūn had written him a writ (in his own hand) concerning that, and that witnesses had testified to him,
  50. and that the writ and the testimony had been left with them by their late father.
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  52. 5307מסמך שלטוניSt. Catherine, Atiya no. 6, Stern doc. 6

    State document, Arabic script. Decree of al-Ḥāfiẓ concerning the monks of Mt. Sinai. Al-Ḥāfiẓ orders his military governor of al-Ṭūr, Mutawallī al-Dawla, to extend his …

    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم 
    2. الذي امد الله به امير المؤمنين من بالغ الحكمة واورثه اياه من
    3. //الحمد على الائه// مقام ابائه الهداة الائمة......على [...] جم‮…
  53. The all-pervading wisdom which God has bestowed upon the Commander of the Faithful, and the place of his right-guided ancestors, the Imams, which He has granted him in inheritance,
  54. entails the . . . of all
  55. Muslims and the entire number of the people of the protection, since he is the one to manage their affairs, and God
  56. has entrusted him with the government of all of them, small and great, and chosen him to rule and control them. On account of this,
  57. when the bishop of Mount Sinai known as Nufūri, the community of the monks,
  58. and the Christians living there, reported that they enjoyed safety in the shadow of the Hāfizī empire,
  59. and lived quietly in the shelter of its justice, and that they gloried in being contemporaries of that empire
  60. and felt honoured by the orders which it issued; and asked to be granted anew an open decree enjoining that they be
  61. protected and guarded and that justice be spread out upon them according to the habit
  62. to which they were accustomed, so that the clouds of bounty did not move away from them and the ropes of benefaction were not cut;
  63. the order of the Commander of the Faithful was issued to his servant the Most Excellent Lord,
  64. Commander of the Armies, Sword of Islam, Helper of the Imam, Succour of Mankind,
  65. Abū ʾl-Muẓaffar Bahrām al-Ḥāfiẓī may God increase his eminence and elevation,
  66. and benefit the Commander of the Faithful by the increase of his glory and the length of his life, and may He make perpetual his power, and exalt
  67. in His obedience his sway, who reached the highest degrees of eminence by being a follower of
  68. the Fāṭimid kingdom and by obeying it, and achieved his success by means of being a faithful partisan of it,
  69. and by guarding the welfare of its armies and subjects—
  70. to write this open decree to the effect that kindness to them the monks be doubled, benefactions
  71. continuously extended, their share in protection increased and that

  72. in defence multiplied, and that they be enveloped by all-embracing justice and perfect equity,

  73. since they are attached to Islam by a covenant which ought not to be broken

  74. and the link of which should not be interrupted.

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  76. 5308מכתבT-S 10J17.4

    IB II, 74. Letter from Yosef b. ʿIwāḍ to Ḥananel b. Shemuel. Alexandria, probably 1214-1215. Yosef's brother Futūḥ had died recently on a ship on …

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    אלממלוך יוסף בן עואץ 

     אלאסכנדרי 

    1. יקבל אלארץ בין ידי אלמגלס אלסאמי אלאגלי אלמולוי

    2. ר' חננאל החכם והנבון בר כבוד גדולת קדושת מר 

    3. ור' שמואל‮…

  77. The latter wrote a number of letters to the community on my account,
  78. hoping I would be provided with something to take back to support my family, which consists of nine
  79. souls. 
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  81. 5309מסמך משפטיT-S 13J8.15

    Legal document. Partnership document. Location: Fustat. Dating: 1100 (per Goitein). This document, signed by Yitzhak b. Shemuʾel ha-Sefaradi, describes itself as a partnership document enacted …

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    1. [אקנו מני מעכ]שו אכתבו ואכתמו עלי בגמיע [אלאלפאט אלמחכמה]
    2. ואלמעאני אלמוכדה ובכל לישאני דזכוא[תא ו]סלמו דלך אלינא ליכון ביד כל מנא עלי  
    3. צאחבה‮…
    Each of us takes (upon himself)
  82. towards his fellow the fulfillment (of this agreement) in his lifetime and upon his heirs after his death, concerning all that which he took
  83. upon himself in this account, from beginning to end, and all that which is ascribable to him therein with the most certain
  84. and perfect of guarantees of [fulfillment.]
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  86. 5310מסמך משפטיT-S 20.47

    Recto (secondary use): Inventory belonging to the synagogue of the Iraqis in Fustat. Dated: 8 Tammuz 1391 Seleucid = 28 June 1080 CE. The inventory …

    On the first day of the week, which is the eighth of the month of Tammuz, of the year 1391 [1080 CE] according to the system of counting which we are accustomed to using in Fustāt, Egypt, which is situated on the river Nile, we [ . . . ] assembled as a court in order to take account of what is in the [Jerusalemite] synagogue, under the control of the beadles, belonging to the Iraqi synagogue. [ . . . ]

    Of which there are: five Torah scrolls, of which . . . , and the Haftarot on parchment, and a black and yellow siqlatun [fine silk] cloth, from the household of Sanā al-Dawla, on which is written: “Belonging to the synagogue of the Iraqis.”

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  87. 5311מסמך משפטיT-S Ar.38.71

    Court record in Arabic script, maybe a draft. Concerning the inheritance of the late Sittāt bt. ʿAbdallāh. This document was drawn up in Qayrawān, based …

    1. بسم الله الرحمن الر[حيم                                     ]بباب عبد الله بجوار باب
    2. الفلالين دفع الى القاضي ...[       الـ]ـوقف ثمنه  .[          ‮…
  88. ...He, then, wrote a document of quittance for him: I  considered the case of such-and-such a number of dirhams paid by so-and-so, son of so-and-so, this being the price of a ruin, the sale of which had ensued  
  89. by my instruction, from the estate of Sittāt, daughter of ʿAbdallāh. My judgement took account of her death, the number of her heirs, the death of those of them who had died  
  90. and those who were owed their inheritance, and was based on what I considered to be the correct course of action.
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  92. 5312מסמך משפטיT-S 13J2.24

    Legal document connected with the tax-farmer of Atfīḥ. In the hand of Natan b. Shemuel. Location: Fustat. Dated: Adar 1450 Seleucid, which is approximately February …

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    1. מעשה שהיה לפנינו אנו בתי דינים הממונים מבית דין הגדול בבית דינו של שרנו ומנ[היג
    2. דורנו כבוד גדולת קדושת מרנו ורבנו אדוננו שלמה השר הנעלה הגדול‮…
  93. ...This aforementioned exemption is from the aforementioned deed 
  94. and from any other deed that should appear to this Abū l-Khayr Mevorakh
  95. among the gentile (courts) or a document in Hebrew script, and from any ḍamān of silk or other things, and from any accounting of which he is aware
  96. now or unaware now, whatever it might be or amount to.
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  98. 5313מכתבT-S Ar.53.67

    Continuation of a long business letter sent from Alexandria to Cairo. Dating: Ca. 1235 CE, based on the date of T-S Ar.54.66 which is by …

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    1. תוגהו אלא אלתגר אפתח כתבהם
    2. ואקראהא תגד אוזאן אלפצה [[ויע]]
    3. וינעם סידנא ופקה יטלע ללקאהרה
    4. לאולא כגק מו מנחם תתולא צרפהא
    5. בחית לא יצרו אנפסהם ות‮…
    Send a messenger to the Maghrebis as soon as the letters for them arrive. Charge my account for his payment and I shall charge theirs. If

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  99. 5314מכתבBodl. MS heb. a 3/19

    IB II, 32. Letter from Maḍmūn b. Yefet, Aden, to his brother-in-law Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen settling the estate of Jewish traders who …

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    1. [...] יגי מעה [..................]
    2. ומא דכר{ה} מולאי מן סבב זכרי בן אבו אלפרג אלטראבלסי
    3. וקד וצל (!) עלא גמלה אלסלאמה ובאע ואשתרא ותכלץ
    4. וכרג פי‮…
  100. ...Kindly take delivery of one-half of this, too,
  101. and sell it for your servant for whatever price God, the Exalted, apportions.
  102. Please keep the account for this apart, since it is exclusively for me, your servant.
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  104. 5315מכתבT-S 8J41.11

    Letter from Ascalon to the Nagid in Egypt concerning a dispute in the community over synagogue expenditures, 1st half of the 12th century.

    1. [ ]נא לא מא יעמר בהא אלא [י]שתרא מנהא חצר [לל]כניסה
    2. יקעדו אלגמאעה עליהם (!) פכאן גואב אלגמאעה לה מן אראד
    3. יקעד עלי חצור יוגמע תמן אלחצר מן אלגמאעה כ‮…
    The answer of the congregation to him was, “He who wants to sit on a mat collects the price of the mats from the congregation, according to the custom of all synagogues. And regarding those [monies] in the account of the kodesh [charitable trust]—they will pay for the repair of the synagogue, as the majority of the congregation has agreed—that is, fifty Jews, who share one opinion about repairing the synagogue.”

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  105. 5316מכתבT-S 12.392

    IB VI, 1. Letter from a novice India trader in a Red Sea Port to his brother, Libya. Dating: 1103. Complains in rhyme about the …

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    1.  אנה] ולי דלך ואלקאדר עליה אן שא אללה
    2.  א]כי בל סיידי יום אלב לכד יומא כלון
    3.  [מן שהר] חשון סנה תתסד ערפנא אללה בר[כאת]       
    4. [לנא ולכל] ישראל‮…
  106. ...So I’m asking God and you
  107. to pray for me, and to forgive me,
  108. you and your maternal uncle Yaʿqūb, for
  109. … on account of 
  110. ...
  111. ...
  112. ...
  113. Verso

    1. to bring me letters in Tripoli addressed to me except for you.

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  114. 5317מכתבUPenn E 16516

    Letter from ʿAmram ha-Kohen b. Aharon, in Damascus, probably to his father-in-law Ṣadoq b. Yoshiyahu, in Tyre. Dating: ca. 1093 CE.

    1. קד עלם בוחן ליבות וכליות אן לם יכ אמר סרי אן אקים בדמשק אלא אלמדה אליסירה באזא מא יחצל לי
    2. מן אלקהל נטרינון רחמ מא יסהלה תע ואעוד פכאן אלקהל משגולין‮…
    Things had come to such an impasse that I had to pawn the few remaining Bible codices with Fahd, the representative of the merchants, and with Fahd, the son of Fuhayd. And there are unaccounted debts not covered by collaterals. With what can I come back to the children and to an empty house, bare of everything.

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  115. 5318מכתבT-S 13J13.16

    Petition to David b. Daniel from a destitute woman with no family and afflicted with a serious illness (leprosy, it seems). Dating: ca. 1090 CE. …

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    1. יענך יי ביום צרה ישגבך שם אלהי יעקב 
    2. ישלח עזרך מקודש ומציון יסעדך 
    3. יחוס על דל ואביון ונפשות אביונים יושיע 
    4. לכבוד גדולת קדושת הדרת נזר ועטרת ו‮…
  116. Your slave woman, poor, wretched, woeful, worried, and afflicted
  117. on account of my sins—I cast my entrea[t]y  [...] before you, so that you heed the words of
  118. your slave, for many are my sighs and my he[ar]t is sick.
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  120. 5319מסמך משפטיT-S 16.35

    Court record of a legal agreement between a husband, Abū l-Ḥasan Shelomo b. Menashshe, and his wife, Sitt al-Nasab bt. Abū l-Munā, in which he …

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    1. שהדותא דהות באנפנא אנן חתומי מטה כן הוה למא סהל אלכאלק תעאלי דכרה
    2. ותקדסת אסמאה ואסבאב אלוצלה בין אלשיך אבו אלחסן כגק מרור שלמה
    3. הכהן היקר התלמ‮…
  121. And he accepted all of that upon himself, and consented to it, and obligated himself to it and to the fine mentioned for the poor

  122. on account of it. And we made him testify to it upon himself, and to his acceptance of all of it of his own volition and choice,

  123. without compulsion or coercion or force or negligence or by mistake, or due to illness from a disease, nor other

  124. such things that invalidate testimony.

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  126. 5320מכתבENA 2558.30a

    The slave (= I) asks from your beneficence to send the account...." When the letter resumes in the margin, it refers to a quantity of several thousand buhārs (likely the total number of bales carried in the Kārim convoy at the time of the writing of the letter); something which is not readily found in India; and mace (basbās).

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  127. 5321מכתבT-S 12.721

    Letter from ʿAwāḍ b. Ḥananʾel, from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Dating: ca. 1060 (Gil). Discusses prices of wheat and fava beans and a …

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    1. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי
    2. ואדאם עזה ותאיידה וסעאדתה
    3. וסלאמתה ונעמתה וכבת עדווה
    4. מן אלאסכנדריה ען סלאמה
    5. ועאפיה ושוקי אליה שדיד גמע
    6. אללה ביננא על‮…
  128. ...I had
  129. bought some for you along with the entire amount that
  130. I bought (for myself), but I will not inflict a loss on you
  131. at all, nor will I charge anything against your account, but rather,
  132. whatever happens, if it cannot be sold,
  133. then please send it with whomever you see fit.
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  135. 5322מסמך משפטיT-S 12.784

    Partnership deed regarding a money exchange store. Around 1085. Yahya b. Eli b. Yosef Kohen Fasi and Sason b. Natan agree to have a partnership. …

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    1. נסחי למהוי לזכו ולראיה ודלך [ ]

    2. גאלטין ולא סאהיין ולא עלה בנא ולא מרץ ולא גיר דלך מן אלאעראץ אלמ[פסדאת אלא בלב]

    3. שלם ובנפש חפצה נחן מקרין‮…

    Sāsōn, my partner, will sit with me in the store under my supervision, will weigh and (do) any other part of our work, will go to court with those who owe us something, will deal with those with whom I shall allow him to deal, will make the accounts with the customers for me, but will not write promissory notes for anyone, be he a customer or not, nor object to my dealings with one customer in preference to another.

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  136. 5323מכתבT-S 18J2.3

    Letter in the handwriting of the Ascalon scholar and scribe Natan b. Mevorakh, from Avraham (Ibrahim) b. Ḥalfon b. Nahum to Eli ha-Kohen b. Yahya …

    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. וצל כתאב כגק מרנא ורבנא עלי הכהן הפרנס נאמן בית דין אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם ת[איידה ונ]עמאה וחרס
    3. חובאה וכבת באלדל חסדתה ועדאה עלי שוקא מני אלי‮…
    However, since I do not control the hearts of the people, you—may God crush your enemies—will certainly forgive me on that account.

    In spite of all this, I am still endeavoring to have his standing restored. A report on what is decided will arrive in the letter of the community to His Excellency the nasi—may he be preserved forever.

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  137. 5324מסמך שלטוניT-S 28.8

    Two petitions to a Fatimid judge. The first concerns the incarceration of the family breadwinner, a certain Ḥabīb. An endorsement fixed to the end of …

    Verso

    1.        العبيد المماليك 

    2.        عاىلة حبيب الجارى 

    3. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم 

    4. مماليك الحضرة السامية الاجلية الشيخية اطال الله بقاها وادام ‮…

  138. The slaves of the lofty and glorious presence of the elder, may God make his lifelong, and cause to endure his support, his loftiness, his eminence, his sublimity, his power, his superiority, his influence

  139. and his strength and crush his enemies, kiss the ground before his gracious seatand report to his all-embracing mercy and benevolence the detention of his slave, their son, known

  140. as Ḥabīb, who is a servant in the office of the chamber, this being on account ofthe disappearance of the servant Nādir. The slaves swear by God, the exalted, that their aforementioned son does not know the whereabouts of the servant Nādir.

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  142. 5325מסמך משפטיT-S H10.173

    Legal document: deed of sale in Arabic for the purchase of part of a house. Abū l-Faraj Ṣemaḥ b. Ṣedaqa b. Ṣemaḥ the money-changer buys …

    Recto, right side

    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله وسلام على عباده الذين اصطفی

    2. هذا ما اشترى صيمح ويكنى أبا الفرج بن صدقة بن صيمح الاسرائيلي الـ[‮…

  143. ...Should any claim be made  against Ṣemaḥ ibn Ṣadaqa ibn Ṣemaḥ, the Jewish money-changer,
  144. this buyer, regarding what was entailed by this sale, mentioned in this document, or any part  of it or of its rights,  
  145. by any person, it is the duty of his uncle Dā'ūd ibn Ṣemaḥ, the Jewish indigo-dealer, this  
  146. seller, to hand over whatever right is incumbent on him or he is bound by, on  account of this aforementioned sale. (He is responsible) until he hands
  147. Verso, top right

    1. that over to his nephew, this buyer, according to the obligation that this sale,  which is mentioned in this document, places upon him.  

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  148. 5326מסמך משפטיBodl. MS heb. d 66/64–65

    IB I, 6–7. Court proceedings dealing with the dispute between Yosef ha-Lebdi the India trader, and Yequtiʾel b. Moshe, 'the representative of merchants' in Fustat. …

    Bodl MS heb. d 66/64 64 Recto

    1. בתרין בשבה דהוא תמניה יומי בירח אייר שנת את''ט לשטרו[ת]

    2. חצר אלי בית דין מ' יקותיאל הנזכר כלף הדה אלורקה וטאלב מ' י‮…

    Jekuthiel said (to the judge): “Ask him whether he carried the storax separately,
  149. whether he bought it on his own account, or carried something in it.” Lebdi said: “I carried in it corals

  150. belonging to me from Dahlak to India \\approximately one qirāṭ,// which did not require additional expenses all the way [alt. tr.: for which I was not required to pay a toll] to India.

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  152. 5327מכתבT-S 18J5.5

    IB II, 46. Letter from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq to a merchant in Egypt: Attack on Aden by the King of Kish. Aden, ca. 1135-6.

    IB II, 46 recto

    1. [          ]רש[                                   ]ותאבי 
    2. [...] ען אדא אלשהאדה פאלבארי תעאלי הם בהם
    3. וקד קאל אלכתאב לא אמונה בגוים ו‮…
    1. {[. . .] and refused

    2. to give testimony. May the Exalted Creator call them to account!

    3. Scripture has already said, “Never trust Gentiles.”}  As to the news from here

    4. and all that befell us since you left—to explain all this would take too much space,

    5. and even if I filled ten leaves to describe only a part of what befell

    6. us, it would not suffice.

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  153. 5328טקסט ספרותיT-S H18.4

    This poetic rendition of the Amidah survived in the Cairo Geniza on folios that were written by three different scribes of varying caliber; perhaps one …

    You, our Eternal God, are the essence of praise, Humbler of the Impious. Take account of the devoted intensity of the upright and bring joy to the hearts of those who sincerely attach themselves to you.

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  154. 5329מסמך משפטיT-S Misc.28.263

    Legal document. Partnership agreement (copy). Written in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Tishrei 1424 Seleucid = September/October 1112 CE. Same case as T-S …

    Recto

    1. יכן הו]ה חצרא אלינא אלשיך אבו אלברכאת כגק מר ור ברכות הזקן הנכבד ישצו בר כגק מר ור יעקב
    2. נע ואבו ][אל]ופא בן אכתה כגק מר ור תמ[ים הז]קן הנכבד ‮…
    (his) h(onor,) g(reatness, and) h(oliness our) tea(cher) and m(aster) Ḥalfōn (may his) e(nd be) g(ood) came before us and said to us,
  155. [...] a number of years, and in th[e] year 1424 (of the Era) of Documents, each of us asked of his fellow a confirmation
  156. [...] between us, and we made all the assets into a single obligation and settled our mutual accounts concerning it. We confirmed the amount which
  157. [...] the new ... thousand seven hundred and fifty dinars, and we renewed the partnership (shirka)
  158. [...] transacting with it according to his will and preference.
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  160. 5330רשימה או טבלהJRL C 148

    Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic detailing income for the "Treasury of Silk Looms" in Alexandria, a branch of the state monopoly administration.

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  161. 5331מכתבT-S 10J5.10 + T-S 10J11.13

    Letter from Abun b. Sedaqa in Jerusalem to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat. Dating: November 1064 CE. The main subject is the tension between the …

    T-S 10J5.10

    1. וצל כתאב מולאי אלשיך אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם סלאמתה וסעאדתה סאעה כתאבי הדא
    2. אליה והו יום אלאתנין יומין בקין מן תשרי אעאד אללה עליה הדה אלאע‮…
    Sell it for me.

    And I had a remainder in my account with the elder Abū ’l-Sarī. Please collect it for me.

    And I received a letter from him concerning this—that is, a letter from the aforementioned Ṣāliḥ.

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  162. 5332מסמך משפטיT-S NS J259

    Legal document. Court record. Dating: 8 Iyyar 1406 (16 April 1095) (Lieberman reads 1410, but it's fairly clear it's 1406; or could potentially be 1407). …

    Recto, column 1

    1. בתרין בשבה דהוא תמניה יומין בירח אייר דשנת
    2. אתי למנינא דרגיליננא בפסטאט מצרים דעל
    3. נהר [נילוס מותבה] חצר למושב בית דין מ יחיי הלוי
    4. בן‮…
    Japheth, and he said, “You only
  163. accounted for the …[…] and that of which you
  164. chose to take […]
  165. the Almoravid dinars …. at the time [I] paid the 300 dinars,
  166. I gave them to him, and they were new […]
  167. [exchan]ge rate for a third (of an Almoravid dinar) quarters [.]
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  169. 5333מכתבENA NS 18.33

    מכתב מאת יהודה הלוי אל חלפון אלכסנדריה, אחרי אמצע ספטמבר 1140 ד68א. ENA NS 18.33 חומר הכתיבה: נייר; מידותיו: 20 x 34.6 ס"מ. פרסום חלקי …

    Recto

    1. [יא מולאי] ו[סי]דִי ועמאדי וסנדי אדאם אללה עזך ואטאל עמרך
    2. [ו]קדרך [יע]לי אִלמ[...] ב[.] וִדי תקדם לי אלי חצרה מולאי סחאה ען
    3. גאיה אנחפאז אדכר ‮…
    I have concerned myself . . . the soul I have occupied my mind with . . . the soul . . . open, on account of the quickness of the coming to light of as. . . .

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  170. 5334מכתבT-S 8.255

    Letter from Farah b. Isma’il from Busir, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Dating: around 1053 (Gil). The writer returned from Dandir where he bought flax. …

    Recto

    1. [כתאבי יאסידי ומ]ולאי א[טאל אל]לה בקאך [ואד]אם תאירך וס[לאמתך וסעאדת]ך ונעמנתך מן אבוציר טאעה 

    2. [וצולי מ]ן דנדיל ליא [ב]קין מן כסליו ואלחאל‮…

  171. ...I will proceed step by step, and finally settle the accounts, if [ ... ] the week remains such that [ ... ]
  172. I have informed my lord of this.
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  174. 5335מכתבT-S 12.291

    Letter from Avraham b. Yosef al-Sabbāgh, Alexandria, to Yosef b. 'Awkal, Fustat. Dating: ca. 1020. Written by a copyist, Daniel ibn al-Shama. Includes details on …

    Recto

    1. שיכי ורייסי ואלעזיז עלי ואלאתיר לדי אטאל אללה
    2. בקאך ולא אכלא מכאנך וזאד מן פצ'לה ואחסאנה לך
    3. נעלם שיכי אן וצלת סאלם ואתקדם(!) מני אליך כתאב ולם
    4. ‮…
    Please take care of this matter and take from him the price of five skins (filled with oil). The account is with Salama.

    Al-Sabbagh of Tripoli has bribed Bu Ί-'Ala the agent, and I shall unload my goods soon.

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  175. 5336מכתבT-S 16.196 + T-S 12.9

    Rescript of the judges of the court appointed by the Nagid Mevorakh to the community of al-Mahalla, advising the community in strongest terms to take …

  176. . . . a conflict which would take a long time to explain
  177.  . . . the undermining of his position by some
  178. T-S 16.196, recto, main text

    1. … on account of poor government (on his part and lack of prudence in

    2. … because of what we said to him about that, and because we also knew that he

    3. … [anxious to uphold the words of] our God and strives to perform the commandments, therefore we were favorably disposed

    4. … upon him [to] conduct the affairs of the community properly and to administer them

    5. (5-6) as is required.

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  179. 5337מכתבT-S 24.49

    Letter from Evyatar ha-Kohen to ʿEli ha-Parnas. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. Dating: 1070 CE (per CUDL). Containing an agreement about sending …

    1. בשמך רחמנא
    2. וצל כתאב מצלאי אלפרנאס אלסיד כב גד קד מר ור עלי הכהן הפרנס
    3. נאמן בית דין הגדול אהוב הישיבה נטר מן שמ ביר חייא הכהן
    4. המומחה תנצבה ווקפת עלי‮…
    I am giving you an answer about those [matters]—I swear [to the truth of the account]. If you return to writing letters about any subject and refer [to yourself] in them with self-deprecating language [lit., “the language of a slave”], I will not respond to them.

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  180. 5338מסמך משפטיT-S Ar.53.70

    Deed of sale. Dated: Last decade of Rabīʿ I 512 AH, which is June 1118 CE. Sale of a one-fourth of a new portion of …

    Recto

    1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

    2. هذا ما اشترى على بن [محمد بن احمد المعروف بابن الصيني المتصرف بباب] الجفار بمصر من حسين بن شباب الاسرائيلي اشترى من‮…

    In what they sold they no longer had any right, nor any demand on account of ownership,
  181. purchase, removal, transfer, inheritance, sharing, apportioning, interpretation,  

  182.  conveyance, disposition, dwelling, gift or donation for life, rent, lease, obligation, complication,  

  183. charitable gift, endowment, pre-emption or usufruct.

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  185. 5339מכתבT-S AS 148.9 + T-S AS 148.197

    ח21 מכתב מאת ̇כַלַף אל חלפון, בַּרוּ̇ג, הודו עדן, שנת 1134 לערך ב49. TS AS 148.9 חומר הכתיבה: נייר; מידותיו: 12.5 x 25.4 ס"מ. פורסם …

    recto

    [...ות]מן פוטה ושראב[יתין ...]

    1. מסך אלקדח פיה י' מתאקיל מ[סך ...]
    2. מנה דינארין קימה מחבסין [...]
    3. ולחצרתך מחבסין אבאע דלך פי אלתמן [...]
    4. אלי דיא‮…
  186. ...The ten bahārs that were wit[h … ]
  187. dīnār for a bahār. I wrote you a copy of the account describing [ … ]
  188. pepper and textiles sold to your excellency. All that [I] sent [ … silver]
  189. and gold and corals and dīnārs.
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  191. 5340מכתבT-S 8J27.2

    This is not an exhaustive accounting of what's in the letter; also mentioned are the ship of al-Muʿizz, which was carrying the son of Abū Yūsuf, who perished, may God have mercy on him.

    recto

    1. אעלמך יאמולאי אן תקדם כתאבי אליך מע אלפיג תם כתבת כתאב אכר מן קבל אלמועד ולם ימצי אלפיג

    2. ובקי מעי למא כאן אכתב רקעתי הדה דפעתה ללפיג וכאן ע‮…

    recto

    1. אודיעך, אדוני, ששלחתי לך לפני כן מכתב עם נושא המכתבים, ואחר כך כתבתי עוד מכתב לפני המועד, אבל לא יצא נושא המכתבים
    2. והוא נשאר אצלי, ובעת כותבי ‮…

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  192. 5341מסמך משפטיCUL Or.1080 J117

    Bill of sale dated December 481/1088 (original document), in which Khulayf b. ʿUbayd b. ʿAlī sells a house to Hārūn b. Khulayf b. Hārūn, the …

    Recto

    1. .....[       ]...[                                                               ]
    2. ولهذه الدار المنعوتة الموصوفة حدود اربعة يجمعهـ[ـا وتشتـ]ـ‮…
  193. ...There did not remain for the buyer any right of return on account of a  fault in this aforementioned house in any way whatsoever. This was witnessed.
  194. Witness clauses

    1. ʿAlī ibn ʿAbdaIlāh ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd al-Qādir - valid - testified 
    2. to the acknowledgement by the seller and the buyer of what is herein on its date.  

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  195. 5342מכתבENA 2739.17

    IB VII, 60. Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from a husband to his wife. Note that Goitein calls this manuscript ENA 2739.16 in Letters of Medieval Jewish …

    This is the story: After I was resurrected from the dead and had lost all that I carried with me I took a loan of [...] dinars and traveled to countries beyond al-Maʿbar. I checked my accounts and found [      ] with “the decimals”. I took them and paid to one of our coreligionists who traveled back from al-Maʿbar to Aden… …and for it he bought for you… [Three lines and the beginning of the words written in the margin damaged.]

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  196. 5343מכתבT-S 12.388

    Letter from Marduk b. Musa, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat, ca. 1045–96. Contains personal, business and communal news.

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    1. סידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם נעמאה וכאן לה ומעה ולי וחאפץ' מן אל
    2. מסתקר יום אלב' לה' כלון מן שהר תמוז כתמה אללה עליך באחסן כאתמה וערפך
    3. ברכ‮…
  197. My lord, by God, by God, please draw up the account
  198. Recto, right margin

    1. and send him the balance without delay.

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  199. 5344מכתבT-S 24.64

    IB III, 10. Letter from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq in Aden to Avraham Ibn Yiju in Dahbattan on the Malabar coast. Goitein dated the letter to …

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    1. בשמ רחמ
    2. וצל כתאב חצרה אלשיך אלאגל [אטאל אללה בקאה]
    3. ואדאם עזה ועלאה ורפעתה וסנאה וע[לוה וארתקאה]
    4. ולא עטל מן גמיע אל̇כיראת סאחתה ופנאה [וחרס]
    5. ע‮…
    I, your servant, sent to [you] on my
  200. account five manns of good silk, for I saw that my master, the most illustrious Sheikh 

  201. Maḍmūn, had sent some to Ibn ʿAdlān and to others and it was reported in his (Ibn ʿAdlān’s) name

  202. that it is selling well in Malabar.

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  204. 5345מכתבT-S 13J14.1

    ח81 מכתב מאת אבו נַצְר אל חלפון בזמן שיהודה הלוי יושב באנייה אלכסנדריה, ג' בסיוון, שהוא 11 במאי 1141 ד76.TS 13 J 14.1 חומר הכתיבה: …

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    1.                                                 עונך יארב
    2. והו אן וגד אלסביל אלי כתב כתאב לסידנא אלנגיד פאנא
    3. אנפדה אליהא אן שא //אל‮…

    Another matter: no one has ever had to undergo what happened to our Master Judah on account of that dog, Ibn al-Baṣrī the apostate. This is how it happened. The apostate made a complaint to the head of the secret service saying, “There is a Jewish man here with whom my brother sent thirty dinars for me.

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  205. 5346מכתבT-S AS 149.184 + T-S AS 146.12 + T-S NS J181 + T-S 10J12.5

    IB III, 4 + 5 + 6 + 6a. Letter from Yosef b. Avraham to Avraham b. Yiju, reconstructed from four fragments (the last, discovered …

    T-S AS 149.184, recto (III,6a)

    1. וצלאח חאל[...]
    2. תפצל בה [...]
    3. היל קימה [...]
    4. אללה גזאה [...]
    5. אלמחדת אלדי לחצרתה פקד קבצה אלש[יך ...]
    6. דפע לכל רגל רחלה‮…
    The rest of the copper should be sold and added
  206. to the account (in my favor). I sent to your illustrious excellency what has no importance and which is not

  207. worth mentioning, namely a large brazilwood box containing white sugar, an Alexandrian maqṭaʿ, a half a pound

  208. Iṣbahānī kohl, half a pound of ʿilk gum, four dasts of Egyptian paper of small

  209. size.

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  211. 5347מכתבT-S 13J19.20

    Letter from Yeshua b. Isma’il al-Makhmuri from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. August 12, 1062. Information that the writer heard from Jewish merchants that …

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    1. כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם עזה ותאידה ונעמתה מן אסכנדריה

    2. לד כלון מן אלול ערפה אללה ברכתה וסעאדה מא יליה ברחמתה ואלחאל סלאמה פי

    3. ‮…

    You wrote about the affair with Barhun. I showed him your letter and requested the account from him. He said: "Yes, I shall give it to you." I shall force him to do so, although he made the impression as if he did not know about that transaction.

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  212. 5348מסמך משפטיT-S 20.3

    Deed of gift in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: last third of Adar 1428 Sel. = February/March 1117 CE. The upper part is …

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    1. [ ]ען דכר אסתיפא חדודהא פי הדא
    2. [אלמעשה ] במתנה גמורה גלויה ומפורסמת מתנת בארי
    3. [לא כמתנת ש]כיב מרע מתנת [עלמין באוכד שרוט אלמתנות ] מן יומא דנ‮…
    (Nobody should) harass her in anything, little or much, important or trivial, even of the worth of a penny or more. God, the Almighty, shall account for anybody who shall harass her and act toward her contrarily to what I have decided by this
  213. (22-23) deed.

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  215. 5349מכתבBL OR 5542.9

    Letter from Ismaʿīl b. Faraḥ (Alexandria) to Nahray b. Nissim (Fustat), 9 September 1056. Confirms the arrival of goods and letters and sends information about …

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    1. סידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם תאידך וסלאמתך וסעאדתך ואצרף אלאסוא ואחאלה דונך

    2. ברחמתה ואלחאל סלאמה לו בקין מן אילול כתמה אללה עליך באחסן ‮…

    Khalfa, "Son of the Slipper," and I received it from him together with letters and an account. I shall copy one letter and forward it together with this, my letter. Likewise, if any goods should arrive for the Kohen, I shall not be remiss in taking receipt of them.

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  216. 5350מכתבT-S 10J20.12

    Letter from Ismāʿīl b. Faraḥ, in Alexandria, to his son Faraḥ b. Ismāʿīl, in Būṣīr. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Gil suggests 23 September 1056 CE. This …

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    1. ולדי אלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם תאידך וסלאמתך וסעאדתך מן אלמסתקר אלאסכנדריה

    2. ליב כלאת מן תשרי געלך אללה מן אלפאייזין ומן אלמקבולין ותק‮…

  217. ...The one whom God sent — his share
  218. with him for us is 250 dinars, which remains in our account with him. The load of Malāla flax was sold and went well; all the copper is gone. The house — it is not pleasant for whoever
  219. lives in it.
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