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Fragment of a letter from an unknown person from Alexandria, to Barhun b. Musa ha-Tāhartī, Fustat. Around 1060.

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תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Document date

10 Jumādā I 1202 Hijrī (17 February 1788 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Rental contract for a property (ṭabaqa) for a period of three years. Lessor (al-mālik) ʿAlī Nāfiʿ. Lessee: Mūsā/Moshe/Moses Schlesinger (موسى شليزنجر) from Austria(?)

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

"sharḥ mā taḥaṣṣala min thamn al-[...]." This seems to be the third reuse of the fragment: first it was a decree, then it was a letter, then it was torn and used for accounts (note that the accounts constitute the only document that is not continuous across the tear). Several names appear, including Bishr al-ʿAṭṭār.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The name Menashshe b. Yiṣḥaq also appears in the last line. (Information in part from Goitein's index card.)

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תגים

• cheese

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Draft of sale contract for 12 out of 20 shares (the whole house constituted 24 shares) in the Qadi Badr alley of the al-Mamsusa quarter, at a price of 1000 wariq (silver) dirhams (exchange rate of 1:40).

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• 13th c
• bill of sale
• draft
• real estate

תעתוק אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to a Gaon, according to Goitein, perhaps from the time of Nethanel Gaon (1160), congratulating him on his son's recovery from illness, and complaining about the cessation of correspondence. It is also a letter of recommendation for the bearer. (Information from Mediterranean Society, V, pp. 294, 295, and from Goitein's index cards)

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• communal
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: public figure
• illness: recovered
• (+ 2 עוד)

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Awkal’s merchandise that arrived in Qayrawan and the writer's dealings with selling them and sending their payment to Fustat. Also lists the prices. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #222) VMR

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• ibn awkal
• trade

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Yosef for everything he owed in the marriage contract of his deceased daughter Sitt al-Ḥusn and all other obligations due him. (Information from Goitein's index cards)

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Sivan 5001 Anno Mundi (1 June 1241–10 June 1241 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Nissim of Syracuse, Sicily. Location: Alexandria. Dated: last decade of Sivan 5001 AM = June 1241 CE.

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• cheese
• kashrut

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

Dating: Ca. 10th century, based on the signature of Ḥabīb b. ʿAday, who also signs T-S 16.189. Other witnesses here: Iyov b.

דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Decree (copy in Hebrew script) from the Fatimid caliph al-Ẓāhir to a governor of Palestine (probably Anushtekin al-Dizbirī) informing him of another decree that had come in response to a petition in the name of the Rabbanite Jews regarding a conflict with the Qaraites.

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• communal
• copy
• decree
• qaraite
• state

2 תעתוקים 3 תרגומים 3 דיונים

Original letter was sent from Marseilles to Qabes; this copy went to Alexandria. The letter mentions that Elazar of Worms believed in this prophet.

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• 13th c
• communal
• elazar of worms
• france
• marseilles
• (+ 3 עוד)

דיון אחד

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Parts of a שטר צוואה (‘will’) and שותפות (‘partnership’) are also preserved. (Information from CUDL)

תעתוק אחד

Document date

18 Muḥarram 475 Hijrī (18 June 1082 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Cites "the method of the Sind Hind" probably referring to the 9th century work Zīj al-Sindhind by al-Khwārizmī. (Information from Goldstein and Pingree, "Horoscopes from the Cairo Geniza," JNES 1977.)

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• horoscope

דיון אחד

Primary language

Arabic

From the period of the Fatimid caliph al-Ḥākim (996–1021) or possibly earlier. Recto, from later reuse: tax receipt in the hand of Mikhaʾil b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ (see separate entry).

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• arabic script
• dimme
• lost archive
• petition

4 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions a debt of 3 dinars by way of collateral for a "turkiyya" (an enslaved woman?). Also mentions the remnant of what is owed due to "an accounting error" (ghalaṭ fī ḥisāb).

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Recto mentions two people and also "nails and iron." Verso mentions a collection of sums of money; maybe payments toward a debt obligation from the document on recto ("bi-bāṭin hādha l-kitāb").

תגים

• to edit

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Then mentions the victory (naṣr) or maybe aid (nuṣra) of al-Malik al-Manṣūr (a vizier?). Most of the continuation is lost.

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• dimme

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

The sender received a letter from ʿAlī b. Aḥmad Ibn al-Aysar delivered by the ghulām of one of the Baghdādī merchants.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

The addressee is greeted with many respectful titles, such as "jamāl al-umma al-isrāʾīliyya." On verso additional notes in both Arabic and Hebrew script.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions a box containing coral and a leather bottle. Also mentions a man with a pockmarked face. Information from Goitein notes linked below.

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• ib5
• india book

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Contains the phrases "[May God] guide the perplexity"; greetings to various people; "I met with ... may God prolong his life ... al-Shaykh Abi ... and all who met with him..." ASE.

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The house "is in Fusṭāṭ in the alley of [..] in Qaṣr al-Rūm, and this 3/4 [of the house?]...."

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Bayān is to pay Maḥfūẓ al-Khādim various sums of dirhams for various things: 6 for one thing, and 4 for his work on skins and carrying things, altogether 10 dirhams.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Majd ibn Bishr, Abū Saʿīd ibn al-Shomer, Yūsuf ibn al-Qadūrī). The Arabic marginalia mention other proper names.

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

(Information from Goitein's note cards) Alphabetical practice of consonants vocalised with all the various Tiberian vowels.

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• education

דיון אחד

The name Moshe appears also in the first line, maybe the father of the bride or groom.

דיון אחד

The writer deals with cloths and scarves for Nahray. Also mentions money delivery and asks Nahray to check it, weigh it, and write its account.

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2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד

Document date

Adar 143[.] Seleucid (14 February 1119–3 March 1128 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The buyer is Abū l-Khayr Ṣedaqa. Also mentions Abū l-Ḥasan the brother of the deceased.

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תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The top list is headed "al-ḥāḍir" (the present): a bucket; brass; something gilded; something blue; a bukhnuq of lānas. The bottom list is headed "al-rahn" (the collateral): cushions, a pair of something dabīqī; a pair of something else; something brass; and a ṭabarī bardaʿa.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Probably a petition addressed to al-Mansur ʿImād al-Dīn and various sums; several Hebrew and Aramaic words are written between the Arabic text, including jottings - needs examination.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On verso there is a note in Arabic, probably a filing note describing the contents of the document: Kitāb Farḥān(?) al-[...] . . . min al-muʾakhkhar (likely referring to the delayed marriage payment of the woman mentioned on recto).

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions the "citadel" (qalʿa) several times and the Ottoman-era title שויש (çavuş). Also mentions Yiṣḥaq Arokh and Yosef Arokh (cf. T-S NS 32.53 (PGPID 25364)).

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• late ja

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Petition addressed to Masliah Gaʾon, requesting that he allow Abū l-Riḍā b. Yehuda he-Ḥaver to lead services in the synagogue of the Palestinians (אלשאמיין), because of his noble descent, his blindness, and his poverty. (Information from Goitein's index card.) EMS/VMR Join: Alan Elbaum

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• 12th c
• blind

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Letter from Hillel b. Ḥasan, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Dating: ca. 1070.

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תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Eliyyahu to a certain Abū l-Barakāt, reporting that he spent Shabbat in Qalyūb and traveled onward to Alexandria, and asking him to meet with R. Ḥananʾel and convey greetings to Sayyidnā and Rabbenu David.

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Eliyyahu requesting a payment (from the revenue of the dwelling of Imran b. al-Muzanjir) of 1/2 dirhem per week for the teaching of the boy of the sick man Abu l-Khayr al-Ruhbi.

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• shelomo b. eliyyahu

דיון אחד

Document date

535 Hijrī (17 August 1140–5 August 1141 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

He has booked passage to Aden in one cabin (bilīj, originally a Malayan word) in the ship of al-Dībajī together with Nahray (b. ʿAllān, cf. BL OR 5566D.6) and Ibn al-Yatīm. […] It is now with Thābit but lacking a registration mark (ʿalāma). And for the year [5]35, 1 dinar and 2 qirats and 1 dirham. […] Thābit should be reminded to press the wine for the sender. They should all take care of 'the old woman.' Greetings to Sayyid al-Kull b.

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• ib6
• india book

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד