Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef. Quite damaged and faded. At the bottom of verso mentions laundry and a porter and alum and cleaning; and myrobalan.

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Primary language

Arabic

Recto, with the address on verso (secondary use): Letter addressed to al-Rayyis al-Rabīʿī (=ha-Reviʿi) Abū l-Ḥasan. In Arabic script. Mentions people named Manṣūr and Abū l-Faḍl. And mentions "al-qāʿa al-maʿmūra bi-baqāhi."

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Primary language

Arabic

In Arabic script. Quite faded. The ends of 5 lines are preserved. Mentions that a certain ʿāmil is more capable than somebody else (aqdar minhu) and then mentions "the lofty order" (al-amr al-ʿālī).

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document involving Abū l-Faḍlal-Parnas, Abū Saʿd, and payments in installments. The margins and verso are filled with accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Verso also has a section of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic calculating sums still owed.

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Document date

23 Shevaṭ 4975 Anno Mundi (25 January 1215 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a family member, in Alexandria, to Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat. Dated: 23 Shevaṭ [4800 +] 175 = 4975 AM, which is 25 January 1215 CE. […] v13) and rode it to Alexandria. Also mentions Marseilles (מרשיליה v5), but the context is too faded to read.

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe. Mentions Abū l-Faḍl b. Abū Kathīr (cf. Moss. VII,104.1 (PGPID 26997)). Also mentions the term אלקטיעה and אלמעונה במצר.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto is in Judaeo-Arabic and verso is in Hebrew, which also appears to be poetic phrases for a letter to a notable. Quite faded, unclear if any of the substance is preserved.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Abū l-Ṭayyib Ibn al-Dhahabī; al-ʿAmid; flax; Abū l-Faḍl; Muẓaffar; "owed to Menashshe by Ḥasūn"; various numbers of bales; and pepper.

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תגים

• account
• arus b. yosef

דיון אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

List of names, including Abū l-Munā, Abū l-Faḍāʾil b. Ḥajar, Abū ʿAlī b. Saʿāda, Abū ʿAlī b. Makḥūl, Ibn al-Marjānī and Abū Zikrī al-Kohen, probably as contributors to the poor.

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תגים

• abu zikri yehuda
• ib-addenda

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

State document, in Arabic script. Six lines of a faded petition, or report, the top four lines are extremely effaced. Mentions probably a man of the countryside "al-rajul al-rīf". The last line also contains the raʾy clause: "انعاما واحسانا ولسيدنا الارا عـ".

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Primary language

Arabic

A report to an official: Shujāʿ al-Dawla Bū Faḍl Ziyāda regarding issues pertaining to Abshīsh and Ṭamlay.

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תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Letter fragment. In Arabic script. Faded and damaged. Mentions Damietta (ENA 3598.1, third line from the bottom); a qalʿa (ENA 3598.2, line 7 and again in the margin); Alexandria (al-Thaghr) (ENA 3598.2, second line from the bottom); and asks for the addressee's news.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The excerpt is either from Kitab Zahr al-Ādāb wa-Thamar al-Albāb by al-Ḥuṣarī al-Qayrawānī (d. 1061 CE) or from the source that he quotes, Abū l-Faḍlal-Mīkālī (d. 1045 CE).

תגים

• classical arabic literature

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Receipt or legal document in Arabic script. Faded. Late. Concerning the rent of a shop in Ḥārat al-Yahūd, possibly for the month of Shaʿbān– unless it is mentioned as a specific date of issuance for the receipt. The name [...] b. al-Azhar appears at the bottom.

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Document date

26 Jumādā II 736 Hijrī (10 February 1336 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Faded Arabic accounts, mentioning the state treasury, on the blank page of a bifolio of piyyuṭ. Begins "bi-l-khizāna al-ʿāliya" followed by the date 26 Jumādā II 736 AH = 10 February 1336 CE if correct.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Refers multiple times to Sayyidnā al-Muftī. Also deals with business matters and asks if a purchase should be made in New Cairo or Fustat. Mentions the customs (maks). Mentions Abū l-Faḍl. (Information in part from Goitein's index card.)

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תגים

• mufti

דיון אחד

Document date

548/549 Hijrī (1153–1154 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Petition to the Fatimid vizier Al-ʿAbbās requesting an allowance in grain to be paid to the petitioner in yearly installments. […] The dating is based on the identification of the vizier in question with Abū l-Faḍlal-ʿAbbās Ibn Abī l-Futūḥ.

תגים

• allowance
• dimme
• grain
• installment
• petition

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Document date

Tuesday, 17 Tammuz 1438 Seleucid (28 June 1127 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(1) Malīḥa bt. Abū l-Faḍl the wife of Adam al-Ḥalabī al-Ṣayrafī appoints Natan b. […] Abū l-Ḥasan al-Tinnīsī(?) appoints Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Yiṣḥaq al-Kohen known as Ibn Ghazāl to represent him in all his claims against Abū Naṣr b. […] , the parnas Abū l-Faḍl, and the parnas Abū ʿAlī, and testify that Malīḥa and her husband Adam al-Ḥalabī al-Ṣayrafī have reached a settlement concerning release each other from all claims, including any further claim on her delayed marriage payment (muʾakhkhar).

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Faded and damaged. Almost none of the substance is legible.

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Document date

153[.] Seleucid (1218–1227 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The dating is deduced from the related documents; however, could also be 1530 Seleucid = 1218/19 CE, see T-S 13J18.22 (PGPID 8006). People mentioned: [...] b. Abū l-Faḍl, 'my mother' ʿIbād, her sister Ḥasab, Ibn al-Nāʾila, someone's deceased father Manṣūr, Sulaymān and someone else who are the sons of the maternal aunt of Manṣūr, Abū l-Faḍl Ibn al-Rabbāṭ(?), Abū l-Maḥāsin al-Naqlī. On verso there are additional jottings in Hebrew, some biblical verses or themes, including a reference to Miryam and to Batya the daughter of Pharaoh.

תגים

• 13th c
• court record

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter to the Gaon, probably from Aleppo, complaining that the Gaon is paying too much heed to those who slander the writer, approximately 1035. Verso: Very faded and mostly illegible text, possibly liturgical or a sermon.

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תגים

• 11th c
• communal

תעתוק אחד

Inferred date

1150–1181 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Very damaged and faded marriage agreement written by Mevorakh b. Nathan (active c. 1150-1181 CE). Some lines from the dowry list is visible, and also few of the commonly found conditions such as the trustworthy and the monogamy clause.

תגים

• dowry list
• marriage
• mevorakh b. natan

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

1408 Seleucid (20 September 1096–9 September 1097 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Moshe Ibn Majjān and Abū l-Faḍl Yosef b. Yoshiyya al-Dhahabi, which arose when the former claimed from the latter a complete bible codex he had bought from him some time before. The resolution is that Abū l-Faḍl gives the codex to Abū Sahl Menashshe to give to Abū ʿImrān (because he had taken a vow that he would never give it himself).

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תגים

• bible
• book trade
• codices
• register

2 תעתוקים 2 דיונים

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Two records of a legal transaction involving Sitt al-Sāda bt. Abū l-Surūr Ibn Maṭrūḥ, mentioning al-shaykh al-Rayyis Abū l-Faḍl, and Yosef.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The writer describes how he became so sick he despaired of life, but God sent health. Also mentions Abū l-Ḥasan b. Khulayf (first half of the 12th century) and Alexandria. Regards to Abū l-Faḍl and the writer's father. (Information in part from CUDL)

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תגים

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: despair

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Addressed to a 'brother.' Quite faded. On verso, there is the header "al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ḥamd al-shākirīn" followed by a prayer on for the Fatimid caliph: allāhumma ṣalli ʿalā Ābāʾihi al-ṭāḥirīn al-maʿṣūma min al-khanā wa l-fashal wa al-jazal inshā Allah..

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Malīḥa the sister of Shelomo Ibn al-Amʿaṭ ha-Levi and Abū l-Faḍl Ṣadoq b. Shemarya agree that the latter will teach the Arabic script and the calculations of baqasāt(??) […] The boy was supposed to write a letter without mistakes when one was dictated to him. Abū'l-Faḍl was also to provide Hiba b. Abū Saʿd with arithmetic lessons by which the boy was to master complex accounts.

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תגים

• arabic script
• education
• language
• mother
• son
• (+ 1 עוד)

3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Arabic

The addressee is called "al-ṣabiyy(?) al-akram... al-jamālī jamāl al-dunyā wa-l-dīn..." The text is quite faded and difficult to read. Mentions a ghulām and it seems the city of Ṣanʿāʾ (في صنعا), unless this is an orthographic variant of "ṣanʿa" and means "craft/trade."

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