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Primary language

Hebrew

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العلامات

• aleppo
• convert
• lor
• obadiah the proselyte

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Unidentified (Hebrew script)

Accounts in Hebrew script. Language unidentified. Late. The scribal hand is akin, but not identical to the commercial accounts of ENA NS 1066.1-10 (PGPID 9938), which contain a linguistic mixture of Hebrew, Italian, and Yiddish. See also: https://dpul.princeton.edu/coins_geniza/feature/7-florin-15th-16th-centuries-ce.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Some of the margins (and the entire verso of T-S K25.207) were reused for jotted accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in a rudimentary hand. T-S NS 322.88 + T-S Ar.29.153 are a direct join; the rest seem to be indirect joins. ENA 3577.7 and T-S Ar.29.165 have different dimensions and layout than the other fragments and may have come from a separate quire. […] A few of the joins were found via the Dicta Genizah Search website for the MiDRASH Automatic Transcriptions https://zenodo.org/records/17734473. Joins: Alan Elbaum.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Account of payments to a physician (al-Rayyis) by five patients: Bū ʿAlī, Ibn Shahrīn or Shahrayn (a 2-month-old boy?), Muslim, Muḥsin, and Karīm. He visited each of these almost daily, and they paid 1–4 (dirhems?) per visit; only on Friday two patients paid 6, presumably because there usually was no visit on the Sabbath.

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العلامات

• illness
• illness: cost
• illness: physicians
• physicians

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Accounts with various types of coinage and goods mentioned. Likely dating to the sixteenth century on the basis of numismatic evidence. Two of the accounts mention "Brahīmī" coinage alongside bunduqī (gold ducats) and fiḍḍa (possibly medin). […] For more on this terminology, see: https://geniza.github.io/paleographicalglossary/item.html?

العلامات

• cmp
• numismatic dating

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

This conjugation form does not exist in Ottoman Turkish. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Uzbek_verbs // https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/qilmoq On the recto, the first legible phrase pairing reads: ולא מסאפר: מן ספרכא... […] For a full overview of relevant case suffixes, see: https://www.turkolog.ist/uzbek/Uzbek_cases.pdf // Bodrogligeti, 33-34 Another phrase on the recto reads: לא תר.. […] For an early modern geniza fragment mentioning someone who is "from Samarqand," in modern-day Uzbekistan, see the following Ladino accounts: T-S AS 209.112 (PGPID 39773)

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Primary language

Arabic

Official Ottoman-era accounts concerning the produce of the city of Lajjūn (qāʾima mubāraka in shāʾ allāh taʿālā bi-muqāsamat al-ghilāl al-mawjūda bi-madīnat al-Lajjūn al-makhdūma(?) […] On Lajjūn, see Marom, Tepper, and Adams, "Lajjun: forgotten provincial capital in Ottoman Palestine," Levant (2023); https://doi.org/10.1080/00758914.2023.2202484. ASE

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Latin

Part of Megillat ʿOvadya, the autobiographical account of the conversion and travels of ʿOvadya the 12th-century Norman proselyte. […] For transcription and translation, see https://johannes-obadiah.org/, "Obadiah Memoir," II and III.

العلامات

• latin
• obadiah the proselyte

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

[Genizah Research Unit, Fragment of the Month, August 2009]. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.48227 NB: This PGPID is a duplicate from prior to entry of the join and needs to be merged.

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العلامات

• late heb

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Eliʿezer in Alexandria. A visiting preacher ([...] b. ʿOvadyahu) came to the community and won great popularity to the point that the judge Eliʿezer tried to interrupt his sermon and stormed out with a portion of the congregation. Rabbenu Efrayim came to the side of the visiting preacher. The Alexandrians are writing in support of the visitor, and complaining about the local dayyan's behaviour. The beginning and end of the letter are missing. (Information in part from Frenkel and CUDL.)

العلامات

• communal controversy

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Title page (verso) and opening lines of an instructional manual in accounting: كتاب اللباب في الوفق والعدد والحساب. The work's author is محمد بن الحسن ابن إبراهيم العطار. […] For more bibliographical information, see: https://www.fihrist.org.uk/catalog/manuscript_1195.

العلامات

• account
• cmp
• manual
• scribes

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Adar 5603 Anno Mundi (1 February 1843–2 March 1843 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

This is a letter on behalf of the envoy (shaliaḥ) Yaʿaqov Aharon Cur[i]el. "The writers reproach the local leaders of Karkukh for not giving any money to their envoy (שלוחא דרבנן), whose name is written there in big letters — Ya’akov Aharon Koral — who came to the city to collect money for Jerusalem three months ago and was left empty handed. They accuse them of neglecting the holy city, against the tradition, and of not keeping their promises." Information from https://medium.com/@judaicadh/talking-the-talk-pretty-signatures-4e2f861cc4b4.

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العلامات

• 19th c
• iraq
• shaliah

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

1463 Seleucid (13 September 1151–31 August 1152 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic, Judaeo-Persian

Resembling Ibn Yijū's other calendars but with fewer technical details (e.g., T-S 24.66 and T-S 10K20.1, described here: https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/departments/taylor-schechter-genizah-research-unit/projects/calendar-fragments-tool). […] This fragment is notable for the use of several Judaeo-Persian calendrical terms, the only known evidence for Ibn Yijū's engagement with the Persian language. סאל = سال = year רוזא = روزه = fast שנבא = شنبه = Saturday יך שנבא = يك شنبه = Sunday דו שנבא = دو شنبه = Monday סי שנבא = سه شنبه = Tuesday שר(!) […] (Join found via the Dicta Genizah Search website for the MiDRASH Automatic Transcriptions https://zenodo.org/records/17734473.)

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العلامات

• calendar
• ib-addenda
• ib3

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Sivan 5013 Anno Mundi (30 April 1253–29 May 1253 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

"Yearning has not left me any endurance, but visits me day and night. My endurance is dead, entombed deep in the bottom of a grave.

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"The first among these magical recipes is intended to ensure a great affection between a wife and her husband, erasing any animosity that might exist between them. […] It instructs the practitioner to take ‘seven leaves of laurel and grind them in old wine’, after which he is to write several magical names, perhaps using the mixture prepared earlier, or else, to write the names on the laurel leaves. The recipe ends with another biblical quotation, this time from the Song of Songs 8:7." […] [Genizah Research Unit, Fragment of the Month, July 2010]. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.55274

العلامات

• fotm
• love
• magic

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He apologizes for not visiting the house while he has been away on a business trip, probably from Fustat to the Ṣaʿīd (upper Egypt). […] (In a postscript: "If you are thinking of my journey the time I visited you in Dalāṣ(?) with the camel(?) with its tail cut off—this journey was not like that journey"). […] The feminine ending remains unexplained; maybe it is actually a plural (equivalent to al-Qubaybiyyīn) indicating both his father's origin and his own origin?

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العلامات

• business
• family

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

The writer describes the conditions in Ascalon against the background of the Turcoman/Seljuk invasions, and how he traveled from Ascalon to Jerusalem and visited his abandoned house to recover some books, but only found dafātir and maṣāḥif that had been destroyed by the damp. The girl, al-Jawziyya, whom he had wanted to marry in Ascalon, had become engaged to somebody else. There ensued a legal struggle which involved an official titled Sitr al-Dawla, apparently Abū ʿAbdallāh al-Ma'mūn Yaḥyā Ibn Kātib al-Baṭā'iḥī, who became the vizier in Egypt following al-Afḍal.

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العلامات

• al-malik al-afdal (1094-1121)
• fatimid officials

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The wife is permitted to leave her house only with her husband's consent, except for visits to the bathhouse and her family. See the discussion in Ashur, "Engagement and Betrothal," p. 121, n. 12.

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العلامات

• bathhouse
• halfon b. menashshe
• prenuptial

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Later, the sender explains that a person who has had the ʿṬY enter his flesh will not heal (r5–6). The meaning of ʿṬY is not clear; khazm is also not clear, but comes from a root referring to piercing, sometimes nose piercing. The term hinbāzīn/הנבאזין/هنبازين (appears also in T-S 8J22.30 (PGPID 3671)) is apparently known from Coptic martyrologies (according to some sources deriving from Greek ἑρμητάριον < Latin armentarium < Armentarius, the nickname of the emperor Galerius Maximianus); see https://st-takla.org/Coptic-Faith-Creed-Dogma/Coptic-Rite-n-Ritual-Taks-Al-Kanisa/Dictionary-of-Coptic-Ritual-Terms/9-Coptic-Terminology_Heh-Waw-Yeh/henbazeen.html and Phillips Barry, "Martyrs' Milk" (1914) (https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Open_Court/VuoXAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=ermetarion&pg=PA563&printsec=frontcover).

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العلامات

• state
• torture

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

(Information from CUDL.) Reuven engaged or betrothed the daughter of Shimon without seeing her. […] [Genizah Research Unit, Fragment of the Month, October 2008]. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.48230.

العلامات

• fotm

2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer reports about a journey he made in which he was in danger. He visited a place where a Jew had been killed. The name Tuvya the son of the man from Banias is mentioned. In the greetings in the end of the letter Abu Ishaq, Sitt al-Dallal , Sitt al-Sada, Abu al-Ma'ali and Abu Sahl the cantor are mentioned.

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Apparently Abū l-Ḥasan was in charge of the workplace but visited only periodically. The withdrawal appears to have taken place six years before this document was written and the account with Abū al-Ḥasan was settled.

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العلامات

• interest
• tiraz

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions consingments of medical commodities such as betel palm (fawfal), amomum (qāqulla), quince (safarjal), and lichen (dādī), a doctor’s visit and names such as Naḥūm the perfumer and Abū Manṣūr Ibn al-Ṣāʾiḡ (goldsmith), cousin of the writer. […] The writer excuses the poor appearance of his letter ('my mind is not present') on account of his great preoccupation for his two friends who are sick, Naḥum al-ʿAṭṭār and his cousin (b. […] The writer leaves the shop and visits each of them 5 or 6 times a day, because they are 'cut off' from anyone who can go to the physician for them.

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العلامات

• damin
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: letter norms
• illness: physician
• (+ 4 المزيد)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer has found her a promising suitor who recently visited Bilbays, a learned man who works as a teacher, the son of the sister of the teacher Bū l-Ḥasan Hillel al-Shanshāwī. […] Cairo is also mentioned. The letter ends very abruptly with none of the formulaic regards, so this was probably a draft.

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العلامات

• marriage
• remarriage
• suitor
• widow

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Faraj thought that Eliyyahu would already have intervened on his behalf, but no news of that has reached him. He visited Alexandria, but it seems that Mufaḍḍal discouraged him from seeking a ruling from the judge [A]natoli on account of his strictness. […] Cf. alternate versions of the same idiom in ENA 2558.21, T-S 13J21.20, Moss. II,167, T-S Misc.28.33, and Bodl. […] See also T-S AS 162.167 + T-S AS 151.29 and Oded Zinger's edition in "You and I will enjoy each other's company until God decrees our death in the Land of Israel," Cathedra 174 (2020), note 22.

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العلامات

• anatoli
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: marad
• illness: marital
• (+ 3 المزيد)

1 نسخ

Primary language

Hebrew

Middle part of a poorly preserved letter (the beginning, end, and address are lost), probably an invitation or encouragement for a celebrity, Natan ha-Kohen, to come and visit.

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1131–1149 CE

Primary language

Arabic

One of the parties is Abū Naṣr Manṣūr Ibn al-ʿAynzarbī, "one of the entourage of al-Ḥāfiẓ" (the Fatimid caliph al-Ḥāfiẓ who reigned 1131–49 CE). This is a famous physician: see https://scholarlyeditions.brill.com/reader/urn:cts:arabicLit:0668IbnAbiUsaibia.Tabaqatalatibba.lhom-tr-eng1:14.29.

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1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

“As for my state, I inform the masters that I came down with diarrhea, and I endured it. When it increased and multiplied, it became an illness. […] They concocted the medicine in the house of Rabbenu (ZL): every day, roasted seeds and the like, and a pullet, and he visited me frequently. And R. Eliyya the Judge was also generous. When I recovered after some days… [I came down] with what was worse than it… ophthalmia in my eye on the night of Shabbat Shoftim… a painful scream, against my will, all night…. May God afflict my enemies [with what I was afflicted with]. The illness became public.

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العلامات

• 13th c
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: eye
• illness: gastrointestinal
• (+ 7 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1213–1237 CE

Concerning a certain Kohen who is seeking a restraining order against his divorcee and to prohibit her from entering the alley where he lives, because he is scared of her and her witchcraft (כישוף). She keeps visiting her female friends who live in the same alley as he.

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العلامات

• legal query
• responsum

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة