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Primary language

Arabic

The writer desired to obtain something from him only to find that he had already left for Mecca after knowing that the writer was already on his way from Fusṭāṭ. As soon as he returns, the sender will obtain something from him and deliver it to "al-majlis al-sāmī" (حرس الله عز سلطانه). There are marginal notes or probably official endorsements in a different hand which translates as "accepted. the [command] has been fulfilled and the record of the same has been filed in the aforementioned dīwān".

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العلامات

• dimme

1 نسخ

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Respectful note to Eliyyahu the Raṣuy of both Yeshivot, informing him of the writer's safe arrival, and how the first thing he did was to report to the house of the Nagid Mevorakh b. Saadya. Along with Mevorakh's usual impressive titulature, he is styled "sar ha-sarim" and "deputy of the king of Egypt" (I.e. the vizier al-Afḍal). "Quite likely, at the time of Mevorakh's restoration, al-Afḍal honored him with the high-sounding Arabic title, ra'īs al-ru'asā', held by the Coptic patriarch, and the Jews, taking cognizance of their leaders exalted status in the government, translated it into its Hebrew equivalent, sar ha-sarim."

العلامات

• mevorakh b. saadya
• self-government

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to a certain ʿAbd al-Latīf. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Mamluk-era, ca. 13th–15th century. […] The sender reports on his Nile trip to Sammanūd and then to Jūjar for Purim as well as his business transactions along the way. He intends to return for Passover. He is traveling with a "Frank" (אפרנגי), the boy/servant of al-muʿallim Yosef. Greetings to various family members including Sutayta and her son Mūsā, al-Sitt Saʿādāt, the neighbor Rabbi Yosef and his wife , Shemuel and his son Mūsā, and some others.

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العلامات

• boat
• communal
• frank
• jujar
• sammanud

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Monday 1st Iyyar 1437 Seleucid (26 April 1126 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The verso of the ketubba of Sitt al-Ahl bt. Yefet, from 1125 (PGPID 7560). Contains two legal records that were added later, also in the hand of Ḥalfon b. […] (A) On the left side, Mubāraka, the mother of Sitt al-Ahl, gives her daughter two ornaments worth 6 3/4 dinars as a gift.

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Document date

414 Kharājī

Primary language

Arabic

The lower part may be a tax receipt for a sum received from Zuhayr b. [...] from the ḍamān of [al-Abwāb?] for the year 1023/24 CE (414 kharājiyya). […] In addition to this list, and upside down, is a literary paragraph discussing ʿilm and citing verses by al-Imām al-Shāfiʿī (taʿallama l-ʿilma fa-laysa l-mar'u yūladu ʿāliman. . .")

العلامات

• damin
• diwan al-abwab
• tax

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Other names mentioned: Abū Surūr; Ḥamza; Muḥsin al-Farrān; Avraham al-Rudayjī(?); ʿAlī b. Abi Ṭālib; Ismāʿīl Ibn Qumqum; Abū l-Yumn; Yaḥyā b. […] ; Māhir; Ibn Aṣqaṭ; Ibn ʿAbdallāh; Abū l-Qāsim al-Buṣīrī; Zikrī b. Mahlūk(?); Abū Jaʿfar; Saʿīd.

العلامات

• account

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

23 Adar 4975 Anno Mundi (24 February 1215 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter probably from [Yehuda Ibn al-ʿAmmānī] al-Melammed, probably in Alexandria, to Abū l-Majd (Meʾir b Yakhin), probably in Fustat.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Two fragments from a bill of release regarding a shipment of tamarind to (or from) Maḥalla al-Kubrā by Abū l-Ḥasan. Also mentioning Yehuda b. Ḥasdeʾel (חסדאל) and Abū Sulaymān Daʾūd. AA. ASE. Join: Alan Elbaum. (Information in part from CUDL.)

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العلامات

• al-mahalla
• halfon b. menashshe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

"People came from Damascus and informed me that you are [healthy] and doing well. . . but I am a stranger and alone. . . " In the margin: ". . . you between the two trenches (bayn al-khandaqayn), and you told me. . . and the Franks captured him/it. . . ." Recto (probably secondary use): Also a letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew, possibly a draft.

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العلامات

• crusades
• damascus
• franks
• women's letter

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Faraj the dyer of red was playing and fighting. . . Abū l-ʿAlāʾ was playing. . . Abū l-Faraj and his brother Ibn al-Ṣabbāgh were playing, and I said to them, "I'm going to go write your names(?)." They said, "By God, we don't care [. . . .]." The name Abū l-Munā also appears in Arabic at the top. The verb qaʿada appears in each of these entries as an auxiliary verb (rather than literal "sitting").

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

30 Nisan 1456 Seleucid (25 April 1145 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Elʿazar the widow of Abū l-Khayr Mevorakh b. Meshullam known as al-Aṣbāghī and/or Ibn al-Qābila comes to court to collect her ketubba. […] The document is written and signed by Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen; also signed by Yefet b. Shemarya and Avraham b. Ḥalfon. See Oded Zinger's edition for further analysis. See also T-S AS 168.213 (PGPID 22498), a brief legal note involving the same couple and the sale of part of a house dating to no later than 1138 CE.

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العلامات

• natan b. shelomo

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1161–1172 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Peraḥya b. Yosef Yijū, in al-Maḥalla, to Abū l-Fakhr Saadya b. Avraham Ibn al-Amshāṭī, in Fustat. […] Peraḥya conveys his happiness to have learned that the family members of Abū l-Fakhr who had been sick are now recovered (and for this reason opens the letter with Deut. 7:15, "The Lord will ward off from you all sickness"). Peraḥya is supervising the production of kosher cheese and encountering difficulties: "I have already perished from the cheese and have become perplexed as to what I should do." He writes that he would like to travel to Sicily or Damascus {al-Shām}, but since 'the little one' (his cousin and wife, Sitt al-Dār) was grown up and "had no one in the world except God" (that is, her father was dead), he could not do this.

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العلامات

• education
• ib3
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: du'f
• (+ 2 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

[12]91 Seleucid (979–980 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Shemuel ha-Kohen; Fashshāṭ b. Shemuel (who also signed T-S 16.49 and T-S 12.496); and Baqāʾ b. Mevasser (who also signed T-S 12.161, ENA 4010.10, and apparently also T-S 16.49).

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العلامات

• marital reconciliation
• marriage

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a retired old Alexandrian merchant to a friend in Fustat. One side is a letter in Arabic script and the other side is a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. […] has been absent from Alexandria for 12 years. It is not sufficient for the Nagid to certify that Abū Saʿīd is poor; the Nagid is also supposed to write a few lines explaining the circumstances.

العلامات

• capitation
• poverty
• tax

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Document date

430 Hijrī (1039 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

David b. Shekhanya. Yefet (also called Ḥusayn b. Dāʾūd) along with the parnas Yaʿaqov b. Bishr al-Urjuwānī list building expenditures and revenues from rent pertaining to "the Estate of the Synagogue of the Palestinians" for the years 429 AH = 1037/38 CE and 430 AH = 1038/39 CE. […] Gil apparently did not realize that these were a direct join. He also erroneously cited T-S K25.227 as T-S K25.277.)

العلامات

• account
• communal
• heqdesh
• qodesh
• waqf
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 3 مناقشات

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

ʿAmram (aka Abū l-Husayn ʿAllūn b. Muʿammar), in Fustat. In Hebrew and Arabic (in Arabic script). […] (Unbeknownst to Goitein and Gil, ENA 2465.8–9 and CUL Or.1080 15.50 also have the same sender and same addressee.) In this letter, Yehuda b. Avraham is recommending a colleague, Seʿadya the teacher, whom he hopes will be treated well and honored in Fustat ("with aṣḥāb al-khilaʿ"). "He does not need any charitable collection nor anything else from the Jews"—what he needs is a good word on his behalf with aṣḥāb al-[...]

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العلامات

• recommendation

3 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Ismāʿīl b. Yiṣḥaq al-Baṭalyawsī (=of Badajoz) al-Andalusi, in Jerusalem, to Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa b. […] Ismāʿīl asks for news of his family still in al-Andalaus. "If you obtain any letter or news, send them to me. […] Information from Gil and from Moshe Yagur (via גניזת קהיר - היסטוריה של היום-יום on Facebook, Feb 9, 2019). See also T-S 13J28.11 (the next document edited by Gil, from Ismāʿīl b.

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العلامات

• badajoz
• madrid
• toledo

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Document date

Wednesday, 24 [month] [year] Seleucid (March 1097 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In the section preserved here, Abū al-Faraj Nathaniel b. Moses and his brother Abū al-Barakāt Aaron release Abū al-Baqā Samuel b. […] The release clauses absolve Samuel from any further obligation in either “a partnership (shirka)” or “a commenda (muḍāraba)”. Although this fragment cannot be seamlessly joined to TS 16.87, that both documents are concerned with the partnership suggests that they go together. […] While most of the bulk of the document is written by Hillel b. Eli (also a signatory), the notarization is written in different handwriting and attests to the fact that the undersigned witnesses recognized the signatures of the initial witnesses.

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العلامات

• hillel b. eli
• partnership

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On the eve of ʿAẓeret (Shavuʿot), Fityān and his associates arrived in a boat from Sfax to al-Mahdiyya. When I saw them, my soul almost left me and I went pale (? […] He asks him to fulfill his family’s duty by helping him with his business. He also mentions events in the Maghreb. Apparently there is a naval fleet besieging Sūsa. (Information in part from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 4, #615.) See also Goitein, Med Soc III, viii, B, 1 no. 36. VMR.

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العلامات

• emotion
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: children's
• illness: critical
• (+ 4 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

January 1140 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Netanʾel ha-Levi, in Alexandria, to Yiṣḥaq Ibn ʿEzra, in Spain. In Judaeo-Arabic. […] During his long stay in Alexandria his body and soul never enjoyed full health, but he was also unable to bring himself to go up to Cairo: how could he visit the place vacated by his brother? Family and friends came down to Alexandria to induce him to return home, but he did not find in himself nahḍa, energy, to do so.

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العلامات

• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: grief
• (+ 1 المزيد)

4 نسخ 2 ترجمتين

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Ismāʿīl b. Faraḥ, in Alexandria, to his son Faraḥ b. Ismāʿīl, in Būṣīr. In Judaeo-Arabic. […] "do not buy anything if eye-does-not-see" (T-S 13J26.22) or "if my son turns out to be a worthless employee, get rid of him ('make him eye-does-not-see')" (T-S 24.78); cf. also ENA NS 10.19. The second clause in the sentence in this letter could also be wa-anta ʿalā ʿayn mā tarāhu, meaning '[you received word from Nahray about X] without having seen him.' […] This appears to be the only Geniza document known thus far to mention the settlement of Qiman, probably Qiman al-ʿArūs just outside the Fayyūm (it's much less likely to be Qiman Fāris at the northwest of Madīnat al-Fayyūm).

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العلامات

• fayyum
• flax

2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1100–1100 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from an older Maghribī traveler, in Alexandria, to his cousin, somewhere in the Maghrib. […] He next describes the 1095 siege of Alexandria in which the vizier al-Afḍal deposed Nizār and secured the caliphate for al-Mustaʿlī ("the city was ruined. . . the Sultan conquered the city and caused justice to abound"). […] Otherwise, he will remain alive." Note that "yastanshiq" typically means "inhale" or "snuff" (e.g., water for ritual ablutions) rather than "hiccup."

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العلامات

• crusades
• epidemic
• epidemic: a'lal
• epidemic: amrad
• epidemic: dever
• (+ 9 المزيد)

2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Document date

11 Sivan 4959 Anno Mundi (7 June 1199 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shemuel or b. Yehuda) Ibn al-ʿAmmānī, in Alexandria, to Moshe b. Ghulayb (aka Ḥalfon?) […] Yosef of Marseilles as the muqaddam of Alexandria. Ṣadoq's request, however, was accepted. We hear again of the division of the wirāqa between Ṣadoq and Anaṭoli in the year 1216 CE in the document T-S 10J25.3. The letter also mentions at the beginning Abū l-Mufaḍḍal Ibn Nānū.

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العلامات

• 4800
• anatoli
• byzantium
• dating tricks
• maimonides
• (+ 4 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

(Information from CUDL.) See also T-S AS 151.160 (PGPID 38103). Gil summarizes this letter as follows: "It is therefore not surprising that Natan b. […] In this letter, there are also further echoes of the flaring of passions. The letters of ‘the friend’ did not reach him, writes Natan, and he suspects that Shelomo b. […] Yishay is mentioned as ‘head of the communities’ and he is also called ‘faithful of the yeshiva'. This Mevasser visited Ramla and received writings from Natan for his followers.

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العلامات

• 11th c
• natan b. avraham

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

There are entries for wood, flour, oil, and also R. Moshe.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Accounts in Arabic script. "Al-maqbūḍ. . . ." Mentions ʿAbd al-Hādī.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Possibly a prayer or a narrative; mentions words such as allahumma, al-shayṭān, Mīkhāʾīl.

العلامات

• arabic

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List of commodities and prices. Mainly textiles, but also mentions potash (ushnān).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

List of donors of wheat to charity. See also ENA NS 77.107.

العلامات

• charity
• communal
• donors
• poverty

1 نسخ

Letter from Yūsuf b. Faraḥ in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim.

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العلامات

• nahray b. nissim

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Small fragment probably in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī.

العلامات

• nasir

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment on geometry, with several figures. On verso also Arabic script. (FGP)

العلامات

• fgp stub

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The addressee is the tax farmer of the local market and the judge of the Jews (الظامن للسوق داين اليهود) and is also addressed as the head of the congregation (rosh ha-qahal). […] Includes many greetings, for: Avraham ha-Talmid; Yosef and his two sons; Abū l-ʿIzz al-Kohen and his brother Abū l-Karam; Yosef and his brother al-Shaykh al-Mukhliṣ; Abū ʿImrān and his son and his brother-in-law; Abū l-Majd; Yaʿqūb and his two brothers including Abū l-Majd.

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العلامات

• damin
• tax

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Greek, Hebrew

Letter from a woman named Archondou, in Alexandria, to her son Fuḍayl, in Fustat. Her main purpose in writing emerges at the end: she wants her son to come and fetch her, as she wants to go to Fustat. […] mattress, r12, 19), and the spelling of the proper names 'Archondou' (ארכודו) and 'Alexandria' (אלכסדריאן) all indicate a Greek-speaking milieu.

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العلامات

• distant son
• greek
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: cost
• (+ 5 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة