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Document date

Shevaṭ 5564 Anno Mundi (14 January 1804–12 February 1804 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Upper section of a partnership agreement, the lower half of which remains as T-S 10J4.19 – PGPID 16113 (join: Matthew Dudley). Date: the end of Shevaṭ 5564 (February 1804 CE), this designation is only available on the lower section of the join. […] (join: Matthew Dudley). Dated: end of Shevaṭ 5564 AM = February 1804 CE. The upper section of the join (PGPID 11267) notes that the partnership will last until Pesaḥ of the following year 5565 AM (April 1805 CE).

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العلامات

• 19th c
• cloth
• clothes
• clothing
• satin
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

She describes some of the background of her current situation: her mother-in-law (the addressee's sister) had long nursed enmity against her. At one point Umm Sitt al-Nās had to leave her own family's location and move in with the husband and mother-in-law. […] Soon my mother-in-law began to work against me, isolating me from everyone and putting enmity against me into the heart of her son. The least she did was that she said to me: 'Go away and become like your notorious mother.'"

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

22 Shevat 1525 Seleucid (February 1214 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He reports that Abū l-Majd's brother Abu l-Najm Hilal is ill: he never fully recovered since a nail entered his leg months ago, and he does not or cannot open his mouth (r.15-19). […] Yehuda devotes much space to discussing piyyutim that these two cantors have sent or will send each other (r.25-v.9); rebukes Abū l-Majd for failing to date his letters (v.1-4); mentions the financial difficulties in his household (v.9-10); mentions Abū l-Faraj b. al-Rayyis (=Eliyyahu the Judge) and his fundraising for Jerusalem (v.10-13); and ends with a recommendation for R. Shemuel who approached him as he was writing this letter and seems to intend to travel to Fustat.

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العلامات

• alexandria
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: despair
• illness: etiology
• (+ 4 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Some of the names are encircled (represented here by $ $, perhaps indicating persons solicited).

العلامات

• charity
• communal
• coptic numerals
• donors
• poverty

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Document date

Ṭevet 5550 Anno Mundi (18 December 1789–15 January 1790 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: end of Ṭevet 5550 AM = January 1790. Between Yiṣḥaq b.

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العلامات

• aripol
• betrothal
• bibas
• infertility
• medical
• (+ 1 المزيد)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

The record covers a period of about five months, from the beginning of July to the end of November, 1045. Gil's interpretation is that the work was done at the compound of al-rayis, by which a notable of the congregation was mean.

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العلامات

• account
• arabic script
• qodesh
• yefet b. david b. shekhanya

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List. An almost entirely 'egalitarian' list of contributors from the first half of the eleventh century' (Goitein) Forty-four persons pledge 1/2 (dirham), nine parties, of whom six consist of two or more numbers, 1, and only one pledges 2 (dirhams).

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العلامات

• charity
• communal
• donors
• poverty

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

5582 Anno Mundi (27 September 1821–15 September 1822 CE)

Primary languages

Eastern Arabic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Many names familiar from other Geniza documents of the period feature in this list. Some entries begin with "סוגיירת" (young daughter?) followed by parents.

العلامات

• bibas
• gatenio
• late prosopography
• pinto
• romano
• (+ 2 المزيد)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Note that Moshe cut up ENA 2558.18 + T-S 13J7.12, a legal document dated 1194 CE, and reused the versos of both fragments for letters.

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العلامات

• dammuh
• moshe b. levi

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Tuesday, 7 Adar 1505 Seleucid (30 January 1194 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Moshe later cut it very neatly down the middle, yielding ENA 2558.18 and T-S 13J7.12, and wrote a family letter on the verso of each half.

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العلامات

• moshe b. levi
• partnership
• qalyub

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Begins with six lines of Hebrew blessings, and ends with one line of Hebrew blessings. The sender describes himself as a man of more than seventy years who has been afflicted by an illness that makes him unable to work and earn a livelihood.

العلامات

• communal
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: marad
• illness: poverty
• (+ 2 المزيد)

1 نسخ

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Finally, he informs the king that he (the king) is the illegitimate son of a baker, proves that this is the case, and the king swears him to secrecy and lets him go with enough money to live happily ever after. The document is written across two pages; the second also contains a Hebrew piyyut prefaced by "Yeshaʿyahu b.

العلامات

• popular literature
• slaves

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Shaʿbān 459 Hijrī (22 November 1066–10 November 1067 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Hence, the creditors are entitled to take from him what they want, when they want it, and how they want it, either at night or in the evening or in the day (yāʾkhudhuhu bihi wa-bi-mā shāʾ minhu ayyu waqtin shāʾ wa-kayf shāʾ min laylin aw nahārin masaʾin aw ṣabāḥin).

العلامات

• dimme
• pinholes

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

1159–1160 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Addressed to the Nagid Moshe b. Netanʾel. This is enigmatic, since there is no known Nagid named Moshe b.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He has many requests and in particular wishes to be relieved from his post and get the arrears of his salary. The sender has enclosed two other letters from himself for other recipients, and a letter from the cantor Abū l-Ḥasan Ibn al-Jāzfīnī to be delivered to the house of the late Nahray (b.

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2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1800–1850 CE

The latter two names on the verso stand out because right after their names, we find the phrase in Hebrew: "לסוף לך לך / for the end of Lekh Lekha". Like many other lists following the parshas in the liturgical calendar in JRL Series C, and their many joins across other collections, this temporal designation probably indicates contributions made to the community in that specific week of the liturgical calendar.

العلامات

• 19th c
• communal

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Adar 2176 Seleucid (1865 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

One of the pages is headed "this is the text of the ruling (psaq) that came from Ṣanʿāʾ." These entries are dated Adar 2176 Seleucid, which is 1865 CE.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentioning various community affairs and expressing concern about the lack of reply to previous correspondence regarding the appointment of trustees. At the end of the letter Abū l-ʿAlā is mentioned, who had been very ill.

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العلامات

• to edit

1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

As God is my witness, I cannot even stand to pray. I have entered serious straits because of my illness and poverty.

العلامات

• communal
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: chronic
• illness: cost
• (+ 6 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Sunday, 20 Sivan 4845 Anno Mundi (15 June 1085 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fully transcribed (and translated to Hebrew) in Yosef Rivlin, Inheritance and Wills in Jewish Law, (Bar Ilan: Ramat Gan, 1999), pp. 338–40. See also ENA 4100.15 (PGPID 11546). T-S 8J21.14 + T-S 8J8.12 (PGPID 7679) and T-S 12.606 (PGPID 3187) are a likely (noncontinuous) join; both refer to the same sum of 7.25 dinars owed by Yāqūt.

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1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abu Sahl tells Moshe not to worry about the capitation tax, because God has helped and they already have enough money for him. "Don't let anyone look at these accounts, not Mahfuz nor anyone else."

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العلامات

• abu sahl levi

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Saadya (referred to in the letter as 'the rayyis Abū l-Faḍl) in Alexandria after the year 1094 died in the end of the first decade of the twelfth century due to a sudden disease.

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العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: foul play
• illness: treatment
• personal

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

It is hard to extract further details. ENA NS 16.28 (PGPID 11714) and T-S 10J12.15 (PGPID 2810) are about the same events and are probably from the same sender.

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العلامات

• alexandria
• communal strife
• nasir al-dawla
• nile

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In the address on verso, ʿAllān calls himself ʿAllāl (as some other ʿAllāns did occasionally), a form of endearment, imitating the speech of small children.

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العلامات

• ib6
• india book

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Addressee may be the same as in ENA 2727.6c (PGPID 12357).

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العلامات

• commodities
• countryside
• grain shortage
• ibyar
• prices

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1130–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The document is the conditions for the engagement of the merchant Barakāt b. Ḥārith ha-Levi with Sitt al-Furs bt.

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العلامات

• 12th c
• halfon b. menashshe
• marital reconciliation
• marriage

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The addressee should send her money/goods. The fragment ends with an update on Ibn Maḥbūb; it seems that the sender wants to send letters to various destinations (kutub ilā l-buldān) with him.

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1 مناقشة

Document date

Nisan-Iyyar 1431 Seleucid (2 March 1120–29 April 1120 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

was considered (l. 9), she was entitled to alimony. This means that she left him against his will.

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Probably sent from Fustat to Alexandria (though it's not entirely clear how Goitein and Frenkel determined that the addressee is in Alexandria).

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2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Document date

Adar 1448 Seleucid (25 January 1137–23 February 1137 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Every month beginning from Adar II, she will pay 1/2 dinar at the end of the month. The loan was given on the day "they reconciled and renewed their betrothal (?

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العلامات

• loan
• marital reconciliation

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Monday, 26 Tishrei 1526 Seleucid (1 October 1214 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Eliyya, over the sums of money he had spent on her during their engagement. He claims to have spent more than 4 dinars over the period of the betrothal, while she claims it was no more than 48 dirhams.

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Document date

24 Sivan (4)802 Anno Mundi (15 June 1042 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Surūra’s sister, Sitt al-Dār, had previously been engaged to Khulayf b. Yeshuʿa Nārūz as a girl of seven on condition that the latter would bring her home after three years.

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العلامات

• marriage
• muslim courts
• register

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Goitein interpreted Abū Zikrī's illness as dysentery, reading "mutarassil" (index card 27123), but see T-S 13J22.28 and ENA 1822a.12 for similar instances of "mutakassil" (the exact meaning of which is not clear).

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العلامات

• abu zikri yehuda
• epidemic
• epidemic: amrad
• ib5
• illness
• (+ 3 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

and 2 ounces of sugar for his ill infant child, assuring him that he and his wife didn't have enough money even for a pound of bread. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, 188; Goitein index cards.)

العلامات

• arabic script
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: children's
• illness: nazla
• (+ 4 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Hiba known as al-Ṭunnāmilī (appears also in ENA 1822a.24 (PGPID 2620) in the context of mushāq).

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العلامات

• flax

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Friday, 4 Nisan 4782 Anno Mundi (9 March 1022 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Yosef, Moshe b. Shabbetay. Ends on verso with sharīr ve-barīr (a standard Hebrew/Aramaic validity confirmation), followed by the Judaeo-Greek אקוליתוס (ἀκωλύτως) "no objection," "without impediments," the same term used in Byzantine legal deeds and in T-S 16.375 (PGPID 1740).

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العلامات

• byzantium
• ketubba
• marriage

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان