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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

He reports someone's testimony that she was 5 days old when al-Muʿaẓẓam died (likely al-Muʿaẓẓam ʿĪsā, who died in 1227 CE); her paternal uncle swears to this. They summoned the mother of Bayān the landlord, who says something about 13 years and al-Malik al-Nāṣir. The addressee is asked to make up his mind and inform the Nagid.

العلامات

• responsum

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

last decade of Tishrei 1475 Seleucid (20 September 1163–29 September 1163 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: last decade of Tishrei 1475 Seleucid = September 1163 CE, under the authority of the Gaʾon Netanʾel ha-Levi (the first two letters of his name are preserved נת[נאל], along with three lines of his titles). Abū l-Ṭāhir and the clothier (al-bazzāz) Abū l-Ṭayyib b. […] Mentions a loan; a woman named Baqāʾ, the daughter of Abū l-Ḥasan al-Kohen [...] b. Natan he-Ḥaver; a teacher Shemuel b. […] The name of one witness is preserved: Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen b. Yo[...]. Joins: Alan Elbaum.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Important but much damaged list of the type of B 2b: distribution of sums of 5 dirhems and its multiples (many of 15 or 20 some even of 30), also several of 7 1/2 dirhems. Many names identical with the contemporary lists B 1, 2, 52 (e.g., the rare Maʿshūq, "Beloved," here, ll. 1 and 7 = B 1, l. 35), also some new persons.

1 مناقشة

Document date

614 Hijrī (10 April 1217–29 March 1218 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Majd is to expedite the payment of 81 dirhams to the Muslim Judge Shams al-Din. This is the remaining balance due for the capitation tax of the poor for the Muslim year 614 (ended March 29, 1218) for Shams al-Din. T-S K25.240 consists of small written orders, partly in Hebrew and partly in Arabic script, for monthly payments, made out of the rent-revenue from the pious foundation (waqf) 'Compound of the Poor' or from the pious foundation made by the physician al-Muhadhdhab. All dated orders are from spring and summer, 1218.

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العلامات

• account
• capitation tax
• heqdesh
• jaliya
• jizya
• (+ 3 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Majd is to send to al-Shaykh al-Thiqa quickly ('and by any stratagem') the payment of 35 dirhams, the remaining balance due for the capitation tax of the poor(?) […] T-S K25.240 consists of small written orders, partly in Hebrew and partly in Arabic script, for monthly payments, made out of the rent-revenue from the pious foundation (waqf) 'Compound of the Poor' or from the pious foundation made by the physician al-Muhadhdhab. All dated orders are from spring and summer, 1218.

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العلامات

• account
• capitation tax
• heqdesh
• jaliya
• jizya
• (+ 3 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Majd is to give 3 dirhams to 'the foreigner from Toledo' (al-gharīb al-Ṭulayṭulī). T-S K25.240 consists of small written orders, partly in Hebrew and partly in Arabic script, for monthly payments, made out of the rent-revenue from the pious foundation (waqf) 'Compound of the Poor' or from the pious foundation made by the physician al-Muhadhdhab. All dated orders are from spring and summer, 1218.

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العلامات

• account
• heqdesh
• qodesh
• waqf

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Majd is to give the bearer (also named Abū l-Majd?) two dirhams for baking matza (khabīz faṭīr) for Passover. […] T-S K25.240 consists of small written orders, partly in Hebrew and partly in Arabic script, for monthly payments, made out of the rent-revenue from the pious foundation (waqf) 'Compound of the Poor' or from the pious foundation made by the physician al-Muhadhdhab. All dated orders are from spring and summer, 1218.

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1

العلامات

• account
• heqdesh
• qodesh
• tax
• waqf

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Reporting on two matters: (1) that a group of dhimmīs has established a rotation in which they take stones daily and fill in the lake (buḥayra) or canal (baḥr) of "the chain" (al-silsila) in order to prevent "the ships of the enemy, may god forsake them" (marākib al-ʿaduww khadalahū allāh) from approaching. This expression is usually used in reference to Frankish crusading attacks. (2) That on Saturday the 7th of Ṣafar a group of Byzantine traders approached the Majlis al-Ḥarb requesting some kind of commercial privilege (may mention shūḥ = pine trees).

العلامات

• dimme
• fustat
• handbook
• lost archive
• majlis al-harb
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 نسخ

Accounts of weekly expenditure of a type similar to App. B 41-43, 49, and also in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. A clean copy for three weeks, always opening with the amounts collected by two persons: first week, two laymen; second,the beadles Tahir and Mahasin; third, Tahir and the cantor Abu al-Majd.

العلامات

• account
• charity
• communal
• shelomo b. eliyyahu

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Tammuz 1549–Tammuz 1550 Seleucid (1238–1239 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A house was inherited in equal shares by [ʿAbd al-]Bāqī Sheʾerit ha-Ḥazzan, Abū l-Karam, Abū [...] Khalaf, Ibrāhīm, and Sālim, some or all of whom are brothers. Signed: ʿUziʾel b. Ṭahor ha-Nazir. […] Sābiq all the rights relating to a claim of Hibatallāh b.

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Document date

1 Av 1448 Seleucid (21 July 1137 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Our letter, however, reports a rumor that the city had already fallen forty days earlier. The writer, a physician, even expresses the expectation that the Emperor might take Aleppo and Damascus as well and already placed an order for medical books which would be looted there from the homes of his colleagues." […] Goitein suggests that he traveled initially with the Fatimid navy, as he lists letters he sent in previous years from the army camp at Jaffa, from Rhodes, and from the island of Chios, which were occupied by the Venetian navy in 1224. The physician also stayed in Constantinople before settling in Seleucia and marring a woman with a Greek name (Korasi). […] Regardless, he is hoping to obtain some medical books from the loot of Aleppo and Damascus. [Verso 4-22:] He conveys news of family and friends.

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العلامات

• byzantium
• crusades
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: death
• (+ 11 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The second-person imperative form -gil also exists in some early Ottoman Turkish texts (Korkut Buğday, Literary Ottoman, 17). […] This construction seems to draw on the Uzbek and/or Chagatay dative case -ga, yielding the partial translation "I am on a trip," though the equivalent negation (as ולא) is missing along the paper tear. The dative suffix -ga is also repeated in l. 10 of the recto (חקינכא). […] (The Jews in Ottoman Egypt Until the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century/al-Yahūd fī Miṣr al-ʻUthmānīyah ḥattá awāʾil al-qarn al-tāsiʻ ʻashar, vol.

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Document date

3rd Nissan 1409 Seleucid (8 March 1098 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Goitein and Friedman (India Traders, 217) summarize the settlement as follows: The parties agreed that "Lebdi, or his representative, will deliver to David Ibn Sughmār in Alexandria two flasks of musk worth no less than 13 dinars." […] Finally, Lebdi's representative (Jacob al-Qalaʿī) will go to al-Mahdiyya and "clarify, by legal action, whether Judge Moses had sequestered 10 Murābiṭī and 10 al-Mahdiyya dinars."

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العلامات

• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib1
• india book

2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Document date

1090 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

These individuals are likely Abū l-Ḥasan Yaḥyā b. Shemuel ha-Kohen al-Baghdādī and Abū l-ʿAlā ʿUlla b. Yosef ha-Levi al-Dimashqī, who repeatedly release one another and rekindle their partnership in a number of documents in the Geniza corpus. […] The active partner is liable for losses at sea, a departure from the commenda model (see also the verso of T-S K25.153 (PGPID 9291) for an example).

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العلامات

• partnership
• ulla ha-levi

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1139–1139 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Netanel ha-Levi, in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 1139 CE. This fragment contains three different drafts of letters. […] He blames this on his wretched condition in the wake of his illnesses (v16–18) and the tribulations of his four-year journey to the Maghrib and to al-Andalus. In particular, he has been shaken by the deaths of his brother and the death of 'our diadem and crown and master and head' (v19–21); Goitein concludes that the references are to Ḥalfon's brother ʿEli and to the head of the Yeshiva, Maṣliah Gaon. Presumably, Ḥalfon wrote these drafts during the period he spent in Alexandria upon his return from the West to Egypt in April 1139 CE.

العلامات

• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: emotion
• (+ 2 المزيد)

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Moshe now asks the recipient to go to Abu 'Ali, who is to go to Sar Shalom and get the letter. Moshe is also worried about what Bu l-Khayr told him, namely that his brother Abu Ishaq has been beating the wife of his paternal uncle. […] He concludes, "As for Ibn al-Taffal, may God sort him." ASE.

العلامات

• abu sahl levi
• moshe b. levi
• sar shalom

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

last third of Adar 1428 Seleucid (25 February 1117–5 March 1117 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A woman whose name is not preserved bequeaths a house, part of which she owns, to another woman, Sitt al-Dar bt. Shaʾul, probably her daughter (or housekeeper?). […] Another part of the duwayra (small compound) was owned by al-ʿaniyim (the poor), i.e. by the qodesh. To prevent any loss to the qodesh, the recipient of the estate was forbidden to sell it to non-Jews or to build an additional floor over it. In case she sold it, the same restrictions would have to be applied to the purchaser. It is also stated that Sitt al-Dār will serve and care for her benefactor until her benefactor's death.

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العلامات

• gift
• heqdesh
• release

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

This letter/petition opens with a discussion of the least worthy among the patriarchs (the first line seems to be a reference to howAbraham, called Sayyid al-Kawnayn (! this is typically an epithet of Muḥammad), prayed for intercession on behalf of Lot, "the least worthy of the Avot; there is then mention of Esau); then mentions the superhuman humility of Moses especially at the time of Korah's rebellion. […] tarḥīm) for a deceased woman (al-marḥūma). If the addressee doesn't go along with the request, the sender threatens to harass him by sending 20 nobles and 20 commoners his way. He also mentions "the people of Cairo and Fustat." (Identification of the scribe kindly provided by Amir Ashur.)

العلامات

• tarhim

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1134–1134 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ḥasan did not send any merchandise to Egypt this year [in fact, that he did not sell any pepper this year] (r17–18); various Jewish merchants who reached Aden from Egypt this year, including Abū l-Ḥasan Ibn al-ʿAkkāwī, the son of Ibn al-ʿAfṣī, the son of Sibāʿ, [...] al-Mahdawī, and Ismāʿīl al-Maghribī, who brought good news about relations with the sultan (or government, r22–25); the arrival of two ships from India (r32); and Khalaf's six-month illness, from Tevet to Sivan (v8–10). Greetings are extended to colleagues in al-Qaṣṣ and Bharuch. Information in part from Goitein and Friedman.

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العلامات

• halfon-addenda
• ib-addenda
• ib2
• ib4
• illness
• (+ 2 المزيد)

3 نسخ ترجمات 3 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

, two bales of lac, the entirety of their proceeds after the musāmaḥa was [...]; also at his hand, two bales of pepper [...] Yaʿqūb b. […] The next entry refers to "that which I sold in the Dār": eleven bales of lac and three bales of pepper The next entry refers to "eighteen bales of lac and pepper," then "and also at the hand of the Dār" (bi-yad al-dār) five bales of lac and five of pepper "in partnership" (bi-khulṭa).

العلامات

• ib-addenda

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Levi became embarrassed by all the trouble Maimonides went to on his behalf, so he ran away. He also complains that he could not find any water with which to wash his hands. […] ENA 1810.2 and 1810.3, also written by Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi contain drafts of poetry in praise of Maimonides, several phrases of which are recycled in the present letter.

العلامات

• book trade
• moshe b. levi

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Bottom part only. Someone releases Sitt al-Ḥusn from all claims. Signed: Mordekhay b. Moshe ha-Kohen.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Eliyyahu to a scribe, also named Shelomo, in an urgent tone, to finish the copying of certain books including the targum of Kings and the targum of the haftarot.

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العلامات

• book trade
• note
• shelomo b. eliyyahu

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List of contributors. Yemeni. Mentions Mūsā al-Ḍāhirī and Yaḥyā al-Qāfiḥ among many other names.

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العلامات

• charity
• communal
• donors
• poverty

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Booklist including entries such as Kitāb al-Khalīqa, Kitāb Juʿrāfiyya (געראפיה = Geograph), Divrei ha-Yamim, Kunnāsh Bū Yaʿaqov, Kitāb al-Rasā'il.

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العلامات

• book trade

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ṣāliḥ to Abū l-Ṭayyib Sa'id reporting on transactions and asking for news of the addressee. Also asking for shipment of some flax.

العلامات

• flax
• trade

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

"We ask you, O master of existence (mālik al-wajūd), send us the guide of the Jews (murshid al-yahūd). . . ."

العلامات

• judaeo-arabic poetry

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

The sender is introduced as "the basest slave" (aqall al-mamālīk) and then "al-burhāniyya"(?). Reused for Hebrew literary text.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

27 Jumādā I 404 Hijrī (4 December 1013 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

One registration mark: al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ʿalā niʿamih.

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العلامات

• abu l-hasan b. wahb
• dimme
• fatimid
• tax receipt

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to Abū ʿAlīal-[..]n b. Sahl. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment.

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1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions wool and Yūsuf al-Ṣūrī and Passover. Possibly ʿAbd al-Salām.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Reused on recto for Hebrew piyyuṭ. On verso there are also piyyuṭ drafts and some jottings in Judaeo-Arabic.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر