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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Order of payment signed by Abū Zikrī Kohen, ordering al-Shaykh Khalīl to pay half a raṭl of soap to the bearer. AA/ASE. Join: Alan Elbaum.

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العلامات

• abu zikri kohen
• cheque
• ib-addenda
• ib5
• order of payment

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Yehuda to an unidentified personality in Alexandria, approximately 1020 (?). Verso: Badly damaged text in a different hand to that on the recto.

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• shelomo b. yehuda

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Document date

5 Kislev 1519 Seleucid (27 November 1207 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Written and signed by Moshe b. Elʿazar. Also signed by Avraham b. Hillel b. Ṣadoq Av. Location: Cairo. […] Buyer: Ḥasan/Yefet ha-Levi known as Ibn al-Batnūnī (אלבתנוני). Price: 21 dinars. (Information in part from Goitein’s index card and from Craig Perry.)

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العلامات

• slaves

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Written on vellum spanning two leaves (and three pages) that already contained literary text in Hebrew. The first page of the letter is on a blank verso and the ending of the letter takes up the lower margin of both recto and verso of the second leaf. […] The writer urges the addressee not to distance himself from them, and also asks for a maqṭaʿ (cloth). (Information in part from Goitein's note card.)

العلامات

• fingerprints
• loopy lamed

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Document date

24 Elul 4997 Anno Mundi (15 September 1237 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from the tailor Yaʿaqov b. Ṭahor to Yehuda al-Ḥalabī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 24 Elul (4800 +) 197 AM = 4997 AM, which is 1237 CE (the numbers for 4800 are implicit in letters from this period). […] Ḥananel (the father-in-law of Avraham Maimonides [d. 1237], who is also referred to in the document as 'our lord').

العلامات

• 4800
• dating tricks
• maimonides

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yaʿqūb b. Salmān al-Ḥarīrī, Tripoli (al-Shām), to Nahrāy b. Nissīm, Fusṭāṭ. […] Goitein dates the letter to seven weeks before T-S 8J19.27 (PGPID 7670), approximately 458–59/1066 (Goitein, Letters of Medieval Jewish Traders, 46n2), during the shidda al-ʿuzma in Egypt, when traders were eager to secure whatever food they could: "You know the times we are in, do not delay, these are difficult times."

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العلامات

• cotton
• figs
• shidda
• trade

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The money is to be sent with al-Shaykh al-Rashīd Abū l-Fakhr, the brother of [Sayyid?] al-Ahl the Blind. (Information in part from Goitein's note card)

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العلامات

• book trade
• disability
• disability: vision

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Document date

Ṭevet 1525 Seleucid (15 December 1213–12 January 1214 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Lessee: Abū l-Baqāʾ b. Yefet al-Kohen. The terms of the rent are laid down. The house is in the alleyway of the domed mosque (Darb Masjid al-Qubba).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Khallūf makes a claim on the inheritance of Ibrāhīm b. ʿAllān. The document is fragmented, so it is tricky to figure out what is happening. […] Ismāʿīl"; Khallūf b. Yehuda; Yaʿaqov; ʿAllān; Efrayim; and again ʿAllān. On verso there is some literary text in Hebrew and a tiny fragment of a separate Judaeo-Arabic document (ʿindahu... danānīr...)

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Mardūk b. Mūsā, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1045 CE, based on Gil's assessment. The handwriting is that of Yaʿaqov b. Salmān al-Ḥarīrī, and the letter switches to his voice starting in line v2.

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العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: letter norms
• illness: waja'
• nahray b. nissim
• (+ 1 المزيد)

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Arabic

Original use: Two lines from a petition or report about property rights, mentioning an alley (zuqāq) in Fustat and something under the name of al-qāḍī al-sadīd and a 'mound' (kawm) that belongs by rights to the petitioner.

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العلامات

• petition
• pinholes
• rights
• to edit

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Primary language

Arabic

At the bottom: the end of the name of a caliph [...] Allāh Amīr al-Muʾminīn, then prayers for him and his family, then the name [...] b. […] The next word looks like "متوليي", so possibly a dual, referring to two directors of the Dīwān al-Kharāj (which is the next phrase).

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Primary language

Arabic

Note in Arabic script addressed to [al-]shaykh ʿUmar at Raʾs al-Khalīj ("the head of the canal"; there is apparently a site just south of Fustat with this name), "may God preserve him." As soon as he receives this note, he should assist the bearer Abū Saʿd the banker for the amīr (ṣayrafī lil-amīr al-makhdūm). The addressee should accompany him and diligently help him find a boat to rent passage in.

العلامات

• dimme
• pinholes

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Beginning of a petition -tarjama, basmala, formulae, on the right side 4 lines diagonally- from a Jewish woman (al-mamlūka [...] Abū l-Majd Ibn al-Ḥaver). In Arabic script. She seems to be trying to fend off a man who wants to marry her but who already has a wife and children. In the margin, she quotes from the Torah "the son of my sister took my right...".

العلامات

• dimme
• petition
• tarjama
• woman

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

The sender is worried about the condition of the addressee and describes his anxiety over it in several instances (wa-qalbī muḥarraq/muḥraq... ʿalayk... wa-khawfī ʿalayk min an thanat(?) lahu wajhhaha idh yanāl minka...). He mentions the fear of the government over him (lak khawf al-sulṭān) and urges the addressee to listen to him (...qubūl qawlī wa-l-iṣghāʾ ilayhi).

العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Many valuable goods are listed along with their values, including wristbands (dastaynaq) and lapis lazuli (lāzaward). […] Unclear if the Hebrew script in between the lines of Arabic script on verso is part of the same document or a different one. See also T-S 13J33.11 + ENA NS I.23 (PGPID 35755).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dammūhī; David Jabbān; Raḥamim; Yūnus; al-Qāʾid; ʿAbd Allāh; Ibn al-Ghazzawī; ʿAṭiyya.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

It seems that after the sender left the addressee, the police (al-rājil) apprehended him. (Also mentions the cold, but the context isn't clear.)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Tells a long story on recto concerning a eunuch, the amir Murhaf al-Dawla, the king, and someone named al-Numayrī, and someone and "his slave who is his wife." […] Probably an indirect join (identified by Alan Elbaum): ENA NS 48.28 (PGPID 12161) and T-S 12.405 (PGPID 3155).

العلامات

• amir
• army
• eunuch

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Primary language

Arabic

Yehuda to the newly appointed caliph al-Mustanṣir billāh, listing the prerogatives the gaʾon has enjoyed for the past eleven years of his tenure. […] Goitein writes that the script and style are identical with those of T-S NS 320.45, and also that Halper 354 "is the most important Geniza document found thus far illustrating the official position of the Jerusalem Gaonate within the Muslim state."

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العلامات

• dimme
• investiture
• katb shahada
• petition
• state
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto (secondary use): Order of payment to Abu al-Surur Kohen, probably Abu al-Surur Farah b. Yeshua ha-Kohen, from Abu Zikri (Yehuda b. Yosef ha-) Kohen of 13 and a half dirhams for almonds. Both men were involved in the India trade.

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العلامات

• ib5
• india book
• order of payment

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Document date

Shaʿbān 1240 Hijrī (21 March 1825–18 April 1825 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Appears to be a receipt for a sum collected 'from all of the households... from the heads of the (Jewish) sects in al-Maḥrūsa (Fustat/Cairo).' The name Yosef Gershon (يوصف قرشون/יוסף גירשון) appears, and he may be identified as the head of the Jewish sect (shaykh ṭāʾifat al-yahūd). There is a stamped seal at the bottom that may be legible.

العلامات

• seal

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

1358 Seleucid (4 September 1046–23 September 1047 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Legal document in which Ḥusn bt. Yaḥyā ibn al-Zūrīqā, wife of Abū Naṣr Shelomo b. Saʿadya b. […] Ḥusn's daughter Jalīla bt. Shelomo is also mentioned. Dated: 1358 Seleucid = 1046/47 CE.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions logistics regarding ships; someone named [...] al-Fāsī; flax; someone named al-ʿArīf; intending to travel this year; Abū Isḥāq Avraham b. [...]; pepper; a merchant known as al-Wādiyashī (from Guadix, maybe the same as in T-S 20.4, T-S 20.122, T-S 18J3.13, ENA NS 18.24, and IOM D 55.14); and the sender's cousin (ibn ʿamm) [Abū] Zakariyyā Yehuda.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

It is not clear what the notation means: an unnamed person? an addition to the allotment of someone named? The fourth row consists of distributions with total 4 1/4. Names include Bishr, Abū Isḥāq, Abū Manṣūr, Maḥāsin, Yosef Levi, Yaʿqūb, Abū ʿAlī, Abū l-Khayr b. al-Thiqa, and Fuḍayl. (Translated by Goitein, Sidre hinnukh, 192, p. 60)

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Document date

Av 1371 Seleucid (1 July 1060–30 July 1060 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Abū Saʿd Mufarrij b. Iṣḥāq al-Ṣabbāgh known as Ibn נקרש al-Ramlī releases Abū Bishr Sulaymān b. David known as ʿAjlūn al-Qazzāz from a debt of 4 + 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 dinars according to a ruqʿa dated Shawwāl 451 AH (= November 1059 CE).

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العلامات

• vocalized ja

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Document date

7 Heshvan 1420 Seleucid (14 October 1108 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Betrothal deed between Nathan ha-Levi b. Isaac and Sitt al-Bayt bat Nathan ha-Parnas from Cairo. Dated: 7 Marḥešvan 1420 of the Seleucid Era (= 1108 CE). […] Written and signed by the clerk Moses ha-Levi b. David, also signed by Ṣemaḥ ha-Levi b. Jacob and ʿAmram b.

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العلامات

• betrothal

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Left part of a letter from Nahray b. Nissim, who also wrote the letter enquiring about commercial matters and conveying greetings. […] Verso contains illegible lists in the hand of al-Tāhartī (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #259) VMR

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العلامات

• flax
• nahray b. nissim
• trade

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

4826 Anno Mundi (3 September 1065–22 September 1066 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Nahray sends two witnesses (the narrator and ʿAmmār b. Farrāḥ al-Iṭrābulsī) to his in-law Abū ʿAlīal-Kohen, promising to pay him 1 dinar per month for the part of the house which may exceed one sixth.

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العلامات

• court record
• nahray b. nissim

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: letter from Binyām to Abū Saʿīd al-ʿAfṣī concerning business matters regarding commodities such as tamarind (tamar hindī) and pomegranate flowers (jullanār). Mentions people including Musallam b. Ayyūb (appears also in the upper right fragment under BL OR 13153.4/2 (PGPID 19172)).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yahaboy, probably in Amalfi, to a partner, in al-Mahdiyya. Dating: ca. 1040. Describes a long sea voyage that lasted about 70 days on board a Christian ship. The journey probably started in Alexandria and went through Constantinople, Crete and Amalfi.

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العلامات

• amalfi
• christians
• flax
• indigo
• italy
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender informs him that the money he sent for the capitation tax payment was finally deposited with Abū l-Maḥāsin Ibn al-Munajjim who issued a written note (ruqʿa) to that effect to the addressee's name. Also, some items he had sent by the Christian had reached them.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter consisting of a long list of Ḥanukka greetings and well-wishes to dozens of people, including Abū l-Riḍā and his siblings, the recipient’s mother, the paternal cousin of the recipient and her child, her sister, to Sitt al-ʿAyyāl and her child, Sitt al-Jalīla, Sitt Yāqūt, the recipient’s maternal uncle Abū Saʿd, Abū l-ʿAlā and his father, Abū l-Faraj and his father, Yaʿqūb/Yaʿaqov and Ṭāhir.

العلامات

• coptic numerals

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Farrāḥ, Fustat, to [ ] b. Isḥạq b. ʿAlī Majjānī in Alexandria. Mentions an ullaba (container) holding bible codices, details about a commercial shipment and a discussion with the owner of a boat.

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العلامات

• 11th c
• nahray b. nissim
• trade

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

The addressee appears also in T-S Misc.28.168. The letter concerns trade with Venice, where scammony (אשקמוניאה) is in high demand. […] Mentions Rabbi Moshe D'Larya of Safed, who is the representative of 'the holy congregation of Turkey'; Yehuda Masʿūd; and Yaʿaqov Albo. Dated Sunday 29 Adar. (Information from CUDL and A.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Monday, 6 Shevaṭ 4716 Anno Mundi (21 January 956 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Signed by at least thirteen witnesses, all in very shaky hands. The Kohen signs first, then the Levi. […] Appears to have been torn and reused as the cover page for a literary volume, as verso has an ownership note for 'this daftar,' and a title: Alfāẓ Tafsīr wa-Ghayruh (sounds like a miscellany partly consisting of a biblical commentary) of ʿAmram b. Moshe al-Maghribī.

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Ḥeshvan 5139 Anno Mundi (23 October 1378–20 November 1378 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Sar Shalom b. Avraham b. Yaʿaqov (all of the male ancestors are designated as physicians). Reused on verso for a list of names with sums in two columns (see separate record). There is also a medical or technical recipe. (Information in part from S.

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العلامات

• bill of sale
• real estate

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Document date

Thursday, 24 Sivan 1416 Seleucid (8 June 1105 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Statement in which Shelomo b. Avraham al-ʿAssāl (the honey maker) asks that his wife Nāshiya bt. Shemuel ha-Kohen should receive a divorce deed from his brother in case he dies and she has to marry him in a levirate marriage. Also signed by ʿEli b. Yosef ha-Kohen. (Information from CUDL and Goitein's index card.)

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Letter from Nissim b. Yishaq al-Tāhartī. Around 1057. The letter was probably from Susa to Fustat and it contains the account of Musa b. Barhun al-Tāhartī after his death. The writer calls Musa “al-Marhum” – the one who has God’s mercy, a phrase that is taken from the Muslim culture.

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