Documents

Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: List of "those who have not received their share" (al-bāqiyyīn bi-lā akhdh), i.e., in the distribution of wheat. […] The neglected people listed were mostly outsiders, either foreigners (Rum/Byzantium, Persia, Jerusalem, Barqa, etc.) or from Egypt itself (Alexandria, al-Mahalla, Minyat Ghamr, Benha, Damira, Dakarnas).

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العلامات

• charity
• communal
• list
• poverty
• recipients
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Adar 4794 Anno Mundi (23 January 1034–21 February 1034 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mūsā in Palermo and of his brother Sahlūn in Alexandria. Mūsā b. Yaʿaqov presented to the court in Fusṭāṭ an earlier document issued by a court in Qayrawān on Wednesday, 20 Elul 4792 (1032). […] Yaʿaqov Ṭarābulusī was authorized to govern the inheritance. It also contained a statement of Yaʿaqov b. Mūsā’s widow that she had no claims to the inheritance.

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العلامات

• alexandria
• court record
• inheritance
• sicily

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a woman to her husband (ṣāḥib al-bayt). In Judaeo-Arabic. After the greetings, which include wishes for the husband's recovery from illness, she continues, "Don't ask what I suffered on the road due to riding. […] Your father certainly quarreled with me in the middle of al-Muṣāṣa (a neighborhood in Fustat), and not all that was said needs to be repeated. […] He (it seems one of her own family members) said to me, 'Divorce him, and I will take care of all that is necessary.' Now, if I divorce you. . . ."

العلامات

• divorce
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: marad
• illness: travel
• (+ 3 المزيد)

1 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a woman, probably in Alexandria, to her paternal uncle. In Judaeo-Arabic. […] Despite the difficulties, she also mentions that the family has received a shipment of merchandise.

العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: despair
• illness: emotion
• illness: women's
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

13 Tishrei 1510 Seleucid (15 October 1198 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Deed of manumission (geṭ shiḥrur) for an enslaved slave woman named Saʿāda, manumitted by the trader Abū l-Maʿālī b. Khalaf al-Levi al-Dajājī. Location: Fustat. Dated: 13 Tishrei 1510 Seleucid (15 October 1198 CE). […] Saʿadya ha-Levi (ca. 1165–1203). Also signed by Menashshe b. Yosef. (Information in part from Moshe Yagur via FGP.)

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العلامات

• freedwoman
• manumission
• slaves

1 نسخ

Document date

Thursday, 2 Av 1461 Seleucid (27 July 1150 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The property is a ground floor (qāʿa) and mezzanine (mustaraqa) belonging to a famous house located in the Zuwayla quarter in Cairo, the street of the Slavs (Darb al-Saqāliba), across from the oven. Lessor: Sitt al-Ahl bt. Ibrāhīm known as Ibnat bint al-Wuḥsha (i.e., the granddaughter of the famous Wuḥsha), the wife of Abū l-Maʿrūf Ṣedaqa b. […] Lessee: Abū Naṣr b. Sulaymān al-ʿAṭṭār (the druggist). The period of the lease is 8 years, and Abū Naṣr will pay 40 dinars total, coming out to 5 dinars a year or 10 qirats a month.

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العلامات

• renovation

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Kislev 1411 Seleucid (November 1099–December 1099 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Record detailing the action of a court in Fustat in preparing a claim to an estate in Aleppo, made by a man name Sālimو residing in Fustat. The man’s uncle was from Aleppo and died in Akko; having never been married, his heirs included two brothers and this nephew from a deceased third brother.

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Document date

1 Av [4]833 Anno Mundi (8 July 1073 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Power of attorney. Location: Zawīlat al-Mahdiyya, Tunisia. Monday, 1 Av [4]833 AM, which is July 1073 CE. In which the Qaraite Abū Saʿd Isḥāq b. Khalaf b. ʿAllūnal-Kātib al-Miṣrī gives to Ḥassūn b. Abū l-Faraj Mahdawī the right to act on his behalf and recover a long list of household utensils, which Abū Saʿd had left with Sittūna bt.

العلامات

• ib-addenda

1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Letter in Arabic script from a blind man, Barakāt al-Jiblī, to the man with whom his son Ḥassūn lives, Sābiq al-Kohen b. […] The purpose of the letter is to rebuke Sābiq: "I think of you what I think of my son Ḥassūn, namely, that I have written him many letters and not received a single response. All this time he has not thought of me or inquired about my health (iftaqad ḥālī) at all.

العلامات

• arabic script
• disability
• disability: vision
• distant son
• elder neglect
• (+ 5 المزيد)

1 نسخ 2 مناقشتان

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

"gardens and waterwheels... mosques and synagogues...") which could either be humor or incomplete context. There is also a damaged section mentioning geographical names including Samarqand, Khorasan, Baghdad, China, Barqa, עמאוריה (= ʿAmmūriyya?)[…] T-S 10J28.6v contains a section from the same context but in a second hand (whereas both sides of T-S K25.261 and 10J28.6r are all in the same hand). (Information in part from Goitein's index card.) Indirect join: Alan Elbaum.

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العلامات

• maqama
• popular literature
• to edit

1 مناقشة

Document date

middle third of Av 1481 Seleucid (25 July 1170–3 August 1170 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Legal document. Location: al-Maḥalla. Dated: middle third of Av 1481 Seleucid (= July/August 1170 CE), with the signing delayed until the middle third of Elul 1481 Seleucid (= August/September 1170 CE). […] In particular: Hiba b. Elʿazar appointed al-Shaykh al-Thiqa [...] b. Yehuda ha-Kohen Keter ha-Kohanim as his agent to sell his female slave Nasrīn. […] Interestingly at least two of these witnesses (Aharon and Shemarya) were active in Fustat rather than al-Maḥalla based on their other Geniza documents.

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العلامات

• al-mahalla
• bara'a
• captives
• communal
• legal
• (+ 3 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On recto, the parnas Sālim al-Jubaylī makes a first-person declaration making a case for his lack of liability in the loss of the 10,000 dinars that many Jews had deposited in the synagogue ('miqdash') of Fustat under his stewardship. […] On verso, there is a declaration by witnesses in support of Sālim al-Jubaylī. "Needless to say, the great pillage of Fustat in 1168, nahb misr (referred to also as the affliction, nawba, or burning), the last notorious demonstration of Fatimid impotence, is reflected in the Geniza.

العلامات

• catastrophe
• nahb
• pillage
• violence

1 مناقشة

Document date

1451 Seleucid (1139–1140 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: 1451 Seleucid, which is 1139/40 CE. Four fragments altogether, three of which being in the hand of the scribe of T-S K15.48, part one. They are headed by the parnas Abū ʿAlī b. Barukh, receiving a muqaddar, and the shomer Abū l-Surūr allotted a shuqqa. All the remaining forty whose names are preserved get a jūkhāniyya.

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العلامات

• charity
• clothing
• communal
• poverty
• recipients

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

One of these people is also the son of Ṭoviyya.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Alms list (probably), fragmentary. Names include Sutayt, Abū l-ʿAlā, the wife of the ger, Mūsā, Abū Naṣr, Umm Khulayf, the acquaintance of the astrologer (munajjim) and his acquaintance.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to Sitt al-Khayr. It seems that the writer had learned that Sitt al-Khayr's daughter was going to get married and expresses her expectation in the letter to receive an invitation.

العلامات

• personal

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Ibrāhīm and the 'addressee' is a Fatimid dignitary titled Fāris al-Dawla wa-Ḥusāmuhā. Reads, in part, ḥadrat mawlaya al-shaykh.

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العلامات

• fatimid officials

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Persian

On ENA 2627.81 there are also some account in a different hand mentioning Elazar Yehudi.

العلامات

• judaeo-persian

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Persian

On ENA 2627.81 there are also some account in a different hand mentioning Elazar Yehudi.

العلامات

• judaeo-persian

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A certain Maymūn appeared before the court on the 17th of Av. Also mentions [...] b. Dunash ha-Rav.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

575 raṭl" and line 6 on the recto may mention Alexandria.

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العلامات

• alexandria
• pepper

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Verso: Remnants of a state document (two lines partially preserved, wide line spacing) mentioning Alexandria. In the large blank space someone has practiced writing لا several times.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

One of the witnesses is al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. ʿ[...].

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer requests someone's urgent attendance in Cairo; mentions al-Kohen al-Shaykh Muwaffaq; mentions a tarsīm (fee for house arrest?).

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العلامات

• tarsim

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to a certain Abu Ibrahim Ishaq, dated in the month of Marheshvan (the rest of the date is missing), and mentioning equipment of a weaver's shop, including components of a loom. The author also conveys personal regards from Yeshu'a and Musa.

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions people such as [...] al-Iskandarānī and Ibn al-Maṭar.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

indicating that when someone arrived (or arrives?) in Alexandria, something something "to our master Shemuel ha-Nagid."

العلامات

• shemuel b. hananyah

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Coptic

Bifolio containing a portion of the (previously unknown) Bohairic version of the Mystery of the Greek Letters, a work otherwise known in Greek, Sahidic, and Arabic. Join: Alan Elbaum. Identification of the text and confirmation of the join kindly provided by Alin Suciu.

العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر