Documents

Primary language

Hebrew

Fragment of a late court record regarding partnership between 3 partners: Avraham Almosnino (sp. Almoslino?), Netanel Rozo and Yosef Barukh.

العلامات

• late heb

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Written at 180 degrees in Arabic script, twice: Abū Manṣūr al-Tustarī al-Kātib.

العلامات

• al-tustari

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mainly piyyuṭ. Verso also has several entries of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.

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1

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions transactions in Alexandria. Merits further examination.

Related People

1

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1

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

The groom is Yefet, and the bride Sirwa (or perhaps Surūr[a]). There is also someone named Iyyov/Ayyūb. These pieces do not join directly.

العلامات

• qaraites

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1014–1014 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Opening of a legal deed from Aleppo. Mentions Elḥanan Rosh ha-Seder b. [Shemarya?].

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1

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

According to FGP it is a poem with end rhyme referring to `thousand shoes and `two brass lamps' but it might be also a fragment of a list of items. One of the lines opens with: "and the city of copper" (ומדינת אלנחאס).

العلامات

• copper

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Probably a marriage contract. Mentions ʿAskar b. ʿAlī b. Faraj al-Maghribī in the first line. There are additional notes in the upper margin and on verso.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions a wasaṭ garment; Alexandria (spelled סכנדריה); [not] being able to go out; great distress (shughlun ʿaẓīm); something good that happened (khayrun ʿaẓīm); and noble (jiyād) Jews.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Adar 1451 Seleucid (22 January 1140–20 February 1140 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from ʿAmram b. Yiṣḥaq, in Alexandria, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi, in Fustat. […] She was treated for “the obstruction of the heart (inqifāl al-qalb) mentioned by al-Rāzī in the Manṣūrī,” but the medicine only made matters worse.

Related Places

1

العلامات

• ib-partial translation-heb
• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• (+ 8 المزيد)

4 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Document date

last third of Shevaṭ 1448 Seleucid (15 January 1137–24 January 1137 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

They concern a rent agreement between Sitt al-Nās (the lessor) and Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī (the lessee / mustaʾjir). […] Verso: The body of the document refers to the year 533 AH = September 1138 – September 1139 CE. It also refers to a period of three years, so the 533 date is probably the end of the 3-year lease.

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2

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Small fragment of a legal document, also in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, written on the back of the ketubba, dealing with money which was not included in an inheritance. Beginning of date preserved: 14__ (Seluecid); given the alef after and knowing Ḥalfon's lifetime, this likely dates to the 1440's (1128-1138 CE).

Related People

1

العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe
• inheritance
• ketubba
• real estate

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to Sitt Shaʿl, in Dār al-Nāqa, Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. The handwriting is distinctive, with stylized loops at the end of all the descenders. […] I know that the community will not let me leave the town, and also there will be a pesiqa on the holiday. Give to Abū l-Murajjā Sālim your relative the goods that you cannot carry, and send your sister's jar (zīr) with the bearer of this letter so that he can treat himself with it{s contents} (?

العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: bloodletting
• illness: treatment
• to edit

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shemaʿya are parties in a debt settlement. Mentions 13 dinars. Also a testimony on the arrival of Barukh b. Yiṣḥaq from Aleppo to Egypt.

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3

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1

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1

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document. Location: al-Maḥalla (בעיר אלמחלה הגדולה הסמוכה לצען). Dating: Likely late 11th century, based on the reference to the court of David ha-Nasi ha-Gadol (=David b. […] The validation is signed by the scribe Yosef b. Moshe ha-Levi (also the scribe for the main document?); Yaʿaqov b. [...] ha-Kohen; and [...] b. […] The document itself concerns ʿĀliya bt. Yosef ha-Kohen Peqid ha-Soḥarim and Yeshuʿa b.

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1

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Their mother is going to pay a visit to Sitt 'Abid, Sitt Aqran, while their father is going to pay a visit to Abu ‘Ali and al-As‘ad (family members of ‘Imrān’s wife?)[…] IV,27.2) and Abu Sahl (in T-S 8J24.1) both send regards to al-Shaykh al-Yesod in Qalyub. ASE.

العلامات

• circumcision
• paper
• yedutun ha-levi

2 نسخين

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Note from a sick man to a physician, it seems beseeching him to assist an older family member who is also sick. "By the Law, if I revealed the state of my master (father?)[…] By God, act with me for the sake of Heaven and have mercy on me." It is also possible that the sickness/medicine/physician references here are metaphorical, and this is primarily an appeal for charity due to poverty — in this case, the orders of payment on verso might be the affirmative response to this appeal for help.

العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: physician

1 نسخ

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).

Related Places

1

Related Documents

1

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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4

العلامات

• alexandria
• court record
• inheritance
• sicily

1 نسخ

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.)

Related People

2

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1

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.

Related People

3

Related Places

2

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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1

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2

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2

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

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

I have / she has perished, we are all prostrated, I have no one to go out and bring me anything, and (your) kindness will not be lost on God the exalted. […] for me from the hospital (al-maristān) palm ointment (marham nakhlī, cf. T-S 8J20.26 and Yevr.[…] I salute/greet you (qaraʾtu ʿalaykaal-salām)." ASE

العلامات

• bath
• hospital
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: household
• (+ 4 المزيد)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

He refers to the arrival of goods from Fanṣūr (=present-day Barus in NW Sumatra); to a trader in Malabar (Malībar), to his own meeting with Abū l-Maʿālī b. Abū ʿAlī Ibn al-Amshāṭī in Shingli (شنجلي) (present-day Kodungallur), and to how Abū l-Maʿālī gave him a power of attorney to collect goods on his behalf in Aden. Other names mentioned are Abū ʿImrān Ibn Nufayʿ (well-known from the published India Book documents, although from the first half of the 12th century - PG), al-Fāsī, possibly Bū Ṣāliḥ Mūsā, and Maḍmūn b.

Related People

1

Related Places

3

العلامات

• ib-addenda
• india book unedited
• shingli

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

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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5

العلامات

• maqama
• popular literature
• to edit

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Refers to "Wednesday the 4th of Ṣafar" (l. 5) and then provides a technical description of the configurations of Mars (Mirrīkh), Saturn (Zuḥal), the sun, Leo (al-Asad), Jupiter (al-Mushtarī), and Venus (al-Zuhra) (ll. 6–9): المريخ غايب عن زحل مقبول من الشمس لكون . . . […] "cold" (bārid) and "money" (al-māl). In l. 12: "this day is superior to Monday, the 9th of Ṣafar."

العلامات

• astrology

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

One of the parties is referred to as al-Rayyis, and another is al-Sharīf. Somebody travels, and somebody has a male child, and somebody dies. In l. 10 a woman is introduced (al-mamlūka). She seems to be demanding her ketubba payment (kitābhā wa-ḥaqqhā). […] Needs further examination. Join: Alan Elbaum

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

so that he or she can pay the rest of the capitation tax (al-jāliya). Refers to a two-cubit piece of cloth (khirqa dhirāʿayn fa-armūhā maʿa al-[...]...). The sender mentions that someone came and informed them about the sickness of 'the little one' (al-ṣaghīra). In the margin there is an instruction to ask after someone's daughters (banāthā) and about Abū Saʿd and the receipt for the capitation tax (barāʾat al-jāliya).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

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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7

Related Places

1

Related Documents

1

العلامات

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

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

States that future claims will be void, "whether verbal or written, whether in Hebrew documents or Persian documents." Similar formulae also appear in 10th-century legal documents (e.g., T-S 16.56 and T-S 12.496, and there is a good chance that other languages were listed at the beginning of the next line of this document, which is missing). […] Based on the reference to "distillation" (taqṭīr), these are probably instructions for making perfume or alcohol, or at least some (al)chemical process. This fragment is uncited in the literature.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef Ibn Yiju), in Alexandria, to an unidentified addressee, in Fustat. […] This fragment (lower half of recto, upper half of verso) begins in medias res: the sender is writing about his time with some community, probably near Minyat Zifta; he describes a circumcision that was done on Shabbat; the sender organized a drive (pesiqa) for "the female captives"; and he found the congregation impoverished (fa-wajadtu l-[qaw]m fī ḥāl ṣaʿb... baqā al-jamāʿa ʿaniyyim marudim) on account of the ḍamān incumbent on them (a guarantee they had undertaken? […] It was resolved to inform "our Rabbi" (likely Moshe Maimonides) about all this, and the Parnas went to do that. The sender awaits (the Parnas's?

Related People

2

Related Places

3

العلامات

• captives
• circumcision
• damin
• pesiqa
• poverty
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 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.

Related Places

1

العلامات

• charity
• clothing
• communal
• poverty
• recipients

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

One of these people is also the son of Ṭoviyya.

Related People

1

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

The former at least is signed by a Shabbetay who also gives the name of his city (קיריכטו?). See folio 26 for the probable dating.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions the arrival of a certain Salmān, mentions al-Ashmunayn, Abū Yaʿqūb al-Ḥarīrī. Fragmentary and difficult to read.

Related People

1

Related Places

1

العلامات

• al-ashmunayn
• aodeh
• nahray b. nissim

2 نسخين

Primary language

Arabic

Literary work entitled Ṣifat al-Mulūk. In Arabic script. It gives a census of the tribes of the jinn (72 tribes in all, including Muslims, Jews, Christians, Zoroastrians, Samaritans, Sudanese and Persian, etc.) and descriptions of the kings of the jinn.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: 11th or early 12th century. Mentions Abū l-Ṭāhir; al-Ṣayrafī; Ibn al-Rubāʿī(?); Abū Yiṣḥaq; Tamīm.

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