Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yiṣḥaq; sums in dinars and wariq dirhams; quantities of khazz sillk; meat; and the term dhahab maghzūl which also appears in T-S Ar.30.34 (PGPID 20435). (Information in part from CUDL.)

العلامات

• account
• silk

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Moshe Maimonides, but Avraham II Maimonides also possible). Mentions a certain Shela. A woman sells a third of a property to somebody.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There are writing exercises in the margin (Arabic alphabet) and on verso (numerical values of Hebrew characters). Join: Alan Elbaum.

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Primary language

Hebrew

In the opening lines Shaykh Muḥ[ammad] al-Ḥamawī is referenced. The note is signed by David Abu al-___r[?].

العلامات

• early modern
• fgp stub
• late heb

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter mentioning the al-Shaykh al-Rashīd. Dating: late 12th or 13th century.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender describes his sorry state and probably asks for financial assistance. Also mentions condolences to Hibatallāh on the death of his daughter.

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Primary language

Hebrew

Small fragment probably from the end of a memorial list for ʿAmram he-Ḥasid the Pious and his son Moshe ha-Talmid he-Ḥasid. Also mentions someone ha-Bavli in the top line. AA/ASE

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Addressed to [...] b. Sulaymān(?) b. Khalaf al-Barqī. Mentioning Palermo or Sicily (סקיליה) and Khallūf al-Barqī.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Informal note addressed to al-Shaykh al-Rashīd Abū l-Ḥasan asking him for the favor of speaking to Abū Saʿd, "because he תגייר (converted?)

العلامات

• conversion

1 نسخ

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions someone's arrival from Alexandria to Bilbays. (Information in part from CUDL)

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Primary language

Arabic

Fragment from the fourth chapter of Revelations in Arabic. See now also Peter Tarras, "A fragment of the Book of Revelation in the TaylorSchechter Genizah Collection (T-S AS 177.202)," Collectanea Christiana Orientalia 20 (2023): 273–84.

العلامات

• arabic bible
• new testament

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Fragment of a letter in Arabic script. To Abū l-Barakāt al-Muʿammar b. Yūsuf al-Baghdādī. Only the upper margin on the front (verso) and the address on the back (recto) are preserved.

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Primary language

Arabic

There are headers referring to properties or landmarks: al-ṭāḥūn (the mill)... Darb al-Kharrāṭīn... ḥānūt (a shop).... ḥānūt....

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Primary language

Arabic

Informal note addressed to a certain Wuḥaysh (al-muʿallim Wuḥaysh ḥarasahū Allāh). In Arabic script.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Bilʿam (a very rare name); Asad; ʿAbd al-Karīm; al-Muʿallim; ʿAbdūn; Yosef; Hibatallāh.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions olives; Zayn; Ismāʿīl; al-[...] and his wife; Zayn al-Tujjār. Verso is in a different hand.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions taro (qulqās) and honey and possibly swords, unless this is also a food term. Another entry mentions "for the return to Istanbul."

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Primary language

Hebrew

Containing blessings for Yakhin ha-Sar (the same as in T-S 12.57 + T-S AS 150.23 (PGPID 3182)?) and also mentioning the title Yesod ha-Yeshiva and somebody's sons and two brothers.

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Torn fragment of a list of items, quantities, and prices, also some names such as ʿAbdallāh. Probably a list of debtors for commercial purposes.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Contains some unique entries such as כתאב פי אלחמש קראן פי רק מדהב = pentateuch (here קראן is מקרא) on a golden leaf. Also גזוין תורה בכט ערבי = Torah in an Arabic script.

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Court decision in the hand of Avraham Maimonides. Sulayman ha-Kohen al-Naqqad suspected the trustworthiness of al-Rasuy in matters of money, and the latter gave oath to the former.

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1

العلامات

• avraham maimonides

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Contains a rich account of communal controversy and highly unflattering descriptions of Eliyyahu the Judge. See also AIU VII.E.169.

العلامات

• capitation tax
• shemuel b. ya'aqov

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions the in-law of Yaʿaqov; Musallam; Abū Makhlūf; al-Kohen; Umm Yosef; "the gentiles" (al-goyim); ʿĀqila(?).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Listing various items (including marble, a mantle, a mat, a mill, and rulers) which were sold. Mentions Ibn Nissim, al-Parnas, and al-Sofer.

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1

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Primary language

Arabic

Mentions dates, sums of money, and names such as ʿUmar b. al-Ḥasan al-Hāshimī. ASE

العلامات

• ikhshidid

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Probably an account of state properties (amlāk). Contains an ʿalāma "Allāh Ḥawlī". The accounts are organized with months of the hijrī calendar followed by sums of money.

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Primary language

Arabic

There is writing on both sides. There is also a red splotch or drawing in the margin on verso (c.f.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew

Probably invocations or talismans for various purposes like keeping road bandits at bay "li-ṭarīq al-aʿdāʾ wa al-luṣūṣ taqūl".

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1 نسخ

Primary language

Arabic

Possibly an official letter in Arabic script. Mentions "min aṣḥāb al-mawlā Sayf al-Islām" and a place from the Upper Nile Delta, but the name is not preserved.

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

; a request; an orphan boy (al-ṣabiyy al-yatom); and Sar ha-[Sarim?], i.e., Mevorakh b.

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Inferred date

1140–1159 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

T-S AS 153.115 mentions someone titled החכם המעולה אב החכמה, likely referring to Sason (as the address on verso refers to him only as Av ha-Ḥokhma; the same epithet is also applied to the judge Efrayim b. Meshullam in T-S 16.9, l. 10). […] Also citing Ibn Sargado's commentary on Haʾazinu. […] Joins: Adiel Breuer (T-S Misc.29.44a and T-S 10J32.3) and Alan Elbaum (T-S AS 153.115 + T-S 6J10.11 + T-S AS 169.74).

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العلامات

• communal
• excommunication

1 نسخ 2 مناقشتان

Document date

First third of Elul 1458 Seleucid (30 July 1147–8 August 1147 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef, "the noble and generous," takes over the tax farming of al-Maḥalla al-Kubrā from Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa b. […] The declaration begins, "I had intended to take over the tax farming of al-Maḥalla al-Kubrā, which is in the hand of the elder Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa b. […] Moshe (the Jewish judge of al-Maḥalla in this period); and ʿAmram b. Yaʿaqov.

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1

العلامات

• 'amil
• damin
• debts
• diwan
• mushrif

2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Document date

3 Heshvan 1449 Seleucid (20 October 1137 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Khalaf had sent goods with Abū l-Yumn al-Maḥallī and Abū Zikrī al-Ṣāʾigh to Egypt for Abū ʿImrān Ibn Nufayʿ and at that time had asked Ḥalfon to help Abū ʿImrān with the sales and purchases (r17–23). […] Abū l-Yumn was going to return to Aden, but he fell ill in Qūṣ and had to return to Fustat, and Khalaf does not know his current condition. Abū Zikrī al-Ṣāʾigh is planning to travel on to the West. […] The letter continues with other business matters, including an update on the shipment of nard (sunbul) for Ḥalfon and his partner Mubārak al-Māliqī (i.e., from Malaga) that was detained in al-Qaṣṣ, evidently a location in NW India (r53–v3).

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2

العلامات

• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: marad
• (+ 1 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

It is not excluded that this one and Appendix B 33 and 64 originally formed one document. Abu al-Faraj the parnas is in charge of the the second distribution (which was made in two steps, col. […] This could hardly mean here, as in some other documents, that the garment had already been delivered to him, for about forty items, or half the total contained in this leaf, exhibit the Arabic final mem, which Goitein takes as an abbreviation of (tasalla)m, 'received' (the same in Appendix B 33, 64, and C 41). […] Other parnasim, mostly outsiders, or their relatives, receive clothing, for example, 'the sister of the parnas from Jerusalem' I l. 18, 'the firnas of Damietta' I:31, 'the parnas of Crete' II:6 (also crossed out), also II:1, IV:1 and 5. Note the large number of foreigners.

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العلامات

• charity
• clothing
• communal
• poverty
• recipients

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Eli ha-Kohen (identification based on comparison with DK 233.2), evidently in Jerusalem, to Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan b. Isḥāq al-Ṣārifī (!), in Fustat. The letter is in Judaeo-Arabic and the address is in Arabic. […] He adds, "Many people are ʿalā l-qibla." This phrase does not appear in the Judaeo-Arabic dictionaries. […] this word looks very much like קמיע but the reading is not certain) of Ibn al-Kohen to the addressee, along with a sealed letter from him.

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العلامات

• amulet
• arabic address
• epidemic
• epidemic: dever
• illness
• (+ 5 المزيد)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: A few lines in Hebrew mentioning the sale of riddles(?). See also the description for the whole notebook Bodl.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef ha-Kohen Rosh ha-Qahal (both are also mentioned in T-S 13J6.21, ca. 1100). Verso: Piyyutim

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter of extremely elaborate flattery and good wishes for Purim addressed to a Jewish dignitary (rayyis al-ru'asā). There are a few lines of Hebrew, then the rest (two folios) is in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions the mighty sultan and the amir Jamāl al-Dīn.

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Few words can be read, such as מתקאלי, זוזי. Also the verb ויהב, which suggest it might be a remnant of a ketubah, probably 10th-11th century.

العلامات

• ketubba
• marriage

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Primary language

Arabic

Listing the auspicious and inauspicious properties of every day of the month, e.g., which days are good for going before the court (al-dukhūl ʿalā l-sulṭān), which are good for different maladies.

العلامات

• arabic script
• prognostication

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Signed by Yaʿaqov b. Avraham (also signed BL OR 5551.1), Ḥiyya b. Yiṣḥaq, and Efrayim b.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yefet ha-Kohen and his divorcee al-Ḥasana bt. Moshe ha-Kohen, from Tinnīs. She releases him from something. Signed by A[...] and Yaʾir b. [...]. Join: Alan Elbaum.

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1 مناقشة

Written and signed by Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya. Also signed by Avraham b. Farah and Moshe b. ʿAmram (only full signatures recorded).

العلامات

• ketubba
• marriage

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A variety of names appear in the entries, but very few are complete due to damage: ʿIssa al-Khumsānī, al-Maghribī ʿA(bd)-Jawān Batush(?), among others.

العلامات

• list

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

She and her family are also suffering from poverty and difficult times.

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentioning "if the two of them provide for our funeral shroud/clothing" (fa-innahumā in kafanānā); also mentions the term istiḥlāf (making someone take a vow); most of the rest is legal boilerplate.

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Primary language

Arabic

A portion of a date and several names are mentioned, including one Jewish judge (Dāʾūd b. [...] al-Yahūdī al-Dayyān). It appears that verso was not photographed.

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