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Primary language

Hebrew

Mention Ḥannuka and lighting the Shabbat candles; evidently this is when the messenger of the governor came and the trouble started. Also mentions some names, including Ibn al-Maṣmūdī.

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Document date

Kislev 1459 Seleucid (27 October 1147–25 November 1147 CE)

The woman is probably named Sitt al-Fakhr bt. Abū l-Faraj Mikhaʾel ha-Meshorer. The man is probably named Abū l-Ṭāhir Shemuel b. […] (A previous description listed his profession as al-kaḥḥāl, but it is not clear where this is written.) Sitt al-Fakhr receives a piece of real estate in Fustat in מחרם עמאר.

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Document date

5th Tevet 1339 Seleucid (13 December 1027 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Court record in which the orphan Avraham b. Shemuel al-Andalusi brings his guardians for the second time to court demanding they deliver a balance. […] (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, pp. 294, 295.) See also T-S 20.60 (PGPID 3555) and T-S 8J4.3.2 + AIU VII.D.4 + T-S 8J4.3 + T-S 13J5.1 (PGPID 2121).

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العلامات

• register

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Document date

Tammuz 5404 Anno Mundi (5 July 1644–2 August 1644 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated in one of the diagonal entries in the middle of the recto: Tammuz 5404 AM (1644 CE), but the exact day is illegible along a paper fold. The accounts are detailed and well-preserved enough that there may be an Islamic-calender year equivalent on the recto or verso (one of the entries gives the month Muḥarram). There are also few blocks of text in paragraph form. One entry on the recto mentions Cairo's Nile port of Būlāq.

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العلامات

• 16th or 17th c
• early modern
• late synagogues

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Abū l-Faraj; asks the addressee to help al-Shaykh al-Rashīd in some legal dispute on behalf of the writer, because that would save the writer the trouble of traveling and the exhaustion; mentions Sayyidnā al-Rayyis and Shelomo and R.

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Primary language

French

The Mosseris were a famous Cairene banking family,[2] which may give a sense of who could afford to have invitations professionally printed in the late nineteenth century. French documents are also rare in the Genizah,[3] but someone – a young Mosseri being the likely culprit – has re-used the back of these invitations to practice the Hebrew alphabet."

العلامات

• 19th c
• french
• mosseri
• printed

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The Mosseris were a famous Cairene banking family,[2] which may give a sense of who could afford to have invitations professionally printed in the late nineteenth century. French documents are also rare in the Genizah,[3] but someone – a young Mosseri being the likely culprit – has re-used the back of these invitations to practice the Hebrew alphabet."

العلامات

• 19th c
• french
• mosseri
• printed

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

The Mosseris were a famous Cairene banking family,[2] which may give a sense of who could afford to have invitations professionally printed in the late nineteenth century. French documents are also rare in the Genizah,[3] but someone – a young Mosseri being the likely culprit – has re-used the back of these invitations to practice the Hebrew alphabet."

العلامات

• 19th c
• french
• mosseri
• printed

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Nissim in Fustat, probably to Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī in Būsīr, ca. 1053. Nahray sends details of various sales in Fustat and of related payments. […] Some of this money was given to the son of raʾs al-galut instead, whom Gil identifies as David b. […] On verso there are illegible accounts in the hand of Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, p. 744.)

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العلامات

• charity
• exilarch
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• nahray b. nissim
• (+ 3 المزيد)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions: Ibn al-Rayyis Abū l-B[arakāt] (=Shelomo b. Eliyyahu); the addressee's sister; "he does not read and does not pray[…] "; "the inflamed eye, and I have remained..."; "from al-Rayyis Eliyya (=Eliyyahu the Judge) all that we need

العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: eye
• syrup

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Ishaq b. Menahem from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1045. […] The writer addresses Nahray’s sense of responsibility, because of the writer’ special connections with Nahray’s cousin, Barhun b. Ishaq al-Tāhartī, and because of the fact that he “raised” Nahray.

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العلامات

• informal note
• memorandum

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Business letter from Nissim b. Ḥalfon b. Benaya (Alexandria) to Nahray b. Nissim (Fustat), ca. 1050. […] Ḥalfon, together with his partner Abū Saʿīd b. al-Tāhartī, sent two loads of tin and he asks Nahray b.

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العلامات

• nahray b. nissim
• tin
• tinnis

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Document date

7 Ḥeshvan 1551 Seleucid (7 October 1239 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-ʿIzz the cantor, Abū l-Faraj al-Ziftāwī, Yūsuf ha-Talmid, and his father Abū l-Khayr are also mentioned.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Asad the perfumer to Abū Saʿīd al-Afṣī. In Judaeo-Arabic, with some unusual spellings. […] (Information in part from CUDL.) See also CUL Or.1080 J101 (PGPID 3976).

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Confirming the arrival of 10 dirhams with Abū ʿImrān, and sending him some fuller's earth (ṭafl) used in households. Also mentions dealings in several other commodities, including gum (ṣamgh), cassia fistula (khiyār shanbar), kamala (qinbīl), plantain seed (bizr lisān al-ḥamal), and tubular (marazībī) tutty.

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العلامات

• trade

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef Av Bet Din, in Aleppo. Asking him to send certain liturgical poems and to help a relative of his: ʿAlī b.

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Document date

Tuesday 21 Ṭevet [ ... ] Seleucid

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ibn Jamāhīr filed a complaint of slander against the ghulām, although the governor tried to convince him otherwise because of Ṣāfī's special status. Ṣāfī was ordered to be flogged and jailed, although after intervention by a Jewish merchant from the Maghreb, he was set free, although “not without loss of money.”

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العلامات

• aydhab
• ghulam
• ib7
• india book
• interconfessional conflict
• (+ 2 المزيد)

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Inferred date

1158–1159 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

After the death in Sicily of Abū l-Surūr b. Abū ʿAlīal-Ḥibrī, his brother Futūḥ claimed his inheritance and the court establishes that as their third brother (Abū Saʿīd) has already died, Futūḥ is indeed the only known heir.

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العلامات

• dated
• mevorakh b. natan
• sicily

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He tells the addressee to take the coat (shuqqa) from the house of Ibn Tāj al-Maʿānī and give it to Rabbenu Shelomo, and to give other goods to Abū ʿAlī. He was saddened to leave (Fustat) when a woman in the family (al-kabīra) was sick (mutawajjiʿa). Note that Moshe cut up ENA 2558.18 + T-S 13J7.12, a legal document dated 1194 CE, and reused the versos of both fragments for letters.

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العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: women's
• moshe b. levi

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic. Attesting that Sitt al-Gharb bt. Abū l-Faraj b. Semekh al-Daʿwa (known from other Geniza documents) gave a deed of manumission (גט חירות) to her male slave Munjib. There are several text blocks in different hands; all those on recto appear to pertain to the same case.

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العلامات

• manumission
• slaves

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Inferred date

1150–1181 CE

Shemuʾel, a court clerk and judge (fl. 1150–1081 CE), with part of his signature visible along the paper tear. Abu 'Alial-Qazzāz b. Khalaf testifies that he had received 19 dinars from his wife, Khulla bt.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Jalila bt. Avraham b. Khalfa b. al-Rashidi, whose inheritance from her late husband Barukh b. […] The widow mentions this and adds that she also made an appeal to the same Muslim qadi. See Goitein, Med.

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العلامات

• bribe

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Inferred date

1128–1164 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Inventory of the estate of Abū l-Faraj al-Siqillī b. Ḥanīna. After the list of his own possessions, there follow several subsections: (1) Somebody's collaterals (the header is difficult to read) (2) The collaterals of Abū Saʿīd b. Thābit (3) The collaterals of Ṣadaf(?) al-Naṣrānī(!) (4) The collaterals of Abū Isḥāq Ibn Maṣmūdī (5) What Abū Manṣūr states is owed to him (7) The dowry items (qumāsh) which his wife retained and which the heirs acknowledge belong to her. Join: Alan Elbaum

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العلامات

• inventory

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic, Ladino

First: A glossary of Spanish/Ladino words from Judaeo-Arabic, including a great number of foods, but also numbers, days of the week, colors, and miscellanous terms (malīḥa --> hermosa; sūq --> plaza; saḥab --> nube; ramād --> ceniza). Second: Drafts of beginnings of letters, including one apparently addressed to Shūʿa Levi Abū לייה ha-Levi al-Marḥūm (but this can't be completely correct, because marḥūm generally means "dead"), and another addressed to the apparently nonsensical תומוסל כא ן זֿירה and יאקות ן תלזֿם.

العلامات

• ladino
• to examine

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Addressed to Abū l-Najm Hillel [...] al-Jawbarī (or al-Gharbarī?). Mentions the following: Hiba b. Yūsuf Ibn al-Baghla ("Son of the Female Mule"—evidently a family name); the return of some people from Jerusalem; a debt of two dinars that someone is trying to collect from someone; Abū l-Khayr Bishrān b.

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Primary language

Arabic

The addressee is referred to with the titles al-Malikī al-Nāṣirī, which in Geniza documents are typically titles of Saladin (less likely the Mamluk sultan by this name who ruled 1293–1341). […] The petitioner may be named Shihāb (al-Dīn?). One of the key phrases in the substance of the petition is ايقاع الحوطة علي, the petitioner requests a marsūm (decree) and mentions something in relation to the Egyptian city of Akhmīm.

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العلامات

• saladin

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Primary language

Hebrew

So this document is a strong proof that Moshe was a Nagid. See also TS K15.58, where Musa al-Nagid is mentioned (Cohen, The Voice of the Poor, p. 176).

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العلامات

• fgp stub

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A bill of release granted by a husband (named Sh[emarya]) to his wife Sitt al-Ḥusn. One document ends two-thirds of the way down the page with some signatures: Pinḥas b. [...]; [...] b. [...] ha-Rofe; Nissim b. [...]. […] May be a settlement of a marital dispute between Shemarya and his wife Sitt al-Ḥusn. Mentions a "Hebrew document" (mastur ʿibrānī). Needs further examination. Join: Alan Elbaum.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

I will stay with them, and if not I will enter (Fustat)...." Might also mention al-Maḥalla in l. 2.

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العلامات

• damira
• minyat ghamr

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Primary language

Arabic

الله عزها وادام تمكينها . . .), then possibly a query about a technical procedure involving white sugar (and alchemical ingredients? It may refer to "zāj" and "iksīr," but the "zāj" could also be "mizāj" and therefore more medical), and then a cryptic sentence: "... to my brain, and I need a bit of [...]...."

العلامات

• alchemy

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto mentions: two orphans, the release of a buyer, a guarantee, Sitt al-Ḥusn, Sitt al-Nasab, Abū l-Faraj, 40 dinars. Verso is probably a draft and mentions: a declaration made by Sitt al-Nasab bt. Shela ha-Kohen in favor of Yeshuʿa known as Nisṭāṭ or Niṣṭās (cf.

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe

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Primary language

Arabic

On verso there are magical instructions in Judaeo-Arabic in a rudimentary hand for ensuring the separation (bāb furqa) of two people for all time. At least part of the spell consists of taking a dog hair and a cat hair and burning them together, and saying "just as these two [will never come together], so-and-so and so-and-so will never come together until the Day of Resurrection." There are also a few words in Hebrew script on recto.

العلامات

• decree

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Document date

Friday, 16 Iyyar 5301 Anno Mundi (13 May 1541 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Formal letter of resignation from the judge Nissim al-ʿAnqarī. In Hebrew. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: Friday, 16 Iyyar 5301 AM, which is 1541 CE. He says that the reasons for his resignation are too well known to describe... but at least he gives us the information that he had been captured, and a tax collector (ḥāshir) and another gentile were also involved, and the heads of the community lost 8 Venetian ducats on his account.

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العلامات

• 16th c
• resignation
• tax collector

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto looks more like jottings/exercises, while verso is a distinct note; all are in the same hand. Verso is headed "כלאם ר מ זל," i.e., "the words of the late R. […] Cites אלראב בן מאגש i.e. the Rav [Yosef] Ibn Migash (for this spelling of his name, see also T-S NS 216.37 (PGPID 9142)). Needs further examination.

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Primary language

Arabic

The upper parts of documents that used to below are also preserved, as well as the crease where the larger page was torn (one flap remains from the lower portion that was torn off). […] Verso contains what looks like a filing note, possibly mentioning Diwān al-Kharāj (the tax bureau). T-S NS 327.64 Two more documents with nearly identical layout to the documents in T-S NS 327.63, and with similar filing notes on verso.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Iraqi raw silk traded in Alexandria, and concludes with well-wishes to Abu Kathir Efrayim along with his wife and son.

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العلامات

• trade

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Document date

Kislev 1542 Seleucid (8 November 1230–7 December 1230 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef the superintendent (al-qayyim) of the small synagogue in Alexandria (see Med Soc II, 77) has to return to his brother's son Sulaymān everything that he owes him, including some 60 jars of wine after the marriage (imlāk) of (Sulaymān with?)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: Probably 12th century. Mentions Alexandria; business negotiations with Abū Naṣr, concluding with a purchase for only 30 dinars; refers to "the shortage of dirhams in the market"; requests 50 dinars "in dirhams"; refers to two two robes for Muslim and two robes for Barakāt; an issue involving the qāḍī and al-Bijāʾī the faqīh (i.e., from Bijāya).

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العلامات

• ib-addenda
• india book unedited

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Folded down the middle, hence a bifolium that once belonged to a booklet. Almostall noted in the second list had made a contribution according to the first. […] The strange fact that so many reduced their contributions is perhaps to be explained by the assumption that while the first collection was going on, it already became known that another was necessary. 1140s (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, pp. 479-480, App.

العلامات

• charity
• communal
• donors
• poverty

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Document date

Monday, 5 Av 1443 Seleucid (19 July 1132 CE)

Semaḥ (called ha-Meshorer, the poet or singer) and Sitt al-Kull bt. Berakhot ha-Levi. The separation took place three months earlier (8 Iyyar 1443/1132). By the decree ("marsūm") of Maṣliaḥ Gaon (probably after the request of the woman's father: see T-S 8.131), a committee of eight elders (all undersigned) was appointed in order to confirm and fix the alimony for Ṣedaqa's wife and child. […] This sum was intended to cover all her expenses for food, lighting, public bath and rent.

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العلامات

• alimony
• divorce

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Document date

first decade of Iyyar 1447 Seleucid (4 April 1136–13 April 1136 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Sitt al-Banāt bt. Shelomo (Salāma) al-ʿAṭṭār inherited 1/6 of a house in the al-Mamṣūṣa neigborhood of Fustat from her late husband Abū l-ʿAlā' b. […] The buyer receives the husband's will and all former property deeds. Witneses: Natan ha-Kohen b.

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Document date

5604 Anno Mundi (25 September 1843–13 September 1844 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

She appoints a certain Moshe al-Gāzī to sign the engagement deed on her behalf (he also appears in AIU VII.D.100- PGPID 30594). […] The conditions are extensive, in part discussing how the bride's father commits to purchase an enslaved woman (שפחה) who will prepare food in the married couple's household. There are also a variety of conditions about future housing plans and the timing of the wedding.

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العلامات

• 'adda
• betrothal
• contante
• early modern enslaved people
• late heb
• (+ 1 المزيد)

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Document date

20 Sivan 4964 Anno Mundi (28 May 1204 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Levirate case in which a widow appoints an attorney to sue her brother-in-law with the demand either to marry or to free her. Zayn al-Dār bt. Zekharya, the widow of Yefet b. Shela Muqaddasī, appoints Meʾir b. Yakhin to sue the brother of her late husband to make him come to Alexandria to marry or repudiate her. Witnessed by the teacher Zekharya b. […] To write 4964 in Hebrew, you would have to use a lot of characters, since the alef-bet only covers up until 400. So 4964 would be דתתקסד (that is, 4(000) + 400 + 400 + 100 + 60 + 4).

العلامات

• 4800
• dating tricks
• marriage
• power of attorney
• widow

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. The letter also contains greetings and messages from several additional family members. Mentions: Hārūn b. [...]; previous correspondence and the hope that every ship would bear a letter from the addressee; how prosperity has returned in the country, and maybe that the silk dealers can't even keep up with the work to be done; how the addressee should act quickly (something to do with business); how Ibn Zaqṭūn gave them good news (also something to do with business), causing Makhlūf and their sister to rejoice. This sister may be Sitt al-ʿAshīr who greets Ṣedaqa in the next line, saying, "You would not know me if you saw me..."

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