Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Concerning a "wicked kohen" who, while married in Alexandria, took an enslaved woman and fled with her to the Delta. Forgeries of deeds and discobedience to court rulings aso mentioned.

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العلامات

• avraham maimonides
• communal
• polygyny

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

1 Elul 5092 Anno Mundi (23 August 1332 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

The scribe's name has been intentionally effaced and is no longer legible. ENA 2433.8 and ENA 2433.10 have similar dimensions and overall appearance, but the ink is different and the handwriting also looks different (e.g. the אל ligature).

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العلامات

• colophon

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Some of the terms listed include: לנא/לנו, מנא/ממנו, מעכם/עמכם, בעיד/רחוק. Many of the Hebrew entries are voweled, though some of the entries on the recto are incomplete lacking any Hebrew words.

العلامات

• bilingual
• cmp
• dictionary

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1200–1550 CE

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: Likely 13th century or later. The entries include personal names (Suwayd, Zayn al-Dīn, Zayn al-Naqīb 'the headman') and professional names (rasūl = messenger, ʿassāl = honey maker or seller). Underneath these titles and other individual entries there are figures expressed in Coptic numerals.

العلامات

• coptic numerals
• list

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Primary language

Arabic

Fiscal register (possibly equivalent to what al-Makhzūmī and Ibn Mammātī call a rūznāmaj). Contains multiple entries, each with a date and a sum. Each entry has a pair of ʿalāʾim on top, suggesting a process of registration and certification akin to that on the fiscal receipts themselves.

العلامات

• dimme
• fiscal register
• pinholes
• tax

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions a bale of lac. (ENA 3957.5, T-S Ar.35.128, T-S Ar.35.269, and T-S AS 184.265 are all similar and all for ʿArūs; ENA 3957.11 is from the same genre and for Nahray b.

العلامات

• account
• arus b. yosef
• commercial receipt

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

NB: this description applies to a different fragment, probably also in the ENA NS folder. ENA NS 79.137 is a small literary fragment.

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Document date

Sunday, 27 Sivan 1470 Seleucid (14 June 1159 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Engagement (shiddukhin) contract in the hand of Mevorakh b. […] Ashur's MA Thesis, '"Engagement Documents from the Cairo Geniza.")

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العلامات

• engagement

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة

Document date

Tuesday, 15 Kislev 1469 Seleucid (19 November 1157 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Shela ha-Levi ha-Sar manumits an enslaved woman, named Salaf, who was probably given to another lady as a marriage gift.

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العلامات

• get shihrur
• manumission
• slave

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

This version of the Grace after Meals, preserved in the Cairo Geniza in two fragments, has aspects that follow Palestinian traditions, aspects that follow Babylonian traditions, and certain phrases that belong to other rites entirely. In the manuscript, the scribe recorded a longer and shorter version of the Grace after Meals, with the suggestion that the shorter text, presented here, be recited on weekdays. The text of the prayer and the initial instructions are entirely in Hebrew. (Information from Posen Library)

1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

One of the names on the verso is Muḥammad Jalabī (Çelebi) Muḥasebeci ("the Accountant" in Turkish). The entries include various cooking and kitchen ware items: "אצוחון [sic] אלקאדי" (the qadi's plates/bowls); "טנגרא סגיר" (little jar); "אבריק מוסה אמון" (Musa Amon's pitcher); "צוחון עגמי" (Persian plates/bowls). These entries point to the likelihood that the accounts are connected to a ceramics production and/or long-distance commerce in such goods.

العلامات

• ceramic
• early modern
• list

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Document date

Nisan 1461 Seleucid (30 March 1150–28 April 1150 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information from Goitein's index cards.) NB: Goitein refers to ENA 4011.34 as ENA 4011.33.

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العلامات

• forum shopping
• qadi courts

1 نسخ

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Early 11th century [?]. The smaller fragment, ENA NS 3. 27 was given the same shelf-mark as two fragments of a Rabbanite ketubah. It completes the text of the bigger fragment ENA NS 3. 23, and follows immediately in ll. 17-24.

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

This fragment begins toward the end of the dowry list. Groom: Saʿīd. Bride: Malīhā, a virgin. […] On verso there is the Hoshaʿnot liturgy for the end of Sukkot. (CUDL)

العلامات

• ketubba
• liturgy
• marriage

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Together, this suggests that it has to do with a purchase of an enslaved Christian woman. Needs further examination.

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العلامات

• madrub
• slave

1 نسخ

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

family, had her inheritance from her father taken by her husband, and domestic strife ensued. In this document, the court orders him not to beat or curse his wife, but rather to honour her and provide her with anything that she was rightfully due.

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العلامات

• marital dispute
• marriage

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He wants Suʿūd and ʿAbd al-Karīm to come see visit him in Zarnīkh, quickly. He emphasizes his bond with Suʿūd with a medical metaphor: "I am your tested theriac, and you are an old woman, and no one (but me) will come to your side and go before you."

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2

العلامات

• turks
• violence
• war

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

7 Av 5656 Anno Mundi (17 July 1896 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

This fragment also contains the end of the letter from ENA 2634.2 (dated: 7 Av, 5656 AM, which is 1896 CE). […] The letter continues onto the upper part of ENA 2634.1. Dated: 7 Av, 5656 AM, which is 1896 CE. […] Psalm 121 should be engraved underneath the figure and the priestly blessing above the figure.

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العلامات

• 19th c
• agha
• amulet
• lira
• magic
• (+ 3 المزيد)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Ladino

Accounts in Ladino, Hebrew, and western Arabic numerals. Most of the entries begin with a number in the righthand column, followed by "le devo a X," giving the name of the person to whom money is owed. Some of the entries begin with a date (e.g., היום 29 שבט). Mentions Mikhaʾel ha-Kohen (l. 9) and the Neapolitan consul (l. 11) and Yaʿaqov b.

العلامات

• consul

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

8 September 1138–21 December 1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yiṣḥaq about turmoil in Yemen and measures taken by Abu Zikri Kohen for ensuring Khalaf’s rights after the death of Abu Imran Nufay.

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العلامات

• ib2
• india book

1 نسخ 2 ترجمتين

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic in which the writer reports how he left al-Maḥalla, either taking or intending to take 'the little ones' with him, but setbacks ensued. The phrase "farāgh al-khalīj" appears; maybe a branch of the Nile ran dry?

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions the Nasi; his brother-in-law Abū ʿAlī; the gloating of enemies; then, "by God and by the bones of your father!

1 نسخ

Document date

Elul 4932 Anno Mundi (23 August 1172–20 September 1172 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: end of Elul (4)932 AM = September 1172 CE. Probably concerning business matters, but the portion surviving consists entirely of the opening blessings and closing greetings.

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العلامات

• 12th c
• business
• ib-addenda
• trade

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The first concerns Nissim al-Iskandarani who has entered into a business partnership with an unnamed woman. […] Greetings are sent at the end to Yosef b. Salim. (Information in part from CUDL)

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العلامات

• business
• legal
• partnership

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The addressee should encourage someone (probably Abū l-Surūr) to come down with Baqāʾ, because there is still employment to be had in the castle. At the end: "The letters which arrive from [...] Ḥārat Zuwayla, please forward them to their owners."

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

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

Primary language

Hebrew

Engagement document between Esther bt. Yaʿaqov ʿAdda and Se. […] 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.

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العلامات

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

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

My sister, I ask you by God to have endurance, and for all that you endure, there will be a great reward. […] Look at others who have lost their mother and father and children and who endure the judgment of God. . . . Occupy (shāghilī for shaghghilī) yourself so that you do not perish."

العلامات

• al-faraj ba'd al-shidda
• condolence
• grief
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Many different names. An intriguing entry at the bottom of verso: "Yeshuʿa the young man who died with his father when the house collapsed on them." Same cluster: T-S Ar.6.28 (PGPID 1278), ENA 2592.24 (PGPID 12808), T-S K15.46 (PGPID 23221), and T-S Misc.8.72 (PGPID 8337).

العلامات

• yedutun ha-levi

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Inferred date

1500–1600 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List of names and amounts, such as: (recto) Shemuʾel Ibn Shanjī, Shemuʾel Palīgī (verso) Musa Jalabi (Çelebi), Yeshūʿa Alfandari. Join with ENA 3730.3 + ENA 3730.4?. The surname Ibn Shanjī commonly appears in fragments from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, a timespan that coincides with the likely paleographical dating of this fragment.

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العلامات

• 15th or 16th c
• list

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

The fragment includes the end of one document and beginning of another one. […] Menashshe the wife of Yefet, and a sum of 15 dinars. See also ENA NS I.11 (PGPID 11204).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. ENA NS 12.25 consists of two fragments that do not immediately look like a join but do appear to belong together. […] Also mentions names such as Ibn Isḥāq and Sāliḥ b. Yāqūt. ENA NS 77.296: "For expenses of the foundry (al-masbak): the cleaning of these two stones and the moving of the brick, 1 1/4 dirham.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

End of Iyyar 5791 Anno Mundi (1031 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Communal letter of some kind. In Hebrew. Dated: End of Iyyar 5791 AM, which is 1031 CE. Approximately 18 signatures are preserved, including that of Menuḥa ha-Kohen b. Yosef (who appears in T-S 12.427 and who also signed T-S 13J1.7 and ENA 2556.8). Information in part from Friedman, "Polygamy — New Information from the Genizah" Tarbiz 43 (1973), p. 168 and from Goitein, Med Soc II, p. 571, n. 42.

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Primary language

Hebrew

End of a late letter in Hebrew from Avraham R[...?] […] T-S AS 202.414 (PGPID 22683) and ENA 2727.47 + Halper 368 (PGPID 19648). Requires further examination.

العلامات

• late heb
• matchmaker

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر