Documents

Inferred date

1128–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Fragment from the bottom. […] Pawns were pledged as security (ll. 4-6) in a partnership, (l. 9) muʿāmala; and the contract of partnership was lost (l. 10); the sums of 40 dinars (l. 2) and 100 dinars (l. 8) are mentioned. The profit of 60 dinars is also claimed by the claimant as due him. […] Shemuel (fl. 1128–1164 CE); Ḥalfon b. Yefet; Meshullam b. Menashshe he-Ḥaver; and Ḥalfon b. Menashshe."

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1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Arabic

Two-sided with very wide line spacing. Recto mentions Nāṣir and two dinars; verso mentions two dinars and three irdabbs. Merits further examination.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document, possibly in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, mentioning 60 dinars, the Bet Din, Abū l-Ḥasan, and repeatedly mentions רקעה בדינאר ‘note for a dinar’.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Note containing medical advice, with recipes to improve vision, treat sciatica and painful joints, act as a purgative; and protect against the cold, humidity and spleen pain. Ingredients mentioned include orange, musk, colocynth, and Galen's seed, along with the relevant quantities and weights. […] Isaacs and C. Baker, Medical and Para-medical Manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah Collections, Cambridge University Library, 1994, 80) EMS

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العلامات

• prescription

1 نسخ

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Regarding the death (and will?) of Menaḥem or the son of Menaḥem. Also refers to someone known as al-ʿAkkāwī.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Fragment of a letter in Hebrew from the second half of the 16th century, mentioning attempts to prevent a certain edict, in which R. Yosef Karo was involved (he is mentioned twice in this letter). Damascus is also mentioned.

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العلامات

• 16th c
• damascus
• late heb
• yosef karo

1 نسخ

Primary language

Arabic

Ottoman-era astronomical table, in Arabic script. Mentions elaborate astronomical calculations on both recto and verso, but especially on verso. The ascendant star/planet and its position in the zodiacs is mentioned. Merits further examination.

العلامات

• astronomical
• dimme
• occult

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

The script is extremely difficult to follow, but it seems to be related to an iqṭāʿ as mentioned on the verso. Also mentions "khāliṣat Amīr al-Muʾminīn", and "yanhaḍ al-khidma". Merits further examination.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a letter with introduction in Hebrew mentioning Rabbenu Netanʾel (presumably either the addressee or his father). Mentions commodities such as pepper; prior to that mentions 'the prescription for the seeds of the hiera (אליארג)."

العلامات

• medical

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Probably a mercantile account, mentioning al-Mahdiyya and Abū Saʿīd Ibn al-Gharbī(?). Also mentions flax. The handwriting may be known. Dating: probably 11th century.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Monday, 12 Tammuz 1409 Seleucid (14 June 1098 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Moshe, 'the representative of merchants' in Fustat. Dated: Monday, 12 Tammuz 1409 Seleucid, which is 14 June 1098 CE. […] The two sides agree to postpone the oath ritual until the arrival of the messenger of 'Yemen and India.' This agent was to deliver the testimony of Ḥasan b. Bundar, the representative of the merchants in Aden. A few further claims between the two were also dealt with.

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العلامات

• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib1
• india book

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto, with the address on verso: Mercantile letter from Yehuda b. Moshe to Abū l-ʿAlāʾ Yūsuf b. […] Mainly dealing with business in flax, it seems. Mentions the names of other merchants. Needs further examination. Verso: Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic, in an unusual, somewhat crude hand.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso (secondary use): draft of a chapter from a medical treatise or a medical notebook, dealing with tumors and mentioning for example drinks made from poppies and violets.

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العلامات

• medicine

1 نسخ

Inferred date

1127–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Bottom part of a list in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). On parchment. Mentioning part of the formulaic blessings for Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon (1127–39 CE), תכון משרתו לנצח. At least part of it concerns an expenditure given to Abū l-Ḥasan to be delivered to the widow of Abū l-Munā mentioning dirhams and dinars. The entries are separated by horizontal lines. Many other names are mentioned. (Information in part from Goitein's index card.)

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العلامات

• account

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts, on both the recto and verso. Medieval-era. Requires further examination. Mentions Abū l-Bishr and his son; ʿAbd al-Wāḥid; Menaḥem b.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Trousseau list in connection with a marriage document. Mentions Tinnisian cloth, Dabīqī linen, quantities of dinars, dyed wool, a menora, and an oil amphora. On verso (the witnesses) Joseph and Abū l-Faraj are mentioned. (Information from CUDL)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions coral and Efrayim and a qirṭās containing 160 dirhams.

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العلامات

• yefet b. menashshe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions Abū Saʿd. Dating: Mentions the date Adar 14[.]4 Seleucid, so either 1103, 1113, 1123, or 1133 CE.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

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

Connected with the same case as T-S 8.131, namely the divorce arrangements of Ṣedaqa b. Semaḥ (called ha-Meshorer, the poet or singer) and Sitt al-Kull bt. […] Shemuel ha-Ḥaver; Peraḥya b. Ḥalfon ha-Ḥaver; Menashshe b. Yaʿaqov; Avraham b. Shelomo; Meshullam b. Menashshe; and Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. (Information from Weiss's edition and Goitein's index cards)

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العلامات

• alimony
• divorce

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter discussing communal matters, especially income derived from the market place by religious dignitaries. Mentioned are levies imposed for the purchase of new mats (see Gil, Palestine, 2: 743, doc. #400) and oil for the synagogue (notice mention of prayers), an estimate of income which the writer cannot calculate, a weekly revenue of eight dinar, and the market where animals are slaughtered. […] David, 'the joy of the yeshiva', might refer to Avraham b. David b. Sighmar mentioned with this title in ENA2804.11 (Goitein, Med.Soc.3:183). The letter also mentions the Nasi and ends with profuse expressions of submission.

العلامات

• communal

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

1441 Seleucid (1129–1130 CE)

Her children, Abū l-Khayr and Sitt al-Kull, are also mentioned. Signed by Menashshe ha-Kohen b. Yaʿaqov and Ḥalfon ha-Levi b. Menashshe. Verso: legal document concerning a debt resulting from the sale of a house; the parties being Abū Saʿd Nisan and Abū l-ʿAlā (possibly the same individual on recto). Written in Fusṭāṭ under the authority of Maṣliaḥ ha-Kohen, dated 14[4]1 of the Seleucid Era (= 1130 CE). Signed by Menashshe b. Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen and Ḥalfon b. Menashshe.

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Accounts with a wide variety of names mentioned, possibly a communal list. Dating: 19th-century based on paleography and lined paper. The names of those mentioned may help narrow this dating estimate with further research– it seems possible that this list mentions community members in Cairo based on the surnames: Mordūkh Berakha, [Ib]rahīm Levi Grboniya(?)[…] Zafriel, Asher Malkhī, Yashīsh Karo, Mūsa Ashkenazi, Eliyya Curiel Benyamīn, David Karo, Eliyahu Bshīrī, Yiṣḥaq Ḥayūn, Yosef Meshīsh, Av[raham] שמרו(?), Yosef ʿUraybī(?), Mordūkh Kohen, Yaʿaqov Ben-Azrī(?)

العلامات

• 19th c
• fgp stub

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fol. 8 + Fol. 4: Two fragments of a draft of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). The join is not direct. […] Shelaḥya (on whom see T-S 8J11.12 (PGPID 16210) and the shelfmarks cited there). The witnesses are Menaḥem ha-Talmid ha-Yaqar b. [...] and the cantor Abū l-Faḍl b. [...] ha-Levi ha-Melammed. […] In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions [...] b. Shemuel and [...] b.

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The new governor promises to protect the community and carries a recommendation letter from Mevorakh. The tax burden also seems to have been somewhat lifted. This is a monumental letter, meant to be hung in the synagogue for public view. The letter was written after 1094, as can be seen from Mevorakh's titles. (Information from Frenkel. Goitein adds that the letter complains that a certain 'Rum' had rented storehouses belonging to one merchant, but had left for 'their' country without having paid for them.

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Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Signed: Shelomo b. Mevorakh ha-Ḥaver and Shelomo b. Saʿadya. There is an addendum with a first-person declaration by Hillel b. ʿEli mentioning Abū l-Ḥusayn Yaḥ[yā] b. Shemuel ha-Kohen and Mevorakh b. […] Some of the same people are mentioned in ENA NS 85.1254 (PGPID 14572).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Among other matters, Natan mentions that he has given 1 dinar each to Moshe the Judge and Yeḥezqel the Alexandrian, the two frail old men who wrote T-S 13J28.10 requesting charity from Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy. Natan also mentions a medicinal syrup that he has asked Abū l-Afrāḥ to buy him.

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العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• syrup
• trade

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة

al-Mātī[?] from Eliyahu Medina[?], both names are not entirely clear. The letter sender mentions a certain Yeshūʿa Ben-Moreno in the opening lines and then R. […] In the lower left corner there is final note mentioning a certain Mordekhay ʿUraybī. Based on the paleography and the currency mentioned this letter is likely 16th-17th-century.

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العلامات

• 16th or 17th c
• safed

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Concerning a trip of the addressee and a third person, and mentioning 80 dirhams in the possession of someone else and the arrival and news of yet another person. Mentions staying in al-Maḥalla Wednesday night; meeting with Makīn b. Mukhtār, who reported his intention to travel and that 80 jars of his wine had turned to vinegar; also mentions al-Shaykh al-Rashīd; and good quality wheat.

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العلامات

• trade
• vinegar
• wine

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Document date

Av 1363 Seleucid (July 1052 CE)

Yosef al-Rumi to the effect that the followers of Yosef have permission to hold their prayers wherever they wish. Other names mentioned in the document: (part of name preserved) b. Mevorakh; and signatories Wahb b. Mevorakh, Ezra b. Menahem; Shemarya ha-Levi b. Aharon. Dated Av 1052.

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العلامات

• petitioning
• place of prayer
• rescript

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The opening salutation may contain the recipient's entire name, but its meaning is not entirely clear: Konfrada Khumsa Reyna(?). […] The body of the letter mentions Avraham Yaʿabeṣ (l. 10), Yaquti (l. 19), and Yosef Meshish (l. 20), at least one of whom may be known from other geniza letters.

العلامات

• 19th c

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Monday, 8 Adar I 1421 Seleucid (31 January 1110 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen (apparently a merchant trading in the East). Dated: Monday, 8 Adar I 1421 Seleucid, which is 1110 CE. The hand is probably that of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, who also sends his regards. The letter opens with a strong rebuke for failing to write and goes on to mention the arrival of merchandise/gifts, and greetings to and from various people.

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العلامات

• ib6
• india book

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة