Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Deed of gift, or possibly a power of attorney appointing Abu l-Faḍl to collect the money and/or goods mentioned. Mentions 17 dinars which is the balance of the value of the rubʿ (house or compound), a box (ṣundūq), implements for silk weaving, and six combs (Amshāṭī, 'comb-maker', was a common Jewish family name of well-to-do people). (Information in part from Mediterranean Society, IV, 225; also Goitein index cards.)

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العلامات

• gift

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Account in the hand of Nahray b. Nissim, mentionsmen in his circle. The year 52 is mentioned, but it's not clear whether this is 4852 AM (1091-92) or 1352 Seleucid (1040-1).

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العلامات

• account
• nahray b. nissim
• trade

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mercantile accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 12th century. Mentions nutmeg (jawza), aromatic wood (ʿūd), musk, and salīkha (an aromatic bark resembling but not identical with cassia). Also mentions someone called "the interpreter" (al-turjumān).

العلامات

• list
• salikha
• turjuman

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal testimony, fragment. Mentions the young ʿEli b. Ḥalfon and Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (but not in his handwriting). Dating: ca. 1100–1138, based on the years when Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi was active.

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in the hand of a member of the Maimonides family, mentioning the elder Yosef. Mentions a package of letters including one from "the judge to Sayyidnā" and another from al-Shaykh al-ʿAlam to his mother.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

It is a quote from a Shi'ite text - see S.D. Goitein, "Meeting in Jerusalem": Messianic Expectations in the Letters of the Cairo Geniza", AJS Review 4 (1979): 43-57.

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العلامات

• al-ghazali
• ethics
• sufism

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Leaf from a legal register, with notes for the drawing up of marriage documents. Mentions: [...] b. Meshullam;Abū Saʿd b. Dosa and legal terms in relation to marriage documents such as ketubba, muqaddam and matana and ‘the fifty.'

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mercantile letter from a Maghribi merchant. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. Mentions Abū Yiṣḥaq; the group of the qāḍī [...]; and Nahray.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

One of the Hebrew sections contains a name: "I wrote this for myself, the talmid (student/scholar) Avraham b. Menashshe may his end be good (סופיה טב) b. [...] b. Meshullam."

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment from a legal document, probably a bill of release from a wife to her husband Abū Sahl Menashshe. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Mentions her daughter. (Information mainly from CUDL)

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

1435 Seleucid (22 September 1123–10 September 1124 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated Thursday, [...] 1435 Seleucid = 1123/4 CE. Mentioning [...] bt. Shelomo and Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi. Signed by Menashshe b.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document. On parchment. Mentioning Abū l-[...], [...] b. the cantor Ayyūb, Mevasser ha-Levi and al-Mahdiyya. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? (Information in part from CUDL.) May be related to T-S NS J501 (PGPID 3950).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto and verso: Letter from Meir (b. Yakhin) to a certain Ḥalfon. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. […] Dating: Early 13th century. Meir asks for the money that belongs to the shop and for a list of what should be bought. […] Ḥalfon has also gone back and fixed the titles from Meir's letter. In lieu of "his slave Meir" he writes "rather, his master" and in lieu of "the master Ḥalfon" he writes "his slave."

العلامات

• arabic address
• letter norms

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1127–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138). Also signed by Natan b. […] Halakhic question concerning a possible excommunication over a legal dispute. Mentions a reclamation document (ורקה אלדעאוי), al-Kohen Abū l-Faraj, al-Melammed Sayyid al-Kull the cantor and Ṣadaqa. […] Husband refuses to pay alimony (mezonot) to the amount of 1 dirham. (Information from CUDL and from Goitein's note card.)

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العلامات

• illness
• illness: treatment
• legal query

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Document date

Tuesday, 12 Elul 1515 Seleucid (10 August 1204 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

She is still owed her delayed marriage gift of 60 dinars; if she takes the widow's oath then she will be able to collect it from the heirs. Witnessed by Meshullam b. Mevorakh and Berakhot b. Shelomo ha-Levi and validated by Yehuda b. […] Saʿadya, and Elʿazar b. Meshullam. On verso there are vocalized liturgical poems.

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العلامات

• dowry
• register
• widow

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The first recipe (ll. 1-8) is aimed at producing ‘the work’ (אלצנעה), a word commonly used for indicating the production of gold, silver or the elixir that would turn base metals into precious ones. Ingredients mentioned are: sublimated arsenic, vinegar, sulphur, dissolved salt, sublimated mercury. […] The first part (ll. 8-14) describes a preparation requiring silver, salt, water, mercury, and sal ammoniac that is aimed at obtaining a clear plate of metal.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brothers Abū Saʿīd Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE) and Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. Menashshe. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper left corner of recto). […] It seems that Yefet received it and sold it and bought with the proceeds some small salted fish (ṣīr) and hazelnuts (bunduq). He mentions something which Bū l-Surūr said to him (this is helpful, since it suggests that the Bū l-Surūr who is mentioned throughout Yefet's correspondence is probably not identical with his brother Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya (one of the addressees of the present letter)).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The document is fragmented, so it is tricky to figure out what is happening. Mentions a shop; mentions Yeshuʿa making a deposit; mentions a sum of 190 dinars; mentions "his father Hārūn b.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Involves: [Ṣe]daqa b. Menaḥem the agent of Sittūna bt. [...] Ibn al-Luʿayyiba (בן אללעייבה), who sues Mevorakh b. [...] concerning accounts and riqāʿ (pl. of ruqʿa) which Menashshe (her deceased father or relative?) […] There are many details about sums and transfers of money, including 7 dinars. Merits further examination.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

The writer deals with selling goods that arrived from the Maghreb. Mentions details about the eastern wind that delays the ships on their way from the Maghreb to Egypt. Mentions details about Byzantine merchants and the prices of several types of goods: resin, fabrics, soap, and oil. Also mentions a shipment of wax, that has not been sold entirely yet.

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العلامات

• byzantine merchants
• byzantines

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender suggests in a postscript that the ʿAqiba b. Yosef mentioned in this context in Bava Meṣiʿa (though Goitein's note card points out that his citation is actually incorrect, and it should be ʿArakhin 16b) must have been a different ʿAqiba. (S. D. Goitein, Mediterranean Society, 2:158–59, 553) EMS

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: Likely ca. 13th century. Asking him relay a message and greetings to ‘the wonderful and exceedingly wise judge’ with many Hebrew citations. Long and calligraphic, with many biblical quotations and expressions of longing for the addressee. The letter mentions Yoel ha-Melammed (cf. T-S 20.148 and Moss.

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Document date

Kislev 1286 Seleucid (18 November 974–17 December 974 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Dated: Kislev 1286 Seleucid = November/December 974 CE. The merchant Maṣliaḥ b. Yiṣḥaq b. David acquits another merchant Maṣliaḥ b. Mevasser b. ʿEzra of a debt of 85 dinars and all other obligations toward him. […] (Information from Goitein's index card, Mediterranean Society, I, p. 253, and CUDL.)

العلامات

• merchant
• quittance

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe probably to one of his brothers. Fragment (lower left corner of recto). Mentions Armenian bole (ḥajar armanī) (cf. ENA NS 2.24) and mandrake root (luʿāb) (cf. ENA 2739.2). Also mentions: 3 dinars; Yemeni "sinn" (= aromatic wood?

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العلامات

• yefet b. menashshe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Refers to someone's illness (r2), and evidently the sender was also sick because God sent him health (r4) and now he is well. He mentions that he fasts. On verso mentions al-nīl, likely referring to indigo rather than to the Nile (which is usually al-Baḥr). Also mentions somebody who traveled to Ashmūnayn (280 km south of Cairo), also mentioning "al-Minya" and the news of bread and wheat.

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العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

527 Hijrī (12 November 1132–31 October 1133 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Contract related to tax farming in Cairo, likely a partnership agreement between two men. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dating: Mentions the year 527 AH = 1132/33 CE as the start of a period. Mentions the word "dyed" (maṣbūgh) and then "from neighbors who oppose the two of them"; the context is missing.

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العلامات

• damin

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Little of the original substance of the message is preserved. Mentions a 'khidma' (service) and מלאכת המלך ('work of/for the king').

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Nissim in Fustat. The writer mentions robbery by pirates on two ships carrying merchandisemeant for the writer and for others.

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العلامات

• nahray b. nissim
• trade

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: probably part of trousseau list, mentioning vessels and values. Verso: marriage (betrothal) settlement, mentioning the sum of 10 dinars, signed; names mentioned: Manṣūr, Ḥiyya b.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic. Likely a mercantile letter of the 11th century. Mentions the ship (markab) of al-Jazzār; mentions 9 people and a rent/hire price of 90 dinars; then 13.5 dinars in the next line.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Recto: Letter of the Na'ib of Malij to the judge Efrayim b. Meshulam regarding a case of an orphan girl. Asks for a quick decision. Verso: The answer, it seems in the hand of Meir b. Hillel b. Sadoq. Further information and partial transcriptions on Goitein's note card.

العلامات

• orphan

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Recto: Memorial list (ancestry tree) of Maimonides’ wife’s ancestors. Written in 13th century handwriting (Goitein). Verso: List mentioning Netan'el, his son Berakhot and grandson Menakhem, and Netan'el’s brother Ya'aqov, and (probably Ya'aqov's son) Yosef.

العلامات

• 13th c
• memorial list

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