Documents

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Hilāl) Rosh ha-Qahal to Ṭoviyya b. ʿEli ha-Kohen ha-Ḥaver, the muqaddam of Bilbays (here called "muqaddam al-yahūd").

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العلامات

• to edit
• unrest

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Possibly from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. The writer asks the addressee to write a note to R.

العلامات

• shehita

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Avraham ha-Levi; Yefet b. Yesh[uʿa?]; Elʿazar b. Ṣedaqa; Ṣedaqa b. Yiṣḥaq(?) ha-Kohen; Yoshiyya b.

العلامات

• thanks

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

5 Ṣafar 570 Hijrī (5 September 1174 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

All the entries have an elongated mīm to the left. The final page appears to give the sum (al-jumla) of the entries on the preceding pages.

العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Tuesday, 2 Av 1438 Seleucid (12 July 1127 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Signed by Berakhot b. Aharon ha-Kohen and ʿEli b. Yeḥezqel he-Ḥaver ha-Kohen. (A prior PGP record indicated that this was signed by Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa b.

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe
• power of attorney

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Document date

Wednesday, 9 Kislev 1473 Seleucid (29 November 1161 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Signed by Avraham b. Elʿazar and Avraham b. Yaḥyā ha-Levi. The validation (qiyyum) is written in the margin at 90 degrees and it is signed by Menaḥem b.

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Inferred date

1135–1135 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The document also mentions: Yehuda Ibn al-Sofer (as the scribe of the original will), the daughter of Khulla’s brother Abū ʿAlī al-Kohen (as being owed 6 dinārs) and Yeshuʿa b. ʿEli ha-Kohen (as a witness). RR This is folio 1v in a bifolio of a court register in the hand of Ḥalfon b.

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العلامات

• codex
• dammuh
• slaves
• will
• women

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

1403 Seleucid (1091–1092 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Phillip Ackerman-Lieberman edited both T-S 12.464 and T-S 16.168 in his dissertation, but these could not be proven to be a join until T-S NS 325.11 was identified as the missing piece by Alan Elbaum. (Information in part from "A Mediterranean Society, I," 443; "A Mediterranean Society, V," 331, 336, 597, 599; Goitein's index cards; and Lieberman, "A Partnership Culture," 138)

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العلامات

• drug store
• partnership
• son
• wedding

2 نسخين 3 مناقشات

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Samuel, sought to calm the worried son’s mind over the “journey” undertaken by his father. Eliyahu Ashtor, who published the letter, interpreted this journey as a lengthy business trip.

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العلامات

• 13th c
• personal
• sufism

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

ʿAllūsh's belongings, including the judge Maṣliaḥ b. Eliyyahu and Abī Mūsā, approve that all of his money belongs to his partner Berekhya b.

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1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

603 Hijrī (8 August 1206–27 July 1207 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Coptic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Yehuda (line 28) (if this is the famous 11th century gaon, 150 years would have to have elapsed between the poem and the Judaeo-Arabic text on the other side; though this could conceivably be a copy of an earlier poem).

العلامات

• arabic script
• coptic
• jafr
• magic

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

There are further business instructions followed by greetings to the addressee's son Ghālib, Binyamin Peʾer ha-Qahal, Shemarya, the cantor ha-Kohen, Ḥalfon and his son Avraham. Join: Alan Elbaum. (Information in part from CUDL)

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

21 Ramaḍān 405 Hijrī (15 March 1015 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Nahār; and (3) under the tax accounting of the elder Sadīd al-Dawla Abū l-Faraj ʿAbd al-Masīḥ b.

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العلامات

• fatimid

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان

Document date

2 Shevaṭ 14[..] Seleucid (16 January 1089–3 January 1188 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Signed by Yehoshuaʿ [b. Shemu]el(?) ha-Levi, Yeshaʿyahu b. Nissim and Yaḥyā b.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information in part from Goitein's index card.) Indirect join: Alan Elbaum.

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العلامات

• maqama
• popular literature
• to edit

1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On verso there are additional jottings, including the names Eliyya b. Zekharya and Shelomo b. Natan. (Information mainly from Goitein and Friedman, India Traders) Old IB number: 233.

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العلامات

• aceh
• aguna
• ib7
• india book
• indonesia
• (+ 1 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

1229 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Shelomo wrote this." (Shelomo b. Eliyyahu) On verso (not transcribed) there are additional versions: two lines in Hebrew and one line in Judaeo-Arabic.

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العلامات

• synagogue
• testimony

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Shelomo of T-S K15.93, but his description as the partner of another man shows that he must have been comparatively inconspicuous. Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, the writer of the account, paid out the total of 44 1/2 dirhams he had received from the collector.

العلامات

• account
• communal
• salary

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

1531 Seleucid (12 September 1219–30 August 1220 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Likely in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Testator: Abū l-Surūr. Mentions people including: his daughter (receives 47 dinars); his cousin (ibn ʿamm); Efrayim his son; Sitt al-Khafāʾ bt.

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العلامات

• dowry
• slaves
• will

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1037–1037 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Early: 25 silver coins, Late: 20 dinars. Only the beginning of the dowry list survives.

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العلامات

• betrothal
• karaite

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: Wednesday, 3 Rabīʿ II, דעצה(?). Late. This small note was written on the back of a piece of paper cut from Judaeo-Arabic accounts (which mention David Ḥazzan and David Shammash).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Verso: Accounts in a late hand mentioning ashrafi coins and a certain Rivqa.

العلامات

• ashrafi
• numismatic dating

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Shimon pawned jewelry as a guarantee for Reuben and wrote a document about it. Later on the monetary exchange rate was reduced.

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العلامات

• responsa

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

460 Hijrī (11 November 1067–30 October 1068 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Two fragmentary lines preserved of a larger document. A partial reading of the first line is as follows: "منها وما معها وبوس(؟) في سنة ستون واربع مائة".

العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Most importantly, the post-1425 CE numismatic reference sherifi (שריפי) appears in several entries– leading to the conclusion that this fragment is 15th-century or later. MCD.

العلامات

• 15th c or later
• numismatic dating

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Ladino

Accounts in Ladino and western Arabic numerals. The dating is likely 16th-century based on the paleography and mention of Ottoman sulṭānī currency.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, perhaps 17th–19th century based on the paleography.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

1[.] Kislev 48[..] Anno Mundi (30 November 1039–24 November 1138 CE)

Ḥalfon, presumably his son-in-law. Date: 1[.] Kislev 48[..[] AM = 1039–1138 CE.

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1 نسخ

Primary language

Hebrew

There are 12 signatures, including Shelomo Ḥalafta who is known from several other documents. Verso: large stamp impression and ink transfer with the name ‘Yaʿaqov’.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter fragment from the Yeshiva directed to 'all the communities of Israel in Palestine and in its fortresses, its town and villages...which have remained in Palestine and to those in the land of Egypt calling themselves Palestinians', i.e. to the Jewish communities of Palestine and Egypt, dating from the end of the 10th or the beginning of the 11th century.

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العلامات

• circular
• jewish community
• yeshiva

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Aramaic

Friedman reads "Metropolis" as a general term for a city, rather a specific place: "instead of medina for 'city,' the latter is designated by the unique term 'Metropolis.' a designation I have not encountered in any other Geniza documents" (Jewish Marriage in Palestine, 81).

العلامات

• ketubba
• marriage

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Verso: Large fragment filled with Arabic script. It appears to be a Jewish prayer: "yā Allāh" (l. 6), "I thirst for your mercy like the ground thirsts for water" (l. 17), "for the sake of the covenant with our fathers Ibrāhīm Isḥāq and Yaʿqūb..."

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العلامات

• arabic script

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Each line is copied twice, presumably later as an exercise. Verso: pen trials, including copies of Mišna Beraḵot 8:1, and some words in Arabic script.

1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Some of the writing is in larger letters. Possibly says "qata'if in honey" on the lower left of recto (?!).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر