Documents

Letter from ʿAyash b. Ṣedaqa, Alexandria, to Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tahartī. Aruond 1045. Mentions a disagreement with a person that was supposed to send ʿAyash goods and money.

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العلامات

• trade

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to a certain Abū l-Barakāt, reporting that he spent Shabbat in Qalyūb and traveled onward to Alexandria, and asking him to meet with R.

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Tyre to David b. Daniel, Fustat, probably 1092.

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العلامات

• 11th c
• communal
• david b. daniel
• tyre

1 نسخ

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Mercantileletter reporting that everyone at home is well and giving the prices of different goods. […] (Information from Goitein's index cards.) The letter ends on verso with three lines of Arabic script, not yet fully transcribed.

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العلامات

• bialphabetic
• flax
• honey
• war
• wax

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1135–1164 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment from Shabbetay b. Avraham he-Ḥaver (the judge of Minyat Zifta, active 1135–78) to Natan b. […] Shabbetay includes a wish for Natan’s recovery in the address and reports that he was ill himself—with a bone in his leg that had not been set properly—and apologizes for not presenting himself. […] Information from Goitein’s note cards and Med Soc II, 44. See also card #27137.

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العلامات

• bonesetter
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: limb
• illness: treatment

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

As indicated by the cut of the extant fragment, it probably contains less than half the original list. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 503, App.

العلامات

• charity
• communal
• donors
• poverty

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

438 Hijrī (8 July 1046–27 June 1047 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Letter in Arabic and Hebrew script dated 438 AH (1046/1047 CE). The opening politesse consists of many lines in Arabic script in a calligraphic chancery hand with wide line-spacing. When the letter switches to Arabic script, it is to discuss a matter concerning some enemies of the writer and addressee. Meira Polliack, "Dual Script Mixed Code Literary Sources from the Cairo Genizah," Intellectual History of the Islamicate World 7 (2019): 340-41 contains a careless edition of the Arabic and errors in the Judaeo-Arabic, the readings in PGP edition are preferable.

العلامات

• bialphabetic

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably sent from Alexandria to Fustat. Refers to the arrival of ʿImrān to Fustat; the addressee is to ask him for news concerning another trader, and whether this other trader has left al-Jāwa yet. Also mentions the arrival of somebody else, a Maghribī, in Alexandria from Aden who conveyed news concerning Abū l-ʿAlāʾ.

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العلامات

• ib-addenda
• java
• red sea

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a man, in Damietta, to his brother Abū l-Majd, in Damīra. (The sender's name may be legible in the Arabic address -- perhaps [Abū l-]Munā.) […] The sender had sent an invitation with Hiba al-Kohen for the addressee to come celebrate the holidays in Damietta, and he is sad that he did not come. The sender mentions a house and his cousin (the daughter of his maternal aunt).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter/petition in Judaeo-Arabic. Recto is mostly extended expressions of deference and flattery. […] The ḥaver (probably the addressee) should judge between the sender and (presumably his rival) Menashshe the musician (? al-Mizmār). He then cites the saying of Yehoshuaʿ b. Qarḥa from BM 83b, "Let the owner of the vineyard come and eradicate his thorns" (יבא בעל הכרם ויכלה את קוציו).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a letter in the hand of Elḥanan b. Shemarya in which he states that Ḥasan b. Saʿdān b. Aṣbagh met the late Caliph "this week." Someone said that Ibn ʿImrān brought a fatwā from al-Shām saying that people must only go to Yaḥyā b. […] The chronology is perplexing, unless the caliph died a few days before the letter was written—maybe this is why Goitein's index card says "Dreams."

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter sent from al-Mahdiyya (Gil)/ al-Maghrib (Ben-Sasson) to Fustat (Gil)/Sicily (Ben-Sasson), by Ishaq b. Ali al-Majjani to Abu al-Fadl, dealing with a debt of Banu al-Majjani to one named al-Shiraji (Gil) and mentioninglegal opinion of Rabbi Hananel b. Hushiel and Masliah b.

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3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

Thursday, 11 Av 1442 Seleucid (6 August 1131 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Dated: Thursday, 11 Av 1442 Seleucid, which is 6 August 1131 CE. Husband: Yehuda b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Wife: Sitt al-Khawāt bt. Eliyya (cf. […] The witnesses are ʿEli b. Netanel ha-Levi and Hillel b. Shabbat ha-Kohen. The verso contains the acceptance of the bill of divorce by the wife, signed by the witnesses Eliyyahu b.

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1 مناقشة

Inferred date

984–984 CE

Ḥasan two months after the signing of this document by Yiṣḥaq b. Moshe, Shimi ha-Levi, and Avraham ha-Levi. Drafted in Damascus, ca. 984 CE. […] (Information mainly from Mediterranean Society, IV, p. 215, 426, 473, Goitein's index cards, and Friedman, Jewish Marriage in Palestine, 279 and multiple other locations.)

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العلامات

• ketubba
• marriage

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Moses גליפאפה, in Venice, to his teacher Shemuʾel ben Sīd, in "Alexandria or Cairo." […] Dating: Late 17th century (per CUDL) or early 17th century (per Avraham David, based on a potential reference to the same events in a pinqas entry from the community of Mantua dated 31 January 1616 CE). The letter concerns the ransoming of ten Jewish captives, some of whom were taken in Rome, who are being held in Palermo. Mentions Seʿadya Dārūqīs of Venice, Avraham of Egypt, and Refaʾel of Rome.

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العلامات

• 17th c

1 نسخ

Inferred date

1029–1030 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda, gaʾon of the Jerusalem yeshiva, to an unknown person in Fusṭāṭ. This is a copy of the first part of the gaʾon's original letter, T-S 13J19.16 (PGPID 991), in the hand of Ghālib ha-Kohen b. […] This copy and the original contain some interesting differences of orthography that could yield good information about Judaeo-Arabic and possibly about Hebrew as well; but both transcriptions should be double-checked, as there seems to have been some merging of the two copies both by Gil and by PGP transcribers.

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1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Eliyyahu the Judge to his two sons Abū Zikrī and Shelomo. […] According to Motzkin, Eliyyahu is asking his sons to come back from Jerusalem, however it's not clear what this is based on. The letter describes a matter with a Qaraite known as al-Shaykh al-Thiqa Ibn Kūshak and a government official (ṣāḥib dīwān) known as Jamāl al-Dīn al-Nāwī who was formerly the secretary of the treasury (kātib al-khizāna). Mentions government documents (tawāqīʿ, dustūr) several times.

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العلامات

• 13th c
• abu zikri al-rayyis
• jerusalem
• judge eliyyahu
• shelomo b. eliyyahu

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Letter from Ya’aqov b. Nahum b. Hakhmon, from Tripoli (Libya), to Nahray b. Nissim, Alexandria. Around 1060. The letter contains details about goods that arrived from Fustat. It is hard to unload them because there are goods on top of them. The writer mentions the prices of several goods and selling goods that Nahray sent to Tripoli.

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العلامات

• flax

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Part of a letter, probably from the first half of the 11th century, possibly written by Yeshuʿa b. Yosef ha-Kohen, on behalf of the Jerusalemite and Babylonian Rabbanite communities in Alexandria, to the leader of the Jewish community in Fusṭāṭ (name not preserved but titled ‘the distinguished scholar’), perhaps Elḥanan b. […] The ransom had been raised at great cost to every member of the Alexandrian Jewish community. (Information from CUDL.)

1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1420–1420 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter written by [Joseph b.] Elʿazar in Palestine, mentioning various individuals including Abū l-Faraji, Elʿazar the doctor, Joseph the doctor, ʿAbd al-Karam, Sulayman b. ʿAbd al-ʿAziz, and David the Spaniard. The letter also refers to the house of Shemuʾel the prophet.

العلامات

• 15th c

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Letter from Ḥushiel b. Elḥanan, in Qayrawān, to Shemarya b. […] In which Ḥushiel praises both the addressee and his son Elḥanan, and describes how he came from Italy to settle in Qayrawān. Mentions Yehuda Resh [Sidra], Yosef b. Berakhya, Nissim, and Avraham b. […] This was among the first Geniza documents to be published; see Schechter, "Geniza Specimens: A Letter of Chushiel," JQR Old Series Vol. 11, No. 4 (1899), 643–50.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Simḥa al-Nīsābūrī ha-Levi to Abū l-ʿAlāʾ Salāma b. […] He did not press Abū Sahl Mukhtār (also mentioned in T-S 12.296v) on the matter of the "sayf" (a sword?).

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العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: marad
• illness: recovered
• nisaburi

1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

Fragment of a letter from Avraham the son of the Gaon probably to Efrayim b. […] The first few lines preserved here are written in Arabic script, and the end of the letter is in Hebrew. NB: When Goitein refers to "T-S NS 320.16," he generally means the manuscript that currently has the shelfmark T-S NS 320.42.

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العلامات

• 11th c
• communal

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

1086–1147 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment on parchment. Probably a letter of appeal for assistance, written in a flowery style in a mixture of Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Most of the preserved text consists of blessings for the community to which the letter is addressed, potentially Latakia in Syria (לאתקיאיה in l. 7, an unusual spelling but the letters are clear). […] It seems also to refer to "Alfonso"—presumably either Alfonso VI of León and Castile (r. 1065–1109) or Alfonso VII of León and Castile (r. 1126–57).

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العلامات

• almoravids

1 نسخ

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from a certain Yosef, in Aden, to Yosef Ibn Shanju, in Fustat/Cairo. […] The sender is reporting on his business affairs in Aden, where he arrived from "Tabor" in Egypt (apparently there is a location that sounds like this between Fuwwa and Rashīd). The merchandise he was expecting to receive from India never arrived. He is planning a trip to Calicut. He mentions two Jewish traders in Aden, Moshe Hakan and David al-Kehlado, who are involved in business with him in Calicut and Surat.

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العلامات

• ib6
• india book
• late heb

3 نسخ

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38). […] Concerning an interpersonal conflict: "the rudeness and the insults and the foolishness.... which should not be mentioned due to its ugliness and enormity...." Someone demanded from someone else that they move out of the house.

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العلامات

• conflict
• halfon b. menashshe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Original use: Two fragments of a legal document in Arabic script. ~8 partial lines preserved. Tight line spacing, stylized dhālika ذلك in l. 2, stylized ṣaḥīḥ in l. 4. Mentions ḥaqq and al-nās ajmaʿīn. Involves two women (hātayn al-mutaqāriratayn), one of whom is called Sitt al-Fakhr. Might be a deed of sale (mentions "al-mushtarī" near the bottom) of real estate.

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العلامات

• dimme

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Verso: Two fragments of a Fatimid internal memorandum dating to the period of al-Ḥāfiẓ (r. 1130-1149). The preserved text mentions "Sadd al-jusūr al-sulṭāniyya", the operation of the royal dykes, the Gharbiyya province, and at least three state officials: al-Amīr al-Muwaffaq Sayf al-Mulk Iftikhār al-Dawla wa-Shujāʿuhā Abī Manṣūr Yāqūt, al-Amīr al-Muwaffaq al-Manṣūr al-Saʿīd Sharīf al-Umarāʾ, and Muʾayyad al-Dawla wa-ʿImāduhā.

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العلامات

• cmp
• dimme
• dykes
• passover

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Av 5595 Anno Mundi (27 July 1835–25 August 1835 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Lists of contributions in Judaeo-Arabic related to the kosher meat tax known as "gabela". This fragment may have once been part of a larger register for communal tax collection in Cairo. The entries on the first folio's recto record the months Adar-Av ("Menaḥem") of the year 5595 AM. Although the ligature in the date ([55]95=קצה) is barely legible this reading is confirmed by the presence of Moshe Ben-Naʿīm's name, who appears widely in nineteenth-century documents.

العلامات

• 19th c
• communal
• gabela
• tax

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر