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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender had gone up to Fustat to visit the addressee and congratulate him on his health, but he was distracted by another errand in the royal court (fī bāb al-ṣulṭān). […] Jawshan who is otherwise known from a letter of gratitude sent to him by Ibn Qalāqis when Ghārāt was in the service of William II (r. 1166–89) (see ديوان ترسل ابن قلاقس no. 29 and Ihsan Abbas, al-ʿArab fī Siqilliyya, https://shamela.ws/book/1020/280#p1). He reports that everyone in Sicily longs for the addressee, and that he has sent them news of the addressee's health.

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العلامات

• alexandria
• capitation tax
• customs
• indigo
• sicily
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to Peraḥya ha-Ḥaver about a visit of the carrier of the note, Abū l-ʿAysh, to the Nagid for the issue of whether he had to pay the capitation tax (jāliya) in Fustat or in Peraḥya's location. Verso: Accounts and jottings in Hebrew and Arabic script, mentioning people including Abū l-Ḥasan the doctor, Yeḥiʾel and Nissim.

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العلامات

• communal

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Nājiya al-Ruṣāfī in Nūr al-Ṭarf wa-Nūr al-Ẓarf by al-Ḥuṣrī al-Qayrawānī (d. 1095) (https://shamela.ws/book/5351/42), in praise of the hospitality and culture of Bedouins. […] His riding animal brings him to the lands of Banū Shaybān and he enters the courtyard of a house. A woman calls out to extend hospitality, and he responds "yā sayyida, how can a frightened, pursued, terrified, persecuted person find peace... no one can rest with the government after him." She gives him advice and repeats the invitation. The Geniza fragment ends around here. In the parallel version, the woman summons the head of the household (or tribe?)

العلامات

• literary with documentary value
• story

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There is not much by way of content; it is heavy on the flattery and seems to be encouraging the addressee to come visit.There is a response on verso.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

The tapering format of the lines is extremely similar to the copy of the Arabic text in the Library of Congress: https://www.wdl.org/en/item/3125/. On verso there is also a medical recipe in Arabic script using galingale, emblic, elephant fig, Ceylon cinnamon, gum Arabic, and honey (it is not immediately clear if this is part of the same work, al-Kīmiyā' al-Malikiyya).

العلامات

• magnet
• medicine
• paracelsus

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

According to Alan Elbaum, in the hand of Yedutun ha-Levi (late 12th–early 13th century), and part of a cluster with 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). […] Information from Alan Elbaum and from Moshe Yagur, "Saʿāda the enslaved woman: immersion and oblivion, T-S 12.872," Fragment of the Month, August 2019, https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/departments/taylor-schechter-genizah-research-unit/fragment-month/fotm-2019/fragment-6.

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العلامات

• genealogy

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Versions of the story may be found in Abū Hayyān al-Tawḥīdī's Kitāb al-Baṣāʾir wa-l-Dhakhāʾir (https://shamela.ws/book/26423/1991) and al-Tadhkira al-Ḥamdūniyya (https://shamela.ws/book/10646/500).

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العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1055–1055 CE

Primary language

Arabic

Rustow has translated ḥimāya in another context as "law enforcement" in Lost Archive p. 209, and Bauden notes that the term can refer to a tax of circulation on the Nile ("Le Transport de Marchandises et de Personnes sur le Nil," p. 125 note 117). See also Claude Cahen, “Notes pour l’histoire de la ḥimāya" (1956) and Jürgen Paul, "Ḥimāya Revisited" (2020) (https://journals.openedition.org/anisl/7518?lang=en).

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العلامات

• dimme

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Hebrew

Another version of Ibn Yijū's poem in praise of Maḍmūn and cursing his enemies (India Book II, 39), in the hand of the same scribe as AIU IV.C.486 (PGPID 39481). Identification and join by Alan Elbaum with the assistance of the Dicta Genizah Search website for the MiDRASH Automatic Transcriptions (https://zenodo.org/records/17734473). There are a few interesting variants here compared to the other copies: - There is no header (T-S 8J16.23 starts ולה איצא ימדח סידנא מצמון נגיד עם יי) - A trivial change of אברהם בנו יגו to אברהם נין יגו - A significant change of the recipient: instead of בנו יפת (referring to Maḍmūn the son of Yefet) it says בנו מחפוץ ("the son of Maḥfūẓ").

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العلامات

• ib-addenda

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender asks the addressee to continue visiting him as his late father ('al-ḥaver') and paternal uncle used to do. […] The margins of recto and the entirety of verso are filled with a list of names and numbers in tiny Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals—needs examination.

العلامات

• captives

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yefet to Avraham referring to a visit of the addressee to the sender and mentioning lodging for travelers on the top floor of a synagogue. The letter ends with a religious formula in Hebrew including a quote from the Bible.

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

The main answer is written by the Shāfiʿī muftī Muḥammad al-Minyāwī (or al-Manbāwī?), which is then endorsed by the Ḥanafī muftī Muḥammad b. [...] al-Dīn and the Mālikī muftī Muḥammad b. […] Literary sources (e.g. https://shamela.ws/book/2138/22) attest to a Mālikī faqīh known as Sālim al-Sanhūrī who died in 1010 AH = 1601/02 CE.

العلامات

• fatwa
• insult

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender is annoyed at the addressee for not coming to visit either at night or in the morning. He has enclosed another letter with this one, which should be given to a woman named Naẓar, whether in al-Maḥalla or elsewhere.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto 12-24:The writer, his young daughter, and his wife yearn for his mother-in-law, who seems to have visited recently and assisted with childcare. Everyone in the house is also helping his wife, who is in the state that God knows (often a figure of speech for illness). His daughter is starting to recognize everyone in the house, including visitors, and also serves her mother. Recto 22 – Verso 30: Following these pleasant updates, the remainder of the letter is a blistering tirade against Barakat who affects intelligence but whose brain produces only "mucus, delirium, and madness [al-mukhāṭ wa-l-hadhayān wa-l-khubāṭ].” […] It had to do with financial arrangements for the trousseau and rent of Barakat’s cousin, the daughter of his maternal aunt. Verso 32-end: Closing greetings. ASE.

العلامات

• abu zikri al-rayyis

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

See Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa (https://doi.org/10.1163/37704_0668IbnAbiUsaibia.Tabaqatalatibba.lhom-tr-eng1), section 14.45, and see Brockelmann, Supplement, vol. 1, pp. 897–98. […] (Information in part from CUDL.) See also ENA NS 36.26 (PGPID 40616).

العلامات

• licensing
• musharif
• ophthalmology
• physicians

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There follows some accounting. Levi reports that 'the girl' (=Moshe's wife) is currently ritually impure and will immerse herself on Sunday, so he should endeavor to come visit on Sunday—and to make sure to come to Fustat directly instead of stopping in Cairo—while she is ritually pure.

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العلامات

• abu sahl levi
• menstrual purity
• moshe b. levi

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Hīnī (also mentioned in ENA NS 50.25) to try to sell. Recto is damaged, but deals almost entirely with business matters. […] In his will, he left 200 peraḥim for the study of Torah and for the visiting of the ill and for the poor. The writer also mentions the addressee's brother Khubayr, his own nephew Yosef, and Shelomo Abulafia.

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العلامات

• 16th c
• abulafia
• ben hini
• bibas
• cyprus
• (+ 8 المزيد)

1 نسخ

Primary language

Hebrew

Two songs with musical notation by Obadiah the Proselyte. See https://johannes-obadiah.org/, Obadiah Musical Compositions, Song 1.

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العلامات

• music
• obadiah the proselyte

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Two songs with musical notation by Obadiah the Proselyte. See https://johannes-obadiah.org/, Obadiah Musical Compositions, Songs 2 and 3.

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العلامات

• music
• obadiah the proselyte

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

All the animals and the man honor the traveler and tell him that they will help him if he ever comes through their city, Nawārjūr. The Geniza fragment ends here but the continuation can be read in the versions of Kalīla wa-Dimna available online (e.g., https://al-maktaba.org/book/26537/296#p1 or Bodleian Library MS. […] You can compare ~25 different editions of this story in ~10 different languages with the Kalīla Reader app: https://www.theobeers.com/kwd-reader/#ch=17-Tg&ver=prompt.

العلامات

• animals
• kalila wa-dimna
• popular literature

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Avraham. See Penn catalog (https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/h318.html) for detailed description and potential identifications.

العلامات

• literary with documentary value
• panegyric

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Ḥeshvan 1310 Seleucid (998 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

End of a letter from the Iraqi Gaʾon Shemuel b. […] For it is among the punishments that God has visited upon me that He has weakened my position among them.”

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

ʿAmram. See Penn catalog (https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/h293.html) for detailed description and potential identifications of this Yefet.

العلامات

• ownership

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Yishai the Exilarch from Damascus who visited Egypt in the 1230s to solicit money from the communities there and overstayed his welcome. This letter mentions that Hodaya's brother (probably Shelomo b. Yishai) had visited the community from which the letter was sent.

العلامات

• 13th c

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Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Beginning in 1210, a wave of pilgrims – known as the Emigration of the Rabbis – arrived from France and England. Relations between the various communities were very tense, as testified by Yehuda Alharizi, who visited Jerusalem in 1214. […] Yehiel, the leader of the community, objected to the construction of a new mikveh, preferring that the women of the community immerse in a private mikveh in his home – according to him, this would enable his wife to supervise the women’s immersion. […] However, members of the local community were not satisfied with this arrangement, and tried to build a new mikveh. The ensuing dispute split the community, until R. Yehiel and his group were forced to leave the synagogue.

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العلامات

• communal
• conflict
• excommunication
• french rabbis
• heqdesh
• (+ 3 المزيد)

3 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

There is also a snippet from an order of payment (yadfaʿ al-shaykh. . .) and an entry that looks like it contains numbers or a date. […] Murhaf signed a transmission authorization note for his father's manuscript Kitāb al-Iʿtibār in 1213 CE (RBME Árabe 1947, available at https://rbme.patrimonionacional.es/s/rbme/item/15556), but that manuscript is a later copy, likely late 13th or early 14th century (Paul Cobb, "Contemplating Books with Usāma ibn Munqidh’s Book of Contemplation," in Bestsellers and Masterpieces, ed.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Mesabar(?). See Penn catalog (https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/h325.html) for further description and potential identifications.

العلامات

• literary with documentary value
• panegyric

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Latin

[Genizah Research Unit, Fragment of the Month, May 2007]. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.40134.

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العلامات

• fotm
• latin
• palimpsest

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: late 12th or early 13th century, based in part on the reference to the ruler of Bijāya Abū ʿAbdallāh Ibn Yūmūr (mentioned in literary works by Ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Marrākushī (https://shamela.ws/book/17056/2241#p1) and al-Maqqarī al-Tilimsānī (https://shamela.ws/book/1002/808)). […] He reports that on the day of his arrival in Constantine, he encountered [...] Yaʿaqov b. Yehuda b. Yaʿaqov Aghmātī [...], who is described as one of the greatest pupils of Yosef ha-Levi b. […] Yaʿaqov Aghmātī was the disciple of Ibn Migash, and the sender encountered his grandson, who is also a learned scholar.

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Fragment of a letter of a cantor describing the visit of the Nagid in a town, probably Alexandria, during the holidays. The Nagid visited the synagogue of the Babylonians. 300 persons were present.

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العلامات

• communal
• nagid
• prices

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Location: Spain. Dating: Perhaps the end of summer, 1138 CE. Dealing with the return of a defective mithqāl. […] Ḥalfon had business relationships with both parties, and the price of the paper will be credited toward Yiṣḥaq b. ʿOvadya's account with Ḥalfon. Ibn ʿEzra writes that he plans to visit Ḥalfon the following week, and he passes on regards from two Muslim viziers: Abū Muḥammad b.

العلامات

• ib4
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• india book

2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين