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Document date

1464-07-19 Seleucid (17 March 1153 CE)

The verso contains the acceptance of the bill of divorce by the wife, signed also by Saʿadya b. Mevorakh and Mevorakh b. Natan (he-Ḥaver).

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Document date

1486-02-12 Seleucid (21 October 1174 CE)

The verso contains the acceptance of the bill of divorce by the wife, signed also by Mevorakh b. Natan ha-Haver and Avraham b.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions the addressee's brother Moshe, Rabbenu Nissim, Hārūn Ibn al-Sharābī and Rabbenu Yiṣḥaq. Later, "I and she went to the synagogue to read. […] (Information in part from CUDL and Goitein's index card.) Join: Alan Elbaum

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Reminding the addressee that al-Ḥemdat had sent with him אלדרקה (probably not shield or coat of mail but rather a leaf of a door), but had not received the price. […] קעדה מגלפה in T-S K15.9) sent by the addressee arrived, but was not yet taken by al-Ḥemdat. When the latter's brother Abū Naṣr arrives, Yaḥyā should pay him immediately the price of אלדרקה.

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Document date

Ḥeshvan 1402 Seleucid (28 September 1090–26 October 1090 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ḥalfon was wrongly accused of improper conduct by Hārūn al-Ṭārī and thereby unjustly prevented from reading the lection from the Torah. Other people joined in the brawl, including Budayr al-Ḥalabī. On the bottom part of recto and on verso is a piyyuṭ, which continues in the left-hand margin.

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العلامات

• testimony

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Mardūk b. Mūsā, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic.

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: bath
• illness: du'f
• illness: pullet
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3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

B, sec. 6; according to Reif, this document is also mentioned in Ashtor, Histoire des Prix, p.173.)

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• ketubba
• marriage
• minyat zifta

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Document date

1444 Seleucid (12 September 1132–1 September 1133 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Netanʾel Rosh ha-Qehillot gives a gift to his son Abū Saʿd Netanʾel, and the latter's wife Sitt al-Milāḥ bt. Yefet promises that she will have no claim on this gift from her ketubba or otherwise. […] (Information in part from Goitein's index card and CUDL.) Join: Alan Elbaum.

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Khalaf if she is still alive. She gives 1/2 dinar to her cousin Abū l-Khayr, the son of her paternal uncle Kathīr al-Naḥḥal (the beekeeper), who lives in New Cairo.

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Document date

Ṭevet 1451 Seleucid (24 November 1139–22 December 1139 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document concerning the Sicilian Abū Yaʿaqov Yosef b. Moshe al-Kohen who has a first wife in Damascus and is not allowed to marry a second wife in Cairo before depositing what is due to the first wife with the court.

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Document date

Elul 1462 Seleucid (15 August 1151–12 September 1151 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef, gifts this house to her daughter Sitt al-Naẓar, the wife of Manṣūr al-Ṣabbāgh. The house is located in Fustat in the Kammūna(?)

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العلامات

• gift
• register

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Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Moses גליפאפה, in Venice, to his teacher Shemuʾel ben Sīd, in "Alexandria or Cairo." In Hebrew. 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).

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• 17th c

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū Saʿd Shemuel to Avraham al-Maḥallī al-Talmid (the student/scholar). Addressed to Fustat, the synagogue of the Palestinians, situated in Zuqāq Khabīṣa.

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• personal

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Primary language

Hebrew

See Mann, Jews, II, 207–08. See also T-S 13J10.11.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a son to his mother describing the events of his journey from Alexandria to Fustat and mentioning the illness of his uncle.

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العلامات

• alexandria
• disability
• disability: vision
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• (+ 5 المزيد)

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Document date

last third of Tammuz 1410 Seleucid (13 July 1099–21 July 1099 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: last third of Tammuz 1410 Seleucid = July 1099 CE. Hiba b. Moshe Ibn al-Ṣalʿa acknowledges to have received from Abū l-Khayr Ṣadaqa b. Yaʿaqov Ibn al-Raṣāṣiyya 1.5 dinars owed by the latter to Hiba's late brother Abū l-Munā.

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العلامات

• release

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Document date

Thursday, 17 Tammuz 1383 Seleucid (5 July 1072 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Details about Maymun’s belongings, including goods that are in other’s hands and money that belongs to Maymun, or that he owes others. Also mentions several books that belong to Nahray b.

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Document date

20 Shevat 1565 Seleucid (10 January 1254 CE)

Letter from Jalal al-Dawla in the name of Yishay b. Shelomo to the Nasi Shelomo b. […] Yishay, so it cannot be sold, but ha-Kohen Nafīs al-Dawla is interested in buying it for his son.

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العلامات

• mosul nasis

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

The content is difficult to make out, but it mentions silver and gold; mentions al-Malik al-ʿĀdil, either the sultan from 1200–18 or his grandson with the same title who served intermittently as regent from 1232–38 and reigned 1238–40; and concludes by urging the addressee to act.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Report of a provincial official, Ibn Lifsh(?) al-Shihābī. In Arabic script. It seems that he received an order to present himself, together with the qāḍī and the ʿāmil (and the kātib?) […] He reports that a well/cistern overflowed and posed a danger to all the land underneath and had to be fixed (ll.10–12).

العلامات

• agriculture
• damin
• katib
• report

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Primary language

Arabic

Recto: Letter/petition from Barakāt Ibn al-Dayyān Abū l-Faraj (=Shelomo b. Eliyyahu the Judge). […] In which Shelomo complains of his poverty and illnesses (alām) and asks for help paying the capitation tax.

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العلامات

• appeal
• capitation tax
• charity

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Primary language

Arabic

Petition to a Fatimid ruler in which the writer asks to be exempted from the payment of his capitation tax (of 1 + 1/3 + 1/4 dinars and a dirham), since lost his sight as a consequence of an eye illness and is now unable to perform his job, while the tax collectors are increasingly pressing. The writer also states that in the past he had been able to pay his capitation tax only thanks to the charitable intervention of the community.

العلامات

• capitation tax
• disability
• disability: vision
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• (+ 4 المزيد)

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Document date

Monday, 13 Shaʿbān 657 Hijrī (5 August 1259 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The witnesses are Hilāl b. Bū ʿAlī and Bū Saʿd b. Sālim. There is a validation—stating that the witnesses are trustworthy elders of the Jews—written in the hand of the Nagid David I Maimonides, who signs his name "Dāʾūd the son of the ḥākim Ibrāhīm b. Mūsā, Head of the Jews (Rayyis al-Yahūd)." (Information from Khan.)

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• death
• inheritance
• report of death

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Inferred date

1168–1204 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Autograph letter from Maimonides to al-Dayyan al-Maskil (i.e., Shemuʾel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi).

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• maimonides autograph

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

If a letter, the sender is instructing the addressee or somebody else to summon the "experts" (aṣḥāb al-khibra) and the Jewish elders (mashāʾikh aṣḥābinā) and divide a house into three equal portions. It may have to do with a dowry evaluation ("...fī taḥrīr al-taqwīm...") or possibly a will. If a legal document, this is describing what someone has to do.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

תשרי אתקיא (1199 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Shemuʾel Halevi (ca. 1180's-1210). Also on verso, on the right side of the page, a bottom part from a legal deed from Tishrei 1511 (1199) by a different hand.

العلامات

• fgp stub
• legal

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Ladino

The list uses the Hebrew honorific in between first and last names, also an uncommon feature. Requires further examination.

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العلامات

• ladino

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Almost poetic letter of a Gaon, perhaps Shelomo b. […] A woman deserted by her husband for many years had brought up her only son and when he was old enough had sent him out to find his father, but the boy perished on his way. Along with attempts at consolation the Gaon refers to a debt of 300 dinars and losses incurred by the recipient of his letter.

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العلامات

• communal
• gaon

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Primary language

Arabic

Involving an agent named Abū l-Ṭāhir Ismāʿīl (l. 1), a drug store (al-ʿiṭr wa-l-ʿaqāqīr, l. 4), and describing the boundaries of a property. Dated: Dhū l-Ḥijja [..]5 AH (the full year should be legible with further examination). Signed by ʿAbd al-Khāliq b. Ismāʿīl. On verso there is a calendar in Hebrew script for the 263rd and 264th cycles (maḥzors), corresponding to 1217–55 CE.

العلامات

• drugs
• lease

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

The parnas who recorded the list probably advanced money of his own, or even resorted to loans, since he lists the sum collected each day and the deficit, which is called salaf (also dawn). 52 dirhams are due on the first, 21 on the second, and 21 on the third day.

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• 11th c
• account
• communal
• qodesh
• waqf

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When a beadle is listed here with a salary of 4 dirhams (instead of 2, as usual), the sum certainly included arrears for the preceding week. Also, some entries of personal expenditure made by the official.'

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• 13th c
• account
• charity
• communal

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Primary language

Hebrew

Originally written in ca. 1005. Sent to Fustat to an aluf, probably Avraham b. Sahlān. Mentions Shemarya b. […] Mentions “the son of the deceased ruler,” probably al-Ḥākim. Refers to distress and persecutions that the writers suffered, and hints at a controversy in Fustat.

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العلامات

• aluf
• avraham b. sahlan
• babylonian geonim
• communal
• elhanan b. shemarya
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Document date

440 Hijrī (16 June 1048–4 June 1049 CE)

In this list writes details about buying flax in Munimun and its shipment to Rashid, and probably from there to Alexandria. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #275) VMR

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العلامات

• al-tahirti
• flax
• nahray b. nissim
• trade

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Primary language

Hebrew

This prayer (al ha-nisim), added to the Amidah and Grace after Meals during Hanukkah, and to other Hanukkah texts, is preserved on a twelfth-century bifolium in the Cairo Geniza. The first part presents passages from Targum Onkelos on Numbers 7, a part of the Torah read during Hanukkah. This version of Al ha-nisim combines both Egyptian and Eastern traditions.

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Primary language

Arabic

Khan labels recto (as conserved) verso and vice-versa; verso contains drafts 1 and 2, and recto contains draft 3. The verso also has the glyph at the top. (Information in part from CUDL and Khan.)

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العلامات

• glyph
• yedutun ha-levi

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Document date

1469 Seleucid (7 September 1157–25 August 1158 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: 1469 Seleucid, which is 1157/58 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Seller: Sitt al-Dalāl bt. Abū Naṣr, probably [the wife or widow of ...] known as Ibn Saʿdān. Buyer: Abū l-Bayān Moshe ha-Levi the merchant in the Dār al-Ṣarf. Price: 13 dinars. Enslaved person: A Persian woman named Qaḍīb.

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العلامات

• slaves

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Document date

first decade of Tammuz 1471 Seleucid (7 June 1160–16 June 1160 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In which the agent of Khulla bt. Abū l-Riḍā al-Ṭawwāf sues the perfumer Avraham b. Ṣedaqa al-Ḥinnāwī for the 7 dinars still owed out of an original 10 dinars owed by the latter to her father Abū l-Riḍā.

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العلامات

• mevorakh b. natan
• netanel ha-levi

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Kislev 1497 Seleucid (27 October 1185–24 November 1185 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The community of Aden wishes for the visit of the addressee, and they congratulate him on something to do with Alexandria and somebody who was arrested. (Information in part from Goitein's index card.

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العلامات

• ib-addenda
• ib6

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Letter from ʿAmmār b. [...] to al-Rayyis Bū l-Mufaḍḍal. In Arabic script. Dating: likely 12th or 13th century. […] Simples mentioned include anise, rose, lavender, oregano, mastic, liquorice, myrobalan, and aloe. The writer mentions his recent move to the town of Qalyūb.

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العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: treatment
• physicians
• to edit

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer complains about ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz and his mistreatment of a woman (his wife?) […] The addressee is asked to arbitrate between them, for the wretched petitioners (al-suqamā') are perishing. The letter is written on a reused page of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, of which a few lines are visible at the bottom of verso.

العلامات

• petition

1 نسخ

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a certain Yiṣḥaq to Yosef b. Shabbetay al-Rūmī, Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Very deferential, filled with language of patroange (e.g. li-l-mawlā ʿuluww al-ra'y fī dhālik).The writer has sent the copy of the book and excuses the delay by saying that he fell ill in the winter and it delayed him until now.

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العلامات

• arabic address
• book trade
• byzantines
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• (+ 2 المزيد)

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