Documents

Primary language

Arabic

Note addressed to the faqīh ʿImād al-Dīn, asking him for a response to 'the enclosed' (perhaps referring to the text on verso?).

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Primary language

Arabic

and another person, perhaps Bū Thābit al-Jazzār. In Arabic. No signatures.

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Primary language

Arabic

Order of payment in Arabic script. The judge (al-dayyān) is asked to pay 5 dinars to the bearer.

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Primary language

Arabic

Order of payment in Arabic script. The judge (al-dayyān) is asked to pay 2 dinars to the bearer.

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Document date

454 Hijrī (15 January 1062–3 January 1063 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Involving [...] b. Khalaf al-Yahūdī. Dated: possibly 454 AH = 1062/63 CE if read correctly.

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Primary language

Arabic

Addressed to Abū ʿUmar Saʿdān al-Baghdādī (active in the second quarter of the 12th century).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Brief account in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning Yosef al-Ḥaṭṭāb and Moshe Kohen. Dating is 16th- or 17th-century based on the mention of Ottoman-era jadid coinage.

العلامات

• 16th or 17th c
• numismatic dating

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Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic with Greek/Coptic alphanumerals. Medieval-era. Crude hand. Mentions MKRM; Asʿad; a khirqa; a garment.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Contains his motto ברכאת יייי היא תאעשיר. Join: Alan Elbaum.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Small note for legal purposes ("al-muʿtaraf bihī") detailing the value of two mattresses/sofas (martaba) (24 and 9 dinars respectively) and a female slave (18 dinars).

العلامات

• slave

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Involves a sum of 5 dinars and people including Wahbān and Abū Isḥāq b. Yūsuf and [...] al-Ṣayrafī. The details of the case are probably too damaged to decipher.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions sums related to specific documents (ḥujja, wathīqa); Saʿd al-Mulk; and a collateral with a certain Adam.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The hand is probably known (the gimmel looks almost Ashkenazi, with an opening to the right). Dating: probably no earlier than 13th century.

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Illuminated Hebrew alphabet from a children’s textbook. At the bottom of recto there is a benediction: ‘God will protect you from every evil and will guard your soul’.

1 مناقشة

Regarding is business with Yeshua b. Isma’il al-Makhmuri. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, #410) VMR

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العلامات

• suftaja

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

The genealogy of the family of Abū Manṣūr Ibn al-Kātib (Levites), headed by Saʿadya the judge and his six sons.

1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Attributed to Yehuda ha-Levi by Allony. This identification is questioned by Friedman in IB IV/A p. 10-11, n. 37.

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment (right side) of a legal document, perhaps a release, involving [...] al-Ṣabbāgh b. Ṣedaqa and Hiba. Invokes the authority of 'adonenu geʾonenu....'

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Primary language

Arabic

Decree, probably. "... wa-amr amīr al-muʾminīn..." Reused between the lines for an Arabic-script text, apparently a Jewish exegetical work since there are Hebrew words interspersed.

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Primary language

Arabic

A few words preserved from 2 lines, including "waḥdahu" and "al-mamlūk." On verso there is Hebrew literary text.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions orphans, a sum of money, 20 (probably dinars), and the tax farmer of an estate (ḍāmin al-ḍayʿa).

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Primary language

Arabic

Account or possibly receipt (official?) for Ṭāhir al-ʿAṭṭār. Needs examination. Reused on recto for blessings from the liturgy (pre-hafṭara and qiddush for Shabbat that falls on Shemini ʿAṣeret).

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Primary language

Arabic

Contains a name, perhaps Isrā'īl b. Saʿd b. Mūsā al-ʿAṭṭār. On recto there is a Hebrew literary text.

العلامات

• arabic script
• glyph

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Inferred date

1128–1164 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shemuel (fl. 1128–1164 CE), including an Ibn al-Lebdi. (Information from Goitein's index card.)

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1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions a doctor; Mufarraj b. Dāʾūd al-Jawharī, and someone's agent Ṭayyib [b.] Mūsā.

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Primary language

Arabic

The second line is a single word whose last letter extends all the way across the page.

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Primary language

Arabic

Might be about provincial administration: "wa-yudabbir amūr al-nāḥiya. . . wa-anna katabū kitāb ilā l-qāḍī. . ."

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The physical letter is almost entirely preserved, but the text will be illegible without multispectral imaging.

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Primary language

Arabic

Mercantile letter addressed to Abū ʿUmar al-Arjawānī, in Fustat. In Arabic script. Mentions purple (arjawān) textiles.

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Primary language

Hebrew

In Hebrew. Consisting almost entirely of blessings; possibly requesting charity or assistance.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The topoi include weakness of vision and hearing and "all day long I sit in the corner of the house waiting for someone to open the door."

العلامات

• appeal
• disability
• neglect

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100–1138), one involving Khalaf al-Levi b. Yeshu'a. AA

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe

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Document date

December 1027 CE

Documents describing unique or interesting legal cases were occasionally copied in order to serve the clerks of the court as reference (Goitein also suggests that the document might have been copied to serve as an accompaniment to a legal discussion. […] On the other hand, the detailed description of the entire process, the dates, the exact monetary sums, the number of rings and their type, all testify that this was a real case. Goitein suggests that the document represent an agreement made by a poor couple. […] However, Ashur claims that this date is the date in which the document was copied to the legal documents file in court and in the same occasion the title was written, since the recto also has the year recorded at the header (Assaf missed the word 'year' in the header of the recto.

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العلامات

• register

2 نسخين

Document date

3 Rajab 1248 Hijrī (26 November 1832 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Letter from Maʿtūq al-Yahūdī. In Arabic script. Dated 3 Rajab [12]48 AH = 26 November 1832 CE. […] The letter seems to be a complaint and an appeal for assistance against the behaviors (apparently wage theft) of al-Muʿallim Nissim and al-Muʿallim Bekhor (or potentially Baḥur, if بخور is an error for بحور). The sender repeatedly emphasizes his poverty, although the large sums of money he refers to (1000s and 10000s of a silver denomination, likely medins) suggest that this may be rhetorical or relative poverty.

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العلامات

• hakham bashi

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The traveler doesn't heed their advice and saves the man. 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. […] On verso there is additional (unrelated?) text also in the hand of Yosef Rosh ha-Seder. It is fragmentary and difficult to understand; needs examination.

العلامات

• animals
• kalila wa-dimna
• popular literature

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Document date

Shevaṭ 5564 Anno Mundi (14 January 1804–12 February 1804 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The text regularly alternates from Hebrew/Aramaic to Judaeo-Arabic translation after each of the partnership's twelve clauses (the Judaeo-Arabic sections often begin with יעני = yaʿanī ). The addendum clauses are also listed in a bilingual format. Mentions sums of money such as 4500 mayedes and 5000 mayedes, representing fines for violation of the partnership terms. […] Matatiya Ashkenazi likely signs as the second witness and he may have signed his name with an abbreviation that was distinct from the common ס׳׳ט = ספרדי טהור= סופו טוב. Although, the first letter could be a poorly rendered samech.

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العلامات

• 19th c
• cloth
• clothes
• clothing
• satin
• (+ 1 المزيد)

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Groom: Natan(?) b. David. Bride: Sitt al-Sāda bt. ʿAdaya. In the handwriting of Ḥalfon b.

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Primary language

Hebrew

Small fragment, perhaps a genealogy or memorial list, including a lineage with an Aluf ha-Ḥaver . . . bar Avraham bar . . . Sahlān bar . . .

العلامات

• genealogy
• sahlan b. avraham

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Primary language

Garshuni (Serto)

Garshuni poem rhymed on -nī (e.g., al-awṭānī, insānī, ikhwānī), each section punctuated by a refrain (qufl).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions health, items to be sent, and regards to various people including Najīb al-Dīn (?). There is a note in the margin mentioning "your ghulām."

العلامات

• ghulam

1 نسخ

Document date

[Tammuz] 4831 Anno Mundi (2 June 1071–30 June 1071 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Deed of restitution written in Jerusalem regarding alimony, in the hand of Eliyyahu Ha-Kohen Gaon, June 1071 CE, based on Gil's inference of [Tammuz] 4831 AM in l. 23.

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العلامات

• jerusalem
• marital reconciliation
• marriage

1 نسخ

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

With greetings to Yosef al-Ashqar (see T-S NS 304.1 (PGPID 24958)).

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The bride's name is Sitt al-Sāda bt. A[...].

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe

1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Concerning a gift given to a young woman named Sitt al-Dār.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions several names: ʿAlī b. [...], Ḥasan b. [...]. The remainder of the fragment contains Hebrew literary text.

العلامات

• cmp

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Primary language

Arabic

Efrayim (according to the Arabic-script header), including three verses that are palindromes (mā yanqarī min al-jihatayn).

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Primary language

Arabic

People named include Isḥāq b. ʿAllūsh and Abū l-Surūr Yūshaʿ b. Natan.

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