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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender asks him to help the bearer, Ibrāhīm b. Abū Dāwūd al-Ashqar al-Bilbaysī, who betrothed (amlaka) a woman in Bilbays years ago.

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العلامات

• avraham maimonides
• communal
• petition

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Letter from the Qaraite Mahbub b. Nissim, Ramla, to Abu al-Faraj in Fustat, middle of the 11th century (12 Iyar).

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العلامات

• 11th c
• karaite

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Legal document, 12 lines, in Arabic script, dated 4th Muḥarram al-Ḥarām of an undecipherable year [8..?]. Concerning [...] b. al-Muʿallim Ṣadaqa the Samaritan Jew, a receipt of something (waṣala...), and a period of time.

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العلامات

• dimme
• mamluk
• numismatic dating
• samaritan

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

464 Hijrī (29 September 1071–16 September 1072 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Receipt for the capitation tax of Mubārak b. Ibrāhīm Ibn Sabrā, in Fustat. After the basmala, the trigger phrase is "tadhkira bism" (memorandum/receipt in the name of—unusual wording but also found in ENA 3967.25).

العلامات

• dimme
• fatimid
• fiscal
• tax receipt

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

MS heb. f 22/39v, and Med Soc II, p. 358 notes 14 and 15) in this case for Muḥammad b. ʿAsākir al-Ḥayfī(?); further down mentions al-tawqīʿ al-muʿaẓẓam ("the mighty rescript").

العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Kislev 1459 Seleucid (27 October 1147–25 November 1147 CE)

The man is probably named Abū l-Ṭāhir Shemuel b. Natan. (A previous description listed his profession as al-kaḥḥāl, but it is not clear where this is written.)

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter by the scribe Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE) to his brother in law, with a long narrative about the difficulties he encountered procuring a tax receipt (barāʾa) and the connections he used in order to procure it, some more useful than others.

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe
• hillel b. eli
• tax
• tax receipt

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The bottom part of recto is in a different hand (that of Hillel b. ʿEli?). It seems like a Hebrew fakhr (boast) poem.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer defends himself for having to refuse a request of the addressee (he cites a version of a couplet of Arabic poetry that some sources attribute to ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib: אדא סאלת אלי כרים חאגה ואבא פלא תעתב עליה בח[אגב] | רבמא אמתנע אל[...]

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العلامات

• classical arabic poetry

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He mentions a restriction of R. Yiṣḥaq b. Ḥalfon from Alexandria that one should not make exception to 'gentile manners'.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Business letter addressed to Abū l-Faraj (Yūsuf b. Yaʿqūb?) Ibn ʿAwkal. In Judaeo-Arabic. This document appears to have been overlooked by past Ibn ʿAwkal scholars.

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العلامات

• ibn awkal
• unedited 11th c

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yeshuʿa b. Yefet to two brothers, to the dukkān of Bāb al-Futūḥ, which means this was probably sent to New Cairo rather than Fustat. […] One of the addressees is named Maḥāsin [b. Ab]ū l-Ḥasan al-Nākhudha, and the address also refers to the shopowner الي אלכהן = Eli[yya?]

العلامات

• arabic address
• glyph

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto (probably the secondary use): Letter from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (d. 1212), in Qalyūb, to his family members in Fustat.

العلامات

• moshe b. levi

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He defends himself at some length and appears to mention Ibn al-Ṭaffāl, conceivably identical with the rival of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi in the 1190s CE (see FOTM April 2020); however, the hand of this letter does not resemble that of Moshe or his brother Yedutun.

العلامات

• ibn al-taffal

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment (bottom half) from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, Qalyub, to a family member in Fustat.

العلامات

• moshe b. levi

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Ibrāhīm to his maternal uncle Khalaf b. Ismāʿīl al-Ṣabbāgh (the dyer), in Ḥabs Bunān (Fustat).

العلامات

• capitation
• tax

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

5592 Anno Mundi (8 September 1831–24 September 1832 CE)

The names of those mentioned include: Jamīla wife of Bakhōr Najjār, Avraham Maʿatūq, Ḥalfon Dayyan, David Levi ʿAjamī, Yiṣḥaq ʿEzrī, Yaʿīsh ʿAkūbas, the little daughter (צוגיירת) of Abū Salmūn the kosher butcher, Avraham ha-Levi, Barūkh b. Yiṣḥaq Levi, the little daughter of Nissīm ʿAnajī, Qamr bt.

العلامات

• 19th c
• communal
• late prosopography

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

There are many examples of this communal register type from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, such as AIU VII.F.60 and JRL SERIES B 2003. MCD.

العلامات

• 18th c
• communal
• list

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1750–1850 CE

There are many examples of this communal register type from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, such as AIU VII.F.60 and JRL SERIES B 2003. MCD.

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العلامات

• 18th or 19th c
• communal
• list

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

506 Hijrī (28 June 1112–17 June 1113 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

The scribe's name appears at the bottom: Abū l-Majd b. ʿAlī. Dated: 506 AH (or possibly 560, but this seems less likely on paleographic grounds).

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العلامات

• dimme
• hikr
• receipt

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Document date

Jumāda II 602-603 Hijrī (13 January 1206–10 February 1206 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Both documents seem to be related because the date on recto is 602 and 603 on verso, and payments in both instances are from al-Musāʿid b. […] Ibn al-Dajājī al-Naqlī. However, the object of payment remains a question.

العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

5604 Anno Mundi (25 September 1843–13 September 1844 CE)

The difficult witness signature that's visible is that of R. Yosef b. Moshe al-Gazi (הצעיר יוסף משה אלגאזי). For additional confirmation of the nomenclature in this rabbinic signature, see the same name in the document: AIU VII.D.100 (PGPID 30594).

العلامات

• 19th c
• marriage

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On verso he asks the addressee to give to Abū Saʿīd Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif (=Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, fl. 1100–1138) the cotton thawb and the fur garment (farw) that he had requested to be sent to him on recto.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1133–1136 CE

Primary language

Arabic

Verso, with the address on recto: Business letter addressed to Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi. In Arabic script. Dating: Before the beginning of 1136 CE, as that is when Ḥalfon departed Egypt for the west, and when he returned in 1139 CE his brother (here greeted as النازر/al-Nezer) was already dead.

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العلامات

• aodeh
• gold
• halfon b. netanel
• ib4
• india book
• (+ 3 المزيد)

2 نسخين

Primary language

Hebrew

Recto: letter from Elʿazar b. [...] addressing someone whose name has not been preserved.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a communal letter in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). The middles of four lines are preserved, wide spacing between the lines.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Other neighboring properties are known by the names of the heirs of Ḥusayn b. Ibrāhīm al-Maʿarrī; and Sālim Ibn al-Ashqar.

العلامات

• bill of sale

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

7 Ḥeshvan 1551 Seleucid (7 October 1239 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender assures Yehuda that he will be recompensed for his expenses, and that working to find someone especially for this task would double the expenses. Abū l-Futūḥ b. Abū l-ʿIzz the cantor, Abū l-Faraj al-Ziftāwī, Yūsuf ha-Talmid, and his father Abū l-Khayr are also mentioned.

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Last decade of Nisan 1448 Seleucid (14 April 1137–23 April 1137 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Abū Saʿīd b. Abū l-Ḥasan al-Abzārī, somewhere in the Maghrib, to his brother Abū l-Barakāt, in Fustat.

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العلامات

• crusades
• naval battle
• spain
• war

2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 2 مناقشتان

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Personal letter from Yehuda b. Yaʿaqov to Abu ʿImrān Mūsā al-Dayyān(?). In Judaeo-Arabic.

العلامات

• personal

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender reports that the Ḥājj Jawwād informed him that his nephew Futūḥ b. Barāk will be the one to hand over the silk.

العلامات

• linen
• silk
• trade

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from the cantor Ḥalfon b. David (aka Khalaf al-Lādhiqī), in Jerusalem, to the elders (sādatī wa-mawālayya jamāʿat al-shuyūkh al-miṣriyyīn), in Fusṭāṭ.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment (right half of recto, left half of verso) from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, Qalyub, to a family member in Fustat.

العلامات

• moshe b. levi
• saffron
• trade

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

10 June 1098 CE

India Book I, 9: Draft of court proceedings from Fustat dealing with the dispute between Yosef ha-Lebdi the India trader and Yequtiʾel b. Moshe, 'the representative of merchants' in Fustat.

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العلامات

• draft
• ib-partial translation-eng
• ib1
• india book
• merchants

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Letter from ʿAyyāsh b. Ṣedaqa, from Alexandria, to the Tāhartī family, Fustat.

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العلامات

• bribe
• flax
• tax
• trade

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

Middle decade of Ṭevet 1417 Seleucid (December 1105 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Goitein, Mediterranean Society, 3:113, 449; 4:430.) Signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuʾel. T-S 13J2.14 and T-S 10J28.14 are related to the same case (Goitein at one point suggested that they were two copies of the same document).

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العلامات

• ketubba
• register

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Document date

Tishrei 5304 Anno Mundi (30 August 1543–28 September 1543 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Fragment from the end of a contract, followed by a whole contract, both of which are between Avraham and Shalom and witnessed by the scribe Natan b. Avraham and Ḥayyim Ṭārīqa(?). The first contract, written during the Feast of Tabernacles 5304 (= 1544 CE) in Egypt, mentions the sum of 59.5 עתמאני (i.e. the Ottoman unit of currency).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

For other discussions of anti-Semitism and "hatred," see the Arah b. Natan's letter: T-S 13J22 23 (PGPID 1044).

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2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a certain Yaʿaqov, probably in Lucena, to Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi, in Cordoba. Yaʿaqov, who is otherwise unknown, writes regarding a dispute with Ḥalfon over the sources of a halakhic ruling, whether one should refer back to the talmud directly or to the geʾonim.

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العلامات

• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• india book

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Attesting that Sitt al-Gharb bt. Abū l-Faraj b. Semekh al-Daʿwa (known from other Geniza documents) gave a deed of manumission (גט חירות) to her male slave Munjib.

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العلامات

• manumission
• slaves

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

(Goitein, Med. Soc. x, B, 2, 139.) Bibliography: Assaf, Texts, 133.

العلامات

• sea voyage
• to edit
• travels

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر