Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He induced an orphan boy to allow him to act as his representative against his mother, who then complained about this. […] The elders of the community have now sent a report (mahdar) to 'our lord' via someone traveling (to the capital), and the addressee will learn all about what the evildoers have done. The Barqi Jews refuse to have anything to do with the person because of his stupidity (jahl)).

العلامات

• muslim court

3 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

14 April 1155–14 April 1155 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The Judeo-Arabic section provides the news that Moshe has set sail, collected 17 dinars, sent letters via Avraham Ibn al-Qurayẓ and Avraham al-Mahdawī. When Moshe had sent his previous letters from Tyre, he was terribly ill, and people had despaired of his recovery; but on the fifth day, God acted for the sake of His name, and Moshe was cured (see 2 Kings 20:5, "on the third day I will cure you").

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العلامات

• ib-partial translation-eng
• ib-partial translation-heb
• ib3
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• (+ 2 المزيد)

2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 2 مناقشتان

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Hillel, the deputy overseer (nā'ib al-nāẓir) of Bahnasa. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. […] She reports in the margin on the sad condition of Sitt Ikhtiyār, who has been bedbound (rāqida lāzima) for three months with hectic illness (ʿillat al-diqq). "There is nothing left in her but that we say, 'right away, right away'"—does this mean they wait on her hand and foot?

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العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: bedbound
• illness: hectic
• illness: reporting speech
• (+ 6 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Information from Ben Outhwaite, "The letter of ‘The Convert’: T-S 16.100," Cambridge Genizah Research Unit Fragment of the Month (July 2020). See also T-S NS 323.31 + T-S 12.532 (PGPID 7257), written by the same scribe and likely referring to the same events.

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العلامات

• convert
• spain

1 مناقشة

Document date

13 Nisan 13[..] Seleucid (889–988 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

On this document, see also N. Golb, ‘A Marriage Deed from ‘Warduniā of Baghdad,’ Journal of Near Eastern Studies 43.2 (1984), pp. 152–56.

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1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Specific ones conjured include the Cloudy Maymun, the Black Persian Maymun, Shamhorash, and 'Abd al-Rahman. It continues, "O tribe of the Jinn... residents of the wind and the valleys and the deserts and the graves...." […] There is at least one missing line between the two fragments (T-S AS 145.71 + T-S Ar.30.81), but the subject matter of recto and verso are exact matches. Join: Alan Elbaum. Cf. T-S AS 170.173 + T-S AS 170.174 (PGPID 38415).

العلامات

• abu sahl levi
• magic

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic. Mevasser b. Shelomo al-Ṣayrafī presents an itemized list of goods which he sent to the Maghrib in partnership with ʿArūs b. […] ʿArūs claims that he has fully settled all accounts. If ʿArūs proves to be lying, then he will be considered accursed and will not earn merit (?

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العلامات

• account
• aodeh
• gems
• hinge
• receipt
• (+ 1 المزيد)

2 نسخين

Document date

23 Av 1402 Seleucid (10 August 1091 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Testimony confirming that a freedwoman named Mubāraka, originally from the lands of Rūm (Byzantium), who had converted to Judaism after being freed by Ibn al-Watīd, a former dyer, may marry any Jewish man she pleases. […] With this document, he receives a guarantee from the mother of someone with the official government title Saʿd al-Mulk to vouch for Mubāraka should difficulties arise.

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العلامات

• convert

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The price: 5 1/4 [dirhems]. Also beef, five [pounds. The price:] 2 dirhems and 4 fals.

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Mysterious strings of Arabic letters and numbers along with two diagrams. One diagram has a caption, stating that it protects a person against iron and guns (banādiq) and spears and anything else which a person fears.

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العلامات

• magic

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Very efaced letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Shelomo al-Maghrebi to a family member. He may be trying to decide if he will come to Fustat or not and seeking the recipient's help in something.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Middle ten days of Tishrei 1458 Seleucid (September 1146 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Court record containing a complete list of items of a trousseau (without prices) returned to Sitt al-Hasab on the order of the Nagid. Dated Tishri 1458/ September 1146.

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العلامات

• 12th c
• register

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Very little is preserved: only the first line, the address, and the last word in the right margin (al-ḍurūra / "distress" / "need").

العلامات

• bialphabetic
• judge eliyyahu

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Items include three kinds of aloe (ʿūd), ambergris (ʿanbar), perfume (? ʿabir), ben oil (bān), and two kinds of saffron.

العلامات

• arabic script
• materia medica

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

The preserved text reads as "wa-l-īrād ḥāfiẓan lī amwāl al-dīwān bādilan fī ".

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العلامات

• decree
• diwan
• fisc
• fiscal

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: No earlier than 1425 CE, as the ashrafī is mentioned– a coinage type that was first minted under Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay in this year. The sender orders a raṭl of cheese (last line).

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العلامات

• numismatic dating

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

The writer mentions his heartsickness and praying for the addressees over the Torah scroll in Kanīs al-Shāmiyyīn and in Cairo.

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العلامات

• bialphabetic

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Dating: Late, probably 18th or 19th century. Involves Yaʿaqov ʿAllūsh and Raḥamim Amarillo and a business deal that might involve selling coral, valued at 25 fonduclis, on commission.

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العلامات

• coral

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Dealing with business matters, mentions Indian coral (marjān al-hind), and lead (raṣāṣ). Needs examination.

العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Some contain the mystery glyph (backwards ط). All are dated after the formula kutiba. ENA 3971.13–24, 31 and 34.

العلامات

• arabic script
• dimme
• glyph
• tax
• tax receipt

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Includes the phrase "I would have made him vow." Regards to all of "aṣḥābunā" present with the addressee. The name Yehuda b.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Tiny fragment: preserves only the opening and part of the Arabic-script address. The hand is almost certainly the same as several other known letters: see tag.

العلامات

• arabic address
• ibn habib's patient

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

"irtifāʿ mā. . . lā yadillu ʿalayhi. . . ʿabduhu." Reused for Hebrew literary text (same scribe as T-S NS 111.63 and many others).

العلامات

• arabic script
• petition

1 نسخ

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Note in Arabic script in a beautiful chancery hand: "That which is recited on Ruʾus al-Ashhā[.]." (Rosh Ḥodesh? In which case it should be ashhur or shuhūr, but it is not clear what else it could say.)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A list of clothes and household utensils returned by a divorced woman to her ex-husband, Naḥman, after she had taken them to the house of her brother, Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa al-Bazzāz. (Information in part from Goitein’s index card)

1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions "their mother (sitthumā)" and Saʿd al-Mulk. AA. ASE.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Addressed to the Jewish community of Jabal Wānsharīs (גמאעה אלגבל ואנשריס, i.e., Ouarsenis in present-day Algeria). The sender's name includes David in it.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic. "Our master al-Rayyis Abū l-Makārim" orders the addressee to give a quarter wayba (of wheat?)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer asks the addressee (al-Muʿallim) to go to Abū l-Ḥasan, because the writer needs him to do something for him.

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العلامات

• informal note

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Probably addressed to ʿAbd al-Raḥmān. Refers to someone coming to Cairo and possibly mentions a stable (אלאסטבל).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: accounts, mentioning a variety of materia medica, such as rose, Levantine coriander, Celebes sandalwood (ṣandal maqāṣīrī), mastic gum, musk, bamboo chalk, aniseed, chebulic myrobalan, Indian myrobalan, aloeswood, and wild spikenard (asārūn). (Information in part from CUDL.)

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The cantor Abu al-Majd (Meir b. Yakhin) asks a father when he wants to celebrate his son's circumcision.

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العلامات

• cantor
• circumcision

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Two lines further down, mentions a term for a doctor or wound specialist (al-jarāʾiḥī) and the number 70. Needs further examination.

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العلامات

• jamakiyya
• physicians

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

1099–1187 CE

Ketubba fragment. Bride: Sitt al-Maʿālī, a virgin. Location: Fustat. Date: Tammuz 14[..]

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1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Asking him to send the crimson red silk in his possession (al-maftūl wa-l-shaqīq) with a third person. The letter is torn off here, and the bottom part is missing.

العلامات

• eliyyahu b. zekharia
• silk

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions people including al-Dhahabī, Ṣedaqa ha-Kohen (called Zayn), and Ibn Ghazāl.

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1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Toviyya informs Eliyyahu that he found no buyers for lac in al-Mahalla and so he sold it in Damietta. Reused on verso for a poem in Judaeo-Arabic about mortality.

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العلامات

• 13th c
• lac

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

T-S 12.54 and T-S 12.70 are two very rare examples of Qaraite bills of divorce. Husband: ʿAmmār al-Khāṭirī. Witnesses: Yefet Kohen b. ʿEli; Mevorakh b.

العلامات

• qaraite divorce
• qaraites

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة