Documents

Document date

last decade of Ḥeshvan 1465 Seleucid (10 November 1153–18 November 1153 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

In the hand of Natan b. Shemuʾel although not signed by him. In which Abū Sulaymān Dāʾūd b. Abū l-Khaṣīb Zurʿa confirms to owe to the trader Abū l-Maʿālī b. Abū l-Ḥasan al-Tājir the trader, aka Shemuʾel b. Yehuda Ben Asad, 100 dinars which he will return in two yearly installments.

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العلامات

• court record
• debt
• muslim court
• poverty

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

1410 Seleucid (30 August 1098–18 September 1099 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shemuel ha-Sefaradi (Ashur). Verso is blank. See also T-S NS 324.30 (PGPID 25683) in relation to the engagement.

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العلامات

• court record
• debt
• engagement

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

At the end, he brings up various business matters to be conducted by al-Shaykh al-Sadīd together with the writer's maternal uncle Abū l-Munā.

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العلامات

• condolence
• to edit

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

I have trouble from them all. God is my witness, would I know any profitable occupation bringing two dinars a month, I would not have touched the service of the Jews. […] Numbers 22:34] They have torn my honor to pieces . . . I sit alone in my house, which is empty of everything.

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

The 50 dinars should be taken from those that are hidden in dār al-ṣarf ("the house of money-changing," see Med Soc IV, p. 28). […] Qannā or Fannā in the chronicles), who acted as advisor to the caliph al-Āmir, ca.1125–28 CE. (Information in part from Goitein's index card.)

العلامات

• al-najah
• bialphabetic
• jahbadh

1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

"Another woman, Mubāraka bt. Maḥfūẓ, already separated for over four years from her husband, Yefet b. […] Ḥalfon to sue her brother-in-law, Moshe b. Ḥalfon al-Ziyādī, for her husbandʼs burial expenses (for which she was forced take a loan), for her maintenance, and her release from levirate duty (ḥalīṣa). . . .

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1 نسخ

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Probably there is an epidemic: amrāḍ wa-awjāʿ wa-mawt. He reports that al-Ḥamishi ('the Fifth') died, but the addressee's family is well. They have moved to a new location. Abū l-Maʿānī al-Kohen sends regards. The writer begs indulgence "for the magnitude of my ignorance, for I wrote this (letter) after drinking the medicine.

العلامات

• epidemic
• epidemic: amrad
• epidemic: awja'
• epidemic: mawt
• illness
• (+ 3 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

T-S 6J7.20 (PGPID 17152) for khatm/"sealing" possibly in a similar context); the elder ʿAlī; and how the sender wishes he were able to do more to help 'deliver' everyone from this distressing situation. Greetings to Abū l-Barakāt and Yūsuf 'and all of our colleagues.' ASE

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The Hebrew term ransom of captives was also applied to many different states of hardship, e.g. a man in prison for failure of paying taxes.

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العلامات

• captives
• communal
• crusade
• tax

2 نسخين

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

MS Heb. e 98, f. 63, dated 1138 CE), concerning a woman named Sitt al-Ḥusn, the widow of Ibn Qasāsā upon her remarriage. By this time (apparently soon after the death of Ibn Qasāsā) Sitt al-Ḥusn had a minor son and the ownership of a store near her house.

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Nine persons receive 5 (dirhams), eight, 3, and one, 2, altogether 18 recipients, all women, except for 3--2 of whom are characterized as foreigners.

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العلامات

• charity
• communal
• poverty
• recipients

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Nine persons receive 5 (dirhams), eight, 3, and one, 2, altogether 18 recipients, all women, except for 3--2 of whom are characterized as foreigners.

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العلامات

• charity
• communal
• poverty
• recipients
• shemuel b. saadya

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Moshe's brother has consulted an astrologer and also wants him to come quickly so that he can tell him what the astrologer said.

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العلامات

• abu sahl levi
• astrologer
• marital conflict

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Tammuz 1491 Seleucid (26 June 1180–24 July 1180 CE)

Twenty years after agreements on repairs to be made jointly were signed between the qodesh and al-Nadiv, Abu'l-Makarim, we have such agreements now with Judge Shemuel b. […] Abu'l-Makarim first advances the rent owed by him for a period of two years for the lease of al-Burj; this compound, as shown by its name, was probably originally some stronghold and was no completely owned by the qodesh.

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العلامات

• 12th c
• mevorakh b. natan
• qodesh
• rent
• shemuel b. saadya

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

2 Adar 1395 Seleucid (February 1084 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Joseph his unlimited agent to collect debts from Maḥbūb b. Ḥibān in al-Maḥdiya, some of which consist of partnership assets (including semiprecious stones, glass beads, gold, and similar commodities) as a ṣuḥba, in this case meaning a deposit with, with Ḥassūn ha-Levi b. […] Maḥbūb may have been a regular partner with Moses or alternatively, an agent serving many traders and remitting funds from active partners who stopped in Tunisia to their investors in Fusṭāṭ and elsewhere.

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العلامات

• partnership
• power of attorney

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان

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 language

Judaeo-Arabic

"As for the female slave (al-waṣīfa), we have not found anything"—it is not clear if they are looking to purchase a slave or if they are looking for one who has run away. […] The final two lines are a complaint about the sender's condition (loneliness and ḍīq al-ṣadr ('constriction of the chest')). AA/ASE

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العلامات

• ib-addenda
• ib7
• slaves

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

Document date

5 Rabīʿ I 404 Hijrī (14 September 1013 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 5 Rabīʿ I 404. Written one day after PGPID 35734.

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العلامات

• abu l-hasan b. wahb
• daman
• tax receipt

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 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

Primary language

Arabic

Formalized layout reminiscent of state documents rather than private accounts, although the contents seem much more consistent with private grocery accounts (e.g., chard, ḥawāʾij, coriander, taro, eggs, turnip, leek).

العلامات

• food

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

The genre is medical, possibly with some alchemical formulas. A variety of substances and purposes are mentioned, such as: lead, glass, vitriol, potash, and a prescription for coughs directly above the section in Coptic.

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