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Document date

Nisan 1348 Seleucid (20 March 1037–18 April 1037 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Recto: Letter from Hayya Gaʾon to Neḥemya b. Avraham, in Fustat. Dated: Nisan 1348 Seleucid, which is March/April 1037 CE.

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العلامات

• communal

3 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The addressees should send their letters to Mufliḥ b. Sūdān. Mentions Khalaf the son of the Kohen, Yiṣḥaq al-Nafūsī, 'the parnas,' and Abū l-Surūr al-Kohen Ibn al-Dawānīqī.

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العلامات

• ib7
• india book
• karim

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Document date

14 Nisan 5581 Anno Mundi (16 April 1821 CE)

Ketubba, beautifully illuminated, from Cairo, dated 16 April 1821 CE (14 Nisan 5581 AM) for (Benyamīn) Ḥayy Dayyān b. David Dayyān and Mazal Ṭov bt. Yehuda Dayyān.

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العلامات

• 19th c
• ketubba

1 نسخ 2 مناقشتان

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, Qalyūb, addressed to his father, the cantor Abu Sahl (Levi) in Fustat.

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العلامات

• abu sahl levi
• moshe b. levi
• qalyub

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions the name Abū Yaʿaqov Yosef b. Faraḥ (the same merchant known from many other letters ca. 1050?).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Written on the back of the opening page of a literary work on the special properties of stones attributed to Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb b. ʿImrān al-Mutaṭabbib. There is an odd aphorism or verse of poetry in the upper margin of recto: . . . .

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العلامات

• book trade
• mathematics
• tadhkira

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Primary language

Arabic

Mentions: the receipt (wurūd) and expenditures (mā dufiʿa) of large sums of money; slaves (khadam); people such as Abū Bakr, ʿĪsā Ṣāhib al-Dawābb (superintendent of animals or master of the stables), Hilāl b. Ibrāhīm al-Khāzin (the treasurer), [...] al-Ḥusayn; a disbursement (iṭlāq) to Sayyidnā Abū l-Faḍl (Tustarī?)

العلامات

• baghdad
• dimme
• slaves

1 نسخ

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Abū l-Ḥayy b. Ḥakīm, in Sicily, to Ḥananya ha-Kohen Av Bet Din.

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العلامات

• fundraising
• sicily
• tax
• yeshiva

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Letter in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, presumably from Qalyub to his father in Fustat.

العلامات

• abu sahl levi
• moshe b. levi
• sar shalom

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from an unknown correspondent to Ḥalfon b. Netanel. Dating: ca. 1128 CE. In which the writer asks Ḥalfon to inform him whether or not he intends to travel that year, "for everyone who comes from there is unable to confirm the matter of your journey."

العلامات

• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• india book

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

So now everyone is waiting for the addressee to advance them those 40 dirhams and himself take possession of the shawl. (2) The addressee is to get a copy of Avoda Zara (or its price) from Abū ʿAlī, and tell him what the sender had mentioned about Abū Zikrī and the raisins. (3) The addressee is asked to meet with Abū l-Maḥāsin b. Sitt Ghazāl and ask for news of Sitt Ghazāl.

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: Likely late 12th or early 13th century based on handwriting and typical names; more precise dating should be achievable by identifying the people mentioned in the letter, such as Fakhr al-Dīn ʿUthmān, Abū Saʿd Ibn al-Shavuy, Ṭāhir b. al-Gadol and his partner Ibn al-Wazzān, Ibn al-Ḥaver, Ibn Wahbān, Abū Saʿd the addressee's cousin, Sitt Ḥaẓẓ, Sitt al-Ahl, Sitt al-Milāḥ, Sitt Nadd, al-Shaykh al-Thiqa and al-Wajīhiyya.

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العلامات

• diwan
• nar
• torture

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Involving a complicated case of a house divided into shares.

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

"One notable case relates to a legend about the first exilarch (resh galuta) of the Islamic period, Bustanay b. Kafnay (ca. 618–670), and his offspring. It is reported that the Caliph ʿUmar Ibn al-Khaṭṭāb (r. 634–644) appointed Bustanay as exilarch after the Muslim conquest of the Sassanid empire.

العلامات

• babylonian geonim
• responsum
• slaves

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yaʿaqov b. Isḥāq to his son Isḥāq describing in detail his severe illness, but emphasizing that he had recovered.

العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: despair
• illness: matruh
• illness: rich description
• (+ 2 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Together with four other people he was called to attend the deathbed declaration of Sitt al-Husn, the wife of Judge Natan b. Shemuʾel ha-Ḥaver, "the Diadem of the Scholars."

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العلامات

• 12th c
• natan b. shemuel
• slave
• will

3 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

It was a youth named Abū l-Faraj, known as Abū l-Faraj b. al-Sunbāṭī.” Lines 22-25: Greetings to the recipient, the mother, the paternal aunt, the maternal aunt, and the old man, likely the father, Abū ʿUmar or Abu ʿUmr (which may be a kunya for a man who has a child at an old age; cf.

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العلامات

• astrology
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: rich description
• illness: technical
• (+ 3 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Calendar(s) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). T-S Ar.29.102 covers the years 1434–37 Seleucid = 1122–26 CE.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

There are religious preoccupations as well and some gematriya with names of God at the end. JRL SERIES B 3087 has what seem to be nonsense rhymes in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic ("they will excommunicate ʿAzīz | he will eat the coins (al-fulūs) | and Saʿīd the poor man | is imprisoned (maḥbūs)").

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العلامات

• bizarre
• purple ink

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

The second official by the same title appears mostly in Judaeo-Arabic documents dated around 1140–50 and was a Jewish state official named Yiṣḥaq b. Yosef. On verso there is Hebrew liturgical poetry.

العلامات

• dimme
• iqta'
• petition

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The handwriting is similar to that of the cantor Abu Sahl (Levi), father of Yedutun and Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (click on the "Abu Sahl Levi" tag for other documents for comparison).

العلامات

• abu sahl levi
• magic

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Elul 1458 Seleucid (30 July 1147–27 August 1147 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

India Book III, 15: Letter from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq in Aden to Avraham Ibn Yijū in Jurbattan (Srikandapuram), dated Elul 1458 Sel.

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العلامات

• ib3
• india book
• shipwreck

3 نسخ 2 ترجمتين

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

People mentioned: ʿAmmār b. al-Dayyān, ʿImrān, Ibn Shammārī, a Rayyis who died, and aṣḥabunā al-Barqiyyīn wa-l-Ghurabā (associates from al-Barqa and the West).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Goitein suggests that it was written to the judge Avraham b. Natan, who reused it for the account on verso.

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1 مناقشة

Primary language

Ladino

Avraham asks his father to inform Yaʿaqov b. Ḥabīb that Moshe b. Hīnī arrived and told Avraham that he had abandoned the gum (la goma) in Rashid, because he could not find cameldrivers and because it was too heavy to transport any other way. […] Date: Plausibly written in 1513/14 CE, based on (1) a reference to Yaʿaqov b. Ḥabīb, who may be identical with the famous author of the ʿAyn Yaʿaqov who died in 1516 CE, and (2) a reference to a plague victim, and (3) a known recurrence of the bubonic plague in Egypt in 1513/14. On the other hand, there is at least one other Yaʿaqov b. Ḥabīb in Geniza documents from the early 18th century (see AIU VII.D.104 and AIU VII.E.30).

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العلامات

• 16th c
• ben hini
• epidemic
• epidemic: magefa
• ladino
• (+ 2 المزيد)

2 نسخين

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from the sister of Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmūrī, in Tripoli, Libya, to her brother Yeshuʿa b. […] My brother, help me with some portion of this debt engulfing me—do not abandon me and do not forsake me." Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmūrī, incidentally, was prone to illness: see also T-S 16.163 and T-S Misc.25.124 (as noted by Krakowski), and T-S 12.389 and BL OR 5542.20.

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العلامات

• 11th c
• fasting
• food
• heartsickness
• illness
• (+ 4 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from the physician Yosef, in Alexandria, to the physician Abū l-Faraj b. Abū l-Barakāt (c/o Abū l-Faraj al-Sharābī), in al-Sūq al-Kabir, Fustat. […] The subjects discussed include: (1) obtaining books from the addressee's warehouse; (2) the capitation tax; (3) an incident translated by Moshe Yagur as follows: "As for what happened on the Day of ʿArava [last day of the Feast of Tabernacles]: Yaʿqūb b. al-Muʿalim argued with his crossed-eyed son and beat him in the middle of the market with his shoe.

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العلامات

• bloodletting
• book trade
• bread
• conversion
• muhtasib
• (+ 3 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان

Inferred date

1020–1039 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Gil identified the sender as Yehoshuaʿ b. Yaʾir ha-Kohen, writing from Tiberias. Frenkel has argued that the sender is rather Yehoshuaʿ al-Lādhiqī, writing from al-Raqqa (Kalne). […] The identification of the addressees as the community of Aleppo seems to be based on the statement in l. 58 that this letter was a response to a request made by Yaʿaqov he-Ḥaver, identified by both Gil and Frenkel as Yaʿaqov b. Yosef he-Ḥaver, the leader of the community of Aleppo.

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العلامات

• communal

2 نسخين 3 مناقشات

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Engagement contract between Ḥusayn b. Faraj and his prospective father-in-law Fuḍayl b.

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 3 مناقشات

Document date

Adar I–Adar II 5453 Anno Mundi (7 February 1693–6 April 1693 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Yiṣḥaq Portugez and Yiṣḥaq b. Yaʿacov Meṣlīḥ. Left side of recto (Document #4): Psaq dīn involving a partnership dispute between Yiṣḥaq ʿImmanuʾel and Shemuʾel Salmūn(?). […] Yiṣḥaq Navarro. Groom: Avraham b. Moshe Magoro/Majoro. Part of the ketubba and full dowry list continues on the right side of the verso with a vast array of items/clothing adorned with gold, silver, gemstones, and furs.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender's name may be legible: [...] al-[Iskan?]darānī b. Ibrāhīm. The sender asks the addressee "to help him get rid of his wife to whom he has already sent the bill of divorce but needs an official confirmation of its being received before being allowed to marry another woman (on this see Friedman, Polygyny, 241).

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العلامات

• damascus

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

4 Ḥeshvan [13]94 Seleucid (1082 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The case concerns Sahl b. Faraj al-Ghazzī and a sizeable sum of investment capital (over 45 dinars).

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العلامات

• nahb
• prison

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Hebrew letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Zeraḥya known as Faryol (?), a physician, to Avraham Talmid (known from other letters, fl. ca.1600).

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العلامات

• 16th c
• baalbek
• damascus
• illness
• illness: cost
• (+ 7 المزيد)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Saʿīd, in Alexandria, to his brother Bū l-Majd Meir b. Yakhin the cantor, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic.

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العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: dying
• illness: khutta
• illness: marad
• (+ 4 المزيد)

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Potentially the same handwriting as T-S 12.417, JRL SERIES B 2601, and/or ENA NS 2.40. (Information in part from Goitein’s index card.)

العلامات

• hamas
• rent
• slave

1 مناقشة