Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

It appears that Meshullam takes over the responsibility for the six years of alimony payments (farḍ) to a certain female relative of his, which a Muslim court had previously imposed on her ex-husband Ṭoviya.

العلامات

• alimony
• muslim courts

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Asking for help on behalf of a man who had been captured by pirates (שוללי הים) along with other Jews. (Information from CUDL)

العلامات

• pirates

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Recto (secondary us): Poetry, possibly a riddle, with allusions to Moshe, Abraham, and the spies from Numbers 13-14, (Hosea) b.

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العلامات

• poem
• riddle

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Avraham, probably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Almost none of the content is preserved except the sender's apology for the poor quality (or size?)

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1

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1

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Letter from Yehuda b. Isma’il al-Andalusi, from Sicily, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat.

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1

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

1533 Seleucid (18 September 1221–7 September 1222 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Husband: Yeshuʿa b. [...]. Wife: Sitt al-Hanāʾ bt. [...]. Signed by Eliyyahu the Judge.

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1

العلامات

• divorce

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shemarya concerning a dream of Yosef al-Sijilmasi. Dating: c. 1030 (Gil) and ca. 1007–1055 CE, based on the years when Efrayim b.

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1

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1

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1

العلامات

• qaraites

1 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1138–1150 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The letter contains much information on commercial business and the report of a shipwreck in Bāb al-Mandab.

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15

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5

العلامات

• ib3
• ibn yiju
• india book
• shipwreck
• trade

2 نسخين ترجمات 3 1 مناقشة

Document date

544 Hijrī (11 May 1149–29 April 1150 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Wahb) for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Undated. The year for which the tax is paid is 544 (1150).

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1

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

"Muḥammad b. [...] the buyer, on the date of Monday, the 10th of al-Muḥarram of [...]."

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1

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Bū l-Faraj; Majdiyya; Sitt al-[...] bt. Futūḥ(?) b. Moshe; Surūr; Diyār; Bū l-ʿIzz.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Greetings to the sender's sister and her mother and to Abū l-ʿAlāʾ.

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1

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Receipt for a faqīh, possibly for an apartment compound (min māl rabʿ al-[...]). This might be followed by a year ([.]57?).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He says that "we attended the majlis of Abū l-Faraj Ṣemaḥ al-Nasi b. Asa (אסא). The continuation is missing.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

On verso there are accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script, mentioning names such as Abū Manṣūr and Ibn al-ʿAnbarī. Hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu? (Information in part from CUDL)

العلامات

• account
• judge eliyyahu

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender complains that he has been toiling and staying up all night for the last month due to his burdensome government service (khidma).

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The identity of sender and the origin and the subject are all extrapolated by Gil. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 4, #766) VMR

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2

العلامات

• flax

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Notes for a marriage contract between Abu al-Karim Shabbetay b. Avraham and the divorcee Mudallala bat Yehuda ha-Levi involving a dowry of 102 dinars plus a house.

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1

العلامات

• 12th c
• marriage

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

, a courier (raqqāṣ), a 'trustee' (amīn), and a porter (bawwāb), and individuals such as Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān. (Information in part from CUDL)

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1

العلامات

• account

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

5314 Anno Mundi (9 September 1553–27 August 1554 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

דיכאה(?) and Masʿū[d?] al-Mustaʿrib and a sum of 101 Venetian ducats (peraḥim venezianos).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: possibly a piece from a Sufi text in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning a well-known saying of the Egyptian Sufi Dhūl-Nūn al-Miṣrī (d. 862). The original quote in Arabic reads: أدب العارف فوق كل أدب، لأن معروفه مؤدب قلبه.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Only the upper right corner is preserved, containing a few words from the opening and a sizeable text block from the right margin. Mentions 2 months... al-rayyis... a house. (Information in part from CUDL)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Eliyyahu addressed to 'al-Kohen.' The addressee must not hand over the garment that 'the Jew' bought from him and pawned, because it has gone out of his possession and belongs to somebody else who will pay the debt and redeem the thawb.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal query to [... ha-Rav] ha-Gadol be-Yisraʾel concerning a mercantile transaction. Mentions the Dār al-Wakāla; a deal betwen two merchants; and how the merchandise was fined 10 mithqāls after it came out that it contained stolen goods (masrūqa). .

العلامات

• responsum

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Conveys greetings for Abū ʿAlī b. Abū l-Maʿālī. On verso a remnant of the address (...

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

It is probably the judge of al-Minyat Zifta who was active there circa 1125 (Med.

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1

العلامات

• b.
• halfon
• menashshe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In the margin רב אלדין (= rabb al-dayn = the creditor). (Information in part from CUDL.)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Short letter from Nahray b. Nissim to Musa b. Abi al-Hayy. Around 1045. Seems that the letter is from the beginning of Nahray’s time In Egypt.

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3

العلامات

• flax
• nahray b. nissim
• trade

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In which Abū l-Waḥsh makes a declaration about a house in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ. The word "wife of" might appear before Abū l-Waḥsh's name, but the declaration is being made by a man.

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1

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1

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Involving "Sulṭāna the Jewish woman" and Makārim and [...] b. Isḥāq al-Mutaṭabbib. This may be the same Makārim b. Isḥāq the physician who is known from several other Geniza documents (see tag).

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1

العلامات

• makarim b. ishaq

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Only a few letters in Hebrew from the front, and part of the address from the back are preserved, mentioning [Abū l]-Majd b. Thābit al-Iskandarānī (= probably Meʾir b. Yakhin).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

A pair of receipts for [...] al-ʿAṭṭār, which were never cut apart, unlike most other receipts.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

710 Hijrī (31 May 1310–19 May 1311 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

A name appears at the top of recto (al-shaykh Abū l-Majd?). The text underneath refers to two dirhams.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Probable join identified by Alan Elbaum.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew alphanumerals. Dating is 16th- or 17th-century based on the paleography.

العلامات

• 16th or 17th c
• early modern
• ginger
• pepper

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

In the Arabic section mentions al-Shaykh Abū l-Maʿālī Requires further examination.

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1

العلامات

• bialphabetic

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

___יעקב מ) is visible along with a note that may relate to the missing text.

العلامات

• 15th c or later

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions the name ʿAbd al-Laṭīf. One entry on the recto lists a partial date 2_ Kislev and an entry on the verso mentions "European paper[?]"

العلامات

• paper

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions a jahbadh (tax official); al-shaliṭ (another government term, corresponding to Arabic sulṭān?)

العلامات

• jahbadh

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Refers to a Hijri date; a period of 12 months; a tax farmer (ḍāmin) and Abū ʿAlī; and a partnership (sharika). Likely a join with P15.

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1

Related Documents

21

العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe

1 نسخ

Document date

1036–1094 CE

Primary language

Arabic

Petition to the caliph al-Mustanṣir from a man seeking employment in the caliph’s service.

العلامات

• petition

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto is a text in Judaeo-Arabic listing various foods (something boiled, sugar, lemon, almond, sweets). Verso is in the same hand and seems to be a small piece of a letter.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Epistle that is humorous in Judaeo-Arabic that opens with praises to God "who rounded the walnut. . . and put the whales in the sea. . . and who distinguished all his creatures, for some have their nose between their eyes and some have their heads between their ears."

العلامات

• beer
• humor

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Elul 1443 Seleucid (1132 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Elʿazar b. Mevorakh Ibn Ṭuwayr al-ʿAshā has to pay 10 dinars to Abu Saʿīd b. Yeshuʿa.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of an agreement between Sayyid al-Ahl and Berakhot ha-Levi regarding rental of stores located in the sugarmakers' quarter, for the sum of 200 dirhams for a period of 4 months starting from Iyyar.

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1

العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated on `Friday (yawm al-jum`a), probably payments or support. Requires further examination.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Poetry in Arabic script. Recto is all one poem rhymed on -bī. There is an intriguing verse in which a speaker "swears by the Torah.... and Moses, and Isaac, and Jacob" (قفال اقسم بالتوراة مجتهدا . . .

العلامات

• arabic poetry
• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Verso contains closing greetings from the addressee's mother and sister, from the whole family, from Hiba, from Abū ʿAlī, and from Sitthum.

العلامات

• phatic

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Rawḥ Ha-Kohen he-ḥazzan (the cantor) al-Baghdādī b. Pinḥas, Ramla, to Efrayim b. Shemarya.

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1

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3

العلامات

• aodeh
• bialphabetic

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة