Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic but mostly comprised of alphanumerical calculations. Mentioning the currencies mashṭ, corona, and kalb.

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Primary language

Arabic

Mentions the amīr Sayf al-Dawla's business dealings with the writer. Among the commodities mentioned are luxury textiles (ʿattābī and saqlāṭun), rock crystal, and a tall door made of date palm wood.

العلامات

• dimme

1 نسخ

Primary language

Arabic

Question addressed to a Muslim jurisconsult (faqīh) with regard to a man who was frightened by another man concerning the medicine that he had taken, so that he then feared a chronic illness (shayʾ min amrāḍ al-zamān) on account of the fright that he had received.

العلامات

• illness
• illness: fright
• illness: medicine
• legal query

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

One of them mentions [...] b. ʿAbdallāh al-Dahrūṭī.

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Primary language

Arabic

The sender orders acacia (aqāqiya) and mentions condensed walnut juice (rubb al-jawz) and the pressing of something. (Information in part from CUDL.)

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1

العلامات

• physicians

1 نسخ

Primary language

Arabic

The nature of the request is unclear, but requests the issuance of a decree "bi-khurūj al-tawqīʿ". Refers to 'the aforementioned city.'

العلامات

• dimme
• petition
• to edit

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Document date

21 Rajab 1023 Hijrī (27 August 1614 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

May concern the estate of a dead man (al-marḥūm). Various names are mentioned, including ʿĪsā Bey the nāẓir and [...] b.

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1

العلامات

• ottoman

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso (secondary use): Letter which consists entirely of a versified Grace after Meals for Shabbat in Hebrew (this identification is from FGP) and the closing lines, in the same hand, in Judaeo-Arabic ("I greet you and all the friends, and may R. Natan and Rabbenu and his son be in perfect well-being").

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Document date

Nisan 1451 Seleucid (21 March 1140–19 April 1140 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The contents of the order are repeated at the top in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. All this is crossed out.

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العلامات

• ib5
• india book

2 نسخين

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Mentions Abū ʿAlī, Aharon, Meshullam a.k.a. Musallam, Shela known as Abū l-F[aḍl?]

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1

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1

العلامات

• ib-addenda
• yemen

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Primary language

Arabic

Ends, "anhā dhālika wa-l-raʾy aʿlāhu." Dating: Likely Ayyubid or early Mamluk-era, based on handwriting and format. it seems to be a request for "a little wood for the maṭbakh" (قليل خطب برسم المطبخ).

العلامات

• arabic

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Barsime(o) Robaldo al-Janawī (=the Genoese). Sal ammoniac (nushādir) is mentioned a few times.

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1

العلامات

• account
• genoese

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Inferred date

1066–1138 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe known as Ibn al-[...]. Refers to Yemen (maybe he died there); and another person [...] b. [...]n ha-Levi.

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2

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2

العلامات

• ib-addenda

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to the sender’s mother, in Cairo (yaṣil ilā maḥrūsat al-qāhira). In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Few names or specifics are preserved, but he mentions having recruited ʿAyyāsh al-Safāquṣī to help him. Reused on verso for Judaeo-Arabic accounts.

العلامات

• estate

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif, to his brother Abū Saʿīd Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE).

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2

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Document date

Ḥeshvan 1352 Seleucid (11 October 1040–8 November 1040 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Elʿazar. AA/ASE. Join: Alan Elbaum

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentioning the city of Maḥalla al-Kubrā; Abū l-Ḥasan; and Abū l-Munā Tiqva ha-Levi (possibly the same as the one mentioned in T-S 12.683 and Bodl.

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1

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1

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

One side: Something involving Shemarya b. Yosef al-Iq[rīṭishī?] and his wife Malīḥa (cf. T-S NS 323.27 (PGPID 25606)).

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1

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1128–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information in part from CUDL) Join: Alan Elbaum.

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2

العلامات

• warraq

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Shabbetay the blind (סגיא נהור), a house (al-dār), quires (karārīs), and furnishings (athāth).

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1

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Inferred date

1130–1138 CE

Primary language

Aramaic

Minute fragment from a ketubba. Bride: Sitt al-Milāḥ. In the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi.

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1

العلامات

• ketubba

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Prefaced with ~10 biblical quotations (all missing except for the וגו at the end of each line).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: likely early 13th century. Involves Abū Manṣūr al-Shā[...], Ṭāhir b. [...], something being certified for a woman, and a sum of nuqra dirhams.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

אלטוב) for two months... saved the slave (=me) and after all this...." AA. ASE.

العلامات

• aden
• private letter

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Perhaps a settlement between an abusive husband (...lahā bi-ḍarb wa-qaṣd...) and a woman named Ḥākima (another version of her name may appear in line 7: [...]aba al-madhkūra). (Information in part from CUDL)

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1

العلامات

• abusive marriage
• marital conflict

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Levi ha-Levi (d. 1212). Mentions Ṭāhir al-Kohen; tells the addressee to tell him that the only reason his brother Abu l-Ḥasan didn't go out to see him is that he was suffering from ophthalmia; mentions ʿImrān.

العلامات

• moshe b. levi ha-levi
• ramad

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Persian

Fragment of a letter in New Persian mentioning a certain Kamāl al-Dīn; datable to the 11th-12th centuries. A citation of Deuteronomy 28:22 is given at the bottom part of the verso: בשחפת ובקדחת ובדלקת ובחרחור ובחרב ובשדפון ובירקון ורדפוך.

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Primary language

Arabic

The lower fragment has registrations above it e.g. "yuthbat bi-dīwān al-ishrāf." Payment of 34 dinars? Needs further examination.

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Primary language

Arabic

Letter to an amir titled Ṣamṣām al-Dawla (wa-shujāʿuhā)—the same who is mentioned in BL OR 5557B.19?

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Primary language

Arabic

List of quantities of materia medica, including simples such as senna, purslane seeds, apricot, almond oil, saffron oil, and Chinese cinnamon. Judging by the continuation sign on the top of the page, this is page is part of another document (in fact this is the mysterious glyph whose meaning is still unknown as of 2022; it does not necessarily mean that this is a continuation).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Commodities include local ginger (zanjabīl baladī); something Meccan ([...] makkī); pepper; banana leaves (waraq mawz) — in units of dast rather than raṭl; something (almonds?) Gazan (lawz ghazzāwī); cotton; and lemon syrup.

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Document date

Av 5567 Anno Mundi (5 August 1807–3 September 1807 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentioning Yiṣḥaq Carraso, Girgis the dyer, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān the money-changer, Ḥasan Agha, and the writer's son Avraham.

العلامات

• 19th c
• bibas
• karo y frances
• late ja
• moshe bibas

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Arabic

Dating: most likely Ayyubid due to the mention of "ṭawāshī", most probably meaning a military faction in the Ayyubid times, disintegrated by the Mamlūks, as per al-Qalqashandī. The scribe wrote with a nicked nib (which may facilitate finding a join).

العلامات

• to examine next

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(Information from Goitein's note cards) Part of a children’s Hebrew textbook with the alphabet ordered according to the scheme 1-8-15, 2-9-16, etc.

العلامات

• education

1 مناقشة

Nine entries, names of recipients of alms, on vellum in huge calligraphic letters, such as 'two freed women, two persons from Hijaz, two from Sahrajt [Egypt], the daughter of Mishael,' accompanied by numbers ranging from one to six.

العلامات

• charity
• communal
• poverty
• recipients

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

and T-S K25.240 ff.1, 2, 7, 9, and 10 comprise another cluster (jāliya receipts?). All need examination.

العلامات

• hikr

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

and T-S K25.240 ff.1, 2, 7, 9, and 10 comprise another cluster (jāliya receipts?). All need examination.

العلامات

• hikr

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: End of a letter, or letter draft, from Abū l-Ṭāhir to Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). All that remains is 4 lines of flattery (sent to accompany something else that was enclosed?).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Every entry ends "wallāhu aʿlam." Distinguishes between the forecast for Fustat and for the entire world.

العلامات

• astrology
• prognostication

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Ladino

Information from http://www.investigacion.cchs.csic.es/judeo-arabe/sites/investigacion.cchs.csic.es.judeo-arabe/files/Genizah-Al-Andalus.pdf.

العلامات

• ladino literary

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Yisra'el Moshe ha-Levi appoints his son Yisra'el ha-Levi as his representative in all of his cases in Miẓrayim, especially the one involving Avraham b.

1 نسخ

Primary language

Hebrew

In the dirge, Gershom is identified as "the son of the Gaʾon of my nation" and a kohen, so this is probably directly related to recto. Join: Alan Elbaum.

العلامات

• bereavement
• condolence
• dirge

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Among the names we can find Musa al-Lebdi, probably a descendance of the famous Indian trader Lebdi.

العلامات

• contributions

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

T-S NS 226.140 may be another indirect join. Join: Alan Elbaum.

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2

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

ʿAmram to Abū l-Mufaḍḍal Netanel b. al-Ḥaver. The remaining section of the letter is a philosophical consolation for some sort of suffering, namely that corruption is inherent in the existence of bodies.

العلامات

• magic square

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

To be delivered to 'dukkān al-ḥarīrī' (the shop of the silk merchant). In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew, with the address in Arabic script.

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2

العلامات

• condolence

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. "... the head of the doctors (muqaddam al-ṭibb), and he called me and said, 'Who set you up?'

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1

العلامات

• physicians

1 نسخ

Primary language

Arabic

Verso: Official-looking receipt for Abū l-Ḥasan al-Ṣabbāgh for the rent of his shop. On recto there is an earlier (state?)

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1

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Fatimid-era petition. From Muʿammar [...] al-Tūnisī, in trouble on account of the capitation tax.

العلامات

• capitation tax
• dimme
• jaliya
• petition
• to edit

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر