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Document date

Monday, 18 Av 1490 Seleucid (19 July 1098 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recording that the silk dealer Yaʿaqub al-Rūmī b. Yosef deposited the trousseau of his wife Zayn bt.

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Document date

Tishrei 4863 Anno Mundi (15 September 1102–14 October 1102 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fol. 2r: Deed regarding alimony provided by a husband for his wife in Tyre, while he travels to Egypt.

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العلامات

• marital reconciliation
• marriage

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Document date

30 Av 1549 Seleucid (12 August 1238 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Record of the scribe Abū l-Faraj b. Abū Naṣr b. al-Mesos in which he testifies to having received from Shelomo ha-Nasi one Egyptian dinar.

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العلامات

• 13th c
• mosul nasis

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Note from Ibn al-Maṣmūdī to Abū l-Barakāt (Shelomo b. Eliyyahu?)

العلامات

• minor fiancee

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

At the top of recto there is alphabet writing practice in Hebrew.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Nissim, possibly to Isḥaq al-Nafūsī (line 8), who had written regarding the wife of his son Abū Zikrī, apparently asking her to travel.

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العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: women's

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Document date

Friday, 7 Av 1395 Seleucid (12 July 1084 CE)

Husband: Yefet b. Menashshe. Wife: Sitt al-Kull bt. Sar Shalom. Location: Fustat. Dated: Friday, 7 Av 1395 Seleucid, which is 1084 CE.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: No earlier than 1425 CE, based on the mention of the coinage ashrafī– which was first minted under Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay in this year. Describing a convoluted affair involving the production and sale of books and Torah scrolls.

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العلامات

• numismatic dating

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Document date

Iyyar 1357 Seleucid (10 April 1046–8 May 1046 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Addressed to Abū Saʿīd al-Dāʾūdī (a Nasi). In Hebrew with the heading in Arabic script.

العلامات

• literary with documentary value
• poem

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Primary language

Aramaic

Abraham, [Sahlān b.] Abraham Alluf he-Ḥaver, Elʿazar b. R. [...], Shelomo b. [...], [Eph]raim he-Ḥaver b.

العلامات

• ketubba
• marriage

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Document date

1433 Seleucid (15 September 1121–3 September 1122 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Dated: 1433 Seleucid, which is 1121/22 CE. ʿAzīza bt. Natan al-ʿIblānī (? אלעבלאני) appoints Avraham to sue people with whom she has deposits.

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Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

This Moshe was Abraham Ibn Yiju's grandson from his daughter Sitt al-Dar. AA

العلامات

• fgp stub
• ketubba

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Document date

Monday 16 Tevet 1339 Seleucid (18 December 1027 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document concerning the long dispute between Avraham b. Shemual al-Andalusi and the gaurdians who executed the will of his father - Yosef b.

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العلامات

• register

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Primary language

Hebrew

Joseph Ibn Kaskil, whose compositions and wanderings around the Mediterranean are known (See Mann, Texts, 1, pp. 386-393) Mentions Ereṣ Sefarad in line 4, which is tagged collectively with al-Andalus in the PGP Places database.

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العلامات

• recommendation

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Letter from Nissim b. Yitzhak b. al-Sahl to Avraham b. David. From 999. It seems that the two have an argument about sending dinars.

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Primary language

Hebrew

Yehuda, Abū Naṣr b. Manṣūr, Abū l-ʿAlāʾ ha-Neʾeman. Likely an appeal for charity or help.

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Primary language

Hebrew

(יוסיף), [...] b. Aharon, [Sh]alom b. Ḥubaysh (חביש). On verso there is Bible commentary in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He is prepared to give a refresher course in the reading of the Torah to Abū l-ʿAlā ha-Kohen and his father the Segan (ha-Kohanim) and is prepared to come to his house if he is ashamed to attend classes at Eliyyahu's place.

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العلامات

• bible
• education
• judge eliyyahu
• merchant

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Information from Dotan Arad (2017) Welfare and Charity in a Sixteenth-Century Jewish Community in Egypt: A Study of Genizah Documents, Al-Masāq, 29:3, 266.

العلامات

• 16th c
• biqqur holim
• havarot

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

516 Hijrī (12 March 1122–28 February 1123 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Recto (secondary use): Kharāj receipt for a sum of 4 dinars for Burā b. ʿAlī for the year 516 H. Needs further examination.

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Primary language

Arabic

The sender swears by God calling him "the light" (wa-ḥaqq al-Nūr). Ends with a ḥasbala. There may be dates in l. 2 and/or l. 4 (538 or 548 AH?).

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Document date

[14]26 Seleucid (3 September 1114–20 September 1115 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Involves Zakkay b. Shelomo, Aharon al-Kohen, Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi and the settling of accounts.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He tells the addressee to heed his teacher at all times. He sends messages about financial matters for two different maternal uncles, one a judge and one a ḥaver.

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Primary language

Arabic

One line has the name Bū l-Maʿālī, and the rest are months (al-Muḥarram, Ṣafar, Rabīʿ I, Rabīʿ II) On recto there is a mysterious sentence in Judaeo-Arabic (beginning "My letter to you O Manṣūr...") and on verso there is Hebrew piyyuṭ written in a crude hand.

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Document date

1490 Seleucid (14 September 1178–2 September 1179 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Avraham, Petaḥya, Abū ʿAlī b. Thābit, Saʿīd b. Abū l-Khayr, Manṣūr the son of the brother of the faqīh, and Futuḥ (perhaps identical with Petaḥya).

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The sender complains of the distress he suffered in Fustat or Egypt, something to do with his children and how he lost all his money. (Information in part from CUDL)

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العلامات

• appeal

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

either "in my hand" (bi-khaṭṭī) or that of someone else (bi-khaṭṭ al-[...]). Other entries mention fees for couriers, the upkeep of the mill (مما يثبت في عمارة الطاحون), and many more.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender has sent the 'qaḍīb'(?) along with 4 dinars with Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf. A certain Yehuda has sent 11 dinars.

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Primary language

Hebrew

Or perhaps this is not a letter at all and rather the copy of the beginning of a ketubba, made by a child or a very untrained scribe.

العلامات

• congratulations
• wedding

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Daniel, head of the Jews 1082–94) ordering 3 communal officers to pay a quarter dinar to the foster sons of al-Afḍal, using the revenue from houses donated 'for Jerusalem.'

العلامات

• 12th c
• communal
• order of payment
• state
• vizier

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Inferred date

1205–1218 CE

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Tuviahu) who was the muqqdam of Bilbays (1170's - 1218), including the Arabic phrase muqaddam al-yahūd Bilbays. The years of service for the sender and recipient support a dating estimate of 1205–1218 CE.

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العلامات

• avraham maimonides
• bilbays

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

please let me know what arises. . . ." On verso alphabet writing exercises. (Information in part from CUDL)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

; a poor old man (shaykh suʿlūk); Ibn al-Fakkāh. Mentions goods such as: pepper, cinnamon, brazilwood, wheat, oil, and Kirmānī indigo.

العلامات

• brazilwood
• cinnamon
• indigo
• oil
• pepper
• (+ 1 المزيد)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There are few Shauls in Goitein's name cards, all of them from 11th- to early 12th-century North Africa.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

This is surrounded by large Arabic script; above there is a phrase typical of letters, "yā mawlāy al-shaykh." On verso there is a different spell in Judaeo-Arabic (באב תהיג).

العلامات

• love
• magic

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

444 Hijrī (3 May 1052–22 April 1053 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender refers to the addressee as 'my brother' and alludes to how well he has treated him. Mentions a letter from Abū Saʿīd.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto is an unidentified text in Arabic script, which at first glance looks like a state document, though mentions "yawm al-dīn," which sounds more like a Jewish phrase.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

In the first line names Abū l-Faraj al-Ṭaḥḥān. Specific items include lemon, pepper, saffron, mastic, cinnamon, sesame oil, olive oil, a burniyya vessel (spelled برنيية), chicken, linseed oil, cups (?

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

In another source (e.g. https://al-maktaba.org/book/3610/17): الْمُجَاهِدُ مَنْ جَاهَدَ نَفْسَهُ بِنَفْسِهِ.

العلامات

• hadith
• islamic

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

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

Abū l-Najm the parnas is asked to pay 5 dirhams to the bearer for something to do with Dār al-Burj. Written on the 8th of Sivan. Likely in the hand of Avraham Maimonides.

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العلامات

• avraham maimonides autograph
• bialphabetic

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, the first line mentions al-Shaykh Bū l-Faraj. Dating: probably 13th-15th centuries.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, one entry is listed at the location darb al-jayyida[?]. Dating is 16-17th-century based on the paleography.

العلامات

• 16th or 17th c

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

1005 Hijrī (25 August 1596–13 August 1597 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated along the upper edge of the verso: שואל ס׳ א/\ה, likely making use of the "V' (1000) symbol common among early modern fragments to denote the year 1005 AH (1596/97 CE).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Petition from a woman to a group of men, presumably communal leaders: [...] wa-sādatī wa-l-ʿazīzīn ʿalayya wa-ʿindī. She says "I am perplexed (wa-anā ḥāʾira) and do not know [...]."

العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• petition
• women's letters

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

A letter, almost complete, from Shelomo b. Shem Tov, who served as a proxy of the Jerusalemite community in Egypt.

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العلامات

• late heb

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Only the first few words are preserved from ~12 lines. Mentions "mawlāya al-qāḍī". The Judaeo-Arabic text on top of the state document is a mixture of love poetry and humorous anecdote.

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العلامات

• dimme
• judaeo-arabic poetry
• popular literature

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

(Information from Goitein's note cards) Recto: Children's writing exercise, consisting of the alphabet with the various Tiberian vowels. Verso: Inexpertly written copy of the beginning of a letter, blessing a dignitary.

العلامات

• education

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(Information from Goitein's note cards) Leaves from a children’s Hebrew textbook. Alphabetical writing exercises on P1. Passage from Leviticus 1:5-8 with Tiberian vocalisation on P2.

العلامات

• education

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: a list of halakhic books in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning the Mišna, Halaḵot by Isaac al-Fāsī, Talmud (Yevamot), a halaḵic midraš on Parašat Tazriaʿ (Leviticus 12:1-13:59) and books by Hai Gaʾon and Samuel b.

العلامات

• booklist

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Document date

1693 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Only one name is preserved along the paper tear, Avraham Ḥanīn. MCD.

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