Documents

Primary language

Hebrew

He was very sick one night and the camel drivers stole all of his possessions and left him naked. Now, "even here they do not believe me because they have not seen my letter/document, because it was lost."

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العلامات

• appeal
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer explains that he has dyed some textiles "and I ruined it all." Ḥalfon's letter arrived containing instructions to sell the merchandise, but the writer didn't dare, because he didn't know whether Ḥalfon had been informed of the price, and it wasn't clear whether he intended to travel.

العلامات

• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• india book

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

The year is כי תבואו אל הארץ, but it is unclear which of these words are meant to be counted (if all of them are counted, the year is 2012 CE). The hand of the letter and the currencies mentioned (gurush, dinar, real) suggests 16th or 17th century.

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العلامات

• barda
• late heb

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

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 languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Part of a formulary for excommunication, beginning with an omen list determining fates according to the stars (sun, moon, Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn), followed by an alphabetic list of biblical curses, missing verses beginning with daleṯ, yod, nun, pe and ṣade.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto 24-25: Avraham and Abu l-Husayn and Abu Sa'id and Umm Abu l-Bayan and Bayan and _____ all send holiday greetings. Verso 1-3: Avraham's knee pain has gotten worse.

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العلامات

• epidemic
• epidemic: smallpox
• forgiveness clause
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• (+ 4 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

But you [plural] should not think that I am already dead. Do not give me up. So, if the Creator chooses to grant me health, you will see me.

العلامات

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

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

12 Shevaṭ 1393 Seleucid (14 January 1082 CE)

Aharon ha-Kohen, the daughter of a Qaraite notable, who brings in a dowry of almost 900 dinars (or over 1100 dinars?). As the bride is from a prominent Qaraite family, and the groom is a high-ranking Rabbanite, there are special clauses in the contract stating that the groom will not force the bride to compromise her Qaraite principles, and the bride will join her husband in observing the Rabbanite feasts.

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العلامات

• ketubba
• marriage
• qaraite

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Document date

438 Hijrī (8 July 1046–27 June 1047 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The beginnings of 22 lines are preserved along with part of a witness signature at the bottom.

العلامات

• daman
• damin
• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Norman Golb took this as a reference to a location in the Nile Delta, however Friedman shows that it is more likely a poetic way of referring to the lowly and degraded state of the yeshiva itself in these years, perhaps alluding to Ezekiel 17:6. Edited and discussed in Friedman, "The Signature Embellishment of Elijah the Gaon-to-be in his Letter to Abraham 'Prince of the Community' / עוד על 'עיטור' חתימתו של ר' אליהו בן גאון במכתבו לאברהם שר העדה," Tarbiz 49 (1980), 202–04.

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Primary language

Hebrew

The second part of the letter conveys information for al-Shaykh Ghāzī who left his wife in the hands of the writer to cure her from her illness.

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العلامات

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

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Survey of households, recipients of alms. Written on a leaf, 8 by 6 inches, folded so as to form four pages, each originally containing data about 33-34 families, a total of about 135, of which about 110 are preserved, many defective.

العلامات

• charity
• communal
• old age
• poverty
• recipients

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Groom: Natan b. David. Bride: Sitt al-Sāda bt. ʿOvadya. One of the oldest and largest illuminated medieval ketubbot from the Geniza.

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العلامات

• illumination
• ketubba
• micrography

1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

For a long time, I have been sitting in a corner with no access to this world, but as long as my daughter lived, she was always around me and cared for me. Now she has died, and her brothers and their sons have taken what she possessed.

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العلامات

• appeal
• communal
• disability
• disability: vision
• disability: women's
• (+ 6 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The term shirka may be used to refer to an act of qinyan; lines 8-9 seem to refer to the act of shirka along with acts of payment and appraisal. (Information from Lieberman, "A Partnership Culture", 187-188).

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العلامات

• autograph
• food
• halfon b. menashshe
• olive oil
• partnership

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان

Document date

1449 Seleucid (18 September 1137–7 September 1138 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Yaʿqūb a license to sell and dye silk for 18 dinars per month in the Qaṣr al-Shamʿ quarter of Fustat for the duration of Abū l-Surūr’s tenure in office.

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2

العلامات

• arabic attestation
• damin
• dimme
• ib-addenda
• ib5
• (+ 3 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 3 مناقشات

Document date

Tuesday, 21 Adar II 1377 Seleucid (21 March 1066 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yaʿaqov declares that he acted as the authorized person for the brothers Shelomo and Moshe b. Avraham b. al-Lebdī, to receive the inheritance(?) of their father’s maternal uncle from Nissim b.

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العلامات

• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib1
• india book
• register

1 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1135–1135 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Copy 3 (second copy by the clerk): II,21 (T-S NS J241) + II,21c (T-S AS 158.393), PGPID 5455. Join: Alan Elbaum. Copy 4 and copy 5: II,21a (JRL Series B 4089); II,21b (T-S AS 151.222), PGPID 5233.

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العلامات

• ib2
• india book

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة

Document date

Thursday, 26 Nisan 1395 Seleucid (4 April 1084 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

The remainder of the document (lines 8-28) is a draft of a marriage agreement of a couple who were divorced in Tyre and subsequently reconciled in al-Mahalla. It provides specifics as to the dowry (including money, textiles and clothing, a drinking cup, and a mirror) but lacks the names of the relevant parties.

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العلامات

• 11th c
• al-mahalla
• divorce
• notarial
• partnership
• (+ 2 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

2nd Kislev 1431 Seleucid (7 November 1119 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Groom: Ṭoviyya b. Tiqva. Bride: Sitt al-Kull bt. Peraḥya, a virgin. Her paternal uncle received on her behalf 3 rings of fine gold, a ring of amber, and two silver "unbūbas."

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العلامات

• shiddukhin

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He has not traveled yet, because it is unthinkable to travel when the doors of the house are still in their sorry state: the main door needs to be fixed, and the door of the upper floor/apartment needs to be replaced completely. He alludes to his illness. He then gives his excuse for not having come to attend the recipient (before he traveled?)

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العلامات

• bilbays
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: fever

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Last third of Tishrei, 15?? Seleucid (1210–1220 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

This fragment preserves the right side of a partnership agreement between Ibrahīm b. Mūsā al-Māyurkī ("from Mallorca") and another Ibrahīm b.

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العلامات

• 13th c
• partnership

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Bū l-Faraj to Umm Yūsuf the mother-in-law of Bayān al-Bukhtaj ('the cooked,' from Middle Persian pokhtag), sent via Eliyyahu the Judge.

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العلامات

• 13th c
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: marad
• illness: physician
• (+ 5 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter 3 is famed for its account of a meeting that allegedly took place, many years before the controversy, between Palestinians and Babylonians, at which the Babylonians learnt the secret of the calendar calculation (fol. 5r:21-5v12).

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العلامات

• calendar
• controversy

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Ladino

Sabiendo vos komo estava los ojos al kamino, esperando ke su respuesta seria su vista.

العلامات

• ladino

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1135–1135 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Copies 4-5, as well as a direct join (II,21c) for Copy 3, were found by Alan Elbaum in 2023.

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العلامات

• ib2
• india book

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Document date

Kislev 5479 Anno Mundi (24 November 1718–22 December 1718 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Yaʿaqov Reʾuven in "the ṣarf business" (ṣarrāflık activities). Although they are not listed explicitly as partners, Naḥmia b.

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العلامات

• 18th c

1 نسخ

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

This fragment contains additional accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, as well as a recipe in Judaeo-Arabic for a kind of wine (nabīdh al-dā[..]). The trader is based in Aden, as a note in Arabic script on verso reads "wazana/wuzina ilayhim fī furḍat ʿAdan," referring to a payment made in the customshouse (furḍa) of Aden.

العلامات

• aden
• furda
• ib7
• india book
• tiraz

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

There is a long preamble listing a great many names of God, grouped in alphabetical order, in Samaritan Aramaic. Here is Cowley's translation of the substance of the message: "The Lord reward [you with goodness] and favour and truth for the words which you spoke on the Sabbath to the distinguished elder, the Lord preserve him.

العلامات

• appeal
• carpenter
• samaritan

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Meʾir Ibn al-Hamadhānī to Eliyyahu the Judge. Dating: early 13th century.

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العلامات

• 13th c
• business

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

I have been with him for ten years, and he has always taken what I earned. Finally, when I was in shreds, with nothing to cover me properly, I said to him: "I shall not give you a thing anymore.

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

ʿAzarya gained further power (r37–47); when the conflict worsened, Daniel asked Ibn ʿAllūn, an influential Jew in Ashqelon, to intervene with the amīr to have Yosef Av Bet Din fired and banished.

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العلامات

• communal
• ramla

3 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 2 مناقشتان