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Document date

24 Sivan 1541 Seleucid (6 June 1230 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Deposition made by Abū l-Baqāʾ b. Abū l-Ḥasan al-Kohen, that his step daughter owed him nothing with regard to the heritage of his wife, while he and his brother were in possession of certain ornaments belonging to the former.

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العلامات

• court record
• inheritance

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Mufarrij and Shūʿa the Bāniyāsī escaped from the enemy attacking Caesarea (although Goitein read this as Mufarrij and Shūʿa escaping to Bāniyās).

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العلامات

• bialphabetic
• flax
• honey
• war
• wax

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions the arrival of goods from the West (waṣala min al-gharb...). Note that the small slip containing the beginning of the letter (on recto) and the address (on verso) has been joined incorrectly.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The expenditures as listed first come to a total of 223 dirhams, but thereafter several other items totaling 189.6 dirhams are added, so that there is altogether a total expenditure of 412.5 dirhams, i.e., a deficit of 104.5 dirhams.

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1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Perhaps this is meant to allude to Exodus 1:21 about God making the midwives houses, and the desired 'pieces' are intended for a house?

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Avraham; being in great distress (wa-l-sāʿa al-shidda ʿaẓīma); lack of clothing for the writer and their child; talking to somebody about this on one of the nights of the holiday; and he says he is "sitting in the store" but no syrups or sugar are coming in (mā yajīʾ fīhā raṭl sharāb wa-lā sukkar).

العلامات

• petition
• private

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

, containing about 55 names, followed by a column in Hebrew characters with about 23 names, some identical, including Abū l-Barakāt al-Mūrid, the purveyor of gold and silver to the mint (see Mediterranean Society, I, p.267).

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العلامات

• 12th c
• ib-addenda
• ib7
• list

2 نسخين

Document date

Monday, 6 Sivan 5252 Anno Mundi (1 June 1492 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Moshe Qalʿī from the Castro family and Shabbetay b. ʿAzrūn al-Masīnī (from Messina, Sicily). The other matter is the ketubba payment of the widow of R.

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1 نسخ

Inferred date

1550–1650 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Gavizon's responsa (vol, I, 30-31). Although R. Gavizon was born to Sephardi refugees in Safed, he spent much of his career in Cairo.

العلامات

• 16th or 17th c
• early modern

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List of the Pesiqa, upper part of three pages containing the names of contributors, headed by Abu al-Mufaddal, who pledges 1/8 dinar. The others give dirhams, namely: 1 party gives 3 d; 8 parties give 2 d; 16 parties give 1 d; 4 parties give 1/2 d;, 2 (sum not preserved).

العلامات

• charity
• communal
• donors
• poverty

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

T-S NS 320.15 appears to be the final version of the same document (though the lower part along with any signatures are missing, and that too may have been a draft).

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العلامات

• slaves

1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

At the bottom of verso there is a jotting with documentary value: "I borrowed from our rabbi ʿEli the w[ise] and the en[lightened] Kitāb al-Faṣīḥ [presumably the work by Thaʿlab] and a commentary on [...] by our rabbi [...]."

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

3 Tammuz 1351 Seleucid (17 June 1040 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Adiyya who declares that his wife did not owe him anything, but that not all she was owed in her marriage contract had been delivered to her.

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العلامات

• will
• yefet b. david

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان

Primary language

Hebrew

Karaite deed of betrothal of Amat al-Waḥid אמה אלואחד daughter of Ḥalfon and Ḥaifon ha-Levi ben Daniel b.

العلامات

• karaite ketubba
• marriage

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The contract is described as muḍārabat al-tujjār, a merchants' commenda, which normally provides for a division of two-thirds and one third of the profit.

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العلامات

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

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

Ḥeshvan 5562 Anno Mundi (8 October 1801–5 November 1801 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Based on the layout/letter forms, the document was likely recorded by Meʾir Ben-Naʿim. Although Nissīm Najjar includes "סו" in his signature (commonly = so[fer]), his autograph does not match the scribal hand throughout the rest of the document.

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العلامات

• 19th c
• ben na'im

1 نسخ

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: After 1425 CE, as one of the currencies mentioned is the ashrafī– which was first minted under Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay in this year. The addressee had sent 200 "maghribī" (dinars?).

العلامات

• numismatic dating

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Among the names listed are: (recto) Sulayman Efendī Mustaḥfizan/מסתחפצן (the latter term was the title of the janissary garrison in Cairo), Abu ʿArabī Daūdī (verso) ʿUmr ___ Qapṭān wa-Çelebī Silaḥdar, ʿUmr Efendī Kātib, Emir __[?] al-Basha Ḥasan Agha, ___[?] Çorbacı, and others.

العلامات

• 16th c or later
• ledger
• ottoman state

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1700–1900 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 4 Jumāda al-Awwal '54 which could be 1154 AH (=1741 CE) or 1254 AH (=1838 CE) based on the mention of Ottoman kurush (ق symbol over monetary columns).

العلامات

• 18th or 19th c
• bialobos
• de curiel
• late ja
• late prosopography
• (+ 2 المزيد)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

This shelfmark is intriguing on a material level, based on the extent of compression it must have taken for so many texts to fuse together– at least 5-6 distinct layers of paper are visible on the recto alone (some of which a very fibrous). The format gives off the appearance of cardboard, but is likely an unintentional result of compression in the geniza chamber from the collective weight of its contents.

العلامات

• print
• printed

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender had sent an invitation with Hiba al-Kohen for the addressee to come celebrate the holidays in Damietta, and he is sad that he did not come.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal testimony (maḥḍar) from al-Maḥalla regarding kosher butchering. It seems that Shemarya ha-Kohen was granted the right to be sole butcher and another man entered into a legal agreement and swore an oath that he would not butcher — but now he has been witnessed violating that oath.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

For a prescription that includes burnt goat-horn, see Sabur b. Sahl, Aqrabadhin al-saghir / The Small Dispensatory (trans. Oliver Kahl, 2003, p. 50).

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العلامات

• prescription

1 نسخ

There are two columns in eastern Arabic numerals alongside detailed entries each beginning with a day of the week.

العلامات

• 18th or 19th c
• late ja
• list
• numismatic dating

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1700–1850 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The paleography helps to estimate the dating of this document as 18th/early 19th-century. Along the far left side of the recto Jerusalem is mentioned (l. 6r) and the coinage "metaqil / מתאקיל" which may indicate gold for prices connected to the items listed (given the mention of "וזן / weight" in the same entry: l. 16-17r).

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العلامات

• 18th or 19th c
• list
• mastic

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

5592 Anno Mundi (8 September 1831–24 September 1832 CE)

, Benyamīn Curiel, Yosef Dasa, Khalīfa Pinṭo, Shelomo Morḥayyīm, Israʾel Abū-Drahem, Yosef al-Bīnda, Ṣulṭāna bt. Yiṣḥaq Qor..bīyal, Diyamante (Diamante) wife of Ḥayyīm Pesaḥ, the little daughter of Ḥabīb Sofriel, and the little daughters of Poeta[?]

العلامات

• 19th c
• late prosopography
• sephardim

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

5556 Anno Mundi (14 September 1795–2 October 1796 CE)

The bifolium is very damaged along the edges but the paper's extensive length is still apparent and suggests that this was possibly a part of a broader communal charity register.

العلامات

• 18th c
• communal
• late prosopography
• orphans
• widow

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

5624 Anno Mundi (14 September 1863–30 September 1864 CE)

On images 44-45 it is clear these folios were recycled from legal document drafts bearing the signature of Shelomo Alyaqīm, who may be the same person that signed AIU VII.D.24 in 1842/43 CE (PGPID 30523) and BL OR 5561A.7 in 1842 CE (PGPID 19229).

العلامات

• ledger

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Persian

Refers to Khwāja ʿAbdallāh, agents and powers of attorney, expressions of free will (برضا ورغبت خود), and Khwāja Sulṭān [...] b. Khwāja ʿAlī b. Khwāja Ḥaydar. Mentions 600 dīnārs. Dated 26 Rabīʿ II; the year is torn away.

العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

4790/4791 Anno Mundi (11 September 1029–30 August 1030 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

The calendar mentions intercalation, length of variable months, moladot of all months, days of the week of beginnings of months, festivals and fasts, and the time and date of the tequfot.

العلامات

• calendar

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Nissim to Abū l-Surūr Faraḥ b. Ismaʿīl al-Qābisī, because Gil cited the document in question solely as "Mosseri II 188" without further specification (Kingdom of Ishmael, vol. 2, 762).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Some commodity was deposited with a distinguished man (rajul jalīl al-qadr), "and when he opened it for the buyer and it came out in this shape, he was embarrassed... and I was embarrassed even more...

العلامات

• sicily

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Document of sale for real estate, a quarter of a house, between Shelomo b. Moshe and Sitt al-Hanāʾ bt. Elʿazar ha-Levi. Possibly in the hand of ʿImmanuʾel b.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The addressee is asked to look into this (al-naẓar fīhā). The women's husband is missing (maʿdūm).

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العلامات

• divorce
• forgery

1 نسخ

Immense communal list of alphabetized names. Dating: probably from the second half of the nineteenth century based on the paleography and usage of pencil.

العلامات

• communal
• widows

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Eliyyahu (Abū l-Barakāt b. al-Dayyān) to Abū Saʿīd for a syrup of sorrel (?

العلامات

• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: fever
• illness: relapse
• to edit

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Fragment from the opening of a document, either a letter or legal document. All that remains is formulaic praises for the Nagid Yehosef.

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The ḥaver (probably the addressee) should judge between the sender and (presumably his rival) Menashshe the musician (? al-Mizmār). He then cites the saying of Yehoshuaʿ b.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Middle fragment of a deathbed will of a physician (it seems, for he notes the book of medicine (kitāb al-ṭibb) in his own hand), mentioning a one-eighth share of a house held by him in partnership with a Muslim named Ahmad, as well as something worth 180 dinars which should not be taken away from him after his death.

العلامات

• physician

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Nisan 4918 Anno Mundi (2 March 1158–31 March 1158 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The release is granted by Elʿazar b. Tamīm Ibn al-Raṣāṣiyya to Elʿazar b. Binyamin. Dating: prior to Nisan 4918 AM = 1158 CE.

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Someone said that Ibn ʿImrān brought a fatwā from al-Shām saying that people must only go to Yaḥyā b.

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

1 Tishrei 1446 Seleucid (20 September 1134 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Short note about a court settlement from Fustat. An uncle allows his nephew to pay him back a sum of 10 dinars in 20 installments, the latter giving as security a 1.5-share in a house belonging to him (out of 24) in case he fails to pay for two consecutive months. 1134 CE.

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العلامات

• natan b. shelomo

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Same writer and recipient as T-S 13J21.5, which was written not long after this one (Goitein's note cards suggest ca. 1214). Alan Elbaum.

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العلامات

• abu zikri
• bilbays
• collective
• communal
• eliyyahu b. zekharia
• (+ 7 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Both the husband and the wife's father are tax farmers, the latter of Maḥallat al-Yumn. Verso: Postscript or possibly an addendum written while forwarding the letter, in a different hand, mainly in Hebrew.

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العلامات

• divorce

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Thursday, 11 Av 1442 Seleucid (6 August 1131 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Menashshe ha-Levi. Wife: Sitt al-Khawāt bt. Eliyya (cf. T-S 10J2.22). The witnesses are ʿEli b.

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Document date

20 Adar II 1535 Seleucid (13 March 1224 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: 20 Adar II 1535 Seleucid = 13 March 1224 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Avraham Maimonides. Ṭahor b. Shelomo Ibn al-Labbān acknowledges that he has received 40 broken (mutaqaṭṭiʿa) dirhams from Mubārak b.

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العلامات

• sale
• shelomo b. eliyyahu

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

19 Sivan 1418 Seleucid (11 June 1107 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Berakhot. Fiancee: Sitt al-Kull bt. Yefet. Wedding to take place two years later.

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العلامات

• betrothal
• erusin
• register

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة