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II, p. 573 n. 17, but Goitein's summary must refer to a different, still-unidentified shelfmark. We have retained all index cards and both transcriptions under both PGPIDs.)

العلامات

• hillel b. 'eli
• register

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Document date

1126 Hijrī (17 January 1714–6 January 1715 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In line three a member of the janissary garrison in Cairo is named: al-Emīr Ibrahīm Blbsh[?] Musṭaḥfiẓān // אלתזאם אלאמיר אברהם בלבש׳׳[?]

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العلامات

• 18th c

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Reads approximately as follows: ". . . he will arise from his filth and become a speaking creature and live like the angels and walk like the spiritual beings, and at last will enter the mighty chariot and the greatest degree. . . and will behold the beings of light and join with all the luminaries in the seven(?) [. . .] . . . the heavenly Jerusalem and obtain eternal kingship. . . and will eat the food of the angels. . . ."

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

1463 Seleucid (13 September 1151–31 August 1152 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic, Judaeo-Persian

= آدینه = Friday Identification and join by Alan Elbaum. (Join found via the Dicta Genizah Search website for the MiDRASH Automatic Transcriptions https://zenodo.org/records/17734473.)

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العلامات

• calendar
• ib-addenda
• ib3

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

It seems that some people wanted to manumit the daughter of a female slave (fa-rāmū ʿitq ibnat al-jā[riya]). Only fragmentary phrases are preserved out of the next section: the number 10; someone testifying "about her"; "her document"; the court; "the remainder of the ketubba"; "she entered the house"; and "the first."

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Seʿadya (l. 16) sent his agent Berakhot (l. 19) to collect some jewelry (l. 7) such as, two bracelets of amber with golden heads (l. 4), from a certain David (l. 18) (perhaps identical with Yeshuʿa al-Qarawī, l. 9). However, the debtor refused to render the items, claiming that the note presented by the agent (l. 10) did not authorize him to issue a proper valid release after handing over the precious items.

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Document date

Heshvan 1513 Seleucid (1 October 1201–29 October 1201 CE)

We may assume that it was made also because some or many of the possessions of the synagogues had been lost during the terrible period of internecine wars and anarchy experienced by Egypt in the 1150s.

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العلامات

• 13th c

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Document date

Wednesday, 14 Iyyar 4810 Anno Mundi (9 May 1050 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

This ʿuluww is located above the portico (sqīfa) of Zina bt. al-Fājū(?); its eastern boundary is the house of Yehuda b.

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Document date

Adar 1522 Seleucid (16 February 1211–16 March 1211 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Covenant (כתב אמנה) of the congregation of the Palestinian synagogue in Fustat, drawn up in Adar 1522 (=1211 CE), which enumerates the venerable liturgical rites they inherited from their ancestors and which they refuse to allow anyone to change. The context is the controvery over the prayer reforms that Avraham Maimonides attempted to introduce.

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العلامات

• avraham maimonides
• liturgy
• prayer reform
• yedutun ha-levi

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Superscription: 'Statement about the revenue from the collection for the weekly payments, jibayat al-mujama'a, for the week of Naso' (Numbers 4:21-7:89, read mostly in May or June); 'our Master' (Moses Maimonides) 8 dirhams, 'the Trustworthy' (title of Maimonides' father-in-law) 12 dirhams, three others 10 dirhams, one, three, and five other 6, 5, and 4 dirhams respectively; Several items are lost.

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العلامات

• capitation tax
• communal
• payment
• salary
• tax

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In the closing greetings, the sender reports that the children are all well. Abū l-Mufaḍḍal intends to travel but delayed his departure until after the holidays.

العلامات

• hamas
• rent
• slave

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yosef, in Tripoli, Libya, to his mother, probably in Fustat. Although the address reads "from your son Yosef," the letter is written in the voice of an older woman who defends herself against the addressee's blame for not looking after Yosef properly and for not marrying him to her own daughter.

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العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: marad
• illness: nursing
• illness: waja'
• (+ 3 المزيد)

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Document date

419 Hijrī (31 January 1028–19 January 1029 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Fatimid fiscal report or account for the fiscal (kharājī) year 417, from the period of the Fatimid caliph al-Ẓāhir. Dated: 417 kharājī/419 AH. Document is dated according to both systems, so useful for correlating the fiscal (kharājī) and hijrī calendars.

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العلامات

• petition

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

"What emerges from this fragment may be summarized as follows: Abū l-Surūr and his sister Nasab inherited 1/3 of a house from their late father in equal shares. 2/3 of this house had already belonged to Nasab. Abū l-Surūr claimed that his sister had taken possession of his share several years before and now he would like to receive what was due him.

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Joins: Nadia Vidro and Alan Elbaum

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(2) A medium-sized fragment in the middle of the rightmost column of the last images. Recto is almost blank. Verso is a letter fragment. The sender has arrived in a place where they do not know anybody and they are concerned about their enemies gloating.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

8 Iyyar 1406 Seleucid (16 April 1095 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The recto and the beginning of the first column of the verso concern a partnership between Yaḥyā ha-Levi and Abū ʿAli Yefet b. Avraham involving trading goods and supplying metal to the mint.

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العلامات

• 11th c
• register

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender then reports in detail about the nagid’s beehives, complaining about all the trouble he has had with them, and asks for instructions.

العلامات

• amir
• bees
• capitation tax
• damin
• lac

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

IV, p. 260): "Take two and a half dirhems' weight of each of the following: lichen (shayba), ginger, pepper, and barley flour, and half a dirhem of saffron. Mix all these together, pound them and bind the mixture with the same quantity [weight] of Egyptian bee honey and put it aside.

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العلامات

• hashish
• illness: teeth
• materia medica
• recipe
• vinegar
• (+ 1 المزيد)

3 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

.]; Moshe; Yosef; his two sons Ṭahor and Moshe; his son Elʿazar. The house of Ibn al-Dajājī: Netanʾel; Meshullam; Netanʾel; Nadiv; Shela; Hillel; Netanʾel; Yefet; Yosef; [...]; Menashshe.

العلامات

• memorial list

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

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.

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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

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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)

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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 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

"God disciplined me with great discipline and with great illness 'from the illnesses of Egypt' and with a disease of the eyes." He lost all his money and "the money of others" (=his creditors?).

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Document date

28 Shawwāl 401 Hijrī (4 June 1011 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Measurements: 6.3 x 8.6 cm. Along with T-S AS 177.257 (PGPID 37138) and T-S AS 178.233 (PGPID 18599), one of three receipts found so far that specify that Abū l-Ḥasan’s ḍamān is for a dyeworks (maṣbagha) rather than dyeing (ṣabgh or ṣibgh).

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العلامات

• abu l-hasan b. wahb
• daman

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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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Document date

Friday, 14 Nisan 5532 Anno Mundi (17 April 1772 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Moshe Masʿūd. Bride: Sitt al-Bayt aka Bieto/Vieto(?) bt. Avraham Minir (this uncommon surname is written clearly in the filing note on the verso).

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العلامات

• 18th c
• illumination
• ketubba
• vellum
• watercolor

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

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

Document date

Sunday, 17 Av [5]529 Anno Mundi (20 August 1769 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

The sender then goes on to mention a few other contacts: Yosef Meyūḥas and M. Mīnīr (alt. sp. of Mūnīr?). The verso is on the back page of the bifolium.

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العلامات

• 18th c
• polisa

1 نسخ

Primary language

Yiddish

The fact that this letter, Rachel’s note for Rabbi Katz and a letter from Moshe himself were all found in the Genizah, indicates that they probably never reached their destinations.

العلامات

• yiddish
• zussman

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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

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