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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

, and no matter how the wind blows... it does not budge from its place... and it continued like this until he showed me aversion (jafā) from his soul... without any crime that I committed...." Join: Alan Elbaum. Needs further examination.

العلامات

• bialphabetic
• condolence
• enemies
• love

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

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

Document date

20 Tevet 5561 Anno Mundi (5 January 1801 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He then requests for 5 ardabb of something to be sent to him and then seems to explain proper storage or shipping conditions "wa-ḥuṭṭū fī kīs aḥsan min al-baʿzqa" (... putting it in a bag is better than wasting it...), from the verbal noun بعزقة "wasting" or "squandering."

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العلامات

• late ja

1 نسخ

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

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان

Primary language

Hebrew

It implies in some places Palestinian hegemony in calendrical decisions, and it appears to repudiate the Four Gates, a Babylonian algorithm which we know from other sources was criticized by Palestinians at the time of the controversy.

العلامات

• calendar controversy

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

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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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

1025–1075 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On the right side of the page, there is a dowry evaluation (taqwīm) for Ḥalfon b. Elʿazar and Sitt al-Fakhr bt. Hillel ha-Levi (10+30, and woman's dowry 97.5, though it's listed as 100).

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العلامات

• dowry list

1 مناقشة

Document date

10 August 1865 CE

Primary languages

Arabic, Italian

Information from FOTM: "Although the majority of the material preserved in the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection comes from the periods of Fatimid and Ayyubid rule in Egypt, it is not unusual to come across much earlier or much later material.

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العلامات

• 19th c
• arabic script
• italian

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

qumāsh) on his back. He mentions al-Shaykh Abū Isḥāq b. Mushrif/Musharraf who had paid the customs duty for the קמקין (?).

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العلامات

• akhmim
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: death
• illness: marad
• (+ 6 المزيد)

1 نسخ 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
• paper

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة

Document date

Av 1470 Seleucid (July 1159 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

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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2 نسخين 2 مناقشتان

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

However it seems that Faraj is in fact already married to her and treating her poorly and threatening to take a second wife.

العلامات

• orphan girl
• polygyny

1 مناقشة

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

ترجمات 3 2 مناقشتان

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

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

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

Inferred date

1146–1146 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

But Ibn Baqqāl refused, and no further negotiations could take place, since he was already on his way out of Aden (according to PGPID 5534, he had arrived in Aden in 1146).

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العلامات

• ib2
• india book
• shipwreck

2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 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

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/apartmnet needs to be replaced completely. He alludes in very vague terms to his personal difficulties (according to the other copy, a febrile illness since Friday).

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العلامات

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

1 نسخ

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

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 language

Hebrew

Entered in Geniza collection as an independent manuscript (in 2017, citing Alder) and as the second folio of the most extensive text witness of the Book of the Calendar Controversy (in 2021, citing Stern).

العلامات

• calendar
• controversy

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

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

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The couple appear to have separated reluctantly under difficult circumstances, resentfully described in another poem identified as being by Ibn Labrāṭ to his employer: I served you in sorrow, for all your wares are loathsome. / I will glean no grapes, nor will I gather corn. / I betrayed a young wife and sent her a writ of divorce. / I left my home, and abandoned the son that she bore.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

1104 CE

Lebdi was entitled to 29 shares out of 30 of everything in their partnership and Abu Nasr and Farah had between them only one share. Farah's heirs already took their small share of the 22 bales of lac.

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العلامات

• account
• ib-partial translation-eng
• ib1
• india book

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

Nisan 5582 Anno Mundi (23 March 1822–21 April 1822 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: lists of names organized alphabetically with corresponding payments toward the communal kashrut tax (gabela) for the months of Nisan, Iyyar, Sivan, 5582 AM. […] , Ḥayyīm Ḥefeṣ, Yiṣḥaq Yaʿabeṣ, ʿOvadya Ṣīyāgh, Avraham Reʾuven, Avraham Dayyan, Avraham Raqīz, Avraham Arūkh, Avraham Meyūḥas, Efrayim Karo/Caro, Elʿazar Kandīyotī, Elʿazar Beniste, Elʿazar ha-Levi, Eliyahu Zeytūn, Eliyahu Ṣevi, Eliyahu רוכץ, Eliyahu Ashkenazi, Benyamin Sasson, David Karo, David ʿAnānī, Ḥayyīm Grīyānī, Ḥayyīm Ḥazaq, Ḥayyīm Yrḥī, Ḥayyīm Mizraḥī, Ḥabīb Menashe, Yiṣḥaq Mizraḥī, Yiṣḥaq Abū Yaman, Yaʿaqov al-Nagano, Yaʿaqov Reqāḥ, Yaʿaqov Wazīnī, Yahuda Pitro, Yahuda Qūdsī, Yahuda Kastīl, Yahuda Estīya[?]

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العلامات

• gabela
• kashrut
• late prosopography

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso is an extended allegory comparing the addressee to a noble aristocrat who employs and honors a lowly peasant (the sender) for a time, then banishes him.

1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1152–1153 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(3) The complicated relationship between the two brothers — in some ways a classic older/younger sibling dynamic — emerges clearly when Ibn Yijū alternately turns on the charm, perhaps to sweeten the marriage proposal, and scolds his brother.

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العلامات

• ib3
• india book

2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين

Primary language

Hebrew

Hebrew poetry in honor of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon.

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العلامات

• masliah gaon

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Document date

Tammuz 4867 Anno Mundi (23 June 1107–21 July 1107 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Epistles in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Bifolium. This section includes the end of one letter, dated Tammuz 4867 AM (1107 CE), and the beginning of "his …

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العلامات

• al-andalus

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter of condolence from Eli ha-Mumhe b. Avraham, Jerusalem, to Hesed ha-Tustari, Fustat, end of 1045 or beginning of 1046.

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العلامات

• al-tustari
• condolence

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Document date

1128–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The earliest document on this fragment is a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (dates: 1100–38). Only a few letters from the …

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العلامات

• al-nezer
• shimush

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Private account by Barhun b. Musa ha-Tāhartī to his business partner, probably in Sicily. 1057. Including details about different payments, the purchase of wheat, and …

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العلامات

• al-tahirti
• sicily

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Legal document with testimony of Farah b. Yusuf Banuqa regarding shipments to Qayrawan, which were received by Barhun b. Moshe Tāhartī.

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العلامات

• barhun al-taherti
• qayrawan

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter possibly from Abū Zikrī the physician to his father Eliyyahu the judge. Written in rhymed Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. Goitein comments, …

العلامات

• abu zikri al-rayyis

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة