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Document date

28 Ramadan 631 Hijrī (27 June 1234 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

A leaf of the astronomical tables devised for the years 900-1500 CE. […] Date h.☉☾♄♃♂♀☿☊ 28 Ramaḍān 631 (26 June 1234) ♋12♊24♉17♎1♉6♊28♋26♍21, 1 Shawwāl 631 (29 June 1234) ♋14♋30♉17♎1♉8♋2♌1♍21.

العلامات

• astronomical
• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

(Information from Mediterranean Society, III, 267)

العلامات

• divorce
• get

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The names of houses and tenants are known from other lists. Also mentions expenses for renovations in dar al-Barqi (data from FGP by Ora Vaza). […] David (See Bareket, The Jewish Leadership in Fustat, p. 262) Judeo-Arabic. AA

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Mūsā, in Damīra, to Abū l-Faraj al-[...]. […] The sender, an absent husband, reprimands his wifeʼs family for accusing him publicly of neglecting her (from Oded Zinger's PhD, p. 261). To refute their claim, he says that he gave her 12 dinars for the holiday, and took her with him to Damietta. He sends greetings to some members of the family. AA.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Biblical passage (Leviticus 5:25-26) crudely written, probably from a child’s exercise, with Tiberian vowels and the divine name abbreviated to three yods.

العلامات

• children
• exercises
• primer

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Document date

Sunday, 1406 Seleucid (14 September 1094–2 September 1095 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document. Partnership agreement. Dated: 1406 Seleucid, which is 1094/95 CE. […] Line 11 mentions Avraham b. Yefet the Mumḥe, who traded with Avraham b. Mevorakh in the absence of ʿAmram. Goitein deduces that ʿAmram "was not supposed to contribute work regularly" as the text implies that he will not always be in Fusṭāṭ.

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العلامات

• drug store
• partnership
• pharmacy

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

Tammuz 1387 Seleucid (5 June 1076–3 July 1076 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The participating parties are Avraham b. Elʿazar ha-Levi and Abū l-ʿAlāʾ ʿUlla b. Yosef ha-Levi. (Information in part from Goitein's index cards; Mediterranean Society, II, pp. 262, 582; EMS.)

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العلامات

• hillel b. eli
• opium
• partnership
• register

2 نسخين 2 مناقشتان

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE), mentioning the elder Avraham and 92 dinars. Verso: legal document in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066-1108 CE), mentioning a power of attorney and a certain Yehuda. […] T-S NS 342.134 (PGPID 26067).

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العلامات

• fotm

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter by Yosef b. Musa Tāhartī from Alexandria containing details about shipments of flax including. […] Gil, Kingdom, Vol. III, p. 260)

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العلامات

• flax
• trade

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

(Information from Mediterranean Society, I, p. 264; also Goitein index cards)

العلامات

• will

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

For materia medica used by the Geniza community, see E. Lev and Z. Amar, Practical Materia Medica of the Eastern Mediterranean According to the Cairo Genizah (Brill, 2008). For pharmacies, see Med. Soc. II, pp. 261-72.

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العلامات

• prescription

1 نسخ

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Yusuf ha-Kohen b. Shelomo Gaon, writing from Jerusalem or Ramla, informing the Jewish chief justice of Aleppo that it had taken seven months to find the husband whose wife in the Syrian city had demanded a divorce. The bill of divorce had now been made out and entrusted to a man who would deliver it to the woman, ca. 1035. (S. D. Goitein, Mediterranean Society, 3:262, 485) EMS

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العلامات

• communal
• divorce

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1168–1204 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter/petition from a cantor apparently addressed to Moshe Maimonides. […] The petitioner seems to be a Qaraite, as he says "do not make me turn to the Qaraites" (ll. 26–27). (Information from CUDL and Goitein's index card.)

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العلامات

• appeal
• capitation tax
• charity
• maimonides
• qaraite

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Tafsīr in Judaeo-Arabic on Isaiah 26:6–10 and surrounding verses.

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العلامات

• tafsir

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Document date

First third of Shevat 1429 Seleucid (27 December 1117–7 January 1118 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document. Agency agreement. Location: Fustat. […] Abū Kathīr Efrayim, and Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa b. Menashshe ha-Levi al-Jubaylī – once the partnership has ended. […] (Information from Lieberman, "A Partnership Culture," 196, 261-263)

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe
• ib7
• india book
• palestinian geonim
• partnership
• (+ 1 المزيد)

6 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

List in large, beautiful Arabic script (perhaps of the judge Shemuel b. Saadya ha-Levi?), 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). Mentions a nākhudā named Sālim. Only three contributions are indicated. […] (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, pp. 504-505, App. C 126 and AA handlist)

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العلامات

• 12th c
• ib-addenda
• ib7
• list

2 نسخين

Primary language

Ladino

Bifolium from a Ladino transcription of a medical work by the physician (el diskreto sabio) Arnau de Villanova. Information from http://www.investigacion.cchs.csic.es/judeo-arabe/sites/investigacion.cchs.csic.es.judeo-arabe/files/Genizah-Al-Andalus.pdf.

العلامات

• ladino literary
• medical

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter. Strongly-worded admonition to a Muqaddam to deal with the estate of a widow and her daughter, in accordance with instructions by the Nagid. (Information from Goitein's index cards) EMS Verso: Biblical citations from Leviticus 8:26-27 and 30-31. (Information from CUDL)

العلامات

• avraham maimonides
• communal

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Drafts of the beginning of a letter addressed to Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi. Dating: Probably Ottoman-era. Includes the greeting "nawāfij al-misk bi-l-khitām" based on Quran 83:26 (cf. Yevr.-Arab. II 2362). (Information in part from CUDL)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to a brother. In Judaeo-Arabic, with phonetic orthography (Goitein: "very low class"). […] Repeatedly reminding the addressee to send various items of clothing (malḥafa, jubba, jubayba) and rebuking him for his long absence and failure to send the goods. Mentions the addressee's mother and Abū l-Ḥasan in the greeting section. On verso there is a commentary on BT Qiddushin 26a and a general explanation of mathematical matters.

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Fragment of an official document in Arabic script, possibly official correspondence or a petition. Mentions 'my master al-Qāḍī al-Saʿīd Ṣafiyy al-Mulk." (Al-Yāzūrī had a son with this laqab, also mentioned in T-S NS J570 (PGPID 26526).) Reused on recto for unidentified Hebrew text in rudimentary hand/spelling.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

MS heb. f 22/19–52 is a notebook of a notary and bookseller, containing drafts of legal deeds, some of them dated (1155, 1159, 1160, 1162), entries about books received in commission for sale or loaned out, accounts, and prescriptions.

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العلامات

• book trade
• booklist
• notebook
• prescription

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Av 1462 Seleucid (16 July 1151–14 August 1151 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Meshullam, and Natan b. Shemuel) sign it, apparently after the sum was cashed in. […] Abū l-Barakāt b. Sahl is mentioned. Both parts are signed by members of the court. (Information mainly from Gil, Documents, pp. 265 #52)

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العلامات

• 12th c
• estate of the jerusalemites
• hawala
• qodesh
• suftaja

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

India Book III, 49: Letter by Yosef Yiju, in Mazara, to his sons Perahya and Moshe, in Fustat or Alexandria. […] The 'master' had refused to pen this letter (lines 17-26). D. The writer thanked God that his son Moses was rescued from the pirates and did not care about the loss of the goods (lines 26-37). […] Request that the Head of the Jews in Egypt write letters to the Muslim commanders of Mazara and Messina and to Jewish notables in Sicily to arrange for the travel of the Yiju family to Egypt (verso, lines 15-27).

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العلامات

• ib-partial translation-eng
• ib3
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• india book
• (+ 1 المزيد)

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Legal document, probably, in Arabic script. Fragmentary name at the bottom [....] b. ʿImrān and a date Dhū l-Qaʿda [x]26. The last line might read as "فلما تحقق ذلك له".

العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Letter fragment in Arabic script. Reused on recto for a list of parshiyot: ḥayye Sarah (Genesis 23:1), va-yeḥi (Genesis 47:28) and ki tavo (Deuteronomy 26:1) with notes in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Recto: Official letter, likely a report to a superior. In Arabic script. The first few words of ~26 lines have been preserved. "The slave renews the kissing of the ground...." (al-mamlūk yujaddid taqbīl (al-arḍ)). Mentions cows and calves and people named Muḥammad b.

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Two folios from a guide for pilgrims to Jerusalem. Describing the sites to the south and east of the Temple Mount, including the Mount of Olives. Also includes many Christian sites. Goes on to describe Bethlehem and Betar but the details are difficult to read due to damage.

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العلامات

• guide
• pilgrim
• travels

1 نسخ

Primary languages

Arabic, Arabo-Hebrew

Recto: Biblical verses in Hebrew language written in Arabic script (ṭov lehodot...), headed by a basmala, presumably for liturgical use. […] Catena of biblical verses, including: Psalms 92:2; 30:5; 100:4-5; 103:11; 117:2; 146:2; 63:6; 52:11; 86:12; 136:1-3, 25-26; 107:9; 22:27; 34:9-11, Deuteronomy 6:11, Exodus 23:25, Joel 2:26, Psalms 145:15-16; 104:27-28; 103:1, 5; 90:14; 90:17; 18:51; 147:2; 68:20; 89:53.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

The hand is reminiscent of fiscal documents but these may be private accounts, based on the unsystematic layout and the headers "owed by him" (ʿalayhi).Recto mentionsn "on Wednesday the 26th" followed by "20 dinars," then perhaps "in the hand of Jaʿfar al-[...]. Entries on verso mention 40 raṭls of something followed by term muqāṭaʿa; underneath possibly 400-something units of wood (ʿūd) again followed by muqāṭaʿa. Merits further examination.

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Primary language

Hebrew

Letter mostly consisting of praises for the addressee, then a request for personal assistance. […] The writer asks the addressee's help with relocating his father to Jerusalem (f.2, ll.25–26). The writer too prays that he will be able to come to Jerusalem. The writer also mentioned R. Zeraḥya [Gota] (f.3, l.9). Information from FGP.

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العلامات

• 17th c
• gota
• istanbul
• ze'evi

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Letter mostly consisting of praises for the addressee, then a request for personal assistance. […] The writer asks the addressee's help with relocating his father to Jerusalem (f.2, ll.25–26). The writer too prays that he will be able to come to Jerusalem. The writer also mentioned R. Zeraḥya [Gota] (f.3, l.9). Information from FGP.

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العلامات

• 17th c
• gota
• istanbul
• ze'evi

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

She received "a quarter and an eighth" of a wayba, obviously a quarter for herself and an eighth for her infant daughter (see B 26). At least five persons are characterized as shāmī (from Palestine, or from Damascus); otherwise no persons from outside Egypt. (Information from Goitein, Med Soc II, App. B, #35.)

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