Documents

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Shemaʿya] נבתויא. Very damaged and faded. Mentions Aden; Abū Isḥāq Ibn Sughmār; 20 dīnārs; meeting with someone in ʿAydhāb (אגתמע בה בעידאב ואלגואלי?

Related People

2

Related Places

2

العلامات

• ib-addenda

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

biqyār) and their prices. Mentions Abū l-Faḍā'il and R. Natan. ASE.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. Dating: Probably 13th–15th century. Headed מן המצר קראתי יה וכול.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

1531 Seleucid (12 September 1219–30 August 1220 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

ʿAmram who undertakes to pay 80 dinars to Abū l-Faḍl David b. Yosef for wine. The latter had to wait six months for this payment, after selling wine to Abū l-ʿIzz.

Related Places

1

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Document in Judaeo-Arabic. Complete but very faded. Resembles a legal query: "What have our sages said concerning a man who died...

Related Documents

1

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

6 Tishrei 1530 Seleucid (October 1218–November 1218 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Inventory of a dead perfumer's shop, taken for purposes of dividing the goods between his son Abū l-Faḍl and Abū Saʿīd b. Abū l-Manṣūr. The executor is Netanel ha-Sar ha-Rofe.

Related Places

1

العلامات

• 13th c
• druggist
• materia medica
• perfumer

1 مناقشة

Document date

1814 CE

Primary language

Italian

The year 1814 CE appears on the left bifolium of the recto but the ten's place is so faded that this document may come from a different decade during the nineteenth century.

العلامات

• italian

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

middle decade of Tammuz 1461 Seleucid (7 July 1150–16 July 1150 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document, faded, but mostly intact and mostly legible with effort.

Related Places

1

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. Dating: likely 13th century. Verso: פי הדא אלאסבוע . . . .

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic. Quite faded. He excuses the messiness with the fact that he is writing this in the aftermath of an illness and while traveling (עלקת הדה אלאחרף עלי . . . . .ואעקאב מרץ אלי חצרה מולאי וסידי וסנדי ואלדכירה לאבדי אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם עלוה וסנאה ורפעתה וארתקאה . . .).

Related People

1

العلامات

• forgiveness clause
• halfon-addenda
• ib-addenda
• ib4
• india book unedited

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Alexandria by a man to his friend, reporting that he had settled the dispute between Shabbat (the recipient's son-in-law) and his wife (the recipient's daughter) with the help of Shabbat's brothers, and recommending a poor and bashful cantor, who was exiled from Spain.

Related Places

1

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

He should avoid evil occupations like drinking wine. The writer also sends condolences to Rabbenu. He hopes that the son will get a post (with the Nagid Mevorakh?). […] Ṣemaḥ (ZL), dated Tammuz 1100 (where he is quoted) and T-S 10J6.14 (which he also wrote). There are a couple very faded lines on verso.

Related Places

1

العلامات

• wine

1 مناقشة

Inferred date

August 1056–August 1056 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The letter also conveys family news about the Banū Sughmār. […] He uses the same excuse for his failure to maintain his correspondence with "al-rav al-ajall," the most exalted teacher (v5). […] Khalfa mentioning that the small (laṭīf) ship of Ibn al-Baʿbāʿ has also reached Tripoli" (v20–21). (Information in part from Gil.)

Related People

3

Related Places

4

العلامات

• arabic address
• banu hilal
• ibn al-ba'ba'
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• (+ 6 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Left fragment: Court record. Very faded and damaged. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE).

Related People

1

Related Documents

1

العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Someone has ophthalmia (r16) and a certain girl "went mad" when she heard something (r23)—perhaps the prospect of marrying Faḍāʾil. The addressee is asked to send wheat urgently (v3, v7).

Related People

2

Related Places

1

العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: eye
• personal

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Thursday, 29 Tammuz 1536 Seleucid (6 July 1225 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Eliyyahu to a certain Abū l-Surūr (probably an elder relative, since he is addressed as "father"). In Judaeo-Arabic. Faded and damaged, and only the upper part is preserved.

Related People

1

Related Places

1

العلامات

• avraham maimonides
• eliyyahu b. zekharia
• shelomo b. eliyyahu

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information from Goitein's index card.) There are faded jottings on verso in both Hebrew script and Arabic script, it seems accounts.

Related People

2

1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Story in Judaeo-Arabic. Long but quite faded. Might be a legal document in that it begins with ("lammā...") but it would be an unusual sort of a legal document.

العلامات

• to edit

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

He reports that were it not for the Shaykh Abū l-Faḍlal-Dāʿī, he would have been in trouble (?) (קטע אמרנה = אמרנא) over 2.5 dinars. He was imprisoned for one day until Abu Saʿīd al-Tinnīsī bailed him out on Friday night. Abu l-Ḥasan begs Hananya to send him his circumcision knife without delay (ולו כ/א/נת חצרתה חצרה למא גרי עלינא פי הדה אלסנה מן אל]. . .]

العلامات

• circumcision
• prison

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The letter itself is very faded. An 'iqtiḍā'" is mentioned twice, and perhaps the addressee's cousin (ibn ʿamm) Abū Ibrāhīm Isḥāq.

Related Documents

1

العلامات

• ib-addenda
• unedited 11th c
• vellum

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Fragment (the lower part is missing, and the right margin may be missing if it existed); the letter continues in the upper margin of recto. Uneven hand, faded ink, and some creases. Begins with a basmala and cursory blessings (yā mawlāy juʿiltu fidāka min kull suʾ aw min kull [...]).

العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

1356 Seleucid (27 August 1044–13 September 1045 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

On verso there are a few faded words, probably from a piyyuṭ.

1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

(Information in part from CUDL and Goitein's index card.) Verso: faded Arabic script, maybe accounts or maybe related to the legal document on recto, mentioning textiles (e.g., brocade/dībāj) and colors, quantities, and other characteristics.

Related Places

1

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The paper is dark and the text is faded. The sender describes his poverty ('weakness') and the losses he suffered for 4 months.

العلامات

• appeal

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Dating: early 11th century. Verso contains a faded address in Arabic script, to Fustat, Abū l-Faraj (Yosef b.

Related People

1

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

One of a pair of letters written by Umm Sitt al-Nās to family members when she had been thrown out of her husband's and mother-in-law's house. […] The present letter is addressed to Abū l-Faḍl Ibn Sabra, whom Goitein identified as her maternal uncle and as Mevorakh b. […] Perhaps the sentence simply means that in the widow's house, she cannot even obtain a skein of yarn (this would also fit with her preoccupation with her lack of clothing).

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

At the bottom and in the margin mentions Abū l-Majd, Makārim al-Wakīl the collector for the compound of the מלכיין, Ṣafiyy al-Dawla, Ibn Sibāʿ, and Raḍiyy al-Dawla. […] Mufaḍḍal; possibly a physician (al-ḥakīm); someone who is 'long of ears' (ṭawīl al-adhān) and clever (shāṭir); a deed of release and a power of attorney; Hiba al-Labbān and various collaterals; Zayn b. Saʿīd; the town of Qalyūb; Alexandria; a request that the addressee meet with the elder Fakhr al-Ṣanāʾiʿ; Rabbenu Moshe (likely Maimonides); greetings to the addressee's father Abū l-Faraj Beḥir ha-Kohanim; to Abū l-Fakhr al-ʿAṭṭār; al-shaykh al-yesod; Abū ʿImrān al-Tifʾeret; Abū l-Faḍl; and Abū l-Makārim.

Related People

1

العلامات

• ib-addenda
• to edit

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The paper is darkened and the text is faded (damage from a book binding?). The addressee is given grand titles such as משה הרב המובהק הפטיש החזק דגל הרבנים. […] After a very deferential introduction, the sender expresses his deep regret (al-nīrān wa-l-nadāma) for having neglected something. […] He mentions Kafr Ḥāris and ʿAwarta and the tombs of al-Sayyid Elʿazar, Itamar, and Pinḥas; and apparently another village with the tombs of al-Sayyid Yehoshuaʿ, his father Nūn, and of Kalev b.

Related Places

4

العلامات

• pilgrimage

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Wednesday, 11 Elul 1423 Seleucid (4 September 1112 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In which the widower Abū l-Faḍl Shela b. ʿAmram arranges with his bride Mubāraka bt.

Related People

1

العلامات

• marriage
• widow

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Two extremely faded fragments from the bottom of a legal document in Hebrew.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1594–1689 CE

Primary language

Ottoman Turkish

In the introduction to her edition, Jane Hathaway notes: "This letter, in Ottoman Turkish.... deals with competition over revenue-collection rights for Damietta’s customs in the context of delivery of the tribute known as māl-i mīrī, which Egypt sent to Istanbul each year, usually through Damietta and Alexandria.... It is written in a rather hasty hand on a sheet of paper that is torn at the upper left and right corners and that has deteriorated around the edges; it is also stained on the left edge and smudged on the right, while the ink has faded significantly. Since the writing runs all the way to the edges of the page, except at the top, these qualities make the document all the more challenging to read. […] The villain of the document is one Ḥusām Reʾīs, the former director of Damietta’s customs operations, who, the letter implies, will not allow the agents of his replacement to do their work....

Related Places

1

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Document date

Nisan 1145 Seleucid (27 March 1145–25 April 1145 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Appears to be a writing exercise, because there are multiple efforts and because there are inconsistencies (on recto Abū l-Maʿānī states that he gave money to Abū l-Faḍl and on verso he receives money); however, verso is signed by Natan b.

Related Places

1

1 مناقشة

Document date

Ḥeshvan 1646 Seleucid (1 October 1334–29 October 1334 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On recto, there are two engagement agreements, the first in the righthand side of the page and the second begins in the lefthand side of the paper and continues on the verso. The writing is faded and difficult to decipher. (I) Groom: Shemuel b.

Related Places

1

العلامات

• engagement

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Document date

4976 Anno Mundi (27 August 1215–14 September 1216 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Underneath, there is an extremly faded text block (a letter?) in the hand of Avraham Maimonides.

Related People

2

العلامات

• avraham maimonides autograph
• legal query
• responsum

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1237–1300 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Involving communal affairs in the Delta. Nearly complete, but faded. Mentions: Malīj; "I have written a letter for R.

Related People

2

Related Places

3

1 مناقشة

Document date

1160 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Khalaf the silk trader and Abū l-Faḍl b. Nathan concerning shares of the house Duwayra Zaʿfarān (the ‘little saffron house’).

Related People

1

Related Documents

3

العلامات

• silk

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Others send their congratulations, including Umm Abū l-Faḍl, Abū l-Majd, Abū Manṣūr, Abū l-Fakhr, and Umm Hiba.

العلامات

• nar

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Other names include [Abū l-]Faḍl b. Moshe and someone titled Rosh ha-Qehilot (both of these are on T-S AS 153.242).

Related People

1

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Marḥeshvan 4818 Anno Mundi (October 1056 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He has become paralyzed (mabṭūl), blind (aʿmā), and feeble-minded (madkhūl al-dhihn), and suffers much (mumtaḥin). The bearers of this letter will tell you about him and about my care for him. […] A second theme of the letter is the story of a fellow Toledan, Ibrāhīm b. Fadānj, and his wife, who arrived two years earlier after having been taken captive in Byzantium and redeemed in Ramle. For a detailed analysis of their case—involving multiple changes of allegiance between the Qaraite and Rabbanite communities, and the writer's role in aiding them—see Rustow, "Karaites Real and Imagined" (2007), 43–47.

Related Places

4

العلامات

• byzantium
• captives
• disability
• disability: vision
• epidemic
• (+ 10 المزيد)

2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Letter from Mūsā b. Isḥāq b. Ḥisda, al-Mahdiyya, to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal, Fustat.

Related People

1

Related Places

4

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

1468 Seleucid (17 September 1156–6 September 1157 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The addressee, having no received no letters — the sender counters that he sent plenty of letters, but the messengers probably didn't deliver them — appointed a legal representative, Abū l-Faḍl b. al-Masos, to travel to Damascus and sue the sender for the value of a shipment. […] For other Geniza documents concerning the Gaʾon ʿEzra, see T-S 8J8.15 (PGPID 2204) and the letter from ʿEzra himself discussed in Mann, Texts, I, p. 252 (current shelfmark TBD); see also Goldman, Arabic-Speaking Jews in Crusader Syria, PhD diss. (2018), pp. 268–70. Join: Alan Elbaum. ASE

Related People

2

Related Places

4

العلامات

• damascus
• flax

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Salmān b. [...] to Zayn b. Abū l-Faḍl. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender was happy about the recent letter from the addressee, and is very grateful for something the addressee did.

Related Documents

1

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر