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Document date

1351 Seleucid (1039–1040 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

Dated 1351 Seleucid (= 1040 CE). T-S 13J8.2, part of CUL Or.1080 J7, and T-S NS J149 all include versions of the same document, or at least concerning the same case.

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

This document is related to T-S NS 320.54 (PGPID 8673); may even be a join. The same two parties also appear in T-S 8J11.12 (PGPID 16210), which is dated 1123/24 CE.

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe
• ib-addenda
• legal

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

, suggesting that the trader was conspicuous and respectable, or his moral infractions might not have drawn attention. See also T-S NS J286, in which a man travels from Ceuta to Bijāya, Algeria, where the sāḥib al-Bijāya asks him how is related to a woman who is with him. […] The traveler (never described as a Maghribi trader, but a man from the Maghrib) claims she is his wife, but he has no kitāb to prove this. In T-S NS J286, they confiscate his māl and the man is put in prison with no reference to the woman.

العلامات

• capitation tax
• drinking
• incarceration
• petition
• scandal
• (+ 2 المزيد)

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Inferred date

1025–1051 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Aharon ha-Kohen (also signed T-S 12.507 (PGPID 1677)). (There was a liturgical poet by the name of Shemuel ha-Shelishi ("the Third") whose works survived in the Geniza and who lived around 1000, so this could well be his son.) […] Yehuda writes about the same case in T-S 20.178. There is also a request "to obtain a little kohl for me to remove the whiteness from the eye of my little daughter," and a request for emblic (amlaj).

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العلامات

• communal
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: children
• illness: eye
• inheritance
• (+ 4 المزيد)

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Inferred date

1310–1355 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides to Avraham ha-Sar (for the same addressee, see T-S Misc.28.64 and T-S 8J40.2). Dating to 1310–1355 CE based on Yehoshua Maimonides' lifespan.

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العلامات

• 14th c
• excommunication
• marital dispute
• yehoshua maimonides

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: Ca. first half of the 12th century (the same people appear in T-S 8J4.24 + T-S 8J7.8 in 1111 CE). The writer had been informed that the boat from Cairo to Alexandria, on which the addressee was aboard, had been turned back by the qāḍī.

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العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: consultation
• illness: marad
• illness: physicians

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ṭayyib, who spread heretical interpretations of the Torah, and who was opposed by the judge Ḥayyim. Goitein writes, "[T]he shubbān yisraʾel, the youth, were enticed by a guest preacher, who expounded the Holy Scriptures in the way of mystical allegory, 'which should not be listened to, let alone be believed.'" […] Shemuel, who was both an in-law of David I Maimonides and a judge in his court—see T-S 13J9.12, ENA NS 18.36, ENA 2559.12, and T-S 8K13.11—in which case we can date this document to ca. the second half of the 13th century.

العلامات

• pietism

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The shelfmark T-S Ar.18(1).123 unites three fragments, which all have Hebrew liturgical poems on one side and remainders of letters in Judaeo-Arabic on the other. […] This fragment joins with T-S AS 147.96. The sender has sent a riding animal (dābba, bahīma) together with Ḥasan b.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

But he almost certainly meant to cite T-S 6J6.20. By contrast, T-S Ar.54.91 is not dated and does not refer to a 'great plague' but rather to 'the wakham.'

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العلامات

• epidemic
• epidemic: wakham
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: recovered
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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

NB: Aodeh cites this document as T-S J2.42, but its current shelfmark is T-S J1.42.

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العلامات

• account
• aodeh
• gems
• hinge
• receipt
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2 نسخين

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

At least five names of a very specific character, such as Durrī the ghulām of the Nagid (see Med Soc I, 133) or Manṣūr of the family of the scarf makers (maqāniʿī) are identical with those in T-S K6.149, and at least eight recur in T-S K15.6.

العلامات

• ghulam

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There are various kinds of pen trials at the bottom of verso. Compare T-S NS 320.62. The second folio of this shelfmark is unrelated. This document used to be known as T-S Loan 137. See Goitein, Med Soc II, p. 471.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

1418 Seleucid (1 September 1106–18 September 1107 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Court proceedings in which the two brothers, Abū l-Faḍl Shela (for this identification, see T-S 10J21.11 | PGPID 2956) and Maʿālī, the sons of ʿAyyāsh, claimed certain assets of Faraḥ, who was murdered in ʿAydhāb, from a certain Abū ʿAlī. […] On verso there is also some accounting in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning goods related to the India trade. See also T-S 10J21.11 (PGPID 2956), another legal document relating to the same case.

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العلامات

• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib1
• india book

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Document date

1229 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Shelomo ha-Levi is a genuine Levi and that he used to be called up to the reading of the Torah in Jerusalem when no other local or foreign Levi was present. T-S NS J66 (mainly Hebrew) and T-S 8.161 (mainly Judaeo-Arabic) are versions of the same document.

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العلامات

• synagogue
• testimony

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Primary language

Arabic

Medical notebook/handbook in Arabic script.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Adar II 1339 Seleucid (1028 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Other items formed the object of a lawsuit. The first document (T-S 8J4.3.2v), undated, deals with these matters. […] On 23 January 1028 CE, Barhūn declared (in T-S 13J5.1c) that he had received a release but could produce it only in the next session of the court. Three months later, however, on 28 March 1028 CE, Fāʾiza declared (in T-S 8K20.1, fol. 1r) that she was prepared to accept the divorce only if and when her husband delivered the sums and objects still owed by him.

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Settlement of a martial dispute after the intervention of 'righteous elder' between a husband Shelomo ha-Kohen known as Ibn Abī Raghīf (cf. T-S 13J33.5 for this family name) and his wife [... bt.]

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1030–1030 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Furat; according to Rustow, in the same hand as ENA NS 13.15 (PGPID 36027) and T-S K25.244 (PGPID 1344).

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العلامات

• copy
• dimme
• investiture
• lost archive
• petition
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Primary language

Arabic

He asks for a horse: "aḥḍur taḥtahu faras mulkihi wa-huwa ḍaʿīf nāqiṣ al-ḥāl," "yaḥmiluhu ʿalā faras," with the taqbīl formula "wa-huwa yujaddid taqbīl al-arḍ wa-yasʾal al-inʿām" - "the slave renews the kissing of the ground" (a variant of this formula also appears in T-S Ar. 39.487).

العلامات

• dimme
• horse
• petition

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Possibly by the same writer: T-S 12.31 (PGPID 3126). ASE/OZ.

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العلامات

• amir
• to edit
• ustadh

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He reports that Moshe's uncle (Abū Sahl's brother) ʿImrān no longer enters their home (cf. Moss. IV,27.2 and T-S 6J3.17). Abū Sahl told 'the rayyis' about the matter and he reports what the answer was, but it's very cryptic.

العلامات

• abu sahl levi
• moshe b. levi

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Rosh ha-Qehilot (appears also in T-S NS 226.127 (PGPID 24269)). Recto contains two signatures and the beginning of a third: Shemuʾel b.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Tuesday, 20 Shevaṭ 1422 Seleucid (31 January 1111 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

For other documents involving the same people, see JRL Gaster heb. ms 1760/5 (PGPID 32315) and T-S 13J15.2 (PGPID 3243).

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العلامات

• bara'a
• debt
• isaac b. samuel ha-sefaradi
• quittance
• release

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Document date

Tuesday, 17 Sivan 5323 Anno Mundi (8 June 1563 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

In which Zeraḥ Dammūhī (cf. CUL Or.1081 2.26 + T-S NS 99.59 (PGPID 26279)) acknowledges a debt of 4 ducats (peraḥim) to Moshe, a repairer of books, known as מג׳מגם (on verso, מג׳מג׳ם).

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العلامات

• 16th c

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Document date

1486-02-12 Seleucid (21 October 1174 CE)

This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 shelfmark. The divorce is between Abū Naṣr b.

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Document date

21st Tammuz 1437 Seleucid (14 July 1126 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 shelfmark. The divorce is between Sasson b.

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Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yequtiʾel 26 dinars. Same affair as in T-S 12.684 (PGPID 1690). Dating: ca. spring 1041 CE.

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العلامات

• register

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The letter mentions Yoel ha-Melammed (cf. T-S 20.148 and Moss. II,121.1) and his wife, probably a cousin, which would explain the identity of the names.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Probably an indirect join (identified by Alan Elbaum): ENA NS 48.28 (PGPID 12161) and T-S 12.405 (PGPID 3155).

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Goitein identifies the handwriting as that of Avraham b. Shabbetay (cf. T-S 13J13.20 (PGPID 3218)). The groom's name is missing.

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العلامات

• ketubba
• marriage
• minyat zifta

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Reused for Hebrew piyyut by a prolific scribe (see Joins Suggestions on FGP for T-S Ar.52.237). Joins: Alan Elbaum. (Information in part from CUDL.)

العلامات

• to edit

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The first transcription here is for DK 242, and the second is for T-S AS 146.3. For a detailed discussion, see Goldman, "Arabic-Speaking Jews in Crusader Syria" (diss.), 42–48.

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العلامات

• 11th c
• captives
• communal
• crusades

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The same scribe probably wrote ENA NS 69.20 and T-S AS 156.42, based on the presence of the relatively uncommon blessing "min dār al-fanā' wa-l-shaqā' ilā dār al-naʿīm wa-l-baqā' (from the abode of perdition and woe to the abode of blessing and immortality)."

العلامات

• diet
• food
• regimen

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

See Wagner, E., & Bohak, G. (2008). T-S AS 157.50: A twitch divination text in the hand of Ḥalfon b.

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe
• prognostica

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