Documents

Inferred date

1168–1204 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Responsum of Maimonides addressed to his father-in-law al-Shaykh al-Thiqa. Dating: ca. 1168–1204 CE, based on the years when Maimonides was active in Egypt. […] Translated by Moshe Yagur as follows (with transliterations slightly modified for PGP): "Shall his honor, my father and patron, al-Shaykh al-Thiqa al-Amīn, send for al-Shaykh al-Ḥaver, [may his] r[ock] p[reserve him], and inform him that he is not permitted, under any circumstances, to testify at the [court of] the Muslim qāḍī regarding the dowry (ketubba) of that apostate woman (poshaʿat). […] Also, the witnesses are not allowed to testify regarding this bill.

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العلامات

• apostate
• conversion
• maimonides autograph
• responsum

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان

Document date

409/410 Hijrī (1018–1020 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Naḥrīr the 'mawlā' of Suʿadāʾ(?) bt. al-Ḥasan b. Muḥammad al-ʿAlawī(?) b. al-ʿAbbāsī(?) and Hilāl [...] b. al-ʿAlawī(?) b. al-ʿAbbāsī(?) and Muẓaffar b. Madkhūr the tailor, acting as agent for his wife Mulk/Malak. […] Further down mentions real estate and various names (e.g., [...] b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī Ibn Ṭabāṭabā and payments. Essentially an acknowledgement document, but mentions tax-related terminologies like jibāya, ḍamān al-darak, zakāt, and also barāʾa.

1 نسخ

Document date

Tuesday, 16 Iyyar 1359 Seleucid (3 May 1048 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Yosef claims that Shūʿa b. Menaḥem al-Shaʿʿālī (perhaps the same as Yehoshuaʿ b. Menaḥem al-Shaʿʿālī who appears in AIU VII.E.55) owes him 8.5 gold coins and 1 qirat. The story also involves Efrayim b. Yiṣḥaq Ibn al-Aʿraj of Malīj. Also mentions a purchase made in the city of Ḥanes (= Tinnīs).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Includes several Byzantines (rūmī); al-murtaʿish ('the trembler' = someone with epilepsy?); a guard (al-shomer); a sick man (ḍaʿīf); Maʿānī; al-ʿAkkāwī; Fahd; the wife of the son of Yosef; an acquaintance of Ṣāʿid al-Firnās (probably Abū l-ʿAlāʾ Ṣāʿid aka ʿUlla b. Yosef ha-Levi, active ca. 1100); the wife of a 'stricken' man (zawjat al-mubtalā); the wife of al-Fuqqāʿī; Shimʿon; the brother of Hillel; and someone's divorcee.

العلامات

• contribution
• list

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Middle third of Sivan 1514 Seleucid (22 May 1203–31 May 1203 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto (secondary use): Settlement made before the divorce between Abu al-Faraj b. Abu Ishaq and 'Alam bint Abu Ishaq al-Hazzan. Abu al-Faraj renounces his rights to 3/5 of a mill in his possession and all his furniture, clothing and books in favor of his wife, 'Alam bint Abu Ishaq al-Hazzan, in order to be permitted to divorce her.

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العلامات

• 13th c
• divorce

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

State-related report on unrest all over Egypt, from the Delta (Ṭalkha and Suwayd on recto) to Upper Egypt (al-Ṣaʿīd on verso). Mentions Bedouins (al-ʿurbān and al-bādiya), a feud, a truce, the Qayṣariyya corps, “her/your slaves and soldiers,” “I sent the amīr,” Cairo and Fustat, and refugees. […] Mentions three amīrs: Wajīh al-Dawla, Zakhīr al-Dawla and Yumn al-Dawla. Needs further examination.

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العلامات

• dimme

1 نسخ

Primary language

Arabic

Fiscal accounting, and an entry concerning a claim made from al-Ṣināʿa al-Maḥrūsa (the port of Fusṭāt). Mentions the payments in reference to the "al-zakāt al-sāmī". Also mentions Jazīrat Banī Naṣr (an island in the southwestern Nile delta formed by the Rosetta arm in the west and the Bugāriyyah canal and its branches in the east) and al-Buḥayra.

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العلامات

• dimme

1 نسخ

Document date

1469 Seleucid (1157–1158 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In the top part of recto, there are Judaeo-Arabic notes in which an unidentified person recorded all the items of titillating gossip that (s)he and his or her brother "Ab" heard mainly from Abū l-Khayr. (1) Abū Manṣūr used to think that your father was מכשוף אלדאר אלכומר, the meaning of which is not entirely clear. (2) The "family" of al-Raḥbī does not observe the laws of purity (טומאה וטהרה) and sits in front of him exposed in a diaphanous gown (ghilāla), and al-Raḥbī drinks on the Sabbath. (3) Ibn al-Baṭṭāl sits with al-Raḥbī and curses you with "the Z and the Q" (from "zawj qaḥba," the worst curse possible; see Ibn Taymiyya, Minhāj al-Sunna, https://lib.eshia.ir/11366/1/458) and al-Raḥbī joins in the cursing even as he pretends to be among those who love you, but "promise not to tell that I told you." (4) [Some days later in Suwayqat al-Shamʿ or al-Jāmiʿ]: Al-Raḥbī said that someone was his "son" in Alexandria; the rest of this tidbit is cryptic and mentions a certain Kohen; (5) ʿUqayb said that al-Raḥbī told him that Ibn al-Baradānī fornicated (fasaqa) with the juwayra (presumably a diminutive form of jāriya, female slave, perhaps implying that she was also a minor) whom he redeemed from captivity, "and he is even more wicked than that" or "could there be someone more wicked than that?" (פיכון רשע ארשע מן האדא). (6) ʿUqayb said something about running into Ibn al-Baṭṭāl. (7) He said that Abū ʿImrān cursed me with a curse that would be too long to tell. (8) Among the various things he said about Abū Isḥāq and his brother-in-law. . . . [this one is tricky to figure out, and involves a drunk Ibn Kulayb and a house known by the name of Samāʾ al-Mulk]. (Information in part from GRU catalogue via FGP.)

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العلامات

• conflict
• curses
• gossip
• purity
• scandal
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

People mentioned: Abū ʿAlī Ibn al-ʿAni and Ibn al-Dāʾūdī. See also the description for the whole notebook Bodl.

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1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Fragment of a document in Arabic script, likely a petition addressed to al-Amīr al-Muwaffaq al-Manṣūr Ḥusām al-Mulk Muʾayyad [al-Da]wla.

1 نسخ

Primary language

Hebrew

The sender informs the addressee that he has sent a sum of money (23 gold coins, peraḥim) with the messenger Khalīfa (ll. 9–10, 14) in order to pay various debts in Cairo (specified in ll. 6–7, 9, and 12–13). He has also sent פייסאס לולואיש (=piezas lulues), apparently a Ladino-Arabic term for pearls, which are also to be sold and the proceeds used to defray some of the sender's debts (ll. 10–14). Names mentioned include Shemuel Rashīdī, Avraham Maymūn (the sender's brother-in-law), Shemuel Bahlūl (the addressee's relative, also mentioned in T-S AS 153.214 together Avraham Naḥum, the sender of the present letter). The currency medin/muʾayyadi is also cited. There is also another commodity with a Spanish name: ha-escribanía (a writing-desk?).

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmūrī, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. […] Mentions bible books, trading silk and trading cloths. Also tells about a great preacher, R. Shemuel, who arrived in Alexandria and who is about to arrive in Fustat. […] Isma‘il-Shemuel, who settled in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat. He writes that a Spanish man whom Daniel b.

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العلامات

• nahray b. nissim
• trade

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Document date

4 Adar II 1464 Seleucid (2 March 1153 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Bishr, gives her husband a free hand (tasarruf) in half of a house he owns in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ between the two synagogues, which was also their domicile. […] Avraham. Mūsā b. Bishr also appears in ENA 4011.56 (PGPID 2392). Naẓar bt. David appears also in Moss. VII,156 (PGPID 7009). (Information in part from Mediterranean Society, III, pp. 243, 479.)

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī, probably from Alexandria, to Nahray b. […] Dating: ca. 1062 (Gil). Barhūn is writing also in the name of his brother, Yosef. He has been in Sfax and al-Mahdiyya. […] Deals with selling and shipping goods to al-Mahdiyya, Tripoli, and Sicily and prices. Also mentions Rūm who want peppe.

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العلامات

• byzantine merchants
• byzantines
• trade
• yisrael b. natan

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

12 Nisan 1409 Seleucid (17 March 1098 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: 12 Nissan 1409 Sel. (1098 CE). Abū al-Ḥasan Yaḥyā ha-Kohen b. Shemuʾel ha-Kohen al-Baghdādī and ʿUlla ha-Levi b. Yosef ha-Levi al-Dimashqī release Abū al-Barakāt Mevorakh al-Ḥalabī b. […] Yosef ha-Levi al-Dimashqī testify that they gave Abū al-Barakāt Mevorakh al-Ḥalabī b.

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العلامات

• commenda
• ib7
• india book
• money-changer
• partnership
• (+ 1 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Recto: Letter or petition addressed to someone with many honorifics: al-muwaffaqiyya al-manṣūra al-ḥāmiya al-muʾayyadiyya.... Might mention the palace (al-qaṣr). The name of the sender may be at the upper left, and above that, "wāṣil al-muʾayyadiyya"(?).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Exhorts everyone who wants their sins forgiven to make a pilgrimage to the shrine at Dammūh. Goes on to mention al-Sayyid Musa b. al-Mumajjad ʿAmr[am], and the communities of Alexandria, Malij, Damayir(?), and Jūjar. Also a reference to wrapping turbans and women wearing belts (izār).

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العلامات

• dammuh
• popular literature
• to examine

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Simḥa ha-Levi (Nīsābūrī), in Alexandria, to Ṣadaqa b. Yaḥyā al-Nāʾib ('the deputy'), in Fustat. He writes about a partnership in a boat and about an alarming governmental decree regarding the inheritance of foreign Jews who passed away in Alexandria.

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العلامات

• nisaburi

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

Dhū l-Qaʿda 433 Hijrī (22 June 1042–21 July 1042 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Receipt of rent, in Arabic script. For al-raʾīs al-Dāwūdī, probably a Jewish communal leader, for a stable. […] The remainder of recto and verso have been filled with accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. The first line might also say Ṣāḥib al-Jalāla [...] al-Dāʾūdī. Needs further examination.

العلامات

• dimme

1 نسخ

Primary language

Arabic

Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century. some phrases: "... min al-mustakhdamīn bi-ḥukm istiʿmālihim(?) fī ʿaml al-[...]... al-sadīd al-kāshif fa-innahu... al-shaykh al-ṣāliḥ...."

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Original use: Fiscal document in Arabic script (al-mudda al-madhkūra... ʿammā yaṣil min al-nawāḥī al-baḥriyya... al-[...] al-sulṭānī...).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document. Location: Alexandria. In which witnesses including [...] b. Shemarya testify that a certain Shabbetay and his brother both died in Antalya (this is inserted above the line, באנטאליה). […] T-S 13J14.20 (PGPID 956), another medieval Geniza document mentioning Antalya (and also from Alexandria); it may or may not be related.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Contains phrases such as: "wa-l-kashf ʿammā . . . al-sharīfa annahum lam yaktubū. . . fī [...] al-sūr(?) wa-lā ghayrih. . . li-ḥifḍ (=ḥifẓ) amwālihim wa-satrat ḥarīmihim. . . bihī al-ʿāda wa-starfaʿ al-[...]. . . al-Muhannad(?) b. al-Wāṣil(?) b.

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العلامات

• petition

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Reporting that the cantor Sulaymān al-Kohen מחסוך came before the court demanding the rent of the shop belonging to him. Also involves Ibrāhīm b. Mordekhay (al-marḥūm, i.e., the deceased). The addressees are asked to help one of these people. Also mentions several other people including ʿAṭiyya.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Original use: Accounts in Arabic script, official-looking. Mentions al-Qāḍī al-Asʿad; Ṣafiyy al-Dawla; Ibrāhīm b. Ṣāliḥ Nūrī(?); Sayf al-Mujāhidīn; Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī; ʿAṭiyya; al-Faqīh.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

, and the capitation tax (jāliya) in Syria for the years 20 and 21. Names mentioned: al-Shaykh al-Rashīd Ṣayrafī b. al-Dayyan; Ibn Karīm al-Iskandarī Ṣabbāgh; Ibn Bayān; Bū l-Ghayth the tax farmer of Hebron (ḍāmin al-Khalīl); and [...] Ibn al-Ghuzūlī.

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العلامات

• capitation tax
• damin
• hebron
• jaliya
• maks
• (+ 1 المزيد)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

20th day of the Omer 1545 Seleucid (5 April 1234 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A cousin of the muqaddam, al-Shaykh al-Muhadhdhab, was per earlier agreement allowed to substitute the muqaddam in leading communal prayers and butchering. However, the muqaddam was worried that this arrangement would weaken his own position and tried to prevent al-Shaykh al-Muhadhdhab from acting as his substitute. […] Possibly related to T-S 24.38, a letter from Minyat Zifta reporting on a squabble between al-Shaykh al-Sadīd and al-Shaykh al-Muhadhdhab over the duties of the muqaddam.

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العلامات

• avraham maimonides autograph
• communal
• ib-addenda
• ib3
• post-ib

1 نسخ 2 مناقشتان

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Petition addressed to four brothers (?), the elders Abu al-Baqa, Abu al-Baha, Abu al-Faraj and Abu al-Karam, requesting charity. […] The name of one of the addressees, the shaykh Abu al-Karam, is written on the verso. The cipher at the top, in the small letters, probably is the abbreviation \'b-m\' for bism allahal-rahman al-rahim, found in other Geniza documents and in the Arabic fragments from Quseir al-Qadim published by Li Guo, Commerce, Culture and Community in a Red Sea Port in the Thirteenth Century: The Arabic Documents from Quseir; cf.

العلامات

• glyph
• petition
• private

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Document date

Dhū l-Ḥijja 454 Hijrī (6 December 1062–3 January 1063 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions the death of one of the policemen of the vizier's ship (al-mutawaffī min al-raqqāṣīn al-mustakhdama bi-rasm markab al-wazāra al-maḥrūs). […] The vizier in office during that time and whose ship is mentioned in the document could be Abū ʿAbdallāh al-Ḥusayn b. Sadīd al-Dawla Dhū l-Kifāyatayn (See Ibn al-Ṣayrafī: al-Ishāra ilā man nāla l-wazāra, 49).

العلامات

• dimme
• fatimid

1 نسخ

Document date

Tishrei 1356 Seleucid (1044 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ḥalfon ha-Levi b. Shelomo Ibn al-Raqqī, representing also his mother Mubāraka bt. […] Aharon), releases Yaʿaqov b. David Ibn al-Dawātī from all claims having to do with the support of Yaʿaqov's three children Faraj, Bishr and Sitt al-Bayt. Yaʿaqov is providing food and tuition for them and is also providing a Nubian female slave named Shaʿith (who remains the property of Yaʿaqov).

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العلامات

• slaves

1 نسخ

Document date

17 Dhū l-Qaʿda 405 Hijrī (9 May 1015 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Written by Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ the jahbadh and registered by the Dīwān al-ʿAmal only. Payment made under the supervision of three officials: (1) the auspicious, rightly guided qāḍī Thiqat al-Mulk Makīn al-Dawla wa-Amīnuhā, protégé of the Commander of the Faithful, Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Nahār; (2) on behalf of the fiduciary qāḍī Abū ʿAlī l-Ḥasan b. Yaḥyā b. Nahār; and (3) under the tax accounting of the elder Sadīd al-Dawla Abū l-Faraj ʿAbd al-Masīḥ b.

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العلامات

• abu l-hasan b. wahb
• daman
• damin
• tax receipt

2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: ca. 1229/30 CE. In which al-Shaykh al-Muhadhdhab Abū l-Thanāʾ Netanʾel b. Berakhot known as Ibn ʿAmmār al-Sukkarī appoints a certain Natan (probably al-Shaykh al-Thiqa Hiba/Natan b. David) to sue various people for various sums of money on his behalf. Debtors include Abū ʿAlī Ibn al-La[...]; Abū [...] b. Avraham ha-Sar the doctor and elder who owes 800 dirhams (and profit); and Abū l-ʿAlāʾ and Abū Naṣr.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts of the bookseller. People mentioned: Ibn al-Daqqāq, (al-)Sadīd, and Bayān Ibn al-Ḥalabī. See also the description for the whole notebook Bodl.

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1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Presumably related to recto and also by Abū Zikrī Kohen. The header says "in the name of Ayyūb [...]." Further down the name Mufaḍḍal Ibn al-Muṭrib also appears.

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العلامات

• account
• ib-addenda
• ib5

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

5 Dhū l-Ḥijja 1241 Hijrī (11 July 1826 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Receipt in Arabic issued in Ḥārat al-Naṣāra, Cairo. The receipt recounts the weight and price of chickens sold to al-Ḥājj ʿAlīal-____[?] al-Dajājī by Yisḥāq نوبل, possibly the Ashkenazi Jewish surname Nobel.

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العلامات

• 19th c
• chickens
• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Medical prescriptions/recipes in a striking mix of Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic, sometimes alternating in the same sentence. Two of the recipes are taken from al-Malikī (of al-Majūsī) and one from al-Tadhkira (=Tadhkirat al-Kaḥḥālīn).

العلامات

• bialphabetic
• prescription

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Mubārak/Mevorakh b. Yiṣḥaq, in Alexandria, to his father-in-law, Abū l-Ḥasan Surūr b. […] He says that the times are just as difficult in Alexandria as they are in Fustat; bread currently costs a dirham for two ounces. […] This letter is being sent with Abū l-Ḥusayn Hārūn b. Yeshuʿa al-Tinnīsī the friend of ʿAbd al-Bāqī al-ʿAṭṭār.

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto, with the address on verso: Letter from Abū ʿAlī, apparently in Fustat, to (his father) Abū l-ʿIzz al-Sharābī, also in Fustat, specifically Sūq al-Kabīr. […] He has sent a maqṭaʿ cloth with Qāsim the blind (al-ḍarīr). The sender has sent previous letters asking for the news of al-shaykh al-mukarram Abū l-ʿ[. . .] and his wife and the rest of the family and friends. […] He also says there is an "almost identical letter in..."

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