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Primary language

Hebrew

Fragment (lower left part). In which Aharon b. Yiṣḥaq (=Aharon b. Fuhayd?) the glazier undertakes to pay to his divorcee Malka bt. Avraham 27 dirhams per month as alimony for his daughter from her, Ḥassāna. Signed by: Avraham b. Sahlān (d. before 1032); Shemuel b. Avṭalyon ha-Kohen (aka Ismāʿīl b. Ṭalyūn); Shelomob. Seʿadya. (Information from Goitein's index card.)

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Primary language

Hebrew

Verso contains related jottings including the phrase al-mamlūk Shelomo. In the hand of Shelomob. Eliyyahu (possibly as a boy or young man).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letters dealing with communal matters surrounding the dispute between Shelomob. Yehuda and Natan b. Avraham, glued together and reused for the epistle of Sherira Gaon. […] The message Ibn Sughmār intended the passage to convey: like Yosef bar Ḥiyya, Natan b. Avraham should step down from the gaonate and be content with his former title; like Avraham bar Sherira, Shelomob.

العلامات

• gaonate
• reuse
• schism
• sherira

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The second entry on the recto's right bifolium titled "expenses" (מצרוף) lists several full names including: Shelomo Zimra (a common Sephardi variation of Zamero), Shelomob. Ṣōr[?], and Avraham b. Ṣōr[?] (ן׳ צור). Among the entries on the recto's left bifolium we find the names: Sheḥata b. Yōsef Ṣīyād (Fisherman), Aḥmad Jdawī, Shwīsh Ḥasan (שויש is possibly the Turkish rank Çavuş), Aḥmad b. Muḥammad דלגה (this latter word may be Turkish for a certain profession).

العلامات

• ottoman shipping

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Nissim Farsī to Abū Zikrī Yaḥyā b. Mevorakh. […] The addressee had previously sent a letter containing a poem either by Shelomo Ibn Gabirol or based on a model by Shelomo ibn Gabirol.

العلامات

• panegyric
• poets

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان

Document date

Monday, 26 Shevaṭ 4837 Anno Mundi (23 January 1077 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Secondary use: The unique copy of the Hebrew ode composed by Shelomob. Yosef ha-Kohen in honor of the caliph al-Mustanṣir and of Badr al-Jamālī on the occasion of their military victory over the Seljuks. […] The poem was originally published by Julius Greenstone in 1906, has been cited extensively in the secondary literature, and in 2013 received an article-length study with an updated edition and translation by Johannes Den Heijer & Joachim Yeshaya. On the figure of Shelomob. Yosef ha-Kohen and other Geniza documents related to him, see Mark Cohen, Jewish Self-Government, 109–10.

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العلامات

• literary with documentary value

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

The senders are Yosef Malili, David Maymūn, Ṣemaḥ הבהב, ʿEzer Politano, Yaʿaqov רובס, Shemuel Fuḥayma (?

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Document date

18 Iyyar 1386 Seleucid (7 May 1075 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Appointment of Efrayim b. Bashād as the beadle (khādim) of the Palestinian synagogue.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a former official and representative of the Nagid (na’ib) of the Alexandrian community to the Nagid, requesting that he intervene on the writer’s …

العلامات

• alexandria

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

None

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العلامات

• 13th c
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: marad
• illness: physician
• (+ 5 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The letter also mentions the jāliya; a letter that had been sent to Alexandria; Barukh; the writer’s cousin Shelomo; and the carrier of the note, Mūsā (?). 13th century.

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العلامات

• 13th c

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Alexandria sent around 1120 CE from a Maghribi merchant, Makhlūf b. Musa al-Nafusi (Ibn) al-Yatim, who proclaims that a friend carried for him a purse with 101 “fresh” (‘tari’) dinars weighing 100 and one/fourth.

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العلامات

• alexandria
• ib6
• india book
• trade

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Shemarya b. Elhanan (966–1011 CE) about a woman abandoned by her husband (an ʿaguna) for seven years.

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العلامات

• aguna
• piyyut
• poem

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Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Written in the hand of Hillel b. Eli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). (Information from Mediterranean Society, V, p. 292)

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العلامات

• divination

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

first decade of Iyyar 1447 Seleucid (4 April 1136–13 April 1136 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(The date is partially preserved in l. 49 and the year appears in the small letters surrounding the signature of the judge Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen.). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. […] Witneses: Natan ha-Kohen b. Shelomo; Yeshuʿa ha-Levi b. Ḥalfon; Shabbat b. Avraham b. Shabbat; Ḥalfon b. Menashshe; Ḥalfon b. Ghālib; ʿEli ha-Kohen b.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Ṭoviyya b. ʿEli ha-Kohen to his cousin the judge Natan b. Shelomo of Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Ṭoviyya says that he is sending some wheat and asks for instructions about the price for which the rest should be sold.

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Document date

Sunday, 19 Sivan 1446 Seleucid (2 June 1135 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: Sunday, 19 Sivan 1446 Seleucid, which is 1135 CE, under the authority of [Maṣ]liaḥ ha-Kohen. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi and witnessed by him and Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen.

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Court record regarding the sale of a house. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Abū Saʿd buys one-third of a house from his maternal aunt, which she had previously inherited. The neighboring house is owned by Abū Yaʿqūb Yosef b. Shelomo, the parnas of Jerusalem, who now resides in Fusṭāṭ.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Ṭoviyya b. ʿEli ha-Kohen to his cousin the judge Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen (active 1125–50). Quite damaged. Mentions a document in the handwriting of Rav Yiṣḥaq (b. Shemuʾel?); somebody's death; someone who got a thorn in his leg; requests the return of a small notebook (al-dufaytir al-ṣaghir) which had been borrowed.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Ibrāhīm b. [...] to Zakkay b. Shelomo. Fragment (upper right corner of recto).

العلامات

• aden
• private letter

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Tishrei 1440 Seleucid (28 August 1128–26 September 1128 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Bill of release. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: Tishrei 1440 Seleucid, which is 1128 CE. The cantor ʿEli ha-Kohen pays [...] b. Shelomo ha-Kohen 2.5 dinars for various books pawned by the latter.

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Sīrat ʿAntar. In Judaeo-Arabic. There are at least another 300 pages from the same book preserved in the Geniza. The largest chunks are in T-S …

العلامات

• 'antar
• judaeo-arabic poetry
• popular literature

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

On recto there is a detailed curse in Judaeo-Arabic, Aramaic and Hebrew against whomever stole the dinar from Mashiaḥ b. Ṣemaḥ (the curse seems to be in the same hand as the letter, at least based on the ייי ligatures for God's name).

العلامات

• bialphabetic
• petition
• to edit

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

The divorced couple are David b. Shelomo Raṣo[n](?) and Neḥama bt. Yosef Menashe.

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العلامات

• 19th c
• divorce

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter signed by Shelomo, to his father Eliyyahu the judge, asking him to purchase something for the writer (perhaps some sort of covering (ghiṭāʾ)) and to reply quickly. The writer sends greetings to Simḥa (ha-Kohen b. Shelomo), Eliyyahu's son-in-law. (Information in part from CUDL)

العلامات

• shelomo b. eliyyahu

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Shelomob. Eliyyahu? Mentions sending money and goods, and mentions books including al-Ḥibbur (usually the Mishneh Torah) and 'the four copies' of something.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Simḥa, asking him to give the bearer a copy of the book al-Faraj baʿd al-Shidda, immediately. Handwriting of Shelomob. Eliyyahu? Reused on verso for jotted accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.

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العلامات

• informal note

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Document date

4775 Anno Mundi (28 August 1014–16 September 1015 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Might be a bill of release. Shelomob. Yaḥyā ha-Kohen makes a declaration in favor of Abū Ṭayyib the physician(?).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Ownership note, and much faded text (perhaps another one). 'This is what Shelomob. Yosef bought from Shemuel known as Tājir, may he live forever.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter by Dā'ūd b. Yehuda to the Judge Eliyyahu expressing astonishment that the Nagid (i.e., Avraham Maimonides) had not sent a letter of condolence at the death of a local notable. […] MS heb. d 66/63, a letter of condolence by Shelomob. Eliyyahu which he asks Dā'ūd b. Yehuda to pass on to the mourners.

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العلامات

• condolence

3 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Monday, 5 Adar 4920 Anno Mundi (14 February 1160 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Court record in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Location: Minyat al-Sharīf. Dated: Monday, 5 Adar 4920 AM, which is 1160 CE, under the authority of Netanel Gaon (with all his titles listed). The parties are Avraham b. Tamīm and Shelomob. [...]. No details of the case are preserved.

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Document date

Nisan 1461 Seleucid (30 March 1150–28 April 1150 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto (secondary use): Legal document according to which a debtor Khalaf must pay to Faḍāʾil only one half of the sum stipulated in the Muslim document. Signed by Shelomob. Saʿadya and Avraham b. Natan. Dated: Nisan 1461 Seleucid = March/April 1150 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b.

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العلامات

• forum shopping
• qadi courts

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Document date

1 Ramaḍān 483 Hijrī (28 October 1090 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Ṣadaqa b. Salāma Ibn Nufayʿ, Tyre, to his father Shelomob. Saʿadya (aka Abū Naṣr Salāma b. Saʿīd Ibn Nufayʿ), Fustat. Dated: 1 Ramaḍān 483 AH = 28 October 1090 CE.

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Document date

Thursday, 10 Iyyar 1446 Seleucid (25 April 1135 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Receipt written and signed by Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, documenting that Abū Naṣr al-ʿAṭṭār received from the court 19 triple-weave (muthallath) garments, as set forth in the conditions, on Thursday, 10 Iyyar 1446 Seleucid = 25 April 1135 CE, in Fusṭāṭ, in the presence of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Ṣāliḥ the brother of Ṣedaqa the deceased. Signed also by Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen (=Abū Zikrī?).

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العلامات

• druggist
• recipients

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Bill of divorce between Khulla bt. Yefet and Ṣedaqa [b. Shelomo] (same as in T-S AS 146.53 (PGPID 21608)?). Written in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE) and signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuʾel ha-Sefaradi and Ḥalfon b. Menashshe on recto and (attesting the delivery) on verso (partly embellished).

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العلامات

• get

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Names mentioned in the document: Natan b. Phineas; Sedaqa ha-Levi b. Shelomo; Moshe b.

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العلامات

• register

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Inferred date

1128–1164 CE

Primary language

Aramaic

Date and location are not preserved, but the witnesses are Yaʿaqov b. Abraham, Nathan b. Shemuʾel he-Ḥaver (fl. 1128–1164), and Moses b. Shelomo, placing it in Fusṭāṭ in the second quarter of the 12th century.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: after March 1066 CE. In which Maymūn b. Yaʿaqov, acting as agent for Moshe and Shelomo the sons of Avraham Ibn al-Lebdī, grants a quittance to Nissin b. Ḥalfon b. Benaya after receipt of the goods including the ledgers (dafātir) and steelyard (qaffān) which are the subject of the lawsuit in T-S 20.38 (PGPID 5930).

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

[4]84[.] Anno Mundi (1079–1089 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

AM = 1079–89 CE. Husband: Tamīm b. Shelomo. Wife: Nafīsa bt. David. Signed by the ḥaver Yosef b. […] MS heb. c 28/19 (PGPID 6424)) and Yosef b. Naḥmān. Verso: another legal document, possibly a draft, mainly in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning a house in ʿAkkā, the agent Ṣadoq ha-Kohen, and [...] bt.

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العلامات

• get

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

End of Shevaṭ 1439 Seleucid (February 1128 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dated: End of Shevaṭ 1439 Seleucid, which is February 1128 CE. […] Seʿadya al-Muqaydisī receives a long list of clothing and household goods from [...] b. David ha-Parnas (aka Dāʾūd al-ʿAṭṭār) pertaining to the estate of her late husband Abū l-Munā Shelomob.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Small fragment containing the name Shelomo and blessings.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر