Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Deed of sale with provisions about the right to buy back a house on(?) a mill on Darb Ḥudayjī (or Ḥadījī). The Arabic-script deed of sale (כתאב ביע ערבי) and a document called כתאב אצלהא were given to the buyer, who will bear expenses (maghārim) for the house as well as repairs.

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2

1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

"By the milk with which we were nursed and by the womb that bore us. . . do not let your father cut me off because of what I said to him. You yourself should buy the paper from him. . . the copyist. . . exert (tajdahid = tajtahid) yourself for me."

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1

العلامات

• arabic address
• ib6
• india book
• mysterious sign

3 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Efrayim b. Isma'il al-Jawhari, probably in Alexandria, to Yosef b. 'Awkal, in Fustat, ca. 1030. Mentions Palermo and Mahdiyya; ships of Ibn Daysūr …

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3

العلامات

• 11th c
• yosef b. awkal

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

1776–1778 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Italian

The second document was reused two weeks later for a lotto ticket on verso. "1778. In Venezia 26 Settembre. Pagherò coll'augumento Ducati come sotto per ogni Terno estratti di seguenti.

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1

العلامات

• birth record
• ducat
• italian
• latin script
• lotto
• (+ 1 المزيد)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He reports his intention to leave and asks the addressee for official letters. EMS. Join: Alan Elbaum.

العلامات

• business
• trade

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Verso (original use): Petition or official letter in Arabic script. Three lines are preserved containing praises for the addressee and his benefaction.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

State document or official correspondence in an Arabic chancery hand.

العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

State document, or official correspondence, in a chancery hand. Only the top-most part containing the basmala and ṣalwala are preserved.

العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Four lines of an official letter in Arabic script. Mentions the amīr Shihāb al-Dīn (last line).

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Beginnings of 5 lines of an official document or letter in Arabic script. On verso, liturgical text in Hebrew.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Fragment of an official Arabic-script document. Includes a blessing: (...wa-stafliḥ...).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

None

العلامات

• condolence
• dictated
• ghuzz
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• (+ 10 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The letter possibly contains information about Nahray’s eye disease, a report that Ismāʿīl will soon travel to the villages to buy linen, and the news about the bad events that are happening in Sicily. […] However, when the phrase עלי עין מא תראה appears in other Geniza letters it seems to refers to a temporary not seeing or not being seen, e.g. "do not buy anything if eye-does-not-see" (T-S 13J26.22) or "if my son turns out to be a worthless employee, get rid of him ('make him eye-does-not-see')" (T-S 24.78); cf. also ENA NS 10.19.

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2

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5

العلامات

• fayyum
• flax

2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Account probably concerning an inheritance or a dowry. (Information from Goitein's index cards

العلامات

• account

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Avraham b. Abū Zikrī to Eliyyahu the Judge. In Judaeo-Arabic. Describing business travel and reporting on transactions. Mentions someone called al-Rashīd and Abū …

العلامات

• eliyyahu b. zekharia

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There is no one who can buy even a pound of meat for the children. A certain woman is still sick (right margin, ll. 3–4).

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2

العلامات

• distant husband
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: khutta
• illness: women's
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

14 Nisan 5581 Anno Mundi (16 April 1821 CE)

The document is cut in the shape of a dome, with a heading depicting birds, trees, and a building structure overseen by a sun and an eye. The bride and groom sit in one room, holding hands. […] Verso: An unrelated list of accounts appears on the verso of this ketubba. A variety of coinage types are mentioned and the appearance of Maḥmūdīya in line 1 points to the likelihood that the list was recorded following the onset of Sultan Maḥmūd II's reign in 1808. This chronological marker is plausible because Ottoman yüzlük coinage is mentioned in the same list, which was first minted in 1789.

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1

العلامات

• 19th c
• ketubba

1 نسخ 2 مناقشتان

Note that Goitein treats Bodl. MS heb. c 13/25–26 and Bodl. MS heb. c 13/27–28 as if they are pieces of the same ketubba.

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1

العلامات

• illumination
• ketubba
• micrography

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Amram from a junior colleague, as court scribe, specifying the fees received for writing documents (marriage contracts, divorce documents, a power of attorney) during Eli's absence; also mentioning a power of attorney made out on behalf of an agunah to a welfare official who was going to Spain, where her husband was located.

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1

العلامات

• communal
• power of attorney

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Official letter addressed to the community of Minyat Ghamr.

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1

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Small fragment of official correspondence in Arabic script, maybe a report or a decree.

العلامات

• arabic reused

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

909 Hijrī (26 June 1503–13 June 1504 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Letter, or official correspondence dated 909 H. Mentions measure of an unspecified commodity, probably grains, in qinṭār.

العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

438 Hijrī (8 July 1046–27 June 1047 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

"Al-mustakhdam bi l-ṣaʿīd(?)". The name of the official could be Munjiz al-Dawla. Merits further examination.

العلامات

• dimme

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Small fragment from the beginning of a letter or official report in Arabic script: wa-yunhī baʿd [...] al-adʿiya al-ṣāliḥa wa-l-[...] lillāh taʿālā bi-[...].

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Jumādā II 1239 Hijrī (2 February 1824–1 March 1824 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Official salary receipt issued by the state administration for silk production in Alexandria.

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1

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Arabic

The legal query seems directed to a Fatimid official because of the beginning, "al-sādāt al-Aʾimma" which is typically the beginning of an Ismaʿīlī legal query.

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Official letter from the Yeshiva to a notable whose name is torn away.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Goitein writes that the script and style are identical with those of T-S NS 320.45, and also that Halper 354 "is the most important Geniza document found thus far illustrating the official position of the Jerusalem Gaonate within the Muslim state."

Related People

2

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العلامات

• dimme
• investiture
• katb shahada
• petition
• state
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان