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Document date

Monday, 2[7] Kislev 1405 Seleucid (19 December 1093 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document. Scribe: Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Talmid (based on handwriting). Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 2[7] Kislev 1405 Seleucid, which is 1093 CE. ʿEli b. Yefet Ibn al-Wāsiṭī was summoned to the court of David b. Daniel b. ʿAzarya ha-Nasi (served 1082–94) to clarify the legal status of his daughter Milāḥ.

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العلامات

• jariya
• nubian
• slave

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

ENA 2806.5–7 are copies of letters to Shelomo Gaʾon and his son Maṣliaḥ.

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Primary language

Hebrew

Concerning a p[artnership Mentions Shelomo; ʿOvadya; [...] Ashkenazi; and Yaʿaqov.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Part of a letter, addressing Shelomo, the wise and discerning. Verso contains just the name Abū l-Faraj al-Tinnīsī in a different hand and ink.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions the prayer book (siddur) of Rabbenu Shelomo (Sijilmāsī?). Reused for accounts on recto.

العلامات

• account

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In the hand of Mevorkah b. Natan? Abū l-Munajjā Shelomob. Saʿadya leaves to each of his three minor daughters — Mudallala, Naẓar, and Nabaʾ — 100 dinars for their bridal outfits.

العلامات

• will

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Middle decade of Ṭevet 1441 Seleucid (25 December 1129–3 January 1130 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Testator: Abū al-Faraj b. Maʿrūf the perfumer. (His son Faḍāʾil appears in Yevr.[…] Written and signed by Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen; no other signature. RR. ASE.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Draft of an appointment deed for Yeshuʿa b. Yosef ha-Kohen he-Ḥaver to a public role, or at least a letter concerning his learnedness and humility and his suitability for a public role, alluding to a rivalry with another person. […] Dating: probably 1060s CE, toward the end of Yeshuʿa's career, based on the mention of Eliyyahu b. Shelomo Gaʾon (r. 1062–83). (Information mainly from Frenkel.)

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العلامات

• communal

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The hand resembles that of Shelomob. Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi (13th century).

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Document date

10 Iyyar 4791 Anno Mundi (5 May 1031 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Legal deed in the hand of Eliyyahu ha-Kohen b. Shelomo Gaʾon; he also signed the validation.

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Primary language

Hebrew

There is a letter of appeal for charity from Meir b. Shelomo ("you have not answered me by letter or by telephone").

العلامات

• amharic

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

1399-04-16 Seleucid (31 December 1088 CE)

The divorce is between Shelomob. Shimon and Sittuna bt. Shemarya. There are no witnesses, indicating the divorce was not completed.

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Document date

Elul 1525 Seleucid (8 August 1214–5 September 1214 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Note relating to a marriage. Groom: Yosef b. Nadiv. Bride: Kamāl bt. Shelomo the physician (ha-Rofeʾ) known as Ibn al-Ṭaffāl.

العلامات

• clothing

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Elul 1141 – Tishrei 1442 Seleucid (1130 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In the hand of (and signed by) Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. Dated: Elul 1441 and Tishrei 1442 Seleucid, which is 1130 CE.

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العلامات

• moda'
• samaritan

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The letter is also an attack on ʿEli b. ʿAmram, who is never directly named. The sender describes communal strife in Fustat after the death of the gaon Shelomob. […] (The Rav was in the camp of Daniel b. ʿAzarya despite being the cousin of his rivals Yosef and Eliyya, the sons of Shelomo ha-Kohen b. […] ʿAzarya, even before the death of Shelomob. Yehuda; and anything the sender has done for ʿEli is like what David did for Saul—serving him despite the latter's intention to kill him (r23–36); (4) an explanation of how the sender supported ʿEli b.

العلامات

• communal
• condolence
• conflict
• conversion
• daniel b. azarya

2 نسخين ترجمات 3 2 مناقشتان

Document date

20 Tevet 5561 Anno Mundi (5 January 1801 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Shelomo Barukh, in Damietta (Kapotakia), to a certain Me'ir, in Cairo.

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العلامات

• late ja

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Monday, 25 Kislev 5522 Anno Mundi (21 December 1761 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

On verso a reference to the death of Nissim Shelomo Elgazi, on Monday, 25 Kislev 5552 AM = 21 December 1761 CE.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Thursday, 23 Shevat 1406 Seleucid (1 February 1095 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Bill of release settling financial matters arising from a partnership. Shelomob. David (known as al-Dustarī) claimed 70 dinars from Benayya b. […] This document was drawn up following the termination and settlement of a commenda. Shelomob. David al-Dustarī was allocated ten dinars and change, five dinars and one qirāṭ to be paid immediately by Benayya. The balance was to be collected by Shelomob. David al-Dustarī, acting as an agent to collect on debts owed to Benayya by both of the Yaʿaqov/Yaʿqūbs.

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العلامات

• commenda
• mudaraba
• partnership
• power of attorney

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Court proceedings. Yaʿqūb b. Yūsuf claims that Da’ūd and Ṣedaqa, sons of Ṣemaḥb. […] It may refer to one of the witnesses, Mubashir b. Fahīd. (Information from Lieberman, "A Partnership Culture," 163)

العلامات

• court record
• jah
• partnership

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

Friday, 9 Tishrei 1328 Seleucid (14 September 1016 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Location: Fustat. ‘Ammār b. Joseph the Dyer releases Samuel ha-Kohen b. Moses b. Ṣemaḥ from all claims, and relinquishes any claim to funds owed by a number of named individuals in Malīj. […] There are nine signatures, including that of Elhanan b. Shemarya. (Information from Lieberman, "A Partnership Culture," 212)

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العلامات

• autograph
• dyer
• elhanan b. shemarya
• malij
• partnership
• (+ 1 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

Monday, 18 Adar 1409 Seleucid (22 February 1098 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dealing with a lawsuit of Mevasser/Bishāra b. Ḥalfon against Shelomob. Hillel, involving the proceeds of a partnership in oil sold in al-Mahdiyya, with addenda concerning the same matter in smaller script and in a cruder hand on verso. The top margin on recto mentions Bishāra and Abū l-ʿAlā, both from Aleppo, and Ibn Majjān Abū l-Surūr b. ʿAṭiyya. T-S 8J4.15 is a court record from Av of the same year, concerned with the dealings of the Aleppan trader Solomon b.

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العلامات

• register

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Legal document (fragment) in which Qurra bt. Shelomo, as sole heiress of her father, asks to be given 20 dinars of the 35 he had deposited with a representative of the merchants, Sa'id b. […] The document is written in the hand of Yefet b. David (Goitein) or Efrayim b. Shemarya (Bareket; Rustow confirms). Dating: ca. 1007–1055 CE, based on the years when Efrayim b. Shemarya was active. (Information from Goitein, Mediterranean Society, III, p. 280; Bareket, Yehudei misrayim, p. 157, and Bareket, Shafrir misrayim, pp. 257-258.)

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Document date

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

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Likely in the hand of Shelomob. Eliyyahu. Testator: Abū l-Surūr. Mentions people including: his daughter (receives 47 dinars); his cousin (ibn ʿamm); Efrayim his son; Sitt al-Khafāʾ bt. Abū l-Munajjā; Futūḥ b. [...]; Sayyid al-Ahl al-Qāhirī; Makārim al-Maḥallī; al-Rayyis [al-shaykh al-sa?]dīd b. Bū Ghālib; Abū l-Riḍā b. Abū Zikrī; Abū l-ʿAlāʾ; Abū l-Maḥāsin al-Shaykh al-Tifʾeret; Ibn al-Sunbāṭī; Abū l-Fakhr Ibn al-Shammāʿ; Dāʾūd al-Bilbaysī; Abū l-Bahāʾ.

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العلامات

• dowry
• slaves
• will

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from ʿEli ha-Kohen b. Yeḥezqel, Jerusalem, to ʿEli ha-Kohen b. Ḥayyim, Fustat. […] The writer praises Abu Zikri as a great benefactor to foreigners coming to Egypt from Iraq, the Sham, the Maghrib and Byzantium, particularly Shelomo ha-kohen the grandson of Shelomob. Yehuda.

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العلامات

• patronage
• syracuse
• yeshiva

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Shelomo ben Halafta, in Jerusalem, to the Nagid Natan Sholal, in Cairo.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal deed concerning the sale of a house (or likely rent, since a specified period is mentioned). The parties are Shelomo ha-Kohen and Yaḥyā. (Information in part from CUDL)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Iyyar 1337 Seleucid (21 April 1026–19 May 1026 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Dated: Iyyar 1337 Seleucid (April or May 1026). Eli b. Yefet (known as Bar ʿAdi), is appointed guardian for the orphans of Moshe ha-Kohen b. Gulayb, who had recently died without making a will, two of whom, a son called Gulayb (a future son-in-law of Efrayim b. Shemarya) and a daughter called Mulk, are already of age, as was established by the late Elkhanan ‘Head of the Row’, while another son, called Mufarraj, is only four years old. Among the witnesses is Yeshuʿa b. Ṣedaqa, and ʿEli is to carry out his guardianship under the scrutiny of Shelomob.

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العلامات

• guardianship
• orphans

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

1438 Seleucid (20 September 1126–7 September 1127 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Location: Fustat. […] In which Elʿazar aka Manṣūr al-Iskandarānī b. Shelomo known as Ibn al-Munayyish acknowledges a debt of 5 dinars owed to Yehuda b. […] Shabbetay, the widow of Moshe b. Avraham, and to the orphan son, Avraham b. Moshe.

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Document date

[12]91 Seleucid (979–980 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Settlement of a marital dispute between Shelomob. Yeshuʿa ha-Levi and Sittāna bt. Ah[aron]. […] In the present document, Shelomo commits to this obligation and, moreover, to bury her in the same quality of clothing that she has been accustomed to wear ("with which I clothed her") in her lifetime. […] Witnesses: the scribe [...] b. Shemuel ha-Kohen; Fashshāṭ b. Shemuel (who also signed T-S 16.49 and T-S 12.496); and Baqāʾ b.

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العلامات

• marital reconciliation
• marriage

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Late business/family letter in Hebrew from Shelomo Binyamin to his brother-in-law, also named Shelomo.

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العلامات

• 17th c
• late

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

5578 Anno Mundi (11 September 1817–30 September 1818 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

The first is a receipt dated Monday, first day of Pesaḥ, mentioning the groom Yaaqov Ḥanan b. Yosef Ḥanan and the bride Kaḥla bat David Jannāḥ (along with many items from the bridal trousseau). The second mentions the groom Efrayim Ḥakīm b. Eliyahu Ḥakīm and Suqar bat Shemuʾel ha-Levi, dated Nisan 5577 AM (= 1817 CE) in Cairo. The third mentions the groom Menaḥem Wadish/Vades b. Shelomo, and the bride Miriam bat Eliyahu ʿAṭias.

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العلامات

• 19th c
• betrothal

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Document date

27 January 1028 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Agreement between Shelomob. Kathīr and Barhūn b. Sahlān, the husband of his daughter Fāʾiza, in which Barhūn undertakes to redeem the silver vessels belonging to his wife and which he had obviously pawned.

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العلامات

• register

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Monday, 5 Tammuz 4889 Anno Mundi (24 June 1129 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Monday, 5 Tammuz 1440 Seleucid = 24 June 1129 CE. Nissim b. Benaya and his son who owe 300 dinars and a deed of release to Shelomo Ibn Sunaynāt ha-Kohen acknowledge their two debts before the latter's agent, and they will hand over the deed of release after they receive their own deed of release concerning the merchandise that they brought on Ibn Sunaynāt's behalf for Abū Saʿd al-Damīrī.

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Primary language

Hebrew

Letter addressed to Hodaya b. Yishai the Exilarch from Damascus who visited Egypt in the 1230s to solicit money from the communities there and overstayed his welcome. This letter mentions that Hodaya's brother (probably Shelomob. Yishai) had visited the community from which the letter was sent.

العلامات

• 13th c

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Document date

Tishrei 1445 Seleucid (2 September 1133–1 October 1133 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Long letter from Yaʿaqov b. Salīm, in al-Juwwa (near Aden, Yemen), to the judge and parnas Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, in Fustat. Quoting Deuteronomy 32:43 and Isaiah 33:24.

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العلامات

• ib7
• india book

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