Documents

Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: The date is lost, but Avraham ha-Rav ha-Gadol in line 3 has to be Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE), and Rabbenu Menaḥem is mentioned in line 12, a person known from other early 13th-century documents. (Menaḥem is introduced in line 7, where he is called Menaḥem ha-Rav ha-Gadol be-Yis[ra'el] Yeḥid ha-Dor, as in T-S 8J15.7.) Another person mentioned in this document: Yiṣḥaq ha-Sar ha-Nikhbad.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

20 Adar 5442 Anno Mundi (28 February 1682 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Qaraite legal testimony (zikhron ʿedut) dated 20 Adar 5442 (=1682 CE), written and signed by Avraham ha-Rofe ben Ṣaʿīr, one of the messengers sent from Jerusalem with news of the barley crop (aviv), together with Mordekhay b. […] As the barley was fully mature, the coming year, a leap year for the Rabbanites, will not be intercalated for the Qaraites. Messengers have been sent both to Damascus and to Cairo/Fustat.

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العلامات

• aviv
• calendar
• christians
• maronites
• qaraites

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, Fustat, to his cousin Toviyya b. […] However, the doctors said to me that the medicines would be of no avail, as long as he continued to work in sunlight, which his profession forces him to do.” The letter also references a ‘maker of razors’ (mawwas) and mentions Ibn al-Minqar Abu al-Ma’ali.

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• ib-addenda
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: etiology
• illness: eye
• (+ 3 المزيد)

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A partially preserved medical prescription that mentions burnt goat-horn, eggplant, and a cup of wine. […] Oliver Kahl, 2003, p. 50). For the materia medica of the Geniza community, see E. Lev and Z. […] For pharmacies, see Med. Soc. II.

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العلامات

• prescription

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment from Yoshiyya Ibn al-Dhahabī to Abū Saʿīd Ibn al-ʿAfṣī (=gallnut merchant). In Judaeo-Arabic.The writer congratulates the recipient on his recent marriage and mentions a business deal of exchanging flax for medicine. The writer and the recipient are cooperating with Spanish merchants. (Information from M. Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 4, p. 368)

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العلامات

• flax

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Indian spikenard is mentioned in line 1 (سادج/ساذج; this can also mean "simple") and in line 2 a "raw" (خام) good of some sort is mentioned but is mostly lost to damage. Also reference to a paste (maʿjūn) and the instruction "let it be ground" (yudaqq). MCD/ASE On verso there are some lines from Megillat Esther.

العلامات

• cmp

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Italian

Letter or letters. Dating: Probably 19th century. The first page is entirely in Hebrew. Mentions Alexandria, a certain Pinkerli, and includes the line, "If you wish to 'plant the tents of your palace' [Daniel 11:45] in Trieste, inform me... I'll find you a wife." Also mentions a school and dealings in books. The second page is in Italian, with Hebrew phrases mixed in.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from David b. Daniel to Aaron the cantor

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1025–1051 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter fragment by Shelomo b. Yehuda, who signs with Gaonic honorifics (which support an inferred date range of 1025–1051 CE).

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Primary language

Hebrew

Letter In Hebrew, with many errors and phonetic spellings. […] Dating: Late, perhaps 16th century. The letter concerns the salt industry in the area of al-Manzala and al-ʿAṣāfira (next to Baḥr al-Mallāḥa, between Damietta and Port Said) and also mentions Qaṭya, the caravan waystation in the Sinai desert about 60km east of Port Said. […] Somehow involved are the apostate (meshummad) Yaḥyā and the qāḍī ʿAbd al-Bāqī and the faqīh ʿAbd al-Majīd.

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العلامات

• apostate
• late heb
• mining
• salt
• sinai

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What remains begins on verso (the beginning is missing) and spills over onto recto. This letter is written in a crude hand. The subject matter is quite difficult to parse. The addressee is to go to Abū ʿImrān b. al-Ṭawīla and get the letters from him. "The congregation" and "the gentile" are mentioned. The writer concludes by telling the addressee to go to the wife of Ezra al-ʿArīf (the same Ezra who was sick on recto?) and send her a message about the addressee's brother (=the writer?)

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Document date

Thursday, 7 Av 1443 Seleucid (21 July 1132 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document. Signed and written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. […] MS heb. d 66/7, namely the separation three months earlier of Ṣedaqa ha-Meshorer b. Ṣemaḥ and Sitt al-Kull bt. Berakhot ha-Levi.

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter of thanks addressed to the Nagid making reference to recommendations granted. The writer uses the phrase “the Mordechai of the age,” a common designation for communal leaders and court physicians. (S. D. Goitein, Mediterranean Society, 5:491, 642; and Elisha Russ-Fishbane, Judaism, Sufism, and the Pietists of Medieval Egypt: A Study of Avraham Maimonides and His times, Oxford University Press: 2015, 18 ) EMS Written by a person named Daud, who is well attested during this period. AA Verso: Accounts in Arabic with Greek/Coptic numerals recorded at multiple angles of the paper's orientation. Merits further examination.

العلامات

• avraham maimonides
• coptic numerals
• thanks

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Mevorakh b. Yiṣḥaq from Alexandria to his father in law, Seror (Surur) b. […] Written a month after another letter: CUL Or.1080 J264 (Doc. #100 in Frenkel). He mentions pillaging in Maḥalla (the writer hopes that Abū l-Ḵayr Mubārak is safe), an epidemic (dever) in Fusṭāṭ and that the writer himself had been robbed. Also mentions Ibn Naḥum the cantor. Probably written in the 1060s.

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العلامات

• epidemic
• epidemic: dever
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto (secondary use): Letter to 'al-ḥaver al-meʿulle ḥakham ha-yeshiva" (possibly this is Mevorakh b. Saadya, although Goitein suggested that the letter was actually intended to be sent from Fustat to Palestine). […] Sulṭān al-Dawla and 20 jars were not billed as the rumor had it. Mentions Abū l-Faraj b. Naḥum. Sitt Ihtimām will not sell the silver.

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العلامات

• business
• mevorakh b. saadya
• suftaja

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Monday, 3 Iyyar 1407 Seleucid (28 April 1096 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Faded legal document in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 3 Iyyar 1407 Seleucid = 28 April 1096 CE. Parties: Meshullam b. Shelomo Ibn Sunaynāt al-Muqaddasī (appears also in T-S AS 156.138 + T-S 10J8.4 + T-S 6J3.12 (PGPID 3069)) who serves as a representative of a young women regarding a legal document written in Muslim court. Also mentions Berakhot and Yehuda ha-Rav ha-Muvhaq (יהודה הרב המובהק) who might be Yehuda b.

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العلامات

• hillel b. 'eli

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

first decade of Ḥeshvan 1445 Seleucid (2 October 1133–11 October 1133 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. […] Abū l-Hasan Shelomo b. Menashshe ha-Kohen gifts a new enslaved woman, Rahaj, to his wife Sitt al-Nasab bt. […] Signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe as well as Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. (Information mainly from Goitein's index card and Weiss's dissertation.)

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1 نسخ 2 مناقشتان

Document date

Wednesday, 24 Iyyar 1437 Seleucid (19 May 1126 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Legal document in Judaeo-Arabic, which partly consists of a deathbed will. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 24 Iyyar, 1437 Seleucid, which is 1126 CE. […] The continuation of the document describes what happened on Sunday the 28th of the same month and mentions Rabbenu ha-Meʿulle (but it is torn away here).

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe
• illness
• will

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Responsum in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Dealing with a lawsuit over loans. With citations from the Talmud. Mentions the names of the parties in the legal dispute: Abū l-Barakāt, Yaʿaqov b. Yaḥyā, and Ayyūb and his sons. Mentions a purse of money belonging to Yaʿaqov b. Yaḥyā.

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العلامات

• responsum

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document in the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). […] For the workers at the large furnace, mentions a weekly total of [.]40 raṭls (referring to the quantity of goods produced?) […] For the workers at the small furnace, it seems the wage if 9 dirhams. There is also mention of an advance of 5 dinars. A name may be preserved in the last line (Abū ʿIm[rān?]).

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العلامات

• labor

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Musa b. Abu al-Hayy from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat. The writer mentions robbery by pirates on two ships carrying merchandisemeant for the writer and for others.

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العلامات

• nahray b. nissim
• trade

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Memorial list of persons from different families mentioning the judges Shabbat and Efrayim and the latter's son Yehuda "the distinguished member of the ḥavura." […] There is unrelated text in Judaeo-Arabic on verso in a different hand, possibly legal jottings.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document(s). In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli, yet bearing the PGP tag of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe(?). Recto: Mentions Shemuel and the of wife of Abū [...]. Verso: Mentions Avraham and a large sum of money (107 dinars?).

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Recto: Letter of the Na'ib of Malij to the judge Efrayim b. Meshulam regarding a case of an orphan girl. Asks for a quick decision. Verso: The answer, it seems in the hand of Meir b. Hillel b. Sadoq. Further information and partial transcriptions on Goitein's note card.

العلامات

• orphan

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Ladino

Upper left corner of a letter in Ladino. A Gatenio is mentioned.

العلامات

• gatenio
• ladino
• shemuel sidi

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Aramaic

Fragment of a legal document mentioning Moshe ha-Levi.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

The present fragment mentions the usage of mercury, and lead, and some discovery attributed to Hermes.

العلامات

• alchemy

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a wife; the writer's suffering; gold; regards to the addressee's wife and children; mentions Sitt Faḍāʾil.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Probably alchemical, but possibly medical. Magnesia (מגניסיא) is mentioned. This is not a legal document related to business, as it is listed on FGP.

العلامات

• alchemy
• recipe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Minute fragment, written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Mentions 90 silver dirhams. Too little remains.

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic to a dignitary. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Mentions Wuhayb b. Avraham and Saʿīd b. [...].

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a mercantileletter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 11th or 12th century. Mentioning flax. (Information in part from CUDL)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Medical recipes, probably. Mentions quantities of dirhams and objects such as pots and white lead from Iraq.

العلامات

• account

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر