Documents

Inferred date

1213–1237 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: legal query in the hand of Shelomob. Elijah to Abraham Maimonides, with the title Nagid (post-1213 CE), concerning a man who lives with his wife in a house together with another man and suspects his wife and the housemate of having an affair, and therefore wants to move out, but the wife is refusing to go along with his plans.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Aramaic

The ketubba is for Sayyida bt. Shelomo and Yeshuʿa [...], dated Thursday 4th (month and year not preserved). Witnessed by Ḥissūn (חיסון) b. ʿEli. (Information from CUDL.) EMS

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العلامات

• ketubba
• liturgy
• marriage

1 نسخ 2 مناقشتان

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Letter in the handwriting of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi. He has arrived safely (presumably from Fustat to Qalyub). He tells the addressee to take the coat (shuqqa) from the house of Ibn Tāj al-Maʿānī and give it to Rabbenu Shelomo, and to give other goods to Abū ʿAlī. He was saddened to leave (Fustat) when a woman in the family (al-kabīra) was sick (mutawajjiʿa).

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العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: women's
• moshe b. levi

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter sent to the Nasi Shelomob. Yishay in Fustat by his assistant in Bilbays, describing his journey from Syria to Egypt and saying that the people of Bilbays have not paid him yet for the pesiqa mentioned in a previous letter.

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العلامات

• bribe
• mosul nasis

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

(1) T-S Misc.22.245 is a letter requesting a favor concerning Abū l-Fakhr b. Wahb. (2) Upper piece of T-S 16.103: Possibly a letter in Arabic script, or introduction to a literary work. […] Needs further examination Recto (secondary use): Numbered poems for various individuals, including Yehuda, Avram, Avraham, Shelomo, Mevasser and Shemarya ha-Kohen. (Information in part from CUDL.)

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Guide of the Perplexed, 30 dirhams, with 2 dirhams for brokerage (see Goitein, Kiryat Sefer 44 [1969], 125-126). In the hand of Shelomob. Eliyyahu.

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العلامات

• book trade
• brokerage
• charity
• shelomo b. eliyyahu

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

Thursday, 9 Elul 1428 Seleucid (9 August 1117 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Prenuptial agreement written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: Thursday, 9 Elul 1428 Seleucid = 9 August 1117 CE. The top part of the document is missing. Groom: Ṣedaqa b. Shelomo. Bride: Khulla bt. Yefet. The bill of divorce of the couple is found in T-S 8J35.12 (PGPID 18633), also written by Ḥalfon. […] Information from Weiss' PhD dissertation on Halfon b. Menashshe.

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العلامات

• prenuptial

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Afterwards, the witnesses Yeḥezqel ha-Kohen he-Ḥaver and ʿOvadya b. Shelomo testified of this attack, stating that the victim was beaten with a shoe (מדאס) on a Sunday. The former is probably the same Yeḥezqel ha-Kohen he-Ḥaver b. ʻAli he-Ḥaver, a witness in several Genizah documents, the earliest T-S 13J2.3 dated Dec. 1093, the latest Bodl. MS Heb. b. 12/4, dated Feb. 1102. His father, a Jerusalemite, is the author of numerous Genizah documents (23 documents related to ʻAli ha-kohen, published by M.

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Ṭoviya b. ʿEli ha-Kohen to his cousin the Judge Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen regarding alleged arrears in a compound of the Qodesh, ca. 1130. The two overseers of the qodesh who were in charge of an unnamed compound complained about arrears of two months owed by one of the tenants, Abu'l-Ḥasan b. al-Hazzan. The tenant in the meantime has left the apartment.

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العلامات

• 12th c
• arrears
• communal

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

Thursday, 25 Tishri 1339 Seleucid (28 September 1027 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Written in the hand of Yefet b. David. Bishr b. Efrayim apprentices his son Yosef to the weaver Barhūn b. […] The agreement was executed in the court at the synagogue of the Palestinians and signed by Yefet b. David and Shelomob. Ḥakīm. (Information from Lieberman, "A Partnership Culture", 71-73)

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العلامات

• apprenticeship
• children
• contract
• partnership
• weaving
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

2 Shevat 1412 Seleucid (3 January 1101 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document concerning a nasty financial quarrel between Shemarya b. Ḥalfon and his son Eli, detailing that Eli initially took their dispute to a shari‘a (Islamic) court where he sued his father for property that originally belonged to his mother. […] Their agreement further specified that that the Islamic writ of release would also absolve Shemarya of all further claims in a Jewish court. Signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemu'el, Hillel b. Eli, Yosef b. Shelomo and Ovda (?) ha-Kohen b. Mevorakh. Dated Shevat 1412 of the Seleucid Era (= January 1101 CE).

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Thursday, 8 Iyyar [1411] Seleucid (19 April 1100 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In which Abū ʿAlī Yefet b. Avraham and Yehuda b. Ḥayyim dispute debts owed to each other. […] Yefet also sues Abū l-Faraj (evidently identical with Yehuda b. Ḥayyim) for an old debt from when "he used to deceive me regarding the customs (mukūs) when I was in the mint"). […] The document is signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemu'el, Shelomob. Mevorakh he-Ḥaver and Mevorakh b.

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العلامات

• customs
• mint

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

There is a note in a different hand in which Naḥum Binyamin Shelomo agrees that he owes Eliyyahu Kaspi (perhaps the scribe of the accounts) 130 gerushim.

العلامات

• late ja
• plato

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Long Hebrew poem, congratulating Shelomo on being elevated, like a second Yosef, from prison to the rank of the "Deputy of the king" and "scribe" (משנה וסופר).

العلامات

• bible
• poem

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Perahya to Shelomo ("ha-Talmid ha-Sar"). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century.

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Abū l-Riḍā to his brother Shelomo. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script.

العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: brain

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Beginning of a polite but strong letter to a certain Shelomo concerning communcal matters. Mentions the breaking up of property belonging to the legal cases of Ibn Ḥassān and Ibn Banūna (?).

العلامات

• numismatic dating

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

When they reached the second chapter (איכה יעיב באפו), the writer tried to pull up a chair to see better, which caused a scuffle involving Ibn al-Maghribī and Ḥayyūn and Makārim b. al-[...]. Two more people are mentioned later on: [...] al-Qāhirī and Ibn al-ʿAnbarī. […] , al-Shaykh al-Sadīd Abū Zikrī and the ṣaghīra. The writer may be Shelomob. Eliyyahu, or at least someone of the family.

العلامات

• dispute
• shelomo b. eliyyahu?
• synagogue service

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from the judge Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen (dated documents 1125-50), in Fustat, to his cousin Ṭoviyya b.

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العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: medicine
• illness: rich description
• illness: treatment
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

At the top appears the name Saʿadya b. Shelomob. Yefet ha-Levi (all given titles such as peʾer and hod ha-leviyim).

العلامات

• al-lebdi
• diwan al-ahbas

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Tishrei 1531 Seleucid (September 1219 CE)

Sept. 24, 1219, two days before the first Sukkot holiday. (b) Complete accounts of revenue and expenditures on Sept. 29, 1219, the eve of the concluding Sukkot holiday (officials, bread, some needy persons). (MR Cohen: hand of Shelomob. Eliyyahu) [(c) = App A 152 an addition in Arabic characters in which a lazzām, or revenue farmer, leases a vineyard from the community against a weekly payment of 10 dirhams. […] (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 452, App. B 48)

العلامات

• 13th c
• account
• communal
• salary

3 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

14 Kislev 143[9] Seleucid (20 November 1127 CE)

Both records are each signed by Avraham b. Shemaʿya and Natan ha-Kohen b. Shelomo; one of them is also signed by Ḥalfon b. […] The man giving the testimony about the cheese, Nissim b. Shemuel, also signed T-S 12.561 (dated 143[.] Seleucid) together with Ḥalfon b. Menashshe; at that time, his father was still alive.

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العلامات

• cheese
• copt
• register
• tax

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document in the form of a letter written and signed by Yiṣḥaq (b. Shelomob. Meʾir) he-Ḥaver, grandson of Meʾir Gaʾon (in office 912–21, the father of Aharon b. […] Also mentions the judge Yosef b. Azhar. Bareket says the letter is about business matters and that it attests to Efrayim b. […] at 180 degrees to the name of Efrayim b. Shemarya. (Information in part from CUDL and Bareket.)

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1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

Thursday, 1 Tammuz 4940 Anno Mundi (26 June 1180 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

at least partially in the hand of Meʾir b. Hillel b. Ṣadoq. Dated: Thursday, 1 Tammuz 4940 AM = 26 June 1180 CE. A man named Moshe b. Shelomo who had inherited from his wife 8 out of 24 shares of a house in the neighborhood of Ḥammām al-Akhawayn, which had belonged to his father-in-law Hillel b. […] Yaʿaqov b. Ḥananʾel as a gift and leases the remaining 6 shares to his two sisters-in-law (Sitt al-Kafāʾa and Sitt al-Turaf the wife of Elʿazar b.

العلامات

• property
• women's

2 مناقشتان

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The upper text block is the end of a legal query probably written by Shelomob. Eliyyahu (active in the first third of the 13th century).

العلامات

• legal query

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Likely the handwriting of Shelomob. Eliyyahu (ID by Amir Ashur). Among the greetings: "..and regards to your mother, but by God, O father, don't do anything to make her pray!

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: Probably early 13th century, based on the mention of Abū l-Futūḥ al-Shamshūrī in a letter by Shelomob. Eliyyahu: Moss. VII,170.1. This letter also mentions the faqīh Jamāl al-Dīn, presumably the same as in Bodl.

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العلامات

• fasting
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: fasting
• illness: marad
• (+ 2 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment from a letter/petition from Abū Saʿīd Ibn al-Muʿallima to Maḍmūn b. [Ḥasan] the Nagid of Yemen. In Judaeo-Arabic, with long introductory formulae in Hebrew. […] The sender is a teacher in the Iraqi synagogue (מע]לם בכניסה אל[ער]אקיין) and also mentions a certain Shelomo [...] al-ḥaver. The continuation and almost all of the substance are missing.

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العلامات

• ib-addenda
• ib2
• india book unedited

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Lower fragment: Piece of a letter to Nahray b. Nissim. Dating: ca. 1045–96.

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العلامات

• nahray b. nissim
• suftaja
• trade

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy, in Alexandria, to Thābit b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṣabbāgh.

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العلامات

• 11th c

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

On verso there are three poems, the first of which is by Shelomo Ibn Gabirol. At the top there is the word "qūbila" in Arabic script, typically a registration mark on state documents indicating that something has been checked against a model.

العلامات

• yedutun ha-levi

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Sunday 4 Tammuz 5275 Anno Mundi (17 June 1515 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

The four partners are Avraham Talmid, David Alfandre(?), Shelomo Aguilar, and Yosef (de) Sevilla (שביליה, שויליא, די שויליא).

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العلامات

• 16th c
• partnership

1 نسخ

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from a man to his son Shelomo Skandari. In Hebrew. Dating: End of the 16th century, according to Avraham David.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Legal declaration (moda'a) in which a man declares that any release or compromise he will do in the future is invalid because he is coerced by Shelomo Mamulian (?) שלמה ממולייאן. This is a draft or a formulary: there is no date, there are no witnesses, and several of the identifying details are left blank.

العلامات

• drawing

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Blessings and greetings are also bestowed on El'azar and Shelomo. It is dated תשרי [...]ז and closes with the 'alama ישע רב.

1 نسخ

Document date

18 Sivan 1793 Seleucid (5 June 1482 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yeshuʿa the son of the late Nagid Yosef agrees to marry Faraj, the widow of his late brother Shelomo, even though Yeshuʿa is already married. The document lays out the conditions between the two wives and how Yeshuʿa will divide his time and maintenance payments between them.

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العلامات

• dammuh
• levirate marriage
• polygyny
• widow

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Document date

30 Nisan 1456 Seleucid (25 April 1145 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Elʿazar the widow of Abū l-Khayr Mevorakh b. Meshullam known as al-Aṣbāghī and/or Ibn al-Qābila comes to court to collect her ketubba. […] The document is written and signed by Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen; also signed by Yefet b. Shemarya and Avraham b.

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العلامات

• natan b. shelomo

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

Sunday, 11 Heshvan 1437 Seleucid (10 October 1125 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Written and signed by the judge Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen; also signed by Saʿadya b. […] Certifying that Abū l-Faḍāʾil b. Salāma b. Saʿīd has received 10 dinars from Abū ʿAlī al-Jubaylī, 7 1/8 in gold coins (ʿayn) and 3 in silver (wariq dirhams).

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة