Documents

Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter: draft(s) in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE), in Fusṭāṭ, probably to the Gaʾon Shelomob. […] One draft contains a report, in Hebrew, on a joint Karaite-Rabbanite collection made in the capital of Egypt on behalf of the Jews of Jerusalem to assist them with their taxes. Ezra b. Yishmael b. Ezra is mentioned, and the document refers to Yusuf ibn ‘Awkal with his honorific title ‘Rosh Kalla’ (‘head of the assembly’ of students at the biannual scholarly convention in Baghdad). […] Efrayim also mentions that he retains the support of an influential Fatimid official, the Qaraite David ha-Levi b. Yiṣḥaq, who will also be sending a donation.

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العلامات

• communal
• efrayim b. shemarya
• karaite
• shelomo b. yehuda
• tax
• (+ 1 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1042–1042 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from one of the followers of Natan b. Avraham. Dating: probably 1042 CE (GIl). The sender is seeking an appointment from the yeshiva and has met with Shelomob. […] He is supported only by the sons of Shūʿa and two Maghribīs, Avraham b. Moshe (aka Barhūn b. Mūsā) ha-Tāhartī and Yehoshuaʿ b.

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

He mentions jāliya (probably a reference to capitation tax), and people including Sulaymān b. al-[...]āmī and the poor man (al-faqīr) Ibn Faraḥ and sends regards to Umm Yūsuf. […] Verso: Judaeo-Arabic letter from ʿEli b. Shelomo to his father. The writer is in terrible straits and full of regret.

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العلامات

• alexandria
• communal
• diwan
• qalyub
• qumash

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On verso there are additional jottings, including the names Eliyya b. Zekharya and Shelomob. Natan. (Information mainly from Goitein and Friedman, India Traders) Old IB number: 233.

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العلامات

• aceh
• aguna
• ib7
• india book
• indonesia
• (+ 1 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (active 1100–38 CE). Two fragments from the top. […] The parties are Eliyya b. Shelaḥya (שלחיה, a rare name) who is possibly a ḍā[min] and Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. Shelomo ha-Levi. Mentions 2000 of something; coral; Yemen ([diyā]r al-Yaman); either the weight "al-fill" (1/100 of a farāsila, see Friedman, Dictionary, p. 697 and Goitein and Friedman, India Traders, p. 590 n. 30, 645 n. 8) or "al-full" (jasmine); a dispute between two men, one of whom claims that the other mixed something in the total [...]; and a sum of 18 (and 1/4) dinars.

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العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe
• ib-addenda
• legal

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Tevet 1462 Seleucid (22 December 1150–19 January 1151 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Written in the jurisdiction of Shemuel b. Ḥananya ha-Nagid, between Abū al-Faraj al-Musta‘mil b. Shelomo and Hillel b. Sālim. Abū al-Faraj gives Hillel 100 dirhams as an absolute debt and the latter agrees to work until the amount is repaid.

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العلامات

• 12th c
• apprenticeship
• partnership
• shemuel b. hananya

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

A general prenuptial agreement in the hand of Natan ha-Kohen b. Shelomo. Goitein suggests that this document was written before 1134, the year that Ṣedaqa al-Ramli, the grandfather of the bride, passed away (Med. […] Alternate description: betrothal deed between R. Efrayim ha-Talmid b. Meshullam and Yeshuʿa b. Ṣedaqa ha-Levi al-Ramlī for his daughter Sitt al-Fakhr.

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العلامات

• betrothal
• contract
• prenuptial

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Drawn up under the authority of the head of the yeshiva [Maṣliaḥ?] b. Shelomo. Power of attorney is granted to an agent after the refusal of a debtor to remit a debt against a note. Mevorakh b. Seʿadya (l. 16) sent his agent Berakhot (l. 19) to collect some jewelry (l. 7) such as, two bracelets of amber with golden heads (l. 4), from a certain David (l. 18) (perhaps identical with Yeshuʿa al-Qarawī, l. 9).

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Document date

24 Av 5569 Anno Mundi (6 August 1809 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A variety of men and women are listed, such as: Yiṣḥaq Bibas, Yiṣḥaq Yaʿabeṣ, Umm Aṣlan, Anton al-Ḥarīrī, Nissīm al-Qara (the Qaraite?), Ḥayyīm Būnān, Shelomo Romano, Joya bt. Ashiyahu, Moshe ʿAkūbas, Muḥammad Ḥadād, Shimʿon Frances, and others.

العلامات

• late prosopography

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a certain Peraḥya to the Nasi Shelomo. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Reporting that he had intended to pay him a visit on the occasion of his pilgrimage to Jerusalem, however the Nasi Yoshiyyahu came to visit the community for Sabbath, thus he had no time for the visit.

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العلامات

• jerusalem
• mosul nasis

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Reuse: Letter of appeal sent to Shelomo ha-Nasi. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender, who has been arrested, asks him for help on account of his illness, poverty, and "hot bedbugs (al-baqq).

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العلامات

• 13th c
• appeal
• bedbugs
• communal
• illness
• (+ 6 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to the writer's father, Shelomo (Abu al-Rabi Sulayman), and his father-in-law, Yeshua ha-Kohen, in Qalyub.

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1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان

Document date

5582 Anno Mundi (27 September 1821–15 September 1822 CE)

Primary languages

Eastern Arabic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Moshe ʿAmdan, the orphan of Shemuʾel Romano, Raḥamīm b. Shelomo, Yaqūtī Yuʿbeṣ/Yaʿabeṣ. VMR. ASE. MCD.

العلامات

• bibas
• gatenio
• late prosopography
• pinto
• romano
• (+ 2 المزيد)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

The hand recalls the hand of Natan ha-Kohen b. Shelomo, but it is probably written by a different scribe.

العلامات

• contract
• prenuptial

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto (secondary use): Court record written and signed by Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen (1125–50). Wherein it is stipulated that a husband who travels to the Rif is required to stay home for two weeks and is not permitted to absent himself for more than a month, during which he has to pay his wife her expenses every week.

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العلامات

• register

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Document date

Monday, 21 Sivan 1410 Seleucid (13 June 1099 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Instruction to Abū l-Bishr to deliver to ʿOvadya b. Shelomo ha-Kohen all that had been deposited with the court for him, after his 3 elder brothers had reclaimed their rights.

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Inferred date

1025–1051 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Shelomob. Yehuda, in Jerusalem, to Sahlān b. Avraham, in Fustat. […] Dating: 1029 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1025–1051 CE based on the years when Shelomob. Yehuda served as Gaʾon. "Here is a description of old age in the hand of Solomon b. […] The time was excruciating for him: things in the yeshiva and the community at large did not go according to his wishes. Abraham b. Sahlan, a leader of Egyptian Jewry, Solomon's 'peer,' with whom he had probably studied many years before, had just died, and his own son was on his way to Aleppo in northern Syria, a voyage fraught with danger. . . .

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العلامات

• 11th c
• arabic address
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: letter norms
• (+ 3 المزيد)

1 نسخ

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter, written by Yoḥanan b. Shelomo, in Jerusalem, to his cousin Shimʿon Ashkenazi b.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions people including Nuṣayr b. Dāʾūd, Abū Munajjā, Abū l-Faḍl, al-ʿAjamī, Naʿīm, and Sitt Nadd. […] And several lines of what might be poetry bemoaning the pains of lovesickness and separation, alluding to how "I have become as yellow as a toothpick" (cf. Shelomob. Eliyyahu in ENA 4020.49 (PGPID 2414)).

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العلامات

• sammanud

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in the hand of the professional scribe Shelomob. Shemuel b. Seʿadya (fl. early 13th century).

العلامات

• book trade
• scribes

1 نسخ

Document date

Adar II 1339 Seleucid (1028 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

. #1 (fol. 1r): Goitein summarizes the case as follows: Fāʾiza bt. Shelomob. Netanel (aka Kathīr) was about to be divorced by Barhūn b. […] (Goitein does not believe this man is identical with his contemporary and compatriot, the communal leader Avraham aka Barhūn b. Sahlān who died in 1032 CE.) Part of her dowry, especially utensils of silver and copper, as well as some textiles, had been given by her husband as collateral and had to be redeemed. […] ) #2 (fol. 1v): Barhūn b. Sahlān continues to owe Menashshe b. Yosef 30 dinars which he will pay over a period of 10 months, beginning on 1 Nisan.

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Document date

1453 Seleucid (4 September 1141–21 September 1142 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Goitein's index card identifies the handwriting as that of Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. The testimony was collected on Saturday the 19th of [...] 1453 Seleucid (= 1141/42 CE). […] The testator, Abū l-Ḥasan b. Ḥasan al-Sukkarī, died the following day. He was located in the home of Natan b. […] He then describes to Natan b. Shemuʾel the type of shroud and funeral clothing he desires.

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العلامات

• deathbed will
• illness

2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Document date

Kislev 1430 Seleucid (17 November 1118–16 December 1118 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Court record of a legal agreement between a husband, Abū l-Ḥasan Shelomob. Menashshe, and his wife, Sitt al-Nasab bt. […] In the hand of the prolific court clerk Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (no relation). Signed by Avraham b. Shemaʿya and ʿOvadya ha-Kohen b. Mevorakh. The same couple also appear in T-S 13J2.20, dated 1445/1134.

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العلامات

• family drama
• patrilocal residence
• register

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

5592 Anno Mundi (8 September 1831–24 September 1832 CE)

, Benyamīn Curiel, Yosef Dasa, Khalīfa Pinṭo, Shelomo Morḥayyīm, Israʾel Abū-Drahem, Yosef al-Bīnda, Ṣulṭāna bt.

العلامات

• 19th c
• late prosopography
• sephardim

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

First third of Ṭevet 1593 Seleucid (14 December 1281–23 December 1281 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

On verso there are two poems in Hebrew, one attributed to Shelomo the younger (הקטן) and one to Yehuda ha-Levi.

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1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Natan b. Nahray, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat.

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العلامات

• 11th c
• nahray b. nissim
• natan b. nahray
• trade

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

Marḥeshvan 4907 Anno Mundi (October 1146 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

A compound in Ascalon is leased by the representatives of the qodesh to to Shelomo ha-Zariz b. Ḥalfon. Verso: Record of the yearly rent paid to the elders of the Heqdesh, kept by the tenant.

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العلامات

• 12th c
• ashqelon
• heqdesh
• lease
• qodesh
• (+ 2 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Copy of a letter from Se’adya b. Yosef to Eli b. Tavnai’s sons in Fustat. Original letter was written in January 3, 923. Se’adya asks the addresses to act against Aaron b. Meir’s directions regarding the calendar. (Information from Gil, Kingdom. […] The letters are addressed to Saadya’s disciples Shelomo, Ezra and ʿEli in Fustat and recount the events of the Palestinian calendar declaration by Ben Meir and the Babylonian’s reaction to it.

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العلامات

• calendar controversy

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Document date

11 Adar I 4973 Anno Mundi (1213 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Copy of a divorce settlement, dated 11th Adar I 4973 (= 1213 CE), from Alexandria, in which Yeshuʿa b. Yosef b. Raṣon Tinnīsī declares that he is bankrupt and thus unable to pay the second installment, thirty dinars, that is still outstanding from the original marriage contract, to his wife, Sitt al-Kull bt. Shelomob. Zekharya. The debt is divided into fifteen-dirham 'of good silver' monthly payments, but if he is unable to pay this amount, he must give half of his wage day-by-day instead. […] Recto: Letter, probably predating the legal document (i.e., prior to 1213 CE), from a certain Berakhot (b. Shemuel?), who appears to have written the legal document.

العلامات

• 13th c
• bankruptcy
• divorce

1 مناقشة

From a woman (see lines 13–15), possibly in Bilbays, to the Nasi Shelomob. Yishay. Dating: ca. 1240 CE. This letter was likely dictated.

العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: hidden
• illness: marad
• illness: women's
• (+ 2 المزيد)

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Goitein suggests that the scribe is Shelomob. Eliyyahu, but this does not seem right. The hand does appear in other documents from Shelomo's period including ENA NS 75.20 (PGPID 12255).

العلامات

• synagogue

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The names are ʿOvadyahu, Shelomo, ʿOvad[ya], [Yo]sef, Yiṣḥaq, Yosef, Maymūn, Moshe and David[…] Maḍmūn and his brother Yefet and Shelomo. This section partially overlaps with T-S AS 148.5 (PGPID 4164)

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