Documents

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Avraham, son of the Gaon, to David b. […] Avraham gives brief details of a recent visit to Damascus, explaining that he had already written to the recipient during the feast (probably of Tabernacles), but that the letter had been delayed due to local disturbances. He mentions the arrival of Ṣedaqa b. Menakhem, from Fustat, who praises the recipient for his kindness towards him.

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2

العلامات

• 11th c

1 نسخ

Primary language

Arabic

The sender asks for (or heavily implies that he would like) a renewal of business relations. There is at least one other Mevorakh b. Avraham Ibn Sabra who appears in many other Geniza letters. See T-S Ar.39.11 for another mention of a Muʿtamid al-Dawla. (Information in part from Goitein’s index card and Khan.)

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1 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Letter addressed to Yefet b. Ḥayy the Judge (bet din ha-qavuaʿ). […] This horizontal slip was subsequently cut up and re-glued to form a vertical slip for the sake of the document on verso. Verso: Letter from Yefet b. Ḥayy Saʿīd the judge. In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. It is unclear if the addressee's name or any of the substance of the message is preserved. (Information in part from CUDL.)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Complete letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 15th–17th century. Opens with greetings for Shemuʾel, Menashshe, and Yosef; on verso it is addressed to Yosef b. […] T-S 13J24.27 (PGPID 17041)); there is also a note at 90 degrees to the address mentioning al-muʿallim Shelomo. The letter contains many greetings and discusses the capitation tax (al-jāliya) and a deposit (wadīʿa) and possibly a court case (al-ḥukm).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Avraham b. Moshe b. Avraham b. Yosef b. […] The fragment is very crumpled and more text will probably be legible if the creases are straightened out. On the back there looks like there are two legal entries with signatures, dealing with monetary matters. […] Abū l-Faḍl the Aluf "mentioned inside of this letter." Signed by Shemuel b.

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Reused for business accounts on verso in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef (according to Goitein's notes). The letter is written in a very difficult hand. The addressee is asked to meet with Abū [...], Abū l-Barakāt, and the latter's mother and to convey the sender's greetings and the message that he only cut off his correspondence with them because they cut it off first. […] (All of this is tentative, because the letter has still not been adequately transcribed.)

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1

العلامات

• business dispute
• partnership

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Nissim b. Ḥalfon, in Tinnīs, to Nahray b. […] He almost did not collect the debt from al-Ḥarīrī (the silk merchant) in Damsīs. Selling linen was hard because a better product arrived from the Levant (Ashqelon and Arṣūf and possibly Tyre). […] But perhaps this is less likely, because the letter does not describe any prior reprieve from the illness, and because the subject of the verb is "he and his sister," not the illness.

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2

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6

العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: children's
• illness: du'f
• illness: fever
• (+ 2 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Short commercial letter, mentioning a letter from the addressee having arrived with Abū l-Khayr and the consignment of 30 raṭl of good מרמל. […] In the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi. Join: Alan Elbaum.

العلامات

• moshe b. levi

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

12 Tammuz 1402 Seleucid (1091 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Avraham b. Ṭoviyya ha-Levi is mentioned, no other details preserved. EMS. Probably a join with T-S 8J8.7 + T-S AS 150.120, in which case this is a debt contract certifying that Ibrāhīm owes money to Meshullam. Join by Oded Zinger.

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1

العلامات

• 11th c
• court record

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Short letter written by Meshullam, the head of family of judges. His son, Sasson, was a judge in Cairo; Sasson had a son called Yiṣḥaq who was also a judge in Cairo, see Med. Soc. 2:514, #24, #25. (Oded Zinger, Women, Gender and Law: Marital disputes according to documents of the Cairo Geniza, p. 332) EMS

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Manṣūr b. Sālim to his son Abū Najm residing abroad. The father conveys a strong message to his son to return to God and stop acting in a manner pleasing only to 'fools and people of little religiosity.' He also urges him to travel only with a caravan or on a merchant's itinerary. (Information from Goitein's index cards)

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2

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1

العلامات

• mansur b. salim

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mercantileletter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender and addressee are unknown. Dating: Probably 11th century. Mentions people such as Abū Yaʿaqov the brother of Tamra(?); a poor old man (shaykh suʿlūk); Ibn al-Fakkāh. Mentions goods such as: pepper, cinnamon, brazilwood, wheat, oil, and Kirmānī indigo.

العلامات

• brazilwood
• cinnamon
• indigo
• oil
• pepper
• (+ 1 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a letter in the hand of the clerk of Yehoshua Maimonides including the following bitter statement: "What is the reason of this? […] Know that if you do not close the yearly account that you owe to me, on the morning of the holiday I will send you the messengers of the house of the Ṣāḥib [al-Dīwān, the official in charge of the capitation tax]."

العلامات

• 14th c
• yehoshua maimonides

1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

From your brother, may God protect him, letters arrive all the time, but there is not a single letter from you among them. […] What could be easier than writing a letter and easing my mind? Do not kill me before my time. [...] All I ask of you is to write me a letter from time to time, so that I will know you are healthy."

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5

العلامات

• fasting
• mail-order medicine
• personal
• threatening to die

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Draft or record of legal deed(s) in a court notebook. Concerning the dissolution of a partnership at the death of one of the partners.

العلامات

• partnership

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Inferred date

1029–1030 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter fragment from Shelomo b. Yehuda to an unidentified personality in Fustat.

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1

العلامات

• 11th c
• communal
• excommunication
• shelomo b. yehuda

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Bifolio containing multiple drafts of the opening of a letter from (Bū) Manṣūr b. Shelomo to a notable. Little is preserved of the content. Mentions the names ʿOvadya and David, and reports that the son ('the noble branch' / al-farʿ al-najīb) R.

1 نسخ

Primary language

Hebrew

India Book III, 40c: Letter (draft) from one community leader to another with an appeal for support for refugees from Christian persecution and cursing on anyone informing against converts to Judaism. According to Goitein, the letter was dictated to Ibn Yijū many years before he traveled east, even though his wife and brother-in-law were converts and the lettermentions both India and Yemen as places to which copies of the letter should be sent. See Goitein, Med. Soc., 2:305 (592, n. 29), on the puzzling nature of this text; Friedman connects it speculatively with "the Norman invasion of the East, which began in 1153."

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2

العلامات

• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib3
• india book

2 مناقشتان

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Ibrāhīm, in Sunbāṭ, addressed to a Nagid. […] Requesting assistance for his family in time of need. His family members are all sick, and he has no money even for a medicinal syrup.

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1

العلامات

• appeal
• communal
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: poverty
• (+ 3 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter fragment. In Hebrew. Repeatedly mentioning "our master the Nagid"; may also mention Tripoli on verso (כתבים מן טרא[ב]לס).

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1

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

Legal literary text in Hebrew, mentions a "bathhouse" in line 13 (מרחץ). Medieval-era. There is faint writing visible in between some of the lines, possibly from an earlier stage of usage.

العلامات

• bathhouse

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Parties include Abū l-Faraj known as Ibn Shamlān and Elʿazar. Mentions 100 dinars and the term ṣiyāgha (goldsmithing?).

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1

العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Hebrew

The upper one looks like a letter in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Mentions charity and quotes Ezekiel 47:12 והיה פריו למאכל ועלהו לתרופה.

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1

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Legal document. In Arabic script. Dating: Late, probably 18th or 19th century. […] A sum of 143 (riyals?) is mentioned, each riyal valued at 90 medins (niṣf fiḍḍa).

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

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

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document concerning debts, mentioning [...] b. […] In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: 1438 Seleucid = 1126/27 CE. (Information from CUDL)

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1

1 نسخ

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). […] Dealing with a partnership (muʿāmala) and mentioning the sums of 4 and 18 dinars. (Information in part from CUDL)

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1

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts, mentioning Shemuʾel ha-Levi b. Menashshe and Ibn Saʿīd al-Dabaḥ.

العلامات

• account
• oil

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

1435 Seleucid (22 September 1123–10 September 1124 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

, written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Mentions two dinars.

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1

العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Small fragment from a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138). The content is unclear but a certain Elʿazar is mentioned. an agent (wakīl), and [... al-]kātib al-mushtarī (a buyer).

Related People

1

العلامات

• halfon b. menashshe

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender is a Qaraite (among other indications, he calls the Rabbanites "the damned bastards the sons of the Mishna"). The letter resembles many of the communal Qaraite letters found in the Firkovich collection. The letter contains a detailed description of a legal case, apparently about someone seeking to convert away from Judaism. […] There are several lines praising God for His goodness and calling down curses on enemies and schemers and anyone who has pity on a Rabbanite—"may he taste his medicine." The letter concludes with various greetings.

العلامات

• conversion
• muslim courts
• qaraite-rabbanite relations
• qaraites
• shafi'i

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably early 13th century. The writer complains that the Rayyis does not trust him to deliver letters for him, thus he gave letters to R. Yūsuf to deliver, who then lost them. […] The story is confusing and would likely be clarified by the missing part of the letter. An Abū Zikrī is mentioned in the margin.

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2

العلامات

• damascus
• divorce

1 نسخ

Inferred date

1130–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. […] The document is the conditions for the engagement of the merchant Barakāt b. Ḥārith ha-Levi with Sitt al-Furs bt. […] Goitein and Friedman both identify this Abū l-Barakāt b. Ḥārith ha-Levi with the Avraham b. Ḥārith ha-Levi who signed legal documents including T-S 12.706 (PGPID 20065) and T-S 20.5 (PGPID 7499).

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3

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2

العلامات

• 12th c
• halfon b. menashshe
• marital reconciliation
• marriage

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Shelomo Ha-Kohen Gaon b. Yehosef to a notable in Fustat and to its Jewish communities. This is the second leaf of a longer letter, which was pasted onto the (now lost) upper leaf. […] Dating: 1025 CE. In particular, the letter is written to Yefet b. Toviyya (known as al-Nīlī, the indigo merchant), David b.

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1

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1

العلامات

• 11th c
• communal
• communal strife
• place of prayer

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان