Documents

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dozens of names are mentioned, including some with illness and/or disabilities (e.g., al-mabtūn, אלמבתלאיה). Almostall are crossed out.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There is mention of the Qaraites and Ben Me'ir, suggesting that it might have to do with the calendar controversy. There is also mention of sums of money and entering a place that is referred to as Dār al-ʿIlm (not necessarily identical with the Qaraite institution in Jerusalem).

العلامات

• calendar controversy
• qaraites

1 نسخ

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter of appeal signed by al-Naharwani the cantor. The remnants of 7 lines, mostly blessings for the recipient, but also mentioning "terrible illnesses" (pega'im ra'im) and how one ought to extend mercy to Torah scholars.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

13 Iyyar 5547 Anno Mundi (1 May 1787 CE)

Primary language

Ladino

The author mentions receiving a letter from Avraham Crespin via Rhodes and that he also received correspondence from Shmuel Ḥanan via Izmir. […] He also recounts acquiring or perhaps visiting the homes of two widows in Rosetta: "the home of the widow of Magoro that is a great house and is (located) on the sea and one (other) of Magoro (that is) with his daughter, the widow of the deceased Av[raham] Yisraʾel." […] (tomar // to take or acquire), but there is no discussion of payment. The letter also explains a transaction for 40 medin with Miris telling Crespin "you will see how to deal with him if he gives you a hand or (if it is necessary) to do a טידאריק(?)

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العلامات

• 18th c
• izmir
• krispin
• ladino

1 نسخ

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The 18 remaining lines are the content of the letter in Judaeo-Arabic, which is also laden with honorific terms. The writers express their longing for Avraham yet decline his invitation to visit him in Syria (אלשאם), as they will be staying in al-Maḥalla (in the central Nile delta), with friends from Aleppo for another two months. The addressee also received the letters T-S NS J131 (from the Nagid Mevorakh ben Saadya 1094–1111); Bodl.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef from a partnership he had with Shela. Amat al-Qādir seems to be acting as trustee for her son, but also seems to have a financial interest in the partnership; since she would not have ordinarily inherited from her husband, her equity in the partnership may represent payment of her ketubba. […] This document was mistakenly identified as a join with T-S 16.23 (PGPID 7850) in Goitein, Med Soc III (viii,C,3, n. 24), and it was also treated as such in Lieberman, "A Partnership Culture," 122. In fact, these are two copies of the same document. Joins: Alan Elbaum.

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العلامات

• hillel b. eli
• ib6
• india book

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Document date

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

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The testator, Abū l-Ḥasan b. Ḥasan al-Sukkarī, died the following day. He was located in the home of Natan b. […] Abū l-Ḥasan acknowledges having received six dinars' worth of sugar from Abū Naṣr in order to sell it, but he never had a chance to do so. Sawād al-Sukkarī is also owed 3 dinars which should be paid from the shop, in addition to a capitation tax (jāliya) payment. […] In the margin there is an added note stating that his wife is owed 30 dinars by way of muʾakhkhar. He is also owed 700 dirhams by Abū Naṣr al-Ṣayrafī. There is a translation by Norman Stillman in Goitein's attached notes.

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العلامات

• deathbed will
• illness

2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة

Document date

28 Shevaṭ 5562 Anno Mundi (31 January 1802 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Among the many warm salutations, Raḥela may also tell her son to send a funeral shroud "lam tnsānī(?) min ghayr al-kāfn min kul bidd" in line 7 ("definitely do not forgot(?) […] Some keywords are not clearly rendered here, yet another geniza letter between a mother/son from two weeks later deals with the issue of sending a "shroud" (כפן) and also mentions the names Shelomo Barukh and Sh[emuʾel] ha-Levi.

العلامات

• shroud
• women's letters

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Abū ʿAlī b. Barakāt to his son Abū Naṣr ʿAlī b. Abū ʿAli b. al-Quṣayr, in the alley of the candles, presumably in Fustat. […] He gives advice about the running of the shop in his absence, and says multiple times that his son should tell all his customers and associates that he is coming back as soon as possible, and he has not run away or gone bankrupt or died. […] His son should not speak to Hiba the collector of the capitation tax, because Abū ʿAlī owes him money and needs to sort out the matter in person.

العلامات

• arabic address
• distant husband
• fasting

1 نسخ 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Ottoman Turkish

Letter in Ottoman Turkish addressed to Maʿallim Salmūn in Alexandria. Dating: late sixteenth- or early seventeenth-century. […] In the introduction to her edition, Jane Hathaway notes that this letter to: "Salmūn al-Iskandarānī, the Jewish director of Alexandria’s customs.... open with the affectionate benim rūḥum (literally, ‘my soul’ or ‘my spirit’), although the formalities that follow imply that both officers are reporting to Salmūn. […] Like these other financiers, he also seems to have played a role in the supply of critical provisions to Egypt, most notably, at least so far as our first document is concerned, wood.

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العلامات

• alexandria
• istanbul
• military
• ottoman era
• ottoman state
• (+ 3 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة

Inferred date

1500–1600 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The entries underneath mention: sugar; [...] b. Muṣṭafā; ʿAllān b. ʿAlī; Ḥasan b. [...]; Ḥasan b. Maḥmūd; the securities (?[…] ; Muḥammad Buraymat(?); ʿAli b. [...]; ʿAbdallāh; Muhammad b. Aḥmad; ʿAli [...]; and others. […] Then refers to the captains Khayr al-Dīn and one other person; Khalīl; Muḥammad; Yūsuf and his companions; Aḥmad Raʾīs; ʿAlī; and various other names.

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العلامات

• istanbul
• list
• ottoman shipping
• shipping

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The addressee is likely Abū l-Barakāt b. Abū Manṣūr al-Ḥarīrī to whom Shelomo also wrote CUL Or.1080 J28 (PGPID 8852), CUL Add.3343 (PGPID 3962), and ENA 2559.10 (PGPID 12340). […] T-S AS 150.9 (PGPID 4190) and al-Mutannabī's poem أَبلى الهَوى أَسَفاً). All his money goes to potions and chickens, and all the women who visit him tell him that he is the victim of a spell. […] Greetings are sent to: Abū l-Barakāt, his wife, his brother Abū l-Faraj (al-mawlā al-makīn), and his father (Abū l-Ḥasan).

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العلامات

• excommunication
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: etiology
• illness: marital
• (+ 4 المزيد)

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Hebrew

Saʿadya - Efrayim and Wahb the sons of Suqayr (this Wahb appears also in T-S 18J1.4 (PGPID 3521)) - Hillel b. Ḥadhaqa - Yiṣḥaq b. […] He notes that it must be small, because there is no ḥaver or judge, only a cantor. He also notes that several of the names (e.g., Haysham and Noaḥ and Ḥadhaqa) are not attested or only very rarely attested in the Geniza. […] See also T-S G2.24 (PGPID 23046), identified by Alan Elbaum in August 2025.

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العلامات

• communal

3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان

Primary language

Arabic

Verso: Accounts in Arabic with Greek/Coptic alphanumerals, mostly crossed out. Some accounts are also visible on the recto where the paper has been reused for a Judaeo-Arabic halakhic text discussing kashrut.

العلامات

• cmp

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Official correspondence (petition or report). Refers to Dīwān al-Shām (of Syria, cf. T-S AS 111.37). The beginnings of two lines are preserved: "al-mutaqaddim min jihat mawlāy... ilā dīwān al-shām...."

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1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer reports that a sick man is in dangerous condition (al-marīḍ ʿalā khaṭar (or conceivably ʿalā khuṭṭa)) and he requests help hiring transportation, possibly to Fuwwa.

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العلامات

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: critical

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

One page begins: "waṣala ilā [bayt al-māl?] al-maʿmūr min jihat Muḥammad b. ʿAmmār al-wakīl fī [...]," then the date: 413 or 423 AH.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Letter or order addressed to [...] Quṭb al-Dīn. In Arabic script. Dating: Might be late, perhaps 14th century or later. […] On verso there are accounts of some sort, also in Arabic script.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Written in Judaeo-Arabic. Almost complete. Mentions flax; Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf al-Kohen; "the beads of al-Tustari"; Av[raham] b.

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العلامات

• unedited 11th c

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Mentions: cotton; coarse cotton; ʿAbd al-Salām; 5 dinars and a qirat less a ḥabba; Ibn Sālim; Jawāhir(?) al-Naṣrānī; al-Naṣrānī Dāwūd; Iṣḥāq Ḥādī(?)

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العلامات

• prayer
• thanks

1 مناقشة

Document date

26 Ḥeshvan [4817] Anno Mundi (6 November 1056 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Ismāʿīl b. Faraḥ, Alexandria, to Yosef b. Eli Kohen Fāsī, in Fustat. 6 November 1056. Discusses goods arriving from al-Andalus, Italy and the Maghrib; mentions cotton, fruit, textiles, oil and honey.

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العلامات

• commodities
• cotton

2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Dating: 11th–12th century CE. Ḥusayn b. Ḥāzim al-Bayyāʿ (the food vendor) purchased a house from Ḥasan b. ʿAlīal-Baqqāl (the grocer). (Information from Khan.)

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2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

Verso: Document in Arabic script consisting only of the glyph followed by "al-shaykh al-ajall Bū l-ʿAlāʾ"; it may have been abandoned here.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Avraham and possibly a deposit for an orphan. Also possibly someone named T[...] al-Mūrid. (Information in part from CUDL)

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

List of names, possibly a reading list for Shabbat, including names such as Abū l-Manṣūr, Abū l-[...] Ibn al-Kohen, Yosef Ibn al-Levi, and Makīn b. Muʿammar al-Kohen.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

Elul 1282 Seleucid (25 August 971–22 September 971 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Fragment of a letter from Sherira Gaʾon to two brothers, probably al-Ḥasan and Abū ʿAlīal-Ḥusayn b. Yūsuf. Dated: Elul 1282 Sel. = September 971.

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العلامات

• communal

1 نسخ

Primary language

Aramaic

Fragment from the top part of a ketubba from Cairo ([al-Qāhira] al-Muʿizziyya). Invokes the authority of the Nagid titled [Mordekhay] ha-Zeman. […] The bride is named Sitt al-[...]. AA/ASE

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العلامات

• ketubba

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender was happy at the news of the arrival of the addressee (referred to as "mālik al-riqq"). Mentions al-Shaykh al-Thiqa, the father of the addressee.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Letter in Arabic script. There are also a few words in Judaeo-Arabic on verso (li-dukkān...). The letter mentions people such as Abū l-Ḥasan and al-Rayyis Ab/Av. The address is partially preserved but difficult to read.

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Beautifully illuminated carpet page consisting of a menora and six-pointed stars, followed by alphabetical exercises from a children's Hebrew textbook. The consonants alef to he are presented with different Tiberian vowels, interspersed with star designs.

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Details debts owed to a certain person by Yaʿaqov al-Yahūdī; Avraham al-Yahūdī; the acquaintance of Ibn al-[...].

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العلامات

• account

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Each entry is headed with a basmala. Abū l-ʿAlā' al-Dajājī owes 1 1/8 dinar; Ibn al-Muṭarriz(?)

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef and someone known as Ibn al-Quṣayyir(?) al-Zayyāt. Mentions conflict or distress and Darb al-Kharrāṭīn.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions people such as Abū l-Qāsim, al-Neʾeman, al-Ḥemdat and Shemuel al-Ṣiqillī. Mentions commodities such as pepper.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions pomegranate seed; marjarom; Ibn al-Ṣayrafī; Ibn al-Dhahabī; Ibn Shaʿyā; Dār al-Qāḍī; Barakāt; Faraj; Ibn Ghālib; Gharīb; Yaʿaqov; Nuṣayr; Yaʿaqov.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Arabic

Verso: Informal note in Arabic script, may also be in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Mentions that he searched for what the addressee had requested; prices of packs of paper (dast), Abū l-Ḥasan al-Zajjāj; and specific books.

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العلامات

• book trade

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

22 Shevat 1525 Seleucid (February 1214 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yehuda b. Aharon Ibn al-ʿAmmānī, in Alexandria, to Abū l-Majd Meir b. […] In the letter are found the repercussions of the arrival of French rabbis to Alexandria. The community seems to be in a serious crisis due to the lack of leadership. […] However, Hilāl's fatal illness was different than the one mentioned in this letter, as Hilāl was still alive in December 1214 when he wrote T-S 13J21.27, having recently traveled from Alexandria to Fustat and back.)

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العلامات

• alexandria
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: despair
• illness: etiology
• (+ 4 المزيد)

2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Document date

3 Tishrei 5293 Anno Mundi (2 September 1532 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Shemuel then claimed that he had already sent enough of the money to David Ḥavriya (? […] Zubayda (the other sister of Naṣr) and to give the remainder to ʿAbd al-Kāfī, who, however, didn't receive a penny. Shemuel responded that there was not enough money left from the inheritance to pay ʿAbd al-Kāfī his share (and his mother's and siblings'), but there was enough if he made up the difference with property and jewelry and clothing. The document continues for another 100 lines or so, detailing all the different denominations of currency that Shemuel handed over to ʿAbd al-Kāfī, along with all the jewelry, clothing, and other items (with a detailed inventory of 70 items of mainly clothing appearing in a separate list on the facing page).

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العلامات

• ben habib
• late palestine
• material culture
• numismatics

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Barhūn, it seems in Alexandria, mentioning the arrival of the recipient (or another 'shaykh') and a 'young man' (slave, freedman or employee). […] The writer has enclosed another important letter, to a certain family (al-Faṭṭūma?), from their agent ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, and he asks the recipient to ensure that it reaches its target. (Information in part from Goitein's index card.) Join: Alan Elbaum.

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2 نسخين 1 مناقشة

Document date

Ṭevet 1392 Seleucid (15 December 1080–12 January 1081 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Two court depositions concerning a debt, allegedly paid, and "a load of Ḥalabī" (Aleppan textiles) drowned in the ship of Abū ʿAlīal-Shāmī.

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العلامات

• libya

1 مناقشة

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from an unknown man to his niece (bint al-akh). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 13th century. […] תדפעי לה מן ענדך) and go along with this plan. He continues to urge her to cease wasting her youth in spinsterhood ("for I am a man and I was older(?) than you and I did not sit (i.e. as a widower)."). Cairo is also mentioned. The letter ends very abruptly with none of the formulaic regards, so this was probably a draft.

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العلامات

• marriage
• remarriage
• suitor
• widow

1 نسخ

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Natan Av, judge in Cairo, to al-Mumhe, i.e. "the specialist," meaning a permanent member of the court, whose name is not preserved, and who was apparently in charge of the money of the qodesh, ca. 1100. […] Sa'id, "the head of the congregations," who was given the money in order to bring timber from Alexandria for this sum, died before he could go to Alexandria and the money was left with his widow.

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العلامات

• 12th c
• account
• heqdesh
• qodesh
• waqf

1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة

Primary language

Arabic

Petition addressed to Saladin (al-Malik al-Nāṣir). From Maḥmūd b. Mamdūd who describes himself as a warrior in the path of God (al-mujāhid fī sabīl Allāh). By some accounts the original name of Sayf al-Dīn Quṭuz (the third Mamluk sultan, r. 1259–60) was Maḥmūd b.

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العلامات

• saladin

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Document date

5 Muḥarram 735 Hijrī (5 September 1334 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

For the capitation taxes of the Jews in Damascus(!?) (bi-l-Shām al-Maḥrūs). Reads roughly as follows: وصل الى بيت المال المعمور خامس المحرم سنة خمسة وثلاثين وسبعمائة واقام به ابو سعد اليهودي ابي(؟) سليمان من جوالي اليهود بالشام(؟) المحروس. […] Upside down at the bottom there is what looks like an ʿalāma and a draft of the same text (waṣala ilā bayt al-māl...). On recto there is also a list of names in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script, accompanied by sums of money (e.g., fils), potentially related to verso, e.g. if these are the Jews whose capitation taxes are being documented.

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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

The same scribe probably wrote ENA NS 69.20 and T-S AS 156.42, based on the handwriting similarity combined with the presence of the relatively uncommon blessing "min dār al-fanā' wa-l-shaqā' ilā dār al-naʿīm wa-l-baqā' (from the abode of perdition and woe to the abode of blessing and immortality)." […] The first is for a laurel-based ophthalmic (ṣifat kuḥl al-sādhaj al-ḥāfiẓ) that strengthens the vision. The second is for a coolant (barūd) that the caliph al-Ma'mūn purportedly used to preserve health and strengthen eyesight.

العلامات

• appeal
• arabic literary
• prison

لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر