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Document date

1463 Seleucid (13 September 1151–31 August 1152 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic, Judaeo-Persian

Resembling Ibn Yijū's other calendars but with fewer technical details (e.g., T-S 24.66 and T-S 10K20.1, described here: https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/departments/taylor-schechter-genizah-research-unit/projects/calendar-fragments-tool). […] This fragment is notable for the use of several Judaeo-Persian calendrical terms, the only known evidence for Ibn Yijū's engagement with the Persian language. סאל = سال = year רוזא = روزه = fast שנבא = شنبه = Saturday יך שנבא = يك شنبه = Sunday דו שנבא = دو شنبه = Monday סי שנבא = سه شنبه = Tuesday שר(!) […] (Join found via the Dicta Genizah Search website for the MiDRASH Automatic Transcriptions https://zenodo.org/records/17734473.)

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• calendar
• ib-addenda
• ib3

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Some of the margins (and the entire verso of T-S K25.207) were reused for jotted accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in a rudimentary hand. T-S NS 322.88 + T-S Ar.29.153 are a direct join; the rest seem to be indirect joins. ENA 3577.7 and T-S Ar.29.165 have different dimensions and layout than the other fragments and may have come from a separate quire. […] A few of the joins were found via the Dicta Genizah Search website for the MiDRASH Automatic Transcriptions https://zenodo.org/records/17734473.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Join found via the Dicta Genizah Search website for the MiDRASH Automatic Transcriptions https://zenodo.org/records/17734473.)

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• abu zikri kohen
• cheque
• ib-addenda
• ib5
• order of payment

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Primary language

Hebrew

Another version of Ibn Yijū's poem in praise of Maḍmūn and cursing his enemies (India Book II, 39), in the hand of the same scribe as AIU IV.C.486 (PGPID 39481). Identification and join by Alan Elbaum with the assistance of the Dicta Genizah Search website for the MiDRASH Automatic Transcriptions (https://zenodo.org/records/17734473).

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• ib-addenda

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Hebrew

Verso: Abbreviated version of Avraham Ibn ʿEzra's poetic dispute between animals and man (אל בוראי); full text available at https://benyehuda.org/read/21446. The portion preserved here: ארים קול ולא אירא / בן אדם מה עוצמה שאתו ישתרר על אריה בחניתו יך פרעוש גם כינים בחמתו ונמלים ירמוס בהליכתו / געה שור ויצעק שמעו לי מה פשעי לאיש או מה מעלי כי חנם הכביד מטות עלי Translation: I raise my voice and am not afraid. […] MS heb. d 61/55, T-S NS 96.55, T-S K16.20, and the printed fragment T-S Misc.17.27 (found via the Dicta Genizah Search website for the MiDRASH Automatic Transcriptions https://zenodo.org/records/17734473).

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Hebrew

For more information, visithttps://johannes-obadiah.org/navigator.php?

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• aleppo
• convert
• lor
• obadiah the proselyte

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Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Note that this fragment is named UPenn RAR MS 82.313.1.17 on FGP but UPenn RAR MS 82.313.17 on the OPenn website.

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Document date

23 Adar I 1475 Seleucid (18 February 1164 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

The images on FGP and the University of Heidelberg Library website are difficult to read and might seem like photostats, but I'm told they are digital images of the originals.

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Primary language

Unidentified (Hebrew script)

The scribal hand is akin, but not identical to the commercial accounts of ENA NS 1066.1-10 (PGPID 9938), which contain a linguistic mixture of Hebrew, Italian, and Yiddish. See also: https://dpul.princeton.edu/coins_geniza/feature/7-florin-15th-16th-centuries-ce.

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Primary language

Hebrew

[Genizah Research Unit, Fragment of the Month, August 2009]. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.48227 NB: This PGPID is a duplicate from prior to entry of the join and needs to be merged.

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• late heb

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Eliʿezer in Alexandria. A visiting preacher ([...] b. ʿOvadyahu) came to the community and won great popularity to the point that the judge Eliʿezer tried to interrupt his sermon and stormed out with a portion of the congregation. Rabbenu Efrayim came to the side of the visiting preacher. The Alexandrians are writing in support of the visitor, and complaining about the local dayyan's behaviour. The beginning and end of the letter are missing. (Information in part from Frenkel and CUDL.)

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• communal controversy

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Document date

Adar 5603 Anno Mundi (1 February 1843–2 March 1843 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

This is a letter on behalf of the envoy (shaliaḥ) Yaʿaqov Aharon Cur[i]el. "The writers reproach the local leaders of Karkukh for not giving any money to their envoy (שלוחא דרבנן), whose name is written there in big letters — Ya’akov Aharon Koral — who came to the city to collect money for Jerusalem three months ago and was left empty handed. They accuse them of neglecting the holy city, against the tradition, and of not keeping their promises." Information from https://medium.com/@judaicadh/talking-the-talk-pretty-signatures-4e2f861cc4b4.

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• 19th c
• iraq
• shaliah

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

, Muslim, Muḥsin, and Karīm. He visited each of these almost daily, and they paid 1–4 (dirhems?) per visit; only on Friday two patients paid 6, presumably because there usually was no visit on the Sabbath. The payments were made (or listed as not made) at the end of the week. The physician is referred to in the third person.

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• illness
• illness: cost
• illness: physicians
• physicians

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Document date

Sivan 5013 Anno Mundi (30 April 1253–29 May 1253 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

"Yearning has not left me any endurance, but visits me day and night. My endurance is dead, entombed deep in the bottom of a grave.

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"The first among these magical recipes is intended to ensure a great affection between a wife and her husband, erasing any animosity that might exist between them. […] It instructs the practitioner to take ‘seven leaves of laurel and grind them in old wine’, after which he is to write several magical names, perhaps using the mixture prepared earlier, or else, to write the names on the laurel leaves. The recipe ends with another biblical quotation, this time from the Song of Songs 8:7." […] [Genizah Research Unit, Fragment of the Month, July 2010]. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.55274

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• fotm
• love
• magic

1 Transcription 1 Translation

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He apologizes for not visiting the house while he has been away on a business trip, probably from Fustat to the Ṣaʿīd (upper Egypt). […] (In a postscript: "If you are thinking of my journey the time I visited you in Dalāṣ(?) with the camel(?) with its tail cut off—this journey was not like that journey"). […] The feminine ending remains unexplained; maybe it is actually a plural (equivalent to al-Qubaybiyyīn) indicating both his father's origin and his own origin?

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• business
• family

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Arabic

The writer describes the conditions in Ascalon against the background of the Turcoman/Seljuk invasions, and how he traveled from Ascalon to Jerusalem and visited his abandoned house to recover some books, but only found dafātir and maṣāḥif that had been destroyed by the damp. The girl, al-Jawziyya, whom he had wanted to marry in Ascalon, had become engaged to somebody else. There ensued a legal struggle which involved an official titled Sitr al-Dawla, apparently Abū ʿAbdallāh al-Ma'mūn Yaḥyā Ibn Kātib al-Baṭā'iḥī, who became the vizier in Egypt following al-Afḍal.

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• al-malik al-afdal (1094-1121)
• fatimid officials

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The wife is permitted to leave her house only with her husband's consent, except for visits to the bathhouse and her family. See the discussion in Ashur, "Engagement and Betrothal," p. 121, n. 12.

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• bathhouse
• halfon b. menashshe
• prenuptial

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Later, the sender explains that a person who has had the ʿṬY enter his flesh will not heal (r5–6). The meaning of ʿṬY is not clear; khazm is also not clear, but comes from a root referring to piercing, sometimes nose piercing. The term hinbāzīn/הנבאזין/هنبازين (appears also in T-S 8J22.30 (PGPID 3671)) is apparently known from Coptic martyrologies (according to some sources deriving from Greek ἑρμητάριον < Latin armentarium < Armentarius, the nickname of the emperor Galerius Maximianus); see https://st-takla.org/Coptic-Faith-Creed-Dogma/Coptic-Rite-n-Ritual-Taks-Al-Kanisa/Dictionary-of-Coptic-Ritual-Terms/9-Coptic-Terminology_Heh-Waw-Yeh/henbazeen.html and Phillips Barry, "Martyrs' Milk" (1914) (https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Open_Court/VuoXAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=ermetarion&pg=PA563&printsec=frontcover).

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• state
• torture

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

(Information from CUDL.) Reuven engaged or betrothed the daughter of Shimon without seeing her. […] [Genizah Research Unit, Fragment of the Month, October 2008]. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.48230.

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• fotm

2 Transcriptions 2 Translations

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer reports about a journey he made in which he was in danger. He visited a place where a Jew had been killed. The name Tuvya the son of the man from Banias is mentioned. In the greetings in the end of the letter Abu Ishaq, Sitt al-Dallal , Sitt al-Sada, Abu al-Ma'ali and Abu Sahl the cantor are mentioned.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer has found her a promising suitor who recently visited Bilbays, a learned man who works as a teacher, the son of the sister of the teacher Bū l-Ḥasan Hillel al-Shanshāwī. […] 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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• marriage
• remarriage
• suitor
• widow

1 Transcription

Primary language

Hebrew

Middle part of a poorly preserved letter (the beginning, end, and address are lost), probably an invitation or encouragement for a celebrity, Natan ha-Kohen, to come and visit.

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Inferred date

1131–1149 CE

Primary language

Arabic

One of the parties is Abū Naṣr Manṣūr Ibn al-ʿAynzarbī, "one of the entourage of al-Ḥāfiẓ" (the Fatimid caliph al-Ḥāfiẓ who reigned 1131–49 CE). This is a famous physician: see https://scholarlyeditions.brill.com/reader/urn:cts:arabicLit:0668IbnAbiUsaibia.Tabaqatalatibba.lhom-tr-eng1:14.29.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The next bilingual phrase is damaged, but could be interrelated, ending in: .n yarım sen (".. you half"). The first line of the verso, contains the clearly rendered phrase: bir safar qīlūrman ביר ספר קילורמן ("I will go on a trip"), which bears evidence of the Uzbek future first-person indefinite conjugation -arman/-urman for the verb qilmoq (to do). This conjugation form does not exist in Ottoman Turkish. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Uzbek_verbs // https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/qilmoq On the recto, the first legible phrase pairing reads: ולא מסאפר: מן ספרכא... […] For a full overview of relevant case suffixes, see: https://www.turkolog.ist/uzbek/Uzbek_cases.pdf // Bodrogligeti, 33-34 Another phrase on the recto reads: לא תר..

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

“As for my state, I inform the masters that I came down with diarrhea, and I endured it. When it increased and multiplied, it became an illness. […] They concocted the medicine in the house of Rabbenu (ZL): every day, roasted seeds and the like, and a pullet, and he visited me frequently. And R. Eliyya the Judge was also generous. When I recovered after some days… [I came down] with what was worse than it… ophthalmia in my eye on the night of Shabbat Shoftim… a painful scream, against my will, all night…. May God afflict my enemies [with what I was afflicted with]. The illness became public.

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• 13th c
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: eye
• illness: gastrointestinal
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Inferred date

1213–1237 CE

Concerning a certain Kohen who is seeking a restraining order against his divorcee and to prohibit her from entering the alley where he lives, because he is scared of her and her witchcraft (כישוף). She keeps visiting her female friends who live in the same alley as he.

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• legal query
• responsum

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender had gone up to Fustat to visit the addressee and congratulate him on his health, but he was distracted by another errand in the royal court (fī bāb al-ṣulṭān). […] Jawshan who is otherwise known from a letter of gratitude sent to him by Ibn Qalāqis when Ghārāt was in the service of William II (r. 1166–89) (see ديوان ترسل ابن قلاقس no. 29 and Ihsan Abbas, al-ʿArab fī Siqilliyya, https://shamela.ws/book/1020/280#p1). He reports that everyone in Sicily longs for the addressee, and that he has sent them news of the addressee's health.

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• alexandria
• capitation tax
• customs
• indigo
• sicily
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Nājiya al-Ruṣāfī in Nūr al-Ṭarf wa-Nūr al-Ẓarf by al-Ḥuṣrī al-Qayrawānī (d. 1095) (https://shamela.ws/book/5351/42), in praise of the hospitality and culture of Bedouins. […] His riding animal brings him to the lands of Banū Shaybān and he enters the courtyard of a house. A woman calls out to extend hospitality, and he responds "yā sayyida, how can a frightened, pursued, terrified, persecuted person find peace... no one can rest with the government after him." She gives him advice and repeats the invitation. The Geniza fragment ends around here. In the parallel version, the woman summons the head of the household (or tribe?)

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• literary with documentary value
• story

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There is not much by way of content; it is heavy on the flattery and seems to be encouraging the addressee to come visit.There is a response on verso.

1 Transcription

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

The tapering format of the lines is extremely similar to the copy of the Arabic text in the Library of Congress: https://www.wdl.org/en/item/3125/. On verso there is also a medical recipe in Arabic script using galingale, emblic, elephant fig, Ceylon cinnamon, gum Arabic, and honey (it is not immediately clear if this is part of the same work, al-Kīmiyā' al-Malikiyya).

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• magnet
• medicine
• paracelsus

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

According to Alan Elbaum, in the hand of Yedutun ha-Levi (late 12th–early 13th century), and part of a cluster with T-S Ar.6.28 (PGPID 1278), ENA 2592.24 (PGPID 12808), T-S K15.46 (PGPID 23221), and T-S Misc.8.72 (PGPID 8337). […] Information from Alan Elbaum and from Moshe Yagur, "Saʿāda the enslaved woman: immersion and oblivion, T-S 12.872," Fragment of the Month, August 2019, https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/departments/taylor-schechter-genizah-research-unit/fragment-month/fotm-2019/fragment-6.

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• genealogy

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Primary language

Arabic

Versions of the story may be found in Abū Hayyān al-Tawḥīdī's Kitāb al-Baṣāʾir wa-l-Dhakhāʾir (https://shamela.ws/book/26423/1991) and al-Tadhkira al-Ḥamdūniyya (https://shamela.ws/book/10646/500).

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• dimme

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