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Document date

909 Hijrī (26 June 1503–13 June 1504 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

ENA 3960.6–10 are five distinct but related legal acknowledgments (iqrārs) in Arabic script, all dated 909 AH (1503/04 CE), and involving the same people (e.g., Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad b. al-Khwājā Yūsuf b. al-Ḥājj ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Tājir al-Saffār(?)

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Likely an indirect join with T-S Misc.28.79.6 or ENA NS 77.275, and related to the same parties as in T-S NS J11 + T-S 10J4.16 + T-S 16.158 + T-S 10J4.17,

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: 16th-century or later based on the paleography. The entries are extensive, mentioning a variety of names and goods: one of which (פירפין) appears at least three times on the recto.

Tags

• list

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Document date

485 Hijrī (12 February 1092–31 January 1093 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Written in multiple hands, several entries crossed out. Dated in multiple places [.]85 AH, possibly with the century listed in l. 18 along the right column/recto 485 AH.

Tags

• list

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

II,160 (PGPID 5451)), and ENA NS I.84 (PGPID 11967). Very little of the content of this letter remains.

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Tags

• ib-addenda
• ib2
• india book unedited
• unedited 11th c

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Abū l-Surūr and Ibn al-Sulamī; a period of a year and a half; a quarter of the business proceeds; "except for the verdigris" (illā l-zinjār); and the term muʿāraḍa (objection?). Ends with greetings (ajall al-salām) and a request to write back quickly (וכתבך לא תוכרהא [עני).

Tags

• business
• letter

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Possibly dated in the first line of the recto, left side: ס׳ סגץ (s[anat] 963 AH), but the preceding word is too damaged to know for sure if this is a Hijrī year or perhaps a non-calendrical part of the entry. The terms "sharf" and "ashrīf" on the recto may be references to late Mamlūk ashrāfī or Ottoman şerifī gold coinage, supporting a possible dating estimate of 15th- or 16th-century.

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Inferred date

1707–1800 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The first or last name Morkos (מורקוס/מורקס) is repeated in several entries, which is an Arabic rendering of the name Mark and common among Christian communities.

Tags

• christians
• numismatic dating

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Document date

1 Heshvan 5319 Anno Mundi (13 October 1558 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yahuda, the wide of Ben-Shanjī, Meʾīr Morḥayyīm, (verso) the widow of "Aba Mārī" (perhaps the scribe's parents), Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq. There are entries on the recto and verso relating to bathhouses.

Tags

• 16th c
• bathhouse

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shemarya, a relative of Isḥāq b. ʿEli al-Majjānī. See ENA 2805.9." Information from Oded Zinger via FGP.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: early 13th century. Almost entirely formulaic. The main substance appears to be a wish for peace between the addressee and his "family" (ahl), immediately followed by blessings for male offspring, so perhaps Abū Zikrī had some kind of marital conflict (the same conflict may be alluded to in T-S 13J7.26 (PGPID 7979)).

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Tags

• personal

1 Transcription

Inferred date

1127–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

At least part of it concerns an expenditure given to Abū l-Ḥasan to be delivered to the widow of Abū l-Munā mentioning dirhams and dinars. The entries are separated by horizontal lines. Many other names are mentioned.

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Tags

• account

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Inferred date

1128–1164 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

End of a document about pledges (rahāʾin) signed by Moshe b.

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1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A single word seems to be repeated in each entry (dafʿa?). (Information in part from Goitein's index card and CUDL.)

Tags

• account
• coptic numerals

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Hebrew

The bill of divorce had now been made out and entrusted to a man who would deliver it to the woman, ca. 1035.

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Tags

• communal
• divorce

2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Primary language

Hebrew

Recto: Letter by Sherira Gaon to a correspondent in Fustat, complaining about Egypt and the West's neglect of the Yeshiva. Beginning and end are missing, but the letter should be dated to 962 CE, written while Sherira was still Av Bet Din in the yeshiva of Pumbedita.

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Tags

• complaints
• yeshiva

2 Transcriptions

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On verso there are also entries about the sale or exchange of books, perhaps in the hand of Shelomo b.

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Tags

• book trade
• ib7
• india book

2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Primary language

Arabic

T-S K11.57 is probably the end of the letter. Joins: Alan Elbaum. The top of the document is another Arabic script document, probably an official account or receipt, glued together to form a substrate for Hebrew biblical verses (the secondary use).

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Tags

• dimme
• petition

1 Transcription

Primary language

Hebrew

Each line in this rhythmic and compressed work has three internal rhymes, precisely sixteen syllables, and ends with the word holeh (ill). (Information from Posen Library)

1 Translation 1 Discussion

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Involves: silk merchandise, some of it in the form of twisted silk yarn ("maftūl"); parties named Ḥalfon, Avraham, and Ḥakam; possibly a business loss and a dispute and a resolution, which involves one of them stating that he will never enter the opponent's house. Interestingly, this document was edited and the pronouns were switched around (first person to third person and vice versa).

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Tags

• halfon b. menashshe

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: ca. 1095 CE. About 32 entries, mostly identical with those in T-S Misc.8.102.

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1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The two manuscripts contain the bride's consent to the marriage, her receiving the initial marriage gift (Muqaddam) and an appoint of a representative on her behalf. The first manuscript, ENA NS I.95a, from the 3rd of Nissan (Monday, the 14th of March) year 1244, is a testimony of witnesses that the bride gave in their presence her consent to the marriage to the aforementioned Groom, and that she received the initial marriage gift (Muqaddam) and accepted the sum of the delayed marriage gift (Me'ukhar). […] While the wife testified in the previous document that she received the initial marriage gift and accepted the sum of the delayed marriage gift, in the second document she appoints her brother to receive the initial marriage gift and to set the sum of the delayed marriage gift. Since the ending of the first document did not survive it is impossible to determine what took place in those two days.

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Tags

• marriage
• testimony

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Lines 12-16 indicate that if commodities may end up traveling for sale in Alexandria escorted by someone other than the active partner, the active partner should inform Sibāʿ. […] The active partner seems to be entitled to all profits except for the maintenance of Sibāʿ(excluding Sibāʿ's rent and education costs for his son).

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Tags

• alexandria
• draft
• halfon b. netanel
• ib4
• india book
• (+ 1 more)

3 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Document date

Last third of Tishrei, 15?? Seleucid (1210–1220 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Both partners are to engage in trade. The division of profit and loss is not preserved, but line 10 hints that profits and losses were to be divided equally between the two partners. […] (Information from Lieberman, "A Partnership Culture," 185-186) Probably in the hand of the same scribe, some bearing the signature of the same witness, and some cut in half vertically like this document: T-S 13J3.25 (dated 1215), T-S 13J3.27 (dated 1218), T-S NS 226.12 (dated 1217/18 CE), MS 8254, fol. 17a (dated 1216), T-S NS J242 (dated 1214), ENA 2727.23a, and T-S 13J22.18. Another Ḥalfon b.

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• 13th c
• partnership

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Document date

5 Elul (no year) Anno Mundi

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Reports on the sailing of ships from al-Mahdiyya heading eastward, which must have been among the last departures for the east, since the sailing season ended in mid-September. The letter mentions that the ships that left al-Mahdiyya before the qārib of al-Mufaḍḍal al-Ḥayfī had not yet arrived in Alexandria, either because they were different vessels and travelled at a different speed, or because they took a different course and encountered different weather and wind.

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• 11th c
• nahray b. nissim
• trade

3 Transcriptions 2 Translations

Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

David in Aden. The beginning and end of the letter are missing, so that we do not know who the writer and addressee were. […] The writer’s business partner later encountered some difficulties in getting Muwaffaq to deliver the bundle, and he made a public report on these difficulties in Aden in Maḍmūn b.

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3

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• ib2
• india book

1 Transcription 1 Translation

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Likely the same Maḥāsin as in T-S 10J12.16 (PGPID 2811), T-S 10J4.14 (PGPID 3017), ENA 1822a.8 (PGPID 6600) dating to the period of Maimonides in Egypt (1168–1204), and T-S K6.149 (PGPID 8486) also dating to the period 1165–1203 CE as it is in the handwriting of Shemuel b. […] In this letter, Bū l-Maḥāsin tells his mother about the trouble he encountered when sailing from Cairo to Alexandria. He left Cairo on Friday but could not board the sail-boat because the customs officials would not let him and finally got a ferry to take him over to the boat, where the officials could not see him.

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• nar

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Document date

1085 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Eli (probable, per Goitein). This document is the end of a deathbed declaration in which the dying man accounts for the assets due a partnership in a lead foundry. […] Perhaps he had to relinquish some control of the enterprise in his final days as he was ill. His death is recorded on lines 9-10.

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• deathbed will
• illness: death
• lead
• partnership

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Document date

19 Ḥeshvan 1498 Seleucid (3 November 1186 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: addendum, dated Ṭevet 1499 of the Seleucid Era (= 1187—88) in Cairo. Dispute between an engaged couple that was caused by a postponement of the marriage. According to the engagement agreement the groom should have paid a fine to his bride, orphaned from her father, in case the marriage will be delayed because of him, as was common in many pre-nuptial agreements in the Geniza.

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Document date

1693 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Undated, neighboring entries are circa 1693 CE. (Document #38) Upper lines of a ketubba settlement for Riqa bt. […] MCD. (#39) Lower lines of a dowry list, possibly from the prior document entry on the left side of bifolium 4v. The contents are extensive and include a wide variety of clothing, bedding, and extravagant gold/silver jewelry adorned with diamonds, rubies, emeralds, sapphires, and coral. (#34) Upper lines of a three-year rental agreement whose lower lines appear on the right side of bifolium 5r.

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