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5501Credit instrument or private receiptT-S AS 183.59
Primary language
Arabic
Likely an order or receipt. Names al-Shaykh Bū l-Qāsim b. al-[...]
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5502Unknown typeT-S AS 183.268
Primary language
Arabic
Small fragment of an Arabic document. May say in part "al-shaykh... al-ajall"
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5503Unknown typeT-S AS 187.243
Primary language
Arabic
Unidentified document or text in Arabic. There are also two lines of calendrical calculations in Hebrew script.
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5504List or tableT-S K25.53
Primary language
Arabic
Accounts in Arabic and some sort of shorthand. On verso there are also a few lines in Hebrew script.
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5505List or tableT-S NS 31.36
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Mentions the cost of traveling from Fustat/Cairo to Alexandria.
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5506List or tableT-S NS 324.83
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Mentions Yehuda and Tripoli (טרבלס) and Alexandria (סכדריה).
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5507List or tableUU 1630
Primary language
Arabic
Probably Mamluk period. Mentions "al-muḥḍar", and "al-ḥiṣṣa".
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5508List or tableAIU IX.A.49.10
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Writing exercises mostly of the Hebrew alphabet in a large notebook of 12 folios on lined paper. […] On occasion an instance of model handwriting appears at the top of pages for the student to copy from (for example 9v). On 9r there is also practice of a phrase in Judaeo-Arabic that appears to be legal/contractual in nature with the opening "אקר ואשהד עלה נפסה".
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5509List or tableAIU VI.B.12
Primary languages
Hebrew, Ladino
Recto: Accounts in Ladino and Hebrew and sums of large numbers, giving the names Ibrahim, Yizhaq, and Yaʿaqov, who seem to be contemporary business associates, but could also be the patriarchs, and all the math on this page could actually be numerology.
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- ladino
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5510Legal documentAIU VI.B.108
Primary languages
Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic
Later text: In Judaeo-Arabic, the archaeological secrets revealed by a certain "nāẓir," not explicitly about treasure hunting (like AIU VI.B.99), but with a distinctly esoteric flavor. Mentions al-Mayādīn, the Umayyad Castles, Cairo and Miṣr, Kahf al-Sūdān, Kahf al-ʿAqaba.
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5511Credit instrument or private receiptAIU XII.51
Primary language
Arabic
Recto (secondary use): Order from ʿĀzim al-Bayyāʿ (the grocer) to hand over 1/2 wayba of rice to the bearer of the note. […] Underneath there is a taṣliya and above that (in a different hand) an ʿalāma (al-ḥamdu lillāh waḥdah). The layout is somewhat reminiscent of state receipts, which is not necessarily surprising as everyday receipts and documents had similar layouts.
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5512Legal documentBL OR 5524.8
Document date
Tuesday, 26 Av 1484 Seleucid (7 August 1173 CE)
Primary language
Aramaic
Husband: Abū Saʿd b. Abū ʿAlī. Wife: [Sitt al-]Jamīʿ bt. Yūsuf al-Ṣabbāgh.
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- divorce
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5513Legal documentBodl. MS heb. d 68/104
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Reconciliation between al-Muʿallim Manṣūr al-Dajājī (same as in T-S NS 297.76?) […] Mentions the 'waraqa' that is 'against him' in the Muslim courts. The name Shemuel al-Amshāṭī appears in the margin. Signed: ʿOvadya b.
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- marital dispute
- muslim courts
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5514LetterBodl. MS heb. e 105/53 + Bodl. MS heb. e 105/54
Document date
15 Adar 5454 Anno Mundi (12 March 1694 CE)
Primary language
Hebrew
There are interlinear corrections as well as citations in the right margin for the biblical verses alluded to. See also Bodl. MS heb. e 105/55 (PGPID 19483).
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5515LetterBodl. MS heb. e 108/68
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
The bearer of the letter is Khalūf al-Nafūsī, who had mentioned to the writer that he had קציבאת in Fustat. The addressee is asked to help him find a buyer. Khalūf is also bringing the 'khirqa' for the girl.
1. . . . . . כרובה פאידה פ. . .[. . . . . . . . . . . . .
2. ועלי ר זכריה שצ ועלי ר ברכות ועלי ר [. . . . . . . . .
3. אהל אלדאר אפצל אלסלאם ולא עדמנא תפצלהם
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5516LetterCUL Or.1080 J111
Letter from Ya’aqov b. Yosef al-Tunisi, Fustat, to Salah b. Barhun al-Taharti, Ramla. The writer sends goods to Ramla, to the merchant’s officer Ahmad b. al-Harani. Mentions details about merchandise that arrive in Fustat.
Recto
1. אכרמך אללה יאכי וסידי וריסי וגלילי [ ] וכאן לך
2. ומעך ע'ו'ז'ר' ו'ס'ו'מ'ך' פי גמיע אמורך כתאבי אליך ען שוק אן שדיד אליך
3. קרב אללה…
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5517Legal documentCUL Or.1080 J162
Document date
Wednesday, 25 Adar I 1453 Seleucid (22 February 1142 CE)
Primary languages
Aramaic, Hebrew
Husband: Surūr b. Sibāʿ. Wife: Sitt al-Ahl bt. Yaʿaqov. Witnesses: Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver (who also wrote the document) and Yeḥezqel b.
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5518Legal documentCUL Or.1081 J36
Document date
1428 Seleucid (9 September 1116–29 August 1117 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Fragment of agreement between three individuals, in which the agent is allowed to do business in the Egyptian Rīf (countryside), in Damietta, in Tinnīs, and in Alexandria—but nowhere else.
Recto
1. [ ]ן מא ען [ ] אלספר אליה מן [ ]ריף מ[ ]
2. [ ]ט אלואפר וארסל אלי מצר מא אתפק לי א[ ]
3. [ ]ה ותמניה ועשרין למנין שטרות ונעמל חס[ ]
4. [ ] אלמון כאן לי…
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5519LetterDK 325
Primary language
Arabic
The text on verso refers to al-ḥabs, majlis al-wālī, an annual payment of 1 dinar (line 11), al-aḥbās (line 21).
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5520List or tableENA 2461.17
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
From "your brother-in-law" to Yūsuf Ibn Ṭayyib (or Abū Ṭayyib) al-M[...] who lives in Raḥba(?). . . Bāb al-Yahūd(?). […] The mention of the placename Raḥba in l. 2 of the verso could refer to the village in northern Lebanon or the medieval fortress town al-Raḥba on the Euphrates, in modern-day Syria.
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5521LetterENA 2808.68
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Mentions people such as [...] al-Ḥaver al-Jalīl; Abū l-Qawām; and 'my master Daniel.' The sender seems in distress about something and alludes to unrest or wars (in Hebrew): "...many, many Abyssinians (kushim)... to us, to the sword of the Ishamelites...
1. ] . הקבה הוא /י/ודע
2. ] . . אללה ל . . . . . . מנה
3. ]די אלחבר אלגליל שצ
4. ] . . . . . ומן [א?]נא עבדה
5. ] . . [וח]ק אבי מא לי מן אלקדר
6. ] אן יבעת לי אלנאס
7. ]…
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5522LetterENA 3616.11 + T-S NS 151.30
Primary languages
Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Consists almost entirely of flattery and blessings. On verso there are words of condolence for Mevorakh's late brother (Cohen suggests that this is Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Seʿadya and that the phrase "fakhr ahl al-ʿilla" means "pride of the medical profession"; see Cohen, Jewish Self-Government, p. 134). Join: Alan Elbaum.
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5523LetterENA 3616.18
Primary languages
Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic
There may be a request for the addressee to help that man. Regards to Ismāʿīl al-Maghribī, Mukhtār al-Zinjārī, and 'your friend' ʿImrān al-Ṣūrī (from Tyre).
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5524List or tableENA 3943.13
Primary language
Arabic
Listing items that were shipped with a certain captain (al-rayyis... al-Ḥayfī) for Abū Ṭāhir b. Maḥfūẓ the physician (al-mutaṭabbib) including two Torah codices (muṣḥafayn tawrāt), two codices of another kind, five pieces of copper (qiṭaʿ nuḥās), and a large candelabra (manāra kabīra).
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5525LetterENA 3944.12
Primary language
Arabic
Begins with a basmala and the phrase 'mamlūk al-ḥadra al-sāmīya' (the slave of the lofty presence). The addressee is a high official as he is referred to as the protege (ṣanīʿa) of the caliph (ʾAmīr al-Muʾminīn). Text in the margins reads partly as "بالبركة انجاز هذا ال… قالله يعين على … في خير وعافية".
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5526LetterENA NS 7.52
Primary languages
Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic
The opening greetings of this letter contain the phrase "bayn al-saḥr wa-l-naḥr," an idiomatic expression for the chest and presumably also for the heart.
Recto:
1. בשמ
2. וצל כתאב חצרת מולאי אלשי[ך אלאגל אדאם אללה
3. תאיידה ועלאה ותמכינה [
4. עלי כבר אלצמאן פאכתר [
5. בין אלסחר ואלנחר וק[
6. גמיעה צחיח ומא פי [
7. ענה וב…
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5527Legal documentENA NS 17.25
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Fragment (right side only). Location: al-Maḥalla al-Kubrā. Probably in the hand of Moshe b. Peraḥya, the muqaddam of al-Maḥalla. Dating: the date is missing, but probably written under the authority of David Maimonides (l. 3), in which case this would date to after 1238 CE.
1. נקול נחן אלשהוד אלואצעין כ[
2. כאן פי אלעשר אלאכיר מן חדש [
3. אלכברי רשותיה דאדונינו דו[
4. מצרים חטרנא פי בית אלסר [
5. לתקוים אלנדוניא אלדי לזוגת[ה
6. אלחאצרין …
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5528Legal documentJRL B 5628
Primary language
Arabic
Ḥayyūn from the money/property of....". Also Mentions Ḥasan b. ʿAlī and dirhams. Needs further examination.
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5529State documentJRL Genizah Ar. 36
Inferred date
1011–1015 CE
Primary language
Arabic
Middle part of a tax receipt in the hand of Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, presumably issued for Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. […] Wahb corpus with a third set of registration marks (see also ENA 3942.3, PGPID 10434). Date not preserved, but presumably dates to 401–5 (1011–15) like the rest of the corpus.
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5530LetterMIAC 208
Document date
1925 (24 February 1925 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Letter from the lawyer Muḥammad Ḥasan al-Nūbī to Kẖawaja Sālamūn Melūl requesting payment that was the amount of the court and its total is 240 qirsh cash – February 24 1925CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 208) – in Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 65).
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- c
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5531LetterMIAC 219
Document date
1953 (1953 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Announcement from the Cairo Jewish community and by the rabbinate that all the wine sold by the company "Curiel Oriental" is not kosher, and an announcement on the slaughter of poultry on the eve of the holiday – May 10 1953CE – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 219) – in Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 40).
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5532Legal documentMIAC 224
Primary language
Hebrew
Donation pledge form from Yaʿacov Kohen to the holy yeshiva (the right and the peace) for the sake of raising generosity and assistance to all the people of Israel in the world who endure every day – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 224) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 48).
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5533Legal documentMIAC 229
Document date
1938 (11 January 1938 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Ruling in absentia obligating Maʿtūq Dāūd al-Jamāl to pay the amount of 985 pounds toward the rent of a store in the inheritance of the deceased Muḥammad ʾAẖī Qāsim – January 11 1938CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 229) – in Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 67).
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5534LetterMoss. IV,71.2
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
The sender seems to be complaining that the addressee did not inform him about the price of saffron; he heard that it is going for "10 per mann." There is none in "al-thaghr" (probably Alexandria). Excerpts: באן לם תערפני איש . . .
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5535Legal documentT-S 6J1.9
Inferred date
1066–1108 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Legal document settling a dispute between Abū l-Faraj and Abū l-ʿAlāʾ ʿUlla b. Yosef ha-Levi, the well known parnas in Fustat (dated documents 1084–1117), regarding shops of the former. […] ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE); also signed by Shelomo b. Yosef Av. Fols. 1v–2: account of expenditures
1. בקא אלחסאב ענד אבו אלפרג
2. ישועה אבו אלמתופא בר מבורך
3. מן תמן אלדכאן אלדי באעה
4. ארבעה דנא ותלת ותמן
5. חצר בבית דין אלשיך אבו אלעלא
6. מר עולה הלוי בר יוסף קא…
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5536List or tableT-S 6J8.7
Document date
25 Sivan 1444 Seleucid (31 May 1133 CE)
Primary languages
Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic
Groom: Ghālib b. Ḥalfon. Bride: Sitt al-Ḥusn bt. Berakhot. Marriage payments: 20 + 40 = 60 dinars. Followed by jottings of Greek/Coptic numerals, possibly the sum of the value of the dowry. Also followed by a medical recipe/prescription in Arabic script.
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5537LetterT-S 13J22.30
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Business letter from Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi b. Simḥa al-Nīsābūrī to the parnas ʿŪlla ha-Levi recommending a young Jewish man and describing him as being very good at kattan work, including the scutching and hatcheling of flax. Also mentions the silk market and prices. (S. D.
1. בשמך רח'
2. וצל כתאב חצרה מולאי אלשיך אלגליל אטאל
3. אללה בקאה ואדאם עזה ונעמאה וקראתה
4. ומא דכר מן אלשוק והו ענדנא באצעאפה
5. פאסאל אללה תבארך ותעאלי בקרב אל
6. …
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5538Legal documentT-S 16.107 + T-S AS 145.147
Document date
[13]19 Seleucid (1107–1108 CE)
Primary languages
Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Part of a decorated ketubba. Location: Aleppo. Bride: [...] bt. Menaḥem. Groom: unnamed. […] Verso contains letters of the Hebrew alphabet. (Information in part from CUDL and Goitein's index card.)
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5539Paraliterary textT-S 28.11
David (Hebrew name Shemarya) to a man referred to by his titles (al-Muwaffaq, Amīn (al-Dawla), al-Saʿīd). Aden, 1202.
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5540List or tableT-S Ar.11.16
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Mentions items such as mastic, costus, wax, the goods of Ibn Ṭībān, pure tartar, kohl, storax, flax. Also mentions al-ʿAfṣī. At the end mentions further business transactions including the rent of a boat and dealings in pepper and copper.
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5541Literary textT-S Ar.30.5
Primary languages
Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic
A few words from the same poems are also written out in Arabic on the page on the right, along with other jottings and crossed-out lines in Arabic.
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5542LetterT-S Ar.34.190
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
It may even be signed אלממלוך ר אברהם but is very messy, so it is hard to say. A request from Fakhr al-Dawla Abū (Ibn?) al-Fakhr to help Abū Naṣr al-Kātib with the price of Nāṣiriyya silver and of gold.
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5543LetterT-S AS 84.136
Primary language
Hebrew
, including the line "we do not consent to your being a messenger, from your first actions the end was already clear." Also quotes Proverbs 26:11 ("As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his folly").
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5544LetterT-S AS 145.186
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from an unidentified sender (Shelomo b. Eliyyahu?) to al-Shaykh al-Ṣafiyy. The addressee is asked to "give this paper" (another letter that was originally enclosed?) to Sayyidnā al-Nagid (likely Avraham Maimonides). The sender is in unspecified distress of some kind.
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5545LetterT-S AS 147.59
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Addressed to (or mentioning) someone associated with the Yeshiva (al-ḥaḍra al-ajalliyya al-mathībiyya). The sender mentions his difficulty with handwriting (אנני קציר אלכט).
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5546Legal documentT-S AS 161.251
Inferred date
1100–1138 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
"From that: the property of Sitt al-Munā... Nāshiya... [the dīwān of?] mosques (al-jawāmiʿ wa-l-masājid)...." There follows a detailed description of a property and its location. The only other Sitt al-Munā in PGP or Goitein's index cards is the widow of Nahray b.
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5547State documentT-S AS 168.208 + T-S AS 168.207
Primary language
Arabic
Hard to tell if it is a state document, a mercantile document, or both. Refers to "al-ḥujaj al-sāmiya," a quantity in Egyptian qinṭārs, and a shipment by Shams al-Dawla(?).
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5548State documentT-S AS 177.30
Primary language
Arabic
, Ḥamad b. Ḥaydar(?), ʿAlī b. Mūsā, ʿUmar b. [...], ʿAlīal-[...]
ٌٌRecto
1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم . . . . . . .
2. يقبلوا الارض وينهوا ان المماليك في غاية ما يكون من الضرر
3. بسبب عدم حضور التجار للناحية وان المعر[فة…
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5549List or tableT-S AS 205.176
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Many names listed, including: Ismāʿīl; Abū l-Ḥasan al-ʿAsqalānī; Sayf b. ʿAlī; Ẓāfir; Sumʿān; Avraham; Abū Bakr b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān; Qāsim b. Khiḍr; Abū l-[...] b. Yosef.
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5550List or tableT-S K3.6
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
List of 57 names, in some cases indicating their profession (many are physicians, also common are pharmacists, silk merchants, and silk weavers and dyers), beginning with ‘Abū Naṣr ibn Dāwūd and his father’. Among the names listed (line 7) there is Dāʾūd ibn al-Rayyīs, possibly the son of the Nagid Abraham Maimonides and grandson of Maimonides.
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2017
PGPID
8440
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