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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Deed of sale for an enslaved woman. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE).

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1 Transcription

Primary language

Arabic

The verso was used for a student's writing exercises in Hebrew script and Tiberian voweling. The shelfmarks ENA 3264.1-6 are recycled pages of Arabic accounts that were cut into small sections for a student's notebook of alphabetical practice. The extent to which they represent joins and/or related documents merits further examination (ENA 3264.1-2 seem to be the most likely candidates for a direct join). Of the six consecutive shelfmarks, ENA 3264.3 is the only one that does not contain any Arabic text.

Tags

• arabic reused

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Primary language

Arabic

The paper was rused for a student's writing exercises in Hebrew script. The shelfmarks ENA 3264.1-6 are recycled pages of Arabic accounts that were cut into small sections for a student's notebook of alphabetical practice. The extent to which they represent joins and/or related documents merits further examination (ENA 3264.1-2 seem to be the most likely candidates for a direct join). Of the six consecutive shelfmarks, ENA 3264.3 is the only one that does not contain any Arabic text.

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• arabic reused

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

This is unrelated to the list of Sabbath desecrators except that it seems to be in the hand of the same scribe. The entries list various items of furniture and household goods, their values, and people associated with them. The last four entries all have the word "nafadha" above them ("it was carried out"). […] דרג), a chest (צנדוק), a knife, a small table, and an engraved piece of wood (khashab manqūsh)

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Document date

8 Tevet 5492 Anno Mundi (6 January 1732 CE)

ENA 1822a.83a: Accounts in Ladino and western Arabic numerals dated in one recto entry as 8 Tevet [54]92 or 6 January 1732CE. […] The latter surname also appears in l. 2r as part of another entry where funduqli coinage is in use. The same accounting format continues onto this fragment's verso.

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Tags

• 18th c
• ladino
• list
• to examine

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Primary language

Hebrew

Beginning of an engagement document for Shelomo b. Raḥamīm Khamīṣ/Ḥamīṣ(?) […] The scribe abandoned the engagement document after 6 lines. Sarah was represented by her unnamed grandmother in arranging the terms of her engagement.

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• betrothal

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Document date

22 Heshvan 5496 Anno Mundi (7 November 1735 CE)

On the recto, one of the entries on the left side appears to offer the date 22 Heshvan 5496 (November 1735CE) and the entry below that is 30 Cheshvan. Then on the right side of the recto, the next entry passes into the subsequent month Kislev, which is in a difficult cursive hand but legible as a date with 5496 alongside it.

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• 18th c
• ladino

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Armenian bole (ḥajar armanī) (cf. ENA NS 2.24) and mandrake root (luʿāb) (cf. ENA 2739.2). Also mentions: 3 dinars; Yemeni "sinn" (= aromatic wood? cf. ENA NS 21.7, r4 — interestingly, goods for Ibn al-Qatāʾif, probably Ḥalfon, are specifically mentioned in that letter).

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• yefet b. menashshe

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Document date

1693 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Undated, neighboring entries are circa 1693 CE. The first seven entries are counted within the potential join K25.140.2 (PGPID 40947). […] Neither the bride's nor groom's names are preserved. It is possible this entry comprises the final lines of Document #13 in the same court register (PGPID 40952).

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Primary language

Arabic

ʿAbd al-Jabbār to a Fatimid judge regarding an endowment consisting of some shops that Muslim granted to his wife Khulla bt. […] Since she did not use the endowment, nor appoint an agent, and she is now dead, the petitioner is asking for a ruling from the judge regarding the endowment.

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1

1 Transcription 1 Translation

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter, complete and poetic, written by same hand as ENA 2806.5, contains mostly blessings. ENA 2806.5–7 are copies of letters to Shelomo Gaʾon and his son Maṣliaḥ.

1 Transcription

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Bill of sale for an enslaved woman. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE).

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1

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• slaves

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Deed of sale for an enslaved woman named Sahar. One of the parties (seller or buyer) is a woman.

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• halfon b. menashshe
• slave

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3 Heshvan 1488 Seleucid (8 October 1176 CE)

Avraham b. Aharon frees the enslaved woman Nasiyya ('Youth') on Friday, October 8, 1176, Cairo.

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• 12th c
• get shihrur
• manumission
• mevorakh b. natan
• slave

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Document date

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

Primary language

Arabic

ENA 3960.6–10 are five distinct but related Mamlūk-era legal documents in Arabic script, all dated 909 H (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(?) […] The other five documents bear similar clauses with a variation in objects of sale and prices. They are as follows: ENA 3960.6: 66 medins (nuṣf) for 20 red and yellow sufras, ENA 3960.7: 69 medins for 20 red and yellow sufras, ENA 3960.8: 6 dinars and 8 medins for 10 Aleppan shaylas, ENA 3960.9: 14 dinars for 15 black mayzars and 30 sufras, ENA 3960.10: 14 dinars for 100 red and yellow Aleppan …(?)

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Document date

Kislev 5479 Anno Mundi (24 November 1718–22 December 1718 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Legal documents, four entries on the recto and verso. Possibly drafts from a court notebook, including one completely crossed out. Location: Cairo. Dated in multiple entries as Kislev 5479/התע׳׳ה AM (= November/December CE). […] The document entries appear as follows: (1) Investment partnership in which Menaḥem b.

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• 18th c

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Document date

Kislev 5480 Anno Mundi (13 November 1719–12 December 1719 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Fragment with three document entries, probably from a court register. Dated November 1719 (Kislev 5480). The first is marriage-related; the second is a betrothal document; the third is some sort of financial arrangement. (1) Engagement or betrothal between Shemuel b. Avraham Neḥemias and the widow Confrada bt. […] In addition to the other dowry items and sums listed, Confrada has possession of a house that was left to her from deceased first husband. (2) Engagement of groom-to-be is Yiṣḥaq Afiya (?) and the bride-to-be Bekhora bt.

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Tags

• betrothal
• late court records

1 Transcription

Primary language

Arabic

There is a row of diamond-shaped designs on recto of ENA 3943.5 before a new section begins, and similarly on ENA 3943.6 next to a new section ("ghayruhu").

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Note in the binder at JTS says ENA 3948.3 and ENA 3948.4 were detached from one another in 1965.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Nomina barbara

Shelomo gaʾon (1127–39 CE), destroy his political enemies, and succeed before the government. (Information from CUDL)

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• amulet
• enemies
• government
• magic

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Document date

1431 Seleucid (8 September 1119–25 August 1120 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Small fragment from the end of a betrothal deed, from the year 1119, written by Halfon b. […] Published by Ashur, Engagement and Betrothal, p. 232-233. AA

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• betrothal
• halfon b. menashshe
• prenuptial

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 2 Discussions

Primary language

Arabic

Part of an official document in Arabic script. The ends of ~6 lines are preserved. Mentions a canal (khalīj). […] The hand is very similar to ENA NS 50.5.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Mufarrij and Shūʿa the Bāniyāsī escaped from the enemy attacking Caesarea (although Goitein read this as Mufarrij and Shūʿa escaping to Bāniyās). […] (Information from Goitein's index cards.) The letter ends on verso with three lines of Arabic script, not yet fully transcribed.

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Tags

• bialphabetic
• flax
• honey
• war
• wax

2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment (left side of recto, left side of verso) of a letter in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi. Not enough remains to make sense of it, but there are interesting phrases: "I had pity on the two of them. . . the two of them were fit for it and they pawned/deposited. . . because her poverty. . . […] of the house. . . the qumāsh that is in their keeping. . . the enslaved woman (waṣīfa) for 9 dinars. . . four dinars. . . what is fitting for my cousin [=my wife]. . . the price of the house of Mūsā. . ."

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2

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• slaves

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

This is the upper fragment under the ENA 4010.52 shelfmark. The lower one is calendrical and joins with ENA 4010.49–52.

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Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Perahya, who was the muqaddam of MInyat Ghamr, with autograph responsum by Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE) regarding the estate of a freed enslaved woman. AA

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• autograph
• avraham maimonides
• legal query
• responsum
• slave

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Bill of sale for an enslaved woman (jāriya, l. 4). In the hand of Ḥalfon b.

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• slave

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Magical recipes for health, for sleep, to make peace between a man and his wife, to abort a dead fetus, to expel a stuck placenta, to cure impotence, and to silence an enemy. (Information from CUDL.)

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The scribe is known from two other copies of such letter, ENA 3200.3, ENA 2875.40. AA

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• avraham maimonides

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Primary language

Hebrew

Letter, poetic, contains mostly blessings, ending 'to our fourth (= fourth of the yeshiva) rabbi son [of ...],' that is, Masliah Gaon. ENA 2806.5–7 are copies of letters to Shelomo Gaʾon and his son Maṣliaḥ.

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Primary language

Hebrew

Concerning a certain Shemuel; an enslaved woman (שפחה), a sum of seven bunduqis, and another sum in peraḥim

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Literary text in rhymed Judaeo-Arabic, narrating the mutual seduction between a Jewish man and a Christian (enslaved?) woman. There are a few lines in Arabic script on the facing page, which also seem literary.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Bill of sale, probably, for an enslaved woman. Fragment (lower right piece). Hand of Hillel b.

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• slave

1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Al-Sharqiyya is mentioned in one of the entries, possibly the region/district of Egypt. One of the entries mentions a certain Ḥuṣayn(!)

Tags

• account

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Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The spaces remaining at the bottom of two of the pages are filled in with magical spells, one for calling down eternal fire on your enemies ("sure; good; tested").

Tags

• curse
• egg
• fire
• formulary
• magic

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information from Mediterranean Society, IV, pp. 338, 339; V, p. 172, and from Frenkel, "Texts as Objects, Objects as Texts," which contains a complete translation to English.) Published by Miriam Frenkel and Ayala Lester, "Evidence of Material Culture from the Geniza—An Attempt to Correlate Textual and Archaeological Findings," in Material Evidence and Narrative Sources: Interdisciplinary Studies of the History of the Muslim Middle East, ed. Daniella Talmon-Heller and Katia Cytryn-Silverman; they incorrectly cite the shelfmark as ENA1822.46a. Written on the back of a letter in Arabic script requesting a state decree concerning monastic property; see separate entry. […] (Information from Mediterranean Society, IV, pp. 338, 339; V, p. 172, and from Frenkel, "Texts as Objects, Objects as Texts," which contains a complete translation to English.) Written on the back of a letter of request in Arabic script (see separate entry).

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• material culture

2 Transcriptions 2 Translations 3 Discussions

Primary language

Ladino

The erratic spelling of āliyyot (with א rather than ע and with יי) is then repeated at the opening of most of the individual entries in the singular form אליית, aliyyat. The first entry is one of the more legible ones from the entire document: "torah finials of Yom Qīppūr(sic) from(? מין) y[ear] 94" (רימונים יום קיפור מין ס׳ ٩٤). Other entries relate to "aliyyot" for the holiday "Sūqōt (sic)" (סוקות) and in a few instances the scribe notes that contributions were made "by me" (por mi) or a certain "David." One entry on the left side of the document mentions "the āliyya of the Q[ahal] Q[adosh] Porṭegezes (sic)," probably a reference to the Portuguese Congregation of early modern Cairo.

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