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Document date

Tammuz 4764 Anno Mundi (22 June 1004–20 July 1004 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Location: Fustat. Dated: Thursday, end of Tammuz 4764 AM = 1315 Seleucid = July 1004 CE.

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1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Hebrew

Amram, in his own handwriting (according to Beeri 2003: 315). Verso: part of (end missing) a beautifully written and fully vocalised poem of praise in honour of ʿAdaya b.

Tags

• panegyric

1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

These manuals demonstrate that the controversy of 921/2 did not end in a Babylonian victory; the Palestinians, or those who affiliated with this tradition, upheld and used the calendar of ben Meir for almost two centuries after the controversy.

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• calendar
• controversy
• manual

1 Transcription 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Document date

8 Rabīʿ I 405 Hijrī (6 September 1014 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The verso contains a letter or petition (see separate entry). Measurements: 16.3 x 5.8 cm

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• abu l-hasan b. wahb
• arabic script
• daman
• dimme
• fiscal
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2 Transcriptions 2 Translations 1 Discussion

Primary language

Arabic

Najā, likely his brother) is known from several other Geniza letters, e.g., ENA 1822a.6 (Gil, Palestine, III, #493). See Aodeh's footnote for further references.

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• aodeh
• arabic script

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Inferred date

1167–1167 CE

Primary language

Arabic

The sender is also known from ENA 1822A.75 (PGPID 5490). In this letter he praises Ḥalfon b.

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• ib2
• india book

1 Transcription 2 Translations

Primary language

Arabic

Yūsuf known as Ibn Kūjik(ابن كوجك). something to do with the endowments (awqāf) of the Qaraite community. Mentions Dār Ibn Samīḥ (= the Dār Simḥa synagogue) in ll. 4 and 7, probably as a landmark in describing the location of the waqf property which was rented.

Tags

• arabic script
• awqaf
• dar simha
• qaraite

1 Discussion

Primary language

Arabic

Subsidiary to the main request: "...to my lord the glorious shaykh, may God make his exaltation endure, belongs the lofty resolution concerning the use of the servant’s provisions, if what they contain should be of help to him..."

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Tags

• dimme
• petition

1 Transcription 1 Translation

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Model letters here include: asking someone to do something for you; responding to a request to do something for someone; and congratulations upon the birth of a son (ghulām) or daughter (ibna/jāriya); it is not immediately clear if these terms which literally mean "male slave" and "female slave" refer to actual slaves here (probably not, and Goitein does not seem to think so; he also notes that he has never encountered an actual Geniza letter with congratulations on the birth of a girl).

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Expenditure for bread: '54 plus 6 at the end of the day through Avraham Dyer.' At the conclusion of the week it had become evident that the allocation had not been sufficient.

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• account
• charity
• communal

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The ingredients are soaked in water; some green myrtle (or myrrh, if myrtle is unavailable) is also involved; and there is also a stage of leaving it out in the sun. At the end of the process, you sprinkle it with a bit of sugar candy (sukkar nabāt) or sugar syrup (jullāb).

Tags

• ink
• recipe

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There are a couple lines of business matters at the end (mentions 1000 mithqāls of something and a ship).

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• byzantium
• childbirth
• death
• minor marriage
• pilgrims
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1 Transcription

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Al-Muhadhdhab Abū Saʿīd is also named in T-S NS J494. (2) An entry in Arabic containing several words in Judaeo-Arabic: the document of the dowry belonging to the daughter of Yūsuf Ibn Nufayʿ, the wife of al-Shaykh al-Sadīd b. al-Shaykh al-Rashīd the son of al-Ḥakīm al-Muhadhdhab.

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• betrothal
• bialphabetic
• physician

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Document date

Monday, 4 Shaʿbān 438 Hijrī (3 February 1047 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Some documents issued outside the Fayyūm (e.g. ENA 2805.4 PGPID 715) do mention the half-amount structure, however, therefore its presence here is not indicative of the Fayyūm specifically as a place of origin for the document.

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1 Transcription 1 Translation

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There may be references to illness at the end, but the text is difficult to decipher. ASE

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• moshe b. levi

2 Transcriptions

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: July 30 (26 Av), 1057, based on Gil's assessment. (Gil dates ENA NS 18.35, written on 6 Elul, to the previous year. […] The next phrase is quite difficult, perhaps: "I considered that he was heedless (sahā), and I decided to completely despair of him (i.e., end the relationship). I am left with no eye to see light with, [and nothing] to take pride in, except for you, may God protect you (r21–24).

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• emotion
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: children's
• illness: critical
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2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Document date

Ṭevet 1452 Seleucid (13 December 1140–10 January 1141 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

To be sure, the merchants concerned, both Muslims and Jews, had entrusted the Wakīl with this task. On the other hand, it is astonishing that the Muslim merchants and one Jew, Nahrai, had to make the long and dangerous journey from Cairo to ʿAidhāb in order to take over their goods. […] The reason for this extraordinary precaution obviously was the following: the Oriental goods were sent "en bloc", with the share, qisṭ, of each merchant indicated in the list handed over to the Wakīl.

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• ib5
• india book

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Document date

21 Tishrei 5605 Anno Mundi (4 October 1844 CE)

On the recto "the synagogue" is referenced in one of the entries, "אוגרת מעלה[?] פי אלכניס" (wages/the cost of the stairwell[?] […] This may be a construction cost given that two of the surrounding entries mention carpenters (אוגרת סקייה נגאר and אוגרת נגאר סקייה).

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• 19th c
• fustat
• late synagogues
• old cairo

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The reference to these pious followers as 'judges, cantors and managers of pious foundations' (Verso, line 3) agrees with other hints about the followers of Avraham Maimonides as enjoying material benefits and neglecting their spiritual mission. […] Both the disease and the death are metaphorical in this letter: "O Israel, if you see that we have been ended and killed by the frenzies brought against us (by our persecutors), know that we have been killed for the sake of the rite of our fathers and grandfathers and prophets..."

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• communal
• petition

2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

And there were many debates concerning this, [which] will be too long to elaborate"; (4) lancets (ruwayshāt) for bloodletting that the addressee promised to send; (5) a report that friends and family speak well of the addressee (he had asked to be told what people were saying behind his back); (6) a bakers' strike translated by Goitein as follows: "On the second day of the Sukkot feast there were great disturbances in Alexandria because of the bread, which could not be found all over the city, until God brought relief by the end of the day; the governor (al-amīr) and the superintendent of the markets (al-muḥtasib) rode out and threatened to burn down [the houses of] the bakers because of the bread, after they had inquired with the people at one oven in the east and one in the west. At the end there remained fifty hundred weights of bread in the ovens that night.

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• bloodletting
• book trade
• bread
• conversion
• muhtasib
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Inferred date

1020–1039 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

He gained control of the Jewish communities in Egypt and Palestine, levied taxes, appointed deputies and envoys – whom the letter refers to by the Greek terms kantorin and okonomim (kenturion = centurion and oikonomos) – who sat in judgment. […] Two years later, when it became clear that he was an imposter, he was expelled from Tiberias – his administrative center – and he died en route to “Edom,” i.e., Byzantium" (Frenkel).

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• communal

2 Transcriptions 3 Discussions

Primary languages

Hebrew, Ladino

Dating: Possibly ca. 1498 CE, if this belongs together with the next fragment. Entries include: Naḥmanides; Sefer ha-Agur; Ibn ʿEzra; Kad ha-Qemaḥ; Sefer Miṣvot ha-Qaṣar; commentary on the Moreh by אפ״ד; two books of liqquṭim; a commentary on something ("the first book" or perhaps "the razon"?)

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• booklist
• greece
• ladino

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Document date

Monday 15th Iyyar 1409 Seleucid (19 April 1098 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

At this court session it was agreed that Yosef Lebdi should settle his accounts with Yequtiʾel. He would then be entitled to take out of Yequtiel warehouse all the goods to which the latter could not make claim.

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• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib1
• india book
• merchants
• qadi courts

1 Transcription 1 Translation

Primary languages

Greek, Hebrew

Her main purpose in writing emerges at the end: she wants her son to come and fetch her, as she wants to go to Fustat.

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• distant son
• greek
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: cost
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Primary language

Hebrew

He has not recovered his full strength, his joints are weak and painful, and he cannot turn his face from side to side ever since he fell off of a mule en route to Jerusalem. The main purpose of the letter is to conciliate Natan, who is upset about the marriage of his daughter to the sender's son, which evidently took place behind his back in Jerusalem.

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• 969-1517
• illness

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Document date

23 [Elul] 1412 Seleucid (17 August 1101 CE)

They convert the date to August 17, 1101 in the Hebrew edition and August 19, 1101 in the English edition.

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• deposit
• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib1
• india book

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Document date

18 Ramaḍān 438 Hijrī (18 March 1047 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Sums are given in dinars further down. Similar entries with weights follow on verso with numbers (sums of money) at the bottom.

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• commercial receipt
• dimme
• unedited 11th c

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Document date

last third of Shevaṭ 1448 Seleucid (15 January 1137–24 January 1137 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

It also refers to a period of three years, so the 533 date is probably the end of the 3-year lease. The document itself is dated the last third of Shevaṭ 1448 Seleucid = January 1136 CE.

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Document date

4 Adar II 1464 Seleucid (2 March 1153 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mūsā b. Bishr also appears in ENA 4011.56 (PGPID 2392). Naẓar bt. David appears also in Moss.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The handwriting is distinctive, with stylized loops at the end of all the descenders. Dating: Perhaps 12th century; more precise dating may be possible based on the people named in the letter (e.g., Abū l-Murajjā Sālim and Rabbenu Zakkay).

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: bloodletting
• illness: treatment
• to edit

1 Transcription

Document date

Monday, 24 Nisan 1409 Seleucid (29 March 1098 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Moshe ha-Levi "with the page of accounts in his possession" stating that he entrusted various goods with Moshe, who apaprently sold on his behalf saffron and garments and delivered the price, still owing 4 dinars and 7.5 raṭls of pepper.

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Primary language

Hebrew

A number of features indicate that the writer is a Greek-speaker, of which the most concrete is the epithet "the enameller" (l. 18), which is given in Greek. That this is not merely a nickname or a calqued expression is clear from the fact that it is given with the Greek definite article, and in the accusative case to suit the context.

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• family

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