Documents

Primary language

Hebrew

Some parts of the name may be legible. There may also be additional text on verso, which was not photographed.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mainly books, mainly Bible and Talmud and commentaries. There are also a couple of other packages (ruzma, ruzayma).

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• booklist

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Primary language

Arabic

Mentions transactions in gold (ʿayn) and silver (wariq) and also contains Coptic/Greek numerals. Needs examination.

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• dimme

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Document date

22 Rabīʿ II 503 Hijrī (18 November 1109 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Tax receipt for the capitation of Bū l-ʿAlā b. Bū l-Naṣr, written by the jahbadh Hibat allāh.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Saadya's Sefer ha-Galuy also appears.

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• booklist

1 Transcription 1 Translation

Fragment of a ketubba, with menstrual purity conditions. The husband also accepts that he will not take a second wife.

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Primary language

Arabic

One side is headed "Cairo" and lists names such as al-Shaykh Abū l-Faraj al-Ṣāyigh

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Document date

537 Hijrī (27 July 1142–15 July 1143 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Yūsuf, a Jewish goldsmith (yahūdī ṣāʾigh), in Fustat, for the year 537. See also T-S Ar.35.197.

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Document date

536 Hijrī (6 August 1141–26 July 1142 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Yūsuf, a Jewish goldsmith (yahūdī ṣāʾigh), in Fustat, for the year 536. See also T-S Ar.35.196.

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Primary language

Aramaic

The beginning of the qiyyum also appears, possibly signed by Shelomo [...].

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Primary language

Hebrew

Fragment in poetic Hebrew, possibly from a letter. Might also be a literary text. Refers to the arrival of a letter or letters, "signs and wonders," "our princes read it."

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Primary language

Arabic

Unidentified document in Arabic script, probably legal or state. Mentions al-shaykh al-Mukhliṣ [...] The top ~3 lines are preserved and additional text on verso.

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Primary language

Arabic

Refers to a military man: "min rijāl al-ʿasākir al-muʾayyada." Verso may be a distinct document.

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Primary language

Hebrew

Copies of various epistles of historical importance, at least some attributed to Ḥasdai ibn Shaprut. There are also piyyutim of Dunash b. Labrat. There is an extensive bibliography on FGP.

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• hasdai

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The other side: Rhymed text (-hū) in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī.

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• literary with documentary value
• nasir

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Primary language

Arabic

Fragment (lower right piece). Involves ʿAllun and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān and possibly a business dispute.

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Primary language

Arabic

Reporting that the sender left the addressee, rapidly found a boat, traveled to Alexandria, and delivered the letter to the Najīb, who read it and [...]

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Primary language

Arabic

On fol. 1r there are a few jottings in Arabic script: al-wāḥid... al-ithnayn...

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Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

Documentary, Philosophy/ethics; the main text, in Hebrew and Arabic, may be a discussion of reward and punishment; recto also contains Arabic accounts. (Info from FGP)

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Primary language

Hebrew

Rabbinica; probably from the preface to a work of rabbinic literature, but can also be from a letter; the author mentions having consulted the Tosefta; (info from FGP).

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Primary language

Aramaic

Verso: In large, calligraphic, Hebrew script: Shelomo b. Yiftaḥ, to al-Shaykh al-Ajall Abū l-ʿIzz.

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Document date

1822 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Shelomo. The fragment also contains a printed sample of the book.

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• karaite

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Primary language

Arabic

Accounts in Arabic script. There is also an addendum to the document on the recto. (Information in part from Goitein, Med Soc II, p. 435 (Appendix A, #174)) ASE

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• account
• arabic script

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Document date

28 Heshvan 1598 Seleucid (17 November 1286 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Yaʿaqōv, the known scribe active in the first dwo decades of the eleventh century in Fusṭāṭ, who was also the scribe behind the 'Leningrad Codex'. The manuscript's first owner was Shelomo ha-Paqid (the representative of the merchants) b. […] The third ownership is that of "Sitt al-Kull Mubāraka, the daughter of the Gaon" - an unknown figure thus far. […] ʿUlla "the honorable prince", who is the same ʿOvadya/ʿAbdallāh whose appointment as the leader of all Jewish communities in al-Shām in 1193 is documented in PGPID 9436.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shelomo gives a detailed account of the Almohad invasions and persecutions in the West from 1145 to the present-day (on the day he wrote the letter, a messenger arrived with the news that Bijaia had fallen to the Almohads). He also gives a detailed description of his illness. […] I was ill for nine months with tertiary fever (al-muthallatha) and fever of the liver (ḥummā l-kabd).

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• almohads
• ib5
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: fever
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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Our Yehuda is mentioned en passant in a revealing passage: "This year there arrived in Egypt (diyār miṣr) from a town in Europe (diyār al-[r]ūm) called Narbonne—the town famous for its scholars (ʿulamāʾ) and righteous men (fuḍalāʾ)—a man whose superior in knowledge, piety, and reverence has not arrived from those parts (min tilka al-diyār) since the great rav (al-rav al-kabīr), our master Yehuda Rosh ha-Seder, may his memory be blessed." […] The letter implies, therefore, that he had arrived from a Christian country, possibly Italy (usually termed "the land of al-rūm" in the Geniza), and had, therefore, obtained at least part of his learning within a non- Islamic environment. Quite likely, he had also spent time in an Arabic-speaking Jewish community (Qayrawān?)

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Document date

23 Iyyar 5443 Anno Mundi (19 May 1683 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Sitt al-Bayt appointed two men with power of attorney to represent her in the case: Yosef ha-Kohen and his son-in-law Natan Ben-Efrayim. The two sides reached a compromise regarding Sitt al-Bayt's ketubba valuation, by which she received 50,000 medin but relinquished any claim to the 20,000 medin worth of civet cats and properties in the Karaite quarter (possessions also mentioned in document #46). […] Final lines of the dispute resolution between Sitt al-Bayt and her sons/daughters-in-law. This section includes the patronymics of Sitt al-Bayt's other four daughters-in-law: Miryam bt.

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Primary language

Arabic

Recto: Accounts in Arabic, mentioning Abū l-Futūh and a certain Yaʿqūb and almonds. Verso: A note in Arabic saying, "I have sent you some almonds."

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• arabic script

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