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601Legal documentT-S 13J8.10
Document date
Tishrei 5304 Anno Mundi (30 August 1543–28 September 1543 CE)
Primary language
Hebrew
In the second contract, Shalom agrees to pay Abraham the same amount using gold peraḥim (ducat equivalents) from the coinage of Sultan Sulaymān. An exchange rate is given: every peraḥ is worth 59.5 ʿuthmānīs.
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602List or tableT-S J1.20
Document date
11 Av 5502 Anno Mundi (11 August 1742 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
These accounts are related to quantities of Ottoman gold coinage in fındıklı and maḥbūb. The recto's heading mentions the name Mordekhay Mūnīr in connection with the accounts (likely as the individual who handled these funds).
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- fonducli
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603Legal documentT-S Misc.25.108
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Mentions Adrianople/אנדרינופולי (Edirne) multiple times in l. 25 (f. 1r), l. 27 (f. 1r), l. 3 (f. 1v); and Castile l. 17 (f. 2r). "Levanīm" coinage is mentioned throughout, an alternate label for Ottoman silver akçe.
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604Legal documentYevr.-Arab. II 1564
Document date
30 Shevat 5494 Anno Mundi (3 February 1734 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
The payment is in Ottoman gold findikli and cinzirli coinage. MCD.
1. למא כאן בתאריך לילה אלכמיס אלמבארך אכ'ר חדש שבט סנת
2. ה׳ת׳צ׳ד׳ ליצירה חצ'ר כה׳׳ר אברהם יצ׳׳ו המכונה שבתי ס׳׳ט בן כ׳
3. כ׳ג׳ק׳ הז׳ הג׳ יוסף הרופא ידיע צע…
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605Paraliterary textHalper 452
Primary languages
Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic
The last two items on the verso are in Aramaic, for killing spirits and for a woman whose sons has died." Information from Penn catalog.
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606LetterENA NS 47.19
Inferred date
1500–1560 CE
Primary language
Hebrew
Dating: 16th century (Avraham Castro died in 1560). The writer had a position overseeing trade or taxation in Alexandria.
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607Paraliterary textMoss. X,37
Primary language
Arabic
Several options for the diet are specified at the bottom. Verso: Two lines in Arabic script, mention ailment (wajʿ), might be a continuation of recto or a separate prescription.
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608Legal documentENA NS 17.31
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Legal record of an adoption in which a man 'sells' his newborn daughter, 16 days old, whose mother had just died after childbirth, to a prominent lady for five dinars and promises that he will not interfere with the girl's upbringing.
1. כן הוה חצר אלינא מר אליה בר פל שממד[ינה] פלונית
2. והכדי קאל לנא ⟦קד תופית זוגתי ושבקת חיי⟧ ⟦//אנתם עלמין בופאה זוג. .\\⟧
3. לכל בת לכל בר ישר⟧ אנתם עלמין…
Elijah, son of So-and-so from the city so-and-so appeared before us and made this declaration. ⟦My wife has died and left life to every daughter to every son of Israel.⟧ You know of the death of my wife ⟦in child bed⟧.
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609LetterT-S AS 158.213
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
It states that the husband of a woman related to Ibn al-Fulādhī (apparently a profession having to do with steel, fulādh or fūlādh) died, and she became pregnant. It then mentions "in the fortified city of ʿA[sqalān]."
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610Legal documentT-S NS J451
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Yosef Ibn al-Lebdī (who died prior to 1146 CE, giving an approximate date for this document).
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611Legal documentENA 3965.1
Document date
2 Muḥarram 1138 Hijrī (10 September 1725 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
The transaction takes place in ghurūsh/guruş, a silver coin minted by the Ottoman Empire as early as 1690 CE but did not reach wide circulation until 1703 CE, and one piastre/guruş hypothetically equaled 40 para/medin.
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612List or tableENA NS 39.2 + ENA 1822a.82 + ENA 1822a.83 + ENA 1822a.83a + ENA NS 27.7
Document date
28 Nisan 5492 Anno Mundi (23 April 1732 CE)
Primary language
Ladino
The dated passage on the verso might not be directly associated with the recto yet is in the same hand and offers useful information on the coinage involved: "mayedes / מאיידיס" or Ottoman silver medin.
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613List or tableJRL C 94
Inferred date
1750–1850 CE
The corresponding eastern Arabic numerical figures are likely expressing monetary sums in silver coinage (which is referenced at the top of each column as "פצה").
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- 18th or 19th c
- late prosopography
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614List or tableT-S J1.37
Inferred date
1425–1600 CE
Primary languages
Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
The mention of the latter coinage type makes it possible to estimate this document's dating as post-1425 CE (which matches the 15th-16th-century paleography).
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615Legal query or responsumAIU III.D.5
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Legal query in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to "sayyidnā al-shelishi" regarding a man who died and left his entire estate to one of his two cousins, but did not explicitly exclude the other one, to whom he gave the equivalent of a peruṭa (penny).
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- will
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616Legal documentBodl. MS heb. d 66/133
Primary languages
Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic
Avraham al-Lādiqī and that she was married to אבן אלמנחמה, who divorced her and died. Information from Goitein's note card.
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617LetterMoss. II,157
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Begging letter, probably, in elegant script informing the addressee that his brother Abū l-Baqā al-Tājir used to give charity to the writer and help his family with the capitation tax, but he has now died without a will. The remainder of the letter is missing the ends of the lines; it involves the late Abū l-Baqā's daughters and niece.
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618Legal documentT-S 8J4.23
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Betrothal between two possible cousins (both named Levi), a groom whose father had died and a bride called Baghdad with a wedding gift of 25 dinars and the promise of the groom to be responsible for the payment of the expenses of the wedding which was to take place seven months later.
T-S 8J4.23 verso
1. אירס מ ור יוסף <הלוי> הבחור בר שלמה נע
2. לבגדאד בת עולה סט הלוי על שום קידושים
3. גמורים במעלי שבתא דהוא חמשה יומין
4. בירח מרחשון שנת אתכב…
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619Legal documentT-S 12.468
Document date
4738 Anno Mundi (17 September 977–4 September 978 CE)
Primary language
Hebrew
Kabir about the receipt of a shipment belonging to a person who had died, Qayrawan, 978. Avraham b. Kabīr asks for approval about a shipment of indigo to Qayrawan for the person who previously had the indigo in Fustat, Qimoy b. al-Ḥasan.
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1. בא לפנינו אנו בית דין אברהם בר כביר ומסר כן ואמר כי יצחק בר אברהם
2. נ'נ' הניח עזבון אצל קימוי בר אלחסן במצרים והיא פרקמטיה ולאחר
3. פטירת יצחק זה ה…
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620LetterT-S 13J24.19
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
David to summon a Maghribi named Abu Dawud Khayyat, whose grown-up son had died and whose wife is critically ill with dysentery and fears that she will not see her husband again.
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1. סבב אצדאר הדה אלאחרף לחצרה אלשיך
2. אלחבר אלאגל ר דויד שצ בקדר אלשוק אליה
3. ויעלמה באן יתפצל יכלם שכץ מגרבי
4. אבו דאוד כיאט וכאן לה ולד כביר ותואפא
5. …
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- illness: dying
- illness: dysentery
- illness: furqa
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621LetterT-S 16.275 + Halper 412
Inferred date
1025–1032 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Yehuda to Avraham b. Sahlan (died ca. 1032 CE), Fustat, probably December 1028.
א
1. שלומות אח וידיד נפש יוש[פע]ון וברכות רבות אליהם יעמתון
2. הצלחותיו תמיד יואמתון וכל משאלתיו ינתננון ולא
יכלאון
1. הוא כב גד קד מר ורב אברהם החבר אשר צ…
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622LetterT-S 18J3.14
Primary language
Hebrew
Dating: after the death of Evyatar Gaʾon, who died before 1112 CE. There is a long introduction.
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623Legal documentT-S AS 148.150
Inferred date
1066–1138 CE
Primary languages
Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Refers to Yemen (maybe he died there); and another person [...] b. [...]n ha-Levi.
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624Legal query or responsumT-S NS J496 + T-S 10J21.15
Inferred date
1100–1138 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
In the margin: "As for the 70 dinars that my brother mentioned, it is the last of the sale that we made (or: from the last sale that we made). . . and my husband collected it and went out and died." See PGPID 2959
T-S 10J21.15
1. מא יקול רבנו פיההמיאה אל[ ]
2. מחכם אלמעאני יקתצי כו[ ]
3. ובכתובתה עליו ועל כל יור[שיו ]
4. כשרים נאמנים ובעד ופ[אה ]
5. יתבתו מא כלפה פסאלו [ ]
6. ת…
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625Literary textT-S Ar.39.153 + T-S NS 297.51
Primary language
Ottoman Turkish
Two sets of bifolios from an ʿilm-i ḥal manual in Ottoman Turkish. Dating: possibly sixteenth-century or later (per Hathaway). In the introduction to her edition, …
ḳarındaş, bu faḳīrin añladuġı
oldur-ki Ḳıyāmet Güni
Page 4: Folio 1r, right side
Page 1: Folio 1r, left side
1. it would certainly be of no use.
2. They would say that you should
3. have prepared
4. when you were [still] alive.
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626Literary textBL OR 5560D.2 + BL OR 5560D.1
Primary language
Hebrew
Among the poems preserved: an elegy for his brother Abu l-Hajjaj who died in Toledo, Elul 1127 CE (4887); a congratulatory poem for the physician Abu Omar Joseph ben Kamnial upon his release from prison.
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627Paraliterary textENA 3925.8
Primary language
Arabic
Some ingredients mentioned are pear (ijjāṣ), jujube (ʿunnāb), almond oil, seeds of chicory (bizr hindabāʾ), Egyptian Cuscuta epithymum (aftīmūn Miṣrī), Syrian Borage (lisān thawr Shāmī), white sugar, rose water, ambergris (ʿanbar) and basil (rayḥān). The diet is specified in the margin. Ends, "beneficial God willing" (nāfiʿ Inshallah).
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628LetterT-S 8J28.10
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Conveying the heartsickness (fasting, weeping) of everyone at home and telling the addressee that attaining the world (al-dunyā) will not be worth this if a certain woman in the house (his mother?) dies in his absence. On verso there is unrelated Hebrew poetry.
1. . . . ] ם מא נערף כיף {נ}רקד ונאכול ונסים
2. מא //אערף// אש //[[בערף]]// כול והי סאעה תדעו וסעה תבכי
3. וסעה יאכי מא תסוא אדניה האדא ואעלם
4. יאכי אן מאתת בו…
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629Legal documentT-S AS 148.111
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
On recto there are medical recipes recommended as diuretics and diaphoretics, and advice on diet. (Information in part from CUDL)
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630Legal documentT-S Misc.34.42
Inferred date
1100–1138 CE
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Mentions "all that my son left" (when he died?) (line 4) and Upper Egypt and Yemen and another geographical location that begins with אלאס.
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631LetterL-G Misc. 13
Document date
8 Tammuz (4900) Anno Mundi (25 June 1140 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
The sender gives the names of the Jewish traders who died and who survived, including (among those who died) Ibn al-Shumūs (whose drowning is also mentioned in doc. 76).
1. כתאבי אלי ח̇צר̈ה מולאי אלשיך אלא̇גל אטאל אללה
2. פי אלכיר בקאהא ואדאם תאיידהא ותבת
3. סעאדתהא וסלאמתהא ונעמתהא ורפעתהא
4. ואחיאהא ומן חסן אלתופיק לא אכלאהא ו…
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632LetterT-S Ar.7.28
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
This fragment begins with a discussion of the death of a woman; the writer's father and mother have also died; the writer resents being rebuked for the lack of letters. […] If someone sends a piece of news and reports that someone (or the wife of someone, āl fulānī?) died, I am confounded, I don't know if I should mourn or not."
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633Legal documentBodl. MS heb. b 12/12
Document date
Friday, 6 Ṭevet 5211 Anno Mundi (11 December 1450 CE)
Primary language
Aramaic
The currency used is the gold ashrafī (first referred to with the generic name "peraḥim" and then glossed within the document as "the coin of the king of Egypt, called ashrafī"). Marriage payments: 5 + 10 = 15 ashrafīs.
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634LetterCUL Or.1080 4.60
Document date
Iyyar 5547 Anno Mundi (19 April 1787–17 May 1787 CE)
Primary language
Ladino
A wide array of numerical figures are expressed in silver medin coinage, which appears here though the abbreviation " מאיי ".
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635List or tableENA NS 27.7 + ENA NS 39.2 + ENA 1822a.82 + ENA 1822a.83 + ENA 1822a.83a
Inferred date
1732–1732 CE
Primary language
Ladino
This fragment's join mentions the usage of silver medin coinage which may carry over to the figures listed here.
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636LetterHalper 409
Primary language
Ladino
In Ladino. Mentions the Ottoman coin para. The writer reports that the addressee's son Eliezer is in Tripoli, which he knows because he received a letter from Eliezer the same day the caravan from Egypt arrived.
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637State documentT-S NS 238.14
Primary language
Arabic
The sum looks like 13 Nāṣirī dirhams (https://geniza.github.io/paleographicalglossary/item.html?id=ccg0067). The coinage allows the document to be dated to no earlier than 1187 CE.
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638Legal documentAIU VII.D.114
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Ḥadīd(?); a woman who died and left three [...]; a woman whose name is [...]WH who was the wife of Aharon b.
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639Legal documentBodl. MS heb. d 65/34
Document date
20 Kislev 1550 Seleucid (29 November 1238 CE)
Goitein's index card suggests that the Nagid at this time is already David I, but it is not clear if he deduced that from the phrases in the document or if he already knew that Avraham died before this date. (Information from Goitein's index card.)
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640LetterT-S AS 145.63
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
The sender complains that the bustān is ruined: the livestock have died of hunger and the produce has dried up, and al-rayyis Abū Isḥāq has taken possession of the bustān.
1. וג . . . . . . . .ען . . תפציל אלבסתאן ק[ד
2. כרב וקד הלכו אלבקר באלגוע וקד
3. צאע כל מא פיה וקד גפת אלכצרה
4. וקד חאז אלרייס אבו אסחק אלבסתאן
5. ומא יכלי אחד י…
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641Legal documentT-S AS 148.129
Primary languages
Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Shemarya testify that a certain Shabbetay and his brother both died in Antalya (this is inserted above the line, באנטאליה).
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642Legal documentT-S AS 161.87
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Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Court record. Mentions a woman who died and a dispute over an inheritance involving Abū Isḥāq Yoshiyya (the same as in T-S 12.37 (PGPID 3143)?)
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643List or tableT-S AS 181.195
Primary languages
Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals
Isaacs (1994) suggests that it presents a ‘diet for invalids’ but does not explain why. Also includes firewood and fuel, and in Judaeo-Arabic upside down, myrtle.
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644Legal documentT-S NS J551
Document date
Monday 10 Nisan 1528 Seleucid (20 March 1217 CE)
On verso there are a few more phrases preserved: "the wife of al-Maghribī al-Shābb... and also [...] died, God's mercy on him. Shelomo ha-Talmid b. [...] wrote this."
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645LetterMS Meunier
Primary language
Hebrew
His father, Sulaymān, had died in Āmul. He set out westward, declaring that he too expected to die on the road ("I will lie down with my fathers"), and made his way to Baghdad, where he deposited 150 Maghrebi dirhams of high-quality, minted silver with Shelomo b.
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1. [ ]תי זה
2. [ ]ו הושיעם
3. [ …
...For twenty, he took the suftaja
that he had written for fifty gold coins and gave (it) for thirty to
Sahlawayh b. Ḥayyim. I took (it) and stayed on the road for one year until I arrived at Aleppo.
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646LetterENA NS 8.23
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
The sender bemoans his or her wretched fate: "My son died in a foreign land... my son-in-law was slaughtered... do not ask, my brother, about our debts... if I could have written this with my tears, I would have done so."
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647LetterMoss. IV,82
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Yisra'el mentions the fact that many people died and much property was lost in the Maghrib. The letter also discusses prices, the addressee's going to the Fayyūm, and the problem of the quarter-dinars brought by refugees from the west.
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1. [כתאבי יא סידי ומולאי אלעזיז] אטאל אללה בק[אך]
2. [ואדאם עזך ותאידך מן אלקדס] עמרה אללה לה כלון
3. [מן אב אלהי ישראל יהפך אבלינו לששון ו]לשמחה
4. [ ] א…
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648Letterp. Heid. Hebr. 27
Primary languages
Arabic, Hebrew
There is an edition and detailed discussion by Werner Diem.
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649LetterT-S 8.7
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
He reports that the old woman who was in the house of Bū Isḥāq died and that she was buried on Wednesday the 15th of Av.
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650LetterT-S 8J18.16
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Barhūn informs that a shipment of goods is on its way, mentions that a few relatives are in Sūsa, and shares his willingness to send his father's bones to Jerusalem (his father died in 1049). (Information from Gil, Kingdom, vol. 3, pp. 302-303, #383).
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1. [ ] עלי אלאסגאר [ו]אלאכבאר ואלדי אערפך בה אני אסתכרת
2. אללה וחמלת פי הדה אלקאפלה צחבה מחמד בן סלאמה בן אלואלדה …
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1. ....(שלום) לקטנים ולגדולים. ואשר יש לי להודיעך: ביקשתי את חסרי
2. אלוהים ושלחתי בשיירה זו עם מחמד בן סלאמה בן אלואלדה אלג'מאל אלג'ביני
3. 'ג'וארה'(?…
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