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Judaeo-Arabic

He tells the addressee to take the coat (shuqqa) from the house of Ibn Tāj al-Maʿānī and give it to Rabbenu Shelomo, and to give other goods to Abū ʿAlī. He was saddened to leave (Fustat) when a woman in the family (al-kabīra) was sick (mutawajjiʿa). Note that Moshe cut up ENA 2558.18 + T-S 13J7.12, a legal document dated 1194 CE, and reused the versos of both fragments for letters.

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: women's
• moshe b. levi

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Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic. Attesting that Sitt al-Gharb bt. Abū l-Faraj b. Semekh al-Daʿwa (known from other Geniza documents) gave a deed of manumission (גט חירות) to her male slave Munjib. There are several text blocks in different hands; all those on recto appear to pertain to the same case.

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• manumission
• slaves

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Inferred date

1150–1181 CE

Shemuʾel, a court clerk and judge (fl. 1150–1081 CE), with part of his signature visible along the paper tear. Abu 'Alial-Qazzāz b. Khalaf testifies that he had received 19 dinars from his wife, Khulla bt.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Jalila bt. Avraham b. Khalfa b. al-Rashidi, whose inheritance from her late husband Barukh b. […] The widow mentions this and adds that she also made an appeal to the same Muslim qadi. See Goitein, Med.

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• bribe

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1128–1164 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Inventory of the estate of Abū l-Faraj al-Siqillī b. Ḥanīna. After the list of his own possessions, there follow several subsections: (1) Somebody's collaterals (the header is difficult to read) (2) The collaterals of Abū Saʿīd b. Thābit (3) The collaterals of Ṣadaf(?) al-Naṣrānī(!) (4) The collaterals of Abū Isḥāq Ibn Maṣmūdī (5) What Abū Manṣūr states is owed to him (7) The dowry items (qumāsh) which his wife retained and which the heirs acknowledge belong to her. Join: Alan Elbaum

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• inventory

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic, Ladino

First: A glossary of Spanish/Ladino words from Judaeo-Arabic, including a great number of foods, but also numbers, days of the week, colors, and miscellanous terms (malīḥa --> hermosa; sūq --> plaza; saḥab --> nube; ramād --> ceniza). Second: Drafts of beginnings of letters, including one apparently addressed to Shūʿa Levi Abū לייה ha-Levi al-Marḥūm (but this can't be completely correct, because marḥūm generally means "dead"), and another addressed to the apparently nonsensical תומוסל כא ן זֿירה and יאקות ן תלזֿם.

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• ladino
• to examine

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Primary language

Arabic

The addressee is referred to with the titles al-Malikī al-Nāṣirī, which in Geniza documents are typically titles of Saladin (less likely the Mamluk sultan by this name who ruled 1293–1341). […] The petitioner may be named Shihāb (al-Dīn?). One of the key phrases in the substance of the petition is ايقاع الحوطة علي, the petitioner requests a marsūm (decree) and mentions something in relation to the Egyptian city of Akhmīm.

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• saladin

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Primary language

Arabic

الله عزها وادام تمكينها . . .), then possibly a query about a technical procedure involving white sugar (and alchemical ingredients? It may refer to "zāj" and "iksīr," but the "zāj" could also be "mizāj" and therefore more medical), and then a cryptic sentence: "... to my brain, and I need a bit of [...]...."

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• alchemy

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Friday, 16 Iyyar 5301 Anno Mundi (13 May 1541 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Formal letter of resignation from the judge Nissim al-ʿAnqarī. In Hebrew. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: Friday, 16 Iyyar 5301 AM, which is 1541 CE. He says that the reasons for his resignation are too well known to describe... but at least he gives us the information that he had been captured, and a tax collector (ḥāshir) and another gentile were also involved, and the heads of the community lost 8 Venetian ducats on his account.

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• 16th c
• resignation
• tax collector

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Iraqi raw silk traded in Alexandria, and concludes with well-wishes to Abu Kathir Efrayim along with his wife and son.

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• trade

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Kislev 1542 Seleucid (8 November 1230–7 December 1230 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef the superintendent (al-qayyim) of the small synagogue in Alexandria (see Med Soc II, 77) has to return to his brother's son Sulaymān everything that he owes him, including some 60 jars of wine after the marriage (imlāk) of (Sulaymān with?)

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Folded down the middle, hence a bifolium that once belonged to a booklet. Almostall noted in the second list had made a contribution according to the first. […] The strange fact that so many reduced their contributions is perhaps to be explained by the assumption that while the first collection was going on, it already became known that another was necessary. 1140s (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, pp. 479-480, App.

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• charity
• communal
• donors
• poverty

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Primary language

Arabic

One of the parties is Abū l-Faraj b. Ḥayyūn al-Yahūdī al-Tājir.

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Inferred date

1240–1240 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A double leaf, torn into two parts, this document contains a main record of current revenues from rent, but some expenditures and other pecuniary operations are also listed. (Information from Gil, Documents, pp. 460 #138)

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• 13th c
• account
• coptic numerals
• heqdesh
• qodesh
• (+ 1 more)

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Document date

441 Hijrī (5 June 1049–25 May 1050 CE)

Perhaps written by a Tāhartī. See also ENA 3770.6. (Information from Goitein’s index card)

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Document date

441 Hijrī (5 June 1049–25 May 1050 CE)

Perhaps written by a Tāhartī. See also ENA 3770.5. (Information from Goitein’s index card)

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25 Ṣafar 919 Hijrī (2 May 1513 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Lessee: Manṣūr b. Najīb (b.) Manṣur. Also mentions another merchant Hibatallāh b. Mufaḍḍal.

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• 16th c
• contract
• dimme
• pinholes
• rent

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Sunday, 12 Elul 4931 Anno Mundi (15 August 1171 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Bill of divorce (get). Location: Alexandria. Dated: Sunday, 12 Elul 4931 AM = 15 August 1171 CE.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

E.g. Bū l-Faraj; Isḥāq al-Baṣrī; Abū Naṣr; Yaʿqūb; Abū l-Riḍā; Tammām; Mūsā; Makārim Ibn al-Ḥajarī; Yiftaḥ; Shammash; Munaqqī; Umm Hilāl;

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• list

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Primary language

Hebrew

The writer mentions Manzal = Manzala, a town on the lake of the same name near Damietta. Also mentions business in she-asses.

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• 16th c

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer urges the addressee to help him again with money for rent for the qāʿa where he lives, because his landlady, the sister of al-Najīb "has destroyed me from all that she demands [it] from me."

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• appeal

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Primary language

Hebrew

On verso mentions the name Evyatar ha-Kohen in the upper margin. Verso also has a remnant of an earlier Arabic-script legal document beginning هذا كتاب من . . .

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Document date

first decade of Ḥeshvan 1548 Seleucid (2 October 1236–11 October 1236 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: first decade of Ḥeshvan 1548 Seleucid = October 1236 CE. (Also possible is 1545 Seleucid = 1233 CE.) Mentioning the pesiqa and not interfering with someone else.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: On the right is list of surnames known from the late Genizah period along with numbers: Bibas (spelled Pipas here), Alarcon, Hapis (?)

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• late prosopography
• materia medica
• pharmacy

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Hebrew

See Avraham David's transcription and notes on FGP for identifications and related documents. There is also a join by Dr. Ezra Chwat, but the shelfmark of the join does not appear to be listed on FGP.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

"That which I still owe Abū l-Barakāt al-Qazzāz b. Sulaymān al-Kohen: 33 dirhams. Of that, he collected 7 dirhams on the eve of Shabbat Ki Teṣe.

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• dimme

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Rabbenu Peraḥya ha-Dayyan arrived. . . al-Shaykh al-Shammās was present with us. . . . the Sefer Torah."

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

"You will die on your bed, and an illness of the heart will overcome you, and also the bite of a dog and the kick of a riding beast. . . ."

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• curse

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There are numerous tiny pieces from the same text or even the same page in the span of shelfmarks JRL SERIES G 79–99. Also JRL SERIES B 5344. Will probably need to be assembled in person rather than on FGP

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• latin script
• spanish

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Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions various commodities including fish coming in from Rashīd and Abū Qīr. Also mentions "the maghhribīs" (reading מגראבה as a way of writing maghāriba) and selling to "the Franks" (lil-ifranj).

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• fish

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Judaeo-Arabic

Informal note addressed to Abū l-Afrāḥ requesting that he urgently send the writer 5 dinars with the bearer. Also mentions sending it with the jāriya (female slave?).

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• jariya

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Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions various items of real estate and also mentions something that will go to 'the orphans.'

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• will

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