Documents

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)

Tags

• 13th c
• account
• coptic numerals
• heqdesh
• qodesh
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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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Document date

25 Ṣafar 919 Hijrī (2 May 1513 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

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

Tags

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

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Document date

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 languages

Hebrew numerals, 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;

Tags

• 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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Tags

• 16th c

1 Transcription

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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Tags

• 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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Primary language

Arabic

Ṣāliḥ the Rabbanite Jew (al-Isrāʾīlī al-Rabbānī). Only the upper left corner has survived, with later jottings in Arabic script on top of it.

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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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Primary language

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 (?)

Tags

• late prosopography
• materia medica
• pharmacy

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Primary language

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. . . ."

Tags

• 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

Tags

• latin script
• spanish

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Primary language

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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Tags

• fish

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Primary language

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?).

Tags

• jariya

1 Transcription

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

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

Tags

• will

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Spanish

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

Tags

• latin script
• spanish

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Document date

Muḥarram 1224 Hijrī (16 February 1809–17 March 1809 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The object of rent might be a mill (Ṭāḥūn) in the Ḥārat al-Yahūd, the payer is Bū ʿAlī and owner Ishaq.

Tags

• 19th c
• dimme
• rent
• seal

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Document date

1247 Hijrī (12 June 1831–30 May 1832 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Accounting document issued by "al-qism al-awwal Qalyūbiyya," one of the 24 administrative sections of Egypt that were established in the 1820s.

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Primary language

Arabic

Mentions the ground tax "al-ḥikr" and "siwā l-mablagh al-taṣarruf". Needs examination.

Tags

• dimme
• hikr

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

In the body of the letter, in Judaeo-Arabic, he explains his (conjunctural) poverty and asks for help. On verso are also piyyutim/qinot.

Tags

• appeal

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Primary language

Arabic

Mentions the names of several amīrs, including Ṣuʿlūk b. Majsūr. Al-Maqrīzī mentions an amīr Shihāb al-Dīn Ṣuʿlūk Atābika (Sulūk: I, 556); could be the same person.

Tags

• dimme
• fiscal
• mamluk

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Primary language

Arabic

A very long but fragmentary waqf document, probably Ottoman era. Also contains a bold monumental script in the middle, probably from a different (state?)

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Tags

• dimme

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

He asks the addressee to forward legal queries (fatāwī) to 'sayyidnā.' The writer is also in difficult straits. (Information in part from CUDL)

Tags

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: fright
• responsa

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