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Judaeo-Arabic

"I wrote to him a letter of condolence.... please apologize to him for me for the shortcoming... his death, but...

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[Described on a separate small piece of paper as: "letter from a noble man asking from another generousity and finishing his letter with poetry praising the bonifactor (bienfaiteur)" [Linked to item 26 (?)]. Oversize.

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• arabic

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Judaeo-Arabic

One tailor (khayyāṭ), one carpenter (najjār). 26 who receive wheat and 1 who receives barley. 7 women.

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19 Muḥarram 533 Hijrī (26 September 1138 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Dated: 19 Muḥarram 533 AH = 26 September 1138 CE. Same man: T-S AS 182.90, T-S AS 182.186, T-S Ar.35.170, and T-S Ar.35.204.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Samawʾal" asking him to do a favor, "if he is able to go out, meet with me [...]."

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Arabic

"I have / there is owed to me from the remainder of the mill (al-raḥā) 10 dirhams...."

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Contains a colophon: "This 'scroll' was written in Elul 5013 (=1253 CE). . . by me, R. Yosef ha-Bavli."

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• colophon

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11 Kislev 5569 Anno Mundi (30 November 1808 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Late pair of letters in Judaeo-Arabic dated 30 November 1808 CE (11 Kislev 5569 AM). The first is from Moshe Bibas, Rashid, to Karo y Frances & Company, Fustat/Cairo, sent with the bearer Aḥmad [...].

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• 19th c
• bibas
• karo y frances
• late ja
• moshe bibas

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Primary language

Arabic

Contains many phrases of the form "wa-lā X wa-lāY wa-lā Z." Needs further examination for substance.

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter of appeal for charity from Yiṣḥaq ha-Kohen Nafūsī to Moshe Tifʾeret ha-Kohanim. He states that he is an old man from Nafūsa (Libya) and …

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• appeal
• injury

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Almost too damaged to identify. Possibly Talmud or Talmudic commentary, since among the surviving words are "the [priest] anointed for war" and "with a vow …

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Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

The communal gabbay Mordechai Bialobos (בייאלובוס) attests that he has received a deposit of 700 esedi gurush ("arayot") from Luna the widow of Shemuel Malkhi, which it seems he will use for investments and business, and a portion of the proceeds will go toward supporting the orphans of the deceased, Eliyyahu and Saʿd. The document also mentions the communal chest of the Miṣrīyīn congregation as well as two non-Jewish men who are involved in the legal arrangements. The pair's names are Alişan and Morisho, which may be an erratic spelling of Mauricio or Maurizio. The latter individuals are each referenced in an uncommon manner as "העמלק" (ha-ʿAmalek), instead of the formulaic convention "gentiles."

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• 18th c

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Document date

Adar I 1529 Seleucid (1218 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There are 6 lines of (autograph) response in Avraham's hand, but these are mostly torn away or effaced. Mentions people including Ismāʿīl b. Maʿālī and Abū l-Ḥassan al-Levi and someone's first return from the Levant.

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• autograph
• avraham
• maimonides

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Then, "I sent you the notebooks, so send me the notebooks." Then, "what you said to me that day... the head of the Yeshivah..."

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Primary language

Hebrew

List of names. Tiqva ha-Kohen; Yakhin b. Yeshuʿa; ʿEli b. Shelomo; Elʿazar b. Araḥ; Berakhot; Avraham b. She'erit; ʿEli ha-Ḥaver(?).

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Primary language

Arabic

Prognostications? In Arabic script.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List of accounts for the bread distribution. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions the paternal aunt of the judge, the Shaykh Abū l-Faraj al-Dimyāṭī, and Maḥfūẓ the khādim in the synagogue.

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• account

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Primary language

Hebrew

Calendar for maḥzors 258 (starting 1122 CE) through maḥzor 261 (ending 1199 CE). Will be a useful resource for dating the handful of Geniza documents that contain only the maḥzor and the year within the maḥzor.

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• calendar
• mahzors

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Document date

1608 Seleucid (30 August 1296–18 September 1297 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal record(s). Dated: 1608 Seleucid = 1296/96 CE. The first involves Ḥayyim b. Ḥananʾel, (his wife?) Shamsiyya bt. Ṣadoq, and a delayed marriage payment of …

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Note to Moses Gaster, in Hebrew, concerning a delay in the delivery of a crate.

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• collection history
• gaster
• non-geniza

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Last third of Tishrei 1551 Seleucid (21 September 1239–30 September 1239 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document. Loan terms. Dated: September 1239. Location: Bilbays. Between Amram b. Ḥalfon and Avraham b. Efrayim. Initially described as commenda (qirāḍ) but re-negotiated into …

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• commenda
• loan

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Inferred date

1300–1600 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List in Judaeo-Arabic, neat and well-preserved, with quantities of food items and materia medica on the recto. There are three columns from right to left which list the materials, units of measurement, and perhaps Coptic-numerical quantities. […] A diverse array of units of measurement are in use such as the raṭl and the wayba, which Goitein notes "comprised about 15 liters (approximately 4 gallons) and the irdabb consisted of 6 waybas." (Goitein, Mediterranean Society I, 361). These details help estimate the dating of this document as 14th-16th-century.

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• almonds
• pepper
• soap
• wax
• wayba

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Abū Naṣr Mevorakh b.

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• halfon b. menashshe

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Copy of the first verse of Genesis, probably by a child. Interesting because the original binding appears to be preserved.

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• original binding

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Primary language

Hebrew

Literary. Psalms and Job.

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Primary languages

Judaeo-Arabic, Ladino

Accounts in Ladino and Judaeo-Arabic that express figures in western Arabic numerals. […] The entry furthest down along the lower border of the fragment also mentions Yosef Haggai ("יוספ חגאי"). MCD.

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• 18th or 19th c

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The second recipes involves red hairs, a cloth, and lamp oil (zayt ḥār). Verso: Hebrew poem.

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Judaeo-Persian

Letter in Judaeo-Persian. Needs examination

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Document date

1058–1068 CE

Primary language

Aramaic

Legal document of ḥaliṣa (release from levirate marriage). In Aramaic. There is also one line in Arabic script on verso. Location: Fustat. Dated: 137[.] Seleucid, …

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Document date

Ḥeshvan 5570 Anno Mundi (11 October 1809–8 November 1809 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

David ארביט. Currency: gurush. Merits further examination.

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• 19th c
• illumination
• ketubba

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Jottings in Hebrew script. Maybe accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. The word thawb appears.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In each line of the list a different name is mentioned and their related quantities of "עדה" vary in alphanumerical figures that appear below each appearance of the word.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

See tag.

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• donations ledger ca.1800

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from ʿEli b. David ha-Kohen to Abū l-Qawām Thābit. In Judaeo-Arabic. Only the formulaic opening and the address are preserved.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Document in Judaeo-Arabic, apparently summarizing a petition. Headed ב, then "in which your slaves Abū l-Riḍā al-Abwānī asked Sayyidnā (=you) . . . the letter …

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Wednesday, 24 Shevat 4846 Anno Mundi (11 February 1086 CE)

Dated: Wednesday, 24 Shevat 4846 AM = 11 February 1086 CE. Mentions a Peraḥya and a Shelomo ha-Kohen.

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Inferred date

1500–1700 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Based on the paleography the dating for these accounts possibly is possibly 16-17th-century. The recto and verso account for payments "אל ווצל" …

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Hebrew

Literary text, in Hebrew

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Judaeo-Arabic

A few Judaeo-Arabic words in large script.

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Arabic

Account in Arabic script, seems to be private though the layout resembles official documents. "Account of the soap which arrived on the date of [...] of Muḥarram of the year [...] to the shop of Tāj al-Mulūk with Abū l-Qāsim b.

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Arabic

Probably a fiscal account. Mentions 200 dinars on verso, and possibly a dīwān. Needs examination. Similar layout as DK 147.6 (PGPID 34124). ..

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Judaeo-Arabic

It appears that the recipient is also interested in the daughter of Abū Saʿd, since the writer tells him to pluck up his courage and come quickly so that they can confer with his mother and visit Abū Saʿd in the night and speak to him before they miss their chance. The remainder of the letter (r15-v11) is more faded and less cloak and dagger, mentioning various small items and notebooks and sums of money. The writer reports that he has already paid the money he previously received from the recipient to the landlord. The postscript (v12-20) may resume the marriage plot: the writer tells the recipient to go to "the man" (Abū Saʿd?)

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Literary work on the blowing of the shofar.

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Primary language

Arabic

Late accounts in Arabic, possibly a bifolio from a broader defter. One of the account headings on the verso mentions al-ṣarrāf. Merits further examination.

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• late arabic script
• sarraf

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