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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Khalfa to his 'brother' (brother-in-law?) Mūsā b. Sāmiḥ, in Cairo. Concerning various family matters. (1) No answer to letters. (2) Abū l-Faḍl came and informed the sender about the death of the little boy. (3) "My brother, I do not need to urge you concerning my sister... for I know that her character is difficult (akhlāqhā ṣaʿba)."

Tags

• akhlaq

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: possibly 13th century or later, based on the use of the shorthand "אלממ."

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Primary language

Hebrew

It is unclear whether Shemuel wrote this letter while still living in Egypt or when living in Jerusalem (as he did from the 1620s until his death in 1635); David leans to the latter option, based on the reference to the 'donation for Jerusalem.'

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• grosso
• late heb

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This shelfmark is intriguing on a material level, for the amount of compression it must have taken for so many pieces of paper to fuse together: at least 5-6 are visible on the recto alone. Some of the paper layers are very fibrous. This format gives off the appearance of cardboard, but may be an unintentional result of high compression in the geniza chamber from the collective weight of its contents.

Tags

• printed

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Document date

Rajab 1163 Hijrī (6 June 1750–5 July 1750 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The lessor is al-Ḥājj Ibrāhīm the son of the late Muḥammad al-Janzūrī, who is the wakīl (agent/representative) of al-Ḥājj Shihāb al-Dimāṭī (or al-Dimyāṭī?).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal testimony. Dating: Late 11th or early 12th century. Pinḥas b. [...] claims from Tiqva b.

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Primary language

Hebrew

Khalaf known as Ibn al-Zaʿtar abandoned her when he travelled abroad eight years ago to the land of Israel. She has witnesses to support her claim.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He relates the details of the treatment that he received at the hands of Ibn Habib, which, as far as can be determined through the lacunae, involves oxymel mixed with hot water, and timing something for the fifth day and the seventh day but not during the crisis.

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Tags

• epidemic
• epidemic: fasl
• ibn habib's patient
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• (+ 8 more)

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

One of the torn fragments, T-S AS 146.296, was later reused for jottings on verso in a rudimentary hand.

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• 12th c
• women in business

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(3) Lease from Sālim Ibn al-Lakhkhāf (cf. Bodl. MS heb. f 56/52v and Moss. VII,79.1 for this surname)

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• slave

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Primary language

Hebrew

The house is probably known by the name of the father, Ḥasan the dyer, and it is in the neighborhood of the large synagogue. The building bordered on another owned by 'Eli.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter likely from a woman, perhaps in Palestine or Syria (based on the mention of earthquakes), to her brother, evidently a government official in Cairo. In Judaeo-Arabic written in large, calligraphic, square characters, with the address in Arabic script on verso, "to be delivered to the tax bureau (dīwān al-kharāj) in Cairo."

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• arabic address
• childbirth
• crying
• diwan al-kharaj
• earthquake
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1 Transcription 1 Discussion

(Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 508, App. C 136) Names include: Column 1: Naḥum Baqqāl; Isḥāq Baqqāl; Mūsā; Yaʿqūb Maghribī; Yosef Ḥarīrī; [...] al-Ṣāniʿ; al-Nafīs Sharābī; Ibn al-Sofer Ṣaghir; al-Mumḥe Hiba; Hilāl rabīb al-Kohen; Ibn al-ʿAnbarī and his brother; Sulaymān Ṣabbāgh; Abū l-ʿAlāʾ b. […] Column 3: Abū l-ʿAlāʾ Ibn Ḥadīd; awlād Nufayʿ; awlād al-Mushanqiṣ; rabīb al-Mashmiaʿ; Asad Ibn al-Laḥḥām; al-[...] Ibn Nufayʿ; Maḥāsin Naqlī; Bū Naṣr Naqlī; Ibn al-ʿAdanī; Ibn al-Kāmukhī; al-Shaykh al-Nākhūdha.

Tags

• charity
• communal
• donors
• poverty

2 Transcriptions

Document date

Shevaṭ 1332 Seleucid (1020 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Persian

See also Goitein notes and index card linked below.) The letter is labeled "L14" in Shaul Shaked's (unpublished) classification of Early Judeo-Persian texts.

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Tags

• al-tustari
• court record
• jewels
• theft

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Document date

Friday, 4 Sivan 5258 Anno Mundi (25 May 1498 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Ladino

Two legal notes, amidst sundry other jottings, mostly calendrical (including the names of months in both Hebrew and Romance—perhaps Ladino). The first note states that R. Eliezer Griego repaid 300 levanim out of his debt to R.

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• calendar
• ladino words
• levanim

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Addressed to "our master" with regards to "our master David." Dating: likely late 12th or early 13th century (paleographic dating).

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Document date

26 Elul 5545 Anno Mundi (1 September 1785 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

It is unclear whether "Di Mordekhay" should be read as a part of a long surname or as a father-son patronymic (b. Mordekhay). The latter scenario seems more likely, however, given the inclusion of Di Ancona/D'Ancona before נ׳׳ע.

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Tags

• ketubba
• marriage
• rashid

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yōsef Ṣīyād (Fisherman), Aḥmad Jdawī, Shwīsh Ḥasan (שויש is possibly the Turkish rank Çavuş), Aḥmad b. Muḥammad דלגה (this latter word may be Turkish for a certain profession).

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• ottoman shipping

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Primary language

Arabic

reign (saʿda Allahu bi-ṣuḥbatihi wa l-kaun fī jumlatihi), reports glad tidings (wa l-aḥwāl bi barakat Maulana wa-Sayyīdina ṣalawāt Allah ʿalayhi), and expresses his gratitude (la-mashkūr jamīl al-ṣunʿ fīhi). He also reports traveling to a place (wa kharaja ʿabd Maulānā).

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• dimme

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The addressee is asked to help reconcile the bearer, al-Shaykh al-Makīn, with his wife "and listen to his complaint (shakwā), [because] he is a good boy and his father is a good man. . . and you know his intellect and his piety." The writer later states, "Maybe I will come to Fustat," implying that the addressee of the letter of recommendation is in Fustat (rather than Damīra).

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Tags

• damin
• marital dispute

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Primary language

Slavonic

The manuscript is most likely of Wallachian or Moldavian origin, more likely the latter given the internal disputes within the Wallachian Kingdom and the concomitant golden age of Stephen the Great in Moldavia.

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• slavonic

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Letter from Labrat b. Moshe b. Sugmar, from Susa, to his brother, Yehuda, probably in Alexandria.

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1 Transcription 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

(Information in part from CUDL; see also Zinger, Women, Gender, and Law (PhD Diss.), p. 363f on the Ibn al-Jāzfīnī family.)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In addition he was robbed of everything by robbers near the village. He died a few weeks later, in Av. One of his two wives and the daughter of the other died also.

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3

Tags

• 11th c
• communal
• eli b. yahya
• fayyum
• illness
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from the teacher Abū l-Khayr, in Minyat Zifta to his brother Abū Naṣr Maḥfūẓ, the brother-in-law of Abū l-Bishr(?) Ibn al-Abzārī(?), in Darb al-Dahhān, Ḥārat Zuwayla, Cairo.

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2

Tags

• minyat zifta
• nile voyage
• teaching
• trade

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

It is filled with profuse apologies ("I have never felt such pain as the pain that I felt because I was late...). The sender is also upset about how people have judged him harshly, which was only because of his great humility (qillat al-makbara wa-l-anafa).

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Tags

• apology
• lor

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Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Ezra, is preserved, linking this letter with T-S 10J12.25 and T-S 13J18.1, which is five years later, dealing with the same case, and preserving more details including the names of the sisters.

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• 11th c
• efrayim b. shemarya
• tyre

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Document date

Nisan 1456 Seleucid (1145 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Elʿazar (Rabbenu Elʿazar ha-Rav ha-Gadol Resh bē Rabbanan) confirms that his mother (no name of her or her father), the wife of the late Elʿazar, had given the female slave (waṣīfa) named Dhahab, who was three years old, to her brother Abū l-Ḥasan Yahaboy, and that he and the other heir had no claim on her.

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Inferred date

1156–1156 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Tiqva ha-Levi known as Ibn al-Amʿaṭ, a certain sum from the estate of her late husband. Sitt al-Ahl's father Sayyid al-Kull is also known as the druggist Hillel b.

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• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib2
• india book
• testimony

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

They are issuing receipts without having them registered in the supervising dīwān (wa-lam yuthbithā fī l-dīwān), which enables them to extort a second payment—one for their own pockets, and one for the dīwān.

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Document date

9 Ḥeshvan 5304 Anno Mundi (7 October 1543 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

This is not the exact date of recording for this document, which has been lost to damage in the lower right corner and was likely somewhat later in the sixteenth century. The partnership settlement is related the cost of rent and repairs for a building in which a section was used as a house of prayer for the Maghrebi congregation.

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• 16th c
• partnership

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Document date

Thursday, 10 Tammuz 1343 Seleucid (22 June 1032 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The second involves a lawsuit in between Khalaf b. Shelomo ha-Levi and his opponent Ibrāhīm.

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• ledger

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Document date

28 Adar 4693 Anno Mundi (26 February 933 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Early: 5 dinars worth of jewelry. Late: 20 dinars. Dowry: 237 dinars, plus an apartment (3/8ths = 9/24ths of the full property).

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• betrothal
• ketubba
• marriage

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Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Contains phrases such as: "... to judge the holy congregations... decrees of his kingship (נשתוני מלכותו) and to bring us up to the land of Egypt. . . and we went up as he commanded us and we arrived in the capital city (עיר הממלכה = Cairo?)

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The same hand continues on verso, "..... and the rest is combed flax"; maybe this is the brother's laconic response. (Information in part from CUDL.)

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