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5 Nisan 1453 Seleucid (2 April 1142 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(April 1142). In which ʿAmram mentions his troubles, including his wife's illness (she is "dead on the face of the earth"; this is the third and final known letter of ʿAmram on the matter), and his sadness after the death of ʿEli the Judge, Ḥalfon’s older brother, as well as his sadness over Yehuda ha-Levi's death. […] There is news of the arrival of another merchant, Yiṣḥaq al-Sijilmāsī; ʿAmram repeats his request to Ḥalfon to send him the commentary on Isaiah; he asks for help with the paperwork necessary for the estate of a family member of Ḥalfon.

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• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: chronic
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4 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Khalaf has sent the addressee 1.5 dinars and wants good-quality lac. The sender then reports in detail about the nagid’s beehives, complaining about all the trouble he has had with them, and asks for instructions.

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• amir
• bees
• capitation tax
• damin
• lac

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Hebrew

Yiṣḥaq is here titled Sar la-ʿEda, and his father Avraham is titled "Zaqen he-Qehillot in Ramla."

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Primary language

Arabic

Recto: Memorandum in Arabic script, with a learned disquisition on the meaning of the term "ṭabīʿa" in the works of Hippocrates. Names several specific medical treatises. Margins contain mention of "al-Shaykh" and his tafsīr on Kitāb al-Aghlūqun (Glaucon). Unclear if this is related to verso, which is a medical prescription, mentioning chebulic myrobalan, white agaric, turpeth, and Chinese rhubarb.

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• dimme
• medical
• prescription

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A partially preserved medical prescription that mentions burnt goat-horn, eggplant, and a cup of wine. […] Amar, Practical Materia Medica of the Eastern Mediterranean According to the Cairo Genizah (Brill, 2008). For pharmacies, see Med. Soc. II.

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• prescription

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Marriage contract (ketubba). Small fragment. MentionsMeshullam. Witnesses: Moshe b. Shela; Mevorakh b. [...].

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Aharon for Nissim b. Meshullam and his brother Ṣedaqa b. Meshullam, along with their mother Bahiyya bt. Ḥalfon, from debts incurred by their deceased father Abū l-ʿAlā Meshullam b. Hiba known as Ibn Shuwaykiyya ("the little artichoke"). Mentions 'the judge of judges' (qāḍī l-quḍāh). See also T-S 12.94 and T-S 20.30.

2 Transcriptions 2 Discussions

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter sent in response to a message from the addressee, with well-wishes related to the addressee's illness or frailty (iltiyāth). […] Quite damaged. The sender mentions the consummation of someone's marriage. Also mentions the addressee's desire to meet with Abū ʿAlī.

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Badly rubbed letter/petition in Judaeo-Arabic, opening and closing with blessings for the addressee (possibly a ḥaver named Yaḥyā). Mentioning people who are trying to sow conflict in the synagogue between a group of people and a certain cantor. Also mentions someone's son Manṣūr b. Bishāra. There is a long list of signatures from men including Yefet b. Yosef ha-Kohen, Mevorakh b. Meshullam and Yefet b. Yehuda. (Information in part from CUDL)

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• conflict

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Two fragments from the top of a court record in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Mentions Abū ʿAlī, Aharon, Meshullam a.k.a. […] , a Muslim qāḍī, business in Yemen, merchandise that was ruined, 20 dinars, and an oath.

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• ib-addenda
• yemen

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Document date

Monday, 18 Adar 1430 Seleucid (3 March 1119 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Dated: Monday, 18 Adar 1430 Seleucid, which is 1119 CE. Husband: Ḥalfon b. Mevorakh. Wife: Sitt al-Ahl bt. Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi. On verso, confirmation that Sitt al-Ahl received the geṭ, signed by Meshullam b. Menashshe he-Ḥaver and Ḥalfon b. Menashshe.

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• get

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Address of a letter from [...] b. Meshullam the [...] to a certain [...] b. Elʿazar. The word after Meshullam might be al-ʿAṭṭar, or it might be the address in Fustat (al-ʿAṭṭārīn).

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Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: part of a letter, mentioning the elder Abū l-[...]. Verso: Letter in Arabic script, probably mercantilementioning a weight measure, "تخليت عني بوزن".

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Judaeo-Arabic

Probably in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe. Fragment (lower piece of a long vertical letter). Mentions a qāḍī twice; the government; greetings to Abū Saʿīd (probably Ḥalfon, so this letter could be to their other brother Peraḥya); greetings from their mother and sisters. Greetings to Zayn Ibn al-Ger ("the convert/stranger") and a message to Zayn regarding some merchandise.

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• yefet b. menashshe

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Judaeo-Arabic

Leaf from a medical book or notebook with recipes, mentioning among others the substances Black Nightshade (ʿinab al-ṯaʿlab), wheat (ḥinṭa) and rhubarb (rāwand), quantities of measures, ‘filtered medication’ and sleep.

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• fgp stub

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Primary language

Arabic

Petition, late Fatimid period given the blessings on a vizier, from a certain Ibn Mūsā (no forename given) concerning a Jew named (2) Bū l-Faraj who took another Jew named (3) Ibrāhīm b.

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• dimme
• late fatimid
• petition

1 Transcription 1 Translation

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Business letter from a Maghribi merchant. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th century. Not mentioned in the literature. Avraham b. Yamān is mentioned. The sickness of Abu Zikri is mentioned. Written on parchment. Needs to be unfolded and conserved.

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• unedited 11th c

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Menashshe b. David al-Ṣayrafī. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender might be Faraḥ b. […] Mercantile letter concerning the trade in commodities such as pepper and mentioning Abū Saʿd and traders from al-Andalus. Mentions the geographical area of Jazāʾir al-Qurashī (also mentioned in T-S 16.13) and awaiting a group of people called al-Fīshāniyyīn or al-Fayshāniyyīn (also mentioned in Sassoon 713).

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• account

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (Date: 1100-1138). Fragment (upper right corner). In which Ṣedaqa ha-Meshorer ('the singer/poet') makes a declaration in favor of [...] b. Shemuel ha-Levi. Ṣedaqa ha-Meshorer is presumably Ṣedaqa b. Ṣemaḥ known from documents such as T-S 8.131 and Bodl.

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• halfon b. menashshe

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment from a letter, mentioningMesar or Muyassar (מיסר) ha-Kohen who met with someone important, "and he is a very good person," then ʿAmram and Elʿazar and Yeshuʿa al-Iskandarānī.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Also the addressee's "mother and sisters" are mentioned. Yefet reports that Ḥassūn b. ʿAllūn arrived. Mentions Baqāʾ. Mentions a radda (a garment alternately identified as "scarf" or "turban"). Mentions Cairo. (Information in part from CUDL)

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• yefet b. menashshe

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Document date

1094–1111 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(CUDL dates the document to 1066 CE, but this cannot be correct, since Meshullam b. Hiba Ibn al-Shuwaykiyya was still alive in 1091 CE per ENA 4020.47.) […] Aharon reaches a settlement (ṣulḥ) and releases Nissim b. Meshullam and his brother Ṣedaqa b. Meshullam, along with their mother Bahiyya bt. Ḥalfon, from any debts incurred by their deceased father Abū l-ʿAlā Meshullam b. Hiba known as Ibn Shuwaykiyya ("the little artichoke").

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Judaeo-Arabic

Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning Qayrawān and al-Mahdiyya, written prior to 1057 CE. Mentions people such as Abū Naṣr [Dāvid?] b. Naḥum. Mentions saffron and the people who arrived with the caravan.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Medieval accounts, mentioning silk and mercury among other things.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

MedicalMedical text on medicine for the stomach and indigestion (from CUDL).

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• fgp stub
• medical

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mercantile accounts. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 11th century. Mentions al-Ramla three times. Mentions Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Jābir and his two partners. Mentions silk. (Information from Goitein's index card.)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fol. 1r, left page: Mentions [...] b. Yūsuf. Fol. 1v, right page: Mentions Yiṣḥaq b. […] Fol. 1v, left page: At the top of the lefthand page mentions sending all of something to Yemen. Fol. 2r, left page: Mentions sending something to Alexandria Fol. 2v, left page: Mentions sending something to the Ḥijāz. The next entry apparently mentions sending something to Nubia (בלד אלנובה). At the bottom of this page mentions Yosef b.

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• ib-addenda
• ib6

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Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Accounts in Arabic script. Mentioning items such as a medicinal syrup, wax, and a mastic. Verso: List in Judaeo-Arabic, possibly in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Mentions values of some items and then Yefet b.

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Inferred date

1100–1112 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mevorakh ha-Nagid. Important. Mevorakh had 14 titles! […] Dating: 1100-1112 CE, based on Mevorakh's years of service (1112-1126) and Ḥalfon b. Menashshe's active dates (1100-1138 CE). (Information in part from Goitein's index card)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe. Probably addressed to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE), since their other brother Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya is mentioned three lines from the bottom. […] ; scammony (maḥmūda); kohl; Byzantine wormwood (afsantīn rūmī). Mentions someone named Makārim.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment from a business letter probably written by Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Halfon (the address is not visible). Abu al-Fadl is mentioned and ruba'i of 'anzrut (= Sarcocolla, mentioned in medical books in recipes for the treatment of eye complaints such as redness, itching , and eye diseases).

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• halfon b. menashshe
• illness: eye
• yefet b. menashshe

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Document date

1438 Seleucid (20 September 1126–7 September 1127 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shemaʿya ha-Ḥaver descendant of Shemaʿyahu Gaon; Ḥalfon b. Menashshe; Meshullam b. Menashshe ha-Ḥaver; Ḥalfon b. […] Shemuel ha-Sefaradi; Zakkay b. Moshe; Menashshe ha-Kohen ha-Ḥaver b. [Yaʿīsh?].

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• halfon b. menashshe

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Mevorakh b. Natan to Thiqat al-Mulk. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mevorakh describes his financial difficulties and asks for help obtaining wheat. […] (Information from Mediterranean Society, IV, pp. 243, 439)

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: household
• illness: marad
• mazalim
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1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Natan Ha-Kohen, Jerusalem, to Mevorakh b. Saʿadya, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1070. The sender establishes himself in this letter as a liaison between Eliyyahu ha-Kohen Gaʾon and his son Evyatar on the one hand and Yehuda and Mevorakh the sons of Saʿadya on the other hand. Mentions "he-gevira," the mother of Mevorakh, as well as her brother Mevorakh.

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• mevorakh b. saadya

2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Primary language

Arabic

Recipe, potentially a medical prescription. Mentions licorice and dates and quantities measured in ounces (ūqiyya).

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• dimme

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Primary language

Arabic

Literary text, probably medical. Mentions "al-zībaq al-aḥmar" red mercury.

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• dimme

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal query to [... ha-Rav] ha-Gadol be-Yisraʾel concerning a mercantile transaction. Mentions the Dār al-Wakāla; a deal betwen two merchants; and how the merchandise was fined 10 mithqāls after it came out that it contained stolen goods (masrūqa). .

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• responsum

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Family letter from Meir b. Hillel b. Sadoq to his son. The letter reflects the personal and economic distress of the writer, who was far away from his loved ones. […] (Information from Frenkel; The piece of paper was originally a letter of request written to Meir b. Hillel b. Sadoq. Meir b. Sadoq reused the paper to write the letter to his son. The text provided by Frenkel contains only the letter written by Meir. For the letter written to Meir see T-S NS J171 verso; For more information see Goitein, Med.

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• personal

2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Medical. From a work on materia medica, listing simple medicaments, their function and use (from CUDL).

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• fgp stub
• medical

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Refers to sending something to the addressee with a trustworthy messenger and awaiting instructions from the addressee. Also mentions "the congregation" (al-jamāʿa). On verso there is unidentified Arabic text (possibly medical or poetry).

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