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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment, mercantile, including the lower half of recto and the main text (but no address) on verso. Quite faded, but should be mostly legible. Mentioned in Med Soc IV, 384, n. 133: "Two pairs of mats ordered: T-S 12.4014, bottom."

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif to one of his brothers. Fragment (upper right corner of recto). Very faded. Mentions sending something with 'al-zaqen.' Mentions 10 dirhams and 4 dirhams.

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document(s) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). Fragment (thin vertical strip). […] It is very difficult to extract any meaningful information. Mentions a Gaʾon and a declaration made by a woman.

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• halfon b. menashshe

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Letter from a woman to a certain Yosef written in the hand of Shelomo ha-Melammed b. Eliya. The woman calles herself "his mother" but it is possible that she was not his biological mother and this is an attempt by her to show her closeness to him. […] Finally, Shelomo ha-Melammed added a personal message to Yosef at the end of the letter: He asks him to send greetings to Shelomo's cousin (the son of Shelomo's mother's brother) Abu al-Faraj and his two sons Ma'ani abd Abu Majd. These relatives are also mentioned in T-S 10J7.2 and T-S 13J35.15 (OZ).

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• capitation tax
• jaliya
• jizya
• nar
• tax
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Unusual document containing meeting minutes relating to the business dealings of someone whose name is too faded to read (r2). […] . (5) Meeting with Mufaḍḍal al-Zajjāj and asking him to collect the money from Zikrī, and then pay it to Muḥammad. (6) Mentions Shemuʾel the son of the brother of al-Rav; the rest is too damaged to read

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• account
• business
• private

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Primary language

Aramaic

Upper fragment: Replacement ketubba (כתובה אירכסא), meant to replace one that was torn or lost. Mentions Avraham ha-Rav he-Ḥasid b. […] Yosef he-Ḥashuv (presumably the bride). is probably the bride. 150 zuz are mentioned.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Reports a dialogue and mentions "what he did with the daftar" and "other than that which al-ḥaver al-meʿulle told me."

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Document date

5382 Anno Mundi (16 September 1621–4 September 1622 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Dated: 5382 AM = 1621/22 CE. Mentioning an appeal by several poor men who are imprisoned in iron chains. Signatures include those of Shemuel de Medina and Refaʾel b. [...] ha-Kohen. (Information from CUDL)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment (part of the right side of recto). The main text mentions "sayyidnā." Mentions something only being possible with an order (marsūm) from the amīr. Mentions something in agreement with the opinion of al-Qāḍī al-Rashīd.

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Primary language

Hebrew

The poem on the lefthand page has a refrain beginning כהני and refers throughout to the prominent merchantMeshullam Kelil ha-Yofi Peqid ha-Soḥarim of the Ibn Ghulayb family.

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Primary language

Arabic

Fatimid official report mentioning two messengers sent from the caliph (al-ḥaḍra al-ṭāhira) to Damascus and also mentioning the Banū Hilāl.

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• banu hilal
• fatimid
• officials
• red and black border
• report
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14[..] Seleucid (19 September 1088–23 September 1188 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Seleucid = 1088–1188 CE. Mentions [...] b. Moshe. In the upper margin there are additional legal jottings, likely relating to different documents. At upper left, mentions Yeshuʿa b. Moshe and Ṣadoq b. Shemarya. The next two lines are faded but appears to mention Naṣr, the city of ʿAkkā, and the daughter of the amīr Dirghām or Ḍirghām. At upper right, mentions [...] b. al-Ghuṣn(?) al-Ḥashshāk(?), rent, and declaring that someone is considered 'faithful' (neʾeman).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

This letter concerns a transaction in wheat (possibly one irdabb) and involving among others a haver ('member of the yeshiva'). If al-shaykh Yeshu'a (lines 3-4) is the same person as al-melammed ('the teacher', line 1), he may be identified as one of two persons attested in Geniza documents by the name Yeshu'a ha-melammed b. Avraham, who lived in the middle of the 12th and the early 13th centuries respectively; see Goitein, Med.Soc., vol. 2, p. 544 note 8. The verso contains fragmentary with (mostly illegible) writing in Arabic.

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Document date

1236 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Postscript to a letter addressed to the Nasi Shelomo by the scion of the house of David in Mosul who also wrote Bodl. MS Heb. a 3/24. Mentions that he acquired for his son a permit to practice a profession and travel to Bilbays in Egypt. (Information from Goitein's index cards.) The writer mentions that he intended to travel that week, but his son fell ill; he also mentions that the rayyis is ill and cannot read or write letters, but that the sons of Rabbenu Menaḥem have been helping.

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• 13th c
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• mosul nasis

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. On recto there is a medical text in Arabic script. On verso there is further Arabic text on medical themes, but it is not immediately clear whether this is the same text as recto. […] The content is difficult to make out, but it mentions silver and gold; mentions al-Malik al-ʿĀdil, either the sultan from 1200–18 or his grandson with the same title who served intermittently as regent from 1232–38 and reigned 1238–40; and concludes by urging the addressee to act.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: 11th century. Mentions the receipt of expressions of condolence (on the death of his father). Mentions Alexandria. This Tunisian merchant commuted between Egypt and his homeland.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Nearly entirely preserved, but faded. Mentions well-known merchants such as Barhūn Ibn al-Tāhartī (r4). Also mentions the name ʿAbd al-Jabbār b. ʿAbdallāh. Needs examination for content.

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• unedited 11th c

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe probably to one of his brothers. Fragment (upper right corner of recto). Mentions having sent an ʿIrāqī good and a bag (kharīṭa) containing good-quality [...]. Mentions someone named Hiba or [...] b. Hiba. (Information in part from CUDL)

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• yefet b. menashshe

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Small fragment from the beginning of a legal deed written by Halfon. b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Avraham the judge b. Shabetay is mentioned. It is probably the judge of al-Minyat Zifta who was active there circa 1125 (Med.

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• b.
• halfon
• menashshe

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Abū Saʿīd Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). […] Refers to the arrival of two rubāʿīs(?). Mentions gum (ṣamgh). Not much else is preserved here.

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• yefet b. menashshe

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). […] Fragment (thin strip from the right side of recto). Mentions: a Maghribī; Abū Saʿd b. [...]; "a bit of Armenian bole (ḥajar armanī)"; [...] b.

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• yefet b. menashshe

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yaʾir to the Nagid (Moshe b. Mevorakh, based on T-S 24.55 (PGPID 1806)). Fragment. Mentions conflict over the prerogative to circumcise. Mentions having sent a prior letter with Abū Saʿd b.

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• circumcision

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). It seems the daughter of a dead person asked the court to declare her trustworthy (neʾemenet). Involves [...] b. [...] ha-Levi ha-Meshorer known as Ibn Ḥamā[..]. (Information in part from Goitein's index card.)

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Document date

Tammuz 5561 Anno Mundi (12 June 1801–10 July 1801 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Investment partnership in which Shemuʾel Leon receives 4,000 medin from Mercada (מרקאדה) bt. Yaʿaqov Arubaṣ (ארובץ) to invest in his business. Dated Tammuz 5561 (= 1801 CE) in Cairo, and signed by Joseph Kandiote (קנדיוטי = the Cretan) and Meʾīr b. Shalom Ben-Naʿīm. MCD.

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• 19th c

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). Bride: Sitt al-Kull, a virgin. […] Grand total: 95. Witnessed by Meshullam b. […]. (Information from CUDL and Goitein's index card.)

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1444 Seleucid (12 September 1132–1 September 1133 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dating: Mentions 1444 of the Seleucid era (= 1132/1133 CE). Involves two people reaching an agreement over monthly payments. Mentions Avraham al-Wakīl, [...] b. Khallūf and Abū l-Ḥasan.

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). On parchment? Mentions 450 dinars, possibly with the term "Malikī" after, which would indicate a connection to trade in Yemen. No clear names or details are preserved. Mentions an agent. (Information in part from CUDL)

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Iyyar 5411 Anno Mundi (22 April 1651–20 May 1651 CE)

, Mordechai Medina, Moshe Noṣerī, Raḥamīm ha-Kohen, ____? Ibn Shanji, ____? al-Qudsī, Shemuʾel Ibn Ṣor, Yahuda Danon, Safdia Tilmsānī, Shaḥata Dodlaḥ[?], Meṣliaḥ Fransia, Yiṣḥaq al-Shāmī, Yiṣḥaq Noal?, Moshe Ramḥon[?], Moshon Shāmī, Yiṣḥaq Reʾuben, Abraham Menashe, Shmuel ___a?, Yiṣḥaq Medina, Shmuel ?ḥaj, Abraham Sanes, Yosef Yiṣḥaq, Avraham Menashe, Canbos?

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• 17th c
• late prosopography
• list

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Medical. Medical prescription (from CUDL).

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• fgp stub
• medical

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The hand may be known. Mentions a shipment from Būṣīr to Fustat. Mentions sums of tens of dinars and one sum of 240 dinars. Gives an itemized list of expenses that mentions Alexandria. One of the expenses appears to have been a bribe (shoḥad).

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• bribe

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Probably legal notes in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Mentions partial names including Rosh ha-Nedivim; Peraḥya Ibn al-ʿAmʿaṭ; someone's father; Yehuda ha-Ḥazzan ha-Meʿuttad "his brother."

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Court record in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-138 CE). Certifying that Abū l-Faraj al-Jubaylī (Yeshuʿa b. Menashshe ha-Levi) delivered goods from Yemen belonging to a deceased merchant.

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• ib-addenda
• ib7

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The writer supports Musa’s family. Mentions trading with Byzantine merchants and merchants from other places in Europe.

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• byzantine merchants
• byzantines

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