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Judaeo-Arabic

He asks his son to collect a debt of 11 dinars that is owed to him by Abu l-Ḥasan al-'Attar. A half-dinar and a (mother?-)in-law (ḥamātī) are also mentioned but their place in the story is not entirely clear.

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• abu sahl levi

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Nissim, when the latter was already the “eminent member” of the Jerusalem yeshiva. […] Goitein, Mediterranean Society, 5:204, 327, 418, 564, 596, 624; Marina Rustow, Heresy and the Politics of Community, 330, note 20.) See also Goitein's index cards. EMS

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• avraham b. natan
• nahray b. nissim
• qaraite
• seljuks
• trade

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Many of the names referenced in the subheadings are women: Sitt Sutayt, Shūl or Sol al-Ḥāshr (Sol from Ladino), Sitt Mansūba wife of Avraham Mdūr(?) […] Umm Qamūr, Umm Yaʿaqov אלעברה, Sitt Bensūba, Masʿūda al-Videria (אלבידירייה), Esfransa (אספרנסה), Miryam, Yosef al-Shāmī, Rana Ashkenaziyya.

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• chess
• list

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The victims were tortured 17 times until, it seems, a higher authority (the ṣāḥib al-dīwān?) ordered them to be released. Apart from shackling and physical contortions and forcing substances in the noses and mouths, there is an extended description of being "pressed" in the "press" (al-miʿṣara). […] Regards are sent to Bū l-Rabīʿ and Bū l-Alā' and Milāḥ and Rāma(?) and Zahr. The writer's name may be Bū l-Faraj, but there seem to be two additional letters, and it is not completely certain that this word is even his name.

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• amir
• jandar
• sahib al-diwan
• to edit
• torture

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ḥananya, reporting that on Friday, the 24th of Adar I, R. Shemarya al-Kohen went to the market and slaughtered, even after taking a vow that he would have nothing to do (?) […] , and the Tiberians are also mentioned. Abū Kathīr Efrayim b. Meshullam suggested to the writer that he go to the Amir, who said, "you have infringed on the muqaddam who is in charge of you" (four lines from the bottom).

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• amir
• muqaddam
• shehita

1 Transcription

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Recto: accounts submitted by Abū l-Barakāt Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to al-Talmid Abu l-Faraj, headed by مملوكه שלמה אמת. […] In the next section, mentions a copper worker (naḥḥās) and a Jewish silk dealer (al-ḥarīrī al-yahūdī) and various goods. At the bottom, فكتب بو البركات للتلميذ ابو الفرج اليهودي وصلولات الله علا سيدنا(؟) والحمد لله.

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Judaeo-Arabic

The sender reports on his arrival to Alexandria, where he purchased an unbleached robe and gave it to the addressee's grandfather. […] He tells the addressee to split the tragacanth with Zayn b. Abū l-Khayr al-Ger and give him 40 manns of it. On verso mentions the addressee's maternal uncle Abū l-Qawām; Abū l-Hasan b.

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• trade

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

My sister, I ask you by God to have endurance, and for all that you endure, there will be a great reward. My sister, read Ecclesiastes, the word of Solomon, for he will counsel forbearance (taqwā) to you. I am sending you al-Faraj baʿd al-Shidda to occupy yourself with it.

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• al-faraj ba'd al-shidda
• condolence
• grief
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
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Document date

Dhū l-Qaʿda 530 Hijrī (August 1136 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Two of the remaining three partners, Abū Saʿd Netanel al-Zajjāj and Ṣedaqa b. Bunān, contribute 400 and 100 dinars respectively; the name of the fourth partner and the amount of his contribution is not preserved. […] Yeshuʿa apparently violated a prohibited from trading or contracting with others outside the partnership for its duration, but the partners have stated that his violation need not be notarized by witnesses. Yeshuʿa is also the party under whose name the wine-producing enterprise has been registered with the tax-collecting authorities.

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• 12th c
• partnership

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Document date

Thursday, 24 Tammuz 1298 Seleucid (23 June 987 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

(Information from Goitein's notes.) Alternate description: Verso: Legal document. Partnership agreement. […] Location: Fustat. Joseph b. Jacob and ‘Alī b. Qīmoī each place two silver coins in a common purse; each will transact with discretion in unnamed commodities. The document is incomplete and unsigned; the clauses concerning distribution of profits and losses, if any, are not preserved. ‘Ali b. Qīmoī is known from his marriage-document (see T-S 16.70, PGPID 4091).

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• partnership

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Complaint of a ḍāmin (tax farmer) in al-Minya about competitors from Tyre, submitted to the Nagid Mevorakh around 1096–97 (Goitein, perhaps on the basis of Mevorakh's titles). […] The writer claimed to have received his appointment as tax-farmer from Badr al-Jamālī, referred to in the petition as Dhū Riʾāsatayn, "the man with the two commands," since he was wazīr al-sayf wa-l-qalam, vizier of the sword and the pen," i.e., chief commander as well as head of the civil administration.

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• communal
• damin
• petition
• tax

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Inferred date

1100–1117 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter on behalf of Yaḥyā b. ʿAmmār of Alexandria addressed to ʿŪlla ha-Levi b. Yosef, a.k.a. Abū l-ʿAlā' Ṣāʿid b. Munajjā, a parnas (social welfare official) and trustee of the court in Fustat, dated documents 1084–1117.

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• appeal
• disability
• disability: vision
• distant son
• illness
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Elʿazar, the representative of the community of al-Maḥalla. Dating: late 11th or early 12th century, as the same Yefet b. […] Yosef reports that he stopped in Cairo, planning to continue to Jerusalem via Alexandria. He was sick (wajiʿ) when he entered Cairo.

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: du'f
• illness: prayer
• illness: waja'
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Document date

11 Iyyar 1437 Seleucid (6 May 1126 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Efrayim two days before the death of the testator, saying that Nājiya is to receive part of a house from her dying maternal aunt on condition that she and her husband, Abū Naṣr Mevasser ha-Levi, renounce all other claims on the estate. A freed woman (Nashū) will receive another part of the house and a man promises to marry her and never divorce her. Yefet b. Ḥadīd is also released by the dying woman. Signed by Ḥalfon b.

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• halfon b. menashshe
• manumission

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Document date

Tuesday, 20 Shevaṭ 1361 Seleucid (16 January 1050 CE)

Dated: Tuesday, 20 Shevaṭ 1361 Seleucid = 16 January 1050 CE. Bride: Sitt al-Dār bt. Abū l-Ṭayyib Ḥananya ha-Levi ha-Parnas. […] (Information from CUDL.) See also Goitein's notes linked below.

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Primary language

Ladino

He hopes his wife will sell her clothes and jeweils (alajas) to support him." Elazar Gutwirth, "The Family in Judeo-Spanish Genizah Letters," 214. There are also sketches of leafy plants.

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• blind
• ladino

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Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

ʿAmram, named in fol. 9r) during his terminal illness. There are also some pages of compositions in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic (e.g. fols. 2 and 7), some of which may be letters (or drafts or copies). One of them mentions Khān al-Khalīl (fol. 2). One clue about identity of the ledger's owner can be found on 9r, where the first entry states: "when my father and master ha-R[av] Mordekhay Ben-ʿAmram died..."

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Document date

2 Shevaṭ 14[..] Seleucid (16 January 1089–3 January 1188 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The witnesses state that somebody was coerced to pay a sum of money due to fear alone, and it was not a gift or charity. Signed by Yehoshuaʿ [b. […] On verso there is a very interesting first-person narrative in Arabic script probably summarizing the same case from the standpoint of one of the parties. "[...] my three brothers and their three wives prosecuted me with this at the time of my father's death, God's mercy be upon him, without any right (ḥaqq) or will (waṣiyya), and they took it from me [...] with slander and calumny, even though [my father] (God have mercy upon him) already paid them, and their [purpose?] is the enrichment of their wives (? ighnāʾ azwājihim), but with God the exalted is the [...], and He will not ignore [...] all of the adversaries." ASE

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19 Adar II 5453 Anno Mundi (27 March 1693 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

(Document #10) A complex power of attorney document (שטר הרשאה זה, l. 39) involving a mercantile partnership and variety of legal parties: Yaʿaqov b. Shelomo Alarcon, Khalīfa b. Avraham ʿAfīf, Eliya Falcon (a resident of İstanbul), Fies (פייש) known as Jalabi/Çelebi b. […] The document states on multiple occasions that Cairo is a hub of exports for the mercantile partnership in question. The entry also mentions methods of weighing goods and there is a final addendum noting that a previous version of the partnership had been abandoned (הופקר) but is in the possession of one of the court's judges David Ḥayyim Beit-Halḥashī(?)

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Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Majd is to give 1 dirham to the messenger who went up to Cairo to take care of the business with the supervisor from the inheritance bureau (nāẓir al-mawārīth). Cf. T-S K25.240.42. On recto there are a few words from a state document in Arabic script. T-S K25.240 consists of small written orders, partly in Hebrew and partly in Arabic script, for monthly payments, made out of the rent-revenue from the pious foundation (waqf) 'Compound of the Poor' or from the pious foundation made by the physician al-Muhadhdhab. All dated orders are from spring and summer, 1218.

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• account
• heqdesh
• qodesh
• tax
• waqf

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Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

It seems that somebody submitted an account of liabilities (ḥujaj), apparently to be paid to the supervisor of inheritances (nāẓir al-mawārīth) in New Cairo, in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals to Avraham Maimonides. […] T-S K25.240 consists of small written orders, partly in Hebrew and partly in Arabic script, for monthly payments, made out of the rent-revenue from the pious foundation (waqf) 'Compound of the Poor' or from the pious foundation made by the physician al-Muhadhdhab. All dated orders are from spring and summer, 1218.

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• account
• heqdesh
• qodesh
• tax
• waqf

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Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Might mention a sick man (al-marīḍ). There's a word that looks like ḥammām, which might be a cipher for 5 dirhams. […] T-S K25.240 consists of small written orders, partly in Hebrew and partly in Arabic script, for monthly payments, made out of the rent-revenue from the pious foundation (waqf) 'Compound of the Poor' or from the pious foundation made by the physician al-Muhadhdhab. All dated orders are from spring and summer, 1218.

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• account
• bialphabetic
• heqdesh
• qodesh
• waqf

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Document date

Nisan 1463 – Adar 1464 Seleucid (8 March 1152–26 February 1153 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yefet ha-Kohen acting as guardian for his nephew) Yefet b. Berakhot, and Sayyid al-Kull Shelomo b. ʿUlla Ibn al-Kāzarūnī. Ḥisday invests 150 dinars from the nephew's money with Shelomo for business ventures. Other characters are brought into the story: Abū Saʿd, and someone's wife Sitt al-Fakhr bt. Abū l-Yusr. At one point there is a condition involving a fee to be paid to 'the poor of New Cairo'; this document might come from the court of New Cairo rather than Fustat.

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Inferred date

1094–1097 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from ʿAmram b. Yosef, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, asking Nahray to intervene with Ḥasan b. […] Recently a number of acquaintances, all mentioned by name, had arrived from Aden, some with letters and receipts from Adenese merchants. […] Verso, lines 24-31: On his way to the East, Nissim had met in Dahlak Sheikh Abu 'I-Ḥasan Salāma al-Maʿarrī, the brother of Sheikh Abū l-Ghanā'im.

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• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib2
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: joints
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Document date

Thursday, 27 Adar I 1415 Seleucid (25 February 1104 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Avraham (aka Salāma b. Ibrāhīm al-Sayrajī) and Peraḥya ha-Kohen b. Ṭarfon (aka Abū l-Surūr b. […] Now, Abū l-Surūr has finally succeeded in bringing Salāma before the Jewish court and "sayyidnā" (though the pronouns are not entirely clear in l. 4 and it could also be Salāma suing Abū l-Surūr). The court orders Salāma to justify his behavior. […] The court asks Salāma on what basis he made that claim, and Salāma can only respond that someone (he refuses to say who) told him about Abū l-Surūr's alleged letters. The court believes Abū l-Surūr's side of the story, but also issues a ḥerem stam commanding anyone who did receive a troublemaking letter from Abū l-Surūr to come forward with it.

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• amir
• conflict
• crusades
• malij
• muslim courts
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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Moshe ha-Kohen releases his cousin Sāda (i.e., Sitt al-Sāda) b. Abraham, the widow of his late brother Joseph, who was obliged to marry him as Joseph died without offspring, from all financial obligations resulting from her former marriage.

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Primary language

Hebrew

Avraham, whose father is also her legal representative. Karīma was perhaps a Rabbanite, as one of the witnesses was Yaʿaqov b.

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Document date

Adar II 1396 Seleucid (28 February 1085–28 March 1085 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Ḥusayn Manṣūr b. Yiṣḥaq b. ʿAllūn appoints Efrayim b. Allūn ha-Kohen as his attorney.

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• power of attorney

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Document date

Sivan 1411 Seleucid (May 1100 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Written and signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel, also signed by Yosef b. Ṣedaqa. (Information from Goitein's index card.)

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Primary language

Hebrew

Shemuel b. Menashshe b. Avraham al-Qazzaz releases her sister Mulūk and other relatives (probably her sister's family) from obligations concerning the estate of her aunt Ḥusn bt. […] Ibrāhīm including properties in a place called Ṭūr Rūbā (טור רובא) and in Tyre, in the 'Armon' (mansion?) of Ibn al-Qazzāz. (Information from Goitein's index card.)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter of request sent by the head of the yeshiva in Damascus, which was burdened with debts, to a notable in Fustat, who had pledged a donation for the academy, urging him to send his contribution of eight dinars immediately to prevent the whole sum from going for the payment of interest alone. (Information from Mediterranean Society, I, pp. 257, 464, and from Goitein's index cards.) CUL Add.3339a–c all have the same reuse on verso (biblical story of Joseph).

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• communal

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yosef b. Farah from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1045.

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• nahray b. nissim
• trade

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The entries are crossed out with stylized vertical lines, presumably after they were settled. The word "ḥuwwilat" also appears at the bottom of the list on verso.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Some of the names: Saʿīd; Manṣūr; Yehuda; Saʿdallāh; Dāʾūd; Ḥananya; Sadīd; ʿAzīz; Karīm; Shuwaykh; Raḍiyy; Masʿūd; Zakhi Kohen; Somekh; Menaḥem; qammāṭīn (kerchief sellers? the profession also appears in T-S 13J7.5 (PGPID 1202)); a ṣayrafī; a rīfī; Muhadhdhab; a Dammūhī; a naḥḥās; Ṭawīl; Yehuda b.

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• 14th c
• account

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Primary language

Hebrew

Dating (Gil): late 1034 CE. See also Goitein's index card. DK 123 has changed shelfmark, and it will take some work to find the new one.

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• 11th c
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• tiberias
• tiberias lepers

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Twice refers to "my master the Third (al-shelishi)." Refers to a bundle (ruzma) containing something with "the Seventh (al-sheviʿi)" written on it.

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• unedited 11th c

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

These seem continuous with ENA 1324.14 and ENA 1324.22–29. Also potentially the same scribe/poet: ENA 2829.1–4; ENA 3020.10–11; and Stras. 4077.

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• cmp
• wheat

1 Transcription

Primary language

Hebrew

In the upper margin of recto, it refers to the death of Yosef and to his son Shelomo b. Yosef. The sender also mentions seeing someone's "face before I perish."

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