Documents

Inferred date

1015–1025 CE

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

Mentions another letter in Hebrew and a different letter in [Arabic, presumably]. Also mentions Ṭuviyya ha-Ḥaver. (Information in part from CUDL.)

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Document date

Kislev 1529 Seleucid (2 November 1217–30 November 1217 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: Last decade of Kislev 1529 Seleucid, which is November 1217 CE, under the authority of Avraham Maimonides. The virgin Sitt al-Hanāʾ has come of age and confirms in court that she has received from the executor all that her father had left while she was an infant, including the rents collected from the property during her infancy.

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Tags

• 13th c
• inheritance

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Document date

1094–1111 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Aharon ha-Kohen but is not him (different alefs). Gil claims that the sender's son is in Crusader captivity but does not explain why he thinks so (the phrase "the little boy who remains" in l. 10 is clearly insufficient).

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• captives
• tyre

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Document date

Av 5276 Anno Mundi (30 June 1516–29 July 1516 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

The full names of the parties are not preserved, but include Yehuda and Saʿīd. Yiṣḥaq and Avner are also mentioned. (Information from CUDL.)

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• consul
• late heb
• venice

1 Discussion

The only sum preserved (5, in Coptic) is also identical with that paid by the relevant tenant four years later.

1 Discussion

Primary language

Hebrew

See Engel, The Wandering of a Provencal Proselyte: A Puzzle of Three Genizah Fragments, Sefunot: 7(22) pp. 13–21. See also T-S 16.100 (PGPID 7393), written by the same scribe and likely referring to the same events.

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• convert
• spain

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Document date

3 Jumādā [no year] Hijrī

Primary language

Arabic

Business letter in Arabic script from Faraḥ b. Ismāʿīl in Alexandria to Menashshe b. David, Fustat. Dating: October 22, 1050 (Gil).

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• aodeh
• movement of ships

3 Transcriptions 1 Translation

Document date

Sunday, 7 Ḥeshvan 1445 Seleucid (8 October 1133 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Also signed by Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. Husband: Yeshuʿa b.

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Recto: Legal document dated 1089–1188 CE, describing a son whose father, before traveling to Yemen, had given him, as ṣedaqa, two houses in the neighborhood of al-Baṭṭāṭīn. The father then gives this on his death-bed to his wife (the son's mother) and declares that everything in and outside the house either belongs to or is given to her. He frees her from all oaths. (Information in part from Goitein's index card.)

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• 11th or 12th c
• ib-candidate
• yemen

2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Document date

End of Shevaṭ 1439 Seleucid (February 1128 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In which a widow [...] bt. Seʿadya al-Muqaydisī receives a long list of clothing and household goods from [...] b. David ha-Parnas (aka Dāʾūd al-ʿAṭṭār) pertaining to the estate of her late husband Abū l-Munā Shelomo b.

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Primary languages

Ladino, Spanish

The addressee is likely Señor Don Elyaqim, though there is also another name at upper left. In the Hebrew-script section on recto, mentions "from the house of Shemuel Shaltiel," Señor Don Yosef Abravanel (the son of the famous Yiṣḥāq?), an old spice seller and his wife (און זקן קונשו מוגיר אישפסיאירו), perhaps a converso (און אנוס), having sent goods such as a pouch (אונה טאליגה) and a canvas pillow stuffed with wool (אונה אלמופדה דקאנאמאזו קון לאנה) and something else, all wrapped in a red blanket (טודו אינבואילטו אין אלפאמאר). […] The first few lines were transcribed by Eleazar Gutwirth, “Judeo-Spanish Fragments from Cairo,” Anuario de filología, vol. 9 (1983): 219–23, as follows: 1. memoria a vos mi señor Don Eliakim y(shmerehu)s(ur) ve(goʾalo) 2. en buena hora sedieis en Evora me kobreis de casa de Shemuel Shaltiel un envoltiro ke tiene mio i la di 3. el señor don Joseph Abravanel i ke le pido por mereced me lo empakete primero a buen desbero 4. mas en la rua siega la primera casa le-sad semʾol mora un zaqen kon su mujer especiero el kual me 5. talega(e)staba kon ciertas menudenzas y un otro envolt(or)io ke esta una talega atada kon medio(o)?menudencias i una almofada de cañamazo kon lana i un par-- de-- udas usado i todo envuelto en alfamar ansi mismo de don Joseph A(barbanel?)

Tags

• bialphabetic
• ladino
• spanish

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Document date

Monday, 9 Nisan 1469 Seleucid (10 March 1158 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: Monday, 9 Nisan 1469 Seleucid, which is 1158 CE. Sitt al-Dalāl bt. Seʿadya the widow of Abū ʿAlī Yefet b. […] Since the younger son Makārim was a minor, Abū Saʿd agreed with his mother to pay her his share of 15 dinars and to deposit the other 15 dinars until Makārim would be a major, in which case either the latter would also free his mother of the obligation to give an oath, or, after her oath, pay her his share in both delayed marriage payment and dowry, i.e., a total of 25 dinars. […] (Written by Mevorakh b. Natan. AA) Alternate description: Legal document in which a son frees his mother from her widow's oath.

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• mevorakh b. natan

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Tell him that I, his servant, carry out his orders, and ask him to pray for me. Also, kiss on my behalf the hand of our lord the nagid Moshe—may God lengthen his days—[and say] that his servant prays for him and yearns to see him. . . . […] On verso there is an addendum in Judaeo-Arabic listing the commodities and their prices that were sent with the bearer al-Sh[aykh] Mūsā, including a medicinal theriac (tiryāq). […] Goitein's identification may be more plausible on paleographic grounds (however, most references to a "Nagid Moshe" in the Geniza are to Moshe b. Mevorakh; also, Moshe I Maimonides never held the title Nagid).

1 Translation 1 Discussion

Document date

27 January 1028 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(ENA NS 7.25 and T-S 8K20.1 are also somehow connected to at least one of the records on these fragments.)

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• register

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Inferred date

1130–1140 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef ha-Kohen settling the estate of Jewish traders who had died in shipwreck. Also discusses business with Bilāl b. Jarīr, later the ruler of Aden.

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• ib2
• india book

1 Transcription 3 Translations

Primary language

Arabic

, sells 1 and 2/3 out of 24 shares of a house in the Rāya quarter of Fustat to a foreign Jew, Ṣalaḥ b. ʿAlī b. Hānī, who already owned 4 shares in it. (Information from Goitein notes and index card linked below.)

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• christians
• foreigner
• house

2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Document date

Monday 4 Kislev 1437 Seleucid (2 November 1125 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe; also signed by the teacher Yiṣḥaq b. Ḥayyim Nafūsī.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to al-Rayyis Abū l-Najm and/or Hillel ha-Sar and/or Yehuda ha-Sar. […] The writer reports that he met with the addressee's cousin (ibn ʿamm ) al-Rayyis Abū Manṣūr and complained about his difficult circumstnaces.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He is seriously ill (marīḍ ʿalā khuṭṭa) and may die at any moment. If they do not return, they will regret it when regret will not do them any good. He alternates between addressing his son, who is probably meant to read the letter to his mother, and his wife.

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: dying
• illness: furqa
• illness: khutta
• (+ 4 more)

2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Primary language

Arabic

The beginning of the name of the official is also readable (الامير ال). Needs examination.

Tags

• decree
• dimme
• reuse

1 Transcription

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Document with the trousseau list for the marriage of Sitt al-ʿIzz and Yeter ha-Levi. On parchment. In the hand of Mevorakh b. […] and Elʿazar b. [...]. Join: Alan Elbaum. Verso contains various jottings including undeciphered Arabic script.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Announcing his arrival and greeting the trustee Abū l-Makārim, the cantor Abū Manṣūr, Abū l-Munā, and various relatives. He also requests a detailed update on the news of the country, as if he were present, "and who died."

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

There are many greetings as well as instructions about transactions involving Fakhr. Also, "Take your wife and come visit Dammūh." On verso, the addressee writes back in Judaeo-Arabic: "May whoever wrote such a letter never enjoy health!

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender asks the addressee not to allow Ṣadaqa to sell anything from the estate of the deceased 'mother' (i.e., the sender's daughter), which rightfully belonged to her two orphans, Avraham and Rebecca, and to whom the sender had conveyed all of his own rights in the inheritance.

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• estate
• orphan

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef ha-Mumḥeh reports that Abū l-Munā b. Ṣadaqah al-Jūjarī was renting a drug store (or a portion of the building?) […] Later, Abu l-Munā fled from al-Maḥallah. Aharon has been pursuing him to try to force him to pay his debts.

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Lists a large amount of regular sugar and a small one of rock sugar, 100 pounds of hazelnuts and smaller quantities of pomegranate seeds, sumac, pistachios and two types of raisins. Also banana leaves, probably used for wrapping. Goitein has a full translation in the footnote.

Tags

• food
• sugar

1 Discussion

Primary language

Hebrew

The writer too prays that he will be able to come to Jerusalem. The writer also mentioned R. Zeraḥya [Gota] (f.3, l.9). Information from FGP.

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• 17th c
• gota
• istanbul
• ze'evi

1 Transcription

Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

ENA 2348.4 mentions Ibn al-Abraṣ, who may be the grandfather of the physician in the qāḍī-court document T-S Ar.38.131 + T-S Ar.42.212 (PGPID 8228). […] Naṣr b. Ṣedaqa, known as Ibn al-Khashāʿ. (Information from Dotan Arad.) The list must therefore date to around 1460 CE.

Tags

• coptic alphanumeral
• donations
• late donations
• list

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