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1 Kislev 5415 Anno Mundi (11 November 1654 CE)

The calligraphic text in square Hebrew characters is interspersed with numerous signatures in different Sephardi scribal hands, some of which are also in the first person (אני הצעיר): Yaʿaqov Melamed, Yiṣḥaq ʿAʿtal[?][…] Perhaps Shemuel Ashkenazi was a shaliaḥ traveling through the Middle East seeking aid on behalf of the Voroshilovka community and, over the course of his travels, allowed people to sign this greeting text. Hundreds of Jewish communities in what is now modern-day Ukraine were impacted by the Chmielnicki Pogroms of 1648-49, shortly before the date listed on the document (1 Kislev 5415 AM // 1654/55 CE.

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• 17th c
• ukraine

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Inferred date

1168–1204 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Maimonides responds that her claim should not be believed without witnesses, that anyone who has been slandered can excommunicate his slanderer by name, but may not obtain a blanket excommunication against all who accuse him. However, still better in this case is to put an end to the gossip and avoid any kind of public discussion or excommunication. The handwriting of the questioner closely resembles that of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (see also ENA 2808.16 in which Moshe b. Levi asks the recipient to obtain an answer to a fatwa that he had previously sent to Fustat).

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• accusation
• maimonides
• maimonides autograph
• metoo
• moshe b. levi
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shemuʾel ha-Sefaradi, describes itself as a partnership document enacted between Abraham al-Mirjānī b. Moses and Mevorakh b. Eleazar, though details as to the partnership itself and the divison of profits and losses are missing from the preserved portion and much of the language is reminiscent of release documents. […] The clauses here concerning soundness of mind are common in release documents as well. They also appear in both power of attorney and partnership agreements.

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• partnership

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Document date

Tammuz 1315 Seleucid (22 June 1004–20 July 1004 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

(Information mainly from CUDL.) Join: Alan Elbaum. See also RNL Yevr.-Arab II 223 (PGPID 38543), in which Nissi b.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to Abū l-Ḥusayn b. Abū l-Khayr al-ʿAkkāwī, Fustat, from his uncle (khāl) Ṣadoq b. […] Goitein, Nachlass material. This document is also mentioned, considering the perspective of the addressee's wife, in Ashur, Engagement and Betrothal Documents, p. 116, no. 121.

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• crusades
• personal
• prison
• tiberias
• torture

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Primary language

Arabic

"We heard from a group of the merchants arriving from Fustat/Egypt that there arrived a lot of the merchandise (? al-ḥaml) which comes from Yemen, and it must be sold 'whether by money or loss' (in shāʾa bi-l-naqd in shāʾa bi-l-faqd). […] ḍuribnā), I and Abū l-Barakāt, from distress and demands (al-ḍīqa wa-l-muṭālaba). We ultimately settled with the Maghribīs concerning the customs for the wheat which they must pay, 39 dinars [...]." […] "And we wrote the receipts (al-wuṣūlāt), but they were not content, and this is part of the distress and demands.

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• dimme
• ib-addenda

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Document date

Middle third of Adar I 5453 Anno Mundi (17 February 1693–26 February 1693 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

The description of the property mentions the collapse of various walls and the lack of a door/lock on the building (דלת ובריח אין לה). The document entry also discusses arrangements for future repairs, ground rent (arḍiyya), and for the property's succession among current/future descendants of the Castro family. The full name of the commercial house appears later in line 35 (1r) and line 16 (1v): Wikālat al-Mhāzqa/Mrāzqa (the exact spelling of the title requires further research).

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Alphabetical practice exercises in square Hebrew script.

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Primary language

Arabic

receipt for a goldsmith (al-ṣāʾigh).

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Primary language

Arabic

Fiscal document with several ʿalāʾim. Needs examination.

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Primary language

Arabic

Private accounts. Mentions "yawm al-aḥad".

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• dimme

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Prayer in Judaeo-Arabic with philosophical allusions. ASE.

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Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

Bi-alphabetic Letter, in Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic.

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• bialphabetic

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Document date

Elul 1428 Seleucid (1 August 1117–29 August 1117 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Dowry: claimed worth 719 dinars. Conditions include allowing Rayyisa to celebrate holidays/observances according to the Karaite tradition; if he breaks the condiitinos, he will have to pay "100 dinars to the poor of the Karaites and the Rabbinites in equal shares." Rayyisa likewise promises to allow her husband to observe as he wants and "not to take from him the rent of the house in which they presently dwell."

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• ketubba
• marriage

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Document date

Friday, 6 Ṭevet 5211 Anno Mundi (11 December 1450 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Dated: Friday, 6 Ṭevet 5211 AM, which is 11 December 1450 CE. Groom: Khalaf Allāh b. Yiṣḥaq. Bride: Sitt al-Banīn bt. ʿImrān, a widow.

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C 115, first supplement. See also Goitein notes and index card linked below.)

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• charity
• communal
• donors
• poverty

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Inferred date

1213–1237 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Reuven's widow refused to hand them over, arguing that she had to pawn them to raise money to pay for syrups and chickens for Reuven in his illness and also to repay his debts. Yaʿqūb continues to demand the goods, and she continues to refuse.

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• illness
• illness: cost
• legal query
• widow

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The book-related portions were edited by Allony et al., The Jewish Library in the Middle Ages: Book Lists from the Cairo Genizah, 157–80.

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• book trade
• booklist
• notebook
• prescription

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Document date

17 February 1417–17 March 1417 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Scribe: Moshe b. Yaʿaqov al-Mard[īnī?]. Location: Tel Yaʿqūb, "under the rule of Yūsuf b. […] Dated: Adar 5176 AM, which would typically be 1416 CE, but in this case is probably 1417 CE (by the 'Adam reckoning' or 'molad adam' which is equal to 'molad tohu' + 1, the idea being that year 1 begins not with creation ('molad tohu') but with Adam already created. On this see Gordin, "How to Avoid Some Pitfalls While Interpreting Dates in Hebrew Manuscripts," pp. 176 and 184).

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• colophon
• mardin
• molad adam

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Document date

First decade of Sivan 1438 Seleucid (13 May 1127–22 May 1127 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Deed of sale for a house in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ that Levi b. Namer sells to the banker (al-ṣayrafī) Abū l-Ḥasan Shelomo b.

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• halfon b. menashshe
• qasr al-sham'
• real estate

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Inferred date

950–975 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

The first witness (and probably also the scribe) is probably Shelomo b. Saʿīd ha-Kohen with an embellishment spelling out יזכה לעד, known from several legal documents from the third quarter of the 10th century (including Bodl.

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Document date

1090 Hijrī (12 February 1679–1 February 1680 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Calendar (astronomical/agricultural) for Eygpt for four of the Coptic months (Hātūr, Kiyāk, Ṭūba, and Amshīr), also giving the names of the corresponding Gregorian months (in Arabic).

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• 17th c
• calendar
• coptic calendar
• epidemic
• epidemic: waba'

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Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions the news that the addressee and others arrived in al-ʿArīsh safely, and the subsequent arrival of couriers (najjābīn) who reported the addressee's arrival in Bilbays. […] Greetings to many people: Abū l-Barakāt; al-Baghdādī; Abū l-Faraj; Hiba; Abū Saʿd; and Yūsuf.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Dine Israel 13-14 (1986-88), 245-262. See also Mediterranean Society, III, p. 255)

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Arabic

The shelfmarks ENA 3264.1-6 are recycled pages of Arabic accounts that were cut into small sections for a student's notebook of alphabetical practice. The extent to which they represent joins and/or related documents merits further examination (ENA 3264.1-2 seem to be the most likely candidates for a direct join). […] The clearest evidence of sewing marks from the booklet's binding are visible along the right border of ENA 3264.3r. MCD.

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• arabic reused
• learning

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Primary language

Arabic

The shelfmarks ENA 3264.1-6 are recycled pages of Arabic accounts that were cut into small sections for a student's notebook of alphabetical practice. The extent to which they represent joins and/or related documents merits further examination (ENA 3264.1-2 seem to be the most likely candidates for a direct join). […] The clearest evidence of sewing marks from the booklet's binding are visible along the right border of ENA 3264.3r. MCD.

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• arabic reused
• learning

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