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Arabic

Further down, mentions the terms muʿāmala, a sum of money (dīnārayn?), and possibly al-bayʿ(?) al-sharʿī (l. 8). On recto there is a damaged faṣl.

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Document date

Last ten days of Shevaṭ 1418 Seleucid (January 1107 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

to the daughter of Abū Naṣr b. Dāʾūd al-Ṣayrafi, the daughter of Moda'. Dealing with whether the proprietor of the ruin is entitled to dispose of his rubbish there. […] Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen, Yefet b. Meshulam, Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan b. Menashshe. Signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuʾel, Yosef b.

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• testimony

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Judaeo-Arabic

As a pledge for their part of the cost, they temporarily waive the ownership rights over their part as long as Yeshaʿyahu ha-Levi wants it. They also will accept the sum of the expenditures stated by him without question.

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Primary language

Arabic

One word in crossed out on line 8. It also mentions "the people who were present." Does not seem to be the Arabic script hand of Efrayim b.

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• efrayim b. shemarya

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Harun announces his intention to marry a woman in Sahrajt, but people say that he already has a wife in Fustat. The man vows 10 dinars to the waqf if he is indeed married. […] The court believes him, but then he argues that he doesn't have the money, so the court allows him to pay only a quarter of a dinar per month.

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• polygyny

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Hillel b. Zadoq from Alexandria (Date: 1160-1175). Meir was in contact woth Maimonides, so tis queries might sent to him, but there is no direct evidence for that.

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Inferred date

1131–1131 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions items that he told Ḥalfon to purchase for Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon. Khalaf also asks Ḥalfon to apologize on his behalf to two cantors in Fustat for not having responded to their letters.

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• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib2
• ib4
• india book

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Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Written in a formal style and reporting that the bearer (al-wāṣil bihā), a certain Muḥammad, has been diligent in "service" (mulāzim al-khidma) for two and a half years and has not (missed?)

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• moshe b. levi

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Agency appointment, also containing terminology of a quittance. Dating: ca. 1082–94 CE (based on dating of ENA 3765.2).

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Primary language

Hebrew

Legal declaration, perhaps 16th- or 17th-century. Signed by Nissim b. al-ʿAnkari stating that in the assembly of the heads of the community, the slaughterer Yeruḥam swore not to encroach on the domain of the slaughterer Shabbetay, and in turn Shabbetay would give 3 parts of every 10 (of what?). If either of the slaughterers asks the other to substitute for him, the substitute is not to encroach or touch the share of the other. The name Nissim b. al-ʿAnkari appears in other geniza fragments, perhaps related to the same communal rabbi: T-S NS 320.114 (PGPID 25383); Yevr.

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Document date

5538 Anno Mundi (2 October 1777–21 September 1778 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

This fragment is serving the same purpose of communal recordkeeping as surrounding shelfmarks that also record Shabbat donations such as JRL SERIES C 76, JRL SERIES C 77 and JRL SERIES C 93.

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• 18th c
• communal

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Mufaḍḍal brought a letter for Abū l-Fakhr al-Ṣayrafī b. Saʿīd concerning the capitation tax (jizya) payment of someone's deceased father. The sender then administered an oath about this. All the remaining details are missing. (Information mainly from Friedman's edition.)

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• capitation tax
• jizya
• tax

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer sends regards to Abū l-Ḥasan and his mother and sister, and to Sitt al-Gharb and her children. On verso he asks the addressee to give to Abū Saʿīd Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif (=Ḥalfon b.

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Similarly, the ending 'and peace' was common in letters and not in legal documents, and may suggest that the template was sent to one of the sides after they requested to preview it. It is also possible that a Rabbi or the conductor of the marriage sent it to a higher legal authority to obtain his approval.

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• contract
• prenuptial

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Document date

Thursday, 12 Kislev [5318 AM] Anno Mundi (4 November 1557 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

, a thousand copper ingots of one kind and 400 of another, 60 cases of hats, 60 cases of silk garments, and 100 packages ("balas") of clothing. Also mentions Francisco Grisolin (פרנסיסקו גריסולין).

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• 16th c
• coral
• ostrich feather
• perahim
• polisa

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Document date

429 Hijrī (14 October 1037–2 October 1038 CE)

David the teacher. An alimony of 14 dinars had been fixed of which 2.5 dinars had been paid and the rest will now be paid on a monthly basis. […] Written in the hand of Abū l-Faraj Ṣemah b. al-Ḥasan b. Boʿaz. Dated: 429 AH, which is 1037/38 CE (perhaps specifically March 1038 CE).

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• qaraite

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

His previous letters—including letters with greetings for ʿAbd al-Muḥsin and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān—had remained unanswered.

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Document date

1324 Seleucid (1012–1013 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Liturgy for the marriage ceremony, along with part of a copy of a Karaite ketubba for Muʾammala bat Ḥayyim. […] Shelomo, Hiba b. Khalaf al-Shīnīzī, Yosef b. Yiṣḥaq, and Yaʿaqov b. Yiṣḥaq.

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• karaites

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Primary language

Hebrew

In which the writer explains that he has arrived in Alexandria bringing three of his eight dependents with him.

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Document date

Tuesday, 20 Shevaṭ 1422 Seleucid (31 January 1111 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Ḥayyim ha-Sheviʿi made in court. Also mentions Abū l-Munā b. Ḥayyim (possibly identical with Shelomo) and Maṣliaḥ b.

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• bara'a
• debt
• isaac b. samuel ha-sefaradi
• quittance
• release

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Document date

Av 1480 Seleucid (1169 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Natan and Shemuel b. Seʿadya. See also T-S 12.585 recto and verso. (Information in part from S.

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• conditional divorce
• divorce
• get
• ib7
• india book
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Document date

1494 Seleucid (31 August 1182–18 September 1183 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There follows a list of expenditures, including the usual items, which total 125.75 dirhams. There is also a list of payments received by the qodesh from Abu'l-Bayan (some of them through the beadle, Makhfuz).

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• account
• communal
• qodesh
• shemuel b. saadya
• waqf

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Document date

4996 Anno Mundi (15 September 1235–1 September 1236 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer reports that the income from the ‘quppa’ was used as a school fee for poor children. Goitein also makes note of the greeting for an old man in precarious health in a high position: "May God not wound Israel through him" (line 4), i.e., may God not wound Israel by causing him illness or death.

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• 13th c
• 4800
• dating tricks
• education
• eliyyahu b. zekharia
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yaʿaqov to Abu ʿImrān Mūsā al-Dayyān(?). In Judaeo-Arabic. Unconventional orthography. […] The tax farmer of the silk (ḍāmin al-ḥarīr) came on Saturday night and informed him of the death of Abū l-ʿIzz.

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• personal

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

This person cried out (yastaghīth) "sīdi, sīdi!" all day long. The writer mentions Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllān.

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: fever
• illness: marad
• illness: recovered
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Inferred date

1094–1097 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef, probably from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1075.

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• 11th c
• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib2
• india book
• nahray b. nissim

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Judaeo-Arabic

Friedman believes the handwriting "resembles that of Elijah ben Zechariah who served as judge in Alexandria at least from 1204 and in Fustat during the years 1222–36.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Goitein pithily describes it as "mostly about losses" (hence all the sender's excuses and justifications). The sender previously sent the addressee's business accounts with a man who traveled first to Barqa and then traveled on to Egypt by land(!). […] The sender learned that a caravan arrived in "the mountain" (al-Jabal) from Ghāniya (? גאניה)—referring to the territory of the Banū Ghāniya?

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Document date

12 Kislev 1405 Seleucid (4 December 1093 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Betrothal record from 1093 in which the obligatory betrothal gift is 4 and one/sixth dinars. The document also stipulates the daughter receives the uppermost floor of a house; if she preferred to live elsewhere, she would receive rent, but her father and his heirs were responsible for the payment of the ground rent and watchman.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Moshe asks Araḥ to assist him in delivering a debt of one dinar and not to withhold the wheat he posses, since the condition of the people is difficult. Moshe also expresses desire to accompany Araḥ in his next commercial voyage.

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• nar

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Primary language

Hebrew

Customs taxes (מכס), the cities of Rosetta (רשיד) and Venice (ויניציאה), and ships’ captains (קפטאן) are also mentioned. Dated Wednesday 2 Tammuz ‘after midnight’ (written as ב with two sublinear dots to differentiate from כ).

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Eli ha-Kohen Fasi, from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1054.

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• coin
• suftaja
• textiles
• trade

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Hebrew

Shemarya, in Fusṭāṭ, to the Babylonian congregation in Damascus, sending greetings as part of his efforts to raise funds for his school in Fusṭāṭ, adding that a new law forbids them from approaching the Caliph for assistance. The writer also mentions that his son-in-law drowned while away on a commercial voyage and his widowed daughter remains in Qayrawān, pregnant and impoverished.

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• jewish community

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Inferred date

1237–1300 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Barak[āt] b. Shela ha-Levi al-Sukkarī (the sugar-maker) (bride). Groom: [...] b. […] The bride is entitled to keep her earnings, although the bridegroom has to provide her clothing.

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

It is not clear whether there remain any clues to what the actual matter at hand is. This fragment also contains a Judaeo-Arabic tafsīr of Ezekiel 23:22–25, writing exercises of Psalms 119:195, and repetitions and variations of the name Yeshuʿa ha-Talmid b.

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• draft

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Primary language

Arabic

In the margin there are scattered additional notes, including "to Elʿazar" (in Hebrew characters), two upside down entries referring to al-tawqiʿ al-karīm. Needs further examination.

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• double petition
• lost archive
• multihanded
• physicians
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Document date

21 Dhū l-Qaʿda 403 Hijrī (3 June 1013 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 21 Dhū l-Qaʿda 403 (Khan reads 26 Dhū l-Qaʿda 403). […] Written by the jahbadh Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ. Amount of payment: one-half, one-third, and one-eighth dīnār and two ḥabbas (Khan reads two, one-half, one-third and one-eighth).

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• abu l-hasan b. wahb
• daman

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Qashīshāt (an Ibn Qashīshāt is also mentioned in ENA 2738.23) and other unusual names: Wahīb b.

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• materia medica
• trade
• tutty

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Gerrit Bos), 44–56; and Oliver Kahl, Ibn al-Tilmīdh's Dispensatory, recipes 70 (a bitter musk remedy though with little ingredient overlap), 74 (the sweet musk remedy, with significant overlap), and 116 and 121 (which similarly employ luxury ingredients such as pearls, gold and silver, amber, coral, and silk). Join: Alan Elbaum.

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