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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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Tags

• ketubba
• marriage

3 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

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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1 Discussion

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

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Tags

• charity
• communal
• donors
• poverty

2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

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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Tags

• illness
• illness: cost
• legal query
• widow

1 Transcription 1 Translation

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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Tags

• 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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Tags

• 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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Tags

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

1 Transcription 1 Translation

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).

Tags

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

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Primary language

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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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Soc., viii, C, 2, n. 117). Cf. T-S 10J17.8. Also mentions someone who got very sick (balagha kathīr) but God sent health (recto, 8–10).

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Tags

• damascus
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• mazliah gaon
• taqbil
• (+ 1 more)

2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

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

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1 Transcription 1 Discussion

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.

Tags

• 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.

Tags

• arabic reused
• learning

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Primary language

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

8 Rabīʿ II 1239 Hijrī (12 December 1823 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Dated: 8 Rabīʿ II 1239 AH = 1823/24 CE. Location: Alexandria. The receipt is for 25 gurush that Muṣṭafa Zaytūn received from Mūsa Naʿīm under the authority of the dīwan overseer, ʿUmr Agha, whose signature and ink seal appear at the end of the document.

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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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Tags

• testimony

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

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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Tags

• polygyny

3 Transcriptions

Primary languages

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

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary languages

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?)

Tags

• 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.

Tags

• 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

1 Transcription 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer is angry that her husband had to live in her family's house and also had to pay rent. He stayed away, coming home only for Sabbath.

Tags

• fasting
• women's letters

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

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.

Tags

• contract
• prenuptial

1 Transcription

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).

Tags

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

2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

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

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

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

1 Transcription 1 Translation 1 Discussion

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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Tags

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

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

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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Tags

• conditional divorce
• divorce
• get
• ib7
• india book
• (+ 3 more)

2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

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).

Tags

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

1 Transcription 1 Translation 1 Discussion

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
• (+ 5 more)

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

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

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

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

Tags

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: fever
• illness: marad
• illness: recovered
• (+ 1 more)

1 Transcription

Inferred date

1094–1097 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

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

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Tags

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

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