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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

"This small piece of paper contains a short letter to a husband who fought with his wife, who was also his cousin (FBD). Apparently, the wife left the home for her fatherʼs house, and the husband is told that if he desires his wife, he ought to go to her father and accept what he has to say.

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• marital dispute
• personal
• yedutun ha-levi

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Inferred date

1170–1190 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef Yiju to his brother Shemuel in Fustat, complaining of his failure to procure a responsum (see III, 55). Perahya also includes brief remarks on their mother’s illness and his apology for being unable to visit, a request for Shemuel’s assistance in collecting a debt and in paying the capitation tax, and a one-line inquiry about whether his brother has made a bible amulet or ankle for his son, to protect him.

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• ib-partial translation-eng
• ib-partial translation-heb
• ib3
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
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3 Transcriptions 1 Translation 2 Discussions

Inferred date

1051–1051 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information from Gil, Palestine, vol. 2 p. 643-645, #353) VMR. Alternate description: Letter from Daniel b. ʿAzarya informing one of his supporters in Cairo that an unnamed prominent person had received a friend of his opponent in Dagun (a suburb of Ramla) and on top of that had not answered his letters. […] Mentions the amīr Ḥusām al-Dawla. (Information from Goitein's index card.)

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• communal
• gaon
• leadership struggle
• petition
• state
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4 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Document date

26 Tammuz 4816 Anno Mundi (11 July 1056 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Maḥfūẓ, to collect a debt owed to him by Yaʿaqov Ibn al-Jabbān ('son of the cheese-maker'). Dated: Thursday, 26 Tammuz 4816 AM (=11 July 1056 CE). […] Following the signatures of the witnesses, all four signatures are validated in an attestation, witnessed by ʿAqiba b.

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• power of attorney

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Document date

Thursday, 1 Iyyar 1418 Seleucid (25 April 1107 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yiṣḥaq ha-Dayyan acknowledges that he will repay the parnas Abū l-ʿAlāʾ Ṣāʿid al-Dimashqī aka ʿUlla b. Yosef ha-Levi 10 dinars over a period of 3 months.

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• acknowledgment
• debt
• iqrar

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Document date

Adar 1470 Seleucid (21 January 1159–19 February 1159 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū Saʿīd Khalaf/Ḥalfon (aka "Segulat ha-Nedivim" or simply "al-Segulat") received 18 dinars from Abū l-Maʿālī Shemuel the trader, who had been guarantor on behalf of the banker from al-Maḥalla Abū l-Maʿālī b.

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• dated
• mevorakh b. natan

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

(Information from CUDL, Decter, and Mediterranean Society, V, pp. 197, 286–87, 562.) Recto was also edited by Ratzhaby, "שני שירים ספרדיים מאוצר הגניזה," Moznaim 6 (1992), 10–13.

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• panegyric
• poets

1 Transcription 1 Translation 2 Discussions

Does not seem to be related to the main text which concerns fundraising to redeem young Jewish captives in Alexandria. She is a childless widow, whose brother-in-law is obliged to pursue one of two options: either he must marry his sister-in-law and carry on his brother’s name by producing children with his widow, or he must practice halisah, a legal maneuver whereby the widow frees him of that obligation.

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Document date

Tammuz/Av 1466 Seleucid (3 June 1155–31 July 1155 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The validation is written and signed by Sason b. Meshullam; also signed by Hillel b. Yosef and Yosef b. Yehuda.

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Document date

Tuesday, 24 Nisan 1294 Seleucid (9 April 983 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Yomtov, Abraham b. [...], [...] Aluf b. Ḥātim Aluf, who decorates his name with a line of small shins above it, Yaḥya b.

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2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter (headed "tadhkira"/memorandum) from Hibatallāh b. Khalaf al-Ḥamawī to Barakāt b. Khulayf, complaining that he couldn't sell the resin and mentioning a transport by the ship of al-Ḥarbī, apparently a Christian from a Christian land.

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• trade

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer emphasizes Shabbetay's willingness to obey but awaits instruction on whether he still needs to come in light of the circumstances. The writer also conveys the complaint of various locals that every other town in the Rif has a synagogue, but they do not.

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• epidemic
• epidemic: marad
• epidemic: mawta
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
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2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions 1.5 qintars of something, a man named Yaḥyā b. Najm al-ʿAkkawī (cf. DK 237.1 (PGPID 629), l. 32), dealings with somebody's agent, and Yosef and Isḥāq from ʿAsqalān who now live in Bilbays. (Goitein read "haqq"/"dues" instead of "Ishāq" and saw this as evidence of a Landsmannschaft-like organization.) Join: Alan Elbaum. (Information in part from Goitein's index card.)

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1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-[...] who stole six good orange trees (uṣūl nāranj min khiyār al-uṣūl) from a ruined small compound (duwyara kharāb) and replanted them in his own garden. […] Then one of them was dragged to the police station (al-shurṭa) and jailed and unspeakable things happened.

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• communal

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Document date

first decade of Ramaḍān 483 Hijrī (28 October 1090–7 November 1090 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Dated: first decade of Ramaḍān 483 AH, which is October/November 1090 CE. Seller: Ḥanūn b. ʿAllūn, the Christian clerk (kātib) in the Dār al-Dībāj (‘residence of the viziers’).

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• aodeh
• christians
• slaves

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation

Primary language

Arabic

After the introduction, it reports that al-Ṭansāwī (from Ṭansā, near the Fayyūm) reported what the addressee did with him. […] On the next page, the addressee may be instructed to do something with this man (...qiyāmuhū bi-mā yukrimuhū min al-ʿimāra(?)...). In the last line, the loaning of a book may be mentioned (or maybe these are technical bureaucratic terms), followed by an inshallāh.

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• dimme

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender reports that the late ḥaver (mawlāy al-ḥaver, may his memory be blessed) acted generously with the sender when he returned from his travels. […] In parts of the letter it sounds like the ḥaver is still alive, so perhaps the sender is using זצל improperly.

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• bilbays

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Italian

The word "la mela" or "la mola" also appears (possibly, "apple" or "millstone").

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• italian
• numismatic dating

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Primary language

Arabic

Registering an expenditure of 2010 qarārīṭ (=83.75 dinars) for the ground rent (ḥikr) for the poor Jews of Qaṣr al-Shamʿ for Rabīʿ II and Jumādā I (year not specified but likely 615 AH). […] and T-S K25.240 ff.1, 2, 7, 9, and 10 comprise another cluster (jāliya receipts?). All need examination.

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• hikr

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Document date

Ṣafar 530 Hijrī (10 November 1135–8 December 1135 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Matan is a rare name; he appears also in ENA 4020.28 + ENA NS 72.11 (PGPID 6860)).

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• damin
• halfon b. menashshe
• silk
• tax receipt

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender has sent this letter with his son Yosef, who is in difficult circumstances—something happened that made it impossible for him to live in Fustat, let alone earn a living there. It seems that Yosef wants to travel to al-Shām now.

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: gastrointestinal

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Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Hebrew

The names of the tribes of Israel transcribed into a cipher based on the alphabetic equivalents of Greek/Coptic numerals.

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• cipher

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Very damaged. Reused for an alphabetical (divination?) table on verso.

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Primary language

Arabic

Mentions gold, Sunday, ʿAbdullāh al-Ṣā'igh. Needs examination.

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Primary language

Arabic

Accounts in Arabic with Greek/Coptic numerals, medieval-era. mentions "ṣāḥib al-dār."

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• cmp

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Primary language

Arabic

"The Regimen for Healthy People" (Kitāb Tadbīr al-Aṣiḥḥā').

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• arabic script
• medical

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Document date

500 Hijrī (2 September 1106–21 August 1107 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Tax receipt for the capitation of Bū l-ʿAlā b. Afḍal yahūdī for the year 500H.

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• dimme
• fiscal
• pinholes
• tax receipt

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Primary language

Arabic

There seem to be alphabetically arranged rubrics on the right.

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Primary language

Arabic

Mention of silver (waraq) and the month Jumād al-Awwāl on verso.

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• dimme

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Verso: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Names such as ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq.

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• account
• arabic script

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Fragments of citations from al-Mutanabbī in Judeo-Arabic. (Information from Cecilia Palombo)

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• al-mutanabbi
• classical arabic poetry

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions someone called al-Yamanī.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

A list of 10 of the books of the Mishneh Torah with a note underneath: [...] min ghayr al-khaṭṭ.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Tiny fragment of an account in Judaeo-Arabic. Names an Abū l-Qāsim al-Jawharī.

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Primary language

Hebrew

Some sort of index arranged by Hebrew roots, alongside other very damaged text.

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Primary language

Arabic

Two lines of a letter or petition in Arabic script (li-l-sayyid bin al-[...]).

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• dimme

1 Transcription

Primary language

Arabic

Contains atleast two ʿalāmas. Needs examination.

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• dimme

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Primary language

Arabic

Literary text, medical. Mentions "wa-aʿlam anna l-mizāj", probably humors.

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Primary language

Arabic

Small fragment of a text in Arabic script, probably magical ("al-ʿazīma" and the signs on verso).

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Primary language

Arabic

One fragmentary line from a letter or official correspondence. Reads as "adām Allah tawfīquhu".

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• dimme

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Primary language

Hebrew

Literary - Hebrew words listed in alphabetical tables. Reused for Hebrew poetry, possibly a panegyric.

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• panegyric

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Primary language

Arabic

Letter in Arabic script. Mentions "al-Ḥājj Rashīd was present." Needs further examination.

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• arabic script

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