Documents

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Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic with Greek/Coptic alphanumerals. Medieval-era. Crude hand. Mentions MKRM; Asʿad; a khirqa; a garment.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions sums related to specific documents (ḥujja, wathīqa); Saʿd al-Mulk; and a collateral with a certain Adam.

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Illuminated Hebrew alphabet from a children’s textbook. At the bottom of recto there is a benediction: ‘God will protect you from every evil and will guard your soul’.

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Regarding is business with Yeshua b. Isma’il al-Makhmuri. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, #410) VMR

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• suftaja

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

The genealogy of the family of Abū Manṣūr Ibn al-Kātib (Levites), headed by Saʿadya the judge and his six sons.

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Primary language

Arabic

A few words preserved from 2 lines, including "waḥdahu" and "al-mamlūk." On verso there is Hebrew literary text.

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Arabic

Account or possibly receipt (official?) for Ṭāhir al-ʿAṭṭār. Needs examination. Reused on recto for blessings from the liturgy (pre-hafṭara and qiddush for Shabbat that falls on Shemini ʿAṣeret).

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Document date

December 1027 CE

Documents describing unique or interesting legal cases were occasionally copied in order to serve the clerks of the court as reference (Goitein also suggests that the document might have been copied to serve as an accompaniment to a legal discussion. […] On the other hand, the detailed description of the entire process, the dates, the exact monetary sums, the number of rings and their type, all testify that this was a real case. Goitein suggests that the document represent an agreement made by a poor couple. […] However, Ashur claims that this date is the date in which the document was copied to the legal documents file in court and in the same occasion the title was written, since the recto also has the year recorded at the header (Assaf missed the word 'year' in the header of the recto.

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• register

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Document date

3 Rajab 1248 Hijrī (26 November 1832 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Letter from Maʿtūq al-Yahūdī. In Arabic script. Dated 3 Rajab [12]48 AH = 26 November 1832 CE. […] The letter seems to be a complaint and an appeal for assistance against the behaviors (apparently wage theft) of al-Muʿallim Nissim and al-Muʿallim Bekhor (or potentially Baḥur, if بخور is an error for بحور). The sender repeatedly emphasizes his poverty, although the large sums of money he refers to (1000s and 10000s of a silver denomination, likely medins) suggest that this may be rhetorical or relative poverty.

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• hakham bashi

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The traveler doesn't heed their advice and saves the man. All the animals and the man honor the traveler and tell him that they will help him if he ever comes through their city, Nawārjūr. The Geniza fragment ends here but the continuation can be read in the versions of Kalīla wa-Dimna available online (e.g., https://al-maktaba.org/book/26537/296#p1 or Bodleian Library MS. […] On verso there is additional (unrelated?) text also in the hand of Yosef Rosh ha-Seder. It is fragmentary and difficult to understand; needs examination.

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• animals
• kalila wa-dimna
• popular literature

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Document date

Shevaṭ 5564 Anno Mundi (14 January 1804–12 February 1804 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The text regularly alternates from Hebrew/Aramaic to Judaeo-Arabic translation after each of the partnership's twelve clauses (the Judaeo-Arabic sections often begin with יעני = yaʿanī ). The addendum clauses are also listed in a bilingual format. Mentions sums of money such as 4500 mayedes and 5000 mayedes, representing fines for violation of the partnership terms. […] Matatiya Ashkenazi likely signs as the second witness and he may have signed his name with an abbreviation that was distinct from the common ס׳׳ט = ספרדי טהור= סופו טוב. Although, the first letter could be a poorly rendered samech.

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• 19th c
• cloth
• clothes
• clothing
• satin
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"The first document is a letter (lacking, however, a few lines at the end) that was sent by an anonymous merchant to R. David Ibn Zamiro (alias Zimra).It seems that the writer was the fattore (commercial agent) of the addressee R. […] הראיתי הנוצה לסוחרים על מאמר מתיו, ולא רצו לעשות שום דבר. 'Concerning the feathers, although I already informed you know through R. Samuel Kichlado that I opened [the parcel] in his presence, I showed them [i.e. the feathers] to some merchants.

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• 16th c
• radvaz

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Inferred date

July 1156–November 1156 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter by Yosef Yiju, in Mazara, to his sons Perahya and Moshe, in Fustat or Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Dating: Fall or Summer, 1156 CE. […] Complaint that the longing for the addressees was 'killing' their parents, who, in addition, suffered from all kinds or privations and illnesses (lines 1-9).

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• ib-partial translation-eng
• ib3
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• india book
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3 Transcriptions 2 Translations 1 Discussion

Primary language

Arabic

List of indigent people equally divided between natives of the capital and residents originating from Alexandria, the Sharqiyya and Gharbiyya provinces, the villages around the capital (all entirely destitute), and towns such as Ashmum, Damietta, and Qūṣ.

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• capitation tax
• list
• poverty

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Primary language

Arabic

Recto, with address on verso: Petition/letter from Muslim b. ʿAlī b. Muslim to Abū l-Faraj Mawhūb b. Yūḥannā. […] He asks the addressee to intercede on his behalf or write a ruqʿa'for him to a higher official (al-majlis al-sāmī). Concludes with a raʾy clause, ḥamdala, and ḥasbala.

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• damin
• petition
• sugar

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: probably ca. 1124 plus or minus a few years; in any case after ca. 1117 when Yosef Lebdī is thought to have died. Although the address is made out to 'my son Zayn' the letter itself actually addresses a woman, 'my sister.' […] and obtain for us a rescript (tawqīʿ) for our release from 'al-maʾmūn' (maybe a term for house arrest?), and redeem us from captivity... I see them dying... and inform me about the situation... All the children send greetings. Greetings to Dāʾūd and his wife and everyone with them.

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• house arrest
• ib-addenda

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Groom: Natan(?) b. David. Bride: Sitt al-Sāda bt. ʿAdaya. In the handwriting of Ḥalfon b.

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Hebrew

Small fragment, perhaps a genealogy or memorial list, including a lineage with an Aluf ha-Ḥaver . . . bar Avraham bar . . . Sahlān bar . . .

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• genealogy
• sahlan b. avraham

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Primary language

Garshuni (Serto)

Garshuni poem rhymed on -nī (e.g., al-awṭānī, insānī, ikhwānī), each section punctuated by a refrain (qufl).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions health, items to be sent, and regards to various people including Najīb al-Dīn (?). There is a note in the margin mentioning "your ghulām."

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• ghulam

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Document date

[Tammuz] 4831 Anno Mundi (2 June 1071–30 June 1071 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Deed of restitution written in Jerusalem regarding alimony, in the hand of Eliyyahu Ha-Kohen Gaon, June 1071 CE, based on Gil's inference of [Tammuz] 4831 AM in l. 23.

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• jerusalem
• marital reconciliation
• marriage

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

With greetings to Yosef al-Ashqar (see T-S NS 304.1 (PGPID 24958)).

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The bride's name is Sitt al-Sāda bt. A[...].

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• halfon b. menashshe

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Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Concerning a gift given to a young woman named Sitt al-Dār.

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Arabic

Mentions several names: ʿAlī b. [...], Ḥasan b. [...]. The remainder of the fragment contains Hebrew literary text.

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• cmp

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Arabic

People named include Isḥāq b. ʿAllūsh and Abū l-Surūr Yūshaʿ b. Natan.

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Primary language

Arabic

Dated to the month of Dhū al-Ḥijja, probably 10th of the month, but no mention of the year.

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• shawish

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Primary language

Arabic

Could possibly be a fragment from the Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ.

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Primary language

Arabic

Verso: jottings of Arabic poetry including several copies of al-Mutanabbi's أنا صَخْرَةُ الوادي إذا ما زُوحمَتْ وإذا نَطَقْتُ فإنّني الجَوْزاءُ.

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