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Aramaic, Hebrew

Moshe (אמי ב. משה) in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ. AA. ASE. Join: Moshe Yagur.

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• waqf

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Document date

middle decade of Nisan 1424 Seleucid (30 March 1113–8 April 1113 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Settlement between a husband and his wife, Sitt al-Kull. written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender vigorously rebukes his son for his poor decisions and lack of "manliness" (muruwwa). Mentions al-Thiqa and the sulṭān. Bears some resemblances to the letters of Manṣūr b.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Fragment of a legal document mentioning Abū l-Khayr Shelomo b. [Saʿadya] al-Ṣūrī and ʿIzrūn. Possibly documenting the settlement of a dispute.

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Judaeo-Arabic

In the section of text on the left side of the recto, Mensahe Aliyon (in Rashīd) and Yaʿaqov Raṣon are mentioned.

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• 18th or 19th c
• late ja
• masis

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1 Elul 5323 Anno Mundi (20 August 1563 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Deed on mint partnership from 1563, in Cairo, between Yitsḥak d’Molina and Shlomo al-Faranji. Wednesday, Elul 1 5323 AM. Published אברהם דוד, 'יהודים במנהלי בית המטבע במצרים במאה השש-עשרה', בין הסטוריה לספרות: ספר יובל ליצחק ברזילי, תשנ"ז, עמ' קו-קז.

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• legal

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shelomo asks him to help him out with the payment of the capitation tax, as he had been ill and had to spend all the money he could save from school fees paid to him on medicine and chicken.

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• capitation tax
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: cost
• illness: treatment
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3 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

bought "the rest of Plato's Laws (nāmūsiyya)." A cane seller (bayyāʿ al-qaṣab) is mentioned. The writer's business is not immediately clear; needs further examination.

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• late ja
• plato

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List in Arabic that offers an inventory and other information for a variety of food and household items such as beans, honey, watermelon, sugar, charcoal, almonds, and many other commodities. The inventory structure is very orderly and systematized according to days of the week.

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• 18th or 19th c
• arabic script

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The figures are epressed alphanumerically throughout the entries and the palegraphy suggests that this fragment may be 17th/18th-century.

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• 17th or 18th c
• aga

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Inferred date

1700–1900 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Some of the account entries mention names, such as: Abdaraḥman al-Maghribī and Raḥamīm Gershon. MCD.

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• 18th or 19th c
• numismatic dating

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Primary language

Hebrew

The responsum corresponds to #355 in Blau's edition ("I am very troubled by various matters, and my body is weak, and I have no ability to even read the letters, let alone respond to them..."). Another copy of the same responsum may be found in ENA 2743.3.

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• maimonides
• responsum

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He previously sent something with Yūsuf b. al-[...] and 1 1/2 raṭls of sugar(?) with Baqāʾ(?).

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Document date

Nisan 1455 Seleucid (7 March 1144–5 April 1144 CE)

The banker’s name is Abū l-Faraj al-Kohen and Abū Zikrī writes וכתב before his signature, which is atypical.

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• cheque
• ib5
• india book
• order of payment

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Primary language

Hebrew

He asks the addressee to join with Yiṣḥaq al-Ashqar and raise some money on his behalf. Dating: mid-16th century.)

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• 16th c
• al-ashqar
• prison

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Verso: quotation from a Hebrew poem by Shemuel ha-Nagid ibn Naghrela of Granada (d.1056), apparently quoted from memory and somewhat altered. See Jarden, Diwan Shemuʾel hanagid p. 33 (poem no. 7, lines 38ff) or Schirmann, Hashira ha-'ivrit 1:111.

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Primary language

Hebrew

She releases her husband from responsibility for her dowry because her father had already seized it. (Information from CUDL and Goitein's index card.)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A certain individual promises to make a payment of 298 dinars for precious items of textile merchandise (aʿlāq) which he had received in Damascus. He will pay off the debt in a single payment as soon as the seller/creditor arrives in Fustat.

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Document date

Monday, 18 Av 1490 Seleucid (19 July 1098 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recording that the silk dealer Yaʿaqub al-Rūmī b. Yosef deposited the trousseau of his wife Zayn bt.

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Tishrei 4863 Anno Mundi (15 September 1102–14 October 1102 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fol. 2r: Deed regarding alimony provided by a husband for his wife in Tyre, while he travels to Egypt.

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• marital reconciliation
• marriage

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Document date

30 Av 1549 Seleucid (12 August 1238 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Record of the scribe Abū l-Faraj b. Abū Naṣr b. al-Mesos in which he testifies to having received from Shelomo ha-Nasi one Egyptian dinar.

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• 13th c
• mosul nasis

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Note from Ibn al-Maṣmūdī to Abū l-Barakāt (Shelomo b. Eliyyahu?)

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• minor fiancee

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

At the top of recto there is alphabet writing practice in Hebrew.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Nissim, possibly to Isḥaq al-Nafūsī (line 8), who had written regarding the wife of his son Abū Zikrī, apparently asking her to travel.

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: women's

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Document date

Friday, 7 Av 1395 Seleucid (12 July 1084 CE)

Husband: Yefet b. Menashshe. Wife: Sitt al-Kull bt. Sar Shalom. Location: Fustat. Dated: Friday, 7 Av 1395 Seleucid, which is 1084 CE.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: No earlier than 1425 CE, based on the mention of the coinage ashrafī– which was first minted under Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay in this year. Describing a convoluted affair involving the production and sale of books and Torah scrolls.

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• numismatic dating

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Document date

Iyyar 1357 Seleucid (10 April 1046–8 May 1046 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Addressed to Abū Saʿīd al-Dāʾūdī (a Nasi). In Hebrew with the heading in Arabic script.

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• literary with documentary value
• poem

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Document date

1433 Seleucid (15 September 1121–3 September 1122 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Dated: 1433 Seleucid, which is 1121/22 CE. ʿAzīza bt. Natan al-ʿIblānī (? אלעבלאני) appoints Avraham to sue people with whom she has deposits.

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Monday 16 Tevet 1339 Seleucid (18 December 1027 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document concerning the long dispute between Avraham b. Shemual al-Andalusi and the gaurdians who executed the will of his father - Yosef b.

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• register

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Primary language

Hebrew

Joseph Ibn Kaskil, whose compositions and wanderings around the Mediterranean are known (See Mann, Texts, 1, pp. 386-393) Mentions Ereṣ Sefarad in line 4, which is tagged collectively with al-Andalus in the PGP Places database.

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• recommendation

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Letter from Nissim b. Yitzhak b. al-Sahl to Avraham b. David. From 999. It seems that the two have an argument about sending dinars.

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Primary language

Hebrew

Yehuda, Abū Naṣr b. Manṣūr, Abū l-ʿAlāʾ ha-Neʾeman. Likely an appeal for charity or help.

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Primary language

Hebrew

(יוסיף), [...] b. Aharon, [Sh]alom b. Ḥubaysh (חביש). On verso there is Bible commentary in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic.

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Judaeo-Arabic

He is prepared to give a refresher course in the reading of the Torah to Abū l-ʿAlā ha-Kohen and his father the Segan (ha-Kohanim) and is prepared to come to his house if he is ashamed to attend classes at Eliyyahu's place.

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• bible
• education
• judge eliyyahu
• merchant

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Information from Dotan Arad (2017) Welfare and Charity in a Sixteenth-Century Jewish Community in Egypt: A Study of Genizah Documents, Al-Masāq, 29:3, 266.

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• 16th c
• biqqur holim
• havarot

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He tells the addressee to heed his teacher at all times. He sends messages about financial matters for two different maternal uncles, one a judge and one a ḥaver.

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Primary language

Arabic

One line has the name Bū l-Maʿālī, and the rest are months (al-Muḥarram, Ṣafar, Rabīʿ I, Rabīʿ II) On recto there is a mysterious sentence in Judaeo-Arabic (beginning "My letter to you O Manṣūr...") and on verso there is Hebrew piyyuṭ written in a crude hand.

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The sender complains of the distress he suffered in Fustat or Egypt, something to do with his children and how he lost all his money. (Information in part from CUDL)

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• appeal

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Primary languages

Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

either "in my hand" (bi-khaṭṭī) or that of someone else (bi-khaṭṭ al-[...]). Other entries mention fees for couriers, the upkeep of the mill (مما يثبت في عمارة الطاحون), and many more.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender has sent the 'qaḍīb'(?) along with 4 dinars with Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf. A certain Yehuda has sent 11 dinars.

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