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Document date

Ḥeshvan 1310 Seleucid (998 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Bābshād (a.k.a. Bapshād). He also asks his friend to influence the Maghreb community in Fustat to improve their relationships with the Gaon.

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Document date

Friday, 9 Tishrei 1328 Seleucid (14 September 1016 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Joseph the Dyer releases Samuel ha-Kohen b. Moses b. Ṣemaḥ from all claims, and relinquishes any claim to funds owed by a number of named individuals in Malīj. […] But there are no details concerning the object and nature of the partnership itself, and ‘Ammār leaves all claims to Samuel, leaving open the possibility that he was not the principal, but was instead working for Samuel.

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• autograph
• dyer
• elhanan b. shemarya
• malij
• partnership
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Inferred date

1025–1026 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Refers to a government decree (nishtevan, using the biblical term from Ezra) "written to the communities to make peace," suggesting that the internal dissent had already led one faction to petition the caliph and receive a rescript in response. […] The margin ontains a Judaeo-Arabic postscript in a more pragmatic register asking Efrayim to reassure Ḥasan ibn al-Ṭayyib (Yefet ben Ṭov) that rumors of his dismissal are false, and that the gaʾon still holds him in esteem.

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• bedouin
• communal politics

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In the bottom, fragmentary portion, he seems to complain that he is not being paid; he also mentions a blanket and "three sick people, and I am the fourth."

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• hamas
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: emotion
• illness: etiology
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Primary language

Hebrew

if you cannot, return. See also analysis in Zinger, "Long Distance Marriages in the Cairo Geniza," p. 28.

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• late heb
• tax
• turkey

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Document date

middle third of Adar I 1426 Seleucid (7 February 1115–17 February 1115 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The partners use a number of terms to describe their complicated partnership relationships: khulṭa, shirka, and muḍāraba (commenda). There were also outside investors in their partnership, suggesting that Nadiv and Peraḥya were joint active partners employing this outside capital (as such the other partners are not mentioned in the release).

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• ib7
• india book
• yemen

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Document date

Kislev 4880 Anno Mundi (6 November 1119–4 December 1119 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The calendar continues with month by month entries for the rest of 4879, for all of 4880, and 4881 through Nisan. Each entry lists the corresponding Muslim month. […] We departed Aden on Tuesday 7 Ḥeshvan, may God have mercy on us and ordain [...] for us and all of Israel. We arrived in Dahlak on Thursday on the 16th of the same month.

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• ib-addenda

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Total 119 1/2 dirhams plus 1 dinar; also a sum of approximately 160 dirhams, for which a jibaya, collection fee, of 6 dirhams was paid.

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• account
• charity
• communal

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Primary language

Hebrew

Identification and join by Alan Elbaum with the assistance of the Dicta Genizah Search website for the MiDRASH Automatic Transcriptions (https://zenodo.org/records/17734473). […] The lower piece was published by Allony in "משירת ספרד ולשונה," Sinai 55 (1964), 257, who did not know what to make of the name יגו and did not identify the poet.

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• ib-addenda

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Document date

5600 Anno Mundi (9 September 1839–27 September 1840 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Ladino

Accounts in Hebrew and Ladino on dated alphanumerically on 1v and 7v as 5600AM (התר) which is 1839/1840CE. There is a large title on 1r possibly indicating that all 14 folios of this fragment, or at least this page, served as a "פנקס הכנסה והוצאה" (a register of income and expenses).

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• 19th c
• account
• ladino
• register

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Document date

15 Av 5473 Anno Mundi (7 August 1713 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Ladino

The city of Damsīs is also mentioned. Other people involved are Yosef Pereṣ, Shelomo ʿAfīfī, Khalīfa, and a certain Felipe.

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• barda
• cassuto
• damietta
• damsis
• ladino
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Primary language

Hebrew

The Palestinians were arguing against the Four Gates, with a rather spurious claim that the Four Gates are incomplete because they only account for four days of the week (the days on which the New Year is allowed to fall). This letter responds that in the Four Gates, every period of time ends where the next one begins, so that the full week is covered from end to end; moreover, some days of the week are mentioned more than once in the Four Gates (fol.4r:1-5). […] Here the author finishes his refutation of the first argument, and refers to the distortion to the Four Gates through the addition of 641 parts to all the limits (fol.4r:14-16). After begins the second argument (fol.4r:16 – 4v:19).

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Document date

Wednesday, 17 Adar 1536 Seleucid (26 February 1225 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Jewish law requires the property of orphans to be sold by the court in public (Goitein, Med. Soc. 1:193; Goitein also cites a responsum of Maimonides: ואד֗ וראו אלזקנים במצאלחתהא פלא באס באן יבאע מן אלמלך ...

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• 13th c (late)
• broker

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Inferred date

1088–1089 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On the contrary, he is in a thousand states of well-being and is highly regarded by all who fear God. He overhears the Shabbat services from his dwelling. […] The son should send his response to ʿImrān b. Naḥum in Alexandria who will forward it to Salonica, to the upper synagogue, to the house of Shabbetay b. […] This explains why the readings don't always agree, and why some of the passages appeared to be clearer to him in one than the other.

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• byzantium
• disability
• disability: frailty
• disability: hearing
• disability: vision
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Document date

7 Ḥeshvan 1643 Seleucid (9 October 1331 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Record of a divorce. (Sitt al-)ʿArab bt. ʿAbdallāh received a geṭ from her husband Nāṣir b.

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• engagement

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

to 'read to him' (or teach him? yuqrīhu). "All that is delaying me is the copies." As for the rhubarb, the writer sold some pieces of it for 10 dirhams.

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• 13th c
• book trade
• rhubarb

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Saadya, made on one day in Dar al-Zayt, ca. 1182. The note is for building materials, utensils and labor.

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• 12th c
• account
• register
• shemuel b. saadya

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The currencies are Ẓāhiriyya dirhams (r. 1021–36 CE) and Nizāriyya dinars (these are the coins of al-ʿAzīz Billāh, aka Abū Manṣūr Nizār, r. 975–96 CE).

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• numismatic dating

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yaʿaqov b. Yosef b. Ismāʿīl al-Iṭrābulusi, Ascalon, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat.

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• ascalon
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: eye
• nahray b. nissim

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso, with the address on recto: Letter from Umm Yiṣḥaq to her paternal cousin (ibnat ʿamm), sent to Yaḥyā al-Maghribī, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script.

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Document date

21 Shevat 5492 Anno Mundi (17 February 1732 CE)

On the verso, the lower entry includes Shabtai Alpalas in the heading which is followed by a variety of numerical figures.

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• 18th c
• alpalas
• ladino
• list
• to examine

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The verso mentions Aḥmad al-Qabbānī (a "weigher" of goods). This shelfmark is directly related and perhaps a join to the neighboring fragment ENA 2230.4.

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• 16th c or later
• bulaq
• early modern
• waterwheel

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Naḥum (or possibly Ibn Naḥḥās) concerning payment for a house, of which Abū ʿAlī retains the right to enter. (Information from Goitein’s index card) Description from PGPID 9223: A different legal document or note, in a different hand, concerning an oath sworn by Mevorakh b.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef the son of the physician (ibn al-ḥakīm) did not find me in Tūnis... sold them and sent me their price, 90 dirhams...."

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It would be interesting to compare these to Abū Ḥayyān al-Andalusi's (d. 1344) dirges for his daughter Nuḍār (see e.g.

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• dirge

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It would be interesting to compare these to Abū Ḥayyān al-Andalusi's (d. 1344) dirges for his daughter Nuḍār (see e.g.

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• dirge

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Some contain the mystery mark (backwards ط). All are dated after the formula kutiba. ENA 3971 13–24, 31 and 34.

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• dimme
• tax
• tax receipt

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Document date

15 Adar II 5578 Anno Mundi (23 March 1818 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Partnership agreement between Mordekhay ha-Kohen and Avraham al-Vilda(?). The business is "the state collection of from the silk looms (anwāl) in the region east of Bilbays" (בשירות תקביץ מירי אלאנוואל פי שרקיית בילביס).

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• 19th c
• bilbays
• bilbeis
• silk

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Business letter from Zekharya b. Yaaqov b. al-Shama, from Tripoli (Libya), to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat.

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• nahray b. nissim
• textiles
• trade

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Document date

Shevaṭ 5306 Anno Mundi (4 January 1546–2 February 1546 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Concerning financial arrangements between a wife (Siwār) and husband (Avraham al-Jazīra(?)). Witnesses: Elʿazar b. Avraham Mujamjim; Moshe Ashasho(?).

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• late heb

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List of alphanumerical quantities, the heading opens with "מביעה" (sold).

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Document date

Av 5333 Anno Mundi (1 July 1573–30 July 1573 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The pair may have been involved in moneychanging given that variations of צרפ appear in each headings in connection with the accounts listed. Dated: Rabīʿ al-Awwal 981 AH = Av 5333 AM, which is 1573 CE.

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• late ja

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Primary language

Hebrew

Legal query about a man who admits he recieved a loan but claimed he already returned it with few people one of them named Halfon.

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• responsa

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This reflects a system of verification of public charity in Fustat. Verso has Avraham al-Iskandrani and others. ENA NS 77.47 seems to be part of the same list.

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• charity
• communal
• list
• poverty
• recipients

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Declaration by a woman connected to Evyatar ha-Kohen the Palestinian Gaon (likely his daughter Sitt al-Sāda) and [Abū l-Riḍā Shelomo] b. Mevorakh. Cf.

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Primary language

Hebrew

Someone makes a statement regarding "my son Avraham"; "my debts"; "all courts" (l. 4); and another person "who has the right/authority (reshut) regarding this my son."

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yeshuʿa testified that Abū l-Faraj Ibn al-Rabbāṣ will pay Yūsuf b. Bū l-Faraj. On verso there are piyyutim.

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Document date

Tammuz 1536 Seleucid (4 June 1125–2 July 1125 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A certain 'daughter of Abu al-Surur' is mentioned. The other side of the page contains a fragment of a legal testimony by the same hand, but probably a part of a different case.

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• avraham maimonides
• testimony

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Lists in Judaeo-Arabic that are designated by individual names such as Moshe Qanini, Sa'ad Qanini (recto), and Nissim al-Ḥāmī (verso). Based on the paleography and the latter's surname the fragment's dating can be estimated to the 18th or 19th centuries.

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• 18th or 19th c

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Inferred date

1750–1850 CE

The distinctive shape and tear of this bifolium, along with the paleography, confirm its status as a join to JRL SERIES C 86.

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• 18th or 19th c

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Primary language

Arabic

The part on recto refers to [...] b. Yaḥyā al-ʿAfṣī (the gallnut merchant) and Abū Saʿīd the Jew.

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Document date

Monday, 11 Sivan 1455 Seleucid (15 May 1144 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Yakhin ha-Kohen. Wife: Sitt al-Dār bt. Ghālib. Witnesses: the parnas Munajjā b.

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• get

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef Yijū to Saadya b. Avraham Ibn al-Amshāṭī. Fragment. Dating: ca. 1160s. Same writer and addressee: Moss.

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• mail-order medicine

No Scholarship Records

Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

; Jawhar; meat; a bucket; a waterbearer (saqqāʾ); a pesiqa for Yosef al-Dimashqī; the butcher; Dammūh; sweets (ḥalāwa); apples; and Ibrāhīm.

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Document date

Thursday, 12 Kislev 4784 Anno Mundi (28 November 1023 CE)

Marriage contract (ketubba). Large and almost completely preserved. Location: Tyre. Dated: Thursday, 12 Kislev 4784 AM, which is 28 November 1023 CE.

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• ketubba
• marriage

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Primary language

Hebrew

Written with the layout of an official/communal letter: narrow page, moderately wide space between the lines, and an ʿalāma (motto) at bottom (la-ʿad yeshuʿa, typical of both Daniel b.

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