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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Overleaf, the desired data are provided: the mother of the late Yosef, possibly named Sitt al-Bayt bt. Abū l-Thanāʾ, forfeits her right to the rent of a property which Yosef had willed her, releasing Yosef's orphans from the obligation of paying it to her).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

("The Ḥibbur" typically refers to the Mishneh Torah in this period; see T-S K6.170, ed. Allony, The Jewish Library, #99. Information from Amir Ashur.)

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• book trade

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Document date

Elul 5353 Anno Mundi (29 August 1593–26 September 1593 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Sixteenth- and post-sixteenth-century references to this sacred site are crucial because it is likely that the Synagogue of Moses at Dammūh was destroyed in 1498 CE at the direction of the Mamlūk Sultan al-Malik al-Nāṣir (For this incident, see: Paul B.

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• 16th c
• dammuh
• late prosopography
• late synagogues
• map
• (+ 3 more)

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Kislev 5520 Anno Mundi (21 November 1759–20 December 1759 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

PGPID 7396; PGPID 30597) .The lowest signature at the bottom of the deed is that of R. Nissim al-Gāzī and the stamped seal bears his full name. Rabbi Nissim Shelomo al-Gāzī (1670-1761 CE) was a communal leader among the Rabbanite congregations of Cairo during the mid-eighteenth century.

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• 18th c
• guardianship
• late heb
• real estate

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Document date

first third of Iyyar 1414 Seleucid (11 April 1103–20 April 1103 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Labwa b. Efrayim known as Ibn al-Malaṭī (אלמלטי) and her paternal uncle ʿEli, each of whom had been willed one-half of Efrayim's estate agree to be satisfied with the assets held by each side and to release each other from any further claims.

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Perhaps a marriage contract, as there is a note in between the document and the qiyyum making a statement about the value of the delayed dower measured according to 'the weight of the Bedouins' (? ṣanjat al-ʿarab). The main document is signed by [..]LM b.

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Document date

24 Sivan 1541 Seleucid (6 June 1230 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Deposition made by Abū l-Baqāʾ b. Abū l-Ḥasan al-Kohen, that his step daughter owed him nothing with regard to the heritage of his wife, while he and his brother were in possession of certain ornaments belonging to the former.

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• court record
• inheritance

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Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Mufarrij and Shūʿa the Bāniyāsī escaped from the enemy attacking Caesarea (although Goitein read this as Mufarrij and Shūʿa escaping to Bāniyās).

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• bialphabetic
• flax
• honey
• war
• wax

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions the arrival of goods from the West (waṣala min al-gharb...). Note that the small slip containing the beginning of the letter (on recto) and the address (on verso) has been joined incorrectly.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The expenditures as listed first come to a total of 223 dirhams, but thereafter several other items totaling 189.6 dirhams are added, so that there is altogether a total expenditure of 412.5 dirhams, i.e., a deficit of 104.5 dirhams.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Avraham; being in great distress (wa-l-sāʿa al-shidda ʿaẓīma); lack of clothing for the writer and their child; talking to somebody about this on one of the nights of the holiday; and he says he is "sitting in the store" but no syrups or sugar are coming in (mā yajīʾ fīhā raṭl sharāb wa-lā sukkar).

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• petition
• private

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

, containing about 55 names, followed by a column in Hebrew characters with about 23 names, some identical, including Abū l-Barakāt al-Mūrid, the purveyor of gold and silver to the mint (see Mediterranean Society, I, p.267).

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• 12th c
• ib-addenda
• ib7
• list

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Document date

Monday, 6 Sivan 5252 Anno Mundi (1 June 1492 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Moshe Qalʿī from the Castro family and Shabbetay b. ʿAzrūn al-Masīnī (from Messina, Sicily). The other matter is the ketubba payment of the widow of R.

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Inferred date

1550–1650 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Gavizon's responsa (vol, I, 30-31). Although R. Gavizon was born to Sephardi refugees in Safed, he spent much of his career in Cairo.

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• 16th or 17th c
• early modern

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List of the Pesiqa, upper part of three pages containing the names of contributors, headed by Abu al-Mufaddal, who pledges 1/8 dinar. The others give dirhams, namely: 1 party gives 3 d; 8 parties give 2 d; 16 parties give 1 d; 4 parties give 1/2 d;, 2 (sum not preserved).

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• charity
• communal
• donors
• poverty

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

T-S NS 320.15 appears to be the final version of the same document (though the lower part along with any signatures are missing, and that too may have been a draft).

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• slaves

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

At the bottom of verso there is a jotting with documentary value: "I borrowed from our rabbi ʿEli the w[ise] and the en[lightened] Kitāb al-Faṣīḥ [presumably the work by Thaʿlab] and a commentary on [...] by our rabbi [...]."

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Document date

3 Tammuz 1351 Seleucid (17 June 1040 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Adiyya who declares that his wife did not owe him anything, but that not all she was owed in her marriage contract had been delivered to her.

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• will
• yefet b. david

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Primary language

Hebrew

Karaite deed of betrothal of Amat al-Waḥid אמה אלואחד daughter of Ḥalfon and Ḥaifon ha-Levi ben Daniel b.

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• karaite ketubba
• marriage

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Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The contract is described as muḍārabat al-tujjār, a merchants' commenda, which normally provides for a division of two-thirds and one third of the profit.

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• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib1
• india book
• partnership

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Document date

Ḥeshvan 5562 Anno Mundi (8 October 1801–5 November 1801 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Based on the layout/letter forms, the document was likely recorded by Meʾir Ben-Naʿim. Although Nissīm Najjar includes "סו" in his signature (commonly = so[fer]), his autograph does not match the scribal hand throughout the rest of the document.

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• 19th c
• ben na'im

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: After 1425 CE, as one of the currencies mentioned is the ashrafī– which was first minted under Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay in this year. The addressee had sent 200 "maghribī" (dinars?).

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• numismatic dating

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Among the names listed are: (recto) Sulayman Efendī Mustaḥfizan/מסתחפצן (the latter term was the title of the janissary garrison in Cairo), Abu ʿArabī Daūdī (verso) ʿUmr ___ Qapṭān wa-Çelebī Silaḥdar, ʿUmr Efendī Kātib, Emir __[?] al-Basha Ḥasan Agha, ___[?] Çorbacı, and others.

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• 16th c or later
• ledger
• ottoman state

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Inferred date

1700–1900 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 4 Jumāda al-Awwal '54 which could be 1154 AH (=1741 CE) or 1254 AH (=1838 CE) based on the mention of Ottoman kurush (ق symbol over monetary columns).

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• 18th or 19th c
• bialobos
• de curiel
• late ja
• late prosopography
• (+ 2 more)

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This shelfmark is intriguing on a material level, based on the extent of compression it must have taken for so many texts to fuse together– at least 5-6 distinct layers of paper are visible on the recto alone (some of which a very fibrous). The format gives off the appearance of cardboard, but is likely an unintentional result of compression in the geniza chamber from the collective weight of its contents.

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• print
• printed

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender had sent an invitation with Hiba al-Kohen for the addressee to come celebrate the holidays in Damietta, and he is sad that he did not come.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Legal testimony (maḥḍar) from al-Maḥalla regarding kosher butchering. It seems that Shemarya ha-Kohen was granted the right to be sole butcher and another man entered into a legal agreement and swore an oath that he would not butcher — but now he has been witnessed violating that oath.

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For a prescription that includes burnt goat-horn, see Sabur b. Sahl, Aqrabadhin al-saghir / The Small Dispensatory (trans. Oliver Kahl, 2003, p. 50).

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• prescription

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There are two columns in eastern Arabic numerals alongside detailed entries each beginning with a day of the week.

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• 18th or 19th c
• late ja
• list
• numismatic dating

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Inferred date

1700–1850 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The paleography helps to estimate the dating of this document as 18th/early 19th-century. Along the far left side of the recto Jerusalem is mentioned (l. 6r) and the coinage "metaqil / מתאקיל" which may indicate gold for prices connected to the items listed (given the mention of "וזן / weight" in the same entry: l. 16-17r).

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• 18th or 19th c
• list
• mastic

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Document date

5592 Anno Mundi (8 September 1831–24 September 1832 CE)

, Benyamīn Curiel, Yosef Dasa, Khalīfa Pinṭo, Shelomo Morḥayyīm, Israʾel Abū-Drahem, Yosef al-Bīnda, Ṣulṭāna bt. Yiṣḥaq Qor..bīyal, Diyamante (Diamante) wife of Ḥayyīm Pesaḥ, the little daughter of Ḥabīb Sofriel, and the little daughters of Poeta[?]

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• 19th c
• late prosopography
• sephardim

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Document date

5556 Anno Mundi (14 September 1795–2 October 1796 CE)

The bifolium is very damaged along the edges but the paper's extensive length is still apparent and suggests that this was possibly a part of a broader communal charity register.

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• 18th c
• communal
• late prosopography
• orphans
• widow

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Primary language

Persian

Refers to Khwāja ʿAbdallāh, agents and powers of attorney, expressions of free will (برضا ورغبت خود), and Khwāja Sulṭān [...] b. Khwāja ʿAlī b. Khwāja Ḥaydar. Mentions 600 dīnārs. Dated 26 Rabīʿ II; the year is torn away.

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• dimme

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Document date

4790/4791 Anno Mundi (11 September 1029–30 August 1030 CE)

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Hebrew

The calendar mentions intercalation, length of variable months, moladot of all months, days of the week of beginnings of months, festivals and fasts, and the time and date of the tequfot.

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• calendar

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Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Nissim to Abū l-Surūr Faraḥ b. Ismaʿīl al-Qābisī, because Gil cited the document in question solely as "Mosseri II 188" without further specification (Kingdom of Ishmael, vol. 2, 762).

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Judaeo-Arabic

Some commodity was deposited with a distinguished man (rajul jalīl al-qadr), "and when he opened it for the buyer and it came out in this shape, he was embarrassed... and I was embarrassed even more...

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• sicily

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Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Document of sale for real estate, a quarter of a house, between Shelomo b. Moshe and Sitt al-Hanāʾ bt. Elʿazar ha-Levi. Possibly in the hand of ʿImmanuʾel b.

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Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The addressee is asked to look into this (al-naẓar fīhā). The women's husband is missing (maʿdūm).

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• divorce
• forgery

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