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Document date

1463 Seleucid (13 September 1151–31 August 1152 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic, Judaeo-Persian

= آدینه = Friday Identification and join by Alan Elbaum.

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• calendar
• ib-addenda
• ib3

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When no money was left for one of the beadles, he had to 'transfer' him to another social officer, the Kohen al-Naḥḥāl (Mr.'Beekeeper,' often mentioned as a donor).

Tags

• account
• communal
• salary

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Document date

Ṭevet 1452 Seleucid (13 December 1140–10 January 1141 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Abū Zikrī Kohen in Fustat, to Abū Zikrī Yaḥyā b. Sulaymān b. al-Shāmī, in ʿAydhāb. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Ṭevet 1452 Seleucid = December 1140 / January 1141 CE. […] Likewise we find the Wakīl of ʿAidhab in charge of the goods saved from Dībājī's boat, although another man, Akbar, had received them. To be sure, the merchants concerned, both Muslims and Jews, had entrusted the Wakīl with this task.

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• ib5
• india book

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Document date

21 Tishrei 5605 Anno Mundi (4 October 1844 CE)

and his wife, Yaʿaqov Raḥamīm, Menaḥem Mizraḥī, David Levi, Yaqūtī Ben-Yadʿa, Av[raham] Gaṭenyo, Bekhor Ḥakīm, Shemuʾel Goren, Av[raham] al-Gazī, Yosef Fīḥa Qūʿal(?), David Diṭayo/Dimayo(?)[…] , Mordūkh Jūnd/Gūnd, S' Kohen, Av[raham] Griyanī, Yaʿ[aqov] Safriʾel, ʿEzra Ardī, Cariyo Aghion, Yehuda Karo, ʿAsher Sūqar, Saʿad Wahba, Eliyahu Shtawī, Yosef Ḥasūn/Ḥasōn, David Menashe, wife of Galico, wife of Reʾuben Rolo, mother of Eliyahu Franses, wife of Rabbi al-Gāzī, Yaʿaqov Najjār, Khiḍr Dayyan, Melamed (surname).

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• 19th c
• fustat
• late synagogues
• old cairo

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Document date

Tuesday night, 22 Kislev 1435 Seleucid (12 December 1123 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information from Gershon Weiss.) See also ENA NS 16.22 (PGPID 11712) and other documents listed there.

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Document date

Adar I–Adar II 5453 Anno Mundi (7 February 1693–6 April 1693 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Bifolio from a court register, probably from the same pinqas as T-S K22.27 (the latter shelfmark contains five bifolios). Altogether, the six bifolios comprise as many as 38 documents, but the actual total is likely lower because some contiguous entries have yet to be identified in instances where they span multiple pages of the pinqas. […] MCD with edits/information from Alan Elbaum on documents 1-5. Right side of recto: (Document #1) Incomplete entry with the final lines of a partnership or an agreement involving three parties; (#2) Deathbed declaration of Yehuda DiRolo (דירולו) aka Danon involving a variety of debts and arrangements for his burial. (#3) Engagement of Reyna bt.

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Document date

Iyyar 1480 Seleucid (29 April 1169–27 May 1169 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The uncle of the orphans bore the title Raḍiyy al-Dawla ("Pleasing the Government"), and the father of their guardian was a kātib, or government official.

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• inheritance
• testimony

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Document date

1440 Seleucid (28 August 1128–15 September 1129 CE)

Her minor sister granted her share to her brother Hillel, as a gift, except for a certain amount of money, which was legally recorded in a bill of indebtness granted to her by Hillel, who continued to manage the business. The widow, Sitt al-Bayt, confirmed her daughter’s actions and guaranteed to be responsible to Hillel for any claims against him which the younger daughter might once make as heir of her father.

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• court record
• halfon b. menashshe
• inheritance

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Document date

1165–1166 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Manṣūr b. Makārim of Bilbays, already the husband of a woman named ʿAmāʾim, came before the court (probably in Fustat or Cairo) together with Abū Naṣr b.

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• engagement
• polygyny

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Document date

Tevet 1531 Seleucid (December 1219–January 1220 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 44; V, p. 199.) Alternate description: "Ruling from the Bet Din of Minyat Ziftā, addressed to the Nagid Abraham Maimonides, dated Ṭevet 1531 (= 1219-1220 CE).

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• 13th c
• avraham maimonides
• minyat zifta
• recommendation

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Hebrew

The sender reports that the letter of the Rosh Yeshiva Yoshiyyahu arrived, and it was read aloud in the synagogue. Apparently Yoshiyyahu was soliciting funds for the Jerusalem Yeshiva, and this letter is excusing the congregation for failing to donate anything.

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• fundraising
• sicily
• tax
• yeshiva

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Document date

1588–1607 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Bibliography: Arad (2017) Welfare and Charity in a Sixteenth-Century Jewish Community in Egypt: A Study of Genizah Documents, Al-Masāq, 29:3, 258–72, no. 19.

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• 16th or 17th c
• converso
• list
• musta'rib

1 Transcription 1 Translation

In the introduction to her edition, Jane Hathaway notes: "On the recto of this document is the Tsiddūḳ ha-Dīn (literally, ‘affirmation of the [divine] decree’), a traditional Jewish burial prayer compiled from various verses in the Hebrew Tana"kh along with brief passages from the rabbinical oral tradition....

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• burial
• prayer

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Document date

Dhū l-Ḥijja 1220 Hijrī (20 February 1806–20 March 1806 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated in the eighth image as [Dhū] l-Ḥijja 1220 AH (1806 CE), which the scribe mentioned as the starting point for a year's worth of accounts (so indirectly 1221 AH). Although most of the pages are blank, there are sporadic accounts with many details of transactions in precious gemstones, such as: "cut diamond [sold to] Muḥ[ammad]/Maḥ[mūd] Qabbānī," "pearl [sold to] Esther ʿAfiyya," "piece of emerald from Vida and ..la[?]."

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• jeweler
• jewelry

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Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

The two sisters had had drawn up a document "in the name of" Abū Saʿd Avraham b. Sahl al-Tustarī concerning the gilded garment left to them in the estate of their father, with the ruling that the value of the garment will be split between them.

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• 11th c
• inheritance
• micrography
• motto
• tyre

1 Transcription 2 Discussions

Primary language

Hebrew

The Palestinians were arguing 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). Our letter responds that the Four Gates actually covers the full week because every period of time ends where the next one begins (fol.4r:1-5).

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• calendar
• controversy

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II, p. 573 n. 17, but Goitein's summary must refer to a different, still-unidentified shelfmark. We have retained all index cards and both transcriptions under both PGPIDs.)

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• hillel b. 'eli
• register

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

It seems that some people wanted to manumit the daughter of a female slave (fa-rāmū ʿitq ibnat al-jā[riya]). Only fragmentary phrases are preserved out of the next section: the number 10; someone testifying "about her"; "her document"; the court; "the remainder of the ketubba"; "she entered the house"; and "the first."

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Seʿadya (l. 16) sent his agent Berakhot (l. 19) to collect some jewelry (l. 7) such as, two bracelets of amber with golden heads (l. 4), from a certain David (l. 18) (perhaps identical with Yeshuʿa al-Qarawī, l. 9). However, the debtor refused to render the items, claiming that the note presented by the agent (l. 10) did not authorize him to issue a proper valid release after handing over the precious items.

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Document date

Wednesday, 14 Iyyar 4810 Anno Mundi (9 May 1050 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

This ʿuluww is located above the portico (sqīfa) of Zina bt. al-Fājū(?); its eastern boundary is the house of Yehuda b.

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Document date

Adar 1522 Seleucid (1211 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

A covenant (כתב אמנה) of the congregation of the Palestinian synagogue in Fustat, drawn up in Adar 1522 (=1211 CE), which enumerates the venerable liturgical rites they inherited from their ancestors and which they refuse to allow anyone to change. The context is the controvery over the prayer reforms that Avraham Maimonides attempted to introduce.

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• avraham maimonides
• liturgy
• prayer reform
• yedutun ha-levi

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Superscription: 'Statement about the revenue from the collection for the weekly payments, jibayat al-mujama'a, for the week of Naso' (Numbers 4:21-7:89, read mostly in May or June); 'our Master' (Moses Maimonides) 8 dirhams, 'the Trustworthy' (title of Maimonides' father-in-law) 12 dirhams, three others 10 dirhams, one, three, and five other 6, 5, and 4 dirhams respectively; Several items are lost.

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• capitation tax
• communal
• payment
• salary
• tax

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In the closing greetings, the sender reports that the children are all well. Abū l-Mufaḍḍal intends to travel but delayed his departure until after the holidays.

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• hamas
• rent
• slave

1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yosef, in Tripoli, Libya, to his mother, probably in Fustat. Although the address reads "from your son Yosef," the letter is written in the voice of an older woman who defends herself against the addressee's blame for not looking after Yosef properly and for not marrying him to her own daughter.

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: marad
• illness: nursing
• illness: waja'
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Document date

419 Hijrī (31 January 1028–19 January 1029 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Fatimid fiscal report or account for the fiscal (kharājī) year 417, from the period of the Fatimid caliph al-Ẓāhir. Dated: 417 kharājī/419 AH. Document is dated according to both systems, so useful for correlating the fiscal (kharājī) and hijrī calendars.

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• petition

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

"What emerges from this fragment may be summarized as follows: Abū l-Surūr and his sister Nasab inherited 1/3 of a house from their late father in equal shares. 2/3 of this house had already belonged to Nasab. Abū l-Surūr claimed that his sister had taken possession of his share several years before and now he would like to receive what was due him.

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Primary language

Arabic

Joins: Nadia Vidro and Alan Elbaum

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(2) A medium-sized fragment in the middle of the rightmost column of the last images. Recto is almost blank. Verso is a letter fragment. The sender has arrived in a place where they do not know anybody and they are concerned about their enemies gloating.

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Document date

8 Iyyar 1407 Seleucid (3 May 1096 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The recto and the beginning of the first column of the verso concern a partnership between Yaḥyā ha-Levi and Abū ʿAli Yefet b. Avraham involving trading goods and supplying metal to the mint.

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• 11th c
• register

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Document date

Friday, 14 Nisan 5532 Anno Mundi (17 April 1772 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Moshe Masʿūd. Bride: Sitt al-Bayt aka Bieto/Vieto(?) bt. Avraham Minir (this uncommon surname is written clearly in the filing note on the verso).

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• 18th c
• illumination
• ketubba
• vellum
• watercolor

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender then reports in detail about the nagid’s beehives, complaining about all the trouble he has had with them, and asks for instructions.

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• amir
• bees
• capitation tax
• damin
• lac

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

IV, p. 260): "Take two and a half dirhems' weight of each of the following: lichen (shayba), ginger, pepper, and barley flour, and half a dirhem of saffron. Mix all these together, pound them and bind the mixture with the same quantity [weight] of Egyptian bee honey and put it aside.

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• hashish
• illness: teeth
• materia medica
• recipe
• vinegar
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