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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Finally he succeeded in getting Abū l-Ḥasan to ride with him by boat instead of walking there. They arrived safely and prayed with the quorum. Abū l-Ḥasan is now insisting on staying there all day Tuesday and only coming back to Fustat on Wednesday.

Tags

• dammuh
• unrest

1 Discussion

Primary language

Arabic

The sender reports that he arrived safely from Fustat to Alexandria and found the children well.

Tags

• arabic script
• fatimid
• private letter

1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The senders report that they arrived safely and found 'a good house' to stay in and have been treated with lavish hospitality and wonderful food.

Tags

• 'amil
• hospitality
• mice

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender reports that he arrived safely. His maternal aunt owes him 50 dinars. He asks Natan to get the money and give it to Abū Munajjā but not to tell him how much it is, only to tell him that Ismāʿīl kisses his hand and asks him to buy farkha cloths with it and send them to him a few at a time.

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in a crude hand to a woman (Sitt […]), describing the writer’s safe arrival in Fusṭāṭ. (Information from CUDL.)

Tags

• mosul cantor

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He heard that the addressee had arrived safely (in Fustat?) together with a group of other merchants in a letter he received from Abū l-Faraj Hiba al-Ḥamawī (whose letter was delivered by Wahb the relative of Naḥrīr).

Tags

• nisaburi

1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Nissim, Fustat. Mentions the safe arrival of (probably) relatives to Fustat; a female slave who was sold in Alexandria, and instructions for the coming winter dealing mostly with wheat and oil.

Tags

• nahray b. nissim
• trade

3 Transcriptions

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The addressee and his companions on the boat are all asked to contribute, and it is suggested that this good deed will increase the likelihood of a safe trip. (Information from Goitein's notes.)

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• ib7
• india
• recommendation

2 Transcriptions

Describes the situation in Alexandria that is not safe, and the influence on the ships movement, including the news about several ships that the “enemy” caught, the ship al-Tarajima is one of them.

1 Transcription

Primary language

Hebrew

The addressee is asked to purchase a servant girl for the writer's sister, and reminded to safeguard a certain document, possibly connected with the writer's business partner, Shemuel.

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He had just been in Fustat, advocating for himself with the Nagid Sar Shalom (Abu Zikri) against the machinations of Ibn al-Taffal against him. He has now arrived safely in Qalyub, and he informed the community of what happened, and they rejoiced.

Tags

• abu sahl levi
• moshe b. levi
• sar shalom

1 Transcription 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The letter describes the troubles the writer encountered from a capitation tax official on his travels in a Nile boat and saying he had arrived safely in Alexandria. (Information in part from Mediterranean Society, I, pp. 299, 300.)

Tags

• boat
• capitation tax
• jaliya
• tax

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Document date

1057 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

ʿAlī Kohen al-Fāsī writes of his intention to come to Fustat and meet with Abū ʿAbdallah (Ibn al-Baʿbāʿ) to see if he had kept his goods safe for him, and asks to send him his greetings. […] One used for the occasion the same phrase 'I congratulate you' as one did with good wishes for holy days or a marriage or a safe return from a journey. T-S 13J17.2 is characteristic in this respect.

Tags

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: eye
• illness: recovery
• movement of ships

2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

In these lines, the sender mentions Zabīd, the righteousness and merit of Sayyidnā, a safe arrival of a group of merchants in Aden, their departure for India, and the news that their ship was stranded in Mirbāṭ on the south Arabian coast.

Tags

• ib6
• india

2 Transcriptions

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ezra, in Gaza (detained there en route from Cairo to Safed), to Shemuel b. Yequtiel al-Amshāṭī, in Fustat. […] Practicing as a physician in Safed (which at that time began to assume its role as a major holy city) was done "for Heaven's sake."

Tags

• 16th c
• afif b. ezra
• disability
• disability: hearing
• disability: speaking
• (+ 14 more)

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ḥasan to Avraham Ibn Yiju: safe conduct and assistance for brother. Aden, ca. 1145. (8) [I shall take care of] sending it, if someone departs this [year for] (9) Egypt, since no one arrived last year or [so far this year] (10) from Egypt, because of the [death?]

Tags

• epidemic
• epidemic: waba'
• ib2
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• (+ 1 more)

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Settlement after marital dispute between husband and wife, safeguarding her freedom of movement. In the hand of Ḥalfon b.

Tags

• marital reconciliation
• marriage

2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Inferred date

1500 – 1800 CE

The paleography of this document suggests that the document is older, however, so a safe dating estimate would be 1500-1800 CE. MCD.

Tags

• list
• numismatic dating

No Scholarship Records

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Reused on recto for popular literature in rhymed Judaeo-Arabic (-nī), mentioning purchasing a scrap, a shirt, possibly an undergarment (taḥtānī), being safe from the heat (min al-ḥarr fī l-amānī), being happy (wa-anā masrūr wa-farḥānī), sending something with Manṣūr al-Hānī, etc.

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Document date

535 Hijrī (17 August, 1140 – 5 August, 1141 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

The sender has arrived safely in ʿAydhāb in the middle of Ramaḍān. He has booked passage to Aden in one cabin (bilīj, originally a Malayan word) in the ship of al-Dībajī together with Nahray (b. […] He mentions: a piece of copper to be sold; that the large Bible codex should be kept safe from the mice; that the gallnuts should be sold; and that the bottles (qamāqim) should be sold if they can fetch a certain price, but otherwise they should be given to Bū Naṣr to make rosewater in them.

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Tags

• ib6
• india

2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender expresses his joy and his gratitude to God for the safe delivery by his wife. (Information from Mediterranean Society, V, pp. 218-219 and partial translation in Mediterranean Society, III, p. 228.)

Tags

• personal

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Letter from Futūḥ the cantor to Shemuel and Hayyim and Nasir and their cousins Sadaqa and Yiṣḥaq, congratulating them on their safe return and requesting their help in the form of a gift that would solve the writer's problem of being imprisoned after being unable to pay the capitation tax.

Tags

• capitation tax
• jaliya
• jizya
• tax

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yūnus and Abū l-[...] al-Khaybarī reported about the addressee's health and safety. They send him a legal query which is copied neatly (but partly effaced), in rabbinical script, on verso.

Tags

• to edit

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He mentions pillaging in Maḥalla (the writer hopes that Abū l-Ḵayr Mubārak is safe), an epidemic (dever) in Fusṭāṭ and that the writer himself had been robbed.

Tags

• epidemic
• epidemic: dever
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Arabic

Concerning farming and safeguarding of land (fī zirāʿatih wa-ḥifẓihā wa-ṣawnihā) for a particular amount of time the parties had asked for (al-mudda alladhī iltamasūhā).

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Tags

• agriculture
• dimme
• pinholes

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The Geniza contains a note addressed to Maimonides asking the some- what quaint question what to do with a man who ascended the reader's platform of a synagogue and pronounced the benediction of thanksgiving for safe return from travel by sea, but had not traveled at all.

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Tags

• maimonides
• responsum

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The 'kabīra' (old woman?) has arrived back safely. Abū Zikrī (=Sar Shalom??) is making a big fuss and swearing that he saw Moshe in Cairo on Wednesday with two baskets of apricots.

Tags

• apricots
• gratitude
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: physician
• (+ 5 more)

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Respectful note to Eliyyahu the Raṣuy of both Yeshivot, informing him of the writer's safe arrival, and how the first thing he did was to report to the house of the Nagid Mevorakh b.

Tags

• mevorakh b. saadya
• self-government

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

ʿIwād ultimately reached Alexandria safe and sound. He reports on the state of the merchandise and how he is faring trying to sell it.

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

We learn from the letter that Aharon was in possession of the court documents and he was in charge of their safekeeping. With his death, this responsibility passed over to his son.

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yaʿaqov reports that he arrived safely in Baghdad on the 15th of Tammuz. He looked for Mājid but was told that he had already come and gone before Shavuot, and he looked for Abū l-Riḍā b. al-Ṣadr al-Tājir al-Baghdādī but was told that he had traveled to Hamadān.

Tags

• epidemic
• hajj
• hamadan
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• (+ 12 more)

3 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Seʿadya has been worried about Ṣemaḥ's travel, because he is inexperienced in travel, did not go with a companion, and did not send a letter informing Seʿadya of his safe arrival. Seʿadya has sent various commodities to him with Sason.

1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On the recto, the author alludes to travel to or from Dahlak, mentions an unspecified group of islands (possibly the Dahlak archipelago itself), a sojourn of 18 days in Dahlak, and the arrival of an unnamed individual from Aden, and wishes for favorable winds and safe arrivals. The verso contains greetings to a number of people (legible among them are Ibn Yaḥyā, Musallam, al-shaykh Yaʿqūb and Abū Naṣr al-Ḥalabi) and gives date as the 6th of month of Av.

Tags

• ib6
• india
• red sea

3 Transcriptions