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Primary language

Hebrew

She begs “Our lord David, the great nasi, head of the diasporas of all Israel,” to assist her and concludes the note with wishes for David, that “male children may fill your place.”

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• communal
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: face
• illness: isolation
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Only the last of the piyyutim can with certainty be attributed to Jeduthun, but it is likely that they are all his own compositions. They are: (a) אוי כי אבל גדול, (b) תורה הלילי, (c) איך יעמוד לבינו and (d) יום זה אשא קינה (though Jeduthun spells it אשה)" (Information from FGP) NB: This fragment was previously listed as a ketubba in the PGP, however, the correct shelfmark for the document in question is: T-S 16.80 (PGPID 7382).

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• funerals

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Document date

Monday, 26 Nisan 1298 Seleucid (28 March 987 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Yosef, widow of Maymūn b. Yaʿaqov al-Ghallāq (the locksmith), to her deceased husband’s brother, Yosef b.

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• women's property

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47[..] Anno Mundi (17 September 939–21 September 1039 CE)

The seller is Mevorakh b. Ṣemaḥ Ibn al-Mallāḥ, and the buyer is Bishr b. Shelomo. Goitein notes one or both of the men involved may have been Persian as the deed states that it cannot be invalidated by any Hebrew, Persian or Arabic documents produced in court (1983:286, 353, 363; but compare T-S 12.496, T-S NS 320.75, and T-S 16.56 which have similar formulae).

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• numismatic dating

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6 Rabīʿ II 866 Hijrī (8 January 1462 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

There are two witness signatures preserved, one of which is Yūsuf b. Khalaf al-Yahūdī. (Information in part from CUDL)

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• ketubba
• marriage

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

katība), noble (ḥasība), and learned (ʿālima). She "wrote on the wall poetry and grammar and [...]."

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He has heard that the addressee wants to be involved somehow. He alludes to the Talmudic concept of נזדקן הדין, "the judgment has grown old."

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Probable join with JRL SERIES B 7280: Alan Elbaum. AA. ASE.

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Document date

14 Ḥeshvan 1455 Seleucid (24 October 1143 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

After the document was completed, an extra clause was squeezed in, specifying which of the parties (the name is torn away) will be obligated to pay any "government duty" (ḥaqq al-sulṭān). Signed: Ḥalfon b. Seʿadya; Ḥalfon b.

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• ib-addenda
• ib4

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Hebrew

Qaraite. Bride: the widow Sitt al-Ḥusn bt. Moshe b. Aharon ha-Kohen. Groom: her cousin Menashshe b. [...] b.

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

MS heb. d 75/17 (PGPID 6492)) appointed Abū l-ʿAlāʾ Yosef b. ʿAbdallāh over his business affairs abroad.

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Document date

Elul 1308 Seleucid (8 August 997–5 September 997 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Names mentioned: Ḥisān bt. Yosef Ibn al-Zāmir ("the flute player"); Sirwa bt. ʿImrān.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

of 14 qirats and 1 dirham; somehow this is connected to a man named Salāma Ibn al-Maqāniʿiyya and a guarantee. If he is unable to pay, he fears being imprisoned.

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• communal
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: marad
• illness: poverty
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

For I want someone who will buy from the silk weavers (al-qazzāzīn), and if a silk weaver comes into possession of something that cannot be believed, he will purchase it for himself."

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• textiles

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ibn Sahl, bound (musaffar). . . and the letter nūn (חרף אלנון) from Abū Ibrāhīm Ibn Shabbat . . . sent everything to Abū Saʿīd al-Miṣrī. . . ." Regarding these shipments of books and the mysterious commodity referred to as "the letter nūn," see India Book IV vol. 1, p. 86, and 1908.44U (PGPID 9096) (IBIV doc. 54) and T-S 13J18.19 (PGPID 9097) (IBIV doc. 55).

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• halfon-addenda
• ib-addenda
• ib4

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Primary languages

Italian, Judaeo-Arabic

In the second line of the margin, the writer alludes to information that R. Moshe Castro had conveyed to the recipient, suggesting a date of mid-16th-century—so perhaps 4 September, 1556 CE (but the paleography could be later, 1656 or 1756 CE).

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• 16th c
• castro
• feliz
• italian
• late ja
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13 Tishrei 1564 Seleucid (17 September 1252 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Sar Shalom ha-Levi, from Damascus but living in Egypt, had been found guilty of insulting, cursing and beating his wife Sutayt bat Ṭoviyya and was put under pressure to divorce her, but following his promise to reform (after the initial lines of the geṭ had already been written on verso) the divorce was not completed.

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• abusive marriage
• divorce
• register

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The partners are Riḍā b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Riḍā and Yeshuʿa Dukhān (Dakhkhān? Dakkān?)

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• cheese
• food
• mamluk
• partnership

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Inferred date

1130–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ḥārith ha-Levi with Sitt al-Furs bt. Peraḥya. One of the conditions concerns his taking a second wife, but the right side of the document containing the missing context is unfortunately missing.

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• 12th c
• halfon b. menashshe
• marital reconciliation
• marriage

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Primary language

Hebrew

Oded Zinger suggests that Aharon's letter after all that time may have been spurred by a serious illness (ll.22–23) and a desire to gain forgiveness before he died (Zinger, "Long Distance Marriages in the Cairo Geniza," Peʿamim, p. 27).

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• byzantium
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• seleucia

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Document date

Monday, 26 Tishrei 1526 Seleucid (1 October 1214 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Concerns a financial dispute between a formerly betrothed couple, Ḥayyun b. Mūsā al-Maghribī and Milāḥ bt. Eliyya, over the sums of money he had spent on her during their engagement.

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Document date

Thursday, 9 Tammuz 4807 Anno Mundi (6 July 1047 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Document written in Zawīlat al-Mahdiyya with a validation written by the court of Fustat, as denoted in Hebrew אשרנוהו (in the validation of the court).

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• efrayim b. shemarya

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer prefaces this request with describing how he was saddened to hear from Abū l-Ḥasan al-Dimashqī that Abū Zikrī had been ill (mutakassil) and how he rejoiced to hear that Abū Zikrī had recovered (ll.6–12).

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• abu zikri yehuda
• epidemic
• epidemic: amrad
• ib5
• illness
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Same writer and recipient as T-S 10J7.3 and T-S 13J21.13 (addressed to Minyat al-Qa'id) and Stras. 4110/90 (see tag). The writer congratulates his father on his recovery, perhaps from the ophthalmia mentioned in T-S 13J21.13.

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• ibn habib's patient

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

"Ḥalfon was inflicted by a dangerous and protracted illness, and hopes for his recovery had already been lost. He did recover, but despite the helpfulness of the community and the devoted care of the physicians, he was forced to sell everything in the house, including his Sabbath clothing, and to incur debts to the amount of 12 dinars."

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• ib-partial translation-heb
• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib2
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He mentions his lack of health among the host of reasons, including poverty and distance from loved ones, for why he would kill himself, were it not for his certain belief in the Truth and for the additional sin that he would incur by becoming a topic of gossip of all the family members. "I send every letter and read every letter with tears in my eyes."

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: qillat al-'afiya
• safed
• suicide

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Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: 1066–1108 CE, but this range can be narrowed further based on the mention of Wuḥsha al-Dallāla. The bifolio bears a copy of the will of Wuhsha the broker, detailing various items and sums of money willed to relatives and charitable and religious purposes; appointment and provisions for a son born out of wedlock as heir and what to do if he dies before reaching maturity; funeral expenses; and references to previously-made declarations.

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• funerals
• will
• wuhsha

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

These manuals demonstrate that the controversy of 921/2 did not end in a Babylonian victory; the Palestinians, or those who affiliated with this tradition, upheld and used the calendar of ben Meir for almost two centuries after the controversy.

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• calendar
• controversy
• manual

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Document date

Tishrei 4898 Anno Mundi (18 September 1137–17 October 1137 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender prays that God will deliver the addressee "from that country" (min tilka al-diyār, three lines from the bottom). ASE

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Judaeo-Arabic

List of books in four columns, including biblical books, talmudic tractates, a ‘prayer’ by Saʿadya, the Siddur of al-Sijilmāsī, works by Abū l-Faraj אבן שחתל, commentaries on Genesis and Numbers, and Midrash Tanḥuma.

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• moshe b. levi
• yedutun ha-levi

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At the conclusion of the week it had become evident that the allocation had not been sufficient. The total of 60 dirhams is twice as much as the average in Appendixes B 40-42.

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• account
• charity
• communal

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