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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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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

BL OR 10589.8 appears to be an indirect join from the top of the document. Joins: Alan Elbaum

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• capitation tax
• drinking
• excommunication
• hair
• marriage
• (+ 2 more)

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Document date

Wednesday, 21 Ṭevet 1462 Seleucid (11 January 1151 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shemuel is the same Abū al-Ma‘ālī in PGPID 6581. (Information from Lieberman, "A Partnership Culture", pp. 7-10)

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• loan
• orphans
• partnership
• silk
• trust

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Document date

Monday 15th Iyyar 1409 Seleucid (19 April 1098 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He would then be entitled to take out of Yequtiel warehouse all the goods to which the latter could not make claim.

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• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib1
• india book
• merchants
• qadi courts

1 Transcription 1 Translation

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The handwriting resembles that of Yehuda b. Aharon b. al-ʿAmmānī. (The transcription on FGP for ENA 2727.27 is the trousseau list of Nājiya bt.

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: 40 days
• illness: du'f
• illness: lazim
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1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Fragment of an accounting between the qodesh and, apparently, its partner in the ownership of a compound, known as Hiba al-Abzari, one eighth of which belongs to the qodesh.

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• 12th c
• account
• heqdesh
• hikr
• qodesh
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Document date

the last day of Rajab, in the year [5]47 Hijrī (31 October 1152 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

We can only guess whether the trouble and grudge, to which he alludes, were connected with a business misadventure or with some other matter."

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• ib2
• india book

1 Transcription 2 Translations

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. The name Abū Saʿīd (al-Sharābī?) is clearly legible in the address, and the rest might be legible with effort.

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• ib-candidate

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Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

The letter and the money should be sent to the shop of the Mumḥe or to the shop of Abū Naṣr al-ʿAfaṣī. ASE

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Before turning to Nahray he had already received donations from another prominent Ifrīqiyan merchant, Abū Zikri (Yehuda b.

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• appeal
• charity
• nahray b. nissim
• qayrawan

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Document date

Monday, 24 Nisan 1409 Seleucid (29 March 1098 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Court records, all concerning the same persons. Recto: see PGPID 9011 Verso, top: another session, dated Monday, 24 Nisan 1409 (29 March 1098), signed by Yiṣḥaq b.

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Document date

Thursday, 29 Ḥeshvan 1446 Seleucid (17 November 1134 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Sulaymān (or Maymūn?) b. Isrāʾīl known as al-Raḥbī) and Avraham b. Yefet known as Ibn Reʾuven and the latter's son.

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Document date

Wednesday, 9 Kislev 1473 Seleucid (29 November 1161 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Groom: the teacher Shemuel b. Yosef. Bride: Sitt al-Baqāʾ bt. Yefet. Marriage payments: 10 + 20 = 30 dinars (the 10 dinars will be paid at the time of the wedding, 'dukhūl').

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On verso, in Arabic script, "hādhihi ʿindī bi-khaṭṭihi raḥimahu Allāh" ("I have this in his handwriting, may God have mercy on him").

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• adultery
• marital conflict
• minor marriage
• responsum

2 Transcriptions 2 Discussions

Document date

1403 Seleucid (1091–1092 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Phillip Ackerman-Lieberman edited both T-S 12.464 and T-S 16.168 in his dissertation, but these could not be proven to be a join until T-S NS 325.11 was identified as the missing piece by Alan Elbaum. (Information in part from "A Mediterranean Society, I," 443; "A Mediterranean Society, V," 331, 336, 597, 599; Goitein's index cards; and Lieberman, "A Partnership Culture," 138)

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• drug store
• partnership
• son
• wedding

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Inferred date

1168–1204 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He sends regards to various people, including probably Munajjā al-Kohen. Verso: Postscript containing a similar request from Yaḥyā b.

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• maimonides
• yemen

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Inferred date

1029–1030 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

We were hoping for their release from darkness and shadows and for their bonds to be sundered, but lo and behold, documents [ketavim] have come from Damascus [saying] that they are still in prison, although their chains and yokes have been removed.

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• communal

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Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shemuel (see Mediterranean Society, II, p. 512 section 13) Eli had mentioned that one of his partners, Abu al-Muna Tiqwa b. 'Amram from Ascalon (see Mediterranean Society, V, pp. 212-214, 566, 567), owed him forty-eight dinars.

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• draft
• hillel b. eli

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A certain Shelomo Sofer is mentioned in the last entry on the lower left corner of the image 2r but there are very few other full names (e.g. Avraham Alqī, 2v; Shemuʾel ha-Kohen, 2v). The final entry on the right side of 2v mentions a transaction for a "gold bar" or "gold ingot" (סביכה דהב) that weighs 13 dirhams, equivalent to ~40.625 grams (1 dirham = 3.125 grams).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

[they said] they would tell the judge and the teacher, but they didn't... the 9th of Av... pray, and I was shocked, because I had already reconciled with them—since for a long time I have prayed [...] and there was a great dispute between us, and we agreed that I would [...] but they I could not do the mufāsara(?)...

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• conflict
• prayer

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Primary languages

Arabic, Arabo-Hebrew

Verso: One column is either a magical text or dense jottings / pen trials, while the other column appears to be instructions for a recipe. All in Arabic script.

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, Nessim Ashkenazi, Mūsa Montfiore (מנטפיורי), Yiṣḥaq Alyaqīm, Nessim Fosīno/Posīno, Ḥayyīm Kohen Belfosa[no?]

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• 19th c
• fgp stub

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Document date

1789 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Ladino, Western Arabic Numerals

At least one of the headers is partially in Ladino. Join: Alan Elbaum.

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• ottoman

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Several groups of people belonging to the same profession appear together, such as four mustaʿmals, persons employed in a government workshop (all in the Bazaar of the Threads), three labbāns or dairymen, three sabbāks or metal casters employed in the mint, or three money-assayers.

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• ghulam

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender expresses longing and cites the winter to justify his delay due. He says he knows all about her suffering, but other people suffer worse, some men are away from their families/wives for years and years, but this has not yet happened to him (וגמיע מא אנתי פיה מן אלדאיקה אנא עארף בה ואלנאס יגרא עליהם אעצם מן הדה ויגיבו ען ביתהם סנה וסנתין ותלתה ואנא בלחמד ללה מא גרי עלי שי מן הדה אלי אלגאיה).

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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).

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• account
• communal
• salary

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

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

Final third of Tevet 1531 Seleucid (29 December 1219–7 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

1 Transcription

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

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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

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Ladino

In essence, there is no work or money to be had in Jerusalem, even for young and healthy man, let alone for an old man like him. He is in debt. Needs further examination.

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• ladino
• late jerusalem

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He then mentions the love between himself and Ibn al-Kuttābī. He concludes with greetings, including from his son Abū Saʿd.

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• education
• suitor

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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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Document date

Thursday, 28 Adar 1409 Seleucid (4 March 1098 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

One or more entries in a court register from Fusṭāṭ, dated Thursday, 28 Adar [1]409 of the Seleucid Era (= 4 March 1098 CE), mentioning Abū l-Faraj al-Dimyāṭī, [...] b. Nahray, Nissim, Netanʾel b.

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• halfon-addenda
• ib-addenda
• ib4

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The speaker advises that allowing this group to thrive is not a good thing but rather their eradication is a good thing.

1 Transcription 1 Translation

Primary language

Arabic

Yiṣhaq ha-Levi active in the first half of the 11th century) and Abū Saʿd (al-Tustarī?). Reused on recto for Hebrew literary text.

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