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Letter in Hebrew. Late. Mentions Elʿazar Castro.

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• late heb

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Arabic

Folios from the versified book of Islamic Law entitled "al-Murshid al-Muʿīn" by the influential Moroccan Mālikī Jurist Ibn ʿĀshir (d. 1042/1631). The verses are regarding the five pillars of Islam according to the Sunni Maliki tradition in an elegant Maghribi script.

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• dimme

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Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Labrāṭ continues with business affairs. There is an elaborate response to what Yehuda said about the pain Labrāṭ caused him by rebuking him about a business decision taken by Yehuda. Labrāṭ only wrote anything because it concerned somebody else's merchandise. […] If Yehuda was agitated by Labrāṭ's rebuke, Labrāṭ is now agitated by Yehuda's response.

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• al-andalus
• arabic address
• banu hilal
• evil eye
• illness
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Judaeo-Arabic

Account for Elul 1494 and Tishri 1495 sel. ca. 1183. This document contains the last part of the expenditures for Elul.

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• 12th c
• account
• communal
• qodesh
• shemuel b. saadya
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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment (upper part) from Avraham probably to his elder brother (called 'father' but, later, 'from your brother'). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, probably 15th–17th century. Several names are mentioned.

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Hebrew

Letter from Damascus, from a Maghribi who intends to go to Jerusalem, to Avraham Ha-Kohen b. Hajay, approximately 1035.

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter signed by Shelomo, to his father Eliyyahu the judge, asking him to purchase something for the writer (perhaps some sort of covering (ghiṭāʾ)) and to reply quickly. The writer sends greetings to Simḥa (ha-Kohen b. Shelomo), Eliyyahu's son-in-law. (Information in part from CUDL)

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• shelomo b. eliyyahu

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Aramaic

Ketubba or prenuptial agreement in the hand of the scribe Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Bride: Sitt al-Wafā b. Shela ha-Levi. […] The woman agrees to live in the home of her mother-in-law. Witnessed by Peraḥya b. Yeḥezqel, Eliyya b. ʿEli the Adept, and Yosef b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Rav. Attested by the Bet Din.

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Written and signed by Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE) in an unusually large and beautiful script. […] Signed by Yeḥezqel b. ʿEli he-Ḥaver and Yakhin b. Ḥotam. (Information from Goitein's index card.)

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A Monday in the last decade of Tammuz 1[4]34 Seleucid (1123 CE)

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Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: A Monday in the last decade of Tammuz 1[4]34 Seleucid, which is 1123 CE. In which Elʿazar/Manṣūr b. Yefet/Ḥasan ha-Kohen transfers property rights for half of a well-known house in al-Qālūs to his wife Sitthum aka Sitt al-Jamīʿ bt. […] The full names of the couple may be found in T-S NS 323.19 (probably the beginning of this document, but not a continuous join) and T-S 12.82 + T-S 12.553 (probably a distinct document). Joins: Alan Elbaum. (Information in part from CUDL.) ASE

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• halfon b. menashshe

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Lists in Judeo-Arabic related to the week of the Bereshit parsha which range from an inventory for food items (recto), possibly for a shabbat dinner, and the Sefer Torah of Eliyyahu Saragossi (verso). The latter name is mentioned in a list with other Jews who lived in Cairo across the late-18th/early-19th centuries, such as Shimʿon Franses and Eliyyahu Franses.

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• 18th or 19th c
• communal
• late prosopography

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Hebrew

Letter (draft) from Elḥanan b. Shemarya, in Fusṭāṭ, to the Babylonian congregation in Damascus, sending greetings as part of his efforts to raise funds for his school in Fusṭāṭ, adding that a new law forbids them from approaching the Caliph for assistance. The writer also mentions that his son-in-law drowned while away on a commercial voyage and his widowed daughter remains in Qayrawān, pregnant and impoverished. Verso: Letter, from Elḥanan b. Shemarya, in Fusṭāṭ, to three notables in the Jewish community in Damascus, Avraham, Shemuʾel ha-Kohen, and Efrayim, sending greetings, apparently as part of fundraising for his school in Fusṭāṭ.

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• jewish community

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Judaeo-Arabic

This cluster of documents also makes it possible to estimate how long Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel was in India.

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• ib4
• india

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Ladino

Letter fragment in Ladino. Seems to be discussing somebody's (Eliyya's?) illness for the last 6 months: סון 6 מיזיס קי נו איי ריפואה קון אילייא אי אגורה אפריטו(?)

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• illness

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Document date

996–1021 CE

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Arabic

Decree of the caliph al-Ḥākim to the Qaraite community in Fusṭāṭ and elsewhere, granting them administrative independence from the Rabbanites, on the basis of the differences between the two communities regarding law and ritually kosher food.

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1066–1108 CE

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Judaeo-Arabic

Bifolio from a court ledger in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Dating: 1066–1108 CE, but this range can be narrowed further based on the mention of Wuḥsha al-Dallāla. […] The total amount of sums referred to in the will is 689 dinars, a large fortune, and the denoted funeral expenses were lavish for the time. […] Goitein, “A Jewish Business Woman of the Eleventh Century,” Jewish Quarterly Review, 1967, 229-41) EMS

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• funerals
• will
• wuhsha

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Farah b. Yusuf sending condolences for the death of a relative of the addressee and also discussing business. (Information from Gil)

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Ladino

Accounts (and pen trials) in Ladino and western Arabic numerals. The shelfmarks ENA 3077.8–13 all appear to be related, including pen trials, accounts, and poetry in Ladino. On ENA 3077.13, there is an ownership note by Eliyya Toko (? טוקו). Needs further examination.

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Elul 5372 Anno Mundi (29 August 1612–26 September 1612 CE)

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Hebrew

Location: Cairo. Dated: Elul 5372 AM, which is 1612 CE. Only the last two lines and the witness signatures are preserved.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to Eli (‘Allun) ha-parnas, active 1057-1107, which mention his less well-known son, the parnas Abu Kathir (Efrayim ha-Kohen b. ‘Eli). (Oded Zinger, Women, Gender and Law: Marital Disputes According to Documents of the Cairo Geniza, 359) EMS

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Hebrew

Yiṣḥaq ha-Sefaradi to [Shemarya] b. Elḥanan. In Hebrew. Dating: Early 11th century, probably. Letter of recommendation for a proselyte of noble descent whom he met in Damascus and later in Jerusalem and who was in danger because of the powerful Christian scribes. Edited with extensive commentary (and speculative identifications) by Golb, “A Study of a Proselyte to Judaism Who Fled to Egypt at the Beginning of the Eleventh Century," Sefunot 8 (1964). Transcription by Golb, with minor corrections by Moshe Yagur.

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• christian scribes
• convert
• recommendation

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Ketubba in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Dated: Tuesday, 28 Elul 14[.] Seleucid, so no earlier than 1089 CE, and no later than 1108 CE (based on the active dates of Hillel b. ʿEli). It may be possible to narrow the date further based on the day of the week and calendar date.

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• ketubba
• marriage

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List, eight columns, of more than 180 names receiving alms. Many payments of 1/8 dinar. Many foreigners, designated as such: Palestine 13; Iraq 12; Syria-Lebanon …

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• charity
• communal
• gift of money
• poverty
• recipients

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Thursday, 21 Elul 1404 Seleucid (15 September 1093 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Location: Fustat. Dated: Thursday, 21 Elul 1404 Seleucid = 15 September 1093 CE. In which Saʿadya b. Elʿazar sues his brother Shela for stealing his medical books and other valuables (money, clothes, and 50 pounds of mercury) from their hiding place (maṭmūra) and selling them in Alexandria. […] The document is also signed by ʿEli b. Yaḥyā ha-Kohen. On verso there is an addendum written a few days later (it seems Monday the 26th of Elul) describing what happened next; needs further examination.

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Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a legal document, mentioning the name [...]el al-Lādiqī. (Information from CUDL)

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Hebrew

Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda Gaʾon (r. 1025–1051) to the community of Fustat. Dating: ca. 1025 CE. On verso there is a fable about a …

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• 11th c
• communal

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When he first published them in 1986, Friedman believed that the responsa were probably from the eleventh century, but he later identified the hand as Ibn Yijū's.

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• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib3
• ibn yiju
• india
• responsum
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Judaeo-Arabic

Written in a distinctive large hand with loops on the ends of the lameds. […] The name אלואח אלגואני does not seem to be attested elsewhere. It may be the equivalent of al-Wāḥ al-Dākhila. Medieval Arabic geographical works refer to inner (dākhila) and outer (khārija) districts of the oasis region of western Egypt; the inner district included not only present-day al-Dākhila but also al-Farāfra and al-Baḥriyya (see De Troia, "The Oases of Egypt's Western Desert from Byzantine to Islamic Rule," Journal of Late Antiquity 15.1 (277–303)).

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