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Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late 11th century. Wuḥūd bt. Ḥalfon declares that a codex of the Torah along with other copper vessels and a pair of woolen curtains, which were deposited in the Qaysāriyya with a man known as "the in-law of the man with the large teeth (Abū l-Asnān)" belonged to her daughter Sitt al-Ahl bt. […] Signed: Avraham b. Netanel; ʿEli ha-Kohen b. Yaḥyā(?). (Information from Goitein's note card.)

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Judaeo-Arabic

After his death, the ship remained without a "head" and without charts (as well as something else, which cannot be deciphered due to a lacuna). […] 'Alī Nāwak disembarked and remained there and everyone else wanted to continue on to Kūlam — but then the captain had a stroke and died. […] Interestingly, this new captain and ʿAlī Nāwak sign documents that Goitein interprets as "confirming their obligations" but might merely be proper bills of lading, a feature of these voyages known from other documents.

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Somebody (with a Greek name?) bought "the rest of Plato's Laws (nāmūsiyya)." A cane seller (bayyāʿ al-qaṣab) is mentioned. […] There is a note in a different hand in which Naḥum Binyamin Shelomo agrees that he owes Eliyyahu Kaspi (perhaps the scribe of the accounts) 130 gerushim.

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• late ja
• plato

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Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to his wife's uncle Abū l-Barakāt. He complains about lack of reply to his letters.

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Primary language

Arabic

Dating: Likely 13th or 14th century based on the hand, layout, and typical names. The sender reports that 'your brother ʿAfīf departed, and my heart was...." Not much else is preserved. Pinholes in the margin ~4mm apart.

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Goitein surmised that the document was Qaraite based on the style, the script and the text in the same hand on verso, which refers to the intercalation of the calendar according to Qaraite law. He dates it to the first half of the eleventh century.

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• 11th c
• qaraite
• will

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Adar 5596 Anno Mundi (19 February 1836–18 March 1836 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Signed at the foot of the page with 6 elaborate signatures. Verso: an addendum to the letter, with one elaborate signature, dated to a few months later (Ḥeshvan 5597 AM).

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• lor

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Jottings perhaps in the hand of a young Shelomo b. Eliyyahu (on verso: "Berakhot wrote this"). On the lefthand page there are excerpts from a Hebrew discussion of ritual slaughter. On the righthand page there are various phrases in Judaeo-Arabic and pen trials, including "Allāh" written with up to 8 lāms. See Amir Ashur, "A Memorial list of Elijah b.

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7 Tammuz 1376 Seleucid (13 June 1065 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Dated: 7 Tammuz 1376 Seleucid, which is 1065 CE. Husband: ʿEli b. David. Wife; Milāḥ bt. Avram. Written and signed by ʿEli b. […] See also T-S 10J2.6, a bill of divorce for the same couple from several years later, also not delivered. (Information from Goitein's index card.)

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Last third of Tammuz 1505 Seleucid (1194 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Location: Fustat. Dated: Last third of Tammuz 1505 Seleucid, which is June/July 1194 CE, under the reshut of Sar Shalom ha-Levi. […] The seller guarantees (=provides ḍamān al-darak) against ḥiyal, i.e., against anyone elselaying claim on the slave whether in Jewish or Muslim court.

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1395 Seleucid (16 September 1083–2 September 1084 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document, in the scribal hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Court record. Dated: 1395 Seleucid (1083/84 CE). […] Goitein points out that in addition to the partnership funds trusted to Yaḥyā, ‘Ūlla entrusted a consignment of scammony (a medicinal plant) which was “on commission”, suggesting that “business in general was largely conducted on the basis of mutual trust and friendship”.

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• commenda
• medicine
• partnership
• trade

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5585 Anno Mundi (23 September 1824–12 September 1825 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Stating the amount of money to be paid to al-Khwāja EliyyahuLanyado.

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• lanyado
• late ja

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Primary language

Hebrew

Partnership agreement. Late. The partners are Eliyyahu b. Yeshaʿya ha-Kohen and [... b.

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• partnership

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1025–1051 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE), concerning the prisoners taken on account of the debt of 900 dinars placed on the community of Jerusalem. He also laments his personal poverty. Dating: approximately 1029 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1025–1051, based on Shelomo b.

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• 11th c
• communal
• efrayim b. shemarya
• prisoners
• shelomo b. yehuda

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Azarya resided in Fustat and, apparently, planned to visit Alexandria at the time. (Information from Frenkel.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Mercantile letter from an unknown sender, possibly in Sicily, to Abū Zikrī Elḥanan b. Ismāʿīl (al-Andalusī). In Judaeo-Arabic. […] Concerning consignments of copper, lead, silk (jīzī, lāsīn, and dimunshī/Demona silk). (Information from Gil and from Goitein’s index card.)

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• silk

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, possibly the Sephardi surname Carillo attested elsewhere in the geniza (AIU VII.D.62 - PGPID 30558). The design/drawing underneath the name has the appearance and layout of geomancy castings, which occasionally mention individuals by name in the upper question section (T-S AS 144.7 - PGPID 18740).

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last decade of Iyyar 1528 Seleucid (30 April 1217–8 May 1217 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Location: Fustat. Dated: last decade of Iyyar 1528 = April/May 1217 CE. This is a second version of ENA 2559.13 (PGPID 6594), and the erasures from the earlier version are not found in this version. The document is about the origins (and implicitly, eligibility for marriage) of Akramiyya, who grew up in the house of the physician al-Asʿad. […] Goitein, Mediterranean Society, 3:82, 443; Oded Zinger, Women, Gender, and Law, 283) EMS

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• jariya
• marriage
• slave

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Ketubba, late 11th century or early twelfth century Yemenite. The total of the dower and the dowry is larger than 230. The name Ulla ha-levi is mentioned. Written and signed by Shemuel b. Moshe b. Elazar. other signatories: Avraham b. Yosef, Khalaf b.

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• ketubba
• marriage

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from the Gazan judge Elʿazar b. Zekharya ha-Kohen to ʿEli b. Ḥayyim ha-Kohen, in Fustat. […] The sender complains of his poverty; he lacks even a ṭallit for prayer. The purpose of this letter is to ask for help obtaining a ṭallit or its price, and sending it back with Abū l-Ḥasan Barakāt.

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1750–1850 CE

A list of names with Arabic numerals- probably an account of debts?. Late 18th or early 19th century based on the names mentioned and the paleography. The names of those listed include: Ḥananīya Ṭawīl Avraham Levi Nissīm Raṣon Eliyahu Palombo Yaʿaqov Azulay Saʿad Pinto Nissīm Meyuḥas Mordekhay Qapinton Eliyahu Ṣahal Yaʿaqov Shalom Raḥamīm Zardil/Zaradel Avraham al-Ḥajj Moshe Mūjnājī Gedaliya Mūjnājī Moshe Ṣevi.

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• 18th or 19th c
• fgp stub
• late prosopography

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a merchant in Alexandria to a business associate in Fustat, advising him to dispose of goods costing a large amount of money and, “This letter of mine is your proof in court.” The writer also notes he received a loan of 80 dinars from a compatriot and asks that all consignments to himself should be turned over to his creditor. Eleventh century. (S. D. Goitein, A Mediterranean Society, 1:254, 291, 464, 272; 2:337, 601) EMS

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• 11th c
• merchant
• trade

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Document date

last decade of Tishrei 1438 Seleucid (10 October 1126–19 October 1126 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: last decade of Tishrei 1438 Seleucid = October 1126 CE. […] The document has not been published or mentioned elsewhere. Joins: Amir Ashur, Alan Elbaum, and Oded Zinger.

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• halfon b. menashshe
• prenuptial

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Concerning a quarter-dār. Mentions "in the land of Marseilles" (מרשיל[יא), but the context is missing. Likely in the hand of Eliyyahu the Judge (this information provided by Amir Ashur).

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26 Adar II 1600 — 26 Elul 1601 Seleucid (20 March 1289–3 September 1290 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Also mentions the name Elʿazar "which is written in the shimmush" — perhaps the witness of the original document. […] Undated: End of an unidentified document. 5. 22 Kislev: The tax farmer of al-Maṭariyya releases his partner Abū Muʿammar from all claims (unless the latter tries to enter the town before 29 months have elapsed). […] Undated: Record concerning the inheritance of the late al-Shaykh al-Sadīd. 9. 26 Elul: Another record partially preserved. 10.

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Judaeo-Arabic

In what remains of the letter, he first mentions the visit of Lu'lu' ("may the enemies of Israel perish"), who may be identical with al-Raqqī, to a prison (where Menaḥem had been held?). The entirety of the rest of the story has to do with the misdeeds of al-Raqqī and Ibn Kātib al-ʿArab, called "dogs" by the writer (they call him the same). The latter "stands in the middle of the markets [of Fusṭāṭ and Cairo] and hosts great gatherings (? […] Abū l-Faraj is instructing al-Raqqī not to "appraise these pawns" (hādhihi l-ruhūnāt lā tuqawwimuhum) (does Menaḥem run a pawnshop?)

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• liver
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Eliyyahu (b. Zekherya) to the scholar Yosef. In Judaeo-Arabic. Eliyyahu expresses astonishment that the latter had not answered the Rayyis with regard to the Nile boat (ʿushārī). On recto (the second page of the letter), Eliyyahu expresses apprehension about his son Abū l-Barakāt (Shelomo) who is hoping to get married.

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Judaeo-Arabic

The hand and style resemble those of Abū Zikrī the son of Eliyyahu the Judge. In Judaeo-Arabic, high register, rhymed prose. […] He mentions his mother several times as well as a woman in labor, but the latter might be proverbial ("I hear that a woman in labor (makhīḍa) when nothing happens becomes enraged (maghīẓa).")

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• abu zikri al-rayyis
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: marad

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Ṭoviyya b. ʿEli ha-Kohen (likely in Bilbays, Lower Egypt) to his cousin and brother-in-law, the judge Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen (Fustat), 12th century. Ṭuviyahu b. ʿEli sends ten samples of two qualities of wine, asking Nathan b.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Personal letter in which the writer reassures the recipient that he had acted according to his wishes and delivered five letters to his brothers-in-law but warns that he would not be able to accomplish much else until the holiday.

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• personal

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Primary language

Hebrew

Part of a letter, possibly to [Ṭoviyyahu ha-Kohen b.] ʿEli ha-Kohen he-Ḥaver ha-Meʿulle, which refers to sending a letter to 'the distinguished prince' (השר הנכבד) Seʿadʾel 'our nephew' and also to 'the dear elder' Yeter ha-Levi and to 'The Lady' (הגבירה) 'our niece.'

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7 Elul 4825 Anno Mundi (11 August 1065 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

From the court of the Gaʾon Eliyyahu b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. Location: Ramla. Dated: Sunday, 7 Elul 4825 AM = 11 August 1065 CE. In which the Egyptian Hiba b. Yisraʾel ‘the lame’ authorizes Avraham b. David al-Kafarmandī, to bring his wife al-Ḥasana b.

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• 11th c
• eliyyahu b. shelomo
• guardianship

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