Documents

Primary language

Hebrew

See Engel, The Wandering of a Provencal Proselyte: A Puzzle of Three Genizah Fragments, Sefunot: 7(22) pp. 13–21. See also T-S 16.100 (PGPID 7393), written by the same scribe and likely referring to the same events.

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Tags

• convert
• spain

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

This is potentially the same dispute as in T-S 13J13.6 (which in turn is related to T-S 10J16.4 and T-S Ar.18(1).107).

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List of receivers of loaves of bread, similar to T-S 24.76 (PGPID 4578) (S.D Goitein, Mediterranean Society, II, App. […] It represents partly the left and partly the lower part of App. B, 52 (T-S 18J2.4). Together, the two pieces comprise 42 lines.

Tags

• bread
• charity
• communal
• poverty
• recipients

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

NB: Allony et al. edited this manuscript under the name "T-S K23.25–26," which was either a mistake or the shelfmarks have changed. Note also that T-S K23.25 either doesn't exist any more or has not been digitized.

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The recto of this leaf is a continuation of the two preceding accountings of revenue from rent (T-S NS 99.49 and T-S K25.84), mostly from the same names of houses and tenants being listed.

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• 11th c
• account
• communal
• qodesh
• waqf
• (+ 1 more)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

al-qābila); a couple ruqʿas; Ḥāmid in Caesarea. T-S AS 167.23 mentions the house of Ibn Shaʿyā; a barqalū (mid-sized bale) of pepper; a blue cap/veil (maʿraqa); Abū Manṣūr al-Zayyāt again.

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Primary language

Hebrew

Dating: First half of the 16th century, since David Molina appears also in T-S NS 292.37 (PGPID 24719). ENA 2958.33r contains a text about a vision of a man of gold.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

One of the women is the wife of Abū ʿAlī b. al-Kohen. Same hand as T-S 8J5.16 (PGPID 7640). This is a petition asking the addressee (Sayyidnā) to issue a ban of excommunication against people who behave like this.

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Tags

• curses
• insult

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Probably an indirect join (identified by Alan Elbaum): ENA NS 48.28 (PGPID 12161) and T-S 12.405 (PGPID 3155).

Tags

• amir
• army
• eunuch

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Eliyyahu (compare with T-S NS 304.7). He is writing to the distinguished physician Abū ʿAlī and complains that he has been suffering from a fever of the liver (ḥummā al-kabid) for the last several months.

Tags

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517

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Inferred date

1237–1300 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

There are at least a few other documents in the hand of the same scribe, including T-S 16.355, dated 1261. Recto and verso: Piyyutim.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There was also a market named al-Ṣaffayn in Fustat; in this case the address would likely have been written "to Fustat, to al-Ṣaffayn," but there are some examples of addresses that list only the name of a location within a city, e.g., T-S 6J4.20 (PGPID 17099). (Information from Stephanie Luescher, Moshe Yagur, and Alan Elbaum.)

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Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Moshe is also known from T-S 24.1, dated 1082 CE, and numerous other documents from the India Book.

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Document date

1341-03-18 Seleucid (26 November 1029 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

This Qaraite bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 shelfmark. The divorce is between Ṣedaqa b.

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Document date

Thursday, 11 Av 1442 Seleucid (6 August 1131 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Wife: Sitt al-Khawāt bt. Eliyya (cf. T-S 10J2.22). The witnesses are ʿEli b. Netanel ha-Levi and Hillel b.

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This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 shelfmark. The fragment is torn and thus is missing portions of the document.

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Document date

1457-06-12 Seleucid (26 February 1146 CE)

This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 shelfmark. The divorce is between Yoshiyya b.

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Document date

1461-10-22 Seleucid (18 July 1150 CE)

This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 shelfmark. The divorce is between Baqā b.

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Primary language

Arabic

one seems to be Būṣīr) and quantities of faddāns (200, 300, 500, 11,00, 1400, 5000). Cf. T-S Ar.35.348 (PGPID 39233).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Looks like the same handwriting as T-S AS 140.206 (but not a join).

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• communal

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[NB: this document was mistakenly conflated with T-S 20.48 [PGPID 7513] because the two are cited in the same footnote in Med.

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Document date

Muḥarram 481 Hijrī (27 March 1088–25 April 1088 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

One entry in the right column of T-S 12.109v refers to the ḥikr (ground rent) in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ.

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• hikr

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Document date

1205–1237 CE

NB: In Letters from Medieval Jewish Traders, Goitein mistakenly cites this shelfmark for the document T-S 12.114, which is a letter from a merchant from southern Italy.

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• marriage

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Nahray was very worried about ʿIwāḍ, but he ended up improving (lines 6–7). Cf. T-S 10J10.27, from 1060 CE, in which ʿIwāḍ himself writes to Nahray about his intestinal bloating and how he is scared and does not know what will happen.

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Tags

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: fright
• nahray b. nissim
• trade

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Primary language

Arabic

Legible words and phrases from T-S 13J33.11 include: fa-lammā warada min al-shām... al-iṣtināʿ rājī... bi-murāʿā... wa-lā siyyamā wa-qad taqammaṣat(?)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Joins by Mordechai Akiva Friedman (and the minute fragment T-S AS 207.216 — first and second images on FGP, bottom row, 2 boxes away from the yellow shelfmark label — identified by Alan Elbaum).

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Tags

• avraham maimonides
• minyat ghamr

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Document date

1424 Seleucid (23 September 1112–12 September 1113 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

They settle their dispute by agreeing that they each own (nominal) equal shares in the house, and each has complete rights to his or her share and may sell or donate as he or she chooses. See also T-S 13J2.17 (PGPID 1003). (Information mainly from Mediterranean Society, III, pp. 334, 502.)

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• marital dispute

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In the hand of the India trader Makhlūf b. Mūsā al-Nafūsī (cf. T-S 8.69 (PGPID 9265)), and also cut into a similar shape as his other fragments.

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• ib-addenda
• ib6

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Document date

Jumāḍā II 545 Hijrī (25 September 1150–23 October 1150 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information from CUDL and Goitein's index card.) T-S K3.32 (listing the books) and ENA 4020.60a (listing the goods) are part of the same inventory.

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T-S K5, 16-40. Exercises of children, representing leters in various combinations and copies of the beginnings of the third and the first books of Moses.

Tags

• education

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Document date

16 Ḥeshvan 4897 Anno Mundi (13 October 1136 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Menahem (the latter three were all judges) buys the codex on 16 Ḥeshvan 4897 AM = 13 October 1136 CE, "the day on which the prisoners of Jerba arrived." Cf. T-S 10J15.26 (PGPID 2866). (Information mainly from Goitein's index card.)

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Tags

• 12th c
• prisoners

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Primary language

Arabic

Likely a fiscal document recording amounts of money associated with the operations of dīwān al-maṭābikh al-maʿmūra (the state sugar refineries?) Cf. T-S AS 177.41 (PGPID 37011). The name "his slave Khalaf b.

Tags

• matbakh
• sugar

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