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

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• education

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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.

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• education

1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

One bi-folio of this manual has been preserved, T-S NS 98.47. The purpose of this manual is to provide essential guidance on how the rabbinic calendar is constructed.

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• calendar
• controversy

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Another, more complete, copy of the same fihrist is found in T-S 10G5.7. Verso is blank. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, p. 30 and Allony, Frenkel, The Jewish Library in the Middle Ages, p. 312.)

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• copy
• saadya

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List of ten donors, headed by the Raṣuy (see T-S K15.36), seconded by the Shāʿir (Poet, see BL OR 5566C.11 and 12), and followed by other names known from the beginning of the thirteenth century.

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• charity
• communal
• donors
• poverty

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Sent together with IV,21 (now a new join by Amir Ashur: T-S AS 148.9 + T-S AS 148.197, PGPID 5466), which is a letter from Khalaf b. […] Also relates to the transactions discussed in a letter from Halfon to Maḍmūn b. Yefet, IV,18 (T-S 13J25.13, PGPID 9059). This cluster of documents also makes it possible to estimate how long Ḥalfon b.

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• ib4
• india book

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Judaeo-Arabic

Cf. alternate versions of the same idiom in ENA 2558.21, T-S 13J21.20, Moss. II,167, T-S Misc.28.33, and Bodl. […] Another version of the phrase also appears in the first chapter of Ibn Buṭlān's Daʿwat al-Aṭibbā', in the mouth of a physician whose income has dried up and who has nowhere to go: mā baqiya aqallu mimmā maḍā ("what remains is less than what has passed"). See also T-S AS 162.167 + T-S AS 151.29 and Oded Zinger's edition in "You and I will enjoy each other's company until God decrees our death in the Land of Israel," Cathedra 174 (2020), note 22.

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• anatoli
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: marad
• illness: marital
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Document date

Wednesday, 17 Av 4837 Anno Mundi (9 August 1077 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The document seems to have been the product of an Islamic court, as it "bear[s] testimony of non-Jews". The partners release each other from a number of possible partnership forms: the khulṭa, the shirka, and the muʿāmala. […] These partners likely worked together as partners for a number of years. In T-S 13J1.16, dated to 1066, Yosef appoints Khalaf his agent. It's possible that T-S 16.138 is a release from that agency relationship, but lines 18-19 suggest that the two parties later restructured their relationship and contracted as partners, from which the present document grants release.

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• alexandria
• muslim court
• partnership

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Aramaic, Hebrew

A Ketubba in Palimpsest (T-S K23.3). [Genizah Research Unit, Fragment of the Month, December 2009]. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.55272

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• fotm
• ketubba
• magic
• palimpsest

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Judaeo-Arabic

While Yeshuʿa is dealing with the import and export of goods, his sister asks for help because she is in a very bad situation. T-S 10J19.20 is another version of the same letter (differences are noted in curly brackets in this partial translation). […] Ismāʿīl al-Makhmūrī, incidentally, was prone to illness: see also T-S 16.163 and T-S Misc.25.124 (as noted by Krakowski), and T-S 12.389 and BL OR 5542.20. […] This is a second copy of the same letter as in T-S 10J19.20 (PGPID 7899).

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• 11th c
• fasting
• food
• heartsickness
• illness
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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document(s) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). […] Moshe and someone titled Rosh ha-Qehilot (both of these are on T-S AS 153.242). Join by CUDL; exact ordering of the fragments has not been determined.

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Monday, 5 Av 1443 Seleucid (19 July 1132 CE)

Connected with the same case as T-S 8.131, namely the divorce arrangements of Ṣedaqa b. […] By the decree ("marsūm") of Maṣliaḥ Gaon (probably after the request of the woman's father: see T-S 8.131), a committee of eight elders (all undersigned) was appointed in order to confirm and fix the alimony for Ṣedaqa's wife and child.

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• alimony
• divorce

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Gil connects this with the 15 ships mentioned in T-S 8J27.2, his #447, and therefore understands this letter to imply that the ship of Ibn al-Baʿbāʿ was among those that hadn't yet returned to Alexandria). […] (Information from Gil, Kingdom, vol. 3, #448, and from ibid., vol. 1, sec. 315, fn) There is a companion letter to this one, T-S 8J27.2 (PGPID 2084); see there for further details of the same events.

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• fayj
• ibn al-ba'ba'
• khums
• qarib
• ships
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Hebrew

Four folios of this text are extant, ENA 2555.1, T-S 10K3 (one side only), T-S NS 175.57 (one side only), and ENA 2556.1.

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• calendar
• controversy

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Inferred date

1055–1055 CE

Primary language

Arabic

See also Claude Cahen, “Notes pour l’histoire de la ḥimāya" (1956) and Jürgen Paul, "Ḥimāya Revisited" (2020) (https://journals.openedition.org/anisl/7518?lang=en). See also T-S Misc.8.67 for a similar-looking Arabic-script document involving Daniel b. […] On the other side there is a Judaeo-Arabic letter by the same scribe who wrote T-S K25.244 (and several others), known to have been an ardent supporter of Daniel b.

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• dimme

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Judaeo-Arabic

For other cases of the addressee inverting all the abasement/honoring clauses and sending back the same note, see T-S 6J5.18, T-S 8J16.1, and Bodl. MS heb. f 101/43.

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Document date

First decade of Iyyar 1540 Seleucid (26 April 1229–5 May 1229 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: First decade of Iyyar 1540 Seleucid, which is 1229 CE, under the authority of Avraham Maimonides (called 'adon' and 'gaʾon' but not 'nagid'). T-S NS J66 (mainly Hebrew) and T-S 8.161 (mainly Judaeo-Arabic) are versions of the same document.

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• avraham maimonides
• jewish community
• testimony

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Document date

Wednesday, 17 Adar 1536 Seleucid (26 February 1225 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Concerning two members of an orphans’ court who sell certain garments through the “great simsār,” referred to here as “munādī,” market crier or auctioneer, whose compensation is termed “dilāla,” or broker’s fee. Same cluster: T-S AS 157.434 (PGPID 38900), CUL Or.1080 J64 (PGPID 8866), and T-S NS J299 (PGPID 4311).

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• 13th c (late)
• broker

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Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

This can be deduced because a seller certifies that something is free of defects (ʿuyūb), and a note at the end of the document indicates that the word "in slavery" (באלעבודיה) has been inserted in between the lines somewhere in the missing upper portion (see T-S 18J1.16 for the likely context of this word). The parties are Efrayim ha-Levi, Abū l-Ṭ[āhir?], and [...] b. Naḥman ha-Kohen the cantor, the father of Yakhin the agent (al-wakīl).

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Arabic, Samaritan

An Arabic Translation of the Samaritan Pentateuch (T-S Ar.1a.136). [Genizah Research Unit, Fragment of the Month, November 2007]. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.40721.

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• fotm
• samaritan

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

It is known from another letter that the writer was a man from Acre and became a ḥaver there (T-S NS 320.42, ed. Gil, Palestine, II, #141). The purpose of this letter is to invite the addressee to the writer's sermon.

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• invitation to sermon

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer mentions a business collaboration with Abu Naṣr Ḥesed ha-Tustari and a partnership with Abū l-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Raḥmān in trading gems. T-S K25.253 (PGPID 8595) is another copy of the same letter (from l. 31 onward).

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• al-tahirti
• nahray b. nissim
• trade

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Document date

Tuesday, 1 Nisan 1537 Seleucid (31 March 1226 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: Tuesday, 1 Nisan 1537 Seleucid, which is 31 March 1226 CE, under the authority of Avraham Maimonides. This is a copy of T-S 13J4.2. Yiṣḥaq b. Yehuda Ibn al-Mashshāṭ, agent (wakīl) of Yeshuʿa b.

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• 13th c
• bill of sale
• slave

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Arabic

(an amīr titled Samiyy al-Dawla also appears in a legal document: T-S Misc. 22.280 dated 4th Shaʿban 438 H/3rd February 1047, ed.

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• dimme

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Document date

Tuesday, 5 Adar 4828 Anno Mundi (12 February 1068 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yefet Ibn al-Sukkarī appears also in BL OR 5554A.49 (PGPID 19213) and T-S 20.83 (PGPID 7522).

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions the dīwān of Ibn Qadish (cf. T-S 10J8.4 (PGPID 3069)). Also congratulates his brother in law on his sister having delivered a boy and a girl.

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• halfon b. menashshe
• hillel b. eli
• tax
• tax receipt

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Judaeo-Arabic

One curious element: the letter mentions al-Jazā'ir four lines from the bottom (and al-Andalus three lines from the bottom). See Goitein's note on T-S J1.29, a dowry list from 1140 CE: "Al-Jazā'ir became the name of the town of Algiers, called so after the islets near its coast.

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• ibn awkal
• unedited 11th c

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe, fl. 1100–1138) the cotton thawb and the fur garment (farw) that he had requested to be sent to him on recto. T-S NS J533 and Moss. II,176.2 appear to be in the same hand and to be related: each includes the identical phrase "אלתוב אלקטן ואלפרו מע."

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Judaeo-Arabic

Shemarya; Shemarya and Ṣedaqa the sons of Ṣadoq; the kohanim the sons of Ḥaffāẓ (who appear also in T-S 10J15.31 (PGPID 2870)); Abū l-Ḥasan Ibn ʿĀdī; al-Segulat, Yehuda, Menaḥem, Khalaf al-Wakīl al-Najjār(?)

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information in part from CUDL.) Similar genre as T-S G1.74 (PGPID 38401), but probably not directly related.

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Document date

first third of Tammuz 500[.] Anno Mundi (1244–1249 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef ha-Melammed. Cf. T-S 13J4.8 for a very similar document from 1243 CE (signed by the same Yehuda).

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• cheese
• kashrut
• merchant
• sicily

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Document date

Ṭevet 1443 Seleucid (22 December 1131–19 January 1132 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The postscript states that he divorced her and she received the geṭ (before the consummation of the wedding?). T-S AS 148.16 [PGPID 4156] is their bill of divorce.

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• halfon b. menashshe
• marriage

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Judaeo-Arabic

Same sender and addressee: T-S 8J38.6 (PGPID 3840) and BL OR 5542.33 (PGPID 6227).

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• personal

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Document date

Tishrei 1326 Seleucid (28 August 1014–26 September 1014 CE)

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Judaeo-Arabic

(Information in part from Frenkel, CUDL, and Goitein's index card.) Same handwriting as T-S NS 324.79 (PGPID 25726).

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• slave
• testimony

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Document date

26 Tammuz 4816 Anno Mundi (11 July 1056 CE)

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Hebrew

Hiba, and the cantor Boʿaz b. David (cf. T-S 13J1.14). (Information from CUDL.)

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• power of attorney

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Judaeo-Arabic

For other discussions of anti-Semitism and "hatred," see the Arah b. Natan's letter: T-S 13J22 23 (PGPID 1044).

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Inferred date

1029–1030 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

This is a copy of the first part of the gaʾon's original letter, T-S 13J19.16 (PGPID 991), in the hand of Ghālib ha-Kohen b.

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

and Abū ʿĪsā are mentioned. See T-S 13J20.16, in which the same writer tells his son about his severe illness.

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The Ibn Kūjik who appears in this document may be identical with Abū l-Maʿālī Yaʿaqov b. Yosef Ibn Kūjik from T-S 10J7.10, fol. 2r. (Information in part from CUDL and Goitein's index card.)

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• pinholes

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Inferred date

1237–1300 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef" (likely referring to T-S 13J27.1 (PGPID 1087)) and not knowing whether something or someone was in Ashmūm or Damīra; in the margin again mentions someone from Ashmūm and then having sent three letters: one to R.

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