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Monday, 10 Adar I 1537 Seleucid (9 February 1226 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Legal document. Bill of divorce, Fusṭāṭ. Dated: Monday, 10 Adar I 1537 Seleucid (9 February 1226 CE). This bill of divorce is one of forty …

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• divorce
• get

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Medical recipes in Judaeo-Arabic, including one attributed to Galen. On parchment. Dating: looks old, likely 11th century if not earlier.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Badly faded and damaged minute fragment contains list of items such as cloves.

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Small fragment of a legal deed mentioning a kind of silk called כזאג. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE).

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• halfon b. menashshe

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Formularies for letters of condolence. (Information from Goitein's index card.) Hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu?

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• condolence

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Judaeo-Arabic

Beginning of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 13th–14th century. Maybe a recommendation for the bearer. Mentions 250 dirh[ams]. (Information in part from CUDL)

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Deed of sale for an enslaved woman. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Fragment (piece from the right side). The buyer …

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Halakhic discussion regarding the slaughter of animals.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Minute fragment from the end of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Note in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to R. Yeshuʿa ("ha-talmid ha-mevin") instructing him to hand over a book (and possibly other items) belonging to the sender …

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Document date

438 Hijrī (8 July 1046–27 June 1047 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Letter in Arabic and Hebrew script dated 438 AH (1046/1047 CE). The opening politesse consists of many lines in Arabic script in a calligraphic chancery …

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• bialphabetic

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Document date

Tishrei 1439 Seleucid (8 September 1127–7 October 1127 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Bottom part of a torn court record involving a widow, written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: Tishrei 1439 Seleucid = September/October 1127 CE.

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Primary language

Arabic

Letter fragment in Arabic script. Opens with greetings to the mother. Mentions Naṣr al-Dīn. The address on verso is written in a different hand: to …

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• bialphabetic

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Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

Recto: Leviticus 13:32 (Hebrew) and two lines of formulae from an Arabic letter. Verso: formulae from an Arabic letter. (Information from CUDL)

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Arabic

Letter fragment in Arabic script.

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Document date

4962/4964 Anno Mundi (1201–1204 CE)

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Calendar for the years 4962–4964 of the Era of Creation (= 1201-1202 to 1203-1204 CE), dated according to the Era of Creation, the Seleucid Era, …

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• calendar

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Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in a crude hand (previously misidentified as that of ʿArūs) mentioning money and quantities of various commodities received from a druggist, such as tamarind, …

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, one of which mentions Rashid on the recto (perhaps the port city). Dating is 16th-century or later based on the paleography. The …

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• 16th c or later

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Only the right side is preserved. Most of the content is gone. Mentions "religion and world" (דין ודניא), "my master and …

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Sunday, 5th of Kislev Anno Mundi (17 November 1140 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

IB IV, 61 (ח78). Letter from Yeḥezqel b. Netanel, in Qalyūb or Fustat/Cairo, to his brother Ḥalfon b. Netanel, probably in Alexandria. Dating: November 17, …

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• damin
• ib-partial translation-heb
• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• illness
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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter, with a drawing on verso. (Information from CUDL.) Hand of Yefet b. Menashshe?

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Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Judaeo-Arabic order of payment by David ha-Nasi to the communal officials, Maḥfūẓ and Sālim, to pay out 29 dirhams to the traders and 'shaddādīn.' …

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Primary language

Arabic

Recto: Letter, probably. In Arabic script. Too rubbed to be read clearly.

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Primary language

Hebrew

The text is almost completely vocalised and rhymes in -akh. It seems to be more of a poem than a letter; it breaks off mid-sentence, …

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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined

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Primary language

Arabic

Accounts in Arabic script, with expenses broken up according to day of the week. Written on one page of a bifolium, otherwise containing morning benedictions. …

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Looks like a Spanish or Maghribī hand and layout (the address (...al-jalīl al-ḥakīm al-fāḍil) at the top of recto).

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Judaeo-Arabic

Business letter related to the India trade, mentioning commodities such as pepper, quantities of dinars and ʿAlī al-Fawfalī (a well-known nākhudā from the mid-12th-century) and …

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• ib-addenda

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment. Only scattered phrases are preserved. Mentions "this month, there remains for me in..."

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Primary language

Hebrew

Recto: Piyyut, (probably a qina) Hebrew poetry. In the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. (Information in part from CUDL)

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• nasir

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Small fragment of a legal document or draft in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE).

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Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

List of some sort, with entries in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. The document initailly appears to be dated in l. 12 of the recto 15(?) Ramaḍān 918 AH(?), or 1512 CE– but it …

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment from a legal document, probably a bill of release from a wife to her husband Abū Sahl Menashshe. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. …

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Judaeo-Arabic

Either a letter describing a legal issue, or a legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions terms such as iʿtiqāl (arrest) and tarsīm (usually payment for house …

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Primary language

Arabic

Letter in Arabic script. Fragment (upper right corner of recto). The address (to Fustat, market of the perfumers) is partially preserved. Needs further examination.

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Hebrew

Accounts in Hebrew with a couple words in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 15th–17th century. Currency: peraḥim. The script is similar to Ashkenazi-Italqi geniza fragments from the …

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• ashkenazi

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Document date

25th Marḥeshvan 1418 Seleucid (25 October 1106 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Four fragments of a ketubah from 1106. The bride is Sitt al-Dar b. Yefet. The groom is Eli b. Yehezkel ha-Haver be-Sanhedrin Gedola. Contains also …

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1495 Seleucid (19 September 1183–7 September 1184 CE)

Legal document, probably written by Shemuʾel b. Saʿadya, dated 1495 Seleucid = 1183/84 CE. A few words from the reshut formula can be read, probably …

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Primary language

Hebrew

A first-person note in late Hebrew by Sulaymān A[...], perhaps mentioning the sages of Safed and emet li-Maymun(?).

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• late heb
• safed

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic—perhaps 13th or 14th-century—to the Shaykh (abbreviated אלש׳) Hārūn in Cairo.

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Document date

744 Hijrī (26 May 1343–14 May 1344 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Bifolio of accounts in Arabic script. Each page is for a different date. Dated: 744 AH = 1343/44 CE.

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Mishneh Torah. In the hand of Yehuda b. Ṭuviyyahu.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in the hand of Avraham b. Farrāḥ of Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Needs examination for content. (Information from Goitein's index card.)

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