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Document date

29 Dhū l-Ḥijja 1002 Hijrī (15 September 1594 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

In addition to the 20 dinars, ʿAlī pledges to give his wife an enslaved woman; the term used, āma, connotes a domestic servant, as opposed to a concubine.... A final unusual feature of this document is that following the date but before the witnesses’ signatures, the scribe notes an adden- dum to the contract by Aḥmad, al-Zahrāʾ’s father, who requires the enslaved woman to serve ʿAlī’s brother Qadūr for the duration of the marriage.

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• 16th c or later
• muslim marriage contract
• slavery

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Document date

6 Tammuz 5398 Anno Mundi (18 June 1638 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

This letter contains a lengthy and convoluted account of the exchanges and transfers of a certain sum of money and how ʿAzarya bested their enemy who had other designs on the money. There is a great wealth of information here about market values of different currencies. People mentioned: הר"י אפמאדו (also mentioned in the other letter, identity unknown, appears to be the same "enemy" alluded to at the beginning); הר״מ זגאן; Yaʿaqov Yaʿish; the writer's father Yisrael Binyamin Zeevi (d. 1688 after an illustrious career in Alexandria and Jerusalem); Zerahya Gota (from Istanbul, a student of Yosef de Trani.

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Tags

• 17th c
• castro
• gota
• late palestine
• numismatics
• (+ 1 more)

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Primary language

Hebrew

Seʿadya urges his addressees to uphold the dates of the Babylonians, and ensure that Jews do not eat leaven on Passover and desecrate the Day of Atonement. […] (Information from Rustow and Stern, "The Jewish Calendar Controversy of 921-22," in Stern and Burnett, eds., Time, Astronomy, and Calendars in the Jewish Tradition; Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, p. 17; Goitein notes; and Moshe Yagur, "Living in the City: Jews and Their Residences in Medieval Fusṭāṭ," Medieval Encounters 27 [2024].)

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• calendar controversy

2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Then when I saw that the matter was going to end badly, I wrote it...." The text in the margin is difficult to read but ends with the sender's distress over "the state of [your] sister." He elaborates on verso, "she is wretched, like a phantom on the bed (cf. ENA 4020.49). . . and the old woman (presumably her mother) is there with her and in even greater distress on account of the sorrow and the poverty, may God look upon them [and have mercy]."

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Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

, two bales of lac, the entirety of their proceeds after the musāmaḥa was [...]; also at his hand, two bales of pepper [...] […] Hilāl; and possibly a partnership (bi-khulṭa). The next entry refers to "that which I sold in the Dār": eleven bales of lac and three bales of pepper The next entry refers to "eighteen bales of lac and pepper," then "and also at the hand of the Dār" (bi-yad al-dār) five bales of lac and five of pepper "in partnership" (bi-khulṭa).

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• ib-addenda

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Might connect with ENA 4011.45. See description there

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Tiny fragment from the end of a Hebrew letter.

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Document date

1090 Hijrī (12 February 1679–1 February 1680 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

At the top of the other page, someone named Riḍwān Effendi is named. Most of the entries seem to be recurring events: "wheat is planted," "the south winds blow," "the planting of the poppy," "the beginning of the lawāqiḥ," etc., but one of them (the first entry under Ṭūba) reads, "the lifting of the plague (wabā') in Miṣr."

Tags

• 17th c
• calendar
• coptic calendar
• epidemic
• epidemic: waba'

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

NB: This shelfmark has been cited numerous different ways; prior shelfmarks include but are not limited to ENA 2556.2b and ENA 2557.1. VMR.

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• babylonian academies
• hinge
• ibn awkal
• lac
• qayrawan

4 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Document date

Ḥeshvan 1646 Seleucid (1 October 1334–29 October 1334 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Engagement agreements. Two sides of what appears to be a page from the court notebook from the 1330s. On recto, there are two engagement agreements, the first in the righthand side of the page and the second begins in the lefthand side of the paper and continues on the verso.

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• engagement

2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

List of accounts in Judeo-Arabic in which each heading is marked by elongated ligatures either as extensions of final letters or as independent lines drawn to indicate a new section of itemized entries. The figures for entries are alphanumerical and on the recto a unit of volume for grain is mentioned "irdab/ארדב" (l.6v).

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• list

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE) to his brother in law, with a long narrative about the difficulties he encountered procuring a tax receipt (barāʾa) and the connections he used in order to procure it, some more useful than others. […] (Information from Marina Rustow and from Mediterranean Society, III, p. 22, from Goitein's index cards; Goitein also has an English translation of this, to be uploaded soon.)

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

1 Transcription 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

A torn and damaged page. On recto probably end of a responsum citing Pesahim 49a, followed by the number 11 which is probably the next rsponsum. […] The ruling given: the testimony can only be validated by an act of qinyan. The end is missing. Copied by Meir b. Hillel b. Zadoq from Alexandria (Date: 1160-1175).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: ca. 1082–94 CE (based on dating of ENA 3765.2). Mentioning Yefet and his wife Khibāʾ (כבא) (bt. […] Potentially a draft of ENA 3765.2 (PGPID 34325); same hand, same parties, and potentially the same 15 dinars (beginning of l. 3).

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Primary language

Hebrew

Signed by Nissim b. al-ʿAnkari stating that in the assembly of the heads of the community, the slaughterer Yeruḥam swore not to encroach on the domain of the slaughterer Shabbetay, and in turn Shabbetay would give 3 parts of every 10 (of what?). If either of the slaughterers asks the other to substitute for him, the substitute is not to encroach or touch the share of the other. The name Nissim b. al-ʿAnkari appears in other geniza fragments, perhaps related to the same communal rabbi: T-S NS 320.114 (PGPID 25383); Yevr.

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The document begins with four faint lines from the end of a text concerning a halakhic problem and ends with the expression ישע רב , characteristic of Shelomo ben Yehuda.

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• orphans

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Document date

Heshvan 1452 Seleucid (14 October 1140–12 November 1140 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū Suʿūd)), losses at sea, and the sender's failure in purchasing a household male slave (waṣīf) from a ship from East Africa (Bilād al-Zanj) containing newly enslaved individuals (raqīq). (Information from Goitein and Friedman)

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Tags

• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib2
• ib4
• india book

4 Transcriptions 2 Translations 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a father to his son, a young man who had entered government service recently, advising him concerning some officials whose friendship should be sought out and others who show friendly faces but behind your back 'cut you to pieces.' […] Probably an indirect join (identified by Alan Elbaum): ENA NS 48.28 (PGPID 12161) and T-S 12.405 (PGPID 3155).

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Document date

1179–1180 CE

Primary language

Arabic

It seems he then traveled onward (to Mangalore?) and encountered Abū l-Riḍā b. Abū l-Faraj al-Isrāʾīlī (cf. ENA NS I.38 (PGPID 12294)) "who oversees the [...] in those lands."

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Tags

• calendar
• ib-addenda
• india book unedited

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Accounts, in Arabic script. Related to ENA 3916.3-4?

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

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

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