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2951LetterT-S J2.74
Primary language
Hebrew
Verso: Letter from an unidentified sender, maybe in Damascus, to Yehosef he-Ḥakham. In Hebrew. The sender gives a report on the recovery of Rabbenu Yosef …
TS Box J 2, f. 74, ed. Mann, Jews, vol. 2, p. 323, 05-08-90, Y.S. (p) Letter to Yehosef Hehakam from Damscus, mentioning R. Joseph, perhaps Ibn `Aqnin. On verso condolences to a Nagid upon the death of R. `Uzzi'el. (recto)
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2952LetterT-S K25.190
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Letter from the office of Yehoshua the Nagid (d. 1355), a grandson of a grandson of the Rambam, to the Jerusalemite synagogues concerning an erection …
TS Box K 25, f. 190, ed. S. D. Goitein, "The synagouge building and its furnishing according to the records of the Cairo Geniza", Eretz Israel, 7(1964), Sefer Meir, p. 97, with corrections from his personal offprint, 12-27-89, N.T. (pp) A Letter from Joshua the Nagid, a grandson of a grandson of the Rambam, to the Jerusalmite synagogues concerning an erection of a Sukka and redemption of pawned Torah bells
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2953State documentT-S Ar.39.364
Document date
516 Hijrī (12 March 1122–28 February 1123 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Verso (original use): Letter, maybe official state correspondence. Begins "ʿaraḍa hādhihi l-mukā[taba]...."
1. بسم الله [الرحمن الرحيم
2. عرض هذه المكـ[ـاتبة(؟)
3. الاجل اطال الله بقاه[
4. وسموها وسناها و…[
5. جعفر بن فتاح اجل[
6. …………………
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1. و..[
2. …
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2954State documentT-S NS 238.35
Primary language
Arabic
State document, official correspondence. The ends of 8 lines are preserved.
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2955LetterJRL Genizah Ar. 665
Primary language
Arabic
Letter (draft?), or official correspondence, in Arabic script. Contains the taqbīl clause and mentions "al-mamlūk" twice.
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2956State documentJRL Genizah Ar. 787
Primary language
Arabic
Official correspondence or state document, in Arabic script, late.
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2957State documentNLI 577.1/65
Primary language
Arabic
State document, probably official correspondence, in Arabic script. Top of verso has an oversized script which reads "الى بعض الحكام" and the verso mentions "تنفيذ الكتاب".
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2958Legal documentT-S 13J2.13
Document date
Middle Av 1417 Seleucid (July 1106 CE)
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Official confirmation at court of a debt of 60 dinars contracted three months earlier before a notary, Ab 1417/ July 1106.
1. חצר אלינא אנן בי דינא אלשיך אבו אלסרור כגק מרנ פרחיה הזקן הנכ בן כגק
2. מרנ ורב יוסף הזקן נע וקאל לנא לי שהאדה וזכות עלי מ עמרם הלוי ביר
3. צדקה נע דידיע …
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2959State documentT-S AS 113.210
Primary language
Arabic
Recto: Official letter/report, probably. In Arabic script.
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2960State documentT-S NS 325.196
Primary language
Arabic
A few words from an official Arabic document (ḥaḍratuhu... ʿuluwwahu...), apparently praises for an addressee, so from a report or petition.
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2961LetterT-S NS J290
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Know that if you do not close the yearly account that you owe to me, on the morning of the holiday I will send you the messengers of the house of the Ṣāḥib [al-Dīwān, the official in charge of the capitation tax]."
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2962LetterT-S Ar.30.64
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Informal note from ʿAbd al-Karīm to R. Yosef. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: perhaps Mamluk-era; Yemeni hand? The sender asks the addressee to urgently send his grandmother …
מחמול וכאן אלאמר צעב ברוך השם
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לא תכליהא תקעד וכתבה
עבד אלכרים
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2963LetterDK 325
Primary language
Arabic
Letter or official report in Arabic script, beautifully written From Ṣādiq b.
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2964State documentT-S Ar.41.43
Primary language
Arabic
Request for a fatwā (or possibly a petition or official report, or simply a letter). In Arabic script.
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- fatwa
- iqta'
- shop
- taqbil
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2965LetterT-S AS 160.101
Primary languages
Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Referring to the opponent; a Jewish person; "I threw myself upon him" (fa-tarāmaytu ʿalayhi); fees (al-ajʿāl); "crying out" (istighāth) to the Ṣāḥib al-[...]; an official named [...] al-Dīn Badrān; the Jewish court (bet din); and an oath.
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2966State documentT-S NS 327.48
Primary language
Arabic
Recto: Official letter in Arabic script. Very faded. Fragments of ~5 lines are preserved, with wide space between the lines.
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2967LetterAIU VII.D.107
Document date
27 Shevat 5[5]57 Anno Mundi (23 February 1797 CE)
Primary languages
Hebrew, Ladino
with the exception of business arising from his preexisting partnership with Ḥājjī Dāwud in Alexandria—and so he seeks dispensation to continue with the mastic venture, or perhaps he wants Shabbetay to buy him out of his share. One of the writer's partners in the mastic venture is Avraham Shimʿon and the other is [Yiẓ?]
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- 18th c
- de curiel
- ladino
- pallache
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2968State documentENA 2808.45
Primary language
Arabic
Interesting for truncation of formula (informal decree from a midlevel official to lower one?). The preserved text reads "liyaʿlam Inshāʾ Allah wa kutiba yawm al-khamīs".
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2969State documentENA 3728.10 + ENA 3728.9
Primary language
Arabic
Fatimid state report from a lower official to the caliph or other high official(s), including raʾy clause, ḥamdala and ḥasbala.
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2970Legal documentBodl. MS heb. c 28/41
Document date
21 Kislev 1355 Seleucid (26 November 1043 CE)
Primary language
Hebrew
Dated: Sunday, 21 Kislev 1355 Seleucid = 26 November 1043 CE.
1. מעשה שהיה לפנינו אנו בית דין הקבוע במצרים והעדים החותמים עדותם
2. מטה בכתב הזה איך מרב יוסף המכונה אבו אלפצל [ב]ר מרב פרחיה /אתא קדמנא/ קובל על מרב
3. צבי…
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- excommunication
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2971State documentT-S Ar.34.90
Document date
21 Dhū l-Qaʿda 403 Hijrī (3 June 1013 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Dated: 21 Dhū l-Qaʿda 403 (Khan reads 26 Dhū l-Qaʿda 403). Measurements: 8.7 × 8.5 cm.
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2972LetterT-S 8J17.23
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Report to a Jewish official, perhaps the Nagid. The sender had been ordered to intervene with Abū l-Makārim, who had been delinquent paying the 20 dirhams he owed each month to his wife.
1. ורדת מכאת[בה
2. תופיקה יסהל אלי כ[
3. אלשריף כט מולאנא וסידנא [. . . . . . זאד]ה אללה ע[לוא
4. ונפאדא וכאן דלך גד חג הסכות המקבה יזכנו לחוג
5. אותו לפני אדוננו …
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2973LetterT-S 6J3.16
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Official letter from the office of one of the later Maimonidean Nagids.
1. . . . . אמת
2. אלשמש אלש סלימאן //שצ//
3. יעלם חצור אלש צדקה
4. בן אלרופא פי אלאסבוע אל
5. כאלי והו . תשכי מן זוגתה
6. לאנהא מא תטיעה
7. תלזמה/א/ באלחצור אלי
8. בית דין …
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2974Legal documentBodl. MS heb. d 65/26 + ENA NS 3.24 + Bodl. MS heb. b 3/28 + T-S 12.128
Inferred date
942–1033 CE
Ketubba (marriage contract). A four piece join from an early 11th century Palestinian style ketubba from Tinnīs. Groom: Mevasser b. Yiṣḥaq. Bride: ʿAzīza bt. Ḥasan. …
[ויהי ביתך כבי]ת פרץ אשר ילדה תמר ליהודה מן הזרע אשר
יתן יי' ל[ך מן הנערה הזאת]
recto
1. [..................................ו]בסימנה מעליא ויבנו
ויצליחו יר[אה זרע...............]
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Historical shelfmark
Bodl. MS Heb. d 65, fol. 26
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2975LetterT-S NS J34
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Short note to Muwaffaq, accompanied by quantities of “hindi” and “lādan” (labdanum), instructing the addressee to sell them. (Information from Goitein's index cards) EMS
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1. מן אלדראהם ארסלהא לי
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- informal note
- labdanum
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2976State documentENA 3959.12
Primary language
Arabic
Letter(s) or official document(s) in Arabic script. Narrow space between the lines on one side (this part mentions a fortress/qalʿa), wide space between the lines on the other (this part addresses somebody as "al-jināb al-ʿāl" and mentions his iḥsān and ṣadaqāt).
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- to edit
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2977Legal documentJRL Genizah Ar. 672
Primary language
Arabic
Legal or an official document, or a draft in Arabic script. Mentions a long name on verso "......Yūsuf b.
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2978State documentT-S AS 176.254
Primary language
Arabic
Official account. "That which was expended for the allowance (ʿamāla) of Mukhtār al-Dawla."
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2979List or tableENA 1822a.24
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Account of a pharmacist listing household goods. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 585)
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ותמניה עשר דרהם
ורבע ורק
verso column 1
1. ורסם[
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2980State documentBodl. MS heb. b 11/7
Document date
500 Hijrī (2 September 1106–21 August 1107 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
There are large sums of money and iqṭāʿāt. Mentions an official of al-Afḍal by the name Zahr al-Dawla Bandūd al-Afḍalī.
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2981List or tableJRL C 41
Document date
3 Jumada I 1236 Hijrī (6 February 1821 CE)
The basis of the transaction in silver kuruş is explained in the heading and the note below the long list of itemized entries. The official who signed the bottom of the document bore the title of "ağa/اغا" and was also serving as a commercial "overseer / ناظر".
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2982Credit instrument or private receiptMoss. VII,148.2
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
There is one line in the margin that reads as "al-mamlūk" in a chancery hand, probably a continuation of the official document on verso. The Arabic text on verso reads as "al-manṣūba", probably in a chancery hand.
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2983List or tableT-S Ar.39.495
Document date
1286 Hijrī (13 April 1869–2 April 1870 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Various accounts and short notes including names and numerals, possibly by an official. Recto contains two Ottoman circular seal imprints. The folios are numbered as 18 and 19 (in western Arabic numerals) which suggests they formed part of a notebook of official(?) accounts (FGP).
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- 19th c
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2984List or tableT-S AS 157.186
Primary languages
Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic
ʿAyn al-Zamān is a rare name; historical chronicles mention a government official of this name active in the mid 12th century.
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2985LetterT-S AS 183.136
Primary language
Arabic
Skilled hand, unclear if mercantile or official. Includes the phrase "لا تجد في الوقت في البلد عند وكلا ال . . . " which sounds more mercantile.
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2986State documentT-S NS 99.52
Primary language
Arabic
Verso (original use): Official correspondence in Arabic script. The ends of 5 lines are preserved.
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2987State documentENA 3824.5
Document date
[5]32 Hijrī (19 September 1137–7 September 1138 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Official correspondence in Arabic script. The beginnings of 17 lines are preserved.
1. وقف عبد مولاي الشيخ [الاجل اطال الله بقاه وادام عزه
2. وعلوه وتمكينه وكبت عـ[ـدوه
3. والتي يدلوه(؟) في رقعـ[
4. عما يعمل في هذه الـ[
5. ومذ توقف(؟) طائفة من ا[ل…
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2988State documentMoss. IXa,2.32
Document date
Dhū l-Qaʿda 509 Hijrī (9 April 1114–8 May 1114 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Military/fiscal account. An official in the Fatimid military administration (mutawallī dīwān al-juyūsh) submits an account, presumably to do with military spending.
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- military spending
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2989LetterT-S K25.239
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Unknown sender and addressee; likely one judge or communal official writing to another. The lower left corner is missing.
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2990LetterENA 2735.7
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Levi ha-Levi) asking the recipent to sell for him the Mishnah and Hilkhot Shehitah and send him the money with the bearer. He also wants to buy the codices of the Torah copied by Abu Sahl the Qaraite that he had seen in the addressee's possession.
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- book trade
- moshe b. levi
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2991Legal documentENA 3965.1
Document date
2 Muḥarram 1138 Hijrī (10 September 1725 CE)
Primary language
Arabic
Mentions names such as Fāṭima (the buyer?) and the two sellers ʿĀbidīn b. Ibrāhīm al-Khawlī and Aḥmad b. [...] b. […] The transaction takes place in ghurūsh/guruş, a silver coin minted by the Ottoman Empire as early as 1690 CE but did not reach wide circulation until 1703 CE, and one piastre/guruş hypothetically equaled 40 para/medin.
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- real estate
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2992List or tableT-S J1.37
Inferred date
1425–1600 CE
Primary languages
Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
Some accounts are related to building expenses(?). One entry on the verso mentions a Jewish legal "apotropos" guardianship for an orphan "אפוטרופוס יתום נעים" (based on the manner in which other names are written in these accounts "Naʿīm" is likely a firstname). […] The mention of the latter coinage type makes it possible to estimate this document's dating as post-1425 CE (which matches the 15th-16th-century paleography).
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2993Legal documentYevr. II K 76
Document date
12 Adar II 5611 Anno Mundi (16 March 1851 CE)
Currency used: 'Company rupees' (רפייה כומפני), perhaps referring to the officialcoinage of the East India Company. The provenance of this ketubba may be non-Geniza, tracing back to Avraham Firkovich's acquisitions elsewhere in the Middle East rather than Cairo specifically.
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2994Legal documentT-S NS 184.76
Primary language
Judaeo-Arabic
Legal fragment regarding a partnership. Involves Ṭoviyya ha-Kohen; Minyat al-Qāʾid; 20 dinars; splitting shares equally; and Ṣedaqa Neʾeman [ha-Yeshiva].
מתי קד [
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ואשרטו בינהם אן כל ואחד מנהם פי אלרבח ואן ר צדקה נאמן
verso
ומתי אכל טוביה
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2995LetterBL OR 5566D.19
Primary languages
Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic
An official order/letter from the head of the Jewish community or a high-placed dignitary.
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2996State documentENA 2846.3
Primary language
Arabic
Fragment of official correspondence in Arabic script. The beginnings of two lines are preserved; the second line reads مملوكه واجابته بما ينتهي اليه من . . . .
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2997State documentENA 3907.12
Primary language
Arabic
Document in Arabic, unclear content, left half only, with sewing holes at left, top, and diagonally across the upper left corner. Likely an official document. Mentions "bi-Miṣr al-Maḥrūsa."
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2998LetterJRL Genizah Ar. 668
Primary language
Arabic
Fragment of a letter or official correspondence, Arabic script. Mentions "من يلوذ به", a fragmentary date "[جمادى؟] الاخرة", beginning of a year "سنة خمسـ"and a ṣalwala.
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2999State documentT-S Ar.30.120
Primary language
Arabic
Verso (original use): Bottom of an official letter in Arabic, possibly a petition ("...wa-lahā ḥarasa Allāh ʿizzahā raʾyuhā al-mawaffaq al-kāshifa in shāʾ Allah").
1. المذكور على فقه الشرع الشريف وموجبه وله حرس الله عزه الراي الموفق
2. الكاشفة ان شاالله عزوجل
3. الحمد لله وحده وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد نبيه واله وسلام
4. حس…
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3000State documentT-S Ar.39.447
Primary language
Arabic
Bottom eight lines of an official letter in Arabic script. Ends with a ḥamdala and ṣalwala, and Amīr al-Muʾminīn, perhaps a rāʾy clause afterward.
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