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Adar 1368 Seleucid (8 February 1057–8 March 1057 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: Adar 1368 Seleucid, which is February/March 1057 CE. In which Ṭoviyya b. Sahl ha-Levi undertakes to work in a glass factory at the bellows for a period of one year for wages of 5 dirhams plus 1 dirham lunch. The factory belongs to ʿEli/ʿAllūn b. Shelomo ha-Kohen and Ṭoviyya/Ṭībān b. Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen. […] The hand is like that of Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya or perhaps his son Bishr.

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Last decade of Adar 1481 Seleucid (March 1170 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Location: Cairo. Dated: Last decade of Adar 1481 Seleucid, which is March 1170 CE, under the authority of the Gaʾon Sar Shalom b. […] Concerning the installments of payments of the delayed wedding gift from Surūr b. Ghālib al-Dajājī to his divorcee Sitt al-Jamīʿ bt. […] Receipts of payments are recorded on verso. Signed by Shelomob. Shemuel ha-Levi and Yehoshuaʿ b. Aharon.

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5 Elul 1438 Seleucid (14 August 1127 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: Sunday, 5 Elul 1438 Seleucid = 14 August 1127 CE. The husband, Abū Saʿīd Ḥalfon b. Elʿazar al-Zajjāj had already written the geṭ, but it was not delivered. […] His wife agreed to continue to live with his parents and not ask for separation (furqa). Also signed by Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen; Aharon b. Avraham ha-Kohen; and [...] b.

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• get
• remarriage

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from one of the followers of Natan b. Avraham, from Jerusalem, fall 1038. Fragment.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Letter in which the writer discusses a visit to the qadi and business matters; mentions Ibn Abu al-‘Aysh. Verso: Letter discussing business matters concerning …

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• business
• oil
• perfume

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to Eli (‘Allun) ha-parnas, active 1057-1107, which mention his less well-known son, the parnas Abu Kathir (Efrayim ha-Kohen b. ‘Eli). (Oded Zinger, Women, Gender and Law: Marital Disputes According to Documents of the Cairo Geniza, 359) EMS

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter sent to Abū l-Barakāt Ibn Shalīda, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer calls the addressee 'my uncle' (ʿammī). The purpose of this letter is …

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• breakup
• ghuzz
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: letter norms
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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Mūsā b. Yaʿaqov al-Miṣrī, probably in Alexandria, to ha-Nagid Yehuda b.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to Nahray b. Nissim in which the writer mentions a letter received from Nahray from his brother, and that Nahray had visited Caesarea.

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• nahray b. nissim
• trade

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Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from a Greek-speaking Jewish man to a woman in Fustat. "The beginning of the letter is missing, and it is impossible to reconstruct the …

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• family

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

There is an ownership note by Shelomo Ḥazzan, Fusṭāṭ. Verso: In Shelomo Ḥazzan's hand, alongside other jottings and pen trials, a list of "the commentators on the Re'em (=Eliyyah Mizrahi) ZL that I have, BSD." Almost all the titles are identifiable (and available on hebrewbooks.org). (1) זרע יצחק by Yizhaq Lumbroso (d. 1752), ZL. (2) מזבח אדמה by Refael b. Shemuel Meyuhas (d. 1771). (3) שדה הארץ by Avraham b. Shemuel Meyuhas (brother of #2, d. 1767). (4) בני יאודה ללמוהר״ע, probably Yehuda ʿAyyāsh (d. 1760). (5) פרי האדמה by Refael b. Shemuel Meyuhas (same as #2); (6) לשון ערומים by Barzilay b.

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• 18th or 19th c
• book trade
• printed

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Inferred date

1128–1164 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Natan b. Shemuel ha-Ḥaver (dated documents 1128–64 CE). This document begins with a dowry list. Groom: Yeshuʿa b. Shabbat. Bride: Baqiyya bt. Avraham, who is the divorcee of the groom. […] There is unrelated text on verso, including titles for Elʿazar ha-Sar b. Shelomo ha-Kohen (ZL).

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Primary language

Hebrew

Letter perhaps from [...] b. Yosef to Shemuʾel b. Shelomo he-Ḥaver. In Hebrew, in an elevated register. […] The sender praises a certain Yeshuʿa b. Yiṣḥaq, who it seems told him to write to the addressee and can vouch for him, and he continues with a description and praises of this person.

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Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions someone in possession of three powers of attorney (תלתה כתב וכאלאת). Then mentions [...]m b. Ḥalfon and Avraham b. Moshe; a document registered in 'the great Bet Din.' […] In the handwriting of Shelomob. Eliyyahu?

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Document date

Tuesday, 12 Elul 1515 Seleucid (10 August 1204 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Court record in the hand of Yehuda b. Ṭuviyyahu. Location: Bilbays. Dated: Tuesday, 12 Elul 1515 Seleucid = 10 August 1204 CE. […] Witnessed by Meshullam b. Mevorakh and Berakhot b. Shelomo ha-Levi and validated by Yehuda b. Ṭuviyyahu, ʿUlla b. Shemuʾel, Muṣliḥ b. Saʿadya, and Elʿazar b.

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• dowry
• register
• widow

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Wednesday, 21 Shevaṭ 4871 Anno Mundi (1 February 1111 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Written and signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel ha-Sefaradi (the Spaniard); also signed by Peraḥya b. Shelomo. Opens by invoking the courts of Cairo and Fustat and the authority of the Nagid Mevorakh b. […] Also mentions the names Abū l-Munā b. Abū l-Faraj, and Abū Isḥāq Avraham b. Siman Ṭov.

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Inferred date

1015–1025 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The document records the decision to appoint Yefet b. David to be cantor and the supervisor of butchering instead of his father, who had died. […] Goitein dates the document to after 1024; it must date to before May, 1025, when Shelomob. Yehosef became Gaʾon (for less than a year until Shelomob.

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• butchers
• communal
• decree
• taqqana
• yeshiva

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Primary language

Arabic

Letter from Avraham the son of the Gaon to Sahlān b. Avraham. (Identifications by Gil; whereas Goitein says that it is written in the "unmistakable hand" of the Gaon Shelomob. […] He refers to the "Av Bet Din" and his brother "ha-Shelishi," who are probably (Gil says "certainly") Yosef and Eliyyahu, the two sons of Shelomo Gaon (hence the estimated date). On verso there is a draft of a piyyuṭ in the handwriting of Sahlān b.

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• 11th c
• bialphabetic
• sahlan b. avraham
• shelomo b. avraham

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Sunday, 29 Elul 1318 Seleucid (14 September 1007 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dealing with a protracted litigation between Efrayim b. Shemarya and Shelomob. Fashshāṭ. The names Yishaq b. Ṭayyib, Ḥasān b. Wuhayb and Abū l-Ḥasan b. Yoshiyyahu are mentioned. Signed by Levi b. Yaʿaqov ha-Levi, Shemuʾel ha-Kohen b. [...] and [...] b.

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Primary language

Ladino

Addressed to David. Mentions the name Shelomo, and the congregation and the poor (el qahal y ʿaniyim).

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Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

Verso: list of names, mentioning Elʿazar ha-Kohen, Yefet, Joseph and Shelomo. (Information from CUDL)

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Hebrew

Rather, it seems that another scribe -- likely Shelomob. Shemuʾel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi and/or his brother Yosef -- was attempting to copy Maimonides' signature. Shelomo is known to have copied the signature of another famous scribe in T-S K6.142 (PGPID 41381).

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Abū l-Faraj, in Alexandria, to his son-in-law Shelomob. Eliyyahu. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Early 13th century. Abū l-Faraj admonishes Shelomo to treat his wife Sitt Ghazāl well, and informs him that Shelomo's aunt (who is also his mother-in-law) is not coming to check that her daughter is well but rather coming to arrange a marriage between her son and Shelomo's niece, because she is the owner of 9/24ths of a house belonging to the family. He opens the letter with his preoccupation for Shelomo's illness and his happiness upon learning of Shelomo's recovery (r6–10).

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: formalities
• illness: marad
• marriage
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Hebrew

Location: Fustat. ʿEli b. Ḥasan ha-Levi the dyer gives to his youngest son Shemuel five and a 1/3 shares (i.e, out of 24 shares) of a courtyard near the synagogue of the Palestinians, which previously belonged to 'Eli's brother Shelomo ha-Levi. […] On another side, a house owned or known after a woman named [Sam?]āna bt. Shelomo Būṣīrī. (Information in part from Goitein's index cards.)

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Document date

Tuesday, 23 Adar II 1540 Seleucid (20 March 1229 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Legal document in the hand of Shelomob. Eliyyahu. Location: Fustat. Opens by stating that on Tuesday, 23 Adar II 1540 Seleucid (= 20 March 1229 CE, a legal deed was drawn up in which Abū l-Rabīʿ Sulaymān aka Shelomo Segan ha-Kohanim b. Abū l-ʿAlāʾ Meshullam ha-Kohen Kelil ha-Yofi Ibn al-Istibānī acknowledged a debt of 260 dinars to Abū l-Munajjā b. Abū Saʿd known as Ibn al-Labbān, to be repaid as a lump sum whenever the creditor desired it. Then, Abū l-Rabīʿ Sulaymān presented an Islamic deed (ḥujja islāmiyya) stating that ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAbd al-Ghaniyy al-Iskandarānī al-Tājir known as Ibn Sanad al-Tājir owes him 100 dinars by way of qirāḍ.

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• draft
• garden
• tenant

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Document date

23 Tishrei 1541 Seleucid (1229 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto (secondary use): Receipt in Judaeo-Arabic written on the back of a fragment of an Arabic-script letter (see separate record). The writer (maybe Shelomob. Eliyyahu) records that he received 20 dirhams from the judge Yehuda ha-Neʾeman for seder Moʿed.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter sent by Abu l-Barakat Shelomob. Eliyyahu to Binyamin the Jewish physician (al-ḥakīm al-isrāʾīlī).

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• shelomo b. eliyyahu

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter probably in the hand of Shelomob. Eliyyahu (d. 1230s) addressed to someone he calls "the great rabbi." […] The letter consists entirely of expressions of deference, blessings for the holiday, and greetings to various people, including 'the noble lady' (al-sitt al-jalīla), 'the mother,' and Bū Zikrī (probably Shelomo's brother). (Information in part from CUDL and Goitein's notes.)

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• shelomo b. eliyyahu

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in which Shelomob. Eliyyahu asks his teacher, the judge R.

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: eye
• illness: head
• judge eliyyahu
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Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a letter sent to the nasi Shelomob. Jesse with complaints about Yosef and Yehuda of Cairo who did not answer the writer's letter but instead wrote to his adversaries.

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• fire
• mosul nasis

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Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Underneath there is the respectful opening of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic (in the hand of Shelomob. Eliyyahu? Torn up and reused for this order?).

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• order
• syrup

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Inferred date

1127–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Small fragment from the bottom of a legal deed written and signed by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Also signed by Natan [b. Shelomo] ha-Kohen. Written under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon (several words from his titles are preserved), dating the document to 1127–38 CE.

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• halfon b. menashshe
• masliah gaon

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Upper part of a twin list in the hand of Shelomob. Eliyyahu, seemingly a draft, one list with amounts, and one mostly without amounts.

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• charity
• jewish community

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Document date

Thursday, 29 Tammuz 1536 Seleucid (6 July 1225 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Letter from Shelomob. Eliyyahu to a certain Abū l-Surūr (probably an elder relative, since he is addressed as "father"). […] Probably written by Judge Eliyyahu b. Zekharya (AA). (Information from Goitein's index cards) EMS.

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• avraham maimonides
• eliyyahu b. zekharia
• shelomo b. eliyyahu

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Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Legal document, perhaps a draft (no signatures). Hand of Shelomob. Eliyyahu. A warning to the wife of Moshe b.

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Fragment (lower part only). In the hand of Shelomob. Eliyyahu. In which Abū l-Ghayth al-Sabbāk ("the caster") and his son Ibrāhīm al-Ḥarīrī renounce a claim on two pieces of cloth worth two dinars which belong to Sitt al-Milāḥ, the wife of Sulaymān and divorcee of Abū Saʿīd, as described in her ketubba and left to her by her husband. Also mentions [...] b. Ṣedaqa and Abū Manṣūr. (Information from CUDL and Goitein's index cards)

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