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Ṭevet 1444 Seleucid (11 December 1132–8 January 1133 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: mentions Ṭevet 1444 of the Seleucid Era (= 1132/33 CE), and written under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon. Signed by Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. Verso: Additional legal notes regarding monthly payments, likely unrelated to recto. Also in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Mentioning Abū l-Riḍā b. Faraj b. ʿAzarya and Hillel b. Natan ha-Kohen. (Information in part from CUDL)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Sefaradi hand. On verso the name Shelomo ha-Levi appears twice.

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Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Shelomo ha-[...] to semarya [...]. The writer informs him that he (or perhaps someone else) has reached Hanes (Tannis).

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Document date

20 Sivan 5568 Anno Mundi (15 June 1808 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Shelomo Cesana & Company to Karo y Frances & Company.

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• 19th c
• cesana
• karo y frances

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Primary language

Hebrew

Letter of congratulations from Musalah to Shelomo and his son upon the marriage of the son.

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Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

On recto there is an "emet" followed by the name Shelomo. Needs further examination.

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• bialphabetic

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to Shelomo ha-Zaqen. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Quite faded; not much is legible without special imaging.

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13 Muḥarram 424 Hijrī (19 December 1032 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Legal document concerning the lease of a house by ʿAbd al-Bāqī b. Aḥmad the preacher, from Mūsā b. ʿAdī the Jew, in the district of al-Khawlān in Fustat.

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• lease

3 Transcriptions 2 Translations 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy Khalila in Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat, ca. 1060-1075 (Udovitch) or ca. 1050 (Gil). Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy had been in Buḥayra buying grain; he mentions the movement of ships from Alexandria to the Maghrib, and trade with the east, presumably Shām and possibly Iraq; also mentions other commodities, including silk, wax and alkali; Ibn al-Baʿbāʿ is mentioned in the margin.

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• commodities
• grain
• ibn al-ba'ba'
• movement of ships
• nahray b. nissim
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Document date

7 Elul 4839 Anno Mundi (8 August 1079 CE)

Dated: August 1079 CE. Groom: Ḥalfon b. Aharon. Bride: Ghāliya bt. Musāfir. Early: 2 dinars. […] In the hand of the ḥaver ʿAmram b. Ṣedaqa (see also T-S AS 150.230, T-S 16.136, T-S AS 156.394, and T-S AS 150.230).

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• ketubba
• marriage

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Thursday 26 Iyyar 5306 Anno Mundi (28 April 1546 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Currency: Peraḥim (Venetian ducats or another gold coin of similar value/weight). Shelomob. Yeshuʿa aka גלטא sells the shop where he sells wood to a certain Moshe(?).

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• 16th c
• late heb
• wood

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment(s) in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Shelomob. Eliyyahu? Recto is a brief note containing good wishes to a congregation (יהני אלגמאעה אלמקדסה אלטאהרה בהדא אלמוסם אלשריף אללה יזכיהם שנים רבות נעימות וטובות).

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Hebrew

Letter from Yusuf ha-Kohen b. Shelomo Gaon, writing from Jerusalem or Ramla, informing the Jewish chief justice of Aleppo that it had taken seven months to find the husband whose wife in the Syrian city had demanded a divorce.

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• communal
• divorce

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Judaeo-Arabic

Opens with greetings for Shemuʾel, Menashshe, and Yosef; on verso it is addressed to Yosef b. Shemuʾel al-Jibālī (cf. T-S 13J24.27 (PGPID 17041)); there is also a note at 90 degrees to the address mentioning al-muʿallim Shelomo.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from an emissary of the Yeshiva, in Fustat to Yosef ha-Kohen Av Bet Din b. Shelomo Gaon, in Jerusalem. Dating: August 1053 CE.

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• communal
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: du'f
• shelomo b. yehuda
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Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal query by Moshe b. Perahya, who was the muqaddam of MInyat Ghamr, with autograph responsum by Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE) regarding the estate of a freed enslaved woman.

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• autograph
• avraham maimonides
• legal query
• responsum
• slave

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Last third of Sivan 1461 Seleucid (18 June 1150–26 June 1150 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(a) Power of attorney granted by Saʿadya b. Yeshuʿa to Yosef b. Elʿazar ha-Melammed for the purpose of suing Yaʿaqov b. […] Dated: last third of Sivan 1461 Seleucid = June 1150 CE. (b) Written in a different hand. Note of a legal acknowledgment made by Bū l-Mufaḍḍal concerning receipt of funds from the wine that his father left behind, including the figure 1,937 (jars) as well as 48 dinars from the estate and 19 dinars as the price of the female slave (jāriya). […] Detailing the proceeds of the auction of wine, presumably the same as in entry (b) since the numbers add up to over 1500 jars.

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• power of attorney

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(Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 460, App. B 74 [dated 1200-1240])

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• charity
• communal
• old age
• poverty
• recipients

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Recto: Either the beginning of a letter or the address of a letter for Shelomo Gabbay in Safed. There is also a list of names.

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• late heb
• safed

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Avraham Karyo, Hayyim Moshe Pianti, Rahamim Shelomo ha-Levi, and a second Pianti, in Hebrew, recommending a certain poor man for charity.

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• appeal
• lor

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Judaeo-Arabic

Looks similar to the handwriting of Shelomob. Eliyyahu, and refers to family members like Zekharya (his brother Abū Zikrī?) […] But Zekharya / Abū Zikrī isn't called "my brother," so then again maybe this isn't Shelomo. The letter concerns the purchase of a Torah scroll.

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Inferred date

1025–1051 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Ṭoviyya b. Daniel (as far as the first few words of line 31) and the Gaʾon Shelomob. Yehuda (from the remainder of line 31, as well as line 30, inserted between lines 29 and 31 in minute script), on behalf of the academy, in Ramla, regarding the imprisonment and subsequent release of "our ḥaver who had been ordained in our academy’, (probably Efrayim b. Shemarya). Dating: the end of 1024 CE (per Gil) but this estimate might be too early given that the date range for Shelomob. […] The ḥaver and some colleagues had been falsely charged, apparently by rivals within the Shāmī Rabbanite congregation in Fusṭāṭ, but the intervention of the Sahl, Saʿadya, and Yosef b. Yisraʾel al-Tustarī and Abū Naṣr David ha-Levi b.

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• petition
• prison
• yeshiva

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Primary language

Hebrew

The writer adds greetings to the head of the yeshiva, Shelomo Gaon. ENA 2806.5–7 are copies of letters to Shelomo Gaʾon and his son Maṣliaḥ.

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• communal

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Document date

Av [14]9[.] Seleucid (6 July 1179–1181 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

ʿUlla b. Yosef sells to the perfumer (al-ʿaṭṭār) Abū l-Makārim Nadiv b. […] Witnesses: (Abū Sahl) Levi b. Avraham ha-Levi; Avraham b. Yaḥyā ha-Levi; Shelomob. Natan; Shemuel b. Yosef. Witnesses to the validation: [...] b.

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• bill of sale
• real estate

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Wednesday night, 29 Tishrei 1541 Seleucid (18 September 1229 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Legal record that Abū l-Surūr b. Ghanya(?) remarried his divorced wife Maʿānī bt. […] There is documentation of the payments returned to her as originally set down in her ketubba. Witnessed by Shelomob. Eliyyahu. On the margin a notation: the remarriage took place without immersion (ṭevila) for menstrual purity.

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• ketubba
• marriage
• remarriage

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

T-S NS 320.15 appears to be the final version of the same document (though the lower part along with any signatures are missing, and that too may have been a draft). Seller: Ṣedaqa b. Moshe ha-Levi. Buyer: Yosef b. Shelomo. Slave: Tawfīq.

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• slaves

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Judaeo-Arabic

The answer is signed by Shelomob. Yishai ha-Nasi. He cites Bava Batra 13a to require one of the men to sell to the other if they offer a fair price. Peraḥya b. Yosef ben Yiju adds his attestation that this responsum is correct.

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• legal query
• mosul nasis

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Judaeo-Arabic

List of books in the hand of Shelomob. Eliyyahu mentioning many halakhic works, including chapters 4 to 6 of the Ṭumaʾ ve-Tohara by Saʿadya Gaʾon, Ḥovot ha-Din by Shemuʾel b.

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MR Cohen: Same names as in lists of Shelomob. Zechariah from the beginning of the 13th century. (Information from Mediterranean Society II, p. 462, App. B 80)

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• 13th c
• account
• charity
• communal

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Judaeo-Arabic

In all the others, obviously the sums accompanying the names represent the total pledged. Written by Shelomob. Eliyyahu. Many persons are known from contemporary documents (ca. 1220). Recto = App B 38, contains expenditures on clothing for communal officials.

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• charity
• communal
• donors
• poverty

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Judaeo-Arabic

Essentially none of the body remains. Regards to Shelomo in the margin. Good candidate for a join

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• unedited judge eliyyahu

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Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Letter of congratulations from Musalah to Shelomo and his son upon the marriage of the son.

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• treatise

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Document date

12 Shevaṭ 1393 Seleucid (14 January 1082 CE)

Attested by the Bet Din and witnessed by Yequtiʾel b. Moshe, Nissim b. Maḥbūb, Shelomob. Yiṣḥaq, Yeḥezqel b. ʿEli he-Ḥaver, Hodaya b. Yoshiyya, Yosef b. Shemuel, Yosef b. Elʿazar, Ṣedaqa b. Muvḥar, Aharon b. Avraham, Netanel b. Yefet he-Ḥaver, the cantor Aharon b.

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• ketubba
• marriage
• qaraite

2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Names include: Yiṣḥaq and Shelomo Banī Fashshāṭ; Avraham al-Kharīdī (dealer in unperforated pearls); Moshe b. […] Sahlān; Khalaf b. ʿAlī; Menaḥem b. Baqāʾ; David b. Shemarya; Yefet b. ʿAmram; Yaʿaqov b. Saʿīd; Raḥamūn b. Yaʿaqov; Yefet b. Hillel; Maymun b.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a letter from Yisrael b. Natan, Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. The letter deals with trades, especially of fabrics. Yisrael b. Natan returns some pearls to Fustat because he is disappointed with their marred color. […] The last part is about Avraham b. ha-Gaon Shelomob. Yehuda. Yisrael asks Nahray for bitumen (qifār) for his eye problem because he cannot get any in Jerusalem; see also T-S 12.364; T-S 13J26.4; and T-S 10J10.24.

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: eye
• illness: treatment
• mail-order medicine

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Document date

Tishrei 1356 Seleucid (1044 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dated: Tishrei 1356 Seleucid, which is 1044 CE. Ḥalfon ha-Levi b. Shelomo Ibn al-Raqqī, representing also his mother Mubāraka bt. Levi b. Yaʿaqov and her sister Bahiyya bt. Levi (the widow of Aharon ha-Levi and the mother of Mevorakh b.

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• slaves

1 Transcription

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A previous PGP description listed this fragment as containing a "Responsum of the Gaon Shelomob. Yehuda," but this appears to be erroneous. Recto also contains a letter draft in the hand of Avraham b. Natan, reporting that he sent what was bestowed upon him. Mentions several names: Tiqva; Shibl; [...] b. Abū Naṣr [...]; Ibn al-Abzāriyya; Ibn al-Qābila; Sālim; [...] ha-Kohen b.

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• 12th c
• account
• hikr
• qodesh

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yosef b. Shemarya ha-Dayyan al-Barqī (Alexandria) to Nahray b. […] He has learned that Nahray plans to go to Jerusalem and asks him to send his best wishes to his friends there and specifically the gaon, Daniel b. ‘Azarya, and head of the court, Eliyyahu ha-Cohen b. Shelomo, and his son Ẓadoq. He discusses the bead trade and will return to Barqa soon accompanied by a caravan of Muslims.

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• nahray b. nissim
• trade

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Primary language

Hebrew

Letter fragment "in the handwriting of Natan ha-Kohen b. Mevorakh (the grandson), written in his name and that of Yeshuʿa b. Yefet; his son Mevorakh is a signatory thereto as well; their ‘alāma: yeshaʿ rav (‘a great salvation’ like that of the Gaon Shelomob. Yehuda). Yeshuʿa ‘the excellent (haver), the judge’ b.

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• ashqelon
• natan b. mevorakh

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