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Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Probably the end of a letter, quoting Daniel 6:29, 4; Proverbs 3:4, 26, 2; 1 Shemuʾel 25:6.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts for the synagogue, mentioning the women’s entrance of the synagogue, dates such as Shabbat Pinḥas and a number of names, such as Ibrāhīm, Abū l-Riḍā and Manṣūr b.

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• account

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Judaeo-Arabic

Small fragment from the end. Greetings to 'the mother.' Umm Yūsuf sends her greetings to the addressee and to 'the mother.'

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Salmān al-Ḥarīrī, compare ENA 2805.5 (PGPID 718)). (Information in part from CUDL.)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Possibly written on a letter envelope based on the folds in the paper visible solely from the verso.

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• envelope

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Repeatedly mentions the currency jadīd (post-1357 CE) and the entries reference "the weighers(?)" (אלקבנין) and the surname "Castro(?)"

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• account
• late
• numismatic dating

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Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Consists almost entirely of legalese. Involves a parnas and his wife Sitt al-Milāḥ.

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• halfon b. menashshe

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Document date

December 1027 CE

On the other hand, the detailed description of the entire process, the dates, the exact monetary sums, the number of rings and their type, all testify that this was a real case. […] The second date, 17 days later, is probably the date in which the engagement contract was delivered to the bride's representative (Assaf presented a different view, “ the second date is the date in which the matter was put on paper while the first date signify the time of the engagement which took place on a single day. […] From checking dozens of engagement agreements, it is clear that the sum of the marriage gift was one of the first things agreed upon by the bride and groom.

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• register

2 Transcriptions

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

However, the sender paradoxically thinks that their enemy, ʿEli b. ʿAmram, should succeed Efrayim, precisely because then he will have to pay obeisance to Daniel, and the two camps will be united. The letter's contents are as follows: (1) condolences on the death of Daniel's sister (r1–12); (2) praise and seeking forgiveness for the fight that had had in the house of al-Damsīsī—Goitein understands this to be because the sender had advocated for ʿEli b. ʿAmram, Daniel's enemy (r13–21); (3) ʿEli ("the idiot") didn't understand that the sender had long been a supporter of Daniel b. […] (Alan Elbaum) The handwriting on this letter is the same as that of ENA 4020.65, a copy of what Goitein believed to be a petition from Shelomo b.

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• communal
• condolence
• conflict
• conversion
• daniel b. azarya

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Document date

3 Tishrei 5293 Anno Mundi (2 September 1532 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Sulaymān ha-Ḥazzan—whose mother Ẓarīfa was Naṣr's sister—presented a power of attorney drawn up in Fusṭāṭ in May 1532 (7 Sivan 5292), witnessed by Yosef Abuhab and Yosef b. David Moreno, entitling him to claim the amount of the inheritance willed to him (subsequently it transpires that his aunt willed his mother Ẓarīfa and her family a full 2/3 of the inheritance, while the other 1/3 was to go to their other sister Rivka and her family). […] Shemuel then claimed that he had already sent enough of the money to David Ḥavriya (? חבריא), who was supposed to give a portion to his wife Rivka bt. […] Shemuel responded that there was not enough money left from the inheritance to pay ʿAbd al-Kāfī his share (and his mother's and siblings'), but there was enough if he made up the difference with property and jewelry and clothing.

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• ben habib
• late palestine
• material culture
• numismatics

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Primary language

Ladino

Her brother had complained about her silence: "de lo ke me enviais a kulpar ke non vos eskrivo lo ke fallais mucho extrano presando de korason para deskuvrir mis sekretos ke non . . . verdadero sinon el mio y el vuestro ke de lo ajeno non toma la presona mas de lo ke kiere su dueiio. . . ." She continues to tell her brother about her disappointement at his absence in Passover: "erev Pesah mi senora enviome a dezir ke su venida non era por agora. El dio lo save la Paskua ke me dio, saviendo vos hermano ke vuestra letra son mis konsules (konsuelos?), por la palabra enviada a dezir fue demas, sabiendo vuestro corason, porke si fasta agora tenia senzillo el kuidado agora lo tiene doblado de vuestro deseo.

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• ladino

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Primary language

Arabic

He infringes on people's rights, especially the poor and anyone who does not pay him enough of a bribe. The addressees are asked to send two witnesses to observe the truth of these claims and then act against the wicked man. […] This document is particularly noteworthy, because the most famous hagiographical anecdote about Ḥayyim Kapūsī (also spelled Capoussi or Capousi) is that he miraculously regained his eyesight after being accused of taking bribes, thereby proving his righteousness and silencing his enemies. ASE An image of this document appears with a brief caption in Paul Fenton's article “Interfaith Relations as Reflected in the Genizah Documents,” Bulletin of the Israeli Academic Center in Cairo, vol. 21 (July 1997): 26–29 (this information kindly shared by Emanuel Friedberg).

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• 16th or 17th c
• capitation tax
• capousi
• corruption
• dimme
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1 Transcription

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions several government bureaus: "al-dār al-saʿīda," "al-maṭbakh al-sukr," and, in the endorsements on verso, "dīwān al-juyūsh al-manṣūra." Verso contains two endorsements: a short one ordering the release of the stipend, most probably in the caliph's hand ("bi-khaṭṭ al-yadd al-sharīfa"), and a follow-up mentioning a qāḍī with the epithet Walī al-Dawla, and also mentioning the bureau of the armies, "dīwān al-juyūsh al-manṣūra." Some of the administrative procedures mentioned require further examination: "al-rātib" and "al-jārī." towards the end of verso, mentions Jazīrat Banī Naṣr, an island in the southwestern Nile delta, today in ruins, inhabited during the Fatimid period.

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• dimme

1 Transcription

Document date

10 Ḥeshvan 1531 Seleucid (21 October 1219 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He lists ten reasons why he cannot possibly come to Cairo; the tenth and "most stringent reason for not making the trip to Cairo was the certainty that his enemies seeing him in such a state of humiliation would rejoice over his misfortune." "Despite the careful enumeration of all his afflictions he forgot one, possibly the worst of all, which he added as a postscript ot his long letter: 'Because of my worries I got dry pimples and my skin peeled off my bones.'

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• alexandria
• crusade
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: skin
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Primary language

Arabic

Recto: State document in Arabic script. Ends of 3 lines preserved. Perhaps a petition or report (...bi-l-nāḥiya yatawallā ḥiyāzatahā wa-ḍabṭa ajzāʾahā...).

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Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Daniel the great prince and 'great distress.' See also ENA 2735.14

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• trade

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Inferred date

1051–1051 CE

In the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya. See also: ENA 2804.1 (PGPID 676).

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• dirge
• piyyut
• seliha

1 Transcription

Petition or report, Fatimid, fragment from near the beginning containing end of blessings, the taqbīl clause, and part of the qiṣṣa.

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• arabic script
• dimme
• lost archive
• petition
• report

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Primary language

Hebrew

The name of the location - along with the entirety of the letter - is lost.

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• list

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The heading may include a full date and year but there is significant damage to the end of the first line. Requires further examination.

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Primary language

Arabic

Small fragment of an Arabic letter or official report mentioning mawlāy al-amir. The ends of ~3 lines are preserved. On verso there are jottings (possibly a receipt) in Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals.

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• arabic

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Judaeo-Arabic

Narrates a series of events ('on Sunday... and then...'). Mentions Abū Saʿīd. Ending with a raʾy clause. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ.

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• akhlaq

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Judaeo-Arabic

Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic; either a fragment preserving only the greetings, or a letter that consists entirely of greetings. Addressed to Raḥamīm Qaznī (קזני), also mentions ʿAzīza, Avraham, and Binyamin.

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• late ja

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Arabic

Decree. The ends of two lines are preserved. Mentions the cities [bi-]Minūf(?)

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• decree

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List of distributions for charity, some of the entries similar to the T-S K15 lists, dated ca. 1107 (see Goitein, Mediterranean Society, II, Appendix B 19-23)

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• 12th c
• charity
• communal
• poverty
• recipients

1 Transcription

Document date

Adar I 5581 Anno Mundi (3 February 1821–4 March 1821 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: The end of a legal document dated February 1821 CE (middle of Adar I 5581), Cairo, scribed and signed by Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen.

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• 19th c

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Document date

Safar 1234 Hijrī (30 November 1818–28 December 1818 CE)

This JRL folder is mostly or entirely 18th-century and 19th-century accounts.

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• 19th c

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Document date

Muḥarram 1245 Hijrī (3 July 1829–1 August 1829 CE)

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Arabic

This JRL folder is mostly or entirely 18th-century and 19th-century accounts.

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• 19th c

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Primary language

Arabic

The diet recommended at the end is something boiled and seasoned with sweet almond oil.

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• dimme

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a note which on recto contains only formulaic praises and on verso contains an enigmatic sentence (something about "every Jew") and the name Abū l-Barakāt b.

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• note
• shelomo b. eliyyahu

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