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25th Marḥeshvan 1418 Seleucid (25 October 1106 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Contains also a dowry list. Signed by: Mevorakh b. Isaac, Isaac b. Ghalib, Efrayim b. Sasson, A[vraha]m b. Shabetay, Yiṣḥaq b. Shemu'el, Elya b. Daniel, Israel b. Shlomo, Shemaryah Hakohen b. Natan, Yosef b. Isaac (his father name is only partly preserved), Halfo[n] b.

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• ketubba

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Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Witnesses include *[Yefet?] ha-Ḥazan b. David ha-Ḥazzan; [...] b. Menashshe; *Avraham b. David; Shemuel b. Shemuel b. Shekhanya; Shariya (?) ha-Kohen b. Natan, Shemuel b. Yosef, *Khalaf b. Yosef, Avraham b. Seʿadya, and [...]ʿa ha-Levi b.

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Primary language

Hebrew

Ownership note in a book belonging to Merayot b. Yehuda b. Efrayim b. Yaʿaqov b. Shemuel b. Avraham b. […] Above and below the name of a new owner is written: Sālim b. [...]. (Information in part from CUDL.)

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Document date

Shaʿbān 532 Hijrī (27 May 1115–15 May 1116 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Witnessed by Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. ʿUbaydallāh al-Qāʾifī, Ibrahim b. Aḥmad b. Manṣūr, Al-Ḥusayn b. Musāfir b. al-Ḥusayn b. […] Dated Shaʿbān 532 AH (May 1138 CE). Witnessed by Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Qāʾifī and Hibatallāh b.

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• government officials
• island
• jahbadh
• land tenure
• petition
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Document date

[1]339 Seleucid (4 September 1027–22 September 1028 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: [1]339 Seleucid = 1027/28 CE. Mentions Yosef b. Hārū[n] and "al-Līwānī." The preserved witness signatures are: Yosef b. Ḥātim, Ḥasan b. Mūsā, and Salāma b. Khālid. Not preserved: Barhūn b. Yaḥyā, [...] b. David, and Sulaymān b. Zakkār.

Tags

• testimony

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Aramaic

In the hand of Avraham b. Natan Av. Concerning people such as: [...] b. [...] from Damsīs, Barakāt b. [...], [...] b. Berakhot, Yosef b. [...], [...] b. Ḥalfon ha-Ḥaver, [...] ha-Mumḥe, Avraham b. […], and Avraham b. […] EMS (probably written by Avraham b. Nathan Av [Date: 1094-1115]) AA

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• avraham b. natan
• damsis

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Document date

Kislev/Tevet 5460 Anno Mundi (23 November 1699–20 January 1700 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

; (5) Engagement of Moshe b. Yaʿaqov ha-Levi and Reyna bt. Eliyahu Rmūkh(?)[…] The two transacting parties are Barūkh b. Aharon Yoʾav and Yosef b. Yeshūʿa ha-Levi. The first property listed "הכמארה" is unclear in its intended meaning. […] Abraham Ḥamūzī. (11) Debt acknowledgment between Yaʿaqov b. Shem Ṭov Melamed and Avraham b. Shelomo Benṭora/Binṭora.

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• cmp
• coral
• court notebook
• late court records
• legal

1 Transcription

Primary language

Hebrew

Bride: Naʿama bt. Nissi b. Yaʿaqov. Groom: Barakāt b. Dāʾūd. Witnessed by Ḥasan b. Ṣedaqa Kohen, Yīṣḥaq b. [...], Ṣedaqa b. Yīṣ[ḥaq], Yeḥezqel b. Binyamin ha-Levi, Yefet b. Yaʿaqov, Elʿaza[r b. Shemu]el b. Sahl ha-ʿEved, Moshe b. A[...], Yaʿaqov b.

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Primary language

Hebrew

The end of a legal document, preserving only a number of signatures: Joseph b. Abraham b. Sa[ul], Shemuʾel b. [...], Ibrahim b. Moses, Sahl b. Khalaf the teacher and Joseph b. Khalaf. (Information from CUDL)

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Document date

Monday, 25 Shevaṭ 1338 Seleucid (1028 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In which Abū l-Ḥasan Yosef b. Yiṣḥaq b. Yoshiyya releases Aharon b. Moshe Rosh ha-Qahal (aka Hārūn b. Abū Naṣr b. Saʿdān) from any claims with regard to books (maṣāḥif wa-ghayrhā) from the estate of his brother Yaḥyā b. Yiṣḥaq b. Yoshiyya. Witnessed and signed by Yefet b. David, Shemuel b.

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The names include: Bunyām b. Mubārak, Furayj b. Isḥāq, Dāʾūd b. Yaʿaqūb, Hiba b. Asad, Ismāʿīl b. Ismāʿīl, Maḥfūẓ [...], Shabbāth(?) b. Ṣāliḥ, Zikrī b. Yūsuf, Furayj b. Hārūn.

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Document date

6 Ṣafar 498 Hijrī (28 October 1104 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Deed of sale for the purchase by Ibrahim b. Mūsā b. Ṣaliḥ the Jew of two houses and irrigated land to the north of Fusṭāṭ from Dāʾūd b. Azhar b. Ibrahim b. Azhar the Jew (may be the same Dāʾūd b. […] Dated: 6 Ṣafar 498 AH (= 1104 CE). Witnessed by Al-Ḥasan b. al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī al-Anṣārī and ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b.

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Document date

1 Shevat 5287 Anno Mundi (3 January 1527 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Will from 1527 CE (1 Shevat 5287 AM) drawn up by Shul or Sol (Sul, Shol = שול), the wife of R. Shelomo ibn Sornaḥ סורנח. The Ladino word "Sol" or "Sun" seems to be more likely given that it is attested elsewhere in the early modern Geniza as a first name (for example, T-S Ar. 30.97r).

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• deathbed will
• legal

1 Transcription

Primary language

Hebrew

Five memorial lists. (1) ll. 1–16: geʾonim of the yeshiva of Jerusalem (and later in exile), from 1046 to about 1138, the dynasty from Shelomo ha-Kohen to Maṣliaḥ ha-Kohen. (2) l. 17–l. 9: geʾonim of the yeshivah in Fustat. (3) l. 10: the Dynasty of negidim of Egypt, including Mevorakh ben Sa'adya (1094–1111).

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• memorial list

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Document date

5517 Anno Mundi (25 September 1756–14 September 1757 CE)

On the verso, many more names appear: Moshe Angel, Shelomo Moznino, Avraham Zin[?], Mordechai al-Sheikh, Menaḥem Kohen, Na'im Heykel, David Na'im, and Moshe Kohen.

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• 18th c
• communal
• fgp stub

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Inferred date

1750–1850 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

.: (recto) Shalōm Bibas, Yaʿaqōv Bibas, Yiṣḥaq Ṭāwīl, Moshe Veniste, Moshe Mosseri, Eliyyahu Rolo, Av[raham], Peraḥīya, Raḥamīm Ḥāmī, Moshe ʿAkūbas; (verso) Ḥayyīm Rosano, Yaʿacōv Ḥason, Nissīm Molẖo, Shelomo Talmīd, Yosef Yaʿabeṣ, Saʿad Ḥāmī, Mordekhay Būqjī, Av[raham] Ashkenazī, Yaʿacōv Rolo, Moshe Aghion, Yaʿacōv Pereṣ, Yosef Orfalī, David Arīpol, Moshe ʿAfīf.

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• afif
• aghion
• aripol
• ashkenazi
• bibas
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Inferred date

1700–1850 CE

Other names mentioned include: Shelomo Barūkh, Mordechai Jūnd[?] (גונד), Efrayim ʿAkūbas, Yaqūtī Ṣdārī, Yaʿīsh ʿAkūbas, and Yosef Ḥayyūn.

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• 18th or 19th c

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Document date

1 Tammuz 5509 Anno Mundi (17 June 1749 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

The communal rabbi Nissim Shelomo Algazi (b.1670-d.1761 CE) has also signed below the document acknowledging its validity.

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• 18th c
• ben na'im

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Primary language

Hebrew

Levi, Shemuʾel b. [...], Sahlān b. Yehoshuaʿ, Yose[f] b. [...], [...] b. [...]el, Avraham b. Ḥayyim, Yehuda b. Eliyyahu, Eliyyahu b. Yona, Eliyyahu b. Avraham, [...] b. […] b. Shabbetay, Shabbetay b. [...], [...] b. Yehuda, Yiṣḥaq b.

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Natan b. Nahray b. Natan to Nahray b. Nissim.

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• b.
• nahray
• nissim

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Legal document. it seems to be a release. Signed are Yishaq b. Mevorakh, Avraham b. Yeshuʿa, Yisrael b. Yefet, and Hayyim b. Sasson b. Hayyim from the Ibn Sabra family.

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Short list of names (Zekharya, ..., Yeshuʿa, Elʿazar b. Sh[...], Aharon b. Hill[el], Yefet b. Shem[uel], Yosef b.

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• fgp stub

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Primary language

Hebrew

Short list of names (Zekharya, ..., Yeshuʿa, Elʿazar b. Sh[...], Aharon b. Hill[el], Yefet b. Shem[uel], Yosef b.

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Document date

28 Sivan 142[.] Seleucid (29 May 1109–20 June 1118 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Dated: Tuesday, 28 Sivan, 142[.] which can fit either 1111 or 1115 CE. Groom: [...] b. Yehuda. Bride: Turfa bt. Yefet. Witnessed by Yakhin b. Netanʾel Rosh ha-Qehillot, Menashshe b. Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen, Yeshaʿya b. Ṣedaqa ha-Levi, Avraham b. Natan Av Be[t Din], Avraham b. [...], Yiṣḥaq b. [...], and Ahuv b. [...]. (Information in part from CUDL.)

Tags

• dowry list
• ketubba

2 Discussions

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: end of a Judaeo-Arabic legal document, signed by Eliyyahu b. Moshe, Nissim [..], Ismaʿīl b. Khal[af], Shemuʾel b. Neḥemya Kohen, [… b. She]lomo, Barukh b. Yaʿaqov, and Daniʾel b.

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Primary language

Hebrew

List of names. Faraj b. Nisun(?), Shelom b. Yisra'el, Binyamin b. Simḥa, etc.

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Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Daniel b. Azarya to Avraham Ha-Kohen b. Yiṣḥaq b. Furat, Fustat.

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Primary language

Hebrew

Seven witnesses: Bābār b. David ha-Kohen (the name means "tiger" in Persian); Yefet b. ʿEli ha-Kohen; Yehuda b. Nisi ha-Melammed ha-Levi; Yosef b. Yehuda ha-Levi; Shemuel b. Yosef al-Baṣrī; Ṣedaqa b. Moshe; Yosef b. Aharon ha-Levi. (Information from Goitein's index card.)

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

End of a legal document, signed by David b. Mevorakh, Abraham b. Caleb and others. Below is a colophon written by Elʿazar b. Joseph b. ʿAmram, also mentioning Yefet b. Ṭoviyya. (Information from CUDL)

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Document date

2 Sivan 1519 Seleucid (19 May 1208 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A dozen signatures are preserved: Yosef b. Menashshe; Netanʾel b. Yosef; Netanʾel b. Daniʾel; Avraham b. Hillel; Shemuʾel b. Nissim; Yakhin b. Netanʾel; [...] b. Yeshuʿa; Menaḥem b. Mevorakh; Sar Shalom [...]; Yoshiyya b. Moshe; Hillel b. Moshe ha-Kohen; ʿEli b. Natan.

Tags

• communal strife
• resolution
• state

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Bill of lading. Hayyim b. 'Ammar b. Medini sends textiles with Abu Zikri Yehuda b. Menashshe b. Da'ud Sayrafi. (Information from Goitein's index cards)

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• account
• ship

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Document date

Nisan 1407 Seleucid (27 March 1096–25 April 1096 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto is in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Trimmed at top, bottom and one side. […] Verso, upper section: The top contains last lines of a record dated last day of Nissan, 1407 Seleucid = April 1096 CE, signed by Nissim b. Nahray; Avraham b. Shemaʿya he-haver. This section is written in a different hand from the other sections, likely that of Nissim b. […] Per Goitein, this Abū l-Barakāt is not the Mevorakh mentioned on the recto but rather Abū l-Barakāt Mevorakh b. Shelomo al-Ḥalabī, and Yaḥyā is Abū l-Ḥasan Yaḥyā b.

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• agriculture
• aleppo
• court notebook
• debt
• hillel b. eli
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Document date

Tuesday, 20 Shevaṭ 1361 Seleucid (16 January 1050 CE)

Abū l-Ṭayyib Ḥananya ha-Levi ha-Parnas. Groom: Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq the scholar. Witnessed by Natan b. Yeshuʿa ha-Levi, Menashshe b. David, Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Saʿadya the physician, Natan b. Sason, Avraham b. [Maṣ]liaḥ, Nahray b. Nissim, Manṣūr b. Yaʾir, Khalaf b. Saʿadya, Yiṣḥaq b.

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Document date

Thursday, 18 Iyyar 1409 Seleucid (22 April 1098 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Regarding a financial claim made by Yosef b. Yiṣḥaq against Abū Manṣūr Aharon b. Mevasser al-Zayyāt. Witnessed by Netanʾel b. Yefet, Nissim b. Nahray, and Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel. (CUDL) Written by Avraham b. Natan Av (or Hillel b. ʿEli?).

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Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Individuals mentioned include […] b. al-Naḡara, Ḥalfon ha-Levi, Yiṣḥaq b. Aharon, Yosef ha-Levi b. Ḥarith, Yiṣḥaq b. ʿOvadya b. Yiṣḥaq, and Yiṣḥaq b. Yaʿaqov. The document is probably connected with Ḥalfon b.

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• almeria
• halfon-addenda
• ib-addenda
• ib4
• release
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Written and signed by Shemuel b. Moshe b. Elazar. other signatories: Avraham b. Yosef, Khalaf b. Moshe. Moshe b. Yosef. Ya'aqov b. Khalaf and nadiv ha-Levi b.

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• ketubba
• marriage

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Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document mentioning Shela b. [...], Fusṭāṭ and the Gaʾon. Signed by [...] b. Ṣedaqa, Yefet b. Saʿadya and [Jose]ph b. Yefet. (Information from CUDL)

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