Documents

Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Hebrew numerals

Two tables, one headed al-kabīr and the other a-saghīr (= al-ṣaghīr). Dating: probably late, no earlier than 13th century. The first table consists of all the Hebrew numerals paired with the corresponding Coptic numerals. […] Additionally, several of these symbols do not seem to be Coptic numerals at all - another form of shorthand? אל כ̇ = ?

אין רשומות קשורות

Letter from Natan b. Nahray, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat, mentioning various commodities including flax. Dating: ca. 1064 CE. Also mentions a paper price. “My lord mentioned buying paper from the Segulat (= Mūsā b.

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תגים

• flax
• nahray b. nissim
• trade

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter sent from Alexandria to Fustat regarding an inheritance of a widow and her orphans. […] The local Jewish judge (Heb. dayyan) issued a ban (Heb. ḥerem) against anyone who withheld information about property belonging to the orphans, but the ban did not help. Apparently there was also an attempt to take over the property by an appeal to non-Jewish courts.

תגים

• petition
• private

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yaʿīsh traveled in the time of the unrest and famine (צרות ורעב) to the country of Aleppo and from there to Raḥba, and took with him his daughter Jalīla bt. […] Includes phrases such as "all that in the court... neither you nor your mother... everything that you (pl.) left, that is what remains...," then describes several valuable garments. The location Raḥba could refer to the village in northern Lebanon or the medieval fortress town on the Euphrates (near modern-day al-Miyādīn, Syria). (Information in part from Goitein's index card.)

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דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef of Qayrawān (active 990s–1030s), apparently sojourning in Alexandria, to the three senior Tustari brothers (Sahl, Yosef, and Saʿīd the sons of Yisraʾel), in Fustat. In the letter Yehuda states that he will bring all the letters except those for Abū l-Faraj Yosef b. Yaʿaqov (Ibn ʿAwkal), which he had already given to Abu Mansur Ghalib to deliver. (Information from Mediterranean Society, V, pp. 239 and 572, and Goitein's index cards.)

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3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Letter from an unknown writer, on his way to Alexandria, to an unknown addressee, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. […] He reports that he did not find the wool ʿarḍī garment in Fustat, but hopefully will find it in Alexandria and will send it to the addressee. He repeats at least twice more that the only reason he did not write earlier was his sadness and worry (ḍīq ṣadrī, shughl qalbī).

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תגים

• emotion
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: marad
• illness: separation
• (+ 1 עוד)

תעתוק אחד 2 דיונים

Document date

1457 Seleucid (20 September 1145–8 September 1146 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: 1457 Seleucid = 1145/46 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Abū l-Fakhr al-ʿAṭṭār receives the right to sell an object given to him as security for a loan of 4 dinars and change, in case Abū l-Ḥasan Yefet b. Mevorakh (known as Ibn al-Ḥaver) has not returned the money by the end of the month of Sivan 1146 CE. Also mentions Abū [...] Avraham. Signed by Avraham b.

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דיון אחד

Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

The poet continues writing what may be a draft of a letter on verso, after which he starts to rework the first few lines of his poem a second time. Verso also contains a legal deed written by Efrayim b. Shemarya (who also signs), and signed by Yaʿīsh b. Avraham ha-Levi, Yeshuʿa b.

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Document date

13 Iyyar 126[.] Seleucid (14 April 949–4 May 958 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Recto: Bill of gift, in which a house in Qaṣr al-Šamʿ is given by [Isaa]c b. Abraham to his daughter Sittāna, the wife of Mevasser b. […] Dated Iyyar 13th, 126[.] of the Seleucid Era (= 948-958 CE). Verso: alchemical text mentioning a cooking pot and the following ingredients: lead, arsenic, urine, silver, egg white, salt, and blood. (Information from CUDL.) See also Goitein's index card. Join: MY.

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• alchemy

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic. He is to ask Ibrāhīm al-Ḥaver al-Kohen b. al-Ḥaver to appear before the court in Fustat to answer a claim of 2 dinars resulting from a partnership in tax farming (ḍamān) with Abū l-Makārim. […] The letter concludes, "Sayyidunā muwaqqiʿu ʿalā hādha l-khaṭṭ," which seems to mean: written with the Nagid's knowledge, or at his order.

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• damin

דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Aharon b. Yeshuʿa ibn al-Ammani written from Alexandria to Abu Sa'id al-'Attar (the perfumer) in Fustat.

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2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Alexandria relating to Jewish prisoners from Byzantium who were brought to Egyptian ports. […] Yosef the judge, in Alexandria, to Efrayim he-Ḥaver in the Great Sanhedrin b.

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תגים

• alexandria
• arabic address
• byzantium
• captives

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Document date

25 Tevet 1438 Seleucid (10 January 1127 CE)

The witnesses accompany him to the house of a dying man, Abu al-Ma'ali al-Dhahabi Shelomo b. Yakhin, with whom he had a loan regarding some commodity Abu al-Ma'ali confirms that the sum mentioned was indeed all due to Sedaqa and declares that he is his trusted agent.

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תגים

• business
• partnership

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Friday 15 of Adar 1443 Seleucid (4 March 1132 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The verso of the ketubba of Sitt al-Ahl bt. Yefet, from 1125/6 (PGPID 7560). Contains two legal records that were added later, also in the hand of Ḥalfon b. […] (B) On the right side, after Sitt al-Ahl's husband had taken a solemn oath to divorce her, he retreated.

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2 דיונים

Document date

Tammuz 1411 Seleucid (10 June 1100–8 July 1100 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

ʿEli, as the script is definitely his.") The Aleppan (al-Ḥalabī) Naṣr b. Hillel releases Avraham b. Yefet ha-Levi from any claim, as he has received all of the ghārīqūn which his father had deposited with him.

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דיון אחד

Document date

20 Shawwāl 741 Hijrī (8 April 1341 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

علوي the farmer (muzāriʿ) in the district of M[...] (l. 2). Another is al-Ḥājj [...] b. Khalīfa b. ʿAbd al-[...]. Mentions a government bureau (al-dīwān al-maʿmūr).

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1127–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yiṣḥaq, who had recently arrived from Damascus, grants power of attorney to Faraj b. ʿUkaysh for all his business affairs in Egypt and to claim the goods which he has deposited with Yosef b. […] The business has to do with combed flax. Also mentions the agent Yaḥyā. (Information in part from CUDL.) ENA 4011.13 (dated 1129/30) is related but is not a join. Joins: Alan Elbaum.

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תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Yiddish

Yiddish translation of the siddur, including ʿAl ha-Nissim and Asher Heni' for Purim. Dated on paleographic grounds to the 15th century, making it the oldest known Yiddish translation of the siddur (as of the 1980s, at least). […] T-S NS 37.110 was identified by Alan Elbaum, 12/2020, with the help of FGP Joins Suggestions. See also T-S AS 210.107 (PGPID 38139), which has similar but probably not identical handwriting.

תגים

• yiddish

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Rabīʿ I 615 Hijrī (May 1218–June 1218 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Unclear exactly how it is related to all the Avraham Maimonides material in this folder. Might be his own handwriting (should be checked against all the other examples), the handwriting of another Jewish official, or even a bulk receipt from a jahbadh? […] and T-S K25.240 ff.1, 2, 7, 9, and 10 comprise another cluster (jāliya receipts?). All need examination.

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תגים

• 13th c
• hikr

תעתוק אחד

Document date

Ṣafar 615 Hijrī (29 April 1218–27 May 1218 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Unclear exactly how it is related to all the Avraham Maimonides material in this folder. […] Registering an expenditure of 2005 qarārīṭ (=83.5 dinars) for the ground rent (ḥikr) for the poor Jews of Qaṣr al-Shamʿ for Ṣafar 615 AH (=April/May 1218 CE). […] and T-S K25.240 ff.1, 2, 7, 9, and 10 comprise another cluster (jāliya receipts?). All need examination.

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• hikr

תעתוק אחד

Document date

Dhū l-Qaʿda 614 Hijrī (30 January 1218–28 February 1218 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Unclear exactly how it is related to all the Avraham Maimonides material in this folder. Might be his own handwriting (should be checked against all the other examples), the handwriting of another Jewish official, or even a bulk receipt from a jahbadh? […] and T-S K25.240 ff.1, 2, 7, 9, and 10 comprise another cluster (jāliya receipts?). All need examination.

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תגים

• hikr

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Muḥarram 615 Hijrī (30 March 1218–28 April 1218 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Unclear exactly how it is related to all the Avraham Maimonides material in this folder. Might be his own handwriting (should be checked against all the other examples), the handwriting of another Jewish official, or even a bulk receipt from a jahbadh? […] and T-S K25.240 ff.1, 2, 7, 9, and 10 comprise another cluster (jāliya receipts?). All need examination.

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תגים

• hikr

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

5 Elul 1438 Seleucid (14 August 1127 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

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.

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• get
• remarriage

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Shevaṭ 1404 Seleucid (1 January 1093–30 January 1093 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Release agreement following the dissolution of a partnership ("shirka") between Yaḥyā ha-Kohen b. Samuel al-Baghdadī and ‘Ulla ha-Levi b. Joseph. A moneychanging shop ("dukkān al-ṣarf") – which was apparently also occupied by one Abū ‘Imrān ha-Kohen – and 750 dinars split between Syria and Fustat, are mentioned.

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• partnership

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Leaves from Maimonides' Judaeo-Arabic draft of his Arabic treatise on sexual intercourse, commissioned by the Ayyubid prince Taqī al-Dīn Umar. Maimonides prescribes various concoctions to increase Taqi al-Din Umar’s vigour and recommends a diet that avoids ‘cooling’ foods (long pepper, galanga, ginger, aristolochia, cinnamon, anise, clove, mace, and nutmeg are recommended but lentils, vetch, and cold vegetables such as cucumber, donkey cucumber, melons, garden orach, spinach and especially lettuce are to be avoided). A drink of iron water boiled with the ox tongue herb, lemon peel, beaten carnation, wine and honey, is suggested. He also advises moderation, as the sexual act itself was ‘enfeebling’.

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• maimonides autograph
• medical

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

Blessings on the Fatimid caliph al-Āmir bi-aḥkām Allāh (1101-31 CE) and on the Gaon Masliah b. […] (“Prayers from the Geniza for Fatimid Caliphs, the Head of Jerusalem Yeshiva, the Jewish community and the Local Congregation,'' in Studies in Judaica, Karaitica and Islamica, Presented to Leon Nemoy...Bar-Ilan University, 1982, 49-57) EMS See also Moss. L.62

תגים

• caliph
• formulary
• masliah gaon
• petition

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Natan b. Nahray from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat.

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תגים

• nahray b. nissim
• trade

3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Natan b. Nahray from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat.

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• nahray b. nissim
• trade

3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Diagrams, text, and calculations of an astrological/astronomical nature, perhaps also magical. Arabic, late.

תגים

• astrology
• astronomy
• late arabic script
• magic

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Verso: Draft of the opening lines of ʿAlī b. ʿĪsā's Tadhkirat al-Kaḥḥālīn. ASE

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תעתוק אחד

Accounts or sums in Greek/Coptic numerals (no words). There is also some literary text in Hebrew.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

In Arabic script. There are also a couple lines of sums in Greek/Coptic numerals.

תגים

• arabic poetry

אין רשומות קשורות

Fragment of a letter from Alexandria to Fustat. The recipient was ill when the writer departed Fustat.

תגים

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Possibly one line of a state document. ""al-[...] bi-waliyy wulāt al-[...] ... istiḥqāq...""

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Legal document in Arabic script. Mentions a perfumer (al-ʿaṭṭār) and a jeweler (al-jawharī)

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, headed al-muʿallim Ibrāhīm al-[...].

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Literary text, probably medical. Mentions "al-zībaq al-aḥmar" red mercury.

תגים

• dimme

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Unidentified text in Arabic script, in red ink. Mentions flour and "al-ḥajar al-...".

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Account in Judaeo-Arabic giving the value of something that was sold in Alexandria, probably mercury (ziʾbaq).

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yosef b. Yeshu'a, Alexandria, to Yosef b. Awkal (1028 or 1029).

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תגים

• 11th c

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Document in Arabic script. State? Refers to al-Qāḍī al-Ajall. Needs examination.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

Small fragment, probably from the opening of a ketubah (but can also be from top of a letter).

תגים

• ketubba

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Fragment of a letter either addressed to or mentioning 'al-ḥakīm al-ajall' (the esteemed physician).

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Accounts. Mentions al-Jaʿfarī and al-Naṣrānī. Verso may mention the rent of a warehouse.

אין רשומות קשורות