Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Small fragment, very little preserved. There is also the remnant of an Arabic document at the torn edge.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Only a couple words preserved (qad ʿalimaallāh. . . wa-lā mā. . .)

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Account in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū ʿAbd Allāh; Abū Manṣūr; brass; Ghālib; Ibn al-Anṣārī.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The next section opens "for me, delayed (? ʿaqqāb; also possible this is a name) with Ibn Muʾmil." The following section also mentions Ibn Muʾmil and gives the date of Sunday 6 Jumādā I; then Wednesday the 9th; then Sunday with 10 days remaining in the month; the bottom section may refer to "my brother"; and the 1th of Jumādā II; Mūsā; and Sunday with 11 days remaining in the month.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The names of the sender and the addressee and the date are all covered up by a sheet of paper, along with some additional text on verso, so the physical manuscript will need to be checked. […] He sends a message to Abū Saʿd al-ʿAkkawī al-ʿAṭṭār who lives in Cairo, namely that he has sent a certain judge two copies of something, one with Abū l-Mufaḍḍal the in-law of Ibn Ḥajar.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He asks that they be sold in Fustat, and some carnelians purchased with the money. Nahray is also asked to urgently provide parchment in order for Yisrael to do some work as a scribe. […] 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. (Information from Gil, Palestine, vol. 3, pp. 145-148, #472) VMR.

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

2 תעתוקים

Abū l-Majd, in Alexandria writes to his cousin Judge Elijah, in Damascus (?) […] I want to consult you about the trip. . . the news of the country, whether caravans are going. . . ." Abū l-Majd also writes, "I have sent you many letters on this matter and not received a response."

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תגים

• disability
• disability: vision
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: eye
• (+ 1 עוד)

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The corresponding year 1645 CE does not seem very likely given the paleography and high degree of paper preservation, therefore, the ligature before 5 should also be considered as ק– possibly another multiple: ק5 = five hundred. The year 1745 CE seems more likely, but this reading is also tentative and should be checked against the lifespans of the people mentioned.

תגים

• 18th or 19th c
• late ja

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Last decade of Kislev 1438 Seleucid (December 1126 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Saʿadya acknowledges that he owes 32 dinars to Abū Isḥāq Avraham b. Sason, a perfumer (al-ʿAṭṭār) from al-Maḥalla (al-Maḥallī). He promises to pay by Passover. […] (Information in part from Goitein's index card.) Join: Alan Elbaum. ENA 2558.1 + ENA 4011.46 (PGPID 6621) and Moss.

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דיון אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Ladino

Before switching into Ladino, the second entry on the recto mentions the use of "spring water/ מיים מן המעין" (l.10-11r) and there is also mention of "the sun/השמש" which is faintly legible along one of the fragment's lower tears (l.11r). Further down in Ladino there is mention of angels with "אנג׳ילו" and "אנג׳יל" (l.13r). On the verso all recipe entries are in Ladino and the penultimate one refers to an "infant/קירייאטורה" (l.) in the same unique spelling as the join ENA 2713.17.

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תגים

• ladino literary
• medical

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1578–1578 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

The guarantors are Sulaymān [Serrano] and Yiṣḥaq Navarro (the debtor from recto). Also mentioned: Yehuda Serrano (also appears in ENA NS 5.30, dated 5338 AM = 1578 CE).

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אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

1 Nisan 1546 Seleucid (22 March 1235 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Stating that אלשיך אלרציו (spelling error for either al-Raṣuy or al-Raḍiyy) will live in the house which he renovated." Written and signed by Shemuel b. Ḥalfon. Also signed by [...] ha-Melammed. Underneath there are a few lines of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Petition from a woman named Umm Hilāl bt. Ibn al-Muhandiz the ḥaver, who is living in the synagogue of the Palestinians. […] The scribe's name appears in the right margin : al-ḥ[aver] or al-ḥ[azzan] Natan. She beseeches the addressee (the Head of the Jews?) to declare a ban of excommunication in the synagogue against all those who have taken food belonging to her (flour, wheat, oil, wine), for they have stolen her possessions (raḥl) and cut off her ability to sustain herself.

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תגים

• communal
• excommunication
• petition

דיון אחד

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Barakāt al-Kohen, unknown location, to the parnas Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllūn (= ʿEli b. […] Only the upper margin on recto and the address on verso are preserved. He complains of all the things "that are said in the synagogue with impure tongue." […] and Hiba has been leading the psalms (al-mazāmīr).

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תגים

• bialphabetic

תעתוק אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Moshe ha-Mumḥe known as Ibn al-Jāzfīnī, in the Rīf, to the elder and cantor Yakhin b. […] (Information in part from CUDL; see also Zinger, Women, Gender, and Law (PhD Diss.), p. 363f on the Ibn al-Jāzfīnī family.)

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אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1133–1136 CE

Primary language

Arabic

Dating: Before the beginning of 1136 CE, as that is when Ḥalfon departed Egypt for the west, and when he returned in 1139 CE his brother (here greeted as النازر/al-Nezer) was already dead. Concerning business in goods such as sal ammoniac and turpeth, and mentions a public auction (ḥalqa) several times. (Information in part from Aodeh; see also Hebrew description from Goitein and Friedman, India Book IV.)

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תגים

• aodeh
• gold
• halfon b. netanel
• ib4
• india book
• (+ 3 עוד)

2 תעתוקים

Document date

1339 Seleucid (4 September 1027–22 September 1028 CE)

Semah, who had stood security for her husband, declares in the presence of two witnesses to his creditor Abu al-Maymun b. Avraham al-Saluki (from Seleucia) that she is no longer responsible for him. Abu al-Maymun replies that he holds only her responsible. […] (Information from Goitein's index cards) EMS. Alternate description: F. 2v: Court record concerning affairs between Abū l-Maymūn b.

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תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter (bottom part) from Alexandria to Fustat, dictated by Abu l-Najm Hilal, written down by Abu l-Muna, and addressed to Abu Ishaq b. Yaʿaqov at funduq al-Mahalli, who is to give it to Abu l-Majd the cantor—the brother of Hilal. […] The Ḥaver and Ibn Daud reached an arrangement to alternate Shabbats (in receiving income?) starting after Passover.

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• alexandria
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: dying
• illness: furqa
• (+ 3 עוד)

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

The letter details that the poor man’s wife and children are due to come up from Alexandria but they have written to say they cannot afford the cost of a boat ride, and so the writer requests that Eli ha-Parnas hold a collection and “do not let the oppressed return in shame.” The foreign scribe spells Alexandria with a qof instead of the expected kaf. (Ben Outhwaite, “Byzantines in the Cairo Genizah,” in Jewish Reception of Greek Bible Versions, ed.

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• byzantines
• communal
• disability
• disability: poverty
• disability: vision
• (+ 1 עוד)

2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים 2 דיונים

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

IB VI, 22b. Letter from Alexandria sent around 1120 CE from a Maghribi merchant, Makhlūf b. Musa al-Nafusi (Ibn) al-Yatim, who proclaims that a friend carried for him a purse with 101 “fresh” (‘tari’) dinars weighing 100 and one/fourth.

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תגים

• alexandria
• ib6
• india book
• trade

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Mevorakh ha-Kohen, in Ashqelon, to the parnas ʿAllūn b. Yaʿīsh. Written in both Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic. […] NB: A previous description indicated that this letter is written in the top margin of an earlier letter in Arabic script, all of which is now lost except for the basmala and part of the address in the top right corner, referring to al-firnās al-jalīl.

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תגים

• bialphabetic

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Manṣūr (not Manṣūr b. Sālim) in Alexandria to his brother in Fustat mentioning that his son Moshe started to speak and has since kept repeating: 'my uncle, my uncle Musa,' referring to his deceased uncle and the sender's and recipient's brother, who bore the same name. The sender also writes about an agreement that was reached with a tax-farmer about a payment made in installments and expresses regret about the fact that a female relative who was involved in a law-suit with her husband enjoyed 'no holiday and no Saturday.'

תגים

• damin
• tax

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender threatens to cut off all relations with his sister and her family if the marriage goes through. "It would be better to for her to be sold to the Franks (al-ifranj) or married to the blacks (al-sūdān) rather than to be known by his name. . . . this is something not even crazy people (al-majānīn) would do."

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תגים

• personal

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Letter from Yosef al-ʿAdanī al-Mamsawī (i.e., originally from Aden and now a resident of Mamsa, Morocco) to Ḥalfon b. […] The sender was a prosperous trader who lost all his possessions after a shipwreck. There is some question whether Yosef al-ʿAdanī wrote this letter in his own hand, as the script is Sefaradi.

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• charity
• halfon b. netanel
• ib-partial translation-heb
• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• (+ 1 עוד)

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד

Document date

Middle Tammuz 1555 Seleucid (June 1244 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document in which Aharon b. Abū al-Riḍāʾ and his wife, Labwa (“Lioness”) bt. Abū Ghālib, release each other from all claims. […] Furthermore, she commits to provide the maintenance and capitation tax for her older son, Furayj, for two years and to pay for his learning the craft of silversmithing. She will also provide maintenance for their young son, Raḍī, for ten years.

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• capitation tax
• dowry
• ketubba
• silversmithing

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Poetic epistle addressed to the poet and man of letters Yehuda ha-Levi, who was also a well-to-do physician and devoted time to public welfare and charity. […] He refers to himself as "al-Burgoshi al-Kashtīlī", from Castile. Since the letter is addressed to Yehuda ha-Levi and refers to his stay in Egypt, it should be dated to 1140-1141 CE, when the addressee was staying in Egypt on his way to the Holy Land.

תגים

• petition
• private

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Sunday, 13 Tishrei 4750 Anno Mundi (15 September 989 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

The paqid Ṭoviyya b. Yaḥyā of Aleppo appoints Neṭira b. Ṭoviyya ha-Kohen ha-Neṣivi/Nuṣaybī (נטירא הכהן בר טוביה הנציבי) as his agent. […] Asad, and the scribe Shemuel b. Ḥalfon (who also surrounds his name with a motto). (Information from CUDL.)

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דיון אחד

Document date

Tuesday, 14 Elul 4762 Anno Mundi (25 August 1002 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Elḥanan, ha-Rav ha-Rosh, who also signed. Dated: Tuesday, 14 Elul 4762 AM = 1313 Seleucid (= 25 August 1002 CE). Also witnessed by Shelomo b. David ha-Levi, Aharon b.

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Account of payments to a physician (al-Rayyis) by five patients: Bū ʿAlī, Ibn Shahrīn or Shahrayn (a 2-month-old boy?)[…] He visited each of these almost daily, and they paid 1–4 (dirhems?) per visit; only on Friday two patients paid 6, presumably because there usually was no visit on the Sabbath. […] There are some additional names listed at the bottom of the first column under "al-bāqī," e.g., Farajūn, Ibrāhīm, Abū l-Khayr. The scribe uses a version of the ﭏ ligature as a numerical notation (as in T-S Ar.30.284).

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תגים

• illness
• illness: cost
• illness: physicians
• physicians

דיון אחד

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

There are astrological references as well (al-kawākib, al-saʿd).The first line of verso mentions "the female gods and the male," the third line mentions the knowledge of all the angels, and the lower part of the page might contain a recipe for incense involving chrysanthemum (zahr al-uqḥuwān).

תגים

• arabic script
• magic

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

(wa-lā fī nafsī mink mimmā tawahhamta shayʾ...). Mentions Dār al-Anmāṭ, which was a well-known market complex on the eastern bank of the Nile near the mosque of ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ and the main street of Fustat (see Ahmad Ghabin, Ḥisba, Arts and Crafts in Islam, p. 241, where there is also a reference to Geniza documents cited by Gil).

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תגים

• glyph

תעתוק אחד

Document date

4 Heshvan 4975 Anno Mundi (9 October 1214 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document. Location: Alexandria. Dated: 4 Ḥeshvan 4975 AM = 9 October 1214 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Avraham Maimonides. […] Yosef ha-Kohen, appears before the court in Alexandria and declares that he sold to Bū l-Faraj b.

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• alexandria
• cheese
• sicilian cheese

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Ḥusayn. The context is almost entirely lost. A couple other partial names may appear (Ibn Farḥān in l. 3?). […] Including: the second volume of Kitāb al-M[...] fī l-Fiqh according to the madhhab of Abū [...]; the second volume of a book known as al-Uṣūl by [...] Abī Ṭālib; a daftar of something; the next entry is difficult to read but may refer to a Hebrew translation of a book (يعبر سفر الهـ؟؟؟); al-Jāmiʿ; and a few more damaged names.

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Sunday, 13 Ḥeshvan 1529 Seleucid (16 October 1217 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dāʾūd; greetings to Bū l-Surūr the sender's cousin (ibn khāl), who should be informed that Munajjā al-ʿAṭṭār is doing terrible things (aʿmāl ʿaẓīma) with the money which he took for the sake of making him a turban; someone from Alexandria who said that he (Munajjā?) was in debt to Ibn Muʿammar al-Ghaniyy; and someone named Ṭāhir. At the bottom of the second page (recto) there are jottings (at least partly pen trials / تجربة قلم) in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso contains two names, Sitt al-Ahl bt. Mūsā and Hiba b. Faraḥ, also known as Ibn al-T[...], probably a sketch for another unrelated document.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

Most of the text on these fragments is scribal practice of biblical verses in a beautiful square hand. There are also two earlier uses: (1) on recto, several lines and text blocks of Arabic text on recto. […] Sahl" (i.e., Avraham b. Yashar al-Tustarī, who died in 1047). (2) several lines of Hebrew poetry with wide line spacing containing praises and blessings for a dignitary who is "the son of a Rosh Kalla, and Nasi." Join: Alan Elbaum. There are good prospects for further joins.

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תגים

• arabic reused

אין רשומות קשורות