Documents

Possibly related to the nearby shelfmark T-S AS 204.281 (PGPID 32078) which also mentions Mordukh Kohen and Torah finials.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions al-Mahdiyya and ʿAllān. In the hand of ʿArūs b.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic by someone who calls himself "ha-ẓaʿir" and addresses al-Shaykh al-Rayyis. Perhaps by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Government receipt in Arabic on verso, one line states ṣaḥḥa li-Abū l-Aʿlā(?)… ʿalāʾim. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

Recto: Two genealogical lists, the first 8 generations, the second also 8 generations. One daughter mentioned. No titles.

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דיון אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions a maqṭaʿ cloth, but maybe also materia medica such as tamarind. Needs further examination.

תגים

• arabic script

דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso is in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. Recto is in a much more polished hand and is a poetic summary of the giving of the Torah at Sinai.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Bifolio containing Hebrew poetry as well as cryptic notes (also poetry/literary?) in Arabic script, mentioning Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb and "in the house of Yūsuf b.

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

4 Rabīʿ II 511 Kharājī

Primary language

Arabic

The last line is a ḥamdala and ṣalwala, then "Allāhu ḥasbī wa-tawakkaltu ʿalayhi." Needs further examination.

תגים

• dimme

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Verso might be more of the same and might also contain some Arabic poetry.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Refers to "the wax/candle sellers from ʿAsqalān" (al-ʿasāqila al-shammāʿīn).

תגים

• ashqelon

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Order of payment signed by Abū Zikrī Kohen, ordering al-Shaykh Khalīl to pay half a raṭl of soap to the bearer. AA/ASE. Join: Alan Elbaum.

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תגים

• abu zikri kohen
• cheque
• ib-addenda
• ib5
• order of payment

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

A note on verso: 'qabaḍtu min al-shaykh Abū l-Ṭāhir al-yahūdī naqqād . . . . thamāniya arṭāl. . . ."

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

Yehuda to an unidentified personality in Alexandria, approximately 1020 (?). Verso: Badly damaged text in a different hand to that on the recto.

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• shelomo b. yehuda

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions pomegranate seed, licorice, rose water, lapis lazuli (azuward, l. 6r), Abū Sahl, and Alexandria.

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תגים

• lapis lazuli

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

b. Peraḥya Ḥalabī (the Aleppan). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or early 12th century.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

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

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

ʿAmram ha-Kohen, representing the brothers Abū l-Maʿālī and Abū l-Wafā, and Abū l-Ḥasan al-Ḥalabi al-Sayrafi. (Information from Goitein.) […] Shelomo al-Ḥalabī, and Yaḥyā is Abū l-Ḥasan Yaḥyā b. Shemuel ha-Kohen al-Baghdādī. […] (Information from CUDL) Join: Alan Elbaum

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תגים

• agriculture
• aleppo
• court notebook
• debt
• hillel b. eli
• (+ 7 עוד)

2 תעתוקים

Document date

5 Kislev 1519 Seleucid (27 November 1207 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Written and signed by Moshe b. Elʿazar. Also signed by Avraham b. Hillel b. Ṣadoq Av. Location: Cairo. […] Buyer: Ḥasan/Yefet ha-Levi known as Ibn al-Batnūnī (אלבתנוני). Price: 21 dinars. (Information in part from Goitein’s index card and from Craig Perry.)

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• slaves

דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Written on vellum spanning two leaves (and three pages) that already contained literary text in Hebrew. The first page of the letter is on a blank verso and the ending of the letter takes up the lower margin of both recto and verso of the second leaf. […] The writer urges the addressee not to distance himself from them, and also asks for a maqṭaʿ (cloth). (Information in part from Goitein's note card.)

תגים

• fingerprints
• loopy lamed

דיון אחד

Document date

24 Elul 4997 Anno Mundi (15 September 1237 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from the tailor Yaʿaqov b. Ṭahor to Yehuda al-Ḥalabī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 24 Elul (4800 +) 197 AM = 4997 AM, which is 1237 CE (the numbers for 4800 are implicit in letters from this period). […] Ḥananel (the father-in-law of Avraham Maimonides [d. 1237], who is also referred to in the document as 'our lord').

תגים

• 4800
• dating tricks
• maimonides

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yaʿqūb b. Salmān al-Ḥarīrī, Tripoli (al-Shām), to Nahrāy b. Nissīm, Fusṭāṭ. […] Goitein dates the letter to seven weeks before T-S 8J19.27 (PGPID 7670), approximately 458–59/1066 (Goitein, Letters of Medieval Jewish Traders, 46n2), during the shidda al-ʿuzma in Egypt, when traders were eager to secure whatever food they could: "You know the times we are in, do not delay, these are difficult times."

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תגים

• cotton
• figs
• shidda
• trade

2 תעתוקים

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The money is to be sent with al-Shaykh al-Rashīd Abū l-Fakhr, the brother of [Sayyid?] al-Ahl the Blind. (Information in part from Goitein's note card)

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תגים

• book trade
• disability
• disability: vision

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Ṭevet 1525 Seleucid (15 December 1213–12 January 1214 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Lessee: Abū l-Baqāʾ b. Yefet al-Kohen. The terms of the rent are laid down. The house is in the alleyway of the domed mosque (Darb Masjid al-Qubba).

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Khallūf makes a claim on the inheritance of Ibrāhīm b. ʿAllān. The document is fragmented, so it is tricky to figure out what is happening. […] Ismāʿīl"; Khallūf b. Yehuda; Yaʿaqov; ʿAllān; Efrayim; and again ʿAllān. On verso there is some literary text in Hebrew and a tiny fragment of a separate Judaeo-Arabic document (ʿindahu... danānīr...)

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Mardūk b. Mūsā, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1045 CE, based on Gil's assessment. The handwriting is that of Yaʿaqov b. Salmān al-Ḥarīrī, and the letter switches to his voice starting in line v2.

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תגים

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: letter norms
• illness: waja'
• nahray b. nissim
• (+ 1 עוד)

3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Original use: Two lines from a petition or report about property rights, mentioning an alley (zuqāq) in Fustat and something under the name of al-qāḍī al-sadīd and a 'mound' (kawm) that belongs by rights to the petitioner.

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תגים

• petition
• pinholes
• rights
• to edit

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Arabic

At the bottom: the end of the name of a caliph [...] Allāh Amīr al-Muʾminīn, then prayers for him and his family, then the name [...] b. […] The next word looks like "متوليي", so possibly a dual, referring to two directors of the Dīwān al-Kharāj (which is the next phrase).

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תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Note in Arabic script addressed to [al-]shaykh ʿUmar at Raʾs al-Khalīj ("the head of the canal"; there is apparently a site just south of Fustat with this name), "may God preserve him." As soon as he receives this note, he should assist the bearer Abū Saʿd the banker for the amīr (ṣayrafī lil-amīr al-makhdūm). The addressee should accompany him and diligently help him find a boat to rent passage in.

תגים

• dimme
• pinholes

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Beginning of a petition -tarjama, basmala, formulae, on the right side 4 lines diagonally- from a Jewish woman (al-mamlūka [...] Abū l-Majd Ibn al-Ḥaver). In Arabic script. She seems to be trying to fend off a man who wants to marry her but who already has a wife and children. In the margin, she quotes from the Torah "the son of my sister took my right...".

תגים

• dimme
• petition
• tarjama
• woman

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

The sender is worried about the condition of the addressee and describes his anxiety over it in several instances (wa-qalbī muḥarraq/muḥraq... ʿalayk... wa-khawfī ʿalayk min an thanat(?) lahu wajhhaha idh yanāl minka...). He mentions the fear of the government over him (lak khawf al-sulṭān) and urges the addressee to listen to him (...qubūl qawlī wa-l-iṣghāʾ ilayhi).

תגים

• dimme

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Many valuable goods are listed along with their values, including wristbands (dastaynaq) and lapis lazuli (lāzaward). […] Unclear if the Hebrew script in between the lines of Arabic script on verso is part of the same document or a different one. See also T-S 13J33.11 + ENA NS I.23 (PGPID 35755).

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dammūhī; David Jabbān; Raḥamim; Yūnus; al-Qāʾid; ʿAbd Allāh; Ibn al-Ghazzawī; ʿAṭiyya.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

It seems that after the sender left the addressee, the police (al-rājil) apprehended him. (Also mentions the cold, but the context isn't clear.)

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Tells a long story on recto concerning a eunuch, the amir Murhaf al-Dawla, the king, and someone named al-Numayrī, and someone and "his slave who is his wife." […] Probably an indirect join (identified by Alan Elbaum): ENA NS 48.28 (PGPID 12161) and T-S 12.405 (PGPID 3155).

תגים

• amir
• army
• eunuch

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Yehuda to the newly appointed caliph al-Mustanṣir billāh, listing the prerogatives the gaʾon has enjoyed for the past eleven years of his tenure. […] Goitein writes that the script and style are identical with those of T-S NS 320.45, and also that Halper 354 "is the most important Geniza document found thus far illustrating the official position of the Jerusalem Gaonate within the Muslim state."

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תגים

• dimme
• investiture
• katb shahada
• petition
• state
• (+ 1 עוד)

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד 2 דיונים

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto (secondary use): Order of payment to Abu al-Surur Kohen, probably Abu al-Surur Farah b. Yeshua ha-Kohen, from Abu Zikri (Yehuda b. Yosef ha-) Kohen of 13 and a half dirhams for almonds. Both men were involved in the India trade.

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תגים

• ib5
• india book
• order of payment

2 תעתוקים

Document date

Shaʿbān 1240 Hijrī (21 March 1825–18 April 1825 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Appears to be a receipt for a sum collected 'from all of the households... from the heads of the (Jewish) sects in al-Maḥrūsa (Fustat/Cairo).' The name Yosef Gershon (يوصف قرشون/יוסף גירשון) appears, and he may be identified as the head of the Jewish sect (shaykh ṭāʾifat al-yahūd). There is a stamped seal at the bottom that may be legible.

תגים

• seal

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

1358 Seleucid (4 September 1046–23 September 1047 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Legal document in which Ḥusn bt. Yaḥyā ibn al-Zūrīqā, wife of Abū Naṣr Shelomo b. Saʿadya b. […] Ḥusn's daughter Jalīla bt. Shelomo is also mentioned. Dated: 1358 Seleucid = 1046/47 CE.

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions logistics regarding ships; someone named [...] al-Fāsī; flax; someone named al-ʿArīf; intending to travel this year; Abū Isḥāq Avraham b. [...]; pepper; a merchant known as al-Wādiyashī (from Guadix, maybe the same as in T-S 20.4, T-S 20.122, T-S 18J3.13, ENA NS 18.24, and IOM D 55.14); and the sender's cousin (ibn ʿamm) [Abū] Zakariyyā Yehuda.

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

1 Kislev 4864 Anno Mundi (3 November 1103 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

If by the end of the contract he gives them back to full price of the original sale (60 dinars) - they will transfer the property back to himl; if not, they are allowed to sale it forward. This is infact a loan with interest - the rent is the interest. Location: Alexandria. Dated: November 3, 1103 CE.

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תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

It is not clear what the notation means: an unnamed person? an addition to the allotment of someone named? The fourth row consists of distributions with total 4 1/4. Names include Bishr, Abū Isḥāq, Abū Manṣūr, Maḥāsin, Yosef Levi, Yaʿqūb, Abū ʿAlī, Abū l-Khayr b. al-Thiqa, and Fuḍayl. (Translated by Goitein, Sidre hinnukh, 192, p. 60)

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תעתוק אחד

Document date

Av 1371 Seleucid (1 July 1060–30 July 1060 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Abū Saʿd Mufarrij b. Iṣḥāq al-Ṣabbāgh known as Ibn נקרש al-Ramlī releases Abū Bishr Sulaymān b. David known as ʿAjlūn al-Qazzāz from a debt of 4 + 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 dinars according to a ruqʿa dated Shawwāl 451 AH (= November 1059 CE).

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תגים

• vocalized ja

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

7 Heshvan 1420 Seleucid (14 October 1108 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Betrothal deed between Nathan ha-Levi b. Isaac and Sitt al-Bayt bat Nathan ha-Parnas from Cairo. Dated: 7 Marḥešvan 1420 of the Seleucid Era (= 1108 CE). […] Written and signed by the clerk Moses ha-Levi b. David, also signed by Ṣemaḥ ha-Levi b. Jacob and ʿAmram b.

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תגים

• betrothal

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד 2 דיונים