Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information from Goitein's index card.) Same scribe and layout: T-S Ar.51.82 (PGPID 21246) and T-S K25.166 (PGPID 8536).

תגים

• conversion
• ketubba
• trousseau

דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He was hardly able to write to you after the terrible blow, had we not made him him write to you. . . . He lay sick in bed for a period of three months. [. . .] took up his treatment . . . until God saw fit take to His trust." (For the strange-seeming phrase "lahu marīḍ," see also ENA 2738.37.) The context is unfortunately quite difficult to decipher.

תגים

• abu zikri al-rayyis
• condolence
• grief
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• (+ 5 עוד)

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Requires further examination. NB: The IIIF label for this shelfmark (ENA 2219.49) in DPUL is currently one digit off the actual value displayed in the image itself.

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תגים

• cmp
• silk

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Regards to his brother-in-law Dā'ūd. This letter is addressed to Avraham Kohen Vini(?)

תגים

• late ja

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

From top down: 1 line of names in Hebrew (Elʿazar, Hillel, Shela, Yefet, ʿEli); 4 rows of magical symbols; 1 line in Judaeo-Arabic, "the [r]esponse to a letter from the land of the Franks"; 4 lines in Arabic script, an invocation of God (who split the sea for Moses and destroyed [Pharaoh], etc.) to do something (taḥill?)

תגים

• franks
• magic

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Marriage document. A large damaged piece from a ketubah, from the 12th century, 1127 onward, based on the title יהי שמו לעולם כירח יכון עולם, which started to appear during the tenure of Maṣliaḥ Gaon as the Head of the Jews.

תגים

• ketubba
• marriage

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

However, there are many earlier Geniza letters (11th–13th century) with similar handwriting and formulae, and it's unclear if there's any evidence supporting a later dating. (Information in part from A. David via FGP.)

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

The final image under this shelfmark appears to be a fragment of unrelated early modern accounts, 16th-century or later.

תגים

• 18th or 19th c
• calendar

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1707–1850 CE

Accounts related to various coinage types such as dirham, fiḍḍa, and gold zingirli (here spelled as "גנזרלי"). The latter helps date this fragment as no earlier than 1707 CE when gold zingirli coins first began to appear in wide circulation within the Ottoman empire (Pamuk, A Monetary history of the Ottoman Empire, 174).

תגים

• 18th c
• numismatic dating

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1168–1204 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The note's purpose is to inform al-Shaykh al-Wathīq that there will be a gathering of the elders on Shabbat and warning him not to be late. He says that the addressee's note arrived but was too wet to read.

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2

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תגים

• autograph
• maimonides

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

Saʿīd, to his brother Moshe. In Hebrew. Late. Greetings are offered to his father and (another) brother.

תגים

• will

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

1028 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shari undertakes to pay after his return from Alexandria, no later than after 40 days. Dated Iyyar, 1028, and witnessed by seven signatories, headed by Yosef ha-Kohen, the judge.

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תגים

• 11th c

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1025–1051 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Abraham, particularly concerning the latter’s preference for the title bestowed by the Babylonian yeshiva to that of the Jerusalem yeshiva.

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2

תגים

• 11th c
• communal
• efrayim b. shemarya
• sahlan b. avraham
• shelomo b. yehuda
• (+ 1 עוד)

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

Verso: Part of an address. C. late 16th century. (Information from CUDL)

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תגים

• 16th c
• safed
• trani

אין רשומות קשורות

Salman al-Hariri, from a port city in Syria (maybe Ladikiya), to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1050.

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2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Legible words: "ḥerem stam. . . min al-wujūh. . . lahum shay' yaṭlubuhum. . . fa-innahu bāqī lī 'indahu. . .

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

Poetic letter of congratulations, from the Ḥaver, thein-law of the 'head,' Abū Is[ḥāq] b. Saʿadya, to Yeshuʿa b.

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Dhū al-Qada 508 Hijrī (April 1115 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Natan/Hibatallāh, the widow of Nahray b. Nissim, in late 1108, in Judeo-Arabic. Here on verso, in 1115 CE, this mistress sells the woman to the Christian physician ʿAbd al-Masīḥ b.

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תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

On parchment. In Hebrew. Large but extremely faded. Appealing for assistance on behalf of prisoners (פדיון שבויים) and the poor.

תגים

• byzantium
• communal

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Quantities and prices (the latter in Greek/Coptic numerals). Items include Indian myrobalan and Turkish rhubarb.

תגים

• druggist

דיון אחד

Primary language

Arabic

ʿammā yaṣil min al-nawāḥī al-baḥriyya... al-[...] al-sulṭānī...). Large, with multiple distinct entries. Needs examination.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Regarding a quarter of a house given as a gift at the time of a marriage and then 10 years later a situation involving a mortgage and using his wife's property for redeeming it.

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2

תגים

• moshe b. levi ha-levi

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: probably 13th century, based on hand, formulae, and layout. Addressed to a physician (al-ḥakīm). Contains prolonged blessings and praises, hopes that God will remove a cause of discord, and curses upon sinners and enemies.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Petition or report to a vizier (beginning only), possibly under al-ʿAḍid (see line 4, where the blessing uses the verb ʿaḍada; thanks to Lara Balaa for this observation, though this blessing was also used for earlier viziers, see for example T-S Ar.39.304 (PGPID 20876), fol. 1v, l. 4).

תגים

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

3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד

Primary language

Latin

A transliterated Latin prayer (borrowed from a Christian thief-catching ordeal), an Arabic version of a gnostic saying of Secundus the Silent Philosopher, a Hebrew praise of God, an Aramaic recipe for path-jumping and the beginning of an Aramaic recipe (for revelation?)

תגים

• judaeo-latin
• latin
• magic

אין רשומות קשורות

Recto: three recipes of folk remedies in Ladino, integrating magical elements. The ingredients include turpentine and organic foodstuffs like sardines.

תגים

• ladino literary
• medical

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Four discrete blocks, each with a header in larger letters followed by 2 lines in smaller letters.

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Iyyar 1457 Seleucid (15 April 1146–13 May 1146 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Netanel repaid the debt of his late brother Abū ʿAlī Yeḥezqel. Location: Alexandria. […] The present document deals with the sale of the silk, part of whose proceeds (43 2/3 dinars) paid off part of the debt (25 dinars), which means that Ḥalfon must have paid the remaining balance of 20 3/4 dinars from his own money.

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תגים

• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• india book

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

The signatories seem to be writing on behalf of a larger community, but the context of this letter has yet to be determined.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Italian

The Italian portion reads in part: "Dia Sempre Gloria e Vittoria al Nostro Sovrano Imperator Francesco Secondo D'Astria Con Tutta la sua Real Famiglia astriacha(?)." Dating: 1792–1835 CE.

תגים

• italian
• latin script

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The poem on the other side alternates between Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic from one hemistich to the next, inverting the order of the languages from verse to verse: ABBAABBAABBA, where A = Hebrew hemistich and B = Judaeo-Arabic hemistich.

תגים

• judaeo-arabic poetry
• macaronic

אין רשומות קשורות