Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Barhun Levi b. Ishaq concerning a deceased man, a debt, and power of attorney. […] ‘Azun, and the city of Damsis are mentioned. Dated 450 of the Muslim Era (= 1058 CE).

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תגים

• power of attorney
• wakila

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Dated: [..]45 (probably 1345 Seleucid = 1034 CE). Groom: Avraham ha-Levi. Bride: Durra bt. Shelomo, a virgin and a rich woman. […] Witnessed by [...] b. Mevorakh (מברך), Khalaf b. Seʿadya, Nissim b. Maymūn, Yefet b. Ṭoviyya ha-Levi, Ezra b. Hillel ha-Kohen. (Information from CUDL and Goitein's index card.)

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דיון אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Fol. 2v: Legal document in Arabic script. Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan b. […] Fol. 1r: Arabic document of lease (needs further examination). On fols. 1v–2r and margins, there is a medical text dealing with parts of the human body.

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תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Letters in Arabic script. Recto and verso are in two different letters in two different hands. […] Somebody told the writer that their custom is to keep dogs and falcons which they find, which has distressed the writer from yesterday till today. Mentions 'al-mawlā al-kabīr' and different breeds of dogs including Salūqiyya.

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תגים

• animals
• bedouin
• dog
• hunting
• to edit

תעתוק אחד

Document date

[4]84[.] Anno Mundi (1079–1089 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Signed by the ḥaver Yosef b. Ḥalfon ha-Levi (cf. Bodl. MS heb. c 28/19 (PGPID 6424)) and Yosef b. Naḥmān. Verso: another legal document, possibly a draft, mainly in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning a house in ʿAkkā, the agent Ṣadoq ha-Kohen, and [...] bt.

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תגים

• get

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document in the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE).

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תגים

• halfon b. menashshe

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly in the hand of the court clerk Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya. The letter opens with condolences for the addressee's loss. […] (Information from Mediterranean Society, V, p. 122.) On verso there are accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.

תגים

• bad son
• complaint
• condolence
• family
• personal

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The same scribe probably wrote ENA NS 69.20 and T-S AS 156.42, based on the presence of the relatively uncommon blessing "min dār al-fanā' wa-l-shaqā' ilā dār al-naʿīm wa-l-baqā' (from the abode of perdition and woe to the abode of blessing and immortality)." In this letter he describes the diet of a group of people "during this calamity," mentioning specifically salted turnip (lift māliḥ) and lupine (turmus).

תגים

• diet
• food
• regimen

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

In the 29th week space was assigned to salaries, superscribed al-rusūm, but the space was left blank. The letter samekh evidently stands for Arabic sittun (60). (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 451, App. B 42)

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תגים

• account
• payment

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

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

Primary language

Arabic

ʿEli the Jew acquires the lease of a plot of land in Fusṭāṭ from Abū l-Futūḥ Ghālib b. […] ʿEli the Jewish sawduster, transfers the leasehold of the property sold on recto to his son ʿAlī, by way of his uncle Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b.

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תגים

• government officials
• island
• jahbadh
• land tenure
• petition
• (+ 1 עוד)

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Document date

23 Nisan [4810] Anno Mundi (18 April 1050 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from both Nahray b. Nissim (recto) and ʿAyyāsh b. […] Given that the capitation tax was most often paid in the first half of the year (as opposed to the final month of the year as Gil believed), this letter most likely dates to 1050 CE. Gil's dating of the document to April 1051 CE is less likely but also possible. Apart from the tax receipt issue, deals with various other business matters. ʿAyyāsh mentions that he plans to travel to Raqqa. ASE

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תגים

• capitation tax

3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from an unknown man to his niece (bint al-akh). […] The writer urges the addressee to send the suitor a letter (? תדפעי לה מן ענדך) and go along with this plan. […] than you and I did not sit (i.e. as a widower)."). Cairo is also mentioned. The letter ends very abruptly with none of the formulaic regards, so this was probably a draft.

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תגים

• marriage
• remarriage
• suitor
• widow

תעתוק אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Partially preserved 11th century copy of second of three letters written by Saadya in the course of the 921-922 calendar controversy between Palestinians and Babylonians. There is an address in Arabic script. The letters are addressed to Saadya’s disciples Shelomo, Ezra and ʿEli in Fustat and recount the events of the Palestinian calendar declaration by Ben Meir and the Babylonian’s reaction to it. Saadya urges his addressees to uphold the dates of the Babylonians, and ensure that Jews do not eat leaven on Passover and desecrate the Day of Atonement.

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תגים

• calendar controversy

3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד 2 דיונים

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Khalaf b. Mūsā (=Ḥalfon b. Moshe) al-Ḥaver al-Kohen on behalf of the whole congregation of "Ḥaṣer Adar" (חצר אדר). […] The address is written partially at the bottom of recto in Judaeo-Arabic and also on verso in Arabic script. The lettermentions the city of ʿAsqalān and various names such as Abū ʿImrān, Wuhayb b. […] It is large, but it is faded nearly beyond legibility (in some places it is legible only because the ink has completely faded and bleached the paper where it used to be).

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אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Recto: Letter from the two congregations of Alexandria (No-Amon), led by the judge Yosef b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, to the Jerusalemite congregation in Fustāt, led by Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: ca. 1031 CE and, in broad strokes, 1007–1055 CE based on the years when Efrayim b. […] Requesting urgent financial assistance for the ransoming of Byzantine Jews taken captive by pirates. The lettermentions the visit of the Gaʾon's son, Avraham b.

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תגים

• captives
• pirates
• ransom

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Arabic, Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto (original use): Legal document written on parchment, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (active 1100–38). The beginnings of 10 lines are preserved. […] The epithet al-ʿĀdilī is less clear; the vizier Ibn al-Sallār was known as al-ʿĀdil, however he died in 1154.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

Circular on behalf of a notable from 'Arqa, northern Syria, whose wife and child were held in captivity. On verso blessings on food.

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תגים

• captives
• communal
• crusade

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Document date

5572 Anno Mundi (19 September 1811–6 September 1812 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Some of the values are specified with the currency symbol of a stylized ق (=qurush), to distinguish from other quantities that are much higher and probably fiḍḍa/medin/para. For an example of the latter currency symbol, see JRL SERIES B 2024, PGPID 28397. On the left side, there is a list of names. AA/ASE/MCD.

תגים

• 19th c

תעתוק אחד

Inferred date

1139–1140 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

India Book IV,19 (ח62). Letter from Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel to Yūsuf b. al-Khāzin (Almeria).

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תגים

• ib4
• india book

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

(II) Addendum (faṣl) probably to an unrelated legal record concerning a deceased father who stipulated that his daughter and all she possesses resides with the father's brother who has been appointed her trustee.

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). "Date not recorded. Items are listed in two columns.

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2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter of appeal for charity addressed to Abū Naṣr David b. […] The sender explains that he had been forced to flee from Alexandria, leaving behind his four daughters and two sons, on account of the poll-tax and debts totaling 15 dinars.

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תגים

• capitation tax
• communal
• petition
• tax

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

It seems to be discussing two men - one is a dhimmī man named Natan, who is poor and oppressed, and the addressee (the sultan?) […] Natan's father was apparently the tax farmer (ʿāmil) of al-Khaḍra, and Natan's mother left a large inheritance of 200,000 medins, however it seems the rich man has gotten his hands on the inheritance, simultaneously defrauding the government and leaving Natan impoverished. […] The document goes on to describe the sources of wealth of the rich man and his family members and associates. On verso (ll. 7–8), it states that the poor man should be helped, because he wishes to "leave the religion of unbelievers" and convert to "the noble (religion of) Islam."

תגים

• ottoman

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

28 Elul 5324 Anno Mundi (5 September 1564 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Ladino

Letter in Ladino by Abraham Palieche to his sister, dated 28 Elul 5324 (= 5 September 1564 CE). The address lists the destination as "אלה פלאייה דילפרונגה", which reads tentatively as "playa del fronja", the exact meaning of which remains unclear. The vav in the final word might be a different, badly damaged letter. […] From Eleazar Gutwirth, "The Family in Judeo-Spanish Genizah Letters," 212.

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תגים

• 16th c
• ladino

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Moshe b. Yefet/Ḥasan to the ḥaver ʿEli b. […] Ḥasan (the scribe of this letter); and Shelomo b. Ḥasan. On verso (apart from the completion of the letter and the address), there are two additional validations, confirming that the sender of the letter, Moshe b. […] ʿAmram and the second by Yaḥyā(?) b. ʿAmram ha-Levi. (Information in part from Goitein’s index card.)

תעתוק אחד

Document date

1159–1160 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to the Nagid Moshe b. […] Netanʾel ha-Levi (otherwise known to have held the title Gaʾon) and that this letter must have been written after the death of the Nagid Shemuel b. […] “one of the pegs on which a person must hang himself (an yataʿallaqa bi-hā),” a translation of the maxim from the Talmud Yerushalmi “Fortunate is he whose ancestors earned merit for him, for he has a peg (yated) on which to hang himself (lehitalot).”

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to the Gaon Sar Shalom ha-Levi, head of the Palestinian yeshiva (in office ca. 1170–71 and 1173–95), in which the muqaddam of Qalyub (the handwriting is that of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi) excuses himself from appearing in person on account of his illness. […] Goitein reconstructs thata the Gaon ordered an inquiry because the family had moved from one place to another. From the letter we learn that the family moved to Qalyub, the mother died there, the girl's sister was married to a freedman, and her brother had moved from Qalyub to the Manufiyya district, where he embraced Islam.

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תגים

• 12th c
• communal
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: excuse
• (+ 1 עוד)

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to the shop of Abū Ṭāhir b. Abū Naṣr al-Kohen Kelil ha-Yofi, in Sūq al-ʿAṭṭārīn, in Fustat. The writer inquires about news of his son and mentions Abū l-Barakāt Ibn ʿAmmār. (Information from Goitein's index card.)

דיון אחד

"In Geniza times the Kaddish was a solemn doxology, including a prayer for the living, and, in particular, the spiritual leaders of the community" (Goitein, Med. Soc., viii, C, 2, n. 154).

אין רשומות קשורות

Legal document (shetar) mentioning a partnership and a certain Berakhot ha-Kohen.

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אין רשומות קשורות