Documents

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Mercantileletter reporting that everyone at home is well and giving the prices of different goods. […] (Information from Goitein's index cards.) The letter ends on verso with three lines of Arabic script, not yet fully transcribed.

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תגים

• bialphabetic
• flax
• honey
• war
• wax

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Inferred date

1135–1164 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment from Shabbetay b. Avraham he-Ḥaver (the judge of Minyat Zifta, active 1135–78) to Natan b. […] Shabbetay includes a wish for Natan’s recovery in the address and reports that he was ill himself—with a bone in his leg that had not been set properly—and apologizes for not presenting himself. […] Information from Goitein’s note cards and Med Soc II, 44. See also card #27137.

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תגים

• bonesetter
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: limb
• illness: treatment

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

As indicated by the cut of the extant fragment, it probably contains less than half the original list. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 503, App.

תגים

• charity
• communal
• donors
• poverty

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

438 Hijrī (8 July 1046–27 June 1047 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Letter in Arabic and Hebrew script dated 438 AH (1046/1047 CE). The opening politesse consists of many lines in Arabic script in a calligraphic chancery hand with wide line-spacing. When the letter switches to Arabic script, it is to discuss a matter concerning some enemies of the writer and addressee. Meira Polliack, "Dual Script Mixed Code Literary Sources from the Cairo Genizah," Intellectual History of the Islamicate World 7 (2019): 340-41 contains a careless edition of the Arabic and errors in the Judaeo-Arabic, the readings in PGP edition are preferable.

תגים

• bialphabetic

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably sent from Alexandria to Fustat. Refers to the arrival of ʿImrān to Fustat; the addressee is to ask him for news concerning another trader, and whether this other trader has left al-Jāwa yet. Also mentions the arrival of somebody else, a Maghribī, in Alexandria from Aden who conveyed news concerning Abū l-ʿAlāʾ.

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תגים

• ib-addenda
• java
• red sea

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a man, in Damietta, to his brother Abū l-Majd, in Damīra. (The sender's name may be legible in the Arabic address -- perhaps [Abū l-]Munā.) […] The sender had sent an invitation with Hiba al-Kohen for the addressee to come celebrate the holidays in Damietta, and he is sad that he did not come. The sender mentions a house and his cousin (the daughter of his maternal aunt).

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter/petition in Judaeo-Arabic. Recto is mostly extended expressions of deference and flattery. […] The ḥaver (probably the addressee) should judge between the sender and (presumably his rival) Menashshe the musician (? al-Mizmār). He then cites the saying of Yehoshuaʿ b. Qarḥa from BM 83b, "Let the owner of the vineyard come and eradicate his thorns" (יבא בעל הכרם ויכלה את קוציו).

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a letter in the hand of Elḥanan b. Shemarya in which he states that Ḥasan b. Saʿdān b. Aṣbagh met the late Caliph "this week." Someone said that Ibn ʿImrān brought a fatwā from al-Shām saying that people must only go to Yaḥyā b. […] The chronology is perplexing, unless the caliph died a few days before the letter was written—maybe this is why Goitein's index card says "Dreams."

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter sent from al-Mahdiyya (Gil)/ al-Maghrib (Ben-Sasson) to Fustat (Gil)/Sicily (Ben-Sasson), by Ishaq b. Ali al-Majjani to Abu al-Fadl, dealing with a debt of Banu al-Majjani to one named al-Shiraji (Gil) and mentioninglegal opinion of Rabbi Hananel b. Hushiel and Masliah b.

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3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Thursday, 11 Av 1442 Seleucid (6 August 1131 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Dated: Thursday, 11 Av 1442 Seleucid, which is 6 August 1131 CE. Husband: Yehuda b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Wife: Sitt al-Khawāt bt. Eliyya (cf. […] The witnesses are ʿEli b. Netanel ha-Levi and Hillel b. Shabbat ha-Kohen. The verso contains the acceptance of the bill of divorce by the wife, signed by the witnesses Eliyyahu b.

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דיון אחד

Inferred date

984–984 CE

Ḥasan two months after the signing of this document by Yiṣḥaq b. Moshe, Shimi ha-Levi, and Avraham ha-Levi. Drafted in Damascus, ca. 984 CE. […] (Information mainly from Mediterranean Society, IV, p. 215, 426, 473, Goitein's index cards, and Friedman, Jewish Marriage in Palestine, 279 and multiple other locations.)

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תגים

• ketubba
• marriage

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Moses גליפאפה, in Venice, to his teacher Shemuʾel ben Sīd, in "Alexandria or Cairo." […] Dating: Late 17th century (per CUDL) or early 17th century (per Avraham David, based on a potential reference to the same events in a pinqas entry from the community of Mantua dated 31 January 1616 CE). The letter concerns the ransoming of ten Jewish captives, some of whom were taken in Rome, who are being held in Palermo. Mentions Seʿadya Dārūqīs of Venice, Avraham of Egypt, and Refaʾel of Rome.

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תגים

• 17th c

תעתוק אחד

Inferred date

1029–1030 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda, gaʾon of the Jerusalem yeshiva, to an unknown person in Fusṭāṭ. This is a copy of the first part of the gaʾon's original letter, T-S 13J19.16 (PGPID 991), in the hand of Ghālib ha-Kohen b. […] This copy and the original contain some interesting differences of orthography that could yield good information about Judaeo-Arabic and possibly about Hebrew as well; but both transcriptions should be double-checked, as there seems to have been some merging of the two copies both by Gil and by PGP transcribers.

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תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Eliyyahu the Judge to his two sons Abū Zikrī and Shelomo. […] According to Motzkin, Eliyyahu is asking his sons to come back from Jerusalem, however it's not clear what this is based on. The letter describes a matter with a Qaraite known as al-Shaykh al-Thiqa Ibn Kūshak and a government official (ṣāḥib dīwān) known as Jamāl al-Dīn al-Nāwī who was formerly the secretary of the treasury (kātib al-khizāna). Mentions government documents (tawāqīʿ, dustūr) several times.

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תגים

• 13th c
• abu zikri al-rayyis
• jerusalem
• judge eliyyahu
• shelomo b. eliyyahu

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Letter from Ya’aqov b. Nahum b. Hakhmon, from Tripoli (Libya), to Nahray b. Nissim, Alexandria. Around 1060. The letter contains details about goods that arrived from Fustat. It is hard to unload them because there are goods on top of them. The writer mentions the prices of several goods and selling goods that Nahray sent to Tripoli.

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תגים

• flax

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

Part of a letter, probably from the first half of the 11th century, possibly written by Yeshuʿa b. Yosef ha-Kohen, on behalf of the Jerusalemite and Babylonian Rabbanite communities in Alexandria, to the leader of the Jewish community in Fusṭāṭ (name not preserved but titled ‘the distinguished scholar’), perhaps Elḥanan b. […] The ransom had been raised at great cost to every member of the Alexandrian Jewish community. (Information from CUDL.)

דיון אחד

Inferred date

1420–1420 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter written by [Joseph b.] Elʿazar in Palestine, mentioning various individuals including Abū l-Faraji, Elʿazar the doctor, Joseph the doctor, ʿAbd al-Karam, Sulayman b. ʿAbd al-ʿAziz, and David the Spaniard. The letter also refers to the house of Shemuʾel the prophet.

תגים

• 15th c

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Letter from Ḥushiel b. Elḥanan, in Qayrawān, to Shemarya b. […] In which Ḥushiel praises both the addressee and his son Elḥanan, and describes how he came from Italy to settle in Qayrawān. Mentions Yehuda Resh [Sidra], Yosef b. Berakhya, Nissim, and Avraham b. […] This was among the first Geniza documents to be published; see Schechter, "Geniza Specimens: A Letter of Chushiel," JQR Old Series Vol. 11, No. 4 (1899), 643–50.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Simḥa al-Nīsābūrī ha-Levi to Abū l-ʿAlāʾ Salāma b. […] He did not press Abū Sahl Mukhtār (also mentioned in T-S 12.296v) on the matter of the "sayf" (a sword?).

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תגים

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: marad
• illness: recovered
• nisaburi

דיון אחד

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

Fragment of a letter from Avraham the son of the Gaon probably to Efrayim b. […] The first few lines preserved here are written in Arabic script, and the end of the letter is in Hebrew. NB: When Goitein refers to "T-S NS 320.16," he generally means the manuscript that currently has the shelfmark T-S NS 320.42.

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תגים

• 11th c
• communal

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Note accompanying an epistle (risāla) (or possibly a gift?) sent by Avraham b. Abū Yūsuf to Manṣūr b. Yefet Abū l-Ḥasan al-Dimashqi. Recto and verso …

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תגים

• informal note

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Beginning of a marriage match agreement drawn up in the presence of witnesses and written three times, the last version written in the shape of …

תגים

• marriage

תעתוק אחד

Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

List of names and amounts in Coptic numerals on back of a letter. After the list comes: 'Six days: Sunday -- 2; Monday -- 2; Tuesday -- 2; Wed[nes]day -- 2; [Th]u[rsda]y -- [2?]

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תגים

• list

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from a certain Yosef, in Aden, to Yosef Ibn Shanju, in Fustat/Cairo. […] The sender is reporting on his business affairs in Aden, where he arrived from "Tabor" in Egypt (apparently there is a location that sounds like this between Fuwwa and Rashīd). The merchandise he was expecting to receive from India never arrived. He is planning a trip to Calicut. He mentions two Jewish traders in Aden, Moshe Hakan and David al-Kehlado, who are involved in business with him in Calicut and Surat.

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תגים

• ib6
• india book
• late heb

3 תעתוקים

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38). […] Concerning an interpersonal conflict: "the rudeness and the insults and the foolishness.... which should not be mentioned due to its ugliness and enormity...." Someone demanded from someone else that they move out of the house.

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תגים

• conflict
• halfon b. menashshe

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Original use: Two fragments of a legal document in Arabic script. ~8 partial lines preserved. Tight line spacing, stylized dhālika ذلك in l. 2, stylized ṣaḥīḥ in l. 4. Mentions ḥaqq and al-nās ajmaʿīn. Involves two women (hātayn al-mutaqāriratayn), one of whom is called Sitt al-Fakhr. Might be a deed of sale (mentions "al-mushtarī" near the bottom) of real estate.

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תגים

• dimme

דיון אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Verso: Two fragments of a Fatimid internal memorandum dating to the period of al-Ḥāfiẓ (r. 1130-1149). The preserved text mentions "Sadd al-jusūr al-sulṭāniyya", the operation of the royal dykes, the Gharbiyya province, and at least three state officials: al-Amīr al-Muwaffaq Sayf al-Mulk Iftikhār al-Dawla wa-Shujāʿuhā Abī Manṣūr Yāqūt, al-Amīr al-Muwaffaq al-Manṣūr al-Saʿīd Sharīf al-Umarāʾ, and Muʾayyad al-Dawla wa-ʿImāduhā.

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תגים

• cmp
• dimme
• dykes
• passover

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Av 5595 Anno Mundi (27 July 1835–25 August 1835 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Lists of contributions in Judaeo-Arabic related to the kosher meat tax known as "gabela". This fragment may have once been part of a larger register for communal tax collection in Cairo. The entries on the first folio's recto record the months Adar-Av ("Menaḥem") of the year 5595 AM. Although the ligature in the date ([55]95=קצה) is barely legible this reading is confirmed by the presence of Moshe Ben-Naʿīm's name, who appears widely in nineteenth-century documents.

תגים

• 19th c
• communal
• gabela
• tax

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

4761–68 Anno Mundi (14 September 999–3 September 1008 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Fragment of a legal testimony. Written in an early square hand. […] Verso contains a list of names, all written in the same hand: Eliyya ha-Kohen; Menaḥem b. Meʾir; Shemarya b. Shabbetay ha-Parnas; Eliyya b.

דיון אחד

Document date

Last decade of Nisan 1448 Seleucid (14 April 1137–23 April 1137 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Abū Saʿīd b. Abū l-Ḥasan al-Abzārī, somewhere in the Maghrib, to his brother Abū l-Barakāt, in Fustat. […] He describes the naval battle in the Mediterranean between Christians and Muslims, in addition to dealing with other mercantile affairs.

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תגים

• crusades
• naval battle
• spain
• war

2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים 2 דיונים

Document date

Tammuz/Av 1466 Seleucid (3 June 1155–31 July 1155 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Seʿadya and Sason b. Yeshuʿa ha-Levi. The validation is written and signed by Sason b. Meshullam; also signed by Hillel b. Yosef and Yosef b.

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Bill of release from any claim granted by Netanʾel b. Yefet b. Meshullam Ibn Ḥirbish to Musāfir b. Shemuel in relation to the will of Musāfir’s father Shemuel who had died on a business trip. Netanʾel received the 350 dinars which his father left behind. The dying man had not made a proper will, but a rabbinical authority had decided to give the money to the son.

דיון אחד

Document date

Elul 1493 Seleucid (2 August 1182–30 August 1182 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document. Location: Cairo. Dated: Elul 1493 Seleucid = August 1182 CE. […] Eliyya he-Ḥaver and Menashshe b. Elʿazar. Validated by Yehuda b. Moshe, Shemuel b. Avraham and the teacher Mevasser b. ʿEli. (Information in part from CUDL.)

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Minyat Zifta to Fustat. The writer had been sent to Minyat Zifta to deliver an instruction to the judge Shabbetay b. […] The writer also conveys the complaint of various locals that every other town in the Rif has a synagogue, but they do not. Names mentioned: Sālim; and Abū l-Khaṣīb. (Information from Mediterranean Society, V, pp. 113, 537).

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תגים

• epidemic
• epidemic: marad
• epidemic: mawta
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• (+ 2 עוד)

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Inferred date

1127–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38), with a reshut formula indicating that it was drawn up in the time of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon (1127–39). […] The business has to do with combed flax. Also mentions the agent Yaḥyā. (Information in part from CUDL.)

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תעתוק אחד

Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic with Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions items including an herb or hashish (ḥashīsha), a chest, indigo, silk, a ḥawwāla, something from al-Muʿaẓẓamī, the Dīwān (unclear if this refers to an official's bureau or a volume of poetry, probably the former) of al-Muʿaẓẓamī, the Dīwān of al-Jahmī (or al-Jathmī), the Dīwān of al-Ṣārim, an armor bearer (אלסלח דאר = al-silaḥdār), something for a fishmonger (sammāk), and the amīr Jandār. Dating: probably 13th or even 14th century. Verso: Draft of a legal document in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning Joseph and his mother ("Fulāna" — her name has not been filled in yet), the name Elʿazar and a ketubba.

תגים

• account
• hashish
• mamluk

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Leaves from a notebook. Recto looks like the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli and verso looks like the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. List of names of which many are known as prominent members of the Fusṭāṭ community from the end of the 11th century, for example Yaʿaqov, Abū Yaʿaqov, Abū Isḥāq b.

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אין רשומות קשורות