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Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Underneath there are some additional jottings in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script (al-raʾīs al-[...]). (Information in part from CUDL)

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

In a post-scripted note, the petitioner also requests some food should the addressee have a Jewish celebration.

תגים

• communal
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: eye
• petition

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד 2 דיונים

Document date

Ḥeshvan 1443 Seleucid (24 October 1131–21 November 1131 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ff. 1r–2r: Betrothal contract between Sitt al-Kull bt. ʿEli from Fusṭāṭ and Moshe b. Yisrael from al-Maḥalla, in which the bride agrees to follow her husband to his domicile.

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תגים

• halfon b. menashshe

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

His excuse is that he had an intense pain, like colic, and he could hardly sit down, let alone stand or ride. The illness persisted for most of the day, and when it relented and Natan asked after Ḥalfon, he was told that he had already departed.

תגים

• 11th c
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: colic
• illness: gastrointestinal

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender urgently asks the addressee to send for the merchants Yaʿaqov known as Ibn al-Suṭūḥ from Tripoli (Libya) and his traveling companion Yaʿaqov b. Zikrī al-Nafūsī who are soon to depart for Yemen. One of them has a bill of divorce with him that must be delivered before he travels.

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תגים

• courts
• divorce
• ib7
• india book
• yemen

2 תעתוקים

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Several names appear at the bottom of the document, but these appear to be the scribe's notes rather than actual signatures: Sulaymān b. Saʿīd; Avraham b. ʿAlī; Munā bt. Ismāʿīl; the maternal uncle Avraham b. […] ; the paternal uncle Mūsā b. ʿUqayb al-Mastī(?).

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תגים

• will

תעתוק אחד

Document date

1464-07-19 Seleucid (17 March 1153 CE)

The verso contains the acceptance of the bill of divorce by the wife, signed also by Saʿadya b. Mevorakh and Mevorakh b. Natan (he-Ḥaver).

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

1486-02-12 Seleucid (21 October 1174 CE)

The verso contains the acceptance of the bill of divorce by the wife, signed also by Mevorakh b. Natan ha-Haver and Avraham b.

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דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions the addressee's brother Moshe, Rabbenu Nissim, Hārūn Ibn al-Sharābī and Rabbenu Yiṣḥaq. Later, "I and she went to the synagogue to read. […] (Information in part from CUDL and Goitein's index card.) Join: Alan Elbaum

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Reminding the addressee that al-Ḥemdat had sent with him אלדרקה (probably not shield or coat of mail but rather a leaf of a door), but had not received the price. […] קעדה מגלפה in T-S K15.9) sent by the addressee arrived, but was not yet taken by al-Ḥemdat. When the latter's brother Abū Naṣr arrives, Yaḥyā should pay him immediately the price of אלדרקה.

דיון אחד

Document date

Ḥeshvan 1402 Seleucid (28 September 1090–26 October 1090 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ḥalfon was wrongly accused of improper conduct by Hārūn al-Ṭārī and thereby unjustly prevented from reading the lection from the Torah. Other people joined in the brawl, including Budayr al-Ḥalabī. On the bottom part of recto and on verso is a piyyuṭ, which continues in the left-hand margin.

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תגים

• testimony

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Mardūk b. Mūsā, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic.

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תגים

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: bath
• illness: du'f
• illness: pullet
• (+ 3 עוד)

3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

B, sec. 6; according to Reif, this document is also mentioned in Ashtor, Histoire des Prix, p.173.)

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תגים

• ketubba
• marriage
• minyat zifta

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

1444 Seleucid (12 September 1132–1 September 1133 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Netanʾel Rosh ha-Qehillot gives a gift to his son Abū Saʿd Netanʾel, and the latter's wife Sitt al-Milāḥ bt. Yefet promises that she will have no claim on this gift from her ketubba or otherwise. […] (Information in part from Goitein's index card and CUDL.) Join: Alan Elbaum.

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Khalaf if she is still alive. She gives 1/2 dinar to her cousin Abū l-Khayr, the son of her paternal uncle Kathīr al-Naḥḥal (the beekeeper), who lives in New Cairo.

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Ṭevet 1451 Seleucid (24 November 1139–22 December 1139 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document concerning the Sicilian Abū Yaʿaqov Yosef b. Moshe al-Kohen who has a first wife in Damascus and is not allowed to marry a second wife in Cairo before depositing what is due to the first wife with the court.

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2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Document date

Elul 1462 Seleucid (15 August 1151–12 September 1151 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef, gifts this house to her daughter Sitt al-Naẓar, the wife of Manṣūr al-Ṣabbāgh. The house is located in Fustat in the Kammūna(?)

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תגים

• gift
• register

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Moses גליפאפה, in Venice, to his teacher Shemuʾel ben Sīd, in "Alexandria or Cairo." In Hebrew. 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).

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תגים

• 17th c

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū Saʿd Shemuel to Avraham al-Maḥallī al-Talmid (the student/scholar). Addressed to Fustat, the synagogue of the Palestinians, situated in Zuqāq Khabīṣa.

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תגים

• personal

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

See Mann, Jews, II, 207–08. See also T-S 13J10.11.

דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a son to his mother describing the events of his journey from Alexandria to Fustat and mentioning the illness of his uncle.

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תגים

• alexandria
• disability
• disability: vision
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• (+ 5 עוד)

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

last third of Tammuz 1410 Seleucid (13 July 1099–21 July 1099 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: last third of Tammuz 1410 Seleucid = July 1099 CE. Hiba b. Moshe Ibn al-Ṣalʿa acknowledges to have received from Abū l-Khayr Ṣadaqa b. Yaʿaqov Ibn al-Raṣāṣiyya 1.5 dinars owed by the latter to Hiba's late brother Abū l-Munā.

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תגים

• release

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Thursday, 17 Tammuz 1383 Seleucid (5 July 1072 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Details about Maymun’s belongings, including goods that are in other’s hands and money that belongs to Maymun, or that he owes others. Also mentions several books that belong to Nahray b.

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2 תעתוקים 3 תרגומים דיון אחד

Document date

20 Shevat 1565 Seleucid (10 January 1254 CE)

Letter from Jalal al-Dawla in the name of Yishay b. Shelomo to the Nasi Shelomo b. […] Yishay, so it cannot be sold, but ha-Kohen Nafīs al-Dawla is interested in buying it for his son.

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תגים

• mosul nasis

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

The content is difficult to make out, but it mentions silver and gold; mentions al-Malik al-ʿĀdil, either the sultan from 1200–18 or his grandson with the same title who served intermittently as regent from 1232–38 and reigned 1238–40; and concludes by urging the addressee to act.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Report of a provincial official, Ibn Lifsh(?) al-Shihābī. In Arabic script. It seems that he received an order to present himself, together with the qāḍī and the ʿāmil (and the kātib?) […] He reports that a well/cistern overflowed and posed a danger to all the land underneath and had to be fixed (ll.10–12).

תגים

• agriculture
• damin
• katib
• report

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Recto: Letter/petition from Barakāt Ibn al-Dayyān Abū l-Faraj (=Shelomo b. Eliyyahu the Judge). […] In which Shelomo complains of his poverty and illnesses (alām) and asks for help paying the capitation tax.

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תגים

• appeal
• capitation tax
• charity

דיון אחד

Primary language

Arabic

There are two different registration marks at the top: The one in bold reads "al-ḥamdu li-llāh ḥamdan yurḍīhi", and the other is a ḥasbala followed by other formula.. […] About halfway down, on the right, there is a testimony of a Qāḍī attesting to the case named Thiqat al-Mulk. Needs further examination.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Petition to a Fatimid ruler in which the writer asks to be exempted from the payment of his capitation tax (of 1 + 1/3 + 1/4 dinars and a dirham), since lost his sight as a consequence of an eye illness and is now unable to perform his job, while the tax collectors are increasingly pressing. The writer also states that in the past he had been able to pay his capitation tax only thanks to the charitable intervention of the community.

תגים

• capitation tax
• disability
• disability: vision
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• (+ 4 עוד)

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Document date

Monday, 13 Shaʿbān 657 Hijrī (5 August 1259 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The witnesses are Hilāl b. Bū ʿAlī and Bū Saʿd b. Sālim. There is a validation—stating that the witnesses are trustworthy elders of the Jews—written in the hand of the Nagid David I Maimonides, who signs his name "Dāʾūd the son of the ḥākim Ibrāhīm b. Mūsā, Head of the Jews (Rayyis al-Yahūd)." (Information from Khan.)

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תגים

• death
• inheritance
• report of death

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter probably from [Shem]uel Algıdın (? אלגידין). In Hebrew. Dating: Possibly 16th century. […] Mentions people such as Yaʿaqov Kohen, Yosef Malṭi ("of Malta"), Moshe ʿĀl, Shemuel, Yishamʿel, the sender's brother-in-law Shabbetay, Doña Zahra (the same as in JRL SERIES B 7430 (PGPID 40415)?)

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תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Note addressed to al-Neʾeman reporting on the "red brick" (tūb aḥmar, cf. […] Mentions 29 manns, possibly 300 dinars, and the bricklayers (al-ṭawwābīn). Excerpts: בשמ רחמ אערף מולאי אלנאמן אן גא עדד אלטוב תסעה ועשרין מן(?)

תגים

• brick

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1168–1204 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Autograph letter from Maimonides to al-Dayyan al-Maskil (i.e., Shemuʾel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi).

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תגים

• maimonides autograph

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

If a letter, the sender is instructing the addressee or somebody else to summon the "experts" (aṣḥāb al-khibra) and the Jewish elders (mashāʾikh aṣḥābinā) and divide a house into three equal portions. It may have to do with a dowry evaluation ("...fī taḥrīr al-taqwīm...") or possibly a will. If a legal document, this is describing what someone has to do.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Their brother Yosef and another male relative named Efrayim are also involved, perhaps as guarantors. There is a fragment of one signature preserved, perhaps [Ya]ʿīsh b. [...].

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Gujarati, Unknown language in Devanāgarī script

Images: https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/files/ts-as-159-248-big-f.jpg and https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/files/ts-as-159-248-big-b.jpg. See also T-S AS 159.248 (PGPID 41086).

תגים

• fotm
• ib-addenda
• unknown language

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

תשרי אתקיא (1199 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Shemuʾel Halevi (ca. 1180's-1210). Also on verso, on the right side of the page, a bottom part from a legal deed from Tishrei 1511 (1199) by a different hand.

תגים

• fgp stub
• legal

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment from al-Faraj baʿd al-Shidda by Rabbenu Nissim (information from Oded Zinger).

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Recto: Fragment of an official report or possibly a legal document, notable for mentioning an amīr named Iftikhār al-Dawla Jawhar. The best-known Iftikhār al-Dawla was the governor of Jerusalem when it fell to the Franks in 1099, but this may or may not be him; his name is not otherwise known to have been Jawhar.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Ladino

The list uses the Hebrew honorific in between first and last names, also an uncommon feature. Requires further examination.

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תגים

• ladino

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

Almost poetic letter of a Gaon, perhaps Shelomo b. […] A woman deserted by her husband for many years had brought up her only son and when he was old enough had sent him out to find his father, but the boy perished on his way. Along with attempts at consolation the Gaon refers to a debt of 300 dinars and losses incurred by the recipient of his letter.

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תגים

• communal
• gaon

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Involving an agent named Abū l-Ṭāhir Ismāʿīl (l. 1), a drug store (al-ʿiṭr wa-l-ʿaqāqīr, l. 4), and describing the boundaries of a property. Dated: Dhū l-Ḥijja [..]5 AH (the full year should be legible with further examination). Signed by ʿAbd al-Khāliq b. Ismāʿīl. On verso there is a calendar in Hebrew script for the 263rd and 264th cycles (maḥzors), corresponding to 1217–55 CE.

תגים

• drugs
• lease

אין רשומות קשורות

The parnas who recorded the list probably advanced money of his own, or even resorted to loans, since he lists the sum collected each day and the deficit, which is called salaf (also dawn). 52 dirhams are due on the first, 21 on the second, and 21 on the third day.

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• 11th c
• account
• communal
• qodesh
• waqf

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

The paleography supports a dating estimate of 15th- or 16th-century– within the lifespan of the famous rabbi Yosef Karo (1488–1575), who does appear in other geniza fragments but there is not enough information in these accounts for this association to be certain. See also: T-S 13J24.28 (PGPID 17042) and JRL A 852 (PGPID 28352).

תגים

• account
• silk
• yosef karo

אין רשומות קשורות

When a beadle is listed here with a salary of 4 dirhams (instead of 2, as usual), the sum certainly included arrears for the preceding week. Also, some entries of personal expenditure made by the official.'

תגים

• 13th c
• account
• charity
• communal

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The handwriting resembles that of CUL Or.1081 J28 (containing a similar complaint about mice). This letter also mentions business in cannabis (qunnab).

תגים

• hashish
• mice
• urgent

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

Originally written in ca. 1005. Sent to Fustat to an aluf, probably Avraham b. Sahlān. Mentions Shemarya b. […] Mentions “the son of the deceased ruler,” probably al-Ḥākim. Refers to distress and persecutions that the writers suffered, and hints at a controversy in Fustat.

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תגים

• aluf
• avraham b. sahlan
• babylonian geonim
• communal
• elhanan b. shemarya
• (+ 1 עוד)

3 תעתוקים

Document date

440 Hijrī (16 June 1048–4 June 1049 CE)

In this list writes details about buying flax in Munimun and its shipment to Rashid, and probably from there to Alexandria. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #275) VMR

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תגים

• al-tahirti
• flax
• nahray b. nissim
• trade

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

This prayer (al ha-nisim), added to the Amidah and Grace after Meals during Hanukkah, and to other Hanukkah texts, is preserved on a twelfth-century bifolium in the Cairo Geniza. The first part presents passages from Targum Onkelos on Numbers 7, a part of the Torah read during Hanukkah. This version of Al ha-nisim combines both Egyptian and Eastern traditions.

2 תרגומים