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Document date

Thursday 5 Elul 4750 Anno Mundi (28 August 990 CE)

The bride, Ḥasana bt. Yosef al-Ṣarfī, was an heiress. This may account for the fact that she was not provided with a trousseau by her father but received a payment from her future husband, Aharon b. […] The settlement is signed by 36 persons, possibly all guests present, only two of whom were witnesses.

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• libya
• marriage
• tripoli
• trousseau
• witness

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Document date

Elul 1350 Seleucid (24 August 1039–21 September 1039 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Banīna bt. Avraham in Alexandria, who had been deserted by her husband Yosef, appointed her brother Shelomo as her attorney.

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תגים

• court record
• marriage
• power of attorney

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

A small portion of the money is designated to the Ereṣ Yisraʾel yeshiva but most of the money is designated to the Babylonian Yeshivas. Also mentions a military travel by the governor of Qayrawān, and the Nagid Avraham b.

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תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Saʿīd agrees to cede 3/4 of a house and half of a ruin situated opposite it, to the orphan Hibat Allāh if he does not manage to pay him six dinars by Sivan 1461 Seleucid, which is April-May 1150 CE. […] It is not immediately clear whether all the text pertains to the same case. ASE

תגים

• ledger
• orphan
• ruin

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Monday, 12 Tammuz 1409 Seleucid (14 June 1098 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

A few further claims between the two were also dealt with.

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תגים

• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib1
• india book

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד

Document date

Tuesday, 6 Iyyar 4836 Anno Mundi (12 April 1076 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Court record about a debt. Location: Alexandria. Dated: Tuesday, 6 Iyyar 4836 AM = 12 April 1076 CE.

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• ibn awkal
• islamic court
• register

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The addressee had sent a letter reporting that he had gone to Alexandria and to Tinnīs. His family members are upset at him.

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: eye
• illness: gastrointestinal
• illness: women's

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Abū Manṣūr, perhaps in Alexandria, to his 'brother' Abū Saʿd, probably in Fustat.

תגים

• garments
• textiles

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

Same writer and addressee as T-S 13J13.3 (PGPID 946), which is dated Elul 1457 Seleucid (1116 CE). The content is also very similar, except that in T-S 13J13.3, the addressee is supposed to hand over 5 dinars to the writer's relative Abū l-Ḥasan Rajā.

דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shelomo signed T-S 13J3.6 in 1145 CE (but this shelfmark does not appear to be correct). Munajjā b. Shelomo also signed T-S 8J7.6 together with Ḥalfon b. Menashshe.

2 דיונים

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso, right side: Mentions Bū Zikrī ʿAllūn(?); Abū Yūsuf; Barhūn and bales of lac and pepper; Makhlūf; al-Gharīb; cinnamon.

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תגים

• ib-addenda

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

1453 Seleucid (4 September 1141–21 September 1142 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The lower part of the letter, together with almostall of the substance, is missing. Mevorakh asks the addressee to obtain or send some gold.

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דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Ḥasan, with greetings to his brother the physician al-Najīb Abū l-Barakāt. Nearly complete. In Judaeo-Arabic. […] The sender reports that he or she has arrived safely and sends warm greetings to al-Kohen Mufaḍḍal; Abū Sahl and his son Abū l-Barakāt; another Abū l-Barakāt and another Mufaḍḍal; Yosef; Abū ʿUmar; [...] b.

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

Mentions the Fatimid vizier al-Malik al-Afḍal (r. 1094–1121), Tripoli, Jabla, and the lands of Ishmael and Edom (possibly Byzantium), to which Yiṣḥaq was hoping to travel, and reports that at nighttime he was robbed and needed 8 dinars to replace his good clothing.

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תגים

• recommendation
• travels

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Document date

Heshvan 5597 Anno Mundi (12 October 1836–9 November 1836 CE)

The fragment may have been folded and sent from Cairo to one Binyamin de Curiel in Alexandria. The hands on the recto and verso, however, are very distinct and therefore the address on the verso may be a remnant of an earlier letter that was reused for the recto's list.

תגים

• 19th c
• de curiel

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The meaning of the entries in the second section of the recto is clearer because specific names are listed, such as: Ḥasan Sūqī, ʿAlī Agha, and Kamal al-Dīn. The verso has detailed heading explaining that the entries represent income from the Egyptian city of Manfalut on the Nile.

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תגים

• 16th c or later
• manfalut

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

When I was the muqaddam of al-Maḥalla and slaughtered and circumcised, whenever. . ." Verso: The address of the letter on recto, to Sayyidnā al-Nasi ha-Gadol Yarum Hodo. And, in a different ink and different hand, a formulary of a Hebrew letter of appeal ("I am so-and-so the lowly and despised.").

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תגים

• al-mahalla
• appeal
• circumcision
• circumcision(letter)
• formulary
• (+ 2 עוד)

תעתוק אחד

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe b. al-Qaṭa'if to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). […] Yefet mentions the person (Yūsuf al-Qallā'?) "who was your doctor in Fusṭāṭ." Yefet sends greetings to Sitt Naʿīm, who it seems is none other than Ḥalfon's wife (see Wagner, E. (2007).

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תגים

• fotm
• materia medica
• yefet b. menashshe

תעתוק אחד

Document date

23 Ḥeshvan 5310 Anno Mundi (14 November 1549 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Italian, Yiddish

IV,93, and HUC 1034). See also T-S Ar.30.232 + T-S NS 83.19, an account register by Yiṣḥaq b.

תגים

• late heb
• perahim
• yiddish

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

"This small piece of paper contains a short letter to a husband who fought with his wife, who was also his cousin (FBD). Apparently, the wife left the home for her fatherʼs house, and the husband is told that if he desires his wife, he ought to go to her father and accept what he has to say.

תגים

• marital dispute
• personal
• yedutun ha-levi

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1170–1190 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yosef Yiju to his brother Shemuel in Fustat, complaining of his failure to procure a responsum (see III, 55). Perahya also includes brief remarks on their mother’s illness and his apology for being unable to visit, a request for Shemuel’s assistance in collecting a debt and in paying the capitation tax, and a one-line inquiry about whether his brother has made a bible amulet or ankle for his son, to protect him.

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תגים

• ib-partial translation-eng
• ib-partial translation-heb
• ib3
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• (+ 1 עוד)

3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד 2 דיונים

Inferred date

1051–1051 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information from Gil, Palestine, vol. 2 p. 643-645, #353) VMR. Alternate description: Letter from Daniel b. ʿAzarya informing one of his supporters in Cairo that an unnamed prominent person had received a friend of his opponent in Dagun (a suburb of Ramla) and on top of that had not answered his letters. […] Mentions the amīr Ḥusām al-Dawla. (Information from Goitein's index card.)

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תגים

• communal
• gaon
• leadership struggle
• petition
• state
• (+ 1 עוד)

4 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Document date

26 Tammuz 4816 Anno Mundi (11 July 1056 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Maḥfūẓ, to collect a debt owed to him by Yaʿaqov Ibn al-Jabbān ('son of the cheese-maker'). Dated: Thursday, 26 Tammuz 4816 AM (=11 July 1056 CE). […] Following the signatures of the witnesses, all four signatures are validated in an attestation, witnessed by ʿAqiba b.

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• power of attorney

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Thursday, 1 Iyyar 1418 Seleucid (25 April 1107 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yiṣḥaq ha-Dayyan acknowledges that he will repay the parnas Abū l-ʿAlāʾ Ṣāʿid al-Dimashqī aka ʿUlla b. Yosef ha-Levi 10 dinars over a period of 3 months.

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תגים

• acknowledgment
• debt
• iqrar

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Adar 1470 Seleucid (21 January 1159–19 February 1159 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū Saʿīd Khalaf/Ḥalfon (aka "Segulat ha-Nedivim" or simply "al-Segulat") received 18 dinars from Abū l-Maʿālī Shemuel the trader, who had been guarantor on behalf of the banker from al-Maḥalla Abū l-Maʿālī b.

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• dated
• mevorakh b. natan

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

(Information from CUDL, Decter, and Mediterranean Society, V, pp. 197, 286–87, 562.) Recto was also edited by Ratzhaby, "שני שירים ספרדיים מאוצר הגניזה," Moznaim 6 (1992), 10–13.

תגים

• panegyric
• poets

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד 2 דיונים

Document date

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

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The validation is written and signed by Sason b. Meshullam; also signed by Hillel b. Yosef and Yosef b. Yehuda.

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Tuesday, 24 Nisan 1294 Seleucid (9 April 983 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Yomtov, Abraham b. [...], [...] Aluf b. Ḥātim Aluf, who decorates his name with a line of small shins above it, Yaḥya b.

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2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter (headed "tadhkira"/memorandum) from Hibatallāh b. Khalaf al-Ḥamawī to Barakāt b. Khulayf, complaining that he couldn't sell the resin and mentioning a transport by the ship of al-Ḥarbī, apparently a Christian from a Christian land.

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תגים

• trade

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer emphasizes Shabbetay's willingness to obey but awaits instruction on whether he still needs to come in light of the circumstances. The writer also conveys the complaint of various locals that every other town in the Rif has a synagogue, but they do not.

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

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions 1.5 qintars of something, a man named Yaḥyā b. Najm al-ʿAkkawī (cf. DK 237.1 (PGPID 629), l. 32), dealings with somebody's agent, and Yosef and Isḥāq from ʿAsqalān who now live in Bilbays. (Goitein read "haqq"/"dues" instead of "Ishāq" and saw this as evidence of a Landsmannschaft-like organization.) Join: Alan Elbaum. (Information in part from Goitein's index card.)

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-[...] who stole six good orange trees (uṣūl nāranj min khiyār al-uṣūl) from a ruined small compound (duwyara kharāb) and replanted them in his own garden. […] Then one of them was dragged to the police station (al-shurṭa) and jailed and unspeakable things happened.

תגים

• communal

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

first decade of Ramaḍān 483 Hijrī (28 October 1090–7 November 1090 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Dated: first decade of Ramaḍān 483 AH, which is October/November 1090 CE. Seller: Ḥanūn b. ʿAllūn, the Christian clerk (kātib) in the Dār al-Dībāj (‘residence of the viziers’).

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תגים

• aodeh
• christians
• slaves

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד

Primary language

Arabic

After the introduction, it reports that al-Ṭansāwī (from Ṭansā, near the Fayyūm) reported what the addressee did with him. […] On the next page, the addressee may be instructed to do something with this man (...qiyāmuhū bi-mā yukrimuhū min al-ʿimāra(?)...). In the last line, the loaning of a book may be mentioned (or maybe these are technical bureaucratic terms), followed by an inshallāh.

תגים

• dimme

תעתוק אחד