Documents

Primary language

Arabic

Note addressed to the faqīh ʿImād al-Dīn, asking him for a response to 'the enclosed' (perhaps referring to the text on verso?).

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

and another person, perhaps Bū Thābit al-Jazzār. In Arabic. No signatures.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Order of payment in Arabic script. The judge (al-dayyān) is asked to pay 5 dinars to the bearer.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Order of payment in Arabic script. The judge (al-dayyān) is asked to pay 2 dinars to the bearer.

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

454 Hijrī (15 January 1062–3 January 1063 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Involving [...] b. Khalaf al-Yahūdī. Dated: possibly 454 AH = 1062/63 CE if read correctly.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Addressed to Abū ʿUmar Saʿdān al-Baghdādī (active in the second quarter of the 12th century).

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Brief account in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning Yosef al-Ḥaṭṭāb and Moshe Kohen. Dating is 16th- or 17th-century based on the mention of Ottoman-era jadid coinage.

תגים

• 16th or 17th c
• numismatic dating

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic with Greek/Coptic alphanumerals. Medieval-era. Crude hand. Mentions MKRM; Asʿad; a khirqa; a garment.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Contains his motto ברכאת יייי היא תאעשיר. Join: Alan Elbaum.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Small note for legal purposes ("al-muʿtaraf bihī") detailing the value of two mattresses/sofas (martaba) (24 and 9 dinars respectively) and a female slave (18 dinars).

תגים

• slave

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Involves a sum of 5 dinars and people including Wahbān and Abū Isḥāq b. Yūsuf and [...] al-Ṣayrafī. The details of the case are probably too damaged to decipher.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions sums related to specific documents (ḥujja, wathīqa); Saʿd al-Mulk; and a collateral with a certain Adam.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The hand is probably known (the gimmel looks almost Ashkenazi, with an opening to the right). Dating: probably no earlier than 13th century.

אין רשומות קשורות

Illuminated Hebrew alphabet from a children’s textbook. At the bottom of recto there is a benediction: ‘God will protect you from every evil and will guard your soul’.

דיון אחד

Regarding is business with Yeshua b. Isma’il al-Makhmuri. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, #410) VMR

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תגים

• suftaja

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

The genealogy of the family of Abū Manṣūr Ibn al-Kātib (Levites), headed by Saʿadya the judge and his six sons.

דיון אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Attributed to Yehuda ha-Levi by Allony. This identification is questioned by Friedman in IB IV/A p. 10-11, n. 37.

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment (right side) of a legal document, perhaps a release, involving [...] al-Ṣabbāgh b. Ṣedaqa and Hiba. Invokes the authority of 'adonenu geʾonenu....'

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Decree, probably. "... wa-amr amīr al-muʾminīn..." Reused between the lines for an Arabic-script text, apparently a Jewish exegetical work since there are Hebrew words interspersed.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

A few words preserved from 2 lines, including "waḥdahu" and "al-mamlūk." On verso there is Hebrew literary text.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions orphans, a sum of money, 20 (probably dinars), and the tax farmer of an estate (ḍāmin al-ḍayʿa).

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Account or possibly receipt (official?) for Ṭāhir al-ʿAṭṭār. Needs examination. Reused on recto for blessings from the liturgy (pre-hafṭara and qiddush for Shabbat that falls on Shemini ʿAṣeret).

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Contains a name, perhaps Isrā'īl b. Saʿd b. Mūsā al-ʿAṭṭār. On recto there is a Hebrew literary text.

תגים

• arabic script
• glyph

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1128–1164 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shemuel (fl. 1128–1164 CE), including an Ibn al-Lebdi. (Information from Goitein's index card.)

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דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions a doctor; Mufarraj b. Dāʾūd al-Jawharī, and someone's agent Ṭayyib [b.] Mūsā.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

The second line is a single word whose last letter extends all the way across the page.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Might be about provincial administration: "wa-yudabbir amūr al-nāḥiya. . . wa-anna katabū kitāb ilā l-qāḍī. . ."

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The physical letter is almost entirely preserved, but the text will be illegible without multispectral imaging.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Mercantile letter addressed to Abū ʿUmar al-Arjawānī, in Fustat. In Arabic script. Mentions purple (arjawān) textiles.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

In Hebrew. Consisting almost entirely of blessings; possibly requesting charity or assistance.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The topoi include weakness of vision and hearing and "all day long I sit in the corner of the house waiting for someone to open the door."

תגים

• appeal
• disability
• neglect

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100–1138), one involving Khalaf al-Levi b. Yeshu'a. AA

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תגים

• halfon b. menashshe

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

December 1027 CE

Documents describing unique or interesting legal cases were occasionally copied in order to serve the clerks of the court as reference (Goitein also suggests that the document might have been copied to serve as an accompaniment to a legal discussion. […] On the other hand, the detailed description of the entire process, the dates, the exact monetary sums, the number of rings and their type, all testify that this was a real case. Goitein suggests that the document represent an agreement made by a poor couple. […] However, Ashur claims that this date is the date in which the document was copied to the legal documents file in court and in the same occasion the title was written, since the recto also has the year recorded at the header (Assaf missed the word 'year' in the header of the recto.

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תגים

• register

2 תעתוקים

Document date

3 Rajab 1248 Hijrī (26 November 1832 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Letter from Maʿtūq al-Yahūdī. In Arabic script. Dated 3 Rajab [12]48 AH = 26 November 1832 CE. […] The letter seems to be a complaint and an appeal for assistance against the behaviors (apparently wage theft) of al-Muʿallim Nissim and al-Muʿallim Bekhor (or potentially Baḥur, if بخور is an error for بحور). The sender repeatedly emphasizes his poverty, although the large sums of money he refers to (1000s and 10000s of a silver denomination, likely medins) suggest that this may be rhetorical or relative poverty.

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תגים

• hakham bashi

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The traveler doesn't heed their advice and saves the man. All the animals and the man honor the traveler and tell him that they will help him if he ever comes through their city, Nawārjūr. The Geniza fragment ends here but the continuation can be read in the versions of Kalīla wa-Dimna available online (e.g., https://al-maktaba.org/book/26537/296#p1 or Bodleian Library MS. […] On verso there is additional (unrelated?) text also in the hand of Yosef Rosh ha-Seder. It is fragmentary and difficult to understand; needs examination.

תגים

• animals
• kalila wa-dimna
• popular literature

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Shevaṭ 5564 Anno Mundi (14 January 1804–12 February 1804 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The text regularly alternates from Hebrew/Aramaic to Judaeo-Arabic translation after each of the partnership's twelve clauses (the Judaeo-Arabic sections often begin with יעני = yaʿanī ). The addendum clauses are also listed in a bilingual format. Mentions sums of money such as 4500 mayedes and 5000 mayedes, representing fines for violation of the partnership terms. […] Matatiya Ashkenazi likely signs as the second witness and he may have signed his name with an abbreviation that was distinct from the common ס׳׳ט = ספרדי טהור= סופו טוב. Although, the first letter could be a poorly rendered samech.

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תגים

• 19th c
• cloth
• clothes
• clothing
• satin
• (+ 1 עוד)

תעתוק אחד

"The first document is a letter (lacking, however, a few lines at the end) that was sent by an anonymous merchant to R. David Ibn Zamiro (alias Zimra).It seems that the writer was the fattore (commercial agent) of the addressee R. […] הראיתי הנוצה לסוחרים על מאמר מתיו, ולא רצו לעשות שום דבר. 'Concerning the feathers, although I already informed you know through R. Samuel Kichlado that I opened [the parcel] in his presence, I showed them [i.e. the feathers] to some merchants.

תגים

• 16th c
• radvaz

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

July 1156–November 1156 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter by Yosef Yiju, in Mazara, to his sons Perahya and Moshe, in Fustat or Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Dating: Fall or Summer, 1156 CE. […] Complaint that the longing for the addressees was 'killing' their parents, who, in addition, suffered from all kinds or privations and illnesses (lines 1-9).

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תגים

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

3 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים דיון אחד

Primary language

Arabic

List of indigent people equally divided between natives of the capital and residents originating from Alexandria, the Sharqiyya and Gharbiyya provinces, the villages around the capital (all entirely destitute), and towns such as Ashmum, Damietta, and Qūṣ.

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תגים

• capitation tax
• list
• poverty

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Recto, with address on verso: Petition/letter from Muslim b. ʿAlī b. Muslim to Abū l-Faraj Mawhūb b. Yūḥannā. […] He asks the addressee to intercede on his behalf or write a ruqʿa'for him to a higher official (al-majlis al-sāmī). Concludes with a raʾy clause, ḥamdala, and ḥasbala.

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תגים

• damin
• petition
• sugar

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

The writer may be named Abū l-Faraj (upper right of recto, although this is an unusual place to sign one's name), and the addressee is his paternal uncle (or at least addressed ʿammī), probably a merchant. […] Starting in the margin of recto and continuing for the remainder of verso, the writer exhorts his uncle to send him money, for which he will reap a great reward from God for supporting a Torah scholar. The margin also contains these curious sentences in a mixture of Arabic and Hebrew, "O my uncle, see that the Goyim, how will they know (yadrūna?)

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תגים

• bialphabetic
• to edit

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: probably ca. 1124 plus or minus a few years; in any case after ca. 1117 when Yosef Lebdī is thought to have died. Although the address is made out to 'my son Zayn' the letter itself actually addresses a woman, 'my sister.' […] and obtain for us a rescript (tawqīʿ) for our release from 'al-maʾmūn' (maybe a term for house arrest?), and redeem us from captivity... I see them dying... and inform me about the situation... All the children send greetings. Greetings to Dāʾūd and his wife and everyone with them.

תגים

• house arrest
• ib-addenda

תעתוק אחד

Groom: Natan(?) b. David. Bride: Sitt al-Sāda bt. ʿAdaya. In the handwriting of Ḥalfon b.

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דיון אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

Small fragment, perhaps a genealogy or memorial list, including a lineage with an Aluf ha-Ḥaver . . . bar Avraham bar . . . Sahlān bar . . .

תגים

• genealogy
• sahlan b. avraham

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Garshuni (Serto)

Garshuni poem rhymed on -nī (e.g., al-awṭānī, insānī, ikhwānī), each section punctuated by a refrain (qufl).

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions health, items to be sent, and regards to various people including Najīb al-Dīn (?). There is a note in the margin mentioning "your ghulām."

תגים

• ghulam

תעתוק אחד

Document date

[Tammuz] 4831 Anno Mundi (2 June 1071–30 June 1071 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Deed of restitution written in Jerusalem regarding alimony, in the hand of Eliyyahu Ha-Kohen Gaon, June 1071 CE, based on Gil's inference of [Tammuz] 4831 AM in l. 23.

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תגים

• jerusalem
• marital reconciliation
• marriage

תעתוק אחד