Documents

Primary language

Arabic

Verso: Recipe in Arabic script. 1.5 oz of pear (ijjāṣ); tamarind; 5 dirhams each of borage (lisān thawr), violet (zahr banafsaj), and senna (sanā); and 1 mithqāl of almond oil (duhn lawz).

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

Poems, evidently pages from a collection, beginning with the final section of Avraham ibn Ezra's 'Aha yarad,' the lament over the communities of Spain and North Africa destroyed by the Almohads. This section deals with the communities in North Africa.

תגים

• poem

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yisraʾel b. Natan, somewhere in al-Shām, to Nahray b. Nissim in Fusṭāṭ. Dating: ca. 1060 CE.

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תגים

• suftaja

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Release from claims upon the completion of business dealings between Abū [...] b. [...] al-Baghdādī and Avraham b. [...]she ha-Zaqen

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Natan (1150–81). Wife: Sitt al-Jamīʿ. Husband: Yeshaʿya ha-Levi. On verso there are pen trials.

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דיון אחד

Location: Tyre. Bride: Sitt al-Bayt bt. Yaʿaqov. There is a header decorated with fleurs-de-lis.

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דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Lists different households (e.g. al-Muʿallim Shelomo) and itemized lists (e.g., vegetables, bamya, muluıhiyya, parsley/baqdūnis).

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions ḍamān, "al-taqqaṣī wa-l-ijtihād" (finding something out diligently), a turban, and Abū Naṣr.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

It was torn and reused for a different kind of document on verso, headed by the glyph and with an elaborate signature or ʿalāma in the middle. Needs examination.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Mentions people such as Ibrāhīm al-Ṣayrafī and the brother-in-law of Abū l-Manṣūr.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List of names in Judaeo-Arabic, with numbers and some Arabic script. Crude hand. Alms distribution list? E.g., Manṣūr, Ibn Fuḍayl, Sitt Ṭāwūs, the sister of Yaʿaqov, Umm Yūsuf, Mukhtār, Ibn Shekhanya.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto is very damaged and difficult to read. Verso mentions Ḥasūn; al-Yahūdī; items that are green and black; Ḥusayn; silk; lac; grapes; wood.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Two of the parties are women: […] bint Saʿīd (‘the Jewish builder’) and […] bint ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Yaḥyā. Ca. 11th-12th century. (Information from CUDL)

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Primary language

Arabic

The text mentions Old Mosque and the house of the Qāḍī b. Jaʿfar b. al-Nuʿmān. Verso: Document concerning an iqtāʿ.

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תגים

• dimme

דיון אחד

Primary language

Ladino

Information from http://www.investigacion.cchs.csic.es/judeo-arabe/sites/investigacion.cchs.csic.es.judeo-arabe/files/Genizah-Al-Andalus.pdf.

תגים

• ladino literary
• medical

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

In a Sefaradi hand, laid out almost like a literary text. Not very much is preserved.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Involves Yeshuʿa and [Sitt al-A]hl bt. Ṣadoq, likely the same husband and wife as in PER H 89 (PGPID 909).

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Aramaic, Nomina barbara

Apparently to inflame the heart of טרשכין (?) b. Amat Allāh for Gharb bt. Tufāḥa. (Identification of the scribe by Amir Ashur and of the type of amulet by Gideon Bohak.)

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תגים

• ib-addenda
• ib3

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions "the runner (raqqās) of the capitation tax, for/from Makhlūf" and then "Manṣūr the collector of the capitation taxes' (jābī al-jawālī). (Information in part from CUDL)

תגים

• account

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew

In Hebrew with the address (to Fustat, to mawlāy al-jalīl) in Arabic script. The letter proper ends with a signature and with the motto Brit Shalom.

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תגים

• tiny letters

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Narrating a series of distressing events (qalaq ʿaẓīm) involving Abū l-Barakāt and Abū l-ʿAlā', a khaṭṭ (signature?) and a sum of 3,000 dinars.

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תעתוק אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The partial names [...] ha-Levi and [... b.] שאטי[..] ) (al-Amshāṭī) are preserved. Dating: likely ca. 13th century.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Order in Judaeo-Arabic. "I (already) owe you 7/8 dirhams. Send me a pomegranate syrup for 5/8 and jujube (syrup?)

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Aramaic

One of the parties is Abi al-Faraj. Signed by Elazar b. ha-Shofet (the judge).

אין רשומות קשורות

Note from Musa b. Barhun al-Tāhartī, from Busir (possibly), to Nahray b.

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תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The marriage payments are listed, and then "half a house in al-Qālūs." (Information in part from CUDL.)

תגים

• marriage
• widow

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Mentions names such as Ibrāhīm al-Mashshāṭī

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1011–1015 CE

Primary language

Arabic

Bottom right-hand part of a receipt written by the jahbadh Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, presumably relating to a tax payment by the ḍāmin Abū l-Ḥasan b.

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תגים

• abu l-hasan b. wahb
• tax receipt

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

May mention a physician (al-ḥakīm) in the first line. Needs examination.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: 11th or 12th century. The addressee is Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan b. Hibatallāh b. Q[...]. The sender's name is probably preserved but is difficult to read.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

for the year 53__ which provides a possible range of 1539-1638 CE. Although the text from the first line is incomplete, the exact year may be listed via gematria in line two.

תגים

• 16th or 17th c
• calendar
• early modern

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Contains formulaic opening phrases followed by a list of commodities and prices ("raisins, the price of a qinṭār: 7 qirsh; altogether...; an irdabb of rice... 100 qirsh..")

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Ladino

Information from http://www.investigacion.cchs.csic.es/judeo-arabe/sites/investigacion.cchs.csic.es.judeo-arabe/files/Genizah-Al-Andalus.pdf.

תגים

• ladino

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Yaʿaqov; "the partnership between me and Ibn al-Ṣayrafī. . . in wheat"; Raslān and something to do with barley; a partnership with Surūr; and someone named Saḥar(?)

תגים

• account

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

5010 Anno Mundi (9 September 1249–28 August 1250 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Miscellany containing halakhic text(s) in Judaeo-Arabic as well as a section with a date: 5010 AM = 1561 Seleucid = 1182 since the destruction of the temple = the 5th year of the shemiṭṭa, all corresponding to 1249/50 CE.

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions a certain Abū ʿAlī. Likely a join with P14. T-S Misc.28.79.2 and T-S Misc.28.79.15 are two copies of the same document.

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תגים

• halfon b. menashshe

תעתוק אחד

Inferred date

1310–1355 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from the office of the Nagid Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides (b. ca. 1310–d. 1355) in which the cantor Faraj Allāh is ordered to arrange a collection for a traveler.

תגים

• 14th c
• communal
• yehoshua maimonides

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1700–1900 CE

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts with Arabic numerals, highly detailed and well-preserved. All of the columns list sums in Ottoman kurush (ق symbol) which helps to date this document as 18th- or 19th-century.

תגים

• 18th or 19th c
• late ja
• numismatic dating

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Two bifolios containing various Hebrew texts, a jotting of a quadruped, and two pages of Arabic text in a rudimentary hand, apparently excerpts or drafts of a letter. Alternatively it might be poetry on the theme of separation of a father from son.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Sufi epistle, it seems -- discussing the 'stations' (al-maqāmāt) of the 'path' (ṭarīqa) and the right way to progress through them.

תגים

• sufi

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

List of names with numbers. Probably an alms distribution list. The scribe who wrote the two lines in bolder ink may be known—the hand seems familiar from 11th century documents.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

This portion contains about a dozen witness signatures, including Shabbetay b. ʿAlīl; Ghālib b. Faraj (spelled גאליב); and two people with embellished signatures: Yehuda he-Ḥaver b. [...]; and Yehuda [..].

אין רשומות קשורות

Letter fragment from Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī. Mentions details about money exchange and shipments of pepper and silk to and from Palermo.

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תגים

• pepper
• silk
• trade

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Fragment of a petition to a vizier, possibly al-Afḍal. Approximately three lines of the opening praises are preserved.

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תגים

• al-malik al-afdal (1094-1121)

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Refers to a woman who is 'perishing'; the government (al-sulṭān); someone who is excused; the 'holy' (probably in reference to the addressee); and an orphan boy.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Legal document in which Abu al-Baqa gives to his married son Mukaram the rights to one half of the black female slave named Musk he had inherited from his deceased wife.

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תגים

• jariya
• slave

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1029–1030 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He refers obliquely and mockingly to Qaraite authors such as Daniʾel al-Qūmisī, Salmon b. Yeroḥam and Yefet b. ʿEli: "They see themselves as ‘lilies’ (shoshanim) and everyone else as ‘thorns’; they consider themselves ‘wise ones’ (maskilim), but they disagree as to who among them is wise.” […] Ezra 7:27], may he live forever, and into the mind of our lord the vizier, may God save him, to speak on our behalf and to seek what is good for us, may His name be elevated for all eternity.” Presumably this refers to T-S 13J7.29 (PGPID 1243), a decree of al-Ẓāhir to the governor of Palestine, Anūshtakīn al-Duzbarī, ordering him not to show partiality in his treatment of “the two parties,” a decree issued in response to a petition from the gaʾon's party. […] He sends the elders Abū l-Barakāt Netanʾel ha- Kohen and Abū ʿAlī Muḥsin b. Ḥusayn on a fact-finding mission, and the effigy story turns out to be slander; Abū ʿAlī Muḥsin b.

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