Documents

Primary languages

Hebrew, Latin

For transcription and translation, see https://johannes-obadiah.org/, "Obadiah Memoir," II and III.

תגים

• latin
• obadiah the proselyte

3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

T-S NS 305.206, T-S NS 297.103–06, and https://blogs.lib.ku.edu/spencer/manuscript-of-the-month-manuscript-waste-not-or-a-case-in-fragmentology/.

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary languages

Arabic, Samaritan

[Genizah Research Unit, Fragment of the Month, November 2007]. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.40721.

תגים

• fotm
• samaritan

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

A comb spine lining? Cf. T-S 12.141 and https://blogs.lib.ku.edu/spencer/manuscript-of-the-month-manuscript-waste-not-or-a-case-in-fragmentology/.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Remnant of an Arabic poem attested in literary sources (رمى الحدثان نسوة آل حرب بمقدار سمدن له سمودا فرد شعورهن السود بيضا ورد وجوههن البيض سودا) and attributed to various different poets (https://shamela.ws/book/9904/429#p1). There is also a colophon in the margin, specifying the name of the poet (Ibn ʿ[...]n), the date (mostly missing), and the city of Alexandria.

Related Places

1

תגים

• arabic poetry

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Reporting on family and business matters. "Bābā" visited the sender for the holiday. Needs further examination.

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1168–1204 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

[Genizah Research Unit, Fragment of the Month, April 2007]. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.34048.

Related People

2

תגים

• autograph
• maimonides
• maimonides autograph

2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The letter concerns practical matters as well as excuses for why he had not visited his mother on the holidays. (Information from Goitein’s index card)

2 דיונים

Inferred date

1168–1204 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

[Genizah Research Unit, Fragment of the Month, 2010]. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.55278.

Related People

1

תגים

• fotm
• maimonides

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Abū l-Faraj thought that Eliyyahu would already have intervened on his behalf, but no news of that has reached him. He visited Alexandria, but it seems that Mufaḍḍal discouraged him from seeking a ruling from the judge [A]natoli on account of his strictness. […] Cf. alternate versions of the same idiom in ENA 2558.21, T-S 13J21.20, Moss. II,167, T-S Misc.28.33, and Bodl. […] See also T-S AS 162.167 + T-S AS 151.29 and Oded Zinger's edition in "You and I will enjoy each other's company until God decrees our death in the Land of Israel," Cathedra 174 (2020), note 22.

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3

תגים

• anatoli
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: marad
• illness: marital
• (+ 3 עוד)

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

For more on this terminology, see: https://geniza.github.io/paleographicalglossary/item.html?

תגים

• cmp
• numismatic dating

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The sender mentions that he was sick with a fever and cold and nobody (or nobody [except ...]) visited/asked after him (mā iftaqadanī [...]). Mentions 'my master al-Ḥemdat' and 'my master, the rayyis, our rabbi Avraham (Maimonides?).'

Related People

1

תגים

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

See, e.g., Ibn Ḥijja al-Ḥamawī in Bulūgh al-Amal fī Fann al-Zajal (https://shamela.ws/book/567/2#p1).

תגים

• arabic poetry
• muwashshah

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Goitein's translation (Med Soc III, p. 457 n. 12): "My lady, Sitt Ṣalaf visited me and reported to me what you have said to her. Now, my lady, I have children; so if you deem fit that he (or: it) should be left in my engagement agreement (or: possession), it is fine with me; but if you transfer him (or: it) for me to someone else, you would do me a great favor.

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1

תגים

• bialphabetic

דיון אחד

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Also, "Take your wife and come visit Dammūh." On verso, the addressee writes back in Judaeo-Arabic: "May whoever wrote such a letter never enjoy health!

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1

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

On Lajjūn, see Marom, Tepper, and Adams, "Lajjun: forgotten provincial capital in Ottoman Palestine," Levant (2023); https://doi.org/10.1080/00758914.2023.2202484. ASE

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1

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

[Genizah Research Unit, Fragment of the Month, April 2008]. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.48226. The reading and translation of kummara are uncertain.

Related People

1

תגים

• halfon b. menashshe
• prognostica

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Reporting that he had intended to pay him a visit on the occasion of his pilgrimage to Jerusalem, however the Nasi Yoshiyyahu came to visit the community for Sabbath, thus he had no time for the visit.

Related Places

1

תגים

• jerusalem
• mosul nasis

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Nissim in which the writer mentions a letter received from Nahray from his brother, and that Nahray had visited Caesarea. He discusses various business matters and writes that Abu Sa‘d al-Halabi is supposed to carry a mula’a to Nissim, and that Abu al-Surur sends his greeting and is now in Tripoli (Libya).

Related People

1

Related Places

3

תגים

• nahray b. nissim
• trade

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

The writer has been forced to stay in a funduq due to an illness, and there is no one there to help him. At one point he visited the house of al-Kohen al-Ṣiqillī, presumably a physician, to take a medicine.

תגים

• funduq
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: funduq
• illness: physician
• (+ 1 עוד)

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The judge, accompanied by the young son of the Nagid, had visited a village and summoned complainants to Fustat.

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1168–1204 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

[Genizah Research Unit, Fragment of the Month, October 2007]. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.40720.

Related People

2

תגים

• maimonides autograph
• recipe

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Inferred date

1168–1204 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The first meeting was a visit to Maimonides (active in Egypt ca. 1168–1204), who discussed medical topics with the writer, who intends to being a course of study in medicine as soon he sorts out an issue with his brother and maternal aunt. The second was with another physician who visited the writer, checked his pulse, examined a flask of his urine, and prescribed barley water (kashk shaʿīr).

Related People

1

Related Places

3

תגים

• barley
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: fever
• illness: nursing
• illness: physicians
• (+ 3 עוד)

2 תעתוקים

Document date

7 Tishri 1461 Seleucid (11 September 1149 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Covered topics include the future marriage of Avraham’s daughter, consolation for the reported death of an individual, and encouragement for the recipient to pay a visit to his brother Avraham.

Related People

12

Related Places

9

תגים

• 12th c
• ib3
• india book

2 תעתוקים 3 תרגומים דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender, who is writing from Alexandria, has visited Fustat and stayed with the family of the recipient.

Related People

2

Related Places

2

תגים

• cutlery
• sicily
• thanks

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(Information in part from Gil and Ben Sasson) For the nizārī dinar, see https://dpul.princeton.edu/coins_geniza/feature/1-nizari-dinar-and-ahiri-dirham-11th-century-ce.

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3

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3

תגים

• coin
• ship
• trade

3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

See Melonie Schmierer-Lee, "What happens on pilgrimage…: T-S 8J22.25," Fragment of the Month, February 2018 (https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/departments/taylor-schechter-genizah-research-unit/fragment-month/fotm-2018/fragment-3?

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2

תגים

• 11th c
• homosexuality

תעתוק אחד 2 תרגומים דיון אחד