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Document date

Dhū l-Ḥijja 1220 Hijrī (20 February 1806–20 March 1806 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated in the eighth image as [Dhū] l-Ḥijja 1220 AH (1806 CE), which the scribe mentioned as the starting point for a year's worth of accounts (so indirectly 1221 AH). Although most of the pages are blank, there are sporadic accounts with many details of transactions in precious gemstones, such as: "cut diamond [sold to] Muḥ[ammad]/Maḥ[mūd] Qabbānī," "pearl [sold to] Esther ʿAfiyya," "piece of emerald from Vida and ..la[?]."

תגים

• jeweler
• jewelry

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

The two sisters had had drawn up a document "in the name of" Abū Saʿd Avraham b. Sahl al-Tustarī concerning the gilded garment left to them in the estate of their father, with the ruling that the value of the garment will be split between them.

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• 11th c
• inheritance
• micrography
• motto
• tyre

תעתוק אחד 2 דיונים

Primary language

Hebrew

The Palestinians were arguing that the Four Gates are incomplete because they only account for four days of the week (the days on which the New Year is allowed to fall). Our letter responds that the Four Gates actually covers the full week because every period of time ends where the next one begins (fol.4r:1-5).

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תגים

• calendar
• controversy

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The speaker advises that allowing this group to thrive is not a good thing but rather their eradication is a good thing.

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Yiṣhaq ha-Levi active in the first half of the 11th century) and Abū Saʿd (al-Tustarī?). Reused on recto for Hebrew literary text.

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אין רשומות קשורות

II, p. 573 n. 17, but Goitein's summary must refer to a different, still-unidentified shelfmark. We have retained all index cards and both transcriptions under both PGPIDs.)

תגים

• hillel b. 'eli
• register

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

1126 Hijrī (17 January 1714–6 January 1715 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In line three a member of the janissary garrison in Cairo is named: al-Emīr Ibrahīm Blbsh[?] Musṭaḥfiẓān // אלתזאם אלאמיר אברהם בלבש׳׳[?]

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תגים

• 18th c

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

1463 Seleucid (13 September 1151–31 August 1152 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic, Judaeo-Persian

= آدینه = Friday Identification and join by Alan Elbaum. (Join found via the Dicta Genizah Search website for the MiDRASH Automatic Transcriptions https://zenodo.org/records/17734473.)

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תגים

• calendar
• ib-addenda
• ib3

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

It seems that some people wanted to manumit the daughter of a female slave (fa-rāmū ʿitq ibnat al-jā[riya]). Only fragmentary phrases are preserved out of the next section: the number 10; someone testifying "about her"; "her document"; the court; "the remainder of the ketubba"; "she entered the house"; and "the first."

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דיון אחד

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Seʿadya (l. 16) sent his agent Berakhot (l. 19) to collect some jewelry (l. 7) such as, two bracelets of amber with golden heads (l. 4), from a certain David (l. 18) (perhaps identical with Yeshuʿa al-Qarawī, l. 9). However, the debtor refused to render the items, claiming that the note presented by the agent (l. 10) did not authorize him to issue a proper valid release after handing over the precious items.

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Wednesday, 14 Iyyar 4810 Anno Mundi (9 May 1050 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

This ʿuluww is located above the portico (sqīfa) of Zina bt. al-Fājū(?); its eastern boundary is the house of Yehuda b.

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תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Adar 1522 Seleucid (16 February 1211–16 March 1211 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Covenant (כתב אמנה) of the congregation of the Palestinian synagogue in Fustat, drawn up in Adar 1522 (=1211 CE), which enumerates the venerable liturgical rites they inherited from their ancestors and which they refuse to allow anyone to change. The context is the controvery over the prayer reforms that Avraham Maimonides attempted to introduce.

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תגים

• avraham maimonides
• liturgy
• prayer reform
• yedutun ha-levi

אין רשומות קשורות

Superscription: 'Statement about the revenue from the collection for the weekly payments, jibayat al-mujama'a, for the week of Naso' (Numbers 4:21-7:89, read mostly in May or June); 'our Master' (Moses Maimonides) 8 dirhams, 'the Trustworthy' (title of Maimonides' father-in-law) 12 dirhams, three others 10 dirhams, one, three, and five other 6, 5, and 4 dirhams respectively; Several items are lost.

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תגים

• capitation tax
• communal
• payment
• salary
• tax

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In the closing greetings, the sender reports that the children are all well. Abū l-Mufaḍḍal intends to travel but delayed his departure until after the holidays.

תגים

• hamas
• rent
• slave

דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yosef, in Tripoli, Libya, to his mother, probably in Fustat. Although the address reads "from your son Yosef," the letter is written in the voice of an older woman who defends herself against the addressee's blame for not looking after Yosef properly and for not marrying him to her own daughter.

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תגים

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: marad
• illness: nursing
• illness: waja'
• (+ 3 עוד)

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

419 Hijrī (31 January 1028–19 January 1029 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Fatimid fiscal report or account for the fiscal (kharājī) year 417, from the period of the Fatimid caliph al-Ẓāhir. Dated: 417 kharājī/419 AH. Document is dated according to both systems, so useful for correlating the fiscal (kharājī) and hijrī calendars.

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תגים

• petition

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

"What emerges from this fragment may be summarized as follows: Abū l-Surūr and his sister Nasab inherited 1/3 of a house from their late father in equal shares. 2/3 of this house had already belonged to Nasab. Abū l-Surūr claimed that his sister had taken possession of his share several years before and now he would like to receive what was due him.

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Joins: Nadia Vidro and Alan Elbaum

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(2) A medium-sized fragment in the middle of the rightmost column of the last images. Recto is almost blank. Verso is a letter fragment. The sender has arrived in a place where they do not know anybody and they are concerned about their enemies gloating.

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

8 Iyyar 1406 Seleucid (16 April 1095 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The recto and the beginning of the first column of the verso concern a partnership between Yaḥyā ha-Levi and Abū ʿAli Yefet b. Avraham involving trading goods and supplying metal to the mint.

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תגים

• 11th c
• register

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד

Document date

Friday, 14 Nisan 5532 Anno Mundi (17 April 1772 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Moshe Masʿūd. Bride: Sitt al-Bayt aka Bieto/Vieto(?) bt. Avraham Minir (this uncommon surname is written clearly in the filing note on the verso).

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תגים

• 18th c
• illumination
• ketubba
• vellum
• watercolor

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender then reports in detail about the nagid’s beehives, complaining about all the trouble he has had with them, and asks for instructions.

תגים

• amir
• bees
• capitation tax
• damin
• lac

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

IV, p. 260): "Take two and a half dirhems' weight of each of the following: lichen (shayba), ginger, pepper, and barley flour, and half a dirhem of saffron. Mix all these together, pound them and bind the mixture with the same quantity [weight] of Egyptian bee honey and put it aside.

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תגים

• hashish
• illness: teeth
• materia medica
• recipe
• vinegar
• (+ 1 עוד)

3 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

.]; Moshe; Yosef; his two sons Ṭahor and Moshe; his son Elʿazar. The house of Ibn al-Dajājī: Netanʾel; Meshullam; Netanʾel; Nadiv; Shela; Hillel; Netanʾel; Yefet; Yosef; [...]; Menashshe.

תגים

• memorial list

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

He was very sick one night and the camel drivers stole all of his possessions and left him naked. Now, "even here they do not believe me because they have not seen my letter/document, because it was lost."

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תגים

• appeal
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer explains that he has dyed some textiles "and I ruined it all." Ḥalfon's letter arrived containing instructions to sell the merchandise, but the writer didn't dare, because he didn't know whether Ḥalfon had been informed of the price, and it wasn't clear whether he intended to travel.

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תגים

• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• india book

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

The year is כי תבואו אל הארץ, but it is unclear which of these words are meant to be counted (if all of them are counted, the year is 2012 CE). The hand of the letter and the currencies mentioned (gurush, dinar, real) suggests 16th or 17th century.

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תגים

• barda
• late heb

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

It is reported that the Caliph ʿUmar Ibn al-Khaṭṭāb (r. 634–644) appointed Bustanay as exilarch after the Muslim conquest of the Sassanid empire.

תגים

• babylonian geonim
• responsum
• slaves

תעתוק אחד

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Part of a formulary for excommunication, beginning with an omen list determining fates according to the stars (sun, moon, Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn), followed by an alphabetic list of biblical curses, missing verses beginning with daleṯ, yod, nun, pe and ṣade.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto 24-25: Avraham and Abu l-Husayn and Abu Sa'id and Umm Abu l-Bayan and Bayan and _____ all send holiday greetings. Verso 1-3: Avraham's knee pain has gotten worse.

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תגים

• epidemic
• epidemic: smallpox
• forgiveness clause
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• (+ 4 עוד)

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

But you [plural] should not think that I am already dead. Do not give me up. So, if the Creator chooses to grant me health, you will see me.

תגים

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: despair
• illness: matruh
• illness: rich description
• (+ 2 עוד)

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

12 Shevaṭ 1393 Seleucid (14 January 1082 CE)

Aharon ha-Kohen, the daughter of a Qaraite notable, who brings in a dowry of almost 900 dinars (or over 1100 dinars?). As the bride is from a prominent Qaraite family, and the groom is a high-ranking Rabbanite, there are special clauses in the contract stating that the groom will not force the bride to compromise her Qaraite principles, and the bride will join her husband in observing the Rabbanite feasts.

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תגים

• ketubba
• marriage
• qaraite

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Document date

28 Shawwāl 401 Hijrī (4 June 1011 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Measurements: 6.3 x 8.6 cm. Along with T-S AS 177.257 (PGPID 37138) and T-S AS 178.233 (PGPID 18599), one of three receipts found so far that specify that Abū l-Ḥasan’s ḍamān is for a dyeworks (maṣbagha) rather than dyeing (ṣabgh or ṣibgh).

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תגים

• abu l-hasan b. wahb
• daman

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Document date

438 Hijrī (8 July 1046–27 June 1047 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The beginnings of 22 lines are preserved along with part of a witness signature at the bottom.

תגים

• daman
• damin
• dimme

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

Norman Golb took this as a reference to a location in the Nile Delta, however Friedman shows that it is more likely a poetic way of referring to the lowly and degraded state of the yeshiva itself in these years, perhaps alluding to Ezekiel 17:6. Edited and discussed in Friedman, "The Signature Embellishment of Elijah the Gaon-to-be in his Letter to Abraham 'Prince of the Community' / עוד על 'עיטור' חתימתו של ר' אליהו בן גאון במכתבו לאברהם שר העדה," Tarbiz 49 (1980), 202–04.

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

The second part of the letter conveys information for al-Shaykh Ghāzī who left his wife in the hands of the writer to cure her from her illness.

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תגים

• 16th c
• baalbek
• damascus
• illness
• illness: cost
• (+ 7 עוד)

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Yiddish

The fact that this letter, Rachel’s note for Rabbi Katz and a letter from Moshe himself were all found in the Genizah, indicates that they probably never reached their destinations.

תגים

• yiddish
• zussman

דיון אחד