Documents

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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• 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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תגים

• 11th c
• homosexuality

תעתוק אחד 2 תרגומים דיון אחד

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

[Genizah Research Unit, Fragment of the Month, September 2008]. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.48226. Cf. T-S NS 342.134 (PGPID 26067).

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• fotm

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter by a father to his son, complaining about the son's failure to visit the family, urging him to visit, and requesting a blanket and a box.

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

1361 Seleucid (1049–1050 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In Judaeo-Arabic with some Hebrew. Ends with the motto "yeshuʿa." Goitein identified the sender as Daniel b. […] The purpose of the letter is to announce an upcoming visit "for the renewing of the covenant" (tajdīd al-ʿahd) with the community of Fustat.

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3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Document date

22 Rabīʿ I 548 Hijrī (17 June 1153 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Concerns his manumission of a slave during his brother Mevasser’s visit to him in Aden in c. 1151–52. Only the last four lines are preserved, as well as the witness statements. […] Ibn Yiju later reused them for a complicated set of notes that mention Bama three times (see separate entry).

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תגים

• dimme
• ib-addenda
• ib3

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

in rudimentary script and spelling, asking her "on the life of al-Shaykh Abū l-Maḥāsin" to do a certain favor for the writer (something about visiting a prison at night?).

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

[Genizah Research Unit, Fragment of the Month, July 2009]. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.48228.

תגים

• fotm
• papyrus

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Coptic, Greek

Information from Matthew Boutilier, Peter Toth, Doug Henning, and https://www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m736/.

תגים

• coptic
• greek

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Includes the well-known story of Ibn al-Sammāk who visited Hārūn al-Rashīd, who was drinking water. Ibn al-Sammāk stopped him from drinking and asked what he would give to be able to drink if he were forbidden from doing so.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The poem is discussed here: https://gniza.haifa.ac.il/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=185:2017-01-03-14-15-40&catid=47&Itemid=211&lang=he.

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תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer describes how the Rav (the highest authority in the Ifrīqiyan Jewish community) had visited him often during his illness, especially on Sabbaths when it was particularly welcome.

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תגים

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: housebound
• illness: iftiqad
• illness: marad
• (+ 2 עוד)

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Document date

middle third of Iyyar 1467 Seleucid (3 May 1156–12 May 1156 CE)

On a Saturday, a dying man, Salim al-Halabi, a dyer was visited by friends, among them a creditor, who reminded him of a sum of 16 dinars and 4 qirats still owed to him.

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

The letter mentions Elijah’s compatriot, Abū ʿAlī, who had visited Fusṭāṭ and brought back letters from Elijah's brother, and letters for a community leader, Elijah b.

תגים

• 11th c

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer recommends for support a visitor who is about to arrive in Fustat, Shelomo from Sijilmasa, presumably the bearer of the letter. The writer mentions his own visits to saints’ and prophets’ graves in Iraq, including that of Yeḥezqel, and his attendance at the majlis of Shemuʾel b.

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2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

[Genizah Research Unit, Fragment of the Month, July 2007]. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.40294). ASE.

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• fotm
• materia medica
• yefet b. menashshe

תעתוק אחד

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The groom takes upon himself not to forbid his future wife to go and meet her parents and not to stop them from visiting her.

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• halfon b. menashshe
• prenuptial

תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

Benveniste of Narbonne, in Dimyāṭ (Damietta), who visited Egypt around 1105, writing to Yehoshuaʿ b.

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• recommendation
• travels

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Document date

10 Adar 5639 Anno Mundi (5 March 1879 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Binyamin and her husband Netanʾel b. Levi free the enslaved man Avraham/Ibrāhīm. (Information from Moshe Yagur.) 2) Document no. 5 at this link (http://notrikon.blogspot.com/2019/12/blog-post.html), a ketubba dating to Av 5671 AM = 1911 CE. 3) Possibly JRL SERIES A 534 (PGPID 28282), a geṭ which resembles the current document but does not preserve information about location and dating.

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• bombay
• get

תעתוק אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Transcription available here: https://maagarim.hebrew-academy.org.il/Pages/PMain.aspx?

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• al-tustari
• elegy
• fire
• liver

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

For more bibliographical information, see: https://www.fihrist.org.uk/catalog/manuscript_1195.

תגים

• account
• cmp
• manual
• scribes

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Containing prenuptial conditions for a marriage, including that the wife will not be able to go out without the husband's consent, except for one day a week for 'visiting' (iftiqād). His employment will be in Cairo.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

Yishay is mentioned as ‘head of the communities’ and he is also called ‘faithful of the yeshiva'. This Mevasser visited Ramla and received writings from Natan for his followers. […] According to his statements, he enjoyed notable success in Ramla. The authorities were pressed lest they agreed to the demands of Shelomo b.

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תגים

• 11th c
• natan b. avraham

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

The writer traveled to Qabes after visiting Barqa, Tripoli (Libya), and Qayrawan (Ifrīqiya).

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• ibn awkal
• trade

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Be vigilant in all things before you enter into them." The next sentence is difficult; Gil marks his translation as doubtful and suggests that Ismāʿīl is exhorting his son to be careful about whom he puts his trust in. […] On verso in line 2, he mentions the arrival of some letters ḍabāratan, in a bundle or a file, possibly one pierced and loosely bound with string (on which see this short lecture by Marina Rustow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1nMtoEDbmc).

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תגים

• 11th c
• epidemic
• epidemic: waba'
• famine
• idbara binding
• (+ 2 עוד)

3 תעתוקים 3 תרגומים דיון אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

A list of payments from around 1550 CE describes a payment made for “visiting the sick (bīqqūr ḥōlīm)—3 jadīd; buying clothes for the poor (kesūt ʿaniyīm)—5 jadīd."

תגים

• 16th c
• biqqur holim
• havarot

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

He says that he and Abū Naṣr visited the Nā'ib of Jedda, who received them graciously (l. 8v).

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• hajj
• ib-addenda
• jedda
• lead
• mercury
• (+ 3 עוד)

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Apparently Abū l-Ḥasan was in charge of the workplace but visited only periodically. The withdrawal appears to have taken place six years before this document was written and the account with Abū al-Ḥasan was settled.

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• interest
• tiraz

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions consingments of medical commodities such as betel palm (fawfal), amomum (qāqulla), quince (safarjal), and lichen (dādī), a doctor’s visit and names such as Naḥūm the perfumer and Abū Manṣūr Ibn al-Ṣāʾiḡ (goldsmith), cousin of the writer. […] The writer leaves the shop and visits each of them 5 or 6 times a day, because they are 'cut off' from anyone who can go to the physician for them.

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תגים

• damin
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: letter norms
• illness: physician
• (+ 4 עוד)

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

Replying to a letter where the leader expressed his intention to visit the congregation. The sender mentions that the scholar Meʾir b. Barukh of France had commended the Nasi to the local community, and that all the scholars would be there to meet the visitor. (Information from CUDL)

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תגים

• 12th c
• mosul nasis

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Arabic

The folios are from ch. 14 of his work on the functions of the liver. YU. (https://shamela.ws/book/10706/1203). Folio 32 should be placed before folio 31, for the text on folio 31 follows immediately upon that on the verso of folio 32.

דיון אחד