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Document date

20 Safar 1024 Hijrī (21 March 1615 CE)

Primary language

Ottoman Turkish

Letter in Ottoman Turkish to a state official regarding a rabbi's travels to Jerusalem. […] Samuel probably carried this letter with him on his journey. This may explain why the space in line 1 for the official’s name and position are left blank, although it is possible they were written in above the line, as was common in this type of letter, and have not survived, since the letter’s top margin shows signs of tearing. […] Samuel may therefore have carried several copies of this letter, and the one that found its way to the Genizah may be one that he did not use.

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תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal query addressed to the Gaʾon Moshe (b. Netanʾel) ha-Levi concerning the claims of a creditor against the widow of the man who owed him. Goitein notes in Med Soc II, p. 528 note 46, that there is no document confirming that Moshe b. […] Friedman's article on Zuta, pp. 474–75, for the point that at the time of Yehuda ha-Levi's arrival in Egypt (Elul of 1140 CE), Moshe b.

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• legal query

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Written on a sheet of paper made into a booklet of four leaves, it is a record of current payments for building materials and labor.

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• 13th c
• account
• communal
• coptic numerals
• qodesh
• (+ 1 עוד)

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Arabic

who held the rights to a capitation tax farm (kāna multazim bi-muqāṭaʿat al-jawālī) but who was caught up in some sort of scandal (unkira ʿalayhi min al-amwāl al-muḥarrara ʿalayhi li-jānib al-dīwān) and had to leave Egypt for a long time. He eventually returned and attached himself to the court of Ḥayyim al-Kapūsī. […] ASE An image of this document appears with a brief caption in Paul Fenton's article “Interfaith Relations as Reflected in the Genizah Documents,” Bulletin of the Israeli Academic Center in Cairo, vol. 21 (July 1997): 26–29 (this information kindly shared by Emanuel Friedberg).

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• 16th or 17th c
• capitation tax
• capousi
• corruption
• dimme
• (+ 4 עוד)

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Draft of a deposition about a shipment of Indian Ocean merchandise carried by two merchants named Faraḥ and Abū Naṣr who were killed in ʿAydhāb. The two men were partners of Yosef Labdī, and their death occasioned legal disputes between Labdī and Abū Naṣr's sister (Wuḥsha) as well as among their creditors.

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תגים

• ib7
• india book
• materia medica
• tabashir
• tutty

3 תעתוקים

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from a man to a business associate and/or family member. Mentions "your father" and "your paternal uncle Abū l-Faḍl." […] The story, the points of contention, and even some of the exact phrases are nearly identical to those in Manṣūr's letters of exhortation.

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

(Information in part from Mediterranean Society, II, pp. 505-506, App. C 130.)

תגים

• communal

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Document date

Wednesday, 24 [month] [year] Seleucid (March 1097 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document. Record of release. Dating: March 1097. […] Nathan the Ḥaver from obligations in a long-distance trading partnership which had taken their father, apparently the active partner, to Tripoli or Lebanon. The release clauses absolve Samuel from any further obligation in either “a partnership (shirka)” or “a commenda (muḍāraba)”. […] This evidence is strengthened by the fact that TS 16.87 is dated to the twenty-first of Adar in the year 1097, which was a Sunday; this could have been three days before the "Wednesday the twenty-fourth" mentioned in line 23 of this document as the delayed date of execution.

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• hillel b. eli
• partnership

3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1578–1578 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

There is a long list of people (including Yaʿaqov Leon; Daniel Baraza; Yeḥiel Kohen; Avraham de Narbona; Yaʿaqov de la Fe(?)[…] It seems that the debtor fell on hard times. The creditors each reached an agreement with him regarding dates of repayment and postponements. […] The guarantors are Sulaymān [Serrano] and Yiṣḥaq Navarro (the debtor from recto). Also mentioned: Yehuda Serrano (also appears in ENA NS 5.30, dated 5338 AM = 1578 CE).

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

Recto: Letter from Natan b. Avraham, in which he urges his supporters to be in Jerusalem for the Feast of Tabernacles, lest their party be underrepresented, mentioning the ḥaver Avraham b. […] This letter contains a request to recruit as many supporters for the pilgrimage as possible, as I have already mentioned. […] Shela ḥaver, and he explains in detail how important it is that there should be ‘an ordained man’ in every community, meaning of course, someone loyal to Nathan. According to his statements, he enjoyed notable success in Ramla.

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• 11th c
• natan b. avraham

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Letter from Ṣamṣām, a prisoner in Nābulus, to al-Qāʾid Muʿizz (according to the body of the letter) or to the heirs of Ṣārim al-Dawla, in Cairo (according to the address, which also specifies "to al-Bāṭiliyya, under the cross-street bridge (sābāṭ) of the house of Muʿizz al-Dawla"). […] Of note, there are few details about what it is like to be a prisoner in Nābulus. The letter mainly consists of a complaint about a lack of letters and the sender's isolation and cut-off state. He may be particularly disconsolate about having to pray alone. He urges the family members to respond quickly with their news and the news of who is alive and who is dead and news of a certain Murhaf ('and spare me nothing').

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• inqita'
• nablus
• prisoners

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

II, l. 15, to col. IV, l. 21. At least half of the recipients were women. Four names recur in both lists, meaning that two different distributions are recorded here. […] I, l. 20 [read: 10]), where, however, the item is crossed out. This could hardly mean here, as in some other documents, that the garment had already been delivered to him, for about forty items, or half the total contained in this leaf, exhibit the Arabic final mem, which Goitein takes as an abbreviation of (tasalla)m, 'received' (the same in Appendix B 33, 64, and C 41). […] (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 444, App. B 25, dated 1100-1140).

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• charity
• clothing
• communal
• poverty
• recipients

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment of a letter composed circa 1236 CE by Abu l-Ḥasan Yedutun b. Abu Sahl Levi, at one time the cantor of the Palestinian synagogue in Fustat, who signs his name Ḥasan b. […] His brother, Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, died on the 20th of Adar in 1212. (This is consistent with the information from T-S NS 264.98, a letter written by Moshe, indicating that both Moshe and Levi were alive in 1206.)

תגים

• abu sahl levi
• funeral
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: chronic
• (+ 5 עוד)

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

However, see T-S 18J3.24 (PGPID 17064), a letter from 1758 CE addressed to a later Avraham Monson. […] The latter, instead of paying back his debt, gave the creditor a position in Damietta. But his wife refused to leave Cairo.

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• monson
• responsum

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal query, draft. In the hand of Berakhot b. Shemuel. […] A man gives half a house (which actually belongs to his wife) as pledge for a debt of 8 dinars, and after the man dies the creditor demands the money from the widow. The same case is probably described in Moss.

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תגים

• draft
• legal query
• yosef rosh ha-seder

2 תעתוקים

Document date

16 Dhū l-Qaʿda 537 Hijrī (2 June 1143 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The declaration is made by two Jewish men, Saʿīd b. Manṣūr and Bū l-Ḥasan b. Ibrāhīm, who live in the city of Akhmīm. […] There are two addenda on verso; the lower is a declaration by the creditor. Needs further examination.

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תגים

• to edit

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1150–1150 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

IB II, 61. Letter from Ḥalfon and Bundār b. Maḍmūn, in Aden, to Sulaymān b. […] Sulaymān had sent the writers a power of attorney to collect a debt from a Jewish merchant who has absconded without repaying (r27–37). They express their strong disapproval of the three wraps and scarf that Sulaymān had sent them, which are of mediocre quality (r37–51). Their father had sent much better items (r52–rm1).

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• ib-partial translation-eng
• ib2
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• india book

תעתוק אחד 2 תרגומים דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Quite long, and written in an elegant script. The sender gives a convoluted account of a business/legal dispute, involving stakes of over 150 dinars and the underhanded tactics of another merchant. […] Places mentioned: Tripoli (Libya) and 'the West.' People mentioned: ʿAmmār b. al-Dayyān, ʿImrān, Ibn Shammārī, a Rayyis who died, and aṣḥabunā al-Barqiyyīn wa-l-Ghurabā (associates from al-Barqa and the West).

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Document date

middle third of Adar I 1426 Seleucid (7 February 1115–17 February 1115 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document. Record of release. Written in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dated: Adar I, 1426 Seleucid. One of two copies of a signed and executed mutual release of the partners Abū l-Karam Nadiv b. Saʿadya ha-Levi and Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. Benyamin from their long distance trading partnership.

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• ib7
• india book
• yemen

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Document date

18 Iyyar 5593 Anno Mundi (7 May 1833 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Many of the accounts are dated according to the weekly Parsha readings, as is the case with many communal accounts, however, it seems more likely that these are private business transactions. Shops (דוכאן) are mentioned throughout the booklet, as are אסתגראר transactions (credit-related debts on goods).

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Elul 5376 Anno Mundi (14 August 1616–11 September 1616 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

It is headed, "This is the body of the prozbul" (זה הוא גופו של פרזבול). This one mentions more names (the creditors?): Yiṣḥaq b. Shoshan b. […] Instead it says, "the witnesses sign below, or the sages." The rabbi mentioned in the prozbul section, Meʾir Gāvṣon, could be the well-known poseq Meʾir Gāviṣon, who died c. 1622 CE. The conventional spellings of his surname are גאויזון and גאביזון, and it seems the scribe was less experienced and crossed out their first attempted spelling.

תגים

• prozbul

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Natan b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Sefaradi, in Jerusalem, to Shelomo b. […] Gil identifies the sender as a Qaraite based on his use of the terms muʿallim, majlis (referring to the place of gathering and prayer for Qaraites), and his mention of the lesson of Abū l-Faraj b. Asad, i.e., the famous Qaraite scholar Yeshuʿa (Furqān) b. […] He conveys his longing for the addressee ("every time I go to the majlis and do not see you there, the world darkens for me") and that he prays for him always. He reports that he attended the lesson (nawba) of Abū l-Faraj b.

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• 11th c
• appeal
• begging
• jerusalem
• qaraite
• (+ 1 עוד)

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד 2 דיונים

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Brief letter/petition from a person in dire straits suffering from illness and lack of clothing, and unable to buy anything to eat for the upcoming holiday.

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תגים

• appeal
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: marad
• illness: poverty

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד 2 דיונים

Document date

1 Elul 5579 Anno Mundi (22 August 1819 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: 1 Elul 5579 AM, which is 1819 CE. The widow of Avraham Yedid invests 9000 medins with Yeḥezqel Ḥefeẓ, a prolific scribe and communal rabbi who was active between 1780-1830 in Cairo.

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תגים

• investment
• widow

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

Recipes for פתיחת לב, for love, for hate, to know if a woman will become pregnant, for invisibility and salvation from dangers on the road, …

תגים

• magic

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Document date

3 Sivan [4901] Anno Mundi (11 May 1141 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

India Book (IB) IV,76 (ח81). Letter from Abū Naṣr b. Avraham, in Alexandria, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 3 Sivan (4901 AM), which is 11 May 1141 CE. This is the second and last page of a large letter. The first page has been lost. This letter was written when Yehuda ha-Levi was on the ship in Alexandria.

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תגים

• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• india book
• scandal

3 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים 2 דיונים

(Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 505 App. C 128)

תגים

• account
• capitation tax
• charity
• jaliya
• tax

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Document date

[12]91 Seleucid (979–980 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Fustat. Dated: [12]91 Seleucid, which is 979/80 CE. Settlement of a marital dispute between Shelomo b. Yeshuʿa ha-Levi and Sittāna bt. Ah[aron]. The dispute evidently arose on account of lack of offspring. […] Shemuel (who also signed T-S 16.49 and T-S 12.496); and Baqāʾ b. Mevasser (who also signed T-S 12.161, ENA 4010.10, and apparently also T-S 16.49).

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• marital reconciliation
• marriage

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

1487 Seleucid (18 September 1175–5 September 1176 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Maimonides' decree on menstrual purity. Dated 1487 Seleucid = 1175/76 CE. See Eve Krakowski, "Maimonides' Menstrual Reform in Egypt," JQR (2020), 245–89.

תגים

• maimonides
• menstrual purity

תרגום אחד

Document date

14 Nisan 5581 Anno Mundi (16 April 1821 CE)

A variety of coinage types are mentioned and the appearance of Maḥmūdīya in line 1 points to the likelihood that the list was recorded following the onset of Sultan Maḥmūd II's reign in 1808. This chronological marker is plausible because Ottoman yüzlük coinage is mentioned in the same list, which was first minted in 1789.

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תגים

• 19th c
• ketubba

תעתוק אחד 2 דיונים

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. […] Power of attorney is granted to an agent after the refusal of a debtor to remit a debt against a note. Mevorakh b. 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). […] The court considered his request justifiable (ll. 11-12) and accordingly the creditor gave the agent his power of attorney (ll. 16-17), and sent him to collect the debt and properly issue a release to the debtor (ll. 18-21).

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

כפי הנראה, הקטע הוא מתחילת השטר. השטר נכתב בידי סופר מקצועי, אך התוספת הקטועה שבסוף ע"ב היא בידי חלפון עצמו. כשם שתעודה ח26 נפתחת בהצהרת השותף הפעיל, יוסף בן שֻׁעַיְבּ בן אלנַגִרַה, שקיבל מחלפון כספים לסחור בהם, כך מסופר בפתח דף זה שחלפון נתן כספים ליוסף לסחור בהם. אם כן, לפנינו שני שטרי שותפות שנכתבו במערב בין חלפון, המשקיע, לבין 'מתעסק', ששמו יוסף, ומסתבר שהכוונה לאותו שותף. כיוון שהוסכם שאם יפר יוסף את ההסכם ייתן עשרים מִ̇תְקַאל 'לעניי אלמַרִיַّה ולשבויים', מסתבר שתעודה ח29 נכתבה בספרד, ויש להניח בזמן שאבן אלנַגִרַה ביקר אצל חלפון, כמשוער באליֻסאנה, בראשית חודש יולי שנת 1138.1

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תגים

• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• india book

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד

Document date

2 Muḥarram 777 Hijrī (3 June 1375 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Yet in the succeeding three-quarters of a century, it was deaccesioned from the Coptic waqf to become the private property of a series of Muslim, or at least predominantly Muslim, owners." (Hathaway, Ottoman-Era Documents from the Cairo Genizah, 269-270, 273-274)

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תגים

• 14th c
• copts
• mamluk
• wax seal

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Document date

Tishrei 1556 Seleucid (5 September 1244–4 October 1244 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Debtor: Yeshuʿa b. Yehuda ha-Kohen. Creditor: Abu Naṣr Yehuda b. Yeshuʿa ha-Levi ha-Sar.

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תגים

• acknowledgment
• iqrar

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Though the address lists all the brothers (the members of the respective family firms), the letter is principally from Mūsā al-Tāhatī to Sahl al-Tustarī. […] Yosef, the leading Jewish merchant of Qayrawān (active 990s–1030s). (Information from Goitein, Letters of Medieval Jewish Traders, pp. 73–79.)

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• qaraites
• textiles
• trade

2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yakhin (signed deed in 1099), Ullah ha-Levi b. Yosef, and the scribe Hillel b. Eli (1066-1108). […] (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 446, App. B 29, dated 1100-1140).

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תגים

• list

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1034–1040 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Record of the activities of the qodesh at the end of the 10th and the first half of the 11th century, up to 1034 CE. …

תגים

• 11th c
• account
• heqdesh
• qodesh
• waqf
• (+ 1 עוד)

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד 2 דיונים

Document date

Sha'ban 429 Hijrī (9 May 1038–6 June 1038 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Each entry begins with the verb אחלתה (aḥaltuhu), meaning "I transferred" or "I assigned" via ḥawāla, a formal legal instrument of debt transfer in Islamic commercial law. When a creditor or debtor uses a ḥawāla, he is transferring his claim or obligation to a third party, essentially saying, instead of paying me directly/instead of my paying you directly, the debt should be collected from this third person. By saying אחלתה עלי פלאן, he means, "I transferred/assigned the collection to so-and-so.

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• flax
• hawala
• trade
• yosef b. awkal

2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים דיון אחד

Inferred date

1020–1030 CE

The deposition of the brothers, as recorded by the court in Tyre, is preceded by a lenghty verified introduction, in a very flowery style, which forms the first half of the letter. The first part of the introduction is a eulogy, alphabetically arranged, to the learned people of Aleppo and their leader, the head of the court, R. Yaʿaqov b. Joseph. The letter is written in the hand of Shemuel b. Moshe.

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• 11th c
• tyre

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד