Documents

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions names such as Sulaymān and Maḥmūd bin Ṣafīh (?). Needs further examination. Verso: Legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly from a court ledger (shimmush). Mentions the name Sālim, otherwise, very few details are preserved.

תגים

• dimme

דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mercantileletter. On parchment. Dating: Early 11th century. […] Yaʿqūb Ibn ʿAwkal" (the most prominent merchant in the Geniza documents of this period). The letter was sent to him "either in Fustat or al-Ramla." […] Yaḥyā Ibn al-Ṭaḥḥāla. Mentions the (arrival of?) the ship of ʿArūs. The letter concludes with something about a woman named Sitt ʿAlam.

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תגים

• ib-addenda
• ib6
• ib7
• ibn 'awkal
• to edit
• (+ 2 עוד)

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Several fragments from a business letter written by Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi to his brother Ḥalfon (fl. 1100–1138 CE). […] The addressee is to sell it and buy oil for Dammūh with the proceeds. Further down mentions "all the Jews" (jamīʿ al-yahūd), and mentions musk in the margin. T-S NS 342.34 may also be part of the same letter (lower right corner). AA/ASE. Joins: Alan Elbaum and Oded Zinger.

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3

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1

תגים

• halfon b. menashshe
• yefet b. menashshe

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1101–1101 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

India Book (IB I, 25). Small fragment of a letter sent by a merchant in Egypt to the Maghrib. […] The sender informs the recipient about the arrival of merchants in Qūṣ, and about the merchandise they brought. […] Among these merchants was Labdī with a shipment of 80 bales of lac packed in Nahrawara (Gujarat), 50 bales of pepper and other merchandise.

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1

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6

תגים

• hinge
• ib-partial translation-eng
• ib1
• india book
• trade

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal jottings. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Account of what is left from or has been done with a ketubba. Mentions a remaining sum of 11[..] of something.

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1

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragmentary letter to a friend mentioning repeatedly the writer's gratitude. The hand resembles that of the cantor Yedutun ha-Levi, supported by his mention of his brother Musa.

תגים

• personal
• yedutun ha-levi

תעתוק אחד

Inferred date

1100–1111 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Small fragment of the beginning of a letter addressed to the Nagid Mevorakh b. Saʿadya (r. 1078–1111) written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). AA

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2

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document mentioning recurring payments of 12 dirhams for teaching or apprenticeship. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). (Information in part from CUDL)

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1

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Draft of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Mentions a sale; reneging; 2 years; and a deposit.

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1

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). […] of money (300 dinars) and Peraḥya and Mevasser. (Information in part from CUDL)

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1

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document mentioning Abū l-[...] and probably Sitt al-Sāda, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). (Information in part from CUDL)

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1

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Thin horizontal strip from the middle. Mentions sending things and letters. May mention someone called Ahuv in the margin.

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal notes in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Mentions Abū l-Surūr; Abū Saʿīd; and possibly a freedwoman named סלמה, but this is uncertain.

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1

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a woman, in an unknown location, to her brother ʿAṭiyya b. […] Then she switches to addressing her brother, whom she exhorts “by our upbringing and the breast which we suckled, do not neglect my nephew Manṣūr, for he is the one who protected me... he and his brother. Write me a response to this letter and cool my heart from the severity of its fire, for if you were to see me, you would not recognize me from my worry and distress.... I have sworn not to break my fast until you write me the response to this letter. And peace.” (Information in part from CUDL.)

תגים

• fasting
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• kinship
• nar
• (+ 1 עוד)

תעתוק אחד

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (left side of recto). Mentions: giving or paying something to Yaʿaqov; the testimonies (al-shahādāt... shahādāt kathīr mukhtalifa...); an urging not to forget to add the validation (qiyyum), presumably on the same testimonies; the price of mandrake root (luʿāb); and Khalaf al-[...].

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1

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions an illness and Manṣūr al-Ḥarīrī. Also mentions Shimʿon and "fulān" suggesting it could be a draft or something legal. On verso mentions a gentile and that "they brought the Jew. . . all that he owned and threw. . . naked (f.) in prison. . . ."

תגים

• arabic script
• illness
• prison
• responsa

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Tammuz 5562 Anno Mundi (1 July 1802–29 July 1802 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Legal deed. In Hebrew. Dated: End of Tammuz, 5562 AM = July 1802 CE. Yisraʾel leases his cheese shop in Ḥārat al-Ṣaqāliba to Yosef Medina for a period of 15 months for a sum of 18 reals (1 real pegged to 90 medins). The second witness, Yosef Fermon asked the scribe Meʾīr Ben-Naʿīm to sign on his behalf.

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1

תגים

• 19th c
• ben na'im

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter mainly in Judaeo-Arabic in written in two different hands, with a postscript by ‘your brother’ Yosef Ṣarūr. Address on verso, possibly in the second hand, reads ‘to my brother ... Saʿadya ha-Levi known as Furaykh from me, David Bekhor’. Mentions people including Menaḥem and Abraham Zeraḥya.

תגים

• 16th or 17th c

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Asad to Yoel. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely ca. 13th century. Asking him relay a message and greetings to ‘the wonderful and exceedingly wise judge’ with many Hebrew citations. Long and calligraphic, with many biblical quotations and expressions of longing for the addressee. The lettermentions Yoel ha-Melammed (cf. T-S 20.148 and Moss.

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

He reports that ships from Messina and Ancona have arrived, but not yet the ship from Venice. He mentions several names: Avraham Palma, Yizhaq Fijo (? פיגֿו), Avraham Iskandarani, the writer's son Shem Tov, Yizhaq Castro (so this is probaby 17th century), the Hakham ha-Shalem and his son Shemuel, among others. This letter is mentioned several times in the publications of Abraham David.

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תגים

• 17th c
• late

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

1055 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Contains details about commodities such as pearls, silk, textiles, oil, mercury, perfumes, metals, hides, almonds, glue, resin, and saffron, mostly with the cities of Sfax and Palermo. Most amounts are in dirhams. Also mentions Ibn al-Baʿbāʿ traveling in the amīr's qunbar carrying a pouch containing 4,000 dirhams belonging to Barhūn b.

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3

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7

תגים

• commodities
• ibn al-ba'ba'
• palermo

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Mordechai b. Simḥa who is in the Persian city of Kashan. […] Let them do for me at least what they did for the Indian gentile, the idol worshipper." (They provided him with a donkey and gave him money.) "Let them do for me what they did for the chelebi - many 'גרושו - even though he was going outside of the land, to Persia (ereṣ ha-ʿajam), in order to eat meat and drink wine..."

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1

תגים

• appeal
• charity
• conflict
• curses
• kashan

דיון אחד

Document date

Tishrei 4898 Anno Mundi (18 September 1137–17 October 1137 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. From family members to a traveling merchant. […] Maybe 4898, which would be 1137 CE. The letter is full of expressions of longing and preoccupation. The first line preserved refers to "...that we see you before departing the world, until her soul left her, may God have mercy on her" (so evidently a female family member has died).

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Letter from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, in Qalyūb, probably to his father Abū Sahl Levi, in Fustat. He was very sad and wept the night after an elder female family member (al-kabīra) left him and returned to Fustat. […] Note that Moshe cut up ENA 2558.18 + T-S 13J7.12, a legal document dated 1194 CE, and reused the versos of both fragments for letters.

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1

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תגים

• dammuh
• moshe b. levi

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from the Alexandrian community to Shemuel ha-Levi, "the prince of Levites, the glory of doctors" b. […] In Frenkel's opinion, the letter was sent from Alexandria. There are a few indications for this in the letter: The mentioning of 'the evils of gentiles' (recto - line 17) fits well with Alexandria which was known for its fanatic atmosphere and for its not uncommon anti-Jewish acts of violence; see Goitein, Med. […] See Ullmann, Islamic Medicine, pp. 29-30. Both the disease and the death are metaphorical in this letter: "O Israel, if you see that we have been ended and killed by the frenzies brought against us (by our persecutors), know that we have been killed for the sake of the rite of our fathers and grandfathers and prophets..."

תגים

• communal
• petition

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Document date

21st Tammuz 1437 Seleucid (14 July 1126 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Legal document. Bill of divorce, Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 21 Tammuz 1437 (14 July 1126). […] Shemuel ha-Sefaradi and Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. The verso contains the acceptance of the bill of divorce by the wife, signed also by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel ha-Sefaradi and Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. (Information from Goitein's index card)

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1

דיון אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. On parchment. Fragment (right side only). Very tantalizing subject matter, possibly written on the occasion of a change of government (tabdīl al-dawla). Mentions communal matters and the sulṭān; sounds like a communal letter or sermon addressed to a group, but then the text in the margin conveys greetings to a single person, mentioning names such as Yosef, Shemuʾel, and Elʿazar. Also mentions a man who lost his two sons in the same year.

תעתוק אחד

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. […] Mentions a woman who has died (raḍiya Allāh ʿanhā). […] In addition to the address, verso contains the remains of an earlier letter or letter draft addressed to a woman. (Information in part from CUDL.)

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

Legal declaration, or perhaps a legal query, presenting the facts of a business dispute between the jewel merchants Avraham b. […] Dating: Late, perhaps 16th century. Mentions Adrianople/אנדרינופולי (Edirne) multiple times in l. 25 (f. 1r), l. 27 (f. 1r), l. 3 (f. 1v); and Castile l. 17 (f. 2r). "Levanīm" coinage is mentioned throughout, an alternate label for Ottoman silver akçe.

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2

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Letter fragment (upper part only) from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (identification based on handwriting). […] He states that he is in good health and mentions the woman known as 'al-kabīra.' Verso: Letter fragment (upper part only) in Arabic script. Addressed to Ṭāhir. Mentions a matter of two dinars. ASE

תגים

• arabic script
• moshe b. levi

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, probably in Qalyūb, to a family member, in Fustat. Fragment: left side of recto, right side of verso, tapering as they go down. The remaining piece is so narrow that it will not make a lot of sense until the join is found. He mentions: two knives, two notebooks; Ṭāhir; Ibn al-Sabʿ; Hiba; Ibn Yaʿaqov; the holidays.

תגים

• moshe b. levi

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter. Business letter from Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi b. Simḥa al-Nīsābūrī to the parnas ʿŪlla ha-Levi recommending a young Jewish man and describing him as being very good at kattan work, including the scutching and hatcheling of flax. Also mentions the silk market and prices. (S. D. Goitein, Mediterranean Society, 1:105, 402, 418, 455) EMS

תגים

• flax
• kattan
• nisaburi
• silk
• trade

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד