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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Holiday greetings to the Nasi Shelomo. Dating: ca. 1240 according to Goitein.

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Location: Cairo (where Avraham b. Natan was judge). Date not preserved. Yefet b. […] Shelomo, Merayhot b. Meshullam and Elʿazar b. Menaḥem. […] Shabbetay, Elʿazar b. Yosef ha-Levi and Yosef b. Avraham ha-Levi.

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דיון אחד

Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

This original deed was originally signed by Hillel he-Ḥazan b. Eli, Menashshe b. Yefet ha-Kohen, Shelomob. […] Several judges and dignitaries approved the veracity of this copy with their signatures (lines 23-29): Avraham b. Shemaʿya he-Ḥaver, Shelomob. Mevorakh he-Ḥaver, Mevorakh b. […] This signature stresses his gaonic lineage, as opposed to his regular signaure (Shelomob. Yosef Av) when serving in the court of the Nasi David b.

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• hillel b. eli

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: Probably late 11th century, based on the presence of the witness Ṣāliḥ b. Yivḥar, who signed T-S 10J26.8 in 1079 CE. Concerning a dispute between Abū Yaʿqūb Yequtiʾel b. […] Witnesses (names written in the hand of the scribe): Ṣāliḥ b. Yivḥar; Yaʿaqov b. Shelomo; Yiṣḥaq b. Elʿazar.

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תגים

• marital dispute

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

1440 Seleucid (28 August 1128–15 September 1129 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document concerning a quittance of debt, dated 1440 Sel. (1129 CE), written under the authority of the gaon Maṣliaḥ ha-Kohen. Mentions Abū l-Maʿālī b. Yūsuf (known as Ibn Tamar) and Yeshuʿa b. Ḥananya. Signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe and Natan ha-Kohen b. Shelomo. This is folio 1r of a court register in the hand of Ḥalfon b.

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תגים

• debt

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Rabiʿ II 448 Hijrī (18 June 1056–16 July 1056 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Dated: Rabiʿ II 448 AH = June/July 1056 CE. Signed by al-Ḥasan b. Muḥammad b. ʿUbaydallāh. Underneath in Hebrew script there are a pair of unusual female and male names: Imāma bt. Shaʿf and Sātkīn b. Fahm. Underneath those: Yinon ha-Kohen b. Shelomo he-Ḥaver b.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Marriage contract (ketubba). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100-1138 CE). Groom: Abū l-Karam Nadiv (might be identical with Abū l-Karam Nadiv b. […] There are ~8 witness signatures, including Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, Ḥalfon b. Ghālib the cantor, and Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Memorial lists for al-ʿAṣṣār and the judge (al-Dayyān) Shelomo. (Information from Goitein’s index card)

דיון אחד

Fragment of right side of a marriage contract between Yefet and [...] bt. Shelomo.

תגים

• ketubba
• marriage

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Probably a legal document, mentioning 25 dirhams, Shelomo and [...] ha-Levi. (Information from CUDL)

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal fragment mentioning a certain Shelomo and 21 dinars. On parchment. (Information from CUDL)

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Shelomob. Yehuda very early in his public career, when he was Av Bet Din, to a notable in Fustat, ca. 1025. He signs: Shelomo Av ha-Yeshiva birabbi Yehuda, and surrounds his name with tiny letters spelling out ‘And I am a worm and not a man’ (Psalms 22:7).

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תגים

• epidemic
• epidemic: dever
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• shelomo b. yehuda

תעתוק אחד

Document date

Wednesday, 26 Adar II 4848 Anno Mundi (22 March 1088 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Avraham appoints Avraham b. Shelomo as her agent for suing Hiba b. Bishr, debtor of her late father, since she and her minor sister were the only legal heirs. […] Written and signed by the cantor Mawhūb b. Aharon the cantor and Tamām b. Nissim; signatures: the Nasi David b. Daniel ha-Nasi; ʿEli ha-Kohen b. Yaḥyā, the cantor Hillel b. ʿEli. (Information from CUDL; see also Goitein's index card.)

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דיון אחד

Document date

last third of Shevaṭ 1471 Seleucid (31 January 1160–9 February 1160 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: last decade of Shevaṭ 1471 = January/February 1160 CE, under the authority (reshut) of the Gaʾon Netanʾel ha-Levi. Ḥiyya b. Yiṣḥaq (b. Shemuel ha-Sefaradi) invested 65 dinars with the merchant (al-tājir) Abū l-Ḥasan Toviyya b. […] Trading losses reduced the capital to 39 dinars, and Ḥiyya retained the perfumer (al-ʿaṭṭār) Abū l-Rabīʿ Sulaymān Shelomob. Yehuda ha-Kohen to collect the remaining proceeds from Ṭoviyya. Shelomo received 30 of the 39 dinars he expected, the same amount which Shelomo seems to have advanced Ḥiyya prior to Shelomo's departure. the merchant Abū l-Ḥasan Adonim b.

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תגים

• business
• commenda
• lawsuit
• wheat

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Document date

1122–1150 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment (lower right corner). In the hand of Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen (active 1122–50). Someone makes an acknowledgment in favor of Sayyid al-Kull.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Might be in the hand of Shelomob. Eliyyahu. AA. ASE.

תגים

• badhanj

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Shelomob. Yehuda to an unidentified personality in Fustat, expressing gratitude for funds sent to the community in Jerusalem, and requesting the intervention of the recipient to persuade a lady to leave Egypt and join her husband in Jerusalem.

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תגים

• 11th c
• communal
• marital strife
• shelomo b. yehuda

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from the teacher Dāʾūd Ibn al-Ḥaver of Qalyub to the judge Shelomob. Eliyyahu. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1225 CE.

תגים

• al-shaykh al-rashid
• communal
• jaliya
• petition
• shelomo b. eliyyahu

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fol. 1v: Legal document (lower right corner) involving the sale of a share of a property; one person is named Abū Saʿd. Signed by Shelomob. Nissim ha-Levi. Both fragments are written on parchment.

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תגים

• grain
• parchment

דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Bifolio containing multiple drafts of the opening of a letter from (Bū) Manṣūr b. Shelomo to a notable. Little is preserved of the content.

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter fragment from Shelomob. Yehuda to an unidentified personality.

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תגים

• shelomo b. yehuda

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Eliyyahu the Judge to his son Shelomo (Abu l-Barakāt). The writer asks Shelomo to come immediately to his mother, who is ill, because he has to travel to Alexandria to find a bride for R.

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תגים

• eliyyahu b. zekharia
• illness
• shelomo b. eliyyahu

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

Testimony (shahada) written in Jerusalem during the gaonate of Daniel b. Azarya (1051–62), October 1057. Draft.

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תגים

• draft
• jerusalem
• testimony

תעתוק אחד

Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Ismaʿīl b. Barhūn al-Tahartī (CUDL), Yosef b. Berekhya or Moshe b. Barhun al-Taharti, Qayrawān (PGP), to (Efrayim b.) Shemarya, Fustat. Discusses responsa of the geʾonim. Dating: ca. 1007–1055 CE, based on the years when Efrayim b. Shemarya was active, but this date range might be narrowed further based on the years when the potential senders were active/alive.

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תגים

• geonim
• musa al-taherti
• qayrawan
• responsum

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender suggests in a postscript that the ʿAqiba b. Yosef mentioned in this context in Bava Meṣiʿa (though Goitein's note card points out that his citation is actually incorrect, and it should be ʿArakhin 16b) must have been a different ʿAqiba.

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document (written by Yosef b. Shemuel. AA) . Lease of an apartment of the Qodesh ca. 1194 and 1199. […] It is validated by Shemuel b. Saadya. Abu'l-Surur was apparently in the perfume business, and the representatives of the qodesh wished to prevent the qa'a rented by him from being used for anything connected with his occupation. […] The verso of the document, written five years later by Shemuel b. Saadya, lists a series of payments collected by him from the same Abu'l-Surur, on account of another period of lease during which he occupied the same qa'a.

תגים

• 12th c
• account
• heqdesh
• qodesh
• waqf
• (+ 1 עוד)

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Reused for business accounts on verso in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef (according to Goitein's notes). The letter is written in a very difficult hand.

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תגים

• business dispute
• partnership

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Tuesday, 23 Adar II 1540 Seleucid (20 March 1229 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Draft of a legal document in the hand of Shelomob. Eliyyahu. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 23 Adar II 1540 = 20 March 1229 CE. In which al-Shaykh al-Nafīs Abū Isḥāq Avraham b. Ḥananya known as Ibn al-Dayyan leases half of a house with a garden (known as Dār al-Bustān) to Abū l-Rabīʿ Sulaymān aka Shelomo Segan ha-Kohanim b. […] (There was a merchant known as Meshullam b. Elʿazar ha-Kohen Kelil ha-Yofi active ca. 1200 but it's not clear if this is the same person.)

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תגים

• draft
• garden
• tenant

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Thursday, 23 Ḥeshvan 1542 Seleucid (1230 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: Dated: Thursday, 23 Ḥeshvan 1542 Seleucid = 1230 CE under the authority of Avraham b. Moshe Maimonides. Document produced in the home of her son Abū l-Baqāʾ Elʿazar b. […] In the handwriting of Shelomob. Eliyyahu? The scribe has reused verso for (1) biblical verses; (2) the beginning of a draft of a letter to the ḥaver Abū l-Bayān; and (3) notes for drawing up a (debt?) contract between Shelomo ha-Levi and Abū Saʿd b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṣabbāgh.

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דיון אחד

Document date

1127–1139 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Small fragment from a beginning of a legal document, probably bill of gift, written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100-1138), under the authority of Masliah Gaon (r. 1127-1139), whose name is not mentioned but his father and grandfathers are (b. Shelomob. Eliyyahu). It is probably from the first years of his rule, ca. 1127. The document is a declaration in favor of Elʿazar b. [...] al-Iskandarānī. AA

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תגים

• halfon b. menashshe
• masliah gaon

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Final decade Shevaṭ 1445 Seleucid (17 January 1134–26 January 1134 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Written and signed by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: last 10 days (21-30) of the month of Shevat 1445 Seleucid, which is 1134 CE, under the jurisdiction of Masliah Gaon. […] Yakhin/Thābit acknowledges receipt of something (probably a substantial sum of money) from Yehuda/Shibl b. Natan. There follow several dozen lines of elaborate release formulae. Also signed by Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. AA

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תגים

• halfon b. menashshe
• masliah gaon

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from an Egyptian community leader to the Nasi Yehuda b. Yoshiyya b. Shelomo. Written on a bifolio. In Hebrew. […] 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.

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תגים

• 12th c
• mosul nasis

תעתוק אחד

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Court record in the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38). Fragment (upper right corner). Appearing before the court are Abū l-Ḥasan (titled הנדיב והשוע תפארת העדה), someone's brother Abū Saʿd Ḥalfon b. Berakhot, Ṣedaqa b. Shelomo, ʿUmar(?), and Tamīm.

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תגים

• halfon b. menashshe

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Sivan 1487 Seleucid (11 May 1176–9 June 1176 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

A letter from Mevorakh b. Shelomo to Abu Bishr Mevasser b. 'Eli. The writer did not send the cloths he promised to send because a child was born to him named Yehuda. Ishaq b. Sasson is mentioned, a known dayyan from Maimonides' circle.

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Sunday, 7 Ḥeshvan 1445 Seleucid (8 October 1133 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Also signed by Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. Husband: Yeshuʿa b. Mevasser. Wife: Diyār bt. Yefet. Verso is blank (i.e., lacking confirmation that she received the geṭ).

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter or legal declaration (aqūl...), written by a certain Shelomo. (Information in part from CUDL)

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto (secondary use): Statement of sums due to Shelomob. ʿAzzūn from Faraḥ b. ʿAṭṭiya for a banker’s note.

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תגים

• numismatic dating

דיון אחד