Documents

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). [Sitt al-Sāda bt.?] Evyatar ha-Kohen and [Shelomob. Abū] al-Riḍā al-Wakīl and Sālim (probably identical with Shelomo) are mentioned.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

15 Tevet 5385 Anno Mundi (25 December 1624 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Witnesses: Masʿūd ʿAmram and Shelomo ʿAravit/ ʿAravib(?). They attest that Yehuda b. Maymūn agrees to work for Khalīfa Daga(?) b. Shemuel as a naqqād in Ṣarf al-Manṣūra under a certain amir until the end of Elul, for a total salary of 2000 muayyadis.

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תגים

• 17th c
• late heb

תעתוק אחד

Inferred date

1007–1055 CE

A letter from Eliyyahu al-Qustantini b. Shelomo, writing to Efrayim he-Haver b. Shemarya, head of the Ben Ezra congregation (fl. 1007–1055 CE).

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דיון אחד

Document date

Tammuz 1411 Seleucid (10 June 1100–8 July 1100 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Legal transaction made in front of witnesses in which ʿAmram Ibn Nufayʿ acknowledges that he owes Netanʾel b. Shelomo three dinars for a sold commodity (the term "jins" suggests something involving a slave, but the surrounding text is too faded). […] Written and signed by Yiṣḥāq b. Shemuel.

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תגים

• debt

תעתוק אחד

Document date

Sunday, 3 Elul 1417 Seleucid (5 August 1106 CE)

Bill of divorce. Husband: Mevasser b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. Wife: Khulla bt. Menashshe. […] On verso there is a religious poem (rahaṭ), nineteen lines, by Yeḥezqel b. ʿEli ha-Kohen. (Information from CUDL and Goitein’s index card)

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דיון אחד

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Signed by various people including Moshe b. Shelomo and Yaʾir b. Shemuʾel. (Information from CUDL)

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

Mentions Moses al-Ghadāmasī (אלגדאמסי, i.e. from Ghadāmis in Libya), Yehuda b. Ṭabit (? טבת), Yiṣ[ḥaq] he-Ḥaver, Shemuel b. Shelomo, and the Aleppan agent Yehoshuaʿ (אלחלבי האפיטרופוס).

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דיון אחד

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Bifolio with copies of letters addressed to dignitaries. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Damaged. The letters' addressees include: Shelomo the head of Yeshivat Geʾon Yaʿaqov (i.e., the father of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon). There is also reference to the Nagid, probably Moshe b. Mevorakh. On verso there is a copy of a letter to the Nasi.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

This is either the final version or an additional draft of the same document as in ENA 4020.11. Seller: Ṣedaqa b. Moshe ha-Levi. Buyer: Yosef b. Shelomo. Slave: Tawfīq.

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דיון אחד

Document date

Ṭevet 1438 Seleucid (17 December 1126–14 January 1127 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Deathbed declaration of Abū l-Maʿālī Shelomo al-Dhahabī. The witnesses to the declaration are ʿEli he-Ḥaver and Araḥ Ibn Kokhav (or Kawkab), and the judge is ʿEli b. […] In the hand of the scribe Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: Ṭevet 1438 Seleucid = December 1126/January 1127 CE.

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תגים

• deathbed will
• halfon b. menashshe

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Tammuz 1530 Seleucid (1219 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Letter from Shelomob. Eliyyahu to his paternal aunt Umm Daʾūd, asking for her daughter Sitt al-Yumn in marriage and enquiring about the dowry. […] In the margins of verso and recto are drafts of a release form in the hand of Shelomob. Eliyyahu, concerning the claims between two sisters and Thanāʾ, the mother the late Manṣūr concerning the inheritance of the late Ibn Abū l-Majd the dyer Ibn al-Nāʾila.

תגים

• 13th c
• inheritance
• marriage
• shelomo b. eliyyahu

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

950–975 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Fragment (lower left corner) of a medieval legal document including the names Aharon b. ʿAmram and the witnesses [...] ha-Kohen b. Saʿīd and [...] b. […] The first witness (and probably also the scribe) is probably Shelomob. Saʿīd ha-Kohen with an embellishment spelling out יזכה לעד, known from several legal documents from the third quarter of the 10th century (including Bodl. MS heb. b 12/6 + Bodl. MS heb. b 12/29 (PGPID 6355), T-S 12.161 (PGPID 7164), and T-S 12.539 + T-S 16.66 (PGPID 16143)).

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Tammuz 1395 Seleucid (7 June 1084–5 July 1084 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Written and signed by Hillel b. ʿEli Location: Fustat. Dated: Tammuz 1395 Seleucid, which is 1084 CE. Declaration by Abū Naṣr Avraham b. Yeshaʿya b. David b. Yeshaʿya that he has no claims against his father-in-law the pharmacist (ṣaydalānī) Abū l-ʿAlā Elʿazar b. […] Elʿazar. Also signed by Shelomob. Yosef ha-Kohen. (Information in part from Goitein’s index card.)

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דיון אחד

Written and signed by the cantor Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya. Groom: Menaḥem b. Hillel. Bride: Sutūt bt. Shelomo. Dated: Tuesday (date not preserved) 13[..] […] Also signed by Avraham b. David and and [...] ha-Kohen b. Eliyya(?). The verso has the name Ibn al-Fuqqāʿī (בן אלפקאעי).

דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Quittance from Ulla b. Tahor (or Tahor b. Ulla - his name appears in both options) to Saadia and his wife Sitt al-Husn. Signed by [Yeshuʿa?] ha-Melammed b. Avraham and the physician (ha-Rofeʾ) Yaʿaqov b. […] ʿUlla; 1.5 "shares" in something; Saʿadya's wife Sitt al-Ḥusn; [..] b. Shelomo ha-Kohen.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

19 Shevaṭ 5585 Anno Mundi (7 February 1825 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Dated: 19 Shevaṭ 5585 AM = 7 February 1825 CE. In which Shelomo Tov Elem appoints Avraham b. Yehuda (written Ya’uda) ibn Asayag to be his agent to collect a debt from Eliʿezer ibn Malka.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

This appears to be a rental contract for a portion of a store betwen Binyamin Romano and Faraj Allāh b. Shelomo. There are no witness signatures. Verso: Several lines of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.

תגים

• muayyadi

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Hebrew

The letter mentions various business matters and people including Shelomob. Shanji and Ḥayyim Nafūsī. Discusses the marriage of a certain Yiṣḥaq in the margin.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: an order from Shelomob. Eliyyahu. He asks Abū l-Ḥasan to send 2 ounces of rose preserves (ward murabbā), 2 ounces of bdellium africanum (muql azraq), and 1/2 ounce of rose oil (?).

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1029–1029 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Ramla, from Shelomob. Yehuda to his son Avraham in Fustat, May 1029 (per Gil), describing in great detail the economic and other calamities which haunted the country.

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• catastrophes
• communal strife
• illness: metaphor
• karaites
• prison
• (+ 2 עוד)

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

T-S 13J8.2, part of CUL Or.1080 J7, and T-S NS J149 all include versions of the same document, or at least concerning the same case of Surūra bt. Shelomo and her husband Surūr b. Yaʿaqov Ibn al-Jāsūs.

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דיון אחד

Document date

1524-09-05 Seleucid (26 May 1213 CE)

Bill of divorce in the hand of Shelomob. Eliyyahu ha-Dayyan, Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 5 Sivan 1524 (26 May 1213). […] The divorce was to be between Mufaḍḍal b. Mesullam and Nasab bt. Manṣūr, whose father is referred to in this document by his Arabic name, and in the completed bill by his Hebrew name Elʿazar. Shelomob. Eliyyahu's handwriting in this document is quite poor.

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תגים

• autograph

2 דיונים

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document (witness statement), mentioning the elder Abū l-S[urūr] Peraḥya who traveled to Yemen twice. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). (Information in part from CUDL.) […] See: T-S NS 226.107 (Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. Yeshuʿa); ENA 2712.10 + T-S NS 320.111, T-S NS 320.54, and T-S 8J11.12 (Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. Shelomo ha-Levi); and T-S 24.20 (Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b.

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תגים

• ib-addenda

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

26 Elul 1348 Seleucid (9 September 1037 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The dowry includes a half share in the house of the al-Ghallāq family. Witnessed by Yefet b. Ṭoviyya ha-Levi, the ‘Ḥaver in the great Sanhedrin’ Yaʿaqov b. Shemuel, Shelomob. Natan, Aaron b. Efrayim, […] b. ʿAmram, Salaḥ b. Yosef, Aharon b. Moshe, and Mubārak b. Yisrael. (Information from CUDL.)

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דיון אחד

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Petition from the daughter of Hilāl 'Shaykh al-Yahūd' of Ashqelon to Yaḥyā ha-Sar. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38 CE). Gil identifies the addressee as Ḥiyya b. Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel ha-Sefaradi and dates the letter to ca. 1135 CE, but does not offer any justification for this identification.

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תגים

• ashqelon

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Salman b. Harun, maybe from Mazar, to Aaish b. Sedaka, Alexandria.

תגים

• 11th c

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Autograph letter from Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE) to his "dear son" (i.e., congenial pupil) Yosef. In Judaeo-Arabic. Avraham excuses his absence from a student's …

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תגים

• avraham maimonides autograph
• hospital
• recommendation

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Shelomo Ha-Kohen Gaon b. Yehosef to a notable in Fustat and to its Jewish communities. […] In particular, the letter is written to Yefet b. Toviyya (known as al-Nīlī, the indigo merchant), David b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Nasi, and Shelomob. Ḥakīm al-Fāsī, and also to the heads of the congregations, the elders of the Jerusalemite and Babylonian communities, in which the Gaʾon asks that the recipients hasten to obtain, on his behalf, an overdue letter confirming his office from the caliph in Egypt (specifically al-Ẓāhir (r. 1021–35 CE)).

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תגים

• 11th c
• communal
• communal strife
• place of prayer

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד 2 דיונים

Inferred date

1025–1051 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Avraham ha-Reviʿi b. Shemuel ha-Shelishi, probably in Ramla, to Shelomob. […] The bearer of the letter is Moshe b. Mevasser. The senders ask the addressee to ensure that he receives the full third of his father's inheritance that is due to him; there are 3 brothers (including a Natan b. Mevasser), and none is the firstborn. Shelomob. Yehuda writes about the same case in T-S 20.178.

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תגים

• communal
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: children
• illness: eye
• inheritance
• (+ 4 עוד)

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Shelomob. Eliyyahu, apparently addressed to Makārim, who is probably the same as Abū l-Makārim b. al-Talmid Abū l-Riḍā. […] The letter opens "may God judge between Barakāt b. al-Dayyān [=me] and Makārim [=you]." He goes on to chastise Makārim for quarreling with Shelomo's brother Abū Zikrī. Several more people are mentioned, including Shelomo's cousin (ibn khāla) Abū l-ʿIzz, Fayrūz the ghulām of Ḥananel (b.

תגים

• fight
• hostile letter

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

7 Tammuz 5409 Anno Mundi (17 June 1649 CE)

Dated: Wednesday, 7 Tammuz 5409 AM, which is 1649 CE. Husband: Shelomo aka Sulaymān b. Yaʿaqov Ḥabīb. Wife: Raḥel bt. Avraham/Ibrāhīm. Witnesses: Moshe b. Yosef(?); Ḥayyim b. Eliyya.

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תגים

• damascus
• get

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1030–1030 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Fragment of a letter from Efrayim b. Shemarya, around 1030 CE. Writes about the recent events in Mount of Olives (communal dispute of Hoshaʿna Rabba in 1029), and some words about the resulting ban on the Karaites and the authorities' response, that is known from Shelomob. […] (Information from Gil, Palestine, vol. 2 pp. 598-599, #327). VMR There is Efrayim b. Shemarya's Arabic hand in the margin and dispersed throughout the letter.

תגים

• communal

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Document date

Thursday, 24 Ṭevet 1406 Seleucid (4 January 1095 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: Thursday, 24 Ṭevet 1406 Seleucid = 4 January 1095 CE. Arye b. Yehuda from Fusṭāṭ married a woman (the daughter of Elʿazar b. Shelomo ha-Levi the teacher) in Cairo and wished to take her with him to Palermo (אלמדינה), but the wife refused and this led to separation. Signed by Avraham b. Shemaʿya he-Ḥaver. (Information from CUDL.)

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תגים

• divorce

דיון אחד

Document date

1466-11-19 Seleucid (20 July 1155 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

This bill of divorce is one of forty in the T-S 10J2 folder. Husband: Manṣūr b. Maḥfūẓ al-Kohen. Wife: Sitt al-Dār bt. Bū Naṣr. Witnessed by: Mevorakh b. Natan ha-Ḥaver; Shelomob. Shemuel ha-Levi.

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דיון אחד

Document date

Thursday, 24 Sivan 1416 Seleucid (8 June 1105 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Thursday, 24 Sivan 1416 Seleucid (= 1105 CE). Statement in which Shelomob. Avraham al-ʿAssāl (the honey maker) asks that his wife Nāshiya bt. Shemuel ha-Kohen should receive a divorce deed from his brother in case he dies and she has to marry him in a levirate marriage. Also signed by ʿEli b. Yosef ha-Kohen. (Information from CUDL and Goitein's index card.)

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yisrael b. Natan, Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. […] Apart from business matters, this letter contains information about the struggle over the position of Rosh ha-Yeshiva upon the death of Shelomob. Yehuda. It appears that the Maghribīs are very involved in this struggle.

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תגים

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: du'f
• illness: mention
• nahray b. nissim
• (+ 1 עוד)

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד