Documents

Document date

Monday, 8th of Adar II Seleucid

Primary language

Hebrew

Court record written by Yefet b. Ṭoviyya. In which Yefet and Yosef b. Binyamin the banker, as guardians of Avraham b. Shemuel ha-Sefaradi, collect a debt that was owed by Shemarya b. Shelomo to the late Shemuel. Dating: Not before 1019 CE when Shemuel wrote his will, but not after late 1026 when his son Avraham was already mature, and sued his guardians in court.

תגים

• register

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fiancee: Shamsūn bt. Yaʿaqov b. Yiṣḥaq b. Yeshaʿya ha-Levi, the ex-wife of Avraham. […] She is considered 'trustworthy' without having to take an oath. Signed by Moshe b. Shelomo; Ṣedaqa b. Moshe ha-Kohen. See Med Soc I, 386, sec. 79.

תגים

• prenuptial

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Document concerning a settlement of accounts in which Hillel b. ʿEli the cantor was both party and scribe. Dating: 1066–1108 CE, based on the years when Hillel b. […] In which Musallam a.k.a. Meshullam [b. Shelomo] Ibn Sunaynāt (appears also in T-S 12.779 (PGPID 20076)) seeks to collect from Hillel b. ʿEli the debts owed by Hillel's son Abū l-Ḥasan ʿEli b. Hillel, who is a known troublemaker from other documents.

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תגים

• trade

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Thursday, 12 Adar I 1350 Seleucid (9 February 1039 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The contents are difficult to understand because of the poor state of preservation. Signed by: Mevorakh b. David, Maḥfūẓ b. Yiṣḥaq; Yiṣḥaq b. Khalaf; and Shelomob. […] The validation is written by Efrayim b. Shemarya (as head of the Beit Din) and signed by himself and by the cantor Yefet b.

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תגים

• efrayim b. shemarya

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from an unidentifed writer in Rashīd to Shelomo Ḥalafta. In Judaeo-Arabic. Long and well-preserved, though some of the text is cut off in the FGP image.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

On verso are accounts in the hand of Eliyyahu's son Shelomo.

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תגים

• 'askar
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: women's
• poverty
• (+ 1 עוד)

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Shelomo (Abu l-Barakat) in Alexandria to to his brother, the physician Abu Zikri son of Abu l-Faraj (Eliyyahu the Judge), in Fustat.

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2

תגים

• 13th c
• alexandria
• shelomo b. eliyyahu

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter to Shelomo ha-Nasi concerning destruction of houses and oppression of his mother's brother in Mosul (May 16, 1237).

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תגים

• 13th c
• mongols
• mosul
• mosul nasis

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Document date

1428 Seleucid (9 September 1116–29 August 1117 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Partnership contract. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dating: Mentions 1428 Seleucid, which is 1116/17 CE (but this is not necessarily the date of the document). […] The agent is Shela ha-Levi, and the investors are Netanel and Shelomo. (Information from Goitein’s index card)

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תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Document date

5570 Anno Mundi (11 September 1809–28 September 1810 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Lavishly decorated with yellow and green floral designs in the margin. Groom: Shelomo Sonino b. Avraham. Bride: Raḥel bt. Avraham Safriel(?).

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דיון אחד

Document date

1540 Seleucid (1228–1229 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The lower one refers to Abū l-Maḥāsin [...] b. Abū l-Riḍā [...] and the purchase of a shop with all its equipment and scales for a sum of 46[.]. […] One of the parties is Shelomo ha-Kohen.

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Friday, 14 Adar II 5518 Anno Mundi (24 March 1758 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Dated: Friday, 14 Adar II 5518 = 24 March 1758 CE. Groom: Shelomob. Avraham(?) Frances (פראנסיס). Bride: Grasya/Gracia (גראסיא).

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תגים

• ketubba
• marriage

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions Abū l-ʿIzz and an old woman (ʿajūz). Hand of Shelomob. Eliyyahu? Excerpts: ר]חמתה וישקיף עלינו . . .

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions a book in the handwriting of al-Shaykh Abū l-ʿIzz, whom Frenkel identifies as possibly identical with Abū l-ʿIzz the brother of Sitt Ghazāl, the wife of Shelomob. Eliyyahu; possibly identical with the Abu l-ʿIzz who inherited books from Avraham ha-Ḥasid (T-S 20.44); and possibly identical with the physician Abū l-ʿIzz whose books were sold after his death (ENA 1290.16).

תגים

• bible
• book trade
• codices
• register

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Informal note from Shelomob. Eliyyahu to his 'brother' Abū Isḥāq. In Judaeo-Arabic.

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: note written and signed by Shelomob. Eliyyahu to Abū Saʿīd, asking to be sent sums of money paid by Abū l-Ḥasan.

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

973 Hijrī (29 July 1565–18 July 1566 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

They mention names including Avraham b. Ṣūr, Shelomo Ibn al-Ashqar (אלשקר), and Yehuda Castro.

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1039–1039 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: Likely ca. 1039 CE, since the content is related to T-S 12.365 (e.g., both mention Ben Meʾir and ʿAllūn and 'the party (ʿaṣabiyya) of Abū Sahl,' i.e., the party of Natan Av b. Avraham). Mentions a bill of exchange (suftaja) from Abū [Naṣr Shelomob. Saʿadya known as] Ibn Ṣaghīr to the amount of 14 dinars; the house of the elder Abū l-Ṣaqr; events in the synagogue including a Torah scroll being taken out; Ibn Meʾir; the ḥaver Abū Kathīr (Efrayim b. Shemarya); and a date, the 16th of Adar. (Information from Gil and CUDL.)

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תגים

• suftaja

תעתוק אחד

Inferred date

1127–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138). Also signed by Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen and Nathan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver. Halakhic question concerning a possible excommunication over a legal dispute.

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תגים

• illness
• illness: treatment
• legal query

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1051–1051 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Daniel b. Azarya (in his handwriting). Dating: ca. 1051 CE. He is worried for his status and thinks that people will prefer Yosef ha-Kohen b. Shelomo Gaon. (Information from Gil, Palestine, vol. 2 p. 643-645, #353) VMR. Alternate description: Letter from Daniel b. ʿAzarya informing one of his supporters in Cairo that an unnamed prominent person had received a friend of his opponent in Dagun (a suburb of Ramla) and on top of that had not answered his letters.

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תגים

• communal
• gaon
• leadership struggle
• petition
• state
• (+ 1 עוד)

4 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from ʿEli b. Natan ha-Rofeʾ (the physician), probably in Ṣahrajt, to a Nasi (אלנשי), in Fustat, possibly Shelomob. […] Goitein notes that the sender is probably not the same as the ʿEli b. Natan hwo signed T-S 13J3.20.

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3

תגים

• mosul nasis

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

8 Shevat 5572 Anno Mundi (22 January 1812 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Shelomo Cesana & Company, in Alexandria, to Karo y Frances & Company, in Fustat/Cairo.

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תגים

• cesana
• karo y frances

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter expressing regret for having left the service of the recipient Shelomo, a government official. Possibly a draft.

תגים

• draft

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to a certain Shelomo. Small fragment (lower left corner of recto and part of the address).

אין רשומות קשורות

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. […] Yedutun’s father, Levi he-Ḥaver, died on the 24th of Tishrei in 1211. His brother, Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, died on the 20th of Adar in 1212.

תגים

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

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

ENA 2806.5–7 are copies of letters to Shelomo Gaʾon and his son Maṣliaḥ.

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter on parchment from a woman to her husband, Shelomo ha-Bavli, complaining that he has left her with no money while she is eight months pregnant and expecting a child.

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1066–1108 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Bifolio from a court ledger in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Dating: 1066–1108 CE, but this range can be narrowed further based on the mention of Wuḥsha al-Dallāla. […] Mentions document(s) copied by scribe Abū Manṣūr b. Ayyūb. (S. D. Goitein, “A Jewish Business Woman of the Eleventh Century,” Jewish Quarterly Review, 1967, 229-41) EMS

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תגים

• funerals
• will
• wuhsha

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Jalāl al-Dawla (or at least a person from the family of Shelomob. Yishai the Nasi), written during an epidemic, and mentioning the Nagid [Avraham Maimonides] as being ill and also mentioning his (father?)

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תגים

• epidemic
• epidemic: waba'
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: gastrointestinal
• (+ 3 עוד)

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Petition to Shelomo ha-Nasi from a man whose name is missing, reporting that a pesiqa (pledge drive) in his favor had brought a substantial sum, but more than a month had passed without his getting the money. Dating: Probably ca. 1230s, if this is the Shelomo ha-Nasi known to have been in Egypt at that time.

תגים

• communal
• nasi
• petition

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

1229 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Drafts of a testimony to the effect that Yeshuʿa b. Shelomo ha-Levi is a genuine Levi and that he used to be called up to the reading of the Torah in Jerusalem when no other local or foreign Levi was present. […] Underneath the draft, at 90 degrees, it says in Judaeo-Arabic, "Hey you, who are my master, sign this testimony. And peace. Shelomo wrote this." (Shelomob. Eliyyahu) On verso (not transcribed) there are additional versions: two lines in Hebrew and one line in Judaeo-Arabic.

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תגים

• synagogue
• testimony

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Letter by Shemuʾel to his brother Abū l-Rabīʿ Shelomo. Verso: Jottings in Hebrew and Arabic script and the draft of another letter (introduction only) by Shemuʾel to his brother.

תגים

• brothers

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Tuesday, 19 Elul 1468 Seleucid (27 August 1157 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

Dated: Tuesday, 19 Elul 1468 Seleucid = 27 August 1157 CE, under the authority fo the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Written in the hand of the judge Mevorakh b. Natan. Groom: Netanʾel b. Shelomo aka Ṭāhir b. Abū l-Yumn. Bride: [Sitt al-]Banāt bt.

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תגים

• ketubba
• marriage
• register

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

545 Hijrī (1150–1151 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Petition, draft, addressed to al-Malik al-ʿĀdil (aka the vizier Ibn al-Salār), in the handwriting of Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, asking that he release the estate of the Jewish merchant Abū l-Faḍāʾil b. […] The dead merchant Abū l-Fadāʾil b. Baqāʾ appears also in T-S AS 219.129 = T-S AS 219.131, a letter of Makhlūf b.

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תגים

• communal
• draft
• ib-addenda
• ib5
• petition
• (+ 1 עוד)

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Dating: ca. 1337 CE, since the same witnesses appear on T-S 13J2.18 from that year. Groom: ʿOvadya b. Avraham b. Shelomo. Bride: Ẓarīfa bt. Yehoshuaʿ. […] The bride is entitled to keep her earnings for herself. Witnessed by Elʿazar b. Moshe ha-Kohen and Elishaʿ b. Ḥananya ha-Levi.

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תגים

• 14th c
• marriage

דיון אחד

Document date

Wednesday, 18 Sivan 1806 Seleucid (10 June 1495 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Elʿazar Bek leaves some of her possessions (deposited in Alexandria) to the daughter she had with Moshe פרנשי and who is the wife of Shemuel b. Shelomo כראת, and other possessions to her other daughter Milāḥ, and other possessions are to be divided evenly between the two daughters.

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תגים

• 15th c

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד

Inferred date

966–966 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Of the five original witnesses, only ʿAli b. Shelomo is still living, and he confirmed that his own signature was valid, and others were brought to confirm the remaining signatures.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a supporter in Alexandria to the nasi Shelomob. Yishay, Fustat. Dating: ca. 1240. The writer arrived in Alexandria on commercial business to deal with an order of pillows, carpets, robes, and turbans for the nasi made by local artisans.

תגים

• mosul nasis
• textiles
• tiraz

3 תעתוקים דיון אחד