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Document date

Av 4959 Anno Mundi (26 July 1199–24 August 1199 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Yehuda, the divorcee of Abū Naṣr Elʿazar ha-Kohen b. Shelomo al-Ṣayrafī al-Miṣrī. Friedman has synthesized her story based on (a) T-S 8.239 + Bodl. MS heb. a 3/36 (her ketubba, drawn up in Qūṣ); (b) T-S NS J455 (a court record from Aleppo, 1189 CE, in which Abū Naṣr agrees to send her a bill of divorce with the agent Avraham ha-Talmid b. […] Her new husband, Abū l-Ḥasan b. Ibrāhīm, wishes to do business with the half-house that belongs to Sitt al-Gharb.

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• arabic script
• maimonides

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד

Inferred date

1025–1035 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from a ḥaver of the Jerusalem yeshiva, identified by Frenkel as probably Yaʿaqov b. Yosef the leader of the community of Aleppo, probably in Aleppo, to a gaʾon, probably Shelomob. […] The sender's innocence has been proven before, and will be proven again, with the help of Ṣadoq b. Levi, whose previous letter was lost. Also mentions Tamīm [b.?]

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תגים

• communal
• governor
• state

תעתוק אחד 2 דיונים

Document date

Middle of Tammuz 1445 Seleucid (July 1134 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document(s) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Recto: Decision of the court on repairs in a compound partly owned by the Qodesh. […] The repairs were agreed upon by the representatives of the qodesh, their urgency having been recognized. Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa b. Ṣedaqa al-Ramli was appointed to supervise the building operations, and Obadiah advanced the sums that were necessary. […] The representative of the qodesh is Abū l-Maʿālī, which nickname most probably referred to Judge Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen ha-Meʿulle, who is also a signatory of the agreement.

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תגים

• halfon b. menashshe
• heqdesh
• qodesh

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Tuesday, 18 Shevaṭ 1405 Seleucid (7 February 1094 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Declaration by the beadle Yosef b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, that he had not delivered the bill of divorce from Hiba/Natan b. […] Witnessed (and probably written) by Netanʾel b. Yefet he-Ḥaver (known also from Bodl. MS heb. a 3/38, ENA NS 18.1, T-S 24.1, T-S 12.1, T-S 16.192, and possibly T-S 16.212), also witnessed by Aharon b. […] Below, there is a scathing, 40-line responsum about the defects of this legal document written by the Palestinian authority ʿAmram b. Aharon b. ʿAmram ha-Kohen, descendant of the judge Eliyyahu ha-Kohen.

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תגים

• divorce

דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Shelomob. Eliyyahu, in a town in the Rīf, to his father Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat. In Shelomo's bad handwriting. He greets his mother and the children. […] If he comes, he should bring the knife and the tefillin and a ream of white paper. Shelomo's arm (dhirāʿ) has started to heal from an injury.

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תגים

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• personal

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Then mentions something the sender's brother said; someone suing or fighting us; and something Shelomo said.

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

29 Av 5574 Anno Mundi (15 August 1814 CE)

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter addressed to Yedidya Shelomo Yisrael. In Hebrew and Aramaic. Also mentions a R.

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תגים

• late heb

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The document begins with four faint lines from the end of a text concerning a halakhic problem and ends with the expression ישע רב , characteristic of Shelomo ben Yehuda. The remaining seven lines of text, in a different hand, constitute a letter dealing with the status of orphans and contain a noteworthy interpretation of Babylonian Talmud Baba Metsia 70a and Arakhim 229.

תגים

• orphans

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

1236 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Postscript to a letter addressed to the Nasi Shelomo by the scion of the house of David in Mosul who also wrote Bodl.

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תגים

• 13th c
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• mosul nasis

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter, c. mid-16th century, from Avraham Sagish, in Jerusalem, to Yosef Qorqos, who is normally resident in Jerusalem but is currently visiting Egypt, regarding the distribution of funds sent to Jerusalem by various Egyptian donors, including the dignitary Shelomo al-Ashqar. That amount also included support for the Ashkenazi yeshiva and the recipient’s own yeshiva, both in Jerusalem.

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תגים

• 16th c
• al-ashqar

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Sunday, 16 Shevaṭ 5567 Anno Mundi (25 January 1807 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

The first group is based in Alexandria, and the other two groups are based in Fustat/Cairo. (1) Shelomo Cesana, Ḥayyim Cesana, and Ḥayyim's son Avraham. They contribute 600,000 medins. (2) Merkado Karo, Avraham b. Menaḥem ha-Levi Jarbūʿa, and Ḥayyim Nuṣayrī. […] AIU VII.E.116 was abandoned around this point, and there are many additional stipulations in JRL SERIES L 18, which is completed and signed by one representative from each of the three groups (Merkado Karo, Shimʿon Frances, and Shelomo Cesana). There is a correction to one of the contract's clauses in the right margin, apparently in the hand of the same scribe.

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תגים

• bibas
• cesana
• frances
• karo
• partnership
• (+ 1 עוד)

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Monday, 24 Elul [1451] Seleucid (8 September 1140 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

India Book (IB) IV,68 (ח74). Letter from ʿAmram b. Yiṣḥaq, in Alexandria, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel, in Fustat.

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• ib-partial translation-heb
• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• (+ 5 עוד)

3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim.

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תגים

• fayj
• ibn al-ba'ba'
• khums
• qarib
• ships
• (+ 2 עוד)

3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Document date

6 Shawwal 421 Hijrī (7 October 1030 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Khalluf b. Zakariyya, Alexandria, to Yosef b. 'Awkal. The date of the letter's arrival was written in Arabic script on verso (AH).

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3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Part of an Arabic letter very likely from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, Qalyub, to a family member in Fustat. […] From lines 5-10, he discusses the affair of Ibn al-Taffal (presumably identical with his nemesis Yefet b. Shelomo the physician known as ‘the son of the fuller’; cf. the other fragments tagged with ‘Ibn al-Taffal’). […] Verso The tail end of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, also by Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, perhaps to the same addressee.

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תגים

• ibn al-taffal
• moshe b. levi

תעתוק אחד

Document date

19 Ḥeshvan 1498 Seleucid (3 November 1186 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The betrothal of the orphan girl Sitt al-Muʿazzaza bat Šela b. Obadiah to the Aleppan Abū l-Fatḥ Petaḥya b. […] Dated: Ḥeshvan. Signed by Shelomob. Zakkay and Yefet b. Shela. Verso: addendum, dated Ṭevet 1499 of the Seleucid Era (= 1187—88) in Cairo.

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2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד 2 דיונים

Document date

27 Adar 1403 Seleucid (8 March 1092 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

T-S 8J4.11 and T-S NS J6 are part of a record of a trading partnership between Yaḥyā ha-Kohen b. Samuel and ‘Ulla ha-Levi b. Joseph al-Dimashqī, investors with Bishāra the freedman. […] Witnessed by Ṣedaqa ha-Kohen b. David, Yakhin he-Ḥazzan b. Abraham and Yiṣḥaq b. Elʿazar. Confirmed by Abraham b. Nathan, Avraham b. Shemaʿya he-Ḥaver and Shelomob.

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תגים

• court record
• partnership

3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד 2 דיונים

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

On the back is what remains of the address: "your slave Shelomo be-Rabbi Eliyyah." There is also a piyyut and 5 lines of a legal document dealing with the house of Ibn Qurra and mentioning the Iraqi synagogue.

תגים

• abu zikri al-rayyis
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: women's
• shelomo b. eliyyahu

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Reused on recto for a piyyuṭ in a rudimentary hand (and fully vocalized) attributed to Shelomo ha-Kohen.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

603 Hijrī (8 August 1206–27 July 1207 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Coptic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

On verso, the page is filled with a Hebrew panegyric to a certain Shelomob. Yehuda (line 28) (if this is the famous 11th century gaon, 150 years would have to have elapsed between the poem and the Judaeo-Arabic text on the other side; though this could conceivably be a copy of an earlier poem).

תגים

• arabic script
• coptic
• jafr
• magic

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Shevat (4)791 Anno Mundi (28 December 1030–26 January 1031 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from the two congregations of Alexandria to David b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi, requesting 33 1/3 dinars for the ransom of a prisoner.

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תגים

• communal
• mosul nasis

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Nissim b. Ḥalfon b. Benaya, in Tinnīs, to Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī al-Maghribi, in Fustat, both prominent in the Geniza correspondence of the eleventh century.

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תגים

• 11th c
• business
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: emotion
• (+ 5 עוד)

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter regarding business from Yaḥyā b. Mūsā al-Majjānī, probably in Mahdiyya, to Nahray b. […] On verso is the continuation of the letter and a (draft of a) letter in a different hand and ink, mentioning Abū Zechariah b. Menashshe and expressing the hope that [...] b.

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תגים

• 11th c
• nahray b. nissim
• trade

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Nahray b. Nissim in Alexandria to Abū Isḥaq Ibrāhīm b.

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תגים

• 11th c
• awad b. hananel
• commodities
• nahray b. nissim
• prices
• (+ 1 עוד)

3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat, to Abu al-Faraj Yeshu'a b. Ismail, Upper Egypt.

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תגים

• 11th c
• nahray b. nissim
• trade

3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Document date

6 Shawwal 401 Hijrī (13 May 1011 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Mūsā b. al-Majjānī to Yosef Raʾs al-kull b. ʿAwkal, spring 1011.

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תגים

• 11th c
• yosef b. awkal

3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yosef b. Yaʿaqov al-Atrablusi, Qayrawan, to Yosef b.

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תגים

• yosef b. awkal

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Tyre to David b. Daniel, Fustat, probably 1092.

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תגים

• 11th c
• communal
• david b. daniel
• tyre

תעתוק אחד

Witnessed by [...] Kohen b. Yaḥya, Avraham b. Shemuel ha-Levi, Yaʿaqov b. Moshe he-Ḥaver, [...] the cantor b. Peraḥya, Avraham b. Ḥan[...], Netanʾel b. Yefet he-Ḥaver, [...] ha-Parnas b. Khalaf, Yaʾīr b. Elʿazar b. Yaʾir the judge, Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi b.

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דיון אחד

Document date

20 July 1885 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Shelomo Mizraḥi or a female family member, in Alexandria, to Ibrāhīm/Brahim Aghion, in Cairo (Miṣr). […] The letter is signed by Shelomo Mizraḥi, but the narrator of the letter seems to be a woman, as she uses feminine adjectives—perhaps she is Shelomo's sister.

תגים

• aghion
• illness

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1232–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer goes on to report on recent deaths, including that of Shelomob. Eliyyahu (who predeceased his father) and Yūsuf b. al-Kharrāz (who ate dinner and went to sleep and died; in the morning, his face was "black as ink"). […] But the plot thickens, because Shelomob. Eliyyhau—whose death is reported in this document—was still alive in the month of Av in 1231 CE (Med Soc II, 575 n. 60) and Heshvan 1231 CE (Freer F 1908.44H).

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תגים

• 13th c
• avraham maimonides
• death
• excommunication
• petition
• (+ 2 עוד)

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Nisan 5582 Anno Mundi (23 March 1822–21 April 1822 CE)

, Nissīm Ṭawīl, Naḥmu Shaykh, Siman Tov Ḥakīm, Saʿad ʿAfīya, Saʿad Angel, Saʿad ʿAflaq, Raḥamīm Talmīd, Shemuʾel Ṣarfatī, Shemuʾel Pesaḥ, Shelomo Yrḥī, Shelomo ʿAfīya, Shulkhī Flāḥ [?], Raḥamīm Jināḥ, Sasson Tovīm, the widow of Av[raham] Zeyn, the widow of Av[raham] Ḥāmī, the widow of Av[raham] ʿAnānī, widow of Av[raham] Fandarī, widow of Av[raham] Ḥāqqan, the widow of Av[raham] Gayeno, the widow of Av[raham] Skandarīyūn, the widow of R. […] Ṣevi Zeytūn, the widow of Shelomo Israʾel, the widow of Shelomo Anūnātī[?], Raḥma widow of Shelomo Amadeo, the widow of Shemuʾel Biba, the widow of Shemuʾel Naʿīm, the widow of R. […] , the widow of Nissīm Molkho, the wife of Moshe Ḥajj, Moshe Maghribī, Rivqa Ṭawīla, David Lugasī, Shelomo Yaʿaqov, Shaʾul ha-Levi, Avraham Mūghiyon, Manlūqo[?]

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תגים

• 19th c
• gabela
• kashrut
• late prosopography

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

1221–1252 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in the hand of Shelomob. Shemuel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi addressed to a judge.

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תגים

• 13th c
• army
• book trade
• crusades
• guide for the perplexed
• (+ 2 עוד)

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Marriage document. Groom: [...] b. Yefet, probably. Bride: Qā'ida bt. [...]. Signed by: Yefet b. David ha-Ḥazzan; Yeshuʿa b. Yosef; Yosef b. Yefet; Zekharya b. Yosef; Yehuda b.

תגים

• marriage

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Thursday, 27 Adar I 1415 Seleucid (25 February 1104 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

In the hand of Avraham b. Natan Av. No witness signatures. Location: Cairo. […] The document contains the proceedings before the court regarding the matter of dispute between two members of the community of Malīj, Shelomob. Avraham (aka Salāma b. Ibrāhīm al-Sayrajī) and Peraḥya ha-Kohen b. […] Yiṣḥaq, Yosef b. Mevorakh, and Elʿazar b. Yosef testify that they entered the house of a Jew named Bashshār and found Salāma b.

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תגים

• amir
• conflict
• crusades
• malij
• muslim courts
• (+ 2 עוד)

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד