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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He urges his sister to come visit from Fusṭāṭ. He is contemplating going to Jerusalem.

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תגים

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: qillat al-'afiya
• safed
• suicide

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Azarya resided in Fustat and, apparently, planned to visit Alexandria at the time. (Information from Frenkel.

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2

תגים

• suftaja

3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

The writer invites her sister Umm Abū l-Munā to visit her in the village by promising plenty of watermelons to eat.

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2

תגים

• arabic address
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: du'f
• illness: heartsickness
• (+ 9 עוד)

2 תעתוקים דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Goitein reconstructs the situation somewhat differently, "The writer's wife quarreled with the wife of the recipient.... The recipient should visit next Sunday, since he was at peace with the writer's wife.

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תגים

• abu sahl levi
• astrologer
• marital conflict

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer urges her uncle to visit herself and her mother. She is in the sixth month of her pregnancy (r5).

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4

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2

תגים

• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: bedbound
• illness: hectic
• illness: reporting speech
• (+ 6 עוד)

תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1205–1237 CE

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

A group of people, including another physician named al-Shaykh al-Muhadhdhab, came to visit the patient and found al-Sadīd attending him. […] The third episode (r45–end): A certain judge (qāḍī al-ḥukm) was seriously ill (marīḍ bi-maraḍ shadīd), and al-Muhadhdhab was attending him "[against] his will and not for his good." […] Al-Sadīd came and spoke to the slave, and then came back with something to give to the slave—and the story ends here, unless the join is found. This document is possibly related to Bodl.

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תגים

• capitation tax
• education
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: iftiqad
• (+ 9 עוד)

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The writers express their longing for Avraham yet decline his invitation to visit him in Syria (אלשאם), as they will be staying in al-Maḥalla (in the central Nile delta), with friends from Aleppo for another two months.

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2

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Description from T-S 8J15.28: Letter from an Alexandrian trader who is on a journey, possibly in the Persian Gulf, to a family member. The writer wants to visit Baghdad and Ezekiel’s tomb before returning home, and mentions people including Manṣūr and Sālim.

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1

תגים

• arabic address
• ib6
• india book
• mysterious sign

3 תעתוקים

Document date

20 July 1885 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The physician came to visit him twice every day. He remained bedbound for 22 days, but is now doing better.

תגים

• aghion
• illness

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Their brother Yosef recently came to visit her in al-Mahdiyya, and he is doing well. Abū l-Muʿammār their brother-in-law sends his regards; he recently traveled to Sicily without bringing any goods with him.

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2

דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender reminisces on a visit when he was younger to the house of Moshe Maimonides.

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2

תגים

• maimonides
• mosul nasis

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד 2 דיונים

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

This letter must have been written at a time when Ascalon, Palestine, was in the hands of the Crusaders (1153–1187) and a Frank from Nablus could freely visit there. Three points are remarkable in this story: 1.

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4

תגים

• ashqelon
• bilbays
• captives

3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

He told them that he had made a vow to visit the graves of holy men (Gil suggests specifically the grave of Ezekiel).

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3

תגים

• epidemic
• hajj
• hamadan
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• (+ 12 עוד)

3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The current ENA NS 77.168 consists of three fragments (evidently joined by someone working with the JTS collection) previously named ENA NS 77.7, ENA NS 77.16, and ENA NS 77.17. The current ENA NS 77.167 was previously named ENA NS 77.18. It seems that these old shelfmarks were reassigned to new fragments, so the current fragments named ENA NS 77.7 and ENA NS 77.16–18 are unrelated to this document.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The current ENA NS 77.168 consists of three fragments (evidently joined by someone working with the JTS collection) previously named ENA NS 77.7, ENA NS 77.16, and ENA NS 77.17. The current ENA NS 77.167 was previously named ENA NS 77.18. It seems that these old shelfmarks were reassigned to new fragments, so the current fragments named ENA NS 77.7 and ENA NS 77.16–18 are unrelated to this document.

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3

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Ibn Nufayʿ... al-Murjānī (the coral merchant)... (ENA NS 76.435.3) Ṭāhir... the rent of a house... al-Shaykh al-Makīn." ENA NS 76.435.1 and ENA NS 76.435.3 appear to belong to the same account, even though the verso of ENA NS 76.435.3 was reused for an unrelated Hebrew text. Some of the adjacent fragments (including ENA NS 76.435.6, ENA NS 76.435.7, and ENA NS 76.435.8) seem to be different documents but written in the hand of the same scribe: Yosef b.

תגים

• qodesh

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Pinholes at the margin sewn in a non-straight line at unequal distances apart; same holes in ENA 3948.7, ENA 3949.5, ENA 3949.6, ENA 3949.7.

תגים

• pinholes

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Ladino

Accounts in Ladino, possibly mentioning two transactions related to enslaved people. Dating: perhaps 15th or 16th-century based on the paleography. The first two entries state: "tomo un Moro (Moor) por dicho de R. […] For accounts that are clearly related to the sale of enslaved people from a similar timespan, see: T-S AS 203.165 (PGPID 22694).

תגים

• early modern enslaved people

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Fragment of a state document in Arabic script. ENA 2846.1 (PGPID 40432) and ENA 2846.2 (PGPID 40433) likely join; it is unclear if they are related to ENA 2846.6 + ENA 2846.7 (PGPID 40429).

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Fragment of a state document in Arabic script. ENA 2846.1 (PGPID 40432) and ENA 2846.2 (PGPID 40433) likely join; it is unclear if they are related to ENA 2846.6 + ENA 2846.7 (PGPID 40429).

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Engagement (shiddukhin) agreement. Since there are no betrothal (erusin/qiddushin) agreements in the Geniza before the twelfth century, this document is probably an engagement agreement despite the fact that 'amlaka' means either 'betrothed' or 'engaged,' and despite the fact that the word engagement is not mentioned directly in the document. he engagements were conducted in front of both the Babylonian and the Palestinian congregation as both Yefet b. […] Heb. c 13, fol. 22v(?). From the same ledger: ENA 4010.28 (PGPID 760), ENA NS 8.15 (PGPID 835), and Bodl.

תגים

• betrothal
• engagement

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Long piece from a deed of sale of an enslaved woman. Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa ha-Levi sells an enslaved person named Jaḥūn(?)

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תעתוק אחד

Inferred date

1140–1144 CE

Primary language

Hebrew

One of two (now three) copies of a poem by Avraham ben Yiju, praising Maḍmūn and cursing his enemies. Written in Aden. This copy, T-S 8J16.23, is written in the hand of Ben Yiju himself, while AIU IV.C.486 (PGPID 39481) and T-S NS 310.55 + T-S AS 42.280 (PGPID 41941) are written in the calligraphic square hand of a scribe. […] The poem is about how Maḍmūn's enemies requited his kindness with treachery. But these enemies were ultimately compelled to acknowledge Maḍmūn's titles Sar and Nagid.

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תגים

• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib2
• india book
• literary with documentary value
• panegyric
• (+ 1 עוד)

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Jumād[a] II 965 Hijrī (21 March 1558–18 April 1558 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew alphanumerals. A variety of the entries list quantities of unnamed male and female enslaved people (עבד עביד גארייה). Dated in the upper left corner of the verso: Jumād[a] II 965 AH (1558 CE). The account entries also mention a variety of names in connection with the enslaved people, some bearing Ottoman titles/ranks: ʿOṭmān [sic] al-Maḥlāwī, Manṣūr al-Shāmī, Sinān Raʾīs, Maḥ[mūd]/Muḥ[ammad] Odabā[şa], Bā..(?)

תגים

• early modern enslaved people

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1213–1237 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Two legal queries addressed to Avraham Maimonides (Nagid) with his autograph responsa (r. 1205-1237 CE as Rayyis al-Yahūd and also with the title Nagid after 1213 CE): (I) concerning a man from Alexandria, married with children, who took an enslaved woman and lives with her as his concubine in the Fayyūm, abandoning his family in Alexandria. […] Separately, is it permissible for a bachelor to cohabit with an enslaved woman? The answer: It is forbidden for a man to live alone with an enslaved woman, and if he does so, he should be excommunicated by name until he removes her from his home.

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תגים

• avraham maimonides autograph
• responsum

2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Concerning the sale of an enslaved man (ghulām) possibly named Bakhtiyār. One of the parties is the widow of Tamīm ha-Kohen. […] T-S 24.64 (PGPID 5538) for another enslaved person named Bakhtiyār.

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3

תגים

• slave

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Tammuz 1524 Seleucid (21 June 1213–19 July 1213 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew

Legal document: bill of sale for an enslaved woman to a certain Elʿazar ha-Kohen. The enslaved woman is called "So-and-so" (פלונית) and the woman who sells her is named Sitt ______ (space left for name repeatedly), which suggests that this is a draft.

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תגים

• 13th c

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Friday, 2 Tammuz 1409 Seleucid (4 June 1098 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Bill of sale for an enslaved woman. Not completed. In the hand of Hillel b. […] Dated: Friday, 2 Tammuz 1409 Seleucid, which is 4 June 1098 CE. The enslaved woman is named Naʿīm, of Nubian origin. The seller is Shemarya b.

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2

תגים

• slave

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Alchemical and/or medicinal recipes. The first line on ENA 2862.1r mentions silver, copper, and gold. The lower entry on ENA 2862.1v provides instructions for dealing with a "būnduqī", possibly a Venetian gold coin, but the scribe could have also intended "hazlenut." The entry includes instructions for placing the object in fire and may rely on the Ottoman Turkish word for "smoke" (dūmān).

תגים

• cmp

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The hand looks Yemeni. ENA 3504.2, ENA 3504.3, and ENA 3504.5 may all be from the same letter.

אין רשומות קשורות

Concerning a woman who was married to a man, but whom "the community" claimed was an enslaved woman and needs to get a deed of manumission first. Her husband refuses, and her previous owner (or alleged owner) claims she was not enslaved, and that she became Jewish out of her own free will (תהודת מן דאתה).

תגים

• responsum
• shemuel b. saadya

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

From Yemen. May be late. ENA 3504.2(?), ENA 3504.3, and ENA 3504.5 may all be from the same letter.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

From Yemen. May be late. ENA 3504.2(?), ENA 3504.3, and ENA 3504.5 may all be from the same letter.

תגים

• to edit

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Small fragment with Arabic script. State document? ENA 3695.4, ENA 3695.5, and ENA 3695.8 all look very similar, might be from the same original document.

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

It seems that the writer had a Rabbanite enemy seeking his downfall, but the enemy failed and the writer triumphed. There are several lines praising God for His goodness and calling down curses on enemies and schemers and anyone who has pity on a Rabbanite—"may he taste his medicine."

תגים

• conversion
• muslim courts
• qaraite-rabbanite relations
• qaraites
• shafi'i

תעתוק אחד

Document date

Thursday, 23 Ḥeshvan 1542 Seleucid (31 October 1230 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: Deed of sale for an enslaved person. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: Thursday, 23 Ḥeshvan 1542 = 31 October 1230 CE, under the authority of Avraham Maimonides (‘the Great Nagid’). […] Price: 310 dirhams. Enslaved person: a Nubian woman named Abnūsa ("Ebony").

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2

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תגים

• slave

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1732–1732 CE

Primary language

Ladino

Accounts in Ladino and western Arabic numerals that can be dated as c.1732 CE through the joins ENA NS 39.2 and ENA NS 27.7. Some of the verso's listed entries begin with the Judeo-Arabic word "wuṣūl / ווצול" which may be listed with a Ladino plural ending as "wuṣūles de" and may indicate incoming payments (l. 5-6v).

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תגים

• 18th c
• effendi
• ladino
• list
• to examine

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

15 Shevat 5450 Anno Mundi (25 January 1690 CE)

Primary language

Ladino

List of accounts in Ladino and western Arabic numerals dated at the opening of each entry, for example, 15 Shevat 5450 or 25 January 1690CE. In the second entry on the recto, the phrase "es de corto" may be referring to characteristics of goods (l. 9r). At the bottom of the recto, it appears the author ceased completing an entry that had already been designated a date. On the verso, a fragment of an account entry is visible with the name Akiva mentioned in the last line.

תגים

• 17th c
• ladino

אין רשומות קשורות