Documents

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

The other few documents written on cloth in the Geniza are from India, which is suggestive but not proof that this is also from India. Information from recto: The 'thānī' at the top of the page indicates that this is the second folio of the account. […] There is one entry apparently for "four game boards" (alwāḥalʿāb). Another is an expense for "the Jews" for 5 days of water flow (sayl al-māʾ). […] (Information from Amir Ashur, who identified the document as related to the India trade, and Alan Elbaum.)

תגים

• ib-addenda
• ib3
• india book unedited

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Made by Q[...] b. Mūsā al-[...], "one of the captains of the victorious fleets" (aḥad quwwād al-asāṭīl al-manṣūra).

תגים

• to edit

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions: "the blacks (al-sūdān) and those who accompany them from the nomads (al-jawwāla) and the community (al-jamāʿa). . . the path to corruption in the lands of the sulṭān. . . the slave reported the reason for his patience concerning what they are doing. . . ."

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תעתוק אחד

Primary languages

Greek/Coptic Numerals, Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic headed "God is the repayer" (al-wāfī Allāh). Names Hibat Allāh (1/2); Bū Saʿd (1/2 + 1/8); Nafīs (1/4); Yosef (1/4 + 1/8); and Ḥalfon (1/2)

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תגים

• account

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

The Judaeo-Arabic seems to contain instructions for sheḥiṭa but also refers to "yāqūt kuḥlī" and "al-shaykh" which are somewhat unexpected in that context.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Small fragment (upper right corner). Maḥfūẓ b. Isḥāq al-Isrāʾīlī makes a declaration in favor of Ḥusayn b. ʿAlīal-[...]. On verso there is a later note in Arabic script (begins with a basmala, and the word "ruqʿa" appears).

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Legal document, in Arabic script. Mentions two names "al-Adab al-madhkura bt...." and "... b. Abī l-Ḥūsayn al-madhkūr".

תגים

• dimme

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Shelomo known as Abū Saʿd and Sahl b. Ḥasan b. Salāma. Also mentions Ibn al-Sukkarī and Ḥalfon b. [...].

אין רשומות קשורות

Letter from Isma’il b. Ishaq al-Andalusi, Aleppo, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat.

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2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד

Document date

Thursday, 18 Av 1536 Seleucid (20 July 1225 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Court record mentioning Abū l-Mufaḍḍal Menaḥem and Ibn al-ʿAnbarī. Dated: Thursday, 18 Av 1536 Seleucid = 20 July 1225 CE, under the authority of Avraham Maimonides. (Information from CUDL.) See also Goitein's index card.

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• 13th c
• avraham maimonides

דיון אחד

Document date

1546 Seleucid (1234–1235 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Document containing a few names: Abu al-Faraj b. Asad, Shemuʾel b. Surur. Also mentioned are representatives of the Sultan, the destruction of houses, and the sum of 500 dinars.

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• 13th c
• tyre

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

IB IV, 58 (ח68). Letter of Abu Ali Yehezqel b. Netanel, Alexandria, to his brother Ḥalfon, 1140, written on a fragment of a Fatimid decree (see PGPID 7521).

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• halfon b. netanel
• ib-untranslated-eng
• ib4
• india book
• nar

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

People mentioned include al-Wakīl al-Kabīr; al-Sharīf; the ghulām of ʿAbdallāh.

תגים

• dates

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

The other side: One line in Arabic script, probably from a larger original document, but perhaps a legend for recto. It may read "...al-ribāḥ al-mutāʿa al-jāriya fī l-khāṣṣ..."

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• arabic script

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions agricultural terms (al-shajara, al-arāḍī, al-muzāriʿ). Recto (secondary use): Magical spells in Aramaic and Judaeo-Arabic.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Likely from Kitāb Adab al-Quḍāh of Hayya b. Sherira Gaon. This section discusses the relationship between the judge and the the people appearing the court, based on Talmudic sources. Also deals with incestuous relationships. Information from Dan Greenberger via FGP.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions names/honorifics such as al-Muʾayyad and al-Mukhliṣ several times, as well as Iftikhār al-Dawla and possibly Jawhar.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Document entitled tadhkira (list/memorandum), listing the parnas (al-firnās), the Jerusalemites (al-Maqādisa), Yosef the beadle of the synagogue, Ibn al-Maqrūṣ, Khiyār, and Banī Naḥum.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Simha al-Naysaburi, in Alexandria, to 'Ulla ha-Levi b.

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• nisaburi
• pearls
• silk
• trade

2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Recto (secondary use): Order issued by David ha-Nasi to Maḥfūẓ and Sālim the parnasim (al-farānisa). They are to disburse (yuṭliq... mimmā taḥta yadihim) a sum of 40 (or 440?) […] ghilmān) of someone titled al-Ajall al-Afḍal.

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אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Capitation tax receipt for Mūsā b. Futūḥ al-Yahūdī in Alexandria. Same cluster: T-S AS 178.69 (PGPID 36898) T-S AS 180.22 (PGPID 37373) T-S AS 182.312 (PGPID 38982) T-S NS 327.43 (PGPID 25835)

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Contributors list? Abū Sahl: 2. Ibn al-Dimyāṭī: 3. Ibn al-Rav: 1. Ibn Kawjakh: 5. Ibn Shaʿya: 5. Ibn al-Qirqisānī: 12. This is followed by the number 51.5 (or 11.5?).

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Very large. But might also something poetical, referring to love: ḥālī yattaṣilhā l-hawā wa-l-maḥabba wa-ʿindahumā tasquṭ al-munāẓara....

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions the elder Masliah al-Ṣiqillī. (Information in part from Goitein typed text; also Ben-Sasson.)

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2 תעתוקים

Primary language

Arabic

The first 7 lines are preserved. Made by al-muʿallim Aḥmad(?) b. [...] b. ʿUthmān al-[...] the sugar seller (al-sukkarī) for another, Jewish sugar seller.

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender is apparently a scribe (mentions copies of books) who wishes to defer his wedding date but does not wish to end the betrothal. The city of al-Maḥalla is also mentioned. (Information from Goitein's index card) EMS

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תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Document date

Monday, 4 Av 1758 Seleucid (17 July 1447 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

It then states that the oath was taken by ʿAbd al-Wāḥid Ibn al-Levi and ʿAbdallāh Qaṣṣār. "Mubaḥtara" derives from standard Arabic "mubaʿthara," i.e., scrambled eggs mixed with other items (source: Aklat Beirut on Youtube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?[…] Witnesses: Shemuel b. Naṣrallāh al-Levi known as ʿAṭṭār; ʿAbdūn al-Kohen b. [...]. […] Ibrāhīm, and Farajallāh al-Neʾeman(?).

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• food
• wine

תעתוק אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Upper left quadrant: Arabic poem beginning لله دهر مضا لي سعدت في بعض عمري Lower right quadrant: Arabic rhyming prose beginning من العاشق المستهام حليف السقام which is from Ibn al- Washshāʾ’s (d.325/937) guide to love-letter writing,Tafrīj al-muhaj wa-sabab al-wuṣūl ilā al-faraj. […] Towards the latter part of the Fatimids' rule of Egypt, state officials were given titles based on the titles of Badr al-Jamālī and al-Afḍal, like "al-shaykhī al-ajallī.

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• arabic poetry
• dimme

אין רשומות קשורות

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Avraham, 1/4 of a house in the alley of the synagogue (zuqāq al-kanīsa), which she had inherited from her father Abū l-Khayr Ibn al-ʿIrqī (בן אלערקי). […] Goitein's note card suggests that the rent is 5 dinars, but she gives this to him as a gift, on condition that he make the necessary repairs. Also mentions 'her brother Yosef.' This house appears as a landmark in T-S AS 168.112 (PGPID 22495). […] Baladīn? Baladayn? [Sitt al-]Baladayn?), see also CUL Or.1080 5.4 (PGPID 19769) and T-S K1.29 (PGPID 38249).

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• halfon b. menashshe

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Inferred date

28 November 1062–28 November 1062 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. […] He visited Jerusalem, and had the time to manage trading, as he bought textile products, oil, nuts, and silk, and arranged shipments of coins. The writer also mentions the bad times in Egypt and the pressure that the community in Tripoli, Libya, is having because of the taxes. […] I proceeded to Jaffa and from there went up to Jerusalem—may God rebuild it—and again I could not do there business for more than eight days and then was confined to bed (lāzim al-farsh), suffering from chills and fever (al-bard wa-l-ḥummā), during the month (of the High Holidays).

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: chills
• illness: du'f
• illness: fever
• (+ 10 עוד)

2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from a woman who was the wife of Yehoshuaʿ al-Lādhiqī and the mother of Dosa b. Yehoshuaʿ, in al-Raqqa, to her son Dosa b. […] In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. The address also identifies the sender as Sahl b. Ḥātim. Given that she states she is living with her daughter, Sahl b. […] (Frenkel's translation.) She also asks him to buy her certain items, including Isfahani kohl; tutty, both Indian and Marāzībī'; and a sky-blue veil (muʿayjir kuḥlī) with dark blue trimming (ṭarz zarqāʾ).

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• fasting
• mail-order medicine
• personal
• threatening to die

2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים 2 דיונים

Document date

Jumādā II 346 Hijrī (30 August 957–27 September 957 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

The boundaries of the property include a mosque (l. 2), the compound of Abū l-Khayr b. [...] al-Sāmirī (the Samaritan), and the Samaritan synagogue (al-kanīsa al-maʿrūfa bi-kanīsat al-sāmira) (l. 4). […] There are earlier mentions of Samaritans in Egypt in a handful of Greek papyri from the 5th and 6th centuries, and they also appear in several Geniza documents from the 11th and 12th centuries. […] The Samaritan reference and the dating were identified by Alan Elbaum in February 2026.

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• samaritan

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Literary text, in Arabic script. Mentions ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib and the Prophet Muḥammad. Probably a fragment of a larger Shīʿī text recounting attributes of ʿAlī, especially the incident when ʿAlī stood on the Prophet's shoulders to demolish the idols over the Kaʿba.

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• dimme

דיון אחד

Primary language

Arabic

Administrative document(s), probably. On one side: ʿAbd al-Muḥsin b. Ḥasan 1 dinar waẓīfa. On the other side: Muslim b. Salāma 1 dinar waẓīfa. There are also headers/footers/authentication marks. Similar layout as BL OR 10599.26 (PGPID 32256).

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Concludes (l. 2) with in shāʾa allāh followed by a taṣliya. Underneath there are several lines of further notes, possibly accounting. Mentions Mūsā, 4 waybas of something, and al-shaykh Ḥassūn [...] al-Iskandarānī.

אין רשומות קשורות

Document date

Jumādā II 632 Hijrī (21 February 1235–21 March 1235 CE)

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

Accounts of the expenses for a maṭbakh (sugar refinery or kitchen), headed "al-maṣrūf fī maṣāliḥ al-maṭbakh al-mubārak." Dated: Jumādā II 632 AH = February/March 1235 CE.

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Document date

4 Nisan 2151 Seleucid (7 April 1840 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Location: Yūd ʿImrān on Bīr al-Ḥā'it, Yemen. Dated: 4 Nisan 2151 Seleucid = 7 April 1840 CE. Groom: Hārūn b. Sālim al-Thalā'ī(?). Bride: Saʿda bt. Sālim Ḥoṭer al-Kohen, a widow.

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• ketubba
• marriage
• yemen

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Address of an (official-looking) letter for David ben Naʿim in Fustat/Cairo, mentioning his capacity as [...] of the looms (al-anwāl) in Alexandria ( يصل الى مصر المحروسة ويسلم الى حضرة . . . . . . .

אין רשומות קשורות

Primary language

Arabic

Name of the payee is not readable due to the black blot in the center of the page but "al-yahūdī" after it is readable. Some traces of coptic numerals and glyphs are also readable.

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• dimme

אין רשומות קשורות

Circular by the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya to all the authorities in the Rif to bring to court in Fusṭāṭ one Avraham b. […] Information from Goitein's note card. There is also a note in Arabic on verso (mentioning Damietta?).

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• circular
• communal
• shemuel b. hananya

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The sender mentions the consummation of someone's marriage. Also mentions the addressee's desire to meet with Abū ʿAlī.

תעתוק אחד דיון אחד