S.D. Goitein Index Cards

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  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
    • Bibliography cards on Arab Jews
  • Card Indexes for Med. Soc.
    • Vol. I (Economics)
      • Mediterranean Trader: outsider, extensive Travel (ch. IV)/trade, mobility
      • Political events
      • Working people (ch. II)
        • Arts, crafts, industries
        • Partnership in workshop
        • Wage earners/ servants
        • Specialization
        • Agriculture
        • Women’s Professions
        • Slaves, manumission
      • Travel (ch. IV)
        • River Travel (ch. IV) (Nile)
        • Sea Travel (ch. IV), transport at sea
        • Packing, storage
        • Customs, duties
        • Post couriers
      • Commerce and Finance (ch. III)
        • Commerce and business methods
        • Transport, incl. Caravans
        • Business letters
        • Merchants
        • Employees
        • Friendship and informal cooperation
        • Partnerships and commenda
        • Family business
        • Commission and agency
        • Representative of the merchants
        • Private dealings and public sales
        • Business localities and seasons
        • Transactions
        • Payment and credit
        • Profit and losses
        • Various cards, marked ‘Not Used’
        • Accounting and bookkeeping
        • Prices
        • Government control, taxes, licenses, customs
        • Commodities, trade routes and prices
        • Dues and maintenance
      • Money, Weights and Measures
        • Dinars
        • Loans, interest
        • Capital investment
        • Mahdiyya and dinars of the West
        • Dirhems and fractions
        • Daniq, fals, habba
        • Weights and measures
      • Social themes
        • Standards and cost of living
          • Poverty
          • Divorce/ alimony maintenance
          • Salaries
          • Cash
        • Hard times (famine, persecutions, earthquake, plague)
        • Pilgrimages, shrines
        • Well-being
        • References to crucial events (famine, war, etc.)
    • Vol. II (Community)
      • Education (ch. VI)
        • Teaching
        • Teachers
        • College, academy
        • Private study
        • Hazzan
        • Darosh/sofer
        • Doctors
        • Pharmacist
      • Communal authority (chs. V-VII)
        • District authority, gaon, reshut
        • Exilarch
        • Nagid
        • Rav
        • Local community
        • Statutes
        • Boards and committees
        • Community
        • Muqaddam
        • Head of the community
        • Parnas
        • Beadle
        • Communal organization
        • Interfaith; business with Gentiles
        • Group consciousness; relations with other groups
        • Judiciary
        • Courts
        • Excommunication (ban)
        • Procedure
        • Records; archives (qiyyum)
        • Government (Muslim)
        • Damin (tax-farming) - interference in economy
        • Government courts
        • Police (and ahdath); prison
        • Jews in government
        • Taxation
        • Confirmation of gaons and nagids by government
        • Jewish/ Muslim/ local courts
      • Communal authority (chs. V-VII), from basement
        • Holders of public office
        • Community chest
        • Collections, appeals, and miscellaneous revenue
        • Pious foundations; public chest
        • The needy
        • Private charity
        • Worship; synagogue
    • Vol. III (Family)
      • Trousseaux, not card indexed
      • Special conditions in marriange contracts
      • Miqve, niddah
      • Day of the week and month of the wedding
      • Various cards on marriage
      • Father of bride/groom
      • Virginity of the bride
      • Second marriage
      • Widows and divorcees
      • Payments and marriage gifts
    • Vol. V (Individual)
      • Awareness of Personality
        • Character
        • Unusual openings in letters
        • Friendship
        • Enemies
        • Sex, sex morals, homosexuality
        • A man's station/stratification of society/rank
        • Maxims and morality
      • Weather; seasons
      • Throwing Off the Yoke (ch. X, C)
        • Death, future life, messiah, holy places, pilgrimage, history, charity, God’s will
        • Kohen, Levi
        • Karaites, Karaite-Rabbanite relations
        • Excommunication, irreligion
        • Samaritans
        • Charity; requests for help; gifts; loans as charity; charity in wills; fear of God
        • Class consciousness, class transcendence
        • Gregariousness, weekends, holidays
        • Gratitude
        • Affluence and poverty
        • Sabbaths, holidays - including individual holidays
        • God’s people, religion, study, fasting
        • Leaders, leadership
        • God; piety; pietism; esoterica
        • Astrology, magic, dreams, witchcraft, divination
        • Education, illiteracy
        • Scholarship and learning
        • Poverty of intellectuals and communal officials, charity
        • Fear of God; consciousness of sin; prayer
        • Hebrew
          • Documents in Hebrew
          • Hebrew letters and Hebrew components in Arabic letters
          • Copyists and writing style of letters
        • Poetry; poets; Arabic poetry
        • Books, book trade; borrowing; prices
        • Puns on names; humor
        • Picturesque language of the traders
        • Perfection; mind at peace
        • Arabic in Hebrew script vocalized
        • Decline; communal strife; denunciation; in this (bad) time
        • Mediterraneanism & comparative history
          • Middle class mentality
          • Mobility, international spirit, absence from homeland
          • Guiding concepts of Goitein’s project
          • Common heritage and contacts
          • Spirit of the age
        • Conceptions of family
        • Conceptions of community and ethnicity
        • Blessings for rulers
        • Cosmopolitanism, mobility, “Jewishness”
        • Social aspects of letter writing
        • Mediterranean mind
        • Visits
        • Wine and drunkenness, other drinks
        • Hospitality, entertainment
        • Pastimes
        • Awareness of Personality, character
        • Honour and shame
        • Upper class, the well-to-do
        • Government officials
        • Honesty, fraud, reputation
        • Politeness, refinement
        • Structure & social functions of letters
        • Moods & emotional life
        • Religiosity
      • Health and illness, general
      • Types of illness, incl. epidemics
      • Old Age, life expectancy
      • Wills and deathbed dispositions
      • Death and burial, condolences, mourning
  • DIPLOMATICS
    • Abbreviations
    • Arabic
      • Use of Arabic (general)
      • Orthography and pronunciation
      • Morphology and syntax
      • Style
    • Blessings
    • Dating - chronology (systems)
    • Documents
      • Names of books
    • Letter-writing
      • Social aspects of letter-writing
      • Opening
      • Wishes attached to name
      • Longing for
      • Main part
      • Excuses
      • Complaints
      • Conclusions
      • Address
      • Dispatch and forwarding of letters
      • Paper and ink
      • Script
      • Forms of characters
      • Inconsistency in script and ignorance
      • Letters in Arabic script
    • Numerals, numbers
    • Signatures; minuscules
  • PEOPLE
    • Family
      • Extended family
        • Brothers and nephews from brother's side
        • Brothers and sisters
        • Uncles and nephews
        • Cousins
        • Living together
        • Joint legal responsibility
        • Brawls and litigations
      • Endogamy
      • Marriage contracts and conditions
      • Marriage: general, matchmaking, betrothal, engagement
      • Official aspects - civil marriage
      • Wedding
      • Names, nicknames, bynames; men called after their mothers, derogatory forms of names
      • Women in business
      • Women in courts
      • Women on travel
      • Position of women in the family and the world
      • Independent women, working women
      • Pious women, female charities, women as donors
      • Women and education, letters of women, prayer
    • India book
      • India Book Names of Persons
        • א
          • אבו
          • אבן
          • אברהם/אברהים/אברם
          • אברהם/אברהים
          • אהרן
          • איוב
          • אליה
          • אלעזר
          • אם
          • אסחק
          • אסמאעיל
          • אפרים
        • ב
          • בקא
          • ברהון
          • ברכאת/ברכות
          • בשר
        • ג
          • גאלב
          • גאליה
          • גזאל
          • גמילה
        • ד
          • דאוד
          • דניאל
          • דויד
          • דלאל
        • ה
          • הרון
          • הבה
          • הלאל
          • הלל
        • ו
        • ז
          • זין
          • זכרי
          • זכריה
          • זרעה
        • ח
          • חיים
          • חלפון
          • חסון
          • חנניה
        • ט
          • טוביה
        • י
          • יהודה
          • יוסף
          • יחזקאל
          • יחיה
          • יעקב
          • יפת
          • יצחק
          • ישועה
          • ישעיה
          • ישראל
        • כ
          • כלף
        • ל
        • מ
          • מבארך
          • מבארכה
          • מבורך
          • מבשר
          • מוסי
          • מופק
          • מחפוט
          • מימון
          • מכארם
          • מכתאר
          • מנחם
          • מנשה
          • מסאפר
          • מסלם
          • מפרג
          • מצליח
          • מרואן
          • משה
          • T-S 8J11.7 d, a
        • נ
          • נחום
          • נסים
          • נתן
          • נתאנל
          • CUL T-S K15.110
          • CUL T-S K3 fol. 11
        • ס
          • סאלם
          • סבאע
          • סהל
          • סיד
          • סלאמה
          • סלימאן
          • סלמאן
          • סעאדה
          • סעדיה
          • סעדיהו
          • סעיד
          • סת
          • סתונה
        • ע
          • עבד אל-
          • עבדיה
          • עזרא
          • עיאש
          • עלון
          • עלוש
          • עלי
          • עמאים
          • עמאר
          • עמראן
          • עמרם
        • פ
          • פאיזה
          • פכר
          • פצ׳איל
          • פרג
          • פרח
          • פרחיה
          • פתוח
        • צ
          • צאלח
          • צדוק
          • צדקה
        • ק
        • ר
          • רייסה
        • ש
          • שאול
          • שארית
          • שבתי
          • שבת
          • שלה
          • שלמה
          • שמואל
          • שמעון
          • שמריה
          • שר שלום
          • ששון
        • ת
          • תאבת
          • תמאם
          • תמים
          • תרפה
      • Mss Used in India Book
        • Non-Cambridge
          • Firkovitch
          • Gottheil-Wornell
          • SPIOS
          • NLI
          • JTS Misc.
          • Manchester
          • Heidelberg
          • Sassoon Lib.
          • Strasbourg
          • Private
      • Hebrew Words in India Book
      • India Book, General Index
    • Memorial lists; families
    • Names
    • Names and Titles
      • Slave girls
      • Gaons, Nagids, Exilarchs
      • Notables and persons whose script is known
      • Families, family names Also see 'occupations'
      • Honorific Titles (Hebrew and Arabic)
      • Corresponding Hebrew/Arabic names
      • Kunyas
      • Rulers and other Gentiles
      • Names particular to certain countries; Berber names; Greek names; Romanesque names
      • Identical names of different persons
      • Names reflecting physical characteristics and diseases
      • Honorific titles (laqab)
    • Names of Persons
      • Names of Gentiles
    • Occupations
      • Manual occupations
        • ب
        • ا
        • ت
        • ث
        • ج
        • ح
        • خ
        • د
        • ذ
        • ر
        • ز
        • س
        • ش
        • ص
        • ض/ظ
        • ط
        • ع
        • غ
        • ف
        • ق
        • ك
        • ل
        • م
        • ن
        • ه
        • و
      • Maker or seller of a commodity
      • Commerce and banking
      • Druggists and doctors
      • Officials and sundry
      • Professions, in Hebrew
      • Uncertain terms for professions, in Arabic
  • PLACES
    • Index of houses
    • Funduq
    • Geographical Index
      • Egypt
        • Fustat and Cairo
        • Egypt (general), Nile
        • Alexandria
        • Alexandrian Jews - communal leaders; documents from Alexandria; communal strife; synagogues
        • Rif, general
        • Rif, names of towns (English alphabetical order)
      • Algeria
      • Arabia
      • Armenia
      • Byzantium/Rum
      • Crete, Cyprus, Rhodes, Chios
      • France
      • Iran
      • Italy
      • Iraq
      • Libya
      • Maghreb
      • Morocco
      • Palestine-Syria
        • Names of towns (English alphabetical order)
          • Jerusalem
      • Saqlabi/Rus
      • Sicily
      • Spain
      • Tunisia
    • Housing
      • Architecture
      • Index made from the notes on housing (by shelfmark)
      • Houses outside Old Cairo
      • Proprietorship of houses
      • Sale and prices of houses, gifts
      • Rent of houses
      • Structural details, repairs
    • India Book Geographical Index
    • New houses; ruins; age of towns
    • Places Worman's List
    • Stores, workshops, stalls
    • Towns and cities
      • Names derived from cities in Egypt
    • Towns, cities and other places
  • Quotations
    • Bible quotations
    • Prayer book; wishes
    • Talmudic quotations
    • Verses from poems
  • SHELFMARKS
    • Card Index of Manuscripts
      • Collections other than Cambridge
        • AIU
        • Antonin
        • Berlin
        • BL
          • Letter from Moshe Gil to S. D. Goitein
        • Bodl.
        • DK
        • Halper
        • ENA
        • RNL
        • Mosseri
        • PER
        • p. Heid.
        • Penn
      • Cambridge
        • T-S number.number
        • T-S number.letter.number.number
        • T-S Ar.
        • T-S Misc.
        • T-S letter.number.number
        • T-S AS
        • T-S NS
        • CUL Add.
        • CUL Or.
        • L-G
        • T-S
        • T-S J
        • T-S Ar
        • T-S Misc incl. Loan
        • T-S K
        • T-S NS J
        • CUL Add
        • CUL Or
    • Dated Geniza Papers
      • Before 1000
        • 801–900
        • 901–1000
      • 1001–1250
        • 1001–1050
        • 1051–1100
        • 1101–1150
        • 1151–1200
        • 1201–1250
      • 1250–1500
        • 1251–1300
        • 1301–1400
        • 1401–1500
      • 1501–1800
        • 1501–1600
        • 1601–1700
        • 1701–1800
      • Post-1800
        • 1801–1900
  • TERMS
    • Glossary
      • Arabic words
        • ض
        • ظ/ض
        • ي
      • Hebrew Words and Phrases
      • Arabic Terms for Jewish Things
        • ظ
  • THINGS
    • Baths
    • Clothing
    • Clothing and textiles
    • Dining
      • Eating and serving, including furniture
      • Various kitchen items
      • Cooking utensils
    • Food
      • Wheat, bread, flour, prices
      • Foods, spices, medicinal plants, drugs - alphabetical, English
        • B
        • G
        • S
          • Sugar and sweets
          • Silk
        • M
          • Meat
        • N
        • O
          • Olives and olive/vegetable oil
        • P
        • R
        • T
          • Textiles
        • V
        • W
        • H
          • Honey
        • D
        • E
        • F
          • Fruits
          • Flax and linen
        • L
        • C
          • Cheese
        • A
    • Footwear; combs, weapons
    • Goods (English)
      • Unidentified goods
      • I
      • J
      • K
      • Q
      • broken links, cards do not show
      • Y
    • House utensils and furniture
    • Sachkultur (material culture)
      • Jewelry and trinkets
      • Silver untensils and knicknacks
      • Household utensils
      • Pottery
      • Copper
      • Uncommon objects of art, knicknacks
      • Colors (by root)
      • Domestic furnishings
        • Bedding, seating
        • Mats, carpets, runners, curtains, hangings
        • Chests, boxes, bags, trunks, cover of baskets
        • Light and heat
        • Freshening
        • Washing, bathing, cleaning
        • Kitchen/table varia
        • Perfuming
        • Children’s toys
        • Varia (flower pots, saucer, weights, writing implements etc.)
        • Places, etc., in textile names
    • Ships: types and names
      • Names and proprietors of ships, not alphabetical
      • Types of ships
      • Names of ships (by proprietor, alphabetical)
    • Transportation by land and in town (Mules, donkeys, camels, horses)
    • Trousseaux - list of shelf marks (many in ketubbot)
      • Dropsie
      • ULC