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Regular expressions
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| ^string | Matches the text at the beginning of the string |
| string$ | Matches the text at the end of the string |
| . | Matches any single character (including special characters) |
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| [abc] | Matches any one of the specified characters |
Boolean Search
The Princeton Geniza Project database uses a boolean full-text search. This type of search allows users to combine keywords with operators to refine searches. Possible operators and examples of their use:
| מולאנא מולאי | Search for rows that contain either of two words by simply typing them consecutively. In this case, the search will find documents that contain either מולאי or מולאנא. |
| כתאבי +מולאי+ | Use a + sign before word to search for rows that contain all of them (in this case the words כתאבי and מולאי) |
| כתאבי AND מולאי כתאבי OR מולאי | The keyword AND indicates that both search terms must be present in the results. OR matches either search term. |
| כתאב –כתאבה | Use a - sign to exclude a term from your results (in this case, the search will include כתאב but exclude כתאבה) |
| *כתאב ?כתאב |
Use an asterisk or a question mark as a wildcard. An asterix matches any number of characters. A question mark matches any single character |
Join: T-S K15.5 + T-S K15.15 + T-S K15.39 + T-S K15.50
T-S K15.5
Recto/verso: recto and verso
Section:
Part of a booklet of alms lists (fols. 15.5, 15, 39, 50), titled here: 'List of the poor of Fustat.' Inside (col. II, line 5ff.): ˜Available 600 [loaves] weighing 600 pounds. Price 3 dinars, which I have received from the Prince of Princes [i.e., the Nagid Mevorakh]--may he live forever.' Date is preserved on fol. 39, Tuesday, Marheshvan 18 (Nov. 5), 1107. Fol. 15 was written on the Friday of the same week and notes 500 pounds yielding 567 loaves. Fol. 50 contains the distribution of the following Tuesday [Nov. 12] again comprising 500 pounds, but only 547 loaves. The handwriting is that of Avraham b. Aharon. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 443, App. B 19).
Ed. and trans. Mark Cohen, The Voice of the Poor in the Middle Ages (2005).
Type: List or table
T-S K15.15
Recto/verso: recto and verso
Section:
Part of a booklet, a section beginning, like a title page, 'List of the Poor of Fustat--may God in his mercy make them rich and help them in his grace and kindness' (Box K 15.5). The date is preserved on 15.39, Tuesday, Marheshvan 18 (Nov. 5), 1107. This leaf contain the date Friday, [Marheshvan] 21 (Nov. 8 of the same year). Other leaves = 15.39 and 50. Beginning at column IV, line 8, 43 persons are listed together under the heading 'Rum' (Europeans, probanly from Byzantium) and there is a comment that 13 other Rum, whose names were not specified, also received loaves. The total 23 at the end of column IV was crossed out when a supplement was postscripted with an additional 8 loaves. The handwriting is that of the scribe Avraham b. Aharon. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II. p. 443, App. B 20).
Ed. and trans. Mark Cohen, The Voice of the Poor in the Middle Ages (2005).
Type: List or table
Tags:
communal
T-S K15.39
Recto/verso: recto and verso
Section:
Part of a booklet, with section beginning, like a title page, 'List of the Poor of Fustat--may God in his mercy make them rich and help them in his grace and kindness' (in K 15.5). Date is preserved here, on fol. 39, as, 11th of Marheshvan, October 30, 1107 (in App. B 21 Goitein wrote Tuesday, Marheshvan 18 [Nov. 5], but dated is correctly in Mediterranean Society, I, p. 56). The date is written in such a way that it could be tyt or tnt, 1107 or 1147, but the reading 1107 is made sure not only by the handwriting of the clerk [=Hillel ben Eli] but also by the names of various people listed, who are known from other Geniza papers. see ibid, I, p. 405 note 89. '490 pounds, amounting to 539 (loaves of bread), from the baker Ma'ali. Ten (pounds) were added, making a total of 500, namely ten loaves of old bread.' Other leaves from this notebook = fols. 5, 15, and 50. Notice the conspicuous presence of the Rum, Jews probably from Byzantium. In several places the names of the baker Ma'ali and that of another baker, Sadaqa, appear, interrupting the list of names of beneficiaries. The handwriting is that of Avraham b. Aharon, who also wrote App. B 23, 24. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 443, App. B 21, and from Cohen).
Ed. and trans. Mark Cohen, The Voice of the Poor in the Middle Ages (2005).
Type: List or table
T-S K15.50
Recto/verso: recto and verso
Section:
Part of a booklet of alms lists (fols. 15.5, 15, 39, 50). Date is preserved on fol. 39, Tuesday, Marheshvan 18 (Nov. 5), 1107. Fol. 50 contains the distribution of the following Tuesday [Nov. 12] again comprising 500 pounds, but only 547 loaves. The handwriting is that of Avraham b. Aharon. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 443, App. B 22).
Ed. and trans. Mark Cohen, The Voice of the Poor in the Middle Ages (2005).
Type: List or table
