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Tag: baghdad
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Copy of a story about the edicts against the Jews in Baghdad and how they were saved. Dating: ca. 1120 CE. The scribe reused numerous documents to create this booklet; see individual PGP records. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, pp. 228-229.) VMR. ASE.
State document; Fatimid? Seems like a peace treaty/gifts (hudna/hadiyya?) addressed towards the city of Baghdad, possibly, - 'li-l-hudna/hadiyya ilā madīnat al-Salām'. Sums of money, min l-waraq (silver), aʿin (gold), dawāb (cattle), and khadam (slaves) are mentioned, which could be the reparations sent for ensuring a peace treaty or gifts to engender diplomatic relations. The persons mentioned are Abu Bakr and ʿĪsā, who is referred to as Ṣāḥib al-Ḍawāb (Man of cattle). The document is dated Wednesday 15th of a month unknown. Reused for a literary text-oriented at 180 degrees citing Talmudic rabbis and written in a combination of Hebrew and Arabic script (rather than Judaeo-Arabic) — common among Qaraites but more unusual among Rabbanites.
Letter from Ṣemaḥ b. Yiṣḥaq, gaon of Sura, to Elḥanan b. Shemarya, ca. 990. Contains information about Ṣemaḥ b. Yiṣḥaq and about the academy of Sura. The gaon expresses his wish that Elḥanan b. Shemarya would come to Baghdad, the new location of the academy of Sura. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, p. 133.)
Letter from Ṣemaḥ b. Yiṣḥaq, gaon of Sura, to Elḥanan b. Shemarya, ca. 990. Contains information about Ṣemaḥ b. Yiṣḥaq and about the academy of Sura. The gaon expresses his wish that Elḥanan b. Shemarya would come to Baghdad, the new location of the academy of Sura. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, p. 133.)
Letter mentioning the inhabitants of Baghdad and the name Muẓaffar b. Baraka. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document from Baghdad. In Hebrew. Probably 17th century. The date appears to read Iyyar of חתכ, which would be 1668 CE, but this seems an unusual way to write the year. The content has to do with ʿĀṣī b. Maṭīra's commitment to pay a certain total each year to the community. Needs further examination.
Qaraite bill of divorce. Location: apparently Baghdad, but it is not clear how this is known. Dated: 6 Iyyar 5571 AM = 30 April 1811 CE. Husband: ʿAṭāʾ b. Murād ha-Levi (spelled מרייד with imāla, so maybe Murayyid). Wife: Sharḥ or maybe Seraḥ bt. David known as Davida ha-Levi .There are three witnesses, two of whom have elaborate signatures and "Sason" somewhere in their names.
Epistle of the gaon Shemuel b. ʿEli of Baghdad. There is a colophon. This copy was completed Tishrei [1]473 Seleucid, which is 1161 CE. "In it [this copy] there is a shahāda of R. Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen b. Yosef." There is an addendum dated Tammuz 1486(?) Seleucid (which would be 1175 CE if this is the correct reading), added in Aleppo. Joins with T-S 8J2 and ENA 4011.74.
