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In lines 17–19, the scribe was supposed to sum up and account for the whole agricultural production of the five villages after each new entry (min al-ghallāt: qamḥ, šaʿīr, fūl). The sum of the whole production would then have been converted into counted gold money and the number obtained would have been added in front of the entry min al-ʿayn (l. 16).
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On recto, there are two lines of what was originally an enormous decree; only ~3 words from the ends of the lines are currently preserved (يستكمل... ؟؟؟ لاموال).
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
The sender reports that he spoke on the addressee's behalf to Mubārak Ibn Diqlāṣ prior to the latter's travel to Yemen and there ensued a fight between them. It seems that the sender was unable to collect a debt due to lacking a power of attorney (ומא כאן בידי [וכאלה או?]
They were charged 23 אלטס en route in Ramle, and they said, "Our peqid in Jerusalem will pay for us." […] If someone objects that the Qaraites of Damascus should cover this expense, (the answer is not entirely clear; something is very bad in Damascus, and one cannot even walk in the roads).
There are additional notes below this court record related to the same case, comprising an unfinished draft of the next entry in the register record #68, where another debt, of 100 [ashrafī] jadīd, is listed with a two-month repayment period that ends in Ḥeshvan (right before the one described here in record #67 is set to begin at 3 ashrafī per month).
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Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic, ending with a ḥasbala in Arabic script (left upper margin).
Dating: c. 1785–1825 CE, based on the active dates and mention of the scribe/judge Meʾīr Ben-Naʿīm– but likely earlier in this range given that his father Shalom is still alive/referenced. With entries naming dozens of people, arranged in a curiously alphabetical way, with sections devoted to orphans and wives and daughters and divorcees.
Mentions: al-Shaykh al-ʿAfīf; Tripoli (presumably the Syrian one); that the addressee must not delay; al-Shaykh al-ʿAfīf again; Ṣamṣām al-Dawla; Rashīd; and that the addressee should honor the sender with his errands. Ends with a ḥasbala. Reused on verso for Hebrew literary text in the hand of ʿEli b.
There is then a word with a horizontal bar spanning an entire line (wa-kutiba?), and the next line is tricky to make out.
(Compare AIU IV.C.453, T-S NS 243.75a, T-S NS 198.61, ENA 2886.1–7, T-S NS 71.64, T-S NS 198.61, T-S 8H22.18, Moss.
Natan Benawī and groom Moshe Menashe b. Nissim ha-Levi. The entry comprises an abbreviated version of the full ketubba, mentioning key marital payments and conditions for the marriage.
:(Documents 9-11) Folio 3v
Several additional revenue items and debts are listed. The account ended on 30 August 1041. For the recto, see PGPID 517.
(Information from Goitein’s index card) Same case as entry #2 in T-S 8K20.1.1 (PGPID 7734).
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He may quote al-Mutanabbī at the end: وما الناس بناس [بموضع منك خال].
Each page lists the amounts owed (in the form of orders of payment or ruqaʿ) by certain people. The entries are crossed out with stylized vertical lines, presumably after they were settled.
Legal document from Cairo, dated 1817 CE (end of Heshvan 5578) in which David Dayyan declares an investment partnership with Barakha Goren.
Yoshiyyahu the descendant of Shemaʿyahu Gaʾon appears twice (known from other documents ca. 1140 CE, e.g., ENA 4020.8, T-S 13J2.25, and T-S AS 145.79).
On the back (recto) of this document are the remains of four lines in wide spacing; a mirror image of ENA 2735.15 which must have been attached to this document (and they were later placed next to one another in the same folder).
This list in Hebrew is likely from a broader booklet ENA 2898.7-14 where other accounts mention payments in sherifi (שרפי= produced post-1425 CE).
There is another partial date at the top of the fragment, which reads as x12. Each of the bottom entries consists of a header (probably people's names, one of them is Ḥusayn b.
Contains few lines from the dowry list, the monogamy clause, the trustworthiness clause and the stipulation regarding the bride's ritual bath after menstruation, enacted by Maimonides in 1176 (see M.A Friedman, "Social Realities in Egypt and Maimonides' Rulings on Family Law” Maimonides as Codifier of Jewish Law [N.
Recto: Legal notes, or maybe formularies and legal procedure. The top entry is a bill of divorce dated 1423 Seleucid, which is 1111/12 CE.
Pinholes at the margin ~5–6mm apart suggest that this fragment may once have once been sewn together with ENA 3924.5 (but not by the original owners given the different dates).
This may be the same Salmūn al-Yahūdī who appears in ENA 3924.5, (PGPID 10270); T-S Ar.38.111 (PGPID 20707); T-S Ar.39.425 (PGPID 20938); T-S AS 178.88 (PGPID 36909).
(Information in part from Goitein’s index card.) Join with ENA NS 85.1317 identified by Alan Elbaum.
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In Hebrew (first ~20 lines) and Judaeo-Arabic (last ~5 lines). Consists almost entirely of blessings. The sender asks for an unspecified favor in the last preserved line.
The sender then gives an account of his travels: "we ended up in al-Buḥayra and we stayed. . . I set out to the salty sea, and I stayed on the sands(?).
The writer states, "The illness was enough for me, and then the capitation tax assailed me."
, both names are not entirely clear. The letter sender mentions a certain Yeshūʿa Ben-Moreno in the opening lines and then R.
Unclear what the content is. Ends "waffaqahu allāh taʿālā in shāʾ allāh." On recto there is Arabic love poetry (to paraphrase, 'my nights with the beloved passed in a flash, and now that they're gone, my night is the night of the blind with no hope of morning') عهدي بنا ورداء الوصل [يجمعنا] والليل اطوله كاللمح بالبصر والآن ليلي مذ غابوا فديتهم ليل الضرير وصبحى غير منتظر
The last eight lines, filling to the end of the page, is an explanation in Judeo-Arabic in the importance of recording the Davidic decent of the Exilarchs."
End of a letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi, probably to one of his brothers.
List in Judeo-Arabic of monetary amounts and calculations related the communal "chest / ארגז" of the Mustʿarabīm in the end of Nisan 5590 which is March-April 1830CE. The monetary figures are expressed in two columns, one in "silver / פצה" and the other "גה" which must be an abbreviation but is unclear in meaning.
See Goitein, Med Soc II, 546 no. 16, where this is the "unidentified ENA manuscript" mentioned. Information in part from Friedman, Maimonides Appoints R.
Shemarya, in Fustat. Dating: End of 1034 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1007–1055 CE, based on the years when Efrayim b.
ושלומו ואליו
It may be a duplicate of the same bill of exchange or a repeat entry in the MIAC catalogue. MCD.
Verso: Note probably in the hand of Avraham Maimonides. Ends with the legal phrase והכל שריר ובריר וקיים.
Mentions Abū l-Faraj Ibn Qayyūma, who appears also in ENA 3793.6 (PGPID 9564) ca. 1050 CE. Mentions having purchased something "and all I received was 60 dinars and 1000 dirhams."
Enigmatic fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic describing what happened to the writer in front of the addressee's house; how people were appealing for help on account of the capitation tax; how the writer has lost 25 dirhams; and how there is 'ḥamas' in the country.
Ordering pharmaceuticals from Egypt. There is an entire short book devoted to this document (Albert Dietrich, Zum Drogenhandel im islamischen Ägypten, 1954).
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The sender heard that his brother Yosef died in India, and he asks the addressee to enquire with a certain Ibn al-Dajājī as to exactly how it happened.
On recto there is a ketubba (see separate entry). (Information in part from CUDL)
Engagement contract in which Ṭahor b. Yehuda b. Saʿadya ha-Kohen pledges his minor daughter after 5 years to Muhadhdhab b.
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Menashshe (active 1100–1138 CE). Verso: end of a court record regarding the marriage of Qaraite woman and a Rabbanite groom (perhaps the couple on recto?).
(Information from CUDL.) Same hand as ENA NS 22.6 (PGPID 2710)
Location: Fustat. Dated: End of Sivan 152[.] Seleucid, which is 1209–18 CE, under the reshut of Avraham Maimonides.
The letter was sent to Fustat to the caravanserai of al-Mahalli (‘funduq al-Mahalli’), a well-known compound, large enough to accommodate a mosque. The note is likely from the early thirteenth century; the writer refers to Avraham Maimonides as Nagid, a title he bore from 1213 to 1237.
Dated: 28 Ṭevet 4898 AM, which is 13 January 1138 CE. India Book 4 (full English description to come.) See also Shaked, "Persian-Arabic Bilingualism" in From A Sacred Source, pp. 322–24 (edition and translation)
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Pinḥas, in New Cairo (based on ENA NS 2.11). In Judaeo-Arabic. Opens with expressions of longing; "Every day I mention you, every moment, every minute."
My letter to you, oh my sister, the most honored of creatures to me and by me, may God prolong your life and per…
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Record of writ of release. End of a legal document concerning Abū Maʿālī and financial matters (?)