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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Recto: end of a betrothal deed (לארוסה זו), mentioning the name Shemuel.
1 نسخ 2 مناقشتان
Yeshuʿa ha-Levi gifts the entire contents of his late wife’s dowry, “consisting of gold, silver, copper, and other items worth 200 Egyptian dinars,” to his two minor daughters, Nasab and Kufūʾ (or Kufāʾ?).
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
On verso there are several entries recording monthly payments in Arabic script; one of them appears to mention the year 68[.]
The recipient's ʿamma (in general paternal aunt, but Goitein interprets it as mother in this case) wants to see him before she dies. At the end of the letter, either the writer or the aunt/mother asks him to send two (ounces?
However, it is more likely that everything here belongs to a single letter, and the part that was understood to be the 'address' is actually the end of the first line of the letter.
He specifically asks for intercession with al-Shaykh al-Rashīd. He has enclosed the remainder of the rent. (Information in part from CUDL)
The intended meeting point was Bab al-Sidara, the entrance to Alexandria from the mainland. (Information from Frenkel.)
3 نسخ 1 مناقشة
The sender also writes about an agreement that was reached with a tax-farmer about a payment made in installments and expresses regret about the fact that a female relative who was involved in a law-suit with her husband enjoyed 'no holiday and no Saturday.' Finally, the writer requests the recipient urgently to return a note from the tax-farmer.
No one thought I would live, but thank God that everything ended well, and I am doing well, thank God." There are also a couple lines of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Four diagonal lines run through the entire text; it is unclear whether this indicates that the partnership was terminated.
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"It would be better to for her to be sold to the Franks (al-ifranj) or married to the blacks (al-sūdān) rather than to be known by his name. . . . this is something not even crazy people (al-majānīn) would do." At the end of the letter he turns to addressing Abū l-Riḍā (the addressee's husband?)
T-S 12.257r is continued in T-S K25.209 and ends in T-S 12.257v. The letter is written in childish script, often omitting letters.
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Labwa releases Aharon from her entire ketubba payment, including her delayed marriage gift.
The testimony which took place before us, we, the undersigned witnesses: On the middle ten days
of the month of Tammūz 1555AG (June 1244)
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
The scribe uses ה and א interchangeably at the ends of words, so the first part of her name may be Qurra (solace), as in the set phrase "qurrat al-ʿayn"; the "lawn" (color) part remains mysterious.
Information from Ashur, “Engagement and Betrothal Contracts from the Cairo Geniza,” p. 302.
"Stop occupying yourself with marriage plans and such idle things," writes a father, reminding his son, a fledgling physician, that he had not yet made enough money for such ventures. (wa-tukhalli ʿannak al-ishtighāl bil-jīza (=zija) wa-l-umūr al-hadhayāniyya.
The letter describes the pillage (nahb), famine, and the persecution of the Jews it entailed and describing many other public and private issues.
Very faded. Recto is entirely in Hebrew and mentions Yeshuʿa ha-Levi and a certain Ṣedaqa.
They are issuing receipts without having them registered in the supervising dīwān (wa-lam yuthbithā fī l-dīwān), which enables them to extort a second payment—one for their own pockets, and one for the dīwān.
Concerning a partnership in a "kitchen" (maṭbakh), likely a facility engaged in food preparation. The mention of a "division" (that is, of assets) and the statement that "only […] remains" suggests that this may be a partnership settlement and release, or at least this release was not accompanied by a final settlement of all accounts, though the document isn't sufficiently well-preserved for certainty.
Left page (see separate PGP record): there are two entries. In the first, the court gives Shelomo b.
IB VII, 64. Enthusiastic letter by Yaʿaqov b. Yeshaʿyahu ha-Kohen, a leader of the Jews of Yemen, to Mevorakh b.
Addressed to a dignitary whose genealogy ends with [...] b. Faraḥ b. Shalom(?) ha-Kohen. In Hebrew for the introduction and Judaeo-Arabic for the body.
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
The letter consists entirely of expressions of longing and regards, informing his friends and patrons in Fustat that he is now living in Jerusalem and that he is in good health.
2 مناقشتان
Prenuptial agreement. Dating: end of the 13th century. Fiancee: Shamsūn bt. Yaʿaqov b.
B 1, dated 1020-1040) See ENA 2713.26 (PGPID 4532).
What remains of recto is almost entirely formulaic but contains interesting phrases such as "may your star shine opposite you (wa-yuḍī' kawkabuhu ḥidhāhu)."
The reference to al-khizāna al-maʿmūra suggests a Fatimid fiscal context, though it is unusual for a fiscal document to use Coptic numerals. The remainder of the entry is very difficult to read. May refer to al-Ḥājj [...] b.
The hand is skilled and the margins are large, and there is a taqbīl at the end. Dating: Maybe 12th–13th century, but this is a guess.
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
وصلت رقعة مولاي اطال الله بقاه
ادام تائيدها ونعماها ومن حسن توفيقه
لا اخلاها وقراتها وفهمت مضمونها وشكرت
الله تعالى …
On the left page of verso, one entry begins, "that which was lost at se[a]..." (mimmā ʿudima fī l-baḥ[r]...).
Al-Maqrīzī reports a state official by this title to be active towards the end of al-Āmir's period which fits the chronology of this document.
Including Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew titles, such as איוב נץ מחקק לרב סעדיה ולאבן גקטלה. Each entry gives the name of a person (ʿinda l-Rashīd Abū l-Faḍl...
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
One agrees not to come to Fustat during the high holidays; the other agrees not to enter Alexandria until the high holidays. AA. ASE.
That the document is written in Hebrew and uses the anno mundi dating system is consistent with other documents from the court of Abraham Maimonides (e.g., TS 12.126, which also refers to the "old system" of dating and is entirely in Hebrew). The script of the two documents would seem to be different.
Yosef, a well known purveyor of purple from the end of the 11th century, and discovered while packing it that it was discolored or unevenly dyed.
There is mention of ʿAlam al-Dawla Ibn Quraysh (or Qadish, see ENA 4020.30 (PGPID 2407)). It seems the son has "notes" (riqāʿ) totaling 200 dirhams (so perhaps promissory notes?)
The wakīl: Bishāra b. Avraham) and another entry involving Maḥbūb b. Ḥibbān (appears also in CUL Or.1080 3.35 (PGPID 5646) and T-S 13J8.12 + T-S 8J4.7 (PGPID 2126), both from the second half of the 11th century).
The addressee's name may end with דוד or רור; the latter could be compatible with Avraham b.
Verso (original inscription): see separate entry.
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
For another instance of this coin, see ENA NS 19.17 (PGPID 11578).(Information from Matthew Dudley and from Warren R.
Probably the same scribal hand as T-S AS 210.50 (PGPID 22816) and ENA 2903.8 (PGPID 12535). MCD.
The beginning of this manuscript is damaged, but it tells of an encounter between R. Ishmael and the angel Ozhayah, who is describing the features of the name Tandrael, associated with a powerful master or rabbi in Babylonia.
. . . the stake, at the top of which the fabric of the world was tied. Then the top of the stake struck the weave of the web [on which the] world in …
1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Marḥaba had been married to her paternal uncle Ḥayyīm, based on the phrase following her initial patronymics: אלמנת אחיו המ[נו]ח כה׳׳ר חיים נ׳׳ע (the damaged word המנוח is confirmed in the subsequent court register entry). The language of origin for the surname (?)
:Left side of bifolio 5r (Documents 35-37)
Undated, neighboring entries are circa 1693 CE. (Document #19) Upper lines of a marital/financial dispute involving Simḥa bt.
Apparently a fruit seller (al-fakkāh) named [...] Ibn ʿAtīq entered Samyūn's house at night when Samyūn was away and began insulting Samyūn and others (انه اتا في الليل الى دار سميون العبد متولي السيارة وهو على حاله وسميون غائب فشتمه وشتم غيره).
Abū l-Majd is to give 10 dirhams to Yeshuʿa for teaching Ibn al-Ziftāwī through the end of Pesaḥ 1529 Seleucid (=1218 CE). T-S K25.240 consists of small written orders, partly in Hebrew and partly in Arabic script, for monthly payments, made out of the rent-revenue from the pious foundation (waqf) 'Compound of the Poor' or from the pious foundation made by the physician al-Muhadhdhab.
He suffers from poverty and illness, and he was robbed in his lodging when he entered the borders of Hungary. There are three different notes sharing the page; the first two urge all who meet him to extend charity to him.
Furthermore, “the tax-gatherers (ḥushshār, “ralliers”) and the director of the jaliya (ṣāḥib al-jawālī) are not to be blamed; all this is entirely the work of the Jews.” (Information from S.
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين
גלה) for the addressee, but the cheapest available would have been 3 or 4 dinars. He entered Alexandria with the julla he already had and obtained new gold for the addressee.
Joseph (dated documents 1088–1116), a traveling merchant with his seat in Alexandria orders one irdabb of sieved wheat every month; he clearly did not wish to receive the entire quantity of the yearly provision at once, because, as he mentions, the price was high (only four waybas for 1 dinar)."