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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic to a notable (yeḥid ha-dor, sayyidnā), possibly named al-Shaykh Yaʿīsh. Reporting on developments in the community after the addressee (or another 'sayyidnā') departed. […] And he won't let anyone say a word to him. He is also going between the two factions in the community and making up stories about the other faction.
1 نسخ
Poem(s) in Judaeo-Arabic containing advice for the lovesick, written as a faux medical prescription. In the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. The recto contains a marriage contract dated 1298 CE. […] (Information in part from Cecilia Palombo and Goitein's attached notes.) Joins: Alan Elbaum. ASE
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
The sender asks Nahray to order a commodity (ḥajar al-māʾ?) from another trader, because there is none in Palestine, and they are importing it from Sāl[...], and that seems to be an inadequate substitute for coral. (This reading is tentative.) He also orders a mantle (īzār) for himself. This document is uncited in the literature.
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Letter from Khidr to a dignitary, probably, titled Shams al-Riʾāsa. The sender, identified in the tarjama as al-mamlūk Khiḍr, reports that since leaving Cairo he has been diligently engaged in the service of Mawlānā. He mentions making a purchase for his master in accordance with instructions and refers to obtaining a letter from the qāḍī, although the surrounding details are unclear. He appeals to Mawlānā’s customary benevolence toward him and closes with a prayer and ḥasbala.
He tells the addressee not to give his response to Ṭāhir, lest it fall into the hands of someone other than the writer. (This sentence could also be read, "do not give it to anyone except Abū Ṭāhir," but in that case the word לשיך should have been spelled ללשיך.) The writer alludes to a distresing matter involving his elder son Yūsuf.
Saʿadya ha-Levi.Dated: Middle decade of Elul 1485 Seleucid = August 1174 CE. Sitt al-Kafāʾa bt. Abu l-Faraj Yeshuʿa al-Ghuzūlī, the wife of Menashshe the judge, sells a quarter of a burnt out house to Abū Isḥāq b. […] Saʿadya for 6 dinars, which she collects. The house is in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ in the מיכל street. (Information from Goitein's attached notes.)
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Marital dispute resolution between spouses: Shemuʾel b. Yaḥya al-Fayrūzī and Jindīya bt. Yehuda ha-Levi, in which Shemuʾel agrees not to strike or curse his wife and Jindīya affirms her commitment to upholding the duties outlined in her ketubba. There is also a section about the issue of Jindīya living with her family.
Incomplete dispute resolution between Khaṣṣ bt. Avraham al-Ḥaqqān and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Khiḍr al-Fūlādī.
Dated: 29 Elul 5329 AM (1569 CE). Farjallah b. ʿAbd al-Bāqī al-Levi testifies that he henceforth forfeits his rights to the waqf property known as "Sidī Yasīn and Sidī ʿArafāt" and agrees not to transact with it nor reside there. Farjallah agrees specifically not to transact with Moshe al-Dammūhī (a Rabbanite Jew) and, generally, not to do so with any Rabbanite Jew, Karaite Jew, or Muslim.
Probably a receipt for a rent payment by Yashūʿ (?) al-Yahūdī for his store (? ḥānūt) in ḥārat al-yahūd, mentioning the date Dec 1832/Jan 1833 CE (Sha'ban 1248 Hijri).
Draft of a formal letter or petition in Arabic to 'al-rayyis al-jalīl.' This side was reused for a document or composition that appears to be in Hebrew (but very little remains); verso was reused for a Hebrew literary work.
Lists in Arabic of unclear significance, needs examination. All four pages of the bifolium are filled. Likely a fiscal account. Many names appear, e.g., Qusṭanṭīn, Ibn al-Asyūṭī, Manṣūr.
Yaʿīsh among others. Written by ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Kohen. Dating: probably no earlier than 13th century.
Containing many details about a house in Alexandria. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
People mentioned: Bū l-Karam Ibn Maṭrūḥ. See also the description for the whole notebook Bodl.
1 مناقشة
Eliyyahu to Abū l-Faraj al-Shaykh al-Makīn. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper part only).
Recto: Receipt dated 19 Shawwāl 517 AH (December 1123 CE) for 350 irdabbs of wheat from ʿAlī b. Saʿīd from al-Gharbiyya. Needs further examination.
The first item is hiera picra (ايارج فيقرا). Also uses pulp of colocynth (shaḥm ḥanẓal). There are 3 lines in the same hand in the middle of verso.
Written and signed by [Davi]d b. Shekhanya, also signed by Shelomo b. Avraham
Containing many prescriptions, including one "for the womb and hemorrhoids" and another attributed to the book of Isḥāq b. ʿImrān. There are also intriguing designs in red ink in the margins.
On the back (written in a different hand), a name is mentioned twice: Yefet al-Sharābi (preceded by the greeting ḥayyāk Allāh).
Letter from Ḥananel b. Shemuel to al-Raṣuy. In Judaeo-Arabic. Short but complete. The content is vague and allusive, but it seems that the writer is complaining about the addressee treating him like a stranger.
Magical text, likely in the hand of the cantor Abū Sahl Levi (d. 1211). See also T-S Misc.11.91, ENA 3211.1 + ENA 3211.2, T-S K1.47
Ḥasan to Avraham Ibn Yiju: two fragments. Aden, 1134. See also T-S AS 173.380 (PGPID 38566).
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Possibly a letter, or possibly a magical text related to verso: wa-yaʿ[..] al-baḥr li-dhālika wa-hāja wa-lā yastaṭīʿ aḥad ʿalayhi. . . .
Mentions people such as al-Ḥazzān al-Gharbī and Abū Saʿīd.
Mentions the phrase "taḥlil al-mizāj"; refers to al-Dimashqī; and Abū Isḥāq b.
In Judaeo-Arabic. On verso there is also a maxim: "Indeed the world is a market, containing . . . merchants who gain profit and those who are idle."
Small fragment of a legal document in Judaeo-Arabic concerning a sum of 10 dinars and furnishings. Also mentions sums of 2 dinars and 11 dinars. On verso there are the remnants of a couple words in Arabic.
Describes the location of a property relative to the alley of the poor (zuqāq al-masākīn), the mosque, and the Byzantine church or synagogue (it is not entirely clear if it reads kanīs or kanīsa).
Account of collections and distribution ('alladhi tahsul... alladhi yufarri[q]'), with the name of '[our] lord],' probably the head of the Jews, on verso.
Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Involves [...] al-Amshāṭī and [...] al-Barqī.
A Shalom b. Yehudah Boṭon is also mentioned.
Contains greetings and may mention the Kārim, but the context is missing. Also mentions a consignment of R. Yehuda.
Dating: Probably late 12th or early 13th century. The title al-Shaykh al-Makīn appears beneath. On verso there is a blessing for the holiday of Shavuʿot.
Dating: Late, perhaps 14th or 15th century. Alexandria is mentioned at the bottom, but it is not immediately clear if that is the writer ot the addressee's location.
Involves Khibāʾ bt. Menashshe (known also from ENA NS I.11 (PGPID 11204) and ENA 3765.2 (PGPID 34325)).
Receipt of rent, late, Ottoman era, in Arabic script. Maʿtūq al-Yahūdī paid two months of rent from Shaʿbān to Shawwāl for the shop he rented in Ḥārat al-Yahūd.
State-issued receipt related to silk processing in Alexandria. In Arabic script. Dated: 1236 AH, which is 1820/21 CE.
There may be a partial name in the second line after the basmala: [ʿAf]īf(?) al-ʿAṣṣār. (Information from Yusuf Umrethwala, Alan Elbaum, and Naïm Vanthieghem.)
Receipt, of ground tax (ḥikr) for a flour mill owned by ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Sammāk in the Jewish neighborhood of Cairo.
It is entitled as "the names of the earthly kings" (asmāʾ al-mulūk al-arḍiyya). The page is torn and mutilated, and parts of the text are illegible.
Fragment from the introduction and beginning of Yehuda b. David Ḥayyūj's Kitab al-Afʿāl Dhawāt Ḥurūf al-Līn ('The Book of Verbs Containing Weak Letters').
No image available on FGP. See also PGPID 35336 and PGPID 30851.
Verso is in a different hand and may also be legal.
(Information from CUDL; see also Goitein's index card.)
Legal document concerning claims of the wife of Abu al-Makarim b. Da’ud al-Muḥ[aṣṣil?] against him.
In which the sender asks the addressee to send him a quarter raṭl of agaricum (ghārīqūn) that ‘the perfumer’ owes him, also sending greetings to Rabbenu Peraḥya.
Petition from Yusuf requesting help from the addressee, Natan, for a woman who has weak vision and a blind daughter. The sender also enquires after another woman. Mentions Sunbāṭ.
Fragment of a letter mentioning proudly the writer's two sons and reporting the affairs of two men (perhaps brothers or traveling companions). Mentions al-Rayyis al-Gadol and Abū l-Munajjā.