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Title page of al-Ḥāwī by David b. Seʿadya al-Ger ("the convert").
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Literary work in Judaeo-Arabic. Perhaps al-Faraj baʿd al-Shidda of Rabbenu Nissim. This page discusses Naḥum of Gamzu and Rabbenu ha-Qodesh when he was afflicted by illness (and toothache?).
Letter from Peraḥya b. Sahlān, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1055.
מולאי וסיידי ורייסי וגלילי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך
ותאידך מן אסכנדריא ליו כלון מן מרחשון ערפך אללה ברכתה ואלחאל סלאמה
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2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Also signed by Avraham b. Shemaʿya and Yiṣḥaq b.
There are additional legal notes on verso, mentioning various sums of dinars and also Ḥusna or Ḥasana bt. Menaḥem the wife of Menashshe.
State accounts (makhzūma) in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Two names, Bū l-ʿAlā (..) and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, can be read in the third line.
Witness is Hibatallāh b. al-Ḥusayn b. Aḥmad. The recto was reused for Hebrew alphabetical practice with Tiberian voweling.
Contains instructions for applying flower oil and water lily (nīlawfar) oil over the head, forehead, and a few drops in the nose. It is also advised to eat it after a meal. On the lower portion of verso there are pen exercises.
The name of the one of the parties is al-Ḥājj ʿAbd al-Karīm and the amount mentioned is 30,000 dirhams.
, and there did not remain in al-Ramla... Muḥammad(?) b. Muḥsin(?) al-Anṭākī... the reins(?)
Rental document, in Arabic script, possibly a receipt of transportation of unspecified goods, dated to the month of Rabīʿ al-Awwal 1259/April 1843. The name of the tenant is Yeshūʿa and involves a property in Ḥārat al-Yahūd.
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1 نسخ
The letter deals with several business matters, especially the sugar trade. Also mentions 1000 Venetian swords.
Letter of recommendation from a judge in Aleppo (צובה) on behalf of Binyamin Mizraḥi. In Hebrew.
Letter from Shelomo Cesana & Company, in Alexandria, to Karo y Frances & Company, in Fustat/Cairo.
Mentions a teacher (ha-melammed); a girl (al-ṣabiyya); a request for assistance; the father of the girl; and the betrothal (ʿaqd al-qiddushin) and the writing of the ketubba after Yom Kippur.
Names include: Sayyidnā al-Nasi; Abū Saʿd; Abū l-Faraj; Abū l-Najm Munajjā; Abū l-Faraj al-Munaqqī Dating: likely 12th or 13th century.
Begins with a basmala and new section "fī jumlat al-kalām ʿalā l-aʿḍā", mentions the four elements and the four humors.
It seems addressed to Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAllānal-Ḥibr (the ḥaver), whose name appears both at upper left and in the first line of the text, telling him what items have been sent with the bearer.
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 40).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 42).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 38).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 41).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa. ed. Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 30).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 98).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 34).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 66).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 49).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 68).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 44).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 56).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 31).
Small fragment of a business letter from Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi b. Simḥa ha-Levi al-Nisaburi to Abū Saʿīd ... b. Shelomo al-Fāsī.
Dating: After the Spanish expulsion, per Avraham David. Describing how all the "maʿamad" that oversaw all the communities of Egypt did something (appointed someone?)
ʿImrān, who requests that next time he should write in Hebrew. Abū Surūr is also mentioned. The address is on verso. (Information from CUDL)
Mentions 'your neighbor Ibn al-Kallām,' a rubāʿī, and a letter for Fakhr al-Ṣabbāgh concerning the release (khurūj) of the wheat.
Simḥa (presumably Nīsābūrī). One partner is in Alexandria and the other in Fustat. Involving very large sums of money: 300 and 600 dinars.
Probably from the office of one of the 13th or 14th century Maimonidean Nagids, based on the motto and the hand. It orders ʿAbd al-Karīm to do something involving the qāḍī Shams al-Dīn and reporting to somebody.
Yiṣḥaq, the leader of the Jewish community in Aleppo. In Hebrew. Mentions a letter recieved from the addressee's son.
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين
The son requests a small loan from his father. Also mentions Abu'l-Tana. (Information from Goitein's index cards and CUDL)
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
(Information from CUDL.) Also in his handwriting: T-S 12.257 + T-S AS 145.278 + T-S K25.209 and T-S 13J14.22.
They are barred from entering and using it and ask that a decree for the same be issued from the al-majlis al-karīm. Needs examination.
المماليك يقبلو الارض {وهو} ينهوا ان لهم بالمحلة كنيسة خرابة وهي تجمع شملهم
بالصلاة فيها والمماليك [[يمنعون]] //خائفين// من الدخول اليها لكونها …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Verso: Jottings in Hebrew and Arabic script and the draft of another letter (introduction only) by Shemuʾel to his brother. See also T-S 8J15.11 (same brothers)
Well-written letter in which the sender asks the addressee how to act in an inheritance dispute involving a second-floor housing unit and the items found in it; they are also hoping to avoid incurring taxes. (Information in part from Goitein's index cards)
Dated: First decade of Elul 1447 of the Seleucid Era (= July/August 1136 CE). Also signed by Natan(?) b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. (Information mainly from CUDL)
Letter by Mansur Kohen to Eliyyahu the Judge dealing in sugar candy (see also T-S 16.303). The page is divided vertically, and there is another letter in a different hand which requires further examination.
1 مناقشة
Mentions Yehoshuaʿ and Moshe. Also mentions a boy who was born on Wednesday 26 Shevaṭ.