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The phrase "mā yujtabā" is also preserved, but unclear what this means.
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Letter from Ayash b. Ṣedaqa, Alexandria, to an unknown addressee. Dating: January 1051.
ואשתרית רבע ח שכאיר צוף לי פיהא אלרבע ואלרבע לנהראי בן נסים
ואלרבע לאבי אלכיר אלצירפי ואלרבע לאבי זכרי בן קיומה ואלרבע אלדי לי אנא
הו בינ…
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
Sukkarī (or Zikrī?) in Alexandria reporting that the Rūmī cheese had arrived and that the writer had sent the desired ceramics (fukhkhār).
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Written and signed by Avraham b. [...]; also signed by Levi b. Avraham. There is confirmation of receipt on verso.
Currencies: gold cedid (f.1r), קרונה, several more. There are also some narrative notes ('memorandum against forgetting. . .').
The term "וזן" appears repeatedly under the archival tape that was applied along the right border of the recto. Mentions people such as Ibn ʿAṭiyya, al-Sharīf, and Ibn Ghazāl.
Note in Judaeo-Arabic saying "our lord" - probably the recipient - has already told R. Eliyahu (the 13th century judge) on Friday to give the rest of the alimony which is 4 dirhems to R. yedutun and he responded "Yes" - not the note is asking that this be done.
1 مناقشة
Medieval era. There is also an extensive chain of numerals below the right column.
Letter from Abū l-ʿAlā b. Hiba Abū l-Ḥasan(?) to Abū Saʿīd b. Abū Naṣr al-Mafjār (?)
Someone makes an acknowledgment in favor of Sayyid al-Kull. In the missing upper part of the document there was an interlinear insertion reading "all of it without installments."
Order instructing al-Shaykh al-Asʿad to pay a certain sum to the bearer Abū l-Karam.
Saʿadya Jabbān(?) (גבאן). There is also a variety of text in Arabic script that requires further examination, possibly from a previously stage of paper usage.
Verso: The introduction to a Judaeo-Arabic treatise, either identical with or merely citing Yaḥyā b. Dāwud's Kitāb al-Ibāna ʿan Ḥurūf [...] al-ʿIbrānīya. This was underlined in red, presumably in modern times.
כתא) including one "to Alexand[r]ia," one called תדרכי נפשי עז, and one to [...] b.
Lists in Judaeo-Arabic of itemized food ingredients, quantities, and associated dates. One of the lists also includes surnames. Based on the paleography the dating is likely 18th/19th-century.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and alphanumerical figures. On the verso there are clearly labeled entries that are common for the 16th-18th centuries yet on the recto lie the remnants of extensive lists that repeatedly interject the word "zero / צפר" between alphanumerical figures.
Mentions: Barakāt, Abū l-Ḥasan b. Makārim; Abū l-ʿAlāʾ; Mufaḍḍal his neighbor; Fuḍayl; al-ʿAṭṭār; meat; chard; leek; lemon; pigeon or bath;
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 35).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 59).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 36).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 73).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 37).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 72).
(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, 67).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 46).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 61).
(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, 38).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 56).
Recto: Letter to Abū l-Faraj, reporting that the writer has met with R. David; it also mentions Abū l-Riḍā, Yosef and 157 dirhams.
The writer is in some perplexity about 'what I should do regarding Rashīd, since I rarely come to Fustat.' He also asks whether the addressee has obtained something from Barakāt.
Business letter in Arabic script in which a father reports to his son on events in Alexandria and the arrival of the aṣḥāb, about which he's very excited.
1 نسخ
The house is located in the al-Mamṣūṣa neighborhood of Fustat. Mentions the alley of אלמזני.
Fragment of a letter from Yehuda b. Sahl, Alexandria(?), to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Dating: ca. 1050.
[יאכי וסידי ומולאי] אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך ונעמתך
[ ו]צולי נסכתין מע כרפאן מע אלמא כאפור ואלרז ואלקר[ ]
[ מ]א תעמל פיהא ארגו…
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Legal document concerning inheritance issues of the late Jamīla al-Musulmāniyya, mother of Avraham and Eliyyahu Levi, who had converted to Islam and married Ḥasan al-Sharqāwī after the death of her husband Khidr Palomba.
About the definition of "moredet" ("rebellious (wife)"); this authority says that it refers only to a woman who refuses to sleep with her husband, not other kinds of 'rebelliousness.' Also mentions the consequences for the return of the dowry.
Letter to a physician, with blessings for his sons Saʿadya and Abū Mansur Elʿazar, and mentioning the sender's longing for a third person. Also with greetings to Abū l-Surūr and the kohanim the sons of Ibn Ḥaffāẓ.
Dated: 17 Sivan [5]646 AM = 20 June 1886 CE. Either to or from Alexandria (סקנדרייה יעא). Has mdoern Maghribī dialect features including -דייאל for 'belonging to.'
(Information from CUDL; see also Goitein's index card.)
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Different merchants recorded their shipments, probably from Mahdiyya to Alexandria. Mentions fabrics, cloths from Qayrawan, silk, tin, and oil.
שרח אלרזמה אלדי פי בן דיסור
ברכ]ת .:. היא תעשיר
] מבלג בקדרת [ ] אלכאתמין
א…
Dated: Thursday, 25 Ḥeshvan 1628 Seleucid = 11 November 1316 CE, under the authority (reshut) of Avraham II Maimonides. Minyat Zifta is also named in the last remaining line. ASE/MCD
Signed by: Shelomo b. ʿEli (signed also ENA 2556.12 (PGPID 15839) ca. late 10th century); David b.
Trousseau list of Sitt al-Suʿadā, written and signed by Moshe b. Peraḥya (active ca. 1220–34) and Yiṣḥaq b. […] "by way of Yemen" (ṭarīq al-yaman, v11). (Information in part from CUDL and Goitein's index card.)
Letter to Abu al-Ḥasan 'Allun the parnas (Eli b. Yahya, dated documents 1057-1107) about a case of inheritance, with a recommendation for a bashful young Jewish man as a flax worker.
Recto: Acknowledgment of debt. Lender: Abū l-ʿAlāal-Ṣabbāgh (the dyer) b. Abū Saʿd. Borrower: Abu ʿImrān ʿAmram ha-Levi ha-Talmid.
Mentions the receipt of expressions of condolence (on the death of his father). Mentions Alexandria. This Tunisian merchant commuted between Egypt and his homeland.