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The bride is represented by her father, who also receives the engagement from the groom. Here, as elsewhere, there is no mention of a fine if any of the sides would cancel the engagement or the marriage would not be conducted at the agreed upon date.
1 نسخ
Letter fragment from Yoshiyya Ibn al-Dhahabī to Abū Saʿīd Ibn al-ʿAfṣī (=gallnut merchant).
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
(Information from Goitein’s index card.) See also T-S 6J2.19 (PGPID 7602).
1 مناقشة
(Information in part from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 585, and from Goitein's index cards.) See also T-S 8J21.31 (PGPID 17206).
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Mentions a certain David and probably other names; also mentions 'among the group of the artisans (האומנים).
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Mentions that "he tried to escape several times and thieved. . . ." Also mentions the name Avraham known as Ibn Ṣandal.
Goitein, 'The Jewish trade in the Mediterranean Sea at the beginning of the 11th century' (Hebrew), Tarbiz, 37(1968), p. 166. Also ed. Gil, Ishamel, doc. 214
Musallam acknowledges something concerning the textile merchandise that that Abū ʿAlīal-Ṣāʾigh received from him. (Information in part from Goitein’s index card.)
It is not clear whether he is the witness or the groom. This man also appears in ENA 4010.44 [PGPID 2661]. On the other side of the page is a piyyut.
Collesis joint, suggesting it was once a longer rotulus, but also holes where it may have been bound into an archive, quire or codex.
1 نسخ 2 ترجمتين
Shemarya, the dayyan of Barqa, in Alexandria, to “his brother” Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat.
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Signed by צדקה הכהן בן דוד נ"ע, Ṣedaqa b. David ha-Kohen (also signed T-S 12.75 (PGPID 16799) no later than 1093 CE).
Concerning a trader who shipped 100 silk fūṭas from Alexandria to his partner in Tyre, Lebanon, where they were sold for a sum of 149 dinars, amounting to 1 1/2 dinars per fūṭa.
On verso regards to Abū Sahl al-Kohen. Join: Alan Elbaum.
Entire fragment is full of patronage language but it could also be just business-related. In the commencement, the sender thanks the receiver for his patience and apologizes for the delay in replying, and asks to come in person if asked to do so.
Meshullam known as Ibn Ḥirbish permits a certain individual to collect all that is due to his late father in al-Mahdiyya.
Yehuda b. Yaḥyā, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim. Around 1052. The letter contains details about purchases and payments.
פק[ ] נקדרה עלי ביעה נקרצה אנא ת[ ]
לך אלי אן [ ] אקלאע אלמראכב סלת ען דאלך קאל לי אן לה [ ]
מע מחמד [בן] אלגזאל ואמא אלעדל לם נקדר עלי כ…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Literary text about al-Khansāʾ and her brother Ṣakhr. ٍSeems like an adapted narrative with few a selected elegiac verses from al-Khasāʾ’s dīwān, could be pages from a literary book of jāhiliyya poetry.
To the best of my knowledge we don’t have legal documents written by him. Also, the format of the fragment is identical with those of his responsa.
Fragment of a business letter addressed to [...] b. Abū ʿAlī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary hand and spellings (e.g. […] Mentions saffron; various other commodities and prices and shipping logistics; having sent something with Khuḍayr; various quantities in "jarawī raṭls"; balsam oil; "little ships" (muraykibāt) from al-Shām; and greetings to Abū l-Fakhr.
Mentions Hārūn Ibn Shamārī (appears also in ENA 3616.21 (PGPID 12064)); collecting something from someone; a certain Ḥalfon; and the people who appointed someone an agent (muwakkilīka).
The addressee may be a noble woman: the adjective "jalāliyya" could easily refer to "al-ḥaḍra" regardless of the gender of the addressee, but Nāṣirat al-D[īn?
Seems to be dealing with sums in excess of 1000 dinars. Also mentions coral. Phrases: خمسة واربعين دينار غير قيراطين الباقي الف وثلثة مائة . . . .
On folio 37v, there are 3 lines of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, naming Abū l-ʿAlā', Abū l-Faraj, Yūsuf, and al-Muʿallim.
Aharon Sijilmāsī (Fustat) to Avraham (ʿArūs) b. Yosef (Alexandria), ca. 1080. Iṣḥaq b. Aharon reports about money he sent, asks to buy lac and provides information about silk prices.
סידי אלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך
ותאידך ונעמאך ומן חסן תופיקה לא אכלאך נעלמך
סלמך אללה אן וזנת ענך פי אלדיואן ד דנ> וח קראריט
ו…
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
The dating is likely 18th- or 19th-century based on the paleography and mention of the Ottoman kurush. There are also a few references to French coinage. The names of people include: Se[nyor] Bibas, Se[ynyor] Mikhiʾel (Mikhail?)
Note addressed to al-Shaykh al-Ṣafiyy. In Arabic script. Has the glyph.
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa. ed. Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 29).
(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, 33).
(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, 53).
(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, 45).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 76).
Letter from a certain Mūsā, in Alexandria, to Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat. The sender, who is apparently engaged to a minor girl soon to reach maturity, asks Eliyyahu to intervene with his future father-in-law Bū Zikrī b.
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Eliyyahu) ordering several medicinal syrups from Abū Isḥāq to be given to the bearer: sharāb aṣīl, sharāb laymūn, sharāb ward (one ounce each) and also one ounce of water of borage (lisān thawr, 'oxtongue').
Written around the text on verso and also on recto is the liturgy for Rosh ha-Shana, including the ʿamida for the additional service and a reshut, אחג כפתי ובער.
Naḥrīr (the father Naḥrīr appears also in T-S 6J3.5 (PGPID 3637)) and Abū ʿImrān Moshe.
Letter from Salāma b. Nissim b. Isḥāq al-Barqī, from Būṣīr, to Barhūn b. Ṣāliḥ al-Tāhartī, ca. 1053 (Gil).
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי ואלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך
ונעמתך מן בוציר לי איאם כלון מן שהר מרחשואן בדאה אללה כיר אלבדאיה
וכת…
Some of the formulary is identical to T-S 10J15.7, and the handwriting is also similar. On verso there are jottings in Hebrew and Arabic script; the latter look like drafts of the beginning of a letter but aren't fully deciphered.
There is one line in the margin that reads as "al-mamlūk" in a chancery hand, probably a continuation of the official document on verso. The Arabic text on verso reads as "al-manṣūba", probably in a chancery hand. Needs examination.
Recto contains jottings apparently written by "al-khādim Yiṣhaq b. Shela"; the handwriting of the word סטרת at the top resembles that of Avraham Maimonides although the rest does not look like his handwriting.
Mentions Miqdād b. l-Aswad al-Kindī (disciple of the Prophet), Fāṭima (the Prophet's daughter) and refers to the bravery of ʿAlī b.
Contains a request to help with a shipment that it was in the hands of Nissim b. Yaʿaqov. Also mentions Mukhtār and Abū l-Barakāt. (Information in part from CUDL and Goitein notes linked below.)
2 نسخين
Husband: Yeshūʿa b. Mev[orakh?] of Alexandria. Wife: ʿAziza bt. Aharon of Fustat. Goitein writes that this was not Yeshuʿa's first divorce, but he does not explain how he knows that.
Small fragment from a legal document. Abū l-Bahāʾ al-Kohen Ibn al-Naḥḥāl owes money to his nephew Moshe and gets another 4 weeks for installments on top of a prior period of 5 years.
Legal document recording that the parnas Eli ha-Kohen and his colleague testified in court that three orphan girls had received ten dinars bequeathed to them by an uncle in Tyre, which had been sent by Abū al-Khayr b. al-Muʿassal; Thursay 7th of Kislev 1410 Sel.
(Information from CUDL; see also A. David's description and edition on FGP.)