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The entries are [...] mubārak followed by the ordinal numbers from 1st to 6th, then al-jumla.
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Verso: draft of a register of shipments of goods by Barhun b. Musa al-Tāhartī. Around 1050. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, #353) VMR
לנא פי מרכב בן אלבר קפתין קזדיר פיהא ל לסאן כלטה יעקוב ונסים אולאד בן בניא //וקבץ בן אלבר כרא אלקפתין דינארין וקיראטין// מא פצל מן אלקזדיר ה …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
One witness clause preserved and a technical terminology "al-mutakkhir bi-mā fī tārikhih".Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ.
Refers to the purchase of a property; someone titled 'sar'; "that is on the island (al-jazīra)".
1 نسخ
Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions Ibn al-Ḥaṭṭāb and Abū l-Munā b. Ḥasan.
Marriage contract for two enslaved people, both born into slavery (muwallad(at) al-jins), Muwaffaq and Dhahab. In Arabic script.
Involves Ṭoviyya ha-Kohen; Minyat al-Qāʾid; 20 dinars; splitting shares equally; and Ṣedaqa Neʾeman [ha-Yeshiva].
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Gives the date (but not the year), the name ʿAlī b. Yaḥyā, and the sum 1/2 dinar. On the other side there is Hebrew poetry/piyyuṭ.
Mentions "my daughter... all to the two sons, Sulaymān [and ...]... to be paid to my wife... the woman will take...
Mentions names such as Abū Muḥammad (owes 21 raṭls), Abū ʿAbdallāh (owed 149.25), Yūsuf al-Munādī (20-some raṭls)
Legal testimony. involving Sitt al-Nasab known as [...] and Abū ʿImrān known as Ibn Shumayʿ (?).
One side: Judaeo-Arabic poetry on ʿishq al-maghānī (see T-S Misc.25.44). The other side: Instructions for the reading of the Shema before sleep.
Berakhot known as Wafāʾ al-Sabbāk acknowledges owing a sum owed to Yefet b.
The middle fragment is the a small fragment of an Arabic letter, preserving the first line of the letter and the address: to Sammanūd, to al-Shaykh Abū Khayr (?) from his servant Ḥusām.
Letter from a woman named Harja, somewhere in Syria, to her brother ʿAbd al-Dā'im Ibn Fayrūz, in Cairo. See tag for other letters by her.
Lots of magic squares of all different sizes, using both Arabic and Hebrew letters.
Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Almost everything preserved is formulary.
There are some sums on Page 3 along with the address.
Surūr b. ... and Fāṭima bnt. ʿAbd al-Raḥīm b. Marqūra in the Fayyūm, dated Rajab 444 AH.
Informal note from Yeshuʿa (or from a communal leader with the ʿalāma "Yeshuʿa"). In Judaeo-Arabic. It says that Abu Saʿīd should report to the court with his opponent without delay.
Letter in the hand of David b. Yaʿaqov al-Shammās, probably addressed to Moshe b. Yehuda.
Kitāb al-Sheṭarot (the book of legal formularies) of Hayya Ga'on b.
Including many construction expenses as well as oil for the holiday and the names of various people and workers and officials (e.g. ṣāḥib al-rabʿ).
Halakhic text (the subject is not clear) as well as Judaeo-Arabic practical instructions for dealing with copper and iron (possibly alchemy or metallurgy). 12th-13th century. (Information from CUDL)
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic giving people's names and various goods, including garments and many "khawātim" (seals) such as khātim Fāṭimah and [...] min al-ʿayn. Needs further examination.
Letter from Salah b. Barhun al-Taharti to Yosef b. Awkal and his sons Hillel and Binyamin (written 8.21.1008, received 11.1.1008), upper fragment only.
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
"The chapter of knowing the unknown (taʿallum al-ghayb)." One takes a certain animal on Shabbat, breaks open its back, and eats its heart while still hot.
The sender will send another letter to the judge (al-shofeṭ).
List of items with corresponding alphanumerical quantities (these appear to be itemized quantities rather than monetary values).
ENA 3695.4, ENA 3695.5, and ENA 3695.8 all look very similar, might be from the same original document.
List in Arabic with Coptic alphanumerals. There is some Judaeo-Arabic text on the same page that might be related to the list, i.e.
Small receipt or order for 19.5 of something. Along with many of the neighboring fragments, the first word seems to be wuṣūl or wuṣūluhū, and the bottom line contains the date in Dhū l-Ḥijjja.
Dating: Late; the date in the document is torn away, all that can be read is Wednesday [...]9 AM. Location: Cairo.
Letter from Musa b. Abi al-Hayy to Nahray b. Nissim. Mentions goods and prices.
[אטאל אללה בקא סידי ומולאי גד]ול הישיבה ואדאם עזה ותאיידה
[ ] אלול כתמה אל[לה] עלי[נא ועליה בא]חסן כאתמה ען …
The upper fragment mentions someone's wife, Sitt al-[...]. The lower fragment mentions ʿAsqalān.
This inheritance was attested in the presence of the chief justice, [al-A]jal Qāḍī l-Quḍat, testimony.
Fragment (lower right corner). Mentions Bunyām al-Parnas.
Accounts with calculations via long sequences of Hebrew alphanumerals. The subheading lists a day of the week.
Receipt (for tax payment?) for a banker (al-ṣayrafī). Dated: 2 Rabīʿ I 507 AH, which is June 1113 CE (if read correctly).
Involves a female broker (al-dallāla).
Yaḥyā, in Egypt, to his father Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd al-Jarīdī, in Dhamār, Yemen. Dating: probably 19th century.
on the occasion of the circumcision of his son Efrayim (or perhaps twin boys, one of whom is named Efrayim). Probably to be read aloud in the synagogue.
It appears that another paper was then pasted on top, and the first two lines of an Arabic letter remain (the basmala and "aṭāl allāh baqāhu").
Verso: Note regarding Abū l-Ḥasan al-Ṣabiyy and 5 dirhams, perhaps a note of a debt or a promissory note.
Very few words are preserved: bi-danānīr... ḥisābunā... raʾs al-māl...
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to "mawlāy al-Rayyis Yosef." It is unclear how much of the content is preserved.
The handwriting resembles that of Maimonides, but is almost definitely not him. Mentions a parnas. הגדול המעוז המגדול.ני אלא עם הפרנס ואם.סף ועשי[ת] כחכמתיך
Letter addressed to Shimʿon and [...], in Ḥārat al-Yahūd, in Cairo. In Arabic script. Dated 22 Jumada I 1224 AH (July 1809 CE).
Mentions Muslim, sharṭ al-ākhar, tatawajjahu ilā l-ḥukm and abūhā. Needs examination.
Mentions a long name on verso "......Yūsuf b. Maḥmūd b. ʿAbd al-Karīm b. Mūsā". Needs examination.