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Shimʿon expresses his desire to teach Yosef all the relevant laws. (Information from Mann.)
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Fragment (left side of recto, left side of verso) of a Judaeo-Arabic letter giving intriguing glimpses into a distressing situation: mentions the addressee's female cousin (bint ʿammak) and something "accursed" (al-mayshūma) and enduring hard.
Includes the phrases "her husband," "from the house," and "the scribes of the gentiles" (ilā warrāqīn al-goyim).
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic of a wide array of individuals known from other 18th/19th-century documents with eastern Arabic numerals. Although the meaning is unclear, the lists are clearly titled with the heading "עלם אלשוכוך סבלך".
Mentions people such as Ibn al-Qatāʾif and the writer's cousin (ibn ʿamm) whom he evidently supports.
Tale in the style of A Thousand and One Nights, told partly in the first person, mentioning a period of seven years, robbers who took all the narrator’s possessions, and a (barren) wife praying to God in the night.
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic to someone addressed as "al-majlis" regarding communal issues. May mention people who are violating a ruling of the addressee; mentions Bū l-Faraj the cantor; and someone who is unsuitable for a job.
1 نسخ
Yaʿqūb, in Damascus, to Abū l-ʿAlāʾ Yūsuf b. Dāʾūd (Ibn Shaʿyā), in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script.
Verso: Arabic and Hebrew jottings, along with much mirrored Hebrew text. (Information from CUDL)
Unclear if state or private. Mentions someone al-ʿAjamī. One of the headings is "ʿamāla." Reused on the same side for a story in Judaeo-Arabic (see separate PGP record).
List, with each line starting with the name of a judge or other distinguished person bearing titles ending in al-Dīn (so probably 12th century or later). The person in the first line is listed a deceased, but not the others.
The sender may be named [Abū l-Ḥa]san. Almost none of the substance is preserved. (Information in part from CUDL.)
The place mentioned seems to be Mīt al-Khayr in the Gharbiyya province.
Testimony, deed of divorce, catalogued as a legal document concerning the marital status of the daughter of Sayf al-Dīn, dated 15 Dhū l-Ḥijja 808 H. [1406]. Partial transcription in folder with manuscript.
The house was split and the document details all the different parts of the house. (Information from Goitein, The Yemenites, pp. 152-156).
Legal document, concerning Abū ʿAlī b. [...], a debt of 100 dirhams, and possibly the appointing of an agent.
Business letter, which begins after seven lines of poetical complaints about separation, concerning camphor (kāfūr) and garments (aksiya) transported by Abū al-Afrāḥ ʿArūs. (Information from Goitein's index card).
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Signed by Yusuf b. Faraj al-Fasi and Dawud b. Nahum, who signs twice. (Information from Goitein’s index cards) EMS
Letter in which Abu al-Barakat b. Tayyib apologizes for not having sent a certain sum owed by Abū l-Ṭāhir.
Yosef, mentioning Abū l-Makārim, Avraham and his brother Ḥananʾel, Abū Isḥāq, Moshe (Maimonides), Rabbenu al-Maskil, and Sitt Mubārak. (Information mainly from CUDL.)
1 نسخ 2 مناقشتان
Verso: Perhaps a writing exercise of Genesis 1, but this seems to be prefaced in Judaeo-Arabic: "[...] al-ṣalā [...] taqūl."
The words ‘Mar Yefet’ are written above the name Ḥananya throughout the poem. Join: Alan Elbaum. (Information in part from CUDL)
Mentions Abū Manṣūr; a ruqʿa sums in nuqra dirhams; al-Makīn; Abū l-ʿIzz.
Accounts written by a government official indicating sums owed by someone, probably for Abū l-[...] al-ʿAfṣī, on various dates, arranged in two columns.
1 مناقشة
Mentions names like Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallāh and Abū Ṭālib ʿUmar(?) b. al-Ḥasan(?), which makes it seem like a legal document.
Abū l-Riḍā b. Hilāl Ibn al-Amshāṭī.
There is one name in Hebrew script (אלמהראני); the addressee is called "my son" (yā waladī); and the writer mentions "when I left the country" (kharajtu min al-balad). Needs examination.
Verso (original use): ḥikr (ground-rent) receipt in Arabic script for the Jewish community's properties (املاك) in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ (the Fortress of the Lamps) in Fustat.
Little of the content is preserved. A wicked man (al-rashaʿ) is mentioned: אלרשע בן זעפראנה(?). (Information in part from CUDL)
Mentions some people looking after some other people (yakūnū murāʿiyyīn lahum) and Sayyidnā al-Nagid. AA. ASE.
Possibly a signature, along with jottings, on verso. (Information in part from CUDL)
The second letter is from Faraḥ b. ʿAllūsh to Abū l-Munā.
Bride: Tujjār (i.e., Sitt al-Tujjār). Groom: Ḥalfon. On verso there is a trousseau list.
Letter to Elḥanan "Rosh ha-Seder of all Israel." In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script.
Fragment of a legal deed (or less likely from a halakhic discussion): ...jamīʿ mā... wa-min kull ḥaqq... shimmush wa-shahida fī... wa-qad istaqarra... qawl al-Mishna, "ʿEved..." AA. ASE.
Including the house of Khalaf al-Qazzāz, and the "family of Kohanim," Saʿadya, his son Elʿazar, his son Ḥalfon, his son Saʿadya, and his son Ḥalfon.
Mentions a return from somewhere; Purim; the capitation tax (al-jāliya); a severe illness (marḍa shadīda); entering Fustat; Sammanūd; "my hand and my body" (?)
There are two lines in the same hand on verso along with additional jottings in Hebrew and Arabic script.
Mentions bussiness dealings; a great outrage (bahdala kabīra); and the countryside (bilād al-rīf).
Reporting that Maḥāsin Ibn al-Rabbāṭ agrees to stand surety for his mother in a case involving inheritance and the government.
Mentions something distressing (al-shida). Hard to read much more apart from the concluding greetings.
(The date may appear explicitly.) With a huge ʿalāma at the top. There is a brief nte in Judaeo-Arabic on verso, maybe a filing note.
Letter addressed to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yosef al-Urjuwānī. In Arabic script. The sender's name and location are both preserved, but are difficult to read.
The buyer is Ibrāhīm b. [...] b. Ibrāhīm al-Maghribī known as Ibn [...]. Nahray (b. NIssim?)
Order of payment in Arabic script. The judge (mawlāya al-dayyān) is instructed to give 5 dinars to the bearer Abū l-ʿIzz on a certain date.
Order of payment from Muḥammad b. [...] b. [...] to Mufaḍḍal, instructing him to pay the bearer, the qāḍī Naṣr al-Dīn, 304 Kāmilī dirhams. See T-S AS 183.14 (PGPID 37526) for a list of related documents.
See T-S AS 177.85 (PGPID 37036) for all the related documents.
On recto a list in Arabic, probably by the same hand and pen of verso. Mentions al-Makīn and Mūsā. Dating: likely late 12th or 13th century.
This fragment may have been connected to the related fragment but no sewing marks are clearly visible along either spine. Requires further examination.
(Information kindly provided by Lluís Sales i Favà and Alfonso Sánchez.)