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Verso: pen trials in Hebrew and Arabic script as well as a list of names in Judaeo-Arabic, including Bū l-Bahāʾ (בלבהא) and Ibn al-Kāmukhī. AA/ASE
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Letter from Zakarya b. Yaʿaqov al-Shama (Tripoli, Libya) to Nahray b. Nissim (Fustat), ca. 1050.
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי ואדאם עזה ותאיידה וסלאמתה ונעמאה מן אלמסתקר לי כלון מן ניסאן ואלחאל סל[אמה ונעמה ואלחמד]
ללה [רב] אלעאלמין וצלת כ…
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
ʿAdiyya Ibn Maṭrūḥ, who had sold his daughter, Sitt al-Sāda, and her son two-thirds of two shops with the apartment located above theirs.
1 نسخ
The addressee will receive "the book of dreams" (kitāb al-manāmāt) soon. Greetings to various people including Sitt Baghdād.
On verso there is a poem about Sarah the wife of Abraham. All in the hand of Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. (Information from Goitein's index card.)
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Letter from Damietta to the Fustat community (קהלת מצר) to collect money for alimony and travel expenses, it seems, to Palestine, for two individuals.
Letter from Zekharya b. Ya’aqov b. al-Shama, from Tripoli (Libya), to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat.
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך ותאיידך וסלאמתך ונעמתך מן אלמסתקר
אסרו חג סכות אעאדה אללה עליך סנין כתירה שש ושמח ואלחאל סלאמה…
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
Mentions people such as al-Najīb, the sender's paternal uncles Hiba and Abū l-Majd, and his paternal aunt and her son Abū l-Ḥasan.
Letter mentioning Reuben the apostate. In a late hand. Alternate description: Letter, mentioning Reuben ‘the proselyte’ and greetings to many family members, including the writer’s paternal uncle Zigdon and his maternal aunt Ḡarība.
IB IV, 45 (ח2). Letter from Mūsā b. al-Lukhtūsh, probably in Granada, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel.
Verso (original use): Letter in Arabic script conveying a request not to hold back a man who is 'one of the peasants of my brother' (wa-huwa min fallāḥīn akhī), is dāmin al-dukkān, and wants to travel to his town, Kalabshā (in Nubia, near Aswān).
The writer complains about his partner and his work in the Maghreb, al-Qayrawān, and Sicily. The writer writes instructions regarding shipment of flax and use of money.
לאדוני ורבי ו'ראשי' אבו זכרי יחיא .... ייתן לו אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את עזרתו לו ....
Letter addressed to Sar Shalom, written by a man whose wife and son had been in captivity by Edom (Christians) and who had lost all his property and had no profession, asking for bread and clothing.
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Groom: Yosef b. Yefet. Bride: Sitt al-Ahl. Mentions an apartment (ṭabaqa) that is over the cross-street bridge (sābāṭ).
1 مناقشة
Natan ha-Sheviʿi. Writing that although he has not heard from him in a while, he understands that a disaster has befallen him, and sending him good wishes for Passover.
Letter sent by Abu al-Barakat to Abu Nasr, asking him for 3 dirhams to hire a riding beast and asking another 3 dirhams from the recipient's friends for provisions, so he could try his luck in one of the congregations of the Rif.
Letter from the teacher Dāʾūd Ibn al-Ḥaver of Qalyub to the judge Shelomo b. Eliyyahu.
ינהי אלממלוך אלי מגלס אלולד
אלעזיז אלפרע אלנביל אלעאלם
אלעאמל מ'רור' ברכות התלמיד
החכם המלמד יהי שמו לעולם
ואעלמ…
"The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life."
The servant informs the domicile of the dear
young man, the noble branch, the one who (bo…
Location: נקאוץ "on the water springs," likely Naqāwūs or N'Gaous (نقاوس) in Algeria—a town that is still known to this day for its natural springs.
Letter from ʿAbd al-Raʾīs b. Makīn to a certain Yosef. In Judaeo-Arabic.
Ṭoviyya ha-Levi sues Mubārak the freedman and Yosef b. Yoshiyya known as Ibn al-Dhahabī regarding a debt. Mentions sums of 62 dinars, 19 dinars, and 43 dinars.
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
Muvḥar and Hibatallāh a.k.a. Netanʾel b. Yeshuʿa al-Muqaddasī. Ṣedaqa contributes 15 dinars and Netanʾel contributes 50.
The following was testified before us, the undersigned witnesses, on the 7th day of the month of Elul, in the year 4852 from …
From a work on pharmacopoeia and materia medica, including religious invocations and a non-medical recipe for the preparation of a particular kind of plant-based ink called ḥibr al-ʿutrush. Per Wissem Gueddich, the ingredients include: gallnuts, gum arabic, and wine of Tabas.
A short pious poem (attributed to ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib in the literature) in large Arabic script: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم رَضيتُ بِما قَسَّمَ اللَهُ وَفَوَّضتُ أَمري إِلى خالِقي لقد أَحسَنَ اللَهُ في ما مَضى كَذَلِكَ يُحسنُ فيما بَقي Reused for Hebrew piyyutim and lists of piyyutim.
Mevorakh ha-Kohen) to the well-known parnas ʿAllūn b. Yaʿīsh (a.k.a. ʿEli b. Ḥayyim ha-Kohen) in Fustat.
Letter/note from Ismāʿīl(?) al-ʿAṭṭār to Maḥfūẓ. In Arabic script. Dating: Probably 12th or 13th century.
Letter from the office of Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides (b. 1310–d. 1355 CE), who is introduced with his usual motto, to the community in Cairo concerning a lawsuit between Hiba b. Abū l-Faraj Allāh and his in-law Fakhr; he warns against unauthorised recourse to a gentile court.
1 ترجمة
Yosef, Avraham Ibn Yijū’s nephew, to Saʿadya b. Avraham Ibn al-Amshāṭī. Introduced with Hebrew citations from Psalms 122:1-2 and 133:1 (mid-12th century).
Mentions people such as Barakāt b. Saʿīd, Abū ʿAlī, and Ibn Rashīq. (Information in part from CUDL.)
"The remainder sold in the Dār al-Wakāla: 5 dinars." At the bottom lists musk, a number, and the term mithqāl.
Seleucid, which is 1198–1298 CE. Wife: Sitt al-Kull. Verso: Unrelated document in Judaeo-Arabic, perhaps a letter.
It states that the husband of a woman related to Ibn al-Fulādhī (apparently a profession having to do with steel, fulādh or fūlādh) died, and she became pregnant.
Only the top part is preserved. Begins "I already came crying out before God and before you..."
Most of the items mentioned are various kinds of produce (sugar, raisins, almonds, pistachios, sumac, honey, and "hearts" of something).
Saʿadya b. Yosef; then Nadiv al-[...] b. Yosef; then Shelomo b. Avraham known as Dhahabī; then Shelomo b.
Calligraphic. Dated: Rabīʿ al-Awwal 417 AH, which is April/May 1026 CE. Many intricate details about transactions.
(Information from Goitein's note cards) A page from a children's Hebrew textbook, with alphabetical exercises in the atbaš order and in groups of three consonants, interspersed with חזק.
(Information from Goitein's note cards) Writing exercises, mostly consisting of the alphabet vocalised with the various Tiberian vowels, in an unpractised hand.
The script is brutal and difficult to decipher but mentions previous correspondence, "warad bi-hi al-kitāb".
End of Hai Gaʾon, Kitāb Adab al-Qaḍā (‘Book of Good Manner for Legal Procedure’).
The other side contains remnants of lovely illuminations of the Israelites in the wilderness, along with Ladino translations of Hebrew text that is now missing.
Bottom of a petition in Arabic script, referring to the addressee as 'the father' (al-wālid) and ending with a raʾy clause (ورايه اعلا واسنى ان شا الله تعالى).
Verso (original use): Remnants of three words of a state decree in enormous calligraphic Arabic script ("...ī maṣāliḥ al-musli[mīn]" (ى مصالح المسل[امين...). Dating: pre–1108 CE, based on the identification of the scribal hand of the legal document on the recto as that of Hillel b.
Mentions [...] ha-Dayyan b. al-Neʾeman (ZL). It is difficult to make sense of the rest, but there is some conflict, an insult (נקצה וגהלה ועדם . . . ), and some learned quotations.
The bearer of the letter (wa-mūṣil kitābī hādhā ilā ḥaḍratihi al-jalīla) is Ṣedeq b. Hilay ha-Dayyān who is "cut-off" (qaṭīʿ) and deserving (mustaḥiqq).
Mentions farming and possibly the Egyptian village of Banī Murra (near Asyūṭ) — although the shape of the mīm is quite different than in ومن, and grammatically a group of people is expected rather than a locality.
It opens with a Hebrew poem congratulating the recipient on his son, and continues by imploring the distinguished recipient to send a letter acknowledging Moshe, who has already sent him seven letters before this one. ASE.
Telling or asking Muʿizz/Muʿtazz al-Dawla to put his signature on something to validate an expense: واستدعيت من [تفضل؟] معـ(ـتـ؟)ـز الدولة ان يضع خطه فيها لصحة النفقة على الرسم المتعارف فمن يجري(؟) مجراه.
Letter fragment (middle part) in which the writer describes how he was insulted in the synagogue by the scholar, Sheikh al-Najib, but expresses no resent against him. On the contrary, he hopes the latter will be a shield for Israel in hard times.
Yosef known as Umm Abū l-Munā al-Marsūla(?); an enslaved woman valued at 22.5 dinars.
Letter to the writer's 'son' ʿAbd al-Wāḥīd. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer repeats half a dozen times that the addressee should not believe the false rumors that the writer gloats at his misfortunes.