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Verso: Right upper corner of lucidly written list of contributors, the first thirteen each donating 2 dirhams. All names appear in abbreviated form. Some of the same people as in T-S NS J235 (PGPID 4659).
ב ב ב ב ב
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Mentions names such as Yaʿaqov; Abū l-Khayr; Qāsim (mentioned in other letters as a middleman in the flax business in Būṣīr); Ibn Barakāt; a packer (ḥazzām); Ḥamza; Ibn al-Waliyy(?).
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
The page fragments contain "an instructional overview of the Turkish alphabet in Judaeo-Arabic, in addition to a separate 'Section on Speaking' (פצל פי אל כלאם)."
1 مناقشة
Mentions the name Abū l-Ḥayy Manṣūr b. ʿAllūn and a wālī (احسن الله جزاه على عدله). Needs further examination for content.
Letter from Yishaq b. Avraham al-Mishmar (ha-Kohen?) from Fustat, to his son in Qayrawan (Ifrīqiya).
1 نسخ
Other people mentioned: Abū l-Khayr, Abū Ghālib, al-ʿArīf, a ghulām, and Abū ʿImrān.
collected for the first four months of 5583 = 1822/23 CE (or perhaps 5553 AM). All the entries refer to "the little girl of X," X being Yaʿaqov Kohen, Binyamin Qodesh, Yaʿīsh Ḥaddād, David Naʿīm, and others.
Statement in Arabic script ("aqūlu wa-anā...") made and signed by Hiba b. Mufaḍḍal al-Mutaṭabbib. Dated: 18 Shawwāl 628 AH = 19 August 1231 CE.
Mentions either "his son" or "the daughter of" the qāḍī known as Ibn Shaʿra, a certain Shabbetay, and a certain Sitt al-Tujjār. The scribe's hand may be known.
Involves a certain Abū l-Ḥasan b. Mūsā known as Ibn al-Uʿayẓim(?).
Private account of Yosef b. Eli Kohen al-Fasi. Dating: around 1057 (Gil). Contains details about partnership between the writer and Barhūn b.
بسم
אלדי אכרגת בבוציר ען מא יכצני מן אלורק
קיח דר //וכרג// אלי בן אללכלאכי יג ותולת
פי תמן…לעבד אללה וזנה יז קיר וחבה
כז …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Mentions the mustaʿrib congregation in the header and, below that, the holidays Hannukah and Purim. All the documents in this folder appear to be in the same hand, though this one pertains to the Mustaʿrib congregation and the next to the Sephardic congregation.
Levi ha-Levi), to be delivered to [...] al-Turjumān who is to forward it to the unknown addressee.
Fiancé: Abū Naṣr Elʿazar b. Yefet. Fiancée: Sitt al-Banāt Saʿīda bt. Hillel.
There arranged a match before us, we the [under]signed [witnesses... X]
b. R. Japheth, (may his) e(nd be) g(ood), with Sitt al-Banāt daught…
The sender reminds the addressee to fulfill a promise (the details of which are only alluded to). "The only thing that prevented me from coming in person was removing a burden from your noble mind."
Ownership note on a folio that came from a volume containing texts by Yehuda Ḥayyūj; Ibn Gikatilla (d. after 1305); and Kitāb al-Tajnīs by Yehuda ibn Balʿam; and perhaps other works.
The sender refers to a prior letter addressed to al-Mumḥe, concerning Abū l-Munā b. Abū l-Faraj and cheese (מענא אלגבן אלדי . . .).
Starts with a basmala followed by a Quranic verse 'Naṣrun min Allah wa fatḥun qarīb (61:13) and a ḥasbala. Verso features heavy smudges in ink in what appears to be pen trials both in Arabic and Hebrew.
Verso contains a summary with the accounts (almost entirely numerals). (Identification kindly provided by Daniel Duran Duelt.)
For example, on the lower recto there is mention of al-Hajj Ahmed Ibrahim amidst a complex array of numerical figures.
Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 9 Dhū l-Qaʿda 403. Measurements: 13.4 × 8.4 cm.
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Dating: Probably 12th or 13th century, based on handwriting. Alt description: A curious mix of notes, scripts, and a tidy hand of archival notes in Hebrew script on 18th C documents on verso.
Petition or formal letter from ʿAbdallāh b. Bū Bakr to ʿIzz al-Dīn the amīr shikār (master of the hunt). In Arabic script.
The sender, a scribe, already sent with Abū Manṣūr the cantor what he needed to send, and asks the addressee to send him paper and 10.5 dirhams for expenses.
Abū l-Banīn and Abū l-Khayr al-Ṣayrafī. Signed by Menahem b. Berakhot, Yaʿaqov b.
Mentions a sum of either 39 7/8 or 69 7/8 or 89 7/8 dinars left in an inheritance. Mentions a certain al-Ṣayrafī at the bottom.
Accounts in an orderly hand and Hebrew alphanumerical characters that delineate columns with days and months in the Hijri calendar (i.e.
Involves Mīkhāʾīl Nāyūtī(?) al-Kātib(?) and Yaʿqūb Ḥarrāf(?). There are four witness signatures at the bottom as well as an inscription and a stamped seal in the right margin.
Involves [Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa b. Menashshe ha-Levi al-Jubaylī, known from several other documents in this period (e.g.
Fragment of a partnership document (per FGP), involving R. Shemuel, Abū l-Faraj al-Yatom, Yiṣḥaq ha-Dayyan, Abū l-Bishr. Written by Mevorakh b.
Short note in Judaeo-Arabic: "Let it be known to Mūsā that Avraham al-Shammāʿ agreed with us that he live in the house that his sister used to live in, and no one may prevent him from living there.
.]); the sale of an enslaved woman (jāriya); a power of attorney; bayʿ al-jalb; a majlis. The sender's name may be Menashshe (last line after ve-shalom).
Ibrāhīm and his son, in favor of Saʿd(?) b. [...] al-Naṣrānī (the Christian). Mentions a sum of money (fulūs).
Iqrār (Hebrew script) in which Yūsuf b. ʿAlī buys a Maghribī female slave named Ḥadaq ("pupil [of the eye]") from Shelomo b.
Letter addressed to Eli (‘Allun) ha-parnas, active 1057-1107, which mention his less well-known son, the parnas Abu Kathir (Efrayim ha-Kohen b.
Goitein's note card describes a letter from Moshe b. al-Ashqar, (see Mosseri V.394.1) who wished to travel to Safed but heard that there was an epidemic (dever) in Damascus.
Fragment of a letter from Abu Sad al-Magribi, might be from Jerusalem, to Nahray b.
[ ] ונעמתה וסעאדתה
[ ] כתירה
[ ] אכדת אלכתב וקראתהא ווקפת מנה עלי חסן סלאמתה
[ ] לי תצל טי כתבי ללגרב ואשתגל סרי
[ ] סידי אלשיך אבי…
Sale by two women, presumably cousins, in al-Mahdiyya, of a Bible codex worth 20 dinars. The sellers confirm their willingness to sell, accept receipt of the payment and acknowledge their and their heirs' responsibility to indemnify the buyer should his proprietorship of the book ever be contested.
This is what was testified before us by Ismā‘īl ibn Mūsā:
He bought from Ḥiyuna bint Tanḥum ibn al-Yatīm and from Rachel bin…
Abū l-Waḥsh could be Abū l-Waḥsh Sibāʿ although he is not attested with a patronymic in the other references to him in IB4.
Parties: Yosef and Abū l-Fakhr b. Sayyid al-Ahl. Witnesses: Elʿazar b. Netanʾel ha-Kohen and Shelomo b.
Azarya and his brother-in-law Abu al-Tayyib know about the situation I was in in Syria...'
Letter to Abu 'Ali, probably from his brother, inquiring about the lack of correspondence.
"Wednesday the 7th of Jumādā II min ........" and "Sunday the 11th of Jumādā II min al-.... arbaʿa ........" Then two more lines probably in Judaeo-Arabic.
Elevated register, possibly referring to people who heretically left the path of [...] and praising al-shaykh Sabra(?) and referring to obeying an order (متابعتها والعمل بمرسومها).
Reused by Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ for a tax receipt for Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb.
واخرها شعبان سنة ثلث واربعمية
من العين ماية ؟
ثلث
الناىب … الدعوة …
حسبني لحكم العزيز حسابا في الشهر اربع ماىة
نصف وثلث
من ج…
One side: Draft of the beginning of a letter from a wretched prisoner in "the dungeon" (al-muṭbaq). In Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly poetry and not a letter.
Netanel ha-Levi and his brother Abū ʿAlī Yeḥezqel b. Netanel ha-Levi. Should be included in the addenda to India Book IV.
There are phrases about a man's legal competence (as in deathbed wills); quotes him as saying "my son Abū l-ʿAlāʾ with his mother so-and-so" (hence this is a draft); and "I found it/her missing the dinar."
Names include Ṣefanya Kohen, Yaʿīsh Shāmī, Shalom Sambari, Raḥamīm Maghribī, Khiḍr Barakāt, al-Ḥaver Khiḍr Kohen, followed by Coptic numerals or ‘a raṭl of olive oil’.
In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions [...] al-Maḥallī; Bū l-ʿIzz Yūsuf; [...] b. Mūsā; Yūsuf b.