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Mentions some neighborhoods of Fustat, including Qālūs and Sūq al-Kabira, and descriptions of a property. Probably a deed of sale.
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
The preface mentions a lover striving to appease his beloved by becoming her guide (dalīl) so that she has a change of heart (yaʿṭifu qalbuhu ʿalayya). The rhyme (rawī) of the qaṣida on recto is 'dāl' and 'ʿain' on verso, preceded by a short preface.
Some of the entries use the unit qirāṭ. All of the numbers are written out with words rather than numerals.
Some contain the mystery glyph (backwards ط). All are dated after the formula kutiba. ENA 3971.13–24, 31 and 34.
Muḥammad Ḥusain acknowledges (aqarra wa ashada) in his sound mind that he owes 900 Kuruş in debt (شهد بذلك يكون ملزوم 900 ق) to Ḥusain al-Baṣrī(Naṣrī?). The document is dated 26 Muḥarram 1260/16 Feb 1844.
لما كان في يوم الخميس المبارك في ٢٦ محرم سنه ٦٠[١٢]
اقر واشهد على نفسه وهو في حال
خيرته المعلم محمد حسين الى المعلم
حييم النصري انه يكون مل…
1 نسخ
Account in Judaeo-Arabic with alphanumerical figures and itemized labels such as "milk/ ḥalīb" that may date from the 16th-18th centuries (based on the paleography).
Letter from Mūsā b. Yaʿaqov al-Miṣrī, in Malīj, to Yosef b. David b. Shaʿyā, in Fustat.
[ ] מולי אלשיך מן מליג יום אל
[ ] ען סלאמה ללה
[תקדמת כת]בי עדה אליך אעלמתך
[ ]ין קבל וצול סידי אבו
[ ] ונצף ורבע ואתנין
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Asking him to summon Ibn al-Bahja, the half brother of Ibn Samʿān (same mother), and pay him the dirhams that were sent with this note.
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Fragment of a letter from a certain Abū ʿAlī. In Judaeo-Arabic, headed by Hebrew verses.
A wide array of names are listed along with corresponding monetary figures, such as: Barukh Meṣlīḥ, Yehuda Qudsī, Nissim Mosseri, Yosef Zeytūn, and many others.
Among the items listed, from the recto there are: almonds, sugar, hummus[?] ("חומוץ"), beans, silk, lemon, and many other items on both sides of the fragment.
to the brokers (hiba lil-dallālīn) and al-shaykh Bū Zikrī.
Mentions people such as Ibn al-ʿIrāqī and "I sent with my cousin (ibn ʿamm) Abū l-Surūr."
Begging letter, probably, in elegant script informing the addressee that his brother Abū l-Baqā al-Tājir used to give charity to the writer and help his family with the capitation tax, but he has now died without a will.
Two of the signatures are preceded by text alluding to pilgrimage to Jerusalem (חצר באלמקאם אלעזיז ....
Mentions several luxury textile goods and a trader [probably Yiṣḥaq] b. Makh[lū]f al-Nafūsī. Dating: ca. 1130s CE. The items listed here are identical with those listed in L-G Misc. 9 (PGPID 5465), v9–v14.
her the 1,000 mithqāls. All he had left was [...]... he rode after [her]... said to him 'By God...'."
A release granted by Sitt al-Maʿālī to Abū l-Ḥusayn. Involving sums of 2 dinars somehow related to Abū l-Ḥusayn's father and a total of 4 dinars.
Legal document in Hebrew. 16th-century. Yaʿaqov b. Faraj Allāh the Qaraite, known as Fayrūz, attests that he owes Moshe Ḥazzān b.
Fragment from a letter of appeal in which the writer alludes to news 'that made my chest constrict and the world collapse on me.'
The sender refers to a woman in the household and that he has no funds to buy anything at all for her, so he requests 10 dirhams. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ.
Netanel ha-Zaqen. Wife: Sitt al-Nasab bt. Elʿazar known as Ibn Shalom. Signed: Yeshuʿa b.
Legal document concerning a house, apparently in the quarter of Qaṣr al-Rūm, which includes a lengthy description of the location and conditions of the house.
. (= 1220 CE), concerning Abū l-ʿIzz b. Abū ʿImrān, known as al-Sharābī. Probably acknowledging that he owes money to Abu l-B[...].
Signed by Ṣedaqa b. Muvḥar, Moshe b. Ibn al-M[...] (?), […] b. Shelomo Gaʾon, and Pinḥas b.
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Tiban, who has received 34 out of the past-due 68 dinars owed to him by Abu al-Faraj b. Ma’mar. 1108-9 CE. (Information from Goitein's index cards) EMS
Acknowledgement of receipt of money by Abu al-Faraj b. Shanuda the Christian seaman, leader of the sailors of "the weavers," from Abu Sa’d Daniyal b.
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
Abū al-Faraj ibn Shanūda, the Christian seaman, the leader of the sailors of ‘the weavers',
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان
Prescription for pills against coughing; ingredients include red gum tragacanth, almond resin, licorice robe, and “bottled gourd seeds and quince mucilage, of each one mithqal.”
(Information from Mediterranean Society, IV, p. 96.) Same hand and ʿalāma (בייי בטחתי) as DK 236 (PGPID 6573).
Husband: Moshe b. Siman Ṭov. Wife: Sitt al-Dār bt. Ṣedaqa. Witnesses: Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel; Shelomo b.
1 مناقشة
Letter from Zekharya b. Ya’aqov b. al-Shama, from Tripoli (Libya), to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat.
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
What prevented him was his illness and the fact that Cairo is "qalīlat al-khāṭir (or ḥāẓir?)"—a somewhat cryptic statement.
He thanks Nahray for burning his last letter. He asks for news of 'al-kabīra' Sitt Muruwwa, who had been sick.
2 نسخين
From the cantor Yefet b. ʿAmram Ibn al-Jāzfīnī to Shelomo b. Shela ha-Sar" On recto, the only part of the body of the letter that remains is the end of the right margin and the entirety of the upper margin, in which Yefet excuses himself for not having accompanied Shelomo somwhere.
Natan (dated documents ca. 1150-1181) mentioning a brocade sadr with two 'sidepieces,' and preserving the groom's name, Yahya ha-Levi, and the bride was probably Sitt al-Baha. (Information from Mediterranean Society, IV, pp. 120, 382, and from Goitein's index cards)
Kabīr asks for approval about a shipment of indigo to Qayrawan for the person who previously had the indigo in Fustat, Qimoy b. al-Ḥasan. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 2, #106) VMR
Letter from Isma’il b. Barhun al-Tāhartī to a relative (probably his sister’s son, his nephew).
Yehuda owes to Abū Zikrī Yaḥyā the doctor al-Levi. Hand of Mevorakh b. Natan? Jottings in Arabic and Hebrew script in the margin.
Abraham renounces any claim against Saʿīd b. Yisraʾel al-Ṭustarī (Saʿadya b. Yisraʾel b. Yaʿaqov Tustarī), a scion of the famous Qaraite family.
Letter sent from al-Mahdiyya by Yosef b. Musa Tāhartī to his brother Barhun in Susa.
וצל כתאבך יאכי וסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך ואתם נעמתה עליך ווקפת
מנה עלי מא סררת בה מן סלאמתך ועאפיתך אדאמהא אללה לך ב…
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Ya'ish and his wife from all obligations regarding an inheritance. Dated Sivan 1395/1084 (date in document) or 1375.1064 (date given in Mediterranean Society II, p. 570 n. 34).
The statements were written in India, almost certainly in 1145.
The writer thanks Faraḥ for his letter, praising him at length and sends greetings to Ibn al-Barakāt. (Information from CUDL.)
Beginning of a ketubba.Location: Fusṭāṭ. Bride: Sitt al-Milāḥ bt. Moshe, a widow. Groom: Sason. In the hand of Ḥalfon b.
Will of a notable, dividing his landed property, his flocks of sheep and all the orchards possessed or leased by him between his brother and his children.
The writer accuses her of having ruined the honor of her family and his family, although he does not believe the more serious rumors about her.
Perhaps intended as a aid for those who were already knowledgable about calendar calculations.
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay the household of al-Riyānī, in cash, 2 and a half dinars (and following that another) half dinar.
Literary text in Judaeo-Arabic containing a chapter entitled "In praise of knowledge and in condemnation of ignorance and anger," which opens with a discussion of Quran 41:34 (وَلَا تَسْتَوِي الْحَسَنَةُ وَلَا السَّيِّئَةُ ۚ ادْفَعْ بِالَّتِي هِيَ أَحْسَنُ فَإِذَا الَّذِي بَيْنَكَ وَبَيْنَهُ عَدَاوَةٌ كَأَنَّهُ وَلِيٌّ حَمِيمٌ) citing ʿUmar Ibn al-Khaṭṭāb.
Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: End of Dhū l-Qaʿda 404. Both the recto and the right margin of verso (the tax receipt side) contain a fiscal account (see PGPID 39214), suggesting that the paper for the tax receipt was cut from the account.