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As for the turban, it came out to 45 dirhams for Bishāra the ghulām of al-ʿArīf...." (Information in part from CUDL)
1 نسخ
The sender chastises the addressee for his inappropriate behavior and speech, somehow concerning Avraham Maimonides (al-Rayyis, ll. 16-21) and the pietist movement.
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
The name of the seller or buyer is partially preserved in l. 3 but is damaged (Abū l-[...] al-[...]). The price appears to be 400 or 700 or 900 dirhams (עה מאיה...).
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T-S AS 161.266 (PGPID 18549)); Abū l-Y[...]; al-Shām and ʿAkkā (Acre). Needs further examination.
Letter from al-Ḥājj Muḥammad [...] to his son. In Arabic script.
Petition mentioning the names of Ismāʻīl and ʻUmar al-Kutāmī. [Described on the paper wrapper as: "Complainte contre un homme de la tribu de Kutawa [...]
Decree of Bahrām (1135–37), the vizier of al-Ḥāfiẓ (r. 1130–49), safeguarding the monastery of St.
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
The sender insists that the qāḍī/muḥtasib is an ally of the Jewish community and tried to intervene, but there was nothing to be done, and this money must be raised immediately.
There is a unusual clause that reads "whether by oral witness or through a written document" (l.8) ([mā kāna] minhu be-ʿedut al pe wa-mā kāna minhu bi-sheṭar ve-qinyan). (Information from CUDL and Weiss's edition.)
Digest of a partnership contract for a period of one year between Abū ʿAlī b. David and Netanʾel b. Nadiv. Written mainly in Judaeo-Arabic, but with some Arabic script mixed in.
1 مناقشة
Moshe and Shelomo ha-Kohen al-Bilbaysi dissolve their business and proposed family relations.
The sender says he is always trying to expedite it, and he will deal with the matter as soon as he is free.
Verso: List of about forty bible verses, not all suitable for laudatory introduction; perhaps for wall decoration only.
The writer reports the dire conditions in Fustat, including the plunder of the Dār al-Fā'izī (in the Judaeo-Arabic portion) and conveys news of the sick children in the house who are worsening day by day (in the Arabic portion).
David b. Sighmar to Abu al-Faraj Yosef b. David) is seemingly unrelated.
It was customary to bring together the trousseau and estimate it in public. Bride: Sitt al-Fakhr. Groom: __ ha–Levi. The groom's early payment (muqaddam) is 30 dinars.
1 نسخ 2 مناقشتان
Bundār, probably a community leader in Northern Iraq. All letters mainly deal with financial matters; the first seven mention places in Yemen.
Yeshuʿa the son of the late Nagid Yosef agrees to marry Faraj, the widow of his late brother Shelomo, even though Yeshuʿa is already married. The document lays out the conditions between the two wives and how Yeshuʿa will divide his time and maintenance payments between them.
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Yashar" (presumably Avraham b. Sahl al-Tustarī). (Information in part from CUDL.) In the margin there is a possibly unrelated text in Aramaic.
Ṣedaqa, in Ashqelon, to Abū Saʿīd Netanʾel b. Ṣedaqa al-ʿAṭṭār, in Fustat. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script.
Join with T-S 16.223 identified by Alan Elbaum.
4 نسخ 1 ترجمة 3 مناقشات
ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Bride: Sitt al-Wafā b. Shela ha-Levi. Groom: Berakhot ha-Levi.
T-S Ar.18(1).107, T-S 13J13.6, and T-S 10J16.4 are all from the same woman concerning the same protracted dispute (connection noticed by Oded Zinger, "The Use of Social Isolation," footnote 37).
Then, "as soon as you receive this khidma, send after the 'aṣḥāb al-dawāwīn' and they should come to you." The continuation is not clear, and it may be interspersed with unrelated jottings (several names and Greek/Coptic numerals).
On verso there is a legal deed (see alternate listing).
First identified as alphabetic by Bohak. This fascinating fragment contains a transliterated listing of Greek letters in Hebrew script, an extensive Judaeo-Greek syllabary, and two Coptic abecedaria.
List of houses and their owners or tenants, On verso there is the note nusikha fī dīwān al-majlis. Verso contains the very beginnings of four lines of majuscule—this is a reused chancery petition.
The addressee may be called "al-qāʾid" (l. 2). Mentions Umm Abū ʿAbdallāh (l. 3).
Legal agreement between [...] b. Mūsā al-Yahūdī on the one hand (وهو فريق اول) and the brothers Yūsuf and Yaʿqūb and their mother on the other hand (وهم فريق ثاني).
Yosef ha-Kohen) concerning an oath incumbent on ʿArūs for Avraham about the 'fulfillment of the trust' (adāʾ al-amāna). The Rav states that this is tantamount to a de-ʾorayta oath, and the person taking the oath should be holding a Torah scroll.
(Information in part from CUDL.) Join: Alan Elbaum
Avraham, with whom she had two sons, Avraham and Naḥum, now wishes to marry Yefet b. Hillel Ibn al-Ṣabbāgh. The court apparently investigates the plan for the maintenance and upbringing of the orphans.
Mentioning a circumcision conducted by the sender, the cantor Elʿazar ha-Kohen, someone called Rosh ha-Qahal al-Zariz, ritual slaughtering, Sayyidnā, and Rabbenu ha-Rav ha-Gadol.
Legible phrases include "May God 'write' his health. . . . Forgive me. I already paid. . . . the slave [i.e. the writer] to ʿAydhāb."
Two brothers confirm in a Cairene court under the authority of Shemuel ha-Nagid (1140-1159) having received from a maternal uncle, the physician Elazar ha-Levi,12.5 dinars, representing the price of a maidservant called Sumr (for Sitt al-Sumr), left to them by another maternal uncle.
On verso, after stating that the excommunication will be imposed in Cairo, Fustat and Damuh, signatures of the sages approve it, but it seems that all were copied by the same person who wrote the document- Shelomo b.
In which one of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit flatters Eliyyahu by saying that in all the cases that come before him, he works to resolve the dispute between them in an amicable way.
On verso mentions the provinces (al-Rīf). (Information in part from CUDL)
The sender mentions greetings from and to Abū l-Ḥasan, Natan and Shemuel al-Baghdādī, and asks for things to be sent either with the carrier of the letter or with ‘the rayyis’, whoever travels first.
On verso there is a writing exercise of poetry in Arabic script (including إِذا كُنتَ في نِعمَةٍ فَاِرعَها فَإِنَّ المَعاصي تُزيلُ النِعَم which is known from other sources and attributed to ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib).
Specifying the conditions of the betrothal (erusin) between Yefet al-Kohen and [... bt. ...]n b. Khalaf from Baghdād.
Legal document concerning a partnership, mentioning Ṣedaqa and Abū l-Faraj Ibn al-Basūṭī (?); signed by Abraham b. Saʿadya, Shelomo b.
Ingredients mentioned include orange, musk, colocynth, and Galen's seed, along with the relevant quantities and weights. (Information from Goitein's index cards; and H.
Abū l-[...] appears in court and declares something involving the supplier (al-mūrid) Abū [...] b. Elʿazar and having paid him 45 dinars.
Not a great deal of content is preserved, except that he is talking about the capitation tax (al-jāliya) and refers to inflation (ghalā) and "the burning of Fustat" (ḥarīq Miṣr).
The phrase in the middle appears to end with the name ʿAlī. Needs further examination.
The undersigned seem to be pledging allegiance to a certain authority and agreeing to whatever he sees fit to reform (ואם יש שום דבר שיראה לאדוננו באשר צריך תיקון יתקן כחכמתו....).
Yishmaʿel died (חביבין יסורין). Joins: Alan Elbaum.
The addressee in unknown; it might be Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī. Contains instructions about payment deduction and details about different shipments and their expenses.
This is a memorandum from your close associate Nahray ben Nissim: A letter arrived from the amir saying: ‘Send someone t…
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة