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This JRL folder is mostly or entirely 18th-century and 19th-century accounts.
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Title verso and first page of an astronomical treatise entitled "Risāla kura dhāt l-kursī mukhtaṣara" in a beautiful book hand.
Includes the phrase "al-dukhūl ilā awsāṭ al-bilād" ("entering into the heart of the country"), then refers to Byzantium (bilād al-Rūm).
In Arabic script. The ends of 4 lines are preserved: على ايديهما منشور كريم يوفر فيه المملوك...
Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). On parchment. The ends of about 15 lines are preserved. Probably a deed of sale for a property.
Involves an Abū l-Faraj. Otherwise consists entirely of elaborate release formulae.
Mentions business dealings and sale of wax.Regards to a bunch of people towards the end. Two sides, top missing but fully legible. Needs examination.
[Described on the paper wrapper as : "Hegab en Madhrebin" ; on a separate small piece of paper: "a Ḥigab"; [next line] "Talisman in maghribian (?)
The letter consists entirely of blessings for the holidays. Mainly in Hebrew.
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Siddur of Shelomo b. Natan of Sijilmasa. End of chapter 17 on marriage and beginning of chapter 18 on the laws of menstruation.
In the left column the entries are numbered 74 through 82, which may help facilitate a join.
In Arabic script. The ends of ~5 lines are preserved. Verso: piyyuṭ and phrases praising a dignitary.
Recto: Probably the end of a literary text, signed by Menaḥem ha-Kohen Abū ʿAraqiyya(?).
Small fragment from the top of a legal document relating to an engagement or betrothal. ...אללה תעאלי אסבאב אלוצלה בין אבו אל . . . .
The writer describes himself as a poor man (סעלוך) and the tail end of Proverbs 26:3 remains. ASE.
Fragment from the end of an 11th-century mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic.
Recto: Hebrew (entitled ‘Our lord, Chronicles’) and unidentified Judaeo-Arabic.
Judaeo-Arabic poetry in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. There is the end of one poem (an elegy) and the beginning of another one "for someone who died by drowning."
Small fragment from the end of a Judaeo-Arabic letter: תש]רפני בקצאהא ושלום הדרת[ה יגדל] לעד.
Dating: 11th or 12th century. The entries are fairly well-preserved, some are crossed out.
Verso: End of a letter in Arabic script. The sender asks for a response to this note ("khidma") with news of Sayyidnā (=Avraham Maimonides in this context) and of the mother and the children and the brother Abū Manṣūr.
Possibly state or fisc-related.There is a ḥasbala at the top, marking the end of the previous section. It looks like there are dates (including the year), but they are difficult to read.
Late accounts in Hebrew involving Yosef, Daud, and Eliezer. One of entries mentions silver medin coinage which helps to date the document as 1415 CE or later.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated in multiple entries on the recto, but the clearest instance is: Rajab [1]245 AH (1829/1830 CE).
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Entries include: Manṣūr b. Ḥunayn(?)... ḥammām al-shaykh... sayyid al-dār...
Legal testimony. involving Sitt al-Nasab known as [...] and Abū ʿImrān known as Ibn Shumayʿ (?). The ends of the lines are missing, and the scribe abandoned the document in line 6.
Letter of appeal for charity addressed to a certain Rosh ha-Qehillot. It is written entirely as a Hebrew poem. There are lengthy descriptions of the sufferings of the sender and his children as well as praises for the addressee.
Receipt in Arabic script for a payment by Mūsā [ben] Naʿīm, dated 1824/25 CE (the end of Muḥarram 1240H). The receipt was issued by the state silk monopoly administration in Alexandria.
Note that Goitein calls this manuscript ENA 2739.16 in Letters of Medieval Jewish Traders.
In (Your name!)
A. DEATH OF THE JUDGE
Just is the Lord in all his ways, etc. (Psalm 145:17)
The righteous man has gone, etc. (Isaiah 51:1)
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2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
For other scribal exercises of this verse see, for example: ENA 3203.12 (PGPID 40496). MCD.
Written by and for the same people as ENA 3944.3 (PGPID 10465), but registered and authenticated by different officials.
The unit of weight barqalu appears throughout the entries. One of the names mention is Ibn ʿAmrān. Requires further examination.
Verso (original use): The end of one line in calligraphic Arabic script from a state document, perhaps a decree. .
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Consists entirely of blessings and praises addressed to Eliyyahu the Judge.
The blank space on the fragment is entirely filled with Hebrew poetry.
Several biblical verses are cited. Cf. ENA NS 19.9 (PGPID 11725).
Legal document. Entirely in Hebrew. Headed זכרון עדות. Dating: Likely 11th century.
Verso is more like a list with discrete entries.
The sender asks the addressee to purchase some purslane seed (bizr rijla). Might join with ENA NS 85.1339 (PGPID 14691).
This folder is mostly or entirely 18th-century and 19th-century accounts.
Contains a taqbīl clause and closing lines starting with a ḥamdala and ending with a ṣalwala. Verso has jottings in both Arabic script and Hebrew script.
1 نسخ
Draft of the end of a letter, with many corrections, sending greetings to Elʿazar ha-Kohen.
Yehuda the Nagid, styled 'Sar.' Dated to the end of the 11th century. (Information from Cohen, Jewish Self-Government, pp. 137, 138)
Yehuda to Sahlan b. Avraham, end of 1042. Detailing "the peace" and the settlement between the Shelomo and Natan b.
State report or petition. The ends of ~7 lines are preserved, widely spaced, written in a chancery hand.
Mentions debits and credits of people and entities such as Ismāʿīl, "the Indian," Abū l-ʿAlāʾ, dīwān al-R[...].
End of a letter/petition (wa-l-masʾūl min tafaḍḍulika.... min faḍlika wa-iḥṣānika...).
Bottom eight lines of an official letter in Arabic script. Ends with a ḥamdala and ṣalwala, and Amīr al-Muʾminīn, perhaps a rāʾy clause afterward.
Recto: probably the end of a letter (or literary lament) mentioning the date Nisan 5362 AM, which is 1602 CE.
End of a legal document signed by Shlomo b. Yishay the Nasi (mid-13th century) and probably written by him.