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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
The duality of the noun "aʿdāʾhuma" (line 3) suggests that it is addressed to two people, the first name ends with[..] al-Dawla, and the second is referred to as al-Shaykh al-Jalīl.
1 نسخ
In Arabic script. Quite faded. The ends of 5 lines are preserved. Mentions that a certain ʿāmil is more capable than somebody else (aqdar minhu) and then mentions "the lofty order" (al-amr al-ʿālī).
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
On the other side there is the end of a scroll with Hebrew text about the temple sacrifices.
Trigger: ṣaḥḥa. See also: ENA 3945.9, T-S NS 297.171, T-S Ar.35.133, and T-S AS 181.31.
All are dated after the formula kutiba. ENA 3971 13–24, 31 and 34.
Dating: Probably 11th century if not earlier. Might be a join with ENA 3656.1, but it is too hard to tell. Mentions: Fustat, ʿEli b. [...], [...] bt.
The sender greets the entire congregation. Mentions [al-Shaykh] al-Sadīd Zikrī.
The addressee is asked to speak with the sender's brother Avraham, and Yaʿaqov Villareal (he appears also in ENA 4101.10 and T-S 13J24.28). (Information from A.
The word "qamīṣ" (shirt) appears in many of the entries.
A few partial gravesite entries are visible alongside an illustration of three trees.
Accounts in Ladino with a wide variety of detailed entries, which based on the numerical flow may be monetary gains and some expenses.
Folios from the versified book of Islamic Law entitled "al-Murshid al-Muʿīn" by the influential Moroccan Mālikī Jurist Ibn ʿĀshir (d. 1042/1631).
The other side appears to contain the end of a letter, with wa-l-salām and instructions to kiss somebody on the sender's behalf (tabūs ʿanī...).
Verso (original use): Bottom of a document in Arabic script, ending with a ḥamdala. Recto (secondary use): Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
The congregation should also solicit from people who are absent from the synagogue. Ends with the motto "Yeshuʿa."
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Possibly informing him that they are moving out at the end of the month and requesting him to settle their accounts.
المماليك خضر وسليمان
يقبلون الارض وينهون ان المدة
الذي في اجارت المالك لم يبقا فيها
الا الى اخر هاذا الشهر فنشتهي
من احسان المولا يقف على ا…
Partial transcription enclosed in box with MS.
In which a wife releases her husband from claims in exchange for receiving part of her dowry (the items are enumerated). (Information from Goitein's index card.)
Including a raʾy clause. There are endorsements (or drafts of formulaic phrases?) in faded ink between the lines; these have not been edited here.
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Account recording the receipt of various consignments of dates measured in wayba and irdabb. Some entries have been crossed through. People mentioned include al-Wakīl al-Kabīr; al-Sharīf; the ghulām of ʿAbdallāh.
The payment was 1 dinar. The entire date is difficult to read, but the year seems like 517 H.
Recto: End of a legal document in Arabic script. Only the witness signatures are preserved.
Possibly accounts, but could also be calendrical reckoning or something else. The entries are arranged in four columns. The letters are written individually (and rarely form words), possibly serving as abbreviations or codes.
In Arabic script. The ends of two lines are preserved. Phrases include: lil-khidma bi-l-thaghr... bi-ḍawāḥīh...
Autograph responsum by Avraham Maimonides (ends "וכתב אברהם") involving a husband and wife and living arrangements.
Document entitled tadhkira (list/memorandum), listing the parnas (al-firnās), the Jerusalemites (al-Maqādisa), Yosef the beadle of the synagogue, Ibn al-Maqrūṣ, Khiyār, and Banī Naḥum.
Maḥfūẓ al-Isrāʾīlī, potentially identical with Abū Naṣr b. Efrayim from ENA 4020.52 (PGPID 2415). Needs further examination for content.
The sender asks for two dirhams until after the Sabbath in order to buy bread and a medicinal syrup, for "nothing has entered his mouth."
The second line of each entry lists payments associated with Ibn Firʿawn (Son of Pharaoh) and Ibn Jāmūs (Son of Water Buffalo)—pseudonyms?
Commercial and/or dār account. There are many entries for specific dates (505 AH?) and mentioning amounts received on those dates, which makes it seem mercantile.
The payment seems to be only 1/2 dinar for an entire year (572 AH?). Needs further examination.
Difficult to read except for the phrase "in shāʾa allāh ʿazza wa-jalla" at the end of l. 1. Needs further examination. Join: Alan Elbaum.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, most of the entries list varying quantities of Ottoman-era gold jadid coinage.
Parts of 4 lines from the end are preserved, then a huge space, then a basmala and a new section (this might be a different document that was glued on).
In the margin there are pen trials and/or endorsements, one of them referring to 'al-ḥaḍra al-ʿāliya al-shaykhiyya.'
Very deferential. Almost the entirety of the letter consists of greetings and good wishes, and the writer says that he is constantly asking Abū Zikrī about the health of the addressee.
Written on the back of an earlier Arabic document (see separate entry).
In Arabic script. The ends of 6 lines are preserved. Mentions: al-muslimīn... mutawallī al-balad... al-ghulām...