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Bill of divorce (get). All names and dates are missing. Verso: A note in Judaeo-Arabic concerning a debt of 13[...] somethings. The handwriting and format of geṭ is extremely similar to T-S 13J6.28 (14th century); the handwriting of the scribe who reused each document for accounts is also extremely similar.
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Business letter in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen informing its recipient of the purchase of a certain commentary ('al-perush') for fifty dirhams. The writer reports that he will pay forty dirhams and the recipient will pay ten. Verso contains a payment order, also in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen. Undated.
1 نسخ
Verso contains the address, inverted, along with a great many jottings in large Arabic script. There are also Hebrew pen-trials on both sides. Information from CUDL.
Letter from Yeshua b. Isma’il al-Makhmuri from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat.
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלחבר הגדול גדול הישיבה ואדאם עזה ותאידה ונעמאה
מן אלאסכנדריה לט כלון מן מרחשון ערפה אללה ברכתה וסעאדה מא יליה בר…
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Natan to Abū Ibrāhīm Ismāʿīl b. Ibrāhīm al-Tūnī in Alexandria, ordering him to send two ḥuramdāns with paper, a kerchief, two glass containers, three marble מותקלאת, and a bottle with rosewater.
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions Abū ʿAlī; someone al-Ḥarīrī; Nissim (who has "the yarn and the cotton"); Muḥammad b. […] At the bottom of verso at 90 degrees there are travel expenditures (al-ṭarīq) mentioning Qūs and Akhmīm.
Acknowledgment of a debt of 300 dinars contracted by the husband of Amat al-Qādir with his wife in Jumādā II of the year 463 AH (= March-April 1071 CE). The name of the acknowledger and also the amount of money mentioned in line 4 have been erased (Information from CUDL and Khan)
[In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate]
[ … ] acknowledged in the presence of witnesses of this document and [called people to be …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Mentions the district known as al-Ḥammūdiyya (or al-Maḥmūdiyya) in the [al-Buḥayriyya(?)]
Opens with a report on "difficulties... and the fear that entered our hearts." Also refers to "our colleagues from Syria" (aṣḥābunā min al-Shām).
Somebody (perhaps the sender) went to the synagogue on Saturday yearning to hear any message (tashrīf) the addressee had sent, and Sayyidnā al-Shaykh al-Ajall [...] read the letter aloud.
Memorial list for Nadiv and his 3 sons: Shelomo, Yefet and Yosef. Also for Avraham and the Kohanim: Saadya and his son Hillel (Hillel b. Saʿdaya ha-Kohen is known from TS 16.140, from 1121, al-Maḥalla). Hillel's two sons Aharon and Moshe.
Recto: Fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Rhymed blessings (... al-ʿaẓīm... dār al-naʿīm...). Verso: Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Refers to someone who has few children (? li-annahu qalīl al-ṣighār) and unemployment/idleness (baṭāla). (Information in part from CUDL)
Refers to sending something to the addressee with a trustworthy messenger and awaiting instructions from the addressee. Also mentions "the congregation" (al-jamāʿa). On verso there is unidentified Arabic text (possibly medical or poetry).
Mentioning wheat; instructions him not to stay in Fustat or Egypt; Alexandria; a certain Nissim; and the ship of al-Ṭansāwī (cf.
Refers to payments to אלסגאן (can mean either 'the jailer'/'al-sajjān' or the communal position 'the deputy'/'al-segan'). Mentions Abū l-Tammām al-Shāʿ[ir?] (the Abbasid poet?).
Top of a letter in Arabic script addressed to Sittī al-Wasṭāniyya (cf. T-S 10J11.11 for this as a woman's name). […] Begins "ruqʿatī ilā ḥaḍrat sittī al-wasṭāniyya wa-l-ʿazīza ʿalā qalbī wa-ʿindī...."
Fragment from the bottom official correspondence. Mentions "al-majlis al-sāmī" as well as having issued an instruction to the amīr Sharaf al-Dīn the wālī regarding the addressee (واوصيت الامير الاجل شرف الدين الوالي بالشد منك في تحصيل ال . . . .).
Qashqūsh; a real-estate transaction; and a quarter of house in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ in the alley of the shop (zuqāq al-dukkān) in partnership with Aharon ha-Kohen.
Verso: Tax receipt issued by ʿArafāt(?) b. al-Naqīb the silk tax farmer (ḍāmin al-ḥarīr) to Abū l-Ḥasan the dyer (al-Ṣabbāgh) for a payment of 36 dirhams (for one year?
The sender's name may appear at lower left (al-mam[lūk] [...]). Discusses sending various things and conveys blessings for the high holidays and Sukkot. Also mentions [...] b. Dāʾūd. On verso there are accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Statement originally accompanying a will belonging to Abu al-Baqa. The will has not been found, but from this document it is clear that it comprised 11 assets with a total value of 204 3/4 dinars and 140 dirhams. (Information from Mediterranean Society, I, p. 264; also Goitein index cards)
Letter from a schoolteacher from Algeria (al-muʿallim al-qalʿī) who taught in small town in Egypt and travelled every year to Fustat to obtain a pesiqa there (i.e., a post), instead of teaching privately, but was not successful.
Legal record (#17a). Alimony owed. Pertaining to the first record on the facing page (Yevr.[…] "The maintenance (mezonot) incumbent on Bū ʿImrān al-ʿAṭṭār b. Abū l-Murajjā Sālim al-Ṣayrafī for his wife.
Certifying that Yaʿqūb al-Yahūdī b. [...] al-Māwardī and possibly one other person have received (qabaḍa) a sum of (61?) dirhams from Abū Saʿd al-ʿAtṭār. Needs examination.
Official memorandum with the signature of an official called al-Ḥasan b. Muḥammad. Belongs together with ENA 2697.8 + ENA 2697.9 + T- S Ar.31.58 + T-S Ar.30.245, but it's not clear precisely how. Joins: Marina Rustow. Also related to ENA 2917.1 (PGPID 30819).
The writer switches into Arabic script for the "in sha allah" at the end of each letter; he also writes "forgiveness" as עפר rather than גפר, perhaps suggesting that these are meant to be transcribed directly into Arabic.
The case involves at least one government official, a mutawallī of a bureau, and muhandis al-dīwān (lit. engineer of the dīwān), who also happens to be a qāḍī in Fusṭāṭ.
Letter addressed to the Nagid Mevorakh b. Seʿadya, in Cairo (al-Qāhira al-maḥrūsa bi-l-ʿizz al-dā'im). In Hebrew.
On the first page there are jottings of pious phrases: al-ḥamdu lil-lāhi waḥdahū lā sha{r}īk lahū. See also the description for the whole notebook Bodl.
(b) Trousseau list. Bride: Sitt al-Furs bt. Abū l-Bayān al-Jābī (cf. Bodl. MS heb. f 56/43). Groom: Al-Munajjā b. Yosef. 10 + 25. Total value: 95 dinars.
Historical treatise (many pages), it seems mainly discussing the rulers and wars of Ifrīqiyya (Al-Jazā'ir, Tūnis, Qayrawān, etc.) in the mid-13th-century. Also discusses events in the 17th century (1068 AH) on 9v, mentions the fortress of Bastīyun (in Taza, Northern Morocco) on 8r.
Probably regarding the rent of a house or its sale. The beneficiary is ʿAlī b. ʿAbd Allāhal-Ṣayrafī, and some of his physical attributes are preserved.
Verso (original use): Small fragment of a letter or official document in Arabic: "min sāʾir al-amākin... yakhruj min ṭawāḥī[n?]...." Recto (secondary use): Order for something in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, also with a Hebrew "emet" superscript.
A piece of the opening page of the abridgement of the Karaite linguist Abu l-Faraj Harun's "Hidayat al-Qari" (aka Kitab al-Shurut). See the edition by Ilan Eldar (based on Genizah documents), "Mukhtasar Hidayat al-Qari," Leshonenu, 51 (1986–87), pp. 3–41.
The address is bilingual in both Hebrew and Arabic (al-Muʿallim Mūsā Bunān. . .). Verso also contains numerous lines and dots, which are possible signs of geomancy readings.
Small fragment from the end of a letter (based on the appearance of "ve-shalom"), mentioning Manṣūr al-Ṣayrafī, who owes 1/2 nuqra. It might also be an account.
Legal document. Location: Al-Maḥalla. Involves [...] b. Yefet ha-Zaqen and [...] b. […] Needs examination. See also Goitein's notes.
Short memorandum by Mūsā b. Yaḥyā al-Majjānī, probably from Alexandria, to Nahray b.
תדכרה למחבך מוסי בן יחיי אלמגאני
יאמולאי אלשיך אבי יחיי אראם אללה עזר
קד סאלתך פי וסק אלעלאוה אול אלמראכב
אין מא תראה וקד סאלת מולאי אל…
Letter concerning business affairs in which the writer describes ships that are about to leave port and references ‘al-ṭārma,’ a small cabin on Nile boats, along with garments that the addressee mentioned previously. He reports his intention to leave and asks the addressee for official letters. EMS. Join: Alan Elbaum.
Deut 20:16 is quoted; Jericho is named, along with Sulayman ibn David, also Musa and Harun, and the king of the Ḥimrīyūn (?).
Mentioning names such as Abū Naṣr, Abū 'Alī, al-Shaykh al-Itrābulsi, and Abū l-Qāsim. ASE.
Commercial receipt for Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs (b. Yūsuf) al-Urjuwānī. Mentions a bale of lac. (T-S Ar.35.128, T-S Ar.35.269, and T-S AS 184.265 are all similar and all for ʿArūs; ENA 3957.11 is from the same genre and for Nahray b.
Deed of sale (refers to "hādhā al-bayʿ" three lines from the bottom). Involves the daughter of Yaḥyā b. Naṣr al-Kātib, a payment of 50 dinars, and a Jewish man named Yūsuf b. Faraj al-Mutaṭabbib (the physician). Needs further examination.
The main text is in Ladino and Hebrew, perhaps a sermon or exegetical work. Verso also contains: the draft of the beginning of a Ladino family letter with several drafts of the signature of Eliezer Ḥazaq; a musar text in Hebrew in a different hand; calligraphic pen trials of the Arabic alphabet; and scattered jottings and sums in Hebrew characters.
In Judaeo-Arabic. Listing names (e.g., al-Ṭabīb, al-Ḥakīm, Abū l-Riḍā (אב אלרטא), Ibn ʿAqbān, Ibn al-Shuwaykiyya, Abū l-Wafāʾ, and Ibn Nuṣayr).
Dealing with goods such as red antimony (rāsakht), perfumed cherry bark (qishr maḥlab), sour dough/yeast (khamīra), and rose water. Also mentions the name Ibn al-Mushanqiṣ. (Information in part from CUDL)
Refers to "leaving this copy in Tyre due to [...]" in the fifth line from the bottom. Tyre is likely also referenced along the page tear: היום בצ[ו]ר.
Power of attorney (sheṭar harshaʾa). Location: Alexandria (נא א]מון דעל כיף ימא רבה). Dated: Iyyar 5032 AM, which is 1272 CE, under the reshut of David b. Avraham Maimonides. Almost none of the content of the document is preserved.
Likely in the hand of Eliyyahu the Judge. Involves Yefet and al-Bahāʾ(?). Verso: Legal document likely in the hand of Shelomo b. […] Refers to 'the inside of this document (the one on recto?)'; al-Shaykh al-Asʿad; someone spending time away from Egypt; and Yefet again.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to "majlis al-qāḍī Bū Qāsim al-Dāʿī." In Judaeo-Arabic with a bit of Hebrew, and the address on verso in Arabic script. Providing a report on various things, with different sections introduced by "wa-min al-muhimm...." Mentions volumes of the Torah, Neviʾim, and Targum in the margin.