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Nissim, according to Goitein's note card. See also ENA NS 22.22.
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Nissim, according to Goitein's note card. See also ENA NS 22.18.
Verso: Doodle of a knight on horseback. There may also be some Arabic text, crossed out.
No Scholarship Records
Dating: 18th or 19th century. There are also pen trials ("if speech is silver, silence is gold").
Table with some sort of accounts in Coptic numerals, red and black margins. An ʿalāma "al-ḥamd li-llah waḥduhu" towards the end.
Accounts, probably, in Arabic script. A name "Abū ʿAlī", beginning of a date "yawm al-ʿarbiʿā" and a sum "arbaʿ wa......"
Calligraphic letter from Ya'qub to someone named Ismail in Alexandria, asking urgently for some cloth. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Letter from Khalluf b. Zakariyya, Alexandria, to Yosef b. 'Awkal. The date of the letter's arrival was written in Arabic script on verso (AH).
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Letter of a refugee from Acre, who lives in Alexandria and who is experiencing problems with the community there, to Yosef b.
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Likely part of a letter, but could also be a standalone literary fragment.
Possibly a letter in Hebrew, though might also be literary with an unusual format. Dated: first third Tammuz 5358 AM.
Mentions people such as Jamāl al-Dīn and Ismāʿīl al-Ḥalabī. Mentions commodities such as pepper, lac, and sumac.
Fragment with several text blocks in Arabic script, at different angles. There is also Hebrew literary text. Unclear what the Arabic is; needs examination.
The accounts continue on the verso, where there is also a literary text in Hebrew with some Tiberian voweling.
Recto (secondary use): Mentions 16 "golden dirhams" which seems oxymoronic and may help with dating. Also mentions nuqra dirhams.
State document: On verso, titulature in calligraphic script, including al-khilāfa al-fāṭimiyya, which is rare (maybe hapax) in documentary texts.
In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate.
The most lofty and singular lord, the firm,
the confidence, the trustworthy, pride …
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Verso: Account, maybe state/official. Mentions "al-mablagh" and "al-ʿamāla," and numbers are written both in words and in Greek/Coptic numerals.
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Mentions: having no option except to travel to Yemen; Alexandria; and trade in silk. (Information in part from CUDL)
Hand of Eliyyahu the Judge? Al-Shaykh al-Kohen is asked to pay a pound of something.
The groom, Abū l-Barakāt, commits to not marrying a second wife or acquiring a female slave. Also mentions [...] b. Yefet.
Mentions the arrival of something. Mentions Alexandria. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter of business written in the 11th century by Yeshuʿa b. Ismaʿīl, sent to Alexandria to [...] b. Abī l-Ḥayy. (Information from CUDL)
Late accounts with many names, for example ʿAlī b. the elder Muḥammad and Ibrāhīm al-Jāwī, and Hebrew numerals.
Accounts, detailing shipments between Alexandria and Fusṭāṭ. Mentions Abū Saʿd b. Ḥayyim.
Fragment of a legal document. Involves a dyer (al-Ṣabbāgh), Syria (al-Shām), and perhaps a business partnership.
Notable for the intriguing phrase "al-umma fī bilād al-ʿIrāq" in the margin of verso.
Mentions several names, including someone from Damanhūr. There may also be a few lines of Arabic poetry.
Mentions a date, a sum of money received, and the name [...] b. هنا al-Ṣabbāgh al-Yahūdī. On verso there are accounts.
Small fragment from the beginning of a petition or a letter to a dignitary (... khāliṣat amīr al-muʾminīn adāma allāh ẓillahū wa-ayyada niʿmatahū...).
Mentioning a purchase made by Ibrāhīm al-Yahūdī al-Dajājī.
Rudimentary hand and spellings. Mentions al-Asʿad al-Ṣayrafī among other names.
Account in Arabic script. All words, no numerals. "I have / there is owed to me from the remainder of the mill (al-raḥā) 10 dirhams...."
Promissory note, maybe. "I owe al-shaykh al-ajall X...." In Arabic, with a Hebrew 'emet' at the top.
Unidentified document(s) in Arabic script. One has an ʿalāma at the top, with a note underneath: "this is the ʿalāma of the other one(?)"
Legal document in Arabic script, involving an adult woman (al-marʾa al-kāmil) possibly named Sadīda. Needs examination for content.
On verso mentions [...] al-yahūdī al-Afḍalī(?) and on recto mentioned four irdabbs of grain.
Requires further examination. Probably a letter (ʿalā abūk afḍal al-salām. . .).
Verso looks like a letter or legal document. Mentions "al-nāʾib al-madhkūr." Andalusī or Maghribī hand.
Mentions an agha and ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Hilālī. Needs further examination.
Communal/official. Mentions al-jamāʿa al-maḥrūsa. Not much else is preserved.
Damaged list probably of contributions to the poor. Mentions al-Dayyān Menashshe; Abū l-Ḥasan; Abū ʿAlī; Abū l-Munā.
Official-looking document in Arabic script. Fiscal? Might also be private accounts. Verso is a less formal list of names with sums of money.
Accounts, late, at least partially in Hebrew in and Ashkenazi(?) scribal hand. Also has words such as קארטה. Detailed but difficult to understand -- needs examination.
The name "Julia" (גולייה) may also appear in the opening lines before the body of the letter.
The name Maḥāsin is preserved. Might also be accounts.
Decree, possibly of al-Malik al-Ashraf. Partially transcribed by S.
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Calligraphic. 4 folios. The third folio may also have Arabic script on it. Needs examination.
Nissim to Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy in Alexandria.
Multifragment. 25 fragments, most of them legal, almostall of them in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe.
Possibly a letter, but everything preserved consists of ethical exhortations, so might also be from a literary text.