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Ibrāhīm and the 'addressee' is a Fatimid dignitary titled Fāris al-Dawla wa-Ḥusāmuhā. Reads, in part, ḥadrat mawlaya al-shaykh.
No Scholarship Records
On ENA 2627.81 there are also some account in a different hand mentioning Elazar Yehudi.
A certain Maymūn appeared before the court on the 17th of Av. Also mentions [...] b. Dunash ha-Rav.
575 raṭl" and line 6 on the recto may mention Alexandria.
The fragment shows signs of having been used in a book binding. There is also a jotting of an Arabic-script basmala.
Verso: Remnants of a state document (two lines partially preserved, wide line spacing) mentioning Alexandria. In the large blank space someone has practiced writing لا several times.
One of the witnesses is al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. ʿ[...].
The writer requests someone's urgent attendance in Cairo; mentions al-Kohen al-Shaykh Muwaffaq; mentions a tarsīm (fee for house arrest?).
Refers to Fustat as Babylon (באבלון) on fol. 7r. There are also several pages of Hebrew and Aramaic piyyuṭ at the end.
Letter addressed to a certain Abu Ibrahim Ishaq, dated in the month of Marheshvan (the rest of the date is missing), and mentioning equipment of a weaver's shop, including components of a loom. The author also conveys personal regards from Yeshu'a and Musa.
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Mentions people such as [...] al-Iskandarānī and Ibn al-Maṭar.
indicating that when someone arrived (or arrives?) in Alexandria, something something "to our master Shemuel ha-Nagid."
In the name of the wife of Surūr al-Qalyūbī. Instructing Abū l-ʿAlāʾ to meet with Eliyyahu the Judge and deal with the sale of a cauldron (qidra) and a frying pan (ṭājin).
Bifolio containing a portion of the (previously unknown) Bohairic version of the Mystery of the Greek Letters, a work otherwise known in Greek, Sahidic, and Arabic. Join: Alan Elbaum. Identification of the text and confirmation of the join kindly provided by Alin Suciu.
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 55).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 64).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa. ed. Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 29).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 58).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 76).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 39).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 75).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa. ed. Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, p. 29).
A variant of this surname's spelling is also repeated on the verso as "קיקושאה". MCD.
Mentions "the 8th of Shawwāl, which is Shevat"; the writer's preoccupation on behalf of the recipient's illness; al-Shaykh ʿAllān; a rubāʿī (quarter-dinar?).
Probably addressed to Abū Ṭāhir Shemuel al-Ṣayrafī, in Fustat (sent to "al-murabbaʿa").
List of garments and textiles, probably unrelated to recto, also in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu who signs his name at the bottom.
Below is a colophon written by Elʿazar b. Joseph b. ʿAmram, also mentioning Yefet b. Ṭoviyya. (Information from CUDL)
Letter to Simha from Eliyyahu in which he notes that he left from Fustat and arrived in Alexandria on Friday, and further states that “our hearts are anxious about the girl (sabiya) and her daughter.” 13th century.
Letter from a man who travelled from Alexandria and stayed in Fustat only for the Sabbath.
Letter from the Karaite congregation of Alexandria to the leader of their community, complaining about the helplessness and dissolution of the community.
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Menashshe, and probably dealing with charity or assistance for him. Also mentions the cantor Barakāt.
Deed of release, in Hebrew, given by Avraham b. Moshe al-Talmid to Banat b. Khalaf al-Baidayani and her daughter Durra bat Yeshua.
Mentions a public letter from the addressee (kitāb al-jamāʿa) and the reading of it aloud in the synagogue.
One section devoted to sales in al-Mahdiyya. Notes "lil-ṣulṭān, ḥaqq al-ṣulṭān."
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Aharon and four others (in Alexandria). Attested by Evyatar ha-Kohen and two others.
Letter addressed to Yeshua b. Shabbetay in Alexandria from Elazar b. Ḥalfon in which the writer expresses his condolences, and those of his father, for the death of Yeshua’s father.
There are several signatures including Yiṣḥaq al-Jibālī and Seʿadya al-Jibālī.
See individual descriptions of each fragment sequentially from PGPID 18979 through PGPID 18998. See also Goitein's attached notes.
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Accounts of a shop in Judaeo-Arabic. There are also a few lines copied from a legal testimony in Hebrew.
Recto and verso: Judaeo-Arabic poetry in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. This is one of the fragments that he signs (אנא אלאדיב אלדמי אלכאמי ונאצר אסמי רצעת אלדרר פי נצמי ועקדי אנתצבת...).
Letter addressed to a woman (al-sitt al-jalīla). In Arabic script. Fragment (right side only).
Opens with greetings to various people including Umm Muḥammad and 'al-ḥājja al-dādā'(?). In the margin mentions "a little bit of bread."
Portions of two lines are preserved: ...ʿalā yadih mutatā[...]...bi-ʿuluww himmatih wa-yankashif ʿan al-m[...]....
Dated: 525 AH = 1130/31 CE. The muqirr is Sayyid al-Ahl b. ʿAlī. The contract was drafted at a Qāḍī court for a lease on property.
Elaborate Arabic calligraphy and designs in red and black ink (block print?), along with additional text (all poetry?) in Arabic script, Judaeo-Arabic, and Hebrew (on verso).
f. 1r: unidentified Hebrew. ff. 1v and 2r: apparently accounts or document. f. 2v: entitled ‘[...] sacrifice’. Mentions Khalaf Allūnī, Khalaf the collector b. Hārūn al-Ṣūrī and dirhams.
Zekharya, probably in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a woman's mother-in-law and a woman's qumāsh (possessions/furnishings or dowry).