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(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 43).
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(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 37).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 42).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 47).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 41).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 71).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 67).
Goitein's transcription, translation, and commentary are attached. Also discussed in Zinger, "Long Distance Marriages."
In Your name, oh Allmerciful.
He will receive blessing from the Lord [and vindication from the God of his salvation]. Plenty of peace have tho…
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Mentions the benefactor's daughter, the clause "during his lifetime and after his death", and a Qāḍī "[al-]Qāḍī al-A[jall]" towards the end. Needs further examination.
Mentions sums of dinars, places, and the phrase 'al-tawqīʿāt al-afḍaliyya.' Reused for magical text in Hebrew and unidentified (or nonsensical) language, possibly in the same hand as T-S NS 130.101.
Legal document concerning the community in Alexandria sending a sum of money to help repair an old synagogue in Jerusalem.
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Yakhin) to Bū l-Manṣūr al-Mutaṭabbib Ibn al-Kharazī. This fragment contains only the address (in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script) and Meir's name on recto.
Part of Nissim Gaʾon’s Ḥibbur Yafe meha-Yeshuʿa = al-Faraj baʿd al-Shidda. Recto corresponds to the text from p. 474, l.5 to p. 476, l.12 in Shraga Abramson’s edition.
“Iraqi purple” dye is also mentioned. EMS
Recto: Letter in which a prominent person (al-Shaykh al-Sadīd Yeshaʿya) is politely asked to pay his debt.
Informing Josiah ha-Nasi that his opponent Abu al-'Ala had not appeared in the synagogue. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Contains details about prices of grain. The writer also mentions the local wali (chief of police) and 'amil (finance official).
Letter from Moshe b. Yosef Yiju, in Alexandria, to his brother Perahya in Fustat. Sent to the shop of Abū l-Fakhr b.
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The word medicine/cure (refu'ah) also appears. ASE.
Yehuda (r. 1025–1051 CE), containing a question about butchering animals and also discussing the status of the Maghribis in Fustat.
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Letter of recommendation, sent to the community of al-Jazīra (it seems Algeciras, the Spanish port on the strait of Gibraltar).
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(Information from CUDL and Allony et al.)
Dating: Likely 11th century. Mentions al-Ramla three times. Mentions Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b.
Including different payments and details about shipment expenses in the ports of Alexandria and Rashid. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, #355) VMR
ומא קבצת מן עבד בן בשר בקית חסאב דאוד
סג דינ ונצף ותמן לה מן דלך מא וגהו לי לבוציר
כ דינ אלא קירטין ואגב אלאעדאל ע…
Mentions the targum and may contain glosses on biblical passages. Also mentions various medical techniques (verso, bottom of righthand page) like purgation and bloodletting.
Includes "ليس المقام بدار الذل من شيمي ولا معاشرة الأنذال من هممي," which can also be found in T-S Ar.30.134 and BL OR 5565G.40 + T-S NS 224.170.
The first line reads as "shirkatuhum wa-akhadha minhum". Mentions "al-amīr al-ajall." Needs further examination. Reused on recto for a Judaeo-Arabic text about neṭilat yadayim.
Business letter fragment, sent from Alexandria to Fustat, based on FGP, but more lively Cairo given the dating.
He cites something said by Rabbi Nissim and there is also mention of Eliyyahu (ZL).
Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). Also signed by Avraham b. Mevasser and perhaps [Yaʿīsh ha-Kohen] ha-Parnas b.
Fragmentary: this is a long vertical strip from the right side. Mentions Hārūn al-Kohen; Yaʿaqov Ibn al-Madhbūḥ. (Information in part from CUDL)
Refers to moving from a man's house to somewhere else. Also to 'the rent of the middle.' (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter from Saʿīd probably in Alexandria, to his brother the cantor Abū l-Majd (Meʾir b.
Recto: list of names, including Ibn Ḥusayn al-Sharābī, Abū l-Khayr, Abū Naṣr, Abū Saʿīd, Abū l-Kathīr and Ibn al-Kohen; Hebrew numerals.
E.g., Menaḥem, [Yo]sef, Eliyya, ʿaskarī (a soldier?), al-Fakhr, Khalaf, Kāfūr (means camphor, but can be a name), al-Muhadhdhab Sulay[mān].
Dating: likely ca. 15th or 16th century. Involves Alexandria, a certain Yeshuʿa, a sum of money, and trickery (תחבולה).
Unclear how much of the substance/request is preserved. Mentions "al-amr al-muwwaffaq"
Order of payment from Muḥammad b. [...] b. [...] to Mufaḍḍal [b. al-Dayyān?], instructing him to pay the bearer, the qāḍī Naṣr al-Dīn, 1000 Kāmilī dirhams.
On verso there are drafts of documents including the name of the caliph al-Āmir bi-Aḥkām Allāh written several times (r. 1101–30).
Commodities include garments, textiles, and items of gold. Also contains instructions for an agent ("if you do not find X, then...").
Dating: 16th-century or later based on the paleography. There are also a few lines of Arabic and abbreviated Hebrew/Judaeo-Arabic.
Some of the names include: Yiṣḥaq Solal (= Sholal?), Yiṣḥaq Mūsā, ʿAlīal-Qammāḥ, Yaḥya Ibn Zaytūn.
In the Arabic script section, there is a basmala and then perhaps the name al-shaykh Abū Zikrī (adāma Allāh ʿizzahū). The blank spaces have been filled with piyyutim (yoṣerot).
In the upper margin there are also a few crudely written words which might be in Arabic script or in Hebrew script.