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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, 68).
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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, 44).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 56).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 31).
Small fragment of a business letter from Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi b. Simḥa ha-Levi al-Nisaburi to Abū Saʿīd ... b. Shelomo al-Fāsī.
Dating: After the Spanish expulsion, per Avraham David. Describing how all the "maʿamad" that oversaw all the communities of Egypt did something (appointed someone?)
ʿImrān, who requests that next time he should write in Hebrew. Abū Surūr is also mentioned. The address is on verso. (Information from CUDL)
Mentions 'your neighbor Ibn al-Kallām,' a rubāʿī, and a letter for Fakhr al-Ṣabbāgh concerning the release (khurūj) of the wheat.
Simḥa (presumably Nīsābūrī). One partner is in Alexandria and the other in Fustat. Involving very large sums of money: 300 and 600 dinars.
Probably from the office of one of the 13th or 14th century Maimonidean Nagids, based on the motto and the hand. It orders ʿAbd al-Karīm to do something involving the qāḍī Shams al-Dīn and reporting to somebody.
Yiṣḥaq, the leader of the Jewish community in Aleppo. In Hebrew. Mentions a letter recieved from the addressee's son.
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The son requests a small loan from his father. Also mentions Abu'l-Tana. (Information from Goitein's index cards and CUDL)
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(Information from CUDL.) Also in his handwriting: T-S 12.257 + T-S AS 145.278 + T-S K25.209 and T-S 13J14.22.
They are barred from entering and using it and ask that a decree for the same be issued from the al-majlis al-karīm. Needs examination.
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Verso: Jottings in Hebrew and Arabic script and the draft of another letter (introduction only) by Shemuʾel to his brother. See also T-S 8J15.11 (same brothers)
Well-written letter in which the sender asks the addressee how to act in an inheritance dispute involving a second-floor housing unit and the items found in it; they are also hoping to avoid incurring taxes. (Information in part from Goitein's index cards)
Dated: First decade of Elul 1447 of the Seleucid Era (= July/August 1136 CE). Also signed by Natan(?) b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. (Information mainly from CUDL)
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Letter by Mansur Kohen to Eliyyahu the Judge dealing in sugar candy (see also T-S 16.303). The page is divided vertically, and there is another letter in a different hand which requires further examination.
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Mentions Yehoshuaʿ and Moshe. Also mentions a boy who was born on Wednesday 26 Shevaṭ.
The beginnings of 8 lines are preserved, mostly consisting of honorifics for the addressee. There are also some notations in the upper margin; these might relate to the document on recto or could be the tarjama of the petition.
شعبان بن عبد الله ابو بكر الكرمي
محمد بن محمد التركماني
بسم الله الـ[ـرحمن الرحيم]
صلوات الله وبركاته ونو[امي زكواته وافضل سلام…
Fragment covered with dense jottings and pen trials. there may also be a block of a legal document in Arabic script on recto.
Efrayim to his son Efrayim in Fustat, mentioning his pain at not having received letters from his son, difficulty in purchasing Khalaq textiles; and mentioning Ḥalabī (Aleppo) textiles.
Mentions sums of money and "government lands" (al-arāḍī al-sulṭāniyya). Receipt for produce or tax payments (ḥaḍara wa-tasallama...)?
]حضور تسليم المذكوين في هذا العزل(؟)
]لغلة المعينة فيه وهي ماية وثمانين رثلاثين اردبا
]ـا والذي اصدقوه في ذلك العالي..برسوله(؟)
]استمرار(؟) …
The sender says that he initially planned to go to Alexandria "as soon as I heard the news" but then saw fit to delay his travel until he asked permission from the addressee (evidently the purpose of the present letter).
Involves two amirs, […] al-Dīn Aḥmad and Nāṣir al-Dīn Muḥammad, includes the phrase نصفين بالسوية, and refers to produce (غلات).
Describing the sites to the south and east of the Temple Mount, including the Mount of Olives. Also includes many Christian sites. Goes on to describe Bethlehem and Betar but the details are difficult to read due to damage.
Hebrew poetry in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. Mentions Yefet Rosh Qehillot, Avraham Sar [...], Yiṣḥaq, Yehuda, and Moshe.
One text block begins "uḥḍira ilā al-dīwān fī . . ."; the next mentions al-Shām. Needs further examination.
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif to one of his brothers. Fragment (upper right corner of recto). Mentions Abū ʿAlī. Essentially no information is preserved other than greetings.
Minute fragment from a ketubah, which can be dated to 1178 onwards thanks to the remains of the immersion clause which started to appear in Egypt following Maimonides' enactment issued at that year. Also part from the domicile clause is visible. AA
Mentioning exchange rates and the terms נחל and אלנחליה. There are also jottings in a different hand, and on recto the introduction to the contents of a halakhic work, with a citation from Leviticus 7:25.
Either the beginning of a petition (a basmala then al-ʿabd al-mamlūk yu[qabbil]) with massive line spacing, or simply a draft of the first two lines.
Recto: Document in a mixture of Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic. May mention "al-mamālīk" in the Arabic section. Then mentions parshiyot (al-fawārīsh) twice, including אלה הדברים.
Mentions the sky-blue girdle (al-zunnār al-samanjūnī), and a request to send red and blue silk with somebody.
Fragment (upper right corner of recto). Greetings to a cook (al-ṭabbākh)? The address mentions Abū l-Karam(?) al-Ṣabbāgh. In a different hand on verso, two lines including the phrase "your mother said."
Verso: list of names. Almostall followed by a symbol that looks like ג.
Dated: 52[6?] AH. Mentions al-Dīwān al-Khāṣṣ. May mention waterwheels (sawāqī).
It is fully vocalized, which is relatively rare for Judaeo-Arabic and useful for shedding light on dialectal pronunciations. There is also one page mostly written in Arabic script, undeciphered.
Menashshe ha-Levi, dealing with a partnership (muʿāmala). Mentions Ibn al-Ṣabbāgh, Ibn al-Tankarani (אלטנכראני? אלטנבראני?)
Legal approval between Yehuda b. Nissim al-Tūnisī (cf. T-S NS 226.66 (PGPID 24392)) and Abū l-Ḥasan b. Khulayf al-Iskandarānī the ḍāmin of dyeing in Dam[...], regarding silk.
Difficult to make out much of the content Mentions "al-Dawla" (likely part of someone's laqab) and maybe al-nāẓir.
Fatimid state document. May be headed "al-ʿimāra." The term "mablagh" may appear in the second long line. […] Reused by the same Hebrew scribe who reused many Arabic documents from the time of al-Afḍal.
The sender's name appears on the right (al-mamlūk al-aṣghar [...]). Dating: Probably Mamluk-era based on hand and format.
Deed of sale (refers to iqrār al-bāʾiʿ). Dated: 486 AH = 1093/94 CE. Signed by ʿAlī b.
Small fragment from the beginning of a commercial letter. 11th-century Maghribī hand. Might mention Ibn al-Yamānī. A few words from the address in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script (including [...] al-Ṣayrafī) are preserved.
Wahb in the hand of the jahbadh Mīkhāʾil b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ. Dated: 4 Rabīʿ I 404. On recto there is an official letter (see separate record). Join: Alan Elbaum.
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A letter from one of the leaders of Aleppo to 'our master the Nagid', probably Yiṣḥaq Sholal.
Yehuda b. Menashshe. See also Yevr. II A 1254. AA
Dating: 17th century, per BL catalogue. There is also Greek written in Greek script on fol. 4. Images may be found on the BL website (not on FGP): https://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?