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Only a few words are legible, in large, calligraphic script. There are also a few words in smaller Arabic script in the upper left corner of the fragment, possibly unrelated, but perhaps some kind of filing note.
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A long letter of recommendation on behalf of Obadiah the Proselyte, by Barukh b. Yiṣḥaq of Aleppo, written in elegant and vocalized Hebrew. For more information, visit https://johannes-obadiah.org/navigator.php?
Dating: during the period of the Nagid David I Maimonides (ca. 1237–1300); less likely David II but also possible. Involves Moshe b. ʿAmram. Reused on verso for piyyuṭ drafting/composition.
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Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Persian. Mentioning Abū al-ʿAlā (בולעלא), Mihrōy/Mihrwayh (מהרוי) and "the daughter of Reuben the draper" (דוכתר ראובן יבזאז).
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Avraham. The cover page also mentions 5408 AM as the year of completion (1647/1648 CE).
Mentions someone called al-Rashīd and Abū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Sulaymān. (Information from Goitein's index cards.)
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In a Yemeni hand. The text itself also mentions a date of 1 Tammuz 1611 Seleucid (1300 CE).
Many of the fragments in this folder belong together. There are also interesting tables in Arabic script, written in red and black ink.
ENA 3961.3 cites Galen and has a section on the medical virtues of parts of the rabbit (al-arnab). Probable join: Alan Elbaum.
There are two additional blocks of text, also in Arabic script; it is not clear if these belong to the letter on the recto or to separate documents.
The sender reports that he met with somebody (the addressee himself? looks like al-makhdūm) in the house of the qāḍī Nāṣir al-Dīn.
Shelomo the Nasi (from Mosul). Also Abū Saʿīd b. Netanel. (Information from Goitein's index card.)
Reused for Judaeo-Arabic poetry in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī (d. after 1298).
Menashshe ha-Levi. Signed by him and also by Ḥalfon b. Yosef ha-Kohen. Dating: 1127–38 CE, based on the conjunction of the years of Ḥalfon b.
Little of the substance remains, mainly allusions to distress, good wishes for the future, and greetings to a number of family members, including Abū l-Faraj Sayyid al-Kull, and the sender's sister and her children (misspelled אלולאדהא).
Dating: Perhaps 13th–15th century, based on handwriting. Mentions al-Shaykh al-Rashīd, the brother of ʿAb[dallāh?]
Recto: List of people (mostly women) and numbers in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Alms distribution list? "The wife of [...] and her family... the wife of Abū l-Mufaḍḍal... the wife of al-Ḥasan...."
Describes the location of a property with reference to neighboring landmarks. Mentions Kātib al-Jaysh and Ibn ʿAbd al-Masīḥ. A person of the same name is mentioned in some of the India Book II documents.
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 40).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 67).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 43).
(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).
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: flax; fulled (maqṣūr) and raw( (khām) fabric; low quality currency (bahraj); the costs of shipping purses; Isḥāq; Abū Saʿd al-Iskandarānī; Abū l-Khayr Ibn Musaqqal; ʿAllān; Ḥunayn.
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.
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
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).
(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.