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There are numerous tiny pieces from the same text or even the same page in the span of shelfmarks JRL SERIES G 79–99. Also JRL SERIES B 5344. Will probably need to be assembled in person rather than on FGP
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Accounting document issued by "al-qism al-awwal Qalyūbiyya," one of the 24 administrative sections of Egypt that were established in the 1820s.
Mentions the ground tax "al-ḥikr" and "siwā l-mablagh al-taṣarruf". Needs examination.
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 35).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 73).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 32).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 66).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 61).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 60).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 70).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 62).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa. ed. Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 28).
(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, 69).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 34).
(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, 75).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 33).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 41).
In the body of the letter, in Judaeo-Arabic, he explains his (conjunctural) poverty and asks for help. On verso are also piyyutim/qinot.
Mentions the names of several amīrs, including Ṣuʿlūk b. Majsūr. Al-Maqrīzī mentions an amīr Shihāb al-Dīn Ṣuʿlūk Atābika (Sulūk: I, 556); could be the same person.
A very long but fragmentary waqf document, probably Ottoman era. Also contains a bold monumental script in the middle, probably from a different (state?)
He asks the addressee to forward legal queries (fatāwī) to 'sayyidnā.' The writer is also in difficult straits. (Information in part from CUDL)
Short letter from Yahya b. Musa al-Majani to his uncle, Ishaq b. Eli al-Majani, probably from Mahdiyya.
[ ] לה וליא ונאצרא פי גמיע
[ ] נאה ען סלאמה עמימה ונעמה
[ ] קרב אללה אלאגתמאע בך עלי
[אפצל אלמחאב ודכרת סלאמ]תך אדאמהא אללה לך וקד וצלנ…
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Letter from Isma’il b. Farah from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Probably September 25, 1056.
[כתאבי יאסידי] אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם תאידך וסלאמתך וסעאדתך ערב סכות תזכה ל[ ]
] אנא אהניך במא אשרעת פיה יתן …
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Letter from a certain Shemuʾel to a dignitary called Thiqat al-Dawla. On parchment. In Hebrew. Consisting entirely of blessings and flattery for the addressee and his son Saniyy al-Dawla (perhaps an effort to obtain private charity).
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Signed (and probably written) by Yosef b. Moshe Dammūhī, also signed by Rānī(?) Shtīwī. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Letter, mentions consignments from the Aleppians to Fustat (the writer had written to Damascus).
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Note on vellum sent on the evening following the day of Atonement, asking to return liturgical material for the feast of Tabernacles, which the writer had “borrowed.” The writer also wishes that the fast of the addressee should be accepted by God.
Ya’aqov b. Awkal’s agent in Alexandria. The writer informs b. Awkal about a ship that suits b.
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"mā rāḥ ḥaẓẓuk fī l-ʿūlyā bi-muntaqiṣ", a variant of the poem by al-Buḥturī. Contains a name "Ḥassūn b. Muḥamad b. ʿAbd al-Ṣamad". Needs examination.
(Information in part from Goitein's index card.) See also Med Soc III, p. 414 no. 319a.
Bride: Muʾammala, described as בעולתא (= not a virgin but also not a widow/ארמלתא or divorcee/גרושתא). In the hand of Yefet b.
Needs examination. (There are also two lines in Arabic script on recto, which say "to my noble master" followed by blessings.)
Wuhayb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm Dated: 21 Ramaḍān 544 (22 January 1150). With endorsements/registrations at the top ("athbaṭū al-mablagh..."). It is unclear if/how the text on verso is related.
Refers to the railroad (ṭarīq al-sikkat al-ḥadīd). Signed by Shamʿūn b. Yaʿqūb (Shimʿon b.
Mentions the maṭbakh (sugar refinery) known by the name of "the sons of al-Lebdī" (awlād al-Lebdī); a deed (sheṭar) in the writer's possession, and an Arabic-script document.
Verso: Petition, probably ("al-mamlūk..."). In Arabic script. Small fragment from the upper right corner. Mentions the word Ṣalāḥ, which may be part of the name Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn (Saladin). Reused on recto for piyyuṭ. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter mentioning a number of names (although most are broken off after Abū) such as al-Najīb, Abū l-Makārim, Abū Isḥāq, Maʿānī b.
Contains some rare formulae, some of which are also found in T-S 12.118. See M. A. Friedman's edition for further information.
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Accounts for brazilwood for Barhūn, mentioning several sums of dinars and people such as the Kohen at the Dār al-Baraka, Ibn al-Majjānī, and Mūsā. Hebrew numerals.
Probably the top of a legal or communal declaration (naqūl....), introduced by a Hebrew composition with citations from Numbers 18:7 and allusions to Ezekiel 44:8. Location: Cairo (al-Muʿizziyya).
Mentioning Hilāl b. Binyām (appears also in T-S AS 148.166 and T-S 13J27.9) and, later, (Abū) l-Faraj Binyām.
On verso (original use) there is a piece of a document in Arabic script greeting al-Ḥakīm Jamāl al-Dīn. (Information from CUDL and Amir Ashur.)
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions al-Talmid al-Jalīl αnd something to do with the synagogue (עלי אלהיכל קבל ראש השנה), and conveys greetings "from the congregation."
Seems to be complaining about the difficulties faced this year: "...we have no mind and no [...] from all the storms (? al-anwāʾ) which have happened to us..."
The writer is sending regards to some family members including Efraim, and also to his sister Rivka and to Mas’uda, Amran, Zaharun and Moshe.