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Bill of divorce (get). Location: Alexandria. Dated: Sunday, 12 Elul 4931 AM = 15 August 1171 CE.
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E.g. Bū l-Faraj; Isḥāq al-Baṣrī; Abū Naṣr; Yaʿqūb; Abū l-Riḍā; Tammām; Mūsā; Makārim Ibn al-Ḥajarī; Yiftaḥ; Shammash; Munaqqī; Umm Hilāl;
No Scholarship Records
The writer mentions Manzal = Manzala, a town on the lake of the same name near Damietta. Also mentions business in she-asses.
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The writer urges the addressee to help him again with money for rent for the qāʿa where he lives, because his landlady, the sister of al-Najīb "has destroyed me from all that she demands [it] from me."
On verso mentions the name Evyatar ha-Kohen in the upper margin. Verso also has a remnant of an earlier Arabic-script legal document beginning هذا كتاب من . . .
Ṣāliḥ the Rabbanite Jew (al-Isrāʾīlī al-Rabbānī). Only the upper left corner has survived, with later jottings in Arabic script on top of it.
Dated: first decade of Ḥeshvan 1548 Seleucid = October 1236 CE. (Also possible is 1545 Seleucid = 1233 CE.) Mentioning the pesiqa and not interfering with someone else.
The sender devotes a lot of space to discussing the vagaries of sending and receiving letters via Aleppo. Needs further examination.
Recto: On the right is list of surnames known from the late Genizah period along with numbers: Bibas (spelled Pipas here), Alarcon, Hapis (?)
See Avraham David's transcription and notes on FGP for identifications and related documents. There is also a join by Dr. Ezra Chwat, but the shelfmark of the join does not appear to be listed on FGP.
"That which I still owe Abū l-Barakāt al-Qazzāz b. Sulaymān al-Kohen: 33 dirhams. Of that, he collected 7 dirhams on the eve of Shabbat Ki Teṣe.
Rabbenu Peraḥya ha-Dayyan arrived. . . al-Shaykh al-Shammās was present with us. . . . the Sefer Torah."
"You will die on your bed, and an illness of the heart will overcome you, and also the bite of a dog and the kick of a riding beast. . . ."
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
Mentions various commodities including fish coming in from Rashīd and Abū Qīr. Also mentions "the maghhribīs" (reading מגראבה as a way of writing maghāriba) and selling to "the Franks" (lil-ifranj).
Informal note addressed to Abū l-Afrāḥ requesting that he urgently send the writer 5 dinars with the bearer. Also mentions sending it with the jāriya (female slave?).
Mentions various items of real estate and also mentions something that will go to 'the orphans.'
The object of rent might be a mill (Ṭāḥūn) in the Ḥārat al-Yahūd, the payer is Bū ʿAlī and owner Ishaq.
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).
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.