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Shemuel ha-Levi (active ca. 1181–1209) and Yeshuʿa b. Daniʾel (also signed NLI 577.4/99 in 1213 CE). On verso there are pen trials with the name Shemuel b.
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Nissi known as Karkabī (כרכבי), a merchant of Aleppo, and his nephews Mevorakh and Shelomo, the sons of the deceased Qayyim b.
Written and signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Moshe; also signed by Avraham b. Saʿadya. Quittance given by Wafāʾ b.
Recto: Pen trials in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, including a draft of letter text to 'the dear brother' mentioning Alexandria. Verso: Grocery list or account in Judaeo-Arabic, listing various foods and numbers.
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Acknowledgment of a debt of 10 dinars contracted by […] b. ʿAlī, an inhabitant of the ‘residence of the bishop’ (sakn al-qissīs), owed to Abū l-Ḥasan b.
[In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate]. Praise be to God, in him is my trust.
[ … ] ibn ʿAlī, an inhabitant of the 'residence o…
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On verso there is a note in Judaeo-Arabic documenting a debt (25 of something) owed to Barakāt from Hiba b. [...]. Also mentions the cantor Bū l-Majd (aka Meir b. Yakhin).
Commercial receipt for Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs (b. Yūsuf) al-Urjuwānī, with Judaeo-Arabic business accounts in his own hand on verso. The set of similar documents: ENA 3957.5 T-S Ar.35.128 T-S Ar.35.269 T-S Ar.39.187 T-S AS 184.265 ENA 3957.11 (for Nahray b. Nissim; all the rest are for ʿArūs)
Letter addressed to Abū l-Mufaḍḍal, in Alexandria. Fragment (left side of recto). In Arabic script, in an eloquent style.
(Information from Gil, Documents, pp. 195 #23.) See also Goitein's note card.
In Thy Name, oh Merciful! The list of what was collected of the arrears:
Suhayl, 4 months, 40 dir.
The sister of Sahlān, 3 (months), 15…
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"The four copies from Cairo sold for.... Al-Rayyis Mufaḍḍal has books for auction: Moznayim(?); some commentaries; a book about the fundamentals of Hebrew poetry... Kitāb al-Uṣūl; ... of Rabbenu Baḥye (ZL)." Verso: miscellaneous accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
He asks to pass a letter to the banker Mevorah b.David. Also mentions Avraham ha-Ḥaver b. Amram. (Information from Gil, Palestine, vol. 3, pp. 306-308, #519).
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Fragment of a Karaite ketubba for […] bat Ṭoviyya and ʿOvadya b. Ṣedaqa b. Ḥalfon b. ʿAlūn. In line 3 the word בת was originally written בן and then corrected. Olszowy-Schlanger (1998:375) reads the bride’s name as al-Tifrat. The bride’s agent is Yefet b. Menashshe.
Mentioning a letter 'to the cook' (al-ṭabbākh); that the sender advanced 2 dinars to someone; the [sec]retary(?) of Muʾayyad al-Mulk came and signed something; a press; exerting effort in something; a document pertaining toa. sale; Abū l-Ḥasan; and greetings to at least two women at the end.
The writer mentions that he was almost died in jail. He probably have a debt for some high government officials as he mentions the Emir. Seems he was robbed by the gentiles. All is fragmentary. mentioning a certain Avraham b. [...].
In the hand of the ḥaver ʿAmram b. Ṣedaqa (who also wrote PER H 1 + ENA 4101.36 in Tyre in 1079 CE, T-S 16.136, and T-S AS 156.394).
وسديد خطابه في ذلك كله افقر(؟) ولا اقول اكثر . There is also a row of probably unrelated Greek/Coptic numerals.
Menashshe addressed to "al-Nezer" (Natan b. Shemuʾel) asking him to send a note to Abū l-[...] instructing him to "check/investigate" [...] of "the woman" and "all of her affairs."
Copy of Muḥammad's letter to Ḥunayy Ibn al-Akhṭab and the Jews of Khaybar and Maqnā. This is a variant of T-S 16.353 (PGPID 7491), identified by Alan Elbaum and Moshe Yagur.
Mentions "the decree from al-ḥaḍra al-muqaddasa" (cf. ENA NS 12.15). Recto (secondary use): Recipe for compounding (luxury) kohl.
Fragment of a petition addressed to al-Ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Majīḍ (1132–49). Apart from the opening formula and the blessings on the ruler, not a lot of content is preserved.
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Recto mentions Abū Muḥammad [...] b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Shāhid(?). Verso mentions a sum beginning with 400 and ending with 1/2, then a date: the end of Rabīʿ II 523 AH = April 1129 CE.
Five lines are preserved, and possibly a copy of a sixth line. Almostall the preserved text is flattery and expressions of loyalty and blessings.
Good chance of finding a join or other fragments in the hand of the same scribe. Mentions Barakāt Ibn al-Ḥazzan. Gives at least one date according to the Coptic calendar (Sunday, 22 Baʿūna). Mentions ʿAzzāz; silk; the 9th of Rabīʿ I; cotton; some sort of silken upper garment (fawqāniyya); R. Kalev; David al-Rūmī; robes.
Verso is not digitized (CUDL and FGP only have two images of recto). There is also Hebrew text with a discourse on the calendar, mentioning the different types of Hebrew year (complete, normal, defective; leap, regular) and rules for calendar reckoning.
The name Shelomo b. Eliyya also appears at upper left.
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This is another version of BL OR 5566B.30 (PGPID 6272), translated and discussed by Goitein in Med Soc V, pp. 427–28. See also Goitein's index card.
It is "for the poor Jews (ḍuʿafāʾ al-yahūd) in Fustat. The year 615 AH is mentioned.T-S K25.240 ff.3–6 comprise one cluster (ḥikr receipts?) and T-S K25.240 ff.1, 2, 7, 9, and 10 comprise another cluster (jāliya receipts?). All need examination.
Only a few lines are preserved: من الامور وما يلوح له . . . Ends with an in shāʾ allāh and ḥamdala and ṣalwala (والحمد لله وحده وصلوات على سيدنا محمد وصحبته). In different ink and handwriting, there is what may be an address: to al-muʿallim D[...] from his servant [Bek?] Muḥammad.
Written in a high register, with rhymes, biblical quotations, and frequent allusions to light and purity. Most of it seems to consist of praises for the addressee. Possibly a letter of appeal for charity or help. Might mention Hebron (al-Khalīl) a few lines from the bottom. There are a few words in Arabic script at the bottom.
Mentions acquiring a muʿtaṣimī (a wooden tray with small compartments, named after the Abbasid Caliph al-Muʿtaṣim) from Bū ʿAbdallāh and pawning it with Bū Sahl ʿAṭiyya b. Binyām for thirty dirhams; dealings with a qāḍī; Ibn Sughmār; a letter for Umm Bū ʿAlī that arrived; the writer's anxiety ("I am drunk with cares"); the writer's difficult financial circumstances.
After 23 years, the other heirs challenged his title to the property. On verso there is also a line of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, mentioning ink (ḥibr), baṭāʾiq(?)
Mentions a judge, the court, and probably the appointment of someone to the position of judgeship who wasn't fit for the job. May also mention Iraq. Needs examination. On recto reused for a calendrical work explaining the principles of calendar reckoning.
……………].....ـهم الخلل و ذلك [
]يعمل به ……. يعرض ويؤمر منها العهد والوقت استبد لهم جماعة من الفقها
]على بعض حاله (؟) ومن اوقف جميع بالحضرة …
Sulaymān b. Abū Manṣūr. Verso also contains pen trials in Hebrew and Arabic characters.
Recto: Bottom of a Judaeo-Arabic letter to a more important person, begging him to do some sort of favor ("wa-yubayyiḍ al-mawlā wajh al-shafāʿa fī dhālik") and not to make the writer come in person.
Letter sent from an unknown person, in Alexandria, to a family member named Yosef, in Fustat/Cairo.
Legal document in Arabic script. Mentions: majlis al-ḥarb al-saʿīd (l. 2); the titles of a notable (ll. 3–5); someone who has the town of Kafr Saʿdūn in his iqṭāʿ (ll. 5–6); obligations of maintenance or construction (ʿimāra) for the years 608 and 609 AH (corresponding to 1211–13 CE) (ll. 6–7).
Report to al-Afḍal. The join between T-S NS 201.132 and T-S AS 116.410 + T-S AS 103.49 + T-S NS 209.47 is very probably but it is not a direct join. On verso, liturgy for Yom Kippur in the hand of the same scribe as T-S NS 325.232 + T-S 16.114 + T-S 24.57. Joins: Alan Elbaum. (Information in part from CUDL.)
VII,168 (PGPID 16986)). Also involves a woman's (his wife's?) mother.
Saʿadya the elder is mentioned. Also phrases such as תחת כסא הכבוד (cf. T-S 13J25.6 (PGPID 5440)) and תעאלי דכרה ותקדסת אסמאה (cf.
Fragment from a legal deed regarding a house belong to Maḥfūẓa, also mentioning Abū Kathīr. The same two persons are the subject of T-S NS 224.51 + T-S NS 225.25f + T-S NS J588 (see PGPID 26539).
Ṣedaqa and the banker (ha-shulḥani) Abū l-Ṭāhir Mevorakh b. Shela (appears also in ENA NS 18.25 (PGPID 2436)). In the hand of Ḥalfon b.
Mentioning quantities of money (the contributions of each) and also "a wayba of flour for each one for his house."
Mentions various worries about 'the house' and the need to clean it and keep an eye on it, lest thieves enter. Also mentions some of the sender's debtors who have died, including Matteo "the uncircumcised."
Names include: Jawhara; Ibn Yaʿaqov Shaʿrānī; Dāʾūd; Saʿīd; somebody's female neighbor and her daughter; somebody and his sister; al-Dimashqī; al-Maghribiyya; Yosef Ṣahrajtī; Yehuda and his daughter and son; Ṣedaqa and his mother; Zahra.
With the address both in Judaeo-Arabic and in Arabic script (where he is called merely 'mawlāy al-Rāb'). The sender's name appears but is difficult to read - maybe Abū Saʿīd b. Ibrāhīm al-[...](?). Only the top of the letter itself and the address on the back are preserved.
FGP says that it is a Karaite work that quotes Binyamin al-Nahawandi. The Hebrew-script portion complains about a Christian named Marcus who has destroyed the land and is in cahoots with Saʿāda the secretary (kātib) in the dīwān. […] Needs further examination. Verso: Probably an alms list.
Concerning the merchant Abū l-Makārim Ṣadaqa ha-Kohen Ibn Qasāsa; loans; merchandise; and a partnership agreement whose terms include "a quarter of the profit" and "that he can travel with the (goods) wherever he chooses in the West (diyār al-gharb)." He already has a legal deed to this effect drawn up in a Muslim court.
Sadoq Av, written in between the lines and on the remaining blank spaces of a letter he had received from another man (see also T-S NS J171), asking for assistance. This is a letter of appeal on his behalf, and it suggests that the man was a physician out of work.
ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE) to ʿEli b. Yaḥyā ha-Kohen ("al-Parnas al-Neʾeman Raṣuy ha-Yeshiva"). In Judaeo-Arabic.
Makārim) to come to Alexandria to sell a house, or if this person cannot come in person, appointing an agent to sell it, because the court has held up the sale until word arrives from him;