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Letter from Efrayim b. Ismaʿil al-Jawharī to Yosef b. 'Awkal.
אני כותב, אדוני ורבי וראשי ונכבדי, ייתן לך אלוהים אריכות ימים ויתמיד את ימי שלומך ואושרך,
(כאשר) שלומי טוב ואני בריא, לבעלי שתיהן תודה רב…
2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion
On recto, Hebrew piyyuṭ. All around it and on verso, Arabic jottings and pen trials.
No Scholarship Records
Book list. Published in Alloni, the Jewish Library in the Middle Ages, 238-240
Book list. Published in Alloni, the Jewish Library in the Middle Ages, 138-140
Book list. Published in Alloni, the Jewish Library in the Middle Ages, 216-217
Book list. Published in Alloni, the Jewish Library in the Middle Ages, 152-154
Book list. Published in Alloni, the Jewish Library in the Middle Ages, 206-207
Receipt for Abu Sahl the teacher (al-muʿallim). Possibly a tax receipt, Fatimid.
"To release the 'bound' (al-marbūṭ)."
Refers to "his wife Sitt al-Maʿānī."
Minute fragment, mostly blank but with potential writing/ink along the verso edge.
Letter addressed to Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd al-Jarīdī, in Yemen. Needs examination.
Receipt issued by Yaʿaqov Raẓon to al-Senyor Merkado Karo for 82 reales.
Yosef. Mentions Ḥassūn and al-Asyūṭī.
Possibly magical: nār... ʿazīmatī... al-iqfāl.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions ʿAbd al-Karīm.
Looks like instructions for something, possibly medical or alchemical.
Receipt of payment of Dawūd al-Yahūdī.
In Arabic script. Sayyid al-Ahl is to give something to the addressee.
Unidentified text written in alternating Hebrew and Arabic (in Arabic script). Probably literary.
Narrow bifolio containing an index of poems in Judaeo-Arabic alphabetized by their opening lines.
Part of a ketubba for Sitt al-Yumn. Known handwriting. (Information from CUDL)
Letter in Hebrew to two men, one of whom is called Abu al-Ḥasan.
1 Transcription
Large student notebook of Hebrew alphabetical practice on ten folios. Early modern.
Story of Hārūn al-Rashīd. (Information in part from Goitein's index card)
1 Discussion
Fragment of a business letter in Arabic script (wa-innamā katabtu... al-ḥisāb...).
Legal document mentioning Sitt al-Dār and Abū [...]. (Information from CUDL)
Verso (original use): Fragment of a fiscal document headed "māl al-kharājī."
List in Judaeo-Arabic with Hebrew alphanumerals. 16th-century or later based on the paleography.
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Alludes to a dispute "between you and them."
Small fragment of a letter in Arabic script referring to "mawlāya al-Rāb" (=the Rav).
Table of Greek/Coptic alphanumerals in a very disorderly scribal hand. Medieval-era.
Difficult to read. Some sections headed "al-maṣrūf."
Likely a promissory note stating that "I owe" a sum of money to "[...] al-Yahūdī."
Small fragment of a late document in Arabic script mentioning al-muʿallim Ibrāhīm.
Accounts in Arabic with Greek/Coptic alphanumerals. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
List of Greek/Coptic alphanumerals, perhaps calculations or a writing exercise.
It seems "throbbing of the joints" (ḍarabān al-mafāṣil).
Short lists of names along with numbers (Coptic numerals?) arranged according to parshiyot.
Letter on vellum to Ali Abi Sulayman (? this description and transcription belong to a different fragment).
Poem in Judaeo-Arabic dramatizing the events of the book of Esther. Join: Alan Elbaum.
Tax receipt? For [...] al-Yahūdī. Sum: 1/6 dinar. Needs examination.
Letter to Abū ʿAlī. In Arabic script, in a crude hand. Only the beginning is preserved.
Small receipt for Abū l-ʿIzz al-[...]. In Arabic script. Unclear what for.
Monograph; rules concerning marriage. All written by Joseph Rosh Ha-Seder
Prayer in Hebrew, attributed to Saʿadya al-Nadiv b. Saʿadya ha-Levi.
List of commodities and prices headed ' [Bara]kat b. Sayyid al-Ahl.
Mentions various precious goods (aʿlāq) and amounts of money. No names.
Letter in Ladino dated 19 November 1790 (12 Kislev 5551) from Av_[?] Segre[?] in Alexandria to David Mili in the Bulaq neighborhood of Cairo.
Legal document from Cairo, dated 1777 CE (end of Tamuz 5537 AM) in which Menaḥem Abzaradel (אבזראדיל) makes arrangements for his 7 1/3 qirats that are in the "dīwān al-bahār" (an Ottoman customs tax farm for trade in spices). He renounces all right over it. It is to be divided between his grandsons Yosef and Menaḥem (the sons of his deceased daughter and her widower Ghulaybī Yeshaʿyah) and his two living daughters, Ḥabībah and Leah.
1. בפנינו עדים ח׳׳מ בא היקר נשא ומאד נעלה להתהלה כה׳׳ר מנחם אבזרדיל יצ׳׳ו ואמר לנו הוא עלי עדים גמורים וקנו ממני ק…