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Elʿazar. Fiancee: Sitt al-Karam [bt. Abū l-Alāʾ] ha-Levi. b. Iyov, virgin and divorcee.
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Mahja bt. Shemuʾel known as al-Sīrjānī, appears before the court to release her husband Aharon b. Eliyyahu Yakīn from debts/money she lent him during his travels in al-Shām and since he returned to Egypt. The loan had been dually recorded as a debt acknowledgement issued by an Ottoman legal venue (בדיני גוים) and in a sheṭar that Aharon drew up himself (ואלשטר אלדי מכתוב בכטה).
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Dated 2 Iyyar [5324 CE] (1564 CE), a few days after the previous entry on the same page: 25 Nisan 5324 AM. Esther bt. Yosef al-Rūmī releases her husband from what he owes as alimony and the delayed dowry payment (meuḥar) from her ketubba.
Long list of men's names arranged in columns, about 120 in all, accompanied by numbers. Appears late.
Fragment of the Qurʾān on parchment in Kufic script, including (left side of verso) part of Sūra al-Tawba.
No Scholarship Records
Paraliterary text, in Arabic script. Possibly an alchemical or medical text. The document at the bottom is probably part of a tale.
Bifolium from a verse narrative in Judaeo-Arabic involving the exploits of al-Nāṣir Muḥammad b. Qalāwūn.
List of names with sums - all are crossed out. On the back is a line in Arabic script (see separate entry).
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Account in Judaeo-Arabic in a late hand listing debts. ENA 2615.1-3 all belong together
The first line reads 'wa-ʿabd mawlānā,' then '[...] al-shāmil.'
Rent receipt(s) for Yūsuf al-ʿAṭṭār. In Arabic script. Reused on recto for Hebrew poetry/piyyut.
On verso, traces of glue and possibly an ʿalāma.
Mentions Rabīʿ II and perhaps something colored (al-mulawwan).
Possibly a receipt mentioning "min al-mustakhdamīn" and a calendar date (but it seems no year).
Tax receipt, Fatimid, issued in Fusṭāṭ in the name of Saʿīd al-Afṣarī. Hint of a date at the bottom (23?).
Receipt in Arabic script. For Ḥamīd Ibn al-Ṭawīl. for 80 (dirhams), dated Dhū l-Ḥijja of [...].
There are some names: Sitt al-Sā[da] and ʿAmram b. [...].
Alphanumerical calculations, much of which are crossed out so it is unclear if they are documentary in nature.
Looks late. Mentions ilā al-majlis.
Dating: late. Mentions ʿAbd al-Raʾūf(?) and Isḥāq the Jew.
The accounts draw on Hebrew alphanumerals. Newly treated and encapsulated.
Verso: Jottings in Hebrew and Arabic script including the word "al-yahūdī."
Small fragment. Mentions Qaṣr al-Shamʿ. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe?
Fragment (narrow sliver containing the beginnings of the lines) of a letter by Yefet b. Menashshe b. al-Qaṭā'if
List of names, including al-Ḥakīm Hārūn, Ṣadaqa Ibn [...], ʿAfīf (or ʿUfayf) Ibn [...].
Small fragment, probably ca. 14th century or later, containing only the phrase "al-mamlūk Mūsā."
Letter addressed to a dignitary. In Judaeo-Arabic. Almost entirely an eloquent shawqiyya. Good wishes for Hannuka or Purim.
Legible words include 'al-mamlūk' and غلمانه. Needs examination.
Perhaps ethical advice (yā bunayy: kuthrat al...)
A few words in Arabic script with diacritical marks on both sides. Late. Mentions "al-zanb maghfūra".
Mentions several names (Yehuda; [...]n al-ʿAmmānī; Abū ʿAbdallāh).
Conveying instructions regarding business transactions in al-Mahdiyya.
Letter from Aharon to his brother Abu Sa’d al-Kohen. AA
One of the parties is named Abū ʿImrān al-Kohen.
In Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions al-Shaykh Yūsuf and the name Naṣrallāh.
Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to an Abu al-Barakat whom he addresses as 'brother' and 'friend'
Part of a ketubba, for Shemarya ha-Kohen (groom) and Sitt al-Bayt (bride). (Information from CUDL)
Fragment of a business letter, mentioning Abū al-Muna. (Information from Goitein’s index card).
Mentions taking something from the Amīr Makīn al-Dawla.
وحراسته ونعمته في [ ] من يد الامير مكين الدولة
Letter from Hārūn b. Yosef Ibn al-Ghazzāl, in Qayrawan, to Yosef Ibn ʿAwkal, in Fustat.
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Mentions many names, such as Mūsā b. Khalaf and Khalaf b. ʿAlī.
State document: End of a Fatimid petition or report from the period of al-Ḥākim (996–1021) or earlier.
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Legal document in Arabic script. Almost complete. There are two witness attestations at the bottom.
Mentions the cost of shipping from al-Mahdiyya to Qayrawān.
Legal formulary of Saadya Gaon (Kitāb al-Shahāda wa-l-Wathā'iq). Information from FGP.