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Involves the garment mender (al-raffāʾ) Yiṣḥaq b. Elʿazar and a certain Yefet.
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Letter fragment (lower right of recto, part of the right of verso). Essentially all the remaining phrases are formulaic. ASE.
Fragment from a document, mentioning names such as Sitt al-Ahl and Abū l-Faraj. (Information from CUDL.)
Accounts, mentioning names such as ha-Levi, [Abū l-]Maʿānī, Abū l-ʿAlā. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document mentioning an elder, Abū Yaʿqūb the parnas and Ibn al-Qaḥṭ[ānī?]. (Information from CUDL)
On recto, the name Abū ʿAlī appears. (Information in part from CUDL)
Inventory (thabat) of a certain Abū ʿAlī Ḥusayn’s possessions (?). Greek/Coptic numerals on verso.
Legal document written in Fusṭāṭ, mentioning ha-Levi b. [...] and the elder Abū ʿAlī. (Information from CUDL)
Minute fragment, possibly from a Judaeo-Arabic legal document mentioning a cantor and an inheritance. But almost nothing is preserved.
Accounts with names, such as Moshe Ibn al-Danwār, Yisḥaq, Hiba and Ḥasan, and ʿImrān, and numerals.
Fragment (lower right corner). Mentions an apostate (al-posheaʿ). (Information from CUDL)
Fragment of the siddur (prayerbook) of R. Natan al-Sijilmāsī. Shows evidence of having been preserved in a book binding (?)
Fragment from the top of an unidentified document in Arabic script, possibly mentioning the caliph al-Mustanṣir. Needs examination.
Mentions a drowned person (al-gharīq) and a quantity of manns of cinnabar (zunjufr).
Letter/petition from a certain ʿĪsā to [...] al-Khawlī. Dating: Probably Ayyubid or Mamluk-era.
Torn and damage.d There is an ʿalāma on the left. Mentions a sum of 500 (dinars) and a dīwān.
Two lines of Arabic script, the top of which reads "Dīwān al-Ishrāf."
Rent receipt for Bū Isḥāq al-Yahūdī. In Arabic script. Dated: 726 AH = 1325/26 CE.
Mentions Muẓaffar b. Hilāl b. Ḥusām al-Dawla and the town of Dahrūṭ.
Mentions "dafātirī" and "al-qirṭās." Needs examination.
Verso: Beginning of a literary treatise on 'the secrets of incantations' (asrār al-nīranjāt). On recto there is an unidentified text in Hebrew script.
Small fragment from the top of an official-looking document, headed by basmala and ṣalwala, then al-mamlūk [...]. Potentially a petition.
Might mention someone [...] b. ʿAlī and a gift.
Small fragment from the top of an official-looking document, with an ʿalāma at the top and reference to tax farming (ḍamān or ḍummān).
Bottom part of a receipt written by the jahbadh Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ. Dated: 10 Ramaḍān 405.
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Bifolio of accounts in Arabic with Greek/Coptic alphanumerals, extensive and well-preserved. Medieval-era.
Organized by parshiyot. Mentions al-Shaykh Bū Saʿd b. [...] and bread.
Mentions a landlord (ṣāḥib al-dār) and a garment (shuqqa muthallath).
Mystical vision of Shelomo Alqabeẓ ha-Levi, or perhaps a group somehow connected to him.
Bifolium from a book of alchemy. Same hand as numerous other fragments: start with BL OR 5565G.23–26.
Mentions Abū Yiṣḥaq; Abū Saʿd; Ibn al-Ḥarīrī.
Small fragment of accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions ʿAllān and Abū Yaʿaqov and different types of wood.
Possibly amounts owed by (ʿalayhi) and to (lahū) various people.
Might involve a woman named Sitt al-Nās.
Fiscal document. There is an ʿalāma at the top and underneath registration of various sums of money.
Pen trial of legal deed(s) mentioning the names Abū ʿAlī, Avraham b. Ṣadoq, Mubārak, and Barakāt.
Unclear if any details are preserved or if it is all boilerplate. Needs further examination.
The Arabic reads as "bāb aqṭaʿ al-riʿā[.
Probably belongs with BL OR 5565G.23–26 (a treasure-hunting/alchemical manual).
Alchemical instructions in Judaeo-Arabic (mentioning e.g.
VII,59, T-S 8.98, T-S NS 320.92, T-S NS 338.109, T-S AS 147.41, T-S AS 147.42. There are also larger fragments a hand that resembles his (e.g., T-S 12.141 and T-S 12.602).
Yiṣḥaq is referring to the letter that he sent to Molkho seeking assistance roughly a week earlier on the 9th of the Omer of 5562 AM (CUL Or.1081 2.49 -PGPID 31284). He also mentions a sum of 1,000 fiḍḍa that Me'ir sent to Safed via Shelomo Barūkh in Damietta, on behalf of Yiṣḥaq/Me'ir's unnamed maternal cousin (בנת כ'אלתי).
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This new ketubba lays out the conditions upon him both from the first ketubba and from the remarriage (the specific sums for the payments have also been left blank). The name Raḥamim Talmīd appears in a fragment of a communal kashrut tax (gabela) list from Cairo, dated 1822 CE (JRL Series L 29 – PGPID 40135).
In Judaeo-Arabic, with ~7 lines of possibly unrelated Arabic script on verso (some of this might be part of the address, though there is also an address in Judaeo-Arabic). Dating: Probably 11th century.
Mentions people such as Ḥayyān, the nākhudā ʿAlī (whose name is preceded by the mysterious phrase דאוה פאיך), and Yaʿqūb b. […] The sender has sent the qārūras of musk and musk pods with Yaʿqūb al-Bā[...] to the addressee, who is to give them to Yaʿqūb and Ibrāhīm, who should bring it with them to Aden.
He bought this quarter for a price of two and half dīnārs. It is also the only document from the collection that has writings on its verso.
Groom: Abū l-Wafāʾ b. Abū l-ʿAlāʾ. Bride: Sitt al-Thanāʾ bt. Yosef the cantor.
On Tuesday, 27th of Nisan 1468 Era of Documents [1157 CE] in Fustat, Egypt, situated on the Nile river, under the jurisdiction of our Master Samuel, …
Stating that the perfumer Abū l-Fakhr Seʿadya b. Avraham Ibn al-Amshāṭī ("son of the comb-maker"), had acted as collector of mezonot, or money for bread for the poor, on the same date. […] See BL OR 5542.23 for a letter addressed to the same Abū l-Fakhr Seʿadya Ibn al-Amshāṭī. (Information from Goitein's index card and Med Soc II, Appendix C, #81.)
They inform the addressee that David left impoverished orphans, so they ask him to send the money with a trustworthy merchant of Salonica in the form of a polisa (פוליסה) as soon as possible. They have also heard that Avraham Barukh and a certain Sarsūr owed money to the deceased (the latter because he was selling garments (?
Abū l-Faraj Menahem ha-Levi al-Shammāʿ b. Shemarya ha-Levi, who is the widow of the clothier (bazzāz) Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf b. Munajjā, acknowledges that she has received in full the 40 dinars of her delayed marriage gift (muʾakhkhar) from the ʿAsqalānī perfumer Abū ʿAlī Yefet b. Tiqva, "Beḥīr ha-yeshīva". Witnesses: Berakhot b.
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