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Verso contains multiple additional text blocks, all consisting of medical prescriptions or related.
No Scholarship Records
Mentions the caliph (amir al-muʾminīn) and the date (but the date is missing).
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Verso: Amorous poetry in Arabic script and accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning "white" and "red" commodities weighed in ounces, a kind of stone, mercury, and the name Abū l-ʿAlāʾ. AA. ASE.
Jottings of a rebuke for somebody who has forgotten everything the speaker taught him of grammar, algebra, poetry, respect, and piety. On verso, another literary text in Arabic script in a different hand.
Containing information on the dirham/dinar exchange rate. The name Abū l-ʿAlā appears a few times. (Information in part from Baker/Polliack catalog.)
Some names such as Manṣūr al-Farrāsh. AA/ASE
The scribe has a very distinctive hand and downsloping lines. Joins: Alan Elbaum (with the FGP join finder).
Legal formulary of Saadya Gaon (Kitāb al-Shahāda wa-l-Wathā'iq). Gives a sample deed drawn up in Baghdad(?)
Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hod is to give the bearer 1 raṭl of rose and lemon syrup.
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Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hod is to give the bearer 1 ounce of chewy candy (ʿaqīd).
Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hod should give the bearer 3 ounces of apple syrup.
Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hod is to give the bearer 2 ounces of chewy candy (ʿaqīd).
Note in Arabic script, including a basmala the word "al-qāḍī" (the judge). On recto there is piyyuṭ.
The addressee is greeted with many respectful titles. Mentions Abū l-Bayān al-Ṭabīb (the physician). AA. ASE.
Involves a woman named Sitt al-ʿIrāq. (Information in part from CUDL)
Dating: ca. 13th or 14th century based on handwriting. Mentioning [Reuven?] al-Kohen, [...] b. Yosef, and maybe Abū l-Bahāʾ.
Business letter addressed to Avraham b. Shanju and Shelomo al-Shaqar. Dating: First half of the 16th century.
Draft of the beginning of a legal document, mentioning a certain Abū ʿAlī known as בן אלמכבה. The scribe appears to have written אלטחין in error instead of אלטארחין.
Address on verso in Arabic script: to Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb b. [...] al-ʿAṭṭār. (Information from CUDL)
Responsum; apparently sent to Abraham Maimonides; on verso Abū ʿAlī is mentioned. The dating is c. 1213–1237 CE given that Abraham Maimonides is referenced with the title "Nagid."
Mentions the fees of the market (rasm al-sūq). ((Information in part from CUDL.)
Yehuda to Mevorakh, with a long Hebrew introduction full of biblical citations (such a Psalms 133:1 and 128:4) and allusions to biblical verses. (Information from CUDL)
Letter / order of payment addressed to al-Ḥ[akham] Yosef asking him to send the money 'quickly quickly.'
Document with list of names, either with remarks such as ‘will testify’ or with numerals, mentioning Ibn Zurayq; Abū l-Surūr Ibn al-Kohen, Khallūf and Sitt (or Bayt?) Nissim. (Information from CUDL)
Mentions someone who went to live in "the city" ("al-madīna" = specifically Palermo?). It will be difficult to extract more information without a join.
Note/order addressed to Abū l-Faraj al-Kohen. In Judaeo-Arabic. Instructing him to collect four dirhams from the bearer, the 'boy' (ṣabiyy) of the sender.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning a judge and his paternal uncle Yosef, Abū l-ʿAlāʾ and several sums of dinars. (Information from CUDL) Arabic-script stamp on the verso with ___ Suleyman.
Legal document mentioning Abū l-[...] and probably Sitt al-Sāda, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE).
Small fragment with part of a list of names, including Yosef Hibat[allāh], Ḥalfon b. Y[efet?], ʿUthmān, and referring to the Palestinian Yeshiva (Geʾon Yaʿaqov).
Small fragment of a letter in the hand of Yehuda Ibn al-ʿAmmānī (early 13th century). Likely related to T-S AS 157.364 and T-S AS 157.365.
Mentioning Abū l-Fakhr al-Kātib... a man known as Ibn Ayyū[b]... and a woman known as [...].
Fragment of a letter/petition in Judaeo-Arabic, praising the benefactions of a group of people (al-sāda). אלא בהם... פאלמכארם תצדר ענהם טבעא ותלקא[...]
Yehuda ha-Kohen; an amīr; and the term "al-mutawalliyīn." Likely an indirect join with T-S AS 168.223 (PGPID 38193).
Mentions ha-Maskil and al-Amīn. T-S AS 169.122 and T-S AS 169.124 may belong together.
Related to BL OR 5566D.24 + T-S 10J16.8 (PGPID 491) and contains more information about Ḥalfon's oath and the matter with the Persian Nasi. Join: Alan Elbaum. Needs examination.
Letter in Arabic script, from Hārūn b. Mūsā al-Kohen to his 'father' (yā wālidī) in Fustat.
Receipt or order of payment for Manṣūr Ibn al-Zaʿīm (same as in T-S AS 176.451 (PGPID 37337)).
Numerous names are listed, such as Samawʾal al-Khayyāṭ (the tailor).
Original use: Decree, of which only the phrase "amīr al-muʾminīn is preserved." The document is reused for a internal state report for which see different entry.
Informal note from Eliyyahu to a certain Kohen asking him to give Umm ʿAzīza the sister of al-Makīn one dirham so that she can buy two pullets.
Mentioning a variety of names, such as: Esther Medina, ʿAbd al-Rāhīb Mūsa, ʿAbdallah Mūsa, Yaʿaqov Barqī, among others.
Recto mentions Aḥmad b. [...] al-Khawlī(?) . . . . wa-l-nawwātiyya (something to do with the sailors?).
Headed, "One of the governors (ʿāmil min ʿummāl) of Homs wrote to ʿUmayr(?) ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz(?). . . ." This is followed by an extract from a letter and two pages of poetry.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic that mention Ottoman-era jadid coinage. 16th- or 17th-century. Along the recto's upper border the name Yosef appears with a possible surname: שוריפה = Sorifa[?].
Involving a woman named Sitt al-Sāda and a sum of 50 dinars.
Mentions 5 dinars and alludes to a conflict between two people. No names or details.