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Letter from al-Shaykh Manṣūr(?) to his son. In Arabic script.
No Scholarship Records
At least one name is preserved in the opening line [...] b. Manṣūr b. Sālim(?) al-[...]. Needs examination.
Monograph; beginning of a work on kashrut, written at the request of a correspondent; the author states that he has already written a longer work on this subject. On verso a colophon by Yehuda the Elder b.
On recto the two columns ʿalayhi (debits) and lahū (credits). Dated: Shawwāl 538 AH = April May 1144 CE.
Legal document from al-Mahalla mentioning ha-zaqen b. R. Pinhas. (F.
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The document mentions "al-ishāʿa fī l-funduq."
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Letter from a woman named Harja, in Jerusalem, to her brother ʿAbd al-Dā'im Ibn Firrouz, in Cairo. Written in Judaeo-Arabic.
The writer mentions that he had already sent 7 letters on this matter. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Recto: Legal fragment involving Halil (?) al-Shayzari ha-Bursi and Yishaq and various sums of money.
Dated: Muḥarram-Rabīʿa al-Awwal 1182 AH which is May-July. The receipt is signed and stamped by Muṣtafa Jalabī (Çelebi) and issued to Muʿallam Liyahu.
The house where the writer lives with all his family is collapsing around them. There are several interesting spellings in this letter, e.g., אלצצֿירה for الصغيرة.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Ibn al-Nagid is mentioned. There is one line in Arabic script at the bottom.
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Horoscopes in the name of Ilyās al-Ḥakīm, including prospects for currying favor with government and the effectiveness of medicines.
His family members are all sick, and he has no money even for a medicinal syrup.
Account of a pharmacist listing household goods and other commodities (e.g., fiber tow (mushāq)). Mentions Khalaf Ibn al-Ṭunnāmilī and Fuḍayl. (Information in part from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 585)
Includes a section on ophthalmology mentioning the properties of "al-ʿinabiyya" (= the grape-like layer = the uvea).
; "swords" (suyūf); and almond. Goitein suggests that this is an inventory of items for a wedding.
Nissim mentioning Yusuf and Abu al-Ḥasan. The city of Tarablus (Tripoli) is referred to twice.
Some of the goods mentioned include: walnut (גוז), raisins, almonds, honey, and chestnut (קסטאל). MCD.
Mentions a sixth of a stable (اصطبل); a sixth of a small compound (duwayra), Ismāʿīl, and maybe an alley (zuqāq). Needs further examination. Reused on verso for Hebrew piyyuṭ.
With multiple instances of ḥamdala and then a basmala/ḥamdala followed by a partial date in the month of Jumāda al-Ākhr. Requires further examination. MCD.
Two autograph signatures of Moshe Maimonides, written on the margin of a sheet of unrelated piyyuṭim and sundry jottings in different hands (mainly in Hebrew script, some in Arabic script). Discovered by Alan Elbaum in June 2022.
There are four text blocks arranged in a grid, each headed by the name of a person written in larger letters (e.g., Naṣr b. Aḥmad al-Mawṣilī and Maḥmūd b. Ḥasan).
Written by the jahbadh Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ. Dated: 7 Muḥarram 404.
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Some of the entries are descriptive (" I bought for so and so, such and such for this price). Mentions alum (shabb). Mentions Abū l-Ḥasan b. Khulayf.
Letter fragment from Faraḥ b. Yosef al-Qābisī. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script.
He sent the letter with Abū ʿAlī.
الخادم محمد بن علي كلامها املى — so maybe Muḥammad b. ʿAlī dictated the letter? Reused for an Aramaic targum of Zekharya.
Discusses the education of 'the children of the community' (awlād al-ṣibbur). Only the upper part of the letter is preserved here.
Yiṣḥaq de Molina leases an apartment to Avraham al-Jazīra. Information from FGP.
date at the bottom: bi-tārīkh al-rābiʿ [...]). This was subsequently covered with jottings in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Letter from [...] b. Abū l-ʿAlāʾ. In Arabic script. Small fragment. There is some Hebrew script on verso.
Refers to receiving money or goods ([tasa]llamahū) from al-Rayyis. Few other details preserved.
A deceased person with an uncommon name is mentioned in line 3, ירוב זאקון נ׳׳ע (Yarov Zāqūn), probably as part of a broader patronymic name that is missing along the paper tear.
One side: Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic business letter to "my brother," mentioning [al-]Mahdiyya. Other side: Probably the original letter or the response in a different hand, in Judaeo-Arabic (letter from a mother?).
Small fragment from the beginning of a letter, with the introduction in Hebrew and the body in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender alludes to a controversy involving 'our colleagues' (aṣḥābnā) in Fustat, but the letter is fragmentary and the substance has not survived.
Mentions two sacks of flax; someone's brother Yaʿaqov who went down to [...]; Abū ʿAlī; and the Franks.
Mainly the closing greetings are preserved (Abū l-ʿIzz sends his regards to all in the addressee's location). On the other side there is a note about 5 dirhams and a guarantee and a pawn.
"The proof that the pupil (thaqb al-ʿinabiyya) is filled with spirit (rūḥ): when a person dies, the e[y]es sink.
Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. Mentioning Abū l-ʿAlā and Abū l-Ḥasan b. Makhlūf.
Dating: Late, probably 18th or 19th century. Involves Nissim al-Yahūdī. A sum of 143 (riyals?) is mentioned, each riyal valued at 90 medins (niṣf fiḍḍa).
Recto: Part of a Judaeo-Arabic letter, one of the few in this folder from the classical Genizah period. All that remains is a formulaic, very respectful opening, and good wishes for the holidays.
Mentions [...] ha-Levi b. Yeshuʿa al-Rayyis and [...] ʿAmram known as Ibn Ḥarīra.
Letter in Hebrew mentioning Avraham b. ʿAllūn, 20 gold coins, a deposit and a lawsuit. Dating: Might be 11th century.
, mentioning someone who died in Balad al-Rūm and licorice (sūs). The handwriting is distinctive, probably known (resembles T-S 10J14.7).
Recto: Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic to Rabbenu Meshullam, congratulating him on the holidays, and it seems begging for help with travel expenses. The writer alludes to his bereavement. Verso: Drafts of the opening of a letter to a distinguished person.
According to the catalogue it is a letter Abu al-faraj b. Shema’aya in Jerusalem. AA
Shemuʾel (known as Ibn al-Nabāt) concerning financial matters involving [...] bt.
Groom: Aharon. Bride: Sitt al-Ḥusn. VMR
"I am not asking for silver nor for gold, only the copies of the Torah. I have already written twice, and this is the third time..."