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Refers to the amīr Rifʿat? al-Dawla; a dīwān; and includes a raʾy clause. Dating: no later than 1045 CE due to reuse on recto.
وعبده يسل انعامه[
ثبوته على يد الامير رفعة الدولة ادام الله عزه
ا]ستخراج رافعها في سورة الديوان
]بيده الراي //الاعلى// في الانعام علي فيما سا…
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Natan from Jerusalem to Ismail b. Yitzhak al-Andalusi from Fustat. Yisrael b. Natan expresses his worries because of the absence in letters from Ismail.
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Fragment conveying good wishes for the holidays and reporting on the sale of indigo (nil) in al-Mahalla which had been successful but which had been unsuccessful in Minyat Ghamr.
Formularies for letters addressed to notables in Judaeo-Arabic, along with a few verses of Judaeo-Arabic poetry.
No Scholarship Records
Faraj as agent for the wife of Abu l-Ḥasan al-Ṣayrafi, who was oppressed by her husband. (Information from CUDL)
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Remnants of address in Arabic at the back. Reads as "al-Fusṭāṭ".
Hoshana, Jerusalem, to Shemarya b. al-Hanan, the leader of the Babylonian Jewish community in Fustat ca. 1010.
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Shemarya, referring to Abū Saʿd and Abū Ibrahim al-Andalusī, with three lines of a piyyuṭ composed by Sahlān b.
Wine is recommended as an alternative for a sharab (a potion). The verso contains an unrelated Arabic document.
Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay the household of al-Riyānī 2 dinars. Dated Av 1451 (= 1140 CE). (Information from CUDL)
Opens with the phrase "(al-mamlūku) yakhdumu majlisa mawlānā wa-sayyidinā...."
ا[لمملوك]
يخدم مجلس مولانا وسيدنا ادام الله ايامه ويسل انعامه
ان يتفضل باحسانه ان يرسل صحبة الشيخ ابو الحسن جامكية
المملوك في …
Wahb, in the hand of the jahbadh Mīkhāʾil b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ. Dated: 4 Jumādā I 404. Measurements: 10.4 × 8 cm.
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Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm (see PGPID 20611). The tax receipt is dated 28 Dhū l-Qaʿda 404.
Recto, with address on verso: Letter in Arabic script addressed to al-muʿallim Yehuda KR[...]. Verso and margins of recto: Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic, involving the sale of a house.
Tax receipt issued for the ḍāmin of Dhāt al-Ṣafā against revenue delivered by Abū l-Ḥasan b.
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, a government employee (al-mustakhdam). Dated: 17 Rajab 531(?) AH = 10 April 1137 CE if read correctly.
Mentioning the name Ibn al-ʿŪdī.
Mentions something to do with a caravan (nuzūl al-sayyāra). On recto (secondary use) there is some Aramaic literary text.
(Data from FGP by Abrahan David.) Join: Alan Elbaum.
The writer is named Ibrahim al[...]. With the partial names and the distinctive handwriting, the writer should be identifiable.
Little preserved apart from the word [...] al-Sijilmāsī. Many of the surrounding fragments are in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen; this may be from his dossier as well.
Reused on verso for a literary text in Hebrew. Joins: Alan Elbaum and CUDL.
Fragment (lower right corner). Mentioning Abū ʿAlī coming to the sender's location and an ʿarḍī garment and something that sold.
Fragment of a legal document; concerning alimony and other marital matters between spouses; [...]
Recto contains the beginning of a document and mentions al-Maghrib. Verso contains some crossed out text; portions of names; the words bayt din, istiḥqāq, a quarter and an eighth, and a guardian (אפטרופא).
Small fragment in Judaeo-Arabic, probably literary, from the introduction to a work by al-Fārābī. Less likely a letter, though the layout (with blank verso) often suggests documentary rather than literary.
Fragment from a letter, mentioning Mesar or Muyassar (מיסר) ha-Kohen who met with someone important, "and he is a very good person," then ʿAmram and Elʿazar and Yeshuʿa al-Iskandarānī. On verso there is piyyuṭ. (Information in part from CUDL.)
There is an 'emet' header and the letter addresses itself to "the community" (al-jamāʿa). The subject matter is unclear. This is a small fragment from the upper right corner.
The language is very reminiscent of a petition (yujaddid ʿahd khidmatihī lil-majlis al-sāmī....) however the addressee is the sender's cousin (ibn ʿamm) Abū l-[...].
Mentions a community 'raising' something to a certain Dīwān al-Kh[āṣṣ?]: حاله الى ان يرفع الجماعة الى ديوان الخـ[اص(؟) . . .
State document in Arabic script. 7 lines are partially preserved. Mentions a rescript (al-tawqīʿ) and probably a year in the 5th century AH (4[..]).
Mentions various people's names (e.g., Fakhr al-Dīn and Shelomo), quantities of 'sieved' (mugharbal) wheat, and expenses for milling and winnowing.
List of alphanumerical entries, likely accounts. Dating is perhaps late medieval up to 17th-century but there is very little paleography to confirm a clear estimate.
Greetings to the teacher Sulaymān, to Yūsuf, to Bū ʿAlī, and to the sender's wife and a girl. On verso (and bottom of recto) there is Hebrew piyyut.
Including medical, magical and alchemical recipes, e.g. for making a woman love her husband, for producing gold , for removing an arrow, and for a toothache.
Recto: Much effaced list of donors to charity. With one exception all called by their first names. Nineteen pledges of at least twenty-two persons.
Asking the addressee to give 10 nuqra dirhams to the bearer, Abū l-Faraj. Dated 13 Rabīʿ al-Awwal, [...]. The remainder of this large fragment is filled with jottings in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic.
Asking him to disburse a sum of money to a woman, possibly Sitt al-Sāda who is named in the last preserved line.
Avraham b. [...] b. Yiṣḥaq known as Ibn al-Baqara."
Gives the name Yefet b. [...]ṭ ha-Kohen (ZL) and then the date Friday, 16 Tammuz 1466 Seleucid, which is 1155 CE, then "salām ʿalā Yisrael." On verso there is Hebrew piyyut.
Refers to audiences with the caliph, the amīr Wajīh al-Dawla, and someone traveling from Ramla to Damascus via Banyas and (then?)
اليوم كان عند امير المومنين صلى الله عليه عاد بن هرون
الى عند امير المومنين صلى الله عليه الامير وجيه الدولة يعلمه
انه ساير عن الرملة الى…
Verso (original use): Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script, referring to a period of one year (mudda sana kāmila) and a drug store (fī dukkān al-ʿiṭr). Might be related to the Judaeo-Arabic partnership agreement on recto.
Possibly dated with a Hijrī year in the headings on the recto and verso but it is unclear how/if the scribe denoted it alphanumerically following the month "Rabīʿ Thānī." Requires further examination.
Fragment from a bill of release granted by a woman (al-keshera) to Abū l-Makārim Meshullam ha-Levi and his brothers after a compromise(?)
Mentions a power of attorney; Abū Yaʿaqov; 6 dinars; Abū ʿAlī; and an oath.
On the righthand page of verso mentions the sister of Barakāt who was the wife of Abū ʿAlī.
Letter addressed to al-Rayyis Rabbenu Eliyya (might be the judge Eliyya b.
Dating: No earlier than 1425 CE, based on the mention of the ashrafī was which first minted under Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay in this year. There are at least two addenda on verso.
Aharon and "the fourth" and "the third" (yeshiva titles?). T-S NS 322.101–17 all belong to the same dossier as Gil, Palestine, #521–23.
A later scribe has emended some of the words, e.g. changing Meʾir to Moshe in l. 11. Join: Alan Elbaum.