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Recto: Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic from Bū l-Majd to al-Raṣuy asking him to send the jarāʾid(?) belonging to the compound, urgently.
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Describes the various chapters of a treatise on shekhitah, then says "it is completed with the help of God" and then there is the name Abu ... Ibn Hibat Allāh the son of our rabbi Yosef ha-Zaqen. On verso there is just one line that says Saadya b. [...].
No Scholarship Records
Hoshaʿna during the reign of the caliph al-Ḥākim in 1012 CE. Ed. Yahalom and Katsumata, The Yotserot of R.
The owner's name appears after the basmala: mulk Makārim b. Isḥāq al-Isrāʾīlī (active mid-13th century).
The witnesses include Hiba b. Naṭira and ʿAllūn b. Khalaf.
v5). Mentions the scholar (al-talmid) Abū l-Baqāʾ.
Dating: 11th-13th century. Mentions Bayān al-ʿAṭṭār. May mention "qibṭiyya" (Coptic) after two women's names.
Fragment of a fiscal report with one line of Arabic text following the join along the margin on ENA 2857.45v + ENA 2857.46v.
Dated in the heading in the month of Tammuz with an alphanumerical year that is somewhat unclear, probably: Tammuz 5220 AM (ה׳ר׳כ׳).
Several names appear with the title "Ship Captain" (רייס) and one al-Somekh (סומך). One name on the verso includes the surname and/or patroymic Ben Fayruz / b.
A few words from the reshut formula can be read, probably mentioning Sar Shalom Halevi (although his name is not preserved).
Groom: Elʿazar b. [...]. Bride: Sitt al-Sāda bt. ʿAdiyya. Dated: 1467 Seleucid = 1155/56 CE.
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Rental contract for an apartment in Sicily for 40 years, paid in advance, rented by a Jewish woman named Umm al-ʿIzz bt. Zurʿa to Yosef Yiju. Mazara, Sicily, after 1136 (Goitein and Friedman estimation).
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Letter from Shelomo Abū l-Khayr to his cousin (ibn ʿamm) ʿAlāʾ. In Judaeo-Arabic, with a couple words that look European.
Sāl[im] to Abū l-Fuḍayl Ibn al-Amshāṭī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Not a great deal of the content remains.
Moshe Ibn Ṣughmār from al-Mahdiyya to decide between the parties. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 4, #804) VMR
(3-1) נתן הרשאה, וכבר גבה אותם, וההכנסה .... אל תוציא מידך את כתב ההרשאה אלא .... אל תתרשל בזאת כי הצורך בקנייה ....
(6-4) ביני ובין אדם .... …
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Four fragments probably all from the same original page. Unclear if it is literary or legal.
Phrases preserved: "...with her, so that I can hear it from her... the fast, and Tuesday morning... concerning him, and I want 10 hearts of... or 12 good ones in... and Sumbāṭ and al-Min[ya?]..."
Dating: No earlier than the 15th century, based on the use of muayyadis (minted by al-Mu'ayyad, beginning in 1415 CE) and ashrafīs.
Some of the names mentioned include: Yosef Aghion and ʿAlī Ḥamīd. AA/MCD
Nissim Ṭawīl and Simḥa bt. [...] ha-Levi known as al-ʿAjamī, dated August 1818 CE (Av 5578). Verso: Halakhic discussion in Judaeo-Arabic involving the annulling of vows.
Mentions a girl who has been 'delivered for herself' (al-ṣabiyya mukhallaṣa li-nafsiha).
Involving someone from the al-Amshāṭī family making a declaration in favor of ʿEli he-Ḥaver or [...] b.
Note or folio from the epistle on animals, from the Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ. "رسالة الحيوان من رسايل اخوان الصفا وخلان الوفا من كلام الحكمة و [ ] النفس واصلاح الاخلاق من جملة اثنين وخمسين ..".
Rental receipt for a shop in the Jewish neighborhood (ḥārat al-Yahūd) for Ishāq Baybīs the Jew of 240 niṣf (half silvers).
Refers to the addressees' coming from al-Ramla. Otherwise consists mostly of greetings.
Sent to the qāʿa of ʿAbdallāh al-Damīrī, near the grave of ʿAffān (Turbat ʿAffān), in Fustat.
He objects to the marriage of Abu al-Mufadal, one of his brothers, and he urges this brother to devote more effort to his religious studies.
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List of names and quantities (of money, presumably) expressed in Coptic alphanumerals. Names are given without patronyms, and include Abū l-Fatḥ, Dāwūd, ʿAmr, Dāwūd again, and ʿAmr again.
The fragment was later reused to copy four different letters and two piyyutim for Shavu'ot, all revolve around figures in the first half of the eleventh century, Fustāt.
Fragment of a letter from Barakāt Ibn al-ʿAṭṭār to Shelomo b. Eliyyahu ha-Dayyan, conveying greetings and expressing sadness about being separated from the recipient.
The letter is to be delivered to the shop of Bū l-Majd in Sūq al-Barbar. (Information in part from Mediterranean Society, III, p. 178)
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Fragment of a letter from the office of the Nagid Yehoshuaʿ (d. 1355) addressed to the cantor Abu al-Faraj, like several other letters from the Nagid (Information from Mark Cohen; see Voice of the Poor in the Middle Ages, no. 87)
The handwriting looks like that of Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tahartī. Mentions obtaining 'ḥashīsha' from the warehouse.
Ṭarīf and Abū l-Maʿālī in al-Rīf—here, the eastern delta—by order of the Nagid Shemuel b.
He sends greetings to his mother and to Aaron al-Ḡarbī. Mordechai sends greetings to his family and Saul.
Seems to be addressed to Ibrāhīm al-Firnās, asking for assistance with something.
Khalfa to Khalluf b. Faraḥ b. al-Zarbī, probably in Fustat dealing with goods and their prices in Palermo.
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Fictive sale (bayʿ ṭāliq) of half of a house in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ for 4 years. Right to buy back. (Information from Goitein's index card.)
Landmarks listed include Masjid al-Qubba and the dwelling of the Nagid. (Information from Goitein's index card.)
IB IV, 51 (ח43). A letter from Ibn al-Fakhar to Halfon b. Netanel Halevi, asking for assistance and sending regards to R.
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Letter sent by a ḥaver to "al-Ḥemdat" Abū Isḥāq Avraham b. Natan ha-Sheviʿi, complaining that he has been snubbed and persecuted by the latter's son-in-law.
Letter from a certain Shemuʾel to Abū ʿAlī b. Abū l-Maʿālī. Beginning with good wishes for Rosh ha-Shana and recommending a stranger, a certain "Raʾīs" who is traveling to the addressee's city.
An ethical treatise in the style of al-Ghazali. Classical ethics with a tinge of Sufism.
My son, I adjure you to piety toward God; to faith; to bearing witness; to speaking truth in favor and fury; to moderation between wealth and poverty…
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Haggai Hasid, mentioning the addressee's son (Abu 'Ali Ḥasan), grandson (Efrayim) and brother (Yiṣḥaq).
Yosef requests repayment of a loan, and that payment be made through Shelomo Sirilio and Yiṣḥaq al-Ashqar. (Information from CUDL)
Letter sent to Mahfuz b. Allun informing him that the dinars he had sent helped the writer for ten months, but that now the addressee's sister's daughter and the writer's wife had to go begging.
Babylonians? Karaites?) to all Israel, emphasizing the duty to act like zealots of the type of Phineas and Eliyyahu in religious matters.
It is difficult to decipher the content. The term "al-mamlūk" (referring to the sender) appears multiple times.
There is an interesting albeit damaged postscript in a different handwriting (but conceivably the same scribe) that begins "I am the [....] from among those who sung to..."