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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.
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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.
No Scholarship Records
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."
Mentions cinnamon and aloe and lac. Mentions 'the messenger of Rabbenu.'
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?)
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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.
Recto: Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic from Bū l-Majd to al-Raṣuy asking him to send the jarāʾid(?) belonging to the compound, urgently.
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. [...].
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).
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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There is an address on verso: To Moshe Ibn al-Ashqar, in Jerusalem.
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)
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.