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Sitt al-Baha bt. Eliyya, the bride of Abu l-Ḥasan, receives on the day of her qiddushin from Abu Kathir b.
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Rudimentary handwriting. Mentions Barhūn and al-Rayyis Abū Zikrī. From the Maghreb? (Information from Goitein's note card.)
Simha, daughter of Moshe b. Job, wife of Yosef al-Bali, sells a Pentateuch with gilded ornaments to Yiṣḥaq b.
Verso: Medical prescription (nuskha lil-khayālāt) containing twelve ingredients, along with a record of four donations received in a pesiqa dated 1225/26 CE (1537 Seleucid).
Mentions Abū Saʿd, Abū l-Thanāʾ, al-Muhadhdhab, and the sender's brother Yosef. (Information in part from CUDL and Goitein's index card.)
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Calligraphic copy of release in which a grandson confirms having received from his grandmother, named Sitt al-Rida bat Saadya, the estate of his father. Dated Adar II 1524/ March 1213.
In Arabic script. Headed: "suyyira ʿalā yad Zaghlūl" (sent with Zaghlūl). (Information in part from Baker/Polliack catalog.)
No Scholarship Records
The fragment is possibly a draft or part of a booklet for personal use. Verso: Hebrew alphabetical exercises. (Information from CUDL.)
Contains financial report with Abu al-Khayr, who is Musa b. Barhun ha-Tāhartī, the writer’s uncle.
אלבאקי עלי מולאי אלשיך אבי אלכיר בעד
אלמחאסבה תקכו ותלתיי וקיר וען צרף ק דינ מה שאמיה מדורה דינ>
וען יד דינ ותלת אטראבלסיה יב…
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Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hod is to give the bearer 2 ounces of some kind of syrup.
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(Information in part from CUDL and Goitein’s index card.) Join: Alan Elbaum.
Likely the opening of a communal letter addressed to all the communities of Egypt: . . . ישראל שבארץ מצרים ובכפריה . . .
Ends, "anhā dhālika wa-l-raʾy aʿlāhu." Dating: Likely Ayyubid or early Mamluk-era, based on handwriting and format.
Yosef, of the Ben Yiju family who was the muqaddam of al-Mahal. Written by Mevorakh b. Natan in a poetic Hebrew.
Bottom of a letter concerning a legal case between Saʿadya and his brother-in-law ʿAlī concerning 30 dinars and an oath (שבועה התורה אלדי הי מודה במקצת....).
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. To Abū l-Ḥasan b. al-faqīh(?) ʿAbdallāh. Little of the content of the letter is preserved.
Seems to involve receipt of a governmental decree empowering the sender and his allies to fine and punish those who rebelled against their authority.
A partial date is visible along the upper right corner of the recto, 1 S[ivan], but the year may have been lost to damage.
Mentions the ship (markab) of al-Jazzār; mentions 9 people and a rent/hire price of 90 dinars; then 13.5 dinars in the next line.
Concerning a petition from a group of people ("al-mustaghīthīn"). The court validates a document and gives it to Hillel ha-Kohen, one of the petitioners, for it to be brought to the Gaʾon (whose name is missing).
Recto: letter from Yaʿaqov b. Joseph b. Ismaʿīl al-Aṭrābulsī, in Ashkelon (ca. 1060 CE), concerning trade and sums of money owed by Abū Yaḥyā Nahray b.
Brief letter of recommendation for charity on behalf of Abū Saʿīd al-Ḍarīr (the blind), probably the bearer of the note.
Accounts in a late hand, mentioning numerals, measures and month names. Dated along the upper edge of the verso: Rabiʿ I 977 AH (זעץ) which is 1569 CE.
The first is from Livorno, addressed to Shabbetay Palas (aka Alpalas) and Yosef Levi. Dated: 41st of the Omer (Iyyar 26), 5454 AM, which is 1694 CE.
Possibly refers to a placename in the same heading, Minyat al-Shaykh, but this location requires further research.
Involves Elḥanan; [...] b. Natan Ibn al-Ṣīrī; and ʿEli b. Hillel ha-Ḥazzan ha-Gadol.
Or possibly a letter on behalf of a woman ([al]-mamlūka). Probably her husband (l. 7) has left and failed to provide support for the her and her child.
Beginning of a petition/letter of appeal for charity from Yūsuf al-Ṣaʿīdī to a qāḍī. Dating: Likely 13th century or later based on hand and layout.
Letter addressed to Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Natan al-Sabīʿī (aka Avraham b. Natan ha-Sheviʿi). The sender's name may include Yosef.
The lessee is named Yūsuf b. Ibrāhīm al-Sāmirī (the Samaritan). In the upper margin, there is the draft of the beginning of a Jewish legal deed (hand of Hillel b.
In Arabic script. The muqirr is ʿAbd al-Qādir b. Rashīd b. [...]. Dated: end of Ramaḍān 777 AH = February 1376 CE.
There may be a remnant of an Arabic document on the verso but the text in is almost completely lost to damage. Requires further examination.
The months Ramaḍān, Dhū l-Ḥijja, and Rabīʿ al-Ākhar are mentioned. On verso there is piyyuṭ.
Mentioning many of the surnames of traders familiar from this period: Alarcon, Shtiwi, Condiote, many more.
List of names of contributors and amounts of their contributions in figures, mentioning approximately 50 proper names, headed by the Nagid and including Manṣūr Ibn al-Lebdī. See Med Soc II, App C, 41. (Information from CUDL and Goitein's index card.)
Recto (secondary use): Genealogies of two families, it seems of the husband and the father of a woman called the daugher of Nafīs al-Sharābī (cf. Mann, Jews, II, 320). 7 generations in the first column, eight in the second.
Two pages are in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, mentioning aṣḥāb al-dār and a qāḍī. One page is a list in Judaeo-Arabic of the clothing belonging to someone, mentioning a woman, her brother, and her sister, perhaps for legal purposes.
Yiṣḥaq; Yefet b. Shelomo Ibn al-Sukkarī; Moshe.
Mentions the Muslim name ʿAbd al-Jabbār b. Ḥassūn b. ʿUthmān. On recto there is the opening of the ʿamida prayer, translated word-for-word into Judaeo-Arabic.
Mentions a sum of money (al-mablagh). Needs further examination. Reused on recto for Hebrew piyyuṭ or prayer.
A page from a volume of the Mishneh Torah, with a note of sale (intaqala bi-ḥukm al-ibtiyāʿ. . .). The buyer is Binyamin b. Saʿadya ha-Kohen (the rubbed out part of his name is legible in the mirror image imprint on T-S NS 211.17).
Refers to the "market fees" and specifically mentions that these pertain to the "(Dīwān) al-Ishrāf."
Mentions "one dirham" and "Dīwān al-Aḥbās." On verso there is a note about an expenditure of 550 dirhams for tearing down (naqḍ) the walls of something.
Fiscal accounting ledger recording the monthly ground rent (ḥikr) payments for properties in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ made by Manṣūr b. Musallam/Muslim for the years 503 and 504 AH = 1109/10 CE and 1110/11 CE.
Mentions several names, including ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, and figures in the hundreds and thousands (unclear what unit).
Yehoshuaʿ of Tyre to Abū l-Faraj Shemaʿya b. al-Faraj of Jerusalem. Dating: mid-11th century.
Avraham . .. a dinar. . . since he said qadish in the synagogue. . . and he demands to be. . . " Pasted to another sheet of paper and reused for the opening page of an epistle on ophthalmology by ʿĪsā b. ʿAlī and other jottings.
Mentions someone named David Ibn al-Khayr as well as the goods אפלמור (lime or linden?)
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Letter/petition in Arabic script from Isḥāq al-Qāriʾ. In Arabic script. Reporting that he is engaged in Hebrew studies and asking for material support.
Mentions a caravan; meeting with Ibn al-Ghardīs (there was a judge by this name in Fez in the late 11th century) and Ibn Wāsīlan(?)