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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Ṭarīf and Abū l-Maʿālī in al-Rīf—here, the eastern delta—by order of the Nagid Shemuel b.
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He sends greetings to his mother and to Aaron al-Ḡarbī. Mordechai sends greetings to his family and Saul.
No Scholarship Records
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.)
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Landmarks listed include Masjid al-Qubba and the dwelling of the Nagid. (Information from Goitein's index card.)
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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..."
Mentions someone named Ibrāhīm b. Maḥbūb al-Muhandis in l. 3, a witness, and money (ʿayn).
Text block in Arabic script as well as a rhymed Hebrew poem about the buying, stuffing, and marinating in wine of the greatest chicken in all the land. See Khan, Documents, p. 316 (note 48).
Joins: Ezra Chwat and Alan Elbaum. (Information in part from Goitein's index card.)
Curse in Judaeo-Arabic, involving calling down fire on two people: "... send down upon you two a burning flame of fire and bronze..." (yursil ʿalaykumā shuwāẓ min nār wa-nuḥās). (Information in part from CUDL.)
Accounts, mentioning almond gum, tamarind, mastic; Munjib; various sums of money; 24 dirhams on the first of Muḥarram; and 20 dirhams someone received from his wife.
Groom: Maymūn b. Yosef. Bride: Sitt al-Dalāl. There are conditions about financial support, place of residence, and the phrase "manzil wa-ḥammām" appears.
Mentions buying something and expresses gratitude to Abū Saʿīd al-Melammed. There appears to be one word in Arabic script on verso (underneath אמונה אמן ושלום).
Mentions something (payment) is with "bint al-sharīf" in line 5. Among the variety of coinage types mentioned, "ʿothmanī" (עתמני) is referenced in line 10 (probably the Ottoman akçe).
In the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi. Join: Alan Elbaum.
Acknowledgment made by [...] al-Lebdī. Cf. T-S 6J2.11 (PGPID 5359) and T-S AS 165.190 (PGPID 5368).
peoples such as the Crusaders (al-ifranjī) and Berbers (?). (Information from CUDL.)
Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning Qayrawān and al-Mahdiyya, written prior to 1057 CE. Mentions people such as Abū Naṣr [Dāvid?]
(Information in part from CUDL.) Join: Alan Elbaum
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. "And you think it's alright to leave the girl perplexed? . . . she has taken someone who will protect/conceal her and sat/settled... we had hoped from you that you would send..."
Mentions someone titled Peʾer ha-Qehilot, Sitt al-Nasab, Yeshuʿa, and Bū l-Faraj "the husband of her mother."
Mentions "her husband," coming back, a guaranty (al-ḍamān), something Venetian (bunduqī), and the phrase "תכלץ דמתך מן."
The addressee is called 'nuṣrat al-mujāhidīn' among other titles. Dating: Ayyubid or Mamluk.
Letter in Arabic script to the writer's father, Abū Isḥaq Ibrāhīm b. Shubbāṭ al-Siqillī. Only the opening greetings and the address are preserved.
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Building expenses: mentions a house; clay; tiles; palm fronds (jarīd); food; nāshūsh; a wakāla; plaster; the shop in Sūq al-Kabīr; the synagogue; carpenter; rubbish; locking of a house.
Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. Names include Ibn al-Rūmī (l. 7) and Abū Yaʿqūb b. Yeshuʿa (penultimate line).
The name of the scribe is ʿAbd al-[...]. On verso there are culinary or medical recipes in Judaeo-Arabic.
T-S AS 202.272 needs examination. Join: Alan Elbaum.
: واطلق بالتوقيعات العالية في شهور . . . . Some sort of ʿalāma or registration at upper left.
Page from a volume of seliḥot to be read during the 10 days of repentance, with an ownership/purchase note by the cantor Yefet b. ʿAmram b. Moshe Ibn al-Jāzfīnī. See Moss. V,333.1 (PGPID 16949) and the shelfmarks cited there.
(Information from Goitein's note cards) Child's alphabetical writing exercises. (Information from CUDL)
(Information from Goitein's note cards) Arabic and Hebrew alphabet practice. (Information from CUDL)
Overtext: Writing practice of the Hebrew alphabet, and a Judaeo-Arabic list of birds, perhaps a translation of the unkosher birds from Leviticus/Deuteronomy.
On verso there is the Coptic alphabet. Needs further examination.
Information from http://www.investigacion.cchs.csic.es/judeo-arabe/sites/investigacion.cchs.csic.es.judeo-arabe/files/Genizah-Al-Andalus.pdf.
Dated: Looks like 5334 AM, which would be 1573/74 CE but the third digit is not clear (alternate readings: 5354 AM and 5394 AM). Currencies mentioned include sharīfī.
The colophon identifies its young author as affiliated with Madrasa al-Qarabiyya, one of the first government-funded primary schools in Egypt.
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Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE) concerning Sitt al-Furs bt. Daniʾel ha-K[ohen]. Might mention the name Yehuda at the bottom but this is damaged and uncertain.
It seems to be addressed to the director of the bureau of mosques (mutawallī dīwān al-jawāmiʿ wa-l-masājid), asking for his permission for something (bi-idhnihi lahu fī dhālika).