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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
The names are written mainly in Arabic script along with weights (e.g., raṭl, raṭl wa-nuṣf). Names include Umm Zuhayr, R.
No Scholarship Records
Table of items in Arabic script. All of them seem to be foods/spices/perfumes/materia medica, such as chicory (hindibāʾ), caraway (karāwiyya), and pomegranate blossom (jullanār).
Four different entries, each with its own set of ʿalāʾim. The one on verso is dated [13 Dhū l-Ḥijja?]
The sender is preparing for the winter. They ask ʿAbd al-Raḥmān to pray for them. Mentions drugs/perfumes (ḥawāʾij ʿiṭr).
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Groom: [...] b. [...] ha-P[arna]s. Bride: Sitt al-ʿIzz.
Note from Yaʿaqov the agent of Abū Saʿd b. Mufaḍḍal al-Sukkarī (same as in T-S NS 264.48 (PGPID 24564)?)
The beginning is: "ḥaḍrat mawlāya al-shaykh". Only formulary. The draft is surrounded by a rectangular design frame.
Power of attorney in which Moshe appoints Berakhot as his agent to sue Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya al-Ḥayfī known as Bū Farajūn (or Ibn Farajūn?).
Groom: Natan. Bride: Sitt al-Turaf bt. Yeshuʿa, virgin. witnesses: Yosef b.
Release in the name of Naṣrallāh b. Salmān b. [...] al-Skandarī, in which he declares that he has no further claims on a long list of people, it seems following the death of somebody.
Probably a deed of sale, since most of the remaining text is describing the boundaries of a property in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ.
There is an addendum in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning Sulaymān b. Yiṣḥaq al-Qaysī(?). Needs examination. The fragment is reminiscent of BL OR 10578H.25 (PGPID 33708).
Letter from Shemarya b. Yakhin, in al-Maḥalla, sent to Shemuel ha-Nagid dealing with the production of cheese in Bashmur and its transport to Fustat.
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He reports that Abū l-Surūr has already traveled.
Two entries are preserved. The phrase "ʿan al-mamʿūl fīhā" is preserved in both. There is a number (433?)
The shelfmarks ENA 3077.8–13 all appear to be related, including pen trials, accounts, and poetry in Ladino.
Mentions the kāshif (prefect) Ikhtiyār; Sharaf al-Dīn; a sum of 225 peraḥim;
From a certain Mordekhay al-Baḥrī[?] to Merkada and Brahem Diyalo[?] (דייאלו).
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated along the right border Kislev-Sivan 5390 AM (1629 CE).
Large and well preserved. Needs examination. Alt description: Fragment, recto, and verso both contain what look like pen trials (some repetitions, abusive ligatures, no lines but broken up words and phrases).
Only the address and a fairly formulaic opening are preserved ('all that delayed (wakhkhara) my letters to you was fate and its calamities').
Letter from Yeshuʿa al-Qarawī 'the supervisor (mushārif) of the Qaysariyya,' in Sunbāṭ, to Shelomo ha-Sar ha-Nadiv.
Recto with address on verso: Letter from a woman (ʿammat al-dayyān) to her brother-in-law. In Judaeo-Arabic.
Mentions 25 qinṭārs of something and ginger (zanjabīl); and coming down from the dīwān. Indirect join: Alan Elbaum.
Stating the amount of money to be paid to al-Khwāja Eliyyahu Lanyado and signed by Yaʿaqov Yaʿabeṣ, who was evidently the scribe.
Mentions David Revaḥ and possibly someone with the surname Ben-Zikrī, although these could be patronymics b. Zikrī. Part of the address is extant on the verso but solely comprises the recipient's honorifics.
Dated 24 Nissan below the main section of text, possibly with a two-alphanumeral year. The latter part of the date is unclear in meaning, but likely falls in the 15th- or 16th-century based on the paleography.
At least one name is visible on the recto: ʿAlī Çelebi. The accounts continue on the verso.
On the last page contains the interesting stipulation that if you are in Ereṣ Yisraʾel then the date should be from the destruction of the Temple, and if you are in al-Ramla then the date should be from the exile of Yehoyakhin.
One of the parties resorted to the Muslim courts ("al-goyim"). The sum at stake is a matter of 12 dinars.
Involving Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. Kathīr al-Ḥalabī, Salāma, and perhaps a partnership with 17 dinars.
The sender complains about isolation (al-wiḥda wa-l-inqiṭāʿ) and is anxious for the addressee to give an update about something.
The words 'fi-s-safina' (in the ship) and 'al-miyah' (the waters) are legible. Another line was written at the bottom of this fragment upside down to the rest of the text.
The first line contains a name which is not very legible but is followed by "al-Yahūdī".
The writer asks Abū Isḥāq to obtain for (?bi-rasm) Abū l-ʿAlā' a piece of fabric of high quality (jayyid rafīʿ) and close weave (ṣafīq) with the pattern (?
Draft of the beginning of a letter from an unidentified person addressed to his or her mother al-Ḥurra and his or her sister Jawhara. In a late-ish, crude hand.
One is for a document involving Sitt al-Ahl bt. Avraham ha-Levi and her husband Manṣūr b.
On verso, written in various directions, there are five discrete addenda with attestations, all beginning "aʿrafa" and referring to the content of the main document on recto.
Ezra, Abū Sahl b. Azhar and Menashshe al-Maghribī. It is signed by Moshe b. Shelomo and Shemuʾel b.
The testator is owed 2/3 dinars by his niece (brother's daughter) Sitt al-Fakhr and specifies what this should be used for.
Yaʿaqov; sending purses with various sums of dinars; [Hārū]n(?) b. Rajā Ibn al-Dirghām(?); Tamīm; a kerchief; 'for some of the people in Fustat/Egypt'.
At least one witness's attestation has been preserved: Muḥammad b. Muḥammad al-? Later cut in half, folded into a square and sewn.
Each side begins "idhā...." Verso ends "wa-llāhu aʿlam." The content is difficult to read but refers to winds, storms, ships, wheat, and children.
The donor is Yosef b. Aharon kown as al-Ghazzi, and the date is Marḥeshvan 1411 Sel.
Aharon ha-Kohen, with a lengthy Hebrew opening. Mentions Abū ʿAlī. It continues in the right-hand margin, where a final sentence mentioning Abū Zikrī has been added with a different pen.
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A lane known by the name of Rabbenu Ḥananel is named. Almost certainly in the hand of Imanuel b. Yeḥiel.
Maymūn, in Spain, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel. Consists almost entirely of polite expressions of longing and flattery.
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Beginning of a settlement in court in Fustat between Wāfī b. ʿAmram al-Iskandarānī and [...] b. Yefet Tifʾeret ha-Qahal.
Fragment of a business letter to ʿAllān b. Ḥassūn announcing the arrival of a large ship from Spain and two other ships from Mahdiyya and Sfax.
Letter in which a son acknowledges receipt of a shipment sent by his father, along with the statement, “And paid the dinar for the capitation tax with the money earned by my own hard work.”