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Mentions "that which I sent in partnership with (פי כלטה) my master the elder Abū ʿAlī."
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Contains an ownership note on the verso: "property of al-faqir(!) Eliyya Fayrūz." For an instance of this name in the Cairo Geniza post-1627 CE, see: Yevr.
No Scholarship Records
(עלם מביע קמח) for the year 5589 AM which is 1828/29 CE (התקפט). Although the year is clearly rendered the disorderly scribal hand makes the nature of the list's purpose uncertain.
Receipt for the price of sugar collected from a certain ʿAbdūn by the messenger Aḥmad al-Ḥawlī. The document is dated Tuesday, 13th RabīʿII 859 H.
Yosef ha-Rav ha-Gadol. Bride: Sitt al-Adab bt. Yehuda b. Nissim ha-Sar b. Masliah the haver, the judge.
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Letter from Perahya Yiju to his brother Shemuel. Written probably in al-Mahalla around the seventies or eighties of the twelfth century.
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Customers include ʿAbdallāh, al-Mujāhid, Muhannā, and the Muʿallaqa (presumably the church).
Gotein's note reads in part, "Calligraphic (Torah script) to Yosef Rosh Kalla ve-Aluf (=Ibn ʿAwkal) [...] Thanks and שנתחדשה הצרה זאת.
Letters or groups of letters written by an apprentice who trained in the basics of the Arabic alphabet. This Arabic-script letter is dated 29 Rajab 1187 AH, which is 1773 CE.
Letter from Sibāʿ, unknown location, to the cantor Abū Naṣr known as Al-Damghar(?), in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly the same handwriting as T-S AS 152.67.
Court record, probably a bill of release between a woman named Turfa and a man named Sayyid al-Kull. Signed by [...] b. Elʿazar ha-Kohen and Natan b.
Parts of three lines from the left side; second line reads "in shā allāh taʿālā." Wide line-spacing. Between lines 2 and 3 there is mirror-writing, presumably the imprint from another text or from the right side of this one.
In Arabic script. From Yaḥyā al-Tājir. The nature of the request is not clear, nor is it clear how much is missing from the bottom.
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Receipt issued at a wakala in Būlāq for a transaction connected to rice and a shipping vessel from Dimyāt whose captain is named Muḥammad al-ʿAdāwī. Dated: 28 Ramaḍān 1243 AH which is 1828 CE.
Some contain the mystery mark (backwards ط). All are dated after the formula kutiba. ENA 3971 13–24, 31 and 34.
Yosef (the nephew of Avraham Ibn Yijū), to Saʿadya b. Avraham Ibn al-Amshāṭī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Only the address and the upper right corner of recto are preserved.
A torn and damaged Karaite ketubah. Although no complete sentences have survived, from the remaining words and phrases we can be sure that this is a Karaite ketubah: e.g החתן הבחור החשוב, ואליו תשוקתו and more.
وحب الله بالعافية); Ghālib and his father; a complaint about a lack of letters; Ṣahrajt; and Abū ʿAlī. Needs further examination.
Rāsī(??) b. Yiṣḥaq, Sūq al-Ṣarf, the 24 portions of a house, "to my husband Suqayr."
Involving Abū Saʿīd Makhlūf ('al-Neʾeman'), [...] b. Moshe ha-Zaqen, and ʿAmram b. [...].
Addressed to a judge (mawlāy al-shofeṭ). In the greetings section mentions Abu l-Karam Rosh ha-Qahal; Ṣedaqa b.
Dealing with flax, clove, frankincense, aloe vera, cassia fistula. Mentions interesting Greek and possibly Italian names like גורגי דג'ראדי (D'Giradi?)
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The accounting style is very terse, mostly relying on Hebrew alphanumerals. The recto contains an extensive halakhic text in Ladino according to FGP.
This appears to be a rental contract for a portion of a store betwen Binyamin Romano and Faraj Allāh b. Shelomo. There are no witness signatures.
Opens with greetings to the mother. Mentions Naṣr al-Dīn. The address on verso is written in a different hand: to be delivered to Abū l-Riḍā.
Location: Cairo is just barely visible along the lower tear of the document: מ]צרים].
A few partial gravesite entries are visible alongside an illustration of three trees. This fragment may be related to BL Or. 10578P.20 (PGPID 40638).
Each entry mentions an Anno Mundi month, there may be an alphanumerical year listed somewhere. Requires further examination.
Involving Elʿazar ha-Levi and Abū l-Munā known as Ibn Naṭira, Yefet al-Zajjāj, and Shemuel. May be a betrothal: למא סהל [אלכאלק יִתעלה שמו אסבאב אלוצלה]
The list is itemized each beginning with "ʿalā" indicating the dues of each person listed.
Letter fragment in Arabic script. The name Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. M[...] appears at the top of recto. Mentions prior correspondence several times.
Signed by Yiṣḥaq Shelomo al__[?] and Ḥayyīm Camtonino[?]. MCD.
The sender congratulates the addressee on the holidays, alludes to the difficult circumstances, and prays that God send deliverance (فاسل الله عز وجل ان يفرج).
Maṣliaḥ; Muʿizzī dinars; [...] b. Yosef al-Zākī. On verso there are three words in Arabic script (مراسلات مالي فيها).
Dating: [14]41 Seleucid = 1129/30 CE, under the authority of Maṣliaḥ ha-Kohen (served as head of the Jews in Egypt 1127–39). No or almost no details of the case are preserved.
Letter written and sent from al-Mahdiyya by Musa Tāhartī to his brother Barhun in Fustat, containing details about trade in the Maghreb and advising his brother about buying flax.
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Hilāl to a maker of scales (al-Mawāzīnī) to whom the writer had given a scale on which to affix a hanger, asking the man to return it right away to the letter-bearer Abū Naṣr.
Legal document between Maḵlūf b. Jacob and Sitt al-Riḍā bat Mufarraj b. Ḵalaf. Record of testimony concerning the sale of a female slave for the price of 17 dinars.