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Accounts of the Qodesh, probably. Almost entirely in Arabic script, but there is a זל after one of the names, indicating its Jewish origin.
No Scholarship Records
In Ladino and Hebrew numerals. Join: Alan Elbaum. (Information in part from CUDL). Each line begins with "mas" giving a sense of the nature of the descending calculations.
Suwayqa סואם(?) - with Maʿālī - 3.5. Al-ʿAṭṭārīn - with Barakāt - an eighth of a bale - 3 [...] - and for kohl - 6.
The blank verso was reused for a list of piyyuṭim; verso (but not recto) is a join for T-S 16.103 (join: Alan Elbaum). Needs further examination.
One is a note addressed to the Qāḍī Sanāʾ al-Mulk stating that his instructions have been carried out.
One page has a poem in Ladino involving a husband and wife and a knight, with refrains which are different from each other but which all end with "yo" (continuation of the poem on the preceding framgent).
Probably a join with T-S NS 226.107 (PGPID 24248) though it's not clear exactly how (identified by Alan Elbaum).
Recto: Possibly the top of an official letter in Arabic script. Reused for jottings all over the margins in Arabic and Hebrew script.
Recto: Legal testimony. Location: [Banhā] al-ʿAsal. Dated: 1584 Seleucid = 1272/73 CE, under the authority of [David I Maimonides].
Some names are legible, such as Thābit b. Ṣāliḥ, ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, [...] b. Ilyās. Mentions aḥbās, probably in relation to endowments, and a few like Saturday, 15th Shaʿbān, but a year is not mentioned anywhere.
Involving [...]DYA known as Ibn al-Ṣabbāgh (spelled בן אצבג); the mother of Yefet b.
Mentions something that happened yesterday at the physician's shop (dukkān al-ḥakīm); the sender may be expressing remorse for what happened; and he wants to meet with the addressee or perhaps somebody else immediately.
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Jazīl; Ibn Hārith; and Avraham al-Madīnī (=the Palermitan).
, the female neighbor of Ibn Shudayqāt(?), and R. Yosef al-Ṣāʾigh.
Reports that the two ships from al-Mahdiyya that had been anchored underneath the lighthouse departed on Saturday the 15th of Sivan when the wind became favorable.
There is a note addressed to al-Ḥakīm Yaʿaqov, which mentions ʿAmmār. There are instructions in Hebrew involving flour, water, and sulfur.
(The description on Ktiv differs: "Letter to Ramle; Abraham ben Isaac, Ibn Al-baḳrah, active 11th century.")
Five notes on tiny pieces of vellum, ordering the addressee to hand over small sums or certain quantities of oil, soap, wood, vegetables, lemon, or sugar to bearers. All are signed by one Zakkai. Mentioned in Med Soc, III, A19.
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The writer orders some clothing and mentions Abu al-Bishr and the Nagid, probably referring to the Sicilian Nagid Zakkar b.
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Bibliography: Fleischer, Kovetz al yad 13 (1995-96), p. 94-95.
Letter of condolence in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew to a certain Abū l-Ḥasan al-Mubārak b. [ʿIyad?]. On the death of a woman in his family (אלאשה אלכשירה).
Sermon in Garshuni (Arabic language in Syriac script). Repeatedly mentions al-ghafrān (forgiveness). There is a line about tears flowing from eyes (l. 5).
Extensive writing exercises in which the instructor provided the Hebrew alphabet in model handwriting for a student to repeat.
The beginnings of three lines are preserved on recto (mentioning al-Ramla): الرملة وف . . م . . من ظهر . . وتحصيله اليه.
He may owe a sum of wariq dirhams to Abū l-Ḥasan b. [...] al-Ṣabbāgh. Dated: 545 AH = 1150/51 CE.
Letter from Yosef b. Natan al-Ḥalabī to Moshe Maimonides. In Judaeo-Arabic.
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Involving 500 dirhams, Sitt al-Tujjār, and Abū l-[...]. Reused on verso for accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Mentions names followed by numbers. E.g. ʿAlī b. Bū Jumʿa(?), 13 dinars(?); Maḥfūẓ b. M[...]; Barakāt b.
Fragment (middle vertical third) of a letter in Hebrew, mentioning al-Khawāja ʿUthmān and the sender's travels to Cairo or Egypt.
Probably a family letter; discussing all sorts of distressing matters. Needs further examination.
Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 25 Dhū l-Ḥijja 403. The verso, written before the recto, contains part of a petition (see separate entry).
From one of the Spanish merchants in his circle, resembling the documents of India Book IV. Almost none of the content is preserved, but might help understand another letter if the join is found.
The scribe has distinctive nun sofits and qofs that hook to the left at a 90 degree angle. The document mentions al-Maghrib[ī] and Natan the Rosh Yeshiva, probably Natan b.
The margin may contain more details, along with a partial date (19 Jumādā).
Mentions: Fuhayd; baʿal ḥalom (a dream interpreter); Abū l-Ḥasan al-Parnas; Maʿālī b. Ghazāl; the daughter of [...].
Mentions items like the robes (shuqāq?) and the blankets (al-mulayḥifāt). Regards to Sutayt, the elder Abū Zikrī, "my brother who is like my father, my brother Abū Zikrī, and our entire family."
The author mentions an old woman, and the only legible name is Ibn al-Faraj, though there is not enough information to identify this person.
From the first administrative section of Egypt: "Qism al-Awwal Qalyubiyya" (there were 24 administrative sections).
The writer bemoans that he has lost all his money and merchandise. "The reason for the debt is that my work is with ... the Shaykh Abū Saʿd known as Abū [...]."
Bill of sale for a female slave, probably a draft. In Judaeo-Arabic. Al-Rayyis Abū Saʿd Seʿadya sells a Nubian female slave ([...]da) and her daughter (Shamīma?)
Legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. The parties are Sitt al-Dār and Maymūn. The nature of the agreement is not clear.
Accounts in Ladino with a wide variety of detailed entries, which based on the numerical flow may be monetary gains and some expenses. Although the paper size is slightly distinct, this fragment is a clear join with the scribal hand and recordkeeping style of JRL SERIES C 89.
Informal note addressed to mawlāy al-dayyān. In Arabic script. Asking him to pay a certain amount of money.
Every entry begins with "عند" followed by a name (including at least two women, Ḥusn al-Māshiṭa and Ḥusna the wife of Zayd, and amount of money in dirhams.
Some of the names listed include: Moshe Jābr, Muḥammad Dārsīya/Dārshīya (דארשיה), Saʿad Navar[o], ʿAlī Maḥmūda. Requires further examination. MCD.
One of the Judaeo-Arabic portions is an order of payment in which al-Talmid Abū l-Faraj is asked to give an ounce of maybe ink (מדאד) to the bearer.