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Letter/note from Ismāʿīl(?) al-ʿAṭṭār to Maḥfūẓ. In Arabic script. Dating: Probably 12th or 13th century.
No Scholarship Records
Letter from the office of Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides (b. 1310–d. 1355 CE), who is introduced with his usual motto, to the community in Cairo concerning a lawsuit between Hiba b. Abū l-Faraj Allāh and his in-law Fakhr; he warns against unauthorised recourse to a gentile court.
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Yosef, Avraham Ibn Yijū’s nephew, to Saʿadya b. Avraham Ibn al-Amshāṭī. Introduced with Hebrew citations from Psalms 122:1-2 and 133:1 (mid-12th century).
Mentions people such as Barakāt b. Saʿīd, Abū ʿAlī, and Ibn Rashīq. (Information in part from CUDL.)
"The remainder sold in the Dār al-Wakāla: 5 dinars." At the bottom lists musk, a number, and the term mithqāl.
Seleucid, which is 1198–1298 CE. Wife: Sitt al-Kull. Verso: Unrelated document in Judaeo-Arabic, perhaps a letter.
It states that the husband of a woman related to Ibn al-Fulādhī (apparently a profession having to do with steel, fulādh or fūlādh) died, and she became pregnant.
Only the top part is preserved. Begins "I already came crying out before God and before you..."
Most of the items mentioned are various kinds of produce (sugar, raisins, almonds, pistachios, sumac, honey, and "hearts" of something).
Saʿadya b. Yosef; then Nadiv al-[...] b. Yosef; then Shelomo b. Avraham known as Dhahabī; then Shelomo b.
Calligraphic. Dated: Rabīʿ al-Awwal 417 AH, which is April/May 1026 CE. Many intricate details about transactions.
(Information from Goitein's note cards) A page from a children's Hebrew textbook, with alphabetical exercises in the atbaš order and in groups of three consonants, interspersed with חזק.
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(Information from Goitein's note cards) Writing exercises, mostly consisting of the alphabet vocalised with the various Tiberian vowels, in an unpractised hand.
The script is brutal and difficult to decipher but mentions previous correspondence, "warad bi-hi al-kitāb".
End of Hai Gaʾon, Kitāb Adab al-Qaḍā (‘Book of Good Manner for Legal Procedure’).
The other side contains remnants of lovely illuminations of the Israelites in the wilderness, along with Ladino translations of Hebrew text that is now missing.
Bottom of a petition in Arabic script, referring to the addressee as 'the father' (al-wālid) and ending with a raʾy clause (ورايه اعلا واسنى ان شا الله تعالى).
Verso (original use): Remnants of three words of a state decree in enormous calligraphic Arabic script ("...ī maṣāliḥ al-musli[mīn]" (ى مصالح المسل[امين...). Dating: pre–1108 CE, based on the identification of the scribal hand of the legal document on the recto as that of Hillel b.
Mentions [...] ha-Dayyan b. al-Neʾeman (ZL). It is difficult to make sense of the rest, but there is some conflict, an insult (נקצה וגהלה ועדם . . . ), and some learned quotations.
The bearer of the letter (wa-mūṣil kitābī hādhā ilā ḥaḍratihi al-jalīla) is Ṣedeq b. Hilay ha-Dayyān who is "cut-off" (qaṭīʿ) and deserving (mustaḥiqq).
Mentions farming and possibly the Egyptian village of Banī Murra (near Asyūṭ) — although the shape of the mīm is quite different than in ومن, and grammatically a group of people is expected rather than a locality.
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It opens with a Hebrew poem congratulating the recipient on his son, and continues by imploring the distinguished recipient to send a letter acknowledging Moshe, who has already sent him seven letters before this one. ASE.
Telling or asking Muʿizz/Muʿtazz al-Dawla to put his signature on something to validate an expense: واستدعيت من [تفضل؟] معـ(ـتـ؟)ـز الدولة ان يضع خطه فيها لصحة النفقة على الرسم المتعارف فمن يجري(؟) مجراه.
Letter fragment (middle part) in which the writer describes how he was insulted in the synagogue by the scholar, Sheikh al-Najib, but expresses no resent against him. On the contrary, he hopes the latter will be a shield for Israel in hard times.
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Yosef known as Umm Abū l-Munā al-Marsūla(?); an enslaved woman valued at 22.5 dinars.
Letter to the writer's 'son' ʿAbd al-Wāḥīd. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer repeats half a dozen times that the addressee should not believe the false rumors that the writer gloats at his misfortunes.
Legal query in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to "sayyidnā al-shelishi" regarding a man who died and left his entire estate to one of his two cousins, but did not explicitly exclude the other one, to whom he gave the equivalent of a peruṭa (penny).
باتم السلام وعلى الوالد افضل السلام . . .). May allude to a bad harvest (مع اجاحته التي قد علمتها).
Legal document from Cairo, dated 17 (יום טו׳׳ב) Adar I 5589 (1829 CE), in which Avraham ha-Levi certifies that he has received his entire share from the estate of his late father and releases his mother (named "Senyora") from all his claims upon her.
Signed by many of these same people along with Saʿd Pinto.
Mentions a figure of authority (Sayyidnā) and a dispute in which the senders say they will never enter a synagogue with a certain person and that that person violated a legal agreement that he would not slaughter in his house. Greetings from al-Shoṭer Ḥalfon b. [Shūʿa?].
State document, probably a decree, last three lines, written on the joyous occasion of ʿĪd al-Naḥr. Preserved lines read as "فاعلم هذا واعمل..وكتب في يوم عيد النحر السعيد..الطاهرين وسلم تسليما".
واعلم هذا واعمل بـ[ـه وليقرّ بأيديهم بعد ثبوته في ... بحيث يثبت مثله ان شاء الله تعالى]
كتب في يوم عيد النحر السعيد [سنة …. ]
[الحمد لله …
Bill of divorce (get). Location: Al-Maḥalla. Dated: Friday, 15 Sivan 2176 Seleucid = 9 June 1865 CE.
Verso: the remnants of the address and an alphabetical writing exercise. (Information in part from Goitein's note card, previously attached to PGPID 6316, now missing.)
Petition from ʿUmar b. ʿAbdallāh al-Miṣrī, in Asyūṭ (l. 7), to a notable with a long string of titles (ll. 4–6).
The writer prays that he will find favor in the eyes of the king, the deputy, the ladies of the court, the eunuchs, the ministers, the nobles, and all who see him. Verso: Targum of Samuel.
Letter from Yosef b. Ya’aqov al-Itrabulusi from Gabes (Ifrīqiya) to Yosef b.
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Letter addressed to Abū Yaʿqūb b. Yūsuf al-Fāsī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century.
Ya'ish, expressing the wish to give up the hard "service of the people" (public office) for another profession, for he is weak or sick (ḍaʿīf) and frail (naḥīf al-jism). Information from Goitein's notecards and Mediterranean Society II, 87-88.
The addressee and his companions on the boat are all asked to contribute, and it is suggested that this good deed will increase the likelihood of a safe trip.
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He asks him not to detain the old woman from coming, but rather to assist her in coming quickly, because the writer's wife ("al-ṣughayyira") is sick and they are perishing of isolation and "there is no one to fill a jug of water for us."
Mentioning someone's brother and al-Nezer. The writer then asks the addressee to pass on his copious excuses for not having rendered sufficient service to someone who has bestowed much favor (tafaḍḍulāt) upon him.
The bride's name is Sitt al-Ahl. The signatories are X b. Yeḥezqel, Menashshe b.
I am waiting there because I have gone to work on something for all of us. . . another person with us. I cannot come to serve you.
Letter from Ibrāhīm b. al-Nuʿmān to Abū Nuʿmān(?) Saʿīd b. Dāwūd. In Judaeo-Arabic.
Dating: Probably 19th century, as it is written on grid paper. The hand and all the names are typical of Yemen. The writer provides a report of how he and his wife have fared since arriving in Jerusalem.
Avraham, known as son of the poet, acknowledges a debt of 600 nuqra dirhams to the sons of Abu al-Munajja, Sa'adya and [name left blank]. He will pay back 80 dirhams every month.
Fragment of a letter from Isma’il b. Barhun al-Tāhartī from Mahdiyya, to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b.
Petition in Judaeo-Arabic with a Hebrew beginning for financial assistance addressed to Rabbenu Avraham, can be dated by script to around the 13th century (i.e. probably Avraham Maimonides). Yosef al-Andalusi has spent three months in Fustat, his robe is torn and the authorities are demanding the capitation tax from him.
List of three bills of divorce, apparently notes of a court scribe. (1) Husband: Sālim b. Avraham. Wife: [...]b al-Dīn bt. Maṣliaḥ. (2) Husband: David b. Yaʿaqov.