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Per Maimonides, the partners have the flexibility to create such a profit and loss sharing agreement only if they have multiple concurrent business relationships; otherwise the percentage of profits allocated to the active partner must exceed the percentage of losses by at least 1/6 of the total profit, in which case Avraham would have been allocated no less than 2/3 of the profit (since he is to share losses equally with Seʿadya).
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Yefet known as ha-Gizbar ("the Treasurer"), i.e., he was a government officer. (This Maṣliaḥ is also known from Megillat Evyatar as the man who brought up David b.
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The partners, Khalaf b. Abū l-Ḥasan al-Damsīsī and Yosef b. Ḥassān al-Mahdawī, traveled to Upper Egypt to produce purple dye and dye purple textiles.
The writer describes his difficulties. He almost did not collect the debt from al-Ḥarīrī (the silk merchant) in Damsīs.
וסלאמתה ונעמתה מן תניס נצף אלול כתמה אללה עליך ועלינא
ועלא כל ישר' באחסן כאתמתה אעלמך יאמו…
The word שולטאני appears twice, which may be Arabic sulṭānī, which may also refer to currency. The word דוראקא (Arabic for "peach") and the phrase דוראקא מחרוקא (Arabic for "burnt peach") appear, but presumably not referring to actual peaches, burnt or not.
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Verso is catalogued on FGP as a commentary on Daniel. There is also some Judaeo-Arabic on verso including various names of God.
The second is a court record in which Yosef b. Yaʿaqov, called al-Zamin (‘the ailing’) obliges himself before the court of al-Sahrajt to pay his divorced wife Ra’isa bt.
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Four pages of drafts of communal accounts, all crossed out [vertical and diagonal strokes], which was usually done after a clean copy was made. Page one is almost entirely identical with the T-S NS J251. The other pages are highly interesting for they contain many instructions by the Nagid Abraham Maimonides showing administrative practices in times of severe hardship.
Even a ruling of the Nagid was subjected to a process of negotiation at the local level until it was watered down to ineffectiveness. The same matter is also mentioned briefly in T-S 10J17.22. (Information from Zinger, "Women, Gender and Law" (PhD diss), 248n139, lightly revised by MR.) Alternate description based on Goitein's notes: Complaint to Shemuel ha-Nagid (his titles occupy 7 lines) by the wife of Abū l-Faraj, the silkspinner (qazzāz).
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Berlin : Ḥevrat Meḳits nirdamim, 1910-, v. 2, p. 167 and also in Harkavy's edition: Yehudah ha-Leṿi / Albert Harakvy [ed.].
Moshe ha-Levi; and Nahray; one of these men left a daughter named ʿĀliya(?).
Recto: elegant Judaeo-Arabic rhymed prose on the theme of memento mori, interspersed with verses from Job in Hebrew (21:32: 'For he is borne to the grave, and watch is kept over his tomb' and 34:15: 'All flesh shall perish together and man shall return unto dust').
Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Involves Sitt al-Kull bt. Ḥalfon. Mentions a sum of 900 (dirhams?
Abū l-Riḍā (Yosef III) Ibn al-Lebdī pledged one-half a dirhem (per week) (verso, l. 18), as most middle-class people did.
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Verso: A line of Arabic text in faint, but fairly legible ink above Hebrew alphabetical practice. EMS
Calligraphic letter from (thecantor Thabit Ibn al-Munajjim to Maṣliaḥ Gaon begging for charity, complaining about poverty and his dependents.
Yeshuʿa testifies to having received all due him from Abū Ghālib Elʿazar b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, working for him in the jahbadha (office of fiscal cashier), and to having no claims against him, his sons or brothers.
Informal note from Umm Ḥasan bt. al-Shofeṭ (or at least written in her name) to a certain judge.
Moshe and his brother the silk merchant (al-ḥarīrī) Abū l-Khayr Ṣedaqa b. Moshe, something involving their mother.
Letter from Shemuel Gaon b. Hofni to an unknown Aluf (אלוף). October 1008. Information about copies of two of the Gaon’s books.
Dating: probably 12th century. Refers to al-Ṭarābulsī; something which Ibrāhīm sent; pepper; and probably saffron.
Items mentioned include rose syrup, 1/2 pound; basil seed; another kind of seed; chicken; green almond, 1 1/2 dirham; something large and fresh; dates; mandrake (luffāḥ), 1 dirham; basil (rayḥān), 3/4; cucumber (faqqūs), 1/2.
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The marriage was commemorated upon the agreed sum of 7 dīnārs of Sulṭānī al-jadīd and 400 half Sūlaimānī dirhams– which helps to date the fragment as no earlier than 1520 CE, when the reign of the Ottoman Sultan Sūlaimān began.
Mentions Abū Ṭawq several times and Ibn al-Munshid.
Ḥayyīm Ṭawīl, Yiṣḥaq Skandarī, and Mordekhay Ṭawīl (all of who sign the lower portion of the document).
Yisraʾel leases his cheese shop in Ḥārat al-Ṣaqāliba to Yosef Medina for a period of 15 months for a sum of 18 reals (1 real pegged to 90 medins).
One entry is "for the house/wife of Ibn al-Jazafini/Ghazfini," a name that appears on other charity lists around 1107: see Zinger, "Women, gender and Law", p. 365.
A variety of names are mentioned in the account entries: (recto) Barūkh Maṣliaḥ, Menaḥem Khazānī, Shimʿon Raʾīs, (verso) Eliyahu Shāmī, Yiṣḥaq Sonīna, Shūʿa Kohen, David Sasson, R. al-Ḥadab. MCD.
He has sent two notes, one with Abū l-Ṭāhir and one with Ibrāhīm al-Dimashqī, to the effect that Sulaymān should pay Ibrāhīm the remainder of what is owed to the distinguished judge Yiṣḥaq ("ha-paṭish ha-ḥazaq"), namely 50-something and a quarter (dirhams?).
List of alphabetized names with Greek/Coptic numerals spanning four columns.
Concerns the oil merchant (al-zayyāt) Yūsuf b. Ṣadaqa and the legal question of whether or not he divorced a certain woman and/or if he is still married.
Abū l-Munā is asked to convey Moshe's gratitude to Najm [al]-Dīn on account of the benefaction he bestowed by helping a certain prisoner.
Mentions Abū l-Surur Ibn al-Aṭrūsh (recto right page). Mentions Thursday with 5 days remaining in Iyyar, followed by several entries for other dates (verso left page).
Small fragment from a state document; perhaps the tarjama of a petition from Aḥmad b. ʿAlī b. Ṣalaḥ. Reused to create a bifolium for a medical work, dealing with the faculties of the human body, causes of illness, and heart function in different kinds of illness, including fever.
Recto: part of a Judaeo-Arabic letter, complaining about the lack of letters from the addressee and explaining that a letter had been sent to the Ḥaver concerning Ibn al-Ẓālimī(?) on Wednesday 22nd Kislev. May mention 100 (or 500) dinars in Cyprus (קברס) and may mention departure from another location (דאכר?).
Mentions a village/estate (ḍayʿa) known as المخرقة (in the Fayyūm) and 'the farmers there' (al-muzāriʿīn fīhā). (Information in part from Naïm Vantieghem.)
In the handwriting of Farah b. Isma’il b. Farah al-Qābisī. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, #398) VMR
כתאבי יאסי[די] ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם תאיידך וסלאמתך מן [בוציר] לב לי[אל]
כלון מן [שהר] רגב ואלחאל סלאמה ושוק אליך קרב אללה אלאגתמאע ב…
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Concerning a debt of 25 dinars owed to her by Ṣedaqa al-Ḥalabī, of which he still owes her 14 dinars.
-agent, which is to be paid for in sal-ammoniac rather than money, and instructions to send sal-ammoniac, garlic, and candles with a third party named ʿAbd al-Waliyy. Refers to Miṣrī (Egyptian) and Qudsī (Jerusalemite) pounds.
Goitein suggests that this is an allusion to Crusader persecutions there. (Information in part from Goitein's index cards)
The divorce is between Yūsuf b. Elʿazar and Sitt al-Dār bt. Yiṣḥaq. The witnesses are Moshe b. Shela ha-Levi and Mevorakh b.
The divorce is between Munajjā b. Abū al-Ḥasan and Muʿizza b. [. . .]. The witnesses are Mevorakh b.
The writer notes that he had already sent a letter to the same effect but was afraid that it had gone astray.
A detailed trousseau list labeled as al-tawqīm (estimate) that acted as a continuation of an engagement contract found at T-S 13J8.24.
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Khalaf received 12 items from Umm Fuṣayl as an inheritance. Shabbat b. al-ʿAzar acted as witness and the receipt was signed by three people, including Yefet b.
Joins: Ezra Chwat and Alan Elbaum. Cf. T-S AS 177.67 (PGPID 37026).
(Information from Goitein's index cards) The discoloration along the upper edge and inner lines of the fragment may have resulted from fire damage.
Her attorney, appointed in Fustat, was to extract alimony from him for the year of desertion, twenty dinars as delayed marriage gift, and a bill of divorce.
Letter from a file of Avraham Maimonides' court, written to the Dayyan Nissim in al-Maḥalla, written by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Instructing the addressee not to let Abū Manṣūr b.
Shemuel he-Ḥasid, in which the writer complains about Netanʾel b. Ḥalfon al-Dimyāṭī, who was brought before an amīr, who then 'raised us to the Jewish (courts).'
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