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Power of attorney written by a Muslim notary, beginning [ ]هذا كتاب وكالة كتبه يبن هتم لعـ, with اليهودي added above the missing name in the second line. First seven lines preserved, with a sizable hole in lines 2–3.
No Scholarship Records
Possibly written by the woman herself. Mentions the Nagid and a Ḥaver. (Information from CUDL)
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Farah from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Probably September 25, 1056.
[כתאבי יאסידי] אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם תאידך וסלאמתך וסעאדתך ערב סכות תזכה ל[ ]
] אנא אהניך במא אשרעת פיה יתן …
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Letter from Abū l-Najm to Eliyyahu the Judge. In Judaeo-Arabic. Asking him to send the crimson red silk in his possession (al-maftūl wa-l-shaqīq) with a third person.
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Avraham Maimonides is referred to as "Nagid" in l. 2 on the verso, a title he bore after 1213 CE, specifically.
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Letter from David b. Nahum in Alexandria to Ismail b. Farah al-Qabisi in Fustat.
[עלי אללה] תוכלת
[כתאבי אלי]ך יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך ותאיידך וסלאמתך מן אלאסכנדריה
[ מן] מרחשון ען סלאמה פי אלגסם ומרץ קל…
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Letter in the hand of Avraham b. Natan, probably addressed to Mevorakh b. Saʿadya with blessings for his son Moshe.
Letter from Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat to Abu al-Faraj Daniel b.
[כתאבי] יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעא[דתך]
[ונעמ]תך מן מצר לי'ב' כלון מן אב ערפך אללה ואי/א/נא ברכתה [ ]
ו[י]זכינא…
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Abu al-Hayy from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat. The writer mentions robbery by pirates on two ships carrying merchandise meant for the writer and for others.
[כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי] אט[אל אללה בק]אך ואדאם סלאמתך [ועאפית]ך וצרף אלאסוא ענך ברחמתה מן
[ ]יה לי בקין מן סיואן ען חאל סלאמה ונע…
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A freedman, Mukhtār, is named as one of the parties. He was formerly an attendant of the Gaon Ebiathar ha-Kohen.
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Verso: Formulary for a deathbed release (or at least a release in the setting of old age and frailty) granted by a woman to a male in-law. All the names are left as place fillers. Location: Fustat.
"mā rāḥ ḥaẓẓuk fī l-ʿūlyā bi-muntaqiṣ", a variant of the poem by al-Buḥturī. Contains a name "Ḥassūn b. Muḥamad b. ʿAbd al-Ṣamad". Needs examination.
In the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Contains part of the dowry list. The dowry is valued at 400-some dinars.
The address is partially preserved; it might be possible to extract a name or two. Reused on verso for a technical recipe in Judaeo-Arabic, maybe medical.
Dated 13[.]2 Seleucid; Goitein read 1342 Seleucid = 1030/31CE, but could be 1372 or 1392 (=1080/81 CE) as well. The names of witnesses are not preserved. (Information from CUDl and Goitein's index card.)
With blessings for the Nagid Mevorakh. NB: Goitein and Worman referred to T-S 16.90 as T-S 16.91, and vice versa.
Ketubba fragment for Dalāl bt. Yosef and Shelomo b. Natan. Date and location not preserved. Witnessed by Yeshuʿa b.
Calligraphic copy of release in which a grandson confirms having received from his grandmother, named Sitt al-Rida bat Saadya, the estate of his father.
Court record written by Efrayim b. Shemarya. A woman named Muluk claims to be the only heir of Tiban, the grandson of her maternal uncle.
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No marriage payment or names survive. (Information from Goitein’s index card and RR)
Mukhtār; possibly his wife; and a girl under 11 years of age. On verso the name "Ibn Mukhtār" appears in Arabic script. Needs examination.
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Mentions the word Ṣalāḥ, which may be part of the name Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn (Saladin). Reused on recto for piyyuṭ.
The sender swears by God (including by the name Ehyeh Asher [Ehyeh]). The content is not clear.
Small fragment from the top of a legal deed with the Reshut formula for a Nagid, probably from Maimonides family, based on the titles that usually connected with his family such as גיה עפעפינו.
, Abū Manṣūr al-Tabib, Abū l-Ḥasan and the elder Jalāl al-Mulk (here not used as a title but as an actual name). On verso at the end the month Ramaḍān. AA
The court validates a document and gives it to Hillel ha-Kohen, one of the petitioners, for it to be brought to the Gaʾon (whose name is missing). (Information in part from CUDL)
Ismaʿīl al-Aṭrābulsī, in Ashkelon (ca. 1060 CE), concerning trade and sums of money owed by Abū Yaḥyā Nahray b. Nissim to the writer. Verso: Arabic address.
Probably the top of a legal or communal declaration (naqūl....), introduced by a Hebrew composition with citations from Numbers 18:7 and allusions to Ezekiel 44:8.
Accounts in a late hand, mentioning numerals, measures and month names. Dated along the upper edge of the verso: Rabiʿ I 977 AH (זעץ) which is 1569 CE.
Seleucid under the authority of the Nagid [Shemuel b. Ḥananya]. Mentioning Ḥalfon the cantor; someone’s wife; agreeing to build something; and Qalyūb.
Involves Elḥanan; [...] b. Natan Ibn al-Ṣīrī; and ʿEli b. Hillel ha-Ḥazzan ha-Gadol.
In Arabic script. The sender's name may appear at upper left. The sender mentions his meeting with somebody (Abū l-[...]), then mentions Abū Sulaymān and Abū l-Munā.
Written on 11 Shaʿbān [.]39 AH. Mentions names such as Abū ʿAbdallāh and Hibtallāh b. al-Ḥasan b.
Contains a few Quranic verses like "al-Nabī al-Ummī", and "wa-lā ḥawlā wa-lā quwwa illā Billah al-ʿAlī al-ʿAẓīm".
Three lines preserved. Narrow vertical page with a wide right margin and wide space between the lines.
Narrative account of commercial expenditures written in a mixture of Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic.
List of names followed by numbers, possibly contributions to the poor.
The end of a ketubba with a dowry list, referring to either Natan or Yonatan (or simply החתן). The list has been reused for writing practice, with many of the words repeated between the lines in a different hand.
Recto (secondary use): Genealogies of two families, it seems of the husband and the father of a woman called the daugher of Nafīs al-Sharābī (cf. Mann, Jews, II, 320). 7 generations in the first column, eight in the second.
to Abū l-Bahā' reminding him that he promised to send him a chessboard (? naṭʿ). He urges him to deliver it to his house in Fustat before Shabbat and to select the best one that he has.
Concerning the dissolution of a partnership at the death of one of the partners. Names: Khiyār (the one who died); Yehuda b. Shemuel; Yona b.
Two lines are crossed out. Mentions the Muslim name ʿAbd al-Jabbār b. Ḥassūn b. ʿUthmān. On recto there is the opening of the ʿamida prayer, translated word-for-word into Judaeo-Arabic.
Mentions: brazilwood (baqqam); other business deals; regards to Sitt Naʿīm (Ḥalfon's wife); good wishes for a holiday, perhaps Purim.
to his 'brother' Eliyya Prianty(?) (these names are probably wrong). In Ladino. In the margin there are accounts in Hebrew script (language unclear) and western Arabic numerals.
Crossed out. The sender's name looks like Bū l-Majd, and the addressee is [Abū] Isḥāq.
Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). The top line names a dead person and 'his sister Fākhira.' The next lines give weights of various substances such as boxthorn (khawlān), opium (afyūn), and something black.
Involves Abū l-Faḍl; someone's brother in al-Maḥalla; a woman named [...]l bt. Elʿazar ha-Kohen the cantor; and a condition about if she remains unmarried.
There do not appear to be any names or details preserved.
On verso there is a note about an expenditure of 550 dirhams for tearing down (naqḍ) the walls of something. Needs further examination.
Part of the address, possibly preserving the sender's name, may be preserved on verso.