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Very faded Arabic document mentioning ʿAbd al-Hādī. Reused for Hebrew pen trials.
No Scholarship Records
The name of the addressee may be Abū l-Faḍl Sahl b. Saʿd al-Baghdādī. Opens with an unusual discussion of the sighting of the moon: the crescent of Ṣafar is seen on [Wednesday?] […] Saʿd al-Baghdādī" does not match). Most of the rest of the letter consists of greetings. […] Rabīʿ; the addressee's sister; Abū Manṣūr Hillel b. Yosef; Ibn al-Ṣabbāgh. Verso: In addition to the address of the letter, there is an list in Arabic script.
Letter fragment (right side of recto, right side of verso), probably from Alexandria to Fustat. Extremely faded. Legible phrases include: "Send to Alexand[ria]" and "he bought for him."
Verso (original use): Letter in Arabic script. Faded and damaged. Begins, "lammā kāna fī hādhihi al-[...]...." Mentions the police (...min al-shurṭa...). Needs further examination for content.
Mentions a qāḍī, a widow, and a girl. Also mentions the Sar ha-Sarim and Abū l-Faḍl. (Information from CUDL)
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Begins, "The noble letter/document (al-kitāb al-mukarram) [reached] the slave of your excellence...." On verso there is a different Arabic-script document, very faded.
Mentions people such as al-Rayyis Abū l-Faḍl, the mother of al-Rayyis Abū Manṣūr, Abū l-Faraj Ṣabbāgh, and Abū l-Ṭāhir Ḥarīrī.
Mentions names such as Abū Faḍl (in New Cairo); Shihāb; Bū Naṣr al[...] al-Yahūdī; Ẓāfir and Amīn al-Dawla; Muwaffaq; and Abū l-Barakāt.
Legal document, quite faded. Dating: likely 12th or 13th century. Concerning the purchase and subsequent dedication of a property in the town of al-ʿAlāqma (near Bilbays) to the Heqdesh. Mentions Shemuel al-Kohen. Signed by ʿOvadya b. Shemuel.
Letter in Arabic script. Quite faded. The address (on verso) includes the word al-Iskandarānī.
Much damaged and faded, almost illegible fragment of a letter, probably written by Yefet b.
Somebody testifies that as he was returning from the synagogue, he found the daughters of the sister of Abū l-Faḍl b. al-Ṣabbāgh in his house. One of them (the sister of the alte Abū l-Faḍl?) […] So she handed over the key, and the Dāʿī and Abū ʿAlī [b.] Ḥassūn went up and ransacked her library and made off with 17 notebooks. BL OR 5554A.48 is either the continuation of this document or a different document related to the same case (mentions several of the same names and is also dated the 27th of Tishrei 1155 CE).
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. Dating: Maybe ca. 1100, if the "Sar ha-Sarim" mentioned is the Nagid Mevorakh. Also refers to Ibn al-Jabīna(?), al-shaykh al-jalīl Bū l-Khayr Andūna, the late Mārūt(?)
Many names are listed, e.g. [...] al-Ṣabbāgh; Futūḥ; Isḥāq; Abū ʿAlī Ibn al-Sukkarī; Abū Saʿd al-Ṣayrafī; Abū l-Ḥasan; Abū l-Faḍl b. Nuʿmān; Mūsā; Abū l-ʿIzz al-[...]; [...] b. Maḍmūn (on verso).
Names such as Aḥmad, Sālim al-Ḥammār, Bū ʿAlī, al-ḥakīm al-[...], Bū l-Ḥasan, Faḍāʾil b. [...].
Letter in Arabic script. Opens with an ornate "al-izza lillāhi taʿālā." Addressed to al-amīr al-rayyis Abū l-Faḍāʾil.
Mentions "his wife Sitt al-Dār" and then quotes her speech. Very faded and damaged, almost nothing else preserved.
Badly rubbed and faded business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions sending something to Alexandria and inquires about the price of שרב (wine?
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List of names, including Abū l-Faraj, Abū l-Faḍl, Mevorakh b. Naḥum, Abū ʿAlī Ibn al-Sukkarī, Ṯābit the cantor and Isaac b. [...].
List of names with Coptic numerals. Names include FaḍlAllāh; Dāʾūd; Ibrāhīm; al-Rashīd Ibn Iṭfīḥī; Muḥammad b.
Mentions Abū l-Ḥasan; Salāma b. Mūsā (al-Ṣafāqusī?); Farrāḥ al-Iskandarānī. Very faded; uncited in the literature.
It concerns Moshe ha-Kohen's will (line 9), which can be found in T-S 8J21.14 + T-S 8J8.12 (PGPID 7679) and which discuses all the above mentioned individuals. Identified by Rivlin, Inheritance and Wills, p. 339. Faded. Unfinished and unsigned. On verso there is more writing in Hebrew script in a different hand, even more faded.
The primary block of text on verso appears to be the original legal testimony, written in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. The second block of text reads, "Naṣrallāh b. […] witnessed regarding the aforementioned Abū l-Ḥasan and Abū l-Faḍl the brother of the aforementioned Naṣrallāh and his wife." Verso contains three more blocks of text, one in Arabic script and two in Judaeo-Arabic (one of which appears to be a summary of the Arabic script). All of these appear to be witnesses' addenda to the legal document on recto.
There are four fragments under this shelfmark; all appear to be damaged and faded. Needs examination.
Legal document, mentioning Sitt al-Hanāʾ(?) bt. Yaʿaqov. Extremely faded. (Information in part from CUDL)
Fragment of a letter from Yefet b. Menashshe Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif to one of his brothers. Very faded.
Menashshe ha-Levi. Quite faded. Join: Alan Elbaum.
"My tenants in the house in Ḥārat al-Zuwayla in the Alley of the Christians: Abū l-Faḍl Natan b. Yeshuʿa; Abū Kathīr Efrayim b. Mevorakh; al-wadīʿ(?) Ḥalfon b. Ḥayyim; al-Mufla [and] his daughter Sitt al-Bahā'."
In Arabic script. Crumpled and faded. Mentions a power of attorney (wikāla/wakāla), someone who signed something (saṭara ʿalā), "min al-ṭaraf," the number 24, and an aforementioned house (al-dār al-madhkūr).
List of names with weights and quantities of currency. Names include: Faḍāʾilal-Ghuzūlī; Hiba; Abū Faraj(?); Yiṣḥaq; Makhlūf; al-ʿAdanī; Abū Thanāʾ; Abū Fakhr; Abū ʿAlī b.
Recto: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Quite faded. Contains some blessings for the addressee and mentions Alexandria. Verso: Several lines in Arabic script, all crossed out. Probably accounts (based on words such as ʿinda and rubʿ).
Dating: probably ca. 13th century. People named: Abū l-Faḍl Ibn al-ʿAmīd; Nujaym; Abū l-ʿAlā; Abū l-Ḥasan; Abū l-Riḍā; al-Dayyān.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Abū l-Faḍl; ʿIzz al-Dīn; ʿUmar; Aḥmad; al-Ṣāyigh; Yūsuf.
In Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. Mentions "finishing all of the sections of..." (istīfāʾ jamīʿ furūʿ), including a Murshid (Guide) and two books of Abū Zakariyyā (al-Rāzī?).
Entries are arranged by the parsha of the week. Mentions al-Shaykh al-Rashīd Bū l-Faḍl. (Information in part from CUDL)
Small and faded fragment of a legal deed regarding a lawsuit by the 'great elder, the haver' Dosa b. […] Ibrāhīm from the wakil in Alexandria Khalaf b. Rabīʿ.
Part of a ketubba for Sitt al-Ḥasab (bride). Most of the text is too badly faded to read.
Small fragment of a legal document. Damaged and faded. Might be a bill of release. One party may be named Nissim al-[...].
Order of payment. Abū l-ʿAlāʾ is to pay the bearer a sum of money. There is additional very faded Arabic text on verso.
Nearly entirely preserved, but faded. Mentions well-known merchants such as Barhūn Ibn al-Tāhartī (r4). Also mentions the name ʿAbd al-Jabbār b. ʿAbdallāh.
Mentions Abū Isḥāq; a white liḥāf; ʿAlī b. al-Qaṭāʾif, Abū Naṣr [...], Abū l-Faḍl Ibn al-Qamḥa, Abū l-Ḥasan al-Kohen.
Involves Abū l-Faraj b. Fāḍil(?) b. Khalaf al-Tājir and Bū l-ʿIzz b. Bū ʿAlī b. Khalaf al-Yahūdī al-ʿAṭṭār. Needs examination.
Letter mentioning Abū l-Faḍl, Abū Saʿd Ibn al-Kurazī (?), Abū Manṣūr al-Tabib, Abū l-Ḥasan and the elder Jalāl al-Mulk (here not used as a title but as an actual name).
Bottom of a very faded letter in Judaeo-Arabic, with some Hebrew. […] Mentions Abū l-Faraj, maybe a qāḍī, al-dār al-ḥarīrī(?), and greetings to Moshe Ibn al-Majjānī.
Possibly a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Quite faded and damaged. Might also be literary. Mentions someone's death and something that "is not hidden from you" and refers to Moses (al-sayyid Moshe) and David and Absalom.
Legal document, dated 689 H, (=1290/91 CE), in a very faded script, with signature(s) at the bottom. One of the parties is al-Ḥājj Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz. Needs examination for content.
Recto: letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Extremely faded, would need multispectral imaging to be legible. Verso: drafts of phrases from letters in Arabic (including an address to Abū Isḥāq in Alexandria). (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter or note in Arabic script, fragmentary and faded, difficult to read. Seems to mention an Ibn Salama (l. 1). Also seems to contain a snippet of Judaeo-Arabic in the top right, upside-down relative to the Arabic.
Small fragment probably from a legal note. Faded and damaged. Refers to "Abū ʿAlī the husband of her sister... Ibn al-Dimyāṭī." In the margin refers to a gift. On verso remnants of an Arabic document.
Recto: Likely a distribution list for communal funds. Entries include: al-ḥazzan; al-shammash; al-munaqqī(?); Menashshe; the house (bayt) of Yeshuʿa; Ibn al-Ḥazzan; Bū l-Faḍl Shomer; the daughter of Moshe; the wife (zawja) of Yaʿqūb; the house (dār) of Ibn Saʿdān; Rayyisa; Sumaysima; Shomer Yosef; Bū l-Faḍl; al-Faṣīḥ; al-Bilbaysiyya; Ibn Ḥātim; Umm Simḥa; Umm Hilāl; Mikhaʾel; al-Najjār; Umm Khafāʾ; Sitt Ṣāfī; the widow of Bū ʿAlī; ʿUbayd; Muḥāsin the shammash and his mother; Umm Bū l-Faraj; the wife of Hilāl; Ibrāhīm. Verso: Account of expenditures for the teaching of schoolchildren (ḥisāb taʿlīm al-ṣighār bi-kuttāb), maybe specifically the children of communal functionaries. Names: Nissim; the son of Ibrāhīm al-Parnas; the son of al-Najjār Ḥayyūn al-Maghribī; the three children of Khalaf al-Mahallī; Yosef al-Munaqqī; Yefet someone's cousin; Ḥayyūn al-Maghribī al-Yatīm again; the children of the wife of al-ʿAjamī al-Kharrāz; the sons of Yeshuʿa who has been arrested (al-muʿtaqal); the son of Maḥāsin al-Khādim; the son of Bahāʾ al-Shomer; the youth from al-Maḥalla.