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Letter from Barhūn b. Mūsā, in Alexandria, to his father Mūsā b. Barhūn, in Fustat.
כתאבי יאשיכי וסידי וריס[י ותא]ג ראסי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך וצ[רף]
אלאסוא ענך במנה וצל כתאבך ווק[פת עלי] מא דכר[תה] וגמיע מא …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Letter from Nahray b. Nissim in Alexandria to Abū Isḥaq Ibrāhīm b. Ḥananel, known as ʿAwāḍ or ʿIwāḍ, in Fustat, in which the writer asks for information about prices of goods in Fustat, ca. 1045-1096.
3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Letter from ʿAwaḍ b. Hanan'el in Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat, in which the writer complains of hardships he has endured, and asks for details about prices of goods in Fustat, ca. 1045-1096.
Letter from Natan b. Nahray, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat, in which the writer states that an amount of money sent by Nahray was delivered by Natan to the widow of Awad b.
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי ואדאם תאידה וסלאמתה ונעמאה
תקאדם כתאבי למולאי ארגו וצולה אליה ואנא מהניא למולאי בהאדא
אלצום אלמבארך תכתב בספר …
Letter from Yeshuʿa b. Mevorakh the Alexandrian, in Malīj, to an unidentified addressee.
דיון אחד
It is a list of names accompanied by sums of money, e.g., "al-Rūmī: 4 dirhams." Perhaps an alms list. See separate record for Hebrew document(s) on the same fragment.
אין רשומות קשורות
Yaʿqūbb." Books include al-Manṣūrī and the poems of al-Ḥarizi. (Information from Goitein's note card) ASE
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
(Information from Mediterranean Society, III, pp. 255, 483, 280.) See also Moss. VII,89.4.
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Bifolium in Arabic script of Kitāb al-Shihāb, a collection of sayings ascribed to Muḥammad, by Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad b. Salāma b. Jaʿfar al-Quḍāʿī (d. 1062). Includes the final page. ASE.
Includes the phrase "anā al-ghāʾib wa-anta al-ḥāḍir." The sender set sail on a boat/ship (وكنت قد اقلعت في المركب. . . .)
b. Mevorakh. There are also sundry jottings in Hebrew script and Arabic script (one mentioning Hippocrates).
Mentions the mustakhdim al-jawālī in Damietta. Dated: 601 AH. Amount: 1.25 dinars. ʿAlāma: الحمد لله وبه استعين. Endorsed across the text rather than above it, which is unusual.
One section is headed Friday (yawm al-jumʿa). Mentions commodities and quantities (qadaḥ, ūqiya). The bottom section is probably headed "al-jumla."
Mentions a dispute and not being able to put up with a qāḍī (קלת לא נחנא נטיק אלקאטי...); also mentions New Cairo and the name ʿAbdallah. (Information from CUDL)
Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Mentioning Alexandria (possibly drawn up there) and the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon.
Accounts of a textile dealer mentioning names such as Murhaf al-Dawla, [...] al-Dawla, and Sibāʿ. Entries include a jūkāniyya (spelled shūkāniyya here), the making of an ʿarḍiyya, silk, and the dyeing of wool.
The portion preserved here consists of blessings and longing. Also a prayer for the coming of the messiah (אלגאל) in the lifetime of "our master and the turban of our head" (סידנא ועממת ראסנא).
Headed: "Collected on the blessed day of Thursday, 19th Rajab, pertaining to the deceased woman, by the Jewish banker ʿAbd al-Wahhāb known as al-Dajjāj." The rest needs further examination.
Mentions a state official: walī Amīr l-Muʾminīn Abī ʿAbd Allah Muḥammad al-Ḥalabī. Needs examination.
Contains some accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, but also contains two entries that begin اصفح(?), and one may mention a woman who was killed by her husband.
Mentions a sale of something, the addressee's mother, requesting a response to this note, and referring to 'this noble month' (fī hādhā al-shahr al-sharīf). On verso there are Arabic notations in a different hand.
Fragment from the top of an iqrār made by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿUbayd known as [...] al-Fakkāh. The document continues وهو يومىذ which would have been followed by his ḥilya, now missing.
The list names חנין סמען in the heading, perhaps: Ḥanīn Simʿon. Also mentions the name Mosseri.
Letter from Mūsā b. Sulaymān(?) al-[…] to Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf b. Ibrāhīm al-[...].
Shekhanya (though his poorest handwriting also resembles that of Efrayim b. Shemarya).
Refers to the rent or wages for the pressing of sugarcane (al-ujra ʿan iʿtiṣār qaṣab al-sukkar). Reused on both sides for Hebrew piyyuṭ/seliḥot.
Mostly involving transactions relating to property. There is also imprinted mirror text from a different fragment.
Bottom of a legal document written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Also signed by Avraham b. Shemaʿya. One of the parties is Abū l-M[...].
Letter from Iṣḥaq b. Eli al-Majānī (al-Mahdiya?) to his son Wāfī (Fustat?)
Mentioning Būṣīr and Alexandria. Dating: likely 11th century. Four full lines are preserved on both sides.
There is diagonal marginal text (resembling the format of a letter) which contains some Judaeo-Arabic including the word "al-kitāb." Join: Alan Elbaum.
Written at 180 degrees in Arabic script, twice: Abū Manṣūr al-Tustarī al-Kātib.
Mainly piyyuṭ. Verso also has several entries of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.
Mentions transactions in Alexandria. Merits further examination.
The groom is Yefet, and the bride Sirwa (or perhaps Surūr[a]). There is also someone named Iyyov/Ayyūb. These pieces do not join directly.
Opening of a legal deed from Aleppo. Mentions Elḥanan Rosh ha-Seder b. [Shemarya?].
According to FGP it is a poem with end rhyme referring to `thousand shoes and `two brass lamps' but it might be also a fragment of a list of items. One of the lines opens with: "and the city of copper" (ומדינת אלנחאס).
Probably a marriage contract. Mentions ʿAskar b. ʿAlī b. Faraj al-Maghribī in the first line. There are additional notes in the upper margin and on verso.
Mentions a wasaṭ garment; Alexandria (spelled סכנדריה); [not] being able to go out; great distress (shughlun ʿaẓīm); something good that happened (khayrun ʿaẓīm); and noble (jiyād) Jews.
Sayyidna is mentioned throughout the letter, but the period can be determined. Cairo is also mentioned. needs further examination
Qaraite formulary for a bill of debt drawn up in the city of Sh[ām = Damascus?]. (There is also some text that seems like it is more appropriate for a letter than a legal deed above this.)
Letter from Moshe Yehoshuaʿ Ashkenazi, in Alexandria, to Alpalas y Sahlon, in Cairo (spelled Cairro). […] Moshe seems aggravated: "as there are other things to be doing, I will be brief" (ll. 29–30), and "I have carried out a thousand contrabands but have never had so much trouble as with this one" (in standardized Spanish spelling: mil contra bandos hice nunca me tomé tanto ṣaʿar como esto") (l. 33). See "Alpalas y Sahalon" tag for other documents from the same group.
Letter from ʿAmram b. Yiṣḥaq, in Alexandria, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi, in Fustat. […] She was treated for “the obstruction of the heart (inqifāl al-qalb) mentioned by al-Rāzī in the Manṣūrī,” but the medicine only made matters worse.
4 תעתוקים תרגום אחד
They concern a rent agreement between Sitt al-Nās (the lessor) and Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī (the lessee / mustaʾjir). […] Verso: The body of the document refers to the year 533 AH = September 1138 – September 1139 CE. It also refers to a period of three years, so the 533 date is probably the end of the 3-year lease.
Verso: Small fragment of a legal document, also in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, written on the back of the ketubba, dealing with money which was not included in an inheritance. Beginning of date preserved: 14__ (Seluecid); given the alef after and knowing Ḥalfon's lifetime, this likely dates to the 1440's (1128-1138 CE).
Letter addressed to Sitt Shaʿl, in Dār al-Nāqa, Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. The handwriting is distinctive, with stylized loops at the end of all the descenders. […] I know that the community will not let me leave the town, and also there will be a pesiqa on the holiday. Give to Abū l-Murajjā Sālim your relative the goods that you cannot carry, and send your sister's jar (zīr) with the bearer of this letter so that he can treat himself with it{s contents} (?
תעתוק אחד
Shemaʿya are parties in a debt settlement. Mentions 13 dinars. Also a testimony on the arrival of Barukh b. Yiṣḥaq from Aleppo to Egypt.
Legal document. Location: al-Maḥalla (בעיר אלמחלה הגדולה הסמוכה לצען). Dating: Likely late 11th century, based on the reference to the court of David ha-Nasi ha-Gadol (=David b. […] The validation is signed by the scribe Yosef b. Moshe ha-Levi (also the scribe for the main document?); Yaʿaqov b. [...] ha-Kohen; and [...] b. […] The document itself concerns ʿĀliya bt. Yosef ha-Kohen Peqid ha-Soḥarim and Yeshuʿa b.
Their mother is going to pay a visit to Sitt 'Abid, Sitt Aqran, while their father is going to pay a visit to Abu ‘Ali and al-As‘ad (family members of ‘Imrān’s wife?)[…] IV,27.2) and Abu Sahl (in T-S 8J24.1) both send regards to al-Shaykh al-Yesod in Qalyub. ASE.
ולא שלחתה ואמך בלסאעה תחב תכרג אליך לאגל עאקה כתבך ועמך …
2 תעתוקים
Recto: Note from a sick man to a physician, it seems beseeching him to assist an older family member who is also sick. "By the Law, if I revealed the state of my master (father?)[…] By God, act with me for the sake of Heaven and have mercy on me." It is also possible that the sickness/medicine/physician references here are metaphorical, and this is primarily an appeal for charity due to poverty — in this case, the orders of payment on verso might be the affirmative response to this appeal for help.