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Mentions an Amīr Yūsuf [...] and "all the demands and all the debts. . . " incumbent on somebody to somebody.
אין רשומות קשורות
A butcher selling ducks (baṭṭa)?. There's also mention of something or someone ʿAdenī in two of the lower subheadings, recorded on Monday and Tuesday.
lahu ʿindahu danānīr", concerning a teacher (qad addanī muʿallim l-ṣabīyy). Also mentions Cairo. Needs examination.
תעתוק אחד
On verso the name Abū l-Maʿālī b. al-Shaykh al-Sadīd is written.
The writer mentions an earlier conversation that took place between al-Shaykh al-Makīn Abū Sahl and the Rayyis.
Mentions the word 'maṭbakh' several times. On verso the title "al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ" (in Arabic script, possibly a reference to Ṭalāʾiʿ b.
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 59).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 54).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 76).
Fragment from the top of a Judaeo-Arabic copy of a decree (manshūr) of the caliph al-Ḥākim bi-Amr Allāh, it seems his appointment of a certain Muṭahhar to the governorship of Damascus.
The writer seem to explain why he had not paid anything to the addressee. He has also sent him some money to make purchases, including of olives(?)
Mentions money to be given to the recipient; Alexandria; an amir; and a muḥtasib. Needs further examination.
Verso: One line in Arabic, possibly an address from a letter: Ḥārat Zuwayla, Darb al-Maghribiyyīn, Dār al-M[...] (حارة زويلة درب المغربيين دار المىـ . . .).
Fragmentary and damaged, bottom half. Mentions a Christian (al-Naṣrānī al-Dhimmī) who is probably the proprietor, and measures of wheats in irdabs.
Probably another decree of ʿAbd al-Majīd (al-Ḥāfiẓ) concerning the monks at Mt.
… the customs of lords, never ceases wandering upon the path of his noble fathers and ancestors
and following the traces of their justice in G…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
At the bottom at ninety degrees there is also a brief description of the boundaries of a property.
Eliyyahu about a gift from his father of almostall his books and copper vessels; brother Abu Zikri gets only a few small books.
אוהבת אבני שלמה שרה אלתורה והו כמסה אגזא ואיצ'א
סידור רבנו שלמה ז'ל וליס לא[חד] פיה שי בל הו לאבני
שלמה במתנה…
I present my son Solomon with a Torah commentary
I present my son Solomon with a Torah commentary in five volumes, as well as
the prayer…
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
At the top of the page are 2 lines in Arabic script, also possibly part of the same letter, with petition-like language and requesting a favor.
A load of soap on the sultan's ship is also mentioned. Dated to the second half of the 11th century.
] עלי אנה ב'ע'ה' אכד מנא סער פ'
לספאקץ [
טרי עליי בדלך
קבץ' [
3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד
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 …
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.
Yaʿqūbb." Books include al-Manṣūrī and the poems of al-Ḥarizi. (Information from Goitein's note card) ASE
(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.