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The beginnings of 8 lines are preserved, mostly consisting of honorifics for the addressee. There are also some notations in the upper margin; these might relate to the document on recto or could be the tarjama of the petition.
شعبان بن عبد الله ابو بكر الكرمي
محمد بن محمد التركماني
بسم الله الـ[ـرحمن الرحيم]
صلوات الله وبركاته ونو[امي زكواته وافضل سلا…
תעתוק אחד
Fragment covered with dense jottings and pen trials. there may also be a block of a legal document in Arabic script on recto.
אין רשומות קשורות
Efrayim to his son Efrayim in Fustat, mentioning his pain at not having received letters from his son, difficulty in purchasing Khalaq textiles; and mentioning Ḥalabī (Aleppo) textiles.
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Mentions sums of money and "government lands" (al-arāḍī al-sulṭāniyya). Receipt for produce or tax payments (ḥaḍara wa-tasallama...)?
]حضور تسليم المذكوين في هذا العزل(؟)
]لغلة المعينة فيه وهي ماية وثمانين رثلاثين اردبا
]ـا والذي اصدقوه في ذلك العالي..برسوله(؟)
]استمرار(؟)…
The sender says that he initially planned to go to Alexandria "as soon as I heard the news" but then saw fit to delay his travel until he asked permission from the addressee (evidently the purpose of the present letter).
Involves two amirs, […] al-Dīn Aḥmad and Nāṣir al-Dīn Muḥammad, includes the phrase نصفين بالسوية, and refers to produce (غلات).
Describing the sites to the south and east of the Temple Mount, including the Mount of Olives. Also includes many Christian sites. Goes on to describe Bethlehem and Betar but the details are difficult to read due to damage.
Hebrew poetry in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. Mentions Yefet Rosh Qehillot, Avraham Sar [...], Yiṣḥaq, Yehuda, and Moshe.
One text block begins "uḥḍira ilā al-dīwān fī . . ."; the next mentions al-Shām. Needs further examination.
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif to one of his brothers. Fragment (upper right corner of recto). Mentions Abū ʿAlī. Essentially no information is preserved other than greetings.
Minute fragment from a ketubah, which can be dated to 1178 onwards thanks to the remains of the immersion clause which started to appear in Egypt following Maimonides' enactment issued at that year. Also part from the domicile clause is visible. AA
Mentioning exchange rates and the terms נחל and אלנחליה. There are also jottings in a different hand, and on recto the introduction to the contents of a halakhic work, with a citation from Leviticus 7:25.
Either the beginning of a petition (a basmala then al-ʿabd al-mamlūk yu[qabbil]) with massive line spacing, or simply a draft of the first two lines.
Recto: Document in a mixture of Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic. May mention "al-mamālīk" in the Arabic section. Then mentions parshiyot (al-fawārīsh) twice, including אלה הדברים.
Mentions the sky-blue girdle (al-zunnār al-samanjūnī), and a request to send red and blue silk with somebody.
Fragment (upper right corner of recto). Greetings to a cook (al-ṭabbākh)? The address mentions Abū l-Karam(?) al-Ṣabbāgh. In a different hand on verso, two lines including the phrase "your mother said."
Verso: list of names. Almostall followed by a symbol that looks like ג.
Dated: 52[6?] AH. Mentions al-Dīwān al-Khāṣṣ. May mention waterwheels (sawāqī).
It is fully vocalized, which is relatively rare for Judaeo-Arabic and useful for shedding light on dialectal pronunciations. There is also one page mostly written in Arabic script, undeciphered.
Menashshe ha-Levi, dealing with a partnership (muʿāmala). Mentions Ibn al-Ṣabbāgh, Ibn al-Tankarani (אלטנכראני? אלטנבראני?)
Legal approval between Yehuda b. Nissim al-Tūnisī (cf. T-S NS 226.66 (PGPID 24392)) and Abū l-Ḥasan b. Khulayf al-Iskandarānī the ḍāmin of dyeing in Dam[...], regarding silk.
Difficult to make out much of the content Mentions "al-Dawla" (likely part of someone's laqab) and maybe al-nāẓir.
Fatimid state document. May be headed "al-ʿimāra." The term "mablagh" may appear in the second long line. […] Reused by the same Hebrew scribe who reused many Arabic documents from the time of al-Afḍal.
The sender's name appears on the right (al-mamlūk al-aṣghar [...]). Dating: Probably Mamluk-era based on hand and format.
Deed of sale (refers to iqrār al-bāʾiʿ). Dated: 486 AH = 1093/94 CE. Signed by ʿAlī b.
Small fragment from the beginning of a commercial letter. 11th-century Maghribī hand. Might mention Ibn al-Yamānī. A few words from the address in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script (including [...] al-Ṣayrafī) are preserved.
Wahb in the hand of the jahbadh Mīkhāʾil b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ. Dated: 4 Rabīʿ I 404. On recto there is an official letter (see separate record). Join: Alan Elbaum.
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
A letter from one of the leaders of Aleppo to 'our master the Nagid', probably Yiṣḥaq Sholal.
Yehuda b. Menashshe. See also Yevr. II A 1254. AA
Dating: 17th century, per BL catalogue. There is also Greek written in Greek script on fol. 4. Images may be found on the BL website (not on FGP): https://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?
Only a few words are legible, in large, calligraphic script. There are also a few words in smaller Arabic script in the upper left corner of the fragment, possibly unrelated, but perhaps some kind of filing note.
A long letter of recommendation on behalf of Obadiah the Proselyte, by Barukh b. Yiṣḥaq of Aleppo, written in elegant and vocalized Hebrew. For more information, visit https://johannes-obadiah.org/navigator.php?
Dating: during the period of the Nagid David I Maimonides (ca. 1237–1300); less likely David II but also possible. Involves Moshe b. ʿAmram. Reused on verso for piyyuṭ drafting/composition.
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Persian. Mentioning Abū al-ʿAlā (בולעלא), Mihrōy/Mihrwayh (מהרוי) and "the daughter of Reuben the draper" (דוכתר ראובן יבזאז).
דיון אחד
Avraham. The cover page also mentions 5408 AM as the year of completion (1647/1648 CE).
Mentions someone called al-Rashīd and Abū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Sulaymān. (Information from Goitein's index cards.)
In a Yemeni hand. The text itself also mentions a date of 1 Tammuz 1611 Seleucid (1300 CE).
Many of the fragments in this folder belong together. There are also interesting tables in Arabic script, written in red and black ink.
ENA 3961.3 cites Galen and has a section on the medical virtues of parts of the rabbit (al-arnab). Probable join: Alan Elbaum.
There are two additional blocks of text, also in Arabic script; it is not clear if these belong to the letter on the recto or to separate documents.
The sender reports that he met with somebody (the addressee himself? looks like al-makhdūm) in the house of the qāḍī Nāṣir al-Dīn.
Shelomo the Nasi (from Mosul). Also Abū Saʿīd b. Netanel. (Information from Goitein's index card.)
Reused for Judaeo-Arabic poetry in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī (d. after 1298).
Menashshe ha-Levi. Signed by him and also by Ḥalfon b. Yosef ha-Kohen. Dating: 1127–38 CE, based on the conjunction of the years of Ḥalfon b.
Little of the substance remains, mainly allusions to distress, good wishes for the future, and greetings to a number of family members, including Abū l-Faraj Sayyid al-Kull, and the sender's sister and her children (misspelled אלולאדהא).
Dating: Perhaps 13th–15th century, based on handwriting. Mentions al-Shaykh al-Rashīd, the brother of ʿAb[dallāh?]
Recto: List of people (mostly women) and numbers in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Alms distribution list? "The wife of [...] and her family... the wife of Abū l-Mufaḍḍal... the wife of al-Ḥasan...."
Describes the location of a property with reference to neighboring landmarks. Mentions Kātib al-Jaysh and Ibn ʿAbd al-Masīḥ. A person of the same name is mentioned in some of the India Book II documents.
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 40).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 67).