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(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 74).
אין רשומות קשורות
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 39).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 45).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 55).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 57).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 50).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 60).
Asking him to conduct the fundraising drive (pesiqa) and give him the funds without delay, so that he can travel. Also mentions the judge Rabbenu Ḥananel (b. Shemuel?).
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Includes the phrase "min dār al-fanā' ilā dār al-baqā'."
The sender is from Minyat [...]. Verso also contains a list of the community of Fusṭāṭ’s weekly expenses, in Judaeo-Arabic.
Some sequences can be read: l. 1 al-maʿānī allatī and l. 2 b. Isrāʾīl; at the end of the document, traces of signatures of the witnesses.
A vast array of signatures are listed, such as: Yosef David Bu-Alʿafiya, Yiṣḥaq ... Rofe, Ḥayyim(?) al-Ḥadīb, among others.
Refers to a document with the signature of 'the king of the Turks' (وعليه خط . . . . ملك الاتراك). Also perhaps a wish that a different person be employed in a certain government position (. . .
Dating: ca. 1034 CE. See also CUL Or.1080 J85 (PGPID 8880). (Information from CUDL and Goitein's index card.)
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
The letter is written by Tamim b. Tobias from Aleppo around 1036-1037. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Letter from David ben Naʿim to Moshe ben Naʿim in Alexandria concerning business matters, dated 17 Heshvan 185 (5585 of the Era of Creation = 1824 CE).
Eli Kohen Fasi, from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. June 27, 1057.
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם תאיידה ונעמאה וכבת אעדאה מן אלאסכנדריה לח בקין מן רביע
אלאכר ואלחאל סלאמה אלגסם אללה יגעל אלעאקבה לכ…
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Letter from Avraham b. Tahor, in Alexandria, to R. Ḥananel, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic.
Nissim (according to Gil) or by Barhun b. Yiṣḥaq al-Tāhartī (according to Ben-Sasson) to Barhun b. Musa al-Tāhartī in Fustat, containing prices of goods and information about the movements of ships.
3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Dated: 4890 AM = 1129/30 CE. Location: Alexandria (?). On verso there is a note of transference of ownership (of this document?)
In Hebrew for the introduction, Judaeo-Arabic for the body, and Arabic for the address on verso: from Yūsuf b. Khalaf to mawlāy al-ḥazzān(?) al-jalīl. The upper margin of recto was reused for a Hebrew scribal exercise.
The sender reports that conditions are terrible in his location; reports on the price of wheat and bread; prays for deliverance from God; mentions his intention to enter Alexandria; begins to provide an update on the condition of Abū Ghālib.
A mention of Ba'al ha-Mahanot, which can be translated as Amīr al-juyūsh, Badr al-Jamālī.
Tens of thousands of multiple greetings, thousands of great wishes, hundreds of honorable benefactions, do…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Yosef, concerned with business matters, and mentioning people including ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm, Abū Sahl Mukhtār, Avraham, ʿAllān, Abū l-Waḥsh, and Abū Naṣr.
דיון אחד
Letter sent from al-Mahdiyya by Hayyim b. Immanuel to Mevorakh b. Saadya in Fustat, dealing with a purchase of books for Mevorakh from the estate of Berekhya and dismissing the allegation that the recipient was stealing partners from existing partnerships.
Letter sent from Alexandria in which a cheese-maker asks his son to send him the receipt for his capitation tax and writes that he hopes to travel home as soon as the Khalij canal of Fustat has enough water.
Looks like the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī (active ca. 1300). Verso: poetry in honor of ha-Sar Nissim, in a different hand an ink than recto.
Rhymed prose in Judaeo-Arabic, perhaps with a bit of Hebrew. In the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. One side involves a physician; the other side involves a retelling of the story of Moses bringing down the Torah.
Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Written by the jahbadh Mīkhāʾil b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ.
Mentions something in agreement with the opinion of al-Qāḍī al-Rashīd. Then again refers to "the signature/handwriting (khaṭṭ) of the amīr."
תעתוק אחד
Shelomo and Shelomo b. Yiṣḥaq. Also mentioned in the line underneath the signatures: Yiṣḥaq b.
The sender heard that a certain woman 'went up' from somewhere to somewhere (שמעתי שעלתה הגברת...). The sender also departed from somewhere (מיום צאתי משער...).
Ṣadoq (active mid-12th century in Alexandria).
The trigger term might be افرد but needs further examination. The ʿalāma at upper left seems to read wa-l-ḥamdu li-l-lāhi ʿalā iḥsānih
Receipt for 1/3 dinar for the capitation tax of Yaʿqūb b. Isḥāq al-Yahūdī in al-Maḥalla for the year 520 AH = 1126/27 CE.
Capitation tax receipt for [...] b. Hibatallāh [...] al-Ḥasan the Jewish banker in Fustat for the year 541 AH. […] Several registrations at the top, including one mentioning Dīwān al-ʿAmal (the Office of the Fisc).
مسلوكه المغربي(؟)) and perhaps "one of the diggers of the neighboring districts" (aḥad ḥufaraʾ al-nawāḥī al-mujāwira). Needs examination.
The portion of the text that is preserved mentions the names: Moshe Almados[?] and Ḥabīb/Ḥavīv Ben-Alḥam_[?]. MCD.
In Arabic script. Groom: Zayd b. ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn. 1.5 (dinars) are mentioned. May be dated.
Mainly materials for ceilings and roofs, palm branches, ropes, reeds, etc. Treesare also listed and the supply of doors. (Information from Gil, Documents, pp. 189 #20.)
Page from a children’s Hebrew textbook consisting of the consonants alef to tet with the various different Tiberian vowels.
Letter addressed to Eliyyahu the Judge (c/o the shop of the sons of al-ʿŪdī). In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper right corner). Mentions the month of Ramaḍān and the Muslim holiday (presumably ʿīd al-fiṭr). It is difficult to gather much more from this fragment without a join.
Elʿazar and Abū Luʾluʾ (this might also be another Abū l-Walīd) b. Elʿazar. Commodities include mummy and possibly Valencian gold (דהב בלאנסי).
Accounts of rents of communal apartments occupied (with one or possibly two exceptions) by women, including Dār al-Maqāniʿiyya and Dar Ibn al-Kallām. Dating: ca. 1181 CE.
Probably sent from the village of Danūhiyya (modern spelling: دنوهيا) in the Sharqiyya district of the Nile Delta (the water situation in دنوهية is mentioned three lines from the bottom). Also mentions agricultural land "arāḍī l-muzāriʿīn."
Verso: letter in Judaeo-Arabic with introductory rhymed praises in Hebrew. Addressed to al-shaykh al-Talmid. Little of the substance is preserved.
Includes the raʾy clause (fī hādha l-bābi ʿālī l-raʾyi in shāʾa llāhu). On verso there are liturgical instructions in Judaeo-Arabic followed by a prayer in Hebrew (attributed to al-Zinjārī?).