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Ben-Baʿanīra/Baʿanīda.The letter "Ḥ" was likely used here to indicate the rabbinic honorific title "Ḥakham" rather than a first name. There is also a sum of 400 איש (perhaps es[cudos]). MCD.
אין רשומות קשורות
The letter deals with a matter of ḥaliṣa (release from levirate marriage) in which the brother is still a minor. It also discusses the uses of communal funds and the high price of wheat.
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Goitein suggests that the list of goods at the top is what the husband sold or what wore out; at the bottom also mentions liability of 16 dinars for expenses during his absence; and 4 dinars of debt.
דיון אחד
He asks the addressee to send with the bearer, Abū Saʿd Ibn al-Karnīb, the two scarves or turbans (radda) which are with Abū Isḥāq al-Kohen.
Fragment (upper right corner of recto). Mentions: Isḥāq al-Maghribī; having received a bit of qanbīl (=kamala, a red dye produced by the plant Mallotus philippensis — see Gerrit Bos et al, Marwān Ibn Janāḥ, no. 823).
Dating: No earlier than 1425 CE, as values are given in ashrafīs– which were first minted under Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay in this year. Commodities include tin (qazdīr), Yemeni alum (shabb Yamanī), either כאבלי (chebulic myrobalan) or כאכלי (potentially qāqullā = Salsola), saffron, and more.
Ṣadaqa, who lived for many years in Jerusalem and, according to this author, has recently arrived in Alexandria. This is the upper fragment.
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד
The opening blessings are also distinctive (e.g., ואותק דוי ודי... אלנגיב אלמולוד... and then curses on צאלמין אלפאצלין).
The sender is waiting on the return of Abū Yaʿqūb Iṣḥaq b. Yūsuf al-Andalusī. He reports on something that צרור/Surūr b. [...] al-Siqillī told him.
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Yūsuf (probably Ibn ʿAwkal) gives money to Aharon b. Yosef known as al-Ghazāl to trade on his behalf against 'the cost of my effort and work.' […] The second signature is Yosef b. Yaʿaqov al-Ṭarābulsī. (Information from Goitein’s index card)
Line 3 reads "istakhartu allāh taʿālā" and then refers to a purchase. Underneath the entries mention Abū l-Kharūf; Asad;Refaʾel or Daniʾel; al-Ṣabbāgh; and יקוף and אקלודה (meaning unclear).
Sums of 5 dinars and 20 dinars are also mentioned (likely the early and delayed marriage payments, but the document is too damaged to be sure).
Engagement (shiddukhin) contract. Location: Alexandria. Dating: Perhaps 16th century. Bride: Parna(?)
תעתוק אחד
Mentions Banīn the boy of al-Maḥālī (probably = al-Maḥallī). Greetings to Ibrāhīm.
The upper section of the recto is badly damaged, but the two upper lines of text may have been provided by the student's instructor for them to repeat (a common format in this genre). There is also some scattered writing practice in Hebrew on the recto and verso.
Letter from Mardūk b. Mūsā (Alexandria) to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat; 21 July 1046 (Gil).
בשמך רח
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך ותאידך ונעמאך וסעאדתך מן אל
מסתקר יום אלאתנין אלנצף מן אב ען חאל סלאמה ועאפיה אלדי …
Yosef Menaḥem. In Hebrew. Late. Also greeting Shemuel, Yosef, Binyamin, and others.
In the first legible line of the verso the name "Yosef" is mentioned and the the first-person may be in use with "יו / yo". There is also discussion of escape on line 6v with "דישפואיש אישקאפה / despues escapa".
(A grumbler is a person who is annoyed that the Spree does not run past Vienna and the Danube does not run past Berlin.) There is also some Hebrew including נפוצות יהודה.
If she remarries, she will lose her rights. There is also a reference to his daughter (or perhaps daughter's daughter).
Giving instructions to al-Dayyan al-Maskil (i.e., Shemuʾel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi) to go to the dyehouse (maṭbakh, maṣbagh) where Abū Isḥāq works and confirm the value of its rent.
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 56).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 51).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 75).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 68).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 61-62).
(information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 53).
Yisra'el mentions the fact that many people died and much property was lost in the Maghrib. The letter also discusses prices, the addressee's going to the Fayyūm, and the problem of the quarter-dinars brought by refugees from the west.
Beginning of a petition from the wife of Abū ʿAlīal-Sukkarī to an unidentified ḥaver. In Judaeo-Arabic.
Mentions "dīwān bi-rasm" and maybe "al-muqṭaʿyn". Could be accounts or release of funds. Coptic alpha-numerals on the left, one of them deciphers to 1000 (for more information see - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DVAGujbJbnaRODiBqV2ZdZW1rXYQN59XTiqkc3WuKLQ/edit#heading=h.15cigyv1fik6).
The sender refers to his prior report (khidma) which was the response to the addressee's noble letter (jawāb kitāb al-karīm) and contained the latest news (bayān al-mutajaddida).
Concerning a man who is seeking repayment of a debt from another based on a 14-year-old contract, but he has lost the contract and he wants the defendant to take an oath. Should the plaintiff also be obligated to take an oath that he lost the contract?
Masʿūd (creditor) and Avraham al-Ḥājj b. David b. Avraham al-Ḥajjāj (borrower).
Petiton from some students at al-Azhar against a landowner in Arabic, with a line of Ottoman Turkish text in the heading. […] [Described on the paper wrapper as: "Complainte des etudiants d'El Azhar au Waliʹ" ; on a separate small piece of paper: " Some students of al-Azhar writing a complaint to the Wali against a turkish owner who hired them land (?)
Letter from Binyām b. Hārūn, in Alexandria, to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yosef, in Fustat.
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך אלגליל ואדאם עזה ותאידה
וסעאדתה וסלאמתה ונעמתה ען חאל סלאמה ונעמה <ושוק> אליה שדיד קרב
אללה אלאגתמאע בינ…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Business letter from Mūsā b. Isḥāq b. Nissim al-ʿĀbid. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. Mentions merchants such as אבן אלטבני, Mūsā Ibn al-M[ajjānī?], and ʿAmmār b. Mevasser. The commodities mentioned include two bowls (qaṣʿa) and pearls.
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
The letter consists entirely of expressions of deference, blessings for the holiday, and greetings to various people, including 'the noble lady' (al-sitt al-jalīla), 'the mother,' and Bū Zikrī (probably Shelomo's brother).
Mentions the term niṣāfī several times, which likely refers to the Jiblī half-dinar mentioned in his other documents (though could also refer to a type of garment).
He discusses various business matters and writes that Abu Sa‘d al-Halabi is supposed to carry a mula’a to Nissim, and that Abu al-Surur sends his greeting and is now in Tripoli (Libya).
וסעאדתה
Several witnesses: Sālim Ḥadī (חדי), Ḥasan al-Dhīb (אלדיב, wolf), Yaḥyā Hārūn (ṣāḥib al-qumʿa(?))
On the way by boat his wares were drenched and spoiled. He also reports about a business dispute with a third person which was solved by way of a settlement out of court.
(Information from CUDL.) See also Goitein's note card.
The boundaries of the property are described. Also it is specified that the property includes its toilets (ובתי תשמישיה) Dating: Likely ca. 11th century.
In which Yiṣḥaq Luria Ashkenazi (the famous kabbalist) sells 8 1/3 kikars of pepper from his stock in Alexandria to Natan Ḥefeṣ for a sum of 150 Venetian peraḥim.
Peraḥya Yijū, in Mazara, writing to an important merchant, also in Sicily., ca. 1154. Yosef states that his sins are the source of his misfortunes.
2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים דיון אחד
See Mann, Jews, II, p. 208. See also T-S 13J25.21.
T-S 10J16.4 (PGPID 1522), an earlier plea from the same woman, also T-S Ar.18(1).107 (PGPID 17215).
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד 2 דיונים
Desperate letter of appeal to the 'courts' (judges) from a blind woman whose husband had fled to Alexandria and left her and her 3 year old girl. She is pleading to the community for relief.
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד 2 דיונים
Letter sent from Alexandria by Shemuel b. Aharon to Abu Ishaq Avraham b.
(Information from CUDL; see also Goitein's index card.)