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The writer informs him inter alia that the only commodity which sold well in the "West" was lac.
דיון אחד
A variety of names with Ottoman titles are mentioned, such as: Yosef Jalabī (Çelebi), dīwān (of the) Efendī, ʿAbd al-Raḥman Aga, Maḥ[mūd]/Muḥ[ammad] Efendī. Requires further examination.
אין רשומות קשורות
Syriac Memro for Palm Sunday. 14 lines, with a catchword at the bottom and the Garshuni heading yuqraʿ turjām ʿīd al-saʿānīn. This was edited by Siam Bhayro. Information from Kiraz, "Learning Syriac and Garshuni in Early Modern Egypt."
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Memorial list for the family of "al-Rayyis Abū l-Ḥasan, the family of our holy rabbi (Rabbenu ha-Qadosh.
(a) List of names and sums. Probably an alms distribution list. Entries include "the dyer"; "and her daughter"; Ṣedaqa; Umm Labwa; Ibrāhīm.
Abū l-Ḥassan b. Ṣāliḥ Muḥammad al-Q[...]?), then several figures in Greek/Coptic numerals, with a grand total written at the bottom.
ENA 3695.4, ENA 3695.5, and ENA 3695.8 all look very similar, might be from the same original document.
Receipt or legal document in Arabic script. Mīkhāʾil al-Dabbāgh (the tanner) sold cow hide(s) to Jaʿfar b.
Reused for a tax receipt issued for 402H written by Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ the jahbadh, so written earlier than that.
תעתוק אחד
Informal note addressed to Abū l-Faraj concerning a settling of accounts in the Dār al-Wikāla, involving 10 dirhams and the months of Ramaḍān and Shawwāl.
Including epithets of God (Ḥayy, Qayyūm, Dā'im, Dayyūm, Huwa Huwa) and Quranic verses (idhā qaḍā amran innamā yaqūlu lahu kūn(!) fa-yakūn) alongside nonsense words.
Expenses for the house of al-Muʿallim Sulaymūn. Dating: probably Mamluk or early Ottoman period based on handwriting, format, and paper.
Power of attorney by Shemuel Ibn al-Lebdi from late tenth-early eleventh century Fustat.
[עדות שהיתה בפנינו] אנו החתומים למטה בחמישי
[בשבת ... ] בחדש תמוז שנת אלף ושלש מאות
[... לשטרו]ת למנין שאנו רגילין למנות בו
[בפסטאט מצרים…
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Letter of appeal for charity addressed to Abū ʿImrān al-Kohen. Written in Hebrew (the opening poem and formulae) and Judaeo-Arabic (the body).
Letter sent from Fustat by Barhun b. Salih al-Tāhartī to his cousin Barhun b. Musa. The letter deals with business dealing with Muslims and the collection of debts.
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך ואצרף אלאסוא
ענך ברחמתה מן מצר יום אלגמעה ען סלאמה ונעמה ושוק אליך ותעליק קלב אלי …
Names mentioned include: ʿAbd al-Karīm; Muhadhdhab; Yisraʾel; Yaʿāqov ha-Le[vi?]
Mentions Abū l-Bishr and his son; ʿAbd al-Wāḥid; Menaḥem b. Majd; Abū Isḥāq b. Ṭayyib; [...]
E.g., Abu l-[...] known as Ibn al-ʿAmm (cf. ENA 2744.1 for this family name) and ʿOvadya.
Order or receipt in Arabic script with Judaeo-Arabic annotations for 2 dinars for [...] Makkī(?) al-Khabbāz from Yehuda b. Yosef (presumably this is Abū Zikrī Kohen).
One section seems to be for countering the evil eye ("kadhālika tatafaqqaʿ al-ʿayn wa-l-naẓra").
Conveying communal news and mentioning Abu ʿAlī and enemies. Should be checked against the previously identified Daniel b.
Shimʿon expresses his desire to teach Yosef all the relevant laws. (Information from Mann.)
Fragment (left side of recto, left side of verso) of a Judaeo-Arabic letter giving intriguing glimpses into a distressing situation: mentions the addressee's female cousin (bint ʿammak) and something "accursed" (al-mayshūma) and enduring hard.
Includes the phrases "her husband," "from the house," and "the scribes of the gentiles" (ilā warrāqīn al-goyim).
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic of a wide array of individuals known from other 18th/19th-century documents with eastern Arabic numerals. Although the meaning is unclear, the lists are clearly titled with the heading "עלם אלשוכוך סבלך".
Mentions people such as Ibn al-Qatāʾif and the writer's cousin (ibn ʿamm) whom he evidently supports.
Tale in the style of A Thousand and One Nights, told partly in the first person, mentioning a period of seven years, robbers who took all the narrator’s possessions, and a (barren) wife praying to God in the night.
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic to someone addressed as "al-majlis" regarding communal issues. May mention people who are violating a ruling of the addressee; mentions Bū l-Faraj the cantor; and someone who is unsuitable for a job.
Yaʿqūb, in Damascus, to Abū l-ʿAlāʾ Yūsuf b. Dāʾūd (Ibn Shaʿyā), in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script.
Verso: Arabic and Hebrew jottings, along with much mirrored Hebrew text. (Information from CUDL)
Unclear if state or private. Mentions someone al-ʿAjamī. One of the headings is "ʿamāla." Reused on the same side for a story in Judaeo-Arabic (see separate PGP record).
List, with each line starting with the name of a judge or other distinguished person bearing titles ending in al-Dīn (so probably 12th century or later). The person in the first line is listed a deceased, but not the others.
The sender may be named [Abū l-Ḥa]san. Almost none of the substance is preserved. (Information in part from CUDL.)
The place mentioned seems to be Mīt al-Khayr in the Gharbiyya province.
Testimony, deed of divorce, catalogued as a legal document concerning the marital status of the daughter of Sayf al-Dīn, dated 15 Dhū l-Ḥijja 808 H. [1406]. Partial transcription in folder with manuscript.
The house was split and the document details all the different parts of the house. (Information from Goitein, The Yemenites, pp. 152-156).
Legal document, concerning Abū ʿAlī b. [...], a debt of 100 dirhams, and possibly the appointing of an agent.
Business letter, which begins after seven lines of poetical complaints about separation, concerning camphor (kāfūr) and garments (aksiya) transported by Abū al-Afrāḥ ʿArūs. (Information from Goitein's index card).
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Signed by Yusuf b. Faraj al-Fasi and Dawud b. Nahum, who signs twice. (Information from Goitein’s index cards) EMS
Letter in which Abu al-Barakat b. Tayyib apologizes for not having sent a certain sum owed by Abū l-Ṭāhir.
Yosef, mentioning Abū l-Makārim, Avraham and his brother Ḥananʾel, Abū Isḥāq, Moshe (Maimonides), Rabbenu al-Maskil, and Sitt Mubārak. (Information mainly from CUDL.)
תעתוק אחד 2 דיונים
Verso: Perhaps a writing exercise of Genesis 1, but this seems to be prefaced in Judaeo-Arabic: "[...] al-ṣalā [...] taqūl."
The words ‘Mar Yefet’ are written above the name Ḥananya throughout the poem. Join: Alan Elbaum. (Information in part from CUDL)
Accounts written by a government official indicating sums owed by someone, probably for Abū l-[...] al-ʿAfṣī, on various dates, arranged in two columns.
Mentions names like Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallāh and Abū Ṭālib ʿUmar(?) b. al-Ḥasan(?), which makes it seem like a legal document.
Abū l-Riḍā b. Hilāl Ibn al-Amshāṭī.
There is one name in Hebrew script (אלמהראני); the addressee is called "my son" (yā waladī); and the writer mentions "when I left the country" (kharajtu min al-balad). Needs examination.
Verso (original use): ḥikr (ground-rent) receipt in Arabic script for the Jewish community's properties (املاك) in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ (the Fortress of the Lamps) in Fustat.
Little of the content is preserved. A wicked man (al-rashaʿ) is mentioned: אלרשע בן זעפראנה(?). (Information in part from CUDL)
Possibly a signature, along with jottings, on verso. (Information in part from CUDL)