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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Letter concerning a reconciliation, presumably between husband (Maḥfūẓ al-Qudsī) and wife. Signed by the judge Avraham b.
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Addressed to Aharon (identified by Scheiber as Aharon b. Yeshuʿa Ibn al-ʿAmmānī) and conveying blessings to his father and his son.
Letter fragment from the Yeshiva directed to 'all the communities of Israel in Palestine and in its fortresses, its town and villages...which have remained in Palestine and to those in the land of Egypt calling themselves Palestinians', i.e. to the Jewish communities of Palestine and Egypt, dating from the end of the 10th or the beginning of the 11th century.
Letter from Salah b. Barhun al-Taharti from Qayrawan, to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b.
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Dating: ca. 1160 CE. Bride: Sitt al-Nasab bt. Avraham ha-Kohen the parnas, a virgin.
דיון אחד
Recto: State document. Report to al-Ẓāhir about a tax farmer, beginning only. Dating: 1021–36 CE.
[بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم]
[صلوات الله بركاته ونوامي زكواته وافصل سلامه وتحياته على مولانا وسيدنا]
الامام الظاهر لاعزاز دين الله [امير المومنين…
תעתוק אחד
Reused on verso for medical or alchemical (one uses lead) recipes in Arabic script.
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
It appears to be a Jewish prayer: "yā Allāh" (l. 6), "I thirst for your mercy like the ground thirsts for water" (l. 17), "for the sake of the covenant with our fathers Ibrāhīm Isḥāq and Yaʿqūb..."
אין רשומות קשורות
A religious slaughterer, Khalaf b. Ibrāhīm al-Ḥallāl, who was careless in the exercise of his duties is flogged and forced to make a public confession.
The ends of three lines remain, including the word al-taqsīṭ. Reused on recto by Efrayim b. Shemarya to copy parts of Saʿadya Gaʾon's tafsīr (translation and commentary) on Genesis 1:3 - 1:15
There does not seem to be much substance to the letter beyond assuring the addressee that the sender is promptly fulfilling his errands. Greetings to ʿAllān. Reused for accounts (in the hand of ʿArūs?)
Involving Abū l-Ḥasan(?) b. Yūsuf b. Faraj al-Yahūdī. Needs further examination.
There are 10 unrelated fragments sharing this shelfmark. All are literary: see FGP for identifications. The most documentary fragment is fol. 4, which is a leaf from a book in Judaeo-Arabic that tells you the Psalms to recite in various scenarios (if your ship is about to sink at sea... if you are going before the king...).
Brief letter in Arabic script, from Abū l-Ḥasan and referring to something in the handwriting of Abū l-Ḥasan al-[...]. The addressee is instructed to send the dinars that are in [...].
Concerning a transaction, quoting a certain Avraham and mentioning Abū ʿAlī and the tax farming (or tax farmers) (ḍamān or ḍummān) of Qalyūb.
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שהור אלתי ק[
יביעה לי הנאך ולא[
צ̇מאן קליוב ולא נ[
ואלסנה אלדאכלה בכמאלהא [
דלך ולא אלאחתגאג פיה בחגה [
ולא אואטי מן יזיד עליה ולא…
for the bearer ("no one is to oppose him... representing us... honor him and respect him... he is deserving of all good deeds..."). (Information in part from CUDL)
Mentions something which Rabbi Yosef brought with him; 100 dinars; 22 dinars for Isḥāq; a purse or something distressing (אלצרה); the elder Abū l-Aʿlā Is[ḥaq?]; 6 dinars. (Information in part from CUDL)
Mentions collaterals (ruhūnāt) left with somebody; Abū ʿAlī; the addressee's wife; payments in installments.
Recto: The last two lines of a formal Arabic document, containing only the pious phrases fa-l-ḥamdu lillāhi waḥdahū wa-ṣalawātuhū ʿalā sayyidinā muḥammad..., followed by a ḥasbala.
Verso (original use): fragment of a state document, in Arabic script. The text reads as "ʿalā l-ʾaṣl". (Information in part from CUDL.)
The phrase המצב הגדול מושב הדרת הנגידות. Probably Mahalla al-Kubrā is intended. it seems from this address that the Nagid use to sit there, but it is out of context and might be only a pen trial.
Fragment (lower left corner). Probably a will (al-waṣiyya). The year is just barely missing– in terms of finding a join, it would be the first portion of the next/final line.
Mentions cloves, salt, and a qāḍī (al-Muwaffaq). (Information in part from CUDL)
Involves Abū Sulaymān Dāʾūd, [...] al-ʿAdanī "his partner in the wakāla," and trade in Yemen.
T-S NS 98.14 (PGPID 39010)) to Faraḥ b. Yūsuf al-Qābisī (aka Peraḥya b. Yosef). In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in both Hebrew and Arabic script.
The paleography, ink, and pre-lined paper all point to the nineteenth century as a likely dating estimate.
Refers to the request of the 'slaves' (al-mamālīk), monthly payments, and at one point a sum of 1000 dinars.
Decree of the caliph al-Ḥākim to the Qaraite community in Fusṭāṭ and elsewhere, granting them administrative independence from the Rabbanites, on the basis of the differences between the two communities regarding law and ritually kosher food.
Praise be to God, lord of the universe.
In the name …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Mentions a Kohen from Damascus and al-Dayyān Yosef ha-Kohen. He (the writer? the Damascene?)
Informal note from Manṣūr b. [...] the Jew to Jamāl al-Dīn. In Arabic script. Dating: No earlier than 1225 CE, based on the currency kāmilī dirhams.
Likely fiscal accounts, in very small writing. E.g. "min māl. . . al-aʿmāl..." and "wuṣūl... dīnārayn..." Underneath there may be a date (560 AH?).
From [...] b. Hārūn to Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Hibatallāh. (The sender's full name is probably preserved.)
Involves a certain Mūsā and his mother, possibly Marḥaba bt. Dāʾud al-Yahūdī. Needs further examination.
A dīwān is possibly mentioned in an entry along the lower edge of the recto and __gān Bāsha, perhaps an Ottoman administrative title.
Verso: Right upper corner of lucidly written list of contributors, the first thirteen each donating 2 dirhams. All names appear in abbreviated form. Some of the same people as in T-S NS J235 (PGPID 4659).
ב ב ב ב ב
Mentions names such as Yaʿaqov; Abū l-Khayr; Qāsim (mentioned in other letters as a middleman in the flax business in Būṣīr); Ibn Barakāt; a packer (ḥazzām); Ḥamza; Ibn al-Waliyy(?).
Mentions the name Abū l-Ḥayy Manṣūr b. ʿAllūn and a wālī (احسن الله جزاه على عدله). Needs further examination for content.
Letter from Yishaq b. Avraham al-Mishmar (ha-Kohen?) from Fustat, to his son in Qayrawan (Ifrīqiya).
Other people mentioned: Abū l-Khayr, Abū Ghālib, al-ʿArīf, a ghulām, and Abū ʿImrān.
collected for the first four months of 5583 = 1822/23 CE (or perhaps 5553 AM). All the entries refer to "the little girl of X," X being Yaʿaqov Kohen, Binyamin Qodesh, Yaʿīsh Ḥaddād, David Naʿīm, and others.
Statement in Arabic script ("aqūlu wa-anā...") made and signed by Hiba b. Mufaḍḍal al-Mutaṭabbib. Dated: 18 Shawwāl 628 AH = 19 August 1231 CE.
Recto: Letter in Arabic to Hayyim al-Ṣarrāf (moneychanger/banker) in the High Diwan.
Mentions either "his son" or "the daughter of" the qāḍī known as Ibn Shaʿra, a certain Shabbetay, and a certain Sitt al-Tujjār. The scribe's hand may be known.
Involves a certain Abū l-Ḥasan b. Mūsā known as Ibn al-Uʿayẓim(?).
Private account of Yosef b. Eli Kohen al-Fasi. Dating: around 1057 (Gil). Contains details about partnership between the writer and Barhūn b.
بسم
אלדי אכרגת בבוציר ען מא יכצני מן אלורק
קיח דר //וכרג// אלי בן אללכלאכי יג ותולת
פי תמן…לעבד אללה וזנה יז קיר וחבה
כז…
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Mentions the mustaʿrib congregation in the header and, below that, the holidays Hannukah and Purim. All the documents in this folder appear to be in the same hand, though this one pertains to the Mustaʿrib congregation and the next to the Sephardic congregation.
Levi ha-Levi), to be delivered to [...] al-Turjumān who is to forward it to the unknown addressee.
Fiancé: Abū Naṣr Elʿazar b. Yefet. Fiancée: Sitt al-Banāt Saʿīda bt. Hillel.
There arranged a match before us, we the [under]signed [witnesses... X]
b. R. Japheth, (may his) e(nd be) g(ood), with Sitt al-Banāt daugh…
The sender reminds the addressee to fulfill a promise (the details of which are only alluded to). "The only thing that prevented me from coming in person was removing a burden from your noble mind."
Ownership note on a folio that came from a volume containing texts by Yehuda Ḥayyūj; Ibn Gikatilla (d. after 1305); and Kitāb al-Tajnīs by Yehuda ibn Balʿam; and perhaps other works.