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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Letter from Salmān b. Dawud al-Barqi, probably from Tripoli, Libya, to Nahray b.
3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד
Eliyyahu to Abū l-Makārim al-Kohen, possibly in Qalyūb. In Judaeo-Arabic.
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Groom: Tamīm b. Netanel. Bride: Sitt al-Khafar bt. Elʿazar. 42 + 83 + 55 + 30 = 210 dinars.
דיון אחד
The mention of the ashrafī makes it possible to date this fragment as no earlier than 1425 CE, when this form of coinage was first minted under Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay. On recto there are supplication prayers (tahanunim) of Shemuel b.
אין רשומות קשורות
Letter mentioning 4,000 of something, 8 of something else, Abū ʿImrān, and two people with intriguing names: Abū l-Ḥasan Ṣadaqa Ibn al-Qārūs (“Son of the Lever”) and Abū Zekharya Ben Yiju (this fragment is not cited in India Book III, or anywhere else).
Many entries mention names, such as: Yeshūʿa ʿAbd-al-Wāḥid and Avraham Ben-Ṣahal. MCD.
Letter from Ismaʿīl b. Barhūn al-Tāhartī (Mahdiyya) to his nephew Barhūn b. Ṣāliḥ.
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Probably written in Corfu, probably addressed to al-Shaykh Yūnus. In Hebrew. Dating: Late, perhaps 16th century.
תעתוק אחד
Mentions partial names including Rosh ha-Nedivim; Peraḥya Ibn al-ʿAmʿaṭ; someone's father; Yehuda ha-Ḥazzan ha-Meʿuttad "his brother."
Fragmentary document from Damascus in which [...] b. al-Tarir gives a house adjacent to his own to Yefet ha-Levi b.
Bifolio containing mainly an alms distribution list. "What was distributed on Monday, with seven days remaining in Nisan."
In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. The sender alludes to his bad state and requests charity or help of some kind.
Letter from an unidentified sender, in Rashīd, to Abū Saʿīd al-ʿAfṣī ("the gallnut dealer"), probably in Fustat.
Mentions Barhun b. Musa al-Tāhartī that is in the Maghreb and his brother Yosef is in Susa (in the Maghreb as well).
תקדמת כתבי אליך יאמולאי ואלי סידי אבי סעיד אחיאה אללה ואטאל בקאכם ואסעדכם וכאן לכם
עוזר וסומר [ ] פי אלבחר ומע אלפלוג משרחה [ ] ארגו וצולה…
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד
Letter concerning a reconciliation, presumably between husband (Maḥfūẓ al-Qudsī) and wife. Signed by the judge Avraham b.
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.
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…
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..."
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...).
The next line reads "I have sold all my property before I learn . . ." Verso contains unidentified Hebrew text in a different hand.
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 …
Mentions a Kohen from Damascus and al-Dayyān Yosef ha-Kohen. He (the writer? the Damascene?)
Letter from [...] b. Yūsuf to Abū ʿAlī Ismāʿīl [...]. In Arabic script. (The addressee is confusingly called 'my father' in the body of the letter and 'my son' in the address.)
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.