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Netanel getting involved in the empty silk and dyeing workshop of al-Barqānīyya.
אין רשומות קשורות
Karaite betrothal deed, torn along the right margin. Dated 17 Adar I 5502 AM (1752 CE).
תעתוק אחד
This document is cited by Roni Shweka as an example of the potential of the Joins Suggestion algorithm to identify unrecognized documents (in the article 'וקרב אותם אחד אל אחד': זיהוי כתיבות יד וצירוף קטעי גניזה באמצעות מחשב).
Someone denounced him (ghammaza/yughammiz ʿalayhi), possibly to the government, on account of his debts, and he has spent two months under house arrest or for fear that he will be placed under arrest.
Account in Judaeo-Arabic listing many materia medica and foods. including banana leaf (waraq mawz), "white leaf"; ʿaqīd; frankincense; ointment; chebulic myrobalan; emblic; mastic; something hindī; pepper; ṭaḥīna; sesame oil; olive oil; linseed oil; honey; garlic; (continuing onto verso) pepper; almond; raisin; apricot (barqūq); banana leaf; coriander; henna.
Note in the hand of Nissim b. Iṣḥaq al-Tāhartī, ca. 1050, written for himself and for Nahray b.
רב סלם ובלג ברחמתך וארחם אל
ראחמין(!) לנסים בן יצחק ונהראי בן
נסים ששכ ביעה מלונה וד ביעאת
עקוד תברורי [ובעץ גנדלו] ופיהא
ברסם יוסף …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Ṣadoq, and a delayed marriage payment of 40 dinars. The name Muhadhdhab al-Ṣayrafī then appears. Then perhaps a new testimony that somebody acknowledges that he owes 100 dirhams to his wife and will pay it by the end of Sivan.
Homeowners mentioned are Ibn Qumayla and Abū l-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Malik the broker. Possibly an indirect join: Friedberg MSS 9-004/22 (PGPID 33737) and BL OR 13153.4/6 (PGPID 19174).
Fragment of Ibn Sīnā's Kitāb al-Qānūn fī l-ṭibb written on a narrow strip of paper and probably dated to the 7th/13th century.
דיון אחד
the druggist to Abū Saʿīd the druggist, ordering materia medica, including, fine Iraqi saffron; aloe wood (ʿūd); aged camphor (kāfūr); Iraqi turpeth (turbid); Iraqi sulfur (kibrīt); and red cotton (?
Petition in Judaeo-Arabic to help the cantor Thābit Ibn al-Munajjim, who was ill and had been imprisoned for two months for not paying his capitation tax.
The Italian portion reads in part: "Dia Sempre Gloria e Vittoria al Nostro Sovrano Imperator Francesco Secondo D'Astria Con Tutta la sua Real Famiglia astriacha(?)."
The writer addresses his friends and lords, declares his love and loyalty to his friends who wished him to be married and beget children. "Take this poem, albeit short, and your love will cover my sin."
List of Jewish and Muslim names in Hebrew script followed by what are likely alphanumerical figures connected to accounts. The dating for this fragment is likely from the 16th-18th centuries.
The poem on the other side alternates between Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic from one hemistich to the next, inverting the order of the languages from verse to verse: ABBAABBAABBA, where A = Hebrew hemistich and B = Judaeo-Arabic hemistich.
The four partners are Avraham Talmid, David Alfandre(?), Shelomo Aguilar, and Yosef (de) Sevilla (שביליה, שויליא, די שויליא).
Yosef and Hillel b. Yiṣḥaq known as Ibn al-ʿAmm. Potentially related to PGPID 2917. Opens with reference to a group of people "complaining and shouting" (קובלים צועקים) and the court's actions upon hearing their cries.
Letter from Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmūrī to Nahray b. Nissim, ca. 1045-1096.
4 תעתוקים תרגום אחד
Trousseau list (taqwīm) for Sitt al-Waqār bt. Bū l-Riḍā b. Tamīm. Gives details of the items with numbers next to them.
Mentions the term ṣāfī several times (in this case does not seem to be a person's name but a commercial term); sarcocolla (ʿanzarūt); the ṣāhib al-funduq; marāwiḥ (fans?); khazāsh silk ; a turban; Nuṣayr; Ibn Sughmār; Ibn Tībān; Khulayf; several "pieces" (qiṭʿa) of a certain good; ʿIwāḍ; lac; Abū Zikrī; and khazāsh and ḥarīr again.
Letter from Yosef b. Labrāṭ al-Fāsī (Qayrawan) to Yaʿaqov b. Yosef b. ʿAwkal (Fustat).
אטאל אללה יאסידי וריסי וגלילי ואלעזיז עלי בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך ואיאם סעאדתך כתאבי
אליך מן מדינת אלקיר[ואין ען סלאמה ועאפיה נחמד אללה אליך כתי…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
The document concerns Abū Ṭāhir al-ʿAsqalānī, riding animals (dawābb), and Buqṭur (=Victor)?
Seller: Meshullam b. Hiba known as Ibn al-Shuwaykiyya (cf. T-S 20.30 and the cluster of related documents).
The letter is sent to the 'house of my master al-Hemdat b. Pinhas' in Cairo. Connected to T-S 8J22.19.
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
He states that he is in good health and mentions the woman known as 'al-kabīra.' Verso: Letter fragment (upper part only) in Arabic script.
Names on recto include Sulaymān; Yefet; Manṣūr al-Raqqāq; [...] b. Fuhayd; his partner Hiba b.
, the widow of Avraham b. Ẓahal, leases her ʿaliya apartment that is on top of the synagogue (בית הכנסת המדרש) to Avraham Baronito for a period of 5 months.
The sender expresses his longing for the addressee, who was his support ("al-ʿudda wa-l-ʿumda") when they were together. Mentions goods such as lac and honey.
It was reused for Hebrew poetry on verso headed by a name Ṣadīq b. AL[...]. The same name appears on recto together with the phrase הדא אלערוץ "this poetry" [is by him?].
Shemuel as a naqqād in Ṣarf al-Manṣūra under a certain amir until the end of Elul, for a total salary of 2000 muayyadis.
Nissim and Yaʿaqov b. Ismāʿīl al-Andalusī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 1050 CE.
רב סלם ברחמ[ת]ך ובלג
בקדרתך אלי אבי יחיי
נהרא<י> בן נסים ויעקב בן
אסמעיל סורה צחבת
יעקב בן עמנואל אלוזן
ק דינ> ודינארין גיר סודס
Recto: draft of a legal document with the testimony of Abū l-Khayr [Shelomo b. ...] al-Ṣūrī. Mentions Abū Kathīr Efrayim b. Sasson, Yehuda b. [...], someone's wife, and [... b.]
The calendar mentions intercalation, the length of the variable months, the type of the year, moladot of all months and days of the week of beginnings of months.
He mentions: two knives, two notebooks; Ṭāhir; Ibn al-Sabʿ; Hiba; Ibn Yaʿaqov; the holidays.
Note or letter from Shimʿon Ben-Nāʾīm (נאיים) addressed only to someone or some institution with the honorific title "jināb al-muḥtarim". Dated: 15 ___[month] 1284 AH (1867/1868 CE).
Ḥalfon ha-Levi. Wife: Sitt al-Khawāt bt. [...]. Dated: Tammuz 1[4]50 of the Seleucid era (= June 1139 CE).
Verso: Accounts in Arabic script, headed, "This is all of what Sulaymān left before he traveled." There is is some overlap with the goods on recto, e.g. the rose conserve.
The writer chastises the addressee at length, quoting Quran 12:51 along the way. He is pained by what happened with Abū Saʿīd.
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Complains (in the upper margin) about Ibrāhīm the ḍāmin al-jawālī (capitation tax farmer) who is again 'afflicting the people with affliction.'
Verso: Letter from Yeshuʿa to al-Muhadhdhab. Possibly the response. Quotes a verse of poetry (Information in part from Goitein's index card.)
Recto: Letter from Yiṣḥāq ʿAmmānī (i.e. from the Ibn al-ʿAmmānī family), who calls himself "the small" (קטן) to Elʿazar ha-Levi ha-Sar.
Letter from Barhun b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Tāhartī, in al-Mahdiyya, to a younger relative. Around 1050.
[ ] עלי אלאסגאר [ו]אלאכבאר ואלדי אערפך בה אני אסתכרת
אללה וחמלת פי הדה אלקאפלה צחבה מחמד בן סלאמה בן אלואלדה…
David, Busir, to Abu l-Faraj Yaʿqūb ibn Ibrahim ibn ʿAllān, Fustat. Around 1052 (Gil). The writer wants to ship flax from Busir to Fustat, but there aren't enough boats.
Concerning business matters such as the sale of gum mastic, and mentioning people including Tamīm Ibn al-Zayyāt, Munajjā b. Abī l-[...], Abū Naṣr, Abū Yaʿqūb, and the fact that Shemuel is arriving in Fusṭāṭ.
Legal document. Location: al-Maḥalla. Settlement agreement between Abū l-Ḥasan and Manṣūr, his brother-in-law.
Geṭ (bill of divorce). Location: al-Ramla. Dated: Adar 4786 AM = January/February 1026 CE.
The divorce is between Abū al-Faḵr Kahana b. Saʿadya b. Sahlān. The witnesses are Mevorakh b.
He emphasizes that he prays for him at all times, including when he goes up to the Mount of Olives and when he is at 'the gates of mercy.'
Informing that three pieces of copper, a lamp, and one other item belonging to the sister of Abu 'Ali Husayn b. Yosef have been delivered in the presence of witnesses, and sends wishes for the holidays.
Recto: Letter sent to al-Mahalla concerning various business matters and dealing with the sale of sugar, chewing gum (mastaka) and rice.