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Letter from Shemuel Gaon b. Hofni to an unknown Aluf (אלוף). October 1008. Information about copies of two of the Gaon’s books.
תעתוק אחד
Dating: probably 12th century. Refers to al-Ṭarābulsī; something which Ibrāhīm sent; pepper; and probably saffron.
אין רשומות קשורות
Items mentioned include rose syrup, 1/2 pound; basil seed; another kind of seed; chicken; green almond, 1 1/2 dirham; something large and fresh; dates; mandrake (luffāḥ), 1 dirham; basil (rayḥān), 3/4; cucumber (faqqūs), 1/2.
דיון אחד
The marriage was commemorated upon the agreed sum of 7 dīnārs of Sulṭānī al-jadīd and 400 half Sūlaimānī dirhams– which helps to date the fragment as no earlier than 1520 CE, when the reign of the Ottoman Sultan Sūlaimān began.
Mentions Abū Ṭawq several times and Ibn al-Munshid.
Some contain the mystery mark (backwards ط). All are dated after the formula kutiba. ENA 3971 13–24, 31 and 34.
Ḥayyīm Ṭawīl, Yiṣḥaq Skandarī, and Mordekhay Ṭawīl (all of who sign the lower portion of the document).
Yisraʾel leases his cheese shop in Ḥārat al-Ṣaqāliba to Yosef Medina for a period of 15 months for a sum of 18 reals (1 real pegged to 90 medins).
One entry is "for the house/wife of Ibn al-Jazafini/Ghazfini," a name that appears on other charity lists around 1107: see Zinger, "Women, gender and Law", p. 365.
Dated in a lower entry mentioning a shipment of diamons: 23 Iyyar [55]93 AM (קצג) which is 1832/33 CE. "All this was copied from the ledger (pinqas) of the late Me'ir Gabbay."
He has sent two notes, one with Abū l-Ṭāhir and one with Ibrāhīm al-Dimashqī, to the effect that Sulaymān should pay Ibrāhīm the remainder of what is owed to the distinguished judge Yiṣḥaq ("ha-paṭish ha-ḥazaq"), namely 50-something and a quarter (dirhams?).
List of alphabetized names with Greek/Coptic numerals spanning four columns.
Concerns the oil merchant (al-zayyāt) Yūsuf b. Ṣadaqa and the legal question of whether or not he divorced a certain woman and/or if he is still married.
Abū l-Munā is asked to convey Moshe's gratitude to Najm [al]-Dīn on account of the benefaction he bestowed by helping a certain prisoner.
Mentions Abū l-Surur Ibn al-Aṭrūsh (recto right page). Mentions Thursday with 5 days remaining in Iyyar, followed by several entries for other dates (verso left page).
Small fragment from a state document; perhaps the tarjama of a petition from Aḥmad b. ʿAlī b. Ṣalaḥ. Reused to create a bifolium for a medical work, dealing with the faculties of the human body, causes of illness, and heart function in different kinds of illness, including fever.
Recto: part of a Judaeo-Arabic letter, complaining about the lack of letters from the addressee and explaining that a letter had been sent to the Ḥaver concerning Ibn al-Ẓālimī(?) on Wednesday 22nd Kislev. May mention 100 (or 500) dinars in Cyprus (קברס) and may mention departure from another location (דאכר?).
Mentions a village/estate (ḍayʿa) known as المخرقة (in the Fayyūm) and 'the farmers there' (al-muzāriʿīn fīhā). (Information in part from Naïm Vantieghem.)
In the handwriting of Farah b. Isma’il b. Farah al-Qābisī. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 3, #398) VMR
כתאבי יאסי[די] ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם תאיידך וסלאמתך מן [בוציר] לב לי[אל]
כלון מן [שהר] רגב ואלחאל סלאמה ושוק אליך קרב אללה אלאגתמאע …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Concerning a debt of 25 dinars owed to her by Ṣedaqa al-Ḥalabī, of which he still owes her 14 dinars.
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
-agent, which is to be paid for in sal-ammoniac rather than money, and instructions to send sal-ammoniac, garlic, and candles with a third party named ʿAbd al-Waliyy. Refers to Miṣrī (Egyptian) and Qudsī (Jerusalemite) pounds.
Goitein suggests that this is an allusion to Crusader persecutions there. (Information in part from Goitein's index cards)
The divorce is between Yūsuf b. Elʿazar and Sitt al-Dār bt. Yiṣḥaq. The witnesses are Moshe b. Shela ha-Levi and Mevorakh b.
The divorce is between Munajjā b. Abū al-Ḥasan and Muʿizza b. [. . .]. The witnesses are Mevorakh b.
The writer notes that he had already sent a letter to the same effect but was afraid that it had gone astray.
A detailed trousseau list labeled as al-tawqīm (estimate) that acted as a continuation of an engagement contract found at T-S 13J8.24.
2 דיונים
Khalaf received 12 items from Umm Fuṣayl as an inheritance. Shabbat b. al-ʿAzar acted as witness and the receipt was signed by three people, including Yefet b.
Joins: Ezra Chwat and Alan Elbaum. Cf. T-S AS 177.67 (PGPID 37026).
(Information from Goitein's index cards) The discoloration along the upper edge and inner lines of the fragment may have resulted from fire damage.
Her attorney, appointed in Fustat, was to extract alimony from him for the year of desertion, twenty dinars as delayed marriage gift, and a bill of divorce.
Letter from a file of Avraham Maimonides' court, written to the Dayyan Nissim in al-Maḥalla, written by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Instructing the addressee not to let Abū Manṣūr b.
Shemuel he-Ḥasid, in which the writer complains about Netanʾel b. Ḥalfon al-Dimyāṭī, who was brought before an amīr, who then 'raised us to the Jewish (courts).'
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Dating: no earlier than 1425 CE, since it mentions the currency ashrafī which was first minted under Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay in that year. (Information from CUDL and Goitein's index card.)
Written by the jahbadh Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ. Measurements: 12.5 × 7.7 cm. The verso is blank.
He says he has made pilgrimage to his current location ("may God build it") and lost all his money. He was embarrassed to turn to any of his countrymen other than the addressee.
Includes phrases such as "as your [excellency] sees fit" (ʿalā mā yarāhu wa;-kamā yarāhu bi-ghayr ḥāʾil wa-lā māniʿ) and a reference to getting angry or being merciful (يغضب ولا يرحم).
Main document: Petition or letter draft from Sulaymān from Banī Sarrāj "in the districts of Ṭaḥā and al-Ushmūnayn." In Arabic script. Dating: Late.
Mercantile letter from an unknown sender, possibly in Sicily, to Abū Zikrī Elḥanan b. Ismāʿīl (al-Andalusī). In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (vertical piece from the middle).
סלא]מתה וסעאדתה ורעאיתה וכאן לה ולי וחאפט [
ושוק] שריד לטאלעתך אלמבארכה קרב אללה אלאגתמא[ע
] עלי דלך ווצל גמיע מא אנפדתה סאלם לל[
…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Verso: Receipt. Headed by the glyph. Al-Ḥājj Abū l-Ḥajjāj Yūsuf collected the rent for Muḥarram [6]22 AH (= January/February 1225 CE) in the last third of Ṣafar (early March) of the same year, and the rent for Ṣafar (February/March) in the [last] third of Rabīʿ I (early April) of the same year.
The sender complains that the bustān is ruined: the livestock have died of hunger and the produce has dried up, and al-rayyis Abū Isḥāq has taken possession of the bustān.
Mentions: Ibn ʿAṭiyya; possibly customs taxes (maks); someone drinking with his brother-in-law; a girl (al-ṣughayyira); Naḥum; Futūḥ; Maʿānī; and Hilāl b.
Note from Abū l-Faraj to Abū ʿAlī, urgently summoning him to the sender's home, it seems for a medical appointment ("to show me your eye").
Mentions the "peasants/farmers" (fallāḥīn) of Minyat al-Mukhliṣ, a small town in the Nile Delta, in in the heading on the upper right corner of the verso.
Mentions previous correspondence and different business matters, and names such as Abū Naṣr Ibn al-Sharābī, Abū l-Ḥasan and Abū As[...]. He inquires about the prices of pepper and lacquer and asks for a quick reply.
Yosef, 80 dinars, a monthly payment of 10 zuzim from the writer to the addressee, and the refusal of someone to appoint an agent. Dated at the end, ‘all this happened on Monday 24th Shevat 1404 of the Seleucid Era’ (= 1093 CE).
Elʿazar makes an acknowledgment in favor of Abū Naṣr al-ʿAṭṭār. No other details are preserved.
Maymūn, mentioning Sarah’s cousin, the mother of the writer, Mūsā the ugly (al-kāfūsh?)) and Yiṣḥaq the cantor. Dating: ca. 14th–17th century based on hand and formulae.
Addressed to a physician (al-ḥakīm). Contains prolonged blessings and praises, hopes that God will remove a cause of discord, and curses upon sinners and enemies.
The bottom two lines are intriguing: "the Byzantines blocked the road before us (פקטעו אלרום עלינא אלטריק). . . and I put it in my belt (al-himyān). . . ." (Information in part from CUDL)
The first few letters of about a dozen lines from the main text block are preserved, but almost no complete words.