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Legal document, late, in Arabic script, issued by al-Ṣāliḥiyya al-Najmiyya qadi court of Cairo. Concerns al-Shaykh Muḥammad al-Ajhūrī and the Rabbinic Jew Murād.
אין רשומות קשורות
Extremely neat and well-preserved. Mentions Dār al-Malik al-Muẓaffar and al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ. Needs examination.
Account mentioning something currently with (ʿinda) Sulaymān, whose name is also repeated further down. On verso, a total (al-jumla), with a quantity expressed in Coptic alphanumerals.
Receipt or order of payment to al-shaykh Abū al-someone and al-shaykh Abū Naṣr, dated Friday night (laylat al-jumʿa) 19 Ramaḍān 509 (5 February 1116).
Mentions names such as Yaʿaqov Pinḥas; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz; ʿAbd al-Munʿim; and the term jāmakiyya (salary). Possibly also coral. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Verso may contain the address: Mentions al-Shaykh al-Ajall Abū ʿAlī b. [...] and al-Shaykh Abū l-Khayr Dayyān. . .
Listing many names. E.g. al-Zakiyy, al-Qalyūbī, al-Sharīf, Manṣūr, al-Summāqī, Najm, סיכה, ʿIwaḍ, קרשלה, Fāris, Yaḥyā, Makīn, Jamāl.
Official receipt in Arabic. For a physician (al-ḥakīm) possibly named Abū ʿAlī. Seems to be for his rent (ujrat sakn[ih]). May also mentions the ground rent (ḥikr). Needs examination.
Mentions people such as Abū Zikrī (to whom the writer owes 1 dinar); ʿAlīal-Ramlī; Ḥasan al-Ashqar; Ḥasan al-Munādī.
דיון אחד
Letter from Shelomo b. Nissim ha-Levi al-Barqī, in Alexandria, to Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy, in Fustat. […] Hopefully I will find someone to treat me, for here there is no medicine and no physician and nothing to strengthen my spirit (nafsī—Gil translates it as body)." Mūsā has also been suffering from a prolonged illness. Shelomo conveys his sympathies and explains that he only refrained from writing sooner so as not to increase Mūsā's preoccupations (shughl al-sirr). The letter also mentions the purchase of books. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 4, #646.)
על שמך
לם יכן תאכיר כתבי ען מולאי אלשיך אלגליל אטאל אללה בקאה
ואדאם עזה אלא אתר לתכפיף ען חצרתה ואלא אציף אליה
שגל סר מן גהתי לאנני אע…
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Colophon to Kitāb Khalq al-Insān by Abū l-Ḥasan Saʿīd b. Hibatallāh (1045–1101). […] The next lines of the colophon name (the patron?) al-Rayyis Abū Manṣūr Ṣāliḥ Raʾs al-Mathība al-Hārūnī (=a Kohen) b. [Su]laymān Raʾs al-Mathība al-Hārūnī. The name, titles, nasab, and date can fit the gaʾon Maṣliaḥ b.
תעתוק אחד
Letter from Mardūkh b. Mūsā in Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat. (c. July 1048 CE). […] The letter also mentions an order for what Goitein interprets as earthenware goblets ("sājira") with gold luster. […] EMS Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm Ibn al-Iskandarānī was, according to Udovitch, the representative of the merchants (wakīl at-tujjār) in Alexandria, or at least one of the people in that city who bore that title.
3 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים דיון אחד
Moshe, the husband of Jalīla bt. Abū ʿAlī, and Ḥalfon Ibn al-Tūzī, the husband of Jalīla's sister Sumr, sue for their share in the inheritance of the recently deceased Abū ʿAlī. Somehow also involved is Abū ʿAlī's mother known as Ibnat al-Tarshāʾ ("daughter of the deaf woman"), who may have died in Alexandria.
The supervisor's name is Suleymān b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. ʿAbd al-Ghaffār, so he probably was the son of the supervisor mentioned in PGPID 40644 (from 1563 CE). […] The purchase of this property in 1554 CE byʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. ʿAbd al-Ghaffār is described in PGPID 41543. […] The two persons mentioned in this document are also mentioned in a document from the Jerusalem Muslim court Sijjil from 1584 CE, published by Amnon Cohen (no. 373 in his volume on the 16th century), where they are also in dispute over dwelling rights and compensations for investments in an endowed property, in a location close by, which also seems to be one of the endowed properties described in PGPID 40644.
People mentioned: Abū l-Fakhr, al-Daqqāq, and Bū ʿAlī. See also the description for the whole notebook Bodl.
Mentions a Qāḍī Ḥammād b, ʿAlī and also Amīr al-Muʾminīn in l4. Reused for Hebrew piyyūt on the recto.
Contains mostly regards to family members, but no names have survived. Also mentions 34 dirhams; a qāḍī; and "the people of al-Qalʿa and the people of al-Mahdiyya."
Mainly materia medica: sharāb (syrup); ṭabāshīr; samgh (=ṣamgh, gum); sabr (=ṣabr) soqoṭrī (=Socotrene aloe). Also mentions [...] b. al-Rūmiyya ('the son of the Byzantine woman').
Letter by a Karaite from al-Andalus noting that he was very well-received by the people of Alexandria, but of all his money only two dinars remained.
My lord, teacher and mentor of renowned prestige, may God preserve your health, shower you with compassion,
grant you access to success …
Verso (original use): Bottom of an official letter in Arabic, possibly a petition ("...wa-lahā ḥarasa Allāh ʿizzahā raʾyuhā al-mawaffaq al-kāshifa in shāʾ Allah").
Levi) the Jew in Fustat. ʿAlāma at upper left: al-ḥamdu lil-lāh al-wāḥid al-ḥaqq.
The script is extremely difficult to follow, but it seems to be related to an iqṭāʿ as mentioned on the verso. Also mentions "khāliṣat Amīr al-Muʾminīn", and "yanhaḍ al-khidma".
Letter from ʿAyyāsh b. Ṣadaqa, Alexandria, to Yūsuf b. Mūsā al-Taharti. Dating: ca. 1050. The writer deals with managing the goods of the brothers Yūsuf and Barhūn (b. Mūsā) in Alexandria. He advises them on how to deal with the shipments of linen and whether the rumors about the sinking of several ships is true.
1כתאבי יאשיכי וסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך
ונעמתך וצרף אלאסוא ענך ברחמתה מן אלאסכנדיה(!) לי בקין מן תמוז
כתמה אללה ע…
Wahb (or Wuhayb), ḍāmin for dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm, for a period of six months to the qāḍī Fakhr al-Dawla Abū l-Qāsim Saʿīd ibn al-qāḍī Bū l-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī ʿAmr.
The first page of the treatise on interpretation of dreams, transcribed into Judaeo-Arabic, composed by Abū Sahl ʿĪsā b. Yaḥyā al-Mutaṭabbib al-Faylasūf (better known as Abū Sahl al-Masīḥī) under the patronage of Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Ma'mūn Khwārazmshāh (ca.1000). Verso contains a note in a different hand saying only "tafsīr al-manāmāt."
'Ammār, Palermo, to Abu al-Surur, a merchant from Fustat (might be Ishaq b. Barhun al-Tāhartī). September 2, 1056. Mentions the events in Sicily and the Maghreb. Regarding shipment of goods, mainly lead from Sicily. Also mentions “Kitab Alamanat” by Se’adya Gaon. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 4, #650) VMR
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך מן מדינ[ת]
סקליה לי בקין מן אלול ען סלאמה ונעמה ושוק אליך קרב אללה אלאג[תמאע בך]
Looks literary at first glance, but mentions a kharājī year (or at least something "al-kharājiyya"), which suggests something to do with taxation. Also mentions an overseer of waqf (nāẓir al-ḥubus) and ḥabs in a few places "li l-ḥabs wa-mā bi-yadihi min al-waqf wa l-rizq".
Involves a woman named Sitt al-Kull and notably refers to Dār al-Dībāj (the "House of Brocade") in Cairo (cf. T-S Ar.42.174, an Arabic-script deed of sale for a female slave, also mentioning Dār al-Dībāj, but from at least 10 years earlier).
Dated: 27 [Ramaḍā]n 1249 AH with the month offered as an abbreviation (ن). The Dīwān al-Mudīriyya is mentioned in the opening lines and the Khazīnat al-Mudīriyya in the final lines. A state overseer is also referenced in the middle section, perhaps alongside Qalyūb but the final letter looks more like nūn.
Letter from Natan b. Nahray, in Alexandria, to Musa b. Abū l-Ḥayy, in Fustat. Dating: November 14, 1079. Natan writes the account for cash from Nahray to Musa’s family in Alexandria. Mentions the ship of the amīr Yaḥyā as well as Ḥasan al-Āmidī.
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם תאידה וסלאמתה ונעמאה
וכבת אעדאה מן אלמסתקר ליג בקי מן כסלו כתמה אללה עלינא ועליך
באחסן כאתמה ושוק …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד
Maymun, probably from Qayrawan, to Ishaq b. Eli al-Majjānī, probably from Al -Mahdiyya. Dating (Gil): 1039. The writer asks the addressee to write him letters. Also mentions the disagreement he has with Yosef b. Farah b. Avraham al-Fāsī. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 4, #639) VMR
כתאבי יאשיכי וגלילי ואלעזיז עלי אטאל <אללה> בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך ען חאל
סלאמה ועאפיה ושוק אליך שדיד קרב אללה אלאגתמאע בך עלי א[פצ]ל א…
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Mentioning people such as the scribe's father, Ibn al-Wajīh, and Abū Naṣr. Mentioning goods such as saffron and a skin (jild). Also contains information about advances of money (istalaftu min fiḍḍat Ibn al-Wajīh... istalaftu l-dayn min Ibn al-Wajīh...).
In Arabic script. The muqirr is ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān. Needs further examination. […] in Arabic script addressed to "al-Shaykh al-Rayyis al-Muwaffaq." Needs examination for content.
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Mentions some works at a house in Fusṭāṭ, "tajdīd fī al-makān allatī lahu bi-Miṣr". Also mentions a stable, and probably the collapse of a roof over it. […] Some of the blessings phrases are readable: "ayyada Allah Taʿālā".
Khuṭlukh of the 'old' Ḥāfiẓī regiment (ṭāʾifat al-ḥāfiẓiyya al-qudamāʾ"); the estate/town (ḍayʿa) known as Sumusṭā in Middle Egypt (al-Ṣaʿīd al-Adnā); al-Fashn; and an area under the administration of Būlus b.
].بو الارسلان بن خطلخ من طايفة الحافظية القدما
] واجبة في الضيعة المعروفة بسمسطا من الصعيد الادنا
على حكم الاستمرار بها..وفي السنة
م…
Legal document dated ‘middle [decade] of Av’ [...], most likely from Fusṭāṭ, mentioning [...] the perfumer (al-ʿaṭṭār) al-Levi; Abū [...] Peqid ha-Soḥarim Kelil ha-Yofi b. [...] […] Elʿazar ha-Kohen based on the titles); and Abū l-ʿAlāʾ. Also refers to a transfer of a sum of money and an agreement (ittifāq).
R Mentions names such as ʿImrān al-Sharābī, Ibn Azhar, Barakāt, Mūsā, Khalaf the ghulām of Abū Saʿd, Ibn al-Raḥbī, Salāma, Mubārak al-Khādim. The section on the right is headed "gold" (al-ʿayn) and the left is headed silver ("al-wariq").
Regarding manufacture of wine between [...] b. Yeshuʿa al-ʿAkkāwı known as Ibn Bunān (appears also in T-S 10J8.6 (PGPID 3071)), Abū Saʿd Natan b. Yosef and Ṣedaqa. Also a certain Manṣūr is mentioned. The date seems to be Elul 1438 Seleucid =1127 CE.
Apparently from one amir in the service of al-Afḍal (or maybe a 12th-century military wazīr bearing the same honorifics) to another, called "al-amīr al-muntajab ʿaẓīm al-umarāʾ.... al-juyūshī."
Refers to agents, a request from "your noble seat" (majlishā al-sāmī fī an... khurūj amrihā al-sāmī bi-iḥḍār ... al-wukalāʾ), and names such as ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, Bū l-Ḥasan and [...] al-Sukkarī.
Large bifolio of accounts headed "Ḥisāb al-Shaykh Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm...." Recto is all Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Also mentions "waṣl bi-rasm mablagh". Verso is mostly Judaeo-Arabic (the hand might be known). […] Twice mentions the name Ibrāhīm al-Arsūfī. Needs examination.
Letter from Naṣrallāh al-Khāzin, in Jerusalem, to Shemuel al-Qayyim, Cairo. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions ʿAbd al-Laṭīf b. ʿAbd al-Waliyy; 60 dinars; a woman (Ḥājja Khātūn) who is the sister of Najm al-Dīn, and who mentioned that Umm ʿAfīf had told her that the writer would send her her money; it goes on in this vein.
The innner face (pages 2 and 3) is a long and clearly written legal document drawn up in Alexandria involving business partnerships, dated 1750 CE (Heshvan 5511). […] His partners included Avraham Arukh and Nissim Provencal, residents of Alexandria, and Shem Tov al-Hadif (?) who is from Rhodes but presently in Alexandria.
Letter from Yeshuʿa b. Ismaʿīl al-Makhmūrī (Alexandria) to Nahray b. Nissim. Dating: ca. 1060. […] The letter contains some personal details about Yeshuʿa b. Ismaʿīl al-Makhmūrī, who became widowed and was alone for a long time before getting married again to a sister of ʿEzra b. Hillel. He has also been suffering from an illness that affected his hip (wark).
Letter from Avraham b. Farāḥ, Alexandria to Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl, Fustat. The letter deals with the shipping of goods and money transfers. The writer describes the movement of ships between Alexandria and Sicily and mentions that he intends to sue a few silk workers as well as the son of the qadi for debts they owe. […] The letter mentions the arrival of a big ship from Trapani, the ship of Nāṣir al-Dawla from Mazara named Shawwāl and a ship of the empress docked in Mazara (dār markab al-Sayyida).
2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים דיון אחד
Letter from Abū Manṣūr to [al-Shaykh] al-Makīn al-Ṣayrafī, in Qūṣ (here called "thaghr Qūṣ"). […] He says that when he left Qūṣ. . . and went out onto the 'baḥr' (probably the Nile here), then mentions "in Fustat" and "al-Rayyis Dāʾūd" and "al-Rayyis Abū l-Bahā." The last line seems to refer to (someone's brother?) Abū l-Najm who is in either the army (al-jaysh) or prison (al-ḥabs). (This document may relate to the cluster of letters from Manṣūr b.
Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Date: Not preserved. Probably written before 20 Shaʿbān 405: the official with the ʿalāma "al-ḥamdu li-l-lāhi ʿalā niʿamih" signs this receipt, and in the sequence of the dated part of the corpus signs on behalf of the Dīwān al-ʿAmal up until through 26 Dhū l-Ḥijja 404 (T-S AS 176.304; PGPID 37295); then, starting from T-S Ar.35.176 (32548), dated 20 Shaʿbān 405, he signs on behalf of the Dīwān al-Ishrāf. Since he signs this receipt on behalf of the Dīwān al-ʿAmal, this document must have been written before 20 Shaʿbān 405.
Official accounts from "al-Ṣāfīyya bi-wilāyet al-Gharbīyya" (מוסה נעים צראף אלכזינה באסם אלצאפייה בולאיית אלגרבייה), an institution related to the provincial Treasury (כזינה). […] The accounts list a wide array of locations within region of al-Gharbīyya, such as: (right side, recto) Mīt Qallīn (l. 19), al-Bakātūsh (l. 21), al-Manshilīn (ll. 20, 22), Maḥallat Diyāy (l. 24), Kafr al-Jazaʾir (l. 26), Ṣarwa (l. 29), al-Ṣāfīyya (l. 31).
Written by Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ the jahbadh and registered by the Dīwān al-ʿAmal and the Dīwān al-Ishrāf. Payment made under the supervision of two officials: (1) under the supervision of the auspicious, rightly guided qāḍī Thiqat al-Mulk Makīn al-Dawla wa-Amīnuhā, protégé of the Commander of the Faithful, Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Nahār; and (2) under the tax accounting of Abū l-Sarī Thiyudur b. Bamūn. The join is almost certain, but the join is not continuous. An argument in favor of it is that the versos of both fragments contain accounts bearing the same set of dates.
Recto: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Barakāt b. Abū l-Faraj al-Dayyān to al-Raṣuy, asking for a loan of thirty dirhams using a turban as collateral. Goitein initially read the name as al-Zayyāt rather than al-Dayyān (the nun does look unusually tav-like) and tentatively identified the addressee as the parnas ʿUlla ha-Levi ca. 1100 CE, however the sender is almost certainly Shelomo b. […] See separate record (PGPID 37727) for verso. NB: this document is also known as p. Heid. Hebr. 898 and as P.Heid.Arab.