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T-S Ar.38.98
Deed of release. In Arabic script. Dating: Probably 11th century. Abū Naṣr b. ʿAṭṭiya the Jew, formerly a broker dealing with drugs in Fustat (see Med Soc I, 161) renounces all claims against a Jewish woman (see line 5). Much of what remains is a description of Abū Naṣr's physiognomy: he is a dark, beardless youth of medium build with a smooth forehead and smallpox scars. One half of verso is the beginning of a Judaeo-Arabic letter, and the other half, written at 180˚, appears to be instructions for prayers. (Information in part from Goitein's index card and Khan.)
T-S Ar.38.99
Part of a deed of sale for part of a house in Fusṭāṭ. Two of the parties are women: […] bint Saʿīd (‘the Jewish builder’) and […] bint ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Yaḥyā. Ca. 11th-12th century. (Information from CUDL)
T-S Ar.39.1
Official receipt of some kind. In Arabic script. Dated: 556 AH (or kharājī?); if AH, this would correspond to 1160/61 CE. For Bū l-Ḥasan b. Bū l-Qāsim(?). The sum recorded, twice in words and once in Greek/Coptic numerals, is 2/3 dinar. Names the judge Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Wahhāb b. ʿAbd al-Malik b. Ismāʿīl, and it also involves Maḥfūẓ al-Ṣabbāgh (or al-Ṣāyigh?). The text on verso may be a filing note, but it mentions [...] b. Lāwī who is not named in the main document. (Information from receipt team: LB, SL, MR, NV.)
T-S Ar.39.10
Account in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. It seems payment to workers (ʿummāl). On verso there is a note in Judaeo-Arabic documenting a debt (25 of something) owed to Barakāt from Hiba b. [...]. Also mentions the cantor Bū l-Majd (aka Meir b. Yakhin). Dated: Beginning of Elul 1524 Seleucid, which is 1213 CE. (Information in part from Goitein’s index card.)
T-S Ar.39.100
Business letter. In Arabic script. Mentions cotton and its sale (القطن وبيعه); describes how one trader weighed it out very carefully, because its price is high. On verso, "send the response of this letter to Bilbays(?) with your news and condition." The remainder of the goods are not selling (sāʾir al-baḍāʾiʿ... wāqifa). The sender has done something with 450 (what unit?) of indigo. The sender repeats that cotton is very expensive, and "[...] the crop of this year, for a tremendous, extraordinary heat came (fa-qad jāhu ḥarr ʿaẓīm fadhdh aʿẓam al-[...]." Needs further examination.
T-S Ar.39.101
State document, genre and content unclear. Dated: Muḥarram 42[.] AH. Needs examination.
T-S Ar.39.103
Document in Arabic script, calligraphic. Table layout. At least two of the entries contain numbers (159; 1/2 + 1/4). The last contains the word al-tawqīʿ. On verso the name Surūr b. Sabra appears in Hebrew script. Needs further examination.
T-S Ar.39.104
Legal document in Arabic script. Might involve Sulaymān b. Dāʾūd (l. 1). Nearly complete. On verso there are additional notes in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
T-S Ar.39.105
Probably a legal document. In Arabic script. Fragment (upper left corner). Needs examination.
T-S Ar.39.106
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late.
T-S Ar.39.109
Legal document in Arabic script. Needs examination.
T-S Ar.39.11
Business letter in Arabic script, long, possibly from Daniʾel b. ʿAzarya to Ḥussām al-Dawla.
T-S Ar.39.110
Document in Arabic script. Needs examination.
T-S Ar.39.111
Accounts, probably, in Arabic script. There is at least one word in Hebrew script as well. Needs examination.
T-S Ar.39.112
Literary, Arabic script. Tale concerning Hārūn al-Rashīd and Jaʿfar ibn Barmak. Information from Baker/Polliack catalog.
T-S Ar.39.113
Documents in Arabic script. Recto is a letter. Needs examination.
T-S Ar.39.116
Arabic document, according to Baker and Polliack probably a letter, but it's visual features are closer to a literary text of some sort (needs examination). AA
T-S Ar.39.117
Medical prescription in Arabic script.
T-S Ar.39.118
Letter from a muqtaʿ praising his wakīl for informing the wālī that most of the sugar canes had been distributed among the peasants instead of being given to him. (Information from Goitein’s index card)
T-S Ar.39.119
Letter to a qāḍī (addressed "al-jināb al-ʿālī"). In Arabic script. Dating: Maybe Mamluk-era. The letter concerns a horse that was purchased for 17 dinars; also mentions "money for the dīwān." Needs further examination. On verso there are accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. (Information in part from Goitein’s index card)