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Tag: informal note
52 records found
Memorandum from Yosef b. Avraham to Abu Nasr al-Halabi. Aden, ca. 1130-50.
Promissory note written by Yefet b. David, given by Moshe b. Shahariyar to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov on June 1007. (Information from Bareket)
Notes recording debts in Judaeo-Arabic. (Information from Goitein's index cards and CUDL)
Verso: Note in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. In Judaeo-Arabic. Asking the addressee to pay the bearer one dirham, "because the need for it is urgent." This is written on the back of a torn fragment of a legal document from the time of the Nagid Avraham Maimonides. (Information from Cohen.) AA.
Note accompanying a shipment (risala) sent by Avraham b. Abu Yusuf to Mansur the son of Yefet Abu al-Ḥasan al-Dimashqi. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Memorandum to a traveler carrying Indian goods to Yiṣḥaq b. Bundar. India, ca. 1110.
The judge (dayyan) Moshe is asked to approve Sheikh Ashaq (Issac) as a butcher (Shohet). VMR
Note in which the cantor (hazzan) asks for "Hoshanot" (הושענות) to the seventh day (of the holiday of Sukkot). Verso: Piyyut. Example for Hoshanot. (Information from Goitein's index card). VMR
Second note from a teacher who, in the letter on recto, had complained about an unruly pupil (see PGPID 2086). A family member has replied on verso, encouraging the teacher to continue writing, as perhaps the notes will scare the boy into behaving well; the teacher has complied with the request and written a second note. ASE.
Memorandum from Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan to Ḥalfon ha-Levi b. Netan'el. Location: Aden. Dating: ca. 1135 CE.
Petition in which the sender reports that a certain person (dhāt al-shakhṣ) had not come down from the citadel (al-qalʿa), and the ruler and Jamāl al-Dīn were busy with the arrival of Ibn al-Jawz (or perhaps Ibn al-Jawzī). In addition, R. Yehuda has gone out to the shop, and the payments for alimonies (presumably orphans staying with the writer) were incomplete, and he asks for relief. (Information from CUDL and Goitein's index cards) EMS
This is not a formal letter, but a short memorandum written by Yosef b. Avraham in Aden to Avraham Yiju in Mangalore around 1134-1137. The document details various dealings of copper items.
Memorandum containing order of copper vessels from Yosef b. Avraham to Ibn Yiju, Mangalore, India. Aden, ca. 1134-1137.
Informal note from ʿAbd al-Karīm to R. Yosef . He asks the addressee to urgently send his grandmother ("the mother of Sutayta") for Shabbat, because the boy himself is sick (mā kān ṭayyib) and so is his father. The father had been carried home (maḥmūl) on a bed (?) on Wednesday. (Information from Goitein's index cards.) ASE.
R. Simha is requested to give the bearer a book titled 'al-Faraj ba'd al-shidda' immediately. Verso has two lines of an unrelated Arabic account. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Mostly effaced note specifying sums of money. Accounts on verso. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Note in which a scribe asks the Nagid to be permitted to copy an Arabic translation of the tractate 'Hullin.' (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Informal note from David to a certain Nasi. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely early 13th century. The sender reports that he has met with one of the brothers of Abū l-Majd (likely Meʾir b. Yakhin, the secretary of Avraham Maimonides), who will send "it" to him. The sender emphasizes that he is diligently trying to accomplish "the thing he mentioned to our master (Sayyidnā)." (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Note of seven short lines written in the most beautiful oversized majuscules, but cut out of an old letter in Arabic script. The writer praises a banker, but mentions no names or facts. (Information from Mediterranean Society, V, p. 237)
Informal note from Eliyyahu to a certain Kohen asking him to give Umm ʿAzīza the sister of al-Makīn one dirham so that she can buy two pullets. ASE
