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Tag: unedited 11th c
103 records found
Business memorandum in Arabic script. The layout resembles a state document. (Same genre: ENA 3957.11, T-S Ar.35.269, and T-S AS 184.265.) Dated: 18 Ramaḍān 438 = 18 March 1047 CE. Headed by a basmala, next to which appears the name al-Faḍl b. Sahl (= Ḥesed b. Yashar al-Tustarī, presumably the issuer of this document). Begins: "Owed by Nahray (b. Nissim) the associate of the son of Barhūn al-Tāhirtī: two loads of brazilwood (ʿadlayn baqqam), 820 raṭls; vinegar (khall), 10 raṭls...." Sums are given in dinars further down. Similar entries with weights follow on verso with numbers (sums of money) at the bottom. There are several other documents from the 1040s CE concerning business between Ḥesed al-Tustarī, Nahray b. Nissim, and the Taherti family (e.g., Bodl. MS heb. b 3/19–20 = PGPID 5595 and Moss. IV,1 = PGPID 5761). YU. ASE.
Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. [...] to Ismaʿīl b. Barhūn. In Judaeo-Arabic. This is an 11th-century, Maghribī business letter. Uncited in the literature.
Business letter sent from Tripoli, Lebanon. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th century. Mentions terrible economic depression in the Levant and asks the addressee to send his letters to Tyre. The address is in Arabic script but it looks like it is just the blessings for the addressee, not his name (baqāhu wa-adāma ʿizzahu). Needs preservation; some of the text is hidden underneath folds.
Business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. Mentions Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmūrī. Needs examination.
Business letter addressed to Abū l-Faraj (Yūsuf b. Yaʿqūb?) Ibn ʿAwkal. In Judaeo-Arabic. This document appears to have been overlooked by past Ibn ʿAwkal scholars. One curious element: the letter mentions al-Jazā'ir four lines from the bottom (and al-Andalus three lines from the bottom). See Goitein's note on T-S J1.29, a dowry list from 1140 CE: "Al-Jazā'ir became the name of the town of Algiers, called so after the islets near its coast. But I have little doubt that in the Geniza the word designates the Greek islands of the Aegean Sea. Cf. EI2, s.v. "Djazā'ir-i Bahr-i-Safīd." Med Soc IV, 455.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, extensive. Dating: Likely 11th century. Many names are mentioned, including Barhūn and al-Dustarī (=al-Tustarī) and Bunyām al-Ḥazzan. Commodities inclue ambergris.
Business letter from Saʿāda b. Yūsuf to Yūsuf b. [... b. ʿAwkal?]. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 11th century. Needs examination.
Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic business letter, mentioning Barhūn b. Ṣāliḥ. 11th century.
Business letter, fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. The writer crossed out the first three lines (following the Arabic-script basmala) and began anew. This may be a draft. There are several lines of Arabic script on verso that do not appear to be an address. Perhaps an account?
Letter fragment from Khiyār b. Yaʿqūb to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yūsuf. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late 11th century. Reused for business accounts on verso. On the writer, see India Book II, 6 (DK 230.3) and II, 9 (Moss. II,160). Very little of the content of this letter remains.
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Appears to be the handwriting of Yiṣḥaq b. Simḥa Nīsābūrī. Dating: 11th century. Mentions ships from various places including three from al-Mahdiyya and others from al-Andalus. The writer had three successive illnesses over the last month and a half, but he is now better and back to work (al-yawm anā mutaṣarrif), "unless another one comes over me." The writer has sent with Abū l-Ḥasan al-Mazīdī a flask of quince oxymel (sakanjabīn safarjalī) and a "nice" flask containing an unripe-grape rob (rubb ḥiṣrim) and a little quince. Alas, "the ḥiṣrim here is not like the Levantine ḥiṣrim" (cf. T-S 13J23.17, also featuring ḥiṣrim shāmī). Further down, the writer discusses the price of silk.
Business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic, wtih the address in Arabic script. Dating: possibly 11th century. The name of the addressee may be legible (Saʿd al-[...]?). People mentioned: Avraham b. [...] Rabīʿ; Ibn al-Ṣabbāgh. Verso: In addition to the address of the letter, there is an list in Arabic script.
Business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 11th century. This seems to be the last sheet of (or addendum to) what was was originally a longer letter. Needs examination.
Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th century. Mentions Mūsā b. Barhūn.
Letter fragment sent to Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. Dating: Liikely 11th century. Little of the content remains. A man named Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan b. al-Tarkash(?) is mentioned.
Letter addressed to the home of ʿArūs b. Yosef. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably late 11th century. Needs examination.
Business letter from an unknown writer in Damsīs. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th century based on the hand and the names mentioned (Barhūn, Nissim, Abū Yūsuf). Needs examination.
Letter fragment from Faraḥ b. Yūsuf al-Qābisī. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Needs examination for content.
Business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. Addressed to someone in Fustat (whose name may be legible). Dating: Probably 11th century. Deals with the shipping of goods; mentions Salmān the ghulām of Ibn [...]; textiles, garments, copper.
Business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. The handwriting may be known. Dating: Probably 11th century. Mentions Abū Sahl Natan b. Yaʿaqov. Mentions the addressee's troubles with the capitation tax (? al-jawāl).
