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Tag: arabic script
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Image 4: Probably an account, using Arabic script for people's names and Hebrew script for the numbers. Image 5: A few words in Arabic including "Allah."
One side: small fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter. Other side: Arabic text. Needs further examination. The name Abū l-Barakāt appears, and perhaps the phrase "ḥaqq al-bayʿ" and perhaps the names of different streets.
Recto: Accounts in Arabic. Verso: Probably a bookseller's account, who is selling off the Hebrew books that belonged to R. Yosef ZL, including Halakhot Pesuqot by Yehuday Gaon, two compendia of responsa, and a 'perush.' The customers named are al-Rayyis Abū l-Bahā, Abū l-Manṣūr al-ʿAṭṭār, and Abū l-ʿIzz.
Recto: Beginning of a letter in Arabic from Abū l-Barakāt to a person with a long string of titles ending with al-Ḥakīm Abū l-Maḥāsin. Verso: A short account in Judaeo-Arabic. "That which I owe to Abū l-Barakāt al-Q[...] b. Sulaymāt al-Kohen: 33 dirhams. He collected on the Friday of Ki Tetze 7 dirhams, so the remaining amount is 26 dirhams."
Documentary text: Jottings(?) in Arabic script. The main text on the fragment is Hebrew and literary.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Difficult to discern anything of substance. Mentions Abū l-Ḥasan; Mūsā b. [...]; children; someone who did or should clothe the writer; someone who concerns themselves with ashghāl al-yahūd. Possibly a letter of appeal for charity. Verso: There is also unidentified Arabic script.
Document in Arabic script.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning business matters. Surrounded by later writing in Arabic script, some of which may be magical: min nār al-[...] bi-l-Ḥayy al-Qayyūm . . . But needs further examination.
Document in Arabic script. Reused for what looks like a Hebrew literary text.
Letter fragment in Arabic script: ...al-ṣāliḥ dhakarū anna...; on verso there is also some Hebrew text.
Recto: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Greetings to Abū l-Fakhr and Maʿālī. Mufaḍḍal is also mentioned. Verso: Letter fragment in Arabic script. There is also one line of Judaeo-Arabic in the margin. Unclear if/how recto and verso are relat
Document in Arabic script. Small fragment. Needs examination.
A few words in Arabic script, probably a chancery document. On verso there is Hebrew literary text.
Document in Arabic script. Perhaps a letter. Remnants of four lines.
Document in Arabic script. One line is preserved and some letters of a second. There are two fragments under this shelfmark, unclear if they belong together.
Letter, probably. In Arabic script. Only a few words. The phrase "wa-l-ḥāl salāma" ("all is well") is legible.
Letter fragment. In Arabic script.
Letter. In Arabic script. Address only. Addressed to the faqīh [...] b. ʿAbd [...] b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, in the Muṣāṣa quarter of Fustat.
Chancery document, a few words only. ...ال الذي في ال...
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. There are also two lines in Arabic script.
