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Tag: arabic script
1194 records found
Recto: Letter from Yehuda to an unknown addressee. Written in Judaeo-Arabic. Distinctive (Levantine or Iraqi?) handwriting. Deals with business matters, mainly produce (plums/prunes, dates, ḥashīsha, rose conserve (ward murabbā), sugar. Verso: Accounts in Arabic script, headed, "This is all of what Sulaymān left before he traveled." There is is some overlap with the goods on recto, e.g. the rose conserve.
Legal document in Arabic script. Late. Needs examination.
Legal document in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Legal document in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Legal document in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Letter from al-Ḥājj Muḥammad [...] to his son. In Arabic script. Dating: Perhaps Mamluk-era. Needs examination.
Legal document in Arabic script. Late. Needs examination. There are also a few words in monumental script.
State(?) document in Arabic script, calligraphic, with diacritics and vowels. Late. "We have looked into these matters. . ." Needs examination.
Legal document in Arabic script. Late. Needs examination.
Legal document in Arabic script. Late. Needs examination.
Legal document in Arabic script. Late. Needs examination.
Legal document in Arabic script. Late. Needs examination.
Legal (or state?) document in Arabic script. Probably late. Needs examination.
Letter draft from Barakāt b. Abū l-Faraj al-Dayyān (=Shelomo b. Eliyyahu) to al-Shaykh al-Rashīd Abū l-Ḥasan. In Arabic script. The writer asks for a loan of forty dirhams against a turban as collateral. He also conveys condolences on the death of the addressee's brother. Information in part from Werner Diem's edition via the Arabic Papyrology Database. The identification is based on the exact match of the name Barakāt b. Abū l-Faraj al-Dayyān. The word Dayyān is an uncommon Arabic word and a very common Judaeo-Arabic word for 'judge'. Moreover, the opening formula (yuqabbilu l-arḍa ṭā'iʿan lillāhi. . .) appears in exactly one document in the APD database and in two documents in the PGP database, one of which is T-S 10J8.2, a letter by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. The identification is all but clinched by ENA 3927.1, which is a letter from Barakāt/Shelomo addressed to Abū l-Ḥasan (presumably the same as in P. Heid. Arab. III 42, but written at a different point in time), asking for a loan of 20 dirhams against his turban as collateral in order to pay the capitation tax for himself and his father. Note that P.Heid.Arab. III 43 (a request for 20 dirhams from Abū l-Najā) and P.Heid.Arab. III 44 (sympathy for a sick woman, addressed to Abū l-Maḥāsin) are also by Barakāt/Shelomo. ASE.
Letter from ? Rosh Ha-Gola b. David to Yehuda Rosh Ha-Seder b. Avraham, February 1021. There is also a lot of writing in Arabic script.
Memorandum from Khalaf b. Isḥāq al-Yamanī. In Arabic script, with additional notes in Judaeo-Arabic. Ordering pharmaceuticals from Egypt. There is an entire short book devoted to this document (Albert Dietrich, Zum Drogenhandel im islamischen Ägypten, 1954). This document is summarized in Goitein and Friedman, India Book 2, ב50, but Goitein and Friedman did not edit it. NB: The images of this document may be accessed on FGP under the shelfmark p. Heid. Hebr. 12. However, it is more often cited as p. Heid. Arab. 912.
Letter in calligraphic Arabic script, with some Hebrew mixed in. Writer and addressee are unknown. The writer chastises the addressee at length, quoting Quran 12:51 along the way. He is pained by what happened with Abū Saʿīd. Mentions ha-Rav (هراب) Moshe in the margin. On verso, somebody has copied out love poetry by Yehuda ha-Levi. There is an edition and detailed discussion by Werner Diem.
Letter of recommendation for the bearer, a certain Yefet, an inhabitant of Fustat, who is said to be a respectable man who fell on hard times and is ashamed and unable to speak for himself. (Information from Mediterranean Society, V, pp. 198-199, 563) On verso is a piyyut for the qaddish starting with עזרי מעים ייי and אודה לאל חי, followed by three lines in Arabic script. (Information from CUDL)
Recto: Letter from an unknown writer, on his way to Alexandria, to an unknown addressee, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer apologizes for the delay in sending this letter, and explains that every time he began to write, he became sad and felt sick due to his separation from the addressee. He reports that he did not find the wool ʿarḍī garment in Fustat, but hopefully will find it in Alexandria and will send it to the addressee. He repeats at least twice more that the only reason he did not write earlier was his sadness and worry (ḍīq ṣadrī, shughl qalbī). (Information in part from Mediterranean Society, V, p. 191.) Verso: List of materia medica in Arabic script. ASE.
Recto: Letter from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, Qalyub, to a family member in Fustat. Partial translation from S. D. Goitein, Mediterranean Society, 2:271: "I am sending you with the bearer of this letter 15 dirhems. Please buy for me 1¼ pounds of emblic (amlaj) [“Indian gooseberry,” see above], approximately for 4¼ dirhems or less; 2½ pounds of deep-red rose water (mā' ward), approximately ¾ d.; A fuqqā‘a (bottle of potions), approximately ½ d. or less; 1 pound eye powder, well made, on special order, approximately 2 d. or less; 1 miswāk (tooth-cleaning twig), approximately 2 d.; 1 pound antimony, approximately 3¼ or 3½ d. or less; 2½ pounds cosmetic cream (mathāth), approximately 2¼ d.or less. The writer also sends three drafts of dirges (qinnot) and asks his brother Abū l-Ḥasan (Yedutun ha-Levi) to correct them. Verso: Petition draft in Arabic script to the Amir Sharaf al-Dawla (?). The handwriting is that of Moshe b. Levi (compare ENA NS 68.11). Lines 8-15 are the substance of the petition (وينهي انه قد اشتهى...), which requires further examination. The writer (perhaps Moshe) seems to repeat several times his desire to come to the great city. ASE.
