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Letter addressed to Sitt Shaʿl, in Dār al-Nāqa, Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. The handwriting is distinctive, with stylized loops at the end of all the descenders. …
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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Legal notes, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Describing features of a house (al-dār... al-bāb... al-qāʿa...) and …
Letter addressed to the Nagid Yehuda b. Saʿadya, expressing a declaration of fellowship. (Information from Goitein's index cards.) For the Arabic document on verso, see …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Recto: Legal document (left side only) written on parchment by a Muslim notary, apparently in an official government office in the Sharqiyya district in lower …
Partnership contract. Dated: Tammuz 1460 Seleucid, which is 1149 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Tamīm b. Natan receives from Abū …
1 مناقشة
Verso: Unidentified text in Arabic script in two different hands, late. The first one seems a literary text mentioning death 'al-mawt'. The second mentions the …
State document, in Arabic script. Petition to a lower official. "Mamlūk al-ḥaḍra al-sāmiyya al-ajalliya". Only beginning formula preserved. Mentions khufarāʾ (the village protectors).
Either part of a genealogical list or a letter.
Possibly an account or state document in Arabic script. Mentions [...] b. Manṣūr.
Recto: Small fragment of a deed of acknowledgment (iqrār) in Arabic script. The one making the acknowledgment may be named Salmūn b. Isḥāq al-Māwardī.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic on papyrus. Almost certainly not from the Geniza and older than the Geniza material.
Receipt issued by Karīm al-Ṭabbākh to Abū l-Ḥasan for a payment of 4 young chickens (farārīj) toward a debt on the date of Sunday, 10 …
Small receipt of some sort. For 3 wariq dirhams (this appears in the upper margin and in the bottom line of the text). Dated Dhū …
Minute fragment. Few words
Letter or commercial document in Arabic script that was cut up and recycled for usage in a communal register c. 1798 CE. Mentions the port …
State document, probably. In Arabic script. Dated: 517 H. (This might also be a kharājī date.) The document has a basmala; a block of text …
بسم ا]لله الرحمن الرحيم
]رى ذكره من مزارعي الناحية المعروفة بالجرش(؟)
]واخذها مما استخرجها القاضي رشيد واحضره
]. ورقاع الشيخ ابوا طاهر…
Chancery decree in large Arabic script. Only the left half of a single line has been preserved. Yusuf Umrethwala's suggested reading: السجل لك باستخدامك في …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Good chance of finding a join or other fragments in the hand of the same scribe. Mentions Barakāt Ibn al-Ḥazzan. Gives at …
Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. On verso there are a few lines in Arabic script.
Letter from Peraḥya b. Yosef (compare T-S 8J23.2 ). Very faded.
Verso: Accounts in Arabic, badly damaged. Medieval-era. Entries begin with quantities owed by different people: bi-yad Masʿūd... bi-yad Makārim.... Reused for piyyūṭ (Information in part …
Recipe in Arabic script, perhaps a medical prescription. Mentions marsh mallow (khiṭmiyya) and plum (ijjāṣ). On verso there are more unidentified jottings in Arabic script.
Writing exercises in which a student practiced the Hebrew alphabet. Dating is 16th-century or later based on the paleography.
Letter from Abū l-Ḥayy b. Ṣāliḥ al-Ṣabbāgh, in Palermo, to Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ca. 1050 CE. The sender came to Palermo …
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
IB II, 30. Letter from Madmun b. Ḥasan to Avraham Ibn Yiju: mutual assistance. Aden, ca. 1136.
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Dating: Probably late Mamluk or Ottoman-era, based on hand and overall appearance. There is the remnant of an …
IB III, 16. Letter from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq in Aden to Avraham Ibn Yiju in Mangalore, dated July-August 1148. The letter contains information about their …
(Not in Friedman and Goitein's translation; this translation by Marina Rustow)
2 نسخين ترجمات 3
Genealogical lists. On recto: - The first section is the genealogy of Moshe and David Maimonides. Headed ʿitrat al-rayyis. The names are ʿOvadyahu, Shelomo, ʿOvad[ya], …
Accounts, in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Recto: legal query concerning robbery, in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Looks like the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya. Verso: part of an official document in Arabic: …
Fragment of a petition, two wide lines. The first line reads 'wa-ʿabd mawlānā,' then '[...] al-shāmil.'
Letter from Yūsuf b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī, in Alexandria, probably to Barhūn b. Isḥāq, in al-Mahdiyya. The writer mentions details concerning goods from the Maghreb and …
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי [אטאל] אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך [
וכאן לך וליא וחאפטא [ו] צר[ף אלא]סוא [ענך] ברחמתה מן ס[כנדרי]א נצף תמוז [ען חא…
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Legal document from al-Mahalla mentioning ha-zaqen b. R. Pinhas. (F. Niessen and A. Shivtiel, ed., Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic Manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah Collections, 614) …
Letter fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions two sacks of flax; someone's brother Yaʿaqov who went down to …
Accounts for trade between the ports of Beirut and Dimyāṭ in the name of the ship captain Muṣtafa al-Jamīl. Dated 27 [Ramada]n 1234 AH which …
Letter. Family letter dealing with grain and payments, and extending greetings. Largely effaced. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Attestation written by Ṭalāʾīʿ b. Ṣāliḥ b. Yaḥyā in the name of Yārūkh (or possibly Bārūkh) b. Jawshan and mentioning the eastern neighborhood (al-ḥāra al-sharqiyya) …