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Letter from Mivḥar b. Yefet to Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. Dating: 1125–50 CE. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender reports that he arrived safely. His maternal aunt …
1 نسخ
Small fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Only one line is preserved.
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Official report addressed to a Fatimid vizier. The addressee's titles (sayyid al-wuzarāʾ tāj al-aṣfiyāʾ qāḍī l-quḍāt dāʿī [l-duʿāt ʿalam al-majd] khalīl amīr al-muʾminīn wa-khāliṣatuhū) are …
Possibly a tax receipt or an order of payment. Two endorsements, end of Dhū l-Qaʿda of the year 403 (?) 6x8 cm, verso blank. Item …
Draft of a Karaite betrothal contract, probably a formulary or model document from a bound collection. (the key operative word on the verso, l. 15, …
Several lines in Arabic script. Poetry? Needs further examination. Piyyut on the other side.
Legal document in the hand of Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver. Dated: [14]57 Seleucid, which is 1145/46 CE. Abū l-ʿAlāʾ gives to his wife Sitt al-[...] …
1 مناقشة
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: …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 13th century based on handwriting. Refers to "the meat which they throw(?)."
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IB II, 66. Aden, August 1199. Sender and recipient are unknown, as only the lower part of this letter has been identified. The letter makes …
[...to] Aden. Immediately after his arrival [he was brought before the caliph?],
who said to him: “Become a Muslim, or you will cause the d…
3 نسخ ترجمات 3
Receipt for the ground rent (ḥikr) in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ for the year 4[..] AH (~11th century CE).
Letter mentioning Abū l-Faraj the dyer (al-ṣabbāgh). (Information from CUDL)
Literary text, in Arabic script. Quotes several statements from Hippocrates starting with "qāla Buqrāṭ" pertaining to pregnancy and child birth.
Recto: Deed of sale. In Arabic script. Dating: ca. 530 AH (= 1135/36 CE). (However, Goitein read the year 55[.] AH somewhere, which would be …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
[هذ]ا ما اشترى مكارم بن أبي الفرج بن يوسف الـ[ ]
[ السمـ]ـرة واضح الجبهة وبها غضون مقرون خفي وبقرن جبهتيـ[ـه ]
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
This is what Makārim ibn Abī al-Faraj ibn Yūsuf the [ … ] bought [ … ]
[ … brownness]…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Deed of sale. In Arabic script. Abū l-Ḥusayn Yaḥyā b. ʿAlī b. Aslama b. ʿAbi Zayd (a dealer in dates) buys part of a shop …
[بـ]ـسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
[هذا ما ا]شترى يحـ[ـيى و]يكنى أبا الحسين بن على بن اسلم بن أبي [زيد التمار من احمد بن ابرهيم بن محمد]
المزني …
In the name of God, the merciful [ and compassionate.]
This is what Yaḥyā, who has the patronymic Abū al-Ḥusayn, ibn ʿAlī ibn Aslama ibn Abī [Z…
Legal document. Dated: Monday, 8 Iyyar 5509 AM, which is 1749 CE (not 1509 CE as catalogued). Reconciliation agreement between two partners, the goldsmiths Yūsuf …
Business accounts. In the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions Abū l-Ṭayyib Ibn al-Dhahabī; al-ʿAmid; flax; Abū l-Faḍl; Muẓaffar; "owed to Menashshe by Ḥasūn"; various …
Letter from Natan b. Nahray from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat.
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Late business/family letter in Hebrew from Shelomo Binyamin to his brother-in-law, also named Shelomo. He reports that ships from Messina and Ancona have arrived, but …
State document in Arabic script, possibly a petition. The ends of ~14 lines are preserved. It has been cut and one piece has been glued …
Official letter in Hebrew. Dating: Uncertain, probably no earlier than 16th century. Addresses the members of 'the holy congregation,' exhorting them about something to do …
Medical prescription in Arabic script.
Letter in Arabic script. Probably commercial. Needs examination. Reused on verso for Megillat Esther-related text in Hebrew.
Remains of 28 lines of a list of beneficiaries of charity, each containing the names of 3 or 4 households in receipt of 2, 4, …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Small fragment with a medical prescription, reused for several other kinds of jottings.
Bifolio from a fiscal accounting ledger. A jarīda (as mentioned on verso). Many entries preserved, several of which mention terms related to iqṭāʿs. Needs examination.
Beginning of the draft of a legal query to the judge Yeḥiel (b. Elyaqim) concerning the trousseau of a woman in levirate status, most of …
Recto: State document in Arabic script. Maybe a decree. Only a few words are preserved: ]لى للفراج(؟) للتقضي(؟) . . . . . صولها
Verso: A few words in giant, calligraphic Arabic script: mawlāy al-shaykh al-jalīl. . . . Recto: Rhymed Hebrew maxims about the months of the years, …
Letter from a woman, referring to a previous conversation during which the addressee had pointed out that the writer was owed money by a third …
Maimonides autograph.
Non-Geniza. Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Shelomo, in Chufut-Kale, to Simḥa b. Shelomo, in Istanbul. Dating: Second half of the 18th century.r Regarding monetary and legal …
Original use: Fiscal document in Arabic script (al-mudda al-madhkūra... ʿammā yaṣil min al-nawāḥī al-baḥriyya... al-[...] al-sulṭānī...). Large, with multiple distinct entries. Needs examination. Secondary uses: …
Part of a letter(?) in Arabic script. On verso there is a liturgical text in Hebrew. (Information from CUDL)
Receipt in Arabic and Hebrew script for a purse full of coins from Nahray b. Nissim to Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy in Alexandria.
Arabic poetry.
specimen letters for various occasions, in a late hand. (Data from FGP)
Recto: Legal fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Debt contract, specifying a payment by installments. Involves a woman and her husband. Verso: Document in Arabic script. The word …
Letter to from Eliyyahu b. Zekharya to Yosef ha-Talmid. Mentions the arrival of something. Mentions Alexandria. (Information in part from CUDL)
Fragment from a legal document probably in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. No details preserved. (Information from CUDL)
IB I, 15. Three testimonies regarding collateral deposited by Yosef al-Lebdi the India trader. Lebdi owed Ḥasan b. Bundar, the representative of the merchants in …
Verso: Fragment from the beginning of a letter/petition addressed to the Nagid. Dating: Likely 13th or 14th century. None of the substance is preserved. Reused …