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Letter from Sulaymān b. ʿAlī, unknown location, to Abū Saʿīd Yaʿqūb, Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf, and Abū Sahl Saʿīd the sons of Yisra'el (al-Tustari). In Judaeo-Persian, …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
State document. Petition to a Fatimid official titled ʿAmīd al-Dawla requesting that the state seize the petitioner's properties in Palestine because they are not producing …
والاجحاف به وبهم والظلم له ولهم وعدل الدولة النبوية خلد الله ملكها وحرس عزها
ومولاي الاجل عميد الدولة ادام الله نعماه وكبت حاسديه واعداه يم…
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, headed by an Arabic-script basmala. Fragment (left side of recto, left side of verso). Dating: Likely 11th century. Sent from Fustat. Addressed …
1 مناقشة
Recto (secondary use): List of men's names, probably contributors. Dating: probably ca. 1140s CE, as the original use on verso appears to be in the …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Fiscal account in Arabic script. One section is headed "māl al-jawālī" (revenue from the capitation tax). Reused for Hebrew jottings.
Administrative document of some kind. There are Greek/Coptic numerals at upper right specifying a sum starting with 140 (repeated at lower left, spelled out). Addressed …
Small fragment of a letter. Deferential tone, referring to the great station and the many preoccupations of the addressees (בכתיר אשגאלכם . . . ועטים …
Letter by Toviyya b. Eli ha-Kohen to his cousin and brother-in-law, Natan b. Shelomo, informing him that everything was done for al-Ṣūrī (from Tyre) as …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Receipt for the capitation tax in Fustat of Mubārak b. Ibrāhīm Ibn Sabrā (a relatively well-known character from Judaeo-Arabic Geniza documents). Same cluster: ENA 3953.1, …
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Letter noting that the Rayyis, or ‘head’, is referred to by his nickname “The Tail” in letters going to “all countries East and West.” A …
Bifolio from a literary work in Arabic script. Some of it seems to be exemplars of letters, with many expressions of deference and longing. AA. …
Fiscal document, with an unusual thick pen, in Arabic script. The text has faded and difficult to read. Begins with a basmala and the next …
Astrological prognostications in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning India and Ṭabaristān and other lands as well as a report in the name of ʿAlī Ibn Abī Ṭālib.
Recto: Note from ʿOvadyahu to an unknown addressee. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably early 13th century. Asking the addressee to pay a sum of money to …
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Some sort of a fiscal document, fragmentary, where names of people against how much they owe every week/month is listed. A name ʿAbd Allah, the …
Letter addressed to Yaʿaqov b. Raḥamim al-Miṣrātī, the servant (? ṣabiyy) of Yaʿaqov b. Saʿda, in Safed. From his parents. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 16th–19th century. …
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involves Shabbetay b. Yosef. Listing various household furnishings and half of a …
Fragment (upper right corner) of a legal document written under the authority of Avraham Maimonides (1205–37). Dated: 1546 Seleucid = 1234/35 CE. A certain Zakkay …
Bottom of recto (secondary use): Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions names such as Ṭāhir, Bū l-Faḍl, and Bū l-Majd. Sums at the …
Petition, fragment, in Arabic script. The sender says that he (or less likely someone else) is unable to provide for himself (a trope of petitions) …
Legal document, possibly a partnership. Dating: the paleography supports a dating estimate of 16th- or early 17th-century. The document details commercial arrangments between a certain …
Two memorial lists, for the שמלאץ family of kohanim and the Nuʿmān family. On the other side there is a list of parshiyot in Judaeo-Arabic. …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Minute fragment of text in Hebrew script, medieval-era.
Legal record (#43) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 15v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 20 Iyyar 5323 …
Letter from an India trader, possibly in Aden, to an associate, presumably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. mid-12th-century. Two fragments of the letter are …
Minute fragment of a list, perhaps portraying monetary values in Indo-Arabic numerals. 16th-century or later based on the paleography.
Petition from a woman to the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Location: Fustat. Dating: 1140–59 CE. "'I am a 'cut-off' (munqaṭiʿa) woman and I do not …
In Y(our name), O M(erciful). To the gate of the nagidate, may your rule last forever.
(2-7) To the honor of his excellency, dignity of the…
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter fragment Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely late 12th or 13th century. Dealing mainly with business matters. Mentions a silk merchant (qazzāz) and a fuller or bleacher …
Letter from Yusuf b. Ḥalfon in Damsis to Abu Nasr Da'ud b. Nahum in Fustat, mentioning business with the prominent merchant Abu Zikri. Dated to …
Unidentified text, in Arabic script.
Unidentified Arabic text, likely documentary.
Fatimid state document, probably a report. The beginnings of six lines are preserved. Reused on verso for Hebrew piyyuṭ. Merits further examination.
Court ledger with records of approximately 15 distinct documents. Dated: Adar II 1600 – Elul 1601 Seleucid = 1289–90 CE. Several of the entries refer …
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 2 مناقشتان
Marriage contract (ketubba) from Damascus, late tenth century. The dowry list includes a short garment of linen decorated with silver and golden threads, two shirts, …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Book list: record of sale of the estate library of the physician Abū Saʿd, known as al-Sadīd. Two sale sessions: Tuesday 13 Kislev 1502 SE …
Late literary work.
Letter from the Qaraite Jews of Ashqelon to the Qaraites and Rabbanites of Fustat. Dating: Summer 1100 CE. The letter deals with the ransoming of …
2 نسخين ترجمات 3 2 مناقشتان
Verso: Note from Rashīd inviting a physician to come urgently to Rashīd's home, and to bring a friend. Recto: The physician responds that if he …
Private accounts. Mentioning bread and lentils.