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Letter from a widow in Safed regarding her property in Egypt, to a communal leader. In Hebrew, late and beautifully written. The writer seems to …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Recto: letter in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic addressed to "Sayyidnā al-Rayyis... Rayyis al-Ruʾasāʾ..." Verso: formulary for a letter in Hebrew addressed to a notable.
Letter from Daniel b. Aharon in Jerusalem to Shemuʾel (Shemuel) b. Aharon, 11th century.
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Booklet made of parchment, containing a calendar for the maḥzors 256 and 257, each year written on a separate little scrap. Beginning with 1095 CE. …
1 مناقشة
Verso: Fragment of a petition in Arabic, Fatimid-era, possibly from a woman (l. 2: وسوالها), or this could just be referring to a preceding mamālīk/ʿabīd, …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
State document, in Arabic script. Petition to a caliph, in a sloppy hand. Lower left corner. Some of the details of the case may be …
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Letter from Asad b. Hilāl to a maker of scales (al-Mawāzīnī) to whom the writer had given a scale on which to affix a hanger, …
Probably a legal document in Arabic. On parchment. The beginnings of 12 lines are preserved. Difficult to determine any of the content. In the right …
Letter from ʿEli b. Hillel ha-Kohen to Berakhot b. Aharon. In Judaeo-Arabic. With a rudimentary hand and spellings. Mentions: 'al-rayyis'; how the sender's sister went …
Letter from Isma’il b. Barhun al-Taharti to Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055), Fustat. After a disagreement over selling indigo (it is not clear what the …
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Verso, with the address on recto: Letter in Arabic script. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Extremely difficult handwriting. Seems to be about business, reporting on …
Letter from Eli Ha-Mumhe b. Avraham, Jerusalem, to Efrayim Ha-Ḥaver b. Shemarya, Fustat, approximately 1045.
Possibly a letter fragment but too faded/damaged to read. ותנהג כמנהגותיה would fit with a letter of appeal for assistance.
Legal document. Record of release. Dated: August 9, 1077. Location: Alexandria. This release document, written in the Alexandria rabbinical court, concerns a partnership between Yosef …
שהדותא דהות באנפ[נא] אנן שהדי דח | תמות ידנא לתחתא בכתבא דנן כן הוה חצרא אלינא
מ יוסף ביר יאשיה נ[ע אל]מערוף בן אל | דהבי ומ כלף בן עזרון ו…
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Quite long, and written in an elegant script. The addressee may be ʿArūs b. Yosef, as he reused the verso for accounts. …
Tax receipt, Fatimid. Registration marks - al-ḥamdu lil-lāh shukran and al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ḥamd al-shākirīn.
Small fragment of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions the name ʿAyyāsh. Written on a reused piece of an earlier Arabic-script document.
A highly formulaic letter in Hebrew, filled with blessings for the distinguished addressee. Faded. The name of the addressee B[...] may appear ~5 lines from …
Receipt for the capitation tax of Zayn b. Hiba in New Cairo.
Small fragment from a letter by Yefet b. Menashshe Halevi.
Remnants of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Reused for a literary text in Hebrew (sermon?).
Small fragment from a legal deed, probably written by Hillel b. Eli (Date: 1066-1108)
Letter In Hebrew, with many errors and phonetic spellings. The writer calls the addressee 'the Sar.' Dating: Late, perhaps 16th century. The letter concerns the …
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi. He is agitated about something ("the knife has reached the bone"), mentions a qāḍī and appeals to ʿaṣabiyya to …
Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Sent from Rome. Addressed to 'my son' Barhūn Naqqāsh. Dating: Likely late Mamluk or early Ottoman-era. "I remained in Sardinia (צרדאניא) …
Family letter from a son to his mother. Nadiv b. Saʿadya is mentioned, as are greetings to family members such as Abū l-Wafā, Abū l-Faḍl, …
Recto (secondary use): Letter or letter draft in the hand of Efrayim ben Shemarya (d. ca. 1055). In Hebrew (possibly with Judaeo-Arabic toward the bottom). …
Recto: Bottom of a letter from Yehuda b. Ṭoviyya ha-Kohen, in Bilbays, to Avraham Maimonides. Dated: 15th day of the ʿOmer 1529 Seleucid, which is …
Verso: List of contributors or recipients of communal funds. Dating: ca. 1221 CE, based on recto. Mentions names such as Bū ʿImrān and his father; …
Letter from Matitya Ashkenazi, in Rashīd, to his son Asher, in Fustat/Cairo. In Hebrew. Dating: second half of the 16th century. The sender reports on …
Accounts for the month of Muḥarram, mentioning several sums in dirhams. Rudimentary hand. (Information from CUDL)
Draft of the opening of of a letter, mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably no earlier than 14th century. Prefaced with ~10 biblical quotations (all missing …
Petition to the caliph al-Mustanṣir from a man seeking employment in the caliph’s service. Draft, opening only. Dating: ca. 427–87/1036–94. On the other pages is …
The benedictions of God and his blessings, his increasing benefactions and most excellent greetings be upon our master and lord
the imām al-Musta…
Agreement between Shelomo b. Kathīr and Barhūn b. Sahlān, the husband of his daughter Fāʾiza, in which Barhūn undertakes to redeem the silver vessels belonging …
פאיזה זוגה ברהון בן סהלאן
Legal document on vellum for the sale of properties in the Karaite quarter. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: Final third of [Teve]t 5458 AM, which …
Legal deed written and signed by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (although the hand looks very different from other documents by him - PG). Small fragment …
Accounts related to maritime shipping. The dating is likely 1530s-1540s CE based on a variety of related fragments in the same scribal hand tagged in …
Verso: Reshut, beginning ויהי הכול, in a different hand from the recto. (Information from the Cambridge Genizah Research Unit via FGP).
Maimonides, responsa
Letter from a man to his brother. In Judaeo-Arabic, in a lovely hand. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Refers to the addressee's pilgrimage the preceding …
Letter from an otherwise unknown Avraham b. Yosef to the relatively well-known Abū l-Faḍāʾil Ḥayyim b. Ḥananel, who was the son of the judge Ḥananel …
Literary text in rhymed Judaeo-Arabic, narrating the mutual seduction between a Jewish man and a Christian (enslaved?) woman. There are a few lines in Arabic …
Letter from Shemuel b. Hofni, June 977 (Tammuz [1]288 Seleucid).
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