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Maimonides, Mišne Tora, closing paragraph of Sefer Zemanim (recto) and beginning of Sefer Našim (verso). A colophon in Judaeo-Arabic at the end of Sefer Zemanim …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Love and/or wine poetry in Judaeo-Arabic. The layout deceptively resembles a letter.
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A long letter to Yosef b. Ishaq, from Mordechai b. Avraham, who also signed his name in cypher. Probably non-Geniza.
Verso: Bill of divorce. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1564 Seleucid, which is 1252/53 CE. Husband: Nissim b. Sar Shalom ha-Levi of Damascus, the same husband from …
2 نسخين
Letter from the office of Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides (b. 1310–d. 1355 CE), who is introduced with his usual motto, to the community in Cairo concerning a …
1 ترجمة
Letter from Yaʿaqov b. Shemuel ha-Andalusi, in Jerusalem, to Yosef b. Naḥum ha-Baradani, in Fustat. Dating: 5 Adar Sheni, around 1060 (Gil). Yosef has arrived …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter from Yeḥezqel b. Shemuel to an unknown addressee. In Judaeo-Arabic. He reports that Sitt ʿAnbar is very sick, and she has developed a delusion …
1 نسخ
Business letter, mentioning commodities such as silk. Very faded. Dating: probably 11th century. (Information from CUDL)
Two legal documents in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (active 1100–1138 CE). Verso: end of a court record regarding the marriage of Qaraite woman …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Recto: Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Very neat handwriting. Only the beginnings of the lines are preserved. Mentions a broker in the …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Wide space between the lines. The writer is a tax farmer (or perhaps the agent/wakīl of one) in a rural area with …
Minute fragment of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138)
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, with one line of Arabic script. VMR. ASE.
Official confirmation at court of a debt of 60 dinars contracted three months earlier before a notary, Ab 1417/ July 1106. Signed by Yiṣḥaq b. …
Small receipt or order for 3 raṭls of something.
Image not available. According to Schwarb Catalogue: From Elijah the judge, Damietta. AA
Literary text, in Arabic script. Extremely faded.
Document in Arabic script, five lines preserved, possibly a draft. Contains formulae from an Islamic marriage contract (hādhā mā aṣdaqa al-Shaykh Bayān... Samawʾal...). Needs examination. …
Verso (original use): Unidentified document in Arabic script. Possibly the bottom of a tax receipt or other state document.
Recto: a medical prescription in Arabic for ʿAlī b. [..]Allah. Verso: scribal practice in Hebrew. ASE.
Partnership (sharika) agreement. In Arabic script. Dated: 24 Shawwāl 450 AH, which is 14 December 1058 CE. The three partners are Wuḥaysh b. Saʿīd b. …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
On its (the document's) date, that is the twenty-fourth of Shawwāl of the year …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Verso: bottom part of a beautifully illuminated ketubba, signed by Yaʿaqov b. Simḥa. It seems to be too damaged to extract much of the content. …
Legal document: Bill of sale for property to Yuḥannis ibn Saqina. Buljusuq (Fayyum), late 4th/10th c. Parchment ; 23 lines + 1 line in right …
Likely the introduction to a literary text, but could be a letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Quite faded. (Information in part from CUDL)
A few words in Arabic script, possibly including "dhahab" and "dīnār" on the back of Hebrew piyyuṭ.
List of contributors written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100-1138). The names are: 'Alan, ben al-'Afasi, Tayyib b. Raja. Other names only partially preserved. …
Fragmentary business letter concerning the author's opponents. The writing appears to be in the hand of Avraham b. Natan. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Recto: Letter fragment in Arabic, very damaged. Verso: accounts inJudaeo-Arabic. Mentions the purchase of flax (and the number 13.5)
Probably two fragments from the same document, but too dark to read. Seems like a letter. AA
Recto may be a small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic: ולא תגד . . . [ח]אצל ענדי . . . Verso looks like a …
Verso: Two fragmentary lines from a state document in Arabic, including the word "al-ḥaḍra." Recto contains Hebrew blessings.
Letter fragment in Arabic script, could also be a state document given that there are large line spacing and the script is chancery-esque. Parts of …
Legal document, in Arabic script. Quite faded. Witness clauses on verso with a partially preserved date: 3rd Rabīʿ I. Needs examination.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Mentions Zekharya, maybe Daniel, and maybe the mount of olives. The text in the margin of verso ends with …
Aphorisms attributed to al-Shāfiʿī and others.
Literary narrative in Arabic script. 1001 nights? Mentions a baker and a salesman, then the narrator stumbles on a hidden treasure with a magical sapphire, …
Accounts. Needs examination.
Verso: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Very neat lines. Headers include terms such as "al-aṣl" "al-iḍāfa" and maybe "al-ṭārima." On recto there is …
Karaite agreement regarding cemetery usage and the authority of communal officials over burial practices. Location: presumably Cairo, based on the paleography and surnames mentioned. Dated …
Small fragment from the bottom of a legal document signed by Avraham b. Shemaʿya. Dated: Elul 143[.] Seleucid = 1119–28 CE. (Information in part from …
Geṭ (bill of divorce). Signed by Ḥalfon b. Elʿazar ha-Kohen (active early 13th century) and Shemuʾel b. Mevasser ha-Melammed. On verso an attestation that the …