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Legal document in Arabic script. A woman attests that she has received (annahā tasallamat) something from somebody. Mentions ṣādūq a few times, not sure if …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Verso: List of names with numbers, distributions to individuals, followed, in another hand, by a list of arṭāl of some beverages (speficially: syrups/ashriba, including of …
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א ½ ר א ½ ר ג ½
ליח
מיט
2 نسخين
Fragment of a petition, two wide lines. The first line reads 'wa-ʿabd mawlānā,' then '[...] al-shāmil.'
Verso, fol. 2: Fragment of a decree or petition, probably provisional because of the semi-professional hand. Requires further examination.
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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
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic dated 5 July 1836 (20 Tammuz 5596), from Rashid, addressed to Moshe Bunān, Fusṭāṭ. The address is bilingual in both Hebrew and …
Accounts of Moshe Mizraḥī (or at least in his hand - perhaps these are communal accounts). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Adar I 5589 AM, which is …
Small fragment of a document in Judaeo-Arabic, maybe an account. Possibly in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen. Mentions clay (ṭīn).
Partnership document in the "silk business" (עסק המשי). Date: Kislev 5562 AM (1801 CE). Location: Cairo. Several people are named in the opening lines. The …
1 نسخ
Legal fragment. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning "if the two of them provide for our funeral shroud/clothing" (fa-innahumā in kafanānā); also mentions the term istiḥlāf (making …
Magical instructions for writing "seals" (khawātim). In Arabic script.
Drafts of an agreement for buying siddurs: al-Thalāth Raḥamīmāt Shemini, Emor, and Naso (שלש רחמים שמיני אמור ונשא); Niṣf batāʿ al-Hallel (חצי הלל). Dated 5 …
:Right side of bifolium, recto
Calligraphic draft of names of witnesses, Moshe b. Me'ir and Refa'el Yosef b. Yizhaq Hayyim.
Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The groom is Sa'adya b. David b. Reuven. The previously married bride is Esther Mas'uda d. El'azar Hakohen b. Aharon. In …
Letter from Yeḥezqel Ḥayyim Avraham ha-Kohen, in Diyarbakır (דייר בכיר), to his paternal uncle Mordekhay Kohen, in Palu (פאלו). Late and non-Geniza. Needs examination.
Accounts.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, possibly. Medieval-era. A small portion of four lines from the body are visible and a line of marginal text. The verso has …
Fragment of a capitation tax receipt, probably. Needs examination.
Fragment from the bottom part of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100–1138 CE) under the authority of Masliah Gaon (r. …
Small scrap with a few words in Judaeo-Arabic: אלמוצע . . . ען אליתומ[ים] . . . תלמוד. Probably literary but could be documentary.
Legal query addressed to the Gaon and Nasi Daniel b. ʿAzarya in Jerusalem with regard to the goods of a merchant, Moshe b. Yehuda ha-Ma'arvi, …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Dating: Perhaps 12th or 13th century. Fragment (upper right piece). At least three people make the acknowledgment (Abū …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Currencies: riyal qurush. Mentions Moshe Surmani and linseed oil (zayt ḥār). Neatly written with many details. Merits further examination.
Informal note (petition?) in Arabic script addressed to "al-Shaykh al-Rayyis al-Muwaffaq." There is a version of a raʾy clause (والراي ما يراه المولى). The sender …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Legal fragment (upper left corner). On parchment. Location: Fustat. Possibly a deathbed will, because the witnesses describe how they entered the house of Abū l-Faraj …
State document, in Arabic script. Probably a decree fragment. "محوطة بالسعادة واليمن في الاصـ". On verso there is a list of piyyutim.
Likely an order or receipt. Names al-Shaykh Bū l-Qāsim b. al-[...]
Order of payment from Muḥammad b. [...] b. [...] to Mufaḍḍal, instructing him to pay the bearer 600 nuqra dirhams. Same cluster: T-S AS 183.14, …
Letter in Arabic script. The addressee is asked to send something (dirhams?) with the bearer. On verso there is piyyuṭ. (Information from CUDL)
Verso: Letter probably from Binyām the druggist of Rashīd, in Alexandria, to Abū Saʿīd al-ʿAfṣī, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 12th century. (This sender, who …
Recto: legal document mentioning a market. Signed by Ḥalfon b. [...] and Mukhtār b. Ḥasan (or Yosef?) Verso: Beginning of a letter in Arabic script, …
Mercantile accounts for Jumādā I. Mentions the name (al-shaykh al-[...]) and commodities such as sugar and rose water.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Reused for business accounts on verso in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef (according to Goitein's notes). The letter is written in …
Personal accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions Mūsā b. ʿImrān al-Bayyāʿ; Ibrāhīm b. [...]; "my maternal aunt in Dammūh"; Abū Naṣr b. al-[...] …
End of a literary text in Judaeo-Arabic. Underneath there is a scrawled Arabic note headed by a basmala and perhaps beginning "Min kitāb. . ."
List of commodities and amounts, all are crossed out - needs examination.
Legal document in the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Settlement of a dispute over a husband's support for his wife during …
Recto: Abū l-Faḍāʾil the cantor begs for money from Sitt Futūn, who also helped fund the construction of the synagogue (!), since he owes four …