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Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Business letter stating that Umm Bayān, who is dragged to court every day by her creditors, opened her husband’s storage crate …
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P5: Legal jottings in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Only a few words are preserved, no details.
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Bifolium in Judaeo-Arabic that largely consists of translations of morbid passages from the bible and rabbinic literature, including Job 14:2 and the "putrid drop" (tipah …
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Bill of release, issued by Abū Kathīr Efrayim b. Maṣliaḥ al-Ghazzī to Abū Isḥāq Avraham ha-Levi. Signed by Yefet b. Menashshe, ʿOvadya b. […], and …
Letter, probably to a certain Shemuʾel. (Information from CUDL)
Letter, with a drawing on verso. (Information from CUDL.) Hand of Yefet b. Menashshe?
Legal document containing an acknowledgment by a creditor, Khalaf b. Aharon, of the full payment of the debt.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand looks like that of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu (early 13th century). Refers to something shameful (al-ʿār), "what people say" (kalām …
Note in Judaeo-Arabic. Quite faded. Mentions paying the prices of different medicinal syrups (shurba... murammal...). (Information in part from CUDL.)
Ketubba (marriage contract). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday 26 Adar II 1426 Seleucid, which is 1115 CE, under the …
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Legal document, bottom fragment. Witness clause is preserved. Needs examination.
Beginning and address of a letter from Tahor b. Avraham to the judge Eliyyahu b. Zechariah. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
State document, Fatimid decree, in Arabic script. The decree is addressed to the military general Fāris al-Dawla. The document is a draft as the recto …
Letter, probably written by Surūr b. Ismaʿīl the dyer (al-sabbāgh). (Information from CUDL)
Fragment of an official-looking letter in Arabic script. The beginnings of 6 lines are preserved. May mention "my greatest debts are with . . . …
Tax receipt. Mentions the mustakhdim al-jawālī in Damietta. Dated: 601 AH. Amount: 1.25 dinars. ʿAlāma: الحمد لله وبه استعين. Endorsed across the text rather than …
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Medical recipes. One is to be applied with a cloth to the anus (al-maqʿada) (for hemorrhoids?).
Colophon in the handwriting of Evyatar Ha-Kohen b. Eliyyahu Gaon.
State correspondence in Arabic script. The beginnings of 13 lines are preserved. May involve a tax farm (ḍamān) and includes the dates Ṣafar 439 AH …
. . . . . .بالجري في الديوان [
اطال الله بقاك المعدية(؟) [
وكانت اخره فوقها وما ا . . [
وقطعات الجسر مضمنة(؟) . . .[
الثاني من صفر سنة تسع…
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Letter from a mother to her daughter الست الجليلة بيننا ادام الله نعمتها, containing a taqbīl clause and mentioning their long-distance relationship. Written on parchment, …
من عندك(!)
والدتك
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
تقبل الارض بين يدي الست الجليلة بيننا ادام
الل…
Recto (secondary use): Letter draft mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. The writer expresses grief over the death of his brother, Abū l-Faraj b. Yosef, who was perhaps …
Minute fragment with Arabic text on one side and a rabbinic text on the other.
Letter fragment (part of the right side of recto and verso). Asking the addressee to enlighten the sender about various talmudic passages.
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely ca. 12th century. Mentions a ḥaver and contains a version of a taqbīl clause. Damaged and faded.
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: probably summer 1029 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1025–1051 CE, based on the years when …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Small fragment (lower right corner), and possibly a draft. The name Ibn Shamārī …
Halakhic text, possibly a responsum, concerning a man marrying a woman who then ‘hates’ (divorces) her. (Information from CUDL)
Fragments of bills of divorce. T-S 10J3 ff. 2-11. (Information from Goitein’s index card)
Communal accounts for two synagogues in Cairo. Dated 5584 AM (1823/24 CE). The right side of the bifolio mentions the Ḥayyīm Capoussi Synagogue and the …
Private accounts. Mentioning bread and lentils.
Monetary agreement between a newly married couple. Yehuda b. Simha married Sarah d. Elzafan, and her father took upon himself to pay her dowry in …
List of interesting laqabs, maybe of state officials, e.g., Humām al-Dawla, Qamr al-Dawla, and Sayf al-Islām.
Letter with greetings for the holidays, likely in the hand of the clerk of Yehoshua Maimonides. There appears to be a genealogy in a different …
Legal fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Someone says "I no longer have any livelihood here" (לאן מא בקי לי ההנא מעאש) and someone responds to that and …
Recipe in Arabic script, probably medical or culinary.
Letter from a woman to her husband (ṣāḥib al-bayt). In Judaeo-Arabic. After the greetings, which include wishes for the husband's recovery from illness, she continues, …
I inform you, master of the house, may God always give you happiness, strengthen your well-being,
cure your sorrows, destroy your enemies and…
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Verso: Legal fragment in what looks like the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Mentions [...] b. Bishāra, Abū l-Ḥusayn, and [...] b. Shemuʾel ha-Kohen. Recto: …
Marriage document. Long a narrow fragment from the left side of a ketubba, with only a few words surviving. The hand is by Mevorakh b. …
Marriage document, bill of conditions שטר תנאים issued in Rashid (Rosetta). Undated, but this document must have been issued at the same time as the …
Narrative report in Arabic script. Letter, legal query, or literary? Mentions a Jewish man, perhaps named Yūsuf, who came before a governor (wālī). Then refers …
Court record. Dating: probably 11th century. Yiṣḥaq he-Ḥaver and Sahl arrived in Fustat around the same time. Somebody testifies that somebody desecrated the Sabbath somewhere …
Letter fragment addressed to Moshe ha-Sar. Only the introduction is preserved.
Informal note/petition addressed to Avraham Maimonides, here with the title "Nagid" (thus, post-1213 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer asks when Avraham will spend Shabbat in …
Certificate of manumission of a slave, dated 591H. (?) [1194-5]. [Described on a separate small piece of paper as: "letter from a noble man asking …
Wooden dedication inscription from the Ben Ezra Synagogue. Was eventually stored in the synagogue's genizah chambers. "In the name of God, we shall do and …
Legal declaration in Arabic script, with a few Hebrew words (also in Arabic script) mixed in. "I have witnesses to the effect that Abū ʿAlī …
Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: 1 Elul 5579 AM, which is 1819 CE. The widow of Avraham Yedid invests 9000 medins with Yeḥezqel …
Accounting document issued by "al-qism al-awwal Qalyūbiyya," one of the 24 administrative sections of Egypt that were established in the 1820s. In Arabic script. Dated: …