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Ketubba fragment. Groom: Ḥalfon b. ʿEli. Bride: Zayn, a virgin. See Goitein's index card.
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Leaf from a Judaeo-Arabic treatise containing magical instructions (ʿazā'im) including for summoning Sar ha-Torah to grant your wishes and for ḍarb al-mandal ('prophesying while contemplating …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Verso (original use): Deed of lease. In Arabic script. Fragment (upper right corner). The basmala and the beginnings of five lines are preserved. The lessee …
Calendar for the holidays and liturgy.
Accounts in Arabic script, unclear if private or fiscal.
Multilingual writing exercises in an early modern scribal hand (or hands). There are many instances of calligraphic signature practice for the same name on the …
Lots of dots.
Recto is a fiscal account (either reused for the tax receipt or was later reused) with multiple streams of accounts, recording payments for ten days …
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Bifolio from a ledger of accounts concerning ships departing from Egypt. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated (leftmost text block of ENA 3730.2v): 941 AH = 1535/36 CE. …
A much faded legal deed written by Efrayim b. Shemarya (see Bareket, The Jews of Egypt, p, 217). On recto description of a legal suit …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. There are only about 6 entries. On verso there are Hebrew pen trials.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Wednesday, 11 Elul 1423 Seleucid = 4 September 1112 CE. In which the widower Abū …
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Legal document. Location: Damietta (אי כפתור). Dated: Shevaṭ 4872 AM = January 1112 CE. Large and well written fragment of a large document in which …
Exegesis of Parashat Vayishlaḥ. Late. There are some jottings in the margins.
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Avraham b. Shelomo Ha-Paqid, Fustat, approximately 1050.
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Arabic script (VMR)
Legal document. Bill of divorce, Fusṭāṭ. This bill of divorce is one of forty under the T-S 10J2 shelfmark. The fragment is torn and thus …
Probably part of a ketubba fragment, mentioning sums of money in dinars. (Information from CUDL)
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Table of expenses, including several items of food (meat, chicken, olives, oil...)
Laws concerning the writings of legal deeds. Image not available
Ownership note in Arabic script: "This book of medicine belongs to Ibrāhīm the Rabbanite Jew known as Ibn al-Ḥarīrī." On verso there are Greek/Coptic numerals.
Non-Geniza. Legal document or documents. Dating: Catalouged as 1779 CE.
Accounts that mention the "Karo y Frances Kon[panya]" in the heading and a wide variety of coinage types and quantities. This folder is mostly or …
Calendar in grid layout. Decorated with red crescents. In Hebrew. Late.
Ottoman-era astronomical table, in Arabic script. Mentions elaborate astronomical calculations on both recto and verso, but especially on verso. The ascendant star/planet and its position …
Accounts, mentioning quantities of money and commodities such as wine. (Information from CUDL)
Order of payment. In Arabic script with the sum (at least 600 wariq dirhams) repeated in Judaeo-Arabic / Hebrew script at the top.
Leaf from the court notebook. Recto: Legal record of the court of Fustat. Dated: before the middle of Nisan 1411 Seleucid = March 1100 CE. …
Recto: A mirror imprint of T-S AS 219.129, but much easier to read. Business letter in the hand of Makhlūf b. Mūsā. Mentions people such …
Fragment from a legal document, possibly a trousseau list section of a ketuba. AA
Letter in which a man who calls himself the father of the cantor who is "sick, poor, and naked" asks a prominent physician to arrange …
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Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Letter from Sulaymān al-Skandarī, in Damascus, to his brother-in-law Faraj Allāh Ibn Fāḍil and his wife (the writer's sister), in Cairo. Written in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: …
Fragment of a page in lovely handwriting mostly dealing with stories from the Bible. Deut 20:16 is quoted; Jericho is named, along with Sulayman ibn …
Letter from Yosef b. Yeshuʿa, in Tripoli (Syria), to Nahray b. Nissim. The letter mentions Nahray's pilgrimage to Jerusalem and shipments of emblic myrobalan and …
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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 …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Reporting on a legal dispute in a provincial town involving the redemption (from captivity?) of the sisters of Abū l-Najm for 50 …
Bifolio with unidentified text(s) in Arabic script, probably documentary. Needs examination.
A letter to Mordechai b. Shmuel
Fragment of a letter in Arabic script. The ends of 3 lines are preserved. Skilled hand, unclear if mercantile or official. Includes the phrase "لا …
Remnant of jottings including accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions 9 qirats; dinars; a balance.
Receipt? - needs examination. Probably begins with "ṣaḥḥ ibn al-wazīr".
Letter fragment addressed to some dignitary (rabbenu ha-rav). In Judaeo-Arabic. Only the flattering introduction is preserved. Congratulating him on a happy union (wedding? al-wuṣla al-saʿīda …
Accounts on the recto and verso, related to sales and expenses of raisins (zabīb). Dating is 16th- or 17th-century based on the paleography but the …
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower right piece). In the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dating: first half of the 12th century. Some phrases …
Small fragment of an 11th or 12th century letter from [...] b. Avraham. May mention al-Barqī.
Beginning of a letter (possibly official) in Arabic script. Addressed to a Qāḍī (بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم يعلم القاضي الاجل الاوحد . . . ). …
Late list of foodstuffs and amounts in Judaeo-Arabic, it seems with some Hebrew too. Items named include oil, honey, taḥina (? spelled with a tav), …