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Letter from Zekharya b. Ya’aqov b. al-Shama, from Tripoli (Libya), to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1060. The letter deals with shipments of goods and …
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך ותאיידך וסלאמתך ונעמתך מן אלמסתקר
אסרו חג סכות אעאדה אללה עליך סנין כתירה שש ושמח ואלחאל סלאמה…
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Letter addressed to Yiṣḥaq ha-Rav ha-Gadol. In Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment. Concerning a cantor Ibn [...].
Bifolio of official-looking accounts in Arabic script. Needs further examination.
Two unrelated Arabic script documents glued together for the sake of reuse. Upper document: Legal document. Parties mentioned include Abū l-Faḍāʾil Nāṣir b. Karam b. …
Note in Arabic script addressed to a Nasi ("al-mawlā al-ajall al-nāsī al-jalīl al-nabīl..."). Conveying a message about the bearer (recommendation?). Needs further examination.
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Note detailing instructions for performing a wedding ceremony.
Letter from the Nagid David I Maimonides (d. 1300) to the community of Ashmūm. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning someone named Yosef who was in …
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Letter from Ṣadoq, a prominent public figure in Alexandria, to ݂the prominent merchant Moshe ha-Kohen Ibn Ghulayb, in Fustat. Dated: ḥol ha-moʿed of Sukkot 4800 …
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Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. Mentions someone who arrived safely, and a woman named Sitt al-Milāḥ.
Right fragment: Letter/petition in Hebrew from the widow of the well-known judge Hiyya b. Yishaq (active in Fustat 1129–60s) to the Jewish congregation of Fustat. …
Fragmentary, short marriage contract from Cairo, from which most of the details are missing and which does not mention dowry. (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, …
Agreement made by Abu al-Faraj Yaʿaqov b. Avraham b. Allan with his business partner Efrayim b. Ismail al-Jawhari, who takes care of his commercial interests …
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Official letter headed by the ʿalāma (motto) of the Nagid Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides (b. 1310–d. 1355) and written in the typical hand of his clerk (compare …
Account in Arabic and Coptic numerals. Listing lemon, saffron, pepper, mastic, sesame oil, and pigeon, with corresponding numbers. Reused for Hebrew and Arabic pen trials.
Non-Geniza. A letter the the community of Luzk from Mordechai b. Shmuel
Fragment from a document in Arabic script, probably legal or at least dealing with legal matters. Mentions a house, testimonies, and assertions about what is …
Arabic writing exercises including "lillahi waḥdahu" three times.
Accounts listing a variety of textiles in different colors and perhaps other goods. Dated in the main heading on the recto: 12 J[umāda] I 960 …
Culinary or medical recipe. In Arabic script, Kūfī, seven lines. On parchment. Dating: "Particularly old" per Goitein; likely 10th century or earlier. This was probably …
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Family letter. In Arabic script. To 'my father.' Asking for clothing for the children and maintenance expenses, and telling the addressee to return. Dating: Probably …
T-S K5, 16-40. Exercises of children, representing letters in various combinations and copies of the beginnings of the third and the first books of Moses. …
Recto: List of items and quantities, such as saffron, aṭrāf ṭīb. potash (ushnān). Verso: Order of payment. Maḥfūẓ is asked to pay 7 of something …
Fragment of a late legal document in Hebrew signed by Moshe Abū Shaʿra, alternate reading: Moshe Bekhar (בכר). Below the main document and signatures someone …
Letter in Arabic script. Written in a shaky hand. Describing a legal case, involving a Jew and 10 dinars. On verso there are greetings and …
Order of payment from David ha-Nasi. The communal officials Sālim and Maḥfūẓ are to pay 1/6 dinar to the bearer for the meal of the …
Three different literary fragments, though the top two may be from the same source.
Official correspondence in Arabic script. The address lists Muḥammad Effendi as the recipient and the opening line of the document mentions Aḥmad Effendi. Mentions "al-majlis …
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic.
Minute fragment from a legal deed, probably written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138)
Minute fragment with medieval-era accounts on recto and verso. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Recto: Medical recipes in Arabic script. Verso: A table in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals - significance unclear.
Table of numbers. In Hebrew script. Unclear significance.
Letter of appeal from an unknown man, in Bilbays, to Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. The writer had lived with Eliyyahu's …
Unidentified text in Arabic, but looks like literary.
Letter from Abū Naṣr b. Barakāt b. Ziz al-Tujjār and Abū l-Faraj b. Moshe ha-Kohen addressed to R. Avraham (possibly Avraham Maimonides). Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. …
List of expenditures for a week. Here, 100 pounds of bread and its transportation cost 22 1/2 [1/4 MR Cohen] dirhams. The salaries recorded are …
Formulary for a marriage-related legal document.
IB III, 29. Letter written by the India trader Avraham Ibn Yiju after his arrival in Aden, to his brothers and sisters in al-Mahdiyya or …
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Legal document fragment, probably late 11th century, since witnessed by Yakhin b. Netanel who also signed T-S 13J5.2 ca.1085. Other witnesses: Shemuel b. Mevorakh; Avraham …
End of a letter probably from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). The address is partially preserved: אכי ואלעזיז …
State document. Accounts from the central fisc. Begins: waṣala ilā bayt al-māl al-maʿmūr.... Lower down refers to Mālik b. Ibrāhīm. In the bottom text block …
ENA NS 83.15, recto: Fragment of a text in taʿlīq script, possibly documentary. The keyword عرض is repeated at least twice and the final line …
Prayer in Hebrew, attributed to Saʿadya al-Nadiv b. Saʿadya ha-Levi.