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Court record. In Judaeo-Arabic. In a Yemeni hand (Worman's handlist desribes it as "Modern Yemenite.") concerning a debt of 2.5 qirsh between Ṣaliḥ b. Mūsā …
No Scholarship Records
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Little of the content remains.
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Letter from Nissim b. Ḥalfon to Nahray b. Nissim (Fustat), ca. 1055, sent as an addendum to an earlier letter, which has not been identified. …
תמאם כתאב מולאי אלשיך אבי יחיה
פי כתאבה אנך לם תרגע אלי אלקאעה אלדי לך אלי אסעה
אללה יופקך ואלל כפיא מא ורד אלדי מעך הדיא יאמולאי
תקבפה…
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Magical/medical recipes. In Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly in a Yemeni hand (the text on verso is in a different, clearly Yemeni hand). There are recipes for incense …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Extremely faded. גהת אל . . . תכון תמנהם...
Printed page. In Arabic script. Refers to the founding of something to do with agriculture in Rabīʿ I 1312 AH, which is 1894 CE.
Fragment from the bottom of a text in Arabic, may be documentary. Looks late. Mentions ilā al-majlis.
Fiscal or commercial account. Ayyubid or Mamluk-era?
Damaged fragment from the top of a letter in Hebrew. Addressed to a dignitary. על יד כל [נביא] וחוזה . . . ואדירינו ונכבינו . …
Literary text in Arabic script.
Legal document in Arabic script. Very damaged.
Letter of condolence to Binyamin Dayon in Qal'a
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Non-Geniza. Letter dated 1849 CE. Regarding the coronation of a hasidic rebbe by the community of מזירוב.
A strange treatise entitled Mar'e Ha-Ofanim, referring both to the angels of Ezekiel's vision and to the circles described in the treatise. It gives instructions …
Letter from the judge Avraham b. [Mevorakh] ha-Kohen, the head of the Jewish community in al-Maḥalla, to the Nagid/Raʾīs al-Yahūd Mevorakh b. Seʿadya. In Hebrew …
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Small fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably literary.
List of contributors, on verso of page from a siddur: Musaf rosh hodesh. Coptic figures. Headed by 'our lord R. Avraham' (Maimonides?) (Information from Goitein …
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Letter in which a patient reports to his physician, describing his illness and asking for a prescription. Full translation by Goitein, Mediterranean Society, V, 105. …
Verso: Legal query regarding a case involving two partners, one of whom traveled to Malīj in the Rīf. The partners' dispute concerns transport costs, specifically, …
ENA 4050: Fragments of a letter from Shemuel Gaon b. Hofni to one of the community leaders in Qayrawan. Around 1008. Maybe was addressed to …
Un-conserved. Fragment of a letter contains personal and business issues. Probably 13th century.
Letter possibly from Abū Zikrī the physician to his father Eliyyahu the judge. Written in rhymed Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. Goitein comments, …
Report or letter between officials. In Arabic script, written in a chancery hand. Four lines remain. Surrounding the text and on verso there is a …
Accounts in Judeo-Arabic that list a wide array of individuals and quantities which may indicate payments given the recto's heading "עלם אל מדכול מן טיבית" …
Bill of divorce. The date, location, and names of the husband and wife are not preserved. Written and signed by the cantor Hillel b. ʿEli …
Witness signature from an Arabic-script legal document. The document itself is not preserved.
Letter to Ḥalfon b. Berakhot (?). In a mixture of Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. The letter is very long, but the substance seems quite short, occupying …
Legal fragment. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Refers to merchandise; a sum of 1 1/3 dinars, prolonged disputes, and the …
Betrothal deed from 1185. According to Goitein, the bride and groom are also cousins. They are both extremely young, but still in the age of …
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List, probably, in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. On parchment. Referring either to the addressee's intimate relations with the Tustari brothers in Fustat or that he now equals them …
Recto: Upper part of a will. Dated: Wednesday, 26 Iyyar 1552 Seleucid = 8 May 1241 CE. Written in the same hand as verso. The …
A few words in large Arabic script: al-mawlā al-shaykh al-makhdūm. State document? There are also several Hebrew literary texts on this fragment.
Genealogical list from Ezra to Adam. On verso there are pen trials, including the beginning of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic and a basmala in Arabic …
Letter mentioning "Sayyidnā" and Eliyya Ibn al-Rayyis (= Eliyyahu the Judge). (Information from CUDL)
Formularies for marriage documents.
Fragment from the ketubba of [...] Ṭayyib ha-Levi (groom) and ʿAwz bat [...] (bride). Location: Fusṭāṭ. (Information from CUDL.)
Business letter to Nissim, probably not earlier than the 14th century, referring to trade in Syria and Egypt. The brother-in-law of Zechariah is mentioned. Information …
Letter addressed to a certain Yosef. Dating: no earlier than 1425 CE, based on the mention of the currency ashrafī. Mentions goods like saffron and …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Small fragment. Contains part of the dowry list. Written by the cantor Yefet b. David. AA
Recto: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions R. Yeshuʿa and instructions about taking a medicinal syrup. Verso: Order in Arabic script instructing the addressee to give …
Marriage contract – 5690AM – 1930CE – (number 58) – in Hebrew and Aramaic in manuscript and print. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl …
Bill of release. Abū l-Bahāʾ releases his brother's son Moshe b. Abū l-Baqāʾ after undertaking to return to him 600 dinars by the end of …
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Large fragment of a responsum in which an older brother is described as 'simple, not a firstborn' which qualifications made his apparent claims invalid. (Information …
Legal document regarding the establishment of the Hevra Qadisha, a burial society, with a list of 7 ordinances (monthly payments, age of joining, etc.). Dating: …
Report (or petition?). Line 3: الراي العالي باطلاقه لك على. Line 4: ان شا الله عليه الراي. On verso there are accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, in …
مما يطلق عن الديوان الابواب…بمصر
مائة وخمسة وخمسون دينارا
ومما يطلق من الديوان الاموال (الابواب؟) بالقاهرة
سبعة وسبعون دينارا
ويخرج …