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Letter addressed to a dignitary. Only the introduction is preserved. No names.
No Scholarship Records
Deed of quittance. In Hebrew. Dating: Likely early 11th century. Between Sittūna bt. Yosef ha-Levi the dyer and her husband ʿEzra b. Avraham ha-Kohen. She …
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Non-Geniza. Prayer for the health of Nicholas I and his family (19th c).
Legal document. Fragmentary (lower left corner). Mentions a shop and a sum of 55[.] (dirhams? dinars?). Perhaps in the hand of [Shelomo] b. Eliyyahu whose …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Unidentified text in Hebrew. At one point after a small space reads ועכשיו אחינו ישראל suggesting it could be a communal letter or sermon. Dating: …
Bifolio. Three of the four pages contain models of polite phrases to be used in Judaeo-Arabic letters. The handwriting might be known. Dating: likely 12th …
Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to Abū l-Faraj al-Makīn (probably his father-in-law). In Judaeo-Arabic. Prefaced by a single line of decorated biblical quotation. Shelomo mentions …
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Legal document(s). In Arabic script. On parchment. The documents on both recto and verso concern Ismāʿīl b. Yūsuf al-ʿAṭṭār al-Sharīf(?). The document on recto may …
Legal declaration (moda'a) in which a man declares that any release or compromise he will do in the future is invalid because he is coerced …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, Hebrew, and eastern Arabic numerals. Late. Mentions ground saffron.
Document in Arabic script. Possibly the draft of an iqrār or other legal deed. Written on (or reused for?) a page of magical instructions in …
Formulary for a letter to an important person: רסאלה לעאלם כביר לרגל פאצל
Legal document: acknowledgment (ʾiqrār) written for or by Avraham Ibn Yijū. Dated: 22 Rabīʿ I 548 AH (17 June 1153 CE), after his return to …
. . . . . . . . . .] . . . . . ا . . . له بني ادم له ما لهم وعليه ما عليهم لم يشترط عليه مالا ولم يجتعل عـليه
جعلا واقر ان اخاه بو البشر بن بو ا…
Probably literary.
Verso (original use): Letter in Arabic script. Fragment (bottom only). The sender apologizes profusely for an unspecified failing and goes on at length about his …
مه…[ ]سمى لو كان[ ]غير
مولاي الشيخ وارجو الا يتجرد منه كتاب في شي منك هذا فوالله
ان كنت الا على النار والله ما اردت الا احرق راسي كل…
Letter of recommendation for the bearer, a certain Yefet, an inhabitant of Fustat, who is said to be a respectable man who fell on hard …
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Poem (a few lines) written by Amram b. Ḥalfon ha-levi. On the same page is also a literary halakhic discussion of whether a woman is …
Letter expressing regret for having left the service of the recipient Shelomo, a government official. Possibly a draft. (Information from Goitein's index cards.) Probably the …
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Book list. Dating: Probably 13th century (per Frenkel, based on the names mentioned; Assaf thought it was 12th century). It lists nine covers as being …
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Petition from the Mamluk period. [Described on the paper wrapper as: "Un esclave mamelouk demandant à son ancienne maitresse de retourner dans sa première maison" …
Geʾonic responsa (information from CUDL).
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions people including Barakāt al-Kohen, Sayyid al-Kull, al-Wazīr, Abū Sahl, Abū Saʿd Ibn Khalaf, Tamīm al-Aṭrūsh (the deaf). Goods include honey and …
Piyyutim.
Official letter to a communal leader. In Judaeo-Arabic. Narrow page. Wide space between the lines. The sender asks the addressee to deliver an enclosed letter …
Late account in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning silk and paper. Possibly mentions a manumitted person (מעתוק) in the opening line of the recto. Requires further examination.
Letter sent to a woman. In Judaeo-Arabic. On parchment. Dating: probably 11th century, or possibly 12th. Reporting that some merchants perished when their ships were …
Document in Persian. Nastaʿlīq, diagonally oriented text blocks. Containing at least 3 records dated Safar 1218 AH, Rajab 1218 AH, and Shaʿbān 1221 AH (1803, …
Recto: At least two different drafts of late Arabic letters. Bottom of recto and verso: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic--lists of money received from various individua
Deathbed will of Bū Saʿd b. Sālim. Location: Minyat Zifta. Dated: last third of Tammuz [1469] Seleucid = June 1158 CE. (The year in l. …
Legal document. In Arabic script. Yaʿqūb Balūl al-Khayyāṭ ("the tailor") b. Khiḍr al-Yahūdī who lives in ḥārat al-yahūd owes Shūʿā Zayn(?) b. Ibrāhīm al-Yahūdī a …
Legal document in Arabic script. In which [..]āba bt. Sulaymān b. Yaḥyā al-Isrāʾīliyya appoints her husband Naḥum b. Barhūn al-Isrāʾīlī as her agent for all …
Recto: Receipt dated 19 Shawwāl 517 AH (December 1123 CE) for 350 irdabbs of wheat from ʿAlī b. Saʿīd from al-Gharbiyya. Needs further examination.
Legal document. Dated: Friday, 1 Kislev 1515 Seleucid, which is 7 November 1203 CE. Deathbed declaration of Abū l-Khayr b. Abū l-Barakāt the supplier (al-mūrid). …
Fragment in Arabic script. Two rows in large letters, with the ink now faded to red. The words al-biḥār and al-riyāḥ appear at the ends …
Letter fragment (first three lines and part of address). The addressee is a Kohen and may be named [Abu] Musa Harun b. 'Imran. The writer …
Qaraite ketubba formulary (FGP)
Letter from the office of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE), in Fustat, to the community of Alexandria (נאמון). Dating: ca. 1220 CE. He instructs them …
Legal document(s) in Arabic script. Dating: Probably late Mamluk or Ottoman. Narration of commercial trade accounts. The word 'qabaḍ' appears in prolific numbers associated usually …
Arabic, literary.
Letter from Abū l-Faḍl Ibn al-Ahuv to [...] al-Levi. Appealing for charity or other assistance. (Information in part from CUDL)
Legal fragment (lower right corner). Involving a man and his wife Sitt al-A[...]; her giving up her right to something (אנהא נזלת ענה); and periods …
Letter from Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Iṭrābulusī (Alexandria) to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov b. ʿAwkal (Fustat). Gives information about ships arriving in Egypt, their consignments and passengers. …
אטאל אללה יאשיכי וריסי וגלילי בקאך ואדאם נעמאך
תקדמת כתבי אליך יאשיכי עדה ארגו וצלת אליך
וגהת אליך אלכתב מע אלצרה מע בוצחק בן נסים אלקרוי
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Fragment of a petition from a woman, in Arabic script. She complains about her poverty and the vicissitudes of fate, but it seems she has …
بعد كلمة والتعرف وكتب……………….عبده
تشتكي ياخي(؟) فيه من قلة ذات اليد وامور الزمان هي ومن معها اطال ذلك[
الله تعالى وحضرته السامية وكانت حض…
9 queries sent from Yemen to Yehoshuaʿ ha-Nagid (b. 1310–d. 1355 CE) regarding Maimonides' Mishne Torah. Published Glick, Seride Teshuvot: A Descriptive Catalogue of Responsa. …
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Original document: Accounts in very small Arabic script. Subsequent document: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to a woman. Written in the spaces around the original …