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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions tarsīm (payments for house arrest).
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Letter of appeal for charity from Sālim of Tyre to an unidentified addressee. The letter (in Judaeo-Arabic) is on verso, while recto is a poem …
Image not available. According to Schwarb Catalogue: Letters: Public issues. AA
Part of a letter (bottom of recto, top of verso) likely by the cantor Abu Sahl Levi. The remaining contents have to do with an …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning Salonica and Constantinople. In the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi.
Letter in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). Dating: Ca. 1026 CE (per Gil). Referring to a speech made by Abū Isḥāq …
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Unidentified text in Arabic script. Probably literary based on layout.
Informal note without the names of the sender or addressee (as was common in notes exchanged between friends). In Judaeo-Arabic. Written on a long vertical …
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Minute fragment from an account
Statement from the Jewish hospital in Cairo to a supervisor that the social center in Cairo will not be providing morning meals – June 28 …
Minute printed fragment, in square Hebrew script. Refers to the Lekh Lekha parsha on the verso, and the following line is "ותדבר ישרא[ל."
Letter addressed to Farajallāh the cantor. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably ca. 14th century. Bears a motto at the top usually seen in the documents of …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning apples (tafāfīḥ) and myrobalan.
Page from a Judaeo-Arabic medical treatise giving prescriptions.
Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm Dated: 24 Ramaḍān 405. Written by Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd …
Legal document, possibly a release. Involving [...] b. Shela and a woman (his wife?) named Sitt al-ʿAlam. Signed by Shelomo b. Nasi(?).
Fatimid state document, fragment, probably an investiture. The document is written in the dual, addressed to two officials: "Hurry up with it and report what …
]العمال للنائب عليها خطوط المشارفين
]فبادرا بذلك وطالعا بما يتضح لكما مبينا ليتأمل
]ويكون العمل بحسبه
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List of three bills of divorce, apparently notes of a court scribe. (1) Husband: Sālim b. Avraham. Wife: [...]b al-Dīn bt. Maṣliaḥ. (2) Husband: David …
Letter from a man to his son. In Arabic script. The address is rubbed out, although the word thaghr is still legible (unless this is …
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Literary. Piyyutim.
Arabic document, one line preserved. Mentions some quantities of commodities, including two qīrāṭ of oil. Needs examination.
Fragment of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably relating to the 12th-century India trade. Mentions Abū Manṣūr; Amīn al-[...]; the Kārim convoy and whether something …
A leaf of the astronomical tables devised for the years 900-1500 CE. Only two dates come into question for the year 631/1234 (Ayyubid period). Date …
Accounts(?) in Arabic script.
List, mainly of women's names. E.g. bint al-ṬZ[...], bint Zekharya, bint al-BLN[...]. Recto is in a different hand.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Verso: Document in Arabic script, some sort of an agricultural account or survey. Mentions al-maydān al-baḥrī, potholes for sowing, pomegranate and, olives. "fī l-maydān al-baḥrī... …
State document, in Arabic script. The beginnings of ~6 lines are preserved. Chancery hand, mainly beginning blessings. Reused for Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic liturgical text. Needs …
Unidentified text, in Arabic script.
Recto: Family letter in Arabic script. The addressee is called "my brother" (ياخي بحق الخبز(؟) الذي بيننا...., three lines from the bottom). The sender refers …
Letter from Sedaqa b. Yiṣḥaq to Binyamin b. Yaʿaqov. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mainly concerning small business transactions. Mentions people including Abū Saʿīd Khalīfa; Abū l-Ḥasan b. …
Tax receipt issued for the ḍāmin of Dhāt al-Ṣafā against revenue delivered by Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Dated: 12 Dhū l-Qaʿda 405. Written in the …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions names such as Abū l-Faraj, Abū Saʿd, and Munajjā.
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. The muqirr: Muḥammad b. Jamīl b. Mūsā. Missing two edges but otherwise legible, needs examination.
Minute fragment.
Pastoral letter with widely-spaced lines, from a Nasi, possibly David b. Daniel. Announcing that Meʾir ha-Sar and Yiṣḥaq ha-Dayyan will appoint all ritual slaughterers (טבחים) …
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Writ of agency written in Tripoli, Lebanon, May 1081.
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Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Concerning trade and Yemen; someone appoints an agent. (Information in part from CUDL)
Recto and verso contain two different letters to "sayyidnā" from a certain Menaḥem. The one on recto is more legible. He says that he met …
Petition in Arabic script concerning a governor, a bishop and monasteries. In the formal third-person address, the writer apologizes for sending the request in writing …
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Mysterious document. In Hebrew and Aramaic. Naming Salmān b. A[...]. Likely magical.
Biblical.
Communal accounts for the Mustaʿrabī congregation of Cairo. Dated [5]592 AM which is 1831/32 CE. The heading states that the funds listed are incoming and …
Legal query concerning a house owned by two sisters in partnership. (F. Niessen and A. Shivtiel, ed., Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic Manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah …
Court record concerning the posthumous settlement of the affairs of a merchant who had sold partnership goods from Tripoli, Lebanon, in the various 'houses of …
Letter from Ismāʿīl b. Barhūn al-Tāhartī in Mahdiyya to his brother, Abū l-Surur Isḥaq b. Barhūn, reporting what Ṭahir and his partner, who were the …
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State-related document. Receipt? Mentions Muẓaffar b. Hilāl b. Ḥusām al-Dawla and the town of Dahrūṭ.
Fragment of a ketubba. Bride: [...] bt. Yoel b. Yeshuʿa. Groom: Shelomo b. [...]. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dating: ca. 1237–79 CE, as it is written In …
Fragment of a letter containing the address only: to Peraḥ b. [Mu'ammal?] Rosh ha-Pereq.
Fragment from a legal document in Hebrew. Dating: probably ca. 16th century. Involves a sum of money (המעות הנז), a certain Meʾir and a certain …