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Letter from Dawud son of the haver to a certain dayyan. It seems some dramatic event has taken place off-scene (maybe in Palestine?) and here …
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Itemized expenses for the renovation/construction (ʿimāra) of the house of Abū l-Karam.
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Ketubba fragment. The groom's name is Nissim. The payments amount to 100+ dinars.
Very small fragment possibly from a letter in Judaeo-Arabic: ...כב אל.... [כ]אלץ מן אלזלל...
Small fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Dated: 11 Ṣafar 916 AH = 20 May 1510 CE.
Letter from ʿAwāḍ b. Ḥananʾel, from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Dating: ca. 1060 (Gil). Discusses prices of wheat and fava beans and a …
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Legal document, partnership in a ṣarraflık or ṣarflık business venture. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: Kislev 5580 AM, which is 1819/20 CE. On verso there …
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Three different documents stuck together. The main one is a report of the death of al-Ḥājj Ṭāhir. After reporting his death the document lists his …
Document heading with three lines of Arabic in a striking thuluth calligraphic script. With multiple instances of ḥamdala and then a basmala/ḥamdala followed by a …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Damsīs, Egypt. Dated: Nisan 4843 AM = 1083 CE. Groom: ʿEli b. Aharon ha-Kohen. Bride: Ḥisān b. Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen. Witnesses: Yiṣḥaq …
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Probably a legal document, mentioning a certain Yefet. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from the Alexandrian community to Shemuel ha-Levi, "the prince of Levites, the glory of doctors" b. Shelomo, requesting his help in countering a decree …
צד ימין
צד שמאל
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter fragment in Arabic script. Mentions an estate (ḍayʿa); a sum of 300-something; a complaint about lack of letters (لا سيرت لا كتاب ولا جواب); …
Small receipt for 70 dirhams, for Ḥusayn b. Ḥaramī(?)
Letter in Arabic script. Very faded. Isolated phrases are legible such as "that which I desire from your grace and beneficence is...,' and, "by the …
Prognostications? In Arabic script.
Verso: Fragment from the bottom of a document, maybe an Ottoman-era legal or official document.
Receipt or order of some kind.
Recto, with the address on verso: Letter from [...] b. [...] al-Ṣayrafī to Abū l-Ḥusayn [...] b. Mūsā. In Judaeo-Arabic. Damaged and faded. Dating: likely …
List of personal and family names. Probably an alms list. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Names include: the cantor Yosef …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Communal? Mentions Dammūh and "in the hand of the foreign teacher."
State document, Fatimid period, 1130–49. Opening lines of a petition with a blessing on al-Hāfiẓ. On verso there is additional Arabic text in a different …
Letter from Abū Is[ḥāq?] to his 'father' Abū l-Ḥasan ʿEli b. Hillel. Written in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE), the addressee's …
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Bill of divorce (get). Location: Cairo. Dated: Tevet 1744 Seleucid = November/December 1432 CE. Husband: Shemuel b. [...] b. Shemuel. Wife: Sarah bt. [...]. The …
Petition/letter of appeal for help. Mostly preserved, but damaged. Needs examination.
Colophon dated to a Friday in Av 1427 Seleucid = 1116 CE.
Strip from the left side of an official poetic Hebrew letter. AA
A leaf from a work on sexual medicine & aphrodisiacs in Arabic.
Small fragment from a letter, mostly related to business issues. On recto a reference is made for Jews and Muslims, but the context is unclear. …
Printed Haggada in Hebrew and Judaeo-Italian. There are lovely illuminations, captioned with lines of poetry. The format is identical to T-S Misc.15.69, except that that …
Accounts.
Hebrew piyyut.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions payments to various agents (wukalāʾ) including Būlāq and Jiblīl (? גיבליל) and "al-Gharbī" and Bashṭa (בשטה or בשכוה?). Verso is headed …
Fragment of a late legal document in which someone, perhaps Faraj Allāh, acknowledges an investment of Venetian gold from Sulaymān Faraḥ.
Letter mostly consisting of praises for the addressee, then a request for personal assistance. The writer is Avraham ha-Yakhini (f.3, l.12), in Istanbul, to ʿAzarya …
Letter in Hebrew. Dating: Late, probably no earlier than 15th century. Seems to be warning the addressees about a man who might trick them.
Letter addressed to a dignitary (Rosh ha-Qahal) in rhymed Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Very elegantly written; wide space between the lines; many vowels and diacritics. Most …
Non-Geniza. Letter to Avraham b. Aharon of Troki. 1680 CE. (Information from NLI.)
Verso (probably secondary use): Receipt, probably. In Arabic script. For 3 dinars received from Abū Isḥāq al-Ḥājj for Jumādā II. Seems to mention the term …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Curious spellings, with long vowels in unexpected places (אבין for אבן and מבורוך probably for מבורך). Does this point to a late …
Verso: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Possibly amounts owed by (ʿalayhi) and to (lahū) various people.
Official correspondence. Fragment (left side). The ends of 13 lines are preserved. Addressed to the office of the vizier (al-ḥaḍra al-sāmiya al-wazīriyya). Mentions paper (al-waraq) …
Bill of sale for a female slave. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1470 Seleucid, which is 1158/59 CE, under the reshut of Shemuel b. Ḥananya. One of …
Recto: letter in Judaeo-Arabic about a young woman. Potentially the same hand (and/or indirect joins): T-S NS 292.56 (PGPID 24738), T-S 13J7.24 (PGPID 1197), T-S …
Letter from Isma’il b. Yusuf b. Abi Uqba from Alexandria, to Yusuf b. Ya’aqub b. Awkal, Fustat. Around 1030. The writer describes an attack by …
Letter from Yeshuʿa to his father Saʿīd. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 14th century or later, based on handwriting and abbreviations used. This letter was written …
State document, in Arabic script. Wide line spacing in a chancery hand beginning with a basmala. Reused for Arabic text and Coptic numerals. Needs examination.
List of payments (recto and verso). Names include Ṣadaqa b. Mīnā. Quantities expressed in words and dirhams.