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Accounts in Arabic script, Judaeo-Arabic, and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions the ground rent (ḥikr) several times.
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Literary text, in Hebrew
Psalms 34:14-23 with a חזק at the end. In the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī.
Small fragment, probably from ketuba de'irkasa (a ketubah written as a replacement for a lost one). Contains the Reshut formula so can be dated from …
Receipt, with an ʿalāma at the top. The name of the payer isn't very readable but the word 'muʿallim' suggests a late-Mamlūk/Ottoman-era dating. Needs examination.
Letter fragment, possibly the address of a letter that is now lost. From [...] Nissim [...] to Abū l-Khayr Ḥananya (or Shaʿya?) b. Mevorakh. There …
Acknowledgment of a debt. Between Sedaqa b. Yosef and Yeshuʿa b. Hannaya. Signed by Elʿazar b. Yosef and the parnas ʿOvadya b. Shabbetay. Dated: Last …
Fragment of a letter. Mentions Shelomo b. Eliyyahu the judge (the writer?), who was a teacher and scribe in Fustat during the first half of …
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Legal document. Commenda. Following the Talmudic isqa method whereby the agents have some responsibility for losses, the active partner or partners (Abū Sa‘d and his …
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Note on parchment. Addressed to al-Shaykh al-Makīn. Making a request about obtaining silver for the sender, and passing on a message to Abū Saʿd al-Ḥazzān(?) …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. Mentions Tinnīs. He wants to borrow from “the Great Rav” (a Tunisian rabbi in Egypt) his copy of the …
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Legal record (#15) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 4v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 13-15) Folio 4v
Beginning and end of an important business letter written probably after the arrival of the sender from al-Mahdiyya to Alexandria, containing a list of prices …
Legal document. Dated Thursday 26 Elul 1386 Sel. (September 1075 CE). There is an invocation of the Nagid Yehuda b. Seʿadya at the beginning. Yiṣḥaq …
מעשה שהיה בפנינ[ו ] אדוננו כב גד קד מר ור יהודה ראש המעולים
וראש כגק הנגיד יהו[דה ירום] הודו ויגבה . . . לי בן כבוד גד קד מר ור סעדיה זקל
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Popular love poetry in Arabic script. ...سحر بابل... الظبي الاحور من الكوثر... قد سباني وسبا الاخوان. Some of the same stock images as appear in …
Legal record (#36). Liquidation of a trust. Revised copy of Yevr.-Arab. I 1700.15, recto. See PGPID 9395 for summary. Witnesses: Ḥiyya b. Yiṣḥaq. Efrayim b. …
Letter to Abū l-Ḥasan. Mentions 40 dinars. (Information from CUDL)
Ketubba, Qaraite. The date and location are not preserved but the town is next to a ‘salty sea’ (possibly the Mediterranean or the Dead Sea). …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter in Hebrew, draft, addressed to the congregation(s) of Fustat (or Egypt).
Legal document (ḥujja) issued by the chief qadi court of Ottoman Cairo, al-Bāb al-ʿĀlī. Non-Geniza. Dated 19 Jumādā II 1051 AH (1641 CE). The document …
حي الله وك.ي
..را فية عنه …إليه سبحانه
عثمان بن احمد المنهاج(؟) الحنبلي
(seal)
بالباب العالي اعلاه الله تعالى وشرفه بالقاهرة المحروسة…
Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, in Qalyūb, to his father Eliyyahu the judge, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dealing with various small business matters and ordering …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The writer mentions Minyat Zifta; urges the recipient not to delay with something; mentions the wālī, the qāḍī and the mushrif; mentions …
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Fiscal accounting. Might be dated 454 AH. Reused on verso for a medical prescription in Arabic script. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Verso: Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic. "O you whose slave I am: the servant came to the house in the end, seeking you on account of …
Fragment of a legal document. In the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan? Involves a wife and husband ("... li-zawjatī...") and mentions the transfer of a …
Secondary use: The unique copy of the Hebrew ode composed by Shelomo b. Yosef ha-Kohen in honor of the caliph al-Mustanṣir and of Badr al-Jamālī …
Accounts with dates, names and numerals. Dating: perhaps 15th- or 16th-century based on the paleography. A partial date is visible along the upper right corner …
Recto: Legal document, formally a testimony, possibly related to a business partnership (?). Beginning and end missing, as well as left and right margins and …
Accounts of a druggist. The right column gives the commodity, the middle column gives the weight, and the left column gives the price in Greek/Coptic …
Ledger, probably account - needs examination. No image
List of books, possibly from a physician's library. The books include Al-Majūsī, Al-kāmil fī al-ṣinā‘a; a commentary on Megillat Esther; a Pentateuch; a prayer-book; a …
Rhymed text (-kha) in Hebrew. By al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. On verso there is similar text, perhaps a draft of a poem.
Letter from Manṣūr Kohen to Eliyyahu the Judge (Abū l-Faraj b. al-Rayyis). In Judaeo-Arabic. There are several letters by this writer: see tag. This letter …
State document, probably a petition or report, addressed to an official styled al-ḥaḍra al-sharīfa. Crumpled and faded. The sender was appointed to a position somewhere …
Verso: Fragment from the left side of an early Fatimid decree or other state document. The ends of three lines remain, including the word al-taqsīṭ. …
Deed of manumission of an enslaved person. Only the bottom left corner of the document is preserved (or perhaps the entire left half of a …
Small fragment with Judaeo-Arabic and a small doodle on it. Very faded.
Letter fragment in Arabic script. Only the beginning on recto and the address on verso are preserved. Addressed to Abū ʿUmar Saʿdān al-Baghdādī (active in …
Fragment of a bill of divorce (geṭ). Location not preserved. Written and signed by Yosef b. Shemuel ha-Levi (active ca. 1181–1209). Also signed by Moshe …
Letter from Hillel Ha-Ḥaver b. Yeshuʿa Ha-Hazzan, Tiberias, probably to Efrayim b. Shemarya, Fustat, approximately 1050.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, probably no earlier than 14th century. Very faded. Mentions Jerusalem and commercial goods.
A manuscript which contains part of Yefet b. 'Eli's commentary on Numbers. A colophon details its dedication to the "courtyard of Yosef b. Bakhtawayh ha-Melamed", …
Multifragment. Fol. 2: Mercantile accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. On parchment. Dating: Probably 11th century. A vast sum of 2,033 dinars is cashed in Qayrawān for consignments …
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Account whose heading reads taʿrīf rafaʿahu Abū al-ʿAyb al-šayḫ al-ġilmānī). Once belonged to the same account as ENA 641.20 + ENA 641.22 + ENA 641.24. …
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. …
Letter, official-looking, in Arabic script. Dating: Probably Mamluk-era. Mentions al-Muẓaffarī in the tarjama and begins with a taqbīl clause and yunhī formula. Central part of …
المملوك المظفري
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
يقبل الارض وينهي بعد استمرارة على الادعية الصالحة
فلـ[..]عىه [ ]
تقبله…
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower right corner). Dating: likely 12th century. Mentions commodities such as bamboo chalk and aloe. Mentions people such as Ibn …