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Minute fragment of a Fatimid state document, probably (verso). Huge line spacing.
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Small receipt or order for 1 raṭl of something. The quantity is written three times: with a Hebrew numeral and a Coptic numeral at the …
IB VI, 23. Letter from Makhlūf b. Mūsā to Abū ʿAlī Yeḥezqel b. Netanʾel Dimyāṭī. Accusing him and Abū Naṣr b. Elishaʿ of conspiring to …
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Verso (original use): form of a divorce deed (geṭ) with spaces left for the names. Reused in between the lines and on both sides for …
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Portions of the last 8 lines are preserved. Includes the phrase "I would have made him vow." Regards to all of …
Opening of a legal document, written in Fusṭāṭ in the year 4[...] of the Creation. It mentions David ha-Nasi ha-Gadol [b.] Daniel ha-Nasi ha-Gadol. (Information …
Liturgical blessings in Arabo-Hebrew. Unusual, in that most other Arabo-Hebrew texts are biblical. Joins: Geoffrey Khan and Alan Elbaum. The first two pieces read roughly …
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Commercial letter mentioning Abū Saʿd. Small fragment, little of the content is preserved. (Information from CUDL)
Three words of a decree or draft of one: fa-lammā intahā ilayhi. Reused for copious jottings in Arabic script and Hebrew script, including elaborate designs …
Bifolium from a book of legal formularies.
Responsum? It discusses ritual purity, but the layout looks like a letter. Needs examination.
Documentary per FGP, but all fragments look literary. Mainly Maimonides, plus a Qaraite siddur.
Letter draft addressed to a Nagid who has two sons. The opening titles and blessings fill 12 lines. The remainder of the page is filled …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Dating: probably 11th century Addressed to a group of people (אלפצלא אלאגלא . . . אעצם אללה כראמתכם . . …
Documentary per FGP - needs examination.
Accounts of a druggist, giving amounts of materia medica in the column on the right and prices on the left.
List of rabbinic works (talmudic tractates and midrashim). (Information from CUDL)
Formal letter in Arabic script. Dating: Maybe Mamluk-era, but this is a guess. Wide space between the lines. Difficult to understand the content. There is …
Legal document. Fragment from the bottom of it. Dated: Iyyar 14[..] Seleucid, which is 1089–1188 CE. Goitein concluded that the document on the other side …
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Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. List of names in the right column, with numbers in the left column. The names include a chicken …
List of names and blessings, in a somewhat crude hand. In Hebrew. Memorial list? Or blessings for a specific addressee?
Probably a power of attorney involving Elʿazar b. [...], valid in "all the countries and cities" (al-buldān wa-l-amṣār wa-l-[...]). (Information in part from CUDL)
Small fragment in Hebrew, possibly a legal formulary or dealing with legal issues: e.g. "הולד שלקיימה" on recto. Requires further examination.
Late account in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew numerals.
Court record of a divorce settlement initiated by Ḥasana bt. Yiṣḥaq against her husband Perahya. (Information from Niessen and Shivtiel, p. 613.) EMS
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Recto: The bottom few lines of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso: In a different hand, instructions for what to load onto the boat: 23 …
Accounts in Arabic script. State document?
Rabbanite ketubah from Cairo that may have been preserved in the Dār Simḥa Synagogue geniza, although it seems more likely that Avraham Firkovich acquired it …
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Bifolium from a book of magical recipes in Judaeo-Arabic.
Unidentified text in Arabic script. Likely a prayer (recto) and/or something magical (verso).
Bifolio from a court ledger in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan (compare Yevr.-Arab. I 1700). Dated: Tishrei-Ḥeshvan 1472 Seleucid = 1160 CE. Fol. 2v: …
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Avraham b. Nissim gives part of a house to the wife of Shelomo, …
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List of mostly Coptic alphanumeral figures and some text in Arabic. Probably accounts.
Legal fragment in Judaeo-Arabic.
Maimonides’ Mishne Tora, Qiddush ha-Ḥodesh 10:5. (Information from CUDL)
Fragment from the bottom of a legal document.
Minute fragment of accounts in Arabic with Greek/Coptic numerals.
Small notes regarding payments. Verso concerns a sum of 41 (dirhams?) owed by the scribe to his paternal uncle for a wasaṭ (belt). It seems …
Aramaic text. Vocalized. Yemeni hand. Resembles Targum Onqelos on the making of the Menora (Exodus 25 and 37), but there are also significant variations.
Accounts in Arabic on verso that were reused by at least two different medieval scribes. A more experienced scribe recorded Hebrew liturgical poetry and the …
Verso: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Lists various types of currency (real baṭāqa, maḥābīb of different kinds) together with eastern Arabic numerals. One of the numerical figures …
Responsa collection
Karaite ketuba from Cairo. The groom is Ya'aqov Halevi b. Shmuel and the bride is Esther known as 'Aziza, listed as a non-virgin.
Probably a letter concerning legal matters, or else a legal query. Mentions "our master" and "Gaʾon" and witnesses and oaths several times. The join is …
Document in Arabic script, listing itself as a "defter" register in line 1. Dating: Late, probably 18th or 19th century. The opening line reads: daftar …
44 pages, some of which are instructions for kabbalistic kavanot, some of which are a Sabbatean tract (see especially pp.15–16, 19–22, and 25–27 = 8r–8v, …