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Bible verses in a rudimentary hand. Verso: doodle with ball and stick figures.
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Court record concerning a sum that a husband owes his wife as part of a divorce payment. (Oded Zinger, Women, Gender and Law: Marital Disputes …
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Recto: Draft of a court record from the court in Fustat. 1042. In the handwriting of Yefet b. David Shekhanya. See join (and Goitein's translation …
Legal document signed by [...] Berakhot ha-Kohen, Abraham ha-Kohen and Mevorakh b. [...]. (Information from CUDL)
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic using the currency corona. Dated in the main heading on the left side of the recto: 9 Ṣafar 962 AH (סבץ), which …
Fragment of a deed of sale for real estate, in Arabic script. Stitched at the top. The beginning, however, reads as a letter. Needs examination. …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to a woman (ואלרזמה אן כנתי מא ודיתיהא...). Written in an odd format with only one or two words per …
Recto: Bottom of a letter from Yehuda b. Ṭoviyya ha-Kohen, in Bilbays, to Avraham Maimonides. Dated: 15th day of the ʿOmer 1529 Seleucid, which is …
Bifolio of private accounts in Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Many entries crossed out. There are many other fragments that look like this, possibly from the …
Recto: Legal fragment involving Halil (?) al-Shayzari ha-Bursi and Yishaq and various sums of money. Verso: possibly a Judaeo-Arabic draft of a sermon (?); words …
Tax receipt.
Unidentified text, in Arabic script. Probably magical due to the humanoid figure at the side. Needs examination.
Homily addressed to a group of learned people, 'the holy congregation... and in their midst David החכם השלם נר המערבי עמוד הימני פטיש החזק. Signature …
Letter from Yosef "the poor foreigner" (al-miskīn al-gharīb) to the Nagid David Maimonides. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender sold his garment which he had bought for …
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A Ṣūfī Fiyyashiyya poetry in a Moroccan colloquial dialect, in Judaeo-Arabic.
Memorial list, Qaraite. For the Fayrūz family. Dating: Probably 18th or 19th century.
Recto: probably the end of a letter (or literary lament) mentioning the date Nisan 5362 AM, which is 1602 CE. Verso: legal deed with release …
Recto: Text in Arabic script. Relatively easy to read but very difficult to make sense of. Contains phrases like حصرت العموم على حكم الامور... شرع …
Incomplete Karaite betrothal deed. Dated 14 Adar 5403 AM (1643 CE). Bride: Qamr bt. Shmuel ha-Rofe. Groom: Shelomo b. Shemuʾel ha-Levi. The groom's monetary contributions …
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Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Moshe (b.?) Avraham Bibas to Yaʿaqov Bibas and his partner Shomal (Shemuel?) Azulay, dated 3 September 1818 (2 Elul 5578). …
Legal records. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Av and Elul 1527 Seleucid = 1216 CE. Headed by the glyph. Verso, doc. 1: Abū l-Khayr Ibn al-Iskāf acknowledges …
Bill of sale for an enslaved woman, probably. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). (Information in part from CUDL and from …
Fragment of a calendar in Hebrew, comprising the lower right corner of the page. The dating is 16th-century or later based on the paleography. Most …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic to Hananya ha-Kohen from "his son" (younger brother?) Abu l-Ḥasan. After a flattering introduction, the body of the letter begins about halfway …
Small fragment of a letter. In the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe?
Letter of condolence on the death of a woman. From an unidentified sender, probably in Qūṣ, to Abū l-Karam and his son Abū Isḥāq b. …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
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 …
Order of payment (حوالة) in Arabic script. The "judge" (al-dayyān) is asked to pay 5 dinars to the bearer. On verso, in Judaeo-Arabic, the name …
Another 28 folios from the ledger of donations collected in the years around 1800 CE. These entries are for the year 5559 (1798/99). ASE.
Verso and margins of recto: Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.
His slave Mubārak ibn Ibrāhīm ibn
Shemu’el
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate.
The slave of the presence of my master, the m…
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Marriage contract (ketubba). Dating: 13th century. Location: Fustat. Groom: Netanʾel. Bride: [...] bt. Yefet ha-Talmid. Marriage payments: 3 + 10 = 13. (Information from Goitein's …
Verso: Receipt in Arabic, medieval-era. The paper was recycled for a liturgical text in Hebrew. A large piece of fibrous string is visible on the …
Communal register, 34 pages of donations collected on various Shabbats, including for the year 1814/15 (5575). Moshe Bibas appears throughout.
Legal fragment. Power of attorney mentioning Ibn al-Dimyāṭī, Ibn al-Kuwayyis (see PGPID 9675), Abū l-Munajjā, Ibn Sālim al-Ṣayrafī the perfumer (al-ʿAṭṭār) in zuqāq al-qanādīl, Abū …
Letter. Strongly-worded admonition to a Muqaddam to deal with the estate of a widow and her daughter, in accordance with instructions by the Nagid. (Information …
Legal fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a sum of 28 (dinars? dirhams?); [...] b. Yoshiyahu; Mevorakh; and Aharon. Dating: probably 11th century. Verso is in a …
Letter from Avraham b. Shemuel Ha-Shlishi (third), Ramla, to Avraham Ha-Kohen b. Yiṣḥaq b. Furat, approximately 1035.
Maʿamad (piyyuṭ) for Purim with a title page attributing it to R. Shela b. Nissim ha-Dayyan ha-Maskil
Letter from Babylonia to Shelomo b. Yehuda, approximately 1026.
Marriage contract (ketubba). Fragment: upper right corner. Dated: [..]51 AM. Groom Ḥalfon ha-Levi. THere is a cryptic note on the back: כלף לכולה.
The text is badly damaged but one can read ʾišhād fulān ʾišhād fulān (l. 3)
Legal document. Perhaps a partnership agreement (an najlis jamīʿan fī dukkān... wa-yataṣarraf fī l-dukkān bi-maḥḍar...). Names mentioned are Natan b. Ṣadaqa ha-Zaqen ha-Ḥasid and [...] …
Settlement between Sitt al-Bayt bt. Yosef and her husband Ṣedaqa b. Hillel who had been separated from her for 18 years (mutasaḥḥib ʿanhā). For the …
Announcement for the Day of Geniza on which old prayerbooks unfit for repair will be transferred to the cave in the Bassatine and the process …
Model of "a marriage contract" – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 149) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl …
Deed of release (שטר אביזאריה/פיצוי). Location: Almost certainly Fustat (and not Tiberias as Gil suggested). Dating: Late 10th century. Concerning property in Tiberias. A man …
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Fragment of an unidentified narrative in Hebrew, probably literary but possibly part of a letter: אמ כי היה הולך בתועבת . . . חזר בו …
Accounts in Arabic, medieval-era. Reused for berakhōt liturgical text in Hebrew.