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Recto and part of verso: A full page of prayers in Arabic script. Verso: In a different hand and ink, a basmala, then: "from the …
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Minute fragment of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in the hand of ʿArūs. Very faded/fragmentary.
Letter-writing formulary. In Judaeo-Arabic. Bifolium, containing many letter samples. There are also two lines in Arabic script.
Minute fragment from a legal deed
State document: fragment of a decree: [hādha a]l-sijill al-manshūr fī l-aʿmā[l]. . . . Reused for piyyutim.
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Letter in Arabic from a father to a son that consists almost entirely of greetings and well-wishes. The family rejoiced to receive his letters from …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Recipe against worms. In Hebrew. Late. Written in the margin of a literary text (commentary on Exodus).
Letter fragment in the hand of Peraḥya b. Yosef Yiju addressed to Avraham b. Aharon ha-Kohen, with greetings to sons Abū ʿAlī and Abū l-Surūr. …
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Legal document from Fustat. Dated: 969 CE. A loan deed describing two compounds owned by Jews ‘located in front of the idolatry (i.e., church) of …
Letter from Avraham Kolon (קולון) to Yosef Ardiʿa (ארדיעה). In Hebrew. Dating: Thursday, 12 Kislev [5318 AM], which is 1557 CE (see A. David's article …
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Notebook, probably belonging to a 15th-century Byzantine merchant, filled with records of various transactions. The language is primarily Hebrew but the months are Julian (אפריל …
Minute fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic.
IB V, 36a. Money order. In Arabic script with a Hebrew 'emet' at the top. Abū l-Faraj is asked to pay 2.5 dirhams to the …
Confirmation of money transfer from Yosef b. Musa Tāhartī to Yehoshuaʿ b. Natan. Dated: Monday, 12 Ṭevet 1358 Seleucid = 15 December 1046 CE. Berekhya …
[זכרו]ן עדות שהיתה לפנינו אנו העדים החותמים עדותינו מטה בשטר הזה איך מרב יוסף ב[ר מ]שה בר בר[הון]
[תאהר]תי אתא קדמנא וכן אמר [ד]עו רבותי כי…
Respectful note to Eliyyahu the Raṣuy of both Yeshivot, informing him of the writer's safe arrival, and how the first thing he did was to …
Letter in Hebrew. Fragment: right side only. The sender is asking the addressee to enlighten him about various theological/philosophical matters, e.g., the significance of the …
Undeciphered note in Arabic script.
Verso (probably original use): Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The female sender complains about the lack of letters from the addressee. "People came from …
Palimpsest containing the Latin text of a sermon by St. Augustine. See CUL Add.4320a-d and Outhwaite, B. (2007). St Augustine in the Genizah. [Genizah Research …
State document in Arabic script. Refers to "the noble order" (al-amr al-ajall) and possibly the year 45[.] AH (=1058–67 CE). Needs examination.
Minute fragment probably from a letter, but not a single complete word is preserved.
Business letter from Shelomo to Yosef Ḥalūfī, in Fustat. Dating: Second half of the 16th century, based on Avraham David's assessment. The letter deals with …
Accounts in Arabic on a large bifolio. Dated Jumada I 1238 AH which is 1823 CE. This bifolio was likely once part of the same …
Dated inscription of an owner's name in a book ('if the book gets lost, and you don't know who owns it, return it to me'). …
Letter to a certain [...] [Kelil] ha-Yofi Ḥemdat ha-Yeshiva b. Yosef ha-Zaqen. In Judaeo-Arabic. Generous space between the lines. Mentions the news that the addressee …
Legal query addressed to Abū ʿImrān, perhaps Maimonides. In Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary handwriting. The question regards a certain Tamīm in Qalyūb. It seems that he refuses …
Bifolio of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated on the verso in the upper left corner Shawwal 1012 AH (March 1604 CE). The alphanumerical designation relies on …
Legal fragment in the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: 1443 Seleucid, which is 1131/32 CE. The fragment is from the bottom part of …
Ketubba. Dated: 12 Ni[san] 1571 Seleucid, which is 1260 CE, under the authority of David I Maimonides. This was not the first marriage of the …
Letter draft from the Qaraite community of Cairo to the Qaraite community of Damascus. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Unknown. Regarding a marriage-related legal case that reached …
Legal fragment. Small piece from the upper right corner. Possibly a ketubba? Opens with the date (a Wednesday in the year [..]18). Location: Fustat. Not …
Recto: Informal note in difficult Arabic script, scrawled basmala on top, possibly a memorandum to do with land tenure? Needs further examination. Verso: Informal note …
Recto: Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Beẓalel b. Ḥayyim to David I Maimonides (b. Avraham b. Moshe), r. 1237–1300 CE. In Hebrew. Defending the Guide for …
Recto: Letter fragment in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, greeting a dignitary and his two sons, including Ḥayyim ha-Sar ha-Adir he-Ḥakham. Verso: Document in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning something …
Letter from the leaders of the community (qahal) of Jerusalem to Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq b. Furāt, Cairo, approximately 1055.
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)
Late accounts, or at least long lists of names with numbers.
Legal notes in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Mentions Abū l-Surūr; Abū Saʿīd; and possibly a freedwoman named סלמה, but …
An autograph responsum by Avraham Maimonides (1186-1237) dealing with wine brought by a Karaite and the injunction about preparation of wine by Jews (rabbanite Jews). …
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Petition, possibly, or a report. In Arabic script. The ends of 4 lines are preserved. The document concerns the execution of an official decree (manshūr …
Business letter in Hebrew and Arabic script to Abū l-Ḥasan Binyamin requesting the dispatch of merchandise to Qalyub, including medical supplies, via a ghulām, and …
Legal document(s) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). Fragment (thin vertical strip). Writing on both recto and verso. Location: Fustat. It is …
Business letter from Ṭāhir b. Sālim to Abū Saʿd b. Hiba, in Damietta. In Arabic script. Concerning the textile and garment trade. Greetings to people …
List of recipients of charity, including the wife ('bayt') of a warraq (bookseller), and a khayyat (tailor). In the scribal hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe …
Literary text in Arabic script with a couple words in Arabo-Hebrew. Maybe a commentary.
Fragment containing large Arabic script (from a letter?). There is also some smaller script and Judaeo-Arabic on verso.
Legal document concerning a female slave, witnessed by a judge Muḥammad Mūsā, dated 28 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 810/1407.
Highly fulsome letter of praise, consisting of 12 lines of praise in Hebrew, followed by 5 lines of Arabic script containing the actual content of …