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Accounts, in Arabic script. Mentions a date of an unspecified month and year "bi-tārikh rābiʿ ʿashr minhu."
No Scholarship Records
Writ of agency, probably written in Acre during the first half of the eleventh century. A woman appoints Mevorakh b. Yeḥezqel to take care of …
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Letter from Hillel to Yaʿaqov, delivered by Mansur b. Furayj, concerning the buying of silk and a turban. VMR
אלממלוך
Letter mentioning Abū Saʿīd Ibn ʿAwkal. The first part of the letter is missing. The writer is in Fustat and writes about debt collection. (Information …
سرعة دفع اليّ الشيخ ابو سعيد بن عوكل رقعتين الواحدة تتعلق بالعلاقة الذي
عند الرجل الذي في درب الوحل وقد امتثلت مرسومه ومضيت الى عنده فقالي …
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Legal document, in Arabic script, Ottoman-era. Probably a receipt of payment for 577 Kurūş Rūmī, with the header "ʿammā yakhṣim", towards Rasmī Effendi, the overseer …
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Dated: 5 Ṣafar 520 AH = 2 March 1126 CE. Sayyid al-Kull b. Jaʿfar, a clothier in Fustat …
Verso (primary use): end of a petition containing a raʾy clause mentioning istikhrāj (extraction of taxes).
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Legal record (#19) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 5r-v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 16-19) Folio 5r
Letter in which Shelomo, who was appointed to a new post, complains that he found only opponents and asks advice of the Nagid. He also …
A curious fragment of a late calligraphic legal document (though the date does not survive), possibly appointing Avraham b. Uri Shabbetay Ashkenazi as someone's agent …
Small fragment from the top of a mysterious document in Arabic script. At the top there is the glyph and a basmala. Then, "al-mamlūka ukhtuhā... …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter fragment from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, in Jerusalem, to his father Judge Eliyyahu, in Fustat. Reporting on 'irregularities' of his brother Abu Zikri. See Goitein …
IB V, 42c. An Abū Zikrī Kohen cheque. 15 dirhams are credited to Abū l-Surūr.
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Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Probably a letter of appeal for charity. Mentions the desolation of the synagogue of the Iraqis. This is the clean copy …
Letter from the Nagid David I Maimonides (d. 1300) to the community of Ashmūm. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning someone named Yosef who was in …
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Literary text, in Arabic script, with red markings.
Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Mentions [...] b. Isḥāq al-Yahūdī and it seems the phrase "ʿabīd al-yahūd" (slaves of the Jews) or …
Account ledger from the 1730s CE. 14 folios. It is mostly or entirely in Judaeo-Arabic, Hebrew, and Arabic. Currencies: mainly fonducli and cinzirli. Well-preserved and …
Fragment from a woman's deathbed will. This was mistakenly attributed to Maimonides by Ratzhaby (Sinai 111, p. 214). On verso there is a list of …
Legal document. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108). Rough draft of an agreement between spouses, detailing the conditions that the husband must …
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions places such as al-Mahdiyya and Alexandria; people such as Abū Sulaymān Daʾūd Lebdī (cf. CUL …
Petition in Judaeo-Arabic written by Daniel b. Berakhot asking for assistance.
Genealogical lists. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Looks 12th or 13th century; some of the names may be known.
Draft of the beginning of a bible commentary called ליקוטי הפרדס in which the writer says he will collect insights from אברהם ן שושאן and …
Fragment of a calendrical or astronomical table in Arabic.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions having sent something with Yūsuf b. [...], and 5 dinars. (Information in part from CUDL)
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 25 Sivan 1442 = 22 June 1131 CE. Husband: Zekharya b. [...]. Wife: Khulla bt. Maʿālī. Signed …
מט[ . . . . . . . . ]נן עידי מסירה
נתן ביר שמואל החבר זל
חלפון הלוי ביר מנשה נע
Accounts of some kind in Arabic script. Mentions Abū Yaḥyā al-[...]. State document? A nameʿĀmir al-S(ʿā?)d also appears on the top left corner, and numerical …
Legal notes, possibly for a dowry list. Name: Sayyid al-Ahl b. Abū l-Munā. Dated: Monday, 16 Tammuz 1438 Seleucid, which is 1127 CE. Might be …
Fragment from a medical text, in Arabic script. Includes remedies for illnesses and mentions the disease of the fox (dāʾ al-thaʿlab).
List of names, including Milāḥ bt. Sitt Aʿdāhā, Abū l-Faraj b. Taqiyya(?) and Sitthum bt. Sitt al-Ahl.
Judaeo-Arabic poetry in the hand of Nāṣīr al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. Large and well-preserved. Probably mainly love poetry.
A few words from the end of a line of a state document in large Arabic script. On verso there is piyyuṭ. (Information in part …
List of donations, qa’imat al-nedava (Hebrew), recording around forty-five names and the sums of their contributions. The reverse side contains an account of collections made, …
Receipt for the capitation tax in Fustat of Mubārak b. Ibrāhīm (Ibn Sabrā, a relatively well-known character from Judaeo-Arabic Geniza documents). Same cluster: ENA 3953.1, …
Maimonides, Commentary on the Mišna, Kelim 8:6;10, from an autograph copy. (Information from CUDL.)
Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script (very neatly written, with diacritics). Concerning al-muʿallim Ibrāhīm and Isḥāq and a house. Dating: Probably late Mamluk …
Letter fragment in Arabic script. Possibly official. The ends of 6 lines are preserved. Only some words are legible: ... منهم ومنعت ... الى حضرته …
Letter of business from Avraham Haman and Gavriel Ḥefez (חפז) to Merkado Karo and Shim'on Frances, dated 1797/1798 CE (looks like 7 Adar 5557 or …
Draft of a financial (partnership?) agreement between Nathan ha-Kohen and ʿArūs, regulating what happens if the partners die, etc. (Information from CUDL)
חי/ו/אתי // ולא עלי וראתה[
Minute fragment from a legal deed probably written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138) mentioning Aharon Hakohen
Writing practice. Ottoman-era. Needs examination.
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions Tinnīs. Mentions: the speaker wishing to will his or her money …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Rudimentary hand and quite faded.