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Prayerbook in Spanish or Judaeo-Spanish. In Latin script. Containing the yaʿale ve-yavo prayer for Rosh Hodesh as well as a portion of the liturgy for …
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List of names and amounts of money. Rudimentary hand. Mentions Sulaymān and Ṣedaqa
Letter from Manṣūr Kohen to Eliyyahu the Judge. Mainly about business transactions with sugar (sukkar, qand). Mentions Abū Saʿd, Abū l-Thanāʾ, al-Muhadhdhab, and the sender's …
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Bill of lading by Nahray b. Nissim specifying goods sent from the Maghreb and Sicily to Egypt, mainly textiles and silk. (Information from Gil)
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Letter addressed to R. Peraḥya ha-Rav ha-Gadol. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Maybe Ayyubid or Mamluk-era based on the hand and formulae, but this should be …
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Letter in Hebrew. Dating: Late—Mamluk or early Ottoman era. From [...] b. Moshe to Yeshuʿa b. Nathan and his father, concerning a number of events …
Capitation tax receipt for [...] b. Hibatallāh [...] al-Ḥasan the Jewish banker in Fustat for the year 541 AH. Dated: 19 Muḥarram 541 AH = …
Book list in Hebrew. Dating: Probably 16th century, as the latest author mentioned is Shelomo Almoli (Istanbul, 1460–1530). (Information from AA and Allony et al.)
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Letter from Yosef b. Yehuda Kohen to Netanel b. [...]. (The place for the sender's father's name is left blank.) In Judaeo-Arabic, with some Hebrew. …
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A letter testifies that the marriage payment was returned to the bride's family and she is now permitted to marry another and the divorce is …
Legal fragment. Dated: 1559 Seleucid, which is 1247/48 CE. Involves Menaḥem Abū [...] b. Shelomo ha-Levi. There are distinct but probably related documents on recto …
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: approximately 1030 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1025–1051 CE, based on the years when Shelomo …
Account of the Qodesh: building expenditures and revenues from rent, ca. 1037 (specifies expenditures for the years 426–30 AH = 1034–39 CE). The expenditures listed …
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Masons, the wages ....
(4-5) 12 helpers for . . . . , 3 dir. Water, 7 dir.
(6-7) Paid for black cl…
Informal note addressed to Mukarram and Abū Manṣūr. In Judaeo-Arabic. They are requested to convey the dinar they had pledged for the first installment of …
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Trousseau list for an upcoming marriage. Dating: ca. 1161 CE and, more broadly, 1150–1181 CE based on the years when Mevorakh b. Natan he-Ḥaver was …
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Fragment of two documents of sale, on recto and verso. The document on the verso is regarding the sale of a house.
Bifolio containing mainly an alms distribution list. "What was distributed on Monday, with seven days remaining in Nisan." Many women mentioned. There are a few …
Statement on a prayer designated for "prayers of the rabbi in Arabic" – undated – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 125) …
This fragment is actually several fragments stuck together. In the lower right corner of 'recto,' at 90 degrees to the other text blocks, there is …
Court record in the record book of Fustat dealing with the remains of an inheritance in Qayrawan. Dated Adar 1345/March 1034.
Judaeo-Arabic poetry.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Non-Geniza. Letter from Avraham b. Simḥa, in Kukeziv (Ukraine), to Sar Shalom b. Simḥa, in Novgorod. 1719 CE. Information from NLI.
Literary text, in Arabic script.
Late list of wealthy contributors, about 30 per week (Information from Goitein index cards.) Verso: There are also several lines of Arabic script. Dating: probably …
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Small piece of a marriage-related legal document, mentioning gifts and "Naẓar the mother of this bride." (Information in part from CUDL)
Literary. In Arabic script. Wisdom literature.
Copy of a portion of Ezekiel, vocalized. Concludes with a dedication or colophon of sorts: "the dear teacher Yehuda b. Shemuel wrote this for Petaḥya …
Small receipt in Arabic script, unclear what for.
Letter from Shemuel b. Yehuda. In Judaeo-Arabic. He reports that he sent all the money that Sālim b. Khaṣīb(?) owed to Abū ʿAlī Ḥusayn, namely …
Letter in Arabic script. To 'the dear brother Muḥammad (or Majd something?).' Only a few lines from the opening with formulaic expressions of longing are …
One side: Judaeo-Arabic retelling of the story of Joseph. The other side: remnants of an interesting design in black ink and ~6 extremely faded lines …
Letter fragment from Avraham(?) to Abū Saʿīd, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. In a rudimentary hand. The sender describes his sorry state and probably asks for …
Yosef ibn ʿAqnīn's (d.1220) Inkishāf al-Asrār wa-Ẓuhūr al-Anwār (commentary on the Song of Songs). There are numerous joins. Information from FGP.
Minute fragment of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in the hand of ʿArūs. Very faded/fragmentary.
Deed of release (שטר אביזאר). Location: Damascus (on the rivers Amana and Parpar). The deed of release is between Yosef b. Nissi known as Karkabī …
List having to do with seliḥot.
Recto: Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to his father Eliyyahu the Judge. In Judaeo-Arabic. Recommending the bearer, Dā'ūd of Banhā, who is chronically in arrears …
Receipt in Arabic issued by a waqf overseer (ناظر وقف), probably for ground rent (ḥikr) on a property in Cairo. Dated Shawwal 1214 AH (1800 …
Legal document. One of three copies (T-S 13J1.13 is another). Location: Fustat. Dated: Adar 1368 Seleucid, which is February/March 1057 CE. In which Ṭoviyya b. …
Legal document (fragment) in which Qurra bt. Shelomo, as sole heiress of her father, asks to be given 20 dinars of the 35 he had …
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Petition requesting that the addressee intervene on behalf of the writer, whose trees have been sold by an abusive ḍāmin named Karīm without permission. It …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (the left side of recto is missing). The marginal text is written (somewhat unusually) at 90 degrees to the main text. …
Legal document. Bottom part only, unclear if any of the content is salvageable. Underneath, at 180 degrees, there is a jotting of the beginning of …
Attestation written by Ṭalāʾīʿ b. Ṣāliḥ b. Yaḥyā in the name of Yārūkh (or possibly Bārūkh) b. Jawshan and mentioning the eastern neighborhood (al-ḥāra al-sharqiyya) …
Official correspondence. The beginnings of 9 lines are preserved. There are two fragments here which were glued together out of order. The top fragment mentions …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Rosh Yeshivat Geʾon Yaʿaqov (i.e., Maṣliaḥ?). Also mentions a legal transaction (qinyan).