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Letter/report/petition addressed to the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Concerns Ḥāzim the tax rallier (ḥashshār) who was placed under house arrest (tarsīm) and relieved of his …
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Legal record (#27) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 10v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 12 Nisan [5322] …
Copy of a letter sent from one of the Syrian communities to Damascus. In Hebrew. Conveying their distress at the imminent arrival and encampment of …
No Scholarship Records
Very faded right side of a document, with 5 lines at the top of the page, a wide space, then 12 lines at the bottom …
Letter from Nissim b. Shela to the teacher Yiṣḥaq b. Ḥayyim Nafūsī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Contains detailed information about the sending and selling of books. People …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew numerals. Dated: Rabīʿ II 958 AH, which is 1551 CE. Commodities include: flax. People include: Muḥammad, Ghazāwī, Jamūsī.
Literary text in Spanish, in a Castilian hand. Legible words include "contraparte" and "a pagarle." Dating: 14th century. Information kindly provided by Lluís Sales i …
Accounts. Mentioning several names and several interesting commodities (e.g., black cumin, ushna/lichen, mastic). Dating: looks ca. 1150–1250.
Private receipt (rather than check, as it begins "afrada") for al-Faqīh Muḥammad, for a payment of 303 dirhams (?). Headed by the glyph. Dated 25 …
Letter, anonymous, saying that a certain Sefaradi (اندلسى) gave a sermon in synagogue and failed to mention the gaon. Gil speculatively dates it to 1038, …
Small fragment from the beginning of a letter, with the introduction in Hebrew and the body in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender alludes to a controversy involving …
Letter sent from Damascus to ʿAllūn b. Yaʿīsh al-Firnās al-Hārūnī (aka the parnas ʿEli b. Yaḥyā ha-Kohen), in Fustat. Reporting among many other matters that …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter to the Nagid Mevorakh. Only formulaic content is preserved. (Information from CUDL)
Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: [Fu]stat. Dated 4844 A.M. (1084 C.E.) (Friedman, Jewish Marriage, vol. 2, 217-26) EMS
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Literary work. Many pages. See FGP for identifications.
Recto: Recipes for preparing different kinds of kohl. Verso: In a different hand, apparently alchemical recipes -- or at least they use many toxic minerals. …
Letter from Avraham b. Natan, possibly in Tyre, to a tenant of his, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Gil identified the sender based on his handwriting. …
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Bottom of a letter in Arabic script. Seems to be addressed to the shop (dukkān) of a Qāḍī, as discernible from the first fragmentary line. …
Verso: End of a letter addressed to a congregation: וגדולם ושאר הקהל הקדוש . . . להם שלום וישועה . . . Reused on recto …
Hebrew poems in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. There are also pen trials in a different hand.
Inventory of books. Dating: 16th century. The current location of this mansuscript is unknown. Harkavy's personal collection of Geniza manuscripts are owned by the Vernadsky …
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Receipt? - needs examination.
Long strip from a ketubah written by Hillel b. Eli (fl. 1066–1108 CE), and witnessed probably by [Ishaq] b. Shmuel ha-Sefaradi (the Spaniard, see the …
Tyrian marriage contract with a peculiar proposal formula borrowed from Malachi 2:14 (‘my companion and wife in covenant’). Mid eleventh century. (Information from CUDL)
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Recto: End of a legal document, written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Shevaṭ 1445 Seleucid, which is 1133/1134 CE.
Letter from Abū Saʿd Ibn Ṭībān, unknown location, to his son Abū l-Ḥasan Ibn Ṭībān, in Fustat. Mainly in Arabic script, with one phrase in …
Deed of sale for an enslaved person. Fragment (upper left corner). Probably in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1463 Seleucid = …
Letter from an otherwise unknown Avraham b. Yosef to the relatively well-known Abū l-Faḍāʾil Ḥayyim b. Ḥananel, who was the son of the judge Ḥananel …
Cryptic document in Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly a letter or fragments of two letters. Discusses liturgy and the reading of the Torah. Mentions asking R. Seʿadya b. …
Bifolio of accounts in Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Many names mentioned.
Request presented by the president of the religious school in Jerusalem to the director of one of the synagogues in Egypt asking especially for monetary …
Legal record (#44) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 11r-v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 42-44) Folio 11r
Page from a Hebrew medical treatise.
Accounts in Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic. Medieval-era. A variety of quantities are listed with the unit of weight raṭl. Requires further examination.
Two very fragmentary lines of a state document, in Arabic script with wide line spacing and large script. A huge margin has been left to …
List of expenditures of the Qodesh ca. 1169-70. An accounting written in the hand of Judge Shemuel b. Saadya ha-Levi, on both parts of a …
The Babylonians, paid for lime, 1. For transportation of bricks, 1⁄2. For
nightwatch: Dār ʿAbla,' for the month of Ṣafar, 1/2. Rent
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Court register. Bodl. MS heb. f 56/46r: Deed of gift. Dated: First decade of Nisan 1493 Seleucid = March 1182 CE. Abū Manṣūr Elʿazar b. …
Draft of the beginning of a letter addressed to Eliyya de Suares. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 18 Av 5592 AM = 14 August 1832 CE. …
Upper left fragment: Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. Menashshe. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper right corner of recto). Mentions: …
Letter from Mūsā b. Iṣḥaq b. Nissim al-ʿĀbid (al-Mahdiya) to Avraham b. Daʾūd al-Raḥbī (Fustat), ca. 1030. The writer supplies goods from the Maghreb, including …
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Literary text in Ladino. 3 folios.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Mentions names such as Shemuel Khamīs, Ḥajjāj Tūnisī, Masʿūd, and Raḥamim.
Letter with biblical citations such as Isaiah 26:20. (Information from CUDL)
Minute blank fragment
Fiscal register (possibly equivalent to what al-Makhzūmī and Ibn Mammātī call a rūznāmaj). Contains multiple entries, each with a date and a sum. Each entry …