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Letter from Abū al-Riḍa, in Qūṣ, to Abū Zikrī, in Fustat, c/o the sugar factory (maṭbakh) of Abū al-Maʿānī. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in …
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List of donations (?) collected for the first four months of 5583 = 1822/23 CE (or perhaps 5553 AM). All the entries refer to "the …
Receipt of payment or tax receipt, in Arabic script. There is a registration mark "الحمد] لله وبه استعين]". Name of the payee is not readable …
Letter from Yisra'el b. Daniel, in one of the towns of the Rīf, to Salāma b. ʿAllūn al-Ṣayrafī, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. …
כתאבי יסידי ומולאי וריסי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך סלך צפר ען סלאמה
ואלחמד ללה רב אלעאלמין וכאן קד וצל אלחאיך אלי הונה וסט אלעיד וגאתני
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Rotulus. 4 Arabic-script fragments were pasted together to form a long rotulus for a Hebrew literary text on verso. Text 1 is a decree (wide …
Legal testimony in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). No signatures, and probably unfinished. It concerns the death of the trader Tamīm …
Bifolio of accounts. Dated: Ramaḍān 639 AH = March/April 1242 CE. The columns are headed "al-mustakhraj" and "al-maṣrūf." Same format as JRL Genizah Ar. 322 …
Damaged legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38), under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon (1127–39). Written on one page of a bifolio. Regarding …
Bifolio of accounts. Dated on the verso Adar II-Tammuz 5627 AM (March-July 1867 CE). Many of the names are abbreviated beyond direct recognition but a …
Fatimid state report. Dating: beginning of the 12th century, during the reign of al-Afḍal. Describes a battle against the Crusaders. This fragment reports on the …
... of the purity of his heart and the nobility (literally: cleanness) of his disposition [ ]
and his impetuonsness for the defence of Islam and…
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Report from a Fatimid chancery clerk concerning an iqṭāʿ. The land is a sugarcane plantation (al-qand), mentions dīwān al-qand, or rather dīwān al-saʿīd, and the …
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بالناحية المعروفة بمنية سندبسط القديمة(؟)[
لمحمد بن ابرهم الناىب عن ابي الحسين بن حمزة . . مقدم من ابيه
الحصتين الجارية لما للديوا…
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From the district of Minyat Sandabasṭ al-Qadīma
By Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm, acting as deputy for Abū al-Ḥusayn b. Ḥamza, […] delivere…
Probably a legal document. Mentions Abū l-ʿAlā Ibn al-Sh[...]. (Information from CUDL)
Accounts, probably for charitable purposes, with entries such as "widows"; "the niece of Ṭāhir the beadle"; "the wife of Abū Isḥāq the cantor"; "the children …
Letter from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, in Qalyūb, to his family, in Fustat. Moshe congratulates his brother Bū Isḥāq on the fertility of his livestock …
אל[סלאם] אל[תאם? ות]קביל איאדיכם
אני כת[יר] אלשוק לנצרכם פאללה תעאלי
לא יכלינ[י] ענכם למען שמו הגדול
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Legal document in Arabic script. Maybe a lease - mentions money and a period of 3 months. Needs examination.
Official letter, probably. In Arabic script. The ends of 3 lines are preserved; upslanting and wide space between lines. Probably mentions Sidon(?). Needs examination for …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Account of collections and distribution ('alladhi tahsul... alladhi yufarri[q]'), with the name of '[our] lord],' probably the head of the Jews, on verso. From a …
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Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Resembles the hand of one of the 13th-century Mosul Nasis (cf. T-S 12.654 and the related fragmented edited by Gil). Mentions …
Small fragment from the lower left corner of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Dated: Friday 21 [...] …
Recto: part of a deed of release (אביזר), granted by ʿEli b. Ḥusayn b. Moshe al-Maghribī, to his brother Azhar b. Ḥusayn b. Moshe al-Maghribī,. …
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper left corner). Dealing with the silk trade.
Letter, in Arabic script, well preserved. Begins with basmala and “wallahi la-qad ṣadaqa ḥaḍrat mawlāya l-shaykh,” "my Master was right". The sender seems to be …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
والله لقد صدق حضرة مولاي الشيخ اطال الله بقاه وادام عزه وتاييده
وعلوه وتمكينه وسموه و . . . ته وكبت حسدته واعداه …
Fragment of a letter to a notable. In Hebrew. Mentioning good news for the addressee, and the king. Might be a letter of congratulations on …
Letter from an unknown parent to his or her son Manṣūr b. Faraj, in Fusṭāṭ. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer asks a female family member in …
Accounts in a mixture of Arabic and Hebrew script. At least in part concerning wine making (al-nabīdh... al-muwallad...).
Accounts for house rents and repairs. Dating: mentions various months of the year טפתק, which is 589 AH = 1193/94 CE. Each section is headed …
Homily. In Hebrew. Probably late. The text has been crossed through. Information from Baker/Polliack catalog.
Commentary on Devarim by Shemuʾel b. Ḥofni Gaʾon. There is an ownership note for Yakhin b. Ḥalfon.
Power of attorney given by the cantor Yosef b. Nissim to Yefet b. Natan to deal with the grantor's house, specifically to sue the person …
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List of indigent families from New Cairo. Eleven items. (Information from Goitein's index card)
Marriage document. Small fragment from the top of a ketubah, as is evident from the large, decorative phrases opening with בשם אל עולם, commonly found …
Deed of sale for the sale of an enslaved woman. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 1 Nisan 1537 Seleucid, which is 31 March 1226 CE, under …
Letter addressed to Eliyyahu the Judge. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205-1237 CE) on verso. Needs examination.
Legal records from a court register. Section (I): Marriage authorization from the legal court that there is no legal hindrance to the marriage between Karam …
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State document, in Arabic script. One line in a chancery hand. Mentions farming and possibly the Egyptian village of Banī Murra (near Asyūṭ) — although …
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involves Shabbetay b. Yosef. Listing various household furnishings and half of a …
Fragment of a letter, probably 14th century or later. greetings to shaykh al-Asʿad Abū [...] and shaykh al-Rashīd Hārūn. The sender or scribe is Hārūn. …
Letter from Yeshu‘a b. Ismāʿīl, in Malīj, to Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf b. ʿAlī ha-Kohen. Dating: 11th century. Concerning business matters. The sender delivered something on …
Probably a bill of sale for an enslaved woman. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). No details preserved.
Recto: part of a letter in Arabic. Verso: unidentified text in Hebrew. (Information from CUDL)
Small booklet made of parchment containing the Birkat ha-Mazon with marginal decorations. The cover page states "belonging to the good youth Shemuʾel b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Rav …
Fragment of a petition addressed to the Nagid (Avraham Maimonides). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 1544 Seleucid, which is 1232/33 CE. The names of four senders appear …
IB IV, 68a (ח75). Letter from Yehuda ha-Levi, in Alexandria, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: after mid-September 1140 CE. In which ha-Levi mentions …
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Declaration of a patronage relationship? After quoting Isaiah 50:7, several lines of eloquent prose in artfully arranged lines, starting with, "I am your slave, never …
Family letter. In Arabic script. To 'my father.' Asking for clothing for the children and maintenance expenses, and telling the addressee to return. Dating: Probably …
Medical or culinary recipes. Written on a long vertical strip of parchment. The last one may be an aphrodisiac: منه بعد الطعام . . . …
A learner's exercise of the beginning of a letter in Arabic script. On verso there are additional jottings in Arabic script, and a drawing.
Betrothal contract between Avraham ha-Kohen and Sitt al-Ḥusn bt. Arye b. Yehuda. Her father Arye was the ex-husband of Karima al-Wuḥsha, and Sitt al-Ḥusn may …
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