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Late family/business letter in Hebrew signed by Yehuda Duran, mentioning goods sent from Fustat/Cairo to Venice, and discussing several female family members. The writer asks …
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Legal document from the neighborhood court of Bāb al-Kharq wa-l-Saʿāda in Cairo. In Arabic script. Dated: 19 Rabīʿ II 1056 AH = 4 June 1646 …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
A document that has been folded twice. The outer face (pages 1 and 4) contains legal documents relating to business partnerships; a Moshe and a …
Accounts in Arabic on recto and verso. Medieval-era. Mentions Manṣūr; Dāʾūd b. Mūsā; ʿAlī b. Musāfir; Abū ʿAlī b. Salāma; Dāʾūd b. al-Muʿallim. Mentions different …
Accounts in Ladino and Judaeo-Arabic(?). Mentions the ship of איסטיפאני. Needs examination.
IB IV, 35 (ח44). Letter from the physician Yaʿaqov, in Spain, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: between summer 1138 CE and March …
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Upper part of a letter from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, Qalyub, to a family member in Fustat. He says he is doing well and thanks …
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IB IV, 69 (ח79). Letter from ʿAmram b. Yiṣḥaq, in Alexandria, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Middle of Adar 1451 …
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Karaite bill of divorce (get). Dated 16 Sivan 5392 AM (1632 CE). The divorced couple are named as: Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuʾel known as Ibn al-Bardī …
Official looking accounts in Arabic script. It looks like there are at least three distinct documents pasted together, including one with a remnant of an …
A small fragment from a ketubba. (Information from CUDL)
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 12th or 13th century. Too faded to understand any of the content. (Information in part from CUDL)
List of 43 notables and their honorific titles (alqāb). Dating: mid-12th century. "The list was certainly jotted down by, or for the use of, a …
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Possibly a business account in Arabic script. Looks late. May also mention Hippocrates (Buqrāṭ).
Ketubba according to the Palestinian style. Dated: 4810 AM = 1049/50 CE. In the hand of Eliyyahu b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, when he was either reviʿi …
Legal document written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Ḥeshvan 1432 Seleucid, which is September-October 1120 CE. Court record concerning a father’s will. Abū …
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Legal fragment. This portion contains about a dozen witness signatures, including Shabbetay b. ʿAlīl; Ghālib b. Faraj (spelled גאליב); and two people with embellished signatures: …
Verso (earlier use): Letter or letter draft in Arabic script. The addressee is called 'my brother.' Mainly the opening blessings are preserved, and the substance …
Legal deed written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. On parchment. Almost nothing is left. The name of some of the other signatories may be …
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Likely from a letter, in Judaeo-Arabic with copious Hebrew, in a high register: למן והי . . . אשרוני בנות ואשרו אתכם כל הגוים ואצאפתהא …
16 small fragments, most appear to be in Judaeo-Arabic, difficult to discern significance of any of them. Some fragments are printed and thus fifteenth-century or …
Legal testimony? In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ottoman-era. it is a first-person narrative recounting the events of several years, involving financial disputes, a shofar, the Muslim courts, …
Accounts or distribution list. Four columns per side. In Judaeo-Arabic, Arabic script, and Coptic numerals. Well preserved. Dating: Looks late, perhaps no earlier than 14th …
List of names and corresponding figures in eastern Arabic numerals. Based on other lists of this structure from the 18th and 19th century these may …
Letter in Arabic script. Possibly from a mother to a son. Handwriting and spelling are dreadful. There are many greetings as well as instructions about …
Legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 15[..] Seleucid = 1188–1288, and also [..]44 or [..]74 AM. The potential matches are 4974 AM = 1213/14 CE and …
Document with Arabic script. Possibly just jottings, possibly more. Needs examination.
Legal document. Fragment of a beautifully written ketubba. Early style. Ca. 1080. (Information from Goitein’s index card)
Letter probably from Abū Sahl Levi (d. 1211), in Fustat, to his son Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (d. 1212), in Qalyūb. In Judaeo-Arabic. (Identification based …
Possibly a letter. In Arabic script. Extremely faded. (Information from CUDL)
State document, extremely fragmentary. The name of the Fatimid Caliph al-Mustanṣir is written "al-Mustanṣir Billah Amīr al-Muʾminīn."
Accounts in a mixture of Ladino and Judaeo-Arabic. The dating is post-1517, 16th- or 17th-century, based on the paleography and mention of Ottoman titles. Many …
Beginning of a letter to Avraham Maimonides, with the title of "Nagid" therefore post-1213 CE.
Verso: Accounts in a late hand mentioning ashrafi coins and a certain Rivqa. The mention of the ashrafī makes it possible to date this fragment …
Calendar in Hebrew, badly damaged. The year 5581 AM is barely visible in the upper right corner (1820/21 CE).
Probably non-Geniza. Letter from Yosef b. Yiṣḥaq Gallico (? גלקו), in London, to Yaʿaqov Ḥayy b. Avraham Mondolfo, in Siena. Dating: slightly after Adar 5454 …
Recto and verso: Note from Netanel b. Elʿazar to Neḥemya ha-Ḥakham. The addressee had wanted to meet the sender before his departure but was unable …
List of accounts and calculations in Judeo-Arabic related to the weight, value, and prices of "raisins / זביב" (l. 3r, 8r) and other goods. Given …
Two fragments of a letter written by Yefet b. Menashshe Halevi to his brother Halfon (1100-1138 CE).
Accounts in Ladino that are part of much broader chain of related fragments. Dated Heshvan 5633 AM (November 1872 CE). For related fragments see: T-S …
Letter of appeal for charity, probably. In Hebrew. Mentions the names Moshe b. Yiṣḥaq and Abū [...]. There are also a couple of words in …
Upper part of a tax receipt for Yaʿqūb b. Khalaf, a Jewish nightwatchman (ṭawwāf).
Late letter in Ladino written to Shemuʾel b. Soshan, dated 1st of Ḥeshvan. Mentions various business dealings including in indigo (אנייל) and something called אבראג̇יל …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Damsīs, Egypt. Dated: Nisan 4843 AM = 1083 CE. Groom: ʿEli b. Aharon ha-Kohen. Bride: Ḥisān b. Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen. Witnesses: Yiṣḥaq …
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Bottom part of a ketubba. Groom: Wuḥaysh b. ʿEli. Bride: Khibara(?) bt. Yosef. Written by Yefet b. David the Cantor. Signed by Yefet b. Mansur, …
Legal document, draft. Left side only. No witnesses. Location: Fustat. Dated: Nisan 1542 Seleucid, which is 1231 CE. Features a freed muwallad slave (al-ghulām al-maʿtūq... …
King and narrow, much damaged, strip from what seems to be a remains of a ketubah (based on the word נדוניא). AA
Possibly a letter. Mainly in Arabic script. The phrase لا والله appears on verso. Seems to be written in a mixture of Arabic and Hebrew …