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Verso: Fragment from a deed of betrothal (qiddushin). In the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dating: 1100–38. The marriage will take place on Shabbat …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Written on vellum spanning two leaves (and three pages) that already contained literary text in Hebrew. The first page of the letter …
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Mysterious document(s) in Judaeo-Arabic. Multiple hands and distinct text blocks. On the far left of recto, there is a text block concerning tax farming in …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Draft of a poetical Hebrew letter to a head of a community
Get (bill of divorce) dated 1058 CE (Nisan 1369) from Fustat. Nissin (!) b. Maḥbūb divorces Mubāraka bt. Ṭoviya.
Business accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Concerning Abū Manṣūr al-Baṣrī and bales of lac. Mentions various fees (muʾan, ʿamāla), porters (ḥammālīn), Dār …
Legal deed in Judaeo-Arabic. Involving a divorcee named Miryam bt. Avraham. Little else remains. Dating: ca. 13th century, based on handwriting and the dating of …
Calendrical text with a related calculation table on the verso. The dating is 16th-century or later based on the paloegraphy.
Recto: Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. Abū l-Majd is to give to the messenger of the ḥaver …
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Recto: Probably a medical prescription. Ends "nāfiʿ mubārak." Verso: Possibly a line from a state document in Arabic script. The same line has been copied …
Verso: Account of payments to a physician (al-Rayyis) by five patients: Bū ʿAlī, Ibn Shahrīn or Shahrayn (a 2-month-old boy?), Muslim, Muḥsin, and Karīm. He …
Recto: Unidentified document (accounts?) in Arabic script. Written in the form of a list, in a neat (chancery?) hand. Needs examination.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. On recto the two columns ʿalayhi (debits) and lahū (credits). Dated: Shawwāl 538 AH = April May 1144 …
Genealogical list of Nesiʾim. Names include: Neḥemya b. David; [...] b. Baradoy(?); Shelomo b. Ḥisday(?); Bustanay;
Fragment containing a few lines in Judaeo-Arabic, including the phrases "Yehuda the agent" and "on the date [...]"
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū l-Ṭāhir. Deals with business matters and mentions an exchange rate. Possibly in the same handwriting: CUL Or.1080 J158 (PGPID …
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Small fragment of a fiscal account, probably.
Power of attorney granted in a divorce settlement. Dated to the 11th century (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Poems for a groom named Moshe b. Yosef ha-Levi. Dating: Late, based on the hand.
Letter from Yaʿaqov b. Shemuel b. Avraham (perhaps a Qaraite), to Abū Saʿd (i.e. Abū Saʿd b. Sahl al-Tustarī, also known as Avraham b. Yashar), …
Medical text, in Arabic script. Begins with a basmala and new section "fī jumlat al-kalām ʿalā l-aʿḍā", mentions the four elements and the four humors. …
Letter from Khalaf b. Muḥammad(?) al-Ṭarābulsī (the Tripolitan), unknown location, to Abū l-Fakhr b. Ibrāhīm, in Fustat, in the perfumers' market (sūq al-ʿaṭṭārīn). In Arabic …
Petition opening to a vizier of al-Ḥāfiẓ. Dating: 531–33/1137–39. Al-Ḥāfiẓ had three viziers: the general Yānis (for nine months in 526/1132), Bahrām (529–31/1135–37 and Riḍwān …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
[صلوات] الله وبركاته ونوامى زكواته وافضل سلامه [و]تحياته
على مولانا وسيدنا وامام الحافظ لدين الله اميرالمومنين
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The blessings and benedictions of God, his increasing benefactions and most excellent salutatio…
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. In a rudimentary hand. The addressee failed to do something that he had promised, and the writer is telling him to do …
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Only a thin vertical sliver is preserved. Mentions Fustat (or Egypt) four lines from the end and Almeria three lines from …
Testimony of woman, Sittuna bt. Hayyim, about her husband, Faraḥ b. Bānūqa, who left her "a widow in his lifetime" (ʿaguna). She is indigent because …
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List of pledges arranged in two sections, separated by a blank space. Thirteen donations are in the first group and ten in the second; two …
Two folios of a medical text, in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Legal document. Dating: probably ca. 1185 CE. This is the only known document that refers to the majlis of Maimonides. It is a draft of …
Lower fragment: Legal record in Judaeo-Arabic. Refers to "our master the noble judge, the judge of judges (sayyidnā al-qāḍī al-ajall qāḍī al-quḍāh); a fight (munāzaʿa) …
Verso: Fragment of a large document in Arabic, a minute portion of three lines is visible. Medieval-era. The recto was reused for liturgy/berakhot in Hebrew …
Image not available. According to Schwarb Catalogue: An Arabic (or Judeo Arabic) letter by Moshe b. Qiash ( (קיאשto Aharon the scribe. AA
Legal document. Fragment (thin vertical strip from the upper left corner). Location: Somewhere in Egypt. Dated: [..]61, probably 1461 Seleucid, which would be 1149/50 CE, …
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 …
Beginning of a letter from Daniel b. Azarya Gaon or David b. Daniel to a community, ca. 1092. NB: The shelfmark has since changed, and …
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Letter (khidma) in Judaeo-Arabic, complete, handwriting resembles that of Berakhot b. Shemuel. He begs for a small loan in preparation for the upcoming holiday. See …
Small fragment of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic, probably. The handwriting is reminiscent of some of the India Book traders, but there is too little …
Fragment from the top of a petition, or petition-like letter, from Farajallāh.
Small fragment in Hebrew script. Accounts?
Recto and verso (secondary use): polemical story in Judaeo-Arabic featuring a discussion between a Jew, Muslim and Christian, possibly set in Baghdad, mentioning viziers. In …
Letter from Avraham Maimonides, autograph (r. 1205–1237 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. Begins with the motto הנה אל ישועתי. Addressed to the ḥaver, morenu ve-rabbenu, Yosef. This …
IB IV, 29 (ח28). Letter from Yosef b. ʿEzra and Avraham b. Muʿṭī, in Tlemcen, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi, then in Fez. Written shortly …
Fiscal accounting: "...al-muʿāmilīn bi-[...] wa-Dimyāṭ..."
Much damaged and dark. Commodities are mentioned. On verso in a different hand in Judeo Arabic. Might join with T-S AS 152.417. AA