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Probably from a bill of release between Ali Hassan b. Shekhanya and another party. AA
No Scholarship Records
Fragmentary Fatimid petition dated to the period of al-Mustanṣir. A beuatiful raʾy clause tucked at the bottom.
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Poetic work involving the caliph (amīr al-muʾminīn) and enslaved women (jawārī). Merits examination.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic on papyrus. Almost certainly not from the Geniza and older than the Geniza material.
Part of a legal document in which the parties Mawhūb and ʿAllūn make a declaration. (Information from CUDL)
Treatise with allusions to 1 Samuel 2:6-7 and the names of God. Information from CUDL.
Letter from Nahray b. Nissim, Egypt, to Abu al-Faraj Yeshu'a b. Isma'il.
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On verso, in Hebrew script, the name Mūsā b. Ibrāhim al-Kohen.
Involves [...] b. Yūsuf al-ʿAṭṭār.
Mentions the name Yosef al-Rūmī on the recto.
From the archive of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Join: Alan Elbaum.
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Lists entries for the days of the week along with corresponding celestial objects.
Mentions Binyamin and [...] al-Skandari.
Looks late. Mentions Yosef, al-Kohen, and Abū Saʿīd.
Letter mentioning "Sayyidnā" and Eliyya Ibn al-Rayyis (= Eliyyahu the Judge). (Information from CUDL)
Letter mentioning Abū l-Maʿālī, Josiah and Sittī al-kabīra). (Information from CUDL)
Beginning of a letter sent to Abū Saʿd Khalaf b. S[alāma]. (Information from CUDL)
Letter mentioning Abū l-Faraj and a Kohen, al-Bānyāsī. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter, probably written by Surūr b. Ismaʿīl the dyer (al-sabbāgh). (Information from CUDL)
Verso: probably Judaeo-Arabic, but almost illegible. (Information from CUDL)
There seems to be a signature of the scribe at the bottom along with a date.
Some letter or petition-like text on the other side (al-ḥāja dāʿiya ilā...).
The addressee is asked to give to the bearer something that is deposited (al-muwaddaʿa) somewhere (in the funduq?).
Order of one pound of meat from al-muʿallim Ṣadaqa (cf. T-S AS 177.468).
Very stylized. One entry begins: "al-maḍmūn..."
Tax receipt, or possibly credit instrument? Contains an ʿalāma at the upper right and a jahbadh signature at the bottom.
Stating the amount owed to Abū ʿAlī.
Long prayer in Arabic. Join: Alan Elbaum. Cf. T-S AS 183.190 (PGPID 37836).
Bottom part of an Ottoman-era legal document. Mentions Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad and Jews.
Probably Ottoman-era. Mentions al-Qāḍī Muṣṭafā.
Small fragment from a piece of official correspondence: wa-qad sayyara ilayhimā min al-[...]....
List of names in Arabic script: Abū l-Riḍā b. [...], Abū Saʿīd, Abū ʿAlī.
One of the witnesses is ʿAlī b. Hibatallāh.
Small fragment from a state document (tax receipt?) with the ʿalāma الحمد لله الخفي لطفه.
Mentions the name Zayn al-Dār.
Rudimentary hand. Mentions Sūq al-Kabīr and Hilāl and Nāṣir.
Minute list fragment in Judaeo-Arabic with a column of figures expressed in Hebrew alphanumerals. Medieval-era.
Mentions names such as Sulaymān and Bū l-Majd al-ʿŪdī.
Recipes (alchemical?) mainly in Hebrew with many Romance words mixed in (mercury, sal natri).
Minute fragment of accounts in Hebrew alphanumerals, early modern scribal hand. 16th-century or later.
Accounts or perhaps solely mathematical calculations in Hebrew alphanumerals. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Amulet for Zayn b. Sitt al-Bayt (written consistently as שת אלבית). On both sides.
A few words from an Arabic state document (ʿalayhimā wa-law...). Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ.
Mentions Ṭarābulusī and al-Naṣrānī and silk and Shimʿon.
Verso: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Headed [...] al-Ṣayrafī. Needs examination.
Yosef. Mentions the butcher (al-jazzār).
Private accounts in a mixture of Judaeo Arabic and Arabic. Mentions Ibn al-Qābila. Needs examination.
Probably originally a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, but this is almost completely blotted out. Reused for copious jottings.
Possibly Qaraite ("you will not find 'ahl al-Talmud' saying that...")
State document, Mamlūk-era, in Arabic script. An ʿalāma in an outsized script at the top. Needs examination.