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Huge model of a begging letter. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. From one who boasts to have belonged to ‘the owners of money’ (aṣḥāb al-amwāl) and …
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Marriage contract from Tyre, dated Tuesday, 19 Av, fifth year the sabbatical cycle (ca. 1054). Somebody with a nisba from the town of 'Ibillin is …
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Fragment of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions "pipes" (qawādīs) and "a gutter for the wall of the house" (mizrab li-ḥāʾiṭ al-b[ayt]).
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Legal document (iqrār) in Arabic script, written on a bifolio. The two parties are ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Salāma al-Yahūdī and Ṣaʿīd b. Yūsuf al-Yahūdī. Date: …
Very damaged fragment of a ketubah. The bride's name is Husn. AA
Dowry evaluation (taqwīm). Dated: Thursday, 7 Tishrei 1537 Seleucid = September 1225 CE. Bride: Fāḍila bt. Abū l-Faḍl Ibn Shammāʿ al-Ḥazzan, who is mature and …
Fragment #1: From a letter to Avraham ha-Sar ha-Nikhbad ha-Mefo'ar ba-Soharim. Fragment #2: Printed text in Greek, perhaps the Lord's prayer. Probably not Geniza.
Letter in Ottoman Turkish. Needs examination.
Accounts in Arabic script. "Al-maqbūḍ. . . ." Mentions ʿAbd al-Hādī.
Leaf from a legal register, with notes for the drawing up of marriage documents. Mentions: [...] b. Meshullam;Abū Saʿd b. Dosa and legal terms in …
Letter from Tamīm to his two brothers. In Judaeo-Arabic (for the body) and Hebrew (for the learned blessings). Dating: Unknown. Goitein identifies the handwriting with …
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Trousseau of a female orphan, nineteen items. All clothing except for a six pillows, a trunk (ṣundūq) and a lamp. No price information. (Information from …
Legal document in Arabic script. Small fragment, containing the last couple lines and at least one witness statement.
Medical prescription in Arabic script.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
end of a legal document signed by: [...] Mevorakh, Hillel b. Zadoq, Hiyya b. Ishaq, Frihuna b. Yeshu'a Probably from 1150–1160.
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Seems to be from a cantor to a notable, conveying how he prays on his behalf (compare CUL Or.1080 …
Deed of sale for an enslaved woman. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Fragment (piece from the right side). The buyer …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic dealing with the book trade. In a slightly crude hand with some orthographic features more usual for later Classical Judaeo-Arabic letter writing, …
Fol. 1: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions people such as al-Qādī Abū l-Ṭāhir; Umm ʿImād; al-Faqīh (or maybe bayt al-faqīh); ʿAbd al-Raḥmān; …
Informal note. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer asks Abū Isḥāq to obtain for (?bi-rasm) Abū l-ʿAlā' a piece of fabric of high quality (jayyid rafīʿ) and …
Narrow strip from the left side of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: 1434 Seleucid = 1122/23 CE. Disposing …
Letter or legal document. Very faded. In Arabic script, moderately wide space between the lines. Roughly 10 lines are preserved. The word "al-mablagh" appears multiple …
Bifolio of business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. Handwriting of Nahray b. Nissim? Mentions names such as Abū Ṭāhir b. Abū …
Faded document in Arabic script. Undeciphered.
Inventory of items in possession of Abū l-Surūr, including a ring with a semi-precious stone (‘faṣṣ’), an item adorned with four pearls, and various types …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Referring to the sugar shops in the Sūq al-Naqqālīn (verso) and the two sugar shops (ḥānutayn sukkar) of …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentioning many names, such as Hiba Abū l-Maḥāsin, Abū l-Faḍl, Abū l-Ḥasan, Sālim, Ibrāhīm b. Salmān, ʿAlī, Barakāt, …
Recto: legal document mentioning a market. Signed by Ḥalfon b. [...] and Mukhtār b. Ḥasan (or Yosef?) Verso: Beginning of a letter in Arabic script, …
Verso: Fragment of an official Arabic document, possibly a petition or decree. The ends of three lines are preserved. Unclear if any of the substance …
Small fragment of a letter. In Arabic script. Refers to someone in distress and to a nākhūdha (ship-owner) named Hilāl al-Iskandarā[nī]
Unidentified text, in Arabic script. Probably official.
Accounts in Arabic dated June/July 1824 (Dhū l-Qaʿda 1239).
Power of attorney. Location: Malīj. Dated: Tuesday, 25 Adar I 4807 AM, which is 1047 CE. In which Rayyisa bt. Manṣūr appoints her brother Asad …
Draft of a legal document in the hand of Shemuʾel b. Nathan, dated Adar II 1456 Seleucid = February/March 1145 CE, under the authority of …
Letter from Abū l-ʿAlā b. Hiba Abū l-Ḥasan(?) to Abū Saʿīd b. Abū Naṣr al-Mafjār (?) mentioning a letter that contained information regarding a mysterious …
Small fragment of a text in Arabic script, probably magical ("al-ʿazīma" and the signs on verso).
P23: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Refers to a house, Avraham, and his mother.
..................................................] זקן ביר ......
] ממא יוסקט אלי אלדאר אלמדכורה ולא אדעא פיהא
]לאדה בעדה ומ…
Possibly a letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Faded. Switches into Arabic script for accounting (al-jumla...).
Fragment of a letter in Arabic script, including part of the address on verso. NB: this must be describing a different fragment.
Magical spells and procedures written in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Mentioning Islamic content including reciting Sūrat al-Ikhlāṣ; and "al-lawḥ al-maḥfūẓ." Also invocations of magical names and …
Fragment from the end of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. "You have left me to die in this grief. A person would think that there is …
IB V, 28. Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen(?). See Goitein's attached notes for further information. Mentions Abū Saʿīd Ibn al-Dimyāṭī …
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Fragment from the bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably no earlier than 14th century.
Related to BL OR 5566D.24 + T-S 10J16.8 (PGPID 491) and contains more information about Ḥalfon's oath and the matter with the Persian Nasi. Join: …