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Letter discussing communal matters, especially income derived from the market place by religious dignitaries. Mentioned are levies imposed for the purchase of new mats (see …
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Ownership note in a liturgical book. "The property of the dear boy ʿAbd al-Khāliq b. ʿAbd al-Laṭīf b. ʿAbd al-Karīm (ZL) b. Yūsuf (ZL) known …
Possibly a receipt or order. A name appears at the top of recto (al-shaykh Abū l-Majd?). The text underneath refers to two dirhams. Dated: 710 …
Order of three pounds of meat from the butcher. In Arabic script. The cipher at the beginning means يدفع (cf. T-S AS 177.468).
Verso: Remnants of an official Arabic document with wide line spacing. Mentions witnesses and an agent. Legible words: وقال . . . الشاهدين شهادته انه …
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IB III, 40a. List of customs paid in Aydhab by Avraham Ibn Yiju, around 1152. IB III, 40a is the top of the page. IB …
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Account, unclear if private or official. Written on a tall, very narrow sheet of paper, which became standard practice around the Ayyubid period. May mention …
Typewritten copy of a ketubba from Essaouira (Morocco), 16 September 1891 (13 Elul 5651), with a note at the bottom, "this is the form of …
Fragmentary court record concerning marital payments. In Judaeo-Arabic. On verso there is a literary text in Judaeo-Arabic, perhaps a tafsīr; cites Exodus 2:25 (line 4).
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Likely a promissory note stating that "I owe" a sum of money to "[...] al-Yahūdī."
Document of ḥaliṣa (release from levirate marriage). Dated: 18 Shevaṭ 1326 Seleucid, which is 1015 CE. Location: Fustat. For Farjiyya bt. Sahlān. Her husband Yehoshuaʿ …
List in Judaeo-Arabic, written with a graphite pencil. The writing method and paleography help date this fragment to the 19th-century. The list names חנין סמען …
Legal document. Draft, probably. In the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu? In Judaeo-Arabic. The wife of Yiftaḥ ha-Dayyan declares that she sold Abū l-Barakāt...
Recto: Unidentified text in Arabic script. Poetry? Phrases from letters? Verso: In a different hand, a note in Arabic script instructing the addressee to pay …
Minute fragment mentioning the name Sulaymān Kariyo/Kadiyo(?), possibly the Sephardi surname Carillo attested elsewhere in the geniza (AIU VII.D.62 - PGPID 30558). The design/drawing underneath …
Letter from Avraham b. David b. Sighmar, Fustat, probably to Daniel b. Azarya, Jerusalem. The beginning of June 1056. After the passing of Yefet b. …
Recto: Two lines from an official letter. In Arabic script. Verso: Medical prescription in Arabic script.
Writing exercises in an experienced scribal hand, the student practiced various honorific titles that can appear at the opening of letters. 18th or 19th-century based …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū l-Faḍl and Sayyidnā and then a woman whose husband is unemployed—so perhaps this is a letter recommending this woman …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Court record concerning evidence of possession of a compound in Fustat, mentioning lanes and buildings in the city including two kanīsa, the zuqāq al-laban. Dated …
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Fragment of an account, likely fiscal.
Recto: Letter fragment addressed to a notable, in Hebrew. Verso: Remnant of an official letter or document in Arabic script. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Recto: letter from Yaʿaqov b. Joseph b. Ismaʿīl al-Aṭrābulsī, in Ashkelon (ca. 1060 CE), concerning trade and sums of money owed by Abū Yaḥyā Nahray …
Letter from Alexandria from the 21st of October 1219, a short time before the crusaders' assault on Damietta. A man who had to flee Cairo …
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A 'literary' book of magic (possibly Sefer ha-Yashar or Sefer Adam); a recipe to procure rain, the name of the angels in charge of wild …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Various names are mentioned, e.g., Makhlūf and Ibn al-Kannāsh.
Fragment from a court ledger probably. Recto contains portions of legal documents, one mentioning marriage, with a signature partially preserved. Verso contains a list of …
Court record, in which Naḥum b. Avraham b. Neḥemya declares that he possesses nine qiraṭs of a house in Fusṭāṭ in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ (the other …
Decree. The ends of two lines are preserved. Mentions the cities [bi-]Minūf(?) and Ṣahrasht (=Ṣahrajt). Reused for a separate document in Arabic script (also on …
Letter of Ḥalfon b. Yiṣḥaq to the eminent scholar Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel (the Spaniard). The entire letter is a refu'a shelema for the Rayyis Abū …
Legal document (validation/qiyyum). Fragmentary (right side only). In the hand of Avraham b. Natan Av. Concerning people such as: [...] b. [...] from Damsīs, Barakāt …
כתב ידו של אברהם בר נתן אב
קיום שטר
State document, probably fiscal. The beginnings of ~6 lines are preserved, mainly sums of money. Reused for Hebrew literary text. There has been a lot …
IB I, 34b. Betrothal contract between Sitt al-Ahl bt. Yosef Lebdī and Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya ha-Levi b. Binyamin/Binyām. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. …
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List in Arabic with Coptic alphanumerals. There is some Judaeo-Arabic text on the same page that might be related to the list, i.e. "מאל אביך". …
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. To Abū l-Ḥasan b. al-faqīh(?) ʿAbdallāh. Little of the content of the …
Popular literature in Judaeo-Arabic. Humorous rhymed prose. Dating: Likely 13th or 14th century.
Magical text
Legal deed? Signatures of various people. Was probably part of a legal deed or communal decree
Legal deed. Iqrār mentioning Aḥmad b. ʻAbdallāh, dated 500 H. (?) [1106]. Verso is blank. Needs examination.
Late legal document, regarding provisions. A person called Makhlūf is taking an oath. Location: Marrakesh (מראכש). Dated: 28 Tammuz (5)561 (לצאתם) AM = 9 July …
Fragment from a book of a legal formularies.
Informal note addressed to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yosef about a business matter. Reused on verso by ʿArūs for accounts.
Letter in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment: upper right corner. It seems that the scribe himself tore it up and obliterated part of the text. This …
Recto: Bible translation of Genesis 1:1-5, with citation of the whole Hebrew verse. Verso: unidentified Hebrew text. Very hard to read. Speaks about משפטים קבועים …
Fiscal accounting, possibly. Needs examination.
Unidentified text, in Arabic script. Mentions a few names. Might be writing practice.
Fol. 1, verso: Small fragment of official-looking correspondence in Arabic script.