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Verso: List with various units of weight followed by amounts expressed in Greek/Coptic numerals: الرطل, القدح, الدرهم. Medieval-era. Each entry ends with the unit ḥabba. …
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Illuminated map of graves of biblical figures and Talmudic sages.
Verso: List of pledges (thabat al-pesiqa). Dating: ca. 1032 CE (based on the date on recto). Interesting entries include: 'the philosopher' (=a doctor? cf. elsewhere …
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Letter from Yahya b. ‘Ammar (basis for identification unclear), who had reached Jerusalem with the help of a benefactor in Fustat, petitioning for assistance so …
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Draft of a family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Likely from an elder brother to a younger brother. The sender is very worried about his mother's illness …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Accounts in Arabic script. Detailing the arrival of various consignments of Oriental goods like lacquer, frankincense, and pepper, it all seems to be by caravan. …
]ـــل ووصل من سنة ذي القعدة من هذه السنة عدل فيه
] الوزن ماتي وتسعين
ووصل سلخ ذي القعدة سنة ثلث وثمانين وثلمائة من جهات محمد بن علي
احد…
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Letter from Ayash b. Ṣedaqa, Alexandria, to an unknown addressee. Dating: January 1051. Lists of goods that were bought or sold. Some details about the …
ואשתרית רבע ח שכאיר צוף לי פיהא אלרבע ואלרבע לנהראי בן נסים
ואלרבע לאבי אלכיר אלצירפי ואלרבע לאבי זכרי בן קיומה ואלרבע אלדי לי אנא
הו בינ…
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IB VII, 61. Maqāma-like work in rhymed Hebrew prose by a certain Shelomo b. Yehuda (not the 11th-century gaʾon, as this fragment is probably 12th–13th …
Most of a long letter in which the writer uses colorful language to narrate his woes of the last 10 years. The addressee's father is …
Ottoman-era legal document (or letter with legal content?) addressed to Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad b. Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad dated 19 Shaʿbān 930 = 1524 CE. Mentions …
Document in Ottoman Turkish in divani script. Four complete lines are preserved, with wide space between the lines. In line three there is mention of …
Bifolio of accounts in Arabic script.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic on a bifolio that still retains part of its binding. Dated only in Jumada I on the verso with no year. The …
Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: end of Sivan 5582 AM, which is June 1822 CE. Dissolution of partnership and settling of accounts between …
Medical treatise in Judaeo-Arabic on the factors that make animal meat unkosher.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Describes a legal arrangement, probably a partnership in a store or business. Dating: 12th century, based on the typical hand. Mentions Abū …
Verso: End of a letter in Arabic script. The sender asks for a response to this note ("khidma") with news of Sayyidnā (=Avraham Maimonides in …
Court notebook, possibly. A bifolium. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). One entry is a deed of sale for a house …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. In two different hands, with the two text blocks oriented at 180 degrees to each other. Apparently a Friday …
Accounts with Hebrew numerals. Mentions the teacher Mami Sidikari (?) and a certain Saʿadya. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Minyat Zifta. Dated: last decade of Tammuz 1467 Seleucid, which is July 1156 CE, under the authority of the …
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Letter from Eli Ha-Kohen b. Ezekiel, Jerusalem, to Eli Ha-Kohen B. Hayyim, Fustat, approximately 1060.
Responsa by Ribash, no. 202-203.
State document, internal communication, fragment of a few lines. Mentions a dīwān. Reused for a rabbinic text in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic mentioning qumāsh (rubbish).
Recto: letter of introduction for [...] b. Aharon, addressing a community and urging them to show charity to the poor. The text appears to have …
Fragment of an unidentified document in Arabic script. On recto there is part of a drawing of a design (a medallion with a flower inside, …
Looks literary.
List. In Arabic script. Each entry is headed with an elongated horizontal line from the word above. Needs examination.
Recto with the address on verso (secondary use): Letter from Salmān b. Ibrāhīm to [...] [Yo]sef. In Judaeo-Arabic. Brief letter of recommendation for charity on …
Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Rashīd (Rosetta). Dated: Thursday, 13 Heshvan 5311 AM, which is October 1550 CE. Witnesses: Seʿadya b. Yehuda קוננטיני and Yosef …
IB V, 31. Legal document in the hand of Natan b. Shemuʾel. Location: Fustat. Dated: last third of Av, year missing, under the authority of …
Medical treatise in Judaeo-Arabic.
Ledger of accounts, late, of a Venetian merchant. From Dudley and Elbaum's, "Coins of the Cairo Geniza" digital exhibition: "The folder known as ENA 1066 …
Bottom part of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Containing a request to deliver letters to the Nezer (= Natan b. Shemuʾel?) and al-Raḍiyy, as well as …
Book, ownership page, in Arabic script: "this is the copy of Abu al-hasan" in small Hebrew script: "This is what Shemarya b. Ḥalfon ha-Levi bought …
Marriage contract in which a widow contributes one sixth of a house from a previous marriage and stands surety for her husband in case he …
Letter to [... b.] Ḥalfon. In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning business issues, mentioning commodities such as gum and walnuts. Containing an order of Abbadani mats, which were …
Letter of recommendation from a judge in Aleppo (צובה) on behalf of Binyamin Mizraḥi. In Hebrew. Late. There is a postscript in a different hand …
Trousseau list. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Fiancé: Seʿadya b. [Avraham]. Fiancée: Jawhara bt. Seʿ[adya known as Abū l-Yumn Ibn al-Baṣal]. This is …
Legal document, possibly in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. (Information from CUDL)
Court record. Location: Fustat. Dated: 16 Elul 1355 Seleucid, which is 13 August 1044 CE. Written and signed by the cantor Yefet b. David; also …
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Recto: Legal fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Debt contract, specifying a payment by installments. Involves a woman and her husband. Verso: Document in Arabic script. The word …
Late pair of letters in Judaeo-Arabic dated 30 November 1808 CE (11 Kislev 5569 AM). The first is from Moshe Bibas, Rashid, to Karo y …
Legal document mentioning two manns of cassia (dār ṣīnī) and parties including Mevorakh, Avraham b. Yaʿaqov, and Shaʿyā b. David. Signed by ʿUlla b. Yosef …
Account in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Responsum of Maimonides. Blau edition #310
Bottom of a much-decayed legal document, probably 11th century, featuring the names Sar Shalom b. Avraham and David b. Nasi, both signatures girdled with tiny …