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Legal record (#100) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 33v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 18 Elul 5324 …
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Letter draft from Faraj Allāh to his father. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late. Surrounded by numerous other jottings and signatures.
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Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). In both Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Abū l-Majd is to give a certain sum …
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Accounts in Arabic script, arranged in columns. Also some Hebrew pen trials. Needs examination.
List of items, mostly textiles and items of tortoiseshell and ivory. The hand and paper and state of preservation are reminiscent of Ibn Yijū but …
Deed of sale of part of a house. Location: Fustat. Dated: first ten days of Iyyar 1447 Seleucid = April 1136 CE. (The date is …
Verso: Letter addressed to Sulaymān b. Yosef ha-Kohen. In Judaeo-Arabic with some Hebrew. Dating: 13th–15th century. A large piece is preserved, but it is torn …
Letter from Yosef b. Musa al-Tāhartī, probably from Mahdiyya, to Ya’aqov b. Nahum, Fustat. Around 1045. Regarding a very large amount of goods and deals. …
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Letter by Ḥalfon to the Dayyan Yosef explaining that the Nagid told him that the daughter of the late Mufaddal b. al-Dimyati al-Kohen was otherwise …
IB VII, 33. Legal query to Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE) about a trader who travelled to India (Bilād al-Hind), remained there for fifteen years, …
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Possibly a contribution or distribution list. Many names are listed.
Book list and a quotation from a halakhic source or a responsum. Probably in the hand of Joseph Rosh ha-Seder (late 12th and early 13th …
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Letter from the judge (qāḍī) Hibat Allāh b. Makīn, in al-Marāgha, to his "brother" Abū l-Ḥasan Zuhayr. Concerning the case of Maryam bt. Yuḥannis the …
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Geṭ (bill of divorce). Location: Fustat. Dated: Sunday, 24 Tammuz 1439 Seleucid = 24 June 1128 CE. Husband: Sheʾerit b. Ḥalfon. Wife: Turfa bt. Avraham. …
Response to the endorsement of a petition by two men, one of whom is Ibrāhīm, son of the illustrious judge. The case is referred to …
[Praise be to God] alone and his blessings be upon our lord Muḥammad, the prophet, and save (him).
The two servants of our master, the praises of…
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Legal document in Arabic script. First two lines only.
Neatly written note to Nahray requesting that he address the community for Shemuel he-Ḥazzan ha-Mevin, since he needs help for his family and travel after …
Fragment from a top of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee is called 'the diadem (nezer) of the [...].' Reporting that the order of the …
Large account in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Written in three columns rather than the usual two column bifolio …
Accounts mentioning various amounts and names. Probably from the same ledger as ENA NS 57.6 (PGPID 12647). Dating: Ottoman şerifi coinage is mentioned on a …
Letter in Hebrew. Late. Asking for help on behalf of a woman named [...]da bt. Yaʿaqov al-Aluf, who may have been abandoned by her husband.
A qiyyum (approval of a legal deed) signed by [Moshe Sofer] b. Yiṣḥaq Ḥaver and Eli Ḥaver b. Amram and others.
Recto: Fragment of a letter from [...] Fasi the cantor b. Shelomo, the cantor, to Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE).
Fragment of accounts in Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. May mention Ismāʿīl b. Sibāʿ.
Two unrelated fragments stuck together. (1) Right: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mostly torn and partially faded. Might be in the same hand as Moss. VII,92.1 (which …
Long letter in Judaeo-Arabic, most likely written in Fustat and sent to (or intended to be sent to) Tinnīs. Sender and addressee: According to the …
Small fragment in Arabic script, likely a letter.
Letter in Arabic script. Written in large, calligraphic script. Containing a renunciation of a friendship. The details are left very vague. The sender refers to …
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 12th century. Mentioning sending things with different people, including cheese. (Information in part from CUDL)
Very faded Arabic text, probably literary.
State document, probably official correspondence, in Arabic script. Top of verso has an oversized script which reads "الى بعض الحكام" and the verso mentions "تنفيذ …
Pleas and prayers to God for the sake of the people of Israel – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 188) – in …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely 12th century. Small but rich with tantalizing details. The handwriting is reminiscent of some of the India Book letters. …
Beginning of a late letter in Hebrew to Shelomo [..] regarding a man named Yaʿaqov Naḥman b. Shemuel and a woman named [...] bt. Moshe.
Fragment from a Babylonian ketubah. No further information is available. AA
Letter from a son to his father, concerned with traveling issues, sending greetings to many family members, and mentioning the sender’s uncle Abū l-Faraj Ibn …
List of commodities like saffron and names of individuals. Coptic numerals on verso.
Receipt for the capitation tax in Fustat of Mubārak b. Ibrāhīm (Ibn Sabrā, a relatively well-known character from Judaeo-Arabic Geniza documents). Same cluster: ENA 3953.1, …
Verso: A few lines from the end of a letter in Arabic script. Very damaged and faded. Underneath, in a different hand, there is a …
A few lines from the beginning of a hastily written report or petition: ان سبب هذه الخدمة الى جلالها ان عبدها قد . . . …
Pen trials, in a chancery hand, in Arabic script. Contains terms like "al-mamlūk", "nāʾib" and a name "al-shaykh al-ajall abū saʿīd."
IB V, 37, folio 21. Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hod is to give the bearer 2 ounces …
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Request presented by the president of the religious school in Jerusalem to the director of one of the synagogues in Egypt asking especially for monetary …
Legal minutes (tadhkira) regarding the case of Mūsā b. Bishr aka Moshe b. Mevasser. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 4 Adar II 1464 Seleucid = 1153 …
"The chapter of knowing the unknown (taʿallum al-ghayb)." One takes a certain animal on Shabbat, breaks open its back, and eats its heart while still …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Noncontinuous join. Dated: Ramaḍān 4[..] AH, corresponding to 1011–1106 CE.