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Fragment of a memorial list. Mentions Elʿazar b. [...]; a woman [...] bt. Moshe; [...] b. Yīṣḥaq.
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IB V, 37, folio 12. Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hod is to give the bearer 1 ounce …
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Verso: Accounts in Arabic script: الذي عند الشيخ بو ال . . .
Two receipts for payment of kharāj in grain (qamḥ)and beans (fūl) on one sheet of paper from 535/1140–41 (date works well with return to collection …
Small fragment of an Arabic document, likely accounts.
Tax receipt. Fragment (bottom half only).
Business account in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Neatly arranged in columns on two pages of a bifolio. Mentions goods such as saffron, galangal, pepper, …
Accounts, listing weights and payments. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Several of the accounts deal with silk. This fragment is …
Legal record (#31) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 4v of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated at …
:Left side of bifolio 4v (Documents 31-33)
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Letter draft in Italian on a bifolium which may have constituted a broader notebook. The year 1814 CE appears on the left bifolium of the …
Top of a legal document from Fustat. Very faded/damaged. Two parties are mentioned. On verso there is mirror image Arabic text (imprint from another fragment).
Legal deed with release formulae. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Small fragment. Mentions "our late father."
State document, in Arabic script. Mentions a dīwān and is probably dated to the year 427 H. Possibly two different scripts or hands. Needs examination.
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Leaf of magical instructions.
Letter fragment. Only a small part of the first few lines of recto are preserved—addressing Sayyidnā al-Rayyis al-Ajall Ra's al-Kull (Rosh Kallah)—along with 4 full …
Arabic document, possibly a receipt. The name Munajjā b. [...] appears at the bottom.
Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to Dāwūd b. Yehuda ha-Kohen asking him to read out a letter of condolence—enclosed with the present letter—to Moshe ha-Kohen …
לך יי הוחלתי אתה תענה יי אלהי
אלממלוך שלמה ברבי אליה הדיין ס'ט
אל הדרת יקרת צפירת כגק מרנא ורבנא דוד הכבן החבר
For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, etc.
But for thee, O Lord, do I wait; it is thou, O Lord my God, who wilt answer.
The sl…
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Minute fragment from a legal deed
Informal note. In Judaeo-Arabic. Very vague; mentioning a "tadhkīr." (אלחצרה כלדהא אללה דכרת לי אלתדכיר ולם תדכר אלחאגה אלתאניה רגבת(?) בהא ולכם אלעאפיה ואלראחה סלמכם …
Verso (original use): Remnant of an address of a letter from Hārūn b. Binyām, sent to Abū Zikrī Kohen, who then reused it as scrap …
Receipt ("tadhkira bism...") for the capitation tax of Maʿrūf b. Yahūdhā al-Yahūdī, an indigo merchant (nīlī) and perfumer (ʿattār), in Fustat. See T-S AS 177.105 …
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Damaged, little preserved. Mentions wheat.
Receipt (?). Danānīr is readable but not much can be gleaned due to the damaged condition of the paper.
Legal document. Location: Alexandria. Dated: 48[..] AM = 1039–1139 CE. Involves [...] b. Yaḥyā and ʿEli. Also mentions Fusṭāṭ. (Information in part from CUDL)
Accounts in Arabic and Coptic numerals. Mentions names such as Sulaymān and Bū l-Majd al-ʿŪdī.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). [Sitt al-Sāda bt.?] Evyatar ha-Kohen and [Shelomo b. Abū] al-Riḍā al-Wakīl and Sālim …
Minute fragment from the top part of a letter by Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Halfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE), who is named …
Account. Computation of sums handled by a Parnas, ca. 1151. An anonymous parnas apparently farmed out the revenue of a certain section of the estates …
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Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: 19 Av 1466 Seleucid, which is 20 July 1155 CE. This bill of divorce is one of forty …
Order of payment from Muḥammad b. [...] b. [...] to Mufaḍḍal, instructing him to pay the bearer, the qāḍī Naṣr al-Dīn, 304 Kāmilī dirhams. See …
Recto: Legal document concerning ʿArūs b. Yosef and Sibāʿ al-Lādhiqī (cf. L-G Misc. 113 + L-G Misc. 115 (PGPID 4037)). In the margin is a …
Piyyut fragment. Information from FGP, the Ezra Fleischer Institute for Research of Hebrew Poetry in the Genizah at the Israel National Academy of Sciences, Lieberman …
Bifolio containing two pages of Hebrew poetry by Shelomo ha-Qaṭan. The other two pages are in Arabic script. One is accounts with Greek/Coptic numerals. The …
Writing/calligraphic exercises in Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic and Arabic. Recto, upper right quadrant: Formulae beginning with אדאם אללה and ادام الله in Judeo-Arabic and Arabic. Upper left …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Ketubba fragment. The part preserved mainly consists of the dowry list.
Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Fustat. Dated: Thursday, 25 Ḥeshvan 1371 Seleucid, which is November 1059 CE. Groom: Yosef b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. Bride; Milāḥ bt. Yosef, …
Business letter from a Maghribī merchant. Addressed to Yosef b. Yaʿaqov and Hilāl (or at least these names appear in the address) In Judaeo-Arabic, with …
Court record. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38), under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaon (1127–39). Dating: 1127–38 CE. Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. …
Letter in Arabic script.
Business accounts. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew, in two different hands (or at least pens/inks). There are also a handful of Arabic-script words and Greek/Coptic …
Draft of a legal document in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Refers to 100 dinars; ʿUlla; capital; and seven manns of …
Maʿamad (piyyuṭ) for Purim with a title page attributing it to R. Shela b. Nissim ha-Dayyan ha-Maskil
Letter from Egypt concerning agricultural business matters, mentions a pair of oxen purchased for ’15 large dinars’ and a pregnant young donkey for 4.5 dinars. …
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Recto: Petition or report from [...] b. ʿAbdallāh al-Juḥāfī to al-Shaykh al-Thiqa. In Arabic script. Dating: Probably Ayyubid-era, based on diplomatic features and the estimated …
Legal record (#16) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 2r-v of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew.. Location: Cairo. Dated 5 …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 12th or 13th century. Giving instructions and sending regards. Mentions Abū l-Riḍā; Abū l-Munā; his brother Abū Sahl; a …
Liturgical text in Hebrew; writing exercises; unidentified Arabic text (possibly an amulet). (Information from CUDL.) One of the sections lists names like Yiṣḥaq Kanzi, Yehuda, …
Letter from an unknown writer, in Alexandria, to Shem[arya?], in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Giving instructions about various business transactions, including yeast (khamīra) and perhaps basil …
Letter from Alexandria, the writer is a person from Ramla (who lived for twenty years in Baghdad). He writes to Mevorakh b. Se’adya ha-Nagid or …