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Fragment of a state document. Ayyubid? Interesting layout. One text block begins "uḥḍira ilā al-dīwān fī . . ."; the next mentions al-Shām. Needs further …
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Literary text in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Medical, at least in part. There is a section on tashwīsh al-qawlanj, which includes jaundice of the face.
Order of payment by Abū Zikrī Kohen; instructing Abū l-Khiyyār to pay the carrier of the order the price of mercury. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from Natan b. Nahray from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat.
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Book list written by Yosef Rosh Haseder. See Alloni, The Jewish Library, no. 100 (the shelf mark given there is TS NS 298.3, and should …
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Letter in Ladino dated August 8 1813 (12 Av 5573) to David Gatenio from Yehudah Gatenio (also written as Gatenyo). In the body of the …
Letter from the Mosul Nasi whom Gil refers to as Jalāl al-Dawla. Dated: Ḥannuka 1548 Seleucid = 1237 CE. Concerns in part a negotiation between …
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Judaeo-Arabic poetry.
Verso (original use): Fragment of an account in Arabic script. Fiscal? Might include the term ḍumanāʾ. Reused for a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic.
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: [14]41 Seleucid, which is 1129/30 CE. The parties are Abū l-Munā and his agent Faraj …
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Rent receipt(s) in Arabic script. Needs examination.
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Spell for protection while traveling. Very late. Verso is full of Yiddish text, probably related.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Nahray b. Nissim. Dated: 451 AH, which is 1059/60 CE. Goitein describes these as "important." See his note …
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Letter fragment from Yosef b. Yaʿaqov to Sar Shalom b. Hiyya. Damaged. Contains mostly blessings.
Legal record (#19) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 2v of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Undated, neighboring …
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The writer asks the addressee to retrieve all of the writer's books that are currently with the 'Rav.' They include parts of …
Verso: various jottings, including the draft of the opening of a letter to Abū Saʿd b. Moshe in Judaeo-Arabic. Expressing the writer’s desire to see …
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). A power of attorney appointing somebody to sue someone for a quantity of …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Verso: Six lines of accounts of debts on clothing, written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated Kislev 1431/ November-December 1119. (Information from Mediterranean Society, IV, p. …
Legal document. Handwriting of Hillel b. ʿEli? Location: Fustat. Mentions a guardian (apotropos). The original document was signed by [...] b. Shemarya, Moshe b. Elḥanan, …
Three related fragments in Latin script. Needs examination.
Accounts in Arabic script. Late.
Literary text in the hand of Abū Naṣr Ibn al-Ṭabīb.
List of Italianate names and corresponding monetary values, perhaps communal contributions. The paleography, ink, and pre-lined paper all point to the nineteenth century as a …
Karaite marriage contract, dated ca. 1000. Bride: Farajiyya bt. Yehuda. Groom: Yeshaʿya b. Yiṣḥaq. The dower is made in a mixture of regular dinars and …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and eastern Arabic numerals. Dating: 18th or 19th century. There are many joins in other Geniza collections.
Letter from Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy, in Alexandria, to Thābit b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṣabbāgh. Dating: ca. 1062. The writer mentions a shipment of goods and he …
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כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם תאידך וסעאדתך
מן אלאסכנדריה לה מצת מן מרחשון כתמה אללה עליה באחסן
כאתמה ען חאל סלאמה ונ…
Legal document or letter. In Hebrew. Very faded. Seems to be dealing with monetary issues? Only few a phrases can be read: והיה על אביהם... …
Debt acknowledgement in Hebrew. Dated 8 Sivan 5536 AM (May 1776 CE). Location: Cairo. Yaʿaqov Yaʿabeṣ/Yuʿbaṣ commits to repay a debt of 68.5 reales abūṭ[aqa] …
Legal note, probably for the drawing up of a proper document. In Arabic script. ʿAllun b. Ḥasan b. [...]ṭā al-Ṣayrafī owes 70 dinars to Mūsā …
Verso (original use): Beginning of a petition or letter to an official. Reused on recto for a tax receipt (see separate entry).
بسم اللـه الرحمن الرحيم
قد كان عبد الحضرة السامية الاجلية الشيخية الـ…. ـية ثبت اللـه مجدها
واهلك عدوها وضدها … على مشارفتها في يحا[ …
Minute fragment, only two words זוזי דכספא are preserved, probably from a ketubah. AA
Draft of the beginning of a letter. Top right corner, three fragmentary lines. Blank verso. Begins with a basmala and then 'katabtu ilaykum...."
Account. Revenue of the qodesh from rent, ca. 1230. A small strip of paper, of which the upper part is missing, written on both sides. …
Legal record (#43) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 15v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 20 Iyyar 5323 …
Recto: fundraising letter from the leaders of the Jewish community in Hebron to the leaders of the Jewish community in Egypt (16th-17th century). Verso: jottings …
Recto: State document in Arabic script. Maybe a decree. Only a few words are preserved: ]لى للفراج(؟) للتقضي(؟) . . . . . صولها
Writing exercises in Judaeo-Arabic in a 13th-century hand.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Quite long, and written in an elegant script. The addressee may be ʿArūs b. Yosef, as he reused the verso for accounts. …
State document, in Arabic script. Fragment from the beginning of a petition. Dating: likely Ayyubid or Mamluk.
Unidentified text in Hebrew. Small fragment. Likely literary.
Letter to a Nubian eparch in Ibrīm. Sender might be writing on behalf of a group of Muslim merchants as they refer to themselves in …
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Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions various sums of dinars and the government.
Court record from 1015 concerning a woman in Ramla appointing a representative to sue her Damascene husband who had disappeared two years earlier without leaving …
Recto: Accounts (or prescription?) in Arabic script. Sepiolite (zabad al-baḥr), 2.5 dirhams; rock salt (milḥ andarānī); white lead (isfīdāj); pepper (filfil); long pepper (dār filfil); …
Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower right corner of recto, upper right corner of verso). Refers to a woman's separation from the addressees; "your accompanying …