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Accounts in Arabic on verso that were reused by at least two different medieval scribes. A more experienced scribe recorded Hebrew liturgical poetry and the …
No Scholarship Records
Fol. 1, recto: Legal document or letter concerning a legal case in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Mentioning somebody's property and whether certain items pertain to the …
Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to al-Ḥedvat. Handwriting of Avraham Maimonides. Letter of recommendation for the poor man al-Shaykh al-Kohen al-Talmid Abū l-Riḍā.
Responsum of R. Shalom Halahmi, p. 3 (Date: 1801–58). Published Glick, Sridei Teshuvot.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely ca. 12th century. The sender was pained by the news from the addressee's letter. "I did not cast it from …
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Letter from Abū l-Najm to Eliyyahu the Judge. In Judaeo-Arabic. Asking him to send the crimson red silk in his possession (al-maftūl wa-l-shaqīq) with a …
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Fragment of an account in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100-1138 CE). Mentions the price of silver; a piece of [...]; the price of …
Small receipt or order for 3 raṭls of something. The quantity is written three times: with a Hebrew numeral and a Coptic numeral at the …
Receipt for Hilāl b. Yūnus (?).
A manuscript of the pentateuch, only the last pages of it survive, including several colophons. The first, by the copyist, dates its completion to "the …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions Yosef; ʿAllūn; al-Naṣrānī; plaster; wood; days of the week; linseed oil; sesame oil; the …
Legal document, probably. In Arabic script. Faded/damaged.
Garshuni text. Only 2.5 lines are preserved. It is difficult to make out more than "...idhā... al-wuḥūsh taftaris..." Cf. Kiraz, "Learning Syriac and Garshuni in …
Judaeo-Arabic instructions for making amulets to be hung up, drawing on the power of Quranic verses (e.g. 53:1 والنجم اذا هوى). There is also one …
Letter fragment in Hebrew addressed to a dignitary named Moshe. Dating: probably 11th or 12th century.
Tax receipt or commercial account or receipt.
Legal document: deed of sale in Arabic for the purchase of part of a house. Abū l-Faraj Ṣemaḥ b. Ṣedaqa b. Ṣemaḥ the money-changer buys …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله وسلام على عباده الذين اصطفی
هذا ما اشترى صيمح ويكنى أبا الفرج بن صدقة بن صيمح الاسرائيلي الـ[ـ…
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Witness clause from the bottom of an iqrār. The witness is Aḥmad b. ʿAbdallāh.
Letter from Yaʿaqov to his father. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer had not received a letter from the addressee for some time (arjū shughl khayr). It …
Private accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script listing amounts of money owed to and by various people (for items of clothing?). Barakāt owes 140 dirhams. …
Halakhic treatise, possibly a responsum, concerning issues bridal gifts. (Information from CUDL)
Partnership agreement from Cairo, dated 13 October 1800 CE (24 Tishrei 5561 AM), between David Dayyan, Eliyyahu Palombo, and Avraham Ḥaqīm. The context of the …
Legal document. In Hebrew. Mentions 10 peraḥim of gold. Dated: Possibly 5263 or 5267 AM, which would be 1502/03 CE or 1506/1507. One of the …
Accounts, goods, and salaries, in Arabic script and Coptic alphanumerals. Late.
Monograph; laws of terefah; quotes the geonim Yehudai and Hai (info from FGP)
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and western Arabic numerals. Quite late.
Fragment of a letter from Mardūk b. Musa from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. March 8, 1048. Regarding a large shipment of letters from …
Ledger with many distinct entries in Italian, perhaps copies of letters. Needs examination.
Autobiographical maqāma by Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, ed. Schirmann. Discussed by Amir Ashur here: https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/departments/taylor-schechter-genizah-research-unit/fragment-month/fragment-month-8#_ftn2.
Possibly an account and some jottings
Letter from Babylonia to Shelomo b. Yehuda, approximately 1026.
Fragment of a letter mentioning [...] b. ʿAbd al-Karīm. Dating: probably Mamluk-era. (Information in part from CUDL)
Small fragment of a family and/or business letter. Refers to someone's illness (r2), and evidently the sender was also sick because God sent him health …
Letter from a communal leader to a Nasi. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer reports that he fulfilled what had been requested of him in the letter …
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Recto: Document in Arabic script. Medical prescription? Seems to list ingredients and quantities. But needs further examination.
Letter sent from Fustat by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu ha-Dayyan to Sitt Rayhan, expressing concern about her health (r3–11, v20, address), dealing with a house of …
Torn late legal deed on parchment regarding inheritance. At one point the deed shifts to the first-person: זרע מאשתי (child/descendant of my wife). Requires further …
Placard of a Spanish pilgrim to Jerusalem "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand wither [Psalms 137:5]. [I am] Avraham b. Yehuda—m[ay …
Book list: record of sale of the estate library of the physician Abū Saʿd, known as al-Sadīd. Two sale sessions: Tuesday 13 Kislev 1502 SE …
List, neatly written, of 26 people pledging gifts of 5 to 60. The ten most generous donors remain anonymous, the relevant entry being 'mattan,' which …
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Lists of names according to different households. (1) Netanʾel and his sons Yeshuʿa and Saʿadya; the latter's sons Netanʾel and Shemuʾel and Saʿadya and Yiftaḥ; …
Medical recipes in Arabic script.
Two lines from an official letter in Arabic script. Reused for liturgical text in Hebrew (same scribe as T-S NS 111.63?).
Letter addressed to "the noble amir" (al-amīr al-ajall). In Arabic script. The letter is on recto, with two lines continuing onto verso. The letter mostly …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Small fragment in Latin script. Needs examination.
Rabbinic text.
Recto and verso are two distinct petitions, in different hands. Unclear if/how they are related. Recto: Petition for charity apparently from someone under arrest (muʿtaqal), …
Minute fragment- few words in Arabic - needs examination.
List of names and debts. Including Abū Manṣūr Ibn al-Zaffān; al-Kohen; al-Shofeṭ; Abūand [...] b. Sulṭān.