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Recto: autograph responsa by Shemarya b. Elḥanan (active 966–1011 CE) with his signature. Verso: an abridgement of BT Yevamot 65b-72a. (Information from CUDL)
No Scholarship Records
Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment. There is Hebrew text on verso in a different hand, but seems too faded to read.
Minute fragment from the end of a legal deed. Very damaged. Only some signatures preserved: […] ha-Levi b. Avraham, Yehuda b. Moshe ha-Mumḥe. Reused for …
Unidentified text in Arabic script. Reused for Hebrew jottings. Dating: Maybe 13th or 14th century based on handwriting.
Attestation of the court of the Babylonian community in Fustat bearing the signature of Sahlan [b. Avraham] and dated 1355/1044.
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Litigation in court between the two partners, Farah and Yosef, concerning a business deal for merchandise that was apparently imported from Buna (Bone, Algieria) to …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Accounts. Two folios. In Hebrew and western Arabic numerals. Dated: [5]324 AM = 1563/64 CE. Includes at least one entry for expenses on redemption of …
Fragment of a petition (upper right corner). Preserved text: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم خلد الله ايام الحضرة السامية . . . الجلالية ناصرة ال . …
Probably accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Crude hand and spellings, known from other fragments.
Accounts of the Qodesh in the hand of Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya. Yefet (also called Ḥusayn b. Dāʾūd) along with the parnas Yaʿaqov b. …
In Thy Name, (oh Merciful)!
Record of the expenditures made in the estate of the Synagogue in the year 429
by Ḥusayn b. Daʾūd b. Shekh…
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Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Recto refers to Abū l-Rabīʿ al-Levi "my friend, the ascetic (al-zāhid)"; Rabbenu Yosef b. Menaḥem; and a commentary on …
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Legal document dated 2[.] Elul 1423 of the Seleucid Era (= 1112 CE). Mentions Efrayim ha-Kohen and Nathaniel. (Information from CUDL)
Small fragment
Blank?
Lower fragment of a ketubba from Fustat, about mid-12th century, according to the witnesses' identity. The bride's name is Sitt al-Ahl. The signatories are X …
Engagement (shiddukhin) contract. In Hebrew. Dated: 1 Tamuz 5569 AM = 15 June 1809 CE. Groom: Yaʿaqov ha-Levi Istanbuli b. Shemuel. Bride: Sara bt. Moshe …
Order of payment by Abu Zikri Kohen to Kalil for 1 ratl of oil.
Letter from (Yefet) b. David b. Shekhanya (بن داود بن شخنيا) to Abū l-Faḍl Hibatallāh/Netanʾel b. Ḥayyim(?). In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. …
Unidentified text in Hebrew. At one point after a small space reads ועכשיו אחינו ישראל suggesting it could be a communal letter or sermon. Dating: …
Small and much faded. Dinars are mentioned, seems to be from a legal deed.
Tax receipt? - needs examination.
Business accounts in Arabic script and eastern Arabic numerals. Late. AA
Minute fragment with a text in Hebrew script on the recto, very damaged. Medieval-era based on the paleography.
Pages from a manual of writing letters.
Non-Geniza. Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Shelomo (1755–1826) to Simḥa Yiṣḥaq Lutzki. Information from NLI.
Mercantile letter from a Maghribi merchant. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. Mentions Abū Yiṣḥaq; the group of the qāḍī [...]; and Nahray. (There are three …
Legal document. Small fragment. Perhaps a marriage contract (...tosefta ve-nedunya...).
Unidentified text, in Hebrew script.
Letter from Alexandria expressing the deep gratitude of the community after the appointment of an inspired teacher and judge. The letter was sent to Fustat …
The letters on folios 16 and 23 are both addressed to an Avraham b. Yosef ha-Levi. The former at least is signed by a Shabbetay …
Legal document mentioning [...] b. Ṣedaqa the elder. Almost none of the substance is preserved. May mention neighbors (jīrān). (Information in part from CUDL)
Piyyutim.
List of legal works, including Saʿadya’s Sefer ha-ʿEdot ve-ha-Sheṭarot. The verso probably has part of the name of the author or the owner of the …
Legal deed. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: Tuesday, 2 Elul 5319 AM, which is 1559 CE. In which Yiṣḥaq Luria Ashkenazi (the famous kabbalist) sells 8 1/3 …
List of names and numerical figures on recto, with accounts continued on the verso in a more concise format. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Letter. In Arabic script. Address only. Addressed to the faqīh [...] b. ʿAbd [...] b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, in the Muṣāṣa quarter of Fustat.
Accounts in Arabic script. Mentions gold, Sunday, ʿAbdullāh al-Ṣā'igh. Needs examination.
Court notebook. Two entries, each dated 7 Ḥeshvan 1643 Seleucid = 9 October 1331 CE. Recto: Record of a divorce. (Sitt al-)ʿArab bt. ʿAbdallāh received …
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Two pages from the ketubah of Yosef and Esther
Legal fragment. Location: Fustat. Dated: 13[..] Seleucid, which is 988–1088 CE. Needs examination to determine if any of the substance is salvageable. One of the …
Letter mentioning sums of money, the qāḍī, the qayyim, and Sulayman the khādim. Dating: After 1425 CE, as the ashrafī currency is used. The handwriting …
Letter from Avraham Ḥazzan. In Judaeo-Arabic. Written in a distinctive, rudimentary hand with some resemblance to T-S 12.271 but probably not the same scribe. The …
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Letter, possibly. In rhymed Hebrew.
Note in the hand of Nissim b. Iṣḥaq al-Tāhartī, ca. 1050, written for himself and for Nahray b. Nissim. Records details of a shipment of …
רב סלם ובלג ברחמתך וארחם אל
ראחמין(!) לנסים בן יצחק ונהראי בן
נסים ששכ ביעה מלונה וד ביעאת
עקוד תברורי [ובעץ גנדלו] ופיהא
ברסם יוסף ב…
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Legal fragment. Dated: 1[.]64 Seleucid, probably 1364 = 1052/53 or 1464 = 1162/63. Mentions someone called Ibn Abī קויס or קוים (Quwayyis? Quwaym? Qawīm).
Recto: letter in Arabic. Verso: Hebrew text, probably piyyuṭ. (Information from CUDL)
Accounts of the qodesh. In Judaeo-Arabic. Many people and professions and commodities are named. Mentions Dār al-Maqādisa; Darb al-Maqādisa; Dār Ibn ʿImrān; al-ʿAnbarī; Ḥashshāshīn; Bū …