Documents

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Damaged and faded. Dating: late 12th or 13th century. May be the same hand as PGPID 2264

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Legal document, probably. Very faded. Mentions Moshe b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Kohen in the first line.

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Arabic

The name Yiṣḥaq Bū-Saʿad appears on the recto perhaps as a part of very faded accounts.

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Much faded and damaged fragment of a letter, not much can be saved.

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Arabic

Extremely damaged and faded. The word صراف might appear in the first legible line.

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Faded and damaged. Dating: likely no earlier than ca. 14th century.

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions the elder Abū l-Faḍl, the groom. Goitein dates it to the late 12th or early 13th century.

Related Documents

1

1 Discussion

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Very damaged and faded fragment of a letter written by Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Halfon (fl. 1100–1138 CE).

Related People

2

Tags

• halfon b. menashshe
• yefet b. menashshe

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Arabic

One line of an extremely faded Arabic text, probably a state document. Reused for Hebrew literary text.

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Arabic

Legal document(s) in Arabic script. Very faded. There is writing on both sides. Part of a date and witness signatures are preserved on verso.

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: Probably 11th century. Quite damaged/faded. Regards to Abū l-Faraj at the bottom.

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

(1) Mentions Muḥammad, al-Rav, and collecting and numbering and registering "copies[…] (5) Meeting with Mufaḍḍal al-Zajjāj and asking him to collect the money from Zikrī, and then pay it to Muḥammad[…] (6) Mentions Shemuʾel the son of the brother of al-Rav; the rest is too damaged to read. (7) If Zikrī al-Maghribī has paid the money, then he should collect 29 qirṭās for Matitya and three selected notebooks

Tags

• account
• business
• private

1 Transcription 1 Discussion

Primary language

Hebrew

Very faded document in Hebrew, probably a letter of appeal, as it mentions the writer's misfortunes and how he falls upon the mercy of the addressee and of God.

Tags

• appeal

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Natan, and a house. Quite faded.

No Scholarship Records

Document date

1089–1188 CE

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Seleucid, which is 1089–1188 CE. Very faded.

Related Places

1

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The phrase מגאלס לאנה is preserved, but the rest is very faded. The hand is reminiscent of some of Maimonides' descendants.

No Scholarship Records

List of calculations and possibly accounts in eastern Arabic numerals. Very faded yet with some legible text in the upper portion of the recto.

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Arabic

Mentions children being healthy. Quite faded. Needs examination.

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Arabic

The text on verso has faded out and not very legible.

Tags

• dimme

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Document in Judaeo-Arabic, very faded. Recording something which Umm Abū l-Ḥusayn said, possibly involving her children.

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Arabic

Legal document, in Arabic script. Quite faded. Witness clauses on verso with a partially preserved date: 3rd Rabīʿ I.

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Hebrew

Verso: Extremely faded letter in Hebrew, with wide line spacing. Portions of four lines preserved.

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Extremely smudged and faded. (Information from CUDL)

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment (lower right corner of recto). Extremely faded. (Information in part from CUDL)

Related People

1

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Note in Judaeo-Arabic. Quite faded. Mentions paying the prices of different medicinal syrups (shurba... murammal...).

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Fragment from the beginning of a letter. Very faded. Dating: 12th or 13th century. Reused on recto for pen trials of the beginning of a legal document.

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dating: 11th or 12th century. Recto is very faded and difficult to read. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.

Related People

1

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Bifolio of accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Faded and damaged and very difficult to read. Mentions various dates; a ruqʿa; and Abū Naṣr.

Related People

1

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The entire large page is preserved but the text is too faded to be legible. Verso seems to have the remnant of an address.

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions a ḥaver and contains a version of a taqbīl clause. Damaged and faded.

No Scholarship Records

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involves Bū l-Faḍl Shela ha-Levi.

Related People

1

Tags

• halfon b. menashshe

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Arabic

The beginnings of ~10 lines are preserved, very faded. There is a high concentration of recycled fiber emerging from the paper.

Tags

• paper

No Scholarship Records

Inferred date

1100–1138 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Damaged and faded fragment of a letter written by Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Halfon b.

Related People

2

No Scholarship Records

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Complete note written in both Arabic script and in Judaeo-Arabic. Crude hand. Quite faded. Mentions honey. Needs examination for content.

Tags

• bialphabetic

No Scholarship Records

Primary languages

Arabic, Greek/Coptic Numerals

The format of recto looks like an extremely faded (or erased?) tax receipt.

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Probably a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, but too faded to read. Phrases: פי אלסבת . . . עלי הדה אלמדינה . . .

No Scholarship Records

Possibly part of a ketubba, containing a dowry list. But very faded, and this is only a piece from the left side.

No Scholarship Records

Primary languages

Aramaic, Judaeo-Arabic

Bottom part of a faded and damaged court record, probably regarding a sail.

No Scholarship Records

Primary languages

Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Nativity horoscope for Hibatallāh b. Abū l-Faḍāʾīl. In Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic. Cf. Goldstein, "Horoscopes from the Cairo Geniza."

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Arabic

The name of the caliph is too faded to read, but Stern guesses it was al-Ẓāhir li-iʿzāz dīn allāh based on the length of the space in which case the chief qāḍī was Qāsim b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Muḥammad b. al-Nuʿmān, appointed in 418H. […] Appears also to mention the Dʿāʾim of al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān.

Related People

1

Tags

• chancery
• chief qadi
• da'i
• dimme
• mosques

1 Transcription 1 Translation 1 Discussion

Primary language

Arabic

Unidentified list in Arabic script. Very faded. On verso there is a note in Hebrew stating that a certain pamphlet (קטרס) belongs to the teacher ʿAmram b.

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Arabic

The end of one line from a state document in Arabic script (decree vs. petition vs. report). Quite faded. Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ.

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Arabic

Likely a letter (seems to be a first-person narrative: wa-waṣaltu... wa-dakhaltu...). Very faded. Needs further examination.

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Arabic

Letter in Arabic script with some Hebrew mixed in (בהיכלו). Faded and damaged. A portion of the address is preserved; the sender's name may be Sahl b.

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Hebrew

is mentioned in the first line. Very faded.

Tags

• late heb

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Ladino

Letter in Ladino, very faded and damaged. Part of the address is visible on the verso with honorifics, "ליד כבוד[...]

Tags

• cmp

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Arabic

Letter in Arabic script. Faded/damaged. The format is unusual—could this be a formulary?

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions various numbers and Abū l-Faḍl. Written by Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya.

No Scholarship Records

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Eliyyahu) and addressed to Abū l-Munajjā. The content is very faded.

Related People

1

No Scholarship Records