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Verso (original use): Probably a letter, in Arabic script. Eight lines are preserved, with wide line spacing and a large right margin. Dating: likely no …
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Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyār, instructing him to pay al-Rayyis Abū Saʿd 6 dinars. This may …
Letter from Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat, to Abū l-Surūr Faraḥ b. Ismāʿīl b. Faraḥ, in Būṣīr. Providing instructions about purchases to be made in …
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Letter from Ṣemaḥ b. Yiṣḥaq, gaon of Sura, to Elḥanan b. Shemarya, ca. 990. Contains information about Ṣemaḥ b. Yiṣḥaq and about the academy of …
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Late letter in Hebrew signed by ha-ṣāʿir Meʾir [...]. Written in an elevated register with many expressions of self abasement and flattery. Needs further examination.
Recto: Official-looking correspondence in Arabic script. Mentions 11 dinars, something related to the government (al-[...] al-maḥrūsa), the year 610 (=1213/14 CE) or 620 AH (= …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Writing on both sides. (Information from CUDL)
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Dated: 962 AH, which is 1554/55 CE. (Or possibly just 960 AH.) Involves ʿAbd al-Karīm b. ʿAlī b. …
Mysterious text with alternating lines of Hebrew script (mostly Aramaic, it seems) and Arabic script, many or all of which are glosses on the former. …
Fragment of a bifolium of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated in the year 946 AH (1539/1540 CE) on the verso. For similar usage of the letter …
Fragment of a business letter. InJudaeo-Arabic, in an untrained hand. Mentions names such as Abū Saʿīd al-Sūrī (=al-Surrī?), Abū Munā (=Abū l-Munā) al-Skandarānī; and Abū …
Arabic account - needs examination. Various entries beginning "bi-rasm...." including an amīr. Possibly also "muʿālaja" (treatment by a physician?).
Letter fragment from a group of Byzantine Jewish captives being held for ransom in Egypt (probably Alexandria), to the Nagid Yehuda b. Seʿadya. In Hebrew. …
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Mercantile accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably 11th century. Mentions Maymūn.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Fragment of a ketubba, mentioning different quantities of dinars and mandīl ‘cloth’. (Information in part from CUDL)
Legal record. Partnership agreement. Dating: 1156. Summary of contract terms wherein Abū al-Faraj b. Ghilāth invests 150 dinars and Tamīm al-Sukkarī, the active partner, invests …
Bottom part of a letter referring to a Jewish community (שלקהלת ש . צורץ(??)). No further details preserved.
Verso: Note addressed to a certain Abū l-Ḥasan in Arabic script. Most of the words are legible but the instruction/request is not entirely clear: ينعم …
Probably a letter, minute fragment. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from an unknown writer, probably in Hebron, to his wife (addressed as al-Sitt al-Jalīla), probably in Fustat. Addressed to al-Shaykh al-Muhadhdhab al-Khayyāṭ (the tailor), …
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Arabic script (VMR)
Karaite halakhic ruling regarding the inheritance of an unmarried daughter sent to Binyamin Dayun from Ishaq
Recto: Letter in Arabic script. Fragment (upper right corner). With text in the margins. Begins with a basmala and the phrase 'mamlūk al-ḥadra al-sāmīya' (the …
Verso: Three fragments of a letter from from Yehuda b. Ṭoviyya ha-Kohen, in Bilbays, to Avraham Maimonides. In Judaeo-Arabic. He reports that he fulfilled the …
Unidentified document in Arabic script, probably accounts. Looks late. There are several likely joins in T-S NS 305.
Placeholder [ASE] - two different Arabic documents
Letter from a ḥaver of the Jerusalem yeshiva, identified by Frenkel as probably Yaʿaqov b. Yosef the leader of the community of Aleppo, probably in …
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Legal document. Small fragment. Involves the garment mender (al-raffāʾ) Yiṣḥaq b. Elʿazar and a certain Yefet.
Fatimid state report. Dating: beginning of the 12th century, during the reign of al-Afḍal. Describes a battle against the Crusaders. This fragment reports on the …
... of the purity of his heart and the nobility (literally: cleanness) of his disposition [ ]
and his impetuonsness for the defence of Islam and…
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Non-Geniza. Letter from the Qaraite community of Jerusalem to the Qaraite community of Troki (אטרוקא). Dated: 1646 CE.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably a mercantile letter of the 11th century. The name "Yūsuf" appears in the address, but the rest is very faded. Needs …
Dowry list for the marriage of Bū l-ʿIzz b. Mūsā and Najmiyya bt. Yosef b. [...]. List of items with Greek/Coptic numerals. Some Arabic notes …
Minute fragment from the end of a legal deed. There is a grid drawing on the back. AA
Commentary on Devarim by Shemuʾel b. Ḥofni Gaʾon. There is an ownership note for Yakhin b. Ḥalfon.
Verso, 90 degrees: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Rosh ha-Seder. Mentioning several scribes and skins (presumably as writing surface). The …
Fragment from a letter, possibly mentioning a deed(?) and the Talmud. Approximately 5 lines are preserved. Wide space between the lines. It is not clear …
Legal document. Small fragment. Involves someone named Efrayim, a woman, and al-Sammanūdī; also involves a debt and a document that was lost.
Book list in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi. See T-S K3.41 for a similar booklist in his hand (possibly but not clearly a …
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Sahlan b. Avraham. Dating: 1048 (per Gil) and ca. 1034–1049 CE based on the years when Sahlan b. Avraham …
Legal document recording the receipt by a woman of the inheritance due to her from the administrator of intestate succession in Tinnīs. Dated: 10 Rabīʿ …
Verso: Draft of the opening lines of ʿAlī b. ʿĪsā's Tadhkirat al-Kaḥḥālīn. ASE
List and accounts mentioning the names of Muslim months, personal names such as Abū l-Surūr al-Levi, Abū l-Munā and Abū l-Faḍl Sar ha-Leviyim, various sums …
Letter, very faded, in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning an Abū Avraham b. [...] and an Abū Sahl and "the boys."
List of names with Coptic numerals. Names include Faḍl Allāh; Dāʾūd; Ibrāhīm; al-Rashīd Ibn Iṭfīḥī; Muḥammad b. Maḥmūd. Resembles T-S NS 297.31 (PGPID 24869).
Letter segment from Avraham b. Saadya the Hebronite, Bilbays, to Shelomo b. Shelah, probably in Fustat, beginning of the twelfth century.
Literary. Hebrew poems, including by Yehuda ha-Levi and Avraham Ibn Ezra.