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Siddur with colophon by Obadiah the Proselyte. "Obadiah the Norman Proselyte who entered the covenant of the God of Israel in the month of Elul, …
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Letter from Yiṣḥaq bayt ʿAṭṭān, in Syracuse, to Moshe b. Yehuda, in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Last quarter of the 15th century. Contains a colorful …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Ṣedaqa b. Khalaf b. Fuhayd, in Tyre, to al-Shaykh al-jalīl Abū Isḥaq Ibrāhīm Ibn al-Sheviʿi. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late 11th century …
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Legal deed. In Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Cairo. Dated: End of Sivan 14[..] Seleucid, which is 1089–1188 CE. Very faded.
Hebrew formulary of congratulations for a Nagid at his appointment. (Information from Goitein’s index card)
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Drafts of documents and jottings. There are some intriguing phrases, including "al-ʿabda" (usually a female petitioner) and report of something that people said to the …
List of the tractates of the Mishna in a non-traditional order. (Information from CUDL)
Release granted by Hiba al-Labbān b. Abū Naṣr, the brother and heir of the late Abū l-Ḥasan al-Mustaʿmal, to his sister-in-law Bushr bt. Abū l-Faraj, …
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Accounts in Arabic script and Coptic numerals. Needs examination.
Letter fragment addressed to 'Rabbenu.' In Judaeo-Arabic. Moderately wide space between the lines. Reporting on some event. On verso there is a piyyuṭ. (Information from …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Recto (secondary use): order from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu for oxymel (sakanjabīn) and two kinds of syrups (sharāb). Verso: Draft of the opening of a letter …
Letter fragment (bottom half) in Judaeo-Arabic, addressed to an important person (perhaps Avraham Maimonides). Dated: Middle decade of Elul 1541 Seleucid = August 1230 CE. …
Table of contents of a responsa collection
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Very rudimentary hand and spellings. Mentioning a waṣiyya (advice/exhortation). Requesting an urgent response. Regards to the addressee's siblings and mother and …
List: “Register (thabat) of the names of the elders who...” written upside down on the reverse side of a list of payers of incomplete capitation …
First page probably of a larger quire containing musaf piyyuṭim for Yom Kippur. On the cover page it says "belonging to Shemuʾel b. Ṣedaqa ha-Melammed," …
Letter in which an ophthalmologist named Moshe blames his assistant who was also his relative for having left without giving him details about the various …
Letter in Ladino from Shemuel Sidi to his brother-in-law Gabriel Conforte relating to business transactions (17th century). Lines 8-9, 15 mention a variety of individuals …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated in the month of [Ju]mada I 944 AH (דמ׳׳ץ) or 1537 CE, with tzade sofīt ץ indicating 900 rather than 90 …
Fragment of a state document in Arabic script. Portions of two lines are preserved: "... wa-yuṭlaq mā yajib li-baqiyyat(?) shuhūr... min māl...." Reused for a …
Literary, Hebrew.
Fol. 2v (lower section): Fragment of a mercantile letter in Arabic script. The sender refers to someone who was delayed in Rashīd (Rosetta). Also mentions …
Legal notes in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Quite faded. Mentions Netanʾel b. Saʿadya; [...] b. Shāhid(?); a ruqʿa; Barakāt Yosef(?); …
10 pages of Hebrew poems and/or piyyutim. Headings are in Ladino (e.g., "el triste amador") and Hebrew.
Non-Geniza, probably. There are six items sharing this shelfmark.97/1: Crimean. Story in Hebrew about events that took place in 1760 involving Khan Qirim Giray and …
Fragment of an Arabic state document mentioning 600 dinars and a decree (sijill): ستمائة دينار يلزمها السجل وال . . . . . Reused on …
List of beneficiaries receiving clothing (jūkāniyya) via the local parnas Abū l-Faraj. Also mentions ʿAllūn al-Parnas. Information from JRL catalog.
Damaged, late fragment, probably a list of deliveries made and the amounts paid or due. [I think it is 11th or possibly 12th century - …
Recto: Fragment from the bottom of a communal letter, with wide line spacing. Dated: Adar 1463 Seleucid = February/March 1152 CE. Potentially from the office …
Verso: Accounts in Arabic and Coptic numerals. On recto there are various Hebrew blessings (pen trials? hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu?)
Leaf from an Arabic literary work.
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: 20 Shevaṭ 1354 Seleucid = 3 February 1043 CE. Written and signed by the cantor Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya. …
Legal record (#123) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 40v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated: 28 Sivan 5329 …
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Mamluk-era legal document, in Arabic script.
Debt acknowledgment. Dated 4 Nisan 5408 AM (1648 CE). Location: presumably Cairo, based on the paleography and surnames mentioned. The partners Avraham Levi Qudsi b. …
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe probably to one of his brothers. Fragment (upper right corner of recto). Mentions having sent an ʿIrāqī good and a …
Letter from a husband, probably a merchant belonging to the elite, to his wife of a second marriage. In Judaeo-Arabic. He expresses his yearning and …
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Ex libris of Moses b. Shiṭrīt (משה ן שטרית) with Arabic transcription of the Hebrew (17th/18th century) (Info from FGP)
Partnership release. Dated: 1091. Location: Fustat. Verso: Avraham b. Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen irreversibly releases Abū l-Faḍl/Abū l-Mufaḍḍal Netanʾel b. Yefet from any obligations concerning a partnership. …
Fragment of a poetic letter in Hebrew addressed to a scholar: פלפוליו בתלמוד סברים צהלו נא ורנו תל[מידיו?] קדמו פניו בתורה ושמרים רוציו אלי . …
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe probably to one of his brothers. Perhaps to Peraḥya, since Abū Saʿīd (probably Ḥalfon) is greeted at the bottom. Fragment …
Court record in the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (active 1100–38 CE). Ḥasana bt. Yehuda demands the possessions of her brother Shemarya/Maḥfūẓ from his …
Small receipt or order, probably for 9 raṭls of something.
Court notebook containing several documents. Dated in the first document as 21 Av 1394 Seleucid, which is 1083 CE. The document entries include: (i) Marriage …
Small fragment of a letter in Hebrew. There is a poetic introduction with praises. In the margin refers to "his son my master the Rav" …
Bottom of recto (secondary use): Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions names such as Ṭāhir, Bū l-Faḍl, and Bū l-Majd. Sums at the …
Probably a letter, needs further attention. AA
Legal query addressed to a Muslim faqīh. In two drafts. In Arabic script. Concerning a Jewish man who teaches medicine in public and in the …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين
ما تقول ائمة الدين فقها المسلمين ايدهم الله
رب العالمين في يهودي يقري علم الطب على
قارعة الطريق وفي…