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Verso appears to be accounts in a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Very faded.
No Scholarship Records
Upper fragment of a ketubba, very faded. Dating: probably no earlier than 13th century.
Letter mentioning Damascus and possibly Ramla (though Goitein subsequently read this word differently). Very faded. (Information from Goitein's attached notes.)
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Possibly a letter of recommendation for charity. Quite faded and damaged.
Dating: Probably 11th century. Very faded, but some commodities such as myrobalan and sums of money are preserved.
Dating: 11th or 12th century. Very faded and damaged. (Information in part from CUDL)
Verso: possibly a letter, written in a different hand. Very faded. (Information mainly from CUDL)
Dating: probably 12th or 13th century. Too faded to understand any of the content. (Information in part from CUDL)
The name "Yūsuf" appears in the address, but the rest is very faded. Needs further examination.
Receipt for the capitation tax of Nissim(?) b. Bū l-Faḍl(?) in New Cairo. Payment: 1 dinar. This receipt is squatter and sloppier than most.
Capitation tax receipt for the Jewish man Sālim b. Bū l-Faḍl for the year 621(?) AH. Landscape format. Needs further examination.
Unidentified text in Arabic script. Damaged and faded. Likely something religious or literary, but might be a letter.
Involves someone named Yoshiyya. Extremely faded. Needs examination.
Letter, mostly faded (the first few words of each line are effaced) written by Mevorakh b.
Medical recipes in Judaeo-Arabic, two folios faded with water damage but legible in most places. […] On the first folio's verso the unit of measure "אווק" is also in use which in medieval Geniza documents is similar to our current notion of ounces that are proportional to pounds (Goldberg, Trade and Institutions in the Medieval Mediterranean, xix).
Goitein at one time read it "Patan Patana," but the second word is rather ביעא ("sale"), and the first word is extremely faded; it needs to be checked in the physical manuscript. […] Nadiv ha-Levi. Buyer: Abū a-Mufaḍḍal al-Sayrafī b. Abū l-Ḥasan of the Nānū family. Price: 19 ½ dinars. The seller guarantees (=provides ḍamān al-darak) against ḥiyal, i.e., against anyone else laying claim on the slave whether in Jewish or Muslim court.
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Mentions Abū Yūsuf; robes; a ghalāla; something white (a miḥrām?) and a turban; al-Muʿallim al-Qalʿī (same person as the sender of T-S NS J35 (PGPID 4328)?). At the bottom of recto at 180 degrees there are four more lines in his hand, possibly from a letter (fa-qultu lahū . . . dhālika li-faḍlika. . .).
Mysterious document with multiple text blocks, all quite faded. It may begin on verso and continue onto recto.
Ḥelbo, addressed to a Jewish community (לכבודכם, although later uses singular אשריך). In Hebrew, written on parchment. Quite faded. The senders report that Yosef lived among them and was known for his good traits; that his ancestors were "[men of] a good name until the day they died"; that "he did not wish to take a wife"; that he requested this letter, addressed "to our brothers Israel...
Written and signed by the judge Natan b. Shelomo ha-Kohen; also signed by Saʿadya b. Menashshe ha-Kohen. Certifying that Abū l-Faḍāʾil b. […] Saʿīd has received 10 dinars from Abū ʿAlīal-Jubaylī, 7 1/8 in gold coins (ʿayn) and 3 in silver (wariq dirhams).
Faded page and a half of writing in Hebrew of unclear significance, perhaps a letter.
A lot of text is here, but it is extremely faded. Mentions Salmān b. Ibrāhīm and merchants and perhaps a period of time.
Verso: Reused for a Hebrew text, probably literary. The ink has faded to silver/white.
Bill of divorce from a betrothal (erusin). Very faded. No signatures. Dated: Looks like [4]903 AM, which would be 1142/43 CE.
Letter, very faded. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably no earlier than 14th century, based on handwriting and abbreviations.
Verso contains the name Abū l-Faraj in giant faded letters.
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Probably 11th/12th C based on paleographic grounds. Damaged/faded. Needs examination for content.
Arabic script, much of the text is faded but portions are legible in red ink. Vertical lines are visible on the recto and verso that were drawn neatly with a ruler.
Fragment, few lines a very faded Arabic script on recto and a sequence of Coptic/Greek numerals on the verso.
Fragment (lower left corner). Very faded. Mentions Abū l-Faraj, [...] b. Surūr and Shelomo ha-Nasi...
Letter in Hebrew. Very faded. Scattered phrases: גבולו ולהרבול שלום . . .
Deals with trade, including in pepper and flour. Mentions Abū l-Faḍl and Ibn Sibāʿ.
Mentions names such as Hibatallāh; Hiba Ṣabbāgh; Dāʾud; ṬĀhir and his brother; Abū l-Faḍl; Yaʿqūb; Ṭayyib.
The greeting section from the end, mentioning Bū l-Faḍl: . . . حضرته السامية باتم السلام . . . والشيخ بو الفضل . . .
Burhān, Faraḥ the writer's brother-in-law, Abū l-Faḍl, and someone titled Sayyidnā.
Regarding agricultural land in faddāns. Mentions the land is in a bad condition (ʾarḍ lā yuntafaʿ bihi).
Letter fragment addressed to the Nagid [Mevorakh] b. Saʿadya. Very faded. Refer to illnesses (amrāḍ. . . maraḍan. . .).
Letter in Arabic script. Very faded. Isolated phrases are legible such as "that which I desire from your grace and beneficence is...,' and, "by the law of Mūsā the son of ʿImrān!'
In Judaeo-Arabic. Extremely faded. סידנא ינצר אלינא בעין אלרחמה... עז עלי...
Seems to consist entirely of blessings and flattery, but it is very faded, so there might be more. In the hand of Ḥalfon b.
Reused for accounts (by Barhūn?). Long but very faded. Needs further examination for content. (Information in part from CUDL)
Small fragment of a list or letter. Mentions Fadāʾil; the Nagid (הדרת הנגידות); the neighbor of Rabbi Natan; and "let it be fast."
The ends of four or five lines are preserved, very damaged. Reused on verso for faded Hebrew characters, possibly literary.
Unidentified text in Arabic script. Very faded. Headed by a basmala. Might be literary - one phrase reads "and the king said" (four lines from the bottom).
Ibrāhīm. Very busy. Quite faded, too. There is the remnant of an earlier document on verso.
On parchment. Extremely faded and damaged. Involves Hārūn b. Avraham Tāhertī (תיהרתי).
Communal letter, partly in rhymed Hebrew and Aramaic. Extremely faded. The location of the addressees may be legible in the first line (אחים קהל . . . ).
Very faded and damaged Hebrew letter addressed to a community.
Family letter addressed to Sulaymān Abū l-Faḍl. in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 14th century or later.
The writer reports on his meeting with the prospective groom of the addressee's daughter, in which they reached an agreement that the man would go to Bilbays and betroth (yuqaddis ʿalā) the woman (al-ṣughayyira) there and maintain her until Shavuʿot (al-ʿAnṣara), at which time the wedding will take place (yadkhulu baytahu). […] He exhorts the addressee to be diligent in all this so that her daughter will obtain her livelihood/support. […] The writer mentions the army or army camp (al-ʿaskar) in connection with his own affairs. The letter is very faded in some places; this reading is provisional.