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Part of a letter. (Information from CUDL) Dating: likely ca. 13th century or later.
No Scholarship Records
Letter from Moshe ha-Kohen to Yeshuʿa ha-Sar, care of Abū l-ʿIzz in the market of the goldsmiths (sūq al-ṣāgha) in Fusṭāṭ. Mainly in Arabic script, …
Formulas of letters to VIPs.
Letter asking for charity in which the writer describes how “exacting” the upcoming holiday of Passover is in terms of expenses, noting that his "prayer …
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Letter in which a merchant returning, it seems from overseas, and embarking on another prolonged journey, lists 27 assets totaling 460 dinars regarding which action …
List in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic with many names and numerical values. Dated Elul 1459 Seleucid. Mentions al-Ḥazan al-Maghribī, Bu-Saʿīd, and many others. Requires further examination.
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Yiṣḥaq Ha-Kohen (?) b. Avraham, Fustat, approximately 1015.
1. [ ]ת ומפרצי הברכות ומרבצי ה[
2. [ מ]ליצי הזכיות וחפצי הלבבות ע[ם
3. שומע תפלות תהיינה לאח ביראה ורע בנפש כגק [יצחק
4. העלוב וסובל וייסור באה…
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Minyat Zifta. Husband: Yeshuʿa b. Yosef. Wife: Bita bt. Shelomo (ביתה בת שלמה). Dated: Thursday, 5 Nisan 1446 Seleucid, which …
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Legal fragment. Mentions [...] b. Avraham; another Avraham; merchandise which someone left with someone.
Two fragments from the beginning of a letter in Arabic script. Reused for Judaeo-Arabic accounts on the back (recto). Join: Alan Elbaum.
Ayyubid chronicle. Recto (the second page) is headed "[...] wa-l-Salāṭīn wa-Ibtidāʾ al-Dawla al-Nāṣiriyya" (referring to al-Malik al-Nāṣir a.k.a. Saladin). The time-span covered in the fragment …
Probably a liturgical piece with a few words of Arabic (probably not a document).
Letter from Yehuda b. Aharon b. al-ʿAmmānī, in Alexandria, to Abū l-Majd Meir b. Yakhin (Thābit), "the Glory of the Cantors," in Fustat. Dated: 14 …
Fragment of an Arabic letter or official report. Expressing a desire for somebody to sign something or issue a rescript (laʿalla annahū yuwaqqiʿahū).
Document in Arabic script. Very faded. On verso there is Hebrew literary text.
Business letter from Yiṣḥaq Nīsābūrī to ʿUlla Dimashqī. Mentions Alexandria, Ashqelon, shipments of rhubarb, and a business dispute brought to court. (Information in part from …
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Legal document (ḥujja) issued by the chief qadi court of Ottoman Cairo, al-Bāb al-ʿĀlī. Non-Geniza. Dated 19 Jumādā II 1051 AH (1641 CE). The document …
حي الله وك.ي
..را فية عنه …إليه سبحانه
عثمان بن احمد المنهاج(؟) الحنبلي
(seal)
بالباب العالي اعلاه الله تعالى وشرفه بالقاهرة المحروسة…
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Unidentified document in Arabic script. Official letter on one side and accounting on the other?
Account of Abu al-Maʿālī(?), specifying weight and prices of goods. On verso there are further accounts, involving ward murabbā (rose petal jam). Someone with the …
Recto (secondary use): Informal note from Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE) to ʿEli b. Yaḥyā ha-Kohen ("al-Parnas al-Neʾeman Raṣuy ha-Yeshiva"). In Judaeo-Arabic. Asking him …
Recto: Recipes for preparing different kinds of kohl. Verso: In a different hand, apparently alchemical recipes -- or at least they use many toxic minerals. …
Legal document in Arabic script. Record of a donation. Faraḥ b. Natan b. ʿAllūn donates a newly erected olive oil press with a mill wheel …
In the name of God, [the merciful and compassionate.]
This is what Faraḥ ibn Nāthān ibn ʿAlūn the Jew bestowed [ ...]
the press that has be…
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Fragment from the end of a legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: last decade of Adar 14[..] Seleucid = 1089–1188 CE. Two copies were made, or …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Probably a legal document. On parchment. Mentioning Mufarraj b. Yiṣḥaq and Yosef b. ʿAzarya. Arabic jottings below. (Information from CUDL)
Letter in Hebrew giving a detailed account of a dispute, apparently in the Muslim courts, regarding the flax trade, a legal document, and the validity …
Tax receipt.
Business letter to Karo y Frances from Nissim M[...], c. 1800 CE. (Information from CUDL)
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic - from the end of the 12th or first half of 13th century. Mentions "Sayyidnā may he live forever," which may be …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Only a few phrases preserved.
Letter in Arabic script. The letter is written in colloquial Arabic in full obeisance and flattery. Needs examination.
Fragment from a ketubba. Bride: ʿAzīza bt. Faraj. Signed by Efrayim b. Ṣadoq (active late 10th century) and Yosef b. Yaʿaqov. AA
Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Mentions a shop (ḥānūt), dyeing, and a period of 6 months (a lease?).
Accounts. Mentions al-Shaykh Bū l-Faraj, [...] Ibn al-Tilmīdh or al-Talmid, Abū l-Fakhr, Abū l-Ḥasan, and Manṣūr. The top two entries are crossed out.
Small fragment from the margin of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions the Rīf, Sambūṭya (=Sunbāṭ) and an old woman named Umm [...]. (Information in part …
Lists in Judeo-Arabic related to the week of the Bereshit parsha which range from an inventory for food items (recto), possibly for a shabbat dinner, …
Unidentified document(s) in Arabic script.
Order of payment. In Arabic, with a Hebrew "emet" at the top. Abū l-Karam is to pay 114 dirhams to the bearer. See T-S AS …
Letter or petition. Fragmentary. In Arabic script. Heavily reused for writing exercises on recto and possibly also between the lines of the original document. From …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Sephardi hand, probably late. Mentions the arrival of a ship. The sender is preoccupied about a lock (ען שאן אלקפל . . …
IB VII, 67. Letter from an India trader in Quṣ. Dating: late 11th–early 12th century (Goitein). The writer departed sick (wajiʿ) and arrived healthy in …
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List of some sort in Judaeo-Arabic.
Fiscal accounting ledger recording the monthly ground rent (ḥikr) payments for properties in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ made by Manṣūr b. Musallam/Muslim for the years 503 and …
List of the members of "House of Yehuda" and then "House of al-Umm?"
Beginning of a court record. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tammuz 1402 of the Seleucid Era (1091 C.E.). Avraham b. Ṭoviyya ha-Levi is mentioned, no other details …
Verso: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and eastern Arabic numerals.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic (recto) and Hebrew (verso). From the well-known scribe Abū l-Mufaḍḍal Shelomo b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya ha-Levi; Shelomo was active until ca. 1231 …
Letter from Faraḥ b. Ismāʿīl (not necessarily the same as the 11th-century merchant) to Ḥanokh (?) b. Avraham. Contains very detailed orders for materia medica …