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Letter opening from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: before 1048 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1025–1051 CE based on Shelomo b. Yehuda's …
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Halakhic discussion. In Judaeo-Arabic. Involves marriage laws and nikshei melog (usufruct property), citing Talmudic sources.
No Scholarship Records
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Non-Geniza. Letter from the Qaraite community of Jerusalem to the Qaraite community of Troki (אטרוקא). Dated: 1646 CE.
Hebrew poetry.
According to Goitein's attached notes, this is a letter from Hillel b. [...] to Nahray b. Nissim. There is no digitized image on FGP ("missing …
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Letter from Elazar Ha-Levi b. Yosef to Eli Ha-Kohen Ha-Ḥaver Ha-Me'ulle, Baniyas, beginning of the twelfth century.
Legal record (#21) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on ff. 8v-9r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 7 Tevet [5321] …
Legal fragment. Deed of gift of sacred books (מצחפין אלתורה אלכבאר ואלכתיב אלכאמל... אלמצאחף).
List of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Medieval era. Mentions quantities of gold dinar throughout the entries, with some crossed out. In a rudimentary hand previously …
IB V, 30a. Small piece of an account written by Abū Zikrī Kohen. (Information from Goitein’s index card)
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Spell book in Judaeo-Arabic.
Fragment from the middle of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Settlement of a dispute between husband and wife, imposing …
Private accounts, in Arabic script. Contains a few names against sums of money, probably in Coptic numerals. Needs examination. Verso contains pen trials, among the …
Fragment of a letter in Hebrew. The writer is mourning a death in the family (perhaps of one of his sons?) and asks "the whole …
Recto: Legal document. There is a single signature from the scribe Meʾīr Ben-Naʿīm, which he must have included before discarding this document as an unfinished …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The writer gives instructions to obtain various sums of money from various people: 3 3/4 dirham from [...] al-Sharābī, 10 dirhams …
General power of attorney. The presiding court is Qaraite (per Goitein). Location: Fustat. Dated: Adar II 1396 Seleucid, which is 1085 CE. Abū l-Ḥusayn Manṣūr …
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IB V, 37, folio 10v. Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hod is to give the bearer lemon and …
Formulary for a Karaite marriage document, edited by Judith Olszowy-Schlanger.
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Letter from Sibāʿ b. Surūr to Avraham b. Shemaʿya. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. All that is preserved here is formulaic blessings and the standard complaint …
Letter, probably. Content unclear. Three lines are preserved, and a few words in the margin.
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Acknowledgment of debt? Concerns the late Abū Saʿd, who willed half of 50 …
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Verso: Fragment of recycled paper with a single line of Arabic text (basmala), possibly from a larger document.
Receipt issued to the khuzzān of the Fayyūm tax districts against revenue delivered by Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Dated: 16 Ṣafar 404. Written by the …
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Part of a treatise, possibly on inheritance. Arabic (CUDL)
A colorful drawing of what looks like a man setting off a cannon.
Mercantile letter. Dating: probably 11th century. On verso vocalized piyyut. Needs further examination.
Recto: Letter from Barakāt b. Abū l-Faraj al-Dayyān (=Shelomo b. Eliyyahu) to Abū l-Ḥasan. In Arabic script. Pleading for a loan of 20 dirhams against …
مملوكه بن مملوكه صنيعته بركات بن الديان ابو الفرج
يقبل يدي المولى السيد الاجل المنعم المحسن المتفضل الكريم الشيخ
الجليل الفاضل الاصيل الكبير ال…
Legal fragment. Small piece from the upper right corner. Possibly a ketubba? Opens with the date (a Wednesday in the year [..]18). Location: Fustat. Not …
Magical spell formularies. Includes a spell apparently intended to arouse and agitate (tahyīj and izʿāj) a female target (fulāna bt. fulāna) for a male (fulān …
List of names of contributors, including many physicians. Ca. 1210 (Information from Goitein's index cards)
List of prices and perhaps an inventory with many values expressed in dinars on the verso. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Legal formulary in Judaeo-Arabic, or likely a literary work discussing legal procedure. Refers to a specific scenario and uses "peloni" to refer to the parties. …
A combination of exegetical responsa and criticism of an earlier commentator. Polemical remarks about the ignorance in Hebrew and Arabic of a halakhic scholar in …
Report on income from a province (ʿaml al-[...]) submitted to the diwan of al-Afḍal (i.e., the vizier al-Afḍal b. Badr al-Jamālī, r. 1094–1121). Some of …
Short letter to Abū Naṣr, asking for money both on account of the rent or wages of Avraham and on account of the capitation tax. …
Letter from a certain Raḥamim אלכואתיקין(?). In Hebrew. Dating: Possibly 16th century. The sender mentions that he previously pledged some money or property with the …
Testimony by Avraham b. Kabir about the receipt of a shipment belonging to a person who had died, Qayrawan, 978. Avraham b. Kabīr asks for …
Court record in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Fragment (vertical strip from the right side). Probably concerning payments to a …
Small fragment of a mercantile letter in Judaeo_Arabic. . . . אללה וטלעת . . . קבל אלמרכב . . . אלאכרם . . . …
Letter from Ḥusayn ibn Ḥasan al-Kanzī to the Nubian eparch Uruwī in Ibrīm. Ḥusayn informs Uruwī that the bearer of this letter brings with him …
List in Arabic, perhaps accounts. Very damaged and faded. Requires further examination.
Inventories of goods and their values. In Judaeo-Arabic. There are several subsections: (1) the thabāt(?) of the orphans/heqdesh; (2) a claim against the wife of …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, probably communal in nature– there are many communal lists from the turn of the 19th century matching this format (some of which …
Legal document. The body is almost entirely missing. The phrase "wa-hādhā rasm al-sheṭar/al-qiyyum" appears above the two sections at the bottom respectively. The main document …
Responsum in a literary style concerning a dispute between husband and wife, written in the hand of Yeḥiʾel b. Elyaqim (active 1213-1233 CE). (Information from …
Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 2 or 8 Dhū l-Qaʿda 405. Payment made …