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Letter/petition in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment from the lower right corner. Wide line spacing. Mentions Daniel the great prince and 'great distress.' See also ENA 2735.14
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Fragments of responsum by a Gaon, dealing with children of female slaves.
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Letter regarding aid to a Maghribi who tried to settle in Jerusalem, before 1035
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Accounts.
Image not available. According to Schwab Catalogue: A communal document mentions Abu Saad ibn Hassun. AA
State-issued order of payment from the Treasury of Silk Looms in Alexandria. Date: 14 Jumāda II 1237 AH (1820 CE). A total of 150 kuruş …
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Letter from a brother admonishing Sitt Ikhtiṣār and Sitt al-Wasṭāniyya to take good care of their mother and younger sister (by pawning something to send …
IB IV, 53 (ח33). Letter previously thought to be from Abū Yaʿqūb Ibn al-Najera, somewhere in Spain, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel, likely in Lucena. Dating: …
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Geomancy.
Letter from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, probably in Qalyūb, to a family member, in Fustat. Fragment: left side of recto, right side of verso, tapering …
Digest of a deed of sale for a house. Mostly written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE) in his worst cursive hand. The …
Few words from the end of a legal document
Letter in Hebrew to the communal leaders of Sicily (maybe Palermo?). On the back is a writing trial from the book of Esther and some …
Legal document. Fragment (lower left corner). In Hebrew rather than Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 1 Av 48[24?] AM, which is (if correct) 1064 CE. Involves a woman …
Catalogue of the Ginzburg collection, No image
Letter of condolence to Binyamin Dayon in Qal'a
Alphabetical exercises probably in the hand of a child. Some of the phrases come from legal documents including the names Abū Manṣūr b. Nuʿmān; Fāḍil; …
Medical treatise, in Arabic script. On anatomy dealing with the vena cava (al-ʿirq al-ajwaf). Contains rubrication (use of red and black inks).
Halakhic text in Judaeo-Arabic, discussing priests and widows. The hand may be known.
Document in Arabic script, possibly a commercial letter. Dating: 18th- or 19th- century based on the paleography. A potential Common Era year appears in the …
Document in Arabic script. The ends of 8 lines are preserved. Small handwriting. Perhaps accounts? On verso there is Hebrew literary text.
Bifolio of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. One column is headed "al-maṣrūf" (expenditures).
Legal document concerning the financial claims of Yeshu'a Abu al-Khayr against Ovadya. Goitein describes the endeavor as "civil law" (אלחק פי מא בינהם) adjudicated by …
Informal note to Abū l-Riḍā ha-Talmid ha-Vatiq (appears also in T-S 10J4.14 (PGPID 3017) as al-Wathīq). Dating: ca. early 13th century. The sender reports that …
Formulary of legal documents, with פֿבֿפֿ written in place of the names. The types of document are given above the text of each, and they …
Fiscal document in Arabic script. May mention a year at the top ([..]9), and elsewhere mentions various other numbers. In the main text block refers …
Accounts, probably. Needs examination.
Legal document. The beginnings of 8 lines are preserved. Involves 3 dinars, a druggist, and someone named Ṭāhir.
Unidentified document in Arabic script, probably legal or official.
Fragment of a marriage contract between ʿEzra b. Menahem and Jawhara bt. [...], a virgin. Dating: mid-11th century, since ʿEzra b. Menaḥem signed T-S 10J28.2 …
Karaite betrothal deed, torn along the right margin. Dated 17 Adar I 5502 AM (1752 CE). Location: Cairo. Th groom is Avraham b. Yosef b. …
Receipt for Mufaḍḍal b. Barakāt of 1 dīnār and 2/3 dirhams for qand/sugar.
Marriage contract from Damascus, 956 CE (10 Nisan 4716 AM), which records a marriage gift of 225 dinars (of which only 25 were advanced) and …
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Non-Geniza. Letter from the community of Veliky Novgorod (? עיר חדשה) to the community of Brisk (=Brest). In Hebrew. Dealing with distressing edicts and a …
Court record. Written and signed by Hillel b. ʿEli. Dated: Thursday, 23 Kislev 1401 of the Seleucid Era (= December 1089 CE). On the day …
Fragment of a letter in Arabic script, likely an appeal for charity or assistance. . . . ولا خلوت من تطوله(؟) وافتقاده . . . …
Letter from a man to his 'brother' Abū l-Khayr and to his brother Manṣūr al-Dhabbāḥ, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. …
Verso: Letter or official document in Arabic script. The ends of 4 lines are preserved. Reused on recto for Deuteronomy 16:9-12; 16:16-17. (Information from CUDL)
Letter, probably a correspondence between two officials, in Arabic script, with the "inhāʾ" formula and tarjama. The sender reports (yunhī) on a man who owes …
A story in Judaeo-Arabic, involving Rabbi Yehuda and Rabbi Meir and a woman who tries to sate her desire with the latter while he remains …
Letter from Natan Ha-Kohen b. Mevorakh, Ascalon, to Eli Ha-Kohen b. Hayyim, Fustat, approximately 1090.
כולם ליקר כגק מר ור
List of names in Judaeo-Arabic, with numbers and some Arabic script. Crude hand. Alms distribution list? E.g., Manṣūr, Ibn Fuḍayl, Sitt Ṭāwūs, the sister of …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, 1100-1138 CE. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document. Fragment (lower left corner). Dated: Av 1461 Seleucid, which is 1150 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. None of …
Query about niddah submitted to Abraham Maimuni by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu-- see Goitein Nachlass material
Seems like a list of prices, but only little text is preserved. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100-1138).
Letter. Business letter from Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi b. Simḥa al-Nīsābūrī to the parnas ʿŪlla ha-Levi recommending a young Jewish man and describing him as being very …
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Commentary. Several text blocks, all of which seem to be commentaries on the name and character of Avraham. Late script. ASE.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Reporting on a legal dispute in a provincial town involving the redemption (from captivity?) of the sisters of Abū l-Najm for 50 …