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Inventory of books. Dating: 16th century. The current location of this mansuscript is unknown. Harkavy's personal collection of Geniza manuscripts are owned by the Vernadsky …
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A strikingly scorched fragment of Esther.
No Scholarship Records
Awaiting description
Arabic script (Naïm Vanthieghem; description to come). (This seems erroneous - the fragment only has a Hebrew liturgical text on it.)
Order for 5 raṭls of something. In Arabic script. On recto there is a list of names in Arabic script with Greek/Coptic numerals.
Letter fragment from Yisrael b. Natan, in Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat, ca. 1060, the 17th of Tamuz. Mentions Ramla. (Information from Ed. Gil, …
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Notebook of Hebrew alphabetical practice, ten folios. Early modern.
Betrothal document, Qaraite. Location: Cairo. Dated: Sunday, 20 Sivan 5448 AM, which is 1688 CE. Groom: Yeshuʿa b. Avraham ha-Ḥakham ha-Rofe b. Aharon ha-Rofe ha-Ḥakham. …
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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Raʾs al-Seder. One word in Arabic script on verso (خط).
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. List of dozens of items for a druggist's store. Quantities and prices (the latter in Greek/Coptic numerals). Items include Indian myrobalan and …
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Leaf 1: Arabic list of names (possibly part of an account) and some jottings Leaf 2: Recto: Judaeo Arabic list of purchases and expenses (including …
Order of payment. Maḥfūẓ is to pay the bearer Sālim (or Maḥfūẓ and Sālim are to pay somebody else?) something. Cf. T-S AS 146.22, T-S …
Letter probably sent from Alexandria to Fustat in the early 13th century. Flattering greetings are sent to Eliyyahu the Judge and his son Abū Zikrī. …
Letter addressed to a dignitary (Rosh ha-Qahal) in rhymed Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Very elegantly written; wide space between the lines; many vowels and diacritics. Most …
Letter sent from Barūkh Rafūl Serūr to his father updating him on the circumstances of the family – 17 Tishrīn al-ʾAwwal 1929CE – (number 21) …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter from the Yeshiva Ahava VeAhva reporting on the increased participation in services – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 49) – in Arabic. (information …
Brief text in Hebrew, document type or literary genre is unclear (colophon?). Almost none of the main text is preserved except the conclusion וכן יהי …
Minute fragment from a ketubah, which can be dated to 1178 onwards thanks to the remains of the immersion clause which started to appear in …
Minute fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter, probably. The word mutafaḍḍil is preserved.
Letter/petition from a certain ʿĪsā to [...] al-Khawlī. Dating: Probably Ayyubid or Mamluk-era. Needs examination.
Poem of praise for a scholar visiting Alexandria, and for an Avraham, possibly the scholar himself. Written by his brother, Hananel. (Information from Goitein's index …
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Letter fragment, probably. In Hebrew and possibly some Judaeo-Arabic. Includes the phrase common in letters of appeal, 'his reward will be from heaven.'
List of debts. Written by Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya. AA
Documentary per FGP - needs examination.
Legal document. Partnership record (shirka). Location: Fustat. Dated Sunday, 5 Adar 1403 Seleucid (February 1092 CE), with the signatures delayed until 27 Adar 1403 (8 …
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Verso: note possibly in the hand of Ḥananʾel b. Shemuʾel. Order of payment, instructing al-Raṣuy to give 5 nuqra dirhams and 15 wariq dirhams to …
Literary. In Hebrew. Late.
Fragment of a Maghribī business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th-century. The handwriting looks like that of Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tahartī. Mentions obtaining 'ḥashīsha' from the …
Letter, possibly. In Hebrew. Describing trials and tribulations and mentions fugitives.
Fragment of a literary text in Judaeo-Arabic, on recto and verso. The paleography supports a dating estimate of 16th-century or later. The verso is recorded …
Part of the opening of a ketubba. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Dated: 23 Av 1391 Seleucid = 11 August 1080 CE. Groom: …
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. The sender has sent a white robe (farjiyya bayḍāʾ), possibly to be dyed. Also mentions the tailor (al-khayyāṭ).
Colophon for a book of Shimmush Tehillim, written for Yiṣḥaq b. Efrayim ha-Kohen. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Medical treatise in Judaeo-Arabic. Includes instructions for the Mithridates antidote.
Business accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions names such as the wife of Ibn al-Malīḥ(?) (in connection to a gold needle); Abū Isḥāq; …
Recto: legal fragment. Probably a power of attorney (אביזאריה). Reused on verso for Arabic-script accounts or jottings. (Information in part from CUDL)
Small bifolio of private accounts with dates, commodities (including garments), names and numerals. Rudimentary hand and spellings. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter addressed to a certain Abu Ibrahim Ishaq, dated in the month of Marheshvan (the rest of the date is missing), and mentioning equipment of …
Epistle that is humorous in Judaeo-Arabic that opens with praises to God "who rounded the walnut. . . and put the whales in the sea. …
Bifolio from the account book of a real estate broker who also kept some agricultural property. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 1233–36 CE. Names mentioned: the children …
Letter (petition) addressed to a certain notable named Perhaya. AA
State document, extremely fragmentary. The name of the Fatimid Caliph al-Mustanṣir is written "al-Mustanṣir Billah Amīr al-Muʾminīn."
Prayerbook in Spanish or Judaeo-Spanish. In Latin script. Containing the yaʿale ve-yavo prayer for Rosh Hodesh as well as a portion of the liturgy for …
Recto: Small fragment from a legal document, probably. Describing mercantile affairs. Verso: Recipe of some sort, maybe a medical prescription.
Small fragment of accounts.
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Wide space between the lines. Only three lines from the introduction have been partially preserved.
Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (thin vertical strip from the right side of recto). Either to or from Abū Isḥāq Avraham. The sender arrived safely …
Liturgy and blessing as an opening for a book list - needs examination. No image