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Damaged fragment from a legal deed. AA
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List of goods in Judaeo-Arabic, two columns. The dating is likely 16th- or 17th-century based on the paleography. Some of the goods mentioned include: walnut …
Legal document, in Arabic script. Emanating from the anwāl al-ḥarīr (bureau of silk looms) in Alexandria. Needs examination.
Letter in Ladino to Avraham from Shemuel b. [...]. Twice refers to a matter of a nursemaid, possibly referred to as a "whore" (אקיליא זונה …
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Letter, probably, though the layout is literary. Might be a literary text conveying the text of a letter. The addressee is Yaʿqūb ("yā muʿallim Yaʿqūb"). …
Ketubba fragment. Dating: Perhaps 10th or 11th century (Goitein just writes "old.") Vertical strip from the middle. The dowry list mentions a bed of shisham/sheesham …
Poem for a groom.
אחר לחתן
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Accounts.
Recto is a fiscal account (either reused for the tax receipt or was later reused) with multiple streams of accounts, recording payments for ten days …
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Business letter from Zikrī b. Khiyār to ʿArūs b. Yosef, in Fustat. The writer informs him inter alia that the only commodity which sold well …
Note from Abū Thābit al-Ṣayrafī to a certain Rabbenu Shemuel asking him to declare a ban of excommunication against whoever cast a spell on someone …
Fol. 6: Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi to his brother Abū Saʿīd Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Fragment (right side of recto). …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letters in Judaeo-Arabic. Recto is from a son to a father (in Fustat?), and verso seems to be from the father to the son (in …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic from a commercial notebook. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Seems to be for purchases of wood (שרא …
Two bifolios of a notebook containing various types of text in a mixture of Hebrew and Arabic (in Arabic script). The first page includes a …
Fragment (top) of a letter to [...] b. Menaḥem ha-Levi ‘Av Bet Din of the House of Meeting (שלבית הועד).' On parchment. (Information from CUDL …
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Small fragment of a legal document, probably.
Recto: agreement regarding a three-storey house. Location: al-Maḥalla al-Kubrā. Dated: Adar II 1432 Seleucid = February/March 1121 CE. The parties involved are Yeshuʿa b. Yeshuʿa …
Legal document. Dated: 1482 Seleucid = 1170/71 CE. Concerning the financial rights of the widow of a certain Ṣedaqa. Mentions Ḥārat Zuwayla in New Cairo; …
Letter from Matitya Ashkenazi, in Rashīd, to his son Asher, in Fustat/Cairo. In Hebrew. Dating: second half of the 16th century. The sender reports on …
Accounts in Judeo-Arabic listing a variety of individuals and corresponding monetary sums in "silver / פצה" that were recorded on a grid original drawn with …
Letter to [...] b. Yosef, mentioning names such as [...] b. Ibrahim and Abū l-Karam, and Damietta. (Information from CUDL)
One of several copies in the Geniza of the language primer eş-Şüzûrü'z-Zehebîye, in Judaeo-Arabic with interlinear translations into Judaeo-Turkish. Identification by Matthew Dudley and Alan …
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Release in the name of Naṣrallāh b. Salmān b. [...] al-Skandarī, in which he declares that he has no further claims …
Letter of complaint from the administrator of the Quppa (the bread basket of the community) in Alexandria to R. Avraham the Nagid. Alexandria had a …
באלכסנדריה הייתה נהוגה קופת צדקה שחולקו ממנה כיכרות לחם לנזקקים. כותב מכתב זה היה 'מֻפרק אלקופה', כלומר המנהל האחראי על חלוקת הכיכרות. המכתב מופנה אל…
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Order of payment issued for the ṣarrāf Mūsā Naʿīm (Moshe ben Naʿim) involving the Dīwān Anwāl al-Ḥarīr in Alexandria and a certain al-Ḥajj Muḥammad Kh..iyya. …
Colophon on the verso of a Qur'anic writing exercise, Cairo. Dating: 1872-1897 CE. The colophon identifies its young author as affiliated with Madrasa al-Qarabiyya, one …
Fragment of a decree, probably. The only phrases preserved are a reference to the caliph ("al-imām al-ʿĀḍid li-Dīn Allāh Amīr al-Muʾminīn," r. 1160–71) and "ʿalā …
Verso: Letter addressed to a certain Abū l-Faraj. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer has been sick ever since he last saw the addressee, and his illness …
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic to Karo y Frances & Company.
Fol. 1: small fragment of a bill of divorce drawn up in Amadiya (כאן [עמ[דיא]) Fol. 8: End of a legal document. Location: Kirkuk (כרכוך). …
Letter from Avraham b. Farrāḥ, Alexandria (probably), to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Ca. 1066. Mentions a number of goods: ṭarṭar (a kind of mordant or …
.... מודה לו ברהים בן פראח נ"נ האלכסנדרוני.
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Accounts and lists in a register (FGP)
Damaged fragment from a betrothal deed, written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100–1138 CE), and signed by [Is'haq b. Shemuel] the Spaniard, so can …
Arabic work on fiqh.
Letter from Ḥasan b. Manṣūr al-Neʾeman, probably in a small town, to ʿAllūn b. Yaʿīsh (aka ʿEli b. Ḥayyim ha-Kohen) the well-known parnas (dated documents …
Magical recipes for health, for sleep, to make peace between a man and his wife, to abort a dead fetus, to expel a stuck placenta, …
Minute fragment, related to marriage agreement of some kind, written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). AA
Letter of business from Isma'il b. Ishaq al-Andalusi, in Tyre, to Nahray b. Nissim. The writer alludes to his great losses at sea while simultaneously …
Legal document, in Arabic script. A late Arabic, Ottoman iqrār document with a seal. Issued by the maḥkeme al-Ṣāliḥiyya al-Najmiyya, one of the ~15 qadi …
الحمد الله وحده
جرى ذلك
كتبه يحيى بن ي…
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 …
IB II, 1. Letter from Mukhtar b. Yaʿaqov to Abu l-ʿAlā Ṣāʿid b. Naja describing Ḥasan b. Bundār's assistance. Abu l-ʿAlā Ṣāʿid, the "Trustee", was …
Part of a ketubba for Sitt al-Yumn. Known handwriting. (Information from CUDL)
Calendrical text in Judaeo-Arabic.
Letter fragment written by a communal official concerning the “rabbi from Rum” who was potentially threatened. (S. D. Goitein, Mediterranean Society, 5:236-7, 571) EMS Written …
Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic. Written on a reused scrap of Arabic-script accounts. Mentions that "we demanded the oath from Abū Saʿd... he said that he …
Beginning of a letter. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from a certain ʿAbd al-Karīm possibly to someone named Ḥasan or Iḥsān (margin, line 1). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 13th or 14th century, based …
ויאחסאן | סיידי | תסלם | לי | עלי | אלמלמד | פ. . . . | אל. . . . | . .[. . |
חצל . . . | . …