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This manuscript is the earliest copy we have of the Book of the Calendar Controversy. About the disagreement between Jewish leaders of Palestine and Babylonia …
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Three fragments of a letter from Mukram(?) to Abū l-Bahā' reminding him that he promised to send him a chessboard (? naṭʿ). He urges him …
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Folio of piyyuṭ, likely ca. 12th or 13th century based on handwriting. The margin contains a set of the eastern Arabic numerals from 1 to …
Unidentified text, in Hebrew script.
Recto: Letter from the teacher Abū Yaʿqūb to an unknown recipient. Written in a good hand and pleasant style. This letter implores the addressee to …
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Fragment of a document in Arabic script. Narrow vertical strip. Probably accounts based on the numerals on verso. The word ṣāḥibuhū also appears.
Karaite betrothal deed. Dated 1 Kislev 5507 AM (1746 CE). Location: Cairo. The deed contains the common stipulations found in this period: the groom is …
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Small fragment in Arabic script, maybe a letter.
Letter from Peraḥya b. Sahlān, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1055. Regarding the request that Nahray will deal with selling goods that the …
מולאי וסיידי ורייסי וגלילי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך
ותאידך מן אסכנדריא ליו כלון מן מרחשון ערפך אללה ברכתה ואלחאל סלאמה
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Arabic medical treatise on digestion.
Legal document from Baghdad. In Hebrew. Probably 17th century. The date appears as חת׳׳ת לפ׳׳ק which is: 8+400+400+30+80+100=1018. It is unclear how this sum should …
Non-Geniza. Letter from Minsk, 1877 CE.
Calendar. In Hebrew. Late.
Probably two different Arabic-script documents glued together. On verso there is piyyut. (1) List of notables' names. E.g., the amir Shahīr al-Mulk; the ustādh Murtajā; …
Letter in the hand of Berakhot b. Shemuel to his father-in-law. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Early 13th century. He complains about neglect. He mentions al-Shaykh al-Rashīd, …
Three notes, two on lined paper, one in Hebrew with an elaborate signature. Presumably 20th c.
Letter fragment in Hebrew. Very faded. Slightly wide line spacing. May be dealing with communal affairs. Dating: likely 11th or 12th century. Mentions a certain …
Letter fragment in Arabic script. Containing detailed information about medical matters. Maybe a report from a patient to a doctor (begins استعملت). Reused on recto …
Account of the qodesh, ca. June 1201. A relatively ample list of revenue and expenditures. The first part contains details of revenue from 17 compounds, …
Small fragment from the beginning of a legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Mentioning Shelomo ha-Kohen. (Information from CUDL)
Account in Arabic script. Mentioning several names and sums of dinars.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Little of the content remains.
Letter fragment in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Wide line spacing. Mentions greetings for the holiday and payments.
Legal notes in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Probably concerning the ketubba payment and division of property following a divorce. …
Late list of names and amounts- probably list of debts in Venetian grossos. The paleography could be as early as a 15th-century when the Venetian …
Recto (secondary use): Order from ʿĀzim al-Bayyāʿ (the grocer) to hand over 1/2 wayba of rice to the bearer of the note. Headed by a …
Letter addressed to Abū Manṣūr b. Yefet ha-Kohen Ibn Qasāsa with orders for scammony (maḥmūda) and camphor. Verso mentions Abu l-Ḥusayn and/or Abū l-Ḥasan, the …
Literary. Treatise in Arabic script on prosody (ʿilm al-ʿarūḍ).
Detailed accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late, 16th- or 17th-century based on the paleography. One entry: "al-mutaʾakhkhir ʿalā arbāb al-jawāmik..." The year is then given but is …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Address, accompanying a letter or a shipment, from Fusṭāṭ to Jerusalem into the hands of Naṣrullah Bashshāʿ (?). Dating: Late, probably Mamluk-era. (Information in part …
Original use: Fragment of a chancery document, possibly a decree. In Arabic script with wide line spacing. 7 lines are partially preserved. Later, the empty …
Fragment from the top of a ketubba drawn up in Alexandria (נא אמון). Hebrew and Arabic pen trials on verso.
Fragment from the top part of a ketubba from Cairo ([al-Qāhira] al-Muʿizziyya). Invokes the authority of the Nagid titled [Mordekhay] ha-Zeman. The groom may be …
Letter from the cantor [...] b. Avraham ha-Kohen to his maternal uncle Bū Ibrāhīm(?), in Shubrā Damsīs. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. …
Verso: Engagement (shiddukhin) contract. In the hand of Yehuda b. Ṭuviyyahu ha-Kohen, who served as the muqaddam of Bilbays. Location: Bilbays. Dated: Adar II 1529 …
Legal document, possibly dealing with debt in the sabbath year as it mentions a seven year period and the sum of one dinar. Refers to …
Ketubba fragment. Bride: Tujjār (i.e., Sitt al-Tujjār). Groom: Ḥalfon. On verso there is a trousseau list. Ḥalfon's father's name is partially visible on verso: Meyu[ppe?] …
Letter of recommendation. In Hebrew. Location: Tunis. Dated: 5610 AM, which is 1849/50 CE. On behalf of Yiṣḥaq Yosef b. Shemarya. The Portuguese Congregation of …
Arabic script, requires further examination.
Some sort of legal or state receipt, maybe after a sale. Needs examination.
Compensation bill from Fustat. Dated: 7 Nisan 4815 AM = April 7 1055 CE. Three witnesses approved (not in front of the court) that Abū …
בשמ רחמנ
[ישה]דו אלשהוד אלמסמון פי אכר הדה אלבראה חצר מר יהודה אלמכני
אבו זכרי ביר משה נבע הידוע אבן צגמאר וקאל לנא טאיע גיר כארה ולא
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Neatly written note to Nahray requesting that he address the community for Shemuel he-Ḥazzan ha-Mevin, since he needs help for his family and travel after …
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Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. One of the headings refers to "its planting (zirāʿatuhū) suggesting an agricultural context.
Business accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Recto is in two columns and verso is in one column. Recto is particularly messy. Mentions …
Bill of sale for an enslaved woman. Complete but unsigned. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tammuz 1411 Seleucid, which is 1100 CE. Seller: Sayyida bt. Ṣadaqa Ibn …
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Ketubba or dowry list. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Dating: ca. 1100 CE. See Goitein's index card for further information.
Letter from Daniel b. Azarya to a Jerusalemite staying in Fustat (Gil, Palestine, II, pp. 655-662)
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Receipt issued to the khuzzān of the Fayyūm tax districts against revenue delivered by Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb. Dated: 21 Dhū l-Ḥijja 403. Amount: one-half, …
Registration mark on right
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