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Marriage contract (ketubba). Dating: 13th century. Location: Fustat. Groom: Netanʾel. Bride: [...] bt. Yefet ha-Talmid. Marriage payments: 3 + 10 = 13. (Information from Goitein's …
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Small fragment of trousseau list of the bride Zayn bt. Yiṣḥaq. (Information from Mediterranean Society, IV, p. 132, and from Goitein's index cards)
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Receipt for Manṣūr Ibn al-Zaʿīm (same as in T-S AS 176.444 (PGPID 37330)).
No Scholarship Records
Jottings and a list of numbers, possibly from an account (data from Baker & Polliack catalogue)
Poetry (ghazal) in Arabic script. On the other side there is piyyuṭ in Hebrew.
Legal document, שטר פצוי (indemnity), in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). The principals are Shemuʾel and Elʿazar. (Information from CUDL)
Maimonides autograph of the Mishneh Torah.
Marriage contract (ketubba). Upper left corner. Location: Fustat. Bride: Sitt al-Ahl bt. Nāshī ha-Kohen Rosh ha-Qahal.
Draft of a letter from Wāfī b. Iṣḥaq b. Eli al-Majānī, 16 July 1059, written at the back of an earlier letter from his father …
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Receipt from the association of the Ashkenazi Jews in Cairo – December 3 1950CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 202) – in French …
Letter in Arabic script. Dating: Probably late Mamluk or Ottoman era. Needs examination for content.
Legal document(s). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involves a woman probably related to the Yaʿaq[ov] mentioned in l. 1 and/or …
Fragment (lower left corner) of a family letter in Arabic script ("your mother sends you her regards"). Twice mentions al-Sūsa.
Beginning of a legal query in Judaeo-Arabic. Medieval-era. A small portion of the upper lines is visible, with the common invocation בשמך רחמ׳ followed by …
Tiny fragment in Hebrew script.
Possibly a receipt.
Verso (original use): Fragment of an account in Arabic script. Fiscal? Might include the term ḍumanāʾ. Reused for a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic.
Love spells. In a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic. One of them involves setting an egg on fire.
Capitation tax receipt. Needs examination.
Small fragment of a state document in Arabic script. Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ in the hand of a prolific scribe.
Arabic script (VMR)
Verso: A tax-related note referring to what Jaʿfar(?) b. [...] the jahbadh will do. Needs examination. This document was torn and reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ.
Letter in the hand of Shemuel b. Natan to a circuit judge (Goitein's index cards). Nine persons mentioned by name acting as a board of …
Unidentified text, in Arabic script. "واستحق الرعاة قبل فاستهـ...."
Verso: Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Lists various foods and household items (pepper, saffron, eggs, olive oil, lemon, tahina, and many more).
Partnership/investment agreement. Location: Fustat. Dated: 13[.]4, probably 1384 Seleucid, which would be 1072/73 CE. (1334 and 1394 Seleucid are also technically possible; the decade word …
Letter from a cantor or teacher to his boss in Cairo. The cantor had been “accused of having assembled a group of young men and …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter from Natan ha-Kohen b. Yosef to Yiṣḥaq ha-Kohen b. Yaʿaqov the judge, whom he calls his son. He writes about some small business matters …
Power of attorney. In Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Fustat. Dated: Middle third of Iyyar 14[.]3 Seleucid. The tens digit may have still been preserved at the time …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, 12th c sefaradi hand, should be checked against Maimonides, Yehuda ha-Levi and other known quantities. The writer signs his name Yosef b. …
Letter from Eliyyahu b. Aharon Ha-Ḥaver b. Yoshiyyahu, the president of court, to Efrayim B. Shemarya, in Fustat. Dating: approximately 1030 CE (per Gil) and …
Letter addressed to 'our lord,' dealing with a dispute between friends. (Information from Mediterranean Society, V, pp. 295, 588)
Fragment of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 12th century. Hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen? Mentions having Abū l-Ḥasan intervene with the ʿāmil to take …
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Yiṣḥaq Ha-Kohen (?) b. Avraham, Fustat, approximately 1015.
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2. [ מ]ליצי הזכיות וחפצי הלבבות ע[ם
3. שומע תפלות תהיינה לאח ביראה ורע בנפש כגק [יצחק
4. העלוב וסובל וייסור באה…
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 …
Two folios of a magical text in Judaeo-Arabic. The first page contains three recipes, including one for stopping the flow of tears and one for …
Legal document. The beginnings of ~9 lines are preserved. Referring to a gift and appointing an agent and "my son Manṣūr."
Accounts? The name Bayān appears.
Book list in Arabic script. The first two items are the Life of al-Ḥākim and the Epistles of the Brethren of Purity. There is also …
Letter, apparently sent from Samannūd (in the Nile delta). The writer, who is apparently on his travels, is very worried about his children as he …
Unidentified text in Arabic script. The phrase عن مولا(?) is circled.
Arabic (script) writing exercise.
Bifolio from a Coptic manuscript, probably liturgical. Pending identification.
Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. 4 folios. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Dating: 11th or early 12th century. Mentions Abū l-Ṭāhir; al-Ṣayrafī; Ibn al-Rubāʿī(?); Abū Yiṣḥaq; …
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 …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Faded. Chastising the addressee for something (it is not entirely clear what). "That which you did, an enemy wouldn't even do it …
State document, a petition regarding an iqṭāʿ and the relocation of peasants. The petitioner talks about an iqṭāʿ assigned to him in a ḍayaʿa (the …
العبد يقبل الارض اما]م المقام الشريف(؟) ضاعف الله انواره و[اعلى
مناره وينهي الى . . . . . . . . . . . // . . . . . . . . . . . . . . \\ من اعما…
Piyyuṭ in Hebrew; part of a letter in Arabic. (Information from CUDL)
Fragment of a letter in Arabic script, likely an appeal for charity or assistance. . . . ولا خلوت من تطوله(؟) وافتقاده . . . …