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Fragment from a bill of divorce (get) from Fustat. The husband's name is Ya'aqov.
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Legal document: bill of sale for an enslaved woman to a certain Elʿazar ha-Kohen. The enslaved woman is called "So-and-so" (פלונית) and the woman who …
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Legal record (#31) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 8r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 30-32) Folio 8r
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Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Refers to 40 parchments; a group of merchants from Barqa (qawm Barqiyyīn); the arrival from the addressee's location of "the dogs" …
Legal document. Fragment of a deed, according to Gil, A history of Palestine, 634-1099, p. 270, from Mahdiyya and is written by the 'Rav'- Judah …
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly mercantile. Refers to awaiting the arrival of the caravan.
Literary, Talmudic.
Unidentified text in Arabic, probably a letter. Recto: piyyuṭ. (Information from CUDL)
Accounts in Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions some foods or materia medica (ḥummuṣ, summāq, ānīsūn). Probably no earlier than 13th century, based on handwriting and …
Legal document written under the authority of the Nasi Daniel, dated [13]75 Seleucid era (= 1063/64 CE); mentioning Abū Naṣr. Location: Fusṭāṭ. (Information in part …
Recto: Legal document (iqrār) for debts acknowledged between business partners. In Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Cairo. Dated: 5 Adar 5588 AM, which is 1828 CE. Involving Raḥamim …
Accounts (?) in Arabic script
A poem in honor of somebody important, perhaps a groom, since verso also contains (in the same hand) blessings for the bride. In the hand …
Prayer in a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew ending "God the exalted is the one asked to lift the veil of ignorance from us, amen." …
Fragment from the end of a legal document in calligraphic Arabic script. Dated: 594 AH = 1197/98 CE. On verso there are some lines in …
Recto: Poem in Hebrew, right side, in praise of an Aharon b. Mevorakh (the first name was discovered by Worman in the acrostic). Verso: Remnant …
Recto: Small fragment of official correspondence in Arabic script. The word "al-ijtihād" is legible, but not much else.
Trousseau list of Sitt al-Suʿadā, written and signed by Moshe b. Peraḥya (active ca. 1220–34) and Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham. Refers to a rūmiyya (Byzantine garment?) …
Deed of sale in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Thursday, 29 Ḥeshvan 1446 Seleucid = 17 November 1134 CE, under the authority of …
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Unidentified Arabic text, probably documentary. The middles of 10 lines are preserved. Reused for unidentified Hebrew script on verso (Judaeo-Arabic accounts?).
Letter from a woman to her son. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 11th century. She may be writing from Ifrīqiyya (based on typical handwriting and orthography). …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. "We have been patient for that / have borne that... the lord, for he is steadfast and others are corrupt... the …
Literary text with a signature: Yefet b. ʿAmram. See Penn catalog (https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/h293.html) for detailed description and potential identifications of this Yefet.
Calendar. In Hebrew. Late.
Probably a bill of release from [Avra]ham b. ʿImrān, involving [...]sh al-Ghazzī. Torn and faded. AA/ASE
Unidentified text in Arabic, probably a letter or other document. On verso there are probably accounts.
A confirmation of the Beit Din that there were no obstacles to the marriage between Sālim al-Ḥalabī al-Ṣabbāgh and Sitt al-Kuttāb b. Yefet. Location: Fustat. …
Likely the introduction to a literary text, but could be a letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Quite faded. (Information in part from CUDL)
Writing exercises with unconnected sentences and several repetitions of the names of the Patriarchs
Letter addressed to a Gaon, possibly. Small fragment.
Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involves Abū l-Faraj al-Jabīlī (or al-Jubaylī); the estate of his father; and his …
Colophon to Kitāb Khalq al-Insān by Abū l-Ḥasan Saʿīd b. Hibatallāh (1045–1101). In Judaeo-Arabic. This copy was completed 7 Shevat 4883 AM, which is January …
Legal document. Release. Location: Fustat. Regarding partners, a sum of 400 dinars, and every party receiving his due in full. Names mentioned include Avraham b. …
Business accounts. In Judaeo-Arabic. Rich and detailed. Headed with the name of Ibn al-Zūlāq(?). Mentions al-funduq al-sāḥil (apparently in Alexandria), and the hire of a …
Small piece of parchment. Verso includes three lines of Hebrew, probably literary. Recto includes an Arabic jotting, probably a later reuse.
Unidentified document in Arabic script. Reused on verso for accounts.
Two fragment so a legal document, likely in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Draft, with crossouts and interlinear insertions. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions: speaking to …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably late 12th or 13th century. Addressed to a woman. The scribe is Abū l-Barakāt. The content is too damaged …
Non-Geniza. Merchant's notebook in Yiddish. 19th century. Nearly 100 pages. Information from NLI.
Literary text in the hand of Abū Naṣr Ibn al-Ṭabīb.
Fragment from an undated but quite early copy (possibly 8th/14th century) of the third book of the Qānūn of Ibn Sīnā. Portion of the first …
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. On recto, the name Abū ʿAlī appears. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter in Arabic from a father to a son that consists almost entirely of greetings and well-wishes. The family rejoiced to receive his letters from …
Recto (secondary use): List of distribution of meat to/by some named individuals including the prices and amounts. The hand is probably that of Abū Zikrī …
Verso: list of household expenses in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, mentioning types of oil, soap, camphor, and green lemon; payments to a laborer; and …
Legal document. Small fragment (upper right corner). Mentions the name Yosef [b. ...] Elʿazar. On verso there are quotations from Zechariah 8:19–23, Obadiah 1:21; Jonah …
Fragment of a text or document with the layout of a letter, but the main portion of which is entirely a biblical citation about Levites. …
Minute fragment of accounts, 16th-century or later based on the paleography. These accounts are related to the neighboring shelfmark JRL SERIES C 147.
Pre nuptial agreement between Nissim Halevi b. Eliyyahu b. Nissim and Rachel d. Mordechai b. Shalom, dated Sunday 18th Adar, 5579 Era of creation (1819).