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Tax receipt for Abū l-Ḥasan b. Saʿīd the Jew. Trigger: ṣaḥḥ. May mention the neighborhood al-Mamṣūṣa. The scribe is ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAbdallāh. The date …
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Late writing exercises and sums, with a note on verso mentioning the neighborhood of the Karaites (Ḥārat al-Qara'iyyīn) in connection with Aṣlān Kohen and David …
Accounts. In Judaeo-Arabic and eastern Arabic numerals. Dating: Probably 18th or 19th century.
Legal document with testimony from al-Sitt bt. Yosef b. ʿAmram and her mother Jamīla bt. Yaʿqūb describing that Yosef (the former’s father and latter’s husband) …
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Fragment of an amulet in Judaeo-Arabic, probably for a certain Asaf b. Berakhya.
Bifolio of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Yaʿaqov; "the partnership between me and Ibn al-Ṣayrafī. . . in wheat"; Raslān and something to do with barley; …
Legal document concerning financial matters, signed by Yosef Benyamin, and mentioning Yehuda Bunan and Yosef’s son Nissim. Dated 1 Shevat 5579 AM (= 1819 CE). …
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Unidentified document in Arabic script. Might be legal or official. Ḥamdala and ṣalwala in the second-to-last line. It was torn and reused for a different …
Recto: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary handwriting. Maybe asking for charity or a loan of 5 dinars.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary hand and spellings. Concerning an audience with a state official, potentially even the caliph, based on the involvement of the …
Beginning of a letter from the office of Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides (or at least one of the later Maimonidean Nagids) directing the beadle Sulaymān to summon …
Very cryptic document in Arabic script. Contains phrases such as "al-aqlāmī al-mālikī al-nāṣirī," wa-l-salām," and a reference to "al-azmān." Several phrases are repeated multiple times; …
Legal document. In Hebrew. Involving a claim of Salāma b. Zurayq and a loan of golden coins. Someone says that something 'is [written?] in his …
Ḥamdala and ṣalwala from the bottom of a state document. Reused for Judaeo-Arabic calendrical text.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic with an extensive array of calculations and individuals referenced. Multiple dates appear throughout these folios and the clearest reference to a specific …
Late business letter in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to Yaʿaqov ben Ḥabīb.
Document in Arabic, medieval-era. Two partial lines of text are preserved. Possibly related to the neighboring shelfmark T-S AS 208.330. Requires further examination.
Bifolio of commercial accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Many details preserved but difficult to read. Needs further examination.
Copy of a letter from Judah Halevi to Shemuel Hanagid b. Hannanya. AA
Account written in Alexandria on 3 Jumada I 1236 AH/February 1821CE. The basis of the transaction in silver kuruş is explained in the heading and …
Fragment of a family letter, same writer and addressee as T-S NS 338.71, mainly rebuking the addressee for the lack of letters. "Your mother and …
Two fragments edited by Israel Lévi (1900b), current location unknwon. Re-edited by Bornstein (1904) 87-9. Lévi reports having bought them at the great Exposition in …
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IB VII, 51. Fragment of a mercantile letter, probably from Aden, concerning shipments of textiles, books, spices, and gems. (Information from Goitein notes linked below.) …
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Legal document. Small fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE).
Jotted accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals in the margin of a rabbinic text. Items named include sīraj (sesame oil) and ḥawāʾij naql (sweets?).
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Little of the content remains.
Letter addressed to Abu l-Khayr b. Ibrāhīm al-[...]. In Arabic script. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Nearly entirely preserved, except for the upper left corner …
Letter mentioning real estate and rent in Cairo, the writer's son, qarārīṭ (carats). Folded once vertically then rolled and folded horizontally. Wormholes. Item 14 in …
Strip from the left side of an official poetic Hebrew letter. AA
Literary fragments in Hebrew.
Non-Geniza. Letter addressed to Shalom b. Simḥa, in שאטא/Szaty/Šėta. Dating: Catalogued as 1735 CE.
Too little text remains to identify, possibly accounts. (Information from CUDL)
Literary text in Judaeo-Persian and Hebrew. Connected to the book of Esther. Three fragments; it is not clear of the second fragment belongs with fol. …
State-issued rent receipt for Ḥasan b. Thābit for his dwelling in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ (Fustat). Needs further examination.
Fragment of a deferential letter in Judaeo-Arabic preserving only the beginning and the address in Arabic script. The writer seems to be Abū l-Ḥasan and …
Letter from Yisrael b. Natan (Isrā'īl b. Sahlūn), in Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 31 December 1061 CE, according to …
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Wide space between the lines. Only three lines from the introduction have been partially preserved.
Accounts, in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Verso: Love poetry, or possibly mujūn, in Arabic script. "فات الحبيب الاول فلا عليك من . . . لا مذهب ولا الشريعة ولا دين الا …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew numerals. Dated: 5499 AM = 1738/39 CE.
Recto: Order of payment for 5 11/24 dinars. Verso: probably Arabic accounts. (Information from CUDL.)
Literary narrative about Hārūn al-Rashīd and the Barmakids (al-Barāmika).
Upper left corner of a document in Arabic script concerning a legal case. Reads in part: "[...] b. Nissim(?) and his opponents Samārī(?) and Nāḥūm …
Ketubba, Aleppo, 1026–28 CE. The document omits the divorce clause, and the groom notably refers to himself and his bride as the "Jew" and the …
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Prosbol document (registration of a loan at the court, thereby exempting it from automatic cancellation in the Sabbatical year). Location: Fusṭāṭ. Dated: Thursday, 27 Elul …
בה' בשבת בא אלינו
חוסין ברב' משה
ויאמר לנו [שמעו] אתם בית דין הנה מסרתי דברי
לכם והודעתי…
27 of the month of Elu'l Fust'a't'
On Thursday
There came to us
H'usayn son of R. Moses
and said to us, Hear ye! You are the court. I…
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Accounts in Hebrew. Late. Currency: gold peraḥim. Mentions the name ʿAlī Zāghlūl and Yiṣḥaq Pereṣ on the recto and verso, respectively. Requires further examination.
Tax receipt?