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Judaeo-Arabic midrash involving Moses and the birds, including the owl.
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Various pen trials. There are two text blocks in Arabic on verso naming "for Barakāt b. al-Shaykh al-Ajall al-Rayyis Abū l-Faraj" (aka Shelomo b. Eliyyahu?).
Late accounts mentioning Merkado Karo, Me'ir Ben-Naʿim (fl. 1785-1825 CE), Eliyyyahu b. Ṣahal, Mordekhai Bialobos.
Title page in red ink of an Arabic literary text. Pinholes at the margin ~4–5mm apart, secondary use since they're on the left of recto. …
Drafts of Karaite conditional divorce documents in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated Sivan 5503 AM, which is 1743 CE. Two of the drafts provide detailed record of how …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic (and some Hebrew). This document is rich with names of people, places, and commodities, and places. There is mention of R. Shimʿon …
Tax receipt, Fatimid. Two registration marks; 'al-ḥamdu lil-lāhi l-muwaffiq li-ḥamdihi' and 'al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ḥamd al-shākirīn'. Blank verso. Perforated for binding.
Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper left corner of recto). …
An alimony of 6 dirhams, probably a case of divorce. (Information from Goitein's index cards). Also contains a booklist.
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Letter from 'the representative' (al-Nāʾib), in Minyat Zifta, to the Nagid, presumably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. He reports on previous correspondence and messengers ([...] al-Ḥalabī, …
Prayer for Queen Victoria, Albert, and Edward Prince of Wales. Calligraphic, multicolored, in the shape of an orb, and written in both Hebrew and English. …
Non-Geniza, probably. Private letter in Yiddish.
Letter from ʿOvadya ha-Kohen b. Iṣḥaq to his cousin and friend Abū Zikrī Yaḥyā ha-Kohen b. Yosef b. Yiftaḥ in Tinnīs, mentioning other kohanim. ʿOvadya …
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Late accounts in Hebrew involving Yosef, Daud, and Eliezer. One of entries mentions silver medin coinage which helps to date the document as 1415 CE …
Legal document(s) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions jewelry changing hands and the court in Cairo, and legal formulae typical …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ca. 13th–14th century. Recommends the bearer for assistance, something to do with the charitable collection (jibāya) which was done for him …
The original text may be the remannts of the lines in Arabic script on the right-hand page of image 1, which appears to be a …
Leaf from a Judaeo-Arabic manual for pharaonic treasure hunters, this section focusing on the area around Dahshur. Contains topographical descriptions paired with magical acts & …
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda (or Avraham son of the Gaon?) to Efrayim b. Shemarya. In Hebrew. Asking Efrayim to organize the Jewish community in …
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Letter from Barakāt b. Abū l-Ḥasan, in Alexandria, to his relative the judge Eliyyahu b. Zekharya, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 1228 CE, according to …
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Decree, possibly of al-Malik al-Ashraf. Partially transcribed by S. M. Stern (NLI ARC. 4°1656, File 507).
Accounts of a book dealer. Written in a mixture of Arabic script and Hebrew script. Dated: Ḥeshvan 1556 Seleucid, which is October 1244 CE. Including …
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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dealing with business matters. This is the recto of folio 3; the other five pages are literary. Looks like the hand …
Literary. A Shīʿī prayer written in Arabic script. There are some lines in red ink. The literariness of the verses is such that bounties aren't …
Unidentified document in Arabic script. Headed with a basmala.
Small fragment from the top of a document opening with praises for someone important (wa-yuʾayyid bihi al-[...]). There is also a puzzling Judaeo-Arabic note at …
Late letter in a cursive script, very faded with extensive liquid damage. The address lists the recipient as the sender's father: wālidī Ḥ... .... Shoshān. …
Small fragment, probably of accounts or a list. (Information from CUDL)
Court record(s) in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Written on a bifolio. It's not immediately clear if all are the same …
Possibly an order for 3 raṭls of something. There is another document joined to it (perhaps these orders were originally written on one larger sheet …
Tale in the style of A Thousand and One Nights, told partly in the first person, mentioning a period of seven years, robbers who took …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Deathbed declaration of an old man, bringing his two sons before four witnesses and explaining …
Legal document. On parchment. Location: Fustat. Dated: Av 1371 Seleucid = July 1060 CE. Vocalized, which is unusual. Abū Saʿd Mufarrij b. Iṣḥāq al-Ṣabbāgh known …
Small fragment of accounts in Greek/Coptic numerals. There may be some mirror-image text as well.
Small receipt or order.
Beginning of a letter sent to Abū Saʿd Khalaf b. S[alāma]. (Information from CUDL)
Non-Geniza. Letter from Simḥa b. Ẓadoq, in Lutzk, to his wife Shelomit bt. Yosef ha-Zaqen, in Halych. Dated: 1802 CE.
Small fragment from the draft of a document, written in two different hands (one is that of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi, fl. 1100-1138 CE). Mentions …
Document in Arabic script with traces of burning. Probably literary. Different hands on recto and verso.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly addressed to the physician Abū l-Faḍl (אבו אל]פצל אלחכים אלסד[יד). Dating: ca. late 12th or early 13th century. The sender mentions …
Accounts, mentioning quantities of money and commodities such as wine. (Information from CUDL)
This very fragmentary legal document mentions a community leader with the Hebrew honorific 'Sar ha-Sarim' ('Prince of Princes'); on the application of this title, first …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, likely Mamluk-era. From a person to his brother in Egypt (spelled מסרים)
Small fragment of a legal document. Refers to "his wife Sitt al-Maʿānī."
List of donations collected for the year 5580 = 1819/20. Family names include Romano, Skandari, Palombo, Yuʿbaṣ, ʿAfīf, Pinto, Yagi, Mizraḥī, Mosseri. At 90 degrees …
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (thin strip from the right side of recto). …
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Letter of congratulations to the Hizqiyahu the Qaraite Nasi and his 3 sons on the birth of a boy from a certain Shemuel.
Either part of a genealogical list or a letter.
Fragments from a letter, probably an 11th-century mercantile letter.
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Sephardi hand. Small fragment. Dating: Perhaps 15th or 16th century, but that is a guess. Mentions Christians, Venice, an ounce of …