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Trousseau list with many typical items, mentioning the bride Turfa bt. Hārūn; on verso is another document (this one in the hand of Hillel b. …
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Love spell in Judaeo-Arabic. For Esther bt. Nazlī to fall in love with Ḥayyim b. Barda. The hand looks late and possibly Iraqi—but that is …
Calendrical text and/or poetry in the hand of Yedutun ha-Levi.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Listing mainly foods, such as sumac, ṭaḥīna, meat, and pomegranate. Written on a bifolium, on the bottom right …
Literary text, probably, in Arabic script. Mentions bi l-naṣr mafqūd and wa intaṣarū.
Seems to be another page of the former fragments. might be used to test the ink
Receipt in Arabic script (waṣala ilā bayt al-māl al-maʿmūr) in the name of Ibrāhīm b. Sunbāṭ al-Ṣabbāgh (the dyer), the Maghribī Jew, dated Ramaḍān 442, …
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Recto: Lower part of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender places an order worth 16 dirhams, including for 1/2 ounce of Iraqi copper sulfate (zinjār). …
Fragment of a literary text, probably. The remnants of a few lines of Arabic on each side, with one line bigger than the others, probably …
List of some sort, with entries in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Letter from Abū l-Faḍl and his mother, perhaps in Fustat, to his father Abū Naṣr, in Asyūṭ. In Judaeo-Arabic. Much of the letter is in …
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Long deed of sale involving many members of the Karaite community in Cairo. Line 13 mentions the communal waqf (qodesh) and much of the document …
State document, in Arabic script. In chancery hand. Probably a letter fragment. Only the basmala from the verso and the address from the recto are …
Petition to an Ayyubid sultan, possibly Al-ʿĀdil I (13th century), opening only. On verso there is a piyyuṭ, possibly for Yom Kippur. (Information from Khan …
[ ا]لهمام ناصر الاسلام غياث الانام سيف المومنين سلطان جيوش المسلمين
خليل امير المومنين وادام قدرته واعلى ابدا كلمته وانفذ احكامه
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[ ] the heroic, the helper of Islam, the succour of mankind, sword of the believers, sultan of the armies of the Muslims,
the friend of…
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Macaronic poem alternating between Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic every couple of words. Dating: maybe ca. 13th century, which is also consistent with the hand and style …
Marriage contract, fragment. Dating: Probably 19th century, only the final digit is visible in the first line [5..]5 AM. The bride is named Joya, with …
Piyyut.
Magical instructions of some kind. In Judaeo-Arabic.
Letter from a son, unidentified location, to his father, in Cairo. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender is anxious for news of Abū l-Majd, and how he …
Bottom of recto (secondary use): Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions names such as Ṭāhir, Bū l-Faḍl, and Bū l-Majd. Sums at the …
Unsigned legal testimony in a court ledger. Location: Fustat. Dated: middle decade of Iyyar 1528 Seleucid = end of April 1217 CE. Attesting that a …
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Accounts of ʿArūs b. Yūsuf. In Judaeo-Arabic. "Detailed and important" according to Goitein's index card. See also ENA NS 22.21 (PGPID 6940). ( Recto, right …
Letter from Ṭoviyya b. ʿEli ha-Kohen to his cousin the judge Natan b. Shelomo of Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Ṭoviyya says that he is sending some …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe, 1100-1138 CE. (Information from CUDL)
Letter addressed to the Jewish community of Tilimsān (Tlemcen). In Judaeo-Arabic. The upper part is in a very stylized (Spanish or North African) script, and …
Accounts in Arabic script. Dating: Looks somewhat late, perhaps 14th or 15th century (with names like al-muʿallim Farajallāh).
Table in Judaeo-Arabic. Accounts of some kind. Payments to a communal official? Line 2 reads "ketubbot and sheṭarot: 1 1/4."
Talisman for safe journey. (Information from Goitein's index cards.) Oded Zinger adds (January 2025): the verso text labels the talisman as being about "the passing …
Several pages of mercantile accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic. Lāsīn silk is among the commodities listed. Some people's names are given. The sums are quite …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Might mention the currency jadīd/cedid.
Small fragment of accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions al-ṣabiyy; al-Yahūdī; and possibly Yaḥyā.
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Non-Geniza. Legal document. Agreement between the Qaraite and Rabbanite congregations in Lithuania (specifically Samogitia?) concerning taxation. Dated: 1654 CE.
Table of some kind, with a grid and circles that appear sporadically throughout the cells. The table's purpose is unclear.
Mysterious fragment with Hebrew and Arabic script (something "al-maqām al-sharīf... mamlūkuhā...")
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Small fragment of a legal document.
IB III, 17. Deed of manumission for Ashū, an enslaved woman (shifḥa) in the Tuḷu region of the Malabar coast. Avraham Ibn Yijū wrote this …
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Fragment from a legal document probably in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. No details preserved. (Information from CUDL)
Responsa in Judaeo-Arabic. Filling a bifolium.
Faded Hebrew scripted text.
Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning 'the arrival of the pieces (? qiṭaʿ).' The writer takes a snippy tone: "Please have the good grace to send …
Letter from Saʿadya b. Berakhot ha-Melammed to Berakhot ha-Nadiv. Opens with a long Hebrew poem (24 lines of excuses) and continues with 8 lines of …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated in the upper left corner of the recto, but the Hijrī month and year are both damaged– yielding a tentative reading …
Likely a letter in Arabic script. Very faded/damaged.
Recto: Fragment of a letter in a chancery hand; official correspondence? May mention al-faqiḥ al-wakīl ʿAbd al-Bāqī b. al-Ḥasan b. al-Ḥusayn. Verso: Fragment of a …
Draft of the beginning of a letter. Top right corner, three fragmentary lines. Blank verso. Begins with a basmala and then 'katabtu ilaykum...."
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mostly legalese.
Marriage contract – 5690AM – 1930CE – (number 58) – in Hebrew and Aramaic in manuscript and print. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl …
Legal fragment. Dating: ca. 1046/47 CE. From the bottom of a bill of compensation, from [Ḥusn] bt. Yaḥyā to Abū Naṣr b. Saʿadya and Shelomo …
Deed of compensation in the handwriting of Emanuel b. Yehiel concerning Sulayman ha-Kohen b. Efrayim, who engaged in dyeing silk with turquoise blue. Also mentions …
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