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Letter from Ṭoviyya ha-Kohen (possibly b. Yehuda b. Ṭoviyyahu), a recently appointed judge in al-Mahalla and Sammanūd, to Shemuel the cantor, praising the community for …
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Bottom of a legal document in Arabic, with part of a witness clause preserved.
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Letter. Postscript to a letter addressed to the Nasi Shelomo by the scion of the house of David in Mosul who also wrote Bodl. MS …
A letter to Sar Shalom
Unidentified text in Arabic, looks literary.
Bifolium from the beginning of Ibn Buṭlān's Daʿwat al-Aṭṭibā'.
Fragment of an unidentified document in Arabic script. On parchment, and verso is blank, suggesting that it is a legal document. The first line preserved …
Court notebook in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Location: Fustat. Fol. 1r: Power of attorney. Dated: Tuesday, 2 Av 1438 Seleucid = 12 …
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Letter in Arabic script. Dating: Ottoman-era. Addressed to جناب حضرت الحجب(؟) المحترم حاخام زادة(؟) . . . . اليهود الربان. The sender's name includes Ṣāliḥ, …
Deed of sale for Wahab b. Asʿad b. Naʿīm al-Naṣrānī, in Arabic script. Dated: 18th Rajab al-Aṣab (...). The document is ripped off in two …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Coptic numerals. Probably medieval. Mentions items such as olive oil, linseed oil, and sesame oil; a jūkāniyya; a pillow; sarāwīl; wood; …
Small fragment of a letter. The phrase كشف خبره appears - referring to investigating someone's news.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Fiscal accounts relating to agrarian administration for the kharājī year 430 (spanning the lunar years 431 and 432 AH, corresponding to 1039–41 CE) issued by …
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Recto: Legal query in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to Yiṣḥaq the judge (perhaps Yiṣḥaq b. Sasson from the court of Maimonides). Concerns a business partnership between a …
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List or table, in Arabic. Mentions several commodities, and their weights (ex. raṭl). Needs examination. NB: this shelfmark does not appear to be on FGP.
Letter from Nissim b. Ḥalfon b. Benaya, in Tinnīs, to Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī al-Maghribi, in Fustat, both prominent in the Geniza correspondence of the …
מן תניס ען סלאמה ונעמה אעלמתך אן לי מדה מא קרית לך כתאב ארגו
שגל כיר וקד …
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A late letter from a mother to her son Yosef b. Ghunaym (may appear also in T-S 28.10). Among other news she informs him that …
Fragment of a letter either addressed to or mentioning 'al-ḥakīm al-ajall' (the esteemed physician).
Mercantile memorandum or bill of lading (tadhkira) in Arabic script. Listing items that were shipped with a certain captain (al-rayyis... al-Ḥayfī) for Abū Ṭāhir b. …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, no earlier than 1425 CE because it mentions gold ashrafī coins (first minted under Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay in this year). The letter …
Letter sent to Cairo to the house of a ḥaver from the Ibn Qaṭāʾif family, dated Friday, middle of Shevat, describing the writer’s anger over …
Letter to Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq b. Neṭira. In Hebrew. In the handwriting of a certain Avraham ha-Kohen, who is known in the world of piyyuṭ …
Much damaged fragment from a list of names and items.
Fragments of a commercial letter in Ladino. Mentioning R. Sason; Shemuʾel b. [...];, Avraham כיתאריש(?); the addressee's sister Doña Zahra (the same as in T-S …
Accounts in a cursive Italian or Castilian Spanish shorthand. Likely late medieval or perhaps later. Merits further examination. For accounts in a similar scribal hand, …
Minute fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, with Arabic script on verso. Very faded.
IB I, 34a. Legal proceedings whereby two friends of Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq testify to the court of how Avraham betrothed his cousin, Sitt al-Ahl b. …
מעשה שהיה לפנינו אנו שני הדיינים הקבועים בפסטאט מצרים ומאן דחתים עימנא
לתחתא כן הוה חצר אלינא אלשיך אבו אסחק מר' | ור' אברה…
Unidentified literary text in Latin script, unidentified language.
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: 17 Adar II 1597 Seleucid = 15 March 1286 CE. The communal officials (khuddām) who collect the capitation taxes in …
Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions people such as Abū ʿAlī; [...] al-Bukhtaj; Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Pinḥas; [...] al-Sharābī; Abū l-Faraj; a parnas; and Aharon. …
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Rental contract of some kind. In Arabic script. The bottom 19 lines are preserved. Involving an agent named Abū l-Ṭāhir Ismāʿīl (l. 1), a drug …
Letter fragment, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. The format is unusual. Refers to an amīr, the width and height of something, and ends "wa-l-salām."
Verso, right page: Ethical exhortations in Arabic beginning "O my son" (yā bunayya).
Fragment containing items such as wheat and amounts. Probably an account, less likely a letter.
Hebrew text, maybe liturgical.
Verso: Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th century. Mentions Alexandria and Abū Isḥāq and items lost at sea or in the Nile (fī l-baḥr). …
Bifolio from a mysterious ledger. Contains some accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, but also contains two entries that begin اصفح(?), and one may …
Responsa in Judaeo-Arabic. Filling a bifolium.
Mentions [...] b. Yiṣḥaq; sums in dinars and wariq dirhams; quantities of khazz sillk; meat; and the term dhahab maghzūl which also appears in T-S …
Responsum that deals with someone who, due to financial troubles, must move to another city to find work despite an explicit prohibition against it in …
Small fragment of a letter, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū Saʿīd. May mention the messiah (אלמושיח).
Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). Abū l-Majd is to give 2 dirhams to Seʿadya al-Nazir from the waqf of …
Order of payment or similar sort of document. In Arabic script, but with a Hebrew אמת at the top. Dated: Tuesday, 7 Rabiʿ II of …
Fragment of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 11th century. Instructing the addressee to buy spices (saqaṭ) on the trip to al-Mahd[iyya].
Technical instructions in Judaeo-Arabic. Alchemy?
Verso: Letter in the hand of Avraham Maimonides, r. 1205–1237 CE, mentioning Yosef. (Information from CUDL.) See also Goitein's index cards. Joins by Mordechai Akiva …