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Dirges in Hebrew and one apparently in Ladino.
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Copies of responsa from Sherira Gaʾon to the community of Fez. Of documentary interest in part because of the ownership note in the upper margin: …
Important business letter sent from Alexandria to Fustat by a Maghribi merchant named Nissim who, coming from al-Mahdiyya, had arrived in Alexandria at time of …
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Betrothal contract, Qaraite. Location: Cairo. Dated: Sunday 8 Heshvan 5578 AM, which is 1817 CE. Groom: Yeshuʿa ha-Levi b. Ḥesed b. Seʿadya known as Qayyim. …
Mathematical calculations with the labels maḥ[būb] and qurush on the verso. The dating is post-1703 CE based on the mention of the gold maḥbūb, so …
On various ethical issues
Recto: Petition in Arabic script from "the son of one of the doctors" to two addressees. The petitioner mentions his desire to open a shop …
Marriage contract containing a list of jewelry apparently of Syro-Palestinian manufacture, to be sold by Shemuel b. Ḥasan two months after the signing of this …
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Lower part of recto and verso: Autograph responsum by Moshe Maimonides, ca. 1168–1204 CE, based on the dates when he was active in Egypt.
Illustration of two birds and a fruit tree, colored in. Very lovely. On verso there is some writing in childish Hebrew script.
Private accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mostly a list of names with numbers. Names include: Sibāʿ b. Mubārak; [...] b. Hilāl; Sālim b. …
Letter from Yisraʾel b. Natan b. Nahray, in Fustat, to Barhūn b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Tāhartī, in Qayrawān. Dating: ca. 1048. Pending more complete description. (Information from …
כתאבי יאסידי וריסי אלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם נעמאך מן מצר
לסתה כלון מן שבט ערפך אללה ברכתה ומא יליה מן אלאשהר ען סלאמה
ונעמה ושוק א…
Small fragment of an account in Judaeo-Arabic. People named include ʿAlī al-Kohen al-Gharīb and Abū l-[F]araj; ʿAlī b. Ṭāhir.
Business letter dealing with spices. In Judaeo-Arabic. The hand is likely that of Yedutun ha-Levi. (Goitein, too, flagged the script as familiar.) The letter is …
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Letter from Nahray b. Nissim, in Būṣīr, to Abū Isḥāq Barhūn b. Ṣāliḥ al-Tāhartī and his cousin Barhun b. Mūsā, in Fustat. Dated Friday 1 …
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Letter addressed to Abū Manṣūr b. Yefet ha-Kohen Ibn Qasāsa with orders for scammony (maḥmūda) and camphor. Verso mentions Abu l-Ḥusayn and/or Abū l-Ḥasan, the …
Minute fragment from the end of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic.
Letter fragment (upper left corner of recto and remnants of the address on verso) addressed to Eliyyahu the Judge. Mentions the latter's son Abū Zikrī …
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Fragment from a legal deed. In the hand of the court scribe Yosef b. Shemuel ha-Levi. One of the parties is Eliyyahu ha-Levi, who is …
Unidentified text, in Arabic script. Recto seems pen trials or a crossed out draft, with a fragmentary basmala and beginning of a date. Verso mentions …
Letter from Shelomo to his brothers Abū l-Tahir and Mukhliṣ. Each line is copied twice, presumably later as an exercise. Verso: pen trials, including copies …
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A 'thank you' letter to Ezra the Karaite
Formal letter or petition. In Arabic script. 11.5 lines of praise and blessings, followed by 1 line containing a request. Opens: "Marḥaban bi-qudūm al-fāris al-muḥaqqaq..." …
Small fragment of a letter on paper lined with red ink, mentioning Nasi Galiyot Yehuda ve-Yisrael.
Two memorial lists, for the שמלאץ family of kohanim and the Nuʿmān family. On the other side there is a list of parshiyot in Judaeo-Arabic. …
ENA 2592.7: List, continuation of ENA 2952.6 mentioning some of the prominent members of the Babylonian community in Fustat in the 11th century, concluding with …
Letter from the Jerusalem gaʾon Shelomo b. Yehuda (r. 1025–51) to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: end of 1025–26 (Gil). Written in a high register of …
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Address of a letter sent from Baghdad to Sandūr. Late and non-Geniza.
Liturgy, Qaraite. Dating: Catalogued as 19th century.
Note in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably late 12th or 13th century. The hand seems familiar. The addressee is asked if a certain meeting has taken place. …
Letter from a man to his prospective father-in-law. In Judaeo-Arabic. Expressing his enthusiasm about the future connection (ittiṣāl) with him and stating to have heard …
Piyyut.
Fragment from a letter, mentioning Mesar or Muyassar (מיסר) ha-Kohen who met with someone important, "and he is a very good person," then ʿAmram and …
Release given by Karīma bt. Ṣedaqa the teacher to Avraham b. Ḥujayj. Signed by many people, but only four of the signatures preserved. (Information from …
Verso: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Quite faded. Might be a draft with instructions for a scribe, given that it ends with "the greeted" (al-mukhaṣṣaṣīn) rather than …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Verso: Unidentified document in Arabic script. Extremely faded; will be illegible without multispectral imaging.
Arabic script (VMR)
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to Karo Frances Co.
Protocol of a case heard at the court of Natan b. Avraham, head of the yeshiva in Palestine ca. 1040 (during his rivalry with Shelomo …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably Ottoman-era.
Accounting document issued by the "qism awwal Qalyūbiyya," one of the 24 administrative sections of Egypt that were established in the 1820s. In Arabic script. …
Judaeo Persian. ENA 2627.101-102 is part of the same work.
Upper left corner of a deed of acknowledgment (iqrār).
List of revenues or expenses of the piuos foundations from the year 1152/3. The hand seems to be by Hillel b. Zadoq, a communal official …
Receipt for the capitation tax of [...] b. Mūsā in Fustat. Needs examination for details.
Flax accounting for Barhūn and Yosef. Dating: 11th century. Mentioning many people's names, including Dāwud; al-Labbān; the in-law of Mubārak; ʿAbd al-Salām; Naʿīm; Ibn Asad; …
Accounts, in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Unidentified document in Arabic script.
Commercial receipt, probably. At upper left: "min dār...." Begins: "ʿalā X..." Needs further examination. Reused on verso for Judaeo-Arabic commercial accounts.