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Legal fragment (right side). Concerning a husband and his wife Rayyisa bt. Ḥalfon. One of them is from the Ibn Nuʿmān family. Location: Cairo. Written …
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Capitation tax receipt for a 1 dinar payment made by Bū l-Thanāʾ b. Bū Saʿd b. Ṭayyib al-Murakkib (the saddle maker) in New Cairo and …
Letter addressed to Yeshuʿa b. Shabbetay. Fragment: upper part of recto. The sender’s name is not preserved. Very little non-formulaic content is preserved. The sender …
Medical recipes and remedies in Ladino from an extensive chain of joins that suggest the existence of a broader compilation. On the recto there are …
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Responsa of the geonim regarding sale. מקביל לתשובת הגאונים שע"צ, ח"ד, שער ו, סימן יא # הרכבי, סימן שפח
Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Referring to two possible outcomes of a legal …
Letter from Efrayim b. Ismail al-Jawhari, probably from Alexandria, to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal, Fustat. Summer 1030. The writer arranges shipments from and to …
Recto: the first couple lines of a draft of an Arabic letter. Verso: Hebrew blessings for somebody in large letters.
State document in Arabic script. Looks like a receipt, unclear for what. Possibly Ayyubid or Mamluk-era. May refer to ʿAlam al-Dīn b. Bū l-Majd in …
Letter from Alexandria from the 21st of October 1219, a short time before the crusaders' assault on Damietta. A man who had to flee Cairo …
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Distribution list. In Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Dating: probably 14th–16th century based on paleography and typical names. For Shabbat Toldot: ʿAbd al-Wāḥid; Ṣafiyy (Levi); Shams; …
Letter fragment (lower part) probably from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi in Qalyub to his father in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Discusses sundry small business dealings (in …
القماح اردب بثمنطعشر
واردب بخمسطعشر
دفعت له ثلاثين درهم
خرج منها درهم الى ثمن
بخامس(؟) النافي(؟) له اربعة
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Probably a legal document, but possibly a letter. In Arabic script. Mentions Abū l-Faraj b. Abū ʿAbdallāh. Needs further examination.
ENA NS 39.2: Accounts in Ladino in western Arabic numerals dated on the verso most likely as 28 Nisan [54]92 or 23 April 1732. The …
Part of a ketubba for [...] bt. Yosef ha-Levi and an unnamed groom in Fusṭāṭ (date not preserved). Witnessed by the parnas Yehuda b. ʿA[...] …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Title page of al-Ḥāwī by David b. Seʿadya al-Ger ("the convert"). See David Sklare, ר' דוד בן סעדיה אלגר וחיבורו אלחאוי, Teʿuda 14, pp. 103–23. …
IB III, 29c. Responsa in Avraham Ibn Yiju's hand: legitimacy of a manumitted female slave's marriage and status of her children, Yemen, ca. 1140. When …
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Legal record (#71) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 23v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dating: 6 Kislev 5324 …
Accounts in Ladino with a wide variety of detailed entries, which based on the numerical flow may be monetary gains and some expenses. At the …
Letter sent from Sicily by a widow to her son, Abu Sulayman Dawud b. Na'aman in Barqa, asking him to take care of his brother …
Commentary on Isaiah in Yiddish (?).
Letter, faded, in eloquent Hebrew. Mentions "my brother R. Ḥalfon" arriving in the city and bad news that struck the writer to his very core, …
Recto: Fragment of a grammatical treatise, probably. In Arabic script. Verso: Talmudic discussion in both Hebrew script and Arabic script.
Two medical prescriptions in Arabic script, written on cloth on the back of a court record or deposition in the hand of Avraham Ibn Yiju …
Detailed business and personal letter from Alexandria to Fustat. The letter narrates the difficult situation in Alexandria during a siege, probably al-Afdal's siege of 1094, …
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Writing exercises.
Letter in a different hand from recto, mentioning (Mishna) Seder Qodashim. See separate entry for recto. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from Yosef "the poor foreigner" (al-miskīn al-gharīb) to the Nagid David Maimonides. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender sold his garment which he had bought for …
Receipt confirming that Me'ir Ben-Naʿim paid the rent for a qāʿah related to "Argaz Sefaradim" (the communal chest of the Sephardi congregation) from 26 August …
Piyyuṭim by Samuel the Third, pertaining to Parashat Vayeḥi (Genesis 47:28-50:26). F. 2r contains most of the ofan; f. 2v contains the meʾora and the …
Accounts, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script.
Probably a fragment from a legal document or halakhic text. (Information from CUDL)
List of donations collected on various Shabbats of 1795/6 CE (5556 AM).
Recto: Legal testimony. Dated Sunday, 2 Shevaṭ 14[..] Seleucid (or 146[.]?). The protagonists are Abū l-Fakhr and Abū Saʿd b. Naḥman. The witnesses state that …
Qadish containing praise for an exilarch: “May He make great his welfare and the welfare of his generation like the water of the Euphrates. . …
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Accounts.
Petition to a Fāṭimid vizier concerning an allowance of a jurisconsult, which the petitioner used to receive from the auspicious office, which was to be …
May God make eternal the rule of the lofty and exalted seat, the mighty lord,(commander …
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Accounts and lists, probably from a notebook. On f. 1r there is a list of the parashot in Genesis; on f. 2v there are several …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Fustat. Date: Not preserved, but it was drawn up under the authority of the Nagid David, probably more likely David I …
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List of food items and prices: lemon, meat, etc. Medieval-era.
Fragment (upper right corner) of a late letter in Judaeo-Arabic.
Two lines in Arabic script, possibly from a fiscal document. The second word may be dīnār." This is followed by the date 14 Jumādā II …
Damaged fragment from a betrothal deed, written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100–1138 CE), and signed by [Is'haq b. Shemuel] the Spaniard, so can …
Accounts in Arabic script. On recto there is piyyuṭ. (Information from CUDL.)
Multifragment. 25 tiny fragments.
Jottings and basmalas.
Accounts in Ladino. Many names are mentioned, many of which are uncommon in geniza documents: "la mujer de Nicola יצ׳׳ו Bona," "la mujer de Costa …
Legal record (#48) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on ff. 12v-13r-v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 47-48) Folio 12v