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Legal fragment with release formulae. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). The parties are Abū Zikrī and Berakhot. They might …
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Beginning of a letter sent to Nahray b. Nissim. (Information from CUDL)
Small fragment from a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (active 1100–38 CE) involving a freedwoman (המשוחררת) named Ikhtiṣār, who is mentioned in …
Late legal document (fragment only) regarding amounts owed to each other by current or former partners, Moshe Ḥaddād and Moshe b. Yehudah. Someone named Yaʿīsh …
Letter addressed to the physician, Rosh Kalla, and Nagid Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Saʿadya (in office from ca. 1065 to 1077 or 1079). On recto, …
Calligraphic letter sent by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemarya to Rabbi Benjamin, containing greetings to his two sons and describing how he fell from his wealth, lost …
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Original use: Letter from Eliyyahu b. Shelomo Gaʾon to David b. Yeḥizqiyya Rosh Ha-Gola. Dating: ca. 1046. In Hebrew. Published by Gil, Palestine, vol. 3, …
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Document in Arabic script. Ends of a few lines. Wide space between the lines.
Part of a ketubba for Nathan ha-Levi (groom), referring to the dowry. (Information from CUDL)
Letter(s) in Judaeo-Arabic. It is not immediately clear if recto and verso are in the same handwriting or not. On recto, the addressee is a …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter from Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī, in Trapani, Sicily (Gil prefers to read אטראבנש in line 2 over Goitein's and Ben-Sasson's אטראבלש), to Nahray b. …
[כתאבי] יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעא[דתך ונעמאך] וצרף אלאסוא ענך ברחמתה מן
אטראבנש לה כלון מן אלול ואלחאל סלאמה ועאפיה לל…
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Letter of appeal for charity from a Byzantine man named Mosqos (=Μόσχος). Dating: ca. 1090 CE. The scribe, also a Byzantine, has been identified by …
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Recto: Letter, in Arabic script. Mentions qamḥ (wheat), and probably an inquiry related to its price. Contains the glyph. Needs examination.
Scattered Hebrew text, fragmented and damaged. Needs further examination.
List in Arabic script mentioning people (Abū Muḥammad, Dāʾūd, al-shaykh) and also 'the bathhouse and chickens" (ḥammām wa-farārīj).
Letter requesting help for a woman originally from Narbonne, sent from Muñó (מניו) in northern Spain and signed by a number of people (the names …
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Upper part of a court record dealing with a debt of 33 dirhams between Ḥasan b. Sahlān and Yaḥyā b. Suwayd. Dating: early 11th century, …
Possibly a document in Arabic script. The beginnings of ~10 lines are preserved, very faded. There is a high concentration of recycled fiber emerging from …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to Abū l-Najm Hillel [...] al-Jawbarī (or al-Gharbarī?). Mentions the following: Hiba b. Yūsuf Ibn al-Baghla ("Son of the Female Mule"—evidently …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic listing income from "debts and sales" around Ṭanṭa. Dated Dhū l-Qaʿda 1237 AH which is 1822 CE. MCD.
Table of contents, describing the chapters in a large astrological or astronomical book.
Unidentified document in rudimentary Arabic script. This may be the secondary use, and the list of Hebrew piyyuṭim on recto may be the primary use. …
Fiscal register, in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Letter from a man, in Rashīd, to Umm Binyamin. Dealing with business matters. Dating: After 1425 CE, as the ashrafī coinage mentioned was first minted …
Small fragment of a letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe, likely to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Mainly a portion of the right …
Small fragment of a legal deed regarding sugar refining (ṭabīkh al-sukkar). Involving Yeshuʿa b. Yiftaḥ ha-Kohen. In the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. …
Part of a document, probably an entry from a larger set of accounts. Dated: 9 [Dhū] l-Qaʿda 963 AH, which is 1556 CE. (MCD with …
Minute fragment. Text referring to a divorce deed (al-geṭ).
Letter in Hebrew. The writer of the letter sends his apology and emphasizes he did not intend to offend the addressee. The writer ends (lines …
Document in Arabic script. Accounts?
Legal document. Dated: Friday, 5 Shevat 5346 AM = 24 January 1586 CE. Avraham b. Saʿadya Sadīd the physician acknowledges that he owes Moshe Skandarī …
Legal document, probably, in Arabic and Hebrew script. Mentions "fī manʿ shahāda". Needs examination.
Minute fragment from a letter: ומגאראתך עלי . . . תסלם עליך . . .
Legal document. The beginnings of ~9 lines are preserved. Referring to a gift and appointing an agent and "my son Manṣūr."
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Long horizontal strip.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Yemeni hand. Partially vocalized. Unusual layout, with a very large text block in the left margin at a right angle to …
Sums in Greek/Coptic numerals.
Recto: draft of a legal query to the Nagid regarding a man who has been sick for one year. Followed by a draft of a …
Accounts of the qodesh. In Judaeo-Arabic. Many people and professions and commodities are named. Mentions Dār al-Maqādisa; Darb al-Maqādisa; Dār Ibn ʿImrān; al-ʿAnbarī; Ḥashshāshīn; Bū …
Tax receipt for Yaʿqūb b. Isḥāq, likely for what he owes as the tax farmer of something (min jumlat mā ʿalayhi ʿan [ḍamānih?]...). On verso …
One line of an Arabic state document. Reused for Hebrew literary text.
Note in Arabic script. The addressee al-Muʿallim Shams(?) is to give to the bearer a specified sum of silver. Dated, but the year is difficult …
Non-Geniza. List of historical events spanning the years 1680–1730 CE involving the Crimean Khanate and the Ottoman Empire. In Hebrew.
Small fragment of an official-looking letter (written in huge letters). Mentions the name Makhlūf and "al-[...]ūn annahum raʾaw jamīʿ...")
Letter (draft?), or official correspondence, in Arabic script. Contains the taqbīl clause and mentions "al-mamlūk" twice. The text on verso reads as "min ahl hādihi …