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Official copy of a court record. The first three lines state that Khalaf b. Natan b. Shabbat came to the court and asked to examine …
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Letter from Salmān b. [...] to [Abū Sa]ʿīd Khallūf b. Zikrī. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (upper left corner of recto). Dating: Probably first half of the …
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IB I, 37. Legal record (#9). Deposition in court. Bū Naṣr al-Kohen Ibn Mukhtār, Yūsuf al-ʿAṭṭār ('the perfumer in the alley of the candles'), Abū …
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Part of a deed of indemnity. Location: Fustat. Dated: Thursday, 26 Kislev 1338 Seleucid, which is 1026 CE. In which Thābit b. ʿEli b. Yeshuʿa …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
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 …
Marriage document (ṣadāq) dated Ramaḍān 461 between Qurūlus and ʿAzīza bnt. Ḥudayj (?). The document is damaged throughout. (AP)
Small fragment with various types of writing in Hebrew script. Possibly a monumental document like a marriage contract, with large text at the top followed …
Karaite betrothal deed. Dated: Sunday 25 Tevet 5409. Location: Cairo. Bride: Ḥanūna bt. Efrayīm b. Aharon. Groom: ʿOvadiah b. Shemuʾel b. ʿOvadiah. The groom commits …
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Letter to the Nagid Mevorakh (1079–1111 CE), it seems from the community of al-Maḥalla. Mentions Yosef al-Dimashqī, Ibn al-Mushaṭṭab(?), and Hillel (b. ʿEli) al-Ḥazzan al-Baghdādī. …
Receipt, unclear for what (ḥikr?). The payer may be Bū Naṣr b. Maʿānī. The paper is wide rather than tall. Needs examination.
Minute fragment. One Arabic word on recto. Two fragmentary names on verso (Avraham b. Shl[...] and Yosef b. Hal[fon?]
Recto: Faded business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions "the rest of the dirhams" and "I say they are recorded in his ledger." Resembles the handwriting of …
Scrap of parchment covered with various jottings, mainly in Hebrew including the phrase "I, Shelaḥya." There are also three copies of a Latin abecedary (the …
Small and damaged fragment from a bill of divorce of Sut[ay]t d. Ulla. Seems to join with T-S AS 152.408. AA
Sub-leasing agreement of a tax farm of silk production for the town of Bush and its surroundings, which was worth 3.5 dinars. Dated Tammuz 1458/ …
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A list of names and expenses (cloths, food). On the verso also list of income. Mentions Efrayim; Abū Saʿd; Abū Naṣr; Abū l-Surūr; the landlady; …
Twitch divination (palmomancy) fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. See Wagner, E., & Bohak, G. (2008). T-S AS 157.50: A twitch divination text …
Letter from ʿIwāḍ b. Ḥananel, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. Around 1060. The letter is in the hand of Benāya b. Mūsā …
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Literary. Likely from Kitāb Adab al-Quḍāh of Hayya b. Sherira Gaon. This section discusses the relationship between the judge and the the people appearing the …
Bifolio of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. One column is headed "al-maṣrūf" (expenditures).
Accounts of expenditures and income, mentioning dancers, and names such as Abū l-Faḍl, Abū l-ʿAzz and Elijah, with Hebrew, Coptic (?) and Arabic numerals. (Information …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions the name ʿAlī b. Hārūn. The fragment also contains Hebrew literary text.
ʿAlāma from a state document: al-thiqa bi-l-lāhī waḥdahū
Letter from Natan b. Nahray, from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1062. The writer mentions his difficulties with a person named Abu Zikri …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך אלאגל ואדאם תאידה
וסלאמתה ונעמתה מן אלמסתקר ליז כלון מן מרחשון כתמה
אללה עליך באחסן כאתמה תקדמת כתבי אליך…
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Responsum concerning a problematic partnership, with an excursus on valid and invalid partnerships. (Information from CUDL)
Fragment from the end of a letter. (Information from CUDL)
Tax receipt for the Jewish man Yūsuf b. Daʾūd for his capitation tax in Fustat. The date is given twice (51[.]?).
Pen trials in Judaeo-Arabic and in Arabic script.
Fragment from the top of a ketubba. Dated 1552 Seleucid = 1240/41 CE. The groom is Netanʾel.
Mercantile letter in Arabic script. Mentions myrobalan (halīlaj) and animal drivers (mukāriyyīn). Needs examination.
Fragment of a marriage contract stipulating a total of 20 dinars as a marriage gift at the conclusion of the contract in the event of …
On recto a poem. On verso a letter (or rather another poem?) in another hand. Barely legible
Respectful note to Eliyyahu the Raṣuy of both Yeshivot, informing him of the writer's safe arrival, and how the first thing he did was to …
Minute fragment. Unidentified, only few words are visible (might be Biblical commentary). AA
Minute fragment from the bottom of a legal deed.
Announcement by the Ashkenazi Jewish community of Cairo for the opening of a public clinic in the neighborhood of the communal synagogue on Rosette Gardens …
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Letter about betrothal of minor girls from David b. Daniel.
Receipt, or accounts. The header most likely reads as "ʿalā," indicating to the amount owed. Needs examination.
Non-Geniza. Letter from the community of Veliky Novgorod (? עיר חדשה) to the community of Brisk (=Brest). In Hebrew. Dealing with distressing edicts and a …
Legal letter. Written on parchment (14 lines). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). He reports that he has come up with …
State receipt/order of payment issued by the "khazīnat anwāl al-ḥarīr", a branch of the state-run silk monopoly under Meḥmed ʿĀlī Pasha's administration. Date: 6 Rabīʿ …
Geographical text, referring to India.
Letter, possibly a draft. In Arabic script. Fragment (bottom part only). The sender may be a merchant writing from Qūṣ (l. 3) or describing his …
Literary, Hebrew.
Letter of recommendation for charity. Addressed to the ‘Head of the Congregations’ Yakhin b. Netanʾel, in Fusṭāṭ. The introduction quotes from Genesis 50:23, in the …
Fragment of an unidentified document in Arabic. On recto: ليوقع . . . على ما نصيحته اطال [الله بقاه؟]. . .
Petition in Arabic script. The sender's name may appear between lines 2 and 3 (ʿabduhu Khalaf....?). May mention Qalyūb (l. 3) and mentions merchandise and …
Letter from Avraham b. Abī l-Ḥayy, in Alexandria, to his brother Mūsā, presumably in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1075 CE, several months after the death of …