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Form letter from the community of Safed to the communities of 'everywhere.' In Hebrew. Dated: Tammuz 5611 AM, which is July 1851 CE. It seems …
No Scholarship Records
Possibly a fragment from a bill of release, mentioning Ḥalfon, Yefet, and […] b. Yaʿir ha-Shofet ha-Nadiv. At the bottom at ninety degrees there is …
Probably a tax receipt. Needs examination.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Legal document. Location: Ṣahrajt. Dated: Monday, 11 Kislev 1372 Seleucid, which is 1060 CE. Ḥarīza b. Abraham appoints Mevorakh b. Abraham (most likely her brother) …
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Inventory of books. Dating: 16th century. The current location of this mansuscript is unknown. Harkavy's personal collection of Geniza manuscripts are owned by the Vernadsky …
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20 pages of lists of names with some accounts, organized by days of weeks.
Discussion from a broadcast about Shabbat – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 72) – in Yiddish. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., …
Late letter from a father, Shemuel Muhayjār (מהיגאר), to his son. Reports that he has sent various goods with R. Saʿadya and that he will …
Tiny fragment in Judaeo-Arabic.
Business accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions revenue from sugarcane (qand), the capital (raʾsmāl) of Abū l-Surūr, and al-shaykh al-Muhadhdhab.
Letter addressed to Moshe b. Yehuda, in Alexandria. Dating: Last quarter of the 15th century. Only the address is preserved.
Small fragment of a legal document. It seems signed by Avraham b. Sahlān. Dating: No later than 1032 CE. Involves someone giving something to his …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic, possibly. Medieval-era. A beit din is mentioned in line 2 and a sum of dirhams in line 3. Requires further examination.
Letter, possibly from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides, recommending a man who is “poor but from a good family.” The community of Fustat is asked …
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Divorce settlement and release form between Ḥusayn b. Abraham and Sabā bt. Yiṣḥaq the dyer; witnessed by Shemuel b. Yaʿaqov and Mundhir b. Shabbat. Dated: …
Letter in Arabic script. In a chancery-esque hand with a tarjama. Addressed to a 'brother.' Quite faded. On verso, there is the header "al-ḥamdu lil-lāh …
Letter from Mardūk b. Mūsā (Alexandria) to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat; 21 July 1046 (Gil). Talks about sending back sacks and about an inkstand (Gil) …
בשמך רח
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך ותאידך ונעמאך וסעאדתך מן אל
מסתקר יום אלאתנין אלנצף מן אב ען חאל סלאמה ועאפיה אלדי ת…
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Account of the compound of the Jerusalemites ca. 1191-93. Personal notes of the panason, in which they recorded rent payments by six tenants of Dar …
Legal queries from al-Maḥalla. The first one asks how to calculate the value of a marriage contract (ketubba) where there is no fixed rule concerning …
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Recto: unidentified text in Arabic, probably a letter. Verso: Pesuqe de-Zimra. (Information from CUDL)
Prayerbook in Hebrew and Italian. Opens with a prayer for good children, for women to recite before immersion in the miqva. Later: "Because prayers have …
Legal record (#11) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 5v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated solely as 23 …
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Legal document mentioning a teacher, a sum of dinars and ‘the price of the garden’. The partial names [...] ha-Levi and [... b.] שאטי[..] ) …
Legal document(s) in Judaeo-Arabic. Recto and verso appear to be in different hands. Recto mentions the Qāḍī Ibn ʿAmmār and R. Yiṣḥaq. Might mention business …
Calendar in Hebrew script. Needs examination.
Legal record (#125) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 41r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated: 14 Av 5329 …
Page from a large ledger of communal contributions c. 1800 CE.
Fragment of a letter from Yehuda b. Sahl, probably from Alexandria, to Yeshua b. Isma’il, Fustat. Around 1050. Some mentions of trading oil and crocus. …
] כלון מן טבת ערפך אללה ברכתה [
וצל כתאב מול]אי ידכר חאל אלצרר וקד כאן את[
] קבלך ואגתה[ד ] פי חמל אל[
] לי אכי אבי אלסרור אכדהא לם יפע…
Letter. Possibly from Naṣr or Nuṣayr (v19) to some dignitary (sayyidnā, Mordekhai ha-Zeman). In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment. Dating: Late 12th century, based on the mention of …
Halakhic treatise on legal deeds by Saʿadya Gaʾon (recto deals with ketubbot). (Information from CUDL.)
Legal document from Baghdad. In Hebrew. Probably 17th century. The date appears as חת׳׳ת לפ׳׳ק which is: 8+400+400+30+80+100=1018. It is unclear how this sum should …
Minute fragment from the bottom of a legal document. Only few signature: Shemarya Halevi, Sa'aday and Moshe. AA
Small fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably poetry.
Verso: List or table in Arabic script, possibly accounts. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Damaged list, probably contribution to the poor. Late.
Genealogical list of Nesiʾim. Names include: Neḥemya b. David; [...] b. Baradoy(?); Shelomo b. Ḥisday(?); Bustanay;
A letter containing a court ruling demanding the return of a deposit.
Legal document. Written and signed by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Dated: Thursday, 17 Nisan 1540 Seleucid = 19 April 1229 CE. Also signed by Ṣadaqa b. …
Recto: letter by the Palestinian Gaʾon Daniel b. ʿAzariah to the head of the Palestinian congregation in Fusṭāṭ , ʿEli b. ʿAmram, concerning ‘what was …
Letter of appeal for charity. In Hebrew. Dating: Late, probably 16th century. Written by Yehuda al-Ashqar b. Yiṣḥaq b. [...], a resident of Jerusalem who, …
Elegy by Yedutun ha-Levi for his brother Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, ed. Shulamit Elizur.
Account or list mentioning many names. Only a narrow vertical strip from around the fold of the bifolio is preserved. Might be official/fiscal.
Colophon of Saʿadya Gaon’s book on the laws of evidence and documents (Kitāb al-Shahadāt wa-l-Wathāʾiq) belonging to Yosef b. Yiṣḥaq, a judge in Ṣoʿan (= …
Letter in Hebrew, with an extensive Judaeo-Arabic note, in a different hand, in the top margin. Mentions a pinqas. Written on Thursday, 8 Tishrei (unclear …
Letter. Commercial letter from Rashid (Rosetta) to Damietta, mentioning Christian Italian merchants (e.g., גירונימו/Geronimo), and a French consul. The text has a number of European …