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Minute fragment from a legal deed.
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Small fragment from the beginning of a legal deed written by Halfon. b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Avraham the judge b. Shabetay is mentioned. …
Partnership settlement recorded in the home of Rabbi Moshe Damūhī in Cairo that bears a date in line 34 of 9 Ḥeshvan 5304 AM (1543 …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely ca. 14th–16th century, based on handwriting and linguistic features. Nearly the whole page is preserved, but the text is extremely …
Small fragment of a marriage document.
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Bifolio of pen trials including a section written in a cipher - merits examination (might be solvable based on the surrounding formulae).
Letter in Hebrew from the communal head of Ṣahrajt, a small Delta town, reporting on the local communityʼs handling of a particularly problematic case of …
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Legal document(s) in Arabic script. On parchment. Large, but quite damaged. Verso refers to a buyer and a house and elements of the house, so …
Letter from Nissim b. Ḥalfon b. Benaya, in Tinnīs, to Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī al-Maghribi, in Fustat, both prominent in the Geniza correspondence of the …
מן תניס ען סלאמה ונעמה אעלמתך אן לי מדה מא קרית לך כתאב ארגו
שגל כיר וקד …
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Qaraite-Rabbanite polemic
Fragment of a letter in Ladino that was recorded on an oddly large piece of paper (based on the orientation of the body and marginal …
Legal document. Draft. Dated: 18 Av 15[..] Seleucid, which provides the possible range: 1188–1287 CE. More of the date might be deduced from the titles …
Arabic literary text.
Bottom of a legal document in Arabic. Dated: 432 AH = 1040/41 CE. Merits further examination.
State document, Fatimid, probably a decree fragment, 4 lines. Begins with وعاد بنجابتهما وحسن in a dual tense suggesting that it was addressed to two …
عاد بنجابتهما وحسن
عاد بنجابتها وحسن
وله منتصبين وفيه مجدين وليتحققا
…… مسوولان عنها مطالبيـ[ن
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Letter. Faded. Addressed to Abū l-Majd. It may be from Yehuda b. Aharon b. al-ʿAmmānī, in Alexandria, to Abū l-Majd Meir b. Yakhin, in Fustat. …
Probably a late literary work in Hebrew.
Long letter in Hebrew, probably first half of the 11th century. Very damaged. Mentions the Mount of Olives and "this woman." The name Shemarya b. …
Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Abū Saʿīd Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (left side of …
Letter fragment on behalf of the lepers of Tiberias to Efrayim b. Shemarya in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1007–1055 CE, based on the years Efrayim b. …
ENA 3960.6–10 are five distinct but related legal acknowledgments (iqrārs) in Arabic script, all dated 909 AH (1503/04 CE), and involving the same people (e.g., …
Judaeo-Arabic composition in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. Narrates a scuffle, with the refrain "but they didn't leave me" (wa-lam yakhrujū min ʿindī). Then, …
Letter to a doctor of general clinic under the supervision of the Agudat Israel explaining that the treatment of the patient will be completed with …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Legal fragment. Very faded. Involves various sums/transfers of money.
Bifolio of Hebrew literary text; there is an Arabic prayer written on the left page on verso.
Unidentified document in Arabic script (accounts?). Used as structural support (part of the binding of the book?) for a bifolio containing piyyut.
Legal query in Arabic script. The case is that of two brothers who inherit 3.5 shares in a property from their third brother, but upon …
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Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Written in a hasty scrawl, difficult to read. Some figures in the thousands.
Pages from a prayer book, with the title תפלת אליהו, ‘The Prayer of Elijah’, at the top of f. 1r.
Arabic grammar text, in Arabic script. Discusses the difference between a metaphor and simile.
Small fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably a legal query ("mā yaqūl sayyidunā. . . ").
Jottings of a rebuke for somebody who has forgotten everything the speaker taught him of grammar, algebra, poetry, respect, and piety. On verso, another literary …
Two fragments from the bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. In a cursive Spanish (Andalusī) hand. Excerpts: אכתארך(?) חאלי(?) אן תפצלה . . . מא …
Marriage contract. Location: Tyre. Bride: Sitt al-Bayt bt. Yaʿaqov. There is a header decorated with fleurs-de-lis. (See Goitein's index card and the PGP record for …
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Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. There is a piece of string attached.
Legal document. Hand of Natan b. Shemuel? Location: Fustat. Involves [Abū l-]Karam(?) known as Ibn al-Shavuy and [...] b. ʿAdiyya ha-Zaqen and a debt of …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (lower right corner of recto). Written on parchment. Likely a Maghribī mercantile letter of the 11th century. Twice refers to "my …
Letter from Pinḥas al-Ṣāʾigh to R. Shūʿa. In Judaeo-Arabic. Late. The sender opens with a complaint about his arthritis and a request for medicine. Mentions …
Literary text, in Arabic script, two sides. Probably an astronomy-related text explicating the effects of planetary positions on Earth. Could possibly be a fragment from …
Fragment of a letter in Hebrew written in a formal style and script, with wide space between the lines. Mentions the ḥaver Yeshuʿa b. Natan …
Legal document in Arabic script. Deed of sale (refers to "hādhā al-bayʿ" three lines from the bottom). Involves the daughter of Yaḥyā b. Naṣr al-Kātib, …
Verso: writing exercises in Hebrew and Arabic, and the beginning of a letter in Arabic script. The Judaeo-Arabic jotting in the upper margin is in …
Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and eastern Arabic numerals. Dating: likely 18th or 19th century. Large and neatly written. Each column is headed by a name.
Accounts, detailed and well-preserved. Merits further examination.
Letter of recommendation for charity, addressed to Mishaʾel ha-Sar. Written on behalf of Hiba Ibn Zaʿfarān (the word before "saffron" isn't entirely clear, it could …
Bill of divorce. Location: Cairo. Dated: Tuesday, 7 Av 1559 Seleucid, which is 1248 CE. Husband: Avraham b. Yishmaʿel, from Cairo. Wife: Ḥana bt. Netanel, …
Small fragment with Arabic script. There is a significant amount of faded/damaged text that may become legible through Hierax digital restoration.
Damaged legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38), under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon (1127–39). Written on one page of a bifolio. Regarding …
Note from a parent to a teacher. In Judaeo-Arabic. The text is quite clear, but it's difficult to figure out what the sender is trying …