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Fiscal receipt, in Arabic script. May contain a registration mark. Needs examination.
No Scholarship Records
State document in Arabic script. Dating: Likely Ayyubid or early Mamluk-era, based on hand and layout. Very difficult to read, and the substance is unclear. …
Recto: Draft of a legal document. Involves Abū l-Maʿālī; Rabbenu Yeshʿyahu; 400 dinars; a period of 3 years; a house; Hebrew and Arabic documents; a …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Small fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Only a portion of the marginal text on recto and a couple faded words from the address …
Letter from Abū Saʿīd, in Palermo, to his brother Abū l-Barakāt known as Ṭāriq, in Fustat. Abū Saʿīd reports that he had fled the unrest …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning various business matters. The sender reports that 32 3/4 dirhams remain out of the original 60. He mentions a merchant, "one …
Unidentified document(s) in Arabic script. Probably state-related. Verso: Headed by the basmala, followed by an elongated "ʿaml," followed by "the petition (? ruqʿa) of Fuḍayl …
Palimpsest containing the Latin text of a sermon by St. Augustine. See CUL Add.4320a-d and Outhwaite, B. (2007). St Augustine in the Genizah. [Genizah Research …
Partnership agreement dated November 1739 CE (first third of Heshvan 5500 AM) between Nissim Kaspi b. Moshe and Moshe Kohen b. Yehudah Kohen. Signed by …
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Recto (secondary use): Book list in rudimentary hand and spelling. Mentions books such as Kitāb al-Wadīʿa; the book of Lamentations; Tehillot (= Tehillim?); a book …
Legal fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: [...]8 Seleucid, which doesn't help us. Features [...] al-Levi al-Parnas al-Tinnīsī and an Abū l-Makārim. There are notes on verso …
Fiscal account, left-hand side only, written with wasteful line spacing containing the amounts two ḥabbas, one dīnār, and possibly the annotation nuqila.
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Accounts, probably. In Latin script, unidentified language. Needs examination.
Letter from Shelomo b. Ḥayyim b. Shelomo to Avraham ha-Sar b. Natan ‘the Seventh’. Dating: Ca. 1100 CE. Information from CUDL. There is a rhymed …
Court record. Written and signed by Hillel b. ʿEli. Dated: Thursday, 23 Kislev 1401 of the Seleucid Era (= December 1089 CE). On the day …
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Commercial dār receipt for Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yūsuf. Dated: 13 Dhū l-Ḥijja 509 AH = 28 April 1116 CE. At upper left names al-Shaykh …
Letter of complaint from the administrator of the Quppa (the bread basket of the community) in Alexandria to R. Avraham the Nagid. Alexandria had a …
באלכסנדריה הייתה נהוגה קופת צדקה שחולקו ממנה כיכרות לחם לנזקקים. כותב מכתב זה היה 'מֻפרק אלקופה', כלומר המנהל האחראי על חלוקת הכיכרות. המכתב מופנה אל…
Legal documents (one on recto, one on verso). In Arabic script. Likely deeds of sale, since there appear to be descriptions of properties. Needs examination.
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Concerning half of a well-known house in al-Qālūs. This is probably …
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Court record in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Location: Fustat. Dated: Iyyar 1541 Seleucid, which is 1230 CE, under the authority of Avraham Maimonides. …
Recto: Small fragment from the top of a legal document, mentioning Abū l-Ḥasan and al-Maḡribī. On parchment. Verso: alphabet, jottings. (Information from CUDL)
IB VII, 48. Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. "1200 Malikī dinars. . . I was distressed by (the state of) those poor children. . . " …
Damaged and faded fragment of a letter written by Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Halfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE).
State document, Mamlūk-era, in Arabic script. An ʿalāma in an outsized script at the top. Needs examination.
Legal record (#120) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 39r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated: 7 Sivan 5333 …
Small fragment of a legal document probably in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Mentions Abū l-Bishr.
Receipt or order. Written by the same scribe or jahbadh responsible for the remainder of the folder. For Sayf. For 23 (dirhams). Reused on recto …
IB ח102. Notes in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Netanel regarding a sugya in Bava Metzia. Very possibly written during his stay in Lucena, Spain, …
Legal query in Judaeo-Arabic. Likely the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, in which case the addressee is likely either Moshe Maimonides or Avraham Maimonides. …
Minute fragment. One Arabic word on recto. Two fragmentary names on verso (Avraham b. Shl[...] and Yosef b. Hal[fon?]
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and eastern Arabic numerals. Late. Dated in the upper right corner, 2 Shawwal [year damaged]. The year is also damaged in the …
Report of a provincial official, Ibn Lifsh(?) al-Shihābī. In Arabic script. It seems that he received an order to present himself, together with the qāḍī …
Petition or report concerning a government official (Mutawallī al-Sayyāra) named Samyūn (سميون), likely a Christian.The document was cut into two or more pieces and rearranged …
Official Ottoman-era accounts concerning the produce of the city of Lajjūn (qāʾima mubāraka in shāʾ allāh taʿālā bi-muqāsamat al-ghilāl al-mawjūda bi-madīnat al-Lajjūn al-makhdūma(?) al-dīwān al-saʿīd …
Verso may have the remnants of Arabic document(s) or else drafts of phrases from a letter or petition.
Ketubba, with very little text preserved, mentioning the trousseau items. Witnessed by Shemuel b. Elʿazar ha-Levi. (Information from CUDL)
Letter or petition, probably. In Arabic script. Three lines are mostly preserved. Seems to be talking about assisting a group of people.
Letter from a Kohen, possibly a family member of Shelomo ha-Kohen Gaon b. Yosef, to Efrayim b. Shemarya, consisting solely of praises and florid phrases. …
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Responsa partially intact about divorce and fornication (Information from Friedman, "Divorce").
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Official correspondence in Arabic script. The beginnings of 17 lines are preserved. Dated: probably [5]32 AH = 1137/38 CE. Also possible is 432 AH = …
Accounts, probably communal. In Judaeo-Arabic with some Arabic script. Listing households and sums of money.
Small fragment in Arabic script, likely a letter.
Calendar? Very faded.
Letter in which Abu al-Barakat b. Tayyib apologizes for not having sent a certain sum owed by Abū l-Ṭāhir. He mentions that his son is …
Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to a 'son.' Dating: Unknown; might be 11th century. There are some unusual phrases, such as "al-ʿāqiba li-barakāt" instead of …
IB II, 51. Letter from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq about turmoil in Yemen and measures taken by Abu Zikri Kohen for ensuring Khalaf’s rights after the …
ואנ[...]
יצל עבדה [... אדאם]
אללה עזה מן [...]
חואיגה וסאנח מה[מאתה ...]
טרא עלי עבד חצרת[ה מן מרץ ואלדה (?) פי חדש ... אלי]
Recto, Main Text:
1-4: I [hope]
to receive [from you, my lord—may]
God [make permanent] your honored position!—[a letter, in…
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Magic. "Hekh-type names דבצביב הוא יהו יהוה הֹגֹ גבגביב... עמעמירון... לפלפירון וכו." Information from FGP.