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Arabic script (VMR). Small fragment containing the remnants of three lines of text. There are several other Arabic-script fragments in the series ENA 3399 that …
Legal record (#17) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 6v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Undated, but likely c. …
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Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Menahem [...] to Nissim Meyuḥas.
Letter in Arabic script. From [...] to Abū l-Khayr(?) al-Mubārak b. Dāʾūd. The upper part of the front and the address on the back are …
State correspondence. In Arabic script. Chancery hand with wide space in between lines. Only the beginnings of 4 lines are preserved (reused for jottings in …
Popular poetry written in a mixture of Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic on the subject of a man addicted to the love of singing women (ʿishq …
Small fragment, possibly Talmud or another rabbinic literary text.
Arabic poem, transcribed into Hebrew script. At least some of the originally Islamic elements were kept ("fa-wa-lladhī anzala furqānahu ʿalā l-nabiyyi l-muṣṭafā l-muntajab"). There are …
Partnership agreement between Eliyyahu Palombo, Yaʿaqov Reqaḥ, and Merkado Ḥūba(?) (חובה), from Cairo, dated 1796 CE (Av 5556 AM). The main text of the document …
Probably popular literature in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 13th–15th century. Refers to people with silly names such as al-shaykh Qumayqim and al-shaykh Sumaysim. Some related fragments …
Letter probably from Nissim b. Ḥalfon, in Tinnīs, to an unidentified addressee, probably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: mid-11th century. Almost completely unmentioned in the …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals on one page of a bifolio. The other three pages have a Judaeo-Arabic literary text.
Unidentified text in Arabic, probably literary.
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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Fragment of a private letter. Mentions death and shrouds as part of the opening greetings. Reused on verso for a Hebrew list or text (literary).
Account in Judaeo-Arabic, listing mainly materia medica. Mentions barberries, brazilwood, rose, cucumber, endive, gum (ʿilk), aloe, cardamom.
Small piece of parchment. Verso includes three lines of Hebrew, probably literary. Recto includes an Arabic jotting, probably a later reuse.
Verso (probably original use): Letter or petition in Arabic script. To a dignitary whose titles are "al-karīm al-akhaṣṣ al-awḥad al-raʾīs al-mufaḍḍal al-makhdūm zayn al-dīn sayyid …
State document in Arabic. Fragments of 4 lines are preserved.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, at times possibly shifting into some kind of shorthand. Late. There may be dates on verso.
Draft or notes for a legal document concerning an inheritance. In Judaeo-Arabic. There are also some accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Mentions Yaʿaqov al-Ḥarīrī.
Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to his wife's uncle Abū l-Barakāt. He complains about lack of reply to his letters.
על פי קוצר השעה כתבתי אלו הטורים
לאחי הנכבד מרנו ורבנו ברכות
החכם והנבון הרופא סגולת הנשיאות
לרוב תאותי …
Your admirer Solomon son of R. Elijah the judge, (may he come to a) g(ood) e(nd).
As time is short I am writing these lines
to my honorab…
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Fol. 3v: Brief jotted accounts in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning Nāṣirī silver. There is also an ownership note for Moshe b. Hillel the descendant of [...]. This …
Calendar in Hebrew, 3 folios with many details of holidays. No specific year appears but it may be possible to ascertain its occurrence because many …
Letter from Yeshu'a b. Yosef to Nahray b. Nissim.
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Recto: part of a rhymed letter mentioning Yehoshuaʿ (אדוני אבי ריוח והחבר יהושוע). (Information from CUDL)
Lists of payments and possibly other financial data in Judaeo-Arabic. The evidence of payment structure is clearest on the recto when the author notes on …
Recto: list of the first and last words contained in each of a number of pamphlets or quires. Verso: pen trials. (Information from CUDL)
A Hebrew poem from the perspective of a bookcase. On the back of other documents [PGPID 1264]
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IB VII, 8. Legal document. Record of release. Written in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dated: Adar I, 1426 Seleucid. One of …
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Recto: text in Hebrew, probably piyyuṭ. Verso: part of a letter in Arabic. (Information from CUDL)
Poetic letter to Shemuʾel ha-Nagid, with jottings in Hebrew (repeated lines of Esther 1:1) and Arabic (see separate record). (Information from CUDL)
On verso there is a fragment of a list written in some kind of shorthand. On recto there is a Judaeo-Arabic text on linguistics.
Letter from a man to his son. In Arabic script. The address is rubbed out, although the word thaghr is still legible (unless this is …
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Letter fragment mentioning someone's arrival from Jerusalem, "kitāb al-jamāʿa," and someone who departed when some people were sick. The hand looks familiar from the 13th …
Recto: End of a legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Iyyar 1451 Seleucid, which is 1140 CE. Written and signed by Natan b. Shemuel. Also signed …
Three distinct fragments. First fragment: Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment. Contains greetings and may mention the Kārim, but the context is missing. Also mentions …
Document containing phrases of praise. No orderly arrangement. (Information from Goitein's index card)
Account, possibly a list of debtors. Mentions names such as R. Shemuel Iskandarānī, Meʾir Saragosi, and Shemuel Tortos. Dating: verso is headed מביע גאמכית שהר …
Fol. 1v: Legal record (deed of release). In the hand of the cantor Yefet b. David. Dated: Monday, 6 Adar I 1339 Seleucid, which is …
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List of numbers written out in words (rather than numerals) in Arabic.
Mostly Arabic with some Judaeo-Arabic. Drafts of literary text, either philosophical or poetic or both.
Letter draft in Hebrew, opening with the report of the writer that he had expedited the collection of the monies pledged for the poor on …
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Many jottings of different kinds. The hand may belong to one of the well-known 12th-century Geniza scribes. Includes a section on ophthalmology mentioning the properties …
Letter from Abū l-Ḥusayn b. al-Rayyis b. Nāḥūm, in the Rīf, to his brother Abū Thābit, in Fustat. In Arabic script. Concerning the capitation tax …
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Marriage document, fragment. "Delayed marriage payment and dowry, 38 dinars...."