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Karaite betrothal deed. Location: Cairo. Dated 19 Elul 5428 AM (1668 CE). Bride: Qamr bt. Ṣemaḥ b. Efrayīm. Groom: Shelomo b. Yahūda b. Shelomo Rofe. …
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Letter from a man to his son Shelomo Skandari. In Hebrew. Dating: End of the 16th century, according to Avraham David. The addressee spent time …
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Late letter in Hebrew from Yosef b. Emmanuel Ergas in Livorno to Abram Segre. Dated 3 Adar 5489 AM which is 1729 CE. The address …
Letter of recommendation (?). "This note was cut out (?) from the book belonging to the Persian (al-ʿAjamī) staying with the Jew who speaks on …
Secondary use: Court record in Judaeo-Arabic. An inventory of something (a trousseau? a dead person's estate?). Many valuable goods are listed along with their values, …
Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic. Asking Manṣūr to slaughter for Bū l-Faraj on the 14th of Shevaṭ (i.e. serve as substitute slaughterer?).
Recto (secondary use): Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, asking for the addressee's help in sending something to the writer with the bearer Abū l-Faraj.
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Bifolio of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic with at least two references to wheat. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, probably an 11th-century Maghribī commercial letter. The document is fully preserved including the address on verso, from [...]mūn b. [...] to Abū …
Fiscal account?
Small letter fragment in Arabic. Excerpts: معهم واخرج جملة . . . ها الف و . . . . بذلك حتى كانه حاصل . . …
Recto: Letter from a certain Yiṣḥaq to Shemarya (the father of Elḥanan b. Shemarya). In Hebrew. Contains blessings for Elḥanan to take the place of …
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Consists mainly of lists of goods and numbers. Mentions people such as Abū Iskandar(!) and Abū l-Ḥasan.
Fragment (left side) of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions "goods" (spelled חויג) and the cold. Dating: probably no earlier than 13th century.
Prognostications in Judaeo-Arabic, interesting for containing details about military movements, geography, and the Nile. Same hand as T-S AS 162.55 (PGPID 38917).
Probably a fiscal register (compare BL OR 5566B.3 and the other shelfmarks cited there). Mentions various dates and the name ʿAbd al-Ṣamad. Reused on the …
Legal fragment. In Arabic script. Mentions Abū l-[...] b. Yehuda and a [ṣā]ḥib al-shurṭa.
Letter, or draft or writing practice, written by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. (Information in part from CUDL)
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 …
Letter in the hand of Yehuda b. Ṭoviyyahu (muqaddam of Bilbays, active 1170s–1219). In Judaeo-Arabic. Containing a complaint about illness. The purpose of writing seems …
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two lists, probably colophon - needs examination. No image
List of parshiyot, holidays, and dates, each followed by a number.
Fragment of a text in Hebrew script, badly damaged. The recto has a main body and marginal text, yet, it is too damaged to discern …
Talmudic text.
On a fragment of Leviticus we find a short book list belong to Abu Sa'd ha-Nadiv, see Scheiber, Geniza Studies, p. 321. AA
Copy of a letter from Shemuel Gaon b. Hofni to the community in Fez. The beginning of the 11th century, handwriting of Sahlan b. Avraham. …
Kabbalistic amulet.
Account in Judaeo-Arabic. Late, probably Ottoman-era. Mentions ginger (janzabīl).
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. With some interesting symbols.
Letter from both Nahray b. Nissim (recto) and ʿAyyāsh b. Ṣadaqa (verso) to Barhūn b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī. Written on Isru Ḥag (the day after the …
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Magical fragment. In Arabic script, with pious Islamic phrases (incl. lā ḥawla wa-lā quwwa illā billāhi al-ʿaliyy al-ʿaẓīm). With stars of David.
Legal record in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–38 CE). Very damaged. Might be details of the execution of a will. Parties include …
Legal deed in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Fragment from the lower left corner. Dated: First decade of either Adar I or Adar …
Beginning of a note or letter, possibly a draft. (Information from CUDL)
Probably a legal document, in Arabic script. Mentions 10 dinars. Needs examination.
Possibly a fragment from a petition, addressed to a Caliph based on the beginning of a "raʾyy" clause in the penultimate line.
تو]قيع الامر مط.. بان الحديث فيهم
جرى به عادته وحملهم
…..واطفالهم
]الى كافة الخلق
]ولمولانا
[صلوات الله عليه علو الراي في ذلك ان شا الله]
Fragment from a court ledger probably. Recto contains portions of legal documents, one mentioning marriage, with a signature partially preserved. Verso contains a list of …
Draft of a ketubba. Location: Cairo. Dated: Wednesday, 13 Sivan 1400 Seleucid = 1089 CE. Groom: ʿOvadya b. Yefet ha-Levi. Bride: Sitt al-ʿAshīr bt. Netanʾel. …
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Small fragment from a legal deed, probably regarding dispute based on the reference to זקני יושר
Legal document in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Dated: Thursday, 17 Nisan 1483 Seleucid (1172 CE). Inventory of the estate of the physician Abū …
Legal document. Partnership record. Dating: 1085 (per Goitein's index cards). Written in the hand of Hillel b. Eli (probable, per Goitein). This document is the …
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List of 57 names, in some cases indicating their profession (many are physicians, also common are pharmacists, silk merchants, and silk weavers and dyers), beginning …
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Bifolio of accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Dating: 11th or 12th century. The entries are fairly well-preserved, some are crossed out. Requires …
Petition, or an official letter in Arabic script. The sender may be named Hibatallāh b. Bū Naṣr. The addressee's name appears in the first line; …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Looks early Ottoman era.
Legal document, probably in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). (Information from CUDL)
Four lines of an official letter in Arabic script. Mentions the amīr Shihāb al-Dīn (last line). Reused for a Judaeo-Arabic halakhic discussion.