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Tiny fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter. The writer's name may appear on verso: "min [Man?]ṣūr b. [...]"
No Scholarship Records
Small receipt or order for 4 raṭls of something. Name: Ibrāhīm. The quantity is written three times: with a Hebrew numeral and a Coptic numeral …
Four fragments smushed together. Very damaged. On the lower right, there is a medieval document in Judaeo-Arabic that includes the words "tadhkira" and "raṭl" and …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
List of food items (mainly) and of names of persons. Interpretation uncertain.
י]ום אלגמאע אלאולה מן סיון ערפנא אללה ברכתה
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Recto: End of a legal document, written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: Shevaṭ 1445 Seleucid, which is 1133/1134 CE.
Letter in Arabic script. The writer is Barakāt b. al-Dayyān (presumably Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, cf. ENA 3927.1 and CUL Or. 1080 J155 for other specimens …
Letter fragment (lower right corner of recto). The subject matter is obscure. The writer writes, "I have witnesses for that, and before me. . . …
Unidentified text in Arabic script, headed by a basmala.
Minute fragment of text in Hebrew script, ואהבת appears on the recto.
Petition to ʻUthmān ibn ʻUmar to Jawhar al-Ṣafawī, asking him for money. [Described on a separate small piece of paper: "Important"; [next line] "A letter …
Legal document. In Arabic script. Dated: 8 Jumādā II 907. A (sale?) contract beginning with "qabaḍ al-muʿallim Aḥmad b. Yūsuf" concerning several people, one of …
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Copy of a legal case that was inserted into a 'legal file' that was kept in the court, December 1027. Documents describing unique or interesting …
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Letter/petition. Draft. From Abū ʿAlī b. Abū l-ʿIzz to Avraham Maimonides, who bears the title "Nagid" (post-1213 CE). On recto there are two efforts at …
Report from the period of al-Afḍal, probably. In Arabic script. Nine lines from the middle of the report are nearly completely preserved. Sent from a …
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, preserving the first couple words of each line and the right margin.
Mercantile letter in Arabic script. Fragment (lower half). "... he will/should sell it for him in Tyre and send him the value in the ṣalībī …
….يبيعها له في صور
وينفذ له ثمنها في الصليبي/الصليبية صحبة
الاصطول فقد وكله على قبض
ثمن ماله عند (؟) ابو الفضل بن البصري
عن ثمن سكر…
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew numerals. Dating: Late, probably 16th century. Mentions Yehuda קאשטורו, perhaps a variant of the surname Castro. Possibly mentioning an enslaved …
Draft of a legal document. Confirming a settlement (ṣulḥ) negotiated by elders. A release by Shemuel b. Aharon for Nissim b. Meshullam and his brother …
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Letter from a woman, unknown location, to her brother Yūsuf b. Makārim the cantor and dyer, in Bilbays. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in both …
1 Transcription 1 Discussion
Fiscal accounting. Dated (on T-S Ar.38.120): 436 kharājī = 1044/45 CE plus or minus a couple years. There are three or four distinct documents present: …
Fragment from the bottom of a legal document signed by Shemuʾel. Mentions garments (e.g., maʿāriq, shuqqa khām). (Information in part from CUDL)
Court notebook. #1 (fol. 1r): Goitein summarizes the case as follows: Fāʾiza bt. Shelomo b. Netanel (aka Kathīr) was about to be divorced by Barhūn …
Unidentified document in Arabic.
Horizontal strip from a letter in Arabic script. 3 lines preserved on recto. Likely a family letter dealing with small business matters. Mentions (Abū) Sahl.
Recto: Letter addressed to Yefet b. Ḥayy the Judge (bet din ha-qavuaʿ). In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. 5 lines and part of the marginal text are …
Verso (original use): Fragment of a petition in Arabic script. Very elevated register. Approximately 8 lines are preserved, but few details.
Probably a bill of release from [Avra]ham b. ʿImrān, involving [...]sh al-Ghazzī. Torn and faded. AA/ASE
Legal testimony. Involving Khalaf b. Yaʿaqov and Qaljūrī b. Makhlū, as well as a certain Ṭayyib. Scribed and signed by Shelomo b. Meir. Also signed …
An Instruction to Avraham (b. Sahlan) to find money for a poor man.
IB V, 9. Letter from Yosef b. Avraham b. Bundār to Abū Zikrī Yehuda ha-Kohen b. Yosef. Written in Judaeo-Arabic. The first few lines of …
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Letter from Ezra b. Hillel to Nahray b. Nissim instructing him to exchange the 50 dinars sent to him by the writer, which are “out …
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State document, fragmentary, in Arabic script. Mentions a price, 90 pieces of gold, and "what we have observed is rightful". Reused on recto for Hebrew …
Numerous minute fragments, some comprising legal documents or letters. One of them by the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel Halevi (recto, 1st right in the …
Small fragment of a document in Arabic. The beginnings of three lines are preserved. Wide line spacing.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (piece from the right side). Mentions a jahbadh (tax official); al-shaliṭ (another government term, corresponding to Arabic sulṭān?); "this year"; the …
Begining of a commentary on RIF's commentary of tractate Baba Maṣi'a of the Babylonian Talmud. Authored by judge Ḥiyyā b. Yiṣḥaq as described in the …
Piyyut.
Petition from a group of people to a chief vizier (Sayyid al-Wuzarāʾ) titled "al-Kāmilī." In Arabic script. Fragment (upper half only). The petitioners complain that …
Letter in Hebrew. Late and non-Geniza. The names of the sender and addressee are not preserved. The sender is evidently a circuit judge, based on …
Upper part of a legal deed (iqrār), an acknowledgment made by both Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad b. Abū l-Faḍāʾil Hibatallāh b. Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan and the …
Personal letter sent from Aden – 1928CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 195) – in Judeo-Arabic and Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, …
Draft of the beginning of a private letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mainly expressions of longing (and perhaps rebuke for abandonment): אללה יעלם באן אלקלב ענדכם וכל …
Ketubba fragment (upper left corner). Bride: Baṭrīqa bt. Aharon. From the time of Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya. (Goitein, Med Soc, 3:409.) EMS