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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, most of the entries list varying quantities of Ottoman-era gold jadid coinage. Dating is 16th-17th-century based on the paleography and numismatic reference. …
No Scholarship Records
Accounts. (Information from CUDL.) Late, sephardic hand.
Small letter fragment, seems to be written by Efrayim b. Shemaryah. AA
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 18th- of 19th-century based on the paleography. The section on the right bears the heading: "Record of the purchase of etrogim." …
Fragment from the bottom of a legal document. Location: Alexandria or another coastal city. Dating: 11th century; it was written on a Monday, 18 Sivan; …
Non-Geniza. List of historical events spanning the years 1680–1730 CE involving the Crimean Khanate and the Ottoman Empire. In Hebrew.
Calligraphic letter requesting help for a man who is out of work and has a large family which would be satisfied with getting a mere …
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Legal document. On parchment. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Abū Saʿd Saʿadya b. Shemuʾel ha-Meshorer relinquishes any claim against Ghāliya, the widow of his late brother Sulaymān, …
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Formularies of legal documents, mentioning Rav Hayya. (Information from Baker/Polliack catalog.)
Inventory of the items from a dead man's estate that are in Alexandria, mainly books (two pages) and various household items (last page). In Judaeo-Arabic …
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Formulary for drawing up marriage documents. In Hebrew with some Ladino words (contante, joyas, mandiles). Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dating: Late. Currency: mithqāl/mathāqīl.
Karaite bill of debt paid to Ḥilda bt. Shemuʾel Fayrūz. Dated Thursday 13 Tishrei 5459 AM (1698 CE). Ḥilda receives payment of 300 niṣf fiḍḍa …
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Appeal from the administrative council of the Jews of Egypt to the assembly of the religious group – undated and it appears that it is …
Legal query concerning a case of levirate marriage; verso: blank; published, with translation, by Friedman, Polygyny, pp. 144–45.
Fiscal register (possibly equivalent to what al-Makhzūmī and Ibn Mammātī call a rūznāmaj). Contains multiple entries, each with a date and a sum. Each entry …
Fiscal register? Compare BL OR 5566B.3 (PGPID 19261) and the other shelfmarks cited there. Mentions quantities of flax.
Petition appealing for help from Shemuel ha-Nagid (1140–59). A woman asks him for help paying the capitation tax for her husband, who is in detention …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Medical prescription. In Arabic script. Ingredients include: "Indian"; borage; pistachio kernels; sugar. Diet: boiled young chickens (farrūj maṣlūq).
24 fragments under this shelf mark all of them literary.
There are multiple fragments under this shelfmark. All are in Arabic script. Top right and top left belong to a similar work. Bottom left is …
Legal record (#4) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 2v-3r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 10 Sivan 5320 …
Document in Arabic script. Maybe a fiscal account? Needs examination. On verso there is Hebrew poetry/piyyut.
Literary text, faded.
Receipt for the capitation tax in Fustat of Bū l-Ḥasan b. [...] the Jewish silk trader for the year 525 AH.
Unidentified document in Arabic script. Mentions the name [...] b. Abū ʿAlī b. Muqla(?) b. [...].
Fol. 3: Possibly a replacement ketubba (אורכתא). Mentions Aharon. Signed by Yoshiyyahu b. ʿAmram.
Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). It seems that somebody submitted an account of liabilities (ḥujaj), apparently to be paid …
Letter from the son or descendant of Yeshuʿa he-Ḥaver b. Ṣabgha (צבגה), who moved from Jerusalem to Fustat with his family, asking for help from …
Small and damaged fragment from a deed of gift to a woman(?), written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Mentions two dinars. Dated: 1435 …
Short letter to 'the in-law' Yosef and 'the daughter Esther Yāqūta, also mentioning Khuḍayr,' in a crude hand and extremely colloquial language. Dating: ca. 15th-16th …
Recto: Either a contributors list or alms list. In Arabic script, Judaeo-Arabic, and Greek/Coptic numerals. Dating: probably early 13th century. Mentions names such as Nuṣayr, …
Damaged fragment in Hebrew in a late hand, probably literary.
Recto: Legal document (warranty). in which al-Shaykh al-ʿAmīd declares that he guarantees something for his brother Avraham and his son Yosef and other people. The …
Qur'an 64-65 (FGP)
Accounts. Mentions marjoram (mardaqūsh).
Ketubba fragment. Very elaborately decorated with colorful patterns and micrography. The handwriting is probably that of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya ha-Levi (ca. 1181–1209). Location: …
State document, small fragment. Written in enormous script, which seems most suited to a decree except that the formula bears resemblance to standard petition formula …
IB III, 55. Letter from Perahya Yiju to his brother Shemuel. Written probably in al-Mahalla around the seventies or eighties of the twelfth century. Perhaya …
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Densely written mercantile accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Same hand: T-S NS 69.4 (PGPID 26151) T-S NS 223.74 (PGPID 23973) T-S AS 158.155 (PGPID 41643)
Small fragment of a letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe. Probably sent to one of his brothers. Damaged.
Fragment from the book of legal formulae, no. 23 (divorce deed). Written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE).
IB I, 19. Legal document: testimony on the date of a bill of divorce written by Yaʿaqov b. Avraham, Yosef Lebdi's travel companion. Dated: Thursday, …
Letter to Yosef b. Ya’aqov b. Awkal, Fustat. It seems that there was a deep argument between the writer and a group of merchants after …
Small fragment
Letter from Abu Ishaq Ibrahim dealing with business matters.
Verso: Fragment of a dowry list. Location; Cairo. Dating: 1189–1200 CE (8 Sivan 15[..] Seleucid). The recto was reused for piyyuṭ and a year (1511 …
Minute fragment. recommend suppress
Bifolio containing multiple drafts of the opening of a letter from (Bū) Manṣūr b. Shelomo to a notable. Little is preserved of the content. Mentions …