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Verso: Legal document. Appointment of a general administrator of the qodesh, ca. 1150. Copy of a decision taken in the court presided over by Nagid …
(ר' ישעיה הלוי הזקן)
…our dear… b. R...., may God preserve him,
concerning his appointment as administrator of the heqdēsh, under the authority of…
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Legal document in Arabic script. Dated: Rabīʿ II 952 AH = June/July 1545 CE. Deed of acknowledgment made by Ḥammād b. Mubārak b. Ḥayyāra(?). He …
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Letter fragment sent from Alexandria to Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer tried 2 or 3 times to travel, but it was impossible owing to the …
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Letter from Abū l-Faraj, in Alexandria, to his son-in-law Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Early 13th century. Abū l-Faraj admonishes Shelomo to treat his …
Two lines of a letter or petition in Arabic script: المولا الشيخ الاجل . . . .
Strange composition in rhymed Judaeo-Arabic prose. A maqāma? Less likely a letter. Probably in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu or his father Eliyyahu. May …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Accounts, mentioning almond gum, tamarind, mastic; Munjib; various sums of money; 24 dirhams on the first of Muḥarram; and 20 dirhams someone received from his …
Fragment of a letter in Hebrew from the second half of the 16th century, mentioning attempts to prevent a certain edict, in which R. Yosef …
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Letter, probably. In Arabic script. The beginnings of 11 lines are preserved.
Memorial list for several families of judges. mentioning some well known judges of the second half of the 12th century.
Responsum, incomplete. Regarding a gift. "With humdrum Talmudic quotations." (Information from Goitein’s index card)
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Letter from a certain Ibrāhīm concerning business matters in which the writer mentions silk and asks the addressee for further trade-related instructions to be sent …
A table of calendrical/astronomical calculations.
Small fragment from the bottom of a legal document signed by Avraham b. Shemaʿya. Dated: Elul 143[.] Seleucid = 1119–28 CE. (Information in part from …
Jottings in Hebrew script and Arabic script, perhaps including some accounts.
Legal document written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Fragment (lower right corner). Dating: 1127–38 CE, under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon …
Letter fragment from Abū l-Khayr to Abū l-Rabīʿ Sulaymān. (Information in part from CUDL)
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Four columns of equal width - it seems to have been folded in half twice. Large and …
Possibly a promissory note. In Arabic script. "I owe the shayh [...] X dinars... in the year...." Needs further examination.
Accounts. In Latin script? Needs examination.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to a brother. Mostly formulaic content is preserved.
Legal deed. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: first decade of Ḥeshvan, 5488 AM = October 1727 CE. Involving three gabbayim and property in the qodesh …
Inventory of books. Dating: 16th century. The current location of this mansuscript is unknown. Harkavy's personal collection of Geniza manuscripts are owned by the Vernadsky …
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Recto: Lower left piece of a letter in calligraphic Arabic script. Dating: Probably Mamluk-era, based on the hand and the names. Mentions al-Ḥājj Yūsuf and …
One of two manuscripts of ben Meir's first letter regarding the calendar controversy of 921/22 CE. (The other one is ENA 2556.2 + Bodl. Heb. …
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Probably a letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Possibly 11th century. The word ʿalā is abbreviated as an ʿayin with a dot over it (ע̇ אחסן חאל). …
Recto: Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. May be the handwriting of Berakhot b. Shemuel. Mentions "the period of his dwelling in the qāʿa where Umm al-Futūḥ …
Last line of a document in Arabic script. The empty space below has one column of Arabic script at 90 degrees to the main text, …
Draft of a family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Likely from an elder brother to a younger brother. The sender is very worried about his mother's illness …
Memorial list. On verso calendar for the year 1047
Very damaged fragment of a letter with fragments of other letters attached to it. Might connected with T-S NS 183.86.
Dirges in Hebrew for the deaths of women, including at least one that the poet composed for his own daughter. It would be interesting to …
Would that I could listen to y…
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Verso (original use): Remnant of an address of a letter from Hārūn b. Binyām, sent to Abū Zikrī Kohen, who then reused it as scrap …
IB IV, 21 (ח38). Letter from Avraham Ṣiqillī b. Moshe from somewhere in Iberia to Ḥalfon b. Natanʾel, probably in Algeria. Contains a long Hebrew …
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Late accounts (?), possibly having to do with riding animals (jimal, dawabb).
Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Probably a will (refers to the testator, hādhā l-mūṣī). The sums, probably of will distribution, are half …
Small fragment of a letter. Possibly an appeal for assistance. Mentions "the shackle of people" (qayd al-nās) and a request. The name Abū l-Surūr appears …
Letter from an unidentified sender, probably somewhere in the Rīf, to Abū l-Ḥasan Yefet al-Khāzin. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning people such as the tax farmer Abū …
Two lines of Arabic poetry, on a Hebrew literary fragment.
Documentary per FGP - communal enactment concerning the division of property. Not digitized?
Letter in Arabic script. May be addressed to a jurisconsult regarding a legal opinion, ending "wa-huwa wa-raʾyuhū abṣar." The sender and addressee are Jewish, based …
Astronomical table. Mentions the ascending star in the month of Ramaḍān. Needs examination.
Letter from someone in ʿAsqalān/Ashqelon to Abū l-Faḍl [...] al-ʿAsqalānī, in Cairo. In Hebrew and/or Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. Only a few …
Minute fragment with partial names, one of them is Berakhot and one probably Nuʿmān, written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE).
Bifolium from a medical treatise with sections in both Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic.