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Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic.
No Scholarship Records
Recto: Literary. Page in calligraphic Hebrew from the beginning of Sefer Zmanim in the Mishneh Torah, dating the fragment to ~1180 CE at the very …
Recto: Letter, in Arabic script. Mentions qamḥ (wheat), and probably an inquiry related to its price. Contains the glyph. Needs examination.
Either part of a genealogical list or a letter.
Arabic script (VMR)
Accounts in Ladino with Western Arabic numerals that label transactions with relevant names such as Suleymān "סלימן", Raḥman "רחמן", and Moshe. In one of the …
Recto (reuse): Official receipt for [...] b. ʿAlī, mentioning the kharāj and a waterwheel (sāqiya). The payment was 1 dinar. The entire date is difficult …
Accounts
Recto (probably secondary use): Prognostications or advice in Judaeo-Arabic.
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Letter fragment. In Hebrew. Late, 17th-century or later based on the paleography. Line 11 mentions Jerusalem, possibly in the context of sending charitable funds. The …
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Peraḥya b. Menashshe. Fragment (upper left corner). Only the opening greetings are preserved.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter from an unidentified person connected to Ibn ʿAwkal, ca. 1030. The letter is illegible in many places. Discusses the will of one of the …
Polemic against the house of the exilarch. Dating: 1040–41 CE. After a disagreement between Kafnai, Bustanay's father, and his father in law, the head of …
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Legal document mentioning Abū l-ʿAlā, Yaʾir, and Avraham and several sums of money in the currency dinar. (Information from CUDL)
Recto: part of what is probably a deed of release, written in Hebrew. A man releases his brother Maymūn, his sister and any of his …
List or accounts, in Arabic script and numerals.
Only few words legible, possibly part of a letter. (Information from CUDL)
Legal query written by Halfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi sent to Elʿazar al-Qasabi. Addendum to India Book IV. AA
Letter, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Extremely faded. Mentions 'al-mamlūk' (so probably a letter), but also mentions two witnesses, so perhaps dealing with a legal matter.
Letter, probably. In Arabic script. Too faded to read much.
Letter. Small fragment. In Hebrew, rudimentary handwriting. The sender mentions amīr al-[...], money perhaps received from "your congregation," and the city of Arsūf.
Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. The hand may be known.
The main block of Judaeo-Arabic text is a portion of a letter. The writer reports that he arrived safely in Fustat and yearns for a …
Small fragment with jottings or part of a document in Arabic script on the verso: al-Shaykh Abū Saʿd al-mawlā al-yahūdī.
IB V, 15. Letter from a certain Shelomo to Abū Zikrī Kohen. In Judaeo-Arabic. Containing blessings for the Gaon Maṣliaḥ and the India trader Abū …
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Small fragment from a letter in Hebrew. Dating: likely 11th or 12th century. Some phrases: במקום . . . . שבעה ימים. . . עמו …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Reused on verso for a calendrical table.
Minute fragment with a few Hebrew letters visible in a well-rendered stylized script. Perhaps 16th-century or later based on the paleography.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Tiny fragment. Closing greetings only. The text on verso may be literary.
"In Geniza times the Kaddish was a solemn doxology, including a prayer for the living, and, in particular, the spiritual leaders of the community" (Goitein, …
Commentary on Devarim by Shemuʾel b. Ḥofni Gaʾon. There is an ownership note for Yakhin b. Ḥalfon.
Letter of appeal for charity, probably. In Hebrew. Mentions the names Moshe b. Yiṣḥaq and Abū [...]. There are also a couple of words in …
Masora.
Letter from Nahray b. Nissīm, Fusṭāṭ, to his cousin Barhūn b. Ṣāliḥ al-Tāhartī, probably in Egypt, ca. 1045 (Gil). Nahray anxiously mentions to Barhūn that …
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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…
Legal document, dated 689 H, (=1290/91 CE), in a very faded script, with signature(s) at the bottom. One of the parties is al-Ḥājj Muḥammad b. …
The ends of three lines from an official-looking letter or document in Arabic script. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ. (Information in part from CUDL.) Reads …
Much damaged late poetic Hebrew fragment, might be from a letter of appeal.
Arabic translation or paraphrase of Genesis 5:29 – 6:2. Oddly, the number 595 appears to have been rounded up to 600 in verse 5:30.
Legal deed, fragment. None of the main document is preserved, but two signatures are present: the cantor Yoshiyya b. Neḥemya and Sahlān b. Avraham. On …
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A commentary on poetry, and piyyuṭim, including one by Hayye Gaʾon on the topic of circumcision. F. 1r begins, after a בשמ׳ רחמ׳, ‘A synopsis …
State document, Fatimid period, 1130–49. Opening lines of a petition with a blessing on al-Hāfiẓ. On verso there is additional Arabic text in a different …
Lease of an apartment to a parnas as settlement of a debt, AD 1029-1031. The qodesh owes Yaʿaqov b. Mevasser (whom we shall find six …
(1-2) . . . . previously… service to the heqdēsh, will bring many advantages…
(3-4) mentioned, to the said Jacob b. Mevassēr after havin…
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State document, in Arabic script. Petition formulary (?) mentions al-Ḥākim but is written as a literary text. Needs further examination.
Small fragment from a legal deed in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Involving several people: a widow; Abū l-[...]; someone's relative …
Document in Arabic script. A large piece is torn out, containing most of the text. On verso there are sundry jottings in both Hebrew and …
Minute fragmקמt from the dowry section of a ketubah. AA
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Sender and addressee are unidentified. Full of expressions of deference. The sender was distressed at 'the calamity' (al-nūba) that befell the addressee …