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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 16th-century or later based on the paleography. Mentions receipt of two of something from someone with the surname Ben-Hini (ן׳ היני) …
No Scholarship Records
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably Mamluk-era, based on handwriting, spelling, and vocabulary. Needs examination for content. Quite faded. Might mention a commodity called qiṭmīr. (Information …
Blank recto and verso, perforations for binding.
A 16-page Ottoman-era notebook with diverse contents. Pages 1–2: Judaeo-Arabic translation of Daniel 1:4–10. "Chief of the eunuchs" is translated as "Sārī l-Aghawāt." There follow …
Small fragment of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and western Arabic numerals.
Letter from Shelomo b. Moshe al-Safāquṣī, in Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim.
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Recto: An account related to the production of cane sugar. A ḍarība seems to be an amount of cuttings you have to plant, and each …
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Draft of the opening phrases of a letter to 'my master and father...' In Arabic script. On verso, in Hebrew, part of the blessing "refuʾa …
Formulary for a שטר מכירת חזקה. Late, probably belongs with Bodl. MS heb. d 66/100 and is therefore c.1750s.
List of contributors written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100-1138). The names are: 'Alan, ben al-'Afasi, Tayyib b. Raja. Other names only partially preserved. …
Letter from Abū l-Surūr b. Ṭarīf to the brothers Abū l-Makārim and Abū Yaʿqub ha-Kohen. The writer describes in detail the severe fever and dysentery …
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Accounts. Mentions expenses for Tuesday, the 27th of Jumādā II; rent; Hiba; al-Muʿallim al-Shaykh al-Muhadhdhab.
Testimony or narrative about events in Florence (פירנצה). Dated: 17 Tevet 5609 AM (January 1849). A man who was known as an impious alcoholic fell …
Business letter from Shelomo b. Mūsā al-Mahdawī, possibly in al-Mahdiyya, to his cousin Peraḥya b. Yosef, in Fustat. In Arabic script.
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State document in Arabic, probably. Medieval-era. Only one line is visible on the verso: بذلك جارية فيه على ما يكون. The recto was reused for …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. Likely from a Maghribī business letter of the 11th century.
State document, in Arabic script. Fragment of a petition addressed to al-Ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Majīḍ (1132–49). Apart from the opening formula and the blessings on the …
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Deed of gift of an enslaved woman (waṣīfa). Fragment, containing the first half of 5 lines. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 …
Verso: Draft of a deathbed will in which a man gives two houses to two distant relatives, forestalls the possible claims of two other female …
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Court record from the Karaite community of Lithuania concerning the division of the poll tax between the Karaite and the Rabbinate communities. Non-Geniza.
Minute fragment of a letter by Yefet b. Menashshe Halevi.
Legal document, damaged.
Accounts of a druggist or merchant. In Arabic script. Listing dozens of different kinds of materia medica and other godos.
Letter from Manṣūr to either his son or his father Abū ʿImrān. (Both are referred to as ואלד, but this is sometimes the spelling for …
Leaf from a book, possibly medical, with Arabic jottings in margin on verso. (CUDL)
Possibly the bottom of a poetic Hebrew letter.
List of legal documents, including: (1) For the purchase of a female slave. (2) "A copy of it" for the Rayyis Abū l-Karam. (3) Lease …
"A fragment of vellum containing a Latin text of a sermon by Saint Augustine — an unquestionably Christian text — is probably one of the …
Letter or monumental sign with a greeting text (ברוך אתה בבואך ברוך אתה בצאתך) with the name Shemuel Ashkenazi is listed in the first-person in …
Legal document: will, fragmentary, of the Qaraite mother of two girls, before delivering another child. Concerns in particular her valuable jewelry. Goitein surmised that the …
Medical treatise, in Arabic script. On anatomy dealing with the vena cava (al-ʿirq al-ajwaf). Contains rubrication (use of red and black inks).
Brief letter in Judaeo-Arabic accompanying calendrical tables spanning 1007 years, informing the addressee about the tables.
Document with very faded Hebrew text. Unclear if documentary or literary.
Fragment of a will in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE), dividing up a store. No names mentioned. (Information from Goitein's index …
Letter fragment from Khiyār b. Yaʿqūb to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yūsuf. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late 11th century. Reused for business accounts on verso. On …
Wooden fragment of a panel that once decorated the interior of the Ben Ezra Synagogue. Translation: "...[I will bow down] toward Your holy Sanctuary in …
Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script. Dated: 12 Muḥarram 52[.] AH = 1126–34 CE.
Bottom fragment - state document, decree, in Arabic script. Four fragmented words reused for a Hebrew literary text. The text may read as "ان بقلم …
Letter from Moshe ha-Levi to a group of unknown individuals. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Thursday, 8 Elul 1743 (אתרקמג) Seleucid = 6 August 1432 CE. The …
Recto: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a number of people with grand titles, such as Saniyy al-Dawla b. al-Nezer Tāj al-Kuttāb and Tāj al-Dīn. The content …
Verso: Four (?) interesting accounts in Arabic script, one mentioning "wāṣil al-ḍamān". Dated: Jumādā II 513 AH, which is September 1119 CE. (Information from Goitein's …
Long fragment of a letter mentioning dignitaries and members of the Yeshiva.
Unidentified document in Arabic script. Reused for jottings in Hebrew on recto and a Judaeo-Arabic note about 'the remainder of [...]' on verso.
Accounts in Arabic script. Mentioning the profession 'ṭabbākh' (sugar refiner?) several times and 'khayyāṭ' (tailor) once.
List of materia medica, or possibly prescriptions.
Polemical letter/responsum regarding the laws of inheritance. Looks like the hand of Avraham b. Natan Av. The layout is literary but parts of the text …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Missing the top of recto and the address on verso. Dating: Goitein dates it to ca. 1210 CE, based on the …
Letter from ʿOvadya, Avraham, and Yefet the sons of Shemarya to Avraham b. Natan 'the Seventh', titled Ḥemdat ha-Yeshivot. The letter opens with a paragraph …
Piyyut.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: No earlier than 1225 CE, based on the use of Kāmilī (dirhams).