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Official-looking receipt, maybe for someone's capitation tax. Very messy. Square format (closer to Ayyubid landscape format than the usual Fatimid portrait format).
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Letter addressed to a 'Sar ha-Leviim,' asking him to help his son, who is imprisoned in Cairo for a debt. Fifteen dirhams had been pledged, …
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Marriage contract, Qaraite. Location: Cairo. Dated: Wednesday, 24 Shevat 549[2] AM = 2043 Seleucid, which is 1732 CE. Groom: Shelomo b. Aharon b. Shelomo ha-Kohen. …
Formula of a Karaite ketubah. AA
Letter of congratulations from Musalah to Shelomo and his son upon the marriage of the son. (Information from Goitein's index cards). Verso contains part of …
Magical/medical recipes in Arabic.
Letter from Manṣūr b. Sālim, in Alexandria, to Eliyyahu the Judge (Abū l-Faraj b. al-Rayyis), in Fustat. Manṣūr asks Eliyyahu to help find his son, …
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Recto: Partnership agreement, probably late, between four individuals, including Masʿūd and Yehuda. Much of the space is devoted to how they will behave toward one …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: late, maybe ca. 16th century. Mentions various commodities including fish coming in from Rashīd and Abū Qīr. Also mentions "the maghhribīs" …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic to two unknown addressees. Dated: Elul 1524 Seleucid = August/September 1213 CE. The writer requests a rapid response "to that which was …
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Minute fragment with Hebrew text on the recto and verso in the same scribal hand. One of the words could be המלך (recto).
Letter from Nissim b. Ḥalfon b. Benaya, in Tinnīs, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. Dating: 7 December 1060. Among many other matters, Nissim reveals …
מן תניס ל'ב'י' כלת מן טבת ען סלאמה ונעמה אעלמך אן כתבת אליך כתב אן
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic on papyrus. Almost certainly not from the Geniza and older than the Geniza material.
Bifolio possibly from an account book of a druggist (ʿaṭṭār) or possibly the liquidation of a druggist's estate. Looks like the hand of Shemuʾel b. …
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Minute fragment, may be documentary.
Small fragment from a letter, probably. The hand looks like that of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Mentions the purchase of a censer with …
Three fragments from a deed of betrothal (erusin). Probably (but not necessarily) Qaraite. The groom is Yefet, and the bride Sirwa (or perhaps Surūr[a]). There …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably from Yehuda Ibn al-ʿAmmānī, in Alexandria, to Abū l-Majd Meir b. Yakhin, in Fustat. (Identification based on handwriting, typical layout, and …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, probably from Avraham he-Ḥasid to a disciple with pietistic instructions. Ed. Fenton, "A Pietist Letter from the Genizah" HAR 9 (1985).
Small fragment containing both Judaeo-Arabid and Arabic script. There are one or two words in a large Arabic hand that might be a remnant of …
Legal document(s) in Arabic script. Dating: ca. 1518 CE, since on recto (probably the side of later use) appears to mention the year 924 kharājī.
Letter from a Byzantine woman named Irini and her sister Kali. In Hebrew. Written in a crude hand. "Come before... and if there is no …
P9: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Small fragment from the beginning. Mentions two judges and Abū l-ʿAlāʾ ʿUlla.
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Letter in Arabic script. Only the beginnings of the first four lines are preserved. Reused on recto for Hebrew poetry or liturgical text.
Literary work in Arabic script. Botanical.
Multifragment. Fol. 1r: List of different quantities of grain in enormous Arabic script. Fol. 1v: Legal document (lower right corner) involving the sale of a …
Letter from Ismāʿīl b. Faraḥ, in Alexandria, to his son Faraḥ b. Ismāʿīl, in Būṣīr. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Gil suggests 23 September 1056 CE. This …
ולדי אלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם תאידך וסלאמתך וסעאדתך מן אלמסתקר אלאסכנדריה
ליב כלאת מן תשרי געלך אללה מן אלפאייזין ומן אלמקבולין ותקב…
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Memorial list, probably. Recto and verso are in two different hands.
Letter sent from Gaza to Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic.The sender heard a report that somebody "is praying in Qalyūb," maybe meaning that he is serving as …
Late account in Arabic, along with sums. Dated 2 Rajab 1219 AH (10 October 1804 CE).There is introductory text saying that this is the blessed …
Accounts in Arabic script. Mentions soap, sumac, wood.
Recipes in Arabic script. Verso (see separate record) contains a table giving the correspondences between Greek/Coptic numerals and letters of the Arabic alphabet.
IB II, 27. Copy of a letter from Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan, in Aden, to Avraham Ibn Yiju. Dating: 1136–39 or 1145–49. Written by one of …
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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. This small piece that survives includes a recommendation for the bearer (". . .the need, urgently urgently urgently. . .") and …
Letter from Zikri b. Hananel, from Alexandria, to ʿArūs b. Yosef, Fustat. Around 1080. The writer is about to travel to Mahdiya and Spain. He …
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Recto: Accounts of a bookseller (Shelomo b. Eliyyahu?). In Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. "The four copies from Cairo sold for.... Al-Rayyis Mufaḍḍal has books for …
Letter from Avraham b. Ya'akov in Jerusalem to his son in Fustat. Around 1040, in the handwriting of Moshe b. Yitzhak from the Karaite community. …
Legal document in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Location: Fustat. Dated: middle third of Iyyar 1414 Seleucid = April 1103 CE. Unsigned but complete …
Informal note in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender says he has been a burden on somebody (al-Raḍiyy?) and asks the addressee for help obtaining a new something. …
Draft of deed of attorney written in Tyre, which includes an accounting between partners after the death of one of them, Menashshe b. Yiṣḥaq, and …
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Fragment from the middle of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Settlement of a dispute between husband and wife, imposing …
Letter of recommendation from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides (b. 1310–d. 1355 CE), to be read in the synagogue, on behalf of a pregnant woman …