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Letter in Arabic script. Fragment preserving the middle portion of each side, 6–8 lines per side. The sender is worried about the condition of the …
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Betrothal register between Biqa (?) b. Moshe known as Abu Kāmīl and Mimuna bt. Ḥasan. The groom gives a quarter of a compound to Mimouna …
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Accounts in Hebrew script. Dating: perhaps sixteenth century based on the paleography and Ottoman terminology. A name ending in bashī appears in the first entry. …
Recto: Letter of appeal for charity from a cantor to a dignitary named Mevorakh, likely the head of the Jews Mevorakh b. Saʿadya. In Hebrew, …
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Magic. In Aramaic. "Adjuration to open a door (תרעא), lock (קופל...סוגר). A ref. to יעמדו על הר הזיתים." Information from FGP.
IB II, 32. Letter from Maḍmūn b. Yefet, Aden, to his brother-in-law Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen settling the estate of Jewish traders who …
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IB I, 24a-24b. Copy of three court proceedings involving the sale of a house. Nājiya, the wife of Yefet b. Avraham, 'the Pride of the …
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Recto: table of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Dating: likely no earlier than 13th century. The list on the recto includes some names: Yosef …
Legal record (#128) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 41v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated: 2 Elul 5329 …
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Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Concerns someone ha-Zaqen ha-Levi titled Rosh ha-Qahal and someone's mother and sister.
"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, …
Medical recipes. In Arabic script. On verso there are jottings in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals as well as a few lines in Hebrew script.
Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen, advising the elder Munajjā to give out two ūqiyyas of rose and lemon preserve. (Information from CUDL)
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Notes for drawing up legal documents. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Natan b. Shemuel? On recto: "...the freedwoman (al-maʿtūqa)... and the rest of the …
Legal document. Dated: Tuesday, 13 Tishrei 1564 Seleucid = 17 September 1252 CE. Signed by Efrayim b. Shemuel the teacher. Stating that Nissim b. Sar …
Legal document in which Sar Shalom, son of Rabana Yosef, affirms that he collected his debt from the daughter of Rabbi Nahum in 1344 ED/ …
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Fragment of a legal document. Describing the boundaries of a property. Mentioning Ibn al-Tabbān (‘the straw trader’). Mentions Ibn al-Tabbān (‘the straw trader’); the Canal …
Tiny fragment in Hebrew script.
Verso: Fragment of a state document, medieval-era. A partial date is legible in line 1 as Dhu l-Ḥijja but most of the year is missing …
Receipt, crudely written on a small slip, for a person whose name is given in the first line. It seems for a ḥikr (ground rent) …
Leaf 1: end of a discussion of the cycles of each planet and their astrological importance, followed by a description of each of the planets. …
Late accounts, naming goods in multiple colors.
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).
Fragment from the top of a large ketubba with an ornate heading of geometrical designs, blessings for the Nagid David I Maimonides (r. 1237–1300 CE), …
Halakhic monograph regarding bill of divorce (get). See Y. David, The Get and its formulas, p. 128
Literary text in Ladino. 3 folios.
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to a personality in Fustat. Dating (Gil): ca. 1030 CE. Describes the aftermath of the excommunication of the Qaraites on …
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Liturgical. List of sedarim for the books of Samuel, Ezekiel, and the Minor Prophets.
Document in Spanish. See T-S K24.15, a likely join.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Judaeo-Arabic praises for God.
Legal document from Alexandria (מדינת אכסנדריה ). Dated: [..]69 AM, probably 4869 AM = 1108/09 CE, but 4769 or 4969 are also possible. (Information in …
Business letter from Abū l-Ḥusayn al-Ṭulayṭulī to Abū al-Najm Hilāl b. Yosef ha-Qara. In Arabic script. For other Qaraites from Toledo, see T-S 13J9.4 (PGPID …
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Commercial letter from Pinto & Suarez to Eliyya Saʿd and Yaʿaqov Shalom, in Cairo. In Judaeo-Arabic, with an "IS" logo in Latin script next to …
Magical text. In Judaeo-Arabic. Information from FGP.
Testimony in Arabic script probably meant to accompany an investiture petition from the gaʾon Shelomo b. Yehuda to the newly appointed caliph al-Mustanṣir billāh, listing …
(Having been requested,) we, all together and each separately,
(to deliver this testimony,) namely all those writing their witness and signing
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Karaite conditional divorce document. Dated Monday 23rd Tevet, 5529 AM (1769 CE). Yosef b. Shelomo aka Maʿānī commits to issue a conditional bill of divorce …
Unidentified text in Arabic script. Some of the lines are copied a second time underneath. Mentions the word "al-silwān." On verso there is piyyuṭ. (Information …
Mostly blank, but part of one line in Arabic script remains. The word saʿīd may appear. late.
Fragment of a letter in Arabic script, including part of the address on verso. NB: this must be describing a different fragment.
Fragment from a late letter in Hebrew. Mentions payments and something "in the hand of the gentile."
Mercantile letter. Dating: Probably 11th century. The sender's hand may be known. His relationship with the addressee is very strained. He complains of his bad …
Maimonides, Commentary on the Mišna, Kelim 8:6;10, from an autograph copy. (Information from CUDL.)
Recto: Family letter in Arabic script. The addressee is called "my brother" (ياخي بحق الخبز(؟) الذي بيننا...., three lines from the bottom). The sender refers …
Literary text, in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee is called "my brother" (yā akhī). Mentions a little salt (qalīl milḥ) and an ounce of …
State document in Arabic script. Most-likely a petition or report reused for a letter on recto. Both sides have the glyph, which signifies a basmala. …
Legal document. Small fragment (lower right corner). Dated: Tishrei 1484 Seleucid = September/October 1172 CE, under the authority of the Gaʾon (probably Sar Shalom ha-Levi).
Unidentified text in Judaeo-Arabic. Likely medical or other technical manual: טהר פי גסד . . . ישרב ומן אראד . . .ויציר . . . …