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Recto: Letter in Arabic script. Fragment. Mentions Yūsuf (l. 1), a ship, a commercial partnership (ṣuḥba), and a qāḍī (l. 3). On verso there is …
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Recto: Official-looking correspondence in Arabic script. Mentions 11 dinars, something related to the government (al-[...] al-maḥrūsa), the year 610 (=1213/14 CE) or 620 AH (= …
Detailed deathbed declaration made by Abu al-Tahir Mevorakh b. Shela al-murid (government supplier), written by the scribe Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). The testator …
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Accounts with list of names and Coptic numerals. Rudimentary hand. Mentions names such as ʿAlwān; Abū l-Surūr; ʿAbd al-Kāfī. (Information in part from CUDL)
Hebrew text, maybe liturgical.
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.
Informal note from Yeshuʿa (or from a communal leader with the ʿalāma "Yeshuʿa"). In Judaeo-Arabic. It says that Abu Saʿīd should report to the court …
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Page from a Judaeo-Arabic work giving instructions for what to do with various metals and chemicals, presumably alchemical.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
A letter to Yosef b. Shmuel
Fiscal document or accounts, reused for Hebrew script. Mentions transactions in gold (ʿayn) and silver (wariq) and also contains Coptic/Greek numerals. Needs examination.
Letter from Mūsā b. Abī al-Ḥayy, from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Dating: around 1057. Regarding sending goods in leather sacks. Musa returned from …
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Legal record (#113) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 37r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 20 Iyyar 5326 …
Bill of release. Dated: First decade of Ḥeshvan 1459 Seleucid = September/October1148 CE. in which Yeshuʿa ha-Levi releases Netanʾel and Menashshe b. Ḥalfon. Signed by …
Part of a ketubba. Dating: ca. late 11th or early 12th century. Bride: [...] bt. Muvḥar ha-Levi. Groom: Ḥalfon b. Yeshuʿa ha-Levi. Date and location …
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Recto: The first part is a description of a plant (ḥashīsha) that is effective against toothache. Its branches and leaves are like those of the …
מן [[צרבה]] צרבאן אלאצראס
פאנהא תשבה אגצאן אלבאדנגאן
וורקה אלא אן פיהא שי פי אגצאנהא
ישבה אלתות אלאביץ והו [[יש…
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List of some kind. In Arabic script. May mention kābulī (chebulic myrobalan).
Arabic, literary.
Several bifolios from an account book, in Judaeo-Arabic, with rudimentary hand and spellings. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. Mentions various names and commodities, mainly …
Verso: Unidentified document (accounts?) in Arabic script. Mentions "qinṭār wāḥid" Recto: Qinnot, possibly in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi.
Literary. On benedictions, quoting biblical sources (1 Samuel 25:33; Genesis 14:20) (recto); on the `amidah and personal prayers quoting BT Berakhot 34a (verso). Information from …
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Location: Bilbays. Dated: December1209/January 1209 CE. This document is a partnership agreement in a perfume- and dye-manufacturing shop. The partners, Faḍā’il …
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Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Ḥeshvan 1690 Seleucid = October/November 1378 CE, under the reshut of the Nagid ʿAmram. Concerning the sale of the part …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Fragment (left side only). In the hand of Natan b. Shemuel. Location: Fustat. Dated: [14]66 Seleucid, which is 1144/45 CE. Groom: Avraham …
Letter fragment in a familiar hand from the circle of Avraham Maimonides (who might be sayyidnā mentioned in the margins). The portion preserved mainly consists …
Legal document dated 25 Tammuz 5548 AM (July 1788 CE), Cairo, in which the undersigned acknowledges receipt of 80 reales, from Yiṣḥaq Aripol for part …
Book list. Most items are volumes of the Talmud. E.g., a commentary on most of Seder Moed by the Ẓarfatiyyim z"l, an Arabic commentary on …
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Dated: 529 AH = 1134/35 CE. The muqirr is Bū Saʿd b. Hibatallāh al-Isrāʾīlī. Mentions a loan of …
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Beginning of a legal document written under the jurisdiction of David Maimonides. Dated: 12 Nisan 1576 Seleucid = 30 March 1265 CE. Location: Fusṭāṭ. (Information …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Literary; Zohar.
A few words possibly from a state document in Arabic script. "... al-murtaḍā al-kāshif..."
Alchemical or medical recipe containing both organic and metal substances, followed by a short history of the Umayyad caliphate in Damascus written in Judaeo-Persian. Both …
Announcement for the observance of the Day of Geniza for clusters of texts in the Bassatine Cemetery – 18 December 1949CE – Museum of Islamic …
Prayer in Judaeo-Arabic.
Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Known hand (see tag). Mentions hearing something about the funduq; someone requesting from 'my mother' (sittī) a maʿraqa and pillows; and …
Letter-writing practice or draft. In a combination of Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic. The 'sender' is [...] b. Ibrāhīm and the 'addressee' is a Fatimid dignitary …
Fragment in Latin script. Needs examination.
Legal document written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE), per Weiss' paleographical assessment. A father disinherits his younger daughter Sitt al-Nās (and her husband) …
Hebrew poetry. Including some alliterative tongue twisters.
Recto: Bill of sale for a female slave. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Av 1466 Seleucid, which is 1155 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuel …
Letter from a certain Nissim to Abū Yaʿaqov Yosef. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. mentioning the recipient's deliverance from some disaster.
Legal document. Location: al-Maḥalla. Settlement agreement between Abū l-Ḥasan and Manṣūr, his brother-in-law. A document establishing some detail was made out for the sister with …
Letter from ʿIwaḍ to Peraḥya the judge. In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew, with the address in Arabic script and Hebrew. Written on a very long strip …
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