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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic for Saturday 8 Dhū l-Qaʿda through Friday 14 Dhū l-Qaʿda. Related to tax collection? The names mostly do not sound Jewish, and …
List of people receiving charitable support from the community. The list includes various people described as Rūmī (ie, from Byzantium). According to Goitein (Med Soc …
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Letter/petition probably from ʿAmram b. Aharon ha-Kohen "the seventh" (the son-in-law of the head of the Palestinian Yeshiva, Evyatar b. Eliyyahu ha-Kohen) to "our rabbi …
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]אתר[ ]ה אשרח יסיר ממא
שרחה סיידנא ראם אלמתיבה יסתירו
אלהינו בסתר תכפיו פי כתאבה ממא
קד בלגת אליה חאלתה ואנה קד
בקי לק…
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List of three (out of 36) items made of silk (info from FGP)
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Tax receipt, or possibly credit instrument? Contains a jahbadh signature at the bottom and the glyph. Verso contains a mirror imprint of a similar document, …
Ayyubid chronicle. Recto (the second page) is headed "[...] wa-l-Salāṭīn wa-Ibtidāʾ al-Dawla al-Nāṣiriyya" (referring to al-Malik al-Nāṣir a.k.a. Saladin). The time-span covered in the fragment …
Letter possibly in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe. Fragment (lower right corner of recto). Extremely faded. (Information in part from CUDL)
Legal documentin the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE), or maybe Hillel b. ʿEli (1066-1108). Involves Yiṣḥāq or [...] b. Yiṣḥaq and …
Magical text, mentioning ‘the people of Babel’ (ahl Bābil) and the Neguš. Magical drawing on verso. Looks like the same hand as T-S AS 145.71 …
Small fragment of a state document in Arabic script. Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ in the hand of a prolific scribe. Join: Shulamit Elizur.
Letter in Hebrew dated 1791/92 CE (552 = וינטלם וינשאם) from the Jewish community of Jerusalem to the Jewish community of Pisa, begging for financial …
Possibly a letter or collection of formulae. (Information from CUDL)
Account with names (including Jaʿfar b. someone) and Greek/Coptic alphanumerals.
Receipt. Mamluk era? On verso there are accounts.
Fragments of rhyming Hebrew lines.
Letter of appeal for charity. Addressed to someone titled al-Amīniyya. Probably from a cantor, although theoretically al-Ḥazzān could be part of the addressee's name. In …
Letter draft in Judaeo-Arabic. Perhaps intended to be sent from Fustat/Cairo to Jerusalem. Dating: Unknown, catalogued as 18th century. The writer reports on the money …
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Moshe ben Naʿim, Fustat/Cairo, to his brother David ben Naʿim, Alexandria, dated 1820 CE (20 Rahamim [= Elul] 5580). Mentions …
Verso: Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). Abū l-Majd is to give the bearer, Yiftaḥ, 7.5 dirhams to cover a …
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Medical treatise in Arabic script, probably. Mentions lavendar (اسطوخودس) and spinach (اسفنج). Needs further examination.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu? Mentions: that the addressee is to remind a teacher that he should hide the …
Bottom part of a (tax?) receipt.
Verso (secondary use): Brief legal document in Arabic script. Dated: Wednesday, 8 Dhū l-Qaʿda 419 AH = 28 November 1028 CE. Written transversely in relation …
Legal document, a one-year employment contract for the services of a kosher butcher. Location: Rashīd (Rosetta). Dated: First third of Tishrei 5534 AM = September …
Ladino Talmudic work.
Small fragment of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Note in the binder at JTS says ENA 3948.3 and ENA 3948.4 were detached from …
Accounts in Hebrew with a couple words in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: ca. 15th–17th century. Currency: peraḥim. The script is similar to Ashkenazi-Italqi geniza fragments from the …
Legal document. Dated: Av 1452 Seleucid = July/August 1141 CE (month based on the phrase יהפך לשמחה). Involves 16 dinars; possibly silk which was purchased; …
Recto: Unidentified document in Arabic script, maybe the bottom of a letter. Verso: Probably a prescription. In Arabic script.
Inventory of money, household goods, clothing and grain, written and signed by Yosef b. Shemuel (b. Saʿadya) ha-Levi (ca. 1181–1209 CE). Also signed by Elʿazar …
Fragments of a commercial letter in Ladino. Mentioning R. Sason; Shemuʾel b. [...];, Avraham כיתאריש(?); the addressee's sister Doña Zahra (the same as in T-S …
Commercial accounts in a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script (also Greek/Coptic numerals). Mentions a debt owed by Ibn ʿAbd al-Ẓāhir (also the name of …
Colophon for an unknown work dated Shawwāl 896 Hijri, which is 1491 CE. "This work and its companion were written in the name of (=by?) …
biblical verses and a few words of other text, followed by an elegy for the Nasi David b. Yehezkiya b. David. Yehezkiya nominated exilarch around …
Recto: Booklist in Arabic script listing individual Epistles (of the Brethren of Purity) that have been copied and bound and into how many majallāt and …
Model of a legal document in which a mother gives her daughter the upper story of a building as a gift. (Information from Goitein's index …
Probably literary. Description of a banquet in Arabic.
Private account of Yosef b. Eli Kohen al-Fasi. Dating: around 1057 (Gil). Contains details about partnership between the writer and Barhūn b. Ṣāliḥ regarding purchasing …
بسم
אלדי אכרגת בבוציר ען מא יכצני מן אלורק
קיח דר //וכרג// אלי בן אללכלאכי יג ותולת
פי תמן…לעבד אללה וזנה יז קיר וחבה
כז …
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Documentary per FGP - needs examination. Not digitized?
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated in the upper left corner of the recto, but the Hijrī month and year are both damaged– yielding a tentative reading …
Two minute fragments with faint text on the recto and verso, possibly red ink.
Letter from Minyat Zifta to Fustat. The writer had been sent to Minyat Zifta to deliver an instruction to the judge Shabbetay b. Avraham (active …
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Fragment of a letter in Hebrew. The writer is mourning a death in the family (perhaps of one of his sons?) and asks "the whole …
Remnants of an Arabic chancery document. Probably from a long rotulus originally. Reused for Hebrew liturgical text. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to one of the personalities in Fustat, concerning the fate of Rabbanite prisoners and the future of the Rabbanite community …
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Accounts, probably. In Arabic script and eastern Arabic numerals. Late.
Possibly a fragment from a bill of release, mentioning Ḥalfon, Yefet, and […] b. Yaʿir ha-Shofet ha-Nadiv. At the bottom at ninety degrees there is …
Unidentified text in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning Saʿadya Raʾs [...]. Cut and probably used for a book binding.