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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic of sales of wine (sharāb) to various people, including Abū l-Ḥasan, Abū l-Faraj, and the scribe's mother. ASE.
No Scholarship Records
Small fragment from a legal deed (bill of release?) written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). One of the parties has the rare …
Unidentified text(s) in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Recto and verso are in different hands. Dating: Perhaps 12th or 13th century.
Bifolio of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Difficult to read. Some names are legible, such as Thābit b. Ṣāliḥ, ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, [...] b. …
A letter to the community of Vilna
Letter from Yosef Ha-Kohen b. Shelomo Gaon, Jerusalem, to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: approximately 1050 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1007–1055 CE, based on the …
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Letter sent from the Maghreb by the Judayla family to Ismail b. Barhun al-Tahati, asking him to obtain flax from Sha'ya in return for the …
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Verso: a complete copy of a poem by the wife of Dunash Ibn Labrāṭ, followed by the first part of a second poem, a reply …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Lists in Judeo-Arabic and Hebrew of donations collected before various Shabbatot dated in the year 5596 AM which is 1835/1836 CE. Each list is designated …
Much damaged letter in Hebrew, written in wide spaces, probably letter of appeal. Mentions [...] b. Masliah. AA
List of names (alms distribution?).
List of foods and amounts: taro, egg, onion, chard and cilantro. Shopping list? Omelette recipe? ASE/MR
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Non-Geniza. Takanot of the community of Dubno (Ukraine). In Yiddish and Hebrew. 18th century. Information from NLI.
Letter from Yosef b. Faraḥ, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1045 (Gil). Written in the Hebrew month of Iyyar, before the sailing season …
סידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם נעמאך מן אלסכנריה לי בקין מן אייר כתמה אללה עליך
ימולאי באחסן כאתמה וערפך ברכת מא יליה ען חאל סלמה פי אלגס…
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Letter from the wife of Yehuda b. Moshe b. Sughmār, in Fustat, to her husband Yehuda b. Moshe b. Sughmār, in Alexandria. The letter was …
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וצל כתאבך אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך ותאיידך וען שוק אלי[ך]
גמע אללה ביננא עלי אשר(!) חאל במנה וכרמה אנה ולי דלך וא[לקאדר עליה]
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Small fragment of a letter in Hebrew to a notable. The address mentions 'our rabbi Yosef.' The hand might be known. Dating: likely 11th century.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions someone named Ṣibyān several times.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and in Arabic script. Customers include al-Qāḍī Yaḥyā and ʿAbd al-Masīḥ
Fragmentary court record concerning marital payments. In Judaeo-Arabic. On verso there is a literary text in Judaeo-Arabic, perhaps a tafsīr; cites Exodus 2:25 (line 4).
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Letter fragment addressed to a Nagid. ʿAmram? [...] b. ʿAmram? Only a small sliip from the introduction is preserved.
Letter from the Rosh ha-Seder to a cantor named Aharon, instructing him to appoint Ghalib b. Faraj as agent for the wife of Abu l-Ḥasan …
Karaite ketuba from Cairo. The groom is Eliyahu Halevi b. Avraham. The previously married bride is Esther known as Rachel d. Eliyahu. Dated 27 Shevat …
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. The writer asks for tidings of the Nagid Abū l-Ḥ[asan?]. Abū l-Faḍl told the writer …
Accounts in Ladino. 2 folios. Quite detailed. Currency: levanim; metecales; ducados; and possibly medin (מיד). Commodities include garments, textiles, and items of gold. Also contains …
Tax receipt, Fatimid. Registration marks - al-ḥamdu lil-lāh waḥdahu (recto), al-ḥamdu lil-lāh ʿalā nuʿamāʾih (verso).
Two fragments in Judaeo-Arabic, both mercantile, either accidentally stuck together or intentionally folded together. Both hands look familiar from the 12th-century India Books documents. The …
Records of three betrothal agreements. The first is a receipt dated Monday, first day of Pesaḥ, mentioning the groom Yaaqov Ḥanan b. Yosef Ḥanan and …
Literary text, in Arabic script. Page plus ending bifolio from a book with quire or page marks in upper left corners from the philosophical treatise …
Legal testimony. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Heshvan 136[2?] Seleucid, which is 1050 CE. Involves Abū l-Ḥasan Yoshiyya ha-Nasi and Daniel ha-Nasi; also mentions Yefet b. …
Astrological table in Arabic script, mentioning the sun and the planets, such as Mercury and Jupiter.
Legal record (#86) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on ff. 29v-30r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 28 Heshvan 5325 …
Small fragment in Hebrew, possibly from a letter.
Letter containing a note of congratulations for a marriage contract and wishing the new husband a fertile union, citing the biblical blessing conferred on Ruth …
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Late letter, apparently written by a certain Dhārā (?). The marginal section mentions "trousers for children" and something carried or delivered by a certain Meʾīr. …
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 …
Legal deed. In Hebrew. Location: Salonika. Dated: Sunday, 7 Adar II 5331 AM, which is 4 March 1571 CE. Yiṣḥaq Romano and Yisra'el Eliyya acknowledge …
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda Gaʾon (r. 1025–1051) to the community of Fustat. Dating: ca. 1025 CE. On verso there is a fable about a …
Official report, probably, in Arabic script. Mentions people owing debts to each other, and mentions "the fortress" (al-qalʿa) at the bottom of recto. Continues on …
Minute fragment. Unidentified, only few words are visible
Colophon by Berakhot b. Eliyyahu b. Zekharya (aka Shelomo b. Eliyyahu). On the other side of the page are some pen trials.
Barely legible legal document concerning marriage. It may be a ketubba, but the legal formulae that remain are not unique to ketubbot. (Information from CUDL)
Several pages of small fragments and accounts torn from different documents.
Parts of documents - needs examination.
Small fragment probably of a letter. Wide line spacing. Could potentially be literary, too. מא . . פי נפסה ואלחדתאן ובואיקה פי עקבה אנמא עלם …