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Three tax receipts. For Hiba b. Yūsuf. See ENA 3925.6 (PGPID 10284).
No Scholarship Records
Fragment of an unfinished marriage contract. Groom: [...] b. Yosef ha-Rav ha-Gadol. Bride: Sitt al-Adab bt. Yehuda b. Nissim ha-Sar b. Masliah the haver, the …
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Letter in Italian addressed to Seid Barda et Abram Amram, Cairo, 29 Maggio (May) 1719 CE. Livorno is mentioned in the first lines. There are …
Probably literary
Literary text, in Arabic script.
Fragment of a geṭ. Husband: Name not preserved. Wife: Fakhr bt. Faḍāʾil the Maghrebī. Date not preserved. Witnessed by Menashshe b. Yosef and Mevorakh b. …
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Literary, Arabic.
Tax receipt, Fatimid.
Medical recipes, probably. Mentions quantities of dirhams and objects such as pots and white lead from Iraq. (Information in part from CUDL)
Late accounts with many names, for example the elder Manṣūr and Muḥammad b. the elder, and Hebrew numerals. (Information from CUDL)
Account calculations. Dated 26 Elul 5539 AM (1779 CE). It may not be in the same scribal hand, but the date probably coincides with the …
Letter from Yisrael b. Natan, Jerusalem, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Includes details about the agreement between Daniel b. ʿAzarya and the brothers Yosef and …
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Letter describing the claims of the writer's brother-in-law on the half of a house that was sold by the mother to her daughter, the writer's …
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Accounts, letter drafts, and miscellaneous jottings in Arabic script, Greek/Coptic numerals, and Judaeo-Arabic.
Small fragment of a marriage contract (ketubba). Likely in the hand of Yefet b. David. Dating: ca. 1030 CE. The delayed marriage payment is 20 …
Recto: draft of a lengthy panegyric for Yehuda b. Menashshe he-Ḥasid, with his name in acrostic. The poet continues writing what may be a draft …
Receipt, in Arabic script. "Ṣaḥḥa li-Abū l-Faraj b. al-Rūmī(?). . . ." Needs further examination.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Legal document. Small fragment of a decorated ketubba. Fustat. (Information from Goitein’s index card)
Recto: List of compound drugs and simples in Judaeo-Arabic. Including items such as ward murabbā, sharāb laymūn safarjal, lozenges of barbārīs rāwandī, and chicory seed. …
Accounts in Arabic script with Greek/Coptic numerals (possibly secondary use). Medieval-era. Along the right margin at 270 degrees, a more faded layer of text is …
Legal document, on parchment, in Arabic script. Fragment (bottom part only). The date is lost in the lacuna. Witness signatures are preserved. Needs examination.
Note containing medical advice, with recipes to improve vision, treat sciatica and painful joints, act as a purgative; and protect against the cold, humidity and …
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Survey of households, recipients of alms. Written on a leaf, 8 by 6 inches, folded so as to form four pages, each originally containing data …
Non-Geniza. Will of Natan Emrich. 1678 CE. Information from NLI.
Medical prescription, for menstruation. It recommends a three-day course of powdered substances, to be taken in admixture with wine. The materia medica are equal parts …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions someone named Ṣibyān several times.
Letter or official report in Arabic script, beautifully written From Ṣādiq b. Hibatallāh. Addressed to a qāḍī. Wide space between the lines on recto, narrow …
Letter fragment by Avraham, son of the Gaon.
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Unidentified list in Arabic script, likely business accounts, since it seems to list people's names, commodities, and sums.
Legal document (probably a formulary) for marriage conditions. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Much of the text resembles the text …
Calendrical text in Judaeo-Arabic.
Small fragment in Ladino. Possibly accounts given the content: "sesenta ciento (160)" and "cinco" twice written in the line underneath, but student exercises also seem …
Unidentified document in Arabic script, possibly state or legal. Mentions a qāḍī. Needs examination.
Legal document. Dating: Late. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Many names appear. One of the witnesses is named M[oshe] b. Maymūn. The document mentions "al-ishāʿa fī l-funduq."
Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic informing the addressee of matters concerning Sitt Maqṣūra (NB: this is not a name but the word maqṣūdhā meaning 'her intention'), …
Late pair of letters in Judaeo-Arabic dated 30 November 1808 CE (11 Kislev 5569 AM). The first is from Moshe Bibas, Rashid, to Karo y …
Part of a letter. Very faded. Mentions al-mawlā al-ajall but hard to read anything else. (Information in part from CUDL)
Either legal notes or accounts. Mentions Ḥalfon b. [...] and Bū l-Faḍl(?) b. Barakāt.
Legal record (#45) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 16r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated on the same …
Legal document with testimony of Farah b. Yusuf Banuqa regarding shipments to Qayrawan, which were received by Barhun b. Moshe Tāhartī.
Literary text in Judaeo-Arabic. Advice on how to succeed against enemies, on a journey, etc. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Fragment with mysterious writing on it. It might be mirror-image Hebrew script. Needs examination.
The main text on this bifolio consists of instructions about blessings to recite on different occasions (including שככה לו בעולמו upon the sight of beautiful …
Recto: Letter of appeal for assistance in Hebrew. Related to the lepers of Tiberias? Describing grief and weeping and distress in vivid phrases.
Literary work in Arabic script. Lexicographic? Citing aphorisms and verses of poetry, and seems to be explaining the usage of aʿwar.
Accounts listing names and amounts of money. Names include: Sayyidnā al-Nasi; Abū Saʿd; Abū l-Faraj; Abū l-Najm Munajjā; Abū l-Faraj al-Munaqqī Dating: likely 12th or …
Accounts in Hebrew characters, several lines.
Legal document in Arabic script. Dated: 551 H = 1156/57 CE. Fragment (left side). Mentions Cairo (al-Qāhira al-maḥrūsa). Mentions the names Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm and …
Small fragment from a piece of official correspondence: wa-qad sayyara ilayhimā min al-[...]....