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Debt contract. Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: First third of Elul 1446 Seleucid = September 1135 CE, under the authority of Maṣliaḥ …
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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions al-Talmid al-Jalīl αnd something to do with the synagogue (עלי אלהיכל קבל ראש השנה), and conveys greetings "from the congregation." …
Letter on vellum to Ali Abi Sulayman (? this description and transcription belong to a different fragment).
Fragment with four different text blocks in Arabic script in different handwritings: (1) al-ruʾasāʾ: al-shaykh Abū Naṣr al-shaykh Abū l-Faḍl al-shuyūkh Abū l-Ḥasan ... b. …
Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. The hand may be known.
Accounts in Arabic script and Coptic numerals. Small fragment, not much preserved.
IB VI, 53. Letter from Saʿīd b. Marḥab, in Aden, to Abū Zikrī b. ʿAṭiyya. Dating: mid-12th century. Apart from the introduction and address, only …
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Part of a ketubba from Egypt with no names preserved. (Information from CUDL)
34 pages of an exegetical work or sermon in Italian and Hebrew. The writer refers at one point to his teacher Menaḥem b. Yiṣḥaq (image …
Letter in Arabic script. Dating: probably Mamluk-era. Mentions a funduq. Covered with later jottings, mainly in Arabic script but with some Hebrew script as well. …
Recto: short note in Hebrew written by Yosef b. Yiṣḥaq and Menaḥem b. Shemuʾel Kohen regarding the writing of a geṭ and the tearing of …
A ḥamdala and ṣalwala written in a chancery hand, presumably once part of a larger document. Reused for Hebrew literary text.
Legal document in Arabic script. Dating: Mentions "497" which is likely referring to a hijrī year, in which case this would date to ca. 1103/04 …
Court record. Dating: probably 11th century. Yiṣḥaq he-Ḥaver and Sahl arrived in Fustat around the same time. Somebody testifies that somebody desecrated the Sabbath somewhere …
Receipt of payment, in Arabic script, not very legible. Different document on verso.
Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to Yeshuʿa ha-Sar. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Draft, probably. Only formulaic content remains. In the upper margin there is a …
IB VII, 37. Letter addressed to Abū l-Ṭāhir al-ʿAṭṭār (the druggist). In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 12th century. Concerning the India trade. Giving details about 15 …
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Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Written in large blocky letters. Mentions a certain Tamīm and a Torah scroll. The portion labeled 'recto' is …
Account, listing names with numbers. Probably 14th century or later (among other reasons, since "son of" is written with a nun sofit). Some of the …
State document, or official correspondence, in a chancery hand. Only the top-most part containing the basmala and ṣalwala are preserved. Needs examination.
On verso small fragment from the bottom of a letter by Peraḥyā ha-Kohen. On recto a dirge, might also be from a letter of condolence.
Letter from a certain Barakāt. In Arabic script. Fragment (upper right corner of recto, left side of the address on verso). Very little of the …
Deed of sale of a house, dated to " the second in the month of Av (may it turn) joyful", 1545 Sel. (29.6.1234 CE) . …
Letter or official document in Arabic. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ. (Information from CUDL.)
Legal document from al-Mahalla mentioning ha-zaqen b. R. Pinhas. (F. Niessen and A. Shivtiel, ed., Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic Manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah Collections, 614) …
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Legal record (#11) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on ff. 3v-4r of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 9-11) Folio 3v
The frontispiece and the first daf of the Sabbioneta Kiddushin (printed Elul 5313 = 1543 CE), under the rule of Vespesiano Gonzaga and in the …
Business accounts in Arabic script.
Legal document. Dated: Ḥeshvan 4813 AM, which is 1052 CE. The witness names may be legible ([...] b. Shemuel and Dāʾūd b. [...]). Probably very …
Accounts in Arabic script. Mentions various names (e.g. Ibn al-Faqīr, Yūsuf, Abū ʿImrān, Abū l-Ṭāhir) and numbers associated with each. On recto there is piyyuṭ. …
Piyyut.
Accounts, medieval-era. Two of the account entries on the recto list the names of qadis: al-qāḍī Shihāb-Allah .... al-Ḥamāmī and al-qāḍī M..allah al-...(lacuna). Below each …
Legal document, faded, but mostly intact and mostly legible with effort. Location: Malīj. Dated: middle decade of Tammuz 1461 Seleucid = July 1150 CE, under …
Verso: Two lines of Arabic, possibly from a broader set of accounts. Reused for a liturgical text in Hebrew.
End of a letter in Hebrew. Apparently from Yisraʾel ha-Kohen and carried by Faraḥ, though it's not clear where this is written. Very faded. Dated: …
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Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Mentions the date 9 Av 1412 Seleucid, which is 1101 CE. The issue involves a man and his daughter Maḥfūẓa …
Fragment of a legal document in Judaeo-Arabic involving Mūsā b. Yeshuʿa. Very damaged.
Personal accounts. Eastern Arabic/Indic numerals. Needs examination.
Petition in Judaeo-Arabic from Yaʿqūb b. Abū l-Yaman to the Nagid. The writer was sick for 8 months and is hiding at home because of …
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Arabic, literary; unidentified text.
Book list of a deceased person. Signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemu'el, Avraham b. Shema'aya and Avraham ha-Kohen b. Aharon he-Ḥaver, and so can be dated …
The weekly Torah portion “Va-etḥanan” [Deuteronomy 3:23–7:11]; the entire Book of [Commandments by] Ḥefets [ben Yatsliaḥ]; […
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Bifolio of business accounts in Arabic script, probably of a clothier or dyer. Each entry seems to list a debt or payment owed by a …
List of contributors. Dating: From the time of the Nagid Avraham Maimonides (1205–37). Four pages of names, largely identical with those in contemporary lists, with …