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Un-conserved and damaged, probably remains of a letter. AA
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Legal document from the high court (al-Bāb al-ʿĀlī) in Cairo. In Arabic script. Dated: 28 Dhū l-Qaʿda 1122 AH = 18 January 1711 CE. Judge: …
Probably a commercial receipt for Abū Zikrī (Yehuda b. Yosef Kohen?). Needs examination. See T-S Ar.34.5 (PGPID 20576) for a list of similar documents.
Recto: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso: Accounts in Arabic script.
Minute fragment - needs examination.
Letter from Yiṣḥaq(?) Krispin, unknown location, to Avraham Krispin, Alexandria. Written in Ladino. Dated: 18 Av 5549 AM, which is 10 August 1789 CE. Needs …
One of two drafts (the other is Moss. Ia,7) of a curious and obsequious letter from a man whose handwriting is known, apparently to a …
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Accounts, probably. In Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Text in Judaeo-Arabic informing someone about their livelihood. Perhaps prognostications/horoscopes.
Letter in Arabic script, likely mercantile. Needs examination.
Legal fragment. Dated: 1559 Seleucid, which is 1247/48 CE. Involves Menaḥem Abū [...] b. Shelomo ha-Levi. There are distinct but probably related documents on recto …
Recto: List of debtors or contributors. Verso: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, sounds communal, and seems to relate to the list on recto. Needs examination.
List of commodities and their prices. Mentions six loads of pepper, and silk.
Parchment fragment with pen trials and drawings. Recto: monumental Hebrew characters with full masoretic vocalization and decorative flourishes; a sun or other concentric shape with …
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Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, torn vertically down the middle. It is difficult to extract any information from what remains. Ends אن شا الله …
Legal documents, drafts or records. In Hebrew. Dating: Late. The year is given on the righthand page, line 8, but is tricky to read. Perhaps …
Letter from Eli Ha-Mumhe b. Avraham, Jerusalem, to Efrayim Ha-Ḥaver b. Shemarya, Fustat, approximately 1045.
Recto: Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand may be known: פישהד אללה מא אקדר. . . Verso: List of names in Arabic …
Accounts in Arabic script, unclear if private or official.
Horoscopes.
Bifolio from a Judaeo-Arabic copy of the Aqrābādhīn of Ibn al-Tilmīdh.
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Account in Judaeo-Arabic listing the fees (wājib) associated with the indigo (al-nīl) brought to Dār al-Abzār ("the spicehouse," cf. ENA 2805.4b) and sold for 40 …
Unidentified document in Arabic script, probably official. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ with Judaeo-Arabic headings פזמאן and גירה (pizmān, ḡayruhu). (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter from a young man named Sibāʿ, in Alexandria, to his mother, in Fustat, but addressed to his brother Abū l-Najm. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Possibly …
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Non-Geniza. A letter from the community of Chufut Kale to Istanbul regarding monetary matters.
Letter from Ḥayyim b. ʿAmmār al-Madinī, from Palermo, probably to Yosef b. Musa al-Tāhartī (according to Gil, but the name of the recipient is lost). …
[ אסל אללה] יגעל עאקבתך חסנה ואן לא יכלאך
[ אהתמא]מך בחואיגי ובגמיע מע יכצני
[ ] גמיע אלוגוה פלא אכלאני אללה מן
[ ] גמיע מן יחתאגך תם ו…
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Verso: Note from Rashīd inviting a physician to come urgently to Rashīd's home, and to bring a friend. Recto: The physician responds that if he …
Letter of condolence from Eli ha-Mumhe b. Avraham, Jerusalem, to Hesed ha-Tustari, Fustat, end of 1045 or beginning of 1046.
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and in Arabic script. Customers include al-Qāḍī Yaḥyā and ʿAbd al-Masīḥ
Saʿadya’s formulary of legal documents (Information from CUDL)
Letter, apparently sent from Samannūd (in the Nile delta). The writer, who is apparently on his travels, is very worried about his children as he …
IB ח94 (דף ב). Draft of a letter from Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi, perhaps in Damascus, to R. Ḥiyya. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Ca. …
Small fragment, probably from a ketubah. Only small part from the dowry list preserved. AA
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Likely an 11th-century family and/or mercantile letter. There are congratulations for a bride (al-ʿarūsa).
Order of payment. In Arabic, with a Hebrew 'emet' at the top. Abū l-Karam is asked to pay the bearer 4 of something, perhaps dirhams. …
Letter, unclear whether official business or private correspondence. Referring to the addressee's request concerning Bū Saʿīd. On verso there are drafts of documents including the …
Legal document(s) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions jewelry changing hands and the court in Cairo, and legal formulae typical …
Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions iron (ḥadīd) and lead (raṣāṣ). Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef?
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Regarding events that happened in the court of Maṣliaḥ Gaon (1127-38) and perhaps some dispute over the distribution of 20 dinars. …
Forecasts based on the day of the week something falls on. Uses the Coptic calendar. Every entry ends "wallāhu aʿlam." Distinguishes between the forecast for …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender insistently urges the addressee to act according to his request, "because the muqaddam thinks he is like an angel …
Unidentified document(s) in Arabic script. Recto mentions Aḥmad b. [...] al-Khawlī(?) . . . . wa-l-nawwātiyya (something to do with the sailors?). This is then …
Legal document, Sunday 3 Adar II 4845 A.M. (1085), Alexandria. Yehuda b. Moshe b. Sighmar appoints Eli ha-Kohen b. Hayyim (=b. Yahya) as his agent …
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Work on establishing the calendar, concerned with the Qaraite-Rabbanite calendar dispute over the number of days during which holidays are celebrated in Israel and other …
Legal deed in Aramaic. Dated: 133[.] Seleucid = 1018–29 CE. Shemuel b. Avraham ha-Levi ha-Sefaradi is appointing Mevorakh b. Yosef ha-Kohen. as his agent. Above …
Bottom of a legal document. Needs examination.
Contributors list, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic.