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Small fragment with remnants of ḥamdala and ṣalwala.
No Scholarship Records
Prayer in Arabic script. Contains Quran allusions such as قل هو الله احد (r1) and ولا الاه الا الله. Needs examination.
Bottom of a legal document. None of the content is preserved. About 20 signatures are preserved.
State document, in Arabic script. Record of an ordinance dated Ṣafar 537 AH (= September 1142 CE) from Al-Ẓāfir to instruct Al-Hāfiẓ’s book warehouse to …
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Fragment in an Indian Devanāgarī script, in an as yet unidentified language, possibly a dialect of Gujarati. Possibly a letter. See Gideon Bohak, "T-S AS …
Accounts related to the Must'arabi community of Cairo in the year 5556 which is 1795/1796CE. The bifolium is very damaged along the edges but the …
IB IV, 38 (ח37). Letter from Yiṣḥaq Ibn ʿEzra to Ḥalfon b. Netanel. In Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Spain. Dating: Perhaps the end of summer, 1138 CE. …
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Opening of a letter in Hebrew to a group of important people, with wide space between the lines. The beginning of the body of the …
Four fragments of a ketubah from 1106. The bride is Sitt al-Dar b. Yefet. The groom is Eli b. Yehezkel ha-Haver be-Sanhedrin Gedola. Contains also …
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Small fragment of official correspondence in Arabic script. The ends of 4 lines are preserved. Mentions 'al-wilāya.' Reused on recto for a book list in …
Some sort of receipt. Faded.
Receipt of payment or tax receipt, in Arabic script. There is a registration mark "الحمد] لله وبه استعين]". Name of the payee is not readable …
Damaged fragment written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE), probably from a court ledger, as this was originally a bifolio. Remnants of Arabic …
Legal query concerning an orphan girl. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 13th century (the precise date can likely be established based on the references in the document). …
Large bifolio of business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef ("at his best"). (Information from Goitein's index card.)
Letter in Arabic script. Fragment (upper left corner of recto).
A poem in honor of somebody important, perhaps a groom, since verso also contains (in the same hand) blessings for the bride. In the hand …
Legal document, small fragment. Probably from a ketubba.
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 …
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A legal deed from Yevpatoriya, Ukraine. Likely non-geniza. Dated 22 Sivan 5535 AM (1775 CE). The document details the division of the possessions of the …
Accounts.
List of numerals.
Document(s) in Arabic script. Recto has two closing lines of a standard Fatimid petition or report: ḥamdala, taṣliya, and the ḥasbala. The verso seems to …
Fragment of a text in Judaeo-Arabic on the recto, possibly documentary. A quantity of something עשרין is mentioned in l. 1. Requires further examination.
Recto: Letter in Arabic script. Damaged and fragmentary. Verso: Text in Arabic script in a different hand, which sounds like a state document: "al-marsūm bi-l-amr …
Fragment (lower left corner) of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Looks Yemeni and late. Mentions the Levantine sirwāls and sends greetings to an aunt (khāla). The …
Prototype of a legal document from Tyre, eleventh century, probably in the hand of Yosef Ha-Kohen b. Yaʿaqov.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated twice on the verso, but one of the years is severely damaged in the left heading. The legible date is on …
18 lines of Hebrew praises for a great dignitary (ha-Patish ha-Ḥazaq, Mordekhai ha-Zeman, etc.). The only name that appears to be preserved (possibly that of …
Draft of the opening sentence of a legal document, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe or possibly Hillel b. ʿEli. Stating that Yehuda ha-Kohen …
Letter from Avraham b. Moshe b. Ṣalḥūn to Abū l-Bayān(?) Moshe b. Yishmaʿel al-Kātib fī Dīwān al-Jaysh (i.e., a military administrator). In Hebrew (for the …
Text is too damaged to identify; probably a letter. (Information from CUDL)
On recto a funeral speech. On verso a reference to the death of Nissim Shelomo Elgazi, on Monday, 25 Kislev 5552 AM = 21 December …
unidentified text. Contains Coptic numerals - needs examination.
Petition-like text (al-ḥāja dāʿiya ilā...).
Recto: Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). Abū l-Majd is to give the female bearer, the messenger of the sick …
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Fragment of an unidentified treatise, written on a pair of conjugate leaves. It includes the beginning of the nineteenth faṣl, on the anatomy of the …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Part of a ketubba, for Shemarya ha-Kohen (groom) and Sitt al-Bayt (bride). (Information from CUDL)
Letter or document including signatures - needs examination.
Legal document. Fragment (left side). In Arabic script. The name Muḥammad appears in line 2 and the profession al-Ṣayrafī appears in line 3. Line 4 …
بـ]ـسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
]…….محمد الفروقي انه..............
ا]لصيرفي مبلغ الورقة التي كانت له ومبلغها
]باسم تاريخها ثالث عشر من ذي القعدة س…
Fragment of a letter sent from Alexandria to the Head of the Congregations, perhaps R. Eliyyahu the Dayyan, describing a meeting of about fifty elders …
Section four, chapter nine from Ḥovot HaLevavot (“Duties of the Heart”). Written in calligraphic script and arranged emphasizing the rhymed phrose. This together with the …
Small piece of paper with only one line of text with the name Netanʾel b. Ṣedaqa known as Ibn al-Kāzarūnī. On verso there are a …
Document in Arabic script, probably accounts. Needs examination.
Letter fragment (upper left corner of recto and remnants of the address on verso) addressed to Eliyyahu the Judge. Mentions the latter's son Abū Zikrī …
Tables for divination, late, entitled Urim ve-Tumim, each headed with a different question (e.g. "boy or girl?" "is this man trustworthy or not?").
Business letter in Ladino. Currency: muayyadi/medin. Join by Idan Perez. erso: Table filled in with numbers, presumably for lots.