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Verso: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Last 5 lines only. "...If you can find a fat kid or sheep or myrobalan, please send it to me with …
No Scholarship Records
Left fragment: Letter in Arabic script. Not a chancery hand, but it sounds like a petition or official letter in some ways. Conveys praises and …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Possibly a letter fragment or blessings for a Jewish notable, in Hebrew. Titles include Sar ha-ʿEda ve-Segulat ha-Yeshiva.
Two documents in the hand of Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver (fl. 1128–1164 CE) concerning houses. 1) Awaiting description. 2) The wife of Abū l-Faḍl Ibn …
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Letter to a woman. In Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee had left when she was ill (marīḍa). The writer mentions Sulaymān, whom they had not seen for …
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Non-Geniza. Poem for the coronation of Alexander II (1856 CE).
Letter, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. With a lot of deferential phrases.
Bifolio of accounts. Two of the four pages have Judaeo-Arabic accounting in a rudimentary hand. These mention Ibn Ghulayb; Ibn Saʿadya; Ibn al-Dhahabī. One of …
Minute fragment of text in Hebrew script, medieval-era.
Much damaged list of debts(?) in a very crude hand. Mentions Iṭrābulusī.
Interesting autobiographical narrative in Hebrew, on a bifolio. Late. About studying Torah and the grades of a broker and goldsmith?. Possibly mentions "Greeks" on the …
A list of clothes and household utensils returned by a divorced woman to her ex-husband, Naḥman, after she had taken them to the house of …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The writer asks for a copy of Saadya Gaon's tafsīr of Ezra and Daniel or his tafsīr of Proverbs and Job or …
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Verso: Private accounts in Arabic script. Mentioning commodities such as myrtle, costus, labdanum, mastic, saffron, and quantities thereof.
Announcement regarding the program of ceremonies for the Ibn Yuḥay Institute for Culture and Righteousness in which the Minister of Social Affairs, the Chief Rabbi …
Verso: Formulary for a deathbed release (or at least a release in the setting of old age and frailty) granted by a woman to a …
List of names. Dating: late? Names include Mordekhay, Eliyya, and Shabbetay, but there are also some more unusual ones (אבזגין? פשקיל . . ?). On …
IB VI, 18. Letter to Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Yosef ha-Kohen Sijilmāsī (d. ca. 1149). In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions goods such as garments and soap. Contains …
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Kashrut certificate for a cheese shipment imported by Maymūn b. Nissim of Syracuse, Sicily. Location: Alexandria. Dated: last decade of Sivan 5001 AM = June …
אלדי עאינא ונשהדו בה [פי
קנטאר ונצ' גבן ג'רוי [
מן אלגבן אלדי כאן קסמתנא
ישועה בר שמואל נע
טהור בר זכריה ס'ט'
וצל גבן מע מימון ברבי…
We have examined and testify that [
a qint'a'r g'arawi' and a half of cheese [
of the cheese which was our share [
Yes'u'ah b. Samuel (…
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Legal document written and signed by Mevorakh b. Natan he-Ḥaver (dated documents 1150–81). Names mentioned: Barakāt b. Abū l-Banīn and Abū l-Khayr al-Ṣayrafī. Signed by …
IB II, 35. Letter of apology for a complaint that Madmun had mismanaged a trust. Aden, ca. 1135. Verso is IB III, 59, containing a …
Report probably on military matters. In Arabic script. 6 lines preserved. Mentions a wall (al-ṣūr), the dispatching of a warship (ʿushārī), someone named Ibn al-Qaṣʿ(?), …
]ـول ان موالي (؟) ذلك (؟) الصور..
كان جرد عشاري عمارة فيه صاحب له على …
اصحابه ومن جملتهم بن القصع ووصلوا الى جبلة وخطر
بن القصع فيها وعاد ا…
Multifragment. Hundreds of minute fragments. Many documentary.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment. May be a letter of appeal for charity.
Minute fragment of a legal deed, probably written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138).
Recto and top half of verso: an Aramaic Ahava piyyuṭ for the feast of Šavuʿot. Verso: a list of halakhic books in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning the …
Deed of sale for a female slave (jāriya waṣīfa). Location: Cairo. Dated: 14 Ḥeshvan 1455 Seleucid, which is 24 October 1143 CE. Buyer: Pinḥas b. …
Small fragment of accounts.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Quite formal. Same handwriting as T-S Ar.24.86. Mentions the people of Cairo and Fustat. There is a small mark that looks like …
Recto: Medical recipe. Ingredients include senna, plums, tamarind and scammony. Verso: Note mentioning Abū l-Surūr, written on 18th of Tishrīn al-Awwal (October) 1594 CE (سنة …
Account of a pesiqa (fundraising drive) in Judaeo-Arabic with Coptic numerals. Mentions: al_Rashīd; al-Saʿīd; Abū l-Faḍl; Abū l-Fadl b. Nuʿmān; al-Makīn; Barakāt; al-Makīn b. Mardūkh; …
Letter from Eliyyahu b. Zekharya, possibly in Bet Guvrin (verso, l. 16), to a certain Shemuel, in Jerusalem. The letter is in Hebrew for the …
At least two documents across two fragments (which belong together). In Arabic script. Two of the documents look legal/administrative. A third text-block is an extended …
Legal document. Location: Cairo. Dated: 20 Adar I 5559 AM, which is 1799 CE. Eliyyahu Ṣevi Ḥbak(?) (צבי חבאך) acknowledges an investment of 2000 medins …
Recto: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Verso might be a continuation; contains cryptic lists of numbers.
Letter (emissary letter) issued by the sages of Saida (Sidon) in 1614/15 CE. France is mentioned in line 7. Signed by Nissim Sofino, David Ben-Ḥabīb, …
Mainly pen trials in a mixture of Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic, and Arabic in Arabic script. Dating: probably 13th century. There is a section that might be …
Decree fragment. Only a few words are legible, in large, calligraphic script. There are also a few words in smaller Arabic script in the upper …
Table with entries in Arabic script. Business accounts organized by date and day of the week. Mentions names such as Barakāt, Ibrāhīm, and Hārūn. Needs …
Minute fragment, probably from a Magical text. AA
Official letter to 'the gate of the yeshiva,' that is, the yeshiva of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon. Dated: Kislev 1442 Seleucid = November/December 1130 CE. The bearer …
Letter requesting monetary assistance. Poetic Hebrew. 16th century (data from FGP).
Probably a copy of a letter to leaders of a community, from Avraham Maimuni or one of his contemporaries. The scribe is known from two …
Non-Geniza. Letter from the community of Veliky Novgorod (? עיר חדשה) to the community of Brisk (=Brest). In Hebrew. Dealing with distressing edicts and a …
Fiscal document, probably. Torn and damage.d There is an ʿalāma on the left. Mentions a sum of 500 (dinars) and a dīwān. Needs examination.
Hebrew poetry.
Fiscal account. Needs examination.