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Memorial list. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
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Small fragment of a letter in Arabic script.
No Scholarship Records
Piyyut or liturgy.
Fragment of an incomplete legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–1138 CE). There are two lines, mentioning the late Abū l-Faraj …
Small fragment in Judaeo-Arabic, unclear significance. Mentions [...]ūd b. Nāṣir(?) a-Dawla and [...] b. ʿAlī b. [...] [...] al-Dawla.
An Instruction to Avraham (b. Sahlan) to find money for a poor man.
Could probably be part of a decree. Fragmentary date preserved.
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Fragment of an agreement specifying the conditions imposed on the kosher butchers licensed by the Palestinian congregation in Fustat and signed by ha-Ḥaver b. Mevorakh, …
Letter from Benaya b. Mūsā, from Tinnis, to Nissim b. Ḥalfon, Fustat. Around 1060. Regarding a shipment of scarlet for the Byzantines that was sold …
באסם אל[לה]
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם עזה ותאיידה וסעאדתה
וסלאמתה ונעמתה מן תניס ען סלאמה תתם בבקאך ואלחמד ללה רב אל
עאלמין…
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A tale from Kalīla wa-Dimna in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Rosh ha-Seder ha-Bavli (active late 12th and early 13th century). A …
Magical document with a humanoid figure and Greek alphabets.
A collection of theological questions to the Qaraite scholar Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf b. Ibrāhīm al-Baṣīr, active in Jerusalem in the late tenth century. On page …
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions the addressee's mother.
Small fragment of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and western Arabic numerals.
Verso: Extremely faded legal document or legal notes. In which Karīma bt. Avraham appoints her uncle Efrayim as her agent, it seems to sue [...] …
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Letter from a woman named Harja, somewhere in Syria, to her brother ʿAbd al-Dā'im Ibn Fayrūz, in Cairo. See tag for other letters by her.
Notebook, probably belonging to a 15th-century Byzantine merchant, filled with records of various transactions. The language is primarily Hebrew but the months are Julian (אפריל …
Bottom of a legal document containing one signature in a crude hand (ʿEli b. Shel[omo]). The beginning of the qiyyum also appears, possibly signed by …
Scorpion amulet. Cf. JRL SERIES B 5682, ENA NS 73.12, and T-S AS 143.2
Letter from Nahray b. Nissim, Egypt, to Abu al-Faraj Yeshu'a b. Isma'il.
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A part of a decree from the court of the Fātimid Caliph al-Ẓāhir, protecting the rights of the Qaraite communities in Palestine against Rabbanite encroachment, …
Responsum and the beginning of the next by R. Migash. Published by Amir Ashur in Qoves al Yad 21 (2012), 1-24
Letter from ʿAzarya b. [...] to a Kohen (both the individual and his father’s name were in the piece now missing from the right side …
Late donation list, or private accounts. Mentioning a variety of individuals, such as: Eliyahu Ṣahal, Aharon Ḥedef, Khalīfa Arūkh, Shelomo Sonina, Ḥayyīm Ḥazaq, Raḥamīm Ḥāmī, …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Mentions various names and the word 'Istanbuli.' A variety of names are mentioned: Avraham Ḥefeṣ, Yiṣḥaq Sargas or Saragos (סרגס?), and …
Letter from a husband, probably a merchant belonging to the elite, to his wife of a second marriage. In Judaeo-Arabic. He expresses his yearning and …
Letter, complete and poetic, written by same hand as ENA 2806.5, contains mostly blessings. ENA 2806.5–7 are copies of letters to Shelomo Gaʾon and his …
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yūsuf. Many familiar names on the list. Mentions ʿIwāḍ; Ibn Samḥūn; Abū l-Surūr; Dāʾūd; Abū l-Barakāt; Zikrī; the …
Literary text on parchment. The name Ḥiyya b. Meshullam appears in the upper margin.
Letter addressed to an important Jew. There are three lines of rhymed Hebrew text at the top, followed by a large space and 5–6 lines …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 11th century (or earlier?). Faded and damaged in a peculiar way (the paper is dark and greenish—was this in …
Settlement between the two brothers Muhadhdhab b. Shemuel (appears also in T-S 8.112 (PGPID 7086)) and Amīn al-Dawla after a long litigation. Muhadhdhab ultimately agrees …
Letter to a Nagid, mentioning Ibn Sharwīn and a youth from Mosul. The handwriting is known from the circle of Mosul Nasis from the early/mid-13th …
Bifolio of Hebrew legal formularies, including the cover page with the title מעשה בית דין and an ownership note for Ṣadoq b. Aharon ha-Rofeʾ ha-Yerushalmi …
Possibly a receipt.
Address of a letter. In Arabic script. Probably from Menashshe b. Yehoshuaʿ, in Tyre, to the ḥaver Abū l-Faraj Shemaʿya b. al-Faraj, in Jerusalem (see …
Recto: legend of Eldad the Danite. Verso: letter in Hebrew, possibly of the geonic period. The beginnings of 11 lines are preserved, with space in …
IB III, 32. Letter from Yosef ha-Kohen b. Meshullam, in Aden, to Avraham Ibn Yiju, in inland Yemen, written around 1150-51.
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Legal record (#71) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 23v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dating: 6 Kislev 5324 …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. It could also be described as an informal note. Dating: 11th or 12th century. The sender very directly conveys the results …
Late accounts. Mostly numerical calculations with a few names mentioned: Raḥamīm Levi, Yiṣḥaq ..āsā, Yosef Levi, Yosef Kohen[?] Hīnī.
Accounts of R. David. In Hebrew and western Arabic numerals. In a late Ashkenazi hand. Likely non-Geniza.
Business account in Arabic script.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Widened line spacing. Specifying the conditions for a marriage, including that "he …
Report of the death of a Jewish woman. In Arabic script. The deceased is Fāḍila, who was survived by her son Abū Dāʾūd. Dating: 621–29 …
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List of amounts of money received from al-Shaykh al-Makīn and al-Shaykh al-Nadiv, written by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu (d. 1230s).
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic script. In the same hand as the nearby fragments: probably Menashshe b. Yehoshuaʿ of Tyre to …
Copy of a the opening of a letter from the head of the Gola (Rosh ha-Gola), ca. 915. Mentions the Gaon of Sura’s Yeshiva, Ya’aqov …