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Minute fragment of text, possibly Arabic script.
No Scholarship Records
Fragment of a petition in Arabic script. Difficult hand. Portions of 5 lines are preserved. It could be a draft or was later reused for …
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Bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic signed by Yoḥanan Gān(?) (גאן). Late, perhaps 15th–18th century. On verso there are some accounts. Needs examination.
Recto: liturgical composition, followed by a genealogical list, starting with the Nasi Sar Shalom and going back seven generations (Sar Shalom b. Pinḥas b. Hodaya …
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Non-Geniza. Letter from Shalom b. Yeshuʿa, in Halych (העליץ), to Yosef b. Moshe, in Lutzk (לוצק). Requesting a recommendation. Dated: 1755 CE.
Order or report in multiple hands to do with 131 dīnārs paid to the treasury (bayt al-māl). Person mentioned is Saʿd al-Mulk Ilyās, possibly a …
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Literary fragment.
Letter in Arabic script.
Literary. Piyyutim. The name Peraḥya b. Yehosef appears at the head of one poem.
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Written on parchment. Probably an 11th-century mercantile letter. (Information in part from CUDL)
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic possibly related to funerary burials. Probably from the same ledger as ENA NS 35.22 (PGPID 12611). Dating: 16th-century based on the paleography …
Fragment in Arabic script. Two rows in large letters, with the ink now faded to red. The words al-biḥār and al-riyāḥ appear at the ends …
Illustration, possibly a landscape scene with a figure floating in the sky. Requires further examination.
Letter from Nahray b. Nissīm, Fusṭāṭ, to his cousin Barhūn b. Ṣāliḥ al-Tāhartī, probably in Egypt, ca. 1045 (Gil). Nahray anxiously mentions to Barhūn that …
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Letter of appeal for charity. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Written in a calligraphic but shaky hand.
4 pages from a Hebrew medical treatise, with notations in the margin in the same hand.
Formulary for a Palestinian Ketubba, no. 10. See DK #1, ULC Or. 1080 Box 3, f. 10. Information from Goitein's note card.
Letter from Lāmiʿ ibn al-Ḥasan al-Kanzī to the Nubian eparch Uruwī ibn Khiyākh (Ikshīl, Master of the Horses, and vizier of the king). In which …
In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate.
I inform the Ikshīl, Master of the Horses and vizier of the king—
may God prolong his…
Late, detailed, narrative account entries in Judaeo-Arabic. The paleography and coinage in use (Ottoman jadīd) support a dating estimate of 16th- or 17th-century. Each entry …
Bifolio containing mainly Hebrew literary text as well as a drawing of a rectangle. One page consists of the beginning of an Arabic medical epistle …
Probably an official report in Arabic script. Approximately 6 lines are preserved, but very faded and hard to read. Needs examination. Reused on verso for …
Small fragment with some text in Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly late accounts.
Verso (original use): Very faded document in Arabic script. Recto (secondary use): Small fragment of a deferential letter in Judaeo-Arabic to Abū l-F[araj?]
Small fragment from the bottom of a document in Arabic.
A letter to Hacham Binyamin
Alchemical recipes in Hebrew. Very well preserved, with interesting details.
Headed 'Still owed by the people,' this is the upper part of a long list of persons who had not yet made good their donor …
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Fragment of a letter of request from an anonymous proselyte, who requests charity from "the two communities" (probably Fustāt?) in a rather demanding tone, threatening …
Laws of writing a get - needs examination. No image
Accounts
Legal formularies, including for a wedding contract for people with prior divorces. There is also a section about repentance and forgiveness.
Legal document certifying that certain houses near the Palestinian synagogue pertain to the waqf/Qodesh. Mentions the apartment of the son of the teacher, a certain …
Remnants of a letter in Ladino (Data from Mosseri Catalogue).
Awaiting description
Letter possibly from Abū l-Maḥāsin. In Arabic script. Dating: probably ca. 13th century. Mentions the ghulām of al-shaykh al-Muhadhdhab. Quite faded. Needs further examination. Excerpts: …
Historical treatise (many pages), it seems mainly discussing the rulers and wars of Ifrīqiyya (Al-Jazā'ir, Tūnis, Qayrawān, etc.) in the mid-13th-century. Also discusses events in …
Document in Arabic script mentioning sums of money, with interlinear Hebrew scribbling. On recto there is piyyuṭ. (Information in part from CUDL)
Legal record. In the hand of Mevorkah b. Natan? Abū l-Munajjā Shelomo b. Saʿadya leaves to each of his three minor daughters — Mudallala, Naẓar, …
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List of expenses on food and crockery made on a journey. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
ב . .וק
א> א וט עת
ווזוז ז ה נוק א …
Fragment of an Arabic administrative letter. The document concerns fiscal and administrative oversight in a district (nāḥiya), especially the condition of farmers (المزارعين), the management …
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يودي الى الخلاص [. . . . . . ]ما يكرمهم واما ما ذكرته من حال . . . . . . . . [
وشكره من قسطنطين فان اكثر المزارعين ق…
[. . . . . . . . .]
leads to the deliverance [. . . . . .] what honors them. As for what you mentioned concerning the condition of [. . . …
Left side of a calligraphic letter in Hebrew sent by Yosef ha-Kohen b. Gaon Shelomo to Efrayim he-Ḥaver, in the name of a widow, asking …
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Two words in Arabic script.
Brief note from Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE) to al-Shaykh al-Raṣuy, asking him to take care for the oil, probably for lighting the synagogue. AA
Unidentified text in Arabic script, headed by a basmala.
Account of the Qodesh: revenue from rent and building expenditures, probably ca. 1043. The recto of this leaf is a continuation of the two preceding …
. . . . The old woman, 2 dir.
The two rooms of al-Ṣaydalānī, 8 dir.
Dār al-Barqī, 5.
From Dār al-Ḥaffār:
The room of Ḥasan al…
Letter fragment (upper left corner). From Peraḥya b. Yosef al-A[...]. Only the Hebrew opening with biblical verses and poetical blessings is preserved. There are also …
Two pages from an Arabic literary text on logic (manṭiq), pivoting around the theme of qiyās.