Use keywords or phrases in any language to return matching or similar results across all fields. Arabic script searches will return both Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic transcription content.
Use Hebrew or Arabic script to find precise matches in the transcriptions. See How to Search page for advanced use cases.
{2}
{0,5}
.*
[יו]
Mizraḥ. Illustrated with a vibrantly colored bouquet of flowers. Probably non-Geniza, like the neighboring shelfmarks.
No Scholarship Records
Fragment of an illuminated frame, probably for a ketubba that was never filled in.
Fragment of an illuminated late marriage document. The name Benyamin Moshe Meyuḥas appears in l. 2, probably indicating the groom or the groom's father. The …
Small piece of the decorated rim of a document, perhaps a ketubba. "The happy season" and fleurs-de-lis.
Illustration of two birds and a fruit tree, colored in. Very lovely. On verso there is some writing in childish Hebrew script.
Literary text in Hebrew with a marvellous marginal illustration of a knight on horseback and a foot soldier, each with bow and arrow, confronting each …
Illuminated map, probably, of the graves of Talmudic sages.
Illuminated map of graves of biblical figures and Talmudic sages.
Kabbalistic illustration of a schematic face filled in with text. Four circles labeled left ear, left eye, right eye, right ear. Forehead above, peʾot to …
Letter from Yosef קוכו and Shelomo Amarilio, in Salonica, to the judge Yiṣḥaq b. Ẓahal, presumably in Egypt. In Hebrew. Dated: 5480 AM (שנת אקים …
Letter from a physician named Menahem b. Ṣadoq ha-Kohen from Aleppo including greetings from many men including his nephew Yahya b. Mevorakh ha-Kohen, the physician …
1 Transcription
Calendar. Late. Colorful floral illustrations, with the text in circular medallions. The surrounding fragments are either from the same calendar or very similar ones.
Printed Haggada with lovely illuminations.
Amulet, kabbalistic, large and colorfully illuminated.
Leaf from a magical treatise, including illustrations of Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof.
Fragment (left side) of a late illuminated ketubba.
Marriage contract. Dated: Ḥeshvan 5570 AM = October/November 1809 CE. Elegantly decorated capitals, calligraphic script. Groom: Yosef b. Yehuda b. Shemuel. Bride: [...] bt. Yaʿaqov …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Cairo. Groom: Natan b. David. Bride: Sitt al-Sāda bt. ʿOvadya. One of the oldest and largest illuminated medieval ketubbot from the …
1 Discussion
Beautiful calendar for the year 1815/16 CE (5576) with information about each month in a medallion set in a floral pattern.
Tabular calendar for the year 1815/16 CE (5576), probably connected to the previous shelfmark.
Ketubba, illuminated, from 1840/41 CE ([5]601), left half only.
Bottom part of an illuminated ketubba. Location: Rashid (Rosetta), l. 2. Dating: late 18th century based on the presence of Aharon Ṭawīl's signature, where he …
Pen trials, notes, and a drawing. In Persian and Judaeo-Persian. The least-faded text block reads in part, "I am the ẓaʿir Refa'el b. Ḥanuka(?). I …
Letter from Moshe b. Naʿim to his father Me'ir b. Naʿim. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 3 Heshvan 5584 AM, which is 1823 CE. The letter is …
Recto: part of a ketubba on vellum for Mazal bt. Yiṣḥaq Arukh and Avraham Ṭūrībī (טוריבי). The names of the couple are listed on the …
[................................................................................]
1 Transcription 1 Discussion
Bifolium from Mitzrayim, 1790–92 CE, apparently from a ledger of betrothal and marriage contracts. About nine are preserved, complete with names, and trousseau lists, and …
A leaf from Kalīla wa-Dimna, including an illumination of the raven and the rat (but not the tortoise) in the story.
Printed Haggada in Ladino and Hebrew. One side contains the Hallel with Ladino translation on the side. The other side contains remnants of lovely illuminations …
Printed Haggada in Ladino and Hebrew. The capitals contain lovely illuminations.
Printed Haggada in Hebrew and Judaeo-Italian. There are lovely illuminations, captioned with lines of poetry. The format is identical to T-S Misc.15.69, except that that …
Fragment (left side) of an illuminated ketubba from Cairo with an elaborate floral design that was rendered with watercolor paint inside a predrawn grid. The …
Engagement (shiddukhin) agreeement between Efrayim b. Shemuel and כואנדה bt. Eliyyahu Sūsī, in a beautifully illuminated frame. The prospective bride's name is also listed as …
2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion
Ketubba, illuminated, from Rashid. Date: 14 Nisan 5542 AM (1782 CE). Bride: Simḥa bt. ___m[?] Fes. Groom: Moshe b. Yiṣḥaq Fes. The total ketubba value …
Marriage contract (ketubba) on vellum with an ornate border. The design is well-preserved and may have been rendered with watercolor paint. Location: Cairo. Dated: Friday, …