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Fragment (lower left corner) of a Judaeo-Arabic letter probably from a woman to a male family member. Dating: likely 12th or 13th century. She requests …
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Verso: Addendum of a letter from a judge in Fustat to his wife in Alexandria, encouraging her to buy a robe and advising her about …
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Letter from Ḥiyya b. Yiṣḥaq to Shelomo b. Yehuda ha-Kohen (also called ha-Talmid ha-Navon Segan ha-Kohanim). In Judaeo-Arabic. The letter begins with condolences upon the …
Letter from an unknown sender, in Jerusalem, to Samḥūn b. Yaḥyā al-Maghribī, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. "Spanish" layout, including shape of the right margin and …
List of expenses in Judaeo-Arabic. Large, very neat, and unusual. Lists many names, including many Muslims and at least one Christian.
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Family/business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary hand and spellings. Opens with discussing various transactions and orders, including for a kind of sugar (sukkar murammal), myrtle (marsīn), …
Letter fragment. Written in Judaeo-Arabic. Quite damaged. The writer seems to be complaining about something. Mentions colocynth (al-ḥanẓal) and melon (al-faqqūs); the addressee's reward for …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. From Yemen. May be late. ENA 3504.2(?), ENA 3504.3, and ENA 3504.5 may all be from the same letter. Needs examination.
Letter(s) or official document(s) in Arabic script. Narrow space between the lines on one side (this part mentions a fortress/qalʿa), wide space between the lines …
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Made by Q[...] b. Mūsā al-[...], "one of the captains of the victorious fleets" (aḥad quwwād al-asāṭīl al-manṣūra). …
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). Nearly completely preserved. In Arabic. Dated: 16 Dhū l-Qaʿda 537 AH = 2 June 1143 CE. The declaration is made by …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender cites his debts in Fustat as an excuse for his delay. Refers to Abū Zikrī ha-Kohen (perhaps the well-known trader …
Letter addressed to Eliyyahu the Judge. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Avraham Maimonides on verso. Needs examination.
Letter fragment (lower left part). In Judaeo-Arabic. The handwriting seems familiar. ". . . betroth her and take her, and let him not be absent …
Unidentified text in Arabic script. The layout looks literary and it is partially rhymed. Mentions al-Malik al-Kāmil multiple times and a ṣāḥib al-dīwān. Needs examination.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Spanish or Spanish-influenced hand, calligraphically written. High register and rhyming. The content is mostly formulaic. Dating: perhaps 12th century.
Letter addressed to a woman. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions preparations for the holiday. Reports that Abū l-Murajjā is healthy; wishes health to the shaykh Abū l-Bayān; …
Letter from Abū l-Ḥasan b. ʿAṭiyya to his 'brother and father' Wāfī b. Ḥasan and Avraham b. Ṣedaqa. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely Mamluk-era. Dealing in …
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Letter containing a dirge on the death of Mevorakh b. Saʿadya the Nagid. Unpublished.
Family letter in Judaeo-Arabic informing the addressee of matters concerning Sitt Maqṣūra (NB: this is not a name but the word maqṣūdhā meaning 'her intention'), …
Letter of appeal for charity. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic, with good handwriting but rudimentary spellings. The sender asks for half a dirham to buy food. He …
Letter from (or to?) Minyat Zifta in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning various community affairs and expressing concern about the lack …
Letter from Abū Isḥāq. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 13th–15th century. The writer is in difficult straits due to a business matter and dealings with the dīwān. …
Letter to Mevorakh b. Saadya (Nagid 1094–1111) from an official (muqaddam) and cantor in a community near Alexandria, who asks the Nagid to send a …
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Letter from Abū Saʿīd, in Alexandria, to his father in Fusṭāṭ (to the shop of Barakāt). In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic and …
Family letter from a son to his mother. Nadiv b. Saʿadya is mentioned, as are greetings to family members such as Abū l-Wafā, Abū l-Faḍl, …
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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū l-Munā al-Rayyis; something that happened with the Rayyis and the Amir [...] al-Ẓāhiriyya(?) at the gate of Alexandria, and …
Large letter in Judaeo-Arabic about communal strife and denunciations. Abū l-[...] Ibn al-Dayyān told 'sayyidnā al-faqīh al-ḥāfiẓ' that the sender had said something derogatory about …
Letter in a Spanish hand to R. Yiṣḥaq al-ḥaver al-jalīl. The sender was in great anxiety until Abū Zekharya b. Yūnus and Abū l-[...] al-Khaybarī …
Letter from the cantor Yosef b. Yaʿaqov, in a provincial town (Benhā is mentioned), to Abū l-Ḥasan Yefet b. Eli, in Malīj. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: …
Letter in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to a Rosh Yeshiva named Moshe; his honorifics are unusual if not unique for the Geniza. The sender opens …
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The last letter received from the addressee came with Mikhaʾel, from Dahrūṭ, along with medicinal powders and ophthalmics (sufūf wa-ashyāfāt). However, …
Letter to a certain Shemuʾel, in a Spanish hand. Dating: probably no earlier than ca. 14th century. Mentions Cyprus and interesting names (e.g. יהודה דולסית). …
Letter from Yosef, a provincial muqaddam, to Avraham b. Natan ("Yesod ha-Yeshiva"). Dating: ca. 1100 CE. In this poignant letter Yosef complains of being neglected …
Letter/petition addressed to a notable. In Hebrew (for the poetic opening) and Judaeo-Arabic (for the body). In a typical 11th or early 12th century hand. …
Leaf from a letterbook containing copies of at least three different letters in Ladino. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: Av 5493 to Tishrei 5494 AM = late …
Appeal to the public by a young woman to help her against her neglectful husband, her cousin Yosef b. Kulayb al-Kohen, the brother-in-law of Ibn …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Elegantly written. Conveying holiday wishes. Written by someone who apparently is a doctor, a muqaddam and a Jerusalemite (he writes, "As I …
Letter. Possibly from Naṣr or Nuṣayr (v19) to some dignitary (sayyidnā, Mordekhai ha-Zeman). In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment. Dating: Late 12th century, based on the mention of …
Letter to a Nagid, informing him of various matters in the community, and complaining about the general state of its decline. Mentions individuals such as …
Letter from an unknown writer, in Qūṣ, to al-Shaykh al-Asʿad, probably in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 13th century, based on Goitein's assessment. The writer reports …
Letter sent to Cairo to the house of a ḥaver from the Ibn Qaṭāʾif family, dated Friday, middle of Shevat, describing the writer’s anger over …
Letter fragment to 'rabbenu'. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions 200 dinars, a wālī and the territory of al-Muʿaẓẓam (ʿĪsā?), who is in conflict with his brother (al-Kāmil?). …
Accounts listing 72 names with (low) Greek/Coptic numerals. In Arabic script, with an occasional name written in Hebrew script. Most of the names are Jewish. …
On recto a poem in Judaeo-Arabic. On verso a sample letter to a notable. AA
Letter in Arabic script. Mentions an administrator/supervisor (nāẓir); a Muslim judge: al-qāḍī al-ajall Muḥammad al-[...] Ibn al-Khalīlī; advice to the addressee that if business dries …
Letter/petition from Bū Bakr to a notable named Burhān al-Dīn, in Fustat. In Arabic script. Dating: Probably Mamluk-era based on hand, layout, and formulary. Asking …
Rental contract (hādhā mā istaʾjara . . .). Lessee: ʿAbdallāh b. [...] al-Dawla [...] al-Tājir. Lessor: Mūsā b. Yaʿqūb (Moshe b. Yaʿaqov) al-Isrāʾīlī al-Tājir. Dated: …
Letter in Arabic script. From a (Muslim) spiritual authority who is firing a would-be disciple. The sender originally thought that this man was genuinely seeking …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه توفيقي وصلى الله على محمد
الى عند الا[جل؟] سلام الله ورحمته
اما بعد فانَّ كان سبب اجتماعي بك وكنت
اظن انك ساعد للا…
Large part from a poetic Hebrew letter, contains mostly praises and expressions of longing. Contains the idea that "even if the bodies are separated the …