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Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
אין רשומות קשורות
Circumcision certificate, Qaraite. Location: Cairo. Dating: Of the original date, only Wednesday the first of [...], [..]70 Seleucid is preserved. The certificate is for Abū …
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Tax receipt(s)?
Fragment of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions al-Marjānī and al-Shelishi. Excerpts: ליס ימכן . . . אצחאבנא אן . …
אבו אלפרג’ אבן אלרייס זצל
סבב אצדאר הדה אלאחרף אלי אלמולא אלשיך …
Abu'l-Faraj, son of the chief, (may the) m(emory of a) r(ighteous man be…
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
IB V, 21. Recto: Letter in poetic Hebrew, addressed to Rabbenu Yehuda (=Abū Zikrī Kohen) asking for help, because "bread has run out."
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Literary text, in Arabic script. Mentions categories of kharāj(tax) in dirhams. Needs examination.
Recto: letter fragment in Hebrew (טובה יתר . . . הראשון ואני במהרה . . . על כבודך . . . שמעתי היה לך צער …
Literary, Arabic.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Crude hand. Mentions belts (zunnār, zanānir) several times.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions al-Talmid al-Jalīl αnd something to do with the synagogue (עלי אלהיכל קבל ראש השנה), and conveys greetings "from the congregation." …
Genealogical list at beginning of letter from Masliah Ha-Kohen Gaon ca. 1120. Circular letter from Maṣliaḥ to the community of Damsīs.
תעתוק אחד
Letter dated ca. 1050, sent by Sedaqa b. Zakariyya from Alexandria to his partner Barhun b. Salih al-Tāhartī in Fustat. The letter mentions shipments of …
Personal letter from Jerusalem to Cairo – 28 May 1930 – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 212) in Judeo-Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, …
Minute fragment. Probably from a legal deed. Only few words are preserved. A house is mentioned, and the Babylonian synagogue.
IB V, 48. Letter. The sender, a newcomer in Fustat from Yemen, describes himself as 'a pigeon whose wings have been clipped' (line 1), writes …
1 אלי בנתה וקד בקית מתל חמאם מקצץ אל אג̇נחא ולמא קד
2 תחו[ט]ת עלי נפסי פי אל ספר אלי אסכנדריה[1] קולת עסא עני נפד
3 מן …
3 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Letter, probably. In Arabic script. Dating: Late, probably the 18th or 19th century. Probably originates from al-Maṭbakh al-Ḍamīrī in al-Marj. Needs examination.
Letter from Avraham b. Tahor, in Alexandria, to R. Ḥananel, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: First half of the 13th century. The sender had apparently …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Legal document. Record of release. Dating: April 1076. Location: Fustat. Ṣedaqa b. Muvḥar and Shemuel b. Aharon ha-Kohen al-Ṣayrafī ("the money-changer") are released from a …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Accounts, goods, and salaries, in Arabic script and Coptic alphanumerals. Late.
Letter from Umm Makīn, the wife of al-Sadīd, in Bilbays, to Eliyyahu the Judge, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Early 13th century. The writer inquires …
אלאגליה אלמתפצ'לה מרנו
ורבינו אליה הדיין המשכיל
החכם והבון(!) ש'צ' וגיר דלך
אן כאדמתך זוגה אלסדיד
אנפצלת מן בין …
I (would like to) inform the august,
exalted and gracious presence of our master
and teacher Elijah the enlightened,
wise and understa…
State document, in Arabic script, calligraphic, with diacritics and vowels. Late. "We have looked into these matters. . ." Needs examination.
] الله تعالى لما ارتضا]ه
الشريفة بشمول اليمن شملا ويميـ[
بسطة وتمكينا
الينا نظرنا في احوال اهـ[
ووفائهم بما عليهم …
Letter from a certain Hibatallāh in polished (rhymed) Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 13th century. Asking for a loan of 60 dirhams, which he promises to repay …
Legal fragment written and signed by ʿImmanuel b. Yeḥiel (active ca. 1231–79). Deed of sale with provisions about the right to buy back a house …
דיון אחד
Small fragment with Hebrew script. Maybe calendrical. The margin has notations 252, 252, and 253 (or 283?)
Horoscopes.
מכתב מאת חלפון אל מַ̇צְמוּן בן חַסַן בַּרוּ̇ג, הודו, שנת 1134 לערך זוהי טיוטה מן החלק העליון של איגרת שהייתה צריכה להישלח מצפון-מערב הודו לעדן, …
Legal document (non-Geniza). Location: Amadiya. Dated: 5525 (וטבח טבח והכן ת) AM = 1764/65 CE. Certifying Maṣliaḥ b. Moshe as a kosher slaughterer. One of …
Court notebook containing several documents. Dated in the first document as 21 Av 1394 Seleucid, which is 1083 CE. The document entries include: (i) Marriage …
Petition, probably, in Arabic script: ممن يخدم . . . ولا يرغب . . . . موجها . . . . وينهي وصول . . …
Letter to a dignitary ("the head of the Yeshiva of the Torah") in Judaeo-Arabic, reporting that Yosef Ibn al-Salamantī(?) came to al-muʿallim Farajallāh complaining to …
Letter sent from Damietta to Khalīfa [...], in Fustat/Cairo. In Judaeo-Arabic. Late.
Communal list (record #19) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 7v-8r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Undated, but surrounding …
State document, in Arabic script. A Fatimid decree, reused for a long liturgical text in Hebrew.
Minute fragment with text in Hebrew script on the recto and verso, some Tiberian vowels are visible (verso).
Order instructing al-Shaykh al-Asʿad to pay a certain sum to the bearer Abū l-Karam. Dating: ca. 12th or 13th century. There follow unusually detailed instructions …
Bill of release from Abū Yaʿqūb Yequtiʾel b. Moshe ha-Rofeʾ, the representative of the merchants, to the cantor Avraham b. Neḥemya. Also mentions Shemarya b. …
Legal record (#120) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 39r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated: 7 Sivan 5333 …
List of debts. In the first line Abū Saʿīd al-Dimyāṭī (= Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi) is mentioned as owing a debt of 20 dinars. Should …
Deed of sale in Arabic script. Concerns a house named "Dār al-Nakhla" in Cairo, in the Ḥārat Zuwayla neighborhood, in a place called Raḥbat Surūr …
Fragment of a letter in Hebrew. Dating: ca. 1011 CE. Mentions the deaths of Shemarya b. Elḥanan and the cantor Palṭiel, as well as the …
Recto: List of names on the back of a recycled document in Arabic, such as: Yahuda al-Rūmī, Yaʿacov b. Ṣadaqa, and others. Medieval-era. Requires further …