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Drafts of documents and jottings. There are some intriguing phrases, including "al-ʿabda" (usually a female petitioner) and report of something that people said to the …
אין רשומות קשורות
Legal document in Arabic script. A contract made before a Muslim notary, in which the proprietor of a Nubian slave promises to pay to the …
3 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Letter sent by Ḥayyim b. Avraham Skandari, probably in Cairo, to his son, probably in Alexandria. The date is the 2nd of Adar I, probably …
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Letter fragment (part of the beginning). "...before reading it, and [the slave] thanked God for the health of his master. The slave had gone up …
תעתוק אחד
Receipt of payment (ṣaḥḥ), for ʿĀbidīn(?) b. Qusṭ(?).
Recto: Opening lines of a letter introduced by quotations such as Psalms 31:2. Verso: unusual note that does not seem to be a classic address; …
Accounts in Arabic script. Mentions various weights in raṭls, the name Jaʿfar, and the phrase "that which is in the hand of the Jews."
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic (recto) and Hebrew (verso). From the well-known scribe Abū l-Mufaḍḍal Shelomo b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya ha-Levi; Shelomo was active until ca. 1231 …
Legal document in Arabic script. Small fragment from the top. Mentions [...] b. Mufarrij(?) al-Isrāʾīlī.
Letter from Isma’il b. Farah from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1060. The writer deals with selling goods that arrived from the Maghreb. …
סידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם תאידך וסלאמתך וסעאדתך נצף תמוז ואלחאל סלאמה
ושוק אליך קרב אללה אלאגתמאע בך וצלני כתאבך ולם ארא מנך כתאב ס…
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד
Ketubba fragment (upper left corner). Bride: Bahiyya bt. Yosef, a virgin. Early marriage payment: 20 dinars. Dating: ca. 1040 CE (per Goitein). There is a …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Fragment of a state document. The beginnings of 3 lines are preserved. Mentions the year 418 AH = 1027/28 CE. Reused on verso for piyyuṭ.
Fragment of an Arabic document. The basmala is visible at the top. Might mention al-Amīr al-Muʾayyad. Needs further examination.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, perhaps 17th or 18th century. "The blessed account of the expenses on meat by Yiṣḥaq." Arranged by parasha. The verso …
Recto: draft of a legal query to the Nagid regarding a man who has been sick for one year. Followed by a draft of a …
Accounts. Mentions an Abū l-Maʿānī.
Legal record (#25) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 10r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 3 Shevat [5321] …
Verso: Fiscal document. Very faded. Dated: 440 AH? A sum of money is specified in the middle section. Needs examination. Reused for a magical spell …
Legal report in a Qaraite court register. Written in Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Cairo. Dating: Unknown. Catalogued as 1101 CE, but this date does not appear on …
Legal document from Fustat. Dated: 969 CE. A loan deed describing two compounds owned by Jews ‘located in front of the idolatry (i.e., church) of …
Letter fragment addressed to the Nasi Shelomo. In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Also mentions various other distinguished people: the judge of judges (qāḍī al-quḍāh) and the …
Notes (taʿlīq) on religious and philosophical questions, including why God chose the land of Israel. The hand is probably known; looks 12th century.
Legal document dealing with inheritance issues (a gift followed by a release). The parties are Eliyya b. Shelaḥya and Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya b. Shelomo ha-Levi. …
Two fragments from a letter in Hebrew. Mentions being in Tyre for 17 years; a book purchased in Egypt or Fustat years ago (the book …
Judaeo-Arabic literary text in the form of a story composed in a rhymed format, like a maqāma (qasida, قصيدة). The text begins on the verso …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Account in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū ʿAbd Allāh; Abū Manṣūr; brass; Ghālib; Ibn al-Anṣārī.
Fragment of a petition in Arabic script, interspersed with Arabic script in the wide spaces what seems like a draft of a letter or just …
]وسعادته لمضافرته ومطالبته؟
]افدته يعزمه مظهر/بعزمه يظهر لي وله قواها
] للنجاج باولاها واخراها
] يعمل عليها وصدره حالا ب…
Mercantile letter in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Letter fragment, last five lines plus three lines added in right margin. Bottom line of main text: وكتب عبدها بو مصري (؟). Written on the …
Recto: Letter from an unidentified distinguished man to a judge or communal leader. In Judaeo-Arabic. The sender's hand might be known (resembles T-S Misc.28.88, another …
Account in Arabic script, unclear if private or fiscal. Recto includes the phrase 'in the name of ʿUmar b. [...]' and mentions the number 400 …
Letter from ʿAmmār b. [...] to al-Rayyis Bū l-Mufaḍḍal. In Arabic script. Dating: likely 12th or 13th century. The writer reports on a particular course …
Treatise on the laws of impurity, with ownership notes. In Judaeo-Arabic: "property of al-Muwaffaq b. Moshe." In Arabic script at the bottom, a much later …
Leaf from a treatise on divination in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand looks pre-1500 (unlike most of the material in the AIU collection).
Letter of appeal for charity, probably. Dating: Perhaps 14th–16th century. Few details are preserved. The addressee is referred to as al-sirāj al-qādī (= al-qāḍī?) naṣarahū …
Document in Arabic script. Possibly a letter, or possibly a magical text related to verso: wa-yaʿ[..] al-baḥr li-dhālika wa-hāja wa-lā yastaṭīʿ aḥad ʿalayhi. . . …
State document in Arabic script, probably a petition. Six fragments are preserved. The addressee is referred to with the titles al-Malikī al-Nāṣirī, which in Geniza …
Letter to Avraham Maimuni (ha-Nagid) from Yehuda Melammed b. Aharon ha-Rofe. Avraham Maimonides' years of service as Nagid support an inferred date range estimate of …
Small fragment from a letter or legal document. Dating: Ottoman-era.
Amulet to heal Sa‘īda daughter of Sitt al-Ahl.
In the name of He who is merciful and full of pity, forbearing, smiting
and healing, we shall act and succeed. “I have waited for your salvatio…
Letter from Mūsā b. Yiṣḥaq b. Ḥisda, in middle Egypt, to Yosef b. ʿAwkal. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Early 11th century. One of two letters (see …
3 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים דיון אחד
State document in Arabic script. 7 lines are partially preserved. Mentions a rescript (al-tawqīʿ) and probably a year in the 5th century AH (4[..]). The …