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Small fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Mentions: "...from aṣḥābnā.... wheat... the muqṭaʿīn(?)... to Fustat...." On verso an inshāllah and, at 180 degrees, possibly …
אין רשומות קשורות
Nativity horoscope for Hibatallāh b. Abū l-Faḍāʾīl. In Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic. Cf. Goldstein, "Horoscopes from the Cairo Geniza."
Letter in Hebrew. Fragment: right side only. Dating: Likely 16th century. Involves trade in barrels of wine (ḥaviyot and "barilas").
דיון אחד
Letter addressed to Makhlūf. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably late, no earlier than 15th century. Combative. Mentions the time the writer showed up at Makhlūf's house …
IB V, 37, folio 8v. Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hod is to give the bearer 1 raṭl …
2 תעתוקים
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Verso (original use): Letter fragment (upper right corner, beginnings of three lines only). In Arabic script.
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Beginning of a letter with rhymed prose introduction. Verso: Judaeo-Arabic text, list?
Verso: Legal notes in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE) concerning the execution of a will. Headed, "all of the inherited gold …
Note by a man to his friend, saying that he is sending money with an enslaved woman to him to pay two people as well …
Magical text in Arabic.
Fiscal register, in Arabic script. The right folio on recto contains large script with large line spacings, and the left and entire of verso has …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic, with Arabic script in the right margin (the tarjama?). Dating: likely ca. 13th century. On verso refers to the address as …
Unidentified text (likely a legal document) in Arabic. Reused on recto for seliḥot. (Information in part from CUDL)
Recto: Beginning of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th century. Verso: Small piece of an Arabic document, mentioning Cairo (من كل بد فقال له …
Letter from Shelomo ha-Melammed (=Shelomo b. Eliyyahu) to the teacher Abū l-ʿIzz. In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning money owed. Mentions Abū l-Munā and Ibn al-Dihqān. (Information in …
תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Badly rubbed and faded fragment, probably a document. (Information from CUDL.)
Accounts in Arabic script. Maybe of a merchant, listing debts owed. Dating: Likely 11th or 12th century. Many names mentioned, including someone titled al-mufattish ('the …
Note from Daniʾel b. ʿAzarya to Avraham b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Kohen Ibn Furāt. Dating: ca. 1054. Gil suggests that the letter was written when both Daniʾel …
The tale of the brothers Zuʿayṭ and Muʿayṭ (or Zaʿīṭ and Maʿīṭ).
Private accounts in Arabic script, mentioning small quantities of items such as beer (mizr), vetch (jullabān) or possibly pomegranate blossom (jullanār), cakes (kaʿk). The names …
Ownership note: Moshe b. Ṭoviyyahu he-Ḥaver ha-Kohen.
Copy of the will of Khulla bt. Shabbat in which she lists her assets (three different dārs held in partnership with her two sisters and …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
List of names with numbers and commodities such as silk and walnut. The paleography supports a dating estimate of 16th-century or later. One of the …
Small fragment with remnants of words in Hebrew.
Note addressed to 'my brother Yosef' in Ladino, written in a crude hand, with purple ink. Dating: Probably 19th century. Mentions some numbers, maybe sums …
Letter in which the writer sends greetings to R. Hananel, “al-dayyan al-jalil” (the illustrious judge) and to the judge Yehiel b. Eliakim (of Aleppo). The …
מכתב אל הדיין אליה מאת בן אחות אשתו ברכאת אבן אלעטאר.
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mostly legalese.
Receipt for the capitation tax for Khalaf b. Yaʿqūb in Fustat. Dated: Looks like 551 AH, which would be 1156/57 CE if correct. See ENA …
Letter from Elḥanan b. Shemarya to the community of Malīj. He has received the petition (ruqʿa) of the Alexandrian woman whose divorced husband is not …
Recto: Unidentified text in Arabic script: اذا كان الامرعلى ما ذكرته . . . . والحمد لله تبارك وتعالى وقال . . . . At …
Letter from Abū l-Majd, in Qūṣ, to Abū l-Mufaḍḍal the judge, in Fustat. Mentions Egypt, Abū l-Riḍā, Ibn Ibrahim al-ʿArīf, Abū l-ʿAlā b. Ḥassūn, Abū …
Fragment from the end of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. "You have left me to die in this grief. A person would think that there is …
תעתוק אחד
Multifragment. P2: Maghribī business letter from the 11th century. Nearly entirely preserved, but faded. Mentions well-known merchants such as Barhūn Ibn al-Tāhartī (r4). Also mentions …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (bottom part only). The sender complains that no one except the addressee helps them. The addressee should help ʿAmmār Ibn Shamshūrī …
Bifolium of business accounts in (messy) Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Bifolio from a magical booklet. Many spells/recipes are given here, including against fever and leprosy and for coitus.
Damaged Karaite ketubah. 15th century Cairo
Recto: letter, mentioning the community and the synagogue. The sender seems to be conveying a legal query from the original queriers (ahl al-suʾāl) to a …
Recto: part of a love poem in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso: jottings. (Information from CUDL.)
Letter/petition of appeal for charity. The sender complains of his poverty. Invokes the 'mercies' (marāḥim) of the addressee. Dating: ca. Ayyubid era.