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Translation of Ecclesiastes into Judaeo-Greek. See De Lange, Greek Jewish Texts from the Cairo Genizah, 71–78.
אין רשומות קשורות
Legal document. Fragment (bottom only). Written and signed by Hillel b. ʿEli. Dating: Uncertain, but it has to be a year in which 2 Elul …
דיון אחד
Letter from Isḥāq b. ʿAlī al-Majjānī, probably in al-Mahdiyya, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. Dating: Around 1040. In Judaeo-Arabic. The letter deals with disagreements …
[יאסידי וריי]סי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלא[מתך]
[ ] אד כרגת יאכי ולם תעלמני בכרוגך פשק עלי דלך עטים אסל [אללה]
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3 תעתוקים תרגום אחד
Letter opening from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: before 1048 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1025–1051 CE based on Shelomo b. Yehuda's …
תעתוק אחד
Draft of a legal document in the hand of Shemuʾel b. Nathan, dated Adar II 1456 Seleucid = February/March 1145 CE, under the authority of …
Recto: Hebrew letter. Verso: unidentified Arabic. Very faded. Mentions numbers. (Information from CUDL)
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Small fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Only formulaic text is preserved on recto, and only partial words from the address on verso (apart …
Probably a state document, but the specific genre and purpose are unclear. There are multiple distinct entries on both recto and verso, with a lot …
State document, in Arabic script. A jarīda. A lot is preserved on both recto and verso, but very difficult to read, mentions "kharaja al-amr al-ʿālī …
Writing exercises in which a student practiced the Hebrew alphabet. Dating is 16th-century or later based on the paleography.
Guide to the numerical value of the Arabic letters.
Colophon of Eliyyahu b. Aharon b. Yoshiyyahu, grandson of Yoshiyyahu Av Bet Din, writing his name and the year (4800 AM) at the end of …
IB VII, 50. Letter (memo) from an unnamed India trader, probably in Aden, to Mufaḍḍal Ibn Abī Saʿd, in Qūṣ. Dating: first third of the …
3 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים
IB VII, 68. Letter from a certain ʿEli, unknown location, to the cantor Isḥāq, in Damietta. Addressed specifically to the shop of Abū l-Surūr al-Ṣayrafī. …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Recto: Fragment of a letter or letter draft in Arabic script. Might also be literary: اما بعد كان الذي . . . وما اعلمه ان …
Deed of sale for the sale of an enslaved woman. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 1 Nisan 1537 Seleucid, which is 31 March 1226 CE, under …
Lists of names in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Two lines in Arabic, probably accounting: الذي مع الفقيه(؟) تسع قطع ماىة . . . .
Legal record in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1077–1055 CE). Khallūf makes a claim on the inheritance of Ibrāhīm b. ʿAllān. The document …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Small fragment from the top. Dated: 12 Av 14[..] Seleucid, under the reshut of M[aṣliaḥ? Mevorakh?]. The groom may be Yeshuʿa b. …
Letter addressed to a 'Sar ha-Leviim,' asking him to help his son, who is imprisoned in Cairo for a debt. Fifteen dirhams had been pledged, …
Small fragment of official correspondence, reused for literary text in Hebrew script. Only a few words preserved.
Legal document. Fragment (upper left corner). The date is mostly broken off. Mentions [...] b. Shelomo ha-Mashmiaʿ (probably the equivalent of Arabic munādī, "crier") and …
Document(s) in Arabic, possibly. It is unclear if the recto and verso are related. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Letter describing a sea voyage from Tripoli to Sicily (CUDL). “Of another Jew we read in a Hebrew letter that in a large ship, in …
Fragment with four different text blocks in Arabic script in different handwritings: (1) al-ruʾasāʾ: al-shaykh Abū Naṣr al-shaykh Abū l-Faḍl al-shuyūkh Abū l-Ḥasan ... b. …
Love poetry. Bifolio.
Recto: Legal document written and signed by Natan b. Shemuel. Dated: Iyyar 1456 of the Seleucid Era (= May 1145 CE). Abū ʿAlī Yefet b. …
Fragment of a letter, probably. Mentioning the ingredients (ḥawāʾij) for a medicinal powder (dharūr) and then proceeding to give a recipe/prescription (wa-hādhihī ṣifatuh) for it. …
Fragment from the bottom of a legal document. Dated: looks like 13 Jumādā I 913 AH which would be 20 September 1507 CE if read …
Recto: Possibly a narrative, in a late 19th century hand. Mentions Sulṭān Sulaymān Khān (i.e., an Ottoman sultan, perhaps Sulaymān I). The narrative recounts events …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Nahray b. Nissim. Information from Goitein's note card.
Magical fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Recto contains instructions for reciting a spell (ʿazīma) seven times on Friday and Sunday nights; also involves using a new lamp …
State document in Arabic script. Genre and content are unclear. There are multiple text blocks, at one point written in two parallel columns. There are …
Judaeo-Arabic poetry. Panegyric?
Receipt, of ground tax (ḥikr) for a flour mill owned by ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Sammāk in the Jewish neighborhood of Cairo. The payee is ʿĀbid(?) Ḥamza(?) …
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 …
Part of a document in Arabic script, possibly a letter. There are three lines, and their beginnings are missing. Reused on recto for Leviticus 1:1-2; …
Legal document concerning an inheritance. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli? Much of the date is broken off, but mentions a number of names …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions something black; and Ḥabība.