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Fragment of a power of attorney in Arabic script. No names or details seem to be preserved. Reused on recto for Hebrew literary text.
אין רשומות קשורות
Legal document: ketubba for [...ba]t Mawhūb (bride). Witnessed by Yishaq b. Saʿ[adya], [... b.] Efrayim, Yeshuʿa ha-Levi b. Aharon, Yaaqov ha-Levi b. [...]she, Amram b. …
Court record. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: last decade of Tishrei 1475 Seleucid = September 1163 CE, under the authority of the Gaʾon Netanʾel ha-Levi (the …
Minute fragment of a letter by Yefet b. Menashshe Halevi.
Official correspondence or petition, in Arabic script. Probably Mamlūk era. Fragmentary to glean proper context but a preliminary reading is as follows: المرجو من الله …
Formulary for a Karaite marriage document, edited by Judith Olszowy-Schlanger.
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד
Letter in Arabic script. Written on particularly thin paper. "In which the widow of Mubārak b. Mundhir b. Sābā asks a ḥaver in the name …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
List, commercial. Late. A variety of the entries list "builders" (בנאין) so perhaps some figures represent construction costs. Dated: [Dhū] l-Qaʿda 933 AH (1527 CE), …
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Recto: Informal note in Arabic script addressed to Shams al-Dīn. Asking for [...] for a period of 2 months because the need is pressing.
תעתוק אחד
A ledger of a synagogue beadle- needs examination. No image
Small legal fragment(s) in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). Mentions a certain Shelomo and a ketubba.
Colophon of a book written by Shaʾul b. Avraham b. Natan for Yeḥezqel b. Maṣliaḥ b. Shela. (Information from CUDL.)
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably late. Suez is possibly mentioned in the fourth entry on the left side of the recto.
Recto: Letter fragment. In Hebrew. Conveying mainly flowery greetings and expressions of pain due to separation and excuses for not writing earlier—it seems mainly because …
Letter fragment (lower part only). In Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning administration of a legal affair. The sender reports that Abū l-Ḥasan b. Ayyūb, who owned property on …
Beginning of a letter to Shelomo ha-Sar ('ha-Sofer ha-Mahir'). The sender complains about difficult circumstances. Dating: 12th or 13th century. (Information in part from CUDL)
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. The muqirr: Muḥammad [......]. Part of the date is visible Dhū l-Ḥijja xx4. Needs examination.
Letter in Arabic script. Possibly from a mother to a son. Handwriting and spelling are dreadful. There are many greetings as well as instructions about …
Letter in Arabic script. Small fragment (upper right corner).
Official-looking document(s) in Arabic script. T-S NS 327.63 Recto contains two documents headed by the glyph and with similar formatting. The upper parts of documents …
Recto: probably a Hebrew letter consisting of blessings for a group of people, 'at their head' Moshe and his brother ʿOvadyahu. Verso: qiddush for Passover. …
One line in Arabic script: a ḥamdala and ṣalwala, probably from the bottom of what was originally a much larger state document.
Verso: Document in Arabic script. Perhaps a medical prescription or recipe. Mentions rose and cold water and quantities in dirhams and mithqāls.
Recto: One of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu's many small notes in which he orders small quantities of materia medica to be given to the bearer. In …
Legal document in which [...] b. Yosef [...] acknowledges an investment from [...] Kohen of 20,000 silver medin. The paleography supports of dating estimate of …
Mercantile accounts in Arabic script.
Accounts.
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic 5565 AM (1804/05 CE) to Merkado Karo [of Karo y Frances & Company], from Avraham Haman and Gavriel Ḥefez. Information from …
Illustration, possibly a landscape scene with a figure floating in the sky. Requires further examination.
Fragment of a letter from Menashshe, maybe to Nahray b. Nissim. Around 1063. Only the writer’s first name in known. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. …
אטאל אללה בקא]ך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעא[דתך
ברכ]תה ואסעה במא יליה מ[ן אלשהור ]
]פיבלגני מא י[ס]רני [ ]
סי]די אבו אלפצ[ל
] כתבי [ ו]ה…
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 18th- of 19th-century based on the paleography. The section on the right bears the heading: "Record of the purchase of etrogim." …
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 in Judaeo-Arabic. From a certain Farajallāh. Dating: ca. 15th–17th century, based on handwriting and reference to the currency "bunduqīs"/Venetian (ducats). Needs examination.
Beginning of a will in the handwriting of Hillel b. Eli (but this is worth checking against Ḥalfon b. Menashshe's earliest documents). Testator: Hillel b. …
דיון אחד
Bill of divorce from a betrothal (erusin). Very faded. No signatures. Dated: Looks like [4]903 AM, which would be 1142/43 CE.
Letter from Salāma b. Yosef to his son Abū l-Makārim b. Salāma. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 12th century. Mentions goods such as costus (קסט) and …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. On parchment. Ordering items such as silk, pine resin (ʿilk ṣanawbar), and olive oil. Verso: List of goods in Judaeo-Arabic. Also …
Legal record (#54) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 19r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 2 Shevat 53[..] …
Two folios from al-Risāla al-Ḥātimiyya, a narrative of a debate which took place in Baghdad in the 960s in which Abū ʿAlī Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan …
Letter from Abū Saʿd Ibn Ṭībān, unknown location, to his son Abū l-Ḥasan Ibn Ṭībān, in Fustat. Mainly in Arabic script, with one phrase in …
Verso: Legal document (quittance). Mentions "my daughter Bahiyya" twice. Otherwise unclear if any of the substance is preserved.