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Letter from Nissim, in Qaṭya, Sinai, to Shelomo Iskandarānī, in Fustat. In Hebrew. Dating: First half of the 16th century, based on Avraham David's assessment. …
אין רשומות קשורות
Legal document. Dated: first decade of Jumādā II 440 AH (November 1048 CE). Involves Azhar b. Khalaf al-Isrāʾīlī, known as Ibn Abī al-Darrāʿ, the agent …
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Bifolio with Hebrew literary text. There are two notes in Arabic script on the blank area of the left page of verso. One of them …
Fragment from a top of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee is called 'the diadem (nezer) of the [...].' Reporting that the order of the …
Letter from Avraham ha-Ḥaver b. Amram from Jerusalem to an Andalusian merchant staying in Ramla. Ca. 1050.
2 תעתוקים דיון אחד
Liturgical text, Nestorian. In Syriac. See Sebastian P. Brock, “East Syrian Liturgical Fragments from the Cairo Genizah,” Oriens Christianus 68 (1984) pp. 58-79. Idem, “Some …
Writing exercises in Ladino repeating the phrase: "Senyor padre korona de mi kabeza mi eskudo y mi ממפרו[?] vivo sea" (father, crown of my head, …
Account of the Taharti brothers dealing with the sale of flax worth 800 dinars in the Maghreb and containing details about buying textiles in the …
2 תעתוקים 3 תרגומים 2 דיונים
Letter from Yeshua b. Isma’il al-Makhmuri from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1060. The writer describes the event when the customs officers chased …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלחבר גדול הישיבה וכבודה ואדאם עזה ותאידה ונעמתה מן אלאסכנדריה
ואלחאל סלאמה ונעמה ואלחמד ללה רב אלעאלמין ושוק אל…
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
דיון אחד
End of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Sayyidnā and (possibly in the address) [...] b. Moshe. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Large account in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Many names are mentioned. Dating: Probably Ayyubid or Mamluk-era based on the handwriting, names, and layout.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Very damaged. Mentions the names Yosef and Manṣūr. Likely a business letter.
Order of payment from ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz. In Arabic script. The addressee is to give the bearer, the sender's trusted agent, the red silk which was …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Only the heading and first lines preserved. Dated: 1391 Seleucid, which is 1079/80 CE. The groom is named Naḥum. Handwriting of Hillel …
Fragment of a letter from Yoshiyyahu Gaon to Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dating: approximately 1020 CE (per Gil) and ca. 1015–1025 CE, based on the years …
תעתוק אחד
A curious fragment of a late calligraphic legal document (though the date does not survive), appointing Avraham b. [...] Ashkenazi as someone's agent for some …
Memorial list. Mentions: Shemuʾel and his brother Avraham; his sons David and his brother Shela ha-Rofeʾ and his brother Yeshuʿa; his two sons Avraham and …
Letter written by a Byzantine scribe in Egypt on behalf of an unnamed blind man, addressed to a charitable administrator called ‘Eli ha-Kohen b. Hayyim …
2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים 2 דיונים
Legal document(s) in Hebrew. Late. Very faded, but the remnant of Anno Mundi year is visible on the verso: 53.. AM, but this reading is …
Recto (secondary use): Business accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions names such as: al-ʿAfṣī, the Jewish woman (al-yahūdiyya), Ibn al-ʿIrāqī, …
Small fragment in Judaeo-Arabic, referring to "distress" (shidda). Everything else is too faded to read.
Receipt for the capitation tax in Fustat of Maʿālī b. Bū l-Karam a Jewish silk merchant (qazzāz) for the year 525 AH. See T-S AS …
Small fragment of a document in Arabic script. Maybe a letter based on the presence of diagonal text in the margin. "... al-ʿālī wa-in alladhī …
Literary text, medical, in Arabic script. Mentions the remedies for abdominal discrepancies.
Ketubba fragment. See Goitein's index card.
Petition in Arabic. A man who earns his living in Cairo asks for help on account of his children and to be able to earn …
Legal fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the handwriting of Shemuel b. Saʿadya? Involves Sitthūm, the mother of Abū l-Maḥāsin. A blank has been left for the …
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning several ships and bundles of letters. Related to the India trade based on the reference to a nākhudhā; …
Legal deed involving R. Yiṣḥaq Luria Ashkenazi and Rafa'el Kalonymos. Location: Egypt. Dated: Tevet 5319 AM, which is 1559 CE. The deed details the terms …
Cryptic note addressed to Amīn al-Dawla. Seems poetic, and might mention scorpions (עקארבה). Needs examination.
Part of a letter from a man to his son, Abū l-Ḥasan Wahb b. ʿImrān, who requests that next time he should write in Hebrew. …
Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). With Arabic jottings in the margin. (Information in part …
Verso: beginning of a letter. Recto: medical text concerned with the treatment of urinary complaints with a recommended potion. (Information from CUDL)
Legal record (#32) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 4v of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated 16 …
Recto: Letter in Arabic script. Verso: Legal document in Arabic script. Dating: Likely Mamluk-era. Both need examination.
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Small fragment of a draft of a legal deed concerning the sale of a female slave. The space for her name has been left blank. …
Fragment from the beginning of a Christological literary text. In Arabic script. Opens with two versions of the basmala, one invoking the Trinity and one …
From a ledger containing several different types of writing: (1) accounts and fragments of letters in Hebrew script, at least partially in Ladino or Judaeo-Romance; …
Bottom of a ketubba. The groom is named Efrayim ha-Levi. Several witness signatures are preserved, including Menashshe(?) b. Seʿadya ha-Kohen, Yiṣḥaq b. Ghālib the cantor, …
Legal document. Dated: Sivan 1411 Seleucid, which is May/June 1100 CE. Ghanya bt. Ḥusayn and her divorced husband Hillel b. Faraj agree that their little …
Guardianship document from the court of Daniel b. Azarya, Jerusalem. An unknown person b. Ezra appoints Ishaq b. Abraham to be the guardian and get …