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Announcement for the Day of Geniza on which old prayerbooks unfit for repair will be transferred to the cave in the Bassatine and the process …
דיון אחד
Legal query in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE) regarding the betrothal of two prospective brides, one is a minor and the …
אין רשומות קשורות
Important business letter sent from Alexandria by Farah b. Ismail to his father in Fustat, containing details about delivering money, commodity prices, and ordering goods …
2 תעתוקים תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Fragment of a private letter. Dating: likely 12th century. The writer is referring to some danger, but the text is too fragmentary.
Fragment of a letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda.
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Several unrelated small fragments stuck together; all look literary.
Letter from Me'ir Saragos, in Fustat/Cairo, to Yaʿaqov Mar Ḥayyim, probably somewhere in the Levant. The writer was a judge active in Cairo in the …
תעתוק אחד
Mysterious fragment with several different sorts of jottings, including: 1) In Hebrew: "When the great king (Mehmet II) who conquered Constantinople died (in 1482), and …
Document in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, likely accounts. Mentions the date of the 9th of Shawwāl and the name ʿAbdallāh.
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Letter from a certain Yeshuʿa to a dignitary. Only the top is preserved along with part of the address on verso. (Information in part from …
Description from PGPID 9126: ח84 מכתב מאת עמרם בר יצחק אל חלפון המזכיר את האבל על מות יהודה הלוי אלכסנדריה, יום ראשון, ח' בניסן [אתנ"ג], …
4 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים דיון אחד
Magical formulary in Judaeo-Arabic and Aramaic.
Document of sale dated 454 AH. Since the top part of the document is damaged neither the parties to the sale nor the object of …
תעתוק אחד תרגום אחד דיון אחד
Letter in Hebrew. Dating: Probably 11th century. Begging a dignitary for help interceding with the king and tax administrators concerning the burden of tax being …
Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The name of groom is nor preseved. The Bride is Esther known as Zubayda . dated to 16[...]
List of names, all beginning with Yiṣḥaq or Yosef. Late.
Top of a legal declaration drawn up in Fustat in the middle of Iyyar 15[..], under the authority of the Avraham Maimonides. One of the …
Order of payment. The teacher Ḥasan is asked to pay three dirhams to the bearer, Manṣūr.
Recto: Hebrew prayer. Verso: last lines of an autograph responsum by Maimonides, and part of a liturgical text in Hebrew. Dating: ca. 1168–1204 CE, based …
2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים
Probably a letter, mentions the leader Abū Saʿd. Signs of having been used for a book binding. (Information in part from CUDL)
Bifolios from a mercantile account ledger in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Receipt for two people, one of whom is Abū l-Ḥasan. For a sum of 10 1/2 (dirhams? dinars?).
Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Very crude hand.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic (FGP). The handwriting is rudimentary and the orthography so idiosyncratic that it is difficult to understand. Probably a family letter; discussing all …
Medical text. An extract from the Egyptian-origin physician ʿAlī b. Riḍwān's (d. 1060s) citation of Galen's views on the four humours and the causes and …
Unidentified text in Arabic (in Arabic script) with citations in Hebrew (in Hebrew script).
Petition from a Jewish man to a dignitary. In Arabic script. Fragment (upper left corner). Opens with two lines of grand titles for the presumably …
بسم الله] الرحمن الرحيم
المملوك يقبل الارض امام الحضرة السامية الاجلية] القضائية السعيدة الماجدة الامينية
ذ]خيرة(؟) الدين جمال الروسا صـ…
Poem in Hebrew, possibly with praises addressed to a specific individual. Join: Oded Zinger.
Letter from Yehuda b. Simḥa, in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1050 CE. The writer trades in pearls and coral. He …
Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Yeḥiel. Dated: Friday, 23 Ḥeshvan 5310 AM, which is 1549 CE. In Hebrew, with phrases in Yiddish and many words in …
Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Recto is very faded and difficult to read. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Recto: Fragment of a legal document mentioning [...] b. Menashshe and Shelomo and [...] b. Faraḥ and sums of money. Verso: Fragment of a legal …
Legal fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Abū Naṣr Mevorakh b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Zaqen was going to make a declaration, but …
Letter from Abū Manṣūr to [al-Shaykh] al-Makīn al-Ṣayrafī, in Qūṣ (here called "thaghr Qūṣ"). In Arabic script, elegantly written. The sender opens with respectful greetings …
Letter fragment in Ladino. Signed Shelomo Shunina(?).
2 תעתוקים
Engagement (shiddukhin) contract. In Hebrew. Dated: 1 Tamuz 5569 AM = 15 June 1809 CE. Groom: Yaʿaqov ha-Levi Istanbuli b. Shemuel. Bride: Sara bt. Moshe …
Legal document recording the receipt by a woman of the inheritance due to her from the administrator of intestate succession in Tinnīs. Dated: 10 Rabīʿ …
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic.
Business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū l-Fakhr and Tripoli (Libya).