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Fragment of a letter addressed to a dignitary and his entire community. In Hebrew. A few words from ~12 lines are preserved. Reused on recto …
אין רשומות קשורות
State document, one isolated line with abusive ligatures, in Arabic script. Reused in Hebrew on recto and verso.
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Fiscal document. Possibly a receipt or a submitting of an account. Needs examination. مبلغ . . . على . . . . المماليك المستخدمين برسم …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involves a woman named Sitt al-Ahl, a pair of bracelets or armlets …
Recto: Poetry in Arabic script. Verso: "Muwashshaḥ Andalusī" (as the header explains). In Hebrew, with a Judaeo-Arabic kharja. The last verse of the poem in …
Legal document. Dated: Probably [16]11 Seleucid, which is 1299/1300 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Avraham (II) Maimonides. Location: Fustat. (Avraham I served 1204–37, …
Legal note in Judaeo-Arabic. Reporting that Maḥāsin Ibn al-Rabbāṭ agrees to stand surety for his mother in a case involving inheritance and the government. See …
Legal testimony. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: Wednesday, 12 Shevat 5321 AM = 29 January 1561 CE. Yosef ארוייויץ b. Yaʿaqov Toledano acknowledges that he owes his …
State document, probably late Fatimid or Ayyubid. ʿAlī b. Aḥmad the miller reports to a wazir (name unattested) about the dilapidated condition of the masjid …
عبده احمد بن علي بن احمد الدقاق
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
عدل سيدنا الوزير الاجل اطال الله بقاه وادام نعماه وكبت اعداه قد شمل سائر
عبيده ورعاه(…
תעתוק אחד
Recto: Legal document. There is a single signature from the scribe Meʾīr Ben-Naʿīm, which he must have included before discarding this document as an unfinished …
Letter from Barhūn b. Yiṣḥaq to Nahray b. Nissim, January 27, 1047
2 תעתוקים 2 תרגומים
Draft of the beginning of a letter addressed to two people ('al-mawlā al-hadrat' and 'al-mawlā al-tifʾeret'). Hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu?
Personal letter from Yehuda b. Yaʿaqov to Abu ʿImrān Mūsā al-Dayyān(?). In Judaeo-Arabic. Unconventional orthography. Mentions that the 9th of Av passed and he was …
תעתוק אחד דיון אחד
Bottom of a legal document in Arabic script. Dated: 13 Dhū l-Qaʿda 537 = May/June 1143 CE. It seems certifying a loan or payment of …
Recto (secondary use): court record in the hand of Natan b. Shemuel. Dating: ca. 1145 CE or, more broadly, ca. 1128–1164 CE based on the …
דיון אחד
Bifolio of prayers or poetry in Hebrew. There are interesting Arabic annotations in two different hands, including pious formulae at the bottom of recto and …
Letter referring to the synagogue and quoting extensively from the Hebrew Bible. Dating: probably ca. 13th–15th century based on hand, layout, and typical abbreviations. May …
Bifolio containing mainly literary text including masekhet avot. There are also several blocks of Arabic text, including some literary text and (on recto) many drafts …
Letter expressing regret for having left the service of the recipient Shelomo, a government official. Possibly a draft. (Information from Goitein's index cards.) Probably the …
Legal document in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan (fl. 1150–1181 CE). Two brothers confirm in a Cairene court under the authority of Shemuel ha-Nagid …
Calendar fragment[?] for the year 53__ which provides a possible range of 1539-1638 CE. Although the text from the first line is incomplete, the exact …
Beginning of a responsum in Judaeo-Arabic, calligraphically written. About the definition of "moredet" ("rebellious (wife)"); this authority says that it refers only to a woman …
Letter from the Qaraite community of Damascus to the Qaraite community of Fustat/Cairo. Numerous senders are named. Date unknown. Written in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Deals …
Non-Geniza. A letter the the community of Luzk from Mordechai b. Shmuel
Draft(s) of legal document(s). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Mentions a woman named Mudallala and transactions involving property. Needs further examination.
Accounts for small quantities of silk in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew numerals. Dating: probably 11th or 12th century. This fragment illuminates that the term laʿāliʿ ("lustrous/gleaming") …
Legal query concerning Jews who have been lent 100 pereḥīm with 1% monthly interest by a non-Jew. The query is anonymous, only using the formulaic …
Original text: Three lines in calligraphic Arabic script. Possibly part of a document. Prayers for Muḥammad are clearly legible (الحمد لله وحده وصلواته على سيدنا …
Letter of condolence addressed to a certain Ḥemdat ha-Yeshiva, on the death of a woman (al-kabīra). Looks like the handwriting of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi …
Letter from Eliyyahu b. Aharon Ha-Ḥaver b. Yoshiyyahu, the president of court, to Efrayim B. Shemarya, in Fustat. Dating: approximately 1030 CE (per Gil) and …
Fragment (upper part) of a Judaeo-Arabic letter to Avraham Maimonides from al-Muhadhdhab ha-Kohen b. Manṣūr (or Merayot?) ha-Kohen. From the body of the message that …
Sales contract between Yosef b. Efrayim and Sadaqa b. David Ha-Kohen. Fustat, 1103. The verso contains a beautifully drawn-up poem by the Egyptian poet Sahlan …
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning two dinars which the addressee had given the sender; he is to take them back and instruct Abū …
Accounts. In Hebrew, possibly Ladino, and western Arabic numerals. Dated: Heshvan 5502 AM, which is 1742 CE.
IB II, 52. Letter from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq to Egypt. Aden, ca. 1130-39.
ג' כתב מרבוטה בכיט ואחד אלואחד מנהא
ללשיך אבי זכרי ואלתאני ללשיך אברהם
אלעכאוי ואלתאלת למסלם אלכעכי אדא מן
אללה תעאלי באל…
Letter from Zikri to R. Natan b. Shemuel 'The Nezer', containing only the address. Dating: ca. 1128-1164 CE, based on the years when the recipient …
נע זכרי
Legal document according to which Efrayim Abu Kathir b. Masliaḥ owes Yosef b. Shelomo 4 dinars, to be repaid 2 dinars per year. Signed by …