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The Jacques Mosseri Genizah Archive
This fonds contains digital images of a selection of the Jacques Mosseri Genizah Archive. The collection contains more than 7,000 fragments. The…
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Letter
Letter, dated to 1765 CE, with elaborately embellished signature. Remains of the wax seal are preserved on verso.
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Letter
Letter from Ḥayy Gaʾon to Sahlān b. Abraham, dated 1349 of the Seleucid era (= 1037 CE). The continuation is inverted on verso, with an address in…
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Letter
Letter written by Manasseh b. Joshua from Tyre to the Ḥaver Abū l-Faraj Šemaʿya b. al-Faraj in Jerusalem, concerning yarn.
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Narrative
A tale in the style of A Thousand and One Nights, told partly in the first person, mentioning a period of seven years, robbers who took all the…
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Letter
Letter by Ḥalfon b. Manasseh to the Gaʾon Maṣliaḥ b. Solomon ha-Kohen.
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Letter
The opening of a letter to Ephraim (Ephraim b. Šemarya), with marginalia in Judaeo-Arabic; address on verso.
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Letter; list
Beginning of a letter to Abū l-Rabīʿ Sulaymān b. ʿAmrān. Verso contains the address and, inverted in relation to recto, a list of names.…
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Letter
Letter from Abū l-Surūr and Abū l-Saʿd to Yaḵin b. Nathaniel. Both father and son carry the title ‘Head of the (Fusṭāṭ) Congregations’. The Nagid…
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Polemic
Fragment from an anti-Karaite polemical treatise, perhaps from that of Jacob b. Ephraim.
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Legal document
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Manasseh concerning payments; it includes a date, Sivan 1434 (= 1123 CE).
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Poetry
Part of a maqāma, in four-line paragraphs, staggered across the page.
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Letter
Letter from a woman requesting help in receiving her share from her late husband’s inheritance, with various signatures of support.…
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Grammar
Fragment from a grammatical work.
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Book list
Inventory of books (c. 13th century).
