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Prayer text for the absent and killed of Israel on Yom Kippur – undated – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 56) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 37). MCD.

Questions particularly on an excerpt from the Book of Numbers – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 87) – in Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 35). MCD.

Responses to "Epicureanism" – undated – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 61) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 38). MCD.

Literature work – story – discussing the story of a family – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 68) – in Yiddish. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 32). MCD.

Short story by Yūsef Zeki Marzūq about a mother enduring the torment of her spouse throughout the process of her son who growing up marrying and forgetting her, thus all of her dreams have died – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 70) – in Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 58). A photograph of one Yūsef Mūsa Marzūq appears in: El-Kodsi, The Karaite Jews of Egypt, 257). MCD.

Prayers and blessings on the occasion of Rosh ha-Shanah – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 74) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 35). MCD.

Religious litanies – undated – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 83) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 40). MCD.

Religious matters and exegesis – undated – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 84) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 43). MCD.

Religious subject matter carrying the title "Shabbat Tushfa[?]" redemption of Shabbat – undated – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 94) – in Hebrew. ((information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 41). MCD.

Religious topics – undated – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 98) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue of the Documents of the New Geniza, 98). MCD.

Literary, probably. Containing liturgical text or piyyut.

Text in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably literary, given the layout and the mention of the Talmudic rabbi Yosi ben Ḥanina.

Karaite liturgical (?) fragment, referring to עדת בני צדוק, ‘the community of the sadoqites'. (Information from GRU catalog via FGP)

Toldot Yeshu. (Information from CUDL)

Toldot Yeshu, small piece from a leaf mentioning Yoḥanan and R. Yehoshuaʿ. (Information from CUDL)

Toldot Yeshu, small piece from a leaf referring to R. Yehoshuaʿ, Judas Iscariot (יהודה איסכריוטא), Shimʿon and Benjamin. (Information from CUDL)

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 narrator’s possessions, and a (barren) wife praying to God in the night. (Information from CUDL)

Only a few words in Judaeo-Arabic are legibly preserved, probably from a literary text. (Information in part from CUDL)

Piyyutim.

Small fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic historical chronicle mentioning al-Ḥākim bi-Amr Allāh, the governorship of Damascus, the appointment of a certain Muṭahhar (?) after him, and Manṣūra. A new section begins in the middle of the page with the basmala.