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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Letter in Arabic script. Dated: Ramaḍān 1148 AH = January/February 1737 CE. Mentions ʿAbdallāh al-Ajhūrī and a power of attorney. There is a seal on …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
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Legal document in Arabic script written on paper, nearly complete. Starts with the formula ا]شهدني]. Involves Sulaymān b. Dāʾūd (?) known as Ibn ʿIzza (?) …
Medical recipe or prescription in Arabic script.
List of payments received in Judaeo-Arabic. Accordingly, each entry relies on the phrase "קבץ מן / قبظ من" (l.1r, 4r) and the coinage in use …
A note concerning a debt to the synagogue.
Karaite ketubah from Cairo. The groom is [...] b. Shlomo. The bride is Esther known as Rama d. Yosef. AA
Marriage contract (ketubba). Written and signed by Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Groom: Seʿadya b. Efrayim. Bride: Turkiyya (? תרכיה). A few phrases from …
1 مناقشة
Geṭ (bill of divorce). Location: Fustat. Dated: Tuesday, 9 Ḥeshvan 1475 Seleucid = 8 October 1163 CE. Husband: Manṣūr b. Bū Saʿd known as Ibn …
Business letter. In Arabic script. Dating: Ottoman-era, based on overall appearance and use of the honorific "effendi." The dated accounts on the verso may be …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Marriage contract in Arabic script. Dating: 1028–36 CE, based on the mention of the judge ʿAbd al-Ḥākim b. Saʿīd (b. Mālik) b. Saʿīd. Groom: ʿAlī …
هذا ما أصدق على بن طاهر البواب فاطمة ابنة أبي الحـ[ـسن]
ذهبا عينا وازنة مجربة جيادا على ان من ذلك دینارین نقدا حالا [سنوات]
متواليات کوا…
This is what ʿAlī ibn Ṭāhir, the gatekeeper, granted to Fāṭima ibnat Abī al-Ḥasan [ ]
gold, in minted coin, full weight, assayed, of good allo…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions coral and Efrayim and a qirṭās containing 160 …
Accounts, on both the recto and verso. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Legal document acknowledging receipt of 110 dīnārs from the account of ʿArūs b. Yūsuf for a shipment of lac. (information in part from Aodeh.)
Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. In a neater hand than usual. Both recto and verso are X-ed out. Verso: mentions two shipments …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involves Abū Saʿd; a house in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ; and someone's maternal grandmother. Probably …
1 نسخ
Upper part of a late letter in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to Yaʿ[aqov]/Yaʿ[īsh] Mshīsh. The recto mentions prices in various currencies and at least two people by …
Official letter from either the office of Yehoshuaʿ Maimonides (b. 1310– d. 1355) or his father Avraham II Maimonides (served 1300 to ca. 1316). (Goitein …
1 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
This shelfmark contains four fragments. Two are late and literary. One is so small that it preserves only a few Hebrew words. The documentary fragment …
Iqrār.
Letter in Arabic script. In a chancery-esque hand with a tarjama. Addressed to a 'brother.' Quite faded. On verso, there is the header "al-ḥamdu lil-lāh …
List of responsa in Judaeo-Arabic (FGP)
Letter of condolence (possibly a copy) to a public figure. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Quotes Jeremiah 15:2. The name Faḍl appears in l. 1, [Abū …
List of contribution to the poor. Names such as the daughter of Zanbūr; yatīm al-aḥyāʾ(?); the orphan of Elʿazar; the orphan of the goldsmith; Nājiya; …
Verso, and possibly also the Arabic script on recto: Elaborate medical prescription(s) in Arabic script.
Writ of agency written in Tripoli, Lebanon, May 1081.
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
F. 2r: Betrothal contract between Ṣedaqa b. M[oses?] and Wazīra bt. Mūsā b. Isaac. Dated Kislev 1691 of the Seleucid Era (= 1379 CE), and …
זכרון עדות
2 نسخين
Strip of parchment from the end of a deed of sale, preserving the date: Jumādā I 434 AH = December 1042 / January 1043 CE. …
ولا سبب يقبض فيه ولا وضيعة ولا [ ]
]الاقرار عليها به وقبل ذلك [ ]فيها ابو سهل منشا هذا[
]طوعا وعلى صحة معرفتها جميعا وذلك في جمدى الا…
Marriage contract (ketubba). In the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya. Cut into an unusual octopus-like shape: a comb spine lining? Cf. T-S NS …
Fragment of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions "pipes" (qawādīs) and "a gutter for the wall of the house" (mizrab li-ḥāʾiṭ al-b[ayt]).
Legal record (#94) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 32r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 13 Nisan 5326 …
Note to R. David to summon a Maghribi named Abu Dawud Khayyat, whose grown-up son had died and whose wife is critically ill with dysentery …
Genealogies of the family of Elʿazar, the physician and judge (20 names) and of one other family (11 names). Information from Goitein's index card.
Probably a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Mentions transactions, numbers, and people such as Avraham and Shemuʾel.
Letter of petition to Saʿadya the great prince, probably the father of Mevorakh b. Saʿadya. The writer complains that he and his family are hungry. …
Part of a letter, possibly to [Ṭoviyyahu ha-Kohen b.] ʿEli ha-Kohen he-Ḥaver ha-Meʿulle, which refers to sending a letter to 'the distinguished prince' (השר הנכבד) …