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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Fragment (upper right corner). Location: Somewhere in Egypt. Dated: Kislev 13[..] Seleucid, which is 988–1088 CE. The wife's name is Nājiya.
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Small fragment of an Arabic document. A few words preserved on two lines.
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Literary text. Written in a mixture of Arabic script and Hebrew (for biblical quotations).
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Aleppo. Dated: Thursday, 18 Av 1500 Seleucid = 3 August 1189 CE. Husband: Elʿazar b. Shelomo ha-Kohen, called Abū Naṣr …
1 نسخ
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary handwriting. Mentions Barhūn and al-Rayyis Abū Zikrī. From the Maghreb? (Information from Goitein's note card.) Possibly a join: T-S 13J35.11 …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Bill in Arabic script, late. "Al-maṭlūb min al-shaykh Riḍwān al-Tāhir..." The currency listed is Ottoman gurūsh, which helps to date this document as 18th- or …
Deed of a gift of a house in the Darb al-Silsila, Mamṣūṣa quarter, Fustat, in Arabic. A Jewish physician gives a house newly erected by …
1 مناقشة
Literary copy of an epistle in Aramaic. The Judaeo-Arabic header states "from R. Yosef (or Yehosef) ha-Ṣadiq to R. כל..." The preserved content is only …
Letter draft from Efrayim b. Shemarya to Shelomo b. Yehuda. Fragment: the upper part only. Dating: probably 1028 CE (Gil's estimate). The letter praises the …
2 نسخين
Legal document, mentions ziqnei ha-yishmaelim. Deed of authorization of son to represent mother before her two brothers concerning the collection of debt at Efrayim b. …
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Letter from Avraham b. Abū l-Ḥayy, in Alexandria, to his brother Musa, probably in Fustat. Dating: Ca. 1075 CE. 10th of Elul, a few weeks …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter from Mūsa b. Yaʿqūb, in Damascus, to Abū l-ʿAlāʾ Yūsuf b. Dāʾūd b. Shaʿya (aka Yosef b. David), in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان
Recto: Account of the Qodesh: building expenditures and supplies for the Synagogue. Dating: ca. 1042 – Nov. 1043. In the hand of Yefet b. David …
…for two days, 4 dir.
…. from him, originally
.... and other (things), 6 dir.
…. and (she) opened a shop, they are known
…. owed …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Verso: Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). Abū l-Majd is to give the bearer, Yiftaḥ, 7.5 dirhams to cover a …
Business letter from Nissim b. Ḥalfon b. Benaya (Alexandria) to Nahray b. Nissim (Fustat), ca. 1050. Nissim b. Ḥalfon left two money poaches in Tinnīs, …
כתאבי אליך יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך ותאידך ונעמתך מן אסכנדריה
ען חאל סלאמה ונעמה אעלמך יאסידי אן ערפתך אן תרכת לך אלסרתין ענד…
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
Fragment of a letter from Toviyya (Tobias) b. Moshe, ca. 1050. In poetical Hebrew. Dating: ca. 1050 CE. Verso: Receipt or accounts. (Information from CUDL.) …
Responsum regarding a marriage permission to the "chained wife" (agunah) of a silk dealer, who was on a business trip in the villages of Egypt …
Astronomical or calendrical text/tables in Persian. There are also a couple of words in Hebrew script.
Responsum; apparently sent to Abraham Maimonides; on verso Abū ʿAlī is mentioned. The dating is c. 1213–1237 CE given that Abraham Maimonides is referenced with …
Block-printed amulet in Arabic. See Nick Posegay, "Solving European Writer’s Block in Jewish Cairo (T-S 20.188)," FOTM January 2023.
Note addressed to Abū l-Faḍl. Reused for additional jottings.
Mercantile accounts. Several entries are headed "Dār al-[...]."
Minute fragment of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100–1138). One of the parties is Abu Sa'd.
Late accounts. Based on the scribal hand, this fragment is related to the neighboring shelfmark T-S AS 152.225. (Information from CUDL)
Communal letter likely originating from Jerusalem. In which the sender states that he has appointed the cantor Moshe b. Khalaf to a position of authority …
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان
Letter by Dā'ūd b. Yehuda to the Judge Eliyyahu expressing astonishment that the Nagid (i.e., Avraham Maimonides) had not sent a letter of condolence at …
3 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Astronomical text, in Arabic script. Beginning of title on verso "كتاب علم صحيح".
Faded accounts, probably.
Letter from ʿAbd al-Wahhāb b. Sulaymān to Abū l-Fakhr b. Ibrāhīm al-Amshāṭī al-ʿAṭṭar, in the perfumers' market, in Fustat. In Arabic script. The top of …
Recto: Letter or letter draft. There is a poetic introduction in Hebrew, with wide space between the lines. The marginal text is Judaeo-Arabic, filled with …
Letter/petition from an unknown sender, in Alexandria, to Mevorakh b. Saʿadya, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic, with some Hebrew. Dating: likely 1103–11 CE, based on the …
Arabic script (VMR), literary.
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer reports on receiving authorization (al-ʿalāma) to collect the kharāj tax from the official in charge of estates (ʿāmil al-mawārīth). …
כ]אן פי אלכתאב אלמ[דכור
]כרג לעאמל אלמוארית בכמסה ועשר[ין דינארא ברסם
אבו אלמפצ̇ל ואכדת אלעלאמה עליהם וסל[מת] אלבר[אה אלי אבו]
אלמפצ̇ל וקבצ̇…
[...] in the af[orementioned] document [...]
it came out to 25 [dīnārs] to the administrator of estates [for]
Abū l-Mufaḍḍal. I obtained the r…
Official-looking receipt, maybe for someone's capitation tax. Very messy. Square format (closer to Ayyubid landscape format than the usual Fatimid portrait format).
Geomancy.
Recto and verso are two different letters of excuse, written with petition-like language. They might be two versions of the same letter (only the left …
Letter from a woman, in Qayrawān, to a benefactor, unknown location. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely 11th century. The beginning is missing. Her children have nothing …
Legal document. Fragment from the beginning. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Mentioning the authority of the Nagid. Declaration made by a certain Ibn al-Marjānī (‘the coral merchant’). (Information …
Letter of congratulations from Musalah to Shelomo and his son upon the marriage of the son. (Information from Goitein's index cards). Verso contains part of …
Letter from an unidentified sender addressed to Eliyyahu the Judge. The sender alludes several times to lessons that he learned as a pupil of Eliyyahu. …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Recto: A short account in Judaeo-Arabic. "That which I still owe Abū l-Barakāt al-Qazzāz b. Sulaymān al-Kohen: 33 dirhams. Of that, he collected 7 dirhams …
State (tax?) receipt. Dated: 9 Muḥarram 545 AH = 8 May 1150 CE. Needs examination.
Deed of manumission of a slave, dated 591H (?). Photo needs to be identified in DPUL.