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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
A mathematical calculation in eastern Arabic numerals on what is otherwise a blank shred of paper: 87,055-85,833=1,222.
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Legal document. Quittance/release (שטר אביזאריה). Mivḥar b. Ṣedaqa releases Moshe b. Moshe known as Ibn Majjān from all obligations except for an ounce of זבאר(?), …
1 نسخ
Legal notes in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38). Digest of a bill of sale for an enslaved woman named Tawfīq, a minor. Seller: …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Recto: Letter fragment addressed to a notable, in Hebrew. Verso: Remnant of an official letter or document in Arabic script. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Letter from Menashshe to Nahray b. Nissim. Dating: ca. 1063. Menashshe warns Nahray that Uqban (b. Salman) who passed away has a daughter, and this …
ואתצל בי יאמולאי ו[פ]את עקבאן רחמה אללה
ואנסא פי אגלה ואן זוגתה אכדת מוכרהא ובאקי
שייה יאכדה אבן עמה ועקבאן רחמה אללה לה
יורש פי אלמהדי…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic regarding sums of money owed by Umm Waḥsh. There are also jottings of accounts in Arabic script, probably the earlier use of …
Letter from Ḥushiel b. Elḥanan, in Qayrawān, to Shemarya b. Elḥanan, in Fusṭāṭ. In which Ḥushiel praises both the addressee and his son Elḥanan, and …
Opening lines of a legal document. Dated: Thursday, 1 Shevaṭ 4746 AM = 1297 Seleucid = 14 January 986. Location: Fusṭāṭ. In which Shelomo b. …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Minute fragment in Hebrew script, possibly documentary.
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Recto: The ends of 3 lines in Hebrew, possibly from a letter. Verso: The name صادوق/Ṣadoq written in Arabic and one other word.
Verso: Unidentified document in Arabic script. On parchment. Dating: unknown but looks old, maybe 11th century or earlier.
Damaged communal letter in Hebrew. Dating: probably 11th century. Containing instructions for a group of people: זה אליכם תתקבצו ביחד ותעשו . . .
Receipt for the ground rent (ḥikr) in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ for the year 4[..] AH (~11th century CE).
Fiscal document, few lines of text, something to do with the release of funds. Probably dating to the Ayyubid period. Reused for Hebrew script. Needs …
Qaṣīda, ending, by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAlī b. Ṣāliḥ al-Makkūdī (d. 1405 CE), with a colophon giving the date: 11 Rajab 989 AH = 11 …
Recto: Letter, opening blessings only, reused for the note on verso. Verso, written perpendicular to recto: note written in mostly in rhymed prose.
Accounts with Coptic numerals. Mentions various female and male names such as Farajallāh, Bint al-Kātib Abū Shaʿra, Ibrahim Dhabbāḥ (‘the butcher’), Yiṣḥaq al-Faranjī and Yosef …
Document in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably a letter. Small fragment only. Hand of Hillel b. ʿEli?
Account. Late. Mentions Yūsuf; ʿUthmān; Shemarya.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Calendar. (Information from CUDL)
Trousseau list and wedding outfit for a poor woman, perhaps an orphan. The man is also very poor. The list is to be understood thus: …
1 مناقشة
Recto: Top part of a letter to al-Shaykh al-Muhadhdhab. In Arabic script. Probably a letter of appeal for charity. Verso: Accounts in Arabic script, in …
Unidentified text, in Arabic script.
Letter to the Nagid. Only the opening praises/blessings are preserved. (Information in part from CUDL)
Marriage contract, upper right portion, between Yosef b. Mawhūb and Sittān bt. Mevasser b. Yeshuʿa, written in Tyre, dated (not completely legibly) from the destruction …
Legal minutes (tadhkira) regarding the case of Mūsā b. Bishr aka Moshe b. Mevasser. Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday, 4 Adar II 1464 Seleucid = 1153 …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
A couple words in Latin script, probably. "Al S[...]."
Torn Karaite ketubba from Cairo. The groom is Yosef b. Elisha. The bride is Esther d. Ishaq Halevi the cantor.
Minute fragment, probably liturgical. Previously noted as possibly Halfon b. Menashshe, but most likely not.
Medical recipes in a mixture of Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic. One is for a child's cough, another for dysentery.
Bottom of a legal document. None of the content is preserved. About 20 signatures are preserved.
Legal fragment. Dated: 1[.]64 Seleucid, probably 1364 = 1052/53 or 1464 = 1162/63. Mentions someone called Ibn Abī קויס or קוים (Quwayyis? Quwaym? Qawīm).
Accounts.
Letter of condolence to Binyamin Dayon in Qal'a
Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Listing many names and numbers. Mentions: Ibn al-Qābila; Abū Saʿd; Rosh ha-Qahal; al-Muʿallim; Ibn Qaṭāṭa(?); Abū …
Recto: betrothal document relating to marriage. The bride is Sitt al-Ḥusn bt. Moshe. Different quantities of dinars of bridal gifts (for example 70, 40 and …
Declaration against Qaraite tendencies, according to Goitein's index card. In Hebrew. Unusually large and beautiful script. The name of the ruler who sent the heads …
Order in Arabic script to Abū l-[...] who should pay a certain amount of money to the bearer. Dated Wednesday 17 Shawwāl. The number "2" …
Four sides of a medical text in a beautiful calligraphic hand with diacritical marks. Needs examination for identifying the work.
Letter from Maymūn b. Khalfa, Palermo, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. 18 August 1056 (Gil). Describes the movement of goods and ships to and from …