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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Letter of appeal for charity addressed to the Gaʾon Netanʾel ha-Levi (1160s CE). On the back there is a draft of a piyyut.
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Tiny fragment of a legal document. Location: Fustat. Signed: [Avraham b. Shemaʿya ha-Ḥaver descendant] of Shemaʿya Gaon (active ca. 1100). Nothing else is preserved.
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Recto: Fiscal account, probably, or less likely commercial. Needs examination
Letters, probably. In Hebrew. Late.
Bifolio of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Some of the section headings are for days of the week. Reused for various jottings including …
IB VI, 29. Fol. 3: Legal document. Left side of an agreement with a wife that she would receive the rent from the middle story …
3 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Legal fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Contains trustworthiness and release clauses. May be related to a partnership or power of attorney. Additional text on verso in a …
Small fragment, probably from a literary text (astronomical?) in Judaeo-Arabic. The Lieberman catalog (cited in FGP) connects this shelfmark with ENA 3571.2, but the two …
Beginning of a letter, mentioning (and is probably addressed to) a Nasi. The ending formulae are curious ומן תחוטה אלדאר באפצל אלסלאם (instead of the …
Legal record (#12) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 6r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Undated, but likely c. …
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Recto: copy of a legal document, concerned with marital arrangements (for example the husband will not forbid his wife to visit her mother and brother). …
Letter from Salmān b. Dawud al-Barqi, probably from Tripoli, Libya, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Mentions beads and ships, but most of the letter is …
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Fragment of a letter regarding someone in need.
Official letter in Arabic script. Beautiful handwriting. Wide space between the lines. Ḥamdala and ḥasbala at bottom. Needs examination.
Two bifolios of well-preserved accounts from the "isqāla Maṣr al-Qadīma" (the port of Old Cairo/Fustat). Dated Dhūl-Ḥijja 962 – Shawwāl 964. The word "isqāla" in …
Arabic writing exercises. Late.
Bifolio with various pen trials in Arabic and Hebrew script and a drawing of a floral design. Dating: late, probably Ottoman-era. On recto some of …
Responsum of R. Shalom Halahmi, p. 3 (Date: 1801–58). Published Glick, Sridei Teshuvot.
Legal fragment. Dating: probably no earlier than 13th century. Involves a woman named Jawhara, and a man [...] al-Levi Sulaymān.
Petition addressed to a Jewish dignitary. Dating unknown. The document is mainly in Arabic script but interspersed with biblical quotations and phrases in Hebrew. The …
Minute fragment from a late legal deed regarding marriage (or perhaps inheritance?): או תפתר משרה הנז׳ בחייב ... בעלה הנז׳ בחייה תהיה חזקת ה. Only …
List of names, all beginning with Yiṣḥaq or Yosef. Late.
Petition, or an official letter in Arabic script. The sender may be named Hibatallāh b. Bū Naṣr. The addressee's name appears in the first line; …
Formal letter in Arabic script. Full of eloquent expressions of patronage. Unusual layout. Needs examination for content. Verso, is covered with writing in Arabic script …
Investment partnership (ʿisqa) from Cairo, dated 1 Adar 5562 AM (= 1802 CE), in which Efrayim b. Shabbetay ʿAda receives 150 reales from Qamr the …
Bifolio of mercantile accounts in the hand of Nahray b. Nissim. Dated: 445 AH, which is 1053/54 CE. (Information from Goitein's index card.)
Short letter from a certain Khalaf to the elder Abū Saʿd, concerning the purchase of Yemeni leather skins in the possession of Abū Saʿd b. …
Legal document, probably. In Arabic script. Faded/damaged.
Unidentified text in Hebrew. Small fragment. Likely literary.
Verso: Minute fragment of accounts in a disorderly scribal hand, one of which mentions beans. Requires further examination.
Recto (secondary use): Legal agreement. Yosef b. Saʿadya al-Anṭākī stands security for Ibrāhīm b. Azhar. Mentions Nuṣayr b. Fahd. (Information in part from Goitein's index …
Karaite bill of release, mentions Farja[llah] Ḥakim ben Mordekhay Ḥakim and Elʾazar Rofe.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from a man to a business associate and/or family member. Mentions "your father" and "your paternal uncle Abū l-Faḍl." The overall tone …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic listing Avraham b. Meʾīr Arūbas and Yaḥya Yas__[?] in the heading on the verso. The pair may have been involved in …
Accounts or reckoning, mentioning names such as Muḥammad and Ḥusayn. Dating: probably Ottoman-era given the reference to a certain Mūṣlū Çorbacı in the lower entries …
Fragment of a ketubba, mentioning different quantities of dinars and mandīl ‘cloth’. (Information in part from CUDL)
Fragment of a letter referring to real estate transactions, referring to specific landmarks and houses including the house of a Christian. In the margin there …
Prenuptial agreement of a previously divorced couple (a husband who re-accepts his divorcée). Eight lines survive on this fragment, probably in the hand of Natan …
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Accounts.
State document, official correspondence. The ends of 8 lines are preserved. Mentions obedience (al-samʿ wa-l-ṭāʿa li-l-amr), and it seems the sender is asking for orders. …
Secondary use: Bifolio of private accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, for general expenditures, monthly payments to a wife, for a house and qāʿa, and for sales. (Information …
Verso (original use): Fragment of official correspondence in Arabic script. Refers to Ḥasan b. Ḥayyūn and his cousins who wish the sender to travel with …