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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Part of the opening of a ketubba. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Dated: 23 Av 1391 Seleucid = 11 August 1080 CE. Groom: …
1 مناقشة
Power of attorney (שטר הרשאה) in which the community of Safed appoints Yisrael Benveniste and Ḥayyīm Mordechai Būnan as their sheliḥim. See previous shelfmark. There …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Possibly a letter of appeal for charity in Hebrew but the handwriting and spelling are quite rudimentary, and it is difficult to make sense of …
Upper part of a letter. Likely addressed to Mevorakh b. Saʿadya (שר השרים ונגיד הנגידים). Probably an appeal for charity. The introductory praises are in …
Account in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Probably mentions daftar towards the end of recto. Needs examination.
Accounts in Arabic, perhaps part of a wider ledger given the number of interrelated fragments in this series. Dating is 16th-century or later based on …
Draft or copy of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, with biblical citations in Hebrew. Concerning a communal conflict.
1 نسخ
Letter in Arabic script. Nearly completely preserved. The address is faded, and the names are difficult to read. Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century, based …
Small fragment of a letter in Arabic script.
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Accounts of some kind in Arabic script. Possibly official. The format resembles that of the Ikhshīdid fiscal documents. Reused on recto for Hebrew piyyuṭ in …
Letter from an unnamed business agent (fattore), in Egypt, to his employer Yosef Naftali. In Hebrew. Dating: Second half of the 16th century. The addressee …
Recto (original use): Trousseau list, small fragment, possibly from a ketubba.
Letter from Lāmiʿ ibn al-Ḥasan al-Kanzī to the Nubian eparch Uruwī ibn Khiyākh (Ikshīl, Master of the Horses, and vizier of the king). In which …
In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate.
I inform the Ikshīl, Master of the Horses and vizier of the king—
may God prolong his…
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Letter from Barhun b. Yishaq al-Tāhartī, from Mahdiyya, to Nahray b. Nissim, Alexandria. Around 1050. Information about shipments of goods and about the account of …
כתאב[י יאכי ו]אלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך וצרף אלאסוא ענך ברחמתה
לט (?) כלת מן מרחשון ען סלאמה ונעמה ושוק אליך קרב אללה …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter from Shemuel ha-Levi b. Avraham ha-Levi, in Jerusalem, to ʿOvadya Kohen and his son Nissim Kohen, presumably in Fustat/Cairo. Written in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. …
Fragment of a Hebrew letter. Late.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined. Arabic script
Pen trials. Mentions "ʿabd mawlānā". Hebrew alphabets written in the order of their numerical value order "abjad, hawwaz......"
Unidentified document in Arabic script. Likely Ottoman-era based on the hand.
State document, in Arabic script. Probably official correspondence. The document presumably describes a conflict resolution between two state officials, where both parties will respect each …
Legal fragment (upper left corner). On parchment. Location: Fustat. Possibly a deathbed will, because the witnesses describe how they entered the house of Abū l-Faraj …
Letter from an unknown writer in Jerusalem to Yeshuʿa Rofe, Fustat (Ẓoʿan), possibly his place of residence given the specificity. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: …
Official-looking accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Late. Some of the entries repeat the mysterious term קיסטרומל or perhaps קוסטרומל(?). Requires further examination.
Personal/business accounts in Arabic script.
Fragment from the bottom of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The contents are formulaic, including blessings for prolonging the prestige (jāh) of the recipient.
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter from Abū Isḥāq. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 13th–15th century. The writer is in difficult straits due to a business matter and dealings with the dīwān. …
Letter sent from Alexandria by Ibrahim b. Farah to Yehuda b. Musa b. Sighmar in Fustat, dealing with merchandise sent to Sicily, describing the itineraries …
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Legal document. Small fragment. Involves someone named Efrayim, a woman, and al-Sammanūdī; also involves a debt and a document that was lost.
Two sides of a literary text, from the chapter of jihād from al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān's Kitāb al-Iqtiṣār.
Small fragment, probably ca. 14th century or later, containing only the phrase "al-mamlūk Mūsā."
Court record dealing with a loan of one dinar that, according to Ya'ish ha-Kohen b. Avraham, was given by him to Yosef b. Avraham. Yosef …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Complete business letter from Nissim b. Yiṣḥaq al-Tāhartī, probably in Mahdiyya, to Musa b. Abi al-Hayy Khalila in Fustat. Dated September 1051. (Information from Gil)
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם תאיידך וסעאדתך לה בקין מן אלול
עליך באחסן כאתמה ותקבל מנך ומנא הדה אלאיאם אלמסתקבלה ותכתב בספר חיי…
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
List of names. In Hebrew. Dating: Late, probably 17th–19th century. Entries include Mosseri, Ben Zakito, Elimelekh b. Eliyyahu, and about two dozen more. The text …
End of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Sayyidnā and (possibly in the address) [...] b. Moshe. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Engagement document (shidukkhin) and dowry list: "The clothes and the nedunya and the contante [Italian for cash] of the widow Ms. Dona bt. Moshe Ptso/Ftso"). …
The first page of a volume of Hippocrates's aphorisms (افورسمو) in Arabic, with what is probably an ownership note in Hebrew -- Shemuel the Qaraite(?).
Three lines from a letter to a high official with titles such as "sharaf al-umma" and "Kawkab a-Dawla." A state official by the title Kawkab …
Address of an (official-looking) letter for David ben Naʿim in Fustat/Cairo, mentioning his capacity as [...] of the looms (al-anwāl) in Alexandria ( يصل الى …
Accounts. Needs examination.
Recto: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a number of people with grand titles, such as Saniyy al-Dawla b. al-Nezer Tāj al-Kuttāb and Tāj al-Dīn. The content …
Recto: State document, probably a petition or internal correspondence. In Arabic script. The writer refers to himself as "al-mamlūk"; the script is chancery-esque. Fragment (upper …