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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Recto: Possibly a letter draft. Very faded. Unusual format, since the left margin is used for several lines of text at a right angle to …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Bottom part of a letter in Arabic script. Mentions various sums of dirhams. Mentions a woman (al-mamlūka) multiple times. Needs further examination for content.
Bifolio of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Each section lists the expenses for a specified day, or maybe the allowances disbursed to the …
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Engagement document issued in Cairo. Dated 5604 AM (1843/1844 CE). The location "in the home of the bride" is mentioned in the lower left corner …
Printed page. In Arabic script. Refers to the founding of something to do with agriculture in Rabīʿ I 1312 AH, which is 1894 CE.
Letter sent from al-Ahwaz by Efrāyim b. Saʿīd to the three senior Tustarī brothers, Abū Naṣr Sahl, Abū Yaʿqūb Yosef and Abū Sahl, in Fustat. …
בסם אללה אלרחמן אלרחים
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא סאדאתי אלמשאיך אלפצלא ואדאם תאיידהם וסעאדתהם [ו]חראסתהְסְ
מן אלאהואז יום אלגמעה אלתאני עשר מן…
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
Legal document, late, running transaction sheet with (related?) sequential transactions, probably a bill or a receipt of goods and services. Mentions a wage - "ujra", …
Letter from Yosef, a provincial muqaddam, to Avraham b. Natan ("Yesod ha-Yeshiva"). Dating: ca. 1100 CE. In this poignant letter Yosef complains of being neglected …
1 مناقشة
Unidentified text, in Arabic script.
Verso: Accounts. Ayyubid era?
Legal document, in Arabic script, dated 18 Dhū l-Qaʿda 950 AH = 12 February 1544 CE. An agreement between two parties with witnesses, probably rental, …
Petition/letter of appeal for assistance likely addressed to 'the overseer' (al-mushārif, l. 1). The sender refers to this document as "this khidma." The sender is …
A (partial) manuscript of Prophets and Hagiographa. A dedicatory colophon in the first page dedicates it to the qaraite community of Egypt, "for reading in …
1 نسخ
Recto: partnership agreement between butchers named Dāʾūd Kohen, Ezra Bargut (ברגות) and Saʿīd b. Nissim. Dating: ca. 16th century. Verso: list of names and numbers, …
A testimony of a person who received 47.5 harf (each of them equal to 40 baqsha silver coins) for selling his part of a house …
Literary text in Aramaic with signs of a potential Arabic documentary layer (two lines of text at the lower border, ḥamdala and ḥasbala only). Medieval-era.
Recto: Two late letter drafts (or two versions of the same letter?), one in Arabic and one in Judaeo-Arabic. Needs further examination. Verso: Accounts. The …
Legal document in Arabic script. Perhaps an iqrār made by Aḥmad b. Ismāʿīl b. ʿAbs(?). Mentions Cairo in line 6 and may also mention zakāt …
Geṭ ḥaliṣa (release from levirate marriage). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Location: Cairo. Dating: 1127–38 CE, based on Ḥalfon's years of activity …
Recto: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic between family members. Interesting orthography: אלשעאר for אלצגאר. Mentions "the water in the khalīj (canal)."
Official document of some kind. Abū Naṣr al-[...] may owe 6.25 dinars. There is a date (Dhū l-Ḥijja something), but the year seems to be …
Legal document. Power of attorney, Fusṭāṭ. A freedman, Mukhtār, is named as one of the parties. He was formerly an attendant of the Gaon Ebiathar …
4 مناقشات
Writing exercises in which a student practiced Judaeo-Arabic epistolary formulae. Dating: 16th-century or later based on the paleography.
Letter from Zakhariya Zamero to Eliyyahu Frances. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 12 Ḥeshvan 5573 AM, which is 1812 CE. Needs examination for content.
A letter to Shlomo b. Nahmo Yerushalmi (his name is written in acrostic on the write column) asking for financial support. The writer residing in …
Letter, probably. In Arabic script. Conveying a first-person narration regarding a journey: فلما ان طال المكث . . . انا ومن معي وهجرت خرجت اما …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dated: shortly before Elul 1437 Seleucid, which is 1126 CE. Abū l-Munā Yiṣḥaq b. …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Fragment of a document in Judaeo-Arabic. Contains legalistic language but is written in a crude hand - possibly a copy of an original document. Refers …
Minute fragment from the bottom of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). AA
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated [15]48 Seleucid = 1236/37 CE, under the authority of the Nagid (Avraham Maimonides). Mentions the judge Yeḥiel. Concerning a dispute …
Accounts with many different names listed by corresponding quantities in Greek/Coptic numerals, possibly communal. The dating is likely 15th- or 16th- century based on the …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, likely 16th century, concerning shipping. One of the entries is headed "the ship of Ḥamza Rayyis arriving from Istanbul." Cf. T-S J1.41 …
Drafts of poems and a draft of a letter. Attributed to Yehuda ha-Levi by Allony. This identification is questioned by Friedman in IB IV/A p. …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Qaraite deed of betrothal for Khalaf b. Maḥfūẓ (groom-to-be) and Amat al-Qādir bt. Efrayim b. Manṣūr b. Furāt (bride-to-be). Location: Probably Fustat. Dated: Thursday, 17 …
בשם אל [עולם] … |
ואנחנו עמ[ך] … |
וארשתיך לי ב|
נתחיל בשעת רצ|
עדן אלהים ובחיי ה|
ככם אלף פעמים ויברך |
זה ספר אר…
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة 4 مناقشات
Memorial list, including 'the young man Ya'aqov who was killed over Yiḥud ha-shem'. On verso a memorial list of "The sons of al-Mushanqiṣ (בני אלמשנקץ)", …
Receipt for a payment of 13 Kāmilī dirhams. The designation of the dirhams as Kāmilī dates the document to after 1225 CE, during the reign …
Small fragment of accounts (fiscal?) in Arabic script. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ.
Small fragment probably from the top of a legal deed.