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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Short and wide piece of paper. The content is cryptic. "When what happened happened and the messengers came and brought us [to …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Letter in Arabic script. Addressed to [...] al-Malikī al-Nāṣirī. Dating: Probably Mamluk era. 'warada l-musharraf al-karīm al-ṣādir ʿan al-majlis al-ʿāl... wa-ʿalima jamīʿ ma sharaḥahu wa-ammā …
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Narrative text in Judaeo-Arabic (should be checked against Alf Layla). On recto a man is telling another man, "I would like to marry you to …
Letter in Ladino from the merchant Avraham Mayo to his father, probably from Alexandria to Fustat/Cairo, dealing with numerous business transactions and the arrival of …
2 نسخين
Recto: End of a letter in Arabic script (this text is from the right margin, with some of the beginnings of the lines of the …
Bifolio containing mainly Judaeo-Arabic poetry. It is fully vocalized, which is relatively rare for Judaeo-Arabic and useful for shedding light on dialectal pronunciations. There is …
Copies of letters sent from Kosdina to Troki
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Fragment of a state document. At the top: "ilā l-dīwān li-thaghr(?)..." Underneath: "عمل . . . اضافته الى ذلك والمستخرج... الباقي(؟) على كماله وتمامه...." Reused …
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Tiny fragment. The neighboring shelfmark ENA 3807.8 may also be legal.
Formal letter from the office of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon, whose name and genealogy appear at the top, in addition to משער הישיבה in the address on …
Verso: Unidentified document in Arabic script. A few lines are preserved, with large letters and wide line spacing: بالافراح(؟) لها . . . . .مما …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions: "half of the jizya" and the desired arrival of [...] b. Natan;. (Information in part from CUDL)
Minute fragment- opening words of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (1100-1138 CE).
Very damaged fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Likely a letter. The overall appearance and spelling are consistent with a 10th century (or earlier) date. Referring to rent …
Draft of Fatimid state correspondence. Addressed to the vizier ("ḥaḍrat al-wizāra") concerning either the appointment of an amir in Yemen, or written by an amir …
[ سيد]ي الاجل
ولما [[تحقق]] عرف المملوك حسن النية وجميل الراي وشريف الاصطناع
رغب الى مكارمة حضرته السامية زاد الله في جلالت…
[ ] my most glorious lord
When the slave [[established]] learnt of the good intention, the kind view and the noble patronage,
he desired to sho…
3 نسخ 2 ترجمتين
Letter of recommendation. In Hebrew. Location: Salonika. Dated: Adar 5609 AM, which is 1849 CE. On behalf of Yiṣḥaq Yosef b. Shemarya of Palestine. The …
Engagement (shiddukhin) contract for a second wife. Location: Fustat. Dating: ca. 1165–66 CE, as the reshut clause invokes the Gaʾon Netanʾel ha-Levi (1160–66) and the …
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
Writing exercises, possibly in a Yemenite scribal hand. There is stamped seal on the recto that includes the year 1211 AH (1796/1797 CE). The word …
Verso: Arabic poetry, including a verse beginning "yā qalb." Recto: Hebrew poetry.
Fragment of a letter of a cantor describing the visit of the Nagid in a town, probably Alexandria, during the holidays. The Nagid visited the …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Neatly written table of accounts in Arabic script. Quantities are given in the units amṭār (pl. of maṭar) and aqfiza (pl. of qafiz). There are …
Legal document. In Hebrew. Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: Tuesday, 20 Tishrei 5440 AM, which is 1679 CE. Concerning Yaʿaqov Re'uven who had employed Yaʿaqov Maṣliaḥ b. …
1 نسخ
Lists of names in Arabic script. Business accounts?
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Bifolio with Hebrew literary text. There are two notes in Arabic script on the blank area of the left page of verso. One of them …
Confirmation by witness of the divorce of Raisa b. Kathir, who wanted to marry Yosef. Written by Yefet ha-Hazan b. David. (information from Goitein's index …
Business letter from Mufaḍḍal al-Kohen to Abū l-Banīn. In Arabic script. The sender apologizes for his delay. He has sent camphor candles (shamʿ kāfūrī, also …
Order to a lower official, specifying what is to be disbursed from the blessed grain storehouses (taʿrīf: mimmā yaḥtāj lak iṭlāquh min al-ahrāʾ al-mubār[aka... al-maʿmūra] …
Recto is a text in Judaeo-Arabic listing various foods (something boiled, sugar, lemon, almond, sweets). Verso is in the same hand and seems to be …
Three tax receipts. For Hiba b. Yūsuf. See ENA 3925.6 (PGPID 10284).
Letter from a certain Yiṣḥaq to Yosef b. Shabbetay al-Rūmī, Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Very deferential, filled with language of patroange (e.g. li-l-mawlā ʿuluww al-ra'y fī …
List of names in Arabic with Coptic numerals underneath. E.g. Ibn Samawal; Abū l-Baqāʾ Abī Manṣūr; Bū Saʿd b. Baqā(?)
Verso: Unidentified document (accounts?) in Arabic script. Mentions "qinṭār wāḥid" Recto: Qinnot, possibly in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi.
List in Arabic script. Many of the entries are sums of money (e.g., dīnār wāḥid wa-[...]). There are elongated strokes within words so that each …
Receipt for the price of printing the book of Rabbi Yosef ʿAnībī – 1916CE – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 50) …
Petition from a woman to an unidentified addressee. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. She is 'cut-off' (munqaṭiʿa) and her husband has kicked her out of the …