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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Cairo. Dating: ca. 1080 CE. Groom: Yosef b. Yeshuʿa b. ʿAllūn. The bride is not a virgin. Marriage payments: 3 + …
1 مناقشة
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لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Letter from Mardūk b. Mūsā (Alexandria) to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat; 21 July 1046 (Gil). Talks about sending back sacks and about an inkstand (Gil) …
בשמך רח
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם עזך ותאידך ונעמאך וסעאדתך מן אל
מסתקר יום אלאתנין אלנצף מן אב ען חאל סלאמה ועאפיה אלדי ת…
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
Recto: Order of payment issued by Abū Zikrī Kohen to his banker, Abū l-Khayr Khiyyār, instructing him to pay the household of Abū l-Makārim 3 …
Small fragment of a letter by Yefet b. Menashshe Halevi
Small fragment from the beginning of a letter to a notable in Judaeo-Arabic.
Possibly a tax receipt or an order of payment. Two endorsements, end of Dhū l-Qaʿda of the year 403 (?) 6x8 cm, verso blank. Item …
Jottings of names in Hebrew. Late. Of documentary interest only because the scribe signs his name "I am Moshe b. Salāma."
Marriage contract (ketubba). Fragment (narrow strip from the middle). Location: Cairo. Dated: Elul 14[..] Seleucid, corresponding to the range 1088–1189 CE. Names mentioned include Yefet, …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
List in Arabic, perhaps accounts. Very damaged and faded. Requires further examination.
Letter formularies, including a template for a son in Jerusalem writing to his mother. In Judaeo-Arabic.
Verso (original use): Small fragment of an official-looking Arabic letter. Parts of four lines are preserved. May mention Barqa (unless this is something like "bi-riqqihī"), …
]علي بربـ[
]لى برقة ويقطع البلاد
]اث الله عليه محابة(؟)
ـ]ـن فاعلمهم ان العذر (الغدر=alt) بين
1 نسخ
Hebrew document(s) of some kind, dated Adar 5579 AM = 1819 CE. Probably epistolary writing exercises.
There are multiple fragments under this shelfmark; some of them are joins. C, fol.3 - State document, or a draft, in Arabic script. Four ʿalāmas …
Letter from Nahray b. Nissim to a person in Alexandria. Mentions merchandise and textiles, along with books and various texts that someone is copying for …
3 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Fiscal document in Arabic script. May mention a year at the top ([..]9), and elsewhere mentions various other numbers. In the main text block refers …
Unidentified text, in Hebrew script, late.
Deposition. Location: Minyat Zifta. Dated: Monday, 18 Sivan 1486 Seleucid = 9 June 1175 CE. In which two persons testify to the poverty of a …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان
Two sides of a medical text, in Arabic script, mentions spleen (tiḥāl). Needs examination.
IB IV, 70 (ח84). Letter from ʿAmram b. Yiṣḥaq, Alexandria, to Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel, Fustat, third page only (numbered at the top). Dated: Sunday, 5 …
4 نسخ 2 ترجمتين 1 مناقشة
Fragment of an official letter, report, or petition from the medieval period. Barely any text is available to discern which of these document types is …
Karaite engagement deed. Dated on the night of Purim 14 Adar I, 5529 AM (1769 CE). Yiṣhaq b. Aharon Ḥakīm engages the previously unmarried Qamr …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū l-Faraj Ibn al-Kallām (a man of the same name appears in the 1140s in T-S 10J17.22 and T-S NS …
Writing exercises of the atbash alphabet, probably 18th- or 19th century based on the paleography. The instructor provided an example in model handwriting for the …
Receipt from the Yeshiva Ahava VeAhva – dated – July 10 1948CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 156) – in Arabic, French, and …
Small fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Mentions [al-shaykh] al-ʿAfīf and someone else; that something did not arrive the previous year; "on this day"; …
IB IV, 39 (ח56). Autograph letter from Yehuda ha-Levi, in Spain, to Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi. Dating: 1139 CE. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions the Kuzari and …
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين
State document, fragment, in Arabic script written in enormous letters, probably a decree. Mentions "fourteen heads" (li-arbaʿa ʿashara raʾs) (of cattle?). Reused for several different …
Magical.
Small fragment(s) of legal document(s). In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe?
Recto: Legal document(s). Location: Cairo. Dated: 14 Sivan 5547 AM, which is 1787 CE. ʿIsqa agreement in the "negotiation/brokerage business" = עסק המשא ומתן (ll. …
IB VII, 4 (4a). Legal testimony concerning a partnership release from a commenda. Dated: 12 Nissan 1409 Sel. (1098 CE). Abū al-Ḥasan Yaḥyā ha-Kohen b. …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Letter addressed to 'our lord,' dealing with a dispute between friends. (Information from Mediterranean Society, V, pp. 295, 588)
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Letter from Tripoli or possibly Tyre to the Nagid Mevorakh b. Saʿadya. Dating: 1094–1111, based on Mevorakh's titles. The handwriting resembles that of ʿAmram b. …
Letter to the cantor Shemuel from a friend who expresses his affection.
Small bifolio. Contains notes for legal purposes. Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa b. ʿOvadya known as Ibn זונין (Zunayn?) acknowledges that he collected from the estate of …
Unidentified document in large Arabic script. Fiscal account? Reused on both recto and verso for Hebrew liturgical text (three different hands).
Address of a letter from Thābit b. Hibatallāh to the amir Asad al-Dawla [wa-Man?]ṣuruhā al-Juyūshī al-Afḍalī. In Arabic script. This was reused for Hebrew text …
Order of payment. In Arabic script. Sayyid al-Ahl is to give something to the addressee.
List of contributors. Yemeni. Mentions Mūsā al-Ḍāhirī and Yaḥyā al-Qāfiḥ among many other names. (Information in part from Goitein's notes.)
Recto: Letter likely addressed to one of the later Maimonidean Nagids (14th or 15th century). The sender asks for permission to release a vow about …
Capitation tax receipt for the Jewish man Yūsuf b. Khalaf in Fustat for the year 513 AH = 1119/20 CE (if read correctly).
Business letter sent by Ismail b. Yusuf b. Abi 'Uqba in Alexandria to Abu Sa'id Yusuf b. Musa b. Barhun in the countryside village of …
Legal document. Record of release. Dated: April or May 1164. In the hand of judge Mevorakh b. Natan. Abū l-ʿAlāʾ b. Bū Sahl al-Jubaylī accepts …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة