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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Legal document. Fragment (upper right piece). Faded. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1492 Seleucid = 1180/81 CE. Possibly a debt contract for the repayment of 1 dinar. …
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Letter fragment in Arabic script. Includes the word "faḍīḥa" and reported dialogue. Join with ENA NS 83.213?
11 minute fragments (paper), of which two are parts of an order of payment by Abū Zikrī Kohen, mentioning Abū l-Faraj (row 1, nos 2-3), …
Draft of a deed of compensation in the hand of the court reporter Yefet b. David Shekhanya, around 1030 CE. It was given to Efrayim …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Letter from Marduk b. Musa from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. In the handwriting of Avraham b. Faraḥ. Dated 5 Elul, early or mid-August. …
3 نسخ 2 ترجمتين
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IB V, 41d. Tiny fragment containing an order for an ounce of ʿaqīd (a dense sugar syrup). In Judaeo-Arabic. From Abū Zikrī Kohen? There is …
1 نسخ
Letter, consisting mainly of greetings, from Yehuda Levi to his family, including his brother-in-law Sulaymān, his brother Raḥamīm, his cousin Sawād, and the addressee’s sister, …
Official report, probably. First four lines. The sender reports that when his group approached the gardens/fields (basātīn) there remained a good hour of distance between …
Illustration, possibly a landscape scene with a figure floating in the sky. Requires further examination.
Legal document. Location: al-Maḥalla (בעיר אלמחלה הגדולה הסמוכה לצען). Dating: Likely late 11th century, based on the reference to the court of David ha-Nasi ha-Gadol …
Letter from Mūsā b. Yaʿqūb, Ṣūr (Tyre), to Abū l-Aʿlāʾ Yūsuf b. Dāwūd b. Shaʿyā, Fustat.
2 نسخين 1 مناقشة
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
Three distinct documents in Arabic script, chopped in half vertically and then probably glued together into a rotulus in order to be reused for the …
Letter fragment. To Musallam/Muslim. Mentioning Yosef b. Efrayim. (Information in part from CUDL)
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Rabbanite responsum or polemical text about the term "aviv."
Probably a fiscal register (compare BL OR 5566B.3 and the other shelfmarks cited there). Mentions various dates and the name ʿAbd al-Ṣamad. Reused on the …
Bifolium from a ledger of business accounts. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: the beginning of Jumādā II 444 AH (=September/October 1052 CE). Possibly of Nahray b. Nissim, …
Recto: Note ordering the release to someone (name difficult to read) of two bales (ʿidlayn). Verso: a word or two in Arabic script.
State document in Arabic script. Mentions Arslān b. Khuṭlukh of the 'old' Ḥāfiẓī regiment (ṭāʾifat al-ḥāfiẓiyya al-qudamāʾ"); the estate/town (ḍayʿa) known as Sumusṭā in Middle …
].بو الارسلان بن خطلخ من طايفة الحافظية القدما
] واجبة في الضيعة المعروفة بسمسطا من الصعيد الادنا
على حكم الاستمرار بها..وفي السنة
من…
Prayer for the community at the time of a plague, and memorial list of persons who had died in it, including an unmarried girl. (Information …
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Dated: 18 January 1061. Location: Fustat. This document initiates a partnership in the ritual washing of corpses. Sulaymān b. Ḥusayn and …
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة
Petition to David b. Daniel from a destitute woman with no family and afflicted with a serious illness (leprosy, it seems). Dating: ca. 1090 CE. …
2 نسخين 2 ترجمتين 2 مناقشتان
Letter fragment addressed to some dignitary (rabbenu ha-rav). In Judaeo-Arabic. Only the flattering introduction is preserved. Congratulating him on a happy union (wedding? al-wuṣla al-saʿīda …
Hebrew literary text. In the margin of verso there are several cryptic words in Arabic script. Does not seem to be documentary. Needs examination.
Family letter addressed to Moshe b. Yehuda known as Ibn Abī Kharrūba, in Palermo. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th century. The letter was written by …
Letter from Zekharya b. Ya’aqov b. al-Shama, from Tripoli (Libya), to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Early August 1062. The writer complains about the accusations against …
Literary text, in Arabic script.
Formulary for drawing up marriage documents. In Hebrew with some Ladino words (contante, joyas, mandiles). Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dating: Late. Currency: mithqāl/mathāqīl.
Legal document. Location: Cairo. Date: Tuesday, 12 Sivan 1814 Seleucid = 6 June 1503 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Yiṣḥaq (Sholal). Likely a …
Recto: Official-looking receipt for a dyer (al-Ṣabbāgh) for the rent of his shop. Dated: Muḥarram 545 AH = April/May 1150 CE. On verso there is …
Letter from Sitt Dhahab, in an unknown location, to Abū Naṣr b. Karīm, in Qāʿat al-Fāḍil, Fustat. She refers to herself as his daughter. Goitein …
Maimonides Misheh Torah, Eruvin, 5, copied by Yosef b. Shemuel Halevi. AA
Note in Arabic script addressed to a Nasi ("al-mawlā al-ajall al-nāsī al-jalīl al-nabīl..."). Conveying a message about the bearer (recommendation?). Needs further examination.
Legal deed: Betrothal agreement (draft), in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE), assuring the wife that she would have an apartment …
Will, probably. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). In which Sayyid al-Kull disposes of his possessions (including a drug store, dukkān …
Late accounts in Hebrew script that bear Ashkenazi and/or Italqi influence in terms of the paleography. The accounts are titled as "the receipt of Davide …
Large letter from "the two congregations" of Alexandria to the Palestinian community of Fustat, and particularly to Efrayim b. Shemarya, regarding fundraising for the ransom …
Letter addressed to Yosef ha-Levi. In Judaeo-Arabic. Deals with a visit to the synagogue at Dammūh (l. 10) during a time of unrest. The sender …