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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Account entry or receipt in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 16th- or 17th-century based on the paleography. Mentions the Nile port of Būlāq, specifically the loading docks (bi-isqelīt …
1 نسخ
Letter from an unnamed Fatimid official in Alexandria to Najīb al-Dawla. Dating: second half of the eleventh century. 36 lines preserved, written in an elegant …
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة
Two damaged fragments of accounts, possibly fused together and/or from the same original document. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
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Purchase note: "that which Shemuʾel ha-Levi b. Saʿadya purchased." Written in his own hand. The quire itself contains the commentary of Rabbenu Nissim on Pereq …
Legal record (#59) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 20v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 9 Adar II …
Literary text in Judaeo-Arabic. On verso there is a mirror-image imprint of T-S AS 155.274. (Information in part from CUDL.)
IB II, 66. Aden, August 1199. Sender and recipient are unknown, as only the lower part of this letter has been identified. The letter makes …
[...to] Aden. Immediately after his arrival [he was brought before the caliph?],
who said to him: “Become a Muslim, or you will cause the d…
3 نسخ ترجمات 3
Small fragment of a letter in Arabic script, probably mercantile. Little of the content is preserved. There is an unrelated fragment sharing this shelfmark, which …
Karaite bills of debt on a bifolium. Dated 1 Shevat 5498 AM (1738 CE). Both documents deal with a qāʿa residence on Darb al-Furn, a …
:Folio 1r
Legal query in the hand of Berakhot b. Shemuel.
Accounts in Arabic script. The hand is reminiscent of fiscal documents but these may be private accounts, based on the unsystematic layout and the headers …
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
Accounts in Arabic.
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 (secondary use): Satirical poem in Judaeo-Arabic, targeting the hypocrisy of religious authorities (mutafaqqihīn, fuqahāʾ). The target audience is Jewish (i.e., this isn't simply a …
Small fragment of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, reused for a couple verses of Judaeo-Arabic love poetry.
Printed. Arabic invitation to a wedding on 10 June 1881 CE. See Nick Posegay's Fragment of the Month, June 2020.
Report probably on military matters. In Arabic script. 6 lines preserved. Mentions a wall (al-ṣūr), the dispatching of a warship (ʿushārī), someone named Ibn al-Qaṣʿ(?), …
]ـول ان موالي (؟) ذلك (؟) الصور..
كان جرد عشاري عمارة فيه صاحب له على …
اصحابه ومن جملتهم بن القصع ووصلوا الى جبلة وخطر
بن القصع فيها وعاد ا…
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Involving an agreement between two parties. Dating: written under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon, and …
1 مناقشة
Informal note from Yūsuf to a respected person ('sayyidnā'). In Judaeo-Arabic, calligraphic. The writer asks the addressee to do something (ישיל) with the bearer because …
Letter fragment in Arabic script.
Legal document in Arabic script. Dated: 426 AH = 1034/35 CE. The year 424 is also mentioned in the body of the document (l. 1). …
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary handwriting. The name [...]r b. Dā'ūd appears in the address. The body of the letter mentions pullets (farārīj) and a …
Petition from the Mamluk period. [Described on the paper wrapper as: "Un esclave mamelouk demandant à son ancienne maitresse de retourner dans sa première maison" …
Fragment of a legal document, probably. Shaky hand. Mentions words and phrases such as "al-madhkūr. . . bi-dhālika. . . fī salkh kull sana . …
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Writing on both sides. Dealing with a partnership (muʿāmala) and mentioning the sums …
A complete maunuscript of the Five Books of Moses from the tenth century. Includes two dedicatory inscriptions, of a father and his son, dedicating it …
List of households in Judaeo-Arabic and sums of money in Greek/Coptic numerals. There is also some Arabic script mixed in, e.g. سليمان אלחסיד (Sulaymān al-ḥasid). …
Letter addressed to al-Rayyis Rabbenu Eliyya (might be the judge Eliyya b. Zekharya). Fragment (top part only). About work on a Bible codex (muṣḥaf) in …
Fragments of a letter. T-S AS 147.106: From the upper part of recto. Flowery blessings for the addressee. ". . . . with sayyidnā al-Rayyis …
Fragment from the bottom of a legal document. Dated: looks like 13 Jumādā I 913 AH which would be 20 September 1507 CE if read …
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Concerning half of a well-known house in al-Qālūs. This is probably …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Dated: 23 Shevaṭ 1393 Seleucid (= 1082 CE). Location: Probably Cairo. Groom: the nasi and head of the Jews David b. Daniel …
. . . the twenty-third day of the month of Shevat, in the year 1393 [1082 CE] in the [Era of Documents] . . . its locati…
2 نسخين 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
Minute blank fragment.
Fragment of a settlement between Simha b. [...] and his son-in-law Khalīfa after long litigation. Dated: Av 1412 Seleucid = June/July 1101 CE. (Information from …
Small fragment of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions: Hillel b. Abū [...], the mint (dār al-ḍarb), Damascus, Alexandria, reaching the city/fortress (thaghr) of the sulṭān Sayf [...]; Abū l-Munā …
Mysterious document in Arabic script. Begins with the glyph, then two sections, separated by a horizontal line. Underneath and on verso there is piyyut. (1) …
Legal record (#114) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 37r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 27 Iyyar 5327 …