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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
No Scholarship Records
Letters. No image
Three partial lines of an Arabic text. Needs examination.
Letter fragment, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. The format is unusual. Refers to an amīr, the width and height of something, and ends "wa-l-salām."
Letter addressed to "the two congregations." In Hebrew (for the introduction) and Judaeo-Arabic (for the body). Moderately wide space between the lines. Almost all of …
Legal document, probably a transfer of property, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Sitt al-Dār has appointed her husband Ṣedaqa as …
Arabic script (Naïm Vanthieghem; description to come).
Legal testimony, fragment. In Hebrew, with some unusual formulae. Muʿammar and Aharon the sons of Bāqī(?) came to the court complaining about a matter of …
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Literary. Fragment of a haggada.
Bill of sale for a female slave named חלל (Ḥalal? Ḥulal? In fact there is a vowel above the letter in the document, but it …
Pen trials, in a chancery hand, in Arabic script. Contains terms like "al-mamlūk", "nāʾib" and a name "al-shaykh al-ajall abū saʿīd."
Mercantile letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. On parchment. Dating: 11th century. Refers to coming to Alexandria and staying on the Nile or at sea for 3 days. …
Legal or official document, wide space between the lines. Dating: Looks Ottoman-era. Needs examination.
Minute fragment. Few words from a list. Recto (but not verso) looks like the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
First two lines of a large legal document. In the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli? The parties are Avraham b. Faraj ha-Kohen al-Raḥbī (known from …
Recto: Possibly a letter fragment. There are three different sizes of writing, in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Refers to a scholar ('ha-gadol ba-talmud') and the year …
Letter from the office of the Nagid Yehoshua Maimonides (d. 1355), to the Jewish community in Cairo. He is ordering them to pay back to …
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הנה אל ישועתי וכולי
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Letter from Yosef b. Yaʿaqov b. Yahboy, probably in Qayrawān, to an unknown addressee, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1045 according to Gil. The writer is …
כתאבי הדא אליך יאסידי ורייסי ותאג ראסי אטאל אל[לה בקאך
מכתצרא בסבב סרעה כרוג חאמלה אלי ספאקס לירכב מן [ ]
מן אלמהדיה משרוחה וגמלא מא אריד…
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Religious commentary – undated – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 11) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl …
Account in Arabic script in small handwriting, possibly official (fiscal). Reused for Hebrew piyyuṭ in a hand resembling that of Abū Sahl Levi.
Minute fragment from an opening of a letter. Much faded
Legal document (iqrār) in Arabic script. Ḥammād b. Hiba al-A[...] makes a declaration concerning the jahbadh of the diwan and a sum of 70 dinars. …
Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions iron (ḥadīd) and lead (raṣāṣ). Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef?
Legal document (witness statement), mentioning the elder Abū l-S[urūr] Peraḥya who traveled to Yemen twice. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 …
Letter in Hebrew with wide space between the lines. Fragment.
Copy (?) of a letter. (Information from CUDL)
Conditional divorce agreement between a betrothed couple. Dated Tuesday, 8th Elul 5549 AM (1789 CE). Yosef b. David known Fayrūz b. Ṣemah is taking upon …
Bifolios from a mercantile account ledger in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Fragmentary court record mentioning Daniel the Nasi and Yeḥizqiyya Rosh ha-Gola (Head of the Diaspora). Mentions a payment or fine of 10 dinars to the …
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Avraham b. Rason buys from Yeshua Abu al-Fadl b. Eliyyahu 9/24 of a sugar factory for 150 dinars. Date: First third of Shevat 1555 Sel. …
Account statements – 1943-1944CE – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 288) – in Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda …
Business letter from Avraham ben Khalaf, probably from Alexandria, to Abū al-Faḍl Sahl b. Ḥasan b. Salāma al-Sukkarī in Fustat. Datable to ca. 1062 on …
[כתאבי] אטאל אללה בקא סידי ומולאי ואדאם עזה ותאיידה וסלאמתה מן
[אלמסת]קר לי בקין מן אללה ערפך אללה ברכתה וברכה מא יליה ואל
חמד ללה רב אלע…
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Original use: Bottom part of a state document in Arabic script, containing only the ḥamdala, taṣliya, and ḥasbala. There is also one more word written …
Ketubba, well-preserved with an ornate border. Location: Banhā, Egypt. Dated 8 Kislev 5_17 AM, with a value "שע" for the hundreds place that must be …
Letter from Menashshe b. Pinḥas to Yoshiyyahu ha-Sar, in New Cairo. The addressee's father's name appears in the main text, but is very faded. Consists …
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Fragment from a legal deed involving Halfon b. Eli. Cairo is mentioned. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100–1138). AA
T-S AS 207.191: Interior section from a larger legal document, very damaged. Ca. 16th-century or later based on the paleography. The document may relate to …
Letter fragment. In Hebrew. Late, 17th-century or later based on the paleography. Line 11 mentions Jerusalem, possibly in the context of sending charitable funds. The …
Document in Arabic script. Only a thin vertical sliver has survived. Probably magical, based on the stick-and-ball drawings. Needs examination.
Accounts of a shopkeeper, it seems describing the proceeds of the sale of 9 out of 15 thawbs, living 6 in the shop.
Fragment from the bottom official correspondence. Mentions "al-majlis al-sāmī" as well as having issued an instruction to the amīr Sharaf al-Dīn the wālī regarding the …
Arabic script (VMR). Literary.
Small fragment containing various legal notes with multiple distinct entries. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). One mentions a tax …
A Maimonides autograph of the Guide for the Perplexed. Information from FGP.
Unidentified document in Arabic script, perhaps a brief piece of correspondence. Dated 1243 AH (1827/1828 CE). The signature of ʿAlī ___[?] Agha Kapūdān Būlāq is …
Letter from a father, probably in Fustat, to his son Isḥāq b. Saʿīd, probably in the Rīf. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 14th century. The handwriting …
Late writing exercises and sums, with a note on verso mentioning the neighborhood of the Karaites (Ḥārat al-Qara'iyyīn) in connection with Aṣlān Kohen and David …
Letter from Mūsā b. Hibatallāh al-Yahūdī al-Mutaṭabbib ("the Jewish doctor") to an unidentified dignitary. In Arabic script. Dating: Perhaps 12th or 13th century based on …
Ledger of accounts in Arabic script and eastern Arabic numerals. Dated on image 3v as Rabīʿ al-Awwal 938 AH whic is 1531 CE. 30 pages.
Multifragment. Hundreds of minute fragments. Many documentary.