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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Legal document. Bottom part only, unclear if any of the content is salvageable. Underneath, at 180 degrees, there is a jotting of the beginning of …
No Scholarship Records
Narrow bifolio containing an index of poems in Judaeo-Arabic alphabetized by their opening lines.
Account of the Qodesh: revenue from rent, ca.1040. The upper part of a leaf, writtten by Yefet b. David b. Shekhanya. (Information from Gil, Documents, …
dinars …. that I collected for the month of Ṣafar of that year
from Dār b. Ḥasan al-Ṣabbāgh: The room of Sahlān, 9 dir.
The room of Waḥ…
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Probably a letter, needs further attention. AA
Accounting in Judaeo-Arabic, Hebrew numerals, and western Arabic numerals. Dating: Ottoman-era. Mentioning many ships; the name of each shipowner is written over the elongated bet …
Legal record (#15). Deposition in court. Dated: Monday, 29 Iyyar 1467 Seleucid. Abū l-Makārim b. Salāma al-Kohen known as Ibn al-Maqāniʿiyya states that he was …
Letter to Abū l-Ḥasan. Mentions 40 dinars. (Information from CUDL)
Letter fragment. In Hebrew. Calligraphically written. The subject matter is communal strife; some wicked person is stirring up trouble, and the results are government decrees …
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Beginning of a court record. Location: Cairo. Dated: Wednesday, 17 Tishrei 1807 Seleucid = 5 October 1495 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Yehonatan …
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Judicial record of a discussion on the legality of the Rabbanite synagogue in the Ḥārat Zuwayla neighborhood in Cairo (al-Qāhira), during the reign of al-Mustanṣir …
Literary
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 …
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Legal document. This is the signature portion, torn away from the main document. It is a huge horizontal strip with writing only in the middle …
Most of a long letter in which the writer uses colorful language to narrate his woes of the last 10 years. The addressee's father is …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions the name ʿAlī b. Hārūn. The fragment also contains Hebrew literary text.
A Fatimid decree fragment, possibly of an investiture. Recycled by Efrayim b. Shemarya.
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Accounts in Arabic listing many names. The scribal hand does not appear to be the same as the neighboring interrelated shelfmarks. Dating is 16th-century or …
Minute fragment from the end of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic.
Legal document from 1725 CE (1 Tevet 5486) from Cairo formalizing a reconciliation between husband, Yosef Mizraḥi known as Khumays, and wife, Nujūm the daughter …
Verso: Document in Arabic that was recycled for a list of names. Medieval-era. Badly damaged: will require further examination for content.
Letter fragment. Not much is preserved. The sender says "I make you take an oath" (anā astaḥlifuka).
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Moshe(?) Goren to Barakha Goren. Dated 20 Nissan 5571 AM (April 1811 CE). The letter sender and recipient were likely brothers …
Deed of sale. In Arabic script. Portions of 3 lines are preserved. This is part of the binding of a copy of Isaiah, still sewn …
Small fragment from a legal deed, probably a bill of release. Mentioning the inheritance of Abū ʿImrān. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 …
Recto: Letter probably from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to his father-in-law al-Shaykh al-Makīn Abū l-Faraj. In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (beginning only). The sender's wife is very sick. …
State document. Specific genre/purpose unclear. Has the glyph at the top. Then "... fī al-Dīwān al-Khāṣṣ lil-Fakhriyya...." The an ʿalāma and perhaps a confirmation of …
Original use: Letter from Eliyyahu b. Shelomo Gaʾon to David b. Yeḥizqiyya Rosh Ha-Gola. Dating: ca. 1046. In Hebrew. Published by Gil, Palestine, vol. 3, …
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Note addressed to "al-mawlā al-muwaffaq al-saʿīd R. Samawʾal" asking him to do a favor, "if he is able to go out, meet with me [...]."
Spell of destruction. In Judaeo-Arabic and Aramaic, with a postscript in Arabic script ("for killing, very useful"). See Niessen, F., & Bohak, G. (2007). ‘Destroy …
Unidentified document in Arabic script. Maybe a letter. Approximately 6 lines are preserved.
Financial agreement (partnership?) between Daniel b. Eliyya and Yaʿaqov b. Avraham, dated 1512/13 CE ([5]273) and citing sums in peraḥim.
Religious subject matter carrying the title "Shabbat Tushfa[?]" redemption of Shabbat – undated – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 94) – …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely ca. 14th–16th century, based on handwriting and linguistic features. Nearly the whole page is preserved, but the text is extremely …
Small fragment with Hebrew text. Likely literary.
Legal deed. Opening lines only; abandoned mid-way through the fifth line. Dated: Sunday, 1 Sivan 1539 Seleucid, which is 1228 CE, under the jurisdiction of …
This fragment consists of two pieces of parchment pasted together to assemble a rotulus of elaborate medical recipes in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: possibly 11th century or …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (bottom half only). The sender is planning to travel to al-Shām the next day and he asks for money to cover …
Recto: Literary. Page in calligraphic Hebrew from the beginning of Sefer Zmanim in the Mishneh Torah, dating the fragment to ~1180 CE at the very …
Informal business note addressed to Abū l-Faraj Yeshuʿa. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely 11th century. The sender is on board a boat and fears that it …
Astrological text, divided into sections, each dealing with an aspect of life. In Judaeo-Arabic. Information from Baker/Polliack catalog.
Letter in Hebrew. Late. Possibly embedded within a literary text. It begins on line 5 of recto. See FGP for further information.
Khan, Qaṣr Ibrīm, doc. 35.
Letter to a dignitary, probably Abū Yefet Yosef b. Abū Sahl. In Hebrew and vocalized. Quite faded; the continuation on verso is almost too faded …
Fragments of 4 lines of a Fatimid decree. Mentions the caliph (amir al-muʾminīn) and the date (but the date is missing). The blank space on …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter from Salāma Ḥāmī, Jerusalem, to Yeshuʿa Ḥāmī, in Fustat or Cairo, more likely, based on the dating/paleography. Late. In Judaeo-Arabic. Needs examination.
Letter fragment. Mentions having sent a legal query (masʾala) with Dāʾud al-Rūmī. Mentions Cairo. The handwriting resembles that of Makhlūf b. Mūsā.
Fragment of trader’s letter, mentioning quantities. Phrases: אלעשרה פאשתריתהא מנ[...] וקיראט אלעשרה באל . . .ותלאתין . . . ולחקהא . . . גמלה . …
List in the hand of the scribe of App. B 25, part 2, and App. B 33, part 1. Distribution of 23 jukhaniyyas to thirteen …