Use keywords or phrases in any language to return matching or similar results across all fields. Arabic script searches will return both Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic transcription content.
Use Hebrew or Arabic script to find precise matches in the transcriptions. See How to Search page for advanced use cases.
{2}
{0,5}
.*
[יו]
shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Arabic poetry.
No Scholarship Records
Ketubba, Aleppo, 1026–28 CE. The document omits the divorce clause, and the groom notably refers to himself and his bride as the "Jew" and the …
1 Transcription 1 Translation 1 Discussion
Digests of legal documents. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? Document #1: Manṣūr/Elʿazar b. M[...] sells 1/8 of a house for 14 dinars. Specifies …
1 Discussion
Small fragment of a legal document. Mentions Aharon.
Verso: Document in Arabic script mentioning the words al-waraq (paper) or more likely al-wariq (silver money), 28 dirhams, and a date, which looks like the …
Recto: Colophon stating that this copy of the 'ketuvim' has been checked completely without any errors. There is a brief disquisition on the canonical raised …
Form letter. Addressed to an important person, but the spots for the actual names have been left blank.
Tax receipt of some sort, for the poor Jews of Fustat. Very similar to T-S K25.240.6v. T-S K25.240 ff.3–6 comprise one cluster (ḥikr receipts?) and …
Small fragment of accounts (fiscal?) in Arabic script. Reused on recto for piyyuṭ.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions coral and Efrayim and a qirṭās containing 160 …
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 …
1 Transcription 1 Discussion
Order of payment of three dirhams for the price of paper (unless this is referring to wariq dirhams) from 'the collectors' to 'al-shaykh al-nezer'. (Information …
Beginning of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Mentioning Alexandria (possibly drawn up there) and the authority of …
Small fragment with Arabic script. Mentions Bū ʿImrān, Jamāl al-Mulk, and Cairo.
Four consecutive folios from the introduction to an anonymous philosophical-polemical treatise defending Jewish prayer and law against the criticism of Muslims. Contains the only known …
2 Transcriptions 2 Translations 2 Discussions
Letter from a man to his 'brother.' In Judaeo-Arabic, with rudimentary spellings. Discussing various small business transactions and travel. Mentions Ismāʿīl in a short postscript.
Legal document. A release granted by Sitt al-Maʿālī to Abū l-Ḥusayn. Involving sums of 2 dinars somehow related to Abū l-Ḥusayn's father and a total …
Fragment (bottom half) of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic regarding a communal dispute over slaughtering. A certain person, likely a rival of the writer, came to …
Fragment of a bill of release (..בהתר גמור...) in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). On parchment. Large piece but very damaged …
Multifragment consisting of dozens of minute fragments. Many documentary.
Letter from Abū l-Ḥayy b. Avraham, in Ifrīqiyya, to his uncle, Moshe b. Abī l-Ḥayy, in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Mid-11th century. A moving letter, …
Verso: Unidentified document in Arabic script. A few lines are preserved, with large letters and wide line spacing: بالافراح(؟) لها . . . . .مما …
Bifolio containing mostly Judaeo-Arabic prayers and/or poems. The left page of verso contains a variant of the ḥamdala and ṣalwala: אל חמד ללה וחדה וצלי …
Short letter from Avraham b. Natan Av ha-Yeshiva ("the head of the (Palestinian) Academy") to an unknown recipient (called only Rabbenu). In Judaeo-Arabic. Acknowledging the …
Letter from Safed, Palestine, written by a man from Cairo to his cousin (ibn ʿamm). He had traveled to Safed, mainly, it seems, to settle …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Messy. Mentions names such as Shemuel, Makhlūf, and Ḥamza.
Mercantile letter, in Arabic script. From Efrayim b. Ismāʿīl to Abī ʿAbd Allāh b. Khodādād at the Dār al-Wakāla. The writer mentions sending several commodities …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
كتبت اطال الله بقا حضرة مولاي الشيخ الاجل وادام
تاييدها وعلاها ورفعتها وسناها وسموها
وارتقاها وكبت بالذل حسدته…
1 Transcription
Legal document. The beginnings of 10 lines are preserved. Almost no details preserved.
Letter from Yehuda b. Saadya to the leader of the community of Sahrajt demanding that the case of a widow, the sister of a prominent …
2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion
Probably a copy of a letter to leaders of a community, from Avraham Maimuni or one of his contemporaries. The scribe is known from two …
Letter to the Nagid by a woman who had taken steps to convert to Judaism requesting that he accept her conversion, which, she assures him, …
Receipt, in late Arabic script. Dated 14 M[uḥarram] [..]41 AH but the century was not recorded. Given the mention of Ottoman qurush, with the recurring …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably late 12th century. Quite detailed. Not immediately clear if mercantile or communal. Probably communal, since the word "jibāya" (collection) appears. …
Letter fragment. Not much is preserved. The sender says "I make you take an oath" (anā astaḥlifuka).
Notes in Judaeo-Arabic concerning halakhic rulings. Recto looks more like jottings/exercises, while verso is a distinct note; all are in the same hand. Verso is …
Letter, probably. In Hebrew. Seems to consist entirely of blessings and flattery, but it is very faded, so there might be more. In the hand …
Mostly pen trials, but there are also a few undeciphered lines in Ladino and some names. Needs examination.
Legal record (#25) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 10r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 3 Shevat [5321] …
Probably accounting in Arabic script. Late. Difficult to read.
Small fragment of an Arabic document, likely accounts.
Letter addressed to the shop of Abū Ṭāhir b. Abū Naṣr al-Kohen Kelil ha-Yofi, in Sūq al-ʿAṭṭārīn, in Fustat. The writer inquires about news of …
See PGPID 5286
Massive account with an inventory of a (druggist's) shop (headed "muḥāsabat al-dukkān"). In Arabic script. Some of the very numerous commodities and items mentioned: pear …
On recto piyyut. On verso fragment from a ketubbah contains mostly the dowry list. AA
Recto (probably secondary use): Dowry list for the marriage of Kathīr b. Shelomo and Nāshiya bt. David. Total: 200 dinars.