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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
This text is preserved in one very fragmentary folio, T-S AS 160.96. What survives indicates that it is about the midday calendar limit, whereby the …
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Two columns of accounts, business or private, for Naṣr b. Simwāl, one under "lahu" 'he is owed' and second under "ʿalaihi" 'he owes'. 'ʾAjr' in …
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List of contributors containing Coptic numerals. Dating: probably no earlier than 13th century. (Information in part from Goitein's typed texts)
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Accounts or mathematical tables in Arabic script and Coptic numerals. Almost entirely numerals.
Lower part of a letter, possibly a postscript to a preceding letter (there is a wide space before l. 1). Probably sent from Damīra to …
A letter from Yosef Shlomo b. Moshe Luzki to his son Avraham
Official letter or petition. In Arabic script. Small fragment from the beginning: ...saʿādatahu wa-salāmatahu wa-niʿmatahu ʿalā....
Ownership note for Hillel b. Meyuppe.
IB V, 42f. Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen. Abū l-Surūr is to give the bearer 1/4 pound pulverized olibanum (lubān) …
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Note in Arabic script. Leftmost column, fifth from the top. There are also several dozen other minute literary fragments.
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Refers to the synagogue and the noble congregation: ... עד ביאת הגואל ... אלי אלכניס ... אלגמאעה אלכרימה …
Small fragment from a financial account. Probably 11th or 12th century.
Address of a letter to Meʾir Ben-Naʿim (fl. 1785-1825 CE) in Cairo, from someone in Damietta (קפוטקיא). One line is also preserved on verso.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Legal document, damaged, perhaps regarding a partnership. Protagonists include Moshe ha-Kohen known as Abū ʿImrān. and Abū Saʿd b. Abū l-ʿAlā. Witnesses include [...] ha-Kohen …
Legal deed. On parchment. Particularly old. Dated: Monday, 6 Shevaṭ 4716 AM = 21 January 956 CE. Signed by at least thirteen witnesses, all in …
Recto: letter fragment in Hebrew (טובה יתר . . . הראשון ואני במהרה . . . על כבודך . . . שמעתי היה לך צער …
Accounts on a small bifolio, mostly mathematical calculations without any headings or context provided. The verso includes a brief note mentioning the amount of funds …
Minute fragment of a document referring to "that which is in Bijāya."
Draft of deed of attorney written in Tyre, which includes an accounting between partners after the death of one of them, Menashshe b. Yiṣḥaq, and …
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Scribal exercises in square Hebrew script repeating portions of Psalms 45:2. For other scribal exercises of this verse see, for example: ENA 3203.12 (PGPID 40496). …
Letter from a son to his father Mubārak b. [...], in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. With rudimentary handwriting and spellings. …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew numerals. Dated: Muḥarram 959 AH (נטץ), which is December 1551–January 1552 CE. Mentions pepper and ḥawāla (money transfer).
Fragment from legal deeds written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). On recto a reverence is made to 'al-wakil al-goy' = the gentile …
Legal agreement between spouses. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Location: Fustat. The husband of Sitt al-Bahāʾ takes her to court …
Small fragment from the left-bottom part of a legal deed related to marriage (the word נדוניאתא is visible). It is not a ketubah, however, because …
Court record in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya. Dated: Thursday, 21 Elul 4798 AM = 24 August 1038 CE. In which Zakiyya bt. Yiṣḥaq …
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Legal document. Record of release. Dated 1085. Location: Alexandria. This document is a largely-complete release signed and executed by well-known members of the rabbinical court …
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Letter addressed to a Nasi (השר הנכבד היקר פאר הנשיאות). In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Congratulating him on the birth of a son possibly named Shelomo.
Bill of sale in which a Nubian female slave named 'Salt' is sold for 15 dinars. Dated 24 Tammuz 1395/ 30 June 1084. (Information from …
Piyyuṭ in Hebrew, and an unidentified text in Arabic, possibly part of a letter. (Information from CUDL)
Order of payment. In Arabic script (one line) and Judaeo-Arabic (three lines). The addressee is to give the bearer a sum of money.
Letter to a dignitary ("the head of the Yeshiva of the Torah") in Judaeo-Arabic, reporting that Yosef Ibn al-Salamantī(?) came to al-muʿallim Farajallāh complaining to …
Miscellany containing formularies for excommunication (invoking the Shem ha-Meforash) on 74/70v, flowery rhymes for letter openings, etc. On 74/72r a copy of letter of interest …
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Letter in Arabic script. The first five lines are formulaic. The substance may begin after وبعد in l.5. It is quite faded and damaged; unclear …
Letter or note to the elder Mūsā. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from Yeshuʿa b. Ismāʿīl al-Makhmūrī. Dating: May 12, 1052 CE. Business letter with many details about ships going west. The sender reports on the …
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Verso: Table of Coptic numerals and possibly other ciphers reminiscent of fiscal documents. Wide line spacing.
This fragment contains several legal documents in the hand of a single scribe. Upside down on verso: a complaint by the judge Yaʾir b. Avraham …
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Several lines from the top of a deferential letter in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic.
Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic work on the seasons and weather and prognostications.
Documentary per FGP - needs examination. Includes 15 different shelfmarks. There are several documentary ones, but all may be Ashkenazi/non-Geniza.
Verso (original use): Lower part of a note from an unknown sender to unknown addressee. In the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu (like recto)? It …
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Two sides of an Arabic literary text, probably a dīwān with commentary.
Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–38 CE). Involving someone from the al-Amshāṭī family making a declaration in favor of …
Receipt for ʿAbd al-Raḥmān.
Small fragment of an Arabic document.
Tafsīr on Leviticus in Judaeo-Arabic in a beautiful hand. Of documentary value because of the ownership notes (on verso of Bodl. MS heb. e 74/81): …