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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Maimonides autograph. Arabic jottings in the upper margins.
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IB II, 61. Letter from Ḥalfon and Bundār b. Maḍmūn, in Aden, to Sulaymān b. Abū Zikrī Kohen, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1150 CE. In …
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State document, wide line spacing, very fragmentary. Needs examination.
Legal document. In which Hārūn and Nissim agree to repay the 11 dinars they owe to Benaya within a certain period, and if they do …
IB VI, 39. Letter from Nahray b. ʿAllān in ʿAydhāb to his son ʿAllān b. Nahray in Alexandria concerning shipments. Based on a letter from …
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Letter from Zekharya b. Ya’aqov b. al-Shama, from Tripoli (Libya), to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Early August 1062. The writer complains about the accusations against …
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Fragment from the right side of a legal document in the hand of ʿImmanuel b. Yeḥiel (active ca. 1231–79). Damaged, few details preserved. May be …
Love charm written in the hand of Avraham Ibn Yijū on cloth. Apparently to inflame the heart of טרשכין (?) b. Amat Allāh for Gharb …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter from Manṣūr b. Sālim, in Alexandria, to his son Abū Najm, who has gone on an adventurous journey or had run away to the …
2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 2 Discussions
Fragment from the bottom of a legal document, containing only the validation, mentioning ʿEli ha-Kohen the Parnas as one of the signatories. Written and validated …
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Letter from Shelomo b. Yosef ha-Kohen, in Dalton (Dallāta), to Hillel he-Ḥaver b. Yeshuʿa ha-Ḥazzan, in Tiberias. Dating: approximately 1030. Discusses fees for copying of …
Letter from a woman in Fustat to her brother Yūsuf al-Kharrāṭ (?) in Alexandria. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. The scribe writes …
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Fragmentary scrap that contains multiple hands. The recto has been identified as a responsum, whereas the verso is a short note to Abu al-Ḥasan (or …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. An upper entry on the recto mentions someone with the title "Kapitan." Requires further examination.
Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 5 Shevaṭ 1378 Seleucid, which is 1067 CE. Written and signed by Hillel b. ʿEli. Groom: Wuḥaysh b. …
Part of a letter, probably from the first half of the 11th century, possibly written by Yeshuʿa b. Yosef ha-Kohen, on behalf of the Jerusalemite …
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Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic with an Arabic-script address. Very faded. The name Yūsuf b. Faraḥ al-Qābisī appears at the end, but it is not immediately …
Recto: Legal query in Arabic script, in an unprofessional hand. Addressed to "al-sāda al-fuqahāʾ. . . al-aʾimma", a jurisconsult, asking whether a beardless Jewish eye …
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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Quite faded. Mentions that all slaughtering in Damsīs has been put on hold; asks the addressee to obtain a fatwā in …
The main text on this bifolio consists of instructions about blessings to recite on different occasions (including שככה לו בעולמו upon the sight of beautiful …
Karaite betrothal deed. Dated 21 Heshvan 5500 AM (1739 CE). Location: Cairo. Groom: Moshe b. Shabbetay b. Moshe ha-Kohen. Bride: Nazha bt. Yeshūʿa b. Eliyahu …
A pair of conjoined (either glued together or never separated in the first place) tax receipts related to a tax farm (ḍamān). Dated: 25 Jumādā …
Probably a commentary? written by the hand of Hanan'el b. Shemuel
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment. There are a few words in Arabic script on verso.
Fiscal account? Small fragment.
Amulet for Ḥalfōn b. Ghāliya desiring the effect that his wife Sitt al-Ahl Hilāla bt. Malīḥa should keep her love for him. Also that he …
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Legal document. Partnership agreement. Unsigned. Dated: Middle third of Iyyar (year not preserved). Location: Fustat. Replacement document for a partnership agreement between Abū l-Ḥasan Menashshe …
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There are multiple fragments under this shelfmark; some of them are joins. C, fol.1 - Literary text, in Arabic script. Probably from a historical text …
Damaged fragment with an unidentified text in Hebrew, maybe a prayer or a letter, but hard to be sure. Contains phrases like רב טוב ורב …
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Avraham b. Sahlan, Fustat. Dating: ca. 1030 (per Gil) and ca. 1025–1051 CE based on the years when Shelomo …
Fragment from the bottom of a legal document in Hebrew. Mentions the name Mordekh[ay] or Mordukh in line 3. Dating: ca. 16th century.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Coptic numerals. Crude hand.
Itemized expenses for the renovation/construction (ʿimāra) of the house of Abū l-Karam.
Small fragment (beginnings of 3 lines) of official correspondence. The first line reads as "shirkatuhum wa-akhadha minhum". Mentions "al-amīr al-ajall." Needs further examination. Reused on …
Table of contents for a literary work. Red ink.
Fiscal document or accounts, reused for Hebrew script. Mentions transactions in gold (ʿayn) and silver (wariq) and also contains Coptic/Greek numerals. Needs examination.
Legal document. Possibly a draft. Dated: Thursday, 21 Tammuz 1453 Seleucid = 16 July 1142 CE. Location: Cairo (al-Muʿizziyya), "at the seat (moshav = majlis) …
Book list. Location: Bilbays. Dating: late 12th- or early 13th-century based on the identification of the scribal hand as that of Joseph b. Jacob ha-Bavli …
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Bill of release involving real estate, granted by the woman Nasāba bt. Maymun b. Ḥusayn b. Baqā to a certain Thābit. Signed by Menashshe b. …
Ketubba. Groom: Meʾir b. Yakhin (a well-known cantor and communal official). Bride: Muʿazzaza bt. Mevorakh, a divorcee. Location: Fustat. Dating: the 4th of a month, …
The story of Esther in Judaeo-Arabic.
Responsa. One query on the Meaning of the words תשבץ and שש. The answer did not survived. On recto a discussion on the difference between …
Karaite bill of debt. Dated 5 Shevat 5409 AM (1649 AM). Avraham b. Yaʿaqov Levi Qudsī and his business partner Eliyahu Levi acknowledge a debt …
IB VI, 2. Letter from Ṭāhir, in Qūṣ, to his mother, in Alexandria. In Arabic script; large, very regular characters. Dating: Possibly 11th century. Goitein …
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Letter from a cantor of Mosul. T-S 12.257r is continued in T-S K25.209 and ends in T-S 12.257v. The letter is written in childish script, …
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Lower right corner of a letter or petition for assistance. In Arabic script.
There are multiple fragments under this shelfmark. All are in Arabic script. Top right and top left belong to a similar work. Bottom left is …