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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Mysterious fragment containing only the remnants of what may be Greek/Coptic numerals.
No Scholarship Records
Letter from an unidentified Nagid to R. Abraham regarding an insubordinate cantor. Given this shelfmark's prior identification as late and Dotan Arad's attribution of the …
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Letter from Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim. Offers details of ill-fated ships that were destroyed in a storm or met with …
על שמך
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך וצרף אלאסוא ענך ברחמתה
מן אלאסכנדריה לנצף מן תמוז כתמה אללה עלינא ועליך בא…
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Probably the end of a legal document, with signatures by Saʿadya b. Nathan, ʿAmram b. Yefet and Isaac ‘the pauper’ b. Abraham. (Information from CUDL)
Karaite decorated ketubah from Cairo. The groom is Yosef b. Moshe. The bride is Esther known as Mas'uda.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter to Simha from Eliyyahu in which he notes that he left from Fustat and arrived in Alexandria on Friday, and further states that “our …
Fragment of a legal document in Arabic script on parchment, likely a deed of sale (mentions "al-bayʿ al-madhkūr"). Involves Abū l-Surūr Yūsuf paying some kind …
Strip from the bottom part of a legal document with no details preserved. Signed by [... b.] Obadiah. On vellum. AA
Damaged list, probably contribution to the poor. Late.
Official report, probably, in Arabic script. Mentions people owing debts to each other, and mentions "the fortress" (al-qalʿa) at the bottom of recto. Continues on …
Small fragment from the bottom of a legal document. Location: Cairo. None of the content is preserved.
Letter from Avraham Hamān and Gavriel Ḥefez to Karo y Frances & Company. Dated: 1 Elul, 5568 AM, which is 1808 CE. (Someone wrote the …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. In a common hand previously misattributed to ʿArūs. Mentions Abū Manṣūr.
Accounts in Arabic with Greek/Coptic numerals. Medieval-era. One of the headers on recto may refer to "the foundry" (al-masbak). On verso there is the glyph. …
Letter or letters. Unusual format: it appears that a first letter ends and a second letter begins — perhaps these are letter copies in an …
Folio from a dream interpretation manual in Judaeo-Arabic. Interesting in part because it includes geographical and medical information -- it expounds the meaning of dreams …
Letter of recommendation for charity, probably. Describing an unfortunate man. "... in this city... in all places, because... his condition... he was robbed (nuhiba) of …
Minute blank fragment
Love spells. In a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic. One of them involves setting an egg on fire.
Faded Hebrew scripted text.
Mercantile accounts in Arabic script. Mentions saffron and a raṭl of lemon.
Letter from Abū Zikrī b. Ḥananel to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yosef al-Arajawānī. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address partially in Arabic script. Concerning business matters, …
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Fol. 2v (upper section): Letter to a ḥaver in Judaeo-Arabic. The text is faded and the phrases are quite vague—needs further examination.
Marriage contract (ketubba). Small fragment. The bride is named (Sitt al-)Khawāt. The scribe uses the unusual spelling דנאן for דנן, which may help in finding …
Letter concerning the dispatch of gold from the congregation in Bilbays, to be delivered in Jerusalem to 'the synagogue of the Yemenite' and to 'the …
Legal query with responsum. Concerning tefillin. Late. Striking signatures.
Deathbed will. In Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Minyat Ashna. Dated: Monday, last decade of Shevaṭ 1461 Seleucid, which is January 1150 CE, under the authority of the …
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Fiscal document, in Arabic script. Extremely fragmentary.
List of contributors and/or recipients of alms. On a small bifolio. Divided by neighborhoods of Fustat (e.g. al-Maṣāṣa, Mahra and Qaṣr al-Shamʿ). Many names are …
Judaeo-Arabic fragment, part of a treatise on ritual slaughter
Small fragment of an 11th or 12th century letter from [...] b. Avraham. May mention al-Barqī.
Family letter from a certain Avraham to his brother Moshe. In Hebrew. Dating: 16th century. A. David identifies the sender as Avraham Sagish, writing from …
Account probably in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen. Mentions Ibn Makhlūf, a seller of coral, and mercury.
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, …
Letter from Yoshiyya Gaon to Efrayim b. Shemarya, in Fustat. The sender's name is partially preserved at the top of the letter, in a different …
יאשיהו ראש יש[יבת] גאון יעקב בירבי
שלום אביעה וברכות ארגיעה [
בכל שעה ואורה וישועה א[ל אהובנו רב אפרים]
המומחה מפינו אנו בית ד[ין הגדול…
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Draft of a deed of compensation in the hand of the court reporter Yefet b. David Shekhanya, around 1030 CE. It was given to Efrayim …
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Petition? In Arabic script. Small fragment. The phrase "ilā khidmatihī" is legible in the first line.
Writing exercises in an experienced scribal hand, the student practiced various honorific titles that can appear at the opening of letters. 18th or 19th-century based …
Beginning of a letter to an unidentified scholar. On the verso there is some writing in large Arabic script, but unrelated to text on verso.
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Note from Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (ca. 1100–38 CE) to 'my master the diadem (al-Nezer).' He needs to write a validation for a legal document and …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Coptic numerals. Mentions Abū l-Ghayth and chicken.
Possibly a tax receipt. Quite faded.
Letter from an unknown writer, in Skopje (אישקופייה), to Shaʾul b. David, in Salonika. In Ladino. Needs examination for content.
Unidentified text, in Arabic script.
End of a letter in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe containing only the phrase שלומו יגדל.
Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic written in a common hand (previously misattributed to ʿArūs b. Yosef). Cf. T-S NS 321.7d (PGPID 40762). Note on JTS volume …