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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Account including list of names and possibly some sums (written in words) (FGP)
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Awaiting description (but see description for the whole notebook, Bodl. MS heb. f 22/19–52, PGPID 33686).
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Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE). Abū l-Majd is to give 2 dirhams to Seʿadya al-Nazir from the waqf of …
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Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Karo y Frances & Company to Moshe Bibas. Unusual, since the vast majority of their correspondence that has been preserved …
Letter from Natan b. Nahray in Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim, in Fustat, from 1080s. Natan sends his regards to Avraham b. R. Yaʿaqov Darʿi. …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך אלאגל ואדאם תאידה וסלאמתה
ונעמאה וכבת אעדאה מן אלאסכנדריה גד ראש השנה אעאדה אללה
עלי מולאי סנין כתירה ועל…
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Letter in Sahidic Coptic (information from Jacques van der Vliet, "Coptic documentary papyri after the Arab conquest," The Journal of Juristic Papyrology 43 (2013), 187–208, …
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Mentions the date 9 Av 1412 Seleucid, which is 1101 CE. The issue involves a man and his daughter Maḥfūẓa …
Not digitized?
Calendar in Judaeo-Portuguese.
Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Wādī al-Sirr (ואדי אלסר), Yemen. Dated: Shevat 2005 Seleucid = January/February 1694 CE. Groom: Dā'ūd b. Yosef al-Ḥamāmī (or al-Ḥammāmī) al-Ḥaḍrī. …
Legal settlement in the hand of the addressee, written between the end of the letter and the address. The senior partner Khallūf b. Mūsā the …
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Legal record (#23). Divorce settlement. Dated: Same as previous record (Monday, 14 Sivan 1467 Seleucid). Salīm al-Munādī ('the crier') agrees that he owes his daughter-in-law …
Collection for the capitation tax - jibayat al-jawali (verso) (for the 6th week of the liturgical year, usually falling in November). As the very small …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Recto (secondary use): Note of gratitude to a notable. In Judaeo-Arabic. The addressee's father the ḥaver graciously met with the sender and said, "Open your …
Responsum in the autograph of Maimonides, ca. 1168–1204 CE based on the years when he was active in Egypt.
Unidentified document(s) in Arabic script. Small fragment, damaged and faded. "Seven hundred" appears on one side.
Literary text, in Arabic script. Page plus ending bifolio from a book with quire or page marks in upper left corners from the philosophical treatise …
Minute fragment from the top part of a letter by Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Halfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE), who is named …
Strip from what seems to be an end of a letter consisting mainly of biblical citations. Written on a long horizontal strip of paper. The …
List of accounts in an unidentified Latin-script language with Arabic numerals (possibly Castilian Spanish). Some of the recurring words are "por" "lo" and the Spanish …
Verso: Petition or letter in Arabic script. Lower left corner. Describing a dispute and ending with a a raʾy clause. Needs further examination.
Letter from Yeḥiel b. Elyaqim to a certain Tamīm. In Hebrew. The addressee had come to Yehiel's home but missed him. The letter deals with …
Recto: Letter from a Karaite in Alexandria to the Karaite Nasi David b. Hasdai, concerning support for the Nasi from the Karaite communities in the …
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Minute fragment in Hebrew script, medieval-era. Possibly documentary. Requires further examination.
Literary. Recto: catena of verses from Psalms 119, quoting the first verse of each alphabetical acrostic (including Psalms 119:1, 9, 17, 25, 33, 41, 49, …
Very damaged minute fragment, mentioning Yehoshu'a Halevi.
Letter in Judaeo-Persian.
On recto a dirge in Hebrew. On verso probably from book of Josiphon. AA
Bottom of a letter addressed at least in part to a woman. In Arabic script. "... and I will come to Cairo. O Ḥidhq! Whtever …
Legal record (#86) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on ff. 29v-30r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 28 Heshvan 5325 …
Block-printed amulet in Arabic. See Nick Posegay, "Solving European Writer’s Block in Jewish Cairo (T-S 20.188)," FOTM January 2023.
Brief note from Abu l-Rida to Abu Zikri. The writer will send what belongs to Abu Zikri with the shaykh Abu Ali. Salutations on verso …
Genealogical list of Shemuel b. Ḥananya's family. On verso there are several practice openings for a letter to a son in Arabic.
Unidentified document in Arabic, Hebrew, and possibly one other script.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions a turban.
Mathematical calculations with the labels maḥ[būb] and qurush on the verso. The dating is post-1703 CE based on the mention of the gold maḥbūb, so …
The letters on folios 16 and 23 are both addressed to an Avraham b. Yosef ha-Levi. The former at least is signed by a Shabbetay …
Header of a letter in Hebrew, probably 13th–15th century. Starts with בש רח וחנ then לקי then various verses followed by וג. Good candidate for …
Multifragment shelfmark. On the verso, one of the fragments comprises a minute portion of a document in Arabic, perhaps state or legal, with the final …
Fragment of a document in Arabic script. Maybe a letter or legal. Mentions a quantity in artāl (last line).
39 lines of praises for a dignitary titled Gaʾon. Goitein calls it "late," but it could be 13th century. (Information from Goitein's index card.)
Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Jerusalem. Dated: Friday, 6 Ṭevet 5211 AM, which is 11 December 1450 CE. Groom: Khalaf Allāh b. Yiṣḥaq. Bride: Sitt al-Banīn …
Recto: State document? Accounts in Arabic script in a chancery-esque hand.
Verso: Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Exhorts the addressee not to be forgetful and mentions an amīr and a loan. Reused on recto …
Accounts in Arabic on recto, medieval-era. The scribe made use of Coptic numerals. The neighboring shelfmark ENA 3256.16v was reused for the same vocalized piyyut …
Unidentified document in Arabic script, possibly a Fatimid or Ayyubid fiscal document (mentions words like "māl... al-dīwān... wa-kataba..."). On verso there's a curious drawing along …
Late account in Judaeo-Arabic.
Letter formularies, including a template for a son in Jerusalem writing to his mother. In Judaeo-Arabic.