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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Bifolios of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Late. Mentions Abū l-Khayr and several names of Muslims.
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Accounts in Arabic script on a reused literary fragment. Late. Some of the mentioned commodities are medical ingredients. Needs examination.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Court record in the hand of Yehuda b. Ṭuviyyahu ha-Kohen, who served as the muqaddam of Bilbays (ca. 1170–1218). An agreement between partners, including Manṣūr …
Tax receipt of some kind. The payer is a Jewish man possibly named Bishr b. Bū l-[...]. Dated: 19 Ṣafar 553 AH = 22 March …
Recto: Letter opening to Joseph the Nagid (יהוסף, probably the Nagid Joseph b. Samuel, from the second half of the 11th century CE). Only extensive …
Legal fragment. Court records. In Hebrew. Dating: 11th century, based on Goitein's assessment and perhaps based on the reference to the higher authority of the …
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Document in Arabic script. State document? Wide space between lines, upslanting.
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic from Avraham Dhabbāḥ probably to his sister in Fusṭāṭ/Cairo. He begs forgiveness for not yet having sent his brothers 27.5 qirsh …
Court record in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Location: Fustat. Dated: first decade of Tammuz 1471 Seleucid = June 1160 CE, under the authority …
Recto: Legal query addressed to Avraham Maimuni Nagid, though, it should be noted that he is not named directly among the many honorific titles. Written …
Part of a pre-nuptial agreement written under the authority of David b. Abraham (David Maimonides, r. 1237–1300 CE) concerning the groom Aharon and the bride …
Letter from Moshe b. Binyamin Ashkenazi, probably in Fustat/Cairo, to Avraham Castro, probably in Alexandria or Jerusalem. Dating: 16th century. The sender describes how "from …
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NB: This is not the correct shelfmark. Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. "Obtained [i.e., sums cashed from tenants] during the [Muslim] month Dhū l-Qaʿda corresponding to Nisan …
Recto: Mathematical table of the powers of 2 through 2^15 = 32768, all in Hebrew numerals. Verso: Ladino ditty signed by Moshe Ḥaddād, which reads …
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Ketubba fragment. In the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan. Dating: ca. 1160 CE. Bride: Sitt al-Nasab bt. Avraham ha-Kohen the parnas, a virgin. With some …
Fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Dating: likely Mamluk-era (13th–15th century). Mentions al-Ṣāliḥiyya; the army (al-ʿaskar); the justice of the sulṭān (ومولانا السلطان عادل); …
Receipt issued at a wakala in Būlāq for a transaction connected to rice and a shipping vessel from Dimyāt whose captain is named Muḥammad al-ʿAdāwī. …
Calendar in Hebrew script. Needs examination.
Official-looking account in Arabic script. Bifolium from a ledger. Fiscal account from the Fatimid arsenal/navy? Mentions the Red Sea (baḥr al-qulzum) and "the ships" (marākib) …
Verso (original use): Distribution list for cash and wheat for the poor of the Rabbanites, administered by the ḥaver (al-ḥibr) [...] and Yaʿqūb al-[...]. Written …
Small fragment of accounts.
Legal document. Partnership document. Dating: 1300-1350 (per Goitein). Mentions two partners, Abū al-Ḥasan b. Abū al-Faraj and Khalaf b. Ḥasan, who withdrew from a group …
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Receipt.
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic.
Bottom part of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic with some Hebrew. Dating: Likely 13th–15th century based on the hand and typical abbreviations (mam[lūk]). Very little of …
Business accounts. Written on parchment. Mentions Abū l-Walīd b. Elʿazar and Abū Luʾluʾ (this might also be another Abū l-Walīd) b. Elʿazar. Commodities include mummy …
Legal document. Court proceeding. Location: Fustat. Dated: last decade of Shevaṭ 1471 = January/February 1160 CE, under the authority (reshut) of the Gaʾon Netanʾel ha-Levi. …
A draft of a pre-nuptial agreement between husband and wife, contains most of the known stipulations found in marriage documents during the 12th century such …
Letter from Mardūk b. Mūsā to Nahray b. Nissim. Note that this shelfmark no longer exists, and Goitein's description does not correspond to Moss. II,118 …
Official correspondence. 7 lines are preserved. Catalogued as a decree concerning tax payment, but needs further examination. Mentions "the release of these seed advances" (khalāṣ …
Legal document written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Fragment (lower right corner). Dating: 1127–38 CE, under the authority of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon …
Page from a court ledger with some legal documents written by Avraham b. Nathan Av. One of the court records on the recto is dated …
This fragment contains a poem for marriage and part of marriage stipulations. The groom will not take a second wife (ואנה לא יתזוג ולא יתסרא); …
Literary text, in Arabic script. From a work on pharmacopoeia and materia medica, including religious invocations and a non-medical recipe for the preparation of a …
Bottom of a legal document, written in careful square letters.
Ottoman-era legal document (or letter with legal content?) addressed to Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad b. Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad dated 19 Shaʿbān 930 = 1524 CE. Mentions …
Small fragment with unidentified Arabic, likely documentary.
Dietary laws concerning animals and birds. CUDL
Document in Arabic script. Reused for Targum of Exodus 29:25–46.
Account of payments to officials and to the families of deceased officials during the sixteenth week of the liturgical year. R. Menashshe, so frequently mentioned …
Magical text in Judaeo-Arabic.
Bill of debt issued in Cairo in 1509/10 CE (5270 AM) to be paid to David Di Medina and his brother Avraham in 10 Ducati …
Preprinted accounting documents, unused. 19h-century.
IB VII, 32. Draft of a court record dated 623 (1226) written on a very small piece of paper (4 x 2.5 in) regarding the …
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Legal document. Testimony. Dated: Sivan 1470 Sel. = May-June 1159 CE. Testimony around the engagement of Tamīm b. Abū al-Faraj and Fakhr bt. Yosef, imposing …
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