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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Payroll [similar to T-S K15.9] in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu, for the seventh and eighth weeks of the liturgical calendar. Mostly same names …
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Responsum of Maimonides. Blau edition #308
No Scholarship Records
There are multiple fragments under this shelfmark; some of them are joins. A, fol.1 - Accounts, in Arabic script.
Lists of names in Hebrew and in Arabic script, among them Efraim b. Shemarya. The others include Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen b. Yosef; Shemuʾel b. Yosef; YKBR(?) …
Letter from a widow, with one orphaned daughter and whose house had collapsed, petitioning a high-ranking official in the community for assistance. The woman employs …
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Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentioning Abū l-Surūr. Excerpts: ואלדראהם . . . ואנפדתהא ל . . . ענדה . . . ולא …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. ENA NS 12.25 consists of two fragments that do not immediately look like a join but do appear to belong together. Mentions …
Letter dated September 1040 (Gil), sent from al-Mahdiyya by Yahya b. Musa al-Majjani to Zechariah b. Tammam in Fustat. The letter deals with a financial …
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Literary text, in Hebrew script. Needs examination.
Business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Abū l-Fakhr and Tripoli (Libya).
Note on vellum sent on the evening following the day of Atonement, asking to return liturgical material for the feast of Tabernacles, which the writer …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Unidentified document, in Arabic script.
Recto: Informal mercantile letter in Arabic script. Dating: Probably 11th or early 12th century. The sender reports that he sent the garment with Mūsā. Mentions …
Deed of lease in Arabic script. The lessee is a Christian (al-Naṣrānī). On verso there is a faṣl/note probably related to the deed. Needs examination.
Fragment of a communal letter in Hebrew. Moderately wide spacing between the lines. Contains praises for a distinguished scholar and addresses 'our brothers, the holy …
Legal document concerning a real estate sale in the Karaite quarter. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: Monday, 20 Av 5436 AM, which is 1676 CE …
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Letter from Avraham b. Menaḥem to (his brother?) Yosef Menaḥem. In Hebrew. Late. Also greeting Shemuel, Yosef, Binyamin, and others. The sender reports on his …
Two pages from an Arabic literary text on logic (manṭiq), pivoting around the theme of qiyās.
Recto: Beginning of the opening of a letter. Verso: Address in Arabic script, to al-Nasi Shelomo in Cairo (most likely Shelomo b. Yishay, 13th century. …
יוצל כב גד קד
ור ונ וג מא אמונה אומן بلغ ץך
يوصل الى القاهرة …
Digest of a legal document. Probably in the cursive hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. For a partnership in a shop in Cairo. One partner …
Recto: Fragment of an official document in Arabic script. The preserved text contains a string of official titles: "Jamāl al-Dīn... ʿUmdat al-Mulūk, Fakhr al-Umarāʾ, Majd …
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Letter addressed to Ibn Shemarya al-Siqillī (the Sicilian). Little of the content remains. (Information from CUDL)
Small fragment in Hebrew, possibly from a letter.
Literary text in Ladino.
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif to one of his brothers. Fragment (upper right corner of recto). Mentions Abū ʿAlī. Essentially no information is …
Letter in Hebrew dated 1791/92 CE (552 = וינטלם וינשאם) from the Jewish community of Jerusalem to the Jewish community of Pisa, begging for financial …
Verso: tax receipt, or possibly credit instrument? Contains an ʿalāma at the upper right, maybe, and a jahbadh signature at the bottom. Also contains the …
Letter from Zakkay b. Moshe to the ḍāmin (tax-farmer) Abū l-Bishr Mevasser ha-Kohen b. Salmān. The writer, a scribe in al-Maḥalla, describes his work of …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Dating 16th-century or later based on the paleography. The first section of accounts on the recto lists "people" collectively in …
Ketubba fragment for Peraḥya ha-Kohen and 'Banīna the virgin bride.' Signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shelomo and Yosef ha-[...]
Non-Geniza. Letter from Shemuel, in Halych, to his son Yosef b. Shemuel in יפה יער(?). In Hebrew. Information from NLI.
Letter, most probably, in Arabic script. The name Bū l-Faraj is readable in an otherwise fragmentary piece.
Faded accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Account for a sale of flax, probably in Tripoli (Libya), 1025. The flax is sold by bale, of unequal weight. The bales arrived to Tripoli …
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Document(s) in Arabic script. Likely official correspondence. Recto and verso look like different hands, and each has portions of ~4 lines preserved. Recto may mention …
Minute fragment' very dark, with few words from an Arabic document.
Medical prescription in Arabic script.
A narrow strip probably from a dowry list in a ketubah.
Writing exercises based on a business letter. "I have sent you with Abū l-Faraj.... use it to buy 20 dinars of cinnamon... a dinar of …
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Register of dowry items (taqwīm). In Judaeo-Arabic. With additional jottings in Hebrew script and Arabic script. Dating: Late, perhaps 14th–16th century. Sefaradi hand. One of …
Court decision in the hand of Avraham Maimonides. Sulayman ha-Kohen al-Naqqad suspected the trustworthiness of al-Rasuy in matters of money, and the latter gave oath …
Part of an official letter or petition, addressed to a caliph based on the raʾy clause and caliphal blessings: "ولمولانا صلوات الله عليه علو [الراي]". …
Fragment of an agreement for a planned engagement. Location: Cairo. Dated: Nisan 1502 Seleucid = 1191 CE, or perhaps 15[4]2 Seleucid = 1231 CE. The …
Calligraphic letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender has only 20 dinars and a male slave (waṣīf). He intends to sell the slave for 30 dinars and …
Literary text in Judaeo-Arabic. Advice on how to succeed against enemies, on a journey, etc. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. The muqirr: Ibrāhīm b. Siwār b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz acknowledges that he owes wheat. Needs examination.
Legal fragment. Location: Fustat. Dated: 13[..] Seleucid, which is 988–1088 CE. Needs examination to determine if any of the substance is salvageable. One of the …
Accounts mentioning the currencies mashṭ and kalb. Dating: perhaps post-1575 CE based on the mention of "kalb" coinage, which is probably a reference to Dutch …