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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
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Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Small fragment containing only legalese, possibly related to the neighboring shelfmark T-S Misc.34.42 …
Magical text in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic. Mentions dream reading.
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Bottom part of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: no earlier than 1425 CE based on the mention of the currency ashrafī. Describing at length a …
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1[.]61 Seleucid, probably 1461 Seleucid, which would be 1149/50 CE. Zayn b. A[...] gives a release to Abū l-Barakāt Hibat …
Piyyut.
Recto: part of a letter from the daughter of Hillel b. ʿEli (and wife of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe) to her brother ʿEli b. Hillel the …
Small fragment of accounts, mentioning wages and dinars. (Information from CUDL)
Long business letter mainly in Hebrew. Dating: Late, probably Ottoman-era. At the top of recto there is a summary of accounts with R. Avraham during …
Recto, with the address on verso (probably secondary use): Letter from Abū Saʿīd, in an unknown location, to his brother Sibāʿ, in Fustat. In Arabic …
Letter, small fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Likely a mercantile letter of the 11th century. Mentions the ship (markab) of al-Jazzār; mentions 9 people and a rent/hire …
Letter, introduced by a citation from Psalms 72:7. (Information from CUDL)
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic, reused for sums.
Legal document in Arabic script. Dated: 20 Shawwāl 741 AH = 8 April 1341 CE. Seems to be a debt contract in which two people …
Bill of divorce of Badra bt. Shemuel. Signed by Shalom b. Pinḥas and Zekharya b. Yosef. Looks Yemeni.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Widened line spacing. Specifying the conditions for a marriage, including that "he …
Recto: Fragment (right side) of a legal document invoking the reshut of David b. Avraham b. Moshe Maimonides, so mid-13th-century (r. 1237–1300 CE). Without the …
Legal document, small fragment. Probably from a ketubba.
Small fragment of a legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). No details preserved. Mentions the parties "striving in this" …
Recto: Deed of sale for a female slave (the term waṣifa appears in ll. 2 and 6). In Arabic script. Dating: probably 11th or 12th …
Letter addressed to Avraham Kohen, in Istanbul. Dated: Shevat 5409 AM, which is 1649 CE. In Hebrew. "We have not received any letter from you …
Court record, referring to […] b. Nissim ha-Kohen, someone named Sh[...], and a sum of 4 dinars + 2/3 + 1/8. (Information in part from …
Verso: beginning of a draft letter from the (Rabbanite) community in Fusṭāṭ to a community in Palermo, Sicily (מדינת צקליה). Dating: early 11th century. (Information …
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List of names in Arabic script of unclear significance. Mentions: Ibrāhīm b. Ṣāʿid al-Yaḥudī... Yūsuf, Fāḍil, and Fāḍila... "his wife" Sitt al-Nās. On verso jottings …
Damaged fragment from the bottom of a legal deed. On verso there are some more faded words, not necessarily connected with recto.
Receipt for 1/3 dinar for the capitation tax of Yaʿqūb b. Isḥāq al-Yahūdī in al-Maḥalla for the year 520 AH = 1126/27 CE. Begins "tadhkira …
(I) Addendum (faṣl) to a ketubba concerning a gift made by the doctor Abū l-Surūr Sason to his daughter at the time of her engagement …
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Letter of recommendation from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides (b. 1310–d. 1355 CE) for the bearer who is named Moshe. See Moss. II,177 for another …
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Minute fragment of a Fatimid state document, probably (verso). Huge line spacing.
Accounts in Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Writing exercises in Judaeo-Arabic in a 13th-century hand.
A brief, informal letter in Arabic script, instructing the addressee to do something with the bearer and something about "the market tonight." Written on a …
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
قد كنت سالتك يامولاي اطال الله بقاك في ان
يعتبر حال مقداد بن الحسن
موصلها وبه طرفا(؟) محنة ولي في ذلك عرض
فاخر ان ي…
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Recto: Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to his paternal aunt Umm Daʾūd, asking for her daughter Sitt al-Yumn in marriage and enquiring about the dowry. …
למה כאן יום אלאתנין אלכאמס ואלעשרין
יי' אורי וישעי וג' מן שחר תמוז שנת אלפא וחמיש(!) מאה ותלתין
His son Solomon b. Elijah, (may) G(od) b(e) h(is helper).
It happened that on Monday, the twenty-fifth -
God is my light and…
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Business accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Recto is in two columns and verso is in one column. Recto is particularly messy. Mentions …
Recto: letter fragment in Hebrew (טובה יתר . . . הראשון ואני במהרה . . . על כבודך . . . שמעתי היה לך צער …
Small fragment of a letter written by Yefet b. Menashshe Halevi
Possibly a letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Faded. Switches into Arabic script for accounting (al-jumla...).
Birth records. In Italian and Hebrew. Dated: 1747 CE through 1756 CE. For the boys, the names of the sandak and mohel are given.
Bottom of a legal document. On parchment. Written and signed by Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Unclear if any specifics are preserved; someone is …
Arabic text on verso, perhaps documentary. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Legal document mentioning [...] b. Naḥman ha-Kohen, possibly the dissolution of a partnership, and 21 1/4 dinars. Written in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe …
Ketubba fragment (upper left corner). Bride: Bahiyya bt. Yosef, a virgin. Early marriage payment: 20 dinars. Dating: ca. 1040 CE (per Goitein). There is a …
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Literary text in Arabic script.
Formularies for divorce-related documents. The one on recto is clearly based on a real document and a real case, but gives "peloni" for the month …