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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Letter addressed to the writer's 'father' Abū l-Faraj. Possibly from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Only the first two lines are preserved.
No Scholarship Records
Literary. In Arabic script. Wisdom literature.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic with a wide variety of coinage types and quantities. Dated 28 Kislev 5567 AM (9 December 1806 CE). There is an explanation …
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to Avraham b. Sahlan, Fustat. Dating: ca. 1030 (per Gil) and ca. 1025–1051 CE based on the years when Shelomo …
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Letter from Yosef Pidonil (? פידוניל) to his father. Dating: Late, perhaps 15th century or later. In Judaeo-Arabic. Note that many of the emphatic and …
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Letter, only a few words remain.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Late account in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic. Possibly mentions "Azharī" in the first row of entries on the recto. Requires further examination.
Accounts in a medieval-era scribal hand on verso. The paper was used for a student's writing exercises in Hebrew script. The shelfmarks ENA 3264.1-6 are …
Legal document. Sitt al-Fakhr bt. Peraḥya, the widow of Yeshuʿa b. Ḥalfon the cantor, confirms to have received from Nadiv b. Meshullam ha-Levi payments of …
Court record. Location: Fustat. Dated: last decade of Ḥeshvan 1465 Seleucid = November 1153 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Shemuʾel b. Ḥananya. In …
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Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda Gaʾon (in the hand of his son Avraham) to Egypt. Mentions oppressive laws and heavy taxes and punishments and requests …
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Letter in Hebrew by the muqaddam (head) of the community of Minyat Zifta, announcing that he had excommunicated a debtor according to an instruction by …
Account, potentially fiscal.
Medical prescription in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 12th or 13th century based on handwriting. Partial transcription on Goitein's index card. On recto there is a poem …
Letter to Berakhot Abū Ṭāhir. In Hebrew (first ~20 lines) and Judaeo-Arabic (last ~5 lines). Consists almost entirely of blessings. The sender asks for an …
Receipt in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated [1]201 Hijri and possibly with a month abbreviation (unless this portion spells פי). Mentions Mūsā Kohen and a weight of 3 …
Minute fragment preserving three words in Judaeo-Arabic, likely from a letter, praising the recipient's good deeds.
Verso (original use): Letter in Arabic script. Fragment (left side). Provides updates on receipt of prior letters; mentions 'al-dār al-saʿīda' and a qāḍī. Greetings to …
Recto: Letter in Arabic script (with the words שער הנשיאות in Hebrew) to a Nasi, by ʿImrān b. Muhājir. According to Goitein's note card, it …
المملوك الاصغر
عمران بن مهاجر
يقبل الارض بالمقر الشريف المولوي النبوي اعاد الله علينا
وعلى اولادنا بركاته واعتقادنا في شرفه وفي اعراقه
الز…
Medical prescription(s). In Arabic script. Numerous ingredients. On verso there are notes in Judaeo-Arabic and in Arabic script, apparently an additional recipe/prescription. The Judaeo-Arabic reads: …
First three lines of a legal document in Arabic script, likely a deed of acknowledgment (iqrār) for Maḥāsin b. Zayn b. Barakāt the Jewish banker.
Letter fragment probably from ʿEli b. Hillel to his brother-in-law Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (identification is tentative, based on comparison with T-S 13J19.5). In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions …
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th century or early 12th century. Mentions Abū Kathīr; the sender was distressed to learn that the addressee received …
Complete letter from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, Qalyub, to a family member in Fustat. He sent 23 dirhams with the bearer and gives instructions for …
ושלום ושלום ושלום
Ketubba fragment. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). This portion contains only part of the trousseau list.
Fragment of a legal query. Involves a gentile.
Documentary per FGP - needs examination.
Recto (as conserved; secondary inscription): tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 5 Ramaḍān 403 …
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Recto: letter in Arabic script. May refer to black silk (al-ḥarīr al-aswad). Reused on verso for probably a liturgical text with Judaeo-Arabic instruction יקול. (Information …
Blessings in Hebrew, likely from the top of a letter of appeal for assistance.
no image available. According to Mosseri Catalogue this MS contains small notes in Arabic regarding ordering of drinks. AA
Letters of thanks, drafts, mostly in rhymed prose, to Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq and his cousin Yosef b. Avraham, Aden, for their gifts and loyalty to …
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Letter from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, Qalyub, to a contact in Fustat. He heard that al-Shaykh al-Yesod would like to spend Shabbat in Fustat, and …
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Not much is preserved apart from greetings. Mentions the parnas Yiṣḥaq and Musallam ha-Kohen.
Letter sent by the head of the Jews, Sar Shalom ha-Levi Gaon b. Moshe, to the community of Qalyub confirming Moshe b. Levi as slaughterer, …
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Bifolio from a mysterious ledger. Contains some accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals, but also contains two entries that begin اصفح(?), and one may …
List of names, each followed by a sum (mostly 1 or 1/2, some 2). Dating: Beginning of 11th century, per Goitein. See Med Soc II, …
A legal deed 1180. NO IMAGE. (data from FGP)
IB III, 29. Letter written by the India trader Avraham Ibn Yiju after his arrival in Aden, to his brothers and sisters in al-Mahdiyya or …
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Legal document. Location: al-Maḥalla al-Kubrā. Dated: 12 Adar 1420 Seleucid = 14 February 1109 CE. In which Nāshī b. Menaḥem acknowledges receipt from Mevorakh b. …
Prayers and blessings that God protect the people of Israel – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 28) – in Hebrew. (information from …
Ketubba (marriage contract), formulary, found inside of a Palestinian prayerbook. The booklet also contains formularies for a bill of divorce and the husband's instructions to …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. On parchment. Dating: Likely 11th century. Refers to a request from al-Shaykh al-Jalīl to hasten something... someone's honor... someone's safe arrival... and …
Fragment of a letter from Efrayim b. Shemarya, around 1030 CE. Writes about the recent events in Mount of Olives (communal dispute of Hoshaʿna Rabba …
Draft of a court record. Location: Fustat. Mentions Mordekhai Ḥefeṣ, who was a ḥaver in the Bet Din of the Nagid in Egypt at the …
Legal document. The beginnings of ~9 lines are preserved. Referring to a gift and appointing an agent and "my son Manṣūr."
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to a brother. Mostly formulaic content is preserved.
Verso Letter probably addressed to Avraham Maimonides. In Judaeo-Arabic. Wide space between the lines. Concerning an orphan, when he reaches puberty, a will, and a …
Liturgy, Qaraite. Dating: Catalogued as 19th century.