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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Legal record(s) in the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Fragment (right side of recto). Partial translation: "When our master the qāḍī purchased …
No Scholarship Records
Legal query with responsum. Concerning tefillin. Late. Striking signatures.
Small fragment of a letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe. Probably sent to one of his brothers. Damaged.
Recto: Fragment of a legal document, referring to transactions and mentioning Ibn al-Bayrūtī and ‘in the hand of Abū ʿAlī ha-Levi’. Verso: jottings. (Information from …
Letter fragment (upper part of recto, address on verso). From the cantor Yefet b. ʿAmram Ibn al-Jāzfīnī to Shelomo b. Shela ha-Sar" On recto, the …
Letter in Judaeo-Persian. Needs examination
Recto: Left side of a letter addressed to a notable certifying the kashrut of the large molds (qawālib kibār) of כיאסי cheese and rennets (manāfīḥ) …
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Opening of a letter, with address on verso; no names preserved. (Information from CUDL)
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IB I, 22. Draft of an oath to be taken by Yosef Lebdi in which he enumerates his assets. Due to the litigation between Yosef …
Joseph b. David—may he rest in Eden!—will swear, on behalf of David, the son of his brother Solomon—may he rest in Eden!—
that he never ch…
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Almost certainly the address of the letter in the previous shelfmark: from Alexandria (מנאמון) to Cairo (למצרים), to Fratelli Najjar. Again mentions Moshe Castro in …
Might be a fragment of an old ketubba. Very damaged and faded.
Verso: Legal document, in Arabic script. A divorce document involving a high-level Ayyubid official described as one of the mamlūks of al-Malik al-ʿĀdil (aḥad al-mamālīk …
Fragment, probably of a letter, blank verso. Needs examination.
Letter draft in Italian on a bifolium which may have constituted a broader notebook. The year 1814 CE appears on the left bifolium of the …
Formal petition in Judaeo-Arabic from a group of (sugar?) laborers to a notable titled Peʾer ha-Qahal, (‘the crown of the congregation'). Header: Psalms 41:2. In …
Recto: Informal note addressed to Abū l-Faḍl asking him for a favor of some sort. On verso additional notes in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. …
Document in Latin script. Needs examination.
Legal fragment. In Hebrew. Late. Signed: Natan ha-Sofer b. Avraham.
Order(s) of payment? Mentions the name Sulaymān. Written in a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. On recto there is an "emet" followed by the …
Medical fragment with recipes to treat eye complaints, preparations of collyria, and ingredients include sagapenum and sarcocolla. CUDL
Karaite prenuptial agreement. Dated Sunday 21st Heshvan 5511 AM (1750 CE). Location: probably Cairo, "on the property" of the prospective groom Shalom Levi. The prenuptial …
Minute fragment from the bottom part of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi under the authority of Masliah Gaon, with a partial …
Letter in Hebrew. Dating: Late, probably no earlier than 15th century. Seems to be warning the addressees about a man who might trick them.
Small, official-looking receipt. A notation in Judaeo-Arabic on verso reads "shahr ramaḍān."
Monograph; rules concerning marriage. All written by Joseph Rosh Ha-Seder
Tiny fragment in Hebrew characters.
Legal document in Arabic script. Brief debt contract, probably, mentioning the name [Man?]ṣūr b. Bū Saʿd.
List of appointments/gatherings. Headed "to be organized, with the help of God the exalted" (מא ירתב בעון אללה תע). "New Cairo, Thursday, early: an appointment …
Fragment of a marriage contract between ʿEzra b. Menahem and Jawhara bt. [...], a virgin. Dating: mid-11th century, since ʿEzra b. Menaḥem signed T-S 10J28.2 …
Un-conserved, so no numbers allocated to each fragment yet. Among the five minute frgaments in this folder there is one legal document written by Efrayim …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Accounts.
Bifolio of accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Messy handwriting. Fol. 1r begins "alladhī qabaḍa Mūsā..." Mentions soap; a chicken; wheat; something in the …
Letter or official correspondence. The left side of the document is preserved. The sender refers to himself as 'mamlūk.' Difficult to figure out any of …
Accounts of expenditures and income, mentioning dancers, and names such as Abū l-Faḍl, Abū l-ʿAzz and Elijah, with Hebrew, Coptic (?) and Arabic numerals. (Information …
Verso: Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic with occasional Hebrew. Wide space between the lines. In the hand of Natan b. Shemuel? Includes the rather violent lines, …
Accounts with European numerals, mentioning names such as Moshe, Yosef, Shemuʾel and David. (Information from CUDL)
Contract of a lease. In Arabic script. Fragment: only the first 3 lines are preserved here. The tenant may be Ṣadaqa b. ʿAyyāsh.
Business letter to Nissim, probably not earlier than the 14th century, referring to trade in Syria and Egypt. The brother-in-law of Zechariah is mentioned. Information …
Calendar/liturgy.
Accounts in Hebrew and perhaps another language and western Arabic numerals in the margins of a literary work. The remainder of the folios under this …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (active 1100–38 CE). Two fragments from the top. Seems to be the resolution/settlement of a …
Responsum (FGP)
Two legal documents in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (active 1100–1138 CE). Verso: end of a court record regarding the marriage of Qaraite woman …
List of the Islamic months in Judaeo-Arabic. Late.
Printed treatise in Ladino and Hebrew. Translation of Mishna Avot.
Probably medical prescriptions in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic, listing materia medica and quantities and containing phrases like "min kull wāḥid."
Letter from Barhūn b. Iṣḥaq al-Tāhartī, in al-Mahdiyya, to ʿAyyāsh b. Ṣedaqa, in Fustat. Dating: 21 October 1049. The writer asks ʿAyyāsh to step in …
כתאבי יאכי וסידי אלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך וצרף אלאסוא ענך ברחמתה
ען סלאמה ונעמה ושוק אליך לח בקין מן [מרח]ש[ו]ן וקד ת…
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Bifolio of official-looking accounts in Arabic script. Needs further examination.
Cotton bag for amulet, with inscriptions in Arabic.