Use keywords or phrases in any language to return matching or similar results across all fields. Arabic script searches will return both Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic transcription content.
Use Hebrew or Arabic script to find precise matches in the transcriptions. See How to Search page for advanced use cases.
{2}
{0,5}
.*
[יו]
shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Legal document. Fragment (upper left corner). The date is mostly broken off. Mentions [...] b. Shelomo ha-Mashmiaʿ (probably the equivalent of Arabic munādī, "crier") and …
No Scholarship Records
Letter from [Hi]llel b. Yeshuʿa to Shela b. Bū l-Khayr ha-Kohen. In Hebrew. Dating: Late, probably no earlier than 14th century. The sender had left …
1 Discussion
Fragment (left side) of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions "goods" (spelled חויג) and the cold. Dating: probably no earlier than 13th century.
Letter to Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE) on behalf of the lepers of Tiberias. Dating: approximately 1050 CE (per Gil). People with skin ailments …
....
הזה
1 Transcription
Letter in Arabic script.
Amulet. Very late.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Unusual tabular format. Distinct entries are headed by the word حط or خط with an elongated horizontal line. …
Booklet of four pages, listing contributions in dinars or fractions of a dinar. About seventy-two numbers preserved. The list is headed by the Nagid, who …
2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion
Minute fragment from the bottom of a legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100-1138). Signed by [...] Hakohen b. Halfon.
Report of the death of a Jewish woman named Sitt al-Dār bt. Yaʿqūb on Thursday, 8 Rajab 627 AH = 23 May 1230 CE. The …
Magical recipes for health, for sleep, to make peace between a man and his wife, to abort a dead fetus, to expel a stuck placenta, …
Unidentified document(s) in Arabic script.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Dating: 11th or 12th century.
Introductory phrases of a letter and jottings written in a childish script. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
1 Transcription 1 Discussion
Small fragment from the top of a legal document. Dating: probably second half of the 13th century; the date itself is missing. Location: Probably [Minyat …
Several fragments in the same hand, mostly bizarre Judaeo-Arabic compositions reminiscent of clanging in thought disorders (words associated on the basis of sound rather than …
Small fragment from the top part of a legal deed, with a prolonged introduction with praises for Mevorakh b. Saʿadya and his son Moshe (ca. …
Recto: Fifty-two closely written lines of a legal verbiage written by Hillel b. Eli, dealing with the settlement of the debt of half a dinar …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Fragment (lower right corner). Location: Cairo. No details of the case preserved; might …
Recto: Bottom part of a letter from Berakhot probably to Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–37). Concerning public affairs. Asking him to act with regard to certain …
Recto: Fragment of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso: probably poetry in a crude hand. (Information from CUDL)
Verso: fragment from a legal manual or formulary discussing protocol for the writing of a receipt for payment of a debt.
Fragment with extremely faded Hebrew script. Remarkable mainly for a drawing of a four-legged creature.
Receipt of rent, late, Ottoman era, in Arabic script. Maʿtūq al-Yahūdī paid two months of rent from Shaʿbān to Shawwāl for the shop he rented …
State document, in Arabic script. Probably a report beginning with taqbīl. Mamlūk-era.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Late, perhaps 17th–19th century.
Small piece of parchment. Verso includes three lines of Hebrew, probably literary. Recto includes an Arabic jotting, probably a later reuse.
Arabic poetry. On parchment. Looks old, perhaps 10th century or earlier. Contains the following verses by al-Imām al-Shāfiʿī: فمن لي بهذا] ليت أني وجدته لقاسمته …
List and accounts mentioning the names of Muslim months, personal names such as Abū l-Surūr al-Levi, Abū l-Munā and Abū l-Faḍl Sar ha-Leviyim, various sums …
Part of a legal document. Location: Rashīd (Rosetta). Dated: Wednesday, 1 Adar II 5323 AM = 24 February 1563 CE. Signed by Pinḥas b. Moshe …
Record of a state document in Arabic script, codex format. It must have spanned at least three folios in its original form; only one folio …
Trousseau list (taqwīm). Groom: Tamīm b. Netanel. Bride: Sitt al-Khafar bt. Elʿazar. 42 + 83 + 55 + 30 = 210 dinars. Dating: ca. 1182 …
Unidentified Hebrew; Arabic jottings in the margin, including one document draft mentioning Ibrāhīm b. Abū ʿAbdallāh al-Yahūdī. (Information in part from CUDL.)
IB V, 37, folio 8v. Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hod is to give the bearer 1 raṭl …
2 Transcriptions
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Ibn al-Nagid is mentioned. There is one line in Arabic script at the bottom. From line 6 onward, written in the hand …
Legal query written and signed by Yehuda Mas'ud. Ottoman period. Regarding a sarraflik partnership agreement for tax collection in one of the districts of Egypt …
1 Transcription 1 Translation 1 Discussion
Order of payment in Arabic script. The judge (al-dayyān) is asked to pay 4 dinars to the bearer Bū l-ʿIzz. Dated Monday the 20th of …
Much faded. The word לברתיה can be read, so it might be from a legal deed, but it can not be determined. AA
Letter from Moshe b. Mevorakh the Nagid to Abū l-Makārim. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer insists that the addressee come visit him on Shabbat at the …
Draft of a contract for a 2-year partnership in a drug store (dukkān al-ʿiṭr). Faded. Names: [...] ha-Kohen; Abū Yaʿaqov ha-Ḥazzan; [...] b. Abū Munā(?). …
Letter addressed to [Eliyyahu the Judge?] Ibn al-Rayyis al-Iskandarānī, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Only the upper left corner is preserved. The sender says he or …
Accounts.
Small fragment in Hebrew script, likely documentary. Two words are partially preserved.
Letter from a schoolteacher from Algeria (al-muʿallim al-qalʿī) who taught in small town in Egypt and travelled every year to Fustat to obtain a pesiqa …
Table of names in Arabic script with Greek/Coptic numerals.
Letter from Ismāʿīl b. Faraḥ, in Alexandria, to his son Faraḥ b. Ismāʿīl, in Būṣīr. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Gil suggests 23 September 1056 CE. This …
ולדי אלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם תאידך וסלאמתך וסעאדתך מן אלמסתקר אלאסכנדריה
ליב כלאת מן תשרי געלך אללה מן אלפאייזין ומן אלמקבולין ותקב…
2 Transcriptions 2 Translations 1 Discussion
Legal deed. In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated: 1 Shevat 5578 AM, which is 1818 CE. Declaring that Rica bt. Avraham ha-Kohen טרייקלי is "rebellious" (moredet) …
Letter addressed to a cantor (סידי אלחזאן היקר) consisting entirely of instructions about calendrical reckoning related to the current year 4838 AM = 1077/78 CE. …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. The handwriting may be known.
Recto: Letter from a certain Yiṣḥaq to Shemarya (the father of Elḥanan b. Shemarya). In Hebrew. Contains blessings for Elḥanan to take the place of …