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"
Original use: Accounts in Arabic script, probably fiscal. Dating: twice mentions the year 413 AH = 1022/23 CE. The sums mentioned are very large, e.g., …
No Scholarship Records
Mysterious fragment with a variety of drafted texts and writing exercises. Both in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. The dating is early modern (post-1500 CE) and there …
Literary? Text in Judaeo-Arabic that lists the different stages of life ('at 20... 40... 50... 60... 70...').
Minute fragment of accounts. Dated Muḥarram 1003 AH on the verso. The recto mentions an Ottoman military officer Maḥmūd Çavuş in the heading as well …
Remains of a legal deed in Hebrew. AA
Deed of lease. Location: Cairo. Dated: Monday, 27 Tammuz 1613 Seleucid = Shawwāl 701 AH, which is June 1302 CE. The elders of the Qaraite …
בשם ייי אל עולם.
הדא מא אתפקו עליה משאיך אליהוד אלקראיין ברוכים יהיו והו אן יאג'רו ללשיך
אלאג'ל אלצאפי אבו אלמחאסן ופקה א-ללה תעאלי אבן אלשיך א…
2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion
Note from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to his brother, the physician Abū Zikrī, written in an extremely cursive script. He informs Abū Zikrī that the turban …
1 Transcription 1 Discussion
Letter from the cantor Yosef b. Yaʿaqov, in a provincial town (Benhā is mentioned), to Abū l-Ḥasan Yefet b. Eli, in Malīj. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: …
1 Discussion
Fragment of a letter in Arabic script. The beginnings of 3 lines are preserved. Mentions "this month."
Recto, bottom: accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew numerals. This is unrelated to the list of Sabbath desecrators except that it seems to be in the …
Legal or communal document in the hand of Yefet b. David. Listing substantial sums of money, it seems both income and expenses. The Palestinian synagogue …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Detailed and well-preserved. People named: Ibn al-Maqāniʿī; Abū ʿAlī al-Ṣūrī; Zikrī b. Yaḥyā; Yūsuf b. A[...]; Yiṣḥaq b. Bundār (perhaps the same …
Letter from Avraham b. Yaʿaqov Der'i to Mevorakh b. Saadya. A new governor arrives at the city and is received by the leaders of the …
Legal deed. In Hebrew, with some Babylonian vocalization. Location: Fustat. Dated: Kislev 4787 AM = November/December 1026 CE. Maymūn b. Efrayim receives a loan of …
Three court records dealing with the same conflict over bay windows of two confronting houses which were touching. Dated: Tuesday, last decade of Shevaṭ, 1419 …
Recto: Medical recipes. In Judaeo-Arabic. The first includes ingredients such as Indian salt, anise, and chicory water. The second (for headaches and for excessive moisture …
Document in Arabic script, possibly. Badly damaged. Requires further examination.
Verso: Four lines of Arabic text, documentary. The paper was reused for Hebrew alphabetical practice on the recto and verso. Requires further examination.
Page from a large ledger of communal contributions c. 1800 CE.
Likely a small fragment of a decree. A few enormous words in Arabic script. Reused on recto for Hebrew literary text.
Didactic poetry with vocalization. Incipit: دعي الناس قد طال ما اتعبوك * ورد الى الله وجه الامل. On verso there are few calculations in dirhams.
IB V, 41b. Order of payment from Abū Zikrī Kohen. Munajjā is to give (the bearer?) 4 ounces of rose and lemon. (Information from Goitein’s …
Letter mentioning Abū l-Maʿālī, Josiah and Sittī al-kabīra). (Information from CUDL)
Documents: Bill of Declaration- iqrar - needs examination.
Narrative in Judaeo-Arabic; possibly Esther.
Letter from Shemuʾel b. Yaʿaqov b. Shemuʾel to his teacher Avraham b. Ḥaggay. In Hebrew. With greetings for the high holidays and a request for …
1 Transcription 1 Translation 2 Discussions
Letter in Hebrew, with part of the address preserved in Arabic script on verso. Mentions Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen ha-Za[qen], the wife of R. Yehuda, and in …
Legal document. In Hebrew. Location not specified. Dated: Tuesday, 4 days into ḥol ha-moʿed Sukkot 5325 AM, which is 1564 CE. Yiṣḥaq b. Avraham Medina …
Accounts in the hand of Nissim b. Ḥalfon, presented to Nahray b. Nissim; 1066 CE. Lists payments for various goods, made either directly or through …
לר נהראי [ ] מן גמלה אלורק
אלדי קבל האדי קאי ותלת ותמן
> קיר
לה בחק אלברקלו(?) מן אלצרה אלתי
וצלת מן אטראבלס א…
1 Transcription 1 Translation 1 Discussion
Letter from a father who had undertaken to pay the capitation tax for his son but was robbed. Asks the recipient to pay the tax …
Letter from Araḥ b. Natan (aka Musāfir b. Wahb), in Alexandria, to the Nagid Mevorakh, in Fustat. The sender and addressee are not named in …
1 Transcription
Image not available?
Letter addressed to 'the dear brother' Hārūn. In Judaeo-Arabic. Rudimentary hand, with interesting (late) spellings. Mentions Yiṣḥaq Sāsī. Needs further examination.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Minute fragment from a list of contribution to the poor.
Very faded letter from Hillel he-Ḥaver b. Avraham(?). In Hebrew. The layout is reminiscent of letters from Byzantine senders (see the publications of de Lange).
Letter of gratitude. In Arabic script. Full of expressions of patronage and no specific details. The sender's name may be Zayn and the addressee's name …
Several alchemical recipes written at all angles to each other.
Communal letter from the Baghdad Gaʾon Shemuel b. ʿEli (active last third of the 12th century). In the hand of Yosef b. Yaʿaqov Rosh ha-Seder. …
Letter in which a Kohen, who is in financial difficulties and is the father of girls, asks the Nagid Mevorakh to allow him to beg …
Recto: Legal query with responsum. Dating: First half of the 11th century. Concerning a cantor who took an oath not to lead prayers in the …
Court record. Written by Avraham b. Natan Av (Date: 1098–1114). (Or rather Hillel b. ʿEli?) The main party is a husband certifying in Jewish court …
Accounts with Hebrew and Coptic numerals, mentioning different quantities of dinars, expenses for craftsmen, and the title ṣāḥib al-baḥr (‘master of the sea’). (Information from …
Recto: Narrative text in Judaeo-Arabic. Relays a dialogue between Dāniyāl (al-Qūmisī?) and Yūsuf involving Qaraites. Verso: Two lines in Arabic script. Perhaps ʿUmar b. Yūsuf. …
List of personal and family names. Probably an alms list. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Names include: the cantor Yosef …
Fragment of a poetic letter in Hebrew. Mentions 'our master . . . Shelomo' and ha-Rav Moshe b. Sheʾrit and "your slave Yiṣḥaq" (probably the …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined. Legal text regarding marital engagement.
Recto: autograph responsa by Shemarya b. Elḥanan (active 966–1011 CE) with his signature. Verso: an abridgement of BT Yevamot 65b-72a. (Information from CUDL)
Verso: Letter of appeal from a poor man [...] ha-Levi addressed to the Nagid David I Maimonides (r. 1237–1300) or David II Maimonides (r. 1355–1410). …
Bottom of a letter, containing greetings to several individuals including the Nagid Yosef b. Yeshuʿa. There was a Nagid Yosef in the year 1458 CE …