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"
Mentions someone named Ibrāhīm b. Maḥbūb al-Muhandis in l. 3, a witness, and money (ʿayn).
No Scholarship Records
Text block in Arabic script as well as a rhymed Hebrew poem about the buying, stuffing, and marinating in wine of the greatest chicken in all the land. See Khan, Documents, p. 316 (note 48).
Joins: Ezra Chwat and Alan Elbaum. (Information in part from Goitein's index card.)
1 Transcription 1 Discussion
Curse in Judaeo-Arabic, involving calling down fire on two people: "... send down upon you two a burning flame of fire and bronze..." (yursil ʿalaykumā shuwāẓ min nār wa-nuḥās). (Information in part from CUDL.)
Accounts, mentioning almond gum, tamarind, mastic; Munjib; various sums of money; 24 dirhams on the first of Muḥarram; and 20 dirhams someone received from his wife.
Groom: Maymūn b. Yosef. Bride: Sitt al-Dalāl. There are conditions about financial support, place of residence, and the phrase "manzil wa-ḥammām" appears.
Mentions buying something and expresses gratitude to Abū Saʿīd al-Melammed. There appears to be one word in Arabic script on verso (underneath אמונה אמן ושלום).
In the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi. Join: Alan Elbaum.
Acknowledgment made by [...] al-Lebdī. Cf. T-S 6J2.11 (PGPID 5359) and T-S AS 165.190 (PGPID 5368).
peoples such as the Crusaders (al-ifranjī) and Berbers (?). (Information from CUDL.)
Mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic, mentioning Qayrawān and al-Mahdiyya, written prior to 1057 CE. Mentions people such as Abū Naṣr [Dāvid?]
(Information in part from CUDL.) Join: Alan Elbaum
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. "And you think it's alright to leave the girl perplexed? . . . she has taken someone who will protect/conceal her and sat/settled... we had hoped from you that you would send..."
Mentions someone titled Peʾer ha-Qehilot, Sitt al-Nasab, Yeshuʿa, and Bū l-Faraj "the husband of her mother."
Mentions "her husband," coming back, a guaranty (al-ḍamān), something Venetian (bunduqī), and the phrase "תכלץ דמתך מן."
The addressee is called 'nuṣrat al-mujāhidīn' among other titles. Dating: Ayyubid or Mamluk.
Letter in Arabic script to the writer's father, Abū Isḥaq Ibrāhīm b. Shubbāṭ al-Siqillī. Only the opening greetings and the address are preserved.
1 Transcription
Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. Names include Ibn al-Rūmī (l. 7) and Abū Yaʿqūb b. Yeshuʿa (penultimate line).
The name of the scribe is ʿAbd al-[...]. On verso there are culinary or medical recipes in Judaeo-Arabic.
T-S AS 202.272 needs examination. Join: Alan Elbaum.
: واطلق بالتوقيعات العالية في شهور . . . . Some sort of ʿalāma or registration at upper left.
Page from a volume of seliḥot to be read during the 10 days of repentance, with an ownership/purchase note by the cantor Yefet b. ʿAmram b. Moshe Ibn al-Jāzfīnī. See Moss. V,333.1 (PGPID 16949) and the shelfmarks cited there.
(Information from Goitein's note cards) Child's alphabetical writing exercises. (Information from CUDL)
1 Discussion
(Information from Goitein's note cards) Arabic and Hebrew alphabet practice. (Information from CUDL)
Overtext: Writing practice of the Hebrew alphabet, and a Judaeo-Arabic list of birds, perhaps a translation of the unkosher birds from Leviticus/Deuteronomy.
On verso there is the Coptic alphabet. Needs further examination.
Information from http://www.investigacion.cchs.csic.es/judeo-arabe/sites/investigacion.cchs.csic.es.judeo-arabe/files/Genizah-Al-Andalus.pdf.
Dated: Looks like 5334 AM, which would be 1573/74 CE but the third digit is not clear (alternate readings: 5354 AM and 5394 AM). Currencies mentioned include sharīfī.
The colophon identifies its young author as affiliated with Madrasa al-Qarabiyya, one of the first government-funded primary schools in Egypt.
1 Transcription 1 Translation 1 Discussion
Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE) concerning Sitt al-Furs bt. Daniʾel ha-K[ohen]. Might mention the name Yehuda at the bottom but this is damaged and uncertain.
It seems to be addressed to the director of the bureau of mosques (mutawallī dīwān al-jawāmiʿ wa-l-masājid), asking for his permission for something (bi-idhnihi lahu fī dhālika).
The names are written mainly in Arabic script along with weights (e.g., raṭl, raṭl wa-nuṣf). Names include Umm Zuhayr, R.
Table of items in Arabic script. All of them seem to be foods/spices/perfumes/materia medica, such as chicory (hindibāʾ), caraway (karāwiyya), and pomegranate blossom (jullanār).
Four different entries, each with its own set of ʿalāʾim. The one on verso is dated [13 Dhū l-Ḥijja?]
The sender is preparing for the winter. They ask ʿAbd al-Raḥmān to pray for them. Mentions drugs/perfumes (ḥawāʾij ʿiṭr).
Groom: [...] b. [...] ha-P[arna]s. Bride: Sitt al-ʿIzz.
Note from Yaʿaqov the agent of Abū Saʿd b. Mufaḍḍal al-Sukkarī (same as in T-S NS 264.48 (PGPID 24564)?)
The beginning is: "ḥaḍrat mawlāya al-shaykh". Only formulary. The draft is surrounded by a rectangular design frame.
Mentions Sālim b. [...] al-Ḥalabī; Sālim b. Avraham; Asyūṭ and its environs; the number 27 and "2 1/4 every month"
Power of attorney in which Moshe appoints Berakhot as his agent to sue Abū l-Surūr Peraḥya al-Ḥayfī known as Bū Farajūn (or Ibn Farajūn?).
Groom: Natan. Bride: Sitt al-Turaf bt. Yeshuʿa, virgin. witnesses: Yosef b.
Release in the name of Naṣrallāh b. Salmān b. [...] al-Skandarī, in which he declares that he has no further claims on a long list of people, it seems following the death of somebody.
Probably a deed of sale, since most of the remaining text is describing the boundaries of a property in Qaṣr al-Shamʿ.
There is an addendum in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning Sulaymān b. Yiṣḥaq al-Qaysī(?). Needs examination. The fragment is reminiscent of BL OR 10578H.25 (PGPID 33708).
Letter from Shemarya b. Yakhin, in al-Maḥalla, sent to Shemuel ha-Nagid dealing with the production of cheese in Bashmur and its transport to Fustat.
He reports that Abū l-Surūr has already traveled.
Two entries are preserved. The phrase "ʿan al-mamʿūl fīhā" is preserved in both. There is a number (433?)
The shelfmarks ENA 3077.8–13 all appear to be related, including pen trials, accounts, and poetry in Ladino.
Mentions the kāshif (prefect) Ikhtiyār; Sharaf al-Dīn; a sum of 225 peraḥim;