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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Literary, Hebrew.
No Scholarship Records
Account of Nahray b. Nissim for three bales sent from Busir to Fustat, ca. 1045-1096.
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Small fragment of official correspondence in Arabic script, maybe a report or a decree. Reused on verso for Hebrew piyyuṭ. Requires further examination.
Small damaged and faded letter written on parchment. Only few words have survived.
Legal notes notarized by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Dating: Early 13th century. (1) Location: Cairo. Shelomo b. Yiṣḥaq had paid 30 dinars and Abū l-Faḍāʾil b. …
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Letter from Eliyyahu the Judge. He is prepared to give a refresher course in the reading of the Torah to Abū l-ʿAlā ha-Kohen and his …
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Document in Arabic script. State? Refers to al-Qāḍī al-Ajall. Needs examination.
Note, mentioning a matter involving the Bet Din that needs to be resolved quickly. Probably from the office of Yehoshuaʿ Nagid (d. 1355). Dealing with …
Small fragment from the right side of a letter in Arabic script. Mentions Hilāl in the margin.
Letter from Nissim b. Ḥalfon, from Tinnis, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. 1046. The writer describes his conflict with an Iraqi named Ibn al-Wāsiṭī. The …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם עזה ותאידה וסלאמתה
ונעמתה מן תניס יום אלערובה אעאד אללה עליה האדה אלאוקאת
אלמבארכה סנין בכתרה ואעוא…
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Recto: Document in a mixture of Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic. May mention "al-mamālīk" in the Arabic section. Then mentions parshiyot (al-fawārīsh) twice, including אלה הדברים. …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter addressed to Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd al-Jarīdī, in Yemen. Needs examination.
Letter from Farah b. Isma’il from Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1057. The letter contains details about shipments of coins, including coins that …
קד אסתכרת אללה גל תנאיה וחמלת למא קבל מולאי אטאל אללה בקאה ואדאם תאיידה וסעאדתה
עלי יד מוצל רקעתי הדה צרה דנ מכסרה אלוזן צ דינ יכון תמנהא ד…
Fragment of a state document, fragmentary lines preserved. The word "al-Nawāḥī" is visible. Reused for a Judaeo-Arabic fragment. . Probably a letter. The name Eliyyahu …
Beginning of a legal document written under the jurisdiction of David Maimonides. Dated: 12 Nisan 1576 Seleucid = 30 March 1265 CE. Location: Fusṭāṭ. (Information …
Accounting (taṣqīʿ) for the Qodesh in the hand of Shemuʾel b. Saʿadya ha-Levi. Dated: Sivan and Tammuz 1494 Seleucid = May–July 1183 CE. There are …
Legal document. Record of release. Location: Fustat. Dated: Second third of Elul 1482 Seleucid, which is August 1171 CE. The mutual release of the metal …
Letter from Fāṭima to her 'sister' al-Ḥājja Umm al-Barakāt. In Arabic script. Opens with greetings to Abū l-Faḍl and Nāṣir al-Dīn and his children, then …
اخت واولادها
والسلام على يونس وعبد الرحمن
وعبيد
ومن في البيت جميع //سلام الله تعالى// من النسوان والرجال
والنسا وعصم انه امركي يا خال…
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Accounts, in Arabic script and Coptic numerals.
Copy of a letter from an as-yet-unidentified Nagid, describing inter alia his appointment by the caliph. The interpretation of this document has been controversial ever …
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic.
IB II, 38. One of two (now three) copies of a poem by Avraham ben Yiju, praising Maḍmūn and cursing his enemies. Written in Aden. …
ולה איצא ימדח סידנא מצמון נגיד עם יי
Verso: Megillat Miṣrayim
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Business letter in Ladino to Avraham דאלותה (?) from "your little brother." Mentions people such as Menaḥem and Yiṣḥaq ha-Levi. Needs further examination
Many minute fragments, some from legal deeds. One piece refers to Maḍmūn the minister, probably Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan in Aden. There are also several legal …
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). In Arabic script. Dated: 2 Shawwāl 454 AH, which is 9 October 1062 CE. In which a Muslim acknowledges that he …
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Ketubba fragment. Opening only. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1[4]31 Seleucid = 1119/20 CE. Bride: Ḥusna/Ḥasana bt. Tiqva.
Verso: extensive accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Many names and transactions in raṭls are mentioned. Needs examinationl
Talmudic Commentaries: Might be by the hand of Halfon b. Netan'el Halevi. Needs further examination
Fiscal register (compare BL OR 5566B.3 and the other shelfmarks cited there). Cut up into (at least) seven pieces and reused to form a booklet …
Receipt for Bū l-Majd b. [...].
Letter. In Arabic script. Address only. Addressed to the faqīh [...] b. ʿAbd [...] b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, in the Muṣāṣa quarter of Fustat.
Recto: Legal testimony, possibly a draft. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: Sunday, 9 Iyyar 1559 Seleucid = 3 May 1248 CE. Location: Fustat. Involves Sulaymān al-Ṣayrafī al-Levi …
Small fragment of a marriage document. Might be related to the adjacent fragments.
Small fragment of a legal document. The first words of the first six lines are preserved.
Literary bifolio fragment with Arabic text on the margins - needs examination.
Letter from the French rabbi Shemuel b. Yaʿaqov. In Hebrew. Concerning communal controversy and bans of excommunication.
Petition, or a regular letter resembling a petition. In Arabic script. Tarjama in the right margin, but the sender's name is not clear (ʿIzār? ʿIdāl? …
Letter sent from Alexandria to Fustat, by Avraham b. Farah to Nahray b. Nissim, reporting on the arrival of ships in Alexandria and dealing with …
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Letter in Arabic script from Abū ʿAlī(?) Yefet(?) b. Avraham Ibn al-Amshāṭī. Mentions going to Abū ʿAlī b. al-Dimyāṭī (=Yeḥezqel b. Netanel ha-Levi) and borrowing …
Thousand and One Nights, from the chapter حكاية أنس الوجود مع محبوبته الورد في الأكما.
Accounts. (Information from CUDL)
Beginning formula of a legal document, dated 23 Ḥeshvan 1440 Seleucid (= 19 October 1128 CE) in Fusṭāṭ, in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe …
Probably a fragment from a document. (Information from CUDL.)
Small fragment of an Arabic document. Late accounts?
Reused for legal jottings in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE), which mention Sutūt the wife of Khalaf b. Qashqūsh; a real-estate …
Petition from the early Ayyubid period from Yehuda ha-Kohen to Eliyyahu requesting a meeting with the head of a government office regarding taxes for the …
Probably part of a legal document, though also resembles a chancery document. Very little is preserved: . . . اقف لل . . . الجبلي …