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"
Accounts that note "פצה / silver" and "bunduqi / ducats" as a monetary labels on the recto and that uses Hebrew alphanumerical characters throughout. On JRL SERIES C 45, the word "ווצול" is used (which denotes payment).
No Scholarship Records
Dated: 28 R[abīʿ] I 1226 AH (1811 CE). Mentions al-Muʿallim Ibrahīm b. Amīn and Khwājā Yūsūf. Name of the notary at the bottom of the document and on the seal maybe readable.
It consists entirely of poetic expressions of longing followed by praises and blessings. Alternate readings (ASE): - اسائل instead of اسال in l2 (no significant difference for the translation).
1 Transcription 1 Translation 1 Discussion
Fragment filled with Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew written at all angles. The main blocks of Arabic script consist of lists, at least one of which might be a table of contents of a book.
Verso: pen exercises, including alphabets. (Information in part from CUDL)
Involves [Abū l-]Karam(?) known as Ibn al-Shavuy and [...] b. ʿAdiyya ha-Zaqen and a debt of 3.5 dinars.
Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Sitt al-Dār has appointed her husband Ṣedaqa as her agent.
Regarding a man who wishes to divorce his wife and pay her ketubba "in installments" (i.e. not at all). Information from Amir Ashur via FGP.
Order of payment, instructing al-Raṣuy to give 5 nuqra dirhams and 15 wariq dirhams to Eliyyahu the Judge which he had loaned for [...], and 12 dirhams for the lighting, and 3 dirhams for "jarīd" (=lulavs?).
1 Transcription 1 Discussion
Avraham Maimonides' years of service as Nagid support an inferred date range estimate of 1213-1237 CE (he bore the title Rayyis al-Yahūd from 1205–37 CE).
1 Transcription
Abū Yūsuf to Manṣūr b. Yefet Abū l-Ḥasan al-Dimashqi. Recto and verso are in different hands; the layout of recto resembles the title page of a literary work.
Yehezqel ha-Levi, urging him to come to court because of alimony claims from his wife, threatening him with a heavy fine should he not oblige.
2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion
Letter from Barhun b. Salah al-Tāhartī, from Fustat, to Nahray b. Nissim, probably in the Delta area.
כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאד[תך]
ואצרף אלאסוא ענך ברחמתה מן מצר לי בקין מן אדר ראשון ען סלאמה
ללה בהא אלחמד דאימ…
2 Transcriptions 1 Translation
Abū l-Ḥasan b. Abū Mansur al-Kohen, known as Ibn Qasāsa, receives from Avraham b.
from the book belonging to the Persian (al-ʿAjamī) staying with the Jew who speaks on his behalf (?)
Containing blessings for the Gaon Maṣliaḥ and the India trader Abū l-Barakāt Ibn al-Lebdī. Reused on verso for an elegy for a young man.
Rescript of the judges of the court appointed by the Nagid Mevorakh to the community of al-Mahalla, advising the community in strongest terms to take back their judge who had left.
(1-2) Proceedings that took place in our presence, etc. Whereas there came to our attention the state of affairs in our beloved and …
2 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion
Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). Bride: Sitt al-Kull, a virgin. Early marriage payment: 10 dinars.
1 Discussion
Abū l-Riḍā b. Hilāl and Abū ʿAlī Samawʾal b. Maḥāsin, and possibly other names in between or after.
It looks like there are at least three distinct documents pasted together, including one with a remnant of an ʿalāma in very large letters. The main document resembles a commercial dār receipt (see tag); merits further examination.
One party is Isḥāq b. Manṣūr al-Yahūdī. Information from Khan, Arabic Legal and Administrative Documents in the Cambridge Genizah Collections, p. 46.
Qūrīl (=Cyril), apparently a Coptic civil servant (al-[...] fī l-dīwān). Includes a description of his physical appearance (as is usual for iqrārs).
Mentions 20 mithqāls of amber or ambergris and al-ḥakīm. (Information from CUDL)
Describing how after lengthy litigation it was determined that [...] known as Ibn ʿAbdallah owed 3 dinars to the elder al-Asʿad. (Information in part from CUDL.) Handwriting of Mevorakh b.
Parties are [...] b. Ṣedaqa and Sitt al-[...] bt. Natan, probably a couple getting engaged or married.
Document (draft) mentioning several sums of money in dinars and the Nasi, the teacher Abū l-Faraj, Sitt al-Ahl the mother of Abū l-Ḥasan and Ṣedaqa. (Information from CUDL.)
Involves two people reaching an agreement over monthly payments. Mentions Avraham al-Wakīl, [...] b. Khallūf and Abū l-Ḥasan. (Information in part from CUDL)
Verso: letter, mentioning Fusṭāṭ, a certain Abū ʿAlī and living arrangements of certain people. A certain Joseph sends best of greetings.
The sender conveys distress about the addressee's distance from his children and over someone's loss of prestige (kasr al-jāh). There are prayers that God shelter everyone.
(Or rather this phrase is something like فقرأت اكثر and not someone's name at all.) Probably a join with T-S AS 155.412.
Recto: letter from the 16th century, mentioning the names Abraham Ibn Ṣūr, Reuben the Babylonian, Abraham Nuniʾel (נוניאל), Faraj Allah the proselyte, and Yequtiʾel. Verso: an abbreviated blessing for the bearer of the letter and an abbreviated curse for whoever may intercept it and open it without permission.
On verso there is a note in response, acknowledging receipt of the order and indicating that the addressee has already filled it or is working on filling it. Verso is very busy with several other sorts of text, too.
Isḥāq, likely for what he owes as the tax farmer of something (min jumlat mā ʿalayhi ʿan [ḍamānih?]...). On verso there is petition-like text, possibly a draft or possibly the bottom of an actual petition that was torn up for scrap paper.
There is one line of documentary interest on verso: "Sitt Naʿīm the landlady (ṣāḥibat al-ār) received what was due for the month of the holidays, Elul and Tishrei, and she is still owed. . . ."
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic with Greek/Coptic alphanumerals. Medieval-era. One of the entries mentions a burniyya ceramic pot (ברניה).
Names mentioned include Eliʿezer al-Griego and Yosef b. ha-Ḥakham. Currencies include קרונה, גדיד, and פצה.
Moshe ha-Kohen (see T-S NS 321.12 (PGPID 9213)), [...] al-Maḥallī, possibly Ibn Asad, and partnership dealings.
Verso: Three lines from a petition to the caliph al-Mustanṣir (his name is just barely preserved in the final line).
Private account by Yeshua b. Isma’il al-Makhmuri. Around 1058. Contains details about different expenses for shipments in Fustat and Rashid as well as packaging expenses.
ואנפק כרי איצא ברסמה [
וקפה ניל לואחי וזנהא בצרף בוזן אלצנאעה
ש רטלא אלתמן סד דינ ורב
הבה וחמל קי…
1 Transcription 1 Translation
Mentions Abū Saʿīd; Abū ʿAlī; Ṣedaqa; and it seems the raising of an orphan daughter (ויתולא תרביתהא).
One of the entries on verso mentions Isḥāq b. Manṣūr al-Yahūdī and the purchase of something. One of the entries on recto mentions zakāt and is dated: Ramaḍān 456 AH = 1064 CE if read correctly.
Recto: catena of verses from Psalms 119, quoting the first verse of each alphabetical acrostic (including Psalms 119:1, 9, 17, 25, 33, 41, 49, qof is missing).
The name on the document is Sitt al-Naṣr, a woman, and the house is of shared ownership.
Informal note addressed to a scribe (al-sofer) instructing him to write a petition to 'our master' (sayyidnā) on behalf of a woman in which she can convey her (wretched) state.
Avraham ha-Kohen Peʾer ha-Kohanim 2.25 shares of the maṭbakh known by the name of the residence of al-Rashīd Samawʾal for 25 dinars. Dating: ca. 1240 CE according to Goitein (based on recto?).
The introduction is preserved, wherein the writer says he is proud of hearing about the son upholds his honor (qayyim al-jāh), and the concluding greetings are preserved, including to R.
Letter fragment from a certain Yosef, in al-Maḥalla. In Judaeo-Arabic. Seems to be sent to a woman (תבעתי לי).
Long amulet for Simḥa bat Esther (suggesting late and perhaps Sephardic origin, since Simḥa was a man's name in the classical Geniza period), asking the archangel Michael (ונבקש ממעלת קדושתכם, almost like it is a letter) to make her pleasing to her husband, whose name has not been filled in.
Letter of recommendation in German for Rabbi Barukh Löb Alpern, mid-19th-century. The place name appears to be Agram, which turns out to be the German name for Zagreb in the Habsburg era.
Beautiful calligraphic fragment of deed of sale of a bathhouse in Zawilat al-Mahdiyya, Ifrīqiya, by one Jew to another. The seller describes the bath and mentions that the bathhouse had been acquired by his brother, as proved by the document of purchase produced in court.