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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Possibly part of a document or letter - needs examination.
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Legal document. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). A power of attorney appointing somebody to sue someone for a quantity of …
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Panegyric poem in Hebrew from Moshe b. Hizqiya to Shelomo ha-Sar.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Fragment of a letter composed circa 1236 CE by Abu l-Ḥasan Yedutun b. Abu Sahl Levi, at one time the cantor of the Palestinian synagogue …
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Recto: Probably a fragment of a letter in Arabic, very damaged. Legible words include "the lamp/saddle maker" (السراج)." Verso: Probably a fragment of a Hebrew …
Minute fragment from a list of commodities
Two unidentified Arabic documents. The lefthand one looks late.
Autograph leaves of Maimonides, Treatise on sexual intercourse. (Information from CUDL)
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Contains the formulaic opening and a few words of the body.
List of names (memorial list?)
Legal document in Hebrew. Dated in the final third of Adar II 5415 AM (1655 CE). Location: Cairo. Moshe Kolon returns a deposit of jewelry …
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Business letter from Yehuda b. Yaʿaqov (fattore) to a certain Shelomo (employer). In Hebrew with occasional Ladino words (docenas, magazin, partidos). Spanish and/or Venetian coinage …
Recto: accounts, mentioning Ibn al-Ḥarīrī and 1000 dirhams; Hebrew numerals. Verso: unidentified, mentioning a certain David. (Information from CUDL)
Letter fragment addressed to a son. In Arabic script. Only formulaic content is preserved on recto. Reused for Hebrew literary text on verso.
Verso: Medical recipes in Arabic script, including one for anal fissures (shiqāq al-maqʿada).
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Recto: Leviticus 15:3-4. Verso: Arabic text, possibly a letter. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document. Partnership agreement. The partnership is to last one year and the parties include a woman named Sirwa -- who is to receive a …
Arabic, literary. Probably medical.
Fragmentary, short marriage contract from Cairo, from which most of the details are missing and which does not mention dowry. (Information from Mediterranean Society, III, …
Writing exercises of the atbash alphabet, probably 18th- or 19th century based on the paleography. The instructor provided an example in model handwriting for the …
Marriage contract (ketubba), Palestinian-style. Bride: Dalāl bt. Yefet. The groom's name is lost. Location: Tinnīs, Egypt. Dating: probably 1085 or 985 CE.
Draft of copy of a petition in Arabic script addressed to al-Malik al-ʿAzīz Sayf al-Islām Ṭughtakīn, the second Ayyubid amir of Yemen (and brother of …
Verso: Legal record that Abū l-Surūr b. Ghanya(?) remarried his divorced wife Maʿānī bt. Karīm al-Aqraʿ ha-Levi. Dated: Wednesday night, 29 Tishrei 1541 Seleucid, which …
T-S K5, 16-40. Exercises of children, representing leters in various combinations and copies of the beginnings of the third and the first books of Moses. …
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A 13th/19th-century Ottoman era debt acknowledgment document with a seal. Muḥammad Ḥusain acknowledges (aqarra wa ashada) in his sound mind that he owes 900 Kuruş …
لما كان في يوم الخميس المبارك في ٢٦ محرم سنه ٦٠[١٢]
اقر واشهد على نفسه وهو في حال
خيرته المعلم محمد حسين الى المعلم
حييم النصري انه يكون مل…
Recto: Legal query for a qāḍī in Arabic script regarding a man "known for ḥujaj" (unpaid promissory notes?), and there are several testimonies against him, …
Account of the qodesh, ca. 1165. A double leaf from a notebook. The draft of an accoutning occupies only one half of the leaf, and …
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Letter from Yūsuf b. Ibrāhīm addressed to 'ha-Rav ha-Gadol,' someone close to the Nagid. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address partially in Arabic script. Dealing entirely …
Two pages from an Arabic work on prognostications, including whether the days of a month or lucky or unlucky.
Fragment of a draft (?) of a petition opening with the taqbīl clause repeated twice (once in isolation) and followed by the caliphal honorific titles: …
المملوك يقبل الارض اما
….المملوك يقبل الارض امام المقام النبوي الطاهري(الظاهري؟) المعظم الشريف
ضعف الله انواره واعلى لندامته/…اميره(؟) وبالم…
Query addressed to R. Yosef 'the Rav' concerning a case of inheritance. Headed by the unusual בשמ רחמ וחנינא. Involves several brothers, one minor. Quite …
Late accounts in sloppy handwriting, probably dated Tammuz 5583 AM (1823 CE). The scribal hand of the first entry is different than the rest of …
Verso: State document, in Arabic script. Six lines from the bottom are preserved, with moderately wide spacing and wasteful margins. Might be official correspondence. Reused …
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Very faded. Involves [...] Khalaf the parnas and Abū l-Faḍl the parnas of Cairo. Possibly the former is standing guarantee for …
One side: small fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter. Other side: Arabic text. Needs further examination. The name Abū l-Barakāt appears, and perhaps the phrase "ḥaqq …
Fragment of a document in Karamanli (a Turkish dialect written in Greek script). (Information from FGP.)
IB IV, 56 (ח63). Letter from Yeḥezqel b. Netanel, in Qalyūb, to his brother Ḥalfon b. Netanel, in Alexandria. The left side of the letter …
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Confirmation by witness of the divorce of Raisa b. Kathir, who wanted to marry Yosef. Written by Yefet ha-Hazan b. David. (information from Goitein's index …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions names such as ʿAṭiyya al-Dallāl and Wafāʾ b. [...]. (Information in part from CUDL)
Book list, probably. Late.
The letters on folios 16 and 23 are both addressed to an Avraham b. Yosef ha-Levi. The former at least is signed by a Shabbetay …
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Only pleasantries are preserved.
Fragment from a page about the halakhot and formulae to recite for valid qiddushin.
Last page of a letter from Abū Naṣr b. Avraham, in Alexandria, to a public figure, in Fustat. Identification is based on handwriting and style. …
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Recto: Letter in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to the Nagid or at least someone very important (נזר הנסיאות (sic)). Only the upper left corner is …
Letter sent by the head of the Jews, Sar Shalom ha-Levi Gaon b. Moshe, to the community of Qalyub confirming Moshe b. Levi as slaughterer, …