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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
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Arabic script (VMR)
Recto: draft of a letter or petition, with numerous honorifics in both Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew or Aramaic: רבאנו אלמולא . . . אלאמין אלצדר אלריש …
Almost certainly the address of the letter in the previous shelfmark: from Alexandria (מנאמון) to Cairo (למצרים), to Fratelli Najjar. Again mentions Moshe Castro in …
Small fragment of a letter to Yaakov ha-haver (member of the Sanhedrin) from Yusuf ha-Kohen. (Information from Goitein's index cards) VMR
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Ledger on ledger paper, with numbers expressed in Indo-Arabic numerals.
Unidentified document in Arabic script.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Letters in Judaeo-Arabic. Recto is from a son to a father (in Fustat?), and verso seems to be from the father to the son (in …
Lined piece of paper filled with Judaeo-Arabic letters or language from letters or formularies for letters (one contains "fulan" instead of names). The honorific khawaja …
Commercial accounts. In Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Listing many names and goods– mostly of which are clothing or fabric items. Some of the spellings and surnames are …
Fragment of a Gaonic letter. (Information from JRL catalogue.) Might be in the hand of Yaʿaqov b. Yosef Rosh ha-Seder of Irbīl, and if so, …
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Legal document. Dated: First decade of Elul 1458 Seleucid (July/August 1147 CE). In which Abū l-Riḍā Yaʿaqov b. Yosef, "the noble and generous," takes over …
"נדיב ושוע" אחד מקבל מידם של חוכרי מסים, שפשטו את הרגל את חכירת אלמחלה
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Prayerbook in Spanish. 6 folios. Dating: Perhaps 15th or 16th century, based on the langauge.
Small and torn fragment written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (fl. 1100-1138), contains remnants of list of legal actions that took place in court (written …
List of contributions in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. On verso there are also accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals (unclear if/how related). (Information from …
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Love spell in Judaeo-Arabic. For Esther bt. Nazlī to fall in love with Ḥayyim b. Barda. The hand looks late and possibly Iraqi—but that is …
Colophon for an unidentified work. Location: Cairo. Dated: Sivan 1819 Seleucid = Muharram 914 AH = 1508 CE. On verso there is a note in …
Capitation tax receipt. For Eliyya b. Yehuda(?). Needs examination.
Document in Arabic script. Probably a small piece of a state document, or perhaps a legal document due to the mention of witnesses.Contains an oddly …
Bill of divorce (get). Fragment (left side). Dated: 135[.] Seleucid, which corresponds to the range 1038–48 CE. Wife: [...] bt. Yeshuʿa. Written and signed by …
Much damaged court record in Hebrew regarding commodities worth of 300 (dinars?). Might join with T-S AS 152.406
Laws of ketubah from Cairo - needs examination. No image
Literary - recommend suppress
Legal note. About money taken from a tailor. Dating: No earlier than 1425 CE, based on the use of the ashrafī which was first minted …
Document in Arabic script. Moderately wide space between the lines. On verso there are readings for Shavuʿot. Needs examination. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Leaflet issued by the Grand Rabbinate of Cairo – 1913CE – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 82) – in Judeo-Arabic. (information …
IB VI, 53. Letter from Saʿīd b. Marḥab, in Aden, to Abū Zikrī b. ʿAṭiyya. Dating: mid-12th century. Apart from the introduction and address, only …
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Letter from the Master of the Shipmasts to a Nubian eparch in Ibrīm. The letter reports on the activities of Merki, a man who was …
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Top part of a memorandum in the name of [Bū] l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on a dyeworks (maṣbagha) in Sinnūris. Date not preserved. …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic (FGP). The handwriting is rudimentary and the orthography so idiosyncratic that it is difficult to understand. Probably a family letter; discussing all …
Fragment of a fiscal document referring to the annual budget of the Dīwān al-Abwāb (aka Dīwān al-Kharājī wa-l-Hilālī) "من مال ضمان ديوان الابواب". Cf. ENA …
Letter from Yosef b. Yefet al-Shaʿrānī(?) to his relative Abū Naṣr Elʿazar b. Abū l-Khayr al-Kohen, congratulating him on the birth of a son. (Information …
Names of people and items- list of contribution to the poor?. Dating is likely 16th- or 17th-century based on the paleography. There are a variety …
Letter fragment in Arabic script. Containing detailed information about medical matters. Maybe a report from a patient to a doctor (begins استعملت). Reused on recto …
Jottings in the hand of Yosef Rosh ha-Seder, including his own name several times.
Fragmentary list of names with Coptic numerals. AA
Legal document. Small fragment. In the hand of Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya. Mentions Abū l-Faḍāʾil.
Marriage contract (ketubba). The marriage gift at the conclusion of this marriage contract is five dinars and the payment required at the termination of the …
Recto: Deed of sale in Hebrew. Location: Fustat. Dated: Elul 1308 Seleucid = August/September 997 CE. “A bride's mother wrote in an interesting detailed Hebrew …
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably second half of 11th century. Mentioning Hilāl b. Binyām (appears also in T-S AS 148.166 and T-S 13J27.9) and, …
Legal deed concerning the payment in monthly installments of the remaining five dinars minus one sixth of a debt of a total of seven dinars. …
Legal deed, not completed. In the hand of Natan b. Shemuel. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1455 Seleucid, which is 1143/44 CE, under the authority of Yehoshua …
Personal letter beginning with a prayer and reporting that the rain did not fall so they prayed until the rain fell then salutations and regards …
Small fragment from the upper left corner of a legal document. May have to do with the death of [...] b. Yaḥyā.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Small fragment. Closing greetings only.
On recto an order to impose excommunication on a person who took books from 'our house' and didn't return them. At the end a signature …
Literature work – story – discussing the story of a family – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 68) – in Yiddish. (information …
List of "high priests": She'erit, Yeshuʿa, Meshullam, and Shelomo.