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"
Letter mentioning Reuben the apostate. In a late hand. Alternate description: Letter, mentioning Reuben ‘the proselyte’ and greetings to many family members, including the writer’s …
1 Transcription 1 Discussion
Small, official-looking receipt. Beginning 'afrada....' For ʿImrān b. al-Riṣāfī(?). Same payer: T-S AS 176.438 and T-S AS 176.439.
No Scholarship Records
Fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic and some Hebrew. Dating: probably 11th or 12th century. Refers to many losses over the last two years. …
Fragment of a letter in which the writer describes a business affair in which he was under threat (taḥta al-tahdīd) and also involved the sultan. …
1 Transcription
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. In the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe? Mentions the price of the bees; and Abū l-Riḍā.
Two words in Arabic script.
State document, in Arabic script. Mentions an iqṭāʿ. Fragmentary.
Letter from Shemuel b. Sahl al-Hawwārī, in Aleppo, to [...], in Fustat. (The names are written in Arabic, so the writer's is tentative and the …
Contract of sale between ʿAbd al-Raḥīm b. Marqūra and Bahja (?) bnt. ... b. Mubārak in Uqlūl. Dated Jumādā I 415. The two witnesses are …
Jotted accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. On recto and above, the Shemaʿ and benedictions for the evening service on weekdays and Shabbat. (Information …
Fiscal document, accounts, in a combination of Arabic and Coptic numerals. The names mentioned are Coptic Christian like Buṭrus b. Zakariyya. Needs examination.
1 Discussion
Letter from Mūsā to his maternal uncle Eliyyahu the Judge. Conveying flowery greetings for the New Year.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Business accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions names such as the wife of Ibn al-Malīḥ(?) (in connection to a gold needle); Abū Isḥāq; …
Dowry list. Bride: Jamīla bt. Meʾir. Groom: Netanʾel b. Moshe. The early marriage gift is 10 dinars. Dated: 1169 CE(?).
Original use: Arabic document(s), likely official. Mentions [al-dīwā]n al-maʿmūr. Needs examination.
Medical recipe (צפה מגלי).
Address of a letter to Eliyyahu the Judge. None of the body of the letter remains on this fragment. The address is followed by the …
Accounts, probably, in Arabic script. A name "Abū ʿAlī", beginning of a date "yawm al-ʿarbiʿā" and a sum "arbaʿ wa......" Needs examination.
Unidentified text in Arabic script. On parchment. Mentions "the Jews can't..."
Query about niddah submitted to Abraham Maimuni by Shelomo b. Eliyyahu-- see Goitein Nachlass material
Very dark and torn list of names followed by numbers, probably written by Solomon b. Elya. Among the names we can find al-Maghrebi al-Nafusi, Baqa …
Announcement regarding the program of ceremonies for the Ibn Yuḥay Institute for Culture and Righteousness in which the Minister of Social Affairs, the Chief Rabbi …
Receipt for Sayyid al-Ahl for 3 1/2 dinars.
Letter/petition in Arabic script. Opens with the phrase "(al-mamlūku) yakhdumu majlisa mawlānā wa-sayyidinā...." The sender asks the addressee to send something with Abū l-Ḥasan, it …
ا[لمملوك]
يخدم مجلس مولانا وسيدنا ادام الله ايامه ويسل انعامه
ان يتفضل باحسانه ان يرسل صحبة الشيخ ابو الحسن جامكية
المملوك في …
Verso: Ketubba fragment on parchment. Dating: likely 11th century, with a partial year visible, [13]46 or [13]76 Seleucid. The dowry list is partially preserved with …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Dealing with small business transactions. Regards to [Sitt] Naʿīm and her husband Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan.
Letter from Yehuda b. Ṭuviyyahu ha-Kohen to Moshe ha-Kohen Neʾeman ha-Soḥerim ʿayn ha-ʿeda. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer was the muqaddam of Bilbays 1180s–1220. Damaged; little …
Arabic script (VMR). Literary. Very faded.
Informal note from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to Waliyy al-Dawla. The addressee is to give the masṭara (ruling board) to the bearer to bring back to …
Amulet in purple and yellow ink. Very late. Ashkenazi hand.
Bifolio from a sort of commonplace book. In Judaeo-Arabic. (There are a few words in Arabic script from an earlier document that was recycled.) On …
Informal note in Arabic script, urgently requesting from 'the brother' that he deliver certain documents (? al-riqāʿ) to a qāḍī. Needs further examination.
Record of a birth, left incomplete. In Arabic script. Dated: Wednesday morning, 15 Dhū l-Ḥijja, no year. Wulida al-mawlūd al-mubārak.... Reused on the other side …
Engagement agreement from 1184. The date of marriage was set for the month of Elul in the following year, almost two years after the document …
Minute fragment of a state document referring to the caliph (al-Imām) al-M[ustanṣir?]. Nothing else is preserved.
Accounts in Arabic, medieval-era. Probably recycled from the same document as the neighboring shelfmark ENA 2954.7.
Recto: Judaeo-Arabic list of names and numbers. Names include: al-Rashīd; al-Raḍiyy; Ibn al-Makīn; Abū l-Faḍl; Sukkarī; al-Kohen Abū l-[...]; al-Asʿad b. M[...]; Abū l-Ḥasan Naqqād(?). …
Legal document dated 1220 CE (24 Sivan 1531) under the reshut of Avraham Maimonides. The handwriting is very rudimentary; needs further examination for content.
Tables of Greek/Coptic numerals, with a few Arabic words.
List of ruqʿas for various sums of dinars, with Hebrew numerals. (Information from CUDL)
Recto (secondary use): Power of attorney (שטר אורכתא) in the hand of Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE). A certain Yaʿaqov appoints Abū Saʿd b. …
Mercantile memorandum or bill of lading (tadhkira) in Arabic script. Listing items that were shipped with a certain captain (al-rayyis... al-Ḥayfī) for Abū Ṭāhir b. …
Part of a letter or accounts on upper fragment, mentioning sums of money and clothes. (Information from CUDL.)
Letter from Natan b. Avraham to Perahya b. Muʾammal, in Fustat, spring 1039.
Tax receipt(s). There are distinct documents on recto and verso. Needs examination.
Document in Arabic, possibly. Medieval-era. The openings of two lines are visible, the latter: "وينهى انه رجل". Reused for atbash alphabetical practice. Requires further examination.
Literary text, faded. Mentions "qalb", "ʿawīl" and "aʿḍāʾ". Needs examination.
Letter. None of the content is preserved. (Information from CUDL)
Business letter in the hand of Avraham b. Shelomo (son of the Gaʾon) to an unidentified addressee. The sender provides an update about money owed …