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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Legal record (#30). Trousseau list. Groom: Bū l-Barakāt al-ʿAṭṭār. Bride: Sitt at-Dār bt. Yefet ha-Kohen b. Menashshe ha-Dayyan. See Goitein's notes for the items enumerated. …
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Small fragment of an account in Arabic script. Mentions the month Dhū l-Qaʿda and various numbers.
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Letter to Yehuda Daud in which the writer references previous correspondence with the addressee and mentions exile (גולה). EMS From ʿEli Sanbakro (סנבקרו), c. 16th …
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Seliḥot.
Commercial note, listing the prices of various goods. Indigo (nīl): 50. Boxthorn (khawlān), something else, and myrrh: 17.5. (?)צחפיה: seven(?). Beads (kharaz): 5. 15 dinars. …
Legal query in Arabic script. Dating: Late? A completely-preserved query with regard to a jointly owned house including a qāʿa and riwāq (شركة في دار …
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There are multiple fragments under this shelfmark. (fol.1) - a - Bottom of a legal document containing legal testimonies.
Receipt for the rent of a residence valued at 88 qirsh in the waqf of Deir el Moukhalles in Cairo – 1 March 1947CE – …
106 minute fragments (10 vellum; 96 paper), of which one contains unidentified text in Judaeo-Arabic (probably a letter) on verso (row 7, no. 7). (Information …
List of names. Tiqva ha-Kohen; Yakhin b. Yeshuʿa; ʿEli b. Shelomo; Elʿazar b. Araḥ; Berakhot; Avraham b. She'erit; ʿEli ha-Ḥaver(?).
Letter from Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, in Qalyūb, to a family member in Fustat. Fragment: bottom only. He asks for news about the wife of …
Faded Hebrew scripted text.
Minute fragment of a badly damaged text in Hebrew script on verso, with a curious illustration or doodle on the recto. Requires further examination.
Amulets or magical recipes, at least partially for curing various physical ailments, in Arabic.
Bifolium from a medical treatise with sections in both Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic.
Dowry evaluation (taqwīm). Dated: Thursday, 7 Tishrei 1537 Seleucid = September 1225 CE. Bride: Fāḍila bt. Abū l-Faḍl Ibn Shammāʿ al-Ḥazzan, who is mature and …
Fragment of a late legal document, signed Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen, probably a ketubba for [...] b. Ḥayyim and [...] bt. Moshe. The bride was previously unmarried …
Letter in Hebrew and Aramaic addressed to someone with the title Rosh Yeshiva (Aramaic: ריש מתיבתא), whose full name is missing along the paper tear. …
There are ~10 documents sharing this shelfmark. 546/9: Letter from the Qaraite community of Damascus (specifically Yosef ha-Kohen Khāṭir) to the Qaraite community of Fustat/Cairo …
The original text may be the remannts of the lines in Arabic script on the right-hand page of image 1, which appears to be a …
Letter fragment in Arabic script. Mentions a mother. Maybe Mamluk-era.
Verso: Medical prescription in Arabic script. On recto, Hebrew piyyut.
Fragment of two responsa of a Babylonian Gaon.
Late family letter in Judaeo-Arabic, it seems from a man to his brother Shemuel (or less likely his father, if the letter is read as …
IB V, 37, folio 21. Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hod is to give the bearer 2 ounces …
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 25 Adar I 1453 Seleucid = 22 February 1142 CE. Husband: Surūr b. Sibāʿ. Wife: Sitt al-Ahl …
Literary text, in Arabic script.
Colophon with the date 1501 Seleucid = 1189/90 CE and the name Yefet b. Yosef ha-Levi in a box.
Alchemical instructions in Judaeo-Arabic (mentioning e.g. "restoring the spirit to جسد المغنيسيا") in the margins of an Arabic (philosophical?) treatise.
Court notebook. Recto, left side: Court record. Dated: Thursday, 8 Iyyar [probably 1411] Seleucid = 19 April 1100 CE. The year is not named, but …
Fragment of a letter from Alexandria to Fustat. The recipient was ill when the writer departed Fustat.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Calculation. On top some Hebrew phrases on charity. Late
Business accounts in a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Mentions the commodity tartar (ṭarṭar).
Image 1: The end of an account in Arabic, along with what might be a fragment of a legal document discussing buildings in ḥārat al-yahūd. …
Hebrew literary text. There are annotations in red ink, including some Arabic script in the margins.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragmentary (upper right corner). Addressed to someone titled Raʾs al-Kull (=Rosh Kalla). Mentions a woman who was connected to a certain kind …
Ledger of accounts, late, of a Venetian merchant. From Dudley and Elbaum's, "Coins of the Cairo Geniza" digital exhibition: "The folder known as ENA 1066 …
Recto: Letter from Yiṣḥaq b. Beẓalel b. Ḥayyim to David I Maimonides (b. Avraham b. Moshe), r. 1237–1300 CE. In Hebrew. Defending the Guide for …
Letter from a mother to her daughter. In Judaeo-Arabic. The mother expresses her longing and the fire in her heart, sends regards to Umm Khalaf …
Accounts both in Arabic and Hebrew script. Late. Mentions Ismāʿīl (verso, l. 1). Organized by parshiyot.
Accounts mainly in Judaeo-Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals, with some Arabic script. Dating: the handwriting looks ca. 13th or 14th century. Items include saffron, cinnamon, wax, …
Liturgical. Muqaddimat for parshiyot from Leviticus. "Muqaddimat ("Introductions" or "Prolegomena" in Arabic) are short homilies which introduce the weekly Torah reading (parashah). They usually also …
Small fragment of a letter or legal document in Arabic script. Needs examination. Reused on the verso for a rent receipt for the month of …
Greetings at the end of a letter, quoting Deuteronomy 1:17. The writer sends regards to Abū l-Barakāt (probably Shelomo b. Eliyyahu) and Sitt Rayḥān (Shelomo's …
Qaraite deed of betrothal. Fiance: Jābir b. Azhar. Fiancee: Ḥusn bt. Ḥayyim b. Sahlawayh. The witnesses to the appointing of the bride’s agent - probably …
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Probably a deed of sale. Very damaged. Dating: Looks old, could be 10th century. One of the parties is [...] al-Ṣābūnī. Needs further examination.
Arabic script (VMR)
Modern printed edition of the 10th-century History of Armenia by Yovhannēs Drasxanakertc‘i. The text on these pages corresponds to Krikor Maksoudian's 1987 edition, p. 101. …
Fragment from a business letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a landlord (ṣāḥib al-dār) and a garment (shuqqa muthallath).