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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
No Scholarship Records
Likely a promissory note stating that "I owe" a sum of money to "[...] al-Yahūdī."
Amulet in Arabic script. It is even dated at the bottom; 16 Ṣafar [?]25.
Marriage contract (ketubba). Lower right corner. Signed by Shelomo b. Yehuda ha-Kohen and Ḥalfon b. Shelomo ha-Levi.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involves a Nubian female slave named ʿAlam, but it is not a deed …
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Fragments of responsum by a Gaon, dealing with children of female slaves.
Fragment of a letter to Efrayim b. Shemarya (fl. 1007–1055 CE), likely from one of the Geonim of Palestine, possibly sent in the name of …
Letter(s) in Judaeo-Arabic. The portion on recto deals with the sending of various goods to be purchased and/or sent with Hiba, including lac, 2 pairs …
Birth records. In Italian and Hebrew. Dated: 1747 CE through 1756 CE. For the boys, the names of the sandak and mohel are given.
Literary text, fragmentary, in Arabic script.
Legal document. Dated: 1454 Seleucid = 1142/43 CE. Mentions 'the seat (moshav) of our master'; 6 dinars; a woman; and an inheritance. (Information mainly from …
Two fragments of a legal document. In the handwriting of Hillel b. ʿEli? Mentioning debts, Saniyy al-Dawla (also called al-ḥaḍra al-ajalliyya al-sanawiyya) owing 87 dinars. …
Digest of a deed of sale for a house. Mostly written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE) in his worst cursive hand. The …
Account (cuento) in Ladino and western Arabic numerals. Mentions Eliyya Palombo.
Legal documents in Judaeo-Arabic dated "195" since creation, probably meaning 4800+195 = 4995 = 1234/5 CE. Both have to do with a controversy between judges …
Fragment from the beginning of a Christological literary text. In Arabic script. Opens with two versions of the basmala, one invoking the Trinity and one …
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Accounts in Ladino and western Arabic numerals. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter or report, probably. In Arabic script. Small fragment, with the beginning of 6 lines. Includes the word (or title) al-thiqa. Reused for a copy …
Unidentified text written in alternating Hebrew and Arabic (in Arabic script). Probably literary.
Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic letter, probably mercantile, sent from al-Mahdiyya. The addressee is Abū l-Surūr [...] b. Natan.
Official-looking receipt in Arabic script, unclear for what. Needs examination.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic to "my brother." The writer mainly communicates that he arrived at his destination safely, and that he rejoiced to learn of the …
Recto: legal deed in which Sitt al-Thanāʾ bt. […] ha-Kohen 'Sixth in the Academy' gives a house in New Cairo to Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Kohen …
Letter from Yefet b. Ḥalfon to Eliyyahu the judge, requesting him to obtain a legal decision (fatwa) from the Nagid Avraham and to pass it …
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Letter addressed to two people. In Arabic script. Only the beginning on recto and the address on verso are preserved. The names should be legible, …
Magical text
Letter from Eli Ha-Kohen b. Ezekiel, Jerusalem, to Eli Ha-Kohen b. Hayyim, Fustat, ca. 1060
Small fragment from a legal deed. Part of the Reshut formula is preserved. AA
Ketubba fragment. Groom: ʿAllūn b. Dāʾūd (?). Bride: Mulūk bt. Avraham. The date is only partially preserved.
Long strip, only one word preserved from each line, in wide spacing. Probably a poetic Hebrew letter. AA
Letter from an unidentified sender addressed at least in part to a woman. In Judaeo-Arabic. This is the second (or at any rate final) folio …
Part of a business letter; the currency dirham is mentioned. (Information from CUDL)
Medical recipes and remedies in Ladino and Hebrew. The recto contains two entries and in the second the writer switches from Hebrew completely into Ladino. …
Personal letter from a wife to her husband – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 142) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad …
Letter from Mūsā b. Sulaymān(?) al-[…] to Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf b. Ibrāhīm al-[...]. In Arabic script. The first ~9 lines are preserved on recto and …
Legal query with responsum. In Judaeo-Arabic. Quite faded.
Large fragment of a business letter referring primarily to business conducted at Busir.
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Marriage document. Minute fragment. On recto only a few letters have survived, but they are clearly from the top of a ketubah. On verso few …
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a physician (al-ḥakīm) and gives business instructions. On verso there is a separate document in Arabic script, …
Legal document concerning payments of large sums of money, mentioning precious objects of pearls and gold. The parties are Shemuʾel b. Yaḥyā ha-Kohen and Rabbenu …
Torn fragment of fiscal accounts, probably. Mentions either "dyeing" (al-ṣibāgh) or "the villages" (al-ḍiyāʿ), likely the latter, "fī bāb rasm al-ḍiyāʿ" and a sum of …
]ـاهما في باب رسم الضياع
]ـي كنت قبضته لست و خمس ماية دينار
]ـع من المزارعين ذلك وعاد وبقيت
Verso: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. The beginnings of ~8 lines are preserved. Jottings in the margins. Using the language of a petition, possibly a letter …
Minute fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. May mention (not) blaming (the sender), and the tardiness of the work. But it is too fragmentary to …
Bill of divorce (geṭ). Dated: Monday, 14 Tammuz 1454 Seleucid = 28 June 1143 CE. Location: Minyat Zifta. Husband: Yakhin b. ʿUlla ha-Zaqen ha-Kohen. Wife: …
Official document mentioning the name of al-Sayyid Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Mawṣūl. [Described on the paper wrapper as : "prières (?) du [...] (?) Arabe min …
Part of a geṭ in which [...] divorces his wife, [...] (names not preserved). Dated 1[.]th Sivan [...]7 (= [...]6 CE). Witnessed by [...] b. …
Page from an Arabic medical treatise, citing Ḥunayn.
Legal formulary. For a loan contract.