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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Recto: document, mentioning names such as Yosef, Abū ʿAlī and Shemuel. Verso: Arabic document with Judaeo-Arabic jottings. (Information from CUDL.)
No Scholarship Records
Memorial list. Bottom part of what was probably a huge document. Very faded.
There are multiple fragments under this shelfmark; some of them are joins. B, fol.2 - Bill or receipt of sale, in Arabic script. Dated: Shaʿbān …
Bifolium of magical recipes for diverse problems, many medical. E.g., against fever: recite Psalm 34 over olive oil and anoint yourself ("effective if God wills").
Part of a legal document dealing with inheritance, mentioning debts and an administrator. Dated 479[.] (= 1029-39 CE). The body of the text mentions Saʿīd …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a return from somewhere; Purim; the capitation tax (al-jāliya); a severe illness (marḍa shadīda); entering Fustat; Sammanūd; "my hand and …
Unidentified text in Hebrew characters, possibly a document or poetry.
Recto: Medical recipes in Arabic script. Verso: A table in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals - significance unclear.
Possibly part of a letter. (Information from CUDL)
Unidentified text, in Arabic script.
Letter from the teacher Abū l-Khayr, in Minyat Zifta to his brother Abū Naṣr Maḥfūẓ, the brother-in-law of Abū l-Bishr(?) Ibn al-Abzārī(?), in Darb al-Dahhān, …
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Small receipt or order.
Fragment (left side) of a legal document in Arabic script.. Involving [...] b. Khalaf al-Yahūdī. Dated: possibly 454 AH = 1062/63 CE if read correctly.
Poetry in Arabic script. Recto is all one poem rhymed on -bī. There is an intriguing verse in which a speaker "swears by the Torah.... …
Halakhic treatise by Ḥananel b. Shemuʾel, concerning laws of divorce. (Information from CUDL)
Request advanced by a rabbi to the public secretary of the Cairo Jewish community – undated – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 242) – …
Legal or official note. In Arabic script. Possibly concerning a debt (القرض).
Legal document. Fragment from the beginning. Location: Fusṭāṭ. Mentioning the authority of the Nagid. Declaration made by a certain Ibn al-Marjānī (‘the coral merchant’). (Information …
Fragment of a legal document, probably a conditional betrothal (qiddushin, l. 6). Probably in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (previously catalogued on PGP as …
Late account
Narrow vertical strip of paper. Instructions to a scribe according to Goitein's index card, but seems more likely to be an inventory of existing documents …
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Possibly legal notes in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. The upper section is in a neater hand and the bottom section is written more …
Verso: Opening of a letter from Sherira Gaon sent to Qayrawān. Dating: ca. 970 CE. This is a continuation from the first part of the …
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Recto: Small fragment from official correspondence. The ends of three lines are preserved. Refers to a "matter" (qaḍiyya) twice and maybe a problem (mushkila). Verso: …
Letter to the Gaon Sar Shalom ha-Levi, head of the Palestinian yeshiva (in office ca. 1170–71 and 1173–95), in which the muqaddam of Qalyub (the …
Small fragment from an engagement deed, written under the authority of Netanel Halevi, based on the phrase נסיכנו ונשיא אלהים ב[תוכנו]. AA
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Recto (secondary use): Letter in Judaeo-Arabic, asking for the addressee's help in sending something to the writer with the bearer Abū l-Faraj.
IB VII, 21. Letter with a legal purpose. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. From an unidentified sender to a certain parnas, trustee of …
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List in Arabic script mentioning people (Abū Muḥammad, Dāʾūd, al-shaykh) and also 'the bathhouse and chickens" (ḥammām wa-farārīj).
Announcement from the council of teachers of the Jews of Cairo to parents on the matters of the beginning of the school year in 1954/55 …
Letter from Sulaymān b. ʿAlī, unknown location, to Abū Saʿīd Yaʿqūb, Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf, and Abū Sahl Saʿīd the sons of Yisra'el (al-Tustari). In Judaeo-Persian, …
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Letter from Avraham b. Moshe b. Avraham b. Yosef b. Avraham to a dignitary called Avraham b. Abū l-Faḍl. In Judaeo-Arabic. The overall appearance and …
specimen letters for various occasions, in a late hand. (Data from FGP)
Fragment of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: probably 11th or 12th century. Mentioning flax. (Information in part from CUDL)
Small fragment in Arabic script, likely a letter.
Quran fragment, in a beautiful and elegant Maghribī script with diacritical marks in red. The verses are from Sura al-Insān (76:7-14, 27-31).
Letter fragment Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely late 12th or 13th century. Dealing mainly with business matters. Mentions a silk merchant (qazzāz) and a fuller or bleacher …
Order and/or letter. The addressee Abū Naṣr is asked to give olive oil to the bearer. The continuation is not clear. Needs further examination.
Two fragments of a legal document in Judaeo-Arabic. Settlement of a business dispute. Ṣedaqa b. Shelomo (together with his father Shelomo b. Saʿadya) acknowledges that …
State document, probably. It refers to itself as a "receipt" (wuṣūl). In Arabic script. Location: Dahrūṭ. Dated: Ramaḍān 533 AH, which is 1129 CE. (Also …
Responsum by Yosef Tawazi concerning religion and marriage
Letter from Abu al-Hayy b. Barhun Khalila, in al-Mahdiyya, to Barhun b. Musa Tāhartī, reporting several losses of ships and merchandise. (Information from Gil)
כתאבי אליך יאכי וסידי ואלעזיז עלי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך וכאן לך וליא וחאפטא
ואגתת אעדאך מן אלמהדיה יום אלכמיס לי בקין מן מרחש…
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Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic with the address in Arabic script. Addressed to "my father," possibly Nissim b. Ḥalfon b. Benaya.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning the sale of a house. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. The address is damaged but clearly reads "to Miṣr." The …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Fragmentary and faded. Some food commodities are mentioned, such as oil, ṭaḥīna, and molasses (quṭāra). There is a …
Bottom of a family letter in Hebrew. On parchment. Dating: uncertain, potentially 11th century. Consisting mainly of greetings to and from family members. Specifically mentions …
Long strip of paper, with both head and bottom torn away, containing about 25 names (among them four 'sukkaris,' or sugar makers), contributing to charity …
Legal fragment. Dated: 4[..]3 AM, which just means prior to 1233 CE, but probably substantially earlier. Written in Hebrew, in a calligraphic script. Involves Mori …
Fragment conveying good wishes for the holidays and reporting on the sale of indigo (nil) in al-Mahalla which had been successful but which had been …