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"
Late business/family letter in Hebrew from Shelomo Binyamin to his brother-in-law, also named Shelomo. He reports that ships from Messina and Ancona have arrived, but …
No Scholarship Records
Literary text, mainly in Persian. Also with some Arabic, including two lines of poetry on verso before it reverts to Persian. يا ليلة اللذات... عودي …
Small fragment of unidentified text in Hebrew, the penultimate line mentions לשנים רבות. Requires further examination.
Account in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably late.
Fragment of a business letter in Arabic script. Approximately 6 lines are preserved. Mentions quantities of dirhams and 3 irdabbs of barley to be sold.
Small fragment of a list or letter. Mentions Fadāʾil; the Nagid (הדרת הנגידות); the neighbor of Rabbi Natan; and "let it be fast." On verso …
Account of repairs of a house, written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). A previous version of this shelfmark description listed the date range …
2 Transcriptions
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Dating: probably 11th century Addressed to a group of people (אלפצלא אלאגלא . . . אעצם אללה כראמתכם . . …
Letter, faded, in eloquent Hebrew. Mentions "my brother R. Ḥalfon" arriving in the city and bad news that struck the writer to his very core, …
Verso: Unidentified Arabic script, may be documentary.
One side: four ethical (?) principles in Judaeo-Arabic written over the remains of a few lines in Arabic. The other side: a legal query and …
Fragment of an agreement between Sayyid al-Ahl and Berakhot ha-Levi regarding rental of stores located in the sugarmakers' quarter, for the sum of 200 dirhams …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
State document, in Arabic script. Fragmentary.
1 Transcription
List of names and sums in a late hand.
Short letter written by Meshullam, the head of family of judges. His son, Sasson, was a judge in Cairo; Sasson had a son called Yiṣḥaq …
1 Transcription 1 Discussion
Letter in Arabic script. Two lines. Refers to recovery from an illness.
Military/fiscal account. An official in the Fatimid military administration (mutawallī dīwān al-juyūsh) submits an account, presumably to do with military spending. The main text (l. …
Letter to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yosef concerning business matters, mentioning the arrival of Abū Sulaymān Dāwūd b. Sighmār. Verso: jottings of accounts in the …
Legal draft. Dated: 24 Shevat 1441 Seleucid = 5 February 1130 CE. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Needs examination for content. Deathbed …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Fiscal? Including short notes, names and numerals, arranged in two columns on each side. Some of the language …
Minute fragment of accounts, 16th-century or later based on the paleography. These accounts are related to the neighboring shelfmark JRL SERIES C 146.
Letter possibly in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe ha-Levi. 8 partial lines are preserved. Rubbed and faded. Mentions a Sar Shalom who is dead. …
List of names and amounts, such as: (recto) Shemuʾel Ibn Shanjī, Shemuʾel Palīgī (verso) Musa Jalabi (Çelebi), Yeshūʿa Alfandari. Join with ENA 3730.3 + ENA …
Literary. Poetic epithets of God, in Judaeo-Arabic. The opening basmala is in Arabic script. Information from Baker/Polliack catalog.
Legal records, perhaps. In Judaeo-Arabic. One record states that Ghāliya al-Ḍarīra (the blind) bt. B[...] releases someone. Another involves Nuṣayr b. Thābit and debts owed.
Note from Barakāt the teacher (= Shelomo b. Eliyyahu) to a certain Nissim. He reports that one of his pupils can read the hafṭara beginning …
List of angels that are likely to intervene in particular circumstances. (Information from CUDL.)
Unidentified text, in Arabic script. Mentions Mawlāya l-Qāḍī (letter?).
Autograph leaves of Maimonides, Treatise on sexual intercourse. (Information from CUDL)
Legal document. Incomplete draft concerning a house, in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Abū l-Manṣūr b. al-Rayyis Abū l-Faḍl gives to his wife Sitt …
1 Discussion
Table in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Chancery hand? Needs examination.
Beginning of a letter to a Rayyis: [...] b. ʿAzarya (ZL) the head of the yeshiva (raʾs al-mathība). In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in Arabic …
Bottom fragment: Letter from Barakāt Kohen to Meʾir, asking him to confirm that the writer had handed over a document of release to a woman …
Deed of sale of quarter of a house. Written by Nathan b. Shemuʾel. Dated: Sivan 14[..] Seleucid.
Legal document. Damaged and faded. Location: the city of פלודס or פלורס(??). Dated: Sunday, 21 Av 4813 AM = 8 August 1053 CE. Power of …
Letter sent to Abū ʿImrān Moshe ha-Kohen Tifʾeret ha-Kohanim dealing with a loan he had given to the congregation and some public affairs. Some persons …
Recto: letter from Abraham Masʿūd, dealing with trade in silk and linen, and mentioning Elijah Saloniko (אליא שלונקו). Verso: accounts. (Information from CUDL)
Letter reporting, among other things, the very high price of wheat and lamenting that 'our children are dying of hunger.'
Letter (or rather prayer) of complaint in Hebrew. At least one side is rhymed. Might be a formulary. Might be related to T-S 12.330 (per …
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 …
Accounts of a bookseller from first half of the 12th century, as it mentions Netanel ha-Shishi. There are lists in Judaeo-Arabic on both sides, as …
1 Transcription 1 Translation
Fragment of a trousseau list, comprising the upper right corner of the document. Medieval-era. Some of the items include two jukāniyya garments, a handkerchief, two …
A recipe for path jumping, followed by 2 lines of jottings, including the name Yehuda b. ʿUlla. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Fragment of a deed of sale for 12 out of 24 shares of a house. In Arabic script.
Order of payment in Arabic script. The judge (al-dayyān) is asked to pay 2 dinars to the bearer. See T-S AS 179.212 (PGPID 36725) and …
A letter to Yosef b. Moshe Hazan from David b. Mordechai Kokizov, from the Holy community of Yefe Ya'ar to Luzki.
Verso: Right upper corner of lucidly written list of contributors, the first thirteen each donating 2 dirhams. All names appear in abbreviated form. Some of …
ב ב ב ב ב