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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Legal document. Not signed. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Concerning Shelomo b. Shabīb ha-Kohen and Yosef b. Khalfa; the latter is trustworthy (to handle the mercantile …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Full of glimpses of interesting subjects. The writer complains about the heavy rain this winter; he mentions the customs tax (maks); the …
Bottom of a legal document in Arabic, with part of a witness clause preserved.
Letter in Arabic script. Doesn't seem to be mercantile; purpose and content unclear. Mentions 'my lord the Rayyis' in the second to last line. On …
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Affidavit of a loan by Berakhot b. Yosef to Peraḥyah b. Adayah signed by Judge Eliyyahu b. Zekharya. Peraḥyah owes Berakhot 480 dirhams, to be …
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Fragment (very faint) in Latin script (unless all we are seeing is the impression of the facing fragment).
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic which are a clear join to the neighboring shelfmark C62, in which a European consul may be mentioned. Here in C 61 …
Unidentified document(s) in Arabic. Very difficult to read. The lines on recto may each be repeated twice (writing practice?). Verso is more like a list …
Accounts concerning trade in bales of indigo and henna between the cities of Tunis, Tripoli and Palermo. Mentions the names Maymūn and ʿUthmān followed by …
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State document: Official report (fragment) concerning armed insurrection and civil unrest. For the letter on recto, see separate entry.
Fatimid capitation tax receipt for Hiba b. Yūsuf. See ENA 3925.6 (PGPID 10284).
Small fragment from a legal deed. On parchment. Dating: 11th century? Refers to a woman who is to write a "deed of cleansing" (=release?): שתכתב …
Monograph; recto: formulary of legal documents, including part of שטר הלואה, numbered ג(?) (info from FGP)
Letter fragment in Hebrew. Late. The names Avraham and Nissim appear.
Leaf from a dossier containing later (maybe 14th-15th c) copies of rescripts or responsa from Muslim and Jewish authorities concerning a scholar who allegedly had …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Arabic script (VMR)
Marriage contract (ketubba). Location: Qūṣ. Bride: Sitt al-Gharb bt. Yehuda. See description for MS 8254, fol. 15 (PGPID 32292) for the whole story.
Recto: Letter from an unknown writer, in Ramle, to an unknown addressee, in Fustat. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. "When, on a rainy day, the …
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Decree fragment, probably Ghaznavid, containing the order clause and the beginning of the date clause; date cut off. From an 11th-century archive or Geniza of …
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Legal document in Hebrew. Very faded. A woman named ʿAzīza makes a declaration. "My husband Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen" is mentioned three lines from the bottom. On …
Deposition made in court, under duress. Dating: ca. 1130s–40s CE. The issue concerns a house worth 300 dinars; 150 were paid. Then it was estimated …
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Small fragment of a family and/or business letter. Mentions Rabbenu Hillel ha-M[...]; yearning for the addressee; greetings to the addressee's mother; and the sale of …
Deed of purchase of a house in Jerusalem, from the Muslim court of Jerusalem. The buyer is Yūsf b. ʿAbd al-Ghaffār b. ʿAbd al-Karīm, the …
Legal query addressed to Avraham Maimonides concerning the permissiveness of Qaraite, Muslim, and Christian wine. Avraham Maimonides is referred to as "Nagid" in l. 2 …
Beginning of a letter by Yeḥezqel b. Shemuel to the cantor and teacher ʿAbd al-Bāqī Sheʾerit, informing him that he had sent him 20 dirhams …
Cheque / order of payment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 10 Kislev 1530 Seleucid, which is December 1218 CE. The beadle Abū l-Ṭāhir is to pay the …
Recto: Fragment of a state document, possibly a decree. 2 lines preserved. In Arabic script. Some phrases read as "yanālu aṣḥābuhu mimman yaḍumm... wa-akhdh...", "wa-l-muṭālaba …
Fragment of a late business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions David Revaḥ and possibly someone with the surname Ben-Zikrī, although these could be patronymics b. Zikrī. …
Recto is a fragment from the bottom of a legal document in Arabic script. Verso is unidentified; unclear whether it relates to Avraham Maimonides like …
no image available. According to Mosseri Catalogue a list of deceased persons. AA
Private account written by Nahray b. Nissim. 1058. Regarding different matters and people. Some of the lines are erased with a line through and a …
One side has the beginning of a letter written in Arabic script in a hasty scrawl. The other side has, in large letters in a …
Testimony regarding Mubāraka, a freed female slave formerly belonging to Abū l-Faraj b. Hilāl al-Miṣrī, whom he betrothed to a kohen, Ḥasan al-Ṣabbāgh al-Bardārī. Location: …
Account in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mainly foods are listed (onion, honey, raisin, bread...)
Legal document in Arabic script. The beginnings of 22 lines are preserved along with part of a witness signature at the bottom. The first line …
Bill of divorce formulary or draft. Location: Fustat. Dateable perhaps to the eleventh or twelfth centuries. Line one was left incomplete and undated perhaps as …
Liturgy. Dating: Catalogued as 14th century.
Arabic text. Pinholes in the margin ~4mm apart, but this time with black thread.
Fragment of a ketubba of a second marriage (or at least for a non-virgin bride, based on the ʿiqqar ketubba payment of 12(.5) silver coins). …
Bifolio of Judaeo-Arabic poetry with an unusual layout and the refrain "yā ʿuṣfūr."
"The chapter of knowing the unknown (taʿallum al-ghayb)." One takes a certain animal on Shabbat, breaks open its back, and eats its heart while still …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably belongs with the preceding shelfmarks.
Legal document. In Arabic script. Small fragment from the top. Dating: ca. 1135 CE, based on the appearance of Maḥfūẓa bt. Yosef Zayn al-Tujjār. Abū …
In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be to God alone and his blessings be upon Muḥammad, his prophet, and his pure family [ …
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Literary text, in Arabic script. Folio(s) from the Sīra of Sayf b. Dhī Yaqdhān, probably adapted from al-Ṭabarī's "Tārīkh al-Rusul wa al-Mulūk". Needs examination.
Inscription in huge letters with a border of broad black and red lines (obviously a decoration of a wall). (Information from Goitein's index card.) Joins: …
Recto (secondary use): Legal agreement. Yosef b. Saʿadya al-Anṭākī stands security for Ibrāhīm b. Azhar. Mentions Nuṣayr b. Fahd. (Information in part from Goitein's index …