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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Poem. A Hebrew lament for a prominent dead person. It seems like a blank space was left empty in the middle where the name would …
No Scholarship Records
Deed of sale of one half of a house in the al-Musasa quarter in Fustat, in which one owner sells his half to the other …
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Document in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Fragment of a letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda to an unidentified personality, 1042.
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Possibly a fragment from a petition, addressed to a Caliph based on the beginning of a "raʾyy" clause in the penultimate line.
تو]قيع الامر مط.. بان الحديث فيهم
جرى به عادته وحملهم
…..واطفالهم
]الى كافة الخلق
]ولمولانا
[صلوات الله عليه علو الراي في ذلك ان شا الله]
Multi-fragment shelfmark with two documents. The upper fragment is from a letter to a Nasi, opening with the formula: אלממלוך יקבל ידי סידנא הנשיא. MCD.
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Official letter in Judaeo-Arabic, ordering somebody to appear before the court. Mentions al-Fayyūm. Dated: Elul 1505 Seleucid = 1194 CE. The handwriting resembles that of …
Court notebook from the Qaraite court of Cairo that was based in the Dar Simḥa synagogue. Spanning the dates 1560–75 CE. 69 pages. Contains 190 …
Letter from a woman named Harja, somewhere in Syria, to her brother' Hārūn Fayrūz in Cairo. This letter contains an update on her stomach illness …
Business accounts in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Listing various items (including marble, a mantle, a mat, a mill, and rulers) which were …
Possibly a document (needs examination)
Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Referring to two possible outcomes of a legal …
Official-looking document in Arabic script. Fiscal? Might also be private accounts. Verso is a less formal list of names with sums of money.
Legal document in Arabic script. Fragment (upper left corner). Seems to be an acknowledgment by the Rabbanite Jew named [ʿUmar?] b. Ibrāhīm known as Shams …
Arabic late account - needs examination.
Recto: Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Addressed to the judge (al-dayyān) Yo[sef?]. Contains long opening greetings, a prayer that a deceased person will find mercy and that …
Legal document, draft. Left side only. No witnesses. Location: Fustat. Dated: Nisan 1542 Seleucid, which is 1231 CE. Features a freed muwallad slave (al-ghulām al-maʿtūq... …
Fragment from the lower left corner of a letter, likely in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu.
Business letter from Mūsā b. Isḥāq b. Nissim al-ʿĀbid. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th century. Mentions merchants such as אבן אלטבני, Mūsā Ibn al-M[ajjānī?], and ʿAmmār …
Fragment from a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. A reference is made to רבינו המעוז המגדול (our Rabbi, the Great Fortress), a title usually reserved for Maimonides …
Ketubba (marriage contract). A four piece join from an early 11th century Palestinian style ketubba from Tinnīs. Groom: Mevasser b. Yiṣḥaq. Bride: ʿAzīza bt. Ḥasan. …
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Literary text. Written in a mixture of Arabic script and Hebrew (for biblical quotations).
Late accounts in an erratic scribal hand. Possibly dated on the recto, with the middle subheading ending in ٧٢٣/723(?) AH, which would be 1323 CE– …
Verso: medical prescription in Arabic script for the treatment of fever(?). (Information from CUDL)
Letter in the hand of Shabbetay b. Avraham addressed to the Nagid Shemuel b. Hananya. Asking him to obtain a caliphal rescript stopping the local …
Engagement (shiddukhin) contract. Draft. Late. There appears to be an Ottoman-era seal. Groom: Moshe b. Yehuda. Bride: Saʿādat bt. Avraham Dukkān (or Dakkān?), virgin. The …
8 small pages mostly in Arabic. Page 1: The beginning of a letter to al-Ḥājj Aḥmad. Page 2: Jottings of text from a letter. Page …
Fragment (left side) of a Judaeo-Arabic letter. Subject matter is unclear; mentions bad etiquette (sū' al-adab).
Tiny fragment in Arabic script, with wide line spacing and chancery script. Official Correspondence. On verso, there is mirror image text, probably from a letter …
Might be from a memorial list, the names Saadya and Ovadya are mentioned.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals.
Marriage contract (ketubba) on parchment with an ornate border. The design is well-preserved and may have been rendered with watercolor paint. Location: Cairo. Dated: Friday, …
Unidentified document in Arabic script. Extremely faded.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic addressed to Mordechai Masis (? משיש) that has been reused for pen trials in square Hebrew letters and possibly a literary …
Testimony or narrative about events in Florence (פירנצה). Dated: 17 Tevet 5609 AM (January 1849). A man who was known as an impious alcoholic fell …
Letter. Little preserved of content. Saffron, silk and copper mentioned.
Letter of appeal addressed to Rabbenu Yiṣḥaq. In Hebrew. The writer's place has been destroyed and some people have been sold by the shaliṭ/sulṭān (into …
Letter from Abū l-Surūr and Abū Saʿd to Yakhin b. Netanel. The letter consists almost entirely of congratulations (for a newborn son?) and good wishes …
Fiscal account, probably a tax receipt, beginning with the waṣala ilā bayt al-māl al-maʿmūr, probably a receipt of delivery to the bayt al-māl. Mentions several …
Minute fragment from a legal deed, probably written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi (Date: 1100-1138)
Possibly a fragment of a late letter in Hebrew, and maybe some Judaeo-Arabic. Needs examination.
Notes for the drawing up of a deed of sale for an enslaved person. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe? One of the parties …
Ketubba, Rabbanite. Dated: [13]56 Seleucid, which is 1044/45 CE.Groom: Thābit b. Yaʿaqov. Bride: [...] bt. Abu l-Faraj (based on the filing note on verso). Mentions …
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IB II, 74. Letter from Yosef b. ʿIwāḍ to Ḥananel b. Shemuel. Alexandria, probably 1214-1215. Yosef's brother Futūḥ had died recently on a ship on …
אלממלוך יוסף בן עואץ
אלאסכנדרי
יקבל אלארץ בין ידי אלמגלס אלסאמי אלאגלי אלמולוי
ר' חננאל החכם והנבון בר כבוד גדולת קדושת מר
ור' שמואל …
In God’s name. His servant Joseph b. ʿAllān {read: ʿIwāḍ}, the Alexandrian kisses the earth before the lofty seat of his illustrious lordship
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An account for Yosef b. 'Awkal followed by a short letter, probably to Ibn 'Awkal.
פירוט החשבון של האדון אבו אלפַרַג׳ יוסף בן יַקוּבּ בן עַוְכַּל.
לזכותו י׳׳א משאוי וחצי ומשאוי לאבו אלחַי, ושלח עם יוסף מֻדַלַל
משאוי פלפ…
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Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 8 Rabīʿ I 405 (6 September 1014). Written …
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Halakhic treatise (possibly a responsum) with citations from various sources. Verso is blank (CUDL)
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Goods include honey and pressed dates (ʿajwa).
List in Arabic, medieval-era. Requires further examination.