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"
Legal document. Signed by Avraham ha-Kohen b. Aharon; Shelomo b. Yefet.
No Scholarship Records
Draft of the beginning of a letter or note written by Abū l-Surūr to Isaac, Abū l-Faḍl and the writer’s maternal aunt. Margin reads ‘Peraḥya …
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Unsigned. Dated: Middle third of Iyyar (year not preserved). Location: Fustat. Replacement document for a partnership agreement between Abū l-Ḥasan Menashshe …
3 Transcriptions 1 Translation 1 Discussion
Small fragment of a letter in Arabic script. Mentions: "...from aṣḥābnā.... wheat... the muqṭaʿīn(?)... to Fustat...." On verso an inshāllah and, at 180 degrees, possibly …
Small fragment of a tax receipt for Yūsuf b. Ṣadaqa the Jew for his capitation tax payment in Fustat for the year [...].
Lists in Arabic of unclear significance, needs examination. All four pages of the bifolium are filled. Likely a fiscal account. Many names appear, e.g., Qusṭanṭīn, …
Fragment of a letter, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions R. Nissim. There are a few words in Arabic script on verso (possibly from another fragment that …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Legal queries addressed to Avraham Maimonides (r. 1205–1237 CE), probably in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, about a partnership.
1 Transcription
Recto: letter from Abraham Masʿūd, dealing with trade in silk and linen, and mentioning Elijah Saloniko (אליא שלונקו). Verso: accounts. (Information from CUDL)
Recto: Fragment of a mercantile letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Refers to buying good quality musk (אלמ]סך אלטיב) for 'whatever price.' Refers to a qinṭār of something; …
Fragment of damaged text in Hebrew script. Mentions the night of the 14th of Nisan. Medieval-era and possibly documentary. Requires further examination.
Letter fragment in Arabic script. Opening blessings (. . . الله عزها وادام تمكينها . . .), then possibly a query about a technical procedure …
Minute fragment from a ketubba. Bride: Sitt al-Milāḥ. In the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dated: 1442, 1443, 1448, or 1449 Seleucid, so 1130–32 …
Letter from Seʿadya ha-Kohen b. Hillel (aka Saʿd b. Hilāl) Rosh ha-Qahal to Ṭoviyya b. ʿEli ha-Kohen ha-Ḥaver, the muqaddam of Bilbays (here called "muqaddam …
1 Discussion
Legal document. Location: Alexandria. Dated: 4 Ḥeshvan 4975 AM = 9 October 1214 CE, under the authority of the Nagid Avraham Maimonides. A Sicilian trader, …
1 Transcription 1 Discussion
Fragment of a calendar in a red grid, mentioning Shavuot and the 17th of Tammuz. See Goitein's notes attached to BL OR 10578C.1 (PGPID 6310).
Recto: Unidentified document in Arabic script. Very faded. Verso: Legal document in Arabic script. Mentions names such as Muḥammad b. Zayn and sums of money. …
Tax receipt for the capitation of Bū l-ʿAlā b. Bū l-Naṣr, written by the jahbadh Hibat allāh. Date: 503 AH. Verso blank.
Unidentified text in Arabic script. Likely literary (the phrase شرح ذلك appears on verso) but needs further examination.
Letter from Rachel b. Avraham Zussman, in Jerusalem, to Yaʿaqov Katz, in Venice. In Yiddish. Dated: 16 Heshvan 5327 AM, which is October 1566 CE. …
Letter, probably. In Arabic script. Only a few words. The phrase "wa-l-ḥāl salāma" ("all is well") is legible.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew (with two words in Arabic script after the basmala). The tone is hostile and sarcastic; the specific issue is difficult …
Prenuptial agreement. The marriage is to take place in seven years when the bride comes of age, meaning at the time of the agreement she …
Accounts, unclear if private or official.
Lists, grids, sums, writing exercises, jottings. All in Hebrew script and eastern Arabic numerals. Dating: Probably 18th or 19th century.
Small fragment from a legal deed, probably regarding dispute based on the reference to זקני יושר
Medical treatise in Arabic script. Pinholes at the margin ~4mm apart.
Accounts in the hand of Nahray b. Nissim, mentioning prices, weights, currency, place names such as Būṣīr and names such ʿAqbān and [...] b. Ṣalaḥ. …
IB IV, 33 (ח41). Letter from the trader Salmān, in Spain, to Abū Saʿīd (likely Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi). Dating: fall 1138 (Goitein and Friedman). …
Accounts of a grain merchant, probably. In Judaeo-Arabic. Customers include ʿAbdallāh, al-Mujāhid, Muhannā, and the Muʿallaqa (presumably the church). The grain is sold by the …
Informal note (with a legal purpose) in the hand of Abū Zikrī Yehuda b. Yosef Kohen (active ca. 1132–1148) addressed to a judge called 'Rabbenu …
Letter of condolence addressed to the Gaʾon Maṣliaḥ (1127–39).
Fol. 2v (lower section): Fragment of a mercantile letter in Arabic script. The sender refers to someone who was delayed in Rashīd (Rosetta). Also mentions …
Letter from Toviyya ha-Kohen b. Eli ha-Kohen ha-Me'ulle to his brother-in-law, the judge Natan ha-Kohen he-haver ha-Me'ulle b. Shelomo ha-Kohen he-Hasid, regarding various errands concerning …
Translation of Song of Songs 8:11-14 with Hebrew incipits; Judaeo-Arabic final note and marginal notes. (Information from Shivtiel/Niessen.)
Minute fragment of accounts.
Fiscal document. Mentions a qāḍī, "al-maṭābikh al-maʿmūra," and various sums of money. Cf. T-S K6.150.2 (PGPID 34366). Needs examination. At the top there is what …
Legal document. Hand of Natan b. Shemuel? Location: Fustat. Involves [Abū l-]Karam(?) known as Ibn al-Shavuy and [...] b. ʿAdiyya ha-Zaqen and a debt of …
Letter from Yehuda b. Yosef b. Simha, Alexandria, to the Taharti brothers (Ismāʿīl and Ṣāliḥ b. Barhun), Fustat. The writer is aboard a ship in …
2 Transcriptions 1 Discussion
Magic or possibly verses to recite against a scorpion bite. (Information in part from Goitein's index card.)
Accounts in Arabic script, Judaeo-Arabic Hebrew, and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions people such as: Yehuda; Yefet Ḥalabī; the Jewish youth (al-ṣabiyy al-yahūdī); Ibn Sammūna; Avraham; Nissim; …
IB II, 41. Dirge by Avraham Ibn Yiju on Madmun b. Ḥasan's death. Yemen, 1151.
ולה קינה מתל דלך
1 Transcription 1 Translation
Legal fragment. This portion contains about a dozen witness signatures, including Shabbetay b. ʿAlīl; Ghālib b. Faraj (spelled גאליב); and two people with embellished signatures: …
Small fragment from a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. "We stayed for 11 days...." Addressed to al-ḥakham al-ajall al-sanad(?) [...] b. [morenu] ve-rabbenu Asaf ha-Kohen (ZL).
Late list of commodities, with one entry instead listing the name: Ibrahīm al-Fīlālī. The dating is likely 16th or 17th-century based on the paleography. Some …
Letter in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Abū Saʿīd Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100-1138 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. Fragment (left side of …
Mercantile accounts in Arabic script. Mentions cinnamon, pepper, coriander, dates. Written in the blank space remaining on a bifolio of Hebrew poetry.
Much damaged and faded, might be from a court record, but the identification is uncertain.