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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
No Scholarship Records
Probably literary
Possibly a literary text or a paraliterary record. In Arabic script. Mentions (l. 5) the year 608 AH, which (if correctly read) is 1211/12 CE. …
Court record. In Hebrew. Location: Crete (Candia). Dated: Monday, 1 Tevet 5275 AM = 19 December 1514 CE. Certifying that the bearer of this document, …
Tax receipt issued to Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb for his ḍamān on dyeing in Madīnat al-Fayyūm. Dated: 5 Rabīʿ I 404. Written one day after …
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Late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic mentioning the names: Manṣūr Shāmī, ʿImānī Ḥazan. Based on the paleography the dating is likely 16th- or 17th-century.
Deed of a gift of a house in the Darb al-Silsila, Mamṣūṣa quarter, Fustat, in Arabic. A Jewish physician gives a house newly erected by …
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Letter from Nissim, in Qaṭya, Sinai, to Shelomo Iskandarānī, in Fustat. In Hebrew. Dating: First half of the 16th century, based on Avraham David's assessment. …
Letter(s). The first 9 lines are in Arabic script (the hand is practiced), followed by 9 lines in Judaeo-Arabic (the hand is crude). It may …
Receipt for the capitation tax of the Jewish man Maʿālī b. Yūsuf in Fustat and Cairo for the year 500-something (550? 505?).
Construction accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions plaster, pebbles, clay, porters, bricks, wood. Mentions people such as Abū Sahl
List of names, e.g. Daniʾel; ʿAzarya; Yosef; Daniʾel; Ḥisday; Yoshiyyahu.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated on the verso in the first row of entries: 6 Ramaḍān _43 AH but the scribe omitted the hundreds digit. The …
Letter from a certain Saʿadya to the Nagid Shemuʾel b. Ḥananya. Conveying information about a legal case. The case has to do with a warehouse …
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Judaeo-Arabic translation of Genesis 16 (the story of Hagar).
Verso (original use): Tax receipt, Ayyubid? For [...] al-Yahūdī in Cairo. Needs examination.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late.
Order of payment.
Treatise on geography in Judaeo-Arabic. See Yossi Ben-Artzi and Esther-Miriam Wagner, "Geography in the Genizah," Genizah Research Unit, Fragment of the Month, December 2010.
Report or petition in Arabic script. ~7 lines preserved, wide space between the lines. Striking handwriting; the tail of the فی (or perhaps فيه) goes …
Ledger, probably account - needs examination. No image
Legal fragment. Mentions a ḥerem stam and coral and various sums of money. Mentions the year 1410 Sel. (1098-1099 CE). Signed by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel. …
Five notes on tiny pieces of vellum, ordering the addressee to hand over small sums or certain quantities of oil, soap, wood, vegetables, lemon, or …
Accounts on recto and verso in Judaeo-Arabic, very neat and rich in details, but faded. There are likely joins. Dating: ca. 11th century. In line …
Recto: deed of sale for part of a house in Fusṭāṭ. The parties are ʿAbdallāh b. Ṭāhir, the moneychanger, and Muḥammad b. Ṭāhir, the carpet …
[In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. Praise be to God alone] and God bless our Lord Muḥammad, his prophet and his family, and his …
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Informal note addressed to a certain Bayān. In Arabic script, written in a crude hand (reminiscent of BL OR 5566B.1). It is a belligerent message …
Legal testimony. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated Tuesday, 25 Tammuz 1693 Seleucid = פֿדֿןֿ Hijri (this is confusing notation: perhaps 584 + an implied 200?). In any …
Ketubba (marriage contract) fragment, clearly in the Palestinian tradition. Dated 1034 CE (Elul 4794 AM). The groom is Yefet b. Avraham.
IB I, 13a. Letter fragment from Yosef b. David Lebdi to Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan b. Bundār, the representative of the merchants in Aden, written in …
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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 …
Recto: A receipt for Barakāt b. Dallāl, beginning with a basmala. Verso: Accounts, "min jumlat l-maḥmūl ilayhi". Unidentified text on the left but probably related …
Letter of recommendation for charity for the bearer, from Trieste, dated 22 June 1863. The body of the letter is in Hebrew and gives the …
Legal document in Arabic script, involving an adult woman (al-marʾa al-kāmil) possibly named Sadīda. Needs examination for content.
Legal record (#36). Liquidation of a trust. Revised copy of Yevr.-Arab. I 1700.15, recto. See PGPID 9395 for summary. Witnesses: Ḥiyya b. Yiṣḥaq. Efrayim b. …
Accounts in Arabic script, headed "with my master Abū ʿAlī 29 dirhams." There follows a tally of different amounts of dirhams received at different points.
Literary. In Hebrew, with calendrical diagrams.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions Yosef b. Yehuda and Yaḥyā and al-Mahdiyya.
Legal testimony (קבלת עדות). Location: the testimony was collected in Sunbāṭ and the document was drawn up three months later in Minyat Ashna. Dated: Middle …
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State document in Arabic, from the bureau of silk looms (dīwān anwāl al-ḥarīr) in Alexandria, a branch of the state silk monopoly. Dated 5 Dhu …
Letter in Hebrew. Fragment: right side only. The sender is asking the addressee to enlighten him about various theological/philosophical matters, e.g., the significance of the …
Legal record (#37) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (ll. 1-11 on f. 14r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 21 …
Appeal concerning a warning to youth about the thoughts of some outsiders in the teachings of religious law and the appeal is from the Aḥbāb …
Bottom of a letter in Arabic. Only the concluding greetings are preserved.
Late accounts.
Accounts, mentioning various sums of money, chess (shaṭranj), and ginger (zanjabīl). (Information in part from CUDL)
Love poetry in Judaeo-Arabic.
Unidentified document or text in Arabic script. Maybe poetry? Approximately 10 lines are preserved in an unusual format of paired lines (cf. T-S Ar.39.501 + …
Left fragment: Letter from Shemaryahu b. Aharon ha-Kohen ha-Rav the descendant of Eliyyahu ha-Kohen to Abū Thābit Yakhin b. Nāshī (נשי/ناشي) ha-Kohen. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic, …