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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Business account or letter, mentioning several names including some with the title al-haj - needs examination. (FGP)
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IB I, 31b. Remnants of eight lines in the hand of the court clerk Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (dated documents 1100–38) consisting mainly of legal …
This is what happened: [Barakāt, the son of Mr. Joseph]
known as al-Lebdi—may he rest in Eden!—[appeared in court] and said to us: “Be witness to…
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Note addressed to Abū l-Faḍl. Reused for additional jottings.
Recto is a halakhic discussion mentioniong witnesses and engagement (qiddushin). Verso is a business account in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions Nissim; Aḥmad;
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Fiscal account, probably. Likely concerning grain (mentions the prices of arādibb). Needs examination.
Multifragment. Several dozen scraps appear under this shelfmark including several documentary fragments. The most substantive is the fourth from the right in the second row. …
Late letter in Judaeo-Arabic.
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Reused for liturgical text in Hebrew. (Information in part from CUDL)
Letter from Shemuel b. Sahl al-Hawwārī, in Aleppo, to [...], in Fustat. (The names are written in Arabic, so the writer's is tentative and the …
IB V, 37, folio 6. Order of payment in the hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen: The addressee is to give the bearer lemon syrup (the …
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Personal letter for someone named Yosef Ḥirāz – (number 283) – in Judeo-Arabic. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl Wathā'iq al-Janīza al-Jadīda / Catalogue …
Verso (secondary use): Small slip of paper containing an order for one ounce of lemon and quince. Dating: probably 11th or 12th century.
Official (tax?) receipt for a payment of 2 dinars in Fustat for Abū l-Fakhr b. Yūsuf. Needs examination. The date is preserved (6[..] AH?). Cf. …
Letter from the court of the Nagid Natan Sholal addressed to "the elders in the land," i.e., the elders of Jerusalem in the 1480s–90s. Published …
Unidentified document in Arabic script, probably accounts. Looks late. There are several likely joins in T-S NS 305.
One of two manuscripts of ben Meir's first letter regarding the calendar controversy of 921/22 CE. (The other one is ENA 2556.2 + Bodl. Heb. …
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The second block of text appears to be a prophecy attributed to Ibn Ezra regarding a Messiah in the land of Egypt, mentioning the year …
Order of payment. Abū l-Bahāʾ is to pay a certain amount (25 of something?) to the bearer.
Recto: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mercantile. Mentions something coming from Gaza and possibly the commodity tartar (or Mongols? al-tatar). "As for the woman who came, …
Minute fragment containing the name Shelomo. Andalusi hand?
Letter from the judge Natan ha-Kohen b. Shelomo (in office ca. 1125-1150) to Abū l-Ḥusayn Efrayim ha-Kohen b. Yosef the silk-merchant of Damietta. The letter …
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Minute fragment of text in Hebrew script, medieval-era.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Curious spellings, with long vowels in unexpected places (אבין for אבן and מבורוך probably for מבורך). Does this point to a late …
Recto: possibly a letter in Hebrew addressed to a dignitary (ha-Sar ha-Adir) mentioning 60 'sheqalim.' Verso: legal document, mentioning Ḥiba b. Sulaymān. (Information in part …
Letter dated on Monday June 15 1953CE from a person to al-maʿallim "Nanafafa" expressing his happiness in sending him a letter informing him that he …
Writing practice. Ottoman-era. Needs examination.
Bifolium from a court notebook. Dating: 1242 CE (based on 8 Tishrei 1554 Seleucid in heading on recto). Several entries: (1) Valuation (taqwīm) of a …
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Legal document in Arabic script. Acknowledgment (iqrār). Made by al-Amīr al-Muʾayyad ʿIzz al-Mulk Iftikhār al-Dawla Fityān b. Sayf(?) al-[...] Bū l-Qasam(?) "from the ṭāʾifa of …
Poem in honor of a courtier called Moshe (probably Moshe b. Mevorakh, Nagid 1112–26 CE). (Information from CUDL.) Same hand as T-S AS 149.115 (PGPID …
A folio from the commentary (sharḥ) of ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq b. Ibrāhīm al-Andalusī al-Muznī's "risālat al-sabʿīn" or a folio from another work that refers to his …
Legal fragment in the hand of Mevorakh b. Natan (or possibly Natan b. Shemuel?). On parchment. Concerning the sale of a sixth of a compound …
Confirmation from the Jewish hospital of in Cairo acknowledging that the patient will pay the cost of the free treatment if it is found that …
Receipt for the capitation tax of Bū Saʿd b. Bū ʿAlī in Fustat. Cf. T-S AS 50.99 (PGPID 39028).
Judaeo-Arabic fragment, part of a treatise on ritual slaughter
Slip of paper with expenditure for one week. (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, p. 462, App. B 81 [dated 1200-1240])
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Bifolio containing what look like fiscal accounts, in relatively narrow columns. Very difficult to read. Probably related to iqṭāʿ, mentions maqṭūʿāt on the verso. Dated …
Deed of sale of an enslaved woman named Shaʿal (or Shuʿl or Shuʿal). Written in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. Dated: Last third of …
Small fragment of an unidentified text in Judaeo-Arabic. Might be a letter. Refers to a man killing his wife.
Iqrār.
Legal record (#47) in a court register/pinqas from a Rabbanite beit din in Cairo (on f. 12r-v of BL OR 6356). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. …
:(Documents 46-47) Folio 12r
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Fragment from the history of Netira and his sons, as was told by Natan b. Yishak ha-Bavli, from “Akbar Baghdad”. (Information from Gil, Kingdom. Vol. …
Recto: The bottom few lines of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso: In a different hand, instructions for what to load onto the boat: 23 …
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Involves an Abū l-Faraj. Otherwise consists entirely of elaborate release formulae.
Legal fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Perhaps a bill of sale, describing in detail a house and its surroundings.
Letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. The writer reports that he received the letter of Segulat ha-Yeshiva (the addressee?), which contained the news regarding the letter of the …
Recto: letter in Judaeo-Arabic about a young woman. Potentially the same hand (and/or indirect joins): T-S NS 292.56 (PGPID 24738), T-S 13J7.24 (PGPID 1197), T-S …
Small fragment of a legal document. Dated: Ḥeshvan [...]. Location: Somewhere on the sea (כיף ימא רבה), i.e., not Fustat or Cairo– "on the shore …