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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Letter in Hebrew dated 1791/92 CE (552 = וינטלם וינשאם) from the Jewish community of Jerusalem to the Jewish community of Pisa, begging for financial …
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Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter fragment addressed to a communal leader, a ḥaver. In Hebrew. Regarding a matter of inheritance (‘they are orphans and a widow’) and the writing …
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Small fragment of accounts. Mentions "al-bāqī."
Autograph order in the hand of Avraham Maimonides. Abū l-Majd is to expedite the payment of 81 dirhams to the Muslim Judge Shams al-Din. This …
Recto: Document in Arabic script. Only the beginnings of eight lines are preserved. Mentions names like Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallāh and Abū Ṭālib ʿUmar(?) b. al-Ḥasan(?), …
Possibly mathematical calculations or accounting. Bifolio with neatly arranged Greek/Coptic numerals. There is a grid on the right page of verso.
Letter from Natan b. Nahray (Alexandria) to Nahray b. Nissim (Fustat), ca. 1065. Mentions a silk cloak ordered by Nahray and shoes that were sent …
וקד מצית אליה וכאטבתה וקאל לי דפעתה לאנסאן והו ברשיד
ואלסעה לעל תכאטבה עלי ידי גירי ואלתדכרה אלדי קד
אנפדת מעה יתפצל ינצר מא פיהא ולא יגפ…
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Two drafts, in two different hands, of legal queries concerning whether a teacher who took an oath not to teach his clients can be released …
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Small fragment of a marriage contract (ketubba). Likely in the hand of Yefet b. David. Dating: ca. 1030 CE. The delayed marriage payment is 20 …
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Letter fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (fl. 1100–1138 CE). In Judaeo-Arabic. The language is very legalistic and it could also be a …
Ketubba fragment (left side only). Dated: [13]77 Seleucid, which is 1065/66 CE. Groom: Yaʿaqov. Marriage payments: 5 + 10 = 15. No dowry. (Information from …
Recto: List of names in Judaeo-Arabic with sums of money (all listed as "nuṣf" except for one listed as 1 dinar), probably a contributors list. …
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Involving partners (one is named Meshullam); debts (300 dinars from Abū Saʿd) and 400 dinars from somebody else; splitting something equally.
Letter to the cantor Shemuel from a friend who expresses his affection.
Strip from the right part of a letter written by Yefet b. Menashshe to his brother Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE) dealing with …
Recto: Letter fragment in which the writer complains that Abū Bishr al-Mushrif (the government supervisor) claims from him a payment which has already been paid. …
List of materia medica, including simples such as lavender, sebesten, peruse, ground gallnut, myrtle seeds, caraway, pepper, and poppy. With Coptic numerals. (Information from CUDL)
Top of a legal deed probably in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Moderately wide line spacing. Dated: 1425 Seleucid = 1113/14 CE.
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: 1553 Seleucid = 1241/42 CE. The content is mostly missing, but some of it may be decipherable. Mentions the scholar …
Medical prescription in Arabic script (e.g. "wa-yuṣaffā ʿalā ūqīyyatayn sharāb"). The diet recommended at the end is something boiled and seasoned with sweet almond oil. …
IB II, 11b. List of the honorary titles of the Bundar family of Aden, ca. 1120. Written by Halfon b. Menashshe Halevi. Names and titles …
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Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. In Judaeo-Arabic. Likely related to a partnership between two people: ... אננא מקראן ענדכם . . …
The Principles of Grammar by Joshua ben Avraham. In Judaeo-Persian. Published by Nehemya Allony, along with two joins.
Only a small piece remains, containing the ends of two signatures (followed by 'נ'נ). (Information from CUDL)
Government receipt attesting to payment of the government tax on the sale of an enslaved woman. Seller: Sitt al-Ahl bt. Yaʿqūb al-Yahūdī. Buyer: Sumra bt. …
Tax receipt? For [...] al-Yahūdī. Sum: 1/6 dinar. Needs examination.
Legal document (actually two different documents concerning the same persons) concerning the poor treatment afforded to R. Moshe, a new hazzan, by R. Nissim, the …
עדות שר' משה מאז בואו אל אלמחלה לא נכנס מעולם בגבולו של ר' נסים המוקדם,
וערך קידושים בהיעדרו רק ברשותו. חתמו שלושה. בעמוד ב' עדות דומה חתומה על
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Petition. In large Arabic script, wide space between the lines, in a chancery hand. This is a small fragment from the lower right corner of …
Legal record (#34) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on ff. 12v-13r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated 13 Heshvan [5322 …
Letter from Natan b. Nahray from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat.
Business accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Probably 11th or 12th century. On verso there are a few lines in Arabic script.
Small list of items, including several textiles. The top list is headed "al-ḥāḍir" (the present): a bucket; brass; something gilded; something blue; a bukhnuq of …
Multi-fragment shelfmark with two documents. The lower (left) document is a fragment of Hebrew-script accounts, medieval-era or possibly later. Names include Shimʿon, Elishaʿ, Avraham, Mordekhay, …
Mostly torn and effaced release in which Khalaf and Musafir, sons of Shemuel b. Khalaf, acknowledge to have received through Yiṣḥaq ha-Kohen 250 gold pieces …
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Verso: Recipe in Arabic script. 1.5 oz of pear (ijjāṣ); tamarind; 5 dirhams each of borage (lisān thawr), violet (zahr banafsaj), and senna (sanā); and …
Arabic script (VMR)
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The story is interesting but fragmented. Refers to a girl (ṣabiyya) who is in an agitated state (takhruj min …
Receipt for the capitation tax of [...] in Fustat.
Fragment with extremely faded Hebrew script. Remarkable mainly for a drawing of a four-legged creature.
Small and damaged fragment of accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Recto: Letter fragment. Very narrow. Handwriting of Avraham Maimonides? Verso: memorial list of the family of Sheʾerit b. Yefet. (Information in part from CUDL and …
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Accounts and calculations in Ladino, sixteenth-century (based on the paleography and post-1497 coinage). The coinage types listed are the Spanish corona (קורונה) and the copper …
Court records. Large fragment, containing at least two distinct entries. Damaged and faded. There is a testimony that begins on line 25 of recto and …
Tax receipt for the capitation of Ibrāhīm b. Ṣadaqa in Fustat for the year 526 AH. Amount: ½ dīnār (the lowest rate). Jahbadh: Hibat Allāh. …