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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Query and the beginning of the answer in another hand. The question and answer revolve around a commercial partnership involving wine. the respondent hand resembles …
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Probably accounts in Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Faded.
Draft of a legal document. In the hand of Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi. Dating: Mentions Adar 1446 Seleucid, which is 1135 CE. In which Maḥfūẓa …
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On recto a poem in Judaeo-Arabic. On verso a sample letter to a notable. AA
Medical text, in Arabic script. Begins with a basmala and new section "fī jumlat al-kalām ʿalā l-aʿḍā", mentions the four elements and the four humors. …
State document, likely an order in response to a petition or report. Stating that it has been confirmed that Sharaf al-Dawla Mūsā violated and oppressed …
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Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: a partial Hijrī date is visible in the middle section of the recto: שהר רמצן סנ[ת .]סץ, which is Ramaḍān 96[.] …
Recto: Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tevet 1444 Seleucid = December 1132 / January 1133 CE, under the …
Legal record (#146) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 49v of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated: 16 Adar I …
Recto: end of a Judaeo-Arabic legal document, signed by Eliyyahu b. Moshe, Nissim [..], Ismaʿīl b. Khal[af], Shemuʾel b. Neḥemya Kohen, [… b. She]lomo, Barukh …
Literary.
Account in Judaeo-Arabic listing the fees (wājib) associated with the indigo (al-nīl) brought to Dār al-Abzār ("the spicehouse," cf. ENA 2805.4b) and sold for 40 …
Letter from Salama b. Nissim b. Ishaq al-Barki, from Busir, to Marduk b. Musa, Alexandria. Around 1055. Regarding money and goods that were delivered for …
כתאבי אליך יאסידי ומולאי אטאל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך עלי סרעה
ואלחאל סלאמה ונעמה ושוק אליך שדיד קרב אללה אלאגתמאע בך עלי כיר ועאפיה
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Document in Judaeo-Arabic. Probably a letter. Small fragment only. Hand of Hillel b. ʿEli?
Fragment from the bottom of an (official?) document in Arabic script. Reused for piyyut on recto. (Information from CUDL)
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Communal accounts, probably from the early 13th century. Mentions the terms 'jibāya' (collection) and "jābī' (collector) several times. Entries include citrons and myrtle (for sukkot), …
Unidentified Hebrew text, could be documentary.
Letter opening from the Nagid Avraham b. Ata from Qayrawan (Ifrīqiya) to Yusuf b. Ya’aqub b. Awkal, Fustat, in the handwriting of Yusuf b. Brakhya. …
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Minute fragment from a legal document.
IB VI, 17. Letter from Moshe b. Labrāṭ, in al-Mahdiyya, to the Head of the Jews of Egypt (Moshe b. Mevorakh) asking him to assist …
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Official letter to 'the gate of the yeshiva,' that is, the yeshiva of Maṣliaḥ Gaʾon. Dated: Kislev 1442 Seleucid = November/December 1130 CE. The bearer …
Arabic script (VMR). Small fragment containing the remnants of three lines of text. There are several other Arabic-script fragments in the series ENA 3399 that …
Legal document, probably. Small fragment. Listing various items. Marriage-related?
Small fragment of an Arabic document.
Late document in Judaeo-Arabic addressed Karo y Frances & Company (see tag). There does not appear to be an actual letter left, but Page 1 …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Narrow paper. Fragment (bottom part only). The script is unique. The content is unclear. Mentions that Abū Naṣr knows about something. The …
Accounts in a medieval-era scribal hand on recto. Although the verso was not reused in this case, the shelfmarks ENA 3264.1-6 are recycled pages of …
Letter from Yefet b. Menashshe Ibn al-Qaṭāʾif to one of his brothers. Fragment (upper right corner of recto). Mentions the phrase/title/name "Sar Shalom." Little else …
The names of the tribes of Israel transcribed into a cipher based on the alphabetic equivalents of Greek/Coptic numerals.
Informal note in Arabic script, urgently requesting from 'the brother' that he deliver certain documents (? al-riqāʿ) to a qāḍī. Needs further examination.
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 11th or 12th century. Mentions afḍāluka and al-muruwwa, so likely flattering the addressee or appealing for a …
Letter from Simḥa ha-Kohen, in Alexandria, to Abu ʿImrān Moshe "The Pride of the Priests" (Tifʾeret ha-Kohanim). In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address in both Judaeo-Arabic …
Draft of a dowry list on the verso of a letter dated May 1802 CE (the 17th of matmonim i.e. the Omer = 2 Iyyar …
Receipt or order of payment or similar sort of document.
Legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Or possibly a letter on behalf of a woman ([al]-mamlūka). Probably her …
Mercantile letter in Arabic script. Fragment (lower half). "... he will/should sell it for him in Tyre and send him the value in the ṣalībī …
….يبيعها له في صور
وينفذ له ثمنها في الصليبي/الصليبية صحبة
الاصطول فقد وكله على قبض
ثمن ماله عند (؟) ابو الفضل بن البصري
عن ثمن سكر…
Bill of divorce (get). Location: Fustat. Dated: Monday 5 Tamuz 1369 Seleucid = 29 June 1058 CE. Husband: Khalaf b. Shelomo. Wife: Nasāba bt. ʿAmmār. …
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. All that is preserved is an expression of pain or sympathy (וקד עלם אללה תעאלי מא נאלני מן …
Late list of names and amounts- probably list of debts in Venetian grossos. The paleography could be as early as a 15th-century when the Venetian …
One side: Receipt for rent. Bū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf paid Maḥfūẓ 6 dirhams. The other side: Fragmentary note mentioning sugarcane and silk (yaḥtāj ilā firqat?... fī …
Letter addressed to Abū Saʿd. In Arabic script. The sender begs for an urgent loan of 5 dirhams, because he is sick. He will try …
Legal document from 1725 CE (1 Tevet 5486) from Cairo formalizing a reconciliation between husband, Yosef Mizraḥi known as Khumays, and wife, Nujūm the daughter …
NB: This is not the correct shelfmark. Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. "Obtained [i.e., sums cashed from tenants] during the [Muslim] month Dhū l-Qaʿda corresponding to Nisan …
Verso: Statute for tenants of the Qodesh. Dating: ca. 1215 (according to Gil, but his handwriting comparison may not be sound, and this document could …
…. (that nobody should)
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Unidentified text in Judaeo-Arabic, probably a letter fragment.
Draft of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Mentions the name Maḥfūẓa and possibly the terms of …