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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Legal document in Arabic script. Needs examination.
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Folio from a court ledger. Location: Fustat. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe (1100–38). Under the jurisdiction of the Gaon Masliah (1127–39). Settlement between …
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State document(s) in Arabic script. On recto there are administrative/secretarial notes at the top: yuʿāmal.... mutawallī al-nāḥiyya....bi-ʿadl.....inshā Allāh...It also mentions a government bureau towards the …
Power of attorney. Location: Fustat. Dated: first decade of Iyyar 1526 Seleucid, which is April 1215 CE, under the reshut of Avraham Maimonides. Moshe b. …
Upper part of a letter to a dignitary ('al-sayyid al-fāḍil'). In Judaeo-Arabic. Probably originally a long rotulus. Resembles T-S 20.145 + T-S AS 153.176 + …
Minute fragment in Hebrew script on the recto and Arabic script on the verso. The recto may be the first line of a letter with …
Business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Consists mainly of lists of goods and numbers. Mentions people such as Abū Iskandar(!) and Abū l-Ḥasan.
Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to Yeshuʿa ha-Sar. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Draft, probably. Only formulaic content remains. In the upper margin there is a …
Writing exercises in Hebrew with the student's surname in the recto heading (Ṭāwīl). The instructor provided model handwriting at the top of each page for …
Recto: Medical prescriptions in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic. Verso: Arabic script, perhaps accounts, perhaps connected to recto.
Recto: Draft of a letter. In the hand of Makhlūf b. Mūsā. Probably addressed to Yeḥezqel b. Netanʾel ha-Levi, and related to T-S 8J40.1 (PGPID …
Document in Arabic script, possibly accounts or a receipt (VMR). Possibly related to the neighboring shelfmark ENA 3953.6. Requires further examination.
Legal formularies. In the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100-1138 CE). Likely belongs with ENA 3755.6.
Fragment of a formal letter in Arabic script. Narrow page. Approximately 4 lines from a middle section are preserved. Might be state, might be mercantile. …
Bottom part of a (tax?) receipt.
Legal document. Location: al-Maḥalla. Settlement agreement between Abū l-Ḥasan and Manṣūr, his brother-in-law. A document establishing some detail was made out for the sister with …
Letter from a certain Shemuʾel to a dignitary called Thiqat al-Dawla. On parchment. In Hebrew. Consisting entirely of blessings and flattery for the addressee and …
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Petition to a state official. In Arabic script. Fragment (upper right corner). All that is preserved is some of the titles of the addressee. "al-majlis …
Accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions Abū l-Fakhr b. Mardūkh al-Ṣayrafī.
Unidentified document in Judaeo-Arabic. On parchment. Very damaged. Business letter?
Fragment from a legal deed. No image
Letter from Nissim b. Ḥalfon, probably in Tinnis, to Nahray b. Nissim in Fustat. Around 1046. The writer is about to travel to Palestine. Mentions …
[כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מו]לאי אלשיך ואדאם עזה ותאידה וסלאמתה
ו[ מ]ן סיואן ען סלאמה ונעמה ואלחמד
ללה וק[ד כנת אנפדת א]לי מולאי כתב לם אחציהא…
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Several diminutive notes in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals - receipts? orders? The notable feature is that they are pierced and threaded together, and the …
Account in Judaeo-Arabic with alphanumerical figures and itemized labels such as "milk/ ḥalīb" that may date from the 16th-18th centuries (based on the paleography). On …
Verso: Draft of a petition in Arabic script, addressed to a lower official. The petitioners raise a dispute regarding a synagogue (kanīsa). They are barred …
المماليك يقبلو الارض {وهو} ينهوا ان لهم بالمحلة كنيسة خرابة وهي تجمع شملهم
بالصلاة فيها والمماليك [[يمنعون]] //خائفين// من الدخول اليها لكونها …
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Recto: unidentified jottings in Arabic script. Verso: Qiddush for Passover and Shabbat. (Information from CUDL.)
Legal document. Mainly in Judaeo-Arabic. Location: Minyat Ashna. Dated: first decade of Av 1456 Seleucid, which is 1145 CE, under the authority of the Nagid …
Letter fragment from the Jewish community of Palermo to the Jewish community of Alexandria. Dating: ca. 1030 CE. May mention [Ḥayyim b.] Yaʿaqov ha-Sef[aradi] (who …
Bifolio of mercantile accounts in Arabic script. Many entries are crossed out. Mentions people such as Abū l-Barakāt al-Kohen (الكوهان). Mentions commodities such as buckthorn …
Letter from Meʾir Ibn al-Hamadhānī to Eliyyahu the Judge. Dating: early 13th century. The sender reports meeting with "the indicated person" who is in difficult …
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Unidentified document(s) in Arabic script. Likely legal and Ottoman-era based on hand and format.
Deed of acknowledgment (iqrār). Fragment (upper half only). In Arabic script. Parties are Sālim b. Abū l-Faraj and Yaḥyā b. Sulaymān al-Yahūdī. Needs examination for …
Recto: Account of the Qodesh: building expenditures and supplies for the Synagogue. Dating: ca. 1042 – Nov. 1043. In the hand of Yefet b. David …
…for two days, 4 dir.
…. from him, originally
.... and other (things), 6 dir.
…. and (she) opened a shop, they are known
…. owed …
Tax receipt for Makārim b. Isḥāq al-Ṭabīb, who is known from several other documents (see tag). Dating: ca. first half of the 13th century.
Marriage contract (ketubba). Only the heading and first lines preserved. Dated: 1391 Seleucid, which is 1079/80 CE. The groom is named Naḥum. Handwriting of Hillel …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Wide space between the lines. Mentioning many names: Abū ʿAlī b. Barukh; Moshe ha-Kohen ha-Zaqen; Avraham ha-Zaqen. Also mentions Fustat. Probably …
end of a legal document signed by: [...] Mevorakh, Hillel b. Zadoq, Hiyya b. Ishaq, Frihuna b. Yeshu'a Probably from 1150–1160.
Beautiful letter of introduction. In a mixture of Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Dated: Tishrei 1343 Seleucid, which is September/October 1031 CE. Written by a high dignitary …
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Recto: legal document concerning debt. Hand of Hillel b. ʿEli? Verso: probably a subsequent legal document in a different hand, mentioning Abū Yaʿaqov, 10 dinars, …
Letter from Menashshe the Alexandrian teacher to (Saʿd al-Mulk) Elʿazar b. Yehuda ha-Kohen. In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, in a very flowery style. Dating: Late 12th …
Literary, Arabic.
Legal document. Deed of dedication of a house in Damascus to the Great Synagogue, ca. 1090. A certain Meshullam, known as Ibn Shurayq al-Dimashqi, i.e. …
.... and four hundred according to the era to which we are accustomed here in Fustat of Egypt which
is situated on the Nile River. This happened…
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Letter in Arabic script. Faded and damaged. Needs examination for content. Phrases: الحضرة . . . لا شك انك مثلي في قلبك . . . …
Letter fragment. In Arabic script, with a single word in Hebrew script (ניסן). Dating: Likely 12th or 13th century. The preserved text is written at …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Dating: probably 11th century Addressed to a group of people (אלפצלא אלאגלא . . . אעצם אללה כראמתכם . . …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: likely Mamluk or early Ottoman era. Concerning family and business matters. Mentions: 'my lord the qāḍī'; various instructions about transactions and …