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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
List in Arabic with Coptic alphanumerals. There is some Judaeo-Arabic text on the same page that might be related to the list, i.e. "מאל אביך". …
No Scholarship Records
List of names, possibly a reading list for Shabbat, including names such as Abū l-Manṣūr, Abū l-[...] Ibn al-Kohen, Yosef Ibn al-Levi, and Makīn b. …
Accounts in Ladino and Hebrew that can be dated through a join's (ENA 2715.19) entry dated 26 Sivan [5]632 or July 2 1872CE. MCD.
Karaite agreement to give a bill of divorce in case the husband will be absent for more than one year. Undated, perhaps because this document …
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Legal document; involves [...] Peʾer ha-Qahal; signed by ʿAmram b. Shemuʾel. Probably in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli. (Information from CUDL)
Minute fragment from the end of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic.
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Fragment from a Karaite betrothal formulary, for use in Jerusalem. (Information from CUDL)
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Fragments of responsa, at least one of which deals with property division between brothers. The paleography supports a dating estimate between the 15th-17th centuries. The …
Two poems in Arabic script.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Dating: 18th or 19th century.
Account including list of names and numerals arranged in four columns
Inventory of items in possession of Abū l-Surūr, including a ring with a semi-precious stone (‘faṣṣ’), an item adorned with four pearls, and various types …
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Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Very rudimentary hand and spellings. Mentioning a waṣiyya (advice/exhortation). Requesting an urgent response. Regards to the addressee's siblings and mother and …
Letter. Small fragment. In Hebrew, rudimentary handwriting. The sender mentions amīr al-[...], money perhaps received from "your congregation," and the city of Arsūf.
Verso: Four drafts of legal documents ca. 1085 CE, in one of which Hiba b. Hillel al-Ṭarabulsī and Yaʿaqov b. Yiṣḥaq al-Lādiqī witness that they …
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Letter from Ḥayyim b. ʿAmmār b. Madīnī (Alexandria) to Yosef b. Mūsā al-Tāhartī, ca. 1062. The sender explains why a load of a medicinal herb …
[כתאבי יאסידי ומולאי אט]אל אללה בקאך ואדאם סלאמתך וסעאדתך ונעמאך
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תקדמת [ ]שכה מא בעתה ל[ ] אן אלי אל[ ]
חסן אלעאקבה [ ] רטילאת חכי…
Letter fragment in Arabic script. Conveying a report about something. Mentions the house of ʿAzīz al-Dawla and the house of al-Ṣāḥib. Reused on verso for …
Letter fragment sent from Jerusalem. The body is in Judaeo-Arabic and the address is in Arabic script. Dating: Possibly 11th century, based on the hand …
Legal document. In Hebrew. Mentions 10 peraḥim of gold. Dated: Possibly 5263 or 5267 AM, which would be 1502/03 CE or 1506/1507. One of the …
Legal document in which Shimʿon ha-Levi agrees to rent his wife a place to keep her belongings separate from his; Shimʿon also takes over her …
הסכם בין בעל ואשתו
Recto: Letter from Futūḥ the cantor to Shemuel and Hayyim and Nasir and their cousins Sadaqa and Yiṣḥaq, congratulating them on their safe return and …
Letter, a short fragment to Abū l-Barakat, whose names appear with many honorifics. In the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu? On the back there is …
Recto: Letter from Bū Manṣūr b. Abī Saʿd to Abū Isḥāq al-Talmid al-Muʿallim. In Judaeo-Arabic. Conveying good wishes for the high holidays. The content of …
Legal fragment.
Magical prayer for protection (from every evil, evil eye and impious persons) written (by an unskilled, possibly Hebrew rather than Coptic) hand in the Bohairic …
Almost certainly the address of the letter in the previous shelfmark: from Alexandria (מנאמון) to Cairo (למצרים), to Fratelli Najjar. Again mentions Moshe Castro in …
Small fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. None of the substance is preserved. Probably 11th or 12th century.
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions al-Rayyis Abū l-Riḍā; the word pig (khinzir); and greetings. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Bifolium from a Ladino transcription of a medical work by the physician (el diskreto sabio) Arnau de Villanova. Information from http://www.investigacion.cchs.csic.es/judeo-arabe/sites/investigacion.cchs.csic.es.judeo-arabe/files/Genizah-Al-Andalus.pdf.
Account in JA and Arabic numerals. Ottoman.
Letter from Jerusalem written on recto and verso to someone addressed as 'my son and master' (probably Avraham ha-Kohen b. Yiṣḥaq b. Furat). First half …
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Interesting, late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions "al-mustakhraj," the cattle market, al-Minya, and al-Giza.
Recto: Fragments and/or copies of documents in both Arabic script and Hebrew script. The Hebrew-script text may be in the hand of Ḥillel b. ʿEli? …
Ethical work discussing the world to come and evil inclinations. Late. (Information from CUDL.)
Fragment from a legal document, mentioning Abū l-Munā and perhaps a partnership. On verso refers to a sum collected by a gentile. (Information in part …
Fragment of a letter mentioning the plight of a woman who has a house 'under the administration of the court' but whose requests are not …
Calendar? Very faded.
Late communal accounts of some kind, funds collected for/from different individuals and congregations. Dated "in the year [5]555." In the same list on verso, many …
Accounts with many different names listed by corresponding quantities in Greek/Coptic numerals, possibly communal. The dating is likely 15th- or 16th- century based on the …
Small fragment of a letter in Arabic script.
IB IV, 72 (*ח24). Verso: Letter from Abū Naṣr b. Avraham, in Alexandria, to an India trader (probably not Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel). Dating: 20 Adar …
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Ketubba. Dated: 15 Ḥeshvan 54[8]9 AM, which is 1728 CE. Badly damaged yet the bride's name is legible in line 4 as Sulṭāna bt. Shelomo[?] …
Fragment of a marriage contract giving details of the remarriage of a divorced couple. Tishrei 137_ Selucid/1058-1067 CE. Marriage gift 1+5 [total of six is …
Legal document in Arabic script. Dating: Late Mamluk or early Ottoman-era. Seems to be a deathbed declaration of a Jewish man. Mentions the Jews of …
Part of a ketubba for Sitt al-Ḥasab (bride). Most of the text is too badly faded to read. (Information from CUDL)