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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Beginning of a letter. Only the blessings have survived.
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Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Wednesday, 24 Shevat 4846 AM = 11 February 1086 CE. Mentions a Peraḥya and a Shelomo ha-Kohen.
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 …
Letter, with a drawing on verso. (Information from CUDL.) Hand of Yefet b. Menashshe?
Letter addressed to Avraham ha-Dayyan (called ha-Sar ha-Nikhbad). In Judaeo-Arabic. This is a letter of recommendation for charity for the bearer. He was one of …
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Informal note. In Judaeo-Arabic. Requesting that the addressee return the collaterals after the settlement of a debt. "To the elder, the Understanding (ha-Mevin), may his …
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Bifolio containing accounts. Late. Listing various numbers.
Two folios of this 12-folio manuscript of the Book of the Calendar Controversy, about the disagreement between Jewish leaders of Palestine and Babylonia on how …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 2 Nisan 1551 Seleucid = 26 March 1240 CE. The handwriting resembles that of Avraham Maimonides (but cannot be his, because …
Mysterious document. Late. In Judaeo-Arabic. There are two lines of Judaeo-Arabic poetry about "ahl al-hawā." There follows the Hebrew alphabet. There follow three lists of …
Informal note from Yeshuʿa (or from a communal leader with the ʿalāma "Yeshuʿa"). In Judaeo-Arabic. It says that Abu Saʿīd should report to the court …
Minute fragment of text in Hebrew script, the script may be Yemenite. Line 4 uses the common honorific יצ׳׳ו. Requires further examination
Account of a businessman. Hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef.
Arabic script (VMR), literary.
Two remnants from Late ketubbas from Cairo. AA
Recto: from an Arabic medical textbook, including the opening of the chapter on phlebotomy of the basilic vein. Verso: Judaeo-Arabic list of members of various …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Narrow vertical strip torn from a page of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Hand of Abū Zikrī Kohen?
Popular literature in Judaeo-Arabic. Conveys the tale of a wise man who is continually amazing a king with his powers of deduction. For instance, he …
The other side: Four fragments of a text in Judaeo-Arabic, seems geometrical and/or geographical.
Marriage contract. Location: Cairo. Dated: Thursday, 15 Sivan 5566 AM, which is 1806 CE. Groom: David Karo b. Binyamin. Bride; Malīḥa bt. Yaʿaqov Romano. Sum …
Recto looks like a calendrical discussion in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso is a Hebrew lament on the death of a "great leader" (ʿal nefilat sar gadol. . …
Clockwise from upper left: (d) Small fragment in Arabic script, perhaps from a petition or draft: ...al-sāmī bi-faḍlihā...
Decree, fragment, reused for Hebrew piyyut/poetry. The preserved text reads 'and on his brother' - wa ʿalā akhīhi.
Fragment from the bottom of a legal deed, written in large characters in very shaky handwriting. Refers to a freedwoman (השפחה המשוחררת). One witness signature …
Late pair of letters in Judaeo-Arabic dated 30 November 1808 CE (11 Kislev 5569 AM). The first is from Moshe Bibas, Rashid, to Karo y …
Debt acknowledgment signed by Abū Zikrī Kohen for three awāqi of soap (צאבון) owed to Sibāʿ. The document lacks the common invocation attested in other …
Official-looking document in Arabic script. Mentions dīwān in the first line, fiscal-related. Needs examination.
Literary text in Arabic script. Faded.
IB ח94. Draft of a letter from Ḥalfon b. Netanel ha-Levi, apparently in Damascus, to R. Ḥiyya. Dating: Ca. 1145–46 CE. This document was not …
Small fragment of a letter in Hebrew. Begins אל מושב . . . and there is an address on verso: ... יקרת צפירת ... בישראל …
Public letter from one of the 13th or 14th century Maimonidean Nagids, urging every person to pay the collector what he had promised for freeing …
Decorated Karaite ketubah. The groom is taking upon himself not to marry another wife for 20 years, but if his wife will become childless he …
Legal deed. Fragment (upper right corner). Location: Fustat. Dated: Last decade of Tishrei, year missing. Perhaps during the tenure of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya, …
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Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Fustat. Date: missing. Husband: Elʿazar b. Shela ha-Levi (maybe the same as in Halper 391 and JRL Gaster heb. ms …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Written and signed by Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). Groom: Seʿadya b. Efrayim. Bride: Turkiyya (? תרכיה). A few phrases from …
Recto: Letter in the handwriting of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, probably from Qalyub to his father in Fustat, consisting almost in its entirely of good …
Receipt of some kind for Ibrāhīm b. [...]. A period of one year is specified. There is a word that looks like "halīlaj" (myrobalan), but …
Minute fragment from a ketubah of a widow bride. AA
Mizraḥ. Illustrated with a vibrantly colored bouquet of flowers. Probably non-Geniza, like the neighboring shelfmarks.
Arabic poetry. Starts with a basmala, two verses, probably love poetry.
Letter. In Judaeo-Arabic. May be too damaged to extract much of the content.
List of many names, paired with numbers, most crossed out. Maybe a collection or a distribution list.
Legal record (#42) in a court register/pinqas from a Karaite beit din in Cairo (on f. 15r of Yevr.-Arab. I 328). Dated Tammuz 5321 AM …
Legal document. Partnership agreement. Location: Fustat. Dating: 1213/14 CE. This commenda records court proceedings regarding a partnership; only one of the partners' names, Saadiah b. …
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Letter in which a father imposes on a friend to immediately go see “the cursed matchmaker Mother of the Black” and ask her to tell …
Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. "The matter is out of my hands. . . . the situation is rotten." The rest is quite faded but potentially …
Literary text, in a late Arabic hand, probably Ottman-era. Mentions imperial terms like "sulṭānī", "ḥaḍratak". Needs examination. Folio 2/2 contains a tiny fragment with "ḥuḍūr" …
Recto, lower right corner: draft of a state document, likely a petition, beginning with prayers for the caliph al-Mustanṣir. There may be part of a …