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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Letter to a judge (shofeṭ), apparently in Damīra, mentioning Abū l-Munā b. Abū l-[...] (the addressee?). (Information from CUDL)
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Mercantile letter addressed to Abū l-Afrāḥ ʿArūs b. Yosef. In Judaeo-Arabic, with the address partially in Arabic script. ʿArūs had bought brazilwood and pepper for …
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Private accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Mentions names such as al-muʿallim Yaʿīsh; Yūsuf al-Ṭabīb; mawlā al-dayyān; [...] al-Naṣrānī; Abū Ḥamīd. Dating: likely 12th …
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Beginning and ending are missing. The sender is very agitated and complains about someone who is prepared to swear falsely. Needs further …
Receipt, in Arabic script. Contains the glyph at the top, probably meaning "addā" here. Could contain a date towards the end. Needs examination.
Receipt for a sum of 20 dirhams.
Letter from Yisrael ha-Kohen Gaon b. Shemuel b. Ḥofni to one of Shelomo ha-Kohen b. Se’adya’s sons in Fustat. January 1021, in the handwriting of …
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Ledger fragment in Judeo-Arabic in three folios from across the year 1239AH which is 1823/24CE. The ledger's heading on the first scan begins with the …
Tax receipt, or possibly credit instrument? Contains an ʿalāma at the upper right, maybe, and a jahbadh signature at the bottom. Also contains the glyph, …
Document, probably a letter, concerned with trade. (Information from CUDL)
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Letter. In Hebrew. Appeal for help, possibly from Eliyyahu ha-Kohen, the Palestinian Gaon, to the community of Alexandria. It includes a description of a dire …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic (and eastern Arabic numerals). Dated: 5582 AM, which is 1821/22 CE. Mentioning R. Petro and Se. Shemuel, and the holidays of Sukkot, …
Letter from Yeshua b. Isma’il al-Makhmuri from Alexandria to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1060. The writer describes the event when the customs officers chased …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלחבר גדול הישיבה וכבודה ואדאם עזה ותאידה ונעמתה מן אלאסכנדריה
ואלחאל סלאמה ונעמה ואלחמד ללה רב אלעאלמין ושוק אלי…
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Minute fragment, probably from a ketubah. AA
Fol. 4v bears 33 lines of a legal formulary for a bill of release (barā’a), drawn up in Fustat, but with date and names replaced …
Bill of sale dated December 481/1088 (original document), in which Khulayf b. ʿUbayd b. ʿAlī sells a house to Hārūn b. Khulayf b. Hārūn, the …
Fragment (left side) of a Judaeo-Arabic letter. Subject matter is unclear; mentions bad etiquette (sū' al-adab).
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Legal document. Large release in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Dated: 6 Heshvan 1440 Seleucid (1128 CE). It is unclear why, but worth noting …
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Official-looking correspondence in Arabic script. Wide space between the lines. Excerpts: حصل . . . . الامر يصل ذلك وان . . . الفندق حمله …
Order of payment, in late Arabic script with a seal. ʿĀzar (=Ezra) al-Yahūdī al-Ṣayrafī is to pay the bearer (Nāṣif) 20 and half silvers. Contains …
Inventory of books. Dating: 16th century. The current location of this mansuscript is unknown. Harkavy's personal collection of Geniza manuscripts are owned by the Vernadsky …
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There are 10 unrelated fragments sharing this shelfmark. All are literary: see FGP for identifications. The most documentary fragment is fol. 4, which is a …
Recto (secondary use): Genealogies of two families, it seems of the husband and the father of a woman called the daugher of Nafīs al-Sharābī (cf. …
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Recto: Mercantile accounts in Arabic script. Mentions a shipment sent to Alexandria with the name Zakkār b. ʿAmmār written on it. There is a date, …
Letter from the office of Yehoshua Maimonides to Avraham ha-Sar (for the same addressee, see T-S Misc.28.64 and T-S 8J40.2). Dating to 1310–1355 CE based …
[הנה אל ישועתי] וכול'
[.................................] [א?]מת
[..................] [מעלת הי]קר המכובד
[.........…
Text in Yiddish(?). Needs examination.
Fol. 2: Legal fragment in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). Dated: first decade of Adar I 1437 Seleucid = January/February 1126 …
Fragment from the bottom of a legal document. Mentions Ibn al-Jashshāsh (maker and/or seller of pounded boiled wheat, cf. T-S K15.102 and Bodl. MS Heb. …
Sermon in Judaeo-Arabic punctuated by 'yā banī isrāʾīl!'
Recto: One line in Arabic script, possibly from the end of a legal document (wa-ilayhā wa-bi-yadihā...). Verso: Jottings in both Hebrew and Arabic script.
Very little text remains; possibly accounts. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from Farah b. Yosef b. Farah in Alexandria to Abu Sa'd Khalaf b. Sahl in Fustat mentioning a shipment of coats, turbans, robes, and …
Legal document. Location: Fustat. Dated: Tishrei 1465 Seleucid = September/October 1153 CE, under the reshut of the Nagid Shemuel b. Ḥananya. Debt contract between Abū …
Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic, probably a letter of recommendation for charity. Refers to someone known as al-Ḥasid, the name Yehuda, and various expressions …
Writing exercises, possibly in a Yemenite scribal hand. There is stamped seal on the recto that includes the year 1211 AH (1796/1797 CE). The word …
Literary text in Judaeo-Arabic, but difficult to identify.
Announcement from the store of Maʿtuq Ḥayyim about kosher cheese for Passover under religious supervision, urging Jews to make their orders before the rush – …
Recto: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso: Faded document in Judaeo-Arabic, probably a letter.
Letter from Muḥammad b. Abū Ḥayy to his "father" the leader (ʿaqīd) Danī b. Kannān. Complaining about people who have interfered with the ploughing on …
Fragment from the end of a legal document, mentioning Shela, his brother and a half qinṭār of mercury. Reused on recto for calendar reckoning. (Information …
IB I, 6–7. Court proceedings dealing with the dispute between Yosef ha-Lebdi the India trader, and Yequtiʾel b. Moshe, 'the representative of merchants' in Fustat. …
בתרין בשבה דהוא תמניה יומי בירח אייר שנת את''ט לשטרו[ת]
חצר אלי בית דין מ' יקותיאל הנזכר כלף הדה אלורקה וטאלב מ' יו…
On Monday, the eighth day of the month of Iyyar, 1409 E.D.,
Mr. Jekuthiel, who is mentioned on the reverse side of…
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Small note for legal purposes ("al-muʿtaraf bihī") detailing the value of two mattresses/sofas (martaba) (24 and 9 dinars respectively) and a female slave (18 dinars).
Formulary for a ketubba. With some unusual clauses. Dated: 1393 Seleucid, which is 1081/82 CE. On verso there is Hebrew piyyuṭ. (Information from Friedman's edition.)
Maimonides, responsa
Verso: Jottings, including a legal note: "the witnesses of the document (ḥujja): the brother of the qāḍī of Bilbays known as Baraka(?) ʿAbd al-Kāfī. With …
Recto: 18th/19th century letter. Verso: accounts with Persian-Arabic numerals. (Information from CUDL)
Letter from the people of the Palestine Yeshiva to the community (qahal) of Fustat, mentioning Yeḥezqel b. ʿEli ha-Kohen he-Ḥaver. Dating: ca. 1080 CE.
Recto: bottom of a dār receipt (see tag), presumably for ʿArūs b. Yosef. In Arabic and Greek/Coptic numerals. Ends with a ḥamdala and taṣliya. Verso:Judaeo-Arabic …
Letter in Arabic script. There are wishes for somebody's health (ارجو ان قد وهب عافيته). Mentions the arrival of Abū l-Faraj. Mentions that 'I have …