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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Official-looking account in Arabic script. Bifolium from a ledger. Fiscal account from the Fatimid arsenal/navy? Mentions the Red Sea (baḥr al-qulzum) and "the ships" (marākib) …
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Partnership release. Dated: 1091. Location: Fustat. Verso: Avraham b. Yeshuʿa ha-Kohen irreversibly releases Abū l-Faḍl/Abū l-Mufaḍḍal Netanʾel b. Yefet from any obligations concerning a partnership. …
Late account in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions the "citadel" (qalʿa) several times and the Ottoman-era title שויש (çavuş). Also mentions Yiṣḥaq Arokh and Yosef Arokh (cf. T-S …
Arabic script (VMR)
Bifolium from a notebook. One and a half pages are filled with a poem in Ladino involving a husband and wife and a knight, with …
Power of attorney. In the hand of Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver. Dated: Tishrei 1556 Seleucid, which is 1144 CE. Yosef b. Yeshuʿa known as Ibn …
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Verso, and possibly part of recto (original use): Mercantile letter in Arabic script. Dating: Probably first half of the 11th century. Mentioning quantities of goods …
Recto: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Dating; 11th century. Seems to be a list of debts (duyūn). The sums are quite large: - Yeshuʿa, in Damsīs: 36 …
Account in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Legal document in the form of a letter. Fragment (bottom part only). Refers to various legal conditions, might mention sugar, and specifies a fine of …
Recto is probably a state report in Arabic script. Damaged and very difficult to read. Referring to people fleeing from a battle, al-Shām, Egypt, ʿAsqalān, …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Quite faded. Discusses how a certain person has always acted with beneficence; mentions "fear" at least twice; mentions sayyidnā; payments; asks …
Religious commentary – undated – Bassatine Cemetery – Museum of Islamic Art – (number 11) – in Hebrew. (information from Ḥassanein Muḥammad Rabīʿa, ed., Dalīl …
Marriage contract (ketubba). Dated: 12 Ḥeshvan 1467 Seleucid = 10 October 1155 CE. Groom: Peraḥya b. Tiqva ha-Levi. Bride: Sitt al-Thanāʾ bt. Avraham. Signed by …
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Small fragment of a ketubba, probably. Dating: ca. 11th century.
Letter fragment written by a communal official concerning the “rabbi from Rum” who was potentially threatened. (S. D. Goitein, Mediterranean Society, 5:236-7, 571) EMS Written …
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Numbered list of halakhot, probably for a book’s table of contents. (Information from CUDL)
This shelfmark includes 3 unrelated fragments. Bottom fragment: Validation of a legal document. Signed by Yaʿaqov b. Avraham (also signed BL OR 5551.1), Ḥiyya b. …
Letter from Natan b. Avraham to Perahya b. Muʾammal, in Fustat, spring 1039.
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Legal document in the hand of Natan b. Shemuel he-Ḥaver. Dated: [14]57 Seleucid, which is 1145/46 CE. Abū l-ʿAlāʾ gives to his wife Sitt al-[...] …
Small receipt or similar type of document.
Document in Arabic script, probably accounts. Dating: Probably late. The number ۹۳۴ appears in the lower entry on the verso, which would be a feasible …
Marriage document. A torn and damaged ketubah. Contains few lines from the dowry list, the monogamy clause, the trustworthiness clause and the stipulation regarding the …
Letter from Daniel b. Azarya to Avraham Ha-Kohen b. Yiṣḥaq b. Furat, Fustat.
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Too faded
Letter in Arabic from Ṣāʿid, probably a Jewish merchant, in ʿAydhāb, to his mother and brother in Fusṭāṭ. He reports that his party left Qūṣ …
Receipt? - needs examination.
This document, which continues onto the verso, lists in detail payments to individuals, some for commodities (including bread, flour, and meat), as well as amounts …
Fragment of a betrothal (qiddushin) deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38 CE). The groom is probably [...] b. Ḥalfon ha-Levi. The early installment …
Letter from Natan Ha-Kohen b. Mevorakh, Ashkelon, to Eli Ha-Kohen b. Hayyim, Fustat.
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Small fragment of a state document with a large ʿalāma at upper left. Mentions the name ʿAbd al-Karīm b. al-Ḥājj Muḥammad b. al-Ḥājj [...]. Dating: …
Bifolium from a Judaeo-Persian commentary, including sections on Song of Songs, Ecclesiastes, and Lamentations.
Lists of names and numbers in both Hebrew and Arabic script. Dating: 11th century?
Letter fragment from the lepers of Tiberias to Faraj b. Avraham, probably in Ramla, approximately 1030.
Letter from one community (of Jerusalem?) to another (of Fustat?). In Hebrew. Dating: likely 11th century. There is a long introduction with biblical verses and …
Letter from Nissim b. Ḥalfon, from Tinnis, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Around 1056. The writer just arrived in Tinnis and he is astonished to …
כתאבי אטאל אללה בקא מולאי אלשיך ואדאם עזה ותאידה וסלאמתה
ונעמתה מן תניס ען סלאמה פי אלנפס ושגל סר לא יעלם עלמה
גיר אללה עז וגל וקד ערפתך …
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Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The 'brother's' ship is still by the lighthouse (manāra) and has not yet sailed because the wind is blowing westward. Mentions a …
Verso: Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic letter. Legible phrases: "... with Sayyidnā... other than with a full heart... the entire congregation...according to... their gratitude …
Accounts, with Hebrew and Coptic numerals. Entries include saqqāʾ; ṣāniʿīn; wakāla; ḥammāl; mismār. (Information in part from CUDL)
Collection of Geonic responsa, in the same hand as T-S 16.99, T-S G2.29, T-S 12.169, and T-S 16.310. (Information from CUDL)
Responsum? It discusses ritual purity, but the layout looks like a letter. Needs examination.
IB II, 57. Part of a copy of the same letter that is preserved in full in IB II, 56 (T-S 16.345, PGPID 5447), a …
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Bill of divorce (geṭ). Location: Fustat. Dated: Sunday, 7 Ḥeshvan 1445 Seleucid, which is 1133 CE. Written and signed by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe. Also signed …
Legal document in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (fl. 1066–1108 CE). On parchment. Bill of compromise. No names preserved. (Information in part from CUDL)
Verso: Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mostly consists of especially deferential phrases: ...wa-fa-qad ʿalima l-khāliq anna ʿinda samāʿī... wa-tanwīh ismih wa-ḥusn thanāh min kull ṣādir... wa-anā …
List or table with extremely faded text in Hebrew script, possibly documentary. Medieval-era. Requires further examination.
Karaite betrothal deed. Dated Sunday 21 Kislev 5460 AM (1699 CE). Location: Cairo. Bride: Estūta bt. Yosef b. Yeshūʿa. Groom: Aharon b. Naḥūm b. Yiṣḥaq …
Minute fragment with a doodle or illustration of some kind on the recto. The verso may contain the Hebrew letter ע, but the text(?) is …
Letter fragment from Yoshiyyahu Gaon to a community, approximately 1020.
Halakhic text, possibly by Shmuel b. Ḥofni Gaʾon, mentioning among other things the concept of 'adāʾ al-amāna.' See Goitein and Friedman, India Book I, pp. …