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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
Letter in Arabic script. Fragment (right side of recto). It seems to do with government business—mentions a dīwān early on, and is written in a …
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Invitation from the union of Jewish religious institutions of Egypt to the president of the Yeshiva Ahava VeAhva for participating in the collective and it …
Fragment of a business letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The sender has purchased two "qaṣabiyyas" of gold and will send them. He has also purchased a mould …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic detailing income for the "Treasury of Silk Looms" in Alexandria, a branch of the state monopoly administration. Dated Shawwal 1239 AH which …
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Upper right corner of a deed of lease.
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 1 Tammuz 5499 AM, which is 1739 CE. This shelfmark was previously listed with the date 1 Tammuz 5439, but the …
List of dowry details, part of the settlement of a divorce. Goitein suggests that the list of goods at the top is what the husband …
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Note from Abū Sahl Levi (d. 1211), in Fustat, to his son Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi (d. 1212), in Qalyūb. In Judaeo-Arabic. (Identification based on …
Lists of names and numbers in both Hebrew and Arabic script. Dating: 11th century?
Several lines from the top of a deferential letter in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic.
Probably a fiscal account. Arranged neatly in columns on recto and verso taking up approximately half of the width of the fragment. On l. 3 …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Document, either a legal fragment or a letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Regarding the Palestinian synagogue in Fustat and the cantors David b. Shekhanya and Meir, …
Letter in the hand of Hillel b. ʿEli (active 1066-1108 CE) to Abū l-Ḥasan ʿEli b. [...] (possibly his son, Abū l-Ḥasan ʿEli b. Hillel). …
Judaeo-Arabic poetry in the hand of Nāṣir al-Adīb al-ʿIbrī. Mainly love poetry. One of them has a blazon of the beloved along with references to …
Damaged legal document written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (fl. 1100–1138 CE). Someone is granted the right to extract payment from a debtor "by any …
Fragment of a business letter, probably the upper margin. Mentions a cantor (al-ḥazzān); Mubārak Ibn al-[...]; 4 dinars; Abū ʿUmar; an agent (wakīl); Fustat/Egypt; and …
Letter addressed to Avraham b. Natan Av Beit Din. In Hebrew. The first 28 lines of the introduction are preserved. Written in an elegant style. …
Small fragment of a legal document in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (1100–38). Refers to if somebody should desire separation, and a sum …
Letter from Eliyyahu b. Aharon Ha-Ḥaver b. Yoshiyyahu, the president of court, to Efrayim B. Shemarya, in Fustat. Dating: approximately 1030 CE (per Gil) and …
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Letter to the Nubian eparch Uruwī in Ibrīm from Abū al-Futūḥ b. Kanz al-Dawla, with which he sends the eparch two silk garments, four textiles …
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Recto: Small fragment of an Arabic state document. The ends of two lines are preserved: انه كان . . . السامية حرس الله ايامها. On …
Petition fragment. Contains part of a raʾy clause and a reference to Dīwān al-Shām al-Maʿmūr, and then perhaps "the response of the slave with what …
Small fragment containing Hebrew literary text.
Accounts in Arabic on recto. Requires further examination.
Palimpsest. Greek text beneath Hebrew literary text. Needs examination for identification.
Verso: Draft of a legal document in the hand of Shelomo b. Eliyyahu. Dating: Mentions a period beginning Iyyar 1542 Seleucid, which is April 1231 …
Letter to a 'brother.' In Judaeo-Arabic. Mostly blessings and complaints about financial hardship. Regards are sent to Maḥāsin and his mother
Letter from al-Sharīf Ḥasan to the qāḍī Ṣanīʿat al-Mulk. In Arabic script, with diacritics and vowels, calligraphic. Dating: Perhaps 13th to 15th century, on paleographic …
Fragment of a text in Hebrew, possibly legal. Mentions a "לבעל חוב דינא". Requires further examination.
Late accounts in Judaeo-Arabic.
Letter to from Eliyyahu b. Zekharya to Yosef ha-Talmid. Mentions the arrival of something. Mentions Alexandria. (Information in part from CUDL)
Top of a letter in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi addressed to his daughter or at least to a younger woman in the …
Verso (secondary use): Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Giving details on the sale of silk.
There are multiple fragments under this shelfmark. C - (fol.1) Receipt, in Arabic script. "ṣaḥḥ" written atleast twice.
Legal document dated Av 1446 of the Seleucid Era (= 1135 CE) (though the digit "6" is not perfectly clear) in the town [..]דמ (possibly …
Quran. Bifolium from a codex. Containing part of Sūrat al-Maʿārij (70) and Sūrat al-Nūḥ (71).
Letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. From Abū Saʿd(?) to Moshe, Yaʿaqov and Avraham. Mentions various business matters. There is an unusual simile at the top of …
Verso: Order of payment. Abū l-Bahāʾ is to pay something to the bearer. On recto there are jotted Greek/Coptic numerals.
Letter from Shelomo b. Yehuda, probably to Avraham b. Sahlan (died ca. 1032). Dating: approximately 1026 (per Gil) but it is worth noting that Shelomo …
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Fragment of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Upper right piece. The sender seems to be rebuking the addressee. Headed by Proverbs 1:7 (יראת ייי ראשית דעת …
Legal document in the form of a letter written and signed by Yiṣḥaq (b. Shelomo b. Meʾir) he-Ḥaver, grandson of Meʾir Gaʾon (in office 912–21, …
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Letter from Abū l-Maḥāsin Yefet b. Shela, probably in Alexandria, to Yosef ha-Kohen "the pride of the traders" (peʾer ha-soḥarim), in Fustat. Dating: mid-12th century; …
Fragment of a late legal document, signed Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen, probably a ketubba for [...] b. Ḥayyim and [...] bt. Moshe. The bride was previously unmarried …
Literary? Rhyming Hebrew text.
Poetry in Judaeo-Arabic. There are also two lines in Arabic script, difficult to read. VMR. ASE.
Small fragment from a legal deed, probably regarding dispute based on the reference to זקני יושר